Notes for the Month. ང་ངང་ THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.-Last evening (Aug 5) this vicinity was visited with a heavy storm, but the week past has been dry and hot, favorable for corn. which is generally very late, and for harvesting the grain and hay. A large quantity has been gathered in during the week. The twelve days rain (July 18 to 30) has seriously damaged the quality of the wheat in western New York, northern Ohio, Michigan, and Canada West. We have visited several counties in western New York, and taken samples of wheat from upwards of 30 different fields. The lowest number of sprouted grains in any field examined was seven per cent; the average of the thirty fields was seventeen per cent. One field in Seneca County, standing erect and bright, contained 27 per cent of sprouted grains. We believe that, on an average, one fifth of the wheat in western New York is sprouted Barley is a good crop and little injured by the rain. Oats are very heavy, and laid, but not materially damaged. Potatoes never looked better. In Livingston County we heard there were symptoms of the disense, but generally the tops and tubers are healthy. There will be more oats and potatoes harvested this year than ever before in this country. Much hay has been damaged, but taking the country through it is thought the rain has improved the growing grass, especially on old meadows, as much as it has injured that which was down. A PROFITABLE ASPARAGUS BED -It is well known that no vegetable yields more profit when properly cultivated than asparagus. Mr. A. E. BROWN of this city informs us that he sold this season from a bed 60 by 102 feet, or about one seventh of an acre, $93 75 worth of asyaragus, in addition to that consumed by his own and the gardener's family. Estimate this at 86 25, and the produce is at the rate of seven hundred dollars per acre Who can beat it? Mr BROWN's method of cultivation is very simple. About the first of July, after he has done cutting, the bed is thoroughly hoed, cutting up the weeds, aspara gus and all. The rubbish is raked off, and the surface of the bed left clean and mellow. The asparagus soon springs up again, and at this time it is six feet high. ALBANY CO. AG. SOCIETY.-The Prize List, together with rules, list of judges, town committees, &c., for the next Fair, has been published, and can be had of the Managers in the several towns, or at the office of the Secretary or office of this paper in this city. More than $2000, is offered in prizes, embracing thirty-two for Horses and Mules, varying from $2 to $10 each; one hundred and thirty-six for Cattle from $82 to 840 each; ninety for Sheep, Swine and Poultry, from $1 to $10 each; ninety-eight for Fruit, Vegetables, &c; thirty for Butter, Cheese and articles for the table: nine for Flour; one hundred and three for household manufacturers; fifty-seven for Farm Implements; eleven for Harness and Farm Vehicles; twenty for Castings, Hardware, Jewelry, &c; nine for Household furnishing articles; twelve for miscellaneous articles and four for horsemanship by ladies. ONONDAGA CO. AG. SOCIETY.-This society, we are gratified to learn, has, by a stock subscription, succeeded in raising about $10,000 for the purchase of suitable grounds for its annual exhibitions. An additional $3,000 is pledged, toward the erection of the necessary buildings, fences, &c. The committee chosen for the purpose, have selected and purchased ten acres, at $500 per acre, located just without the southern bounds of the city, in the town of Onondaga, and a mile and a half from the Central Railroad Depot. The site is a very convenient and accessible one, and is estimated to be worth one-third more than the cost. The Societies in Jefferson, Dutchess and Rensselaer, we believe, own their show grounds, and we hope the time is not far distant, when sufficient public spirit will be found to furnish all our County Societies with the ground and buildings necessary for their exhibitions. Ao. BOOKS AND PAPERS FOR PREMIUMS. - The Ohio State Ag. Society have resolved to award several hundred copies of the Ohio Farmer and Ohio Cultivator as premiums at their next exhibition. Many of the county Societies in the different states, include considerable numbers of agricultural periodicals in their prizes, and the Clinton Co., (N. Y.) Society, has adopted