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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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To Subscribers. —We wish to call your attention to 
the promise in the Jan. No., that the present volume 
should, in quantity and quality of matter, be equal to* 
any previous one, and ask you if our word has not been 
fulfilled to the letter and spirit? Believing that the 
universal answer will be in the affirmative, *we wish to 
make one request, and that is, if you are pleased with 
The Cultivator —if you are satisfied tha't it is an effi¬ 
cient aid to your suceess as farmers, that you will endea¬ 
vor to increase its circulation. Show your approval and 
your faith by your works, and we shall have it in our 
power to continue to furbish- you with the greatest 
amount of valuable agricultural reading at the least 
price. We can supply back numbers to any extent, 
and future ones of an eqhallv valuable character. If 
you know of a single farmer in your town who does 
not take an agricultural paper, solicit him t© pay fifty 
ing an office for the Executive Committee, the necessary 
stationery, &c., for the three years; preparing for the 
press, and superintending the printing and distribution 
of its Transactions, and performing all the duties de¬ 
volving upon its local Secretary, for all of which, as 
well as the expense incurred by him in the performance 
of these services, he declined to receive any reward; 
and, . 
Whereas Mr. Tucker has, with the exception of the 
year 1844, when he declined to act as Seeietary, on the 
ground that the Society was then quite able to pay for 
such services, arid the year 1847, when he again de¬ 
clined the secretaryship, to which he had been elected, 
^served the Society, as a member of this Board, or as its 
Secretary or Treasurer, from its reorganization to the 
present time, without remuneration, except for the year 
1S45, when he was allowed $300, an amount less by 
$250 than was paid for the same services the previous 
year: therefore, -• , * 
Resolved, as the unanimous opinion of this Board, 
that to no man more than to Mr. Tucker is the Society 
indebted for its present highly prosperous condition,' and 
that the thanks of the Executive Committee, together 
with a service of plate to the value of $500, be.-pre.- 
sented to him, as a testimonial of their high apprecia¬ 
tion of his services and character. 
cents for The Cultivator, arid if he declines make him 
a present of it, and thus help on the work of agricultu¬ 
ral reformation. 
If you choose a paper of more varied character, con¬ 
taining the Same agricultural matter as the Cultivator, 
and much more, with pleasant and instructive reading 
for the Fireside, a little humor for a leisure hour, a con¬ 
cise record of the times, and a full report of the produce 
market, The Country Gentleman* weekly at 
Two Dollars a Year, is just t&e thing. 
We will send specimens of the Country Gentleman to 
any who wish to examine it. Its typography is unrival¬ 
led by any journal in tbe country, and its contents will 
bear perusal. - 
To Correspondents. —Notwithstanding our efforts 
to condense and crowd all we can, into the pages of the 
Cuhtivator, many valuable papers from bur correspon¬ 
dents have to be inserted in the Country Gentleman. 
only; and it is proper to say, that in selecting for the 
Cultivator, we have to be guided in a great degree by 
the arrangements of our printers in the use of their 
type; and that no correspondent must therefore conclude 
that his communication is omitted from the Cultivator, 
because we consider it not equal to those published. We 
do not publish anything in our weekly sheet, which we 
should not gladly publish in the monthly, did its limits 
admit of it.' -— 1 ■ 
(0=* The senior editor of this paper, having, after ten 
years of active service, declined a re-election as treasu¬ 
rer or a member of the Executive Committee of the 
Col. Sherwood’s ShOrt-Horns. —Tbe simple an¬ 
nouncement of the fact that Col. Sherwood proposes to 
sell his fine herd of Short-horns, will be sufficient to at¬ 
tract the attention of breeders of fine cattle throughout 
the country, to his advertisement given in another part 
of this paper. Col. S. has devoted his attention to the 
breeding of Short-horns for. many years, and has spared 
no expense necessary to enable him to avail himself of 
the best stock to be procured either at home or abroad. 
The success which has attended his efforts, has been 
witnessed by the thousands who have attended the ex¬ 
hibitions of our State Ag. Society, and has been abun¬ 
dantly proved by the high figures at which animals 
from his herd have been held for years past. He now 
offers about thirty head, to he sold at auction at his 
farm in Auburn, in June next—a sale which will equal 
in attraction to breeders any previous public sale in 
the state. - 
Bees—Hydropathic Treatment: —Dr. Robinson, * 
of Farmington, N. Y., informs us that he succeeded per¬ 
fectly with a hive of bees that persisted in collecting in 
thick masses outside the hive and doing nothing. He 
bored a hole through the top, which happened, as he 
wished, to strike* the space between the combs. He 
then fitted a small hive above the old one, and standing 
at a respectful distance with a syringe in his hands, con¬ 
tinued to shoot the bees with delicate broadsides of cold 
water. They soon retreated to the interior, and ascen¬ 
ding through the holes, occupied the new hive above. 
They immediately went to work to fill it, and in about 
five weeks it was found to contain twenty pounds of 
honey. Another person had accomplished the same 
purpose by covering the top with fresh branches of trees, 
and then imitating a shower of rain by drenching these 
branches with a watering pot. 
State Ag. Society, deems it not improper on this’occa¬ 
sion, to tender his thanks to the members of the Ex¬ 
ecutive Committee, for their kind appreciation of his 
services, as manifested in the following resolutions, 
which were unanimously adopted, at a meeting of the 
Executive Committee, in January of last year, but 
Good Sheep and Good Prices for them. —Messrs. 
HUngerford & Brodie, of Jefferson county, who re¬ 
ceived the first prize for the best fat long-wooled sheep 
at the late exhibition in this city, sold- four of them to 
Mr. David Moore, of this city, for $130. They were 
four years old, and the heaviest weighed 268 lbs. 
which have not heretofore appeared in his pages: 
Whereas it is the opinion of this board, that the 
New-York State Agricultural Society is greatly indebt¬ 
ed to Mr. Luther Tucker for his able, efficient and 
long continued labors, as a member of the Executive 
Committee, having acted as its secretary and business 
officer for the first three years after its reorganization, 
in 1841, and aided most efficiently in perfecting its or¬ 
ganization, and in carrying into successful operation its 
first Fairs at Syracuse, Albany and Rochester, furnish¬ 
Hops. —We give in this number, the third paper of 
our Otsego correspondent, on the culture of the Hop. 
This, with another on the expense, yield and profit of 
the crop, &e., will conclude the series. These papers 
have been read with a good deal of interest, the subject 
being One upon which but little has been written in this 
country; and they are the more valuable, being the re¬ 
sult of the writer’s own observation and experience. In 
a private note, he says —“ I write pothing hut what my 
own experience and judgment confirm. The Hop crop 
