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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Aug. 
ten years from planting, has been sold for $775. $1,000- 
000 are paid for willow baskets in New-York city. 
Breaking Halters. —It is a serious fault for a horse 
to pull at his halter. An animal of this character was 
tied to a stake on the bank of a stream, with his tail to¬ 
wards the water. He snapped the halter, tumbled over 
the bank, floundered in the water to his heart’s content, 
and afterwards was willing to remain “ at his post.” 
The Water Cure Journal. 
A NEW VOLUME commences with the present July number. 
Published monthly, illustrated with engravings, exhibiting the 
structure, anatomy, and physiology of the human body, with familiar 
instructions to learners. It is emphatically a Journal of Health, de¬ 
signed to be a complete Family Guide in all Diseases. 
Terms. —Only One Dollar a Year, in Advance. Please address, 
post-paid, FOWLERS & WELLS, No. 131 Nassau street, New- 
Yorlr. 
A few brief Editorial Notices may be acceptable to those unac¬ 
quainted with this Journal. We copy: 
From the New-York Tribune. 
“ The Water Cure Journal holds a high rank in the science of 
health; always ready, straight-forward, and plain spoken, it unfolds 
the law of our physical nature, without any pretensions to the tech¬ 
nicalities of science, but in a form as attractive and refreshing as the 
sparkling element of which it treats.” 
From the Fountain Journal. 
“Everyman, woman, and child, who loves health, who desires 
happiness, its direct result, who wants to ‘ live while it does live,’ 
‘live till he dies,’ and really live, instead of being a mere walking 
corpse, should become at once a reader of this Journal, and practice 
its precepts..” 
From the New-York Evening Post. 
“ The Water Cure Journal. —This is, unquestionably, the most po¬ 
pular Health Journal in the world.” 
This Hydropathic Journal now enters upon its Fourteenth Vo¬ 
lume, with a circulation of Fifty Thousand Copies. The ablest me¬ 
dical writers are among its contributors, and all subjects relating to 
the Laws of Life, Health, and Happiness, may be found in its pages 
Now is the time to subscribe. August 1—2t. 
FOR SALE. 
A BULL 15 months old. bred by Fisher Sheafe, Esq., out of the fine 
Durham Cow Red Rose, by the celebrated imported bull Duke 
of Exeter—a fine young animal; will be sold for $70. Color of the 
same rich red that was so much admired in his sire, with a very little 
white. Duke of Exeter sold at auction, for $500 when 2 years old. 
The mother took the premium at the County Agricultural Fair, and 
is now giving 20 quarts of rich milk per diem. The above low price 
is submitted to because the animal is getting to that age, that the pre¬ 
sent owner has no facilities for keeping him. He is perfectly quiet 
and kind. Apply immediately, toF. E. & A. FIELD, 13 Platt-st. 
August 1—It.* New-York City. 
Bedford Band for Sale. 
I OFFER for sale the tract of land on which I reside, lying in the 
county of Bedford, Va., near the Blue Ridge, 25 miles west of the 
town of Lynchburg, 10 miles souih of the James River canal, and 
eight north of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. The tract con¬ 
tains 427 acres, of which near 200 are the low grounds of the north 
fork of Otter creek, the remainder Red upland , All the low grounds, 
and about 70 acres of the uplands are cleared,and under the use of clover 
and plaster, have been already raised to a high degree of fertillity; 
producing fine crops of grain and tobacco. The low grounds possess 
the somewhat rare advantages of complete exemption from overflow; 
of early maturity of the wheat crops which greatly diminishes the 
liability to rust; and in consequence of thorough under-draining, of 
never suffering from standing water after heavy rains. Grass may 
be successfully ctdtivated on any part of them, but there are from 
20 to 30 acres especially adapted to meadow. Most of the wood 
land would produce fine tobacco. The improvements consist of, 1st, 
a handsome, a spacious dwelling of brick, with eight rooms, exclu¬ 
sive of a pretty dry and well ventilated basement. This house has 
been erected of the very best materials, in plain handsome style, 
with special regard to comfort and convenience of arrangement; 2d, 
of a large and convenient barn fit) by 44 feet, with a basement so ar¬ 
ranged as to afford shelter for stock and storage for root crops; ex¬ 
cellent stables and cow houses, good Negro houses, store, weaving 
and wash rooms, tobacco barns, Ac. All these out-houses have been 
erected within a few years. In a word, a very small outlay is need- 
,ed to perfect a plan of improvement, which when completed, will 
render this one of the most beautiful and desirable farms- and resi¬ 
dences in this section of the State. It is exposed to market, only be¬ 
cause the feeble health of the owner renders necessary a removal to 
a warmer climate. 
[Or’Communications n>ay be addressed to Davis’Store, Bedford 
co.. Va. Aug. 1—at; WM. DAVIS. 
Great Sale of Superior thorough-bred Short-Horn Cattle. 
T HE subscriber will offer for sale, his entire herd of choice Short¬ 
horns, comprising 50 head, young and old, at public Auction, on 
Wednesday the 13th of October, 1852, at 1 o’clock, P. M., at his 
farm 2| miles from Ihe city of Troy; reserving to himself one bid on 
five Cows and Heifers and one Bull, say six head in all, and these to 
be pointed out previous to the commencement of the sale; this bid 
will be made public when the six animals are brought to the stand 
for sale. Should any gentlemen advance on the single bid made by 
the proprietor, the highest bidder will be entitled to the animal. It is 
pfoper to say, the severe drouth in this vicinity reducing the hay crop 
one half, has decided the proprietor to make this sale at the time 
named, instead of next June, which he had purposed to do. 
