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MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



])ose<l to the svin, wifli mild winlers, pinning | 

 in autumn is tlinuglit to be the best, the most j 

 natxn-al, at wliich time trees and sin iihs, by a I 

 divine and eternal law, dmj) Iroth tlieir liuit 

 and leaves. "Snag pruning" is tliought to 

 be jn-eierable by some, because, in '• close 

 pruning " the wounds spread, and prevent 

 the piotrusion of buds near the attected [larts ; 

 but if these parts be covered at the time of 

 pruning with a (preparation of fine earth or 

 white-lead, mixed with linseed oil, they will 

 immediately heal. 



Mr. Loudon, in treating of the vine, men- 

 tions three modes of pruning it in hot-houses, 

 viz : the frait-tree method, in which the plant 

 is spread out in the manner of a fan, and 

 trained like a common fruit tree ; the long 

 or young-wood method, in which all the wood 

 above a year old is cut out down to the stool 

 or stock ; and the spun-ing-in method, hi 

 which the fi-uit is produced from young wood 

 grown aimually from the seeds of the main 



shoot, or Khoofs of old wood. The last two 

 methods h.o regards as ihe best. 



It is cusioniiry willi many to culiivate 

 (lowers, or vege!,jbi..-s of vaiiniis kinds, be- 

 tween or near tiieir vm-s. wiilidiil retlecting 

 that they are doing ihem great injury by ab- 

 .stracting iheir jiroper nourisliniiMil from the 

 soil ; a practice not in\\y siridly guarded 

 a£jaiiist by the most intelligent vine-dressers 

 of the present tlay, Vnit condemned by aJ! 

 ancient writfM-s on the .subject ; and .Mijses, in 

 exhorting the ))eople <A' Israel, very iorcibly 

 elucidated his discourse by coinmanding tliem 

 not to defile their vijieyards with the fruit of 

 divers seeds : 



"Thou shall not sow thy vinryanl with divrra 

 seeds; lest the fruit uf thy S(-i.'d which Ihna hhst 

 sown, and the fiuil of thy vineyard, be diHIfd "' 



Dkutehonomy, x.xii. 9. 



Thus plainly showing that the wisdom and 

 jirndence of this important law was well un- 

 derstood even at that early day. 



PRICES CURRENT. 



[Corrected, February 24, for the Monthly Journal of Agricultvrc.] 



6 fT.^Q' 7 

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6 7.') ® — 



ASHES— Pots, 1st sort ^ 100 IB. 4 87t®— 



I'eavls, lEt sort, '46 5 56}®— 



BEESWAX— American Yellow — 2fii® — 



CANDLES— Mould, Tallow.. #■ ID... — 9 S)— 



Siiemi, Eastern and City — 28 ®— 



COTTON— From 4P' tt>. — i'E ®— 



COTTON BAGGING— American... — lit® — 



CORDAGE— American ^ ft. — 11 ®— 



DOMESTIC GOODS-Shirtings.^y. — .'J ®— 



Sheetings — 7 "S— 



FEATHERS — American, live — 27 ® — 



FLAX— American — 7 ®— 



FLOUR & MEAL— Genesee, f bbl. 7 — ®— 



Tioy ''' — ®~ 



Michigan !!'7.V® 7 



Ohio, Flat Hoop 



Ohio, Round Hoop 



Ohio, via New-Orleans 



Pennsylvania 



Brandywine 6 75 ® — 



Georgetown 75 ® — 



BHllimore City Mills 6 75 ®— 



Richmond City Mills ~~ ®'~ 



Richmond Countiy C ~5 ® — 



Alexandria, Petersburg, &c 6 75 ® — 



Rye Flour 5 — ® 5 



Com Meal, Jersey and Brand 5 — ® 5 



Com Meal, Brandywine hhd. 22 — ® — 



ORAIN— Wheat, White ^ bush. ® 1 



Wheat, Weftern, Red 1 55 ® 1 



Rye, Northern — 95 ® 1 



Com, Jersey and North... (meas.) ® 1 



Com, Southern (mea.suro) ® — 



Com, Southern (weight) ® 1 



Oats, Northern ® — 



Oats, Jersey — 42 ®— 



HAY— North River in bales, ^100 ffi — a6J®— 

 HEMP— American, dew-rotted., tonl 15 — ®130 



water-rotted 150 — ®200 



HOPS— 1 st^sort, 1846 — 9 ®— 



HtON— American Via. No 1 '''^'•>~ 



Conmion 22 ."iO ®2o 



MME— Thonu\ston ^' bbl. — 70 ®— 



LU.M HER— Boards, N.R., •FM. ft. clr. SO — ®35 



Boards, Eastern Pine <2) 



Boards, Albany Pine f>'pce. — 10 ®— 



Timber. 'Jeorgia Pine fhlAX. 27 50 '3— 



(864) 



12.V 



Staves, White Oak, pipe.%>M .'iO — ® 



Staves, White Oak, hhd 40 — 'a) 



Staves, White Oak, bbl 30 — « 



Staves, Red Ouk, hhd 24 ~ ®28 — 



Hoops 20 — ®30 — 



Scantling, Pine, Eastern ® 



Scantling, Oak @ 



Timber, Oak ^ cubic foot — 20 ®— 30 



Timber, White Pine — 13 ®— 20 



Timber, Georgia Yellow Pine — 24 ® — 28 



Shingles ^ bunch 1 75 ® 2 — 



Shingles. Cedar, 3 feet, Ist quality. 26 — @ 



Shingles, Cedar, 3 foot, 2d qualiiy. 22 — ®24 — 

 Shingles, Cedar, 2 feet. 1st quulitv. 17 — ®I8 — 

 Shinales, Cedar, 2 feet, 2d quulily. 15 — @16 — 



Shingles, Cyjacss, 2 feet 13 — ®14 — 



Shinales, Compauv 28 — ®30 — 



MUSTARD— American — IG ®— 31 



NAILS— Wrought, 6d to20d...f^ lb. — iO @-- 14 



Cut 4d to -lOd — 4J®— 4t 



PI.A.^TER PARIS— F ton @ 



PROVISIONS— liecf. Moss, ^bbl... 10 •50 ®1] 50 



Beef, Prime, 8 50 ® 9 25 



Pork, Mess, Ohio 15 — ® 



Pork, Prime, Ohio 12 75 ® 13 — 



Lard. Ohio F Id. — lOi®— 11 



Hams, Pickled — 9®— % 



Shoulders, Pickled — 6A®— fij 



Sides, Pickled ® 



BeoCSmoked ^ lb. — 9i@— 10 



Butter. Orange County — 20 ® — 22 



Butter, Western Dairy — 14 ® — IG 



Butter, Grease — ® 



Cheese, in casks and boxes — 7 @ — 7J 



SEED.S— Clover Fib.— 8®— 9 



Timothy F tierce 20 — ©25 — 



Flax, Roush 11 — ®11 25 ' 



SOAP— N. York, Brown F ». — 3.1®— 5J 



TALLOW— American Rendered ... — SivJi- 85 



TOBACCO— Virginia ® lb. — 2 ®— 5 



North Carolina — 2 ® — 3 



Kinitucky and Missouri — 2® — *> 



WOOL— Am. Saxony, Fleece,. F lb. — ^J ®— 37}- 



American Full Blood Merino — •"'2 ® — 34 



American } and J Merino — 25 ® — 27 



American Native and i Merino... — 23 @ — 25 

 Superfine, PiiUed —2a ®— 01 



