MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



" Art. 1. From the 15th of September, the import 

 duties on the following niticles are : — 



" Potatoes, five cents per 10 raudd. 



' Barley, one cent per 100 lbs. 



" Rice, one cent per 100 lbs. 



•^ Beans, peas, and lentils. 10 cents per last. 



" Groats and pearl bailey, three florins per 100 lbs. 



■" Flour, five florins per 100 lbs. 



'■ This scale is fixed on all parcels of these ai'ticles, 

 which shall be declared ou importation on and after 

 the 15th of September. 



" Alt. 2. We shall propose to the States-General in 

 tJic next session the necessary measures to give legal 

 validity to the regulations of Article 1 of the present 

 decree, and also to fix till the 1st of June, 184H, or 

 later if it should be judged necessary, the iinport du- 

 ty on rye and buckwheat, at the rate fixed for the 

 present month of September, of 15 cents, per mudd,* 

 and on wheat and rye, for the same period, at 2.5 and 

 10 cents, per mudd on the minimum of the duties 

 fixed on these kinds of grain, by the law of the 29th 

 December, 1834. 



"Our Ministerof Finance is charged with the exe- 

 cution of the present decree, which is to be inserted 

 in the bulletin of the law, and copies sent to our 

 Minister of the Interior, and to the Council of State. 



(*Mudd is about four English bushels. This 



reduction in the duties is yerj' considerable. — 

 By the tariff now suspended tliey are on pota- 

 toes five cents per mudd ; on barley and rice 

 30 cents per 100 lbs. ; ou beans 7^ florins per 

 last; on groats. &c., 10 florins per 100 lbs. ; ou 

 wheat, rye. and flour. 20 florins per 100 lbs., and 

 ou potato-flour 10 florins per 100 lbs.) 



The Slaatit Courant has a verj' long article 

 on the subject. It states that tlie produce iu 

 1843 was 14,662,571 mudds. aud in 1844, 13,552,- 

 030 mudds, and that from the returns already 

 made, it seems probable that two-thirds, if not 

 three-fourths of the crop are spoiled by the dis- 

 ease. 



It is believed that the crops of rye, wheat, 

 barley, buckwheat, beans, and peas will, on 

 the whole, not fall short of those of last year. 



Removing Bees. — Where the queen-bee is put 

 the rest of the bees will follow : set the iiive where 

 there is only a faint light ; turn it up, and as the queen 

 will make her appearance first, take and place her in 

 an empty hive, and she will be followed by the rest 

 of the bees. 



PRICES CURRENT. 



\Correcled, October 22, for the Monthly Journal of Agriculture.] 



ASHES— Pots, 1st sort ^ 100 ft. 3 874® 3 



Pearls, 1st sort, '45 4 Idi® 4 



BEESWAX — American Yellow ® — 



CANDLES— Mould, Tallow.. !>• lb... — 9 ®— 



Sperm, Eastern and Cin,- — 27 ® — 



COTTON— From — CIS- 

 COTTON BAGGING — .Vmerican... — 12 @— 



CORDAGE— American ® lb. — 11 @— 



DOMESTIC GOODS-Shu rings, ^-y. — 5 ®— 



Sheetings — 61® — 



FEATHERS— American, live — 30 ®— 



FLAX — American — 7| @ — 



FLOUR & MEAL— Genesee, ^ bbl. 5 371® 5 



Troy 5 37i 8> 5 



Michigan 5 37^® — 



Ohio, flat hoop 5 37^®— 



Ohio, He>"wood <fc Venice 6 — ® 6 



Ohio, via New-Orleans @ — 



Pennsylvania 'w — 



Brandy wine 5 50 ® 5 



Georgetown 5 50 ® — 



Bakimore City Mills 5 25 ® 5 



Richmond City Mills 6 25 ®— 



RichmoTid Country 5 25® 5 



Alexandria, Petejsburg, &,c 5 25 @ 5 



Rye Flour 3 50 ® 3 



Com Meal, .lerseyand Brand 2 87.^® 3 



Com Meal, Brandywine hhd. ®13 



GRAIN-^Wheat, 'VVestera..'^bush. 1 — ® 1 



Wheat, Southera new 1 — ® 1 



Hye, Northern . . . .» — 75 ® — 



Com,' Jersey and North. . .(meas.) — 68 ® — 



Com, Southern toeasure) — 65 ® — 



Com, Soiithern (weight) — 66 ® — 



OatB, Northern — 42 ® — 



Oats, Southera — 35 ® — 



HAY— North River bales — 70 ®— 



HEMP — American, dew-rotted., ton 85 — @ 95 



' " water-rotted 125 — ® 175 



HOPS— 1st sort, 1345 — 12^®— 



laON— American Pig, No 1 32 50 ®40 



Common 27 50 ®32 



MME— Thomaston ^ bbl, 1 05 ® 1 



LUMBER— Boards, N.R., |»M. ft. clr. 35 — ®40 



Board.s, Eastern Pine 10 — ®U 



Boards, Albanv Pine ^poe. — 6 ®— 



Plank, Georgia Pine %>M. ft. 33 — ®40 



(Sir 



Staves, White Oak, pipe 



Staves. White Oak, hhd 



Staves, White Oak, bbl 



Staves, Red Oak, hhd 



Hoops 



Scantling, Pure, Eastern 



Scantling. Oak 



Thnber,''Oak ^ cubic foot 



Timber, White Pine 



Timber, Georgia Y'ellow Pine 



Shingles, 18 in ^ bunch 



Shingles, Cedar, 3 feet, 1st quality. 



Shingles, Cedar, 3 feet, 2d quality. 



Shingles, Cedar, 2 feet, 1st quality. 



Shingles, Cedar, 2 feet, 2d quahty. 



Shingles, Cypress, 2 feet 



Shinsles, Company 



MUSTARD— American 



NAILS— Wrought, 6d to 20d...f>' lb. 



Cut,4d to40d 



PLASTER PARIS— f^ ton 



PROVISIONS— Beef Mess, |>'bbl,.. 



Beef Prime, 



Pork, Mess, Ohio, new 



Pork, Prime, Ohio, old and new . . 



Lard, Ohio f*" ft. 



Hams, Pickled 



Shoulders, Pickled 



Sides, Pickled 



Beef Smoked ' ^ tb. 



Butter. Orange County 



Butter, Western Dairy 



Biuter, ordinary 



Cheese, in casks and boxes 



SEEDS- Clover f tli. 



Tunothy ^ tierce 



Flax, Rough 



SOAP— N. Ybrk, Brown ^ ft . 



TALLOW — American, Rendered. . . 

 TOBACCO— Virginia ® ft. 



North Carolina 



Kentucky and Missouri 



WOOL — Am. Saxony. Fleece,.^ ft. 



American Full Blood Merino 



American i and i Merino 



American Native and i Merino... 



Superfine, Pulled 



45 — ®47 — 

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30 — ® 



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