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slightly,) in April, and just before you wish to plant, 
spread the manure upon the surface, and cover it is as 
much as practicable with a harrow, cultivator, or light 
plow, not disturbing the sod. 
If any part of the above may appear of sufficient uti¬ 
lity to have a place in your valuable paper, and any 
farmer enabled to add even one load more of manure to 
his pile, I shall consider myself well compensated, and 
shall feel that my duty, as respects contributing my 
item, performed. Yoursr espectfully, 
T. P. HUNTINGTON. 
P. S. Since writing the above, I have read an article 
from the Boston Cultivator recommending the disuse 
of stable floors, which is the first of the kind I recollect 
ever to have noticed. 
Richland Home , N. Hadley, Mass. Dec. 17, 1840. 
Many Crop Experiments. 
I have before made known in the columns of the 
Cultivator, my entire success in a double crop as to 
Irish potatoes and pumpkins ; or that by planting pump¬ 
kins among potatoes after the vines of the latter were 
of some size, a fine crop of the former overspread the 
ground, rather to the healthful shading than to the de¬ 
triment of the potatoes matured underneath. 
Of late years I have sowed buckwheat and rye at the 
same time and on the same ground ; and success attend¬ 
ed. The buckwheat was cut in the fall, and rye the 
following harvest. Again, in our hot climate, and on 
on our light sandy soil, I have hit upon a plan that 
renders red clover of as certain growth and success as 
in the northern states, if not more so. It is by cover¬ 
ing the ground with pine leaves after the wheat and 
clover are sowed ; or cover the wheat in the winter and 
sow the clover in the spring. Last September a year, 
I sowed a piece of ground with wheat, and clover on 
the fresh earth immediately after the wheat was har¬ 
rowed in, and soon after put over most of the surface 
pine leaves. The wheat and clover were both essential- 
ly r benefitted by the covering, and a remarkable con¬ 
trast to that left uncovered to test the utility of the 
plan. 
The fifth of August last, I resolved upon a fourfold 
operation on a piece of ground, and after sowing there¬ 
on buckwheat anl rye, and then clover, I covered 
most of it with pine leaves, straw, and green pine 
boughs, or with the different materials in different pla¬ 
ces, coated over about an inch thick. The result promises 
to be very satisfactory. Anl a most decided difference 
in favor of the ground thus covered. I had the curi¬ 
osity, the 5tli of October, to measure the buckwheat 
from a corner of the piece, less than a quarter of an 
acre, and the produce was five and a half bushels. Both 
the rye and clover look very promising for next years 
crops. Very respectfully yours, &c. 
SIDNEY WELLER. 
Brinckleyville, Halifax co. N. C. Nov. 24. 1840. 
Galf from a heading. 
Messrs. Editors —In passing on our journey through 
this world, we hear of many “ freaks of nature,” that 
we hardly believe, and see many that we almost doubt, 
although our eyes prove it. Such a case happened in 
my barn yard a few days since. The first morning af¬ 
ter I put my cattle into winter quarters, I saw one of 
my yearling heifers laying down in the farther part of 
the yarl ; she did not come to the rack with the others 
when I foddered them, and I went to her, and to my 
great suprise I saw a calf lying by her side. I could 
hardly believe my eyes. I immediately drove her into 
the barn, carrying in the calf, which was no great exer¬ 
tion I can assure you. I set my thinking faculties to 
work, to find out the sire of this new comer; it took 
me sometime to satisfy myself, for I knew she had not 
been off my farm ; even if she had, there was no bull 
that she could get too. The first of summer as fast as 
I weaned my calves I turned them into a lot together ; 
during the summer I purchased a bull calf that was calved 
the loth of April. I turned him in with my calves, 
and he is the one that dii the mischief. He could have 
been but five months old at the time she became preg¬ 
nant. The calf is a fine square built little animal, as 
playful as a deer, an 1 grows finely. The heifer’s teats 
are about the size of the end of your little finger, and to 
milk her, I cannot compare it to anything that would give 
you an idea of the smallness of the business, better 
than milking an ewe. Now this “ freak” may serve 
a lesson to all farmers who are in the habit of letting 
their calves, both male and female, run together the 
first summer. It requires much extra attention to do 
the heifer justice ; still she will look poor and meagre 
all the winter. B. 
Pleasant Hill, November 25, 1840. 
Circassian Mulberry. 
This important and rare variety bids fair to form a 
new era in the silk sulture, on account of its extreme 
hardy character and profusion of foliage, of the largest 
dimensions. 
The leaves are about the size of the famous multi- 
caulis mulberry, but more fleshy and nutricious, and 
of greater weight, and this tree will consequently af¬ 
ford more food for silk worms than any other variety. 
The wood is remarkably firm anl will withstand the 
winters of Quebec. Its growth is truly a subject of 
amazement, being 50 per cent greater than the rapid 
shooting multieaus. 
Most of the trees raised from cuttings the present 
season now exceed six feet in height, being nearly dou¬ 
ble the height of all other kinds in the same held. It 
can not fail to be a great acquisition, and particularly 
so to New-England. WM. PRINCE & SON. 
