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meant, we presume, the red-top or flgrostis vulgaris , 
and not the herds grass of the north, which is timothy. 
TflE Red Cedar from Seed. —Isaac Hildreth, a skil¬ 
ful cultivator of trees, states in Moore’s New-Yorker, 
that in no case where the trees hang full of berries, has 
he been able to find perfect seeds, and in nearly all that 
he has examined he has found no seed at all; while, where 
the berries grow scattering and singly, the seed are found 
perfect. He plants them in sifted leaf-mould, and shades 
the young plants. -—- 
Wool and Sheep. —Dr. Lee, in his Southern Cultiva¬ 
tor, in speaking of his tour to the north, says, “ Within 
the last thirty days we have seen a good many flocks of 
sheep, and pumped all the information we could from 
their keepers and owners, without finding much that is 
new in sheep husbandry. Good feed, plenty of salt, pro¬ 
tection from vicious dogs, and care to use only the very 
best males for the increase of the flock, and to have the 
ewes yean at the proper season, are the cardinal points 
in this branch of rural industry.” He says, “ We have 
no doubt it costs the farmers of the south, all things con¬ 
sidered, as much to grow 100 lbs. of poor wool, filled 
with dirt and burs, which sells at $15, as it need to cost 
to produce a like weight of clean good wool worth $30.” 
Punctuality.— Few are aware how much time is lost 
by a want of punctuality. Twenty men meet together 
for business, detained fifteen minutes by the s’ack- 
twisted habits of one, lose in all no less than Jive, hours 
of time—a donation which they have to make usually 
•with no thanks, or a very faint and flippant apology. A 
celebrated Frenchman, employed in arduous official du¬ 
ties, found that his wife was habitually ten minutes too 
late in coming to dinner. He found the difficulty incura¬ 
ble; and therefore determined to write a book. “He 
fixed on his subject, thought of it during his walk to and 
from home, wrote during these ten minutes every day 
and no longer, and in the course of a couple of years 
published one of the most able books of the age.” 
Inverted Crops vs. Frequent Flowings. —A gen¬ 
tleman in Maryland, (says Timothy Pickering,) plowed 
up part of a field of clover in March, but failing to plant 
it, treated it as summer fallow by repeatedly plowing it, 
and sowed with wheat in September. The residue of the 
clover field was mown twice, plowed once, and sown with 
wheat the same day as the other. The fallowed part 
yielded only 14-§ bushels per acre; the other part, besides 
the two crops of clover hay the preceding year, yielded 
24-| bushels per acre. 
Taste. —The Michigan Farmer gives us a very good 
hint about some noted specimens of false taste, observed 
at the World’s Fair. Fie thinks the painter and sculptor 
should copy nature; hence objects to such flagrant viola¬ 
tions as “ a nest of little marble cupids, as if hatched 
from eggs—cupids, snakes, and other animals carved upon 
pillars for sustaining a mantle-piece, and on the mantle 
itself, as if they were fire-proof, or delighted in being 
roasted marble urns, big enough to crush a dozen men, 
supported by a slender-made man underneath—fountains, 
with streams issuing from the mouth of a carved goose,” 
&c. &c. 
Gophers.— The following mode of treating this animal, 
so troublesome in some parts of the western states, com¬ 
municated to the Prairie Farmer, may be elsewhere use¬ 
ful as applied to other depredators. “ When they are 
throwing up the ground their hole will be open—put a 
little arsenic or strychnine into a potato, and roll it into 
the hole, and the gopher will trouble you no more.” 
Postage of the Cultivator and Cultivator Almanac, 
We re-publish the following, from our Jan. No., and add a letter 
from the Department, deciding that the Cultivator Almanac is subject 
only to the same charge as a single number of the paper itself , when 
sent to subscribers. 
Post-Office Department, 
Appointment Office , Nov. 24, 1851. 
