THE CULTIVATOR. 
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The diameter of Herschel is thirty-five thousand miles, or about 
eighty times larger than the earth. It takes eighty and a half 
years to complete its revolution round the sun. It has six moons. 
The planets which we have described, are termed primary pla¬ 
nets. There are besides, belonging to our planetary system, eigh¬ 
teen secondary planets, or moons; one revolving round the earth, 
four round Jupiter, seven round Saturn, and six round Herschell. 
Our moon is the nearest planet to our earth. She is two thousand 
one hundred and eighty miles in diameter, and about two hundred 
and forty thousand miles from the earth, making her revolution in 
twenty-nine days and twelve hours. Her surface, when viewed 
with a telescope, appears to be diversified with mountains, valleys, 
rocks and plains, in every variety of form and position. Some of 
the mountains are ascertained to be five miles high, and some of 
the plains one hundred miles in diameter. That this planet, as 
well as the others belonging to our system, are inhabited by intel¬ 
ligent beings, there is every reason to believe, from the general 
beneficence of the Creator, who appears to have left no large por¬ 
tion of his material creation without animated existences. 
The planets are known from the stars from their motions in the 
heavens—the stars remaining apparently always in the same place. 
The latter, whose number is almost countless, are each supposed 
to be suns, or centres of other systems like ours. Their great dis¬ 
tance from us may be judged from the fact, that although we are 
nearer to some in one part of the year, by one hundred and ninety 
millions of miles, (this being the diameter of the earth’s orbit,) 
than we are in another, the fixed stars appear always precisely of 
the same magnitude. How insignificant appears a single farm, 
when compared with the entire surface of the globe ! and yet our 
globe, as large as it may seem, bears a still less proportion to the 
works of creation. 
Figure 2. 
The upper horizontal row, in fig. 2, exhibits the proportional 
magnitudes of the primary planets, compared with each other, and 
with the sun, as represented by fig. 2. (> Saturn. 2J Jupiter.— 
¥ Herschel. Mars. © The Earth. $ Venus. $S Mercury. 
The lower horizontal row, in fig. 2, exhibits the proportional appa¬ 
rent magnitudes of the sun as seen from the primary planets. A 
Mercury. B Venus. C the Earth. D Mars. E Jupiter. F Sa¬ 
turn. G Planet Herschell, or Georgium sidus. 
{£/=• Apology and Advertising. —The trouble of getting out 
our index and advertising sheet, caused a delay in the distribution 
of our last number, and we regret to add, that some of the favors 
of our advertising friends were reluctantly omitted, on account of 
the pages devoted to their insertion being pre-engaged. If suffi¬ 
cient encouragement offers, we propose to issue an advertising ex¬ 
tra with our August number. That publishers, land-holders, and 
others, who wish to make known their business, may be able to ap¬ 
preciate the advantages of our circulation, we subjoin a memoran¬ 
dum of our subscribers, for vol. 2, in the several states, &tc. 
New-York,. 6037 
Pennsylvania,. 761 
Ohio, «• • •. 336 
Vermont,. 336 
Michigan,. 211 
Illinois,. 98 
Indiana,.. 74 
Kentucky,. 54 
North-Carolina,. 26 
Massachusetts,. 634 
Virginia,.400 
New-Jersey,. 315 
Connecticut,. 580 
Delaware,. 133 
Maryland,... 181 
The Canadas,. 86 
New-Hampsbire,. 104 
Alabama,. 20 
Together with more or less in Maine, Rhode-Island, District of 
Columbia, Georgia, South-Carolina, Louisiana, Missouri, Missis¬ 
sippi and Arkansas, amounting in the aggregate, to between eleven 
and twelve thousand. 
Agricultural Improvement. —We have frequently adverted to the 
improvement of Scotch husbandry. In confirmation of our opinion, 
we quote the following sentence from the December number of the 
Edinburgh Quarterly Journal of Agriculture. It is the remark of 
William Aiton, and is high authority. 
“ Every person who has reached the age of fifty years, and that has paid the 
least attention to the progress of agriculture, will admit, that the produce of 
land has been far more than doubled within that period; and every intelligent 
farmer will also admit, that our arable land is capable of producing double its 
present produce in the course of twenty years.” 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
REMEDY FOR BOTS IN HORSES. 
J. Buel, Esq.— Dear Sir —In the last April number of the Cul¬ 
tivator, is a remedy for bots in horses; and my object in this com¬ 
munication is, to give publicity to the fact, that the life of one of 
my horses was preserved by the use of that remedy, after having 
tried every thing that could be thought of by an experienced farri¬ 
er. I would recommend the use of that remedy to all in like cases. 
Very respectfully yours, 
Sherburne , Feb. 22, 1836. ISRAEL FOOTE. 
The prescription is —Mix one pint of good vinegar with half a pint of good 
sifted ashes, in a bottle, and turn the dose down the horse’s throat while effer 
vescing. From one to three bottles will suffice, given at intervals of twenty 
or tw ! enty-five minutes, if found necessary. 
Knox , February 10, 1836. 
Dear Sir —Having determined to cultivate a piece of ground 
with potatoes last season, partly by way of experiment, in the man¬ 
ner recommended in the Cultivator, for hoed crops, I chose a half 
acre of land situated in the corner of an old pasture, a part of it 
too wet for ordinary cultivation, and the remainder produced but a 
scanty herbage. The following is a statement of the estimated 
expense and the result:— 
Expense for underdraining,.$2 50 
Carting and spreading ten loads of coarse manure from the 
barn yard,.*. 2 50 
Nicely turning over the sod, by once ploughing,. l 00 
Harrowing and furrowing, two and a half feet apart, so 
as not to disturb the sod, .. 1 00 
Planting,... 1 50 
Ploughing shallow between the rows, plaistering and hoe¬ 
ing, moulding up the plants slightly,. 1 50 
Twenty bushels of good seed, at twenty-five cents per 
bushel,. 5 00 
Harvesting,. 3 00 
Total,. ••. $18 00 
The average yield was a bushel from twelve hills, or two hund¬ 
red and seventy-five bushels, at eighteen cents per bushel, $49 50 
Deduct expense, leaves clear gain,. 31 50 
equal to the interest of nine hundred dollars per acre. 
Yours respectfully, 
J. Buel, Esq. A. CRARY. 
DUTTON CORN. 
Mr. Buel —In one of your late numbers, you speak of having 
sent some of the Dutton Corn into New-Jersey, but of the success 
of which you had not heard. A barrel of it was sent to me, part 
of which I planted, and the rest was distributed among my neigh¬ 
bors. I planted in different fields, and in all instances, other kinds 
of corn in the same field, and with equal chances to each, but with 
very different results—the Dutton having, in every case, yielded 
more than any other—besides having more and better fodder from 
it, because the stalks are smaller and more easily eaten by cattle. 
In one field, a sward of ten years standing, I planted it by the side 
of another kind of usual good product, and the two kinds produced 
in the proportion of three hundred to two hundred and fifty—two 
acres of the Dutton corn having produced tlm e hundred bushels of 
ears, and the other two hundred and fifty—the land and the tillage 
in all respects the same; and yours was cut up two weeks earlier 
than the other, being fully fit on the first of September, when I 
commenced it. JY. Jersey , Feb. 1336. G. H. M’CARTER. 
