Coe's Superphosphate of Lime. The following letter from Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, one of the most eminent agriculturists in New-England, gives a very gratifying account of some experiments with Coe's Superphosphate of Lime:DORCHESTER, Nov. 20, 1861, DEAR SIR:-I take pleasure in enclosing, for your examination, some facts in regard to the comparative value of the Superphosphate of Lime purchased of you last spring. Experiments on Old Mowing Land. This land was divided into three equal lots of one-fourth of an acre each, and dressed as follows: Experiments with Carrots. 864 lbs. 750 lbs. 948 lbs. or over. Drop one end over the head, just under the hind legs under the hams. Raise the sides together over brisket forward of the fore legs, the other back of the the back, or cross them over the back when putting under the brisket and hams. A sheep is so formed that the strap will not slip off, no matter how much he may try to struggle. There is also not the least danger of injury. This plan, however, may be nothing new to many of your readers, but I find it very convenient, often buying sheep by weight, when very fleshy. It is my custom to feed more or less sheep every winter. By the way, why will not our farmers who raise sheep, feed more of their coarse grain and roots to them during the winter season. There is no kind of stock that can be fatted so profitably and easily in cold weather. They will "grind " their own food-all "milling 19 can be dispensed with. The capital articles in your own paper, and one in particular, in an This land was old sward land, turned over last Fall, and was di- exchange, upon this subject, ought to bring it forcibly to vided into three equal lots of one-eighth of an acre each: No. 3, with 50 lbs. Coe's Superphosphate of Lime, valued at,.. $8.00 Product. 1.50 1.25 60 bush. 90 bush. Experiments on Two Acres of Old Meadow Land. This land had probably never been plowed before. In the month of August last the brush, brakes, hedge, &c., were taken off, the sod reversed, and the surface made as level as practicable. It was then seeded down with foul meadow and red top seed, with 400 lbs. of your Superphosphate of Lime to the acre. The seed came up well, and at this time the grass is so luxuriant and thickly set that it attracts at tention at the distance of half a mile or more, and should the grass not be winter-killed with ice, there will no doubt be a fine crop next summer. In this instance, as in many others, the economy of the Superphosphate over common barnyard manure, is evident, the cost of the former being not more than the expense of carting would have been of a sufficient quantity of stable manure to produce a like result. The Superphosphate of Lime is therefore a valuable fertilizer in the reclamation and renovation of old pasture or meadow lands, and especially so where lands like the above are located a mile or more from the homestead. Superphosphate of Lime is a valuable article in promoting the growth and increasing the fibrous roots of young trees and grape. the mind of every farmer. There is an interest in sheep feeding to one who really takes an interest, that makes it very pleasant. Experiments can be so readily made as to the amount of feed, variety of grain or roots necessary to produce certain results within a given time, the expense, &c., the shape and disposition of the individual sheep best for feeding purposes, the breed, &c. This winter in beginning to feed my heavy sheep, I have started very light. Still I find by reference to my stock book, that one sheep in 30 days gained 15 lbs.; 1 in 20 days 10 lbs., while others on the same feed gain but 5, 3 or 2 lbs. But enough for the present. J. EW AND CHOICEST VEGETABLE vines, and when applied in liberal quantities to the roots of bearing NE trees has a beneficial influence on the size and beauty of the fruit. MARSHALL P. WILDER. [For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.] FEEDING AND WEIGHING SHEEP. LUTHER TUCKER & SON-Enclosed please find $12 more to apply on subscription list of your valuable paper for 1862. You will find no loss of old subscribers-but an increase of new ones. You have a rare faculty of making every subscriber