It is gratifying', at any rate, to know that for 

 once a new invention which promises useful re- 

 sults to the agi^cnltural community, is in the 

 hands and under the control of a gentleman who 

 is under no necessity and whom no necessity 

 could" prompt to mislead the public. 



As to the particular manufactories to which 

 we have alluded, we know nothing of their par- 

 ticular management; nor is the Farmers' Li- 

 brary under any special obligation to consult 

 the interests of Maryland, contrasting the little 

 support it has received in that State with the 

 much greater which has come from more distant 

 ones. The proprietors refer, however, to gentle- 

 men of the highest respectability. We in.stauce 

 these factoriesonly to show thatconvenient neigh, 

 borhood establishments, on a moderate scale, 

 requiring, as we suppose, not much capital, do 

 exist, and, as we believe, deserve to be recom- 

 mended as the proper, legitimate succe.ssors of 

 the old hand looms, such as were in such com- 

 mon use in old times, and may still be seen 

 along the country roads in the " Old North 

 State." Well would it be, as we believe, if we 

 could see such moderate establishments scat- 

 tered over the whole country, drawing their 

 materials for manufacture and subsistence each 

 from its own neighborhood. Better than to 

 have the whole business monopolized by one or 

 two States, where overgrown works that cost 

 millions of dollars monopolize the busine-ss. giv- 

 ing subsistence to thousands, and immense for- 

 tunes to one or two. Let us cherish systems 

 that will best secure, not millions to a few, but 

 competence to many — such as will best secure 

 independence, as far as possible, not only to the 

 nation, but to everj- State, and everj- County, and 

 every neighborhood, for its food, clothing and 

 education. The prices designated at thesq Ma- 

 ryland factories are — 



Heavy fulled kerseys 3-4 wide, 32 cts. per yd 



Do. do. do 6-4 " 64 " " 



Heavy kerseys 5-4 " 25 " " 



Plain linseys 5-4 " 25 " " 



Striped linseys 5-4 " 30 " " 



T-.villed or plain flannels. 5-4 " 30 " " 

 Sup. blankets, all wool. 10-4 " 75 '• " 



AH other goods in proportion to the above. 

 All orders will be executed in the best manner, 

 and the utmost punctuality observed in all their 

 engagements. 



The proprietors go on to designate the particu- 

 lar places at which they will attend, ou given 

 days, for " receiving wool, or taking orders." 



What is to be observed, though it does not in 

 the least surprise vs, is. such exact agreement in 

 all the prices, between the two establishments. 



How easy for the followers of other trades 

 and occupations to come to these understand- 

 ings ! How difficult for farmers to do the same 

 thing ! The spiders in the center of their webs 

 are always well advised of what is going on ; 

 their feelers ramify to every point of the com 

 "" (1256) 



pasF. The poor flies are buzzing about here 

 and there and eveiy where, and never dreum 

 of danger until they are caught. In the atlairs 

 of mankind, who are the spiders 1 — who the 

 fiiesl 



OIL-CAKE. 



Some of the Results of the Analysis of Oil-Cale by 



the Agricultural Chemical Associatiaa in Scotland. 



1. That the percentage of the protein com- 

 pounds, in the analysis called gluten and albu- 

 men, is nearly equal to what is contained in 

 peas and beans?, and that, tlierefore, for the pro- 

 duction of milk for the ch«ese-dairy, and also 

 for laying on muscle, oil-cakes are as valuable 

 as beans, peas, or clovers. This is a result 

 somewhat unexpected, inasmuch as the value 

 of oil-cakes in the feeding of stock has hitherto 

 been suppo-sed to depend very much upon their 

 power of laying on fat : in other words, upon the 

 percentage of oil they contain. 



2. The proportion of oil in these cakes is great- 

 er than is naturally present in any species of 

 grain or pulse u.^ually cultivated. Oats contain 

 as a maximum about 7, and Indian com about 9 

 per cent, of oil, but these cakes contain 12 per 

 cent., and are, therefore, in their ability to sup- 

 ply fat to an animal, superior to any of our cul- 

 tivated grains. 



3. These oil-cakes leave six per cent, of ash. 

 of which one-tliird consists of phosphoric acid : 

 100 lbs. of oil cake, therefore, contain 2 Ib.s. of 

 phosphoric acid. On the other hand, our com- 

 mon kinds of corn — wheat, fore.xample — leave 

 only two per cent, of ash, of which one-half con- 

 sists of phosphoric acid, or 100 lbs. of wheat 

 contain 1 lb. of phosphoric acid. Therefore, 

 for laying on hone, or for supplying the materials 

 of bone to growing stock, oU-cale is (nice as 

 vahiable as wheat , weight for weight, and more 

 thaii twice as rabiablc as oats or barley which 

 are covered with a husk. 



4. Again the same reasoning shows that, as 

 gi-ains of all kinds draw their phosphoric acid 

 from the soil, these oily seeds will exhaust the 

 soil of its pho.sphates to a much greater degree 

 than our cora crops: 100 lbs. of linseed will car- 

 rj- ofFtviice as much of them from the soil as 100 

 lbs. of wheat. 



5. But the same circumstance supplies an ad- 

 ditional reason why the manure oijiillgroion 

 store stock fed upon oilcake is so much richer 

 than that obtained by the use of any other kind 

 of food. It is richer, 



(a). Because the proportion of the protein 

 compounds (albumen, &c.) in the oilcake is 

 greater than the fattening animal can appropri- 

 ate, and thus much of them j)asses off' in a more 

 or less changed state, and is mixed with the 

 dung. 



(b). The oil also is in larger proportion than 

 can at times be laid on their bodies even 

 by fattening stock, and this unquestionably 

 contributes to the fertilizing quality of the ma- 

 nure. 



(c). But the full-grown animal appropriates 

 scarcely any of the phosphates — the whole of 

 these therefore, which the animal consumes in 

 its food, appears again in its dung. And the 

 oil-cakes being richer in these phosphates 

 weight for weighV than any kind of corn used for 

 food, the dung thus made is also richer in these 

 phosphates than that which is obtained from ani- 

 mals fed upon almost any other kind of food. 



