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MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



cabbase has no rival. By a little care, it may como to the table young almost the whole 

 year round. It is many years since I obt;iiued some seeds from the Garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society, and I have never tasted any sort to bo compared with it. It is now diflicult 

 to obtain it pure. It is easily known by its tendency to burst when it attains a considerable 

 size. The long lists in nurserymen's catalogues might well be curtailed, mid the Vanack 

 placed at the head. Whatever single sort one may purchase by name is sure to turn out 

 mixed, so careless have seedsmen become. I got some seeds under the name Vanack in 

 Edinburgh, and, while almost every plant differed from another, there is not a true Vanack 

 among them. It is a pity that the London Society does not give prizes for specimens of pure 

 varieties of culinary vegetables, that the best may be kept up. It is right to place the dvJce 

 in the first rank, but the ulile should not be forgotten. 



The Pig Trade. — The last Report from the Patent Office gives us the value of the cot- 

 ton crop, say 2,400,000 bales, at $28 per bale, $57,200,000. The pork crop in 1839 was 

 upward of 26,000,000. Now it is estimated this weighed on the average 180 lbs. each, and 

 that pork was worth $3 50 per cwt., or $160,000,000; aiid as but few hogs are kept over 

 twelve months, we may safely calculate the pork crop as worth three times the cotton crop. 

 We have often heard of the three crop system in Maryland, to wit : Negro makes coru ; 

 com makes pork ; pork makes Negro. Truly pork is of great value. 



PRICES CURRENT. 



[CorrecLed, March 24, for the Monthly Journal of Agrictdture.] 



ASIIES— Pots, lat sort ^ 100 ». 4 



Pearls, l9t sort, '46 6 



BEEi^WAX— American Yellow — 



CANDLES— Mould, Tallow.. •#■ IB... — 



Sperm, Eastern and Citi" — 



COTTON— From ^ lb. — 



COTTON BAGGING— American... — 



CORDAGE— American ^ m. — 



DOMESTIC GOODS-Shinings, l^ y. — 



Sheetings — 



FEATHERS— American, live — 



FLAX— American — 



FLOUR Sl MEAL— Genesee, F bbl. 7 



i>oy I 



Michigan ' 



Ohio, Flat Hoop 7 



Ohio, Round Hoop — 



Ohio, via New-Orleans — 



Pennsylvania 6 



Bnmily wine 6 



Georgetown 6 



Baltimore Cit y Mills 6 



Richmond City Mills 8 



Richmond Country 6 



Alexandria, Petersburg, &c 6 



Rye Flour 4 



Com Moal, Jersey and Brand 4 



Corn Meal, Brandywine hhd. 22 



tjRAIN— Wheat, White ^ bush. 1 



W^heat, We-stern, Red — 



Rye, Northern — 



Corn, Jersey and North... (nieae.) — 



Com, Southern (measure^ — 



Com, Southern (weight) — 



Oats, Northern — 



Oats, Jersey — 



HAY- North River in bales, ^lOOm — 

 HEMP — American, dew-rotted.. tonllS 



" " water-rotted 150 



HOPS- Istsort IS'ltl — 



IRON— Americim Pig, No. 1 — 



" Coin'iion 22 



r_.lME— Thomnston ^ bbl. — 



LUMBER— Boards, N.R., ^M. ft. clr 30 



Boards, Eastern Pine — 



Boards, Albany I'ine ^pce. — 



'limber. Georgia Pino ^M. ft. 24 



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30 ®— 38 

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28 @— 32 

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Ofii® 7 12.1 

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— -w— 90 

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 85 -ai— 93 

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41 ®— 43 

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10 ®— 18 



— ®88- 



Staves, 'White Oak, pipe. ^ M 50 — ®— 



Staves, White Oak, hhd 40 — @— 



Staves, White Oak, bbl 30 — @— 



Staves, Red Oak. hhd 24 — ®28 



Hoops 20 — ® 30 



Scantling, Pine, Eastern ® — 



Scantling, Oak @ — 



Timber, Oak ^ cubic foot — 20 @— 



Timber, White Pine — 13 ® — 



Timber, Georgia Yellow Pine — 24 ® — 



Shingles f^ bunch 1 75 ® 2 



Shingles, Cedar, 3 feet, 1st quality. 26 — @ — 

 Shingles, Cedar, 3 feet, 2d quality. 22 — @24 

 Shingles, Cedar, 2 feet, let quality. 17 — ®18 

 Shingles, Cedar, 2 feet, 2d quality. 15 — ®16 



Shingles, Cypress, 2 feet 13 — @14 



Shindes, Company 28 — ®30 



MUSTAK D— American _ 16 ®— 



NAILS— Wrought, 6d to20d...^ Its. — 10 ®— 



Cut 4dto40d — 4i@— 



PLASTER PARIS— f>'ton @— 



PROVISIONS— Beef, Mess, ^bbl... U .50 ©12 



Beef. Prime 8 62i® 9 



Pork. Mess. Ohio 14 25 ®— 



Pork, Prime, Ohio 12 25 @— 



Lard. Ohio ^ 16. — 91®— 



Ham.s, Pickled — 8*®— 



Shoulders, Pickled — 6 ® — 



Sides, Pickled ® — 



Beef, Smoked ^ 16. — 9 ®— 



Butter. Orange County — 20 ® — 



Butter, Western Dairy — 14 ® — 



Butter, Grease ® — 



Cheese, in casks and boxes — 7 ® — 



SEEDS— Clover F 16. — 7t®— 



Timothy %>■ tierce 17 — ®20 



Flax, Rough @H 



SOAP— N. York, Brown ^' 16. — 3.5®— 



TALLOW — American Rendered .. . — 8i® — 



TOBACCO— Virginia ® 16.-2 ®— 



North Carolina ® — 



Ken'ucky and Missouri — 3 ® — 



WOO! Am. Saxony, Fleece,. ^f>' tti. — 35 ®— 



American Full Blood Merino — .32 ® — 



Atneiican * niui J Merino — 25 ® — 



Ameiican Native and \ Merino... — 2:1 @ — 

 Supertine, Pulled —30 ®— 



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