to the Co. GENT., believe that after one years' subscription, he cannot do without it. I comply with your request to "every one making remittance, to note something, either relating to the crops, the weather, or any thing that may interest." My item for the present time, relates to my manner of weighing sheep where it is necessary to "sling up" as in weighing with the common "steel-yards" or "balances" of the country. The more general way is to use a strap or rope passing between or back of the fore legs and just before the hind legs, crossing over the back. A heavy hearty sheep in full feed suspended thus, must find it very uncomfortable for the time being, and besides run a great risk of sustaining permanent injury. By my plan a common rope or strap can be used, no matter how narrow-but the wider the better. The bail straps " of a double harness, with the two ends buckled together, make a good length for a sheep weighing from 125 to 175 lbs.-but not long enough for one weighing 200 lbs. AND FLOWER SEED S. BY MAIL POSTPAID. The subscriber offers the following selection of RARE SEEDS, on terms to suit the times: The new French Tree Tomato. This has the form of a tree, about two feet high, and is self-supporting. Fruit large, color scarlet, very productive, and of good quality. Also Lester's Perfected, and the Scarlet and Golden Cluster Tomatoes. --The Pomegranate; fruit about the size and color of the Lemon; extra for sweetness.--Asparagus Bean, a variety-the pods attain the length of two to three feet. When young and tender we cook these pods, and serve as asparagus, which are very delicious.Strawberry Pea, in height about six inches, very prolific, of good size and quality.--New variety of Spring Wheat from Japan; the most productive grain known to us. Also an extra variety of Red Sweet Cabbage, Sea Kale, Mammoth Mustard, Japan Pie Melon, Negley's Corn, Paris Red Cos, and India Lettuce; German Sweet Turnip, Improved Cucumber, Madras Radish, very choice, fine solid pods for pickling or salad: Dwarf Broom Corn, Hubbard and Pineapple Squash, &c. Our FLOWER SEEDS will include many of the new and choice varieties, such as Hunt's Sweet Williams, Double Zinnia Elegans, HEDHyacinth Flowered Larkspur, Verbena, Acroclinium Roseum, GailDEWIGI, (new Japan Pink,) Asters, (new and rare sorts mixed.) lardia grandiflora, Chrysanthemum, (new.) Camellia Balsams, Lythum Dwarf Morning Glories, Salpiglossis, Red and Blue Tassal Flower, Roseum, Blue Bells of Scotland, Godetia, Bee Larkspur, Prussian and Green Centered Helianthus, Rose of Heaven, Marvel of Peru, German Stock Gilliflower, Golden Bartomia, Petunia, SOLANUM, (atroPrimrose, Snapdragon. Portulaca, Forget me-not, &c., &c. purpureum,) a splendid parlor plant; Scarlet Egg Plant, Evening Any person may select ONE PAPER of either of the above varieties of Seeds, and remit to us ONE DIME, or 5 papers 25 cents; ten papers select a part from the Vegetable and a part from the Flower Seeds to 40 cents; twenty papers, 75 cents; or thirty papers for $1. You can make out these numbers, if you choose. Send current bills, small silver or gold coin, or United States postage stamps. Jan. 23-w2tm2t. L. NORRIS, Windsor. Ashtabula Co., Ohio. ALBANY COUNTY AG. SOC'Y ELECTION. 100,000 BARRELS OF THE At a regular meeting of the Albany County Agricultural Society. LODI MANUFACTURING CO'S held at the City Hall on the 8th of January, 1862, the Annual Election for Officers for the ensuing year, was postponed till Wednesday, the 12th day of February, 1862, at 12 M., at the Mayor's Court Room, City Hall, Albany. A full attendance is desired. By order, Jan. 16-w4tmlt. R. H. BINGHAM, POUDRETT E, FOR SALE BY JAMES T. FOSTER, No. 66 Cort'andt-St., New-York. THOROUGHBRED AYRSHIRES, THE large facilities which they enjoy by exclu sive contract for all the night soil of the city of New-York, and the large capital invested in their extensive works, enable them to manufacture an article which is superior to any other fertilizer in DEVONS & ALDERNEYS FOR SALE. BESSIE," Ayrshire, 3 years old, Heifer Calf by her side-a very ine heifer. Also 1 and 2 year old BULLS. Prices to suit the times.market, taking COST and YIELD into consideration. It will be sold