A CONSOLIDATION OF BUHL'S CULTIVATOR AND THE GENESEE FARMER. 
Cult. Vol. IX.—No. 1. 
ALBANY, N. Y. JAN. 1842. Cult. & Far. Vol. III.— No. 1. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 
< GAYLORD So TUCKER, EDITORS. 
LUTHER TUCKER, PROPRIETOR. 
One Dollar per annum— six Copies for $5. 
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THE CULTIVATOR. 
“TO IMPROVE THE SOIL AND THE MIND.” 
TO THE FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE. 
The present number commences the Ninth volume 
of the Cultivator ; and we are unwilling to omit this 
opportunity of expressing to our friends and the agri¬ 
cultural public generally, our deep sense of the kindness 
with which they have viewed our efforts to improve and 
advance our husbandry ; of acknowledging our obliga¬ 
tions for the liberal and unprecedented support our 
journal has received ; and in particular, of thanking, 
most sincerely, our able and numerous list of contribu¬ 
tors, for the many valuable articles that have given such 
varied interest to our past volumes. If a record of the 
opinions and practice of some three or four hundred of 
the most scientific and practical farmers of our country, 
on all the great topics connected with the agriculture of 
every part of it, can render a journal valuable to far¬ 
mers, then may we believe that the Cultivator is not 
wholly unworthy of the commendation or the patronage 
it has received. To furnish a work that, in (very 
respect, shall please every one, is what we can scarcely 
hope or expect ; but we intend to publish a journal in 
which every one shall find something interesting and 
instructive ; something to enable him to improve the 
soil and the mind ; something that shall “ elevate the 
standing and character of the American cultivators of 
the soil.” We enter upon a new volume wjth increased 
means and renewed determinations to make the Culti- 
tivator more worthy of the distinguished favor with 
which it has been received. Our facilities for intelli¬ 
gence, important to the farmer, are rapidly spreading; 
the number of our contributors, at home and abroad, 
is constantly increasing; our means for multiplying and 
improving our illustrations, are greatly augmented ; and 
while the general course and character of the paper 
will remain the same, no exertion on the part of the 
conductors will be spared to add to its value and use¬ 
fulness. 
To all who have aided us in obtaining subscribers 
for the Cultivator—to those contributors in every part 
of our country, who have forwarded to us the rich re¬ 
sults of their experience—to those Postmasters in every 
section of the Union, who have forwarded us the names 
of subscribers, or cash—-to those professional men who 
have aided us by their application of science to agri¬ 
culture, in our pages—to those conductors of the pub¬ 
lic press, who have kindly noticed our journal, and 
thus brought it to the knowledge of their readers, our 
grateful acknowledgments are due; and to all these, 
and to all who take an interest in the great objects 
to which the Cultivator is devoted, we beg leave to 
proffer our congratulations, and to wish them a happy, 
thrice happy, New Year. 
We should be glad to engage the services of a few 
respectable and trustworthy men, as travelling agents 
for the Cultivator. 
Agreeably to the notice given last month, we for¬ 
ward this number of The Cultivator to all our old 
subscribers, except in cases where a discontinuance has 
been ordered. Those who do not wish to he consid¬ 
ered subscribers to the Ninth volume, should immedi¬ 
ately give notice to that effect to the Postmaster where 
they receive their paper, whose duty it will be to com¬ 
municate it to us, free of expense; and those who wish 
the paper continued to them, and who have not yet 
paid for it, should, with as little delay as may be con¬ 
venient, hand their dollar to the Postmaster, or the 
Agent, if there is one, in the vicinity where they re¬ 
side. 
TO POSTMASTERS AND AGENTS. 
Postmasters and Agents will be entitled to the com¬ 
missions allowed by the terms of the paper, on all 
monies they may forward us, whether from new or old 
subscribers; and we shall be greatly obliged by any 
efforts they may be pleased to make in collecting mo¬ 
nies or names for the ninth volume. 
Postmasters will particularly oblige the publisher, 
by giving prompt notice of any papers which should 
be discontinued, either from their not being called for, 
or from the inability of those to whom they are ad¬ 
dressed to pay for them. 
NEW-YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The annual meeting of the New-York State Agricul¬ 
tural Society will be held at the Lecture Room of the 
Young Men s Association, in the Exchange, in the city 
of Albany, on Wednesday, the 19 th of January, 1842, at 
10 o'clock, A. M. The annual Address, by the Presi¬ 
dent of the Socie'y, Joel B. Nott, Esq., will be deliv¬ 
ered in the Assembly Chamber of the Capitol, on the 
evening of the same day. 
On the day preceding the annual meeting - , (Jan. 18,) 
the Exhibition of Butter and Cheese, together with 
samples of Field Crops, will be held in room No. 10, 
second floor of the Exchange, at which place must he 
deposited, before 9 o'clock, A. M., ail parcels offered 
for premiums, together with the statements required by 
the regulations heretofore published; and at 10 o’clock, 
A. M., the several viewing committees will commence 
the performance of their duties. The following are the 
committees: 
On Butter —Alex. Walsh and G. B. Richards of Rens¬ 
selaer, Robert Denniston of Orange, M. D. Burnett of 
Onondaga, and J. M. Sherwood of Cayuga. 
On Cheese —C. N. Bement and E. R. Satterlee of 
Albany, John Caldwell of Orange, Benj. P. Johnson of 
Oneida, and Samuel Perry, of New-York. 
On Wheat, Rye, and Barley —Anthony Van Bergen of 
Greene, Raw son Harmon, jr. of Monroe, Orville Hun- 
gerford of Jefferson, William Parsons of Niagara, and 
William A. S. North, of Schenectady. 