The well established reputation of this herd in this Union, and in 
Canada, and the splended herd it has measurably sprung from, viz: 
the famed herd of that eminently English breeder the late Thomas 
Bates, Esq , renders it hardly necessary to comment upon its superior 
merits. It may not, however, be inappropriate to remark, that the 
establishment of this herd was commenced in 1838, and that the most 
careful attention has since been paid to its breeding, and that it now 
contains mostly all the reserved stock of two former public sales. 
And besides these he has now on the passage across the Atlantic, 
shipped 21st June, on board the Packet Ship Kossuth, Capt. Jas. B. 
Bell, a superior yearling roan Bull, having many crosses of the famed 
Duchess Bulls of Mr. Bates. Including this latter animaband the two 
beautiful red roan three year old Heifers,.which came out from Eng¬ 
land last September, “YarmLass” and -‘YorkshireCountess,” and 
the beautiful Heifer Calf of the latter animal, got in England by the 
Duchess Bull 5th Duke of York, there will be 14 head of this import¬ 
ed stock, and its immediate descendants. There has been sold from 
this herd but three Heifers from these importations, and these cows 
were sold at $300 each. All the young bulls bred from these cows, 
except those now offered for sale, have also been sold at private sale, 
at $300 each, most of them while quite young. 
Besides these 14 head of high bred animals, the noble premium 
cow Esterville 3d, bred by E. P. Prentice, Esq., o t Albany, and the 
equally fine two year old, red and white Heifer bred by me, got by 
the Bates Bull Meteor, and three of the famed milking Willey tribe, 
the same tribe of cows as the Heifer Ruby, sold by me to Mr. S. P. 
Chapman of Madison county, and which cow was awarded the first 
premium by the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, for producing the 
largest quantity of butter in 10 days in June, and 10 days in August, 
on grass pasture only, being a fraction over 40 lbs. in those 20 days. 
There are other valuable tribes in the herd, as the printed Catalogue 
will show. 
The catalogue will be ready for distribution about the 1st of Au¬ 
gust, and will exhihil richness of pedigree rarely to be met with, 
showing the descent of most of the animals, from the best animals 
on record in the English herd book. Having received an invitation 
from H. Strafford last winter to forward a list of the pedigrees of my 
herd to be inserted in the forthcoming volumes of the English herd 
book, of which Mr. Strafford is now the editor, several pedigrees 
were sent to him of the animals here offered for sale, and will appear 
in said book. 
A credit of 9 monlhs will be given on all sums up to $300, and 9 
and 18 months on all sums over $300, for approved paper, with in¬ 
terest,- payable at some„bank in this State. GEO. VAIL. 
Troy, N. Y., Aug. 1—3t. 
Thorough-bred Devon Stock at Auction. 
T HE subscriber will offer at public sale, on Wednesday, the 25th 
August, 1852, at his residence, in Farmington, Conn., about 30 
head of pure Devon Cattle, consisting of Cows, Heifers, Bulls, and 
Bull and Heifer Calves. 
This stock was derived principally from the herds of Geo. Patter¬ 
son, Esq., of Maryland, R. L. Colt, Esq., of New-Jersey, Messrs. 
Hurlbuts of Winchester, and from imported stock—and have been se¬ 
lected and bred with a particular reference as to their dairy qualities. 
All cows and heifers offered are, or will be previous to the sale, in 
calf to my prize bull Prince Albert, a descendant of Geo. Patterson’s 
celebrated imported bull Eclipse, and my prize cow Victoria, which 
was awarded the first premium at Albany, in 1850, of $25, as the 
best Devon Cow'- exhibited in the class of foreign stock, and sold at 
the same time to a gentleman in Vermont, for $180. 
Catalogues, giving a particular description of each animal, with 
their pedigrees, can be had at the offices of the principal Agricultural 
Journals, or on application to me, by mail or otherwise. 
The sale will take place at 12 o’clock A. M., the 25th inst., and the 
stock will be ready for examination at 10. 
I will also offer at the same time and place, my superior Morgan 
Stallion Young Gifford, five years old, a colt of the old Gifford Mor¬ 
gan, and from * 1 a Morgan mare. Also a Morgan Filly 1 year old the 
12th of May last, by the above horse, and from a fine Morgan mare 
bred by Ambrose Arnold, Esq., of Westminster, Vt., a superior colt. 
Farmington, Ct., Aug. 1—It. WM. L. COWLES. 
Valuable Farm for Sale. 
T HE subscriber offers for sale four, hundred and fifty acres of land, 
being a part of his homestead, and comprising two hundred acres 
of as desirable land as any in Addison county—lying on the main 
road four miles north ofVergennes on the border of Lake Champlain, 
and one mile from the Railroad Stalion. It is under good cultivation, 
and furnished with commodious buildings. The remaining 250 acres 
is wood land; a portion of it covered wuth a heavy growth of hem¬ 
lock and other valuable timber, and the remainder with the best quality 
of wood for fuel. The property will be sold together or in parcels. 
Postpaid inquiries promptly responded to. 
ROW’D T. ROBINSON, 
Aug! 1—tf. Ferris burgh, Addisot do , Vt. 
