1854 . 
THE CULTIVATOR 
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the tap root. “ He never stops,” says the Farmer, “ till 
he gets four feet and from that to six, and yet he states 
that he never got so low as to find the tap as small as 
the tree at the surface of the ground.” 
Pittsburgh Tile Works.— -We have received from 
Jas. Wardrop & Co., the proprietors of the Pitts¬ 
burgh Tile Works, an interesting pamphlet, setting 
forth the advantages of thorough drainage, with di¬ 
rections for laying the tile, &c. We always rejoice to 
see these establishments increase in number, confident 
as we are that every facility afforded the cultivator to 
procure tile, is a public benefit. Draining may per¬ 
haps be considered one of the modern improvements 
about the utility of which there is no question. We 
have never known an instance where money was ju¬ 
diciously expended for this purpose, which did not aff¬ 
ord satisfactory returns. 
The Indiana Farmer claims our neighbor, 
Mr. D. D. T. More of Watervliet, as ” the leading 
editor of the Rural New-Yorker.” Beside him of the 
New-Yorker, and our neighbor, we have another good 
farmer of the same name in the north part of this 
state, from which we infer that M the Farmer’s Boy,” 
as the late Gov. D. D. Tompkins was called, was a 
great favorite with the Moore Family. 
§2gp It is stated that the appropriation bill, passed 
at the late session of Congress, contains an appropria¬ 
tion of $25,000, for the collection of agricultural Sta¬ 
tistics and the procurement and distribution of cut¬ 
tings and seeds. - 
Endowment. —Dr. Wm. Terrill of Hancock eoun- 
ty, Ga., has given $20,000 to the University of Geor¬ 
gia, to endow a professorship of Agriculture ; and the 
Trustees, in accordance with the recommendation of 
the donor, have appointed Dr. D. Lee, editor of the 
Genesee Farmer , Rochester, to fill the “ Terrill Pro¬ 
fessorship of Agriculture.” 
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Fine Fruit. —We are greatly indebted to Prof. 
Hall of this city, for a basket of Peaches and Necta¬ 
rines. The Crawford’s Early and George IVth peaches 
were the handsomest specimens we have seen this sea¬ 
son—also to Mr. E. R. Ball of North Nassau, for 
samples of the Summer Bon Chretien Pear, which ex 
hibited in a marked degree, the effect of cultivation. 
One of the samples was from a tree near the house, 
which was well cared for, and which occasionally re¬ 
ceived a dressing of soap-suds. These were more than 
twice as heavy as some taken from a tree growing in 
grass land. - 
Hort. Exhibition. —It was deemed advisable by 
the board of managers, on account of the effects of the 
long-continued drouth in this vicinity, to post-pone 
the annual exhibition of the Albany and Rensselaer 
Hort. Society, which was to have been held in this 
city last week. Three of the most extensive exhibitors 
usually, however, did not get notice of the postpone¬ 
ment, and appeared promptly at the rooms with their 
contributions. Mr. Newcomb of Pittstown, had 138 
gp^== z~--. -- - 
varieties of flowers, (among them several new and ve¬ 
ry pretty,) several bouquets, 17 varieties of Tomatoes, 
and half a peck of very handsome seedling Potatoes. 
Mrs. Van Namee of the same place, had some beau¬ 
tiful bouquets, a very handsome show of flowers, and 
fine samples of fruit. Among the lot presented by 
Mr. Dingwall of this city, 5 large bouquets, 84 va¬ 
rieties of Verbenas, 24 seedling Phloxes, Dahlias, cut 
flowers, pears, melons, &c., and an egg from Egg plant, 
weighing 8 lbs. 14 ounces. 
§3^ We understand that Judge Sheldon of Cayu¬ 
ga Co., has recently sold his Short Horn Bull, Kirk- 
leavington 1st, to Mr. Lathrop of Mass., for $800. It 
was purchased by Judge S. of Geo. Vail, Esq. Troy, 
by whom it was bred from the Duke of Wellington, 
whose portrait we gave week before last. 
Cottages for Farm-Laborers. —We have already 
strongly recommended these for general introduction, 
for the purpose of relieving farmers’ wives from a most 
laborious, and sometimes almost insupportable burthen, 
—the boarding of numerous hands. We are glad to 
perceive by a late number of the Rural New- Yorker, 
that J. P. Root, of Sweden, Monroe Co., N. Y., the 
enterprising president of the agricultural society in 
that county, who cultivates a farm of 100 acres, has a 
large number of this character, and keeps only one 
farm-laborer in his own dwelling. That he has not 
lost much by this mode of management, is evident 
from the facts,—that he began farming with $1500 
worth of property,—that this is bis only business,— 
that he now has 700 acres of excellent land all paid 
for,—that his nett profits last year, besides family ex¬ 
penses, were $5,985, or $16.40 per acre on the cleared 
land,—and that he is not yet forty years old 
Weeds. —If every farmer will look over his grounds 
he will find that the list of really troublesome weeds is 
quite small, although there are thousands of species of 
different plants, which might all become weeds. Why 
are they not all so 7 Simply because they have no 
seed in the soil. In some parts of the world, our weeds 
are entirely unknown. Why 7 They have not the 
seed. Now if other countries have not our weeds, 
should we have them, if we were only to rid ourselves 
of the seed 7 If only a fortieth part of our plants 
have been suffered to get in and drop the ? r seed, and 
become troublesome weeds, why should we keep out 
thirty-nine fortieths, and let the other fraction over¬ 
run us 7 In China and in some parts of Flanders, the 
fields are entirely free from weeds—the result of long- 
continued, cleanly cultivation. If the French are 
not troubled with our red-root, why should not we try 
for the same exemption ? If the English are unac¬ 
quainted with our chess, why can we not enjoy the 
same privilege 7 If a single county in Pennsylvania 
has never raised a plant of the Canada thistle, why 
may not all the counties in the Union become equally 
free 7 They may—if they will only remember the 
aphorism, that “ the price of this freedom is eternal 
vigilance.” 
