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out visitin'* a sugary personally ? —A sufficient knowledge, we think, 
cannot; aiid indeed we should advise no one to embark largely in it, with¬ 
out the assistance oi' a manager who has a practical knowledge of the 
business. 
5. Is the soil of the western prairies adapted to the beet culture ?—If 
it will grow wheat and corn, it will grow the beet. The rich prairies are 
undoubtedly well adapted to the beet culture, and the country, being very- 
remote from the sea-board, is well adapted to the profitable manufacture 
of sugar. _ 
6. Can seeds and machinery be obtainedm this country ? —Seeds may 
be had in all our large towns, at the seed shops. We do not know that 
machinery for the manufacture of sugar is made in the country, but it pro¬ 
bably will be in the course of the coming year. Inquire of the Philadel¬ 
phia Sugar Beet Company. 
Upon the subject of beet sugar, we have a communication from Solon 
Robinson, post-master at Lake Court-House, la. He invites the forma¬ 
tion of a company, to carry on the beet and sugar business, on an arm of 
the Grand Prairie, known as Robinson’s prairie, lying on the north-western 
section of Indiana, and near to the south end of Lake Michigan. It is 
described as a dry prairie, being thickly covered with fine grass, twelve 
inches high, and abounding in medicinal plants, as Colombo, valerian, se- 
neca snake root, gentian, ginsang, sarsaparilla, blood-root, &c. the soil a 
rich sandy loam, proved to be favorable to the beet. The proposition is 
to buy a large tract of land, at the government price of $1.25 the acre, 
and to establish the beet sugar business on a large scale. 
Lincolnshire Sheep. —Jaqueline P. Taylor asks us a great many ques¬ 
tions in relation to Lincolnshire sheep. We refer him to Mr. Cliff, of 
Carmel, Putnam county, N. Y. who is the only person that we know of, 
that can give the requisite information. We have sent the inquiries to 
him. 
MIXED CROPS-RUTA BAGA. 
Sidney Weller, of Brinckleyville, N. C. raises mixed crops of common 
potatoes and pumpkins, and gets good returns from both. He plants po¬ 
tatoes in hills, three feet apart, and puts the pumpkin seeds into every 
fourth hill. We have practised this mode of raising pumpkins, and think 
well of it. Mr. Weller states to us, that he mixes successfully, rye and 
buckwheat. He sows the seeds together about the last of July, cuts the 
buckwheat the last of October, pastures the rye in winter, and cuts a good 
crop the following summer. “ To get a good crop of rula baga, say 600 
bushels, we must plant,” says Mr. W. “ by the middle of July, three feet 
apart, and thin the plants to one foot in the drills.” We are agreeably 
disappointed to find that the ruta baga will give 600 bushels the acre in 
North Carolina. 
Spelt Wheat.— Jacob A. Snyder, P. M. Rosendal, Ulster, wishes to 
know where he can obtain the seed of this grain, at what price, and at 
what time it should be sown? Will Mr. Speyerer, or some other Penn¬ 
sylvania patron, answer these questions? 
The Mulberry. —C. R. Hoovey, of Root, has addressed to us eighteen 
queries in relation to the culture of the mulberry. As it would be dis¬ 
courteous to our twenty thousand readers, to repeat in the Cultivator what 
we have not long ago published, we must refer Mr. Hoovey to numbers 
1 and 2 of vol. iii. for answers to his queries. 
THE GRAIN WORM AND HESSIAN FLY. 
John Hacke, of Reading, Pa. writes us that he has an infallible mode 
of destroying the Hessian fly ; and Solomon W. Jewett, of Weybridge, 
Vt. seems equally confident,'that he has discovered an efficient mode of 
preserving our wheat crops from the Grain Worm. So far as we can 
fudge, the gentlemen are both highly respectable and intelligent. Were 
we in the place of either, we should feel grateful to Providence, for the 
opportunity now afforded, of rendering an important benefit to society, 
and of becoming truly a public benefactor, by publishing the important 
secret to the world; and should either be induced to adopt our suggestion, 
we shall be proud to make the Cultivator the medium of their communi¬ 
cation. 
PLUMS. 
The plums sent us by Mr. Tomlinson, of Schenectady, as the Orleans, 
are believed to be the neu> Orleans, and are known also under the syno- 
nymes of early, new early, Grimwood’s early, rnessieur hatlif, &c. &c. 
They are rated as second both in quality and size, though they are beau¬ 
tiful fruit. The wood is liable to be somewhat injured by hard winters. 
The plum sent to us from the garden of Mr. Lawrence, of Hudson, 
appears to be identical with a seedling we have in bearing, which origi¬ 
nated with D. Benton, of Catskill, and which came to us under the name 
of the yellow gage. The fruit resembles in size and shape the green 
gage, and also in flavor, though the color is a faint yellow. This is a first 
rate plum, and the wood of those we have seem to possess the hardiness 
of the wild plum of the woods. We beg leave to distinguish it by the 
name of the new yellow gage. 
