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THE CULTIVATOR 
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through many centuries, which quite overbalances the 
scientific investigations of the few who have labored in 
the present day. Wait till we have as much labor ex- 
pended under the light of science, as has been done In 
the dark, and the balance may fall on the other side of 
the account. - 
TjNiTEB.si.Ty of Albany. —-It has been inferred from 
our notice of this institution last month, that the course 
of Agricultural Instruction has been abandoned. This, 
however, is not the case. 'It has only been deferred for 
the present winter, on account of the lamented death of 
Prof. Norton, and the inability of the trustees to pro¬ 
cure a suitable person to fill his place. It is to be hoped 
that a suitable Professor will be found before another 
year, to go on with the course of agricultural instruc¬ 
tion , and it is the intention of the trustees eventually to 
place this branch of industry on a firm foundation. The 
Law and Medical Departments of the University, are 
now in successful operation, with a most competent corps 
of Professors; and considerable progress has been made 
in preparing the grounds upon which the Observatory is 
to stand, and its completion is confidently expected the 
ensuing year. Efforts will be made to bring the plan of 
the University before the public and the Legislature the 
coming winter, and we certainly hope with success. The 
proposed Institution is worthy of the support of every 
well wisher of science, and is demanded by the age. 
Agriculture at Amherst College.— -The import¬ 
ance of instruction in agriculture is beginning to be felt 
more generally in our colleges. The trustees of Amherst 
College have made a decided and most commendable 
movement towards the establishment of a school of Sci¬ 
entific Agriculture, by the addition of two professors to 
the present faculty, viz: ¥m, S. Clarke, of Easthamp- 
ton, Professor of Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry, 
and Rev. John A. Nash, of Amherst, Instructor In Ag¬ 
riculture. It is to be hoped that other colleges will fol¬ 
low this example, as fast as suitable men can be secured. 
Loot Apple.— -We have received some specimens of 
this apple from Mr. Charles Du Bois ofFishkill Landing, 
of which, though not yet in perfection, we have formed 
a very favorable opinion. Mr. D. B. informs us that the 
original tree has been In bearing for forty years or more, 
though its fruit has been but little known out of Its im¬ 
mediate neighborhood; and that it, with the young trees 
which have been worked from it, have always been regu¬ 
lar and good bearers. The young trees are of rapid and 
vigorous growth; and he considers it a valuable acqui¬ 
sition to our list of apples, and worthy of extensive dis¬ 
semination. —— 
Soil Analyses.-—A writer in the Hampshire and 
Franklin Express, published at Amherst, Mass., bears 
the following testimony to the value of soil analyses; 
Mr. Wm. P. Dickinson, of Hadley, had a field of eight 
acres, thoroughly grown over with moss, almost as thick 
and matted as the wool on the back of a sheep, that will 
give a ten pound fleece. The land, of course, must have 
been exceedingly unpromising for any crop. He pro¬ 
cured an analysis of it by the late Prof. Norton, and 
was told that it was deficient in two or three ingredients 
which could be cheaply supplied. For the analyses and f 
a long letter, advising how to supply the deficiencies in 
the cheapest possible manner, he paid $10, and was 
laughed at, as commonly happens, when a man ventures 
a step out of the beaten track. He plowed that field, 
and treated it in every respect, as Prof. Norton advised, 
with the exception of here and there a couple of rows, 
which were cultivated as he would have cultivated the 
whole, If he had not been otherwise advised. 
The result is a crop of corn, equal perhaps to 20 bush 
els to the acre, where cultivated in the old way, and very 
near 50 bushels, where cultivated as Mr. Norton advised. 
This, I know, all might have been, and yet there be no 
increase of profit, for the extra corn and fodder (both 
more than doubled) might have cost more than they are 
worth. But it was not so in this case. Mr. D,, after 
keeping an exact account of the expense, gives It as his de¬ 
liberate opinion that the increased profit, inconsequence 
of Mr. Norton’s advice, Is at least $50 this year; and be¬ 
sides this, he has better hopes for that land hereafter, 
and has, moreover, several fields of similar land adjoin¬ 
ing that, to which Mr. Norton’s prescription.will apply. 
He values the advice much higher than its cost, for its 
future application to each of those fields. 
French Merino Sheep.— -Gen. R. Harmon of Wheat- 
land, Monroe county, recently returned from Vermont, 
with about thirty choice French Merino Sheep, procured 
from S. W. Jewett, Esq., of Middlebury. They were 
all young and splendid animals, and were, with one or 
two exceptions, all selected from Mr. Jewett’s importa¬ 
tions from France, during the past season. One ram, 
ten and a-half months old, with a very fine fleece on his 
back, weighed 166 lbs. 
Suffolk Pigs.— Any person having genuine Suffolk 
pigs, or Indeed those of any pure breed, for sale, would 
do well to give notice to that effect through this paper, 
as we frequently have inquiries for them, and do not 
know where to direct our friends .for them. 
Founder in Horses .—A correspondent in Moore’s 
New-Yorker, gives the following remedy as uniformly 
proving successful. Add half a pint of vinegar to a giil 
of ground black mustard, and administer the mixture. 
Then put him in action for an hour or two, or until he 
sweats thoroughly. This remedy must be applied within 
43 hours of the foundering. 
Bloody Murrain.—A correspondent of the Genesee 
Farmer states that the best preventive . is plenty of 
pure water and salt at all times, the latter mixed with a 
little sulphur—-with a table spoonful of pulverized rosin 
once in three months; and the best cure, which must be 
applied at the earliest stage, is a large dose of rosin, fol¬ 
lowed with draughts of a decoction of smart-weed. He 
thinks from examinations, that the kidneys, are the seat 
of the disease, and hence the utility of rosin. 
“ Milch cows, in winter, should he kept in dry, mode¬ 
rately warm, but well ventilated quarters; be regularly 
fed and watered three times a day, salted twice or thrice 
a week, have clean beds, be curried daily, and in addi¬ 
tion to their long provender, they should receive succu- 
I lent food morning and evening.” 