Flushing, December 30. 
LAHGE CAEVES. 
Messrs. Editors —According to promise, I send you 
the weight of the bull calf Bolivar, of the Short Horn 
Durham breed. He weighed when 4 months old, 640 
pounds ; at 5 months, 760 lbs. ; gaining 120 pounds in 
one month. Bolivar was bred, and is noiv owned by 
Stephen Van Rensselaer, on his farm 2 miles north 
of Albany on the Troy road, where a few head of the 
same breed of both sexes can be had if applied for soon. 
SANFORD BENNETT. 
Watervliet, Dec. 16, 1840. 
Messrs. Gaylord & Tucker —I send you the weight 
of a bull calf, owned by Mr. D. B. Litchfield of this 
town. It came the 16th of May last, and was weighed 
on the 4th of November, making the calf’s age five 
months and 18 days, when it weighed 525 lbs., not 
“ claimed to weigh,” or guessed at, but weighed on 
scales. Color, deep cherry red ; shape without fault. 
Keeping, it had only the milk of its mother, a small 4 
year old heifer. Breed, a slight cress of Devonshire 
with the native. Cordially yours, 
A. H. PIALLECK. 
Westmoreland , Oneida County , Nov. 24, 1840. 
POIT33RETTS. 
The subscribers reside in the State of New-Jersey, 
many of us in the vicinity of the Works erected by An¬ 
thony Dey of the city of New-York on the Hackensack 
river in New-Jersey for the manufactory of Urate and 
Poudrette, called “ The Lodi Manufacturing Company .” 
We have used the Poudrette on the spring crops this 
year, (1840.) We find it a valuable manure, superior 
to any other kind that we have ever used, and consider¬ 
ing the facility of its transportation to the field, the 
small quantity required in the application to the crops, 
the quickness of its operation on vegetable matter, and 
the case with which it can be applied, —all tend to re¬ 
commend its use to the farmer and gardener, as the 
cheapest and best manure, and we recommend it accord¬ 
ingly. Those of us who have applied it to corn and po¬ 
tatoes, think that it ldpens those vegetables quicker than 
any other manure by several weeks. 
Jacob D. Van Winkle, John J. Newkirk, John Tise, 
Daniel Van Riper, George Demott, Henry Drayton, Jo- 
siah Hornblower, Cornelius Van Winkle, P. F. Welsh, 
G. C. Van Riper, George Tise, William Wood, John 
Duryee, George Newkirk, Garret Newkirk, Daniel 
Vreelanl. 
Dated New-Jersey, October, 1 Q 40. 
Shares in the above Company are $100 each, and may 
be had by applying to Anthony Dey, No. 73 Cedar-st., 
New-York. The owner will receive 20 per cent per 
annum, payable in money, or 50 bushels of Poudrette. 
The price to those who buy Poudrette, is 40 cents a 
bushel. It costs the stock-holders 12 cents a bushel. 
One cent’s worth, that is 20 gills, will manure 20 hills 
of corn, and the like quantity, 15 hills of potatees. 
Newspapers friendly to agriculture, will confer a fa¬ 
vor on the farmers and gardeners by publishing the 
above. 
Earge crop of Garrets. 
Messrs. Gaylord & Tucker —Having a yard contain¬ 
ing 8 rods of ground where sheep had been yarded, I 
was induced to sow it to carrots. I plowed and harrow¬ 
ed it, raked off the lumps and stones, (it being of a gra¬ 
velly soil,) and sowed it in the month of May, in drills 
one foot apart ; but in consequence of the drouth which 
followed, the crop was materially injured. They were 
hoed twice, and harvested in the month of October, and 
measured from 6 to 15 inches in circumference, and from 
9 to 18 inches in length ; the produce was 53 bushels 
and one peck, equal to 1,065 per acre. I think them 
equal to the beet for cattle or sheep, and far preferable 
to the ruta baga, though not so easily raised. No roots 
fed in winter to milch cows, will give cream a finer 
color, or butter a richer flavor than carrots. A. M. 
New Haven, Ft. 12th month, 1840. 
CIRCULATION OF THE CULTIVATOR. 
The following table shows the extent of the circula¬ 
tion of the Cultivator, last year, both as to numbers 
and territory : 
Rhode Island,.218 
North Carolina,.158 
Wisconsin,.165 
Tennessee,. 156 
Lower Canada,.138 
South Carolina,.121 
Dis. of Columbia,... 82 
Delaware,. 79 
Alabama,. 68 
Maine, . 59 
Iowa,. 53 
Nova Scotia, ....... 29 
New-Brunswick,- 18 
Louisiana,. 14 
Arkansas,. 12 
Florida,. 4 
21,973 
New-York,. 7,184 
Virginia,. 1,822 
Connecticut,. 1,684 
Ohio,. 1,525 
Massachusetts,.... 1,245 
Pennsylvania,. 1,126 
Illinois,. 872 
Vermont. 741 
New-Jersey,. 664 
Maryland, . 635 
Michigan,. 593 
Upper Canada,... 563 
In liana,. 531 
Kentucky,. 337 
Missouri,. 335 
Miss'ssippi,-. 262 
New-Hampshire,.. 254 
Georgia,.221 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Those whose favors are laid over to next month, will 
see the cause of it in the fullness of our pages. No cor¬ 
respondent should consider his favor rejected, because 
it may occasionally have to wait a month or two for a 
place. 
