1853. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
37 
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K7" In presenting to the public the first num. 
her of our new and Cheap series of the Cultiva¬ 
tor, we are happy to be able to announce that 
our friend J. J. Thomas, of Macedon, Wayne co., 
who has been for years a regular contributor to 
our pages, will hereafter devote a much larger 
portion of his time to our Journals, as associate 
editor. In addition to his Services, we have se¬ 
cured other aid for the various departments of our 
new weekly journal; and as The Cultivator is 
to be made up from its pages, we doubt but we 
shall be able to convince our readers, notwith¬ 
standing the great reduction in price, that there 
will be no deterioration in the character and re¬ 
putation of The Cultivator. Indeed, we shall be 
surprised if they do not, at the end of the year, 
come to the conclusion that the present has prov¬ 
ed superior to any former volume. 
OCT* The postage on The Cultivator is only 
six cents a year to any part of the United States, 
to be paid in advance, at the office where it is re¬ 
ceived. — 
The State Fair too Early. —We are fre¬ 
quently in the receipt of letters from different 
parts of the state, complaining that the Fair is 
held quite too early in the season. Farmers in 
the wheat growing districts, are in the midst of 
their autumn work, the weather is usually very 
oppressively warm, and the dust intolerable. A 
farmer in Steuben county, in a recent communi¬ 
cation, says, “ Last year there were several hun¬ 
dreds from our county in attendance, and at least 
thirty from our little town; this year not over 
four or five persons went from the county. I pre¬ 
sume I have been asked a thousand times why the 
Fair was held so early.” The Executive commit¬ 
tee of the Society should take this matter into 
consideration. We doubt not that the postpone¬ 
ment of the Fair to two or three weeks later, 
would accommodate better a large portion of our 
working farmers. —— 
Age op Animals.-—A correspondent in Che¬ 
nango county, under the signature of “Augustus,” 
charges that a man entered a three-year old ani¬ 
mal at the last State Fair, in the class of two 
year olds, and received a premium for it in that 
class, when he knew that it was over three years 
old. Such deceptions are sometimes undoubted¬ 
ly practiced, in spite of all the vigilance of the So¬ 
ciety and its committees. If Augustus will com- 
municate the name of the party, with the proof 
of the fact, to the Secretary of the Society, the 
person will not be permitted again to enter the 
list of competitors for the Society’s premium. 
Importation of Improved Stock.—Lewis G. 
Morris, Esq., of Fordham, Westchester county, 
whose annual sales of improved stock, have attract¬ 
ed so much attention for two or three years past, 
has recently returned from Europe, with several 
very valuable additions to his herd, purchased by 
himself, after a careful examination of the best 
yards in England. They consist of a fine young 
Durham bull and two heifers, two Devon cows 
and a bull; the latter and one of the cows from 
the celebrated stock of Mr. Quartley; the other 
a prize cow, and both cows in calf by Mr. Quart- 
ley’s prize bull—some South Down sheep from 
Jonas Webb, and some Suffolk, Essex, and Berk¬ 
shire pigs. These animals will enable Mr. Mor¬ 
ris to give increased value to his herds, and can¬ 
not fail to excite a higher interest in his future 
sales. 
Mr. Morris, also purchased a pair of superior 
Durhams, for Noel J. Becar, Esq., of Brook¬ 
lyn. 
Mr. E. Corning, Jr., of this city, has recently 
imported three fine Herefords, a bull and two 
cows, selected especially for him in England. The 
sire of the heifers was Lord Berwick’s celebrated 
bull, which received the first prize in his class, at 
the Royal Society’s show in 1851. 
A Large Yield of Potatoes.— Mr. J. C. Tif¬ 
fany, of Coxsaclde, Greene county, raised on one- 
third of an acre, two hundred bushels of potatoes, 
of the “Dover” variety, from seven bushels of 
seed. The land was manured with barn-yard ma¬ 
nure simply, and the crop while growing received 
no extra attention, save keeping the ground free 
from weeds. —- 
Lopped Horns.— C. II. Stone, of Warren, Ct., 
says that lopped horns may be raised by “ taking 
sharp glass, and scraping the horn on the under¬ 
side of the top, and for two or three inches from 
it. Scrape it thin, but not so as to cut through 
it, and then oil with sweet oil. Repeat the opera¬ 
tion in three or four weeks, until the horn is rais¬ 
ed as high as desired. It will not fail, nor injure 
the horn.” -— 
Potato Rot. —An article in the Western Hor¬ 
ticultural Review, from a correspondent, replies 
to a few remarks which appeared some months 
since in this paper, in so uncalled for and discour¬ 
teous manner, that we are surprised that our 
friend, the gentlemanly editor of that excellent ma¬ 
gazine, should have admitted it without comment. 
The remarks which we published were a respect¬ 
ful reply to some opinions advanced by the Mas¬ 
sachusetts Plowman,—unless a polite request for 
him to furnish certain new insects which he sup¬ 
posed had been “created,” or had made their 
