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THE CULTIVATOR 
April, 
Fine Farm. —Any one wishing to purchase one of the 
best farms in the State, is referred to the advertisement 
of Hon. John Delafield, in this paper, who, it will be 
seen, wishes to dispose of the fine farm on which he now 
resides, near Geneva, 
Live Stock Insurance.— Owners of high-prized ani¬ 
mals would do well to look to the advertisement of the 
Northern N. Y. Live Stock Insurance Company, in this 
paper. The names connected with it, afford a sufficient 
guaranty that the company will fulfil its obligations. 
Morgan Horses. —Those interested in this breed of 
horses, are referred to the advertisements of Mr. Mowry , 
in this number of the Cultivator. He has now five ani¬ 
mals of this breed, embracing some of the highest blood 
in existence. 
(D=* Our readers will notice that this number consists 
of 40 pages—eight more than usual—to enable us to ac¬ 
commodate our advertising friends. This does not in¬ 
crease the postage on this number. See extract from post 
office law on page 155. 
Our correspondent, L. L. W., Clear Branch, Va., 
can obtain the information he desires, by addressing Ed¬ 
wards &, Platt, Brooklyn, N. Y. It is not in our power 
to furnish it. -- 
Fine Pigs. —We copy the following from the report 
of the Hartford Co. (Ct.) Fair for last year.-—“ S. E. 
Chapman, of East Hartford,’ exhibited a sow, 5 years 
old, with a litter of 9 pigs, nine weeks old. These pigs 
1 laid out ail others.’ They were admired by all who 
saw them. They were the most beautiful pigs ever seen 
in this region. One of them, (and there was no great 
difference in their size,) weighed 74 lbs. the day before 
the Fair. Mr. Chapman purchased the sow onboard of 
a Liverpool packet in New-York, when she was about 
6 months old. She was an English shoat, of fine points. 
He raises two litters a year from her, for which he gets 
$5 each. She brings him in about $80 a year, her pigs 
being considered greatly superior to any others produced 
in this region.” Mr. C. writes us that Mr. H. Beaumont 
of East Hartford, fatted two of her pigs—one at 9 months 
old, weighed 404 lbs.—the other, at 10 months, 422 lbs. 
Profitable Fowls. —The raising of fancy poultry is 
getting to be quite a handsome business. Mr. John T. 
Andrews of Sharon, Ct., haspublished, in the Litchfield 
Enquirer, an account of his success in breeding fowls, 
from which it appears, that his profit on six pullets of the 
black Spanish variety, amounted to $181, or $80 each, 
he having sold 200 chickens at an average of $1.25. Bet¬ 
ter business than the dairy, that. 
Applying Manure. —The following excellent practice 
is described by a correspondent of the Journal of Agri¬ 
culture. We have often insisted on the importance of 
thorough intermixture with the soil, and are glad to see 
it reduced to practice. “ I take much pains to spread 
the manure as evenly as possible , and harrow it thorough¬ 
ly with a heavy iron-tooth harrow, first lengthwise and 
then crosswise the furrow, until the soil is well pulverized 
and the manure thoroughly incorporated with it.” The 
same writer also remarks, “ My manure is under cover 
during winter, and I am satisfied it is worth nearly double 
for being housed.” 
Prize Cattle. —The last London Farmer’s Magazine, 
contains a list of the breeds to which the first and second 
prizes have been awarded at the Smithfield Club Show 
of fat cattle, for twenty years. They are as follows: 
To Short-horn?,..... 115 
Herefords,. 128 
Devon?,.,..,. 33 
Scotch,. 7 
Long-Horns,. 3 
Ayrshire, ... 2 
Highland,. 2 
West Highland,. 2 
Angers,... 2 
Galloway,..,,. 1 
Pembroke,. 1 
Osage Orange Hedges. —Bryan Jackson, of Dela¬ 
ware, informs us through the Boston Cultivator, that he 
considers this hedge as decidedly the cheapest fence that 
can be made,- and that those planted >on his own grounds 
in the spring of 1849, “are now a good fence, capable 
of turning horses and cattle.” This is but three sum¬ 
mers growth. Their rapid growth when young, render¬ 
ing them capable of being shorn two or three times a 
year, brings them forward sooner than any other hedge 
plant. , - 
Pruning Hedges. —J. Wilkinson, well known as the 
principal of Mt. Airy Institute, and who has had much 
experience in hedging, gives it as his opinion, (in the 
Prairie Farmer.) more especially in relation to the Osage 
Orange which has a vigorous growth, that wherever fail¬ 
ure has occurred, it has been in consequence of lack of 
pruning. He has never in a single instance known or 
heard of a hedge being cut too low or trimmed too often, 
but on the contrary has known 11 miles upon miles, ruined, 
so far as small pigs are concerned, by the opposite course.” 
He adds, “ I think all the writers in the periodicals for 
the west, fail, if they fail any where, in not urging a 
more frequent and relentless mode of pruning, after the 
first year.” - 
Not too late to Plant. —The New England Farmer 
furnishes a communication from H. F. French of Exeter, 
N. H. in which he says, “ Mr. McClintock, of Ports¬ 
mouth, who is now ninety-four pears of age, this year 
ate the fruit from trees planted with his own hand when 
he was eighty-six .” Another gentleman, having a very 
fine orchard, said, “ I am more than seventy years old, 
but- I have set over a hundred apple trees this fall.” 
Again, he informs us that “ Mr. Robinson says that when 
he planted his orchard with seedling trees more than 
fifty years ago, his friends told him there could never be 
a demand for so much fruit!” Yet this same year he 
says a gentleman of Hampton, in that State, sold fruit 
from about four acres of land this season for $800, and 
last year for $1400. 
An Improved Meadow. —Charles Yates furnishes the 
American Farmer an account of the very successful treat¬ 
ment he gave a five acre meadow, by which he almost 
doubled the average yield of the three previous years, 
or increased the number of loads of hay from 19 to 32. 
The higher parts of the meadow were manured with 
wood-pile manure, and the lower with clay from a cellar 
—it was harrowed, sowed with three bushels of plaster, 
salt, and leached ashes, mixed together, and then rolled 
with a common roller. The grass was a mixture of 
timothy, herds grass, and clover. By “herds grass” is 