as a rule that one half of all its premiums shall be paid in books or papers-the books and papers to be selected by the persons to whom the awards are made that is, where a prize of 810 is awarded, $5 will be paid in cash and $5, in agricultural, horticultural or mechanical books, and since the above was written we have received the Prize List of the Brookfield Ag. Society, Madison Co., N. Y., whose Fair is to be held at the village of Clarkville on the 19th and 20th of Sept. Among the prizes offered by this town association, are 22 copies of the Country Gentleman, 85 of the Cultivator, and a considerable number of the Rural New-Yorker, Genesee Farmer and Wool-Grower. CALIFORNIA HEMP.-We are greatly indebted to our friends of the Sacramento State Journal for a specimen of California Wild Hemp, said to grow in great abundance in Four Creeks Valley, Tulare Co., Cal. There are two samples, one bleached, the other latter 4 feet 9 inches, measured in this office. They in the raw state. The former is 4 feet long and the are somewhat coarse but very strong, and altogether a good specimen of the agricultural productions of the golden state. The plant appears to be known as the "wild cotton 19 or milk-weed." We should be glad to learn farther particulars. It is quite probably that as the Journal says, "hemp will soon form an important item" in the commerce of California. OHIO STATE FAIR. We have received from the secretary, Dr SPRAGUE, a beautiful lithograph of the Ohio State Fair grounds near Columbus. It is an excellent representation of the grounds and surrounding scenery, creditable alike to the artist and the society. The fair will be held Sept. 18-21; much enthusiasm is manifested, throughout the state, and we expect such an exhibition as even Ohio has not made before. DEVON HERD BOOK.-The 1st and 24 vol. of Davy's Devon Herd Book, can be had at this office-price $100-sent by mail, post-paid, for $120. Every breeder of Devons should have a copy of this work as it includes most of the Devons in this country as well as in England. AG. ORATORS-At the New-Hampshire State Fair, Prof. C. B. HADDOCK of Hanover-at New-York, Gov. WRIGHT of Indiana-at New-Jersey, Prof J. A. PORTER of New-Haven-at Pennsylvania, Hon. FRED. WATTS -at Illinois, Hon. D. J. BAKER -at Maine, Prof. J. A. NASH, of Amherst. The American Farmer for August, in speaking of the extent of its circulation, includes the majority of the Union, from "New Hampshire. Vermont and New-York," "to Oregon and California," and adds: If the COUNTRY GENTLEMAN goes any wider than that, we give him over to King Alexander and the Sandwichers." We are happy to say that we are already in possession of the field, having been on duty there, in a sort of missionary way, for several years past, and one subscriber in East Maui now taking four copies of our weekly and twice that number of The Cultivator. In 290 THE CULTIVATOR. one territory, farther off than Oregon, so far as the means of getting to it are concerned, of which our amiable cotemporary does not seem to have heard, Washington, we have also a goodly number, to which the last steamer brought quite an addition. And in the other direction,-not to speak of Maine, which he does not include, and where we have a very considerable constituency-all through Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and both the Canadas, we can count the names on our books by hundreds. Is this "wide" enough to justify our claims? Agricultural Exhibitions. NEW-HAMPSHIRE -The State Fair is to be held at Manchester on the 12th, 13th and 14th of Sept. J. O. ADAMS, SEC'Y, Manchester. VERMONT -State Fair at Rutland, on the 11th, 12th and 13th Sept. A meeting of the Directors was held at Rutland, recently, when the preliminary arrangements were all satisfactorily completed, and inducements are offered for a more extended exhibition than has been held since the organization of the Society. F. HOLBROOK, Brattleboro, Pres't-J. A. BECKWITH, Middlebury, Cor. Sec'y. RHODE ISLAND.-The R. I. Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry, will hold an exhibition of Live Stock, at Providence, commencing Sept. 11, and to continue through the week. The Premiums are liberal, amounting to 84 000, and are open to the United States and the British Provinces, and arrangements are being made with rail road companies in New-York and New-England, to carry passengers and animals to the exhibition at reduced rates. J. J. COOKE, Pres't-C. T. KEITH, Sec'y. Providence. NEW-YORK-The annuul exhibition for this year, is to be held, for the first time, on the line of the Erie Rail Road, at Elmira, Oct. 2, 3, 4 and 5. Beautiful grounds have been selected, and the work of preparation has already been commenced in good earnest. "The very best spirit," says the Journal of the Society for Aug, "prevails at Elmira, and in the whole southern and western part of the State and in Pennsylvania, and the prospects for the Fair are in the highest degree encouraging. All our best breeders of stock will be represented, and the display in the implement and mechanical department promises to be one of unusual excellence. The spirit which has been aroused in the ladies' department gives assurance that the competition will be greater than at any previous Fair." SAMUEL CHEEVER, Pres't, MechanicsvilleB. P. JOHNSON, Cor Sec'y, Albany. AMERICAN INSTITUTE.-The next exhibition of this association is to be held at the Crystal Palace, NewYork, commencing on the 3d of Oct., and to continue through the month. Their usual cattle-show is to be omitted this year. PENNSYLVANIA-The exhibition of the State Ag. Society will be held at Harrisburgh, on the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th Sept. This Society makes the field of competition co-extensive with the United States, and cordially invites the citizens of other states to compete for its prizes. JAMES GOWEN, Pres't-A. L. ELWYN, Cor. Sec'y-both Philadelphia P. O. VIRGINIA-State Fair to be held at Richmond, Oct 30, 31, and Nov 1 and 2. Among the premiums offered by this Society, are a great number for experiments and discoveries-among them is one of one thousand dollars, "for the discovery of some efficient and available remedy, such as may be judiciously used by farmers, to secure the wheat crop against the ravages of the joint worm." ОHIO.-The State exhibition is to be held at Columbus, Sept. 18, 19, 20, and 21, and a better show than ever before is anticipated. JAS. T. WORTHINGTON, Chillicothe, Pres't-G. SPRAGUE, Columbus, Cor. Sec'y. ILLINOIS-Great preparations are making for the State Fair to be held at Chicago, Oct. 9, 10, 11, and SEPT. 12. H. C. JOHNS, Decatur, Pres't-J. A. KENNICOTT, West Northfield, Cor. Sec'y. CONNECTICUT-at Hartford, Oct. 9-11. READ THIS! AND SEND IN YOUR ORDERS. 50 Test varieties, from 5 to 7 feet high, at 80 per thou sand, very thrifty and unsurpassed. 60,000 One year old Apples, of different varieties, of vigorous growth. Also, Apple Seedlings, one and two years old-Cherry do., very fine-all of which I will sell for cash or approved credit with interest, on favorable terms. The ACTUAL COST of Packing will be charged in all cases. JAMES M. TAYLOR, Aug. 23-wtf Commercial Nurseries, Syracuse, N. Y TO FARMERS And all others Interested in Agriculture, Horticulture, &c. WILL BE PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER, 1855, THE YEAR BOOK OF AGRICULTURE: OR, THE ANNUAL OF AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS AND DISCOVERY FOR 1855. Exhibiting the most important Discoveries and AGRICULTURAL MECHANICS, AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULtural Botany, AGRICULTURAL AND ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, AGRICULTURAL ZOOLOGY, METEOROLOGY, etc. Together with STATISTICS OF AMERICAN GROWTH AND PRODUCTION, A LIST OF RECENT AGRICULTURAL PUBLICATIONS, AGRICULTURAL PATENTS, WITH NOTES BY THE EDITOR ON THE PROGRESS OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN AGRICULTURE, FOR THE YEAR 1855. BY DAVID A. WELLS, A. M., Member of the Boston Society of Natural History, formerly Chemist to the Ohio State Board of Agriculture; Editor of the Annual of Scientific Discovery, Familiar Science, &c &c. It is evident that a publication of this character, giving a complete and condensed view of the Progress of every Departiment of Agricultural Science, free from technical and unnecessarily scientific descriptions, and systematically arranged so as to present at one view all recent Agricultural Facts, Discoveries. Theories and Applications, must be a most acceptable volume to every one interested in the Cultivation of the Soil, or the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. THE YEAR BOOK