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THE CULTIVATOR. 
is effectually guarded against by the suspending of the 
frames “in the manner described, and by the addition of a 
shelf surrounding each of the suspending strips towards 
their upper ends. 
The temperature should not vary far either way from 
eighty degrees in the nursery room, and through the dif¬ 
ferent stages of the worm. A thermometer is necessary 
to govern the temperature. Fresh foliage should always 
be given to worms. Young and tender leaves must be 
given to young and tender worms, and should be re¬ 
moved from their litter as often as their periods of 
moulting. Picked leaves and small branches, with 
their foliage, may be fed in the nursery room. Fine 
slaked lime should be sifted Upon worms frequently. It 
absorbs moisture, and purifies the atmosphere; is a good 
preventive, (hut not the cure all,) of disease originated 
before the worm existed. The most convenient sized 
shelves I find is four by two and a half feet, fitted to rest 
on cleats, upon frames to contain about six shelves each, 
placed about one foot apart. Worms can’ be fed very 
thick upon those shelves. Soon as they revive from their 
last moulting, the shelves should be removed with the 
worms and litter to the feeding frame, as described in 
the plate. The strips of wood, c.c., should be surround¬ 
ed at their lower ends, with a board of 8 or 10 inches 
wide, for the accommodation of laying on trees and pre¬ 
venting them from falling ofij to be fastened by buttons, 
and removed when the cocoons are to be gathered. The 
building should be on an elevated spot; should be tight 
when the doors and shutters are closed, to guard against 
sudden changes of weather; the atmosphere that is most 
agreeable to those employed is most congenial to the 
worm. The Morus multicaulis of one year’s growth is 
the most convenient, to feed upon this frame. The trees 
should be planted four feet between the rows, and as 
thick as they will grow from layers in the rows. Trees 
that stand out through the winter unmolested, when full 
of foliage, should be cut near the ground. The trees 
should be laid lengthwise of the frame when feeding, 
three days in succession, to form a foundation, that the 
worms may not easily fall through. After the third day, 
the shelves must be removed, and the trees should be 
laid across the frame, and continue to cross the trees, 
that they may be open and airy. Care should be taken 
that foliage is not laid on in heaps, or faster than the 
worms consume it. Trees may be cut twice the same 
season without injury to the roots, and will produce as 
much foliage through the season as if plucked from their 
branches. We design to cut one-half of our plantation 
yearly. This will enable us to feed altogether of one 
year’s growth upon our frame. Healthy worms will al¬ 
ways keep uppermost, attached to the trees and branches, 
until through feeding, not inclined to ramble at all, but 
go directly down into the brush and form their cocoons. 
Diseased worms will be sure to find their way through 
to the ground, and the sooner the better. Unless the 
worms all go down to spin at one time, which is not 
often, the floss of those that commence spinning first 
catches some of the droppings of those above them, and 
most of the floss is unfit for use. This is of no conse¬ 
quence in comparison to the many advantages derived 
from this mode of feeding, for we hardly consider the 
floss, when clean, worth attention. 
We have five acres of mulberry, thickly planted, and 
a sufficiency of good eggs, we believe; and if we do 
not succeed in feeding 1,000,000 next season, with the 
help of two men, and two boys ten years old, we shall 
fall short of our calculation, and be very much disap¬ 
pointed. And we are now ready to testify to all that 
may read the foregoing, that all the difficulty and anxi¬ 
ety so attendant upon the last stage of the silk worm, in 
other modes of feeding, in this way is entirely removed, 
and has become the most agreeable and interesting em¬ 
ployment that we were ever engaged in. 
J. B. Tillinghast. 
Ncmvalk, O., Jan. 4, 1842. 
ALBANY NURSERY. 
T HE proprietor of the above establishment would respect¬ 
fully inform the public in general, that he has associated 
with him Jesse Buel, formerly proprietor of the Cultivator, in 
the nursery business, and that they have now on hand a large 
and desirable assortment of FRUIT TREES, (most of which 
were selected by the late Jesse Buel,) FOREST TREES, OR¬ 
NAMENTAL AND FLOWERING SHRUBS, GREEN HOUSE 
PLANTS, &c. &c., which they are prepared to dispose of on as 
reasonable terms as they can be purchased elsewhere. They 
have likewise a good assortment of Dahlias and Herbaceous 
Plants, and a very extensive assortment of Hardy Roses, se¬ 
lected from the best European collections, nearly all of which 
have flowered in our nursery. 
