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excellent relish, and appeared to enjoy the interview quite as much 

 as did their honored guests. It continued for about two hours j 

 when fearing that they should be bur'lensomc, they withdrew, but 

 repeated the visit on the following day, much in the same manner. 

 The robins were uncommonly large and fat, and in fact the whole 

 delegation, and especially the members of the sub-committee, were 

 highly respectable in appearance, as we have no doubt they were 

 in reality. They have our best wishes for their continued health 

 and happiness. — Jour, of Commerce. 



AMERICAN CHEESE. 



At a meeting of the South Derbyshire Agricultural Society, on 

 Saturday week, Mr. Colville, M. P., who filled tlie chair, drew the 

 attention of the farmers to the import of American cheese, for the 

 purpose of calming their fears. He showed that, although the 

 import of American cheese had considerably increased, it liad dri- 

 ven the Dutch cheese out of the market. He produced a table, 

 which showed, that from 1831 to 1840, the importation from Ame- 

 rica had fluctuated, without any regularity, between nothing and 

 fifty hundred weight ; from Holland or Belgium the importation 

 had increased, in the same period, from 133,397 hundred weight 

 to 224,957 humlred weight ; from other European countries the 

 supply had remained insignificant and nearly stationary — 1,049 in 

 1831, ],464 in 1840: the aggregate importations advanced from 

 134,459 in 1831 to 226,462^ in 1840. The last figures of the table 

 ^ne take as they stand : they show the imports of cheese, in hun- 

 dred weights, from the places named for the last three years. 

 Year. America. Europe. Total. 



1841 15,154 254,995 270,149 



1842 ...... 14,098 165,614 179,748 



1843 42,312 1-36,998 .... 1'^9,.389 



The importation of cheese had decreased during the last ten 

 years by nearly 32,000 hundred weight, while the population has 

 mcreased by 2^300,000 mouths. 



eOW FEED. 



M. Dumas made a report on some experiments made by M< 

 Boussaingault, relative to the feeding of cows with beei-root and 

 potatoes. M, Boussaingault states, that two cows which were fed 

 exclusively on beet-root, fell off in flesh in seventeen days, nearly 

 one-sixth, and their milk diminished from eight to ten litres per 