at ALFRED M. TREDWELL, Madison, Morris Co., N. J. TO CHEESE MAKERS. Jan. 16-w2tmlt. MPORTANT IM Circulars the usual price of $1.50 per barrel for seven barrels or over, delivered free in New-York city. Please take notice that the office and sale of this Company's Poudrette is changed from Messrs. Griffing, Brother & Co., No. 60 Cortlandt-Street, to No. 66 CORTLANDT-STREET. Other brands of what purports to be Poudrette are in market, put up in barrels to resemble this. Beware of frauds-buy that only which has the brand of the Lodi Manufacturing Co. Any other ar ticle is comparatively worthless. THE ONEIDA CHEESE VAT, Ralph's Patent, is superior in practical utiilty, material and work. manship to any in use. Though but recently patented and introduced to the public, the demand for them is unprecedented. containing a general description, sizes and prices, sent by mail on apWe call attention to the following experiences of practical farmers plication to WILLIAM RALPH, Holland Patent, N. Y., of whom in different sections of the country: State, County and Town rights for this valuable improvement may NORTH PEMBROKE, MASS., Oct. 7, 1861. be obtained on reasonable terms. Jan. 16-w&mtf. James R. Dey, Esq., President of the Lodi Manufacturing Co.: Dear Sir-The early autumnal frosts for several years past have seriously injured our corn crops, and rendered it necessary for farmers in this section to seek some fertilizer to give their crops an early start, in order to bring them to maturity in season to avoid that calamity. Having experimented with Guano, Superphosphate of Lime, etc., etc., with indifferent success, in the spring of 1860 I purchased four barrels of the Lodi Manufacturing Co.'s Poudrette, which I applied principally to my corn crop, with the most satisfactory results. This was the first Poudrette ever introduced into this vicinity. Last spring I procured from your branch office in Boston about 30 barrels, the most of which I sold to my neighbors, who had witnessed the effect of my last year's trial, which, so far as heard from, has given universal satisfaction. To further test the efficacy of your Poudrette, this season I plowed about two acres of light sandy soil, which had laid in grass about six years (the last crop of grass being very light.) This I planted with corn and potatoes, applying about four and a half barrels of Poudrette, with no other manure, except a handful of ashes to each hill at the first hoeing, and from present appearances we shall five loads of manure to the acre. Its effects on garden vegetables are equally apparent. I am, very respectfully, yours, HORACE COLLAMORE. CORN SHELLERS of new and improved patterns, including AL- have a better crop than on a field of like soil where we applied twentyLEN'S and BURRALL'S Patent. Sirs-I bought of your agents, Cross & Newell, two barrels of your Poudrette, and in using the first I got sick of it, and sold the other barrel. But the one that I used I tried the principal part on potatoes. I used about half a pint to the hill, and the yield was equal to those planted on manure at the rate of twenty loads to the acre. My neighbor who bought the other barrel says if he had bought five barrels more he would have saved the price of twenty barrels. Yours, &c.. V. B. PAUL WALDO, ME., Cct. 12, 1861. To to the Lodi Manufacturing Co.: MIOS. WOOD continues to ship to any part of rest of the field, and this now is one-third heavier, and has ripened HOGS, in pairs not akin, at reasonable terms. Address, CH corn in this country, and shall use it more extensively another year. Yours, &c., WELLINGTON SHOREY, SMYRNA, DEL., Oct. 1, 1861. Gentlemen-I had heard of the Poudrette manufactured by the Lodi Manufacturing Co., and thought I would try a small quantity on a lot of land intended for corn, and as I could not get it nearer than Philadelphia, I went and bought of the agent twenty barrels, and ap HOICE POULTRY FOR SALE. WHITE LEGGED DERBY GAME FOWLS, bred from stock obtained a few years since at Knowsby, England. STREAKED-BREASTED BLACK-RED GAME FOWLS, bred chief- plied two barrels to the acre, dropping the corn and a handful of ly from stock obtained of the late Lord Berwick in 1859. TOULOUSE GEESE, bred from