The above nursery is situated about two miles west of the 
city, on the rail road. All orders must be addressed to the 
proprietors, JESSE BUEL & CO., Albany Nursery, or be left 
at the store of WILLIAM THORBURN, Broadway, Albany. 
February 1, 1842. 
TILLINGHAST’S COCOONERY. 
F OR more particular information, and in answer to many 
letters of inquiry, in relation to my patent cocoonery, I here 
give my terms of sale. The sum of ten dollars is required at the 
time a deed is executed, for the privilege of using three hundred 
square feet of frame, which is sufficient to feed 500,000 worms 
in one season in this latitude, and in the same proportion for 
any number of feet required. County and town rights may be 
obtained much cheaper in proportion to their territorial limits; 
situations and circumstances always considered, and one-fourth 
of the consideration in all cases must be made, at the time of 
sale, and a credit of some years for the balance, with undoubted 
security, will be given if necessary. The price will be nothing 
less than one hundred dollars for any county in the United 
States. J. B. TILLINGHAST. 
N. B. All letters or communications for information, must be 
post paid, to insure attention. 
Norwalk, {Ohio,) Jan. 18, 1841 
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MONTHLY REPORT FOR JANUARY, 1842. 
{Prepared for The Cultivator.) 
COTTON.—In the fore part of the month, owing to the de¬ 
mand for shipment, prices were firm, and a disposition was 
evinced by holders to advance ; but latterly, although the de¬ 
mand for export has rather increased than receded, the arri¬ 
vals, were to such extent as to produce a tendency in prices to 
dechne. The sales up to the 22d, during the month, amounted 
to about 14,600 bales, and the exports, up to the 19th, were as 
foltows: 
Great Britain,. 3,904 bales. 
France,. 5,718 “ 
North of Europe,. 351 
South of Europe,. 1,743 
Making a total of-.--. 10,816 bales. 
The advices by the Britannia had no effect upon the market, 
although from the firmness of holders, prices are steady. Con¬ 
siderable new cotton has arrived, but the quality is moderate. 
The following are the quotations: 
%r January 1st. January 22d. 
New Orleans,-7 1-2 @ 11 .7 1-4 @ 11 
Mobile,...7 1-2 @ 10 1-2.7 1-4 @ 10 1-2 
Upland and Florida, 7 @ 9 1-2.7 @ 9 1-4 
FLOUR AND MEAL.—Brices during the month have been 
fluctuating, although but merely nominal. Buyers have evinced 
a disposition not to purchase at the rates asked by holders, 
and the market for all descriptions has consequently been ex¬ 
tremely feeble and dull. The stock on hand is moderately 
large. The advices by the Britannia represented the European 
markets generally as without change since the previous ad¬ 
vices, and of course had no effect upon the market here. There 
has also been little disposition shown to speculate. The ex¬ 
ports of wheat flour, from the 1st to the 19th of January, have 
been about, 25,876 barrels. Genesee has receded from $6 (a) 
I 12 1-2, the rates at the first of the month, to $5 94 <® $6; 
Troy from $6 to $5 87 1-2 @ $6; Michigan from $5 87 1-2 @ $6 
to $6 75 @ $5 87 1-2: Ohio has been stationary, at $5 87 1-2 @ 
I; Georgetown and Alexandria, $6 12 1-2 @ $6 25 to $6 @ 
$6 12 1-2; Baltimore Howard street, although rates have fluc¬ 
tuated,is the same as at the first of the month, $6 121-2 @ $6 25; 
Richmond City Mills, $7 50 to #7 25 @/7 50. There has been 
an advance in Rye Flour from #3 75 to'$4. Jersey Corn Meal 
is selling at $3 12 1-2; Brandywine at about the same in bbls,, 
and $14 @ 14 50 in hhds. 