The Franklin Farmer, is the title of an agricultural journal which has 
been just commenced at Frankfort, Ky. by F D. Pettit. It is a quarto 
publication of eight pages, and is published weekly at $2 per annum, pay¬ 
able in advance. We are sincerely gratified to see these useful periodi¬ 
cals multiplied among us. Their increase and liberal support is a good 
evidence of a growing good taste among the farming interest, and the best 
pledge of increasing and substantial improvement in our agricultural con¬ 
dition. We see by this publication, that Kentucky is likely to take the 
lead in raising blood horses, if not in raising fine neat cattle. The annnal 
exhibition of blooded stock took place at Lexington early in September. 
Many fine cattle were exhibited, and seventy premiums distributed. The 
Madison association stock fair was held about the same time, at which for¬ 
ty premiums were awarded. The stock was much eulogized. The Cen¬ 
tral association were to award fifty premiums, principally for stock; and 
notice is given of five other agricultural fairs, to be held in so many coun¬ 
ties of that state, in September and October. 
NEW CHEESE PRESS. 
We have received, from Jopas Tower, of Madison, Ohio, a Cast Iron 
Cheese Press, occupying a space of about two feet square, and standing 
three feet high, which appears to us (for we have not the opportunity of 
trying it in the cheese business,) the most perfect cheese press we have 
ever seen. It is on the principle of continuous pressure, and the power 
may be increased or diminished at pleasure by a youth of twelve years old. 
Its advantages are, 
1. It occupies but little space; 
2. The pressure may be graduated at pleasure; 
3. It can hardly get out of order, and will not require repairs. - 
As to price, we are not yet instructed. 
Any neighboring cheese maker wjll be at liberty to use it during the 
remainder of the season, by calling on the conductor of the Cultivator. 
THE HOVEN IN CATTLE. 
G. W. Forman, of Fleming county, Ky. sends us the following direc¬ 
tions for curing this dangerous ill:—“Give to the animal affected a few 
ears of old corn, or a lick of salt;—if so bad that it cannot eat the corn, or 
lick the salt, apply the salt to the nose, and they will then lick it. It will 
do no harm if it does no good. But an ounce of preventive is better than 
a pound of cure. I never turn my cattle on a clover field with an empty 
stomach, and when on I keep them on, salt them well, two or three 
times a week, and I have never lost one yet.” The preventive is judi¬ 
cious. As to the efficacy of salt, we are inclined to give it credit: our 
cattle have daily access to salt, and since this has-been the case, we have 
not had a hoven animal, though our clover is often luxuriant. Salt, given 
daily, is a preventive of many diseases. 
For the cholic in horses, Mr. Forman gives half a pint of spirits of turpen¬ 
tine, mixed with a like quantity of melted lard or castor oil, in a drench; 
and if the case is very bad, the proportion of turpentine is increased. He 
has used it successfully in several cases. (Jcj- Mr. F.’s request in regard 
to.steers shall be attended to. 
The Berkshire Cattle Show will be held on the 4th and 5th of October, 
at Pittsfield; the Fair of the New-York Institute on the 16th, at Niblo’s 
Garden, in Broadway. We would be happy to notice other like meetings 
were we enabled to do it correctly. 
SMUT. 
We have a thousand evidences on record, that if seed wheat is steeped 
twelve hours in a strong brine, and then mixed with fresh, caustic, pow¬ 
dered lime, before it is sown— the crop will not be smutty. 
LIME-STONE AS A MANURE. 
H. Nazro, of Troy, asks us what are the effects upon the soil of crush¬ 
ed or ground unburnt limestone, and whether it is difficult to reduce it to 
powder? We answer, that it is beneficial upon soils deficient in carbo¬ 
nate of lime—that it opens clays and renders sands more compact, and is 
highly beneficial in increasing the good effects of manures which are ap¬ 
plied to the soil. It effects a mechanical improvement upon all these 
soils. The great difficulty consists in pulverizing it, as none but the softer 
qualities can be well reduced to powder. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Lake C H la August 29, 1837. 
J. Buel, Esq. —Dear Sir —I conceive it to be a duty that each pa¬ 
tron of the Cultivator owes, as much as payment for the amount of his 
subscription, to communicate to you all such facts as he may deem im¬ 
portant or beneficial to his agricultural brethren, that therefrom you may 
select such items as have not been, or that you may deem useful to pub¬ 
lish. With this view I send you the following scraps: 
DISEASES OF HORSES. 
Thistelow and Poll Evil, both of which I have known effectually cured, 
after breaking, by crowding a lump of pearlash or saloeratus into the sore. 
If the first application is not effectual, repeat it. The patient should be 
thoroughly physicked at the same time. 
DYSENTERY, BLOODY FLUX, CHOLERA MORBUS, ETC. 
If there is an “ infallible remedy” in the world for any complaint (he 
human system is subject to, there is one for these complaints in a very 