stock imported from France by A. W. Austin, Esq. These are considered in Europe the largest of al geese, and are much esteemed by epicures for the excellence of their flesh. Poudrette in each hill. I left out a part of two rows and put no Price of the Game Fowls, $5 per pair; of the Geese, $12 per pair. BR SECOND EDITION. THIRTY PAGES OF NEW MATTER, with the experience of 1860 and '61, being the most important part of the work. Indispensable to all GRAPE GROWERS. Sent by mail, free of postage, on receipt of the price, 50 cents, in stamps. Address WILLIAM BRIGHT, Box 138 Philadelphia P. O., Pa. July 4-w&m3m. D OWNING'S FRUIT AND FRUIT TREES. Just Published and for Sale at this Office-sent by mail, postpaid. at $1.75. To the Lodi Manufacturing Co.: I marked the place where I put the Phuine, which, when started, seemed ahead, but now the corn where the Poudrette was on is much the best. Last year I used Allen & Needle's New Fertilizer, which did no good at all, as the corn done better without the manure, I think the Poudrette made by your Company the cheapest manure in use. Yours, &c., A. R. PERKINS The Company's pamphlet, containing directions for its use, with other valuable information and the experience of over one hundred farmers, will be sent free to any one applying for the same. Address "JAMES T. FOSTER," Care of Lodi Manufacturing Co., 66 Cortlandt-St., New-York. Jan. 2-w13tm3t. REGISTER OF RURAL AFFAIRS. THE EIGHTH NUMBER, for 1862, of THE ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL REGISTER OF RURAL AFFAIRS has now been issued from the press. In the attractiveness and value of its contents we do not think it has been surpassed by any preceding number. We submit below a partial abstract of its contents, which will show their variety and the extent to which they are illustrated-the present number of the ANNUAL REGISTER Containing more than One Hundred and Sixty Engravings. TERMS-as heretofore: SINGLE COPIES, postpaid, TWENTYFIVE CENTS; ONE DOZEN COPIES, postpaid, Two DOLLARS; ONE HUNDRED COPIES, FIFTEEN Dollars, and larger quantities at a farther reduction. 10. Swine Fed on Skim Milk-Treatment of Sows with Young Pigs. 11. Relieving Choked Cattle-Weaning Lambs. XII. RURAL ECONOMY-THREE KNGRAVINGS. 2. Farmer's Tools. 3. The Union Washing Machine. 5. Preserving Shingles. 6. Facts for Poor Farmers. 9. To Keep Plows Bright. 10. Sawing and Thrashing by Horses. 13. How to Tan Rawhide. 14. Sap Pails. 15. The Cost of Fences. 16. Use of the Clod-Crusher. XIII, USEFUL TABLES This, preceded by the usual Calendar pages and Astronomical Ca culations, forms a book which is certainly cheap at its retail price PARTIAL ABSTRACT OF CONTENTS. and the Publishers, with a view of rendering its circulation still wide Among other valuable chapters, the ANNUAL REGISTER for 1862 will and larger than that of any previous Number, are prepared, as abov contain the following:intimated, to offer the most liberal Terms for its introduction in quar. tities, either to Agents, Agricultural Societies, Nurserymen, Deale I. FARM BUILDINGS-THIRTY ENGRAVINGS and Four Designs. in Implements and Seeds, or any others who take an interest in th 1. General Considerations. dissenination of useful reading, and in the promotion of Rural Im provement. Address all orders or inquiries to the publishers. August 1, 1861. 2. Estimating the Capacity of Barns. 3. Form of Farm Buildings, 4. How to Plan a Barn. 5. Barn Basements. 6. Cost of Barns. 7. Design One-Barn for Fifty Acres or Less 8. Design Two-Barn for Seventy-Five to a Hundred Acres. 9. Tool Rooms and Details in Stable Construction. 10. Design Three-A Large Three-Story Barn. 11. Design Four-A Small Three-Story Barn 12. Various Details. S LUTHER TUCKER & SON, We are now manufacturing a superior Steel Plow, intended fo general use. Some of the advantages it possesses over the cast iro plow, are lightness of draught, durability, and freedom from clogging or sticking in heavy, clayey sticky or tenacious soils. The parts paired by any blacksmith. II. VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY, or How Plants Grow-SIXTY- most exposed to wear are so constructed that they may be readily re ONE ENGRAVINGS. 1. The First Formation of the Embryo. 