The letter of “ J. C. H.” of Iowa, though da¬ 
ted in June last, was only received last month. He 
shall have an article on the culture of Buckwheat in 
season for next year. We shall be glad to receive the 
promised account of his experiments in farming at the 
West. 
The request of John Torbert, Esq. of Wilmington, 
shall be complied with, and he may depend on receiv¬ 
ing the corn in season for planting. We shall also com¬ 
ply with the request of Mr. R. B. Martin of Connecti¬ 
cut, if the articles he desires can be procured. 
Several selections have been furnished us for publica¬ 
tion, for which we have no room. We could easily fill 
an additional sheet monthly, with capital selections 
from the many excellent Agricultural periodicals on our 
table, which we should be glad to lay before the public, 
all of which we are compelled by the press of original 
contributions, to lay aside. 
Curing Hams. —We should be glad to receive from 
R. E. M. Esq., of Buckingham, Va., the promised ac¬ 
count of his method of curing hams, alluded to in his 
letter of March last. 
Silk Culture. —A correspondent in New-Jersey 
asks —“ Do you desire communications in relation to 
the Silk Culture, which is really going ahead as rapidly 
as root culture?”—Certainly, we want all the facts we 
can obtain on this subject, and hope the writer as well 
as others, will furnish us with the results of their expe¬ 
rience in this new business. 
PIay Press. —A gentleman of Virginia wishes to pro¬ 
cure immediately, a Hay Press,—a portable one if such 
there is, would be preferred. Can any one of our 
friends inform us where one can be procured, the price, 
&c. 
Correction. —In 6th line from bottom, first column, 
page 174, vol. 7, for “ two and a half inch pipe,” read 
“ a half inch pipe.” 
Transportation of Cattle. —A gentleman in Con¬ 
necticut, wishes to comply with our friend Robinson’s 
advice to take some blood stock with him to the West, 
whither he contemplates moving in the spring. He 
therefore wishes to know what would be the expense 
of transporting two Short horn cows and their calves 
from Albany to Chicago. He says — u Perhaps Mr. Al¬ 
len cf Buffalo, will take the trouble to ascertain and in¬ 
form you, as I shall want a pair of his pigs to take 
along with me.” We shall be glad to receive the infor¬ 
mation, as it may be interesting to many of our readers. 
The usual price of freight from Albany to Chicago is 
from $1,75 to $2 per hundred. 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
Agricultural Meeting in Albany—Preparation of Bacon,. 
Trial of Plows in England, and at Worcester, Mass.,... 
Work for the Month—Bees, Wheat, &c.—Bitter Rot? 
in Apples—Cobble-stone Buildings,.( 
Food for Milch Cows—Manures—Sheep for the Small ? 
Farmer—Culture of Corn and Large Crop,.£ 
Notices for the Month—Ag Societies of Washtenaw 1 
Co. Michigan, Barnwell District, S. C., Wayne > 
Co., and Genesee Co. N. Y.,.) 
Ag. Societies of Tompkins Co.. Onondaga Co, and? 
Fredericksburg, Va.—Log Cabin Ag. College, ... ) 
Dictionary of Terms used in Agriculture, &c.,. 
West Highland Cattle—Highland Ag. Society—Short j 
Horns vs. Herefords in England, &,c.—Useful t 
Recipes . ) 
Eighteen Hundred and Forty-One,.. 
The Silk Culture—Legislative Aid to Agriculture,. 
South Down Sheep—The Herefords and Short-Horns ? 
—To Western Emigrants, No. 3,.$ 
Legislative Aid to Agriculture—Use of Ashes and ? 
Lime—Poudrette,^.> 
Mr. McIntyre’s Hereford Cow—Late Sown Wheat— ) 
Experiments with Potatoes—Pedigree of Daisy— [ 
Chinch Bug,.) 
Letters from the West, No. 4,. 
The Farmer's perfect G ttage— Stables without? 
Floors, &c ,.. 
Many Crop Experiments—Large Calves—Calf from a ) 
Yearling—Circassian Mulberry—Poudrette—Car- I 
rots—Circulation of the Cultivator,.) 
Illustrations. 
Fig. 1.—Ferguson’s Improved Scotch Swing Plow,. 
Fig. 2.—Hart’s Improved Berkshire Plow,. 
Fiu. 3.—West Highland Bull,. 
Fig. 4.—Mr. Prentice’s South Down Buck,. 
Fia:. 5.—Mr. McIntyre’s Hereford Cow,. 
Fig. 6.—The Farmer’s Perfect Cottage,. 
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