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THE CULTIVATOR. 
March. 
be in a considerable degree due. We have heard of no 
instances where the lime, used for water cement has been 
applied as manure; but it may be remarked that its most 
distinguishing principle, magnesia, is a constituent of all 
grains—wheat, especially, containing it in a striking pro¬ 
portion. Hence it may reasonably be inferred that it 
would be useful as a manure on soils which were deficient 
in the elements of wheat. 
Ayrshire Bull. —C. H. A. C,, Chesterfield county, 
Va. We know of but one Ayrshire bull for sale in this 
vicinity. He will be three years old this spring, and 
Would be sold for $100. He is a good specimen of the 
breed. 
Agricultural Library. —D. S., Old Point Comfort, 
L. I. In addition to the best agricultural periodicals of 
this country, we would recommend “The Farmer’s 
Guide,” by Henry Stephens, with notes by Prof. Norton, 
now in course of publication by L. Scott 8c Co., New- 
York; Prof. Norton’s “Elements of Scientific Agricul¬ 
ture “ Johnston’s Lectures”’ “Knight’s Farmer’s 
Library,” two volumes, embracing “ The Ox,” “ The 
Sheep,” “The Hog,” “Poultry” and “Bees,” by 
Martin, and “ The Horse,” and “The Dog,” by Youatt. 
Draining-Tiles. —J. C., Princeton, N. J. By refer¬ 
ence to Mr. Babcock’s advertisement in our February 
number, you will obtain the information you wish. 
Lead Pipes for Water. —J. C. Jr., North Hoosick, 
N. Y. Soft, or pure water, sometimes causes the decay 
of lead pipes—the oxygen combining with and decompos¬ 
ing the lead. With hard water, or that which contains 
mineral salts—as lime, iron, 8cc., an incrustation is 
generally formed on the lead which preserves it. Lead 
pipe for water is sometimes imbedded in hydraulic mor¬ 
tar or cement, but from personal observation we can¬ 
not say whether it prevents the decay of the pipe. 
Books for Premiums. 
Several of our Agents have requested us to send them Catalogues 
of Books from which they can select their Premiums; but as we 
have no Catalogues, we annex the following list, from which selec¬ 
tions may be made: 
American Farmer’s Encyclopedia, $4. 
Gardner’s Farmer’s Dictionary, $1.50. 
Allen’s American Farm-Book, $1. 
Buel’s Farmer’SfcCompanion, 75 cents. 
Colman’s European Agriculture, 2 vols., $5. 
Smith’s Productive Farming, 50 cents. 
Boussingault’s Rural Economy, $1.50. 
Dana’s Muck Manual, 50 cents. 
Faulkner’s Treatise on Manures, 50 cents. 
Johnston’s Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry, $1.25, and his 
Lectures before the N. Y. S. Ag. Society, 75 cents. 
Norton’s Elements o t Scientific Agriculture, 50 cents. 
Thompson on the Food of Animals, 75 cents. 
Downing’s Fruit and Fruit Trees of America, $1.50. 
Thomas’ American Fruit Culturist, $1. 
Cole’s American Fruit Book, 50 cents. 
Downing’s Country Houses, $4—Cottage Residences, $2—Land¬ 
scape Gardening, $3.50. 
Allen’s Treatise on the Grape Vine, $1. 
Johnson’s Dictionary of Gardening, $2.25. 
Breck’s Book of Flowers, 75 cents. 
Kitchen Gardener’s Text Book, 50 cents. 
Allen’s Diseases of Domestic Animals, 75 cents. 
Cole’s American Veterinarian, 50 cents. 
Bement’s Poulterer’s Companion, $1. 
Browne’s American Poultry-Yard, $1. 
The American Fowl Breeder, 25 cults. 
Guenon’s Treatise on Milch Cows, 62^ cents. 
Miner’s Bee-keeper’s Manual, $1. 
Morrell’s American Shepherd, $1. 
Youatt on the Pig, 65 cents. 
Leuchar’s Treatise on Heating Hot-houses, $1. 
Miss Beecher’s Domestic Economy, and Domestic Receipt Book, 
75 cents each. 
Webster’s large Dictionary, new edition, $6. 
The Horticulturist, $3.50 per vol., bound. 
The Cultivator, $1.25 per voh, bound. 
NOTES FOR THE MONTH. 
Acknowledgments.- —We have received communi¬ 
cations since our last, from G. J., J. W. Proctor, Otis 
Dillingham, Levi Bartlett, G. M., David Thomas, A 
Young Housewife, An Inexperienced Fruit-grower, R. 
T. Robinson, John S. Pettibone, A Subscriber, A. J. 
Little, A Constant Reader, J. J. Craig, S. E. Todd, D. 
T., J. Chase Jr., J. C. J., C. E. G., J. T. P., W. L. 
Eaton, Hon. F. Holbrook, Prof. J. P. Norton, W. P., 
Berkshire, Levi Durand, R. D. Weeks, F. B. Fancher, 
Wm. Bacon, I. Hildreth, G. B. D., John Townley,Eds. 
Am. Agriculturist, A Wool-Grower. 
Books, Pamphlets, &c. have been received as follows: 
Report of Hort. Exhibition at Salem, Mass., Sept. 1850, 
from the Essex. Institute.-Transactions of the Lick¬ 
ing county (O.) Ag. Society, for 1850.-Catalogue 
of the Nursery of Geo. B. Deacon, Burlington, N. J.- 
Meshullam! or Tidings from Jerusalem, from the Au¬ 
thor.-The Farmer’s Guide, No. 13, from L. Scott 
& Co., publishers, New-York.-Harper’s New Monthly 
Magazine j Lossing’s Pictorial Field Book of the Revo¬ 
lution, No. 11 and Harper’s Illustrated Catalogue, from 
Harper & Brothers, New-York. 
To Correspondents. —Several communications in¬ 
tended for this number, are necessarily deferred till next 
month. Among them, those from the Eds. Am. Agri¬ 
culturist, R. T. Bobinson, and some others. Answers 
to several Inquiries, are also unavoidably postponed. 
New-York State Agricultural Society. —In our 
notice of the doings of the Society last month, we in¬ 
advertently omitted to state that a delegation to attend 
the World’s Fair had been appointed, consisting of Hon. 
Martin Yan Buren, Hon. John A. King, E. P. Pren¬ 
tice, Esq., Harvey Baldwin, Esq., and B. P. John¬ 
son, Esq. At the meeting of the Executive Board for 
February, it was announced that Mr. Yan Buren had 
declined accepting the station, and the vacancy which 
was thus occasioned, was filled by the appointment of 
Henry Wager, Esq. At the same meeting the final 
location of the next State Fair at Rochester was agreed 
on—the citizens of that place having complied with the 
preliminary requisitions of the Society. 
Apples for Stock. —In a late excursion through a 
portion of Otsego county, (an account of which is un¬ 
avoidably deferred,) we noticed that many farmers were 
in the practice of feeding apples to their stock. Calves, 
of last spring, and sheep, were the animals to which they 
were more commonly given. All agreed that they were 
very beneficial for this purpose. The apples were 
gathered in the fall and secured either in a cellar under 
the barn, or protected from frost in some other conven¬ 
ient situation. The quantity fed to calves, was about 
half a peck to each, daily. They evidently greatly pro¬ 
moted the thrift of the animals,—not only by the nutri¬ 
ment which they imparted, but also by their healthful 
action as a condiment and gentle cathartic-—sharpening 
the appetite and causing the dry hay to be better digest¬ 
ed and assimilated. We have seldom seen calves which 
made a better appearance in mid-winter, than several 