2. The Seed and the Requirements for its Germination. 3. Process of Germinating in Plants having One and Two Seed Leaves. 4. Mode of Growth and Structure of the Plant or Tree, 5. The Root-Layering; Cuttings; Transplanting 6. The Stem and Branches. 7. The Buds and Leaves. 8. The Process of Growing. 9. Principles of Grafting and Budding. 10. Flowers-their Organs; the Crossing of Different Varieties. 11. Species and Varieties. III. THE GRASSES-THIRTEEN ENGRAVINGS. 1. Importance of the Grass Crop. 2. Descriptions of the more Common Species, 3. Nutritive Value of Hay. 4. Management of Grass Land. 5. Suggestions in Hay-Making. *.*This article includes plain and concise descriptions of no less than TWENTY-TWO of the different grasses, with the peculiarities of which every farmer should be familiar-eleven of them accompanied hy carefully drawn illustrations. IV. LIGHTNING RODS-THIRTEEN ENGRAVINGS. 1. Essential and Non-Essential Points in their Erection. 2. Materials and Connections. 3. Length, Height and Supports-Stiffeners above the Roof. 4. Entering the Earth. 5. The Copper Rod-Various Errors-Cost of Rods. V. BALLOON FRAMES-TWENTY-FOUR ENGRAVINGS, 1. Their Merits and Practicability. 2. Method of Raising-the Sills. Studs and Wall-Plate 3. Directions for One-Story Buildings 4. Directions for Two or Three Story Buildings. 5. Siding, Lining and Construction of Partitions. 6. Framing Large Barns. VI. THE APIARY-THIRTEEN ENGRAVINGS, 1. Advantages of the Movable-Comb Hive. 2. Descriptions of Different Kinds, 3. Management of Bees. 1. Rules for Pruning Grapes. 2. Directions for Transplanting. 3. Root-Grafting the Grape. 4. Depredators and Diseases. 5. Apples for the West. 6. Selection of Hardy Grapes. 7. Young Cherry Trees. 8. High Prices for Pears-The Glout Morceau. 9. Broadcast Cultivation-Apples in Wisconsin. 10. Hardy and Tender Trees-Culture of the Blackberry. 11. Culture of Dwarf Apples. 12. Transplanting Strawberries. X. THE DAIRY. 1. On Cheese-Making by Beginners, 2. Hiram Mills' Way of Making Butter. 3. Two Valuable Rules in Making Cheese. 4. Butter Dairies of Chenango and Delaware Counties. XI. DOMESTIC ANIMALS-Two ENGRAVINGS. 1. The Best Doctor for Animals, 2. Shropshire Down Sheep. 3. Wintering Sheep. 4. Training Cattle to Jump. 5. Registering Sheep-Care of them in Spring. 6. To Prevent Horses Kicking-Teaching them to Canter. 7. Making Cheap Beef-Beginning Winter Right. 8. Regularity in Feeding-Profits of Sheep Raising 9. Training Draft Animals-Cattle Racks. $1.50 extra. We also manufacture Sayre & Klink's Patent Tubular Shank STEEL CULTIVATOR TEETH. These Teeth are intended to supersede the old style of wedge teeth and teeth with cast iron heads. They are not liable to become LOOSE in the frame, like the FORMER, nor to BREAK, like the LATTER. They are as readily attached to the frame as any form of tooth. SAYRES' PATENT HORSE HOE. This implement is considered to be superior to any other for culti vating Corn, Cotton, Tobacco, Potatoes, Hops, Broom Corn. Nurseries, and all crops planted in rows or drills. Steel Shovel Blades and Cultivator Points made, and all kinds of Swaging and Plow work done to order. SEND FOR A CIRCULAR. E. REMINGTON & SONS, TH REMINGTONS, MARKHAM & CO.. HE YOUNG FARMER'S MANUALWith Practical Directions for Laying Out a Farm and Erecting Buildings, Fences, and Farm Gates. Embracing also the Young Farmer's Workshop: giving full directions for the selection of good Farm and Shop Tools, their Use and Manufacture, with numerous Original Illustrations of Fences, Gates, Tools, etc., and for performing nearly every branch of farming operations. By S. EDWARDS TODD. Price $1.25, by mail post paid. For sale by L. TUCKER & SON, Co. Gent. Office, Albany, N. Y AMERICAN WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS -Being a 2d and Illustrated edition of Agricultural Botany: an enumeration and description of useful plants and weeds, which merit the notice or require the attention of American agriculturists. By Wm. Darlington, M. D. Every Farmer or Farmer's Son who wishes to know the names and character of the plants growing on his farm, should study this book. For sale at the office of the Co. Gent, and Cultivator. L. TUCKER & SON, THE