OF AGRICULTURE" will be published in a handsome octavo volume, comprising upwards of 300 pages, and will contain an elegant Steel Por trait of a Distinguished Agriculturist, together with Fine Illustrations of NEW AGRICULTURAL MACHINES, STOCK, FRUIT, &c., together with a series of BEAUTIFULLY COLORED ENGRAVINGS. Although the publication of this work will be attended with very heavy expenses, it will be issued at the low price of $1.50, thereby enabling every FARMER and PLANTER 10 possess a copy. On receipt of the published price it will be sent free per mail, to any part of the United States. As the sale will be very large, all orders should be sent in immediately. A LIBERAL DEDUCTION TO CLUBS. Address CHILDS & PETERSON, 124 Arch-St, Philadelphia. AGENTS wanted to sell the above valuable work. Aug. 23-wlimit Now in Press, and will be issued about the First of October, THE ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL REGISTER OF RURAL AFFAIRS, AND CULTIVATOR ALMANAC FOR 1856, Embellished with more than ONE HUNDRED Engravings. Price-In Paper Covers, 25 Cents-Bound, 50 Cents. THE large circulation accorded to the first number of this work, (for 1855,) and the commendation it has received from all quarters, have encouraged the publisher to increased effort to make No. II, for 1856, an improvement, if possible, on its predecessor. THE REGISTER will be issued about the first of October, | and will contain Calendar Tables and Astronomical Calculations similar to those in the previous issue-calculated for the Meridians of Boston, New-York and Baltimore. The body of the work will comprise as large a variety of subjects and be illustrated even more beautifully. It will continue the treatment of voted to trees. It was one of the chief subjects in the num ber for 1855, and will not therefore be now treated quite so much at length, but it will contain the acquisitions of recent experience and much that is universally indispensable. TREE PLANTING, Embracing select lists of Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, &c., &c., and other requisite information, will be illustrated and COUNTRY DWELLINGS, exemplified at some length. The chapter this year on Illustrating the subject with a number of New, ORIGINAL, AND VERY VALUABLE DESIGNS, and a large number of Engravings. The copy for this department has been prepared with great care, illustrated at a large expense, and will be invaluable to every resident in the country. This will be followed by a chapter on FARM BUILDINGS, Including a variety of ORIGINAL PLANS For Barns, Car DOMESTIC ANIMALS, will include the Management and Breeds of Poultry, As well as others of its various branches, with accompany. RIAGE HOUSES, &c. To this subject, as well as the preced-This department will contain condensed directions, and be ing, much time and labor has been devoted. The chapter on FARM IMPLEMENTS Will be one of much interest, and will be treated more at length than in the present year's issue. The progress of improvement and invention, renders it necessary that the armer should keep himself well posted in this respect. illustrated by the experience and modes of the most celebrated Dairy Districts in this country and abroad. All will be interested and most materially assisted by its hints. We shall in addition to the above, give chapters on the various branches of RURAL ECONOMY, And endeavor to comprise as many VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS LISTS OF FRUITS, Descriptions of different kinds, and a further consideration of their growth and culture, will make the ANNUAL REGISTER for 1956 a desideratum for all who have a spot of ground de-propriately classed elsewhere. This rough abstract of the Contents of the forthcoming number of the ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL REGISTER, will give an idea of the extent and variety of the ground it covers, and to those who have seen this year's, it will be necessary to add nothing more in regard to its value, than to say that it is from the experienced and careful pen of Mr. JOHN J. THOMAS. TERMS. IN PAPER COVERS-25 Cents per single copy-$2,00 per dozen-post-paid. A limited number of pages will be devoted to Advertisements, on the following terms: The extensive circulation of the REGISTER, and the interest of its contents, which makes them the subject of constant