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Canadian pork, and 35 barrels Canadian beelj 

 which excited considerable interest and curiosity. 

 The attendance of town and country dealers was 

 numerous, with some gentlemen /rom Irt>.land, the 

 latter no doubt to watch the progress of a trade 

 threatening to interlere with that which they have 

 enjoyed exclusively so long. It must be observed 

 that the greater portion of the United States' meat 

 was imported some months ago, and having been 

 cured before it was knovvn that there would be a 

 change in the British disties, was not so well suit- 

 ed to the taste of consumers here, as doubtless 

 they will be rendered hereafter. The meat was 

 generally very well fed, though rather latter than 

 the usual run of Irish. Of the beef, on the con- 

 trary. It was observed that it was not sufficiently 

 well led. The hams that were sold went al 30s. 

 6d. to 31s. per cwf. duly paid. Prime beef sold at 

 383. to 393. per barrel, duty paid ; a very old par- 

 cel went even lower. Pork went at 41s. to 463. 

 per barrel, duty paid. The Canadian pork real- 

 ised 43s, to 463. per barrel, duty paid ; and the little 

 Canadian beef that was offered brought 46s. to 48s. 

 for prime ; one lot prime mess 50s. per barrel, 

 duty paid. Several parcels of American cheese 

 were also offered, and sold at 363. 6J. to 46s. 6d. 

 per cwf., duty paid, for inferior to middling quality ; 

 whilst a i'ew lots of good brought 503. to 5is. per 

 cwt.j duty paid. — 



CHEAP MARLING. 



[The following is a passage from a private letter 

 juet received, and which we take the liberty of 

 publishing, because it presents an example of one 

 of the cheapest marling operations. Yet many 

 thousands of acres in lower Virginia still are 

 neglected, which may be marled as cheaply, and 

 which but a few years ago (as was the case with 

 this field) could not have been sold for more than 

 $3 the acre.— Ed. F. R.] 



December 8, 1842. 

 I am now marling from the bank which you 

 eaw when you were here, and find by your calcu- 

 lation of the expenses of marling in the ' Essay 

 on Calcareous Manures' that it cost me 99 cents 

 per acre to put on 225 bushels of marl, (contain- 

 ing 80 per cent, of carbonate of lime,) exclusive 

 of the labor of spreading ; and the marling of the 

 remainder of the field of about 50 acres will not 

 exceed $'1.25. I was induced to make the calcu- 

 lation from reading an account of your marling on 

 Coggins Point, the other day, and was surprised 

 to find the difference in cost so great. My road 

 was already open, having once been an old public 

 road. I shall finish all my open land this winter, 

 and some 15 or 20 acres of wood-land which I 

 intend to clear. 



FIRST LABORS OF A WORKING AGRICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The Agricultural Society of Prince George 

 held its first stated meeting on. the lOih instant. 

 This small and unpretending society was esta- 

 blished last spring, upon the working plan, and 

 under the form of constitution and of procedure 

 proposed at page 719, vol. ix. Farmers' Register, 

 with the exception of a few changes of unimpor- 

 tant details. The result of this first meeting after 

 commencing operations are such as to show that 

 the plan will work in practice, (if continued aa 

 begun,) as well as it promised in theory. The 

 society had only 26 members ; and of these, in 

 obedience to the general requisition, 18 presented 

 at the late meeting written statements of one or 

 more experiments, made with care, and noted ac- 

 curately. It is of little importance (for the great 

 object in view) whether these experiments, or 

 any one of them, may exhibit any remarkable re- 

 sults, or such as may lead to new and valuable 

 practices. It is enough that the members have 

 now learned and acted upon the simple fact that 

 any plain farmer can properly conduct agricultural 

 experiments— -and even though totally unused to 

 writing for the public eye, can record them accu- 

 rately, and well enough for the purpose. Every 

 experiment so made and noted, and reported, if 

 upon any doubtful subject, must serve to make a 

 somewhat nearer spproach to truth and know- 

 ledge; and any number of cultivators continuing 

 for years together thus to seek truth by accurate 

 experiments, and to bring together all the results, 

 cannot fail to produce efl'ects of great value to 

 each individual, and to the community. Each per- 

 son so contributing, however diffident and awk- 

 ward he may have felt at first in attempting a task 

 so totally new to him, will find the effort easy, and 

 the labors pleasing and instructive, and profitable 

 in reference to his general habits and procedure as 

 a farmer, as well as for the particular lights gained 

 by the experiments made. For a society to merely 

 commence such a course of procedure is of itself 

 effecting much ; and much more may be confi- 

 dently expected from each succeeding year's ope- 

 rations. 



This society having been formed upon our re- 

 commended plan, (above referred to,) we may be 

 pardoned for expressing something of fatherly 

 feelings of gratification and parlialitjr, in witness- 

 ing its first and useful efforts. And it would be 

 still more gratifying to us, and appropriate in all 

 respects, to have closed our editorial labors by 

 publishing the report of (he first experiments and 

 labors of this society. This however is impossible 



