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THE CULTIVATOR 
Oct. 
Holes for Ijje Hloitllj. 
Information Wanted, 
Corn Husker.—I have somewhere read of Har¬ 
grave’s or some other corn-husker, but do not know as 
such an implement, of any practical utility, is to be 
found. With your permission, I propose to make the 
inquiry through your valuable papers, if a machine 
for husking com, that will do its work well and save 
labor, can be obtained. I would like you or any of 
your readers or correspondents, who have tested it, to 
answer—first, how must the ears be prepared for husk¬ 
ing—must they be picked from the stalk, and put in 
one at a time ? How many bushels will a machine 
husk in a day, and do it well? How many hands are 
required to tend it, and what power to propel it, and 
what is the cost of the machine, and where obtained. 
A. C. J. Richfield Spa, N. Y. 
There was a corn-husker on exhibition at the Crys¬ 
tal Palace in New-York last summer, which it was 
said would husk, with the aid of a man and boy, 300 
bushels per day, and 1200 bushels with horse or steam 
power. We shall be obliged to any one who will fur¬ 
nish the information desired by our correspondent. 
Steeping Posts. —Can you or any of your sub¬ 
scribers, tell whether the idea of steeping stakes or 
posts in a solution of blue vitriol, is an advertisement 
for the sale of blue vitriol, or a remedy for their rot¬ 
ting?—how long the remedy has been tried, with what 
results, and the mode of operating? and oblige. A 
Reader. 
At the time we published the paragraph, relating 
to the above subject, we wrote to the gentleman who 
was said to have practiced the method alluded to, for 
further information, but received no answer, and have 
heard nothing of it since. 
Messrs. Editors —Will you or any of your subscri¬ 
bers give me through the columns of your always wel¬ 
come journal all the information in your or their pow¬ 
er as to the mode of culture of the marrowfat pea as 
a field crop, generally adopted in your state, where, as 
I understand, annually many thousand acres are sown 
with this crop ? 
Is there any market for them by the quantity? 
And in what shape are they taken to the eastern mar¬ 
kets ? Are they put in barrels or sacks or do they go 
like wheat and by weight ? 
What particular kind would you recommend for field 
culture ? Can they be threshed with a common ma¬ 
chine ? 
Will you also be so kind as to name the variety of 
best yellow field corn that ripen3 earliest and where 
it can be obtained ? A. II. Kummel. Sharon., Wis. 
Singular Theorising. —The Gardener’s Magazine 
furnishes a new plan for raising carrots, written by a 
certain self-styled “ professor ” not unknown to our 
readers. The plan is simply to mix radish seed with 
the seed of the carrot in sowing; the radishes will come 
up first and will break the crust; the leaves of the 
radishes will shade the carrots, and their long tap 
roots will bring up the moisture. 0 The radishes will 
also mark the rows, and prevent, very much, the 
growth of weeds. ” 
Now is not this shrewd! “ The leaves of the rad¬ 
ishes will shade the carrots ^will not the leaves of 
pig weeds do this quite as well, and save the price of 
the radish seed ?—“ Their long tap-roots will bring 
up moisture .”—but will they let the carrots have any 
when it is brought up? What smart farmer’s-boy * 
does not know that the leaves of the radishes would 
throw off the moisture drawn up through the roots, 
faster than the sun could evaporate it from a bare sur¬ 
face ? “ The radishes will prevent the growth of 
weeds,” —by performing towards the carrots all that 
weeds themselves would do, namely, choking them 
down by their broad leaves, and exhausting the soil 
of its moisture and fertility. Would it not be cheaper 
to “ prevent the growth of weeds ” by sowing pig¬ 
weed and fox-tail in the rows ? No wonder that some 
readers acquire a dislike to “ science” and book-farm 
ing, when such stuff as this is promulgated by preten¬ 
ders. -— 
“Credit.” —We alluded recently to the frequency 
with which articles were copied from this paper with¬ 
out credit. In clearing off the pile of exchange papers 
which had accumulated on our table during the past 
week, we had the curiosity to ascertain how many ar¬ 
ticles they contained which had been copied from this 
paper. We found the whole number to be 123, of 
which 77 were properly credited, and 46 without cre¬ 
dit, with the exception of a few instances in which 
“ Ex.” was attached to them. 
Inquiries. —Can you or any of yournumerous read¬ 
ers, tell me how to destroy Tansey, or can it be made 
profitable to extract the oil. I have a piece that I 
would ltke to destroy or turn to some account. Also I 
will give ten dollars to any man who will send me a 
receipt to effectually destroy “live forever,” or as it is 
sometimes called, Ever-Green. H. Stone. Warren, 
Inquiry. —Will you, or some of my brother readers, 
give me a good recipe for making grape wine. II. H. 
M. Farmington, Ct. 
Fungus on Cabbage Roots. —Will some of your 
numerous readers, inform me through the Cultivator, 
what will prevent fungus at the roots of Cabbage ? I 
have raised none for several years past on account of 
it. A. H. Hackly. Bridgewater, jV - . Y. Avg. 16 
Fall Plowing. —In the Sept. No. ©f the Cultivator, 
there is an article entitled “ Fall Plowing,” from which 
I should infer that the author did not re-plow his land 
in the spring, especially greensward, on which he in¬ 
tended to plant corn. Wi*h your permission, will the 
author please inform not only myself, but your nume¬ 
rous subscribers, as to the real intent, through your 
columns. J. II. F 
More Cattle. —The ship Highflyer from Liverpool, 
which arrived at New-York last week, “ had a large 
number of valuable cattle for Mr. Thorne, of Dutch¬ 
ess County, and Mr. McHenry, of Baltimore. In the 
lot there was one prize Devon bull and heifer, and one 
prize Alderney bull and heifer. The prizes for these 
cattle were given at the recent meeting of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England.” 
Transplanting Hickories.— The hickory is re¬ 
puted to be incapable of being removed successfully, 
and the difficulty appears to be chiefly on account of its 
deep roots. The Prairie Farmer reports a number of 
cases where young trees, three to seven feet high have 
been successfully transplanted from the woods or open¬ 
ings, to the grounds of Augustus Adams, of Elgin, Ill., 
with the same certainty as any other trees. His mode 
is to dig down till he gets tired of it, and then cut off 