FARMER'S LIBRARY. We know of no works which afford so much Practical Information on the subject of American Agriculture, which can be procured for double the cost, as the Third Series of "THE CULTIVATOR," the 8th vol. of which is now completed. The price of the Eight volumes, handsomely bound in muslin, is 75 cents each at this office, or $1.00 each sent by mail, post paid. Either volume from 1 to 8, can be had separately at the same price. The Eight volumes will be sent per Express to any part of the country, on receipt of $6. BEMENT'S AMERICAN POULTERER'S COMPANION, price $1.25-Browne's American Poultry-Yard, price $1-Miner's Domestic Poultry-Book, price 75 cents. For sale at the office of this paper The Valley of the Connecticut, by H. C. W., 51 The Farms of T. G. 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We may assert, made money and enriched their soils-to explain the modus operandi, without exaggeration, that it contains scarcely a page, from January to December, on which may not be found some Fact from the Actual Practice of the writer, of far greater real value to the careful reader than the year's subscription. 56 67 Experiments with Coe's Superphosphate of Lime, by M. P. WIL-69 DER, .............. RURAL ARCHITECTURE. Design for a Farm House,.......... Productive Apples.... Plants in Bay Windows... 56 TERMS.-Single copy, Fifty cents a year--Eight copies, (with a copy of the Rural Register to the Agent.) $3-Ten copies of THE CULTI58 VATOR, and Ten of the RURAL REGISTER, with an extra copy of each to the Agent, $5, and any larger number at the same rate. HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. Patent Moss Basket, by A. CHAMBERLAIN, 57 57 Suggestions about Dwarf Pears, 57 The American Grapes... 58 Raising Asparagus in Queens County,. 58 The Honey and Yellow Locust, by W. R. 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Suburban Parks and Gardens of Paris, designed for laying out country places, drawn to a scale, 50 colored plates, $12.00 Suburban Houses, drawn to a scale, 50 colored plates, 12.00 Country Houses, Villas, Outbuildings, &c., in every style, 100 colored plates. 20.00 СС ‘RURAL AFFAIRS.” Under this title, new editions of the first Six numbers of the Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs, have been issued in two handsome volumes, on fine paper, with large margin, with the omission of the Calendar pages and Advertisements. Price, handsomely bound, by mail, postpaid, $1 per volume. Address LUTHER TUCKER & SON, Albany, N. Y. Albany, Jan. 1, 1862. NUT [UTTING'S FANNING AND ASSORTING MACHINE Has recently undergone thorough and valuable improvement, and for strength, durability, speed and perfection of work it is unequalled. It chaffs, cleans, separates and ASSORTS for seed all kinds of grain, pulse and grass seeds, and separates oats from wheat, from barley, or from peas-thistles from oats or wheat-timothy from clover, &c., &c., and All in the most Perfect and Rapid Manner Possible. PUBLISHED BY LUTHER TUCKER & SON The Cultivator & Country Gentleman. EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS, 395 BROADWAY, ALBANY, N. Y. J. J. THOMAS, ASSOCIATE EDITOR, UNION SPRINGS, N. Y. Ten of the ANNUAL REGISTER OF RURAL AFFAIRS, with one of each THE CULTIVATOR has been published twenty-eight years. A NEW SERIES was commenced in 1853, and the nine volumes for 1853, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 60 and 61 can be furnished, bound and post paid, at $1.00 each. "THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN," a weekly Agricultural Journal of 16 quarto pages, making two vols. yearly of 416 pages, at $2.00 per year, is issued by the same publishers. A WORD TO OUR FRIENDS. We need more subscribers to THE CULTIVATOR. Its pages are filled with matters of the greatest importance to all cultivators of the soil. No monthly journal, whatever its price, contains so large an amount of the plain, practical teachings of actual working farmers as THE CULTIVATOR. It should have a larger circulation. The interests of Agriculture require it; and we have no hesitation in appealing to the friends of Agricultural Progress to aid us in enlarging its sub scription, believing as we do that