On Indian Coni, Oats, and Peas —Henry D. Grove 
and Henry Holmes of Washington, Howell Gardner of 
Saratoga, Pomeroy Jones of Oneida, and Joseph Has¬ 
tings of Rensselaer. 
On Root Crops—J. P. Beekman, of Columbia, Francis 
Rotch of Otsego, G. V. Sacket of Seneca, John San¬ 
ford of Onondaga, and L. B. Langworthy of Monroe. 
The above named committees are requested to meet 
at the oflice of the Recording Secretary, (Cultivator of¬ 
fice,) at 9 o’clock, A. M„ on the 18th, at which time the 
Executive Committee will proceed to fill any vacancies 
which may occur. 
LUTHER TUCKER, Rec. Sec’y. 
Editors throughout the state are requested to 
publish, the above. 
ALBANY CO. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The annual meeting of the Albany Co. Agricultural 
Society will be held at the City Hall, in Albany, on 
Wednesday, the 12th of January, 1842, at 11 o’clock, A. 
M. A punctual attendance, not only of the members, 
but of all who wish to become members, is earnestly 
solicited. THOS. HILLHOUSE, 
Dec. 25, 1841. Rec. Sec’y. 
Our thanks are due to those friends, from whom we 
have received, during the past month, the following: 
To unknown friends, for copies of Gen. Tallmadge’s Ad¬ 
dress before the American Institute, at its late Fair. 
To William Kenricic, Newton, Mass., for a copy of 
his Descriptive Catalogue of Select Fruits, Trees, 
Shrubs, Flowers, &c. 
To Robert Alexander, Esq., Hall Farm, Sherbroke, 
L. C., for a No. of the Edinburgh newspaper, “ The 
Witness,” containing an account of the Highland So¬ 
ciety’s Show of 1841, and a history of the Alpaca. 
To Chester Moses, Esq., of Marcellus, for a small par¬ 
cel of his Bakewell Potatoes. We have tried them, and 
think them fully equal to the character he gives them, 
as a baking potatoe. 
To their respective Editors, for regular files of the Lon¬ 
don weekly agricultural papers, The New Farmers’ 
Journal, and The Mark-Ixine Express. 
To the publisher, D. O. Prouty, Philadelphia, for the 
Agricultural Almanac, containing a variety of useful 
notes on farming and gardening. 
To our friend at Thompson, Conn., for the Report of 
the R. I. Ag. Society, on Butter, of which we shall 
avail ourselves hereafter. 
We have also received by the steamer Columbia, 
which arrived at Boston on the 21st Dec,, The Quarterly 
Journal of Agriculture, for December, The Veterinarian , 
for Oct., Nov., and Dec., and Johnson’s Farmers’ Ency¬ 
clopedia, Parts I., II., HI., and IV. 
GREAT YIELD OF CORN. 
We find in the “Union Agriculturist,” a communica¬ 
tion from Col. Joel Walker of Belvidere, Ill. giving an 
account of corn raised by him the past year. The kinds 
selected for the experiment were the Chinese Tree corn, 
12 rowed; Yellow dent, 12 rowed; and N. Jersey, 8 do. 
“ The ground was highly manured at an expense of $3 
per acre, lightly plowed and otherwise prepared in the 
ordinary manner. The seed was planted in hills four 
feet apart; number of kernels to the hill not remembered* 
The crop is harvested, and the result is as follows: 
Chinese Tree Corn, 169 1-2 bushels shelled, to the acre. 
Yellow Dent,.170 ce “ “ 
New-Jersey,. 99 3-4 ce “ 
To be sure there was no mistake, each parcel was 
measured twice; and as the editor of the Agriculturist 
has vouched for its accuracy, it may be considered one 
of the most enormous yields on record. Col. Walker 
also planted a small quantity of the Brown corn; and 
from its fine appearance and yield, expresses the opinion 
“ that it will one day supercede every other variety.” 
Such yields of corn as this, and some of those recorded 
in our December number, for which premiums were 
awarded by our county societies, will make Kit Cornhill, 
who in his communication in our last, “ insinivated” his 
doubts of the reality of such crops, open his eyes wider 
than ever. 
DOMESTIC FOWLS IN WINTER. 
One of the greatest errors that prevails in the man¬ 
agement of the domestic fowl, and one which must be 
destructive of all profit, is the common practice of leav¬ 
ing them to “ shirk for themselves,” during the win¬ 
ter months. There is no animal on the farm that better 
repays good keeping than the hen, and with it, there 
is none that affords so much profit on the capital em¬ 
ployed. The hen should have a clqse warm roost, for 
there are few creatures that suffer more from the cold than 
fowls; they should have a box of gravel, sand, ashes, &c. 
for them to roll and dust themselves in, to prevent the 
attacks of those insects to which fowls are subject; they 
should have access to pulverized limestones or limestone 
gravel, as this will give material for shell, and contri¬ 
bute to the health of hens; they should have abundance 
or water, clean and pure, for few animals will drink 
more frequently or eagerly than hens, if water is within 
their reach; and no one need expect healthy fowls, or 
a plentiful supply of eggs, who does not pay strict at¬ 
tention to their supply of food. Indian corn, peas, buck¬ 
wheat, oats, or barley, may be fed to fowls. Potatoes, 
steamed or boiled, are excellent food for them, hut 
must he fed while warm, as fowls will not eat cold 
potatoe, unless driven to it by hunger. Fowls should 
have access to a warm yard in the sunny days of win¬ 
ter, as warmth is particularly invigorating to them. If 
confined for any time in a close ill ventilated room, they 
will become diseased and feeble, and will require extra 
attention to repair'the evil generated. 