reference, as well as careful preservation, render it the best advertising medium with which we are acquainted. The circulation of the issue of 1855, has been upwards of 20,000, and that for 1856 will probably more than double this number. Dealers in Seeds, Implements, &c., Nurserymen, Publishers, and all who would bring their business before the most enlightened class of our Rural Population, from Halifax to the Pacific Coast, will find the REGISTER to offer very superior facilities, at a reasonable price. LUTHER TUCKER, Advertisements must be IMMEDIATELY sent in. Albany, N. Y. MILL AND PRESS, and yet sufficiently loose to slip and stop feeding, if any foreign substance like stones or iron gets into the mill, and thereby avoids breakage and repairs-a desideratum never before obtained in a portable cider mill. It can be readily worked by hand by one or two men, as it is provided with two crank handles, one at each end of the crank shaft. The Press is constructed with an iron stress beam, above and below-the upper beam formed into an inverted "step" A-Grating cylinder, about 11 inches in diameter and 7 long C-Small pulley on crank shaft which drives pulley and cam. center, and serves to press forward apples against the XX-Top giris or supporting plates of mill. Among the advantages of this mill are the following:This piston action in feeding apples or other substances. avoids all choking and clogging of cylinder or its teeth-the cam is so constructed as to make a uniform progression in its whole motion, and allowing the piston to recede by means of a spring action instantly-and the progressing motion of piston occupying more than 9-10ths of its whole revolution, and the backing of piston less than 1-10th. The feeding motion is obtained by means of a small ban driven from a pulley C. on crank shaft to large pulley E, on cam shaft. Thus, while it makes a sure and steady feeding, the band by an adjusting pulley is made sufficiently tight to do the work, in which the nut moves. The nut, as shown in the figure, is formed by cunting a screw thread in the hub of a strong bevel wheel which is about 20 inches in diameter. The pressure screw is 2 inches in diameter, and a slot eut its whole length, and a corresponding slot in the upper beam Into this slot a loosely fitted steel key is placed, fitting both screw and beam: thus, while it does not prevent the screw moving end ways, it prevents it from revolving with the nut. The nut is moved by means of the bevel gear on its outer under edge, and a bevel pinion working into it This pinion is moved by a crank or a ratchet lev. er, similar to the action of the handle of an ordinary pump in raising water. While this is of greater capacity than any other portable press, it is capable of withstanding three times the stress of any before offered the farmers of this country. The capa city of the grater is in proportion to the power, and the size of the feed pulley used on cam shaft-thereby accommoda:ing itself to any farmer's notion-grating fine as meal, or coarser, as circumstances require. Its weight is about three hundred pounds. Price $15-and Warranted. Manufactured this season exclusively at the Albany Agricultural Works, by EMERY BROTHERS, Proprietors. P. S. Also on hand. Hickok's Cider Mill, for sale at Manufacturer's price-$40. C. M. SAXTON & CO. 152 Fulton Street, New-York, PUBLISH the following BOOKS FOR THE COUNTRY. Sent Free of Postage to any part of the United States. 1 Browne's American Field Book of Manures, $1 25. 2. Browne's American Poultry Yard, twenty-sixth thousand. $1.00. 3 Browne's American Bird Fancier, cloth, 50 cts. 4. Dad's American Catile-doctor, cloth, $1 00. 5. Dana's Muck Manual, cloth. $1 00 6. Dma's Prize Essay on Manures, 25 cts. 7 Stockhardt's Chemical Field Lectures, $1 00 8. Blake's Farmer at Home, $1 25. 9. Buist's American Flower Garden Directory, $1 25. 10. Buist's Family Kitchen Gardener, 75 cts. 11. Norton's Elements of Scientific and Practical Agricul 21. Richardson on the Diseases and Management of the Hog. 25 cts. 22. Richardson on the Destruction of the Pests of the Farin, 25 cts. 23. Richardson on the Hive and Honey-bee, 25 cts. 24. Milburn and Stevens on the Cow and Dairy Husbandry, 25 cts 25. Skimmer's Elements of Agriculture, 25 cts. 25. Topham's Chemistry made easy for the Use of Farmers, 25 cis 27. Allen's Treatise on the Culture of the Grape, $1 00. 