THE CULTIVATOR 
June, 
226 
ITT* J. G. C.j Jr.,of Rhode-Island,Avill see by reference 
to another page of this number of the Cultivator, that 
our State Ag. Society have already prepared to carry 
his suggestions into operation, and that a trial of reap¬ 
ers, mowing machines, &c., is to be held under its aus¬ 
pices, at Geneva, next month. 
Agricultural Journals. —Since our last we have 
received the following new. agricultural journals: 
Kentucky Cultivator, Cjmthiana—monthly, 8 p. 
quarto, $1. By J. Atkinson. 
Jefferson Farmer, Sacket’s Harbor, N. Y. Agri¬ 
cultural and Miscellaneous—weekly, at $1. O. H. Har¬ 
ris, editor and proprietor. 
Farmer and Artisan, Keokuk, Iowa—monthly, at 
50 cents—by our correspondent, W. G. Edmundson. 
The Farmer’s Journal, Bath, N. C.—monthly, at 
$1. John F. Tompkins, M. D., editor and proprietor. 
Importation of Sheep.— We see by the papers, that 
S W. Jewett, Esq., of Middlebury, Vt., has just re¬ 
turned from Europe, with a flock of 160 sheep, in charge 
of a Spanish shepherd. It is stated that one of the 
bucks cost $900, and would shear 24 lbs. avooI. 
Mr. Avery’s Sheep.— In our last No., p. 186, Mr. 
Avery states that Mr. Hull, (from Avhose flock his sheep 
Avere procured,) “ purchased his stock of the Hon. Wm. 
Jarvis.” “A Subscriber” Avishes to be informed as to 
Avhat Mr. A. means by “ his stock”—that is, he Avishes 
to know Avhether Mr. Hull’s purchase consisted of eives 
and bucks; and if so, Iioav many of each. The writer 
says —“ If, on further inquiry, it should appear that Mr. 
Hull’s flock were not from Mr. Jan T is, then Mr. Avery’s 
description of the Paular Merinoes, as given by Mr. Jar¬ 
vis, Avill not fit his flock.” If the Avriter will turn to Mr. 
Avery’s article, he will see that he only claims that his 
flock “ nearly” ansAver the description of Mr. J., and 
then states Avherein they differ. 
Prize Plows at World’s Fair. —A Avriter in the 
Farmer's Herald, (British,) after commenting rather 
severely on the clumsy Belgian and French plows, Avhich 
dreAV prizes, and Avhich he shoAvs are the same in impor¬ 
tant points, as old English implements, adds, “ A com¬ 
plete contrast to these foreign monstrosities Avas shoAvn in 
the ploAVs of the United States. Here lightness in a de¬ 
gree to that shoAvn by any, even of English manufacture, 
was shoAvn.” - 
Importation of Cattle. —“The Ohio Company for 
the importation of improA’ed English cattle,” AA r as or¬ 
ganised in the Scioto valley, in November last. The 
sum of $15,000 having been raised, Arthur Watts and 
Geo. W. Renick, Esqs., haA r e been appointed agents to 
visit England to make the purchases, for Avhich purpose 
they have recently sailed for Liverpool. 
Green-Crop Manure. —A correspondent of the Ger¬ 
mantown Telegraph states that he soAved Avith buckwheat 
a piece of plowed SAA T ard ground, so poor as not to repay 
the expense of tillage. It Avas ploAved just as the grass 
Avas in blossom, rolled, and harrowed thoroughly, before 
the buckAvheat Avas sown. When the latter Avas in blos¬ 
som, it was rolled, and then ploAved in, and again rolled. 
The next spring it Avas limed lightly and soAvn Avith oats. 
The two preceding green crops had so restored the soil, 
that the oats Avere remarkably fine. 
\0~ A correspondent informs ns that Bremen Geese, 
and Aylesbury Ducks, can be had of John Giles, Esq., 
Providence, R. I. -— 
Plaster on Wheat.—T he folloAA’ing successful expe¬ 
riment in the application of plaster to Avheat before ploAV- 
ing the ground, we abridge from Moore’s NeW-Yorker: 
“ In June, before breaking up the ground to summer fal- 
Ioav, one-half of an eight acre field Avas soAvn AA r ith plas¬ 
ter, at the rate of a bushel per acre. The ground was 
plowed three times to kill Canada thistles, and the Avheat 
soAvn the first of September. The folloAving April the 
same quantity of plaster Avas soavu on the other half of 
the field. The result Avas strongly in favor of the part 
first plastered, the Avheat being of a brighter and better 
color, of a better groAvth, and thicker on the ground— 
the other being eA T ery Avay inferior. The clover was also 
much larger and thicker on the ground plastered before 
plowing. [The experiment would have been more inte¬ 
resting if the results had been submitted to accurate 
Aveighing and measuring. It is well Avorthy of repetition, 
as bearing on the question, Avhether plaster, like other ma¬ 
nures, is most efficacious Avhen thoroughly mixed Avith 
the soil.] - 
Oats cut green.—S amuel Williams, of Waterloo, 
N. Y., gives in the Gen. Farmer the management of a 
farmer Avho stables his coavs six months in the year, mak¬ 
ing most of his manure by composting, and Avho says 
that nothing exhausts the soil so little, that pays so Avell 
in a dry season Avhen hay is short, as oats cut in the milk 
for Avinter fodder, particularly for sheep. We think if 
he should also adopt the practice of soAving corn very 
thickly in furroAvs three feet apart, he Avould regard the 
crop as even less exhausting, and possessing great value 
for feeding green or dried, to cattle. 
Wheat on Clover.—A heavy crop of Avheat, yield¬ 
ing forty-seven bushels per acre, on seA 7 en acres, Avas raised 
by M. C. Crapsey of Lockport, on inverted clover sod, as 
reported in the Rural NeAv-Yorker. The clover Avas in¬ 
verted in August, eight inches deep, the soil rolled hard, 
harrowed, and cultivated, expending on each acre about 
$5.00 Avorth of labor, after AA 7 hich lg bushels of Soule’s 
Wheat Avas soAvn per acre, harrowed, and rolled, at $2.25 
per acre—luuwesting and draAving $2.50; threshing and 
marketing, $4.28; interest on land, $7.00, making all the 
expenses $20.98 per acre. The wheat sold at 80 cents 
per bushel, or $87.60 per acre—profit, $16.62 per acre. 
Liquid Manure. —W. Isham, of the Michigan Farm¬ 
er states, “ A farmer in the neighborhood of Bath, 
(England,) informed me that he had a cistern which 
held ten hogsheads, into which his liquid manure Avas all 
drained from the stable, and from the dung heap in the 
yard, and that he had found it far better for his crops 
than the solid part.” - 
Milk and Railroads. —A farmer in Massachusetts, 
some 25 miles from Boston, sold the milk of seven com¬ 
mon good coavs at the depot near his residence, for city 
market, at nine cents per gallon in summer and at eleA 7 en 