GRAIN.—Therp has been a decline in almost every descrip¬ 
tion during the month. The sales have been' small, and there 
is much more readiness on the part of sellers than buyers. The 
decrease in the demand for Whiskey, and the quantity arrived 
of distilled from New Orleans, have- tended greatly to depre¬ 
ciate prices. A'good deal of Southern Wheat has arrived, but 
being in fewer hands, the fluctuation in price has not been so 
great. The prices from the 1st to the 22d of the month, have 
varied for Genesee, $1 25 to $1 22 @ $1 25 ; Southern, $1 20 
@_$1 25 to $1 20. Northern Rye, 75 to 72 cents, about the 
middle of the month, but it has resumed its previous rates 
again. Jersey and Brandywine Corn, 66 @ 68 conts per bushel 
to 62 @ 62 cents, all measure; Southern, 62 @ 66 to 60 cents, 
all weight; Ohio, 68 to 66. North River Barley, 75 to 74 cents. 
Northern Oats have advanced from 48 @ 50 to 50 @ 52 cents; 
Southern have been stationary, at 44 @ 46 ; New Jersey, 40 @ 
45 to 40 @ 48 cents. The export of corn from the 1st to the 
19th of the month, was 3,803 bushels. 
PROVISIONS—The transactions in most descriptions are ex¬ 
tremely limited, and the market is dull and heavy. In the first 
part of the month, prices were firm, with a moderate demand; 
but latterly there has been nothing doing in Beef or Pork, and 
prices are but nominal, with a large stock ou hand. At present, 
the sales are only in lots for city use, or shipment. Beef has 
remained, without change, at $7-50 @ $8-25 for mess, and 
$4 50 @ $5-25 for prime. Pork has declined, from $9-00 @ 
$10-25 for mess, to $8-00 @ $10-00, and prime from $6-75 @ 
$S-25, to $6-00 @ $8-00. For Lard there is a fair demand for 
export, although prices have receded from 5 1-2 @ 8 c. $>> lb., to 
5 @ 7 1-2 c., owing principally to the large receipts from New- 
Orleans in the second week of the month. In Butter there is 
nothing doing, and prices have not varied. The quotations are, 
for prime 20 @ 21 c. ^ lb.; western dairy 15 @ 17 c.; ordinary 
to good 10(5) 14 c. Cheese, is in moderate demand for shipment, 
with a small supply on hand. Prices have advanced from 6 1-2 
(2; 7 1-2 c. lb., at the first of the month, to 7 @ 8 c. Smoked 
Hams are selling at 8 1-2 @ 8 3-4 c.—a decline from 9 c., at the 
first of the month. Smoked Beef 6 1-2 @ 7 e. The exports from 
the 1st to the 19th are as follows:— 
Beef,. 1,041 brls. 
Pork,. 3,456 “ 
Lard,. 4,929 kegs. 
TOBACCO—Has been very inactive during the month, and 
sales have been very limited. During the last week there has 
been a little more activity, and prices generally have receded 
a little. The quotations are as follows:—Richmond and Pe- 
tersburgh declined from 4 @ 8 c., to 3 1-2 @ 7; North Carolina, 
4 @ 6 c., to 3 1-2 @ 6 c.; Kentucky 5 @ 9c., to 3 3-4 @ 9 c.; St. 
Domingo, 15 (2> 20 c., to 12 1-2 @ 20 c. In other desriptions pri¬ 
ces remain without change, viz:—Cuba, 12 1-2 @ 20 c.; Manu¬ 
factured, No. 1, 12 @ 15 c.; No. 2, 10 @ 11 c.; No. 3, 7 @ 1C c., 
32 lumps, 16 @ 20 c.; Ladies Twist, 16 @ 20 c.; Cavendish, 10 
@ 40 c. From the inactivity, prevailing prices are but nominal, 
and there is no grounds to anticipate any improvement, either 
in demand or prices. The inspections and stock on hand, are 
somewhat less than during the same period last year. 
WOOL—There has been no transactions worthy of note du¬ 
ring the month, and prices, therefore, are merely nominal. 
There has not been the slightest variation since last month. 
The quotations, are for Amdrican Saxony, 40 @ 42 c.: for Ame¬ 
rican full blooded Merino, 34 @ 36 c.; for half blood to 3-4 Me¬ 
rino, 30 @ 32 c.; common to 1-4 do., 18 @ 22 c.; superfine pulled, 
36 @ 37 1-2 c.; No. 1, 32 @ 34 c.; No. 2, 25 @ 27 c.; South Ame¬ 
rican washed, 6 @ 8 c.; picked, 16 @ 18 e.; do. unwashed, 5 @ 
7 c.; African, 7 1-2 @ 12 1-2 c.; Smyrna, 9 @ 14 c,; Mexican, 11 
1-2 @12 1-2 e. 