no one can read its pages for a year without being benefitted to the amount of ten times its price, which is only FIFTY CENTS A YEAR. Is it too much to ask our present subscribers to devote a little time and labor to this matter? The price of THE CULTIVATOR is so low that we can offer but little pecuniary inducement for exertion, but we will send a copy of our ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL REGISTER for 1862, or any previous year, to any one who will send us Two subscribers and $1-for Four subscribers and $2, we will send Three copies of the Register, and for $3 we will send Six copies of The Cultivator and Six of the Register, and any larger number at the same rate. READER, this appeal is addressed to you. Will you give it your attention, and make such effort as you can to promote the desired object? Extra numbers of THE CULTIVATOR will be sent to all who de sire them for the purpose of procuring subscribers. If any of our friends will send us the names of those whom they think would like to become subscribers to it, we will send them specimen numbers. In answer to many inquiries, we desire to say that the ANNUAL THE WHEAT CROP. As a specimen of a good and profitable crop, we take at random that raised in 1858 by DE AZRO A. NICHOLS of Westfield, N. Y., reported in the New-York Agricultural Transactions: The land was 4 9-10th acres-it was clover sod, plowed late in summer, and the wheat was sown early in autumn. The cost of plowing, harrowing, drilling, seed, harvesting and thrashing, with interest on land and taxes, was $111. The wheat (155 bushels, 63 pounds per bushel) and straw were worth $252-nett profit, $141, or about $28 per acre. We have known many crops much larger than this. GEORGE GEDDES, in his Agricultural Survey of Onondaga County, estimates the following as the cost of an average crop on a good farm, or twenty bushels per acre, (although over 40 bushels are sometimes raised,) with the nett profit: Every farmer naturally asks himself the question: How can I always secure such results? A brief summary of some of the leading requisites may assist young beginners. REGISTER OF RURAL AFFAIRS has now been published EIGHT YEARS. 1. The first, unquestionably, in most good wheat disand that either of the back numbers from the beginning may be had, tricts, is regular underdraining. There are but few places postpaid, for 25 cents. Their contents are of permanent value, and the back numbers are consequently in constant demand. Complete where a strong soil has any other way to get rid of its sursets of the eight numbers are sent, postpaid, for $1.60, and CONTAIN already have the Number for 1862, we will send the seven previous ALTOGETHER ABOUT TWELVE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS! To those who numbers for $1.40. "RURAL AFFAIRS"---2 vols. 12 mo. These volumes consist of a reprint of our Illustrated Annual Regis plus water than by its soaking slowly, drop by drop, from one side of the field to the other, through the earth, and by evaporation. The first requires weeks; the second a long time, with a large removal of heat carried off latent in the vapor. The drained soil works more easily, is always mellow, is less liable to cause winter killing; and producing an earlier growth and earlier maturity, enables the crop usually to escape the midge. ter, from its commencement to 1860, with the omission of the Calendar pages and advertisements, and comprise a great amount of matter re. lating to almost every subject of interest to the Country Resident, and are illustrated with over Eight Hundred Engravings, including Laying Out and Planting Ornamental Grounds and Farms, Plans of 2. The second is proper fertility. Manure improves Farm Houses and Cottages, School Houses, Barns, Ice and Smoke Houses, Garden Structures, Domestic Animals, Farm Implements and Machines, Fences and Gates, Plants, Trees, &c., &c. No Farmer's Library should be without this work. Price $2-or $1 each, sent by mail prepaid. L. TUCKER & SON, the texture of the soil, and also causes the grain to vegetate more evenly, to say nothing of the universally admitted influence on good growth. It is more important after other grain crops, as barley and oats. |