No. 1. 



Editorial JVotices. 



39 



piiir,.vnEi,rHiA agricultural, iiorticul- 



TUBAL, AND SEED WAREHOUSE. 



No. i;)4J Market street, between Fifth and Sixth 



streets, South side. 



For pale as above, Trouty & Mcars' Patent Centre 

 Draught S(!lf-sharpeniiig Ploughs, with all the new 

 improvements attached. These ploughs have taken 

 nine premiums the last fall, in the States of Pennsyl- 

 vania and Delaware. Subsoil ploughs for one or two 

 horses— Taylor"s new Patent Straw-cutters— Guillotine 

 Ln proved do.— Corn-Planters— Cultivators— Harrows; 

 Turnip-Drills, &c. Garden tools of every description. 

 Also, Vegetable and Flower seeds, crop of 1844, grown 

 for this establishment, and warranted true to name. 

 Among the collection are several new kinds, very su- 

 perior—as Seymour's White Giant Celery— Union 

 Head Lettuce. Also, Peas— Beans— Potatoes, &c.— 

 Fruit-trees— Bulbous roots, &c., for sale at the lowest 

 prices, by D. O. PROUTY 



Number 3, of the Penvsylvania Journal of Prison 

 JJiacipline. has been published from this office, where 

 subsciiptions are received. It contains, among much 

 oilier valiiabh; matter, the Menorial presented to onr 

 I>cgislalure last winter by D. L. Di.\, soliciting the es- 

 tablishment of a State Lunatic Asylum. 



Poudrette. 



A valuable manure— of the best quality, prepared 

 in Philadelphia, for sale at the office of the Farm- 

 ers' Cabinet, No. 50, North Fourth Street, or at 

 the manufactory, near the Penitentiary on Coates' 

 street. Present price, $1 75 per barrel, containing 

 four bushels— $5 for three barrels— $15 for ten barrels, 

 or thirty cents a bushel. Orders from a distance, en- 

 closingthe cash, withcost of porterage, will be prompt- 

 ly attended to, by carefully delivering the barrels on 

 board of such conveyance as may be designated 

 The results on corn and wheat have been generally 

 very satisfactory. Farmers to the south and in the 

 interior, both of this State and of New Jersey, are 

 invited to try it. It is now seasonable for turnips, 

 wheat, &c. 



JOSIAH TATUM. 



The New York State Agricultural Society will hold 

 its next Cattle Show and Fair at Utica, on the 16th, 

 17th, and leth of next month. 



In a note recently received from Dr. Tliomson, of 

 Wilmington, he asks, " Have any of your correspond- 

 ents informed you, and accounted for it — why so few 

 bees have swarmed this year? It is a general fact — 

 why is it?" We have repeatedly heard the same in- 

 quiry made here. The Editor has a couple of healthy 

 swarms — one entering their hive in the bath room, 

 under the window-sash— the other in his yard — neither 

 of them has swarmed this season, nor did they last. 



Agency for the Purchase <& Sale of 



IMPROVED BREEDS OF CATTLE & SHEEP. 



The subscriber takes this method of informing his 

 friends and the public, that he will attend to the pur- 

 chase and sale of the improved breeds of cattle, sheep, 

 &c., for a reasonable commission. All letters post 

 paid, addressed to him at Philadelphia, will be attended 

 to without delay. AARON CLEMENT. 



March loth, 1845. 



Poudrette is a manufactured manure, powerfully 

 stimulating in its properties, and will be found an ex- 

 cellent application to the flower garden, or border, or 

 to pot plants. It should be applied to the top of the 

 soil, and then worked in with the rake or hoe. It is 

 constantly for sale at this office in small quantities: — 

 by the half peck, &.c. 



Well grown sweet potatoes, from the farm of Mark 

 Clement, Jr., near Woodbury, N. J., were in our mar 

 ket on the 1st Inst. 



Dr. Ellwyn informs us that he has made an im- 

 provement in the Horse-rake, by attaching a wheel 

 about six inches in diameter to each end of the beam. 

 It works more easily, and answers, as he says, "per- 

 fectly," Farmers hardly appreciate this machine. We 

 consider the revolving Horse-rake as one of the great- 

 est improvements offered to the farmer within the last 

 half century. We have followed it many an hour, 

 and contemplated its simplicity and the completeness 

 of its operations with delight. 



Jonathan Roberts, of this State, and Dr. Muse, of 

 Maryland, will be the principal speakers at the New 

 Castle Agricultural Exhibition, on the 17th and 18th 

 of next month. 



CJ- SHORT ADVERTISEMENTS, 43 

 The subject matter of which, may correspond with the 

 agricultural character of this paper, will be inserted 

 at the rate of one dollar for each insertion often lines 

 or less; and so in proportion for each additional line. 

 Payment in advance. 



The quantity of rain which fell during the Seventh 

 month, 1845, was about two inches and three-quar- 

 ters 2.76 inches. 



Penn. Hospital, 8th mo. 1st. 



According to a writer in the J^orth American, who 

 signs himself Fahrenheit, the "average temperature of 

 the Seventh month was 75i°; viz: 681° at sunrise— 

 85° at 2 o'clock, and 73° at 6 o'clock in the evening. 

 The maximum temperature was 98° on the 14th, and 

 the minimum was 58^° on the 1st.— the variation 39i°. 

 The hottest day was the 14th, the average temperature 

 of which was 85^°, and the coldest was the 1st; the 

 average of which was C4°. There were twenty-four 

 and a half days clear, and six and a half cloudy. The 

 greatest diurnal variation was 23|° on the 14lh, and 

 the least do. was 12° on Ihe 2fith. Rain fell on eleven 

 days, and hail one day. On thirty-one days the ther- 

 mometer was above 70° at noon ; on twenty-three 

 days il was above 80°, and on ten it was between 90° 

 and 100''. The wind blew from the southwest fifteen 

 and a half days, or just half of the whole month; from 

 the north-west two and a half days; west six and a 

 half days; north-east half a day; south-east four and 

 a half days; and east one and a half days." 



