1854 . 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
879 
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K7* We ask the particular attention of all our 
readers , to the first article in this paper. 
The Ohio State Fair. —We learn from last week’s 
despatches from Newark, that tie exhibition of stock 
at the Ohio State Fair, was very large and exceedingly 
fine—the animals showing none of the bad effects ex¬ 
pected from the drouth ; that the exhibition of short- 
horned cattle predominated largely over other des¬ 
criptions, and that this part of the exhibition was said 
to be finer than at any previous Fair in that State 
The swine, poultry, &c., were numerous and of excel¬ 
lent quality. Their stalls and pens extended for more 
than a mile and a quarter, encircling the grounds, and 
they were nearly all filled. Some of the horses are 
also said to have been very handsome. The attendance 
seems to have been very good, the weather glorious, 
and every thing to have gone off to the satisfaction of 
all, except some who had been inconvenienced by the 
detention of freights. 
The New England Horse Show, at Brattleboro, 
seems to have met with reasonable success. Entries 
are stated to have been about 150 in number, and to 
have included some animals of great value. The 
matches were quite exciting; the time, both of single 
and matched horses, fair; and the attendance liberal. 
On Friday several miscellaneous matches were made, 
and a trial of ladies for the prize of a gold watch of¬ 
fered for the most skillful equestrianship, came off with 
eclat. - 
§yt|* We see by the last number of the London 
Gardener's Chronicle , that Mr. Thomas’ recent work 
—“ Farm Implements, and the Principles of their Con¬ 
struction and Use ”—has been ropublished in London 
with all its illustrations. 
ggp We are indebted to Mr. Quinby, author of a 
book explaining the “ Mysteries of Bee-Keeping,’’ for 
a box of very excellent honey. We learn that he 
owns in part or wholly about 400 swarms of bees, and 
has sold within the last year nearly four tons of ho¬ 
ney. He wishes us to state that his book, above men¬ 
tioned, may be obtained of C. M. Saxton, Agricultu¬ 
ral Book Publisher, 152 Fulton Street, New-York, or 
of the author, M. Quinby, Palatine Church, N. Y. 
Seedling Potatoes. —We have received from Dr. 
Wendell, a basket of the Wendell Seedling Potato, 
described by him in another page of this paper. They 
are certainly of a very good quality for the table, and 
with the character for hardiness and productiveness 
which Dr. W. gives them, must prove a desirable addi¬ 
tion to our list of good potatoes. 
Bucks Co. (Pa.) Fair. —We have received from 
some friend, the Bucks Co. Intelligencer, containing a 
full account of the exhibition of the Bucks Co. Ag. 
Society, from which we learn that the stock of horses, 
cattle, grain, vegetables, household products, &c., were 
more abundant than on any former occasion, and that 
the Society have abundant reason for congratulation 
in the success of the exhibition. We give in another 
page a notice of the prize corn crop of Wm. Stavely, 
Esq. who it appears also received the first for wheat, 
on a field of Mediterranean wheat, consisting of twenty- 
two acres, oats stubb-le fallow, heavily manured, and 
plowed in during the month of August, plowed a second 
time about the middle of September, and drilled in at 
the rate of one-and-a-half bushels per acre, and which 
it was estimated by the committee would average thir¬ 
ty bushels per acre. The committee concur in opinion 
that the extraordinary success which Mr. Stavely met 
with the present season in growing eorn, is in a great 
measure attributable to his mode of deep plowing. 
Stone Hill Potatoes. —Mr. D. A. Bulkeley, 
Stone Hill Farm, Williamstown, Mass., will please ac¬ 
cept our thanks for a barrel of his fine potatoes. In a 
note accompanying them, Mr. B. says—“ I send you a 
barrel of Stone Hill Potatoes, as a sample of my erop 
of ten acres, that averaged over 200 bushels per acre 
—a good yield for so dry a season as we have just past. 
The oldest inhabitants in these parts, never knew it so 
dry, nor when every thing suffered as much as the 
.present season. These potatoes are the only kind that 
have yielded a return for the labor bestowed upon the 
crop, and many have come to the point not to plant 
any other kind.” - 
Crops in Bradford Co , Pa. —Extract of a letter 
from a subscriber at Troy, Pa.—“ Wheat is scaree and 
high—at present worth $2 a bushel. Rye is $1.06— 
Com, 80 cents—Oats, 40 cents. Buckwheat was an 
entire failure. Potatoes half a crop. Grass excellent.” 
Sowing Plaster on Wheat in the Fall. —One 
of our correspondents, Mr. D. A. Bulkley of Williams¬ 
town, Mass., last spring recommended, very strongly, 
the sowing of gypsum or plaster of Paris, on wheat in 
the fall, at the rate of a bushel and a half to the acre, 
contending that it would bring the grain to maturity 
from ten to fifteen days earlier than if sown in the 
spring. Mr. D. S. Merick, of Nunda, Livingston 
county, N. Y. writes to the Rural New- Yorker , that 
last fall he sowed two bushels of plaster per acre on 
part of a field of wheat, and on the other part which 
was considered the best land, be put nothing. The 
plaster part of the field gave 18 bushels while that 
which was not plastered produced only 10 bushels per 
acre. Mr. W. finds the fall, in all cases, the best time 
to sow plaster. - 
Stock for the West. —A correspondent at Mid- 
dlebury, Vt, under date of Nov. 3, writes us as follows : 
“ Charles S. Wright of Racine, (Wis.) left here this 
morning, with some fine Durham Cattle bought of Col. 
C. L. Smith and II. Plumley of Bristol—some Here- 
fords of A. L. Bingham—ten brood mares and colts of 
the Eclipse, Hambletonian and Morgan Stock, bought of 
A. P. Skiff, Geo. Gale, S. W. Jewett, A. Dana, and C. 
Goodwin—also 44 French Merino Sheep of S. W. Jew- 
