THE CULTIVATOR 
Glass Water Pipes. 
We make the following extract from a private letter 
from a subscriber in Otsego county. Glass pipes for 
conveying water, were made in this city as an experi¬ 
ment, some years since, and we understood at the time 
that some of them were laid for Union College, Sche¬ 
nectady. We should be glad to hear how they answer¬ 
ed the purpose. 
“ While writing, allow me to call your attention 
again to the subject of ‘glass pipes’ for house purposes. 
It has for some time seemed to me rather strange that 
none of our manufacturers have turned their attention 
to the making of an article so beautiful for the purpose 
and so durable in its nature. Surely a glass pipe of 
half or one inch bore, and of, say 18 inches in length, 
with taper and socket ends, to make tight joints, could 
be made for a price so reasonable as in time to super¬ 
sede the use of metal ones. They could be laid in ce¬ 
ment and would last for ages, and always free from 
corrosion. Please stir up the glass men once more.’ 5 
Quackery in Agriculture. 
We have received a copy of an address delivered at 
the late Fair of the Mercer Co. (Pa.) Agricultural So¬ 
ciety, by James Gowen, Esq., of Mount Airy. Mr. 
G. has been long and extensively known as an intelli¬ 
gent farmer and as an enthusiastic and zealous friend 
of agricultural improvement; and his address is what 
might be expected from such a source—sound, practical 
and pointed. Among other things, he is very severe 
upon the “ self-styled Professors of Scientific Agricul¬ 
ture”—men “ who will presumptuously overwhelm you 
with strange terms of agricultural chemistry, taken 
from Liebig and Johnston, of which they know not the 
import themselves.”. That his censures are, in the 
main, just, we do not doubt, for there has been, as Mr. 
G. says : ‘‘Too much of this plating and gilding, oi 
late. Men who never tilled a piece of land, planted a 
tree, raised or exhibited an animal in all their lives, 
are now, by false coloring and idle pretension, trans¬ 
formed into Tulls and Loudons-^-leaders at Agricul¬ 
tural Clubs and Societies, where their twattle and pro¬ 
fessions pass frequently for sense and experience, with 
those that know no better. Some of these are ever dis¬ 
playing their operations over a vast and boundless 
field; while others of them are busy at cutting out 
work in the Moon or in the ‘ Isle of Sky.’ To use an 
old ‘ salt’ or sailor’s expression descriptive of a fresh 
water sailor, 1 they are always found in everybody’s 
mess but in nobody’s ‘ watch.’ ’ The end of all this 
will be, if not timely checked, that the true Disciples 
of Improvement will become lukewarm when they see 
the position assumed by mere professors and pretend¬ 
ers.” ——^— 
Benefit of Mulching.— C. Smith of East Ham¬ 
burgh, Erie Co., N. Y., writes, “I set 700 apple and 
pear trees here a year ago last spring, and although 
the season was awfully dry, 1 did not lose one tree, be¬ 
cause I mulched them—so far from it, they have made 
a fine growth.” 
Salting Hay and Cattle. 
To the Editor of the Country Gentleman : 
Sir- —I have been much interested in the remarks of 
your correspondents upon the subject of salting hay, 
and of salting stock in the winter; and am pleased to 
observe that the better opinion as to the salting of hay 
is against the practice. Upon my farm it has never 
obtained, and perhaps the following circumstance may 
have conduced to the course. 
In an early day in this 'County, and that was not 
many years since, a landed proprietor, who was en¬ 
gaged in supplying the Quebec market with masts, and 
of course had many ox teams in his business, sold a 
farm to a shrewd and not over scrupulous person, who 
was to pay for the same in well salted, and cured haj', at 
twenty dollars pdr ton. As salt was very much cheaper 
than hay at such a price, the consequence was, that a 
small bundle of hay would weigh the ton, and no ques¬ 
tion could arise as to its being “ well salted.” A fur¬ 
ther consequence was, that every animal in these im¬ 
mense teams soon had a sore mouth, scoured, became 
weak and reduced to a pack of scurvy bound bones.—■ 
Great complaint was made by the poor beasts, but 
their ignorant drivers could not discover the cause. 
The next winter the same thing was repeated until the 
farm was paid for, when the poor oxen began to 
rejoice once more with sleek hides, that they might 
eat no more salt than they desired. 
With regard to the salting of cattle in winter, the 
practice upon my farm, where a hundred head or more 
are usually wintered, is this : the cattle are mostly 
stabled—having good boxes from whioh to eat—the 
stalks and coarse fodder cut—not fed so closely as to 
eat every thing—the boxes are cleared of orts daily 
and fed to colts and such few cattle as may be out, 
two or three mornings in the week. After they have 
been picked over, the remains are raked and gathered 
into numerous small heaps upon the clean snow, in 
several yards, about ten o’clock of the day, and wet 
with good fresh brine. The cattle in the stalls having 
had their roots, are let out, and these little heaps of 
orts are not long in disappearing. The remains, if any, 
are of “ no particular harm” to the manure heap. In 
this way, cattle not being fed for beef upon turnips will 
obtain all the salt they require ; but, if fed upon tur¬ 
nips for the shambles, they will require salt by them 
constantly. Beef made by turnip feeding tastes strong- 
. ly of the root unless salt he used unsparingly; a gill 
may be thrown upon the roots for an ox, daily, without 
harm, and even then, it is safer to feed the meal of 
coarse grain a month before marketing. 
Respectfully yours, H. G. Foote. 
Ogdensburgh, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Oct. 12,1853. 
Rare Case. —At the late fair of the Rutland (Yt.) 
County Agricultural Society, a yearling heifer of large 
size, was exhibited by Mr. N. II. Winchell of Poult- 
ney, which attracted much attention from the fact that 
she has given four quarts of milk per day for two 
months past, although she has never had a calf. 