Advertisements of stock, implements, fruit trees, &c., will 
hereafter be inserted once, and only once, in the Cultivator, 
the charges for which will be at the rate of $2 00 for each 
100 words. No advertisement inserted for less than $2 00‘ 
however short it may be. 
ALBANY SEED STORE, AND AGRICULTURAL 
REPOSITORY. 
T HE subscriber offers for sale a large assortment of FRESH 
GARDEN, FIELD, AND FLOWER SEEDS; also, a large 
assortment of FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES AND 
SHRUBS, with a general assortment of FARMING IMPLE¬ 
MENTS, viz : Green’s Straw Cutters, with 12,18, and 24 knives 
each. Price, 12 knives, $25: 18 do., $ 28 , 24 do., $31; Arm¬ 
strong’s do. do., $25; GilsoWs do. do., $20; Drill Barrows, 
from $2 to $10 each; Cultivators, $5 to $10 each ; Bull Rings 
for Cattle; Vegetable Cutters, $10 to $15 each; Plows at all 
prices. W. THORBURN, No. 38 Broadway. 
Albany, February 1, 1842. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 
FtoihWm. Sumner, Esq., Pomaria, S. C., the Transactions of 
the S. C. State Agricultural Society, with the Oration of Gen. 
Hammond, delivered at its last meeting. 
From Rev. Henry Colman, his Fourth Report on the Agricul¬ 
ture of Massachusetts. 
From Wm. H. Richardson, Esq., Richmond, Va., the Proceed- 
ings of the Henrico Ag. and Hort. Society. 
From Prof. James Hall, State Geologist of New-York, his Notes 
on the Geology of the Western States. 
From J. S. Skinner, Esq., Washington, A Christmas Gift to the 
Farmers of the United States, by Mr. S. 
From S. A. Law, Esq., Meredith, N. Y., his Address to the Dela¬ 
ware Ag. Society, at its last meeting. 
From R. H. Willson, Esq., the Constitution and By-Laws of the 
Ohio and Brooke Ag. Society , Va. 
From Capt. R. Hardwick, Sparta, Ga., the Proceedings of the 
Farmers’ Club of that place. 
From the Editors, London, the weekly nos. of The New Farm¬ 
er’s Journal for December. From other friends in London, 
we have regular files of the Mark-Lane Express, and the 
Gardner’s Chronicle, together with The Veterinarian, The 
Farmer’s Magazine, and The Farmer’s Encyclopedia, for Jan¬ 
uary. 
From the Editors, Silliman’s American Journal of Arts and 
Science, for January. 
From J. W. Cady, Esq., Johnstown, an ear of Rocky Mountain 
Corn, each kernel of which is enclosed in a separate envelope. 
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS, &c. 
We have received, during the last month, besides those pub¬ 
lished in this paper, communications from the following:— 
John Harold, J. C. Robertson, N. N. D., G. H. Chrisman, En¬ 
quirer, L. Durand, J. A. S., J. Horsfield, S. D. Martin, C. L. 
Boalt, A Suffolk Co. Farmer, Wm. Kitchen, Praries of the West, 
J. Bowen, W. H. & F. J. Scott, M. Qtiimby, H.W., N. R. French, 
J. W. Griirfield, G. S.Wright, V. S., J. Ives, T. Goodsell, Colum¬ 
bia, A. Subscriber, Richmond, G.Cook,, G. W. Grant, A Farmer, 
G. Butler, C. Ingalls, J.W. Smith, X, Henry Long, E. S. Hinman, 
Geo. Woodfin, A Farmer of R. Island, Wm. Makinster, and A 
Farmer’s Wife. 
Chess. —We have several articles on the subject of the sup¬ 
posed change of wheat, oats, &c., to chess; hut, as the subject 
has been thoroughly discussed in the two last vols., we must 
decline opening our columns again to the controversy, at least, 
for the present. 
“N. N. D.”—Though we have had the drawing engraved for 
his communication, we have not been able to make room for it 
in this number, and it is now so late in the season, we may, 
perhaps, let it lie over till autumn. 