Sir — I have received your letter of the 20tb in$l. The “Cultiva¬ 
tor” is considered as being under the classification of a “ newspaper,” 
as lhat term is defined by the Ifith section of the act of 3d March, 
1845 ; and it therefore is entitled to all the benefits granted to. and sub¬ 
ject to all the restrictions imposed by law on such publications. 
Respectfully yours, S. D. JACOBS, 
1st Assist. P. M. Genl. 
The postage on the Cultivator is therefore as follows: 
For any distance not exceeding 50 miles,. 5 cents per year. 
Over 50, and not exceeding 300 miles,. 10 cents per year. 
Over 300 “ 1,000 miles,.15 “ “ 
Over 1 000 “ 2,000 miles,. 20 “ “ 
Over 2.000 “ 4.000 miles,.... .... 25 “ “ 
Over 4.000 . 30 “ “ 
To prevent any misapprehension we quote the 16ih section of the 
Jaw of 3d March, 1845, referred to in the above letter. It is as fol¬ 
lows : 
Sec 1*6. And be it further enacted, that the term “Newspaper,” 
hereinbefore used, shall lie, and the same is hereby defined to be any 
printed publication, issued in numbers, consisting of not more than 
two sheets, and published at short stated intervals of not more than 
one month, conveying intelligence of passing events, and bona fide 
extras and supplements of such publication.” 
By this exlract it will he seen that the Pictorial Cultivator Almanac 
is entitled to go to our subscribers as a supplement to The Cultivator, 
it being a '■•bonafine supplement ” to it, and nothing else. The Al¬ 
manac is not published for sale, and is sent only to subscribers to the 
Cultivator. 
Post-Office Department, 
Appointment Office , Jan. 28, 1852. 
Sir—T have received your letter of the 23d inst., asking whether 
the “Cultivator Almanac” ought to be considered as a Supplement 
to the Albany Cultivator, and rated with postage as such, or be con¬ 
sidered as a transient publication, and rated accordingly. 
A “ Supplement,” to come within the provisions of the law which 
allows such issues to be sent to subscribers at a postage equal to the 
sum paid on a single number of the principal publication, at subscrip¬ 
tion rates, ought not to exceed three ounces in weight, and should 
contain such matter only, as will supply that which is wanted to make 
the principal publication complete. 
Upon examination of the “Cultivator Almanac,” I have come to 
the conclusion that it may be considered as a Supplement to the Al¬ 
bany Cultivator. Respectfully yours, S. D. JACOBS, 
1st Assist. P. M. Genl. 
Jacob Allen, Esq., P. M. South Hartford, Washington Co., N. Y. 
Albany Prices Current. 
Albany, Tuesday, March 16. 
FLOUR.—Our market, which, at the date of our last report, was 
buoyant, with an upward tendency, has become dull and heavy, with 
only a limited home and Eastern demand. Quotations may be given 
at $4.62£a4.87£ for common to good State and Michigan, $4.S7£a5.12£ 
for fancy State and Michigan, f5.12ja5.25 for extra Ohio, and $5.37£a 
5.50 for extra Genesee. Buckwheat sells at $1.50. 
GRAIN.—Wheat has followed the dullness in flour, and the sales 
since our last have been on a limited scale, we quote sales of only 
3300 bushels in lots, at 114c. for fair Genesee, and 117c. for a prime 
lot delivered at the East Railway Depot. In corn the sales include 
4,000 bushels, yellow round, to arrive at the railway, part deliverable 
between 1st and 15th March, and part between the 10th March and 
10th April, at 63£c. Also, 2,000 do., delivered at the road, at 0-3£c. 
The only sales of Barley are 3,000 bushels two rowed, at the road, 
at 72c., 3,000 do. do for delivery on board a boat at the opening of 
the river, at 75c., and 900 do. do. at the road at 70c.; there are free 
sellers of Barley, taken as it arrives at the road, at 71a72e. Barley 
malt retails at 93a94c. A sale of 4,000 bushels Rye was made, de¬ 
liverable in N. Y. at the opening, at 75c. The street trade in grain is 
