THE CULTIVATOR. 
Sept 
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NOTES FOR THE MONTH. 
Acknowledgments. —Communications have come to 
hand since our last, from Dr. Melvin Barnes, F. B. Fan- 
cher, Hon. F. Holbrook, S. Clarke Jr., L. M. R., W. 
G. Edmundson, M. Butler, W. H. C., G. B. Smith, 
Wm. R. Sanford, J. W. Proctor, Levi Bartlett, John 
Johnston, B. P. Johnson, A. Marks. 
Books, Pamphlets, &c., have been received as fol¬ 
lows: “ The Illustrated Phrenological Almanac, for 
1852,” from the publishers, Fowlers & Wells, New* 
York—Book of the Farm,” by Henry Stephens, 
with Notes by J. S. Skinner, 2 vols., from C. M. Sax¬ 
ton, publisher, New-York--Fresh Gleanings, or a New 
Sheaf from the old fields of Continental Europe, (new 
edition.) and Reveries of a Bachelor, or a Book of the 
Heart, (10th edition,) both by Ik. Marvel, from the 
Author. -— 
Mediterranean Wheat. —The more this wheat is 
known, the better it is liked. Its earliness renders it 
almost proof against injury from the “ weevil” or wheat- 
midge. It has generally escaped this season, though in 
some instances other kinds growing in the same field and 
sown at the same time, were considerably lessened in 
yield by that insect. This wheat makes good flour and 
the flour makes good bread. We never tasted better 
bread, than we ate a few weeks since at the tables of 
several families in Cayuga and Onondaga counties. We 
were told it was made from Mediterranean wheat, and 
that it was preferred to white wheat, if rightly ground, 
by families in which the proper management of the flour 
is understood—that the same quantity of it would make 
more and better bread. The millers know how to grind 
it better than formerly, and hence it stands better in 
market—commanding within three to five cents per 
bushel as much as the best white wheat. It yields well. 
Me'ssrs. McCulloch & Kirtland. of the Cantonment 
Farm, Greenbush, raised this season thirty bushels per 
acre on a field of nine acres, which eight or ten years 
ago, was so wet that it would only produce white birches, 
bushes, rushes and coarse water grasses. It was under¬ 
drained, and has since borne good crops of hay, Indian 
corn, and lastly wheat. The latter crop was sold as seed 
wheat, for $1.25 per bushel, to go to Fort Leavenworth, 
Mo., on an order to Emery & Co., from the U. States 
Government. •— 
Fattening Swine on Apples. —The evidence which 
has heretofore been published, in regard to the value of 
apples as food for stock, is supported by facts which are 
frequently brought to our knowledge. Mr. James M. 
Ellis, of Onondaga Hill, lately stated to us that he had 
been in the practice of using apples extensively for fat¬ 
tening hogs, for several years, and their value had been 
proved to be such, that he deems it an object of profit 
to produce pork by the aid of apples, but would not, 
otherwise, so regard it. He has a large apple-orchard, 
in which he allows his hogs to range most of the season. 
They are of much benefit to the trees by destroying ma¬ 
ny of the insects which the fallen fruit contains, and by 
keeping the ground loose and rich. As the fruit ap¬ 
proaches ripeness, the nutriment increases, and the hogs 
thrive faster. When nearly ripe, those apples which are 
not readily marketable, and not suited to long keeping, 
are gathered and boiled, or steamed, are mixed with 
meal and the slops of the kitchen and dairy, constitute 
the food for fattening hogs. The meal is increased 
towards the close of the fattening process, being at last 
equal to one-fourth of the bulk of apples. Mr. E. in¬ 
forms us that his pork is always of excellent quality, 
and is so regarded by all who have purchased it—being 
solid, of good texture, and of superior flavor. 
Drilling Wheat and other Grain. --The use of 
machines for sowing grain, is becoming more and more 
extended every year, owing to the manifest advantages 
which they have over the common mode of hand-sowing. 
The advantages have been, on different occasions, so ful¬ 
ly set forth in this journal, that they need not be now par¬ 
ticularly adverted to. Those who have used drills, have 
generally adopted them for sowing all grains. Their ad¬ 
vantages are most manifest for winter wheat, but are very 
considerable for barley and other spring grain. Col. 
Sherwood, of Auburn, sowed all his grain crops of this 
year with one of Bickford and Huffman’s drills, manu¬ 
factured at Macedon, Wayne county, N. Y. A cut of 
this drill was given in our May number. He is confi¬ 
dent that there is a great gain in the barley crop, by the 
use of the drill—particularly in the certain and quick 
germination of the seed, and the regular and uniform 
growth and maturity of the crop. His barley was very 
even, and everywhere alike over a large field. Col. S. 
thinks the drill makes a considerable saving in seed, be¬ 
sides insuring a better crop. 
Paper Manufactory. —We are glad to be able to say 
that we have, at last, an establishment for the manufac¬ 
ture of paper in this vicinity. Mr. C. Van Bentiiuysen 
has lately erected and put in operation a mill for this 
purpose, at the village of Bath, on the opposite side of 
the river from this place. The building is made in the 
most thorough manner, and all the machinery and ap¬ 
paratus are of the most approved and improved descrip¬ 
tion. The motive power is steam,—'the engine of 100 
horse power—and when the establishment is in full 
operation, it is capable of turning off 1,600 lbs. of a su¬ 
perior article of printing paper per day. The establish¬ 
ment will be the means of disbursing in this vicinity, for 
labor and materials, many thousand dollars which have 
heretofore been expended elsewhere. 
“ Wheat and Bromus.” —We observe in a Boston 
paper, an article with this heading. On reading it, we 
find it is an advertisement that an individual residing at 
Lancaster, Mass., offers for seed both wheat and “ bro~ 
mus .” It will probably be recollected by most readers, 
that the term Bromus comprehends a genus of grasses, 
of which the well known “ chess,” or “ cheat,” ( B . se- 
calinus ) is a species. It is hardly necessary to say that 
this is a great enemy to the farmer; a d where suffered 
to grow among wheat, greatly depreciates the value of 
the crop. The genus comprises several species, some of 
which have formerly been cultivated as an experiment, 
as pasture or meadow grasses, but have been abandoned 
on account of their trifling value. The field broome 
grass,” (B. arvensis,) is, however, thought to possess 
some value for certain pastures, on account of its early 
growth, affording a bite for sheep and lambs. But most 