“Richmond.” —We fear this communication, though appro¬ 
priate to our pages, will have to give place, for the presept, to 
those of a more strictly practical character. 
The drawings furnished by S. W. Jewett, J. Horsfield, R. 
North, Jr., J. Harold, and A Farmer, are in the hands of the 
engraver. 
The portrait of “ Irish Beauty,” owned by J. S. Norton, Rock¬ 
ford, Ill., is not sufficiently accurate for the engraver. It 
wants the life-like character of the animal. We should be glad 
to get a good drawing of an Irish Grazier. 
The portraits of the Short Horned Bull and Berkshire Sow, 
furnished by the Messrs. Scott, are good; but we have givenso., 
many of these animals that we have concluded, hereafter, only' 
to give the portraits of Premium animals of these breeds, un¬ 
less the owners will be at the exprense of the engraving. 
flip The person who advertises for a situation with a practi¬ 
cal farmer, may hear of a place, which cannot fail to suit him, 
on application at this office. 
O’ If we hear of a situation which will answer 11 C. I.,” we 
will let him know. 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
The Credit System—Vermont Oat Crop—N. Y. S. Ag. So-) 
ciety—Letter from an American in London,.*.) 
N. Y. S. Ag. Society’s Exhibition of Butter, Cheese, and j 
Field Crops,.. S 
Annual meeting of N. Y. S. Ag. Society— Colman’s Fourth ) 
Report—American Antiquities,. ) 
Notices of Periodicals, &c.—Group of Horses,. 
Culture of the Grasses—County Ag. Societies—Second) 
Blossoming of Fruit Trees—Great Crop of Corn—Stone 
Walls—Productive Potatoe—The Short Horns—Smith- I 
field Cattle Show—Grain Trade between Great Britain | 
and the U. States..-.J 
Ringing Noses of Cattle—Vermin on Plants—New Ma- ) 
nures—Poudrette—Styptic—Feeding Sheep at Stacks— > 
Woburns in Tennessee—Rape Seed,. ) 
Work for the Month—Constitution of the Agricultural So-j 
ciety of the U. States—Good Pigs,. ) 
Fertilizing qualities of Marls, Bones, &c.—Rotation of) 
Crops—A Pennsylvania Barn—Culture of Indian Corn, ) 
Making Pork—Origin of the Morgan Horse—Fraud in the ) 
manufacture of Salt—Early White Wheat of Virginia,- y 
Mr. Sherwood’s Premium Bull—The Ayrshires—Vermont ) 
Agriculture—To Preserve Timber—A Stone Scraper, •• ) 
Traveling Memoranda—Culture of Potatoes—Large Crop ) 
of Corn,. ) 
Diagram of an Animal, with Explanations of Technical) 
terms—Farm Report—Culture of Indian Corn—Ruta ! 
Bagas, &c.—Sale of Cream Pot Cattle—Weight of Five [ 
Pigs—Improvement in Shingling,.J 
Ornamental Trees and Shrubs—Select List of Roses,. 
Making Bread, Pies, &c.—Caley’s Improved Probang— ) 
Gravel in the Horse—Valuable Recipes,.S 
Progress of the Silk Business in the U. States—Culture of j 
Silk—Feeding SilkWorms,.S 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
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Fig. 10—Group of Five Horses,. 28 
Fig. 11—Division of a Farm,. 32 
Fig. 12—Mr. Sherwood’s Bull, Archer,. 34 
Fig. 13—A Stone Scraper,. 34 
Fig. 14—Diagram of an Animal,. 36 
Fig. 15, 16, i7—Caley’s Improved Probang,. 38 
Fig. 18—Tillinghast’s Cocoonery,. 39 
Fig. 19—Vignette for Garden and Orchard.. 37 
THE BACK VOLUMES 
Of the Cultivator may be had of the following Agents s 
Hovey & Co.,.Boston, Mass. 
A. H. Stillwell,.Providence, R. I. 
Israel Post,.88 Bowery, New-York. 
Dayton & Saxton,.cor. Fulton and Nassau, do. 
G. C. Thorburn,.88 John-street, do. 
Judah Dobson,.Philadelphia, Pa. 
G. B. Smith,.Baltimore, Md. 
Frank Taylor,.Washington, D. C. 
FROM THE STEAM PRESS OF C. VAN BENTHUYSEN. 
