276 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



THE COMMERCIAL REVIEW. 



The first number of this work that we are av/are of havmg seen, reached us on 

 S — day, and we can only say, judging by that, we lament not having seen all — 

 except the one in which our able and worthy brother says he "quarreled" with 

 us about the Patent-Office Report. Where ignorance shields us from pain, 

 would it not be " folly to be wise?" We will begin as soon as we can, to give the 

 very interesting paper on the Culture and Management of Sugar ; having ourselves 

 failed to get, from friends to whom we applied, an essay on the same subject. 

 We need hardly say that we were charmed with this Review, when we add, that 

 we read it through " at a heat," as the smith would say. If the Editor, how- 

 ever, thinks the Patent-Office Report a becoming National General Government 

 exposition of the industrial resources and progress of this country, why, all 

 we have to say is, that his judgment makes us distrust our own ; and we would 

 make any sacrifice to agree, and yet more not to " quarrel " with him. Still, in 

 respect of a thing that looks, in our eyes, so much like " smohe " we can't quite 

 agree to say it looks " very like a whale." Will the Editor, nevertheless, say to 

 his friends at Baton Rouge whether he thinks it would, or would not, be expe- 

 dient for them to distribute The Farmers' Library, in bound volumes, as pre- 

 tniums, in lieu of the same amount in lucre ? One thing in the Commercial Re- 

 view which bears a peculiar charm in our eyes, is the liberal and generous man- 

 ner in which it speaks of a kindred, if not a parent work, our friend and neigh- 

 bor Hunt's most excellent and most popular periodical. Let us all, then, like 

 fathers, sons and brothers, rival one another in seeing who shall do each other 

 the most kind offices; or, if we do "quarrel," let it be like Ovid's "Lovers' 

 Quarrels," the renewal of love ! Such, thank God ! is the editorial spirit that for 

 thirty years has animated this deponent ! 



SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL ALMANAC 



THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 



If we had Uncle Sam's long purse and long scissors, and did not think it 

 would be unworthy of us, we should not desire a more valuable journal than 

 we could slice, every month, out of the American Farmer, the Farmer's Cabi- 

 net, the American Agriculturist, The Cultivator, the Southern Planter and South- 

 ern Cultivator, and other journals. The last two, for some reason, we have 

 not received for months. We cannot particularize the many things in them all, 

 which we should like to copy ; among them Mr. Affleck's dissertation, in the 

 American Agriculturist, on the cotton caterpillar. 



Mr. A. is in the heart of the great cotton region, with the requisite knowl- 

 edge and spirit to enlighten his brother planters in all branches of husbandry 

 adapted to their region and climate; and it is matter of congratulation for them 

 that he has engaged to do it tiirougli tbe poi)u]ar medium of an Almanac, un- 

 der the title of " Norman's Southern Agricultural Almanac," of which the first 

 of the series, tlie one for 1847, is already published. 