25. Allen on the Diseases of Domnestic Animals, 75 cts. 29 Allen's American Farm Book. $1 00. 30 Allen's Rural Acrhitecture, $125; 31 Pardee on the Cultivation of the Strawberry, &c., 50 39 Youatt on the Horse, $1 25. 40 Youatt, Martin and Stevens on Cattle, $1 25. 41. Youatt and Martin on the Breeds and Management of the Hog, 75 cis. 42. Munn's Practical Land Drainer. 50 cts. 44. Stephen's Book of the Farm, complete, 450 illustrations, $4.00 44. The Architect; or Plans for Country Dwellings, $6 00 45. Ther, Shaw, and Johnson's Principles of Agriculture, $2.00. 46. Smith's Landscape Gardening, Parks, and Pleasure Grounds, $1 25. 47. Weeks on the Honey Bee, 50 cts. 43 Wilson on the Cultivation of Flax, 25 els 49. Miner's American Bee-keepers' Manual, $1 00. 50 Qumby's My-teries of Bee keeping. $1 00. 51. Cottage and Farm Bee-keeper. 50 cts. 52. Elliott's American Fruit-grower's Guide, $1 25. 53. The American Florist's Guide. 75 cts 51. Every Lady her own Flower Gardener, 25 cts; cloth, 50 cts 55. The American Rose Culturist, paper, 25 cts.; cloth, 50 FAIRBANKS' SCALES. celebrated scales are still manufactured by the Toriginal inventors. By an enlargement of their works, and an introduction of improved machinery, these scales are now furnished at greatly reduced prices. We have recently added to our stock a full assortment of fine Gold and Druggists' Scales, Spring Balances. Patent Beams, Weights &c. and now offer at wholesale and retail the most complete assortment of weighing apparatus to be found in the United States. We have a new and convenient article which we denominate the "FAMILY SCALE," it being particularly adapted to the wants of farmers and all housekeepers Hay and coal scales set in any part of the country by experienced workmen. Orders and letters of inquiry by mail will receive prompt attention FAIRBANKS & Co. July 12-w& mins 189 Broadway, New York. L. DOMESTIC ANIMALS AT PRIVATE SALE. G. MORRIS' ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, with prices attached, of Short Horned and Devon Bulls and Bull Calves, a few Horses, South Down Rains, Berkshire, Suffolk and Essex Swme, will be forwarded by mai) (if desired.) by addressing L. G MORRIS, Fordham, Westchester Co., NY, or N. J ́BECAR. 1-7 Broadway, New York. It also contains portrait, peiligree, and performances on the turf of the celebrated horse Monarch," standing this season at the Herdsdale Farm. May 3. 1555-w&mtí Virginia Land for Sale. THE subscriber having yet a few Farms for sale from his large and vainable tract of land situated in the county of Fairfax, Virginia, on and near the Turnpike leading from Washington and Georgetown to Leesburgh, 16 miles from the city of Washington, two miles from the Canal, and within 3 miles of the Alexandria, Loudon and Hampshire Rail Road. The soil is of the first quality, of a deep red color, seldom affected by drouths to which most lands are subject. Adapt ed to grain, plaster, clover, and all kinds of grass. The land will be sold in lots of 100 or 200 acres, or as the purchaser may desire. Every Farm will be well supplied with wood, which consists of oak, chestnut and second growth of pines Persons wishing to purchase would do well to call and examine before purchasing elsewhere. For further particulars, inquire of the subscriber on the premises. S. S. MILLER, Spring-Vale. Fairfax Co', Aug. 1-m51 FARM FOR SALE. Va. FARM of One Hundred acres in MiLO CENTER, Yates Co., N. Y. a short distance from the Ime of the Canandaigua and Elmira Rail Road It is well watered by springs and a fine stream, easily cultivated-soil a fine gravelly loam, unsurpassed for either grain or grass, with exception of about 20 acres which is choice natural meadow land It has upon it a good Dwelling House and out Buildingsis in a good neighborhood, convement to churches, school houses and stores, and is in every respect one of the most de sirable locations in the state. For terms which will be made easy, apply to GASPER & Co. 41 Water St.. New York; Caleb Gasper. Esq.. Marcellus, Onondaga Co.. Geo Young, Esq. Milo Center. Elias Bently. Esq, Sandy Creek. Oswego Co. S. Booth, Esq., Branchport, Yates Co. Norman Seymour, Mechanicsville, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Judge Ellsworth. 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