No. 2. 



Editorial JVotices. 



71 



The Cliester and Delaware County Agricultural So 

 cielywill liold an Annual Exhibition at West Chester 

 on the Ttli of next inonrh. Tliey will also have a 

 Ploughinj; .Match. An interesting and e.xciting lime is 

 anticipated. A list of premiums has been forwarded 

 to us. 



JosuH CitiiNCT, Jr., of IJoston, will deliver the An- 

 nual Address at the E.xhihition and Fair of the New 

 York State Agricultural Society, at Utica, on the af- 

 ternoon of the 18th inst., the last day of the Fair. 



The E.xhibition and Ploughing Match of the Agri- 

 cultural t^ociety of New Castle County, Delaware, 

 will be held as stated in our last, at Wilmington, on 

 the ITlh and Itth insts. For list of premiums see last 

 number. 



The rhiladelphia Agricultural Society holds its An 

 nual Exhibition at the Lamb Tavern, on the 22nd and 

 5!3rd of next month— the Ploughing Match on the 24th 

 ' For list of premiums, see No. 12, of last volume. 



At a half year's meeting of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society, held in London in the Fifth month last, our 

 friend H. Colman, presented a specimen of Jersey 

 marl. The Society has about 7000 members, and an 

 invested capital of nearly $40,000. The people of 

 Shrewsbury, where the Annual Show was held in the 

 Seventh month last, raised jCIOOO towards defraying 

 its expenses. 



The Indiana Farmer says that in his ramblings, he 

 saw" hay which had been cut and partly cured, and 

 cocked up and left for a week or two, and was doubt- 

 less intended to stand much longer, for there is a fash- 

 ion with some to let their hay lie about the field in 

 little three feet cocks, until it is convenient to haul it 

 to the stack. This may be in August or September. 

 And sometimes we have seen a farmer with a little 

 sled and rope hauling his hay in October!" Well may 

 the wonder be expressed if these were "book farmers! 



Ice has become an important article of export. It 

 is shipped from Boston in blocks weighing from two to 

 four hundred weight, deposited in saw-dust in the 

 ship's hold, and sent to London. It arrives there with 

 but little loss of weight. A man by the name of Tudor, 

 who first engaged in the ice trade, is said to have ac- 

 cumulated a handsome fortune by it. 



The Soutk Western Farmer, a spirited paper, hereto- 

 fore published at Raymond, Mississippi, is discontin- 

 ued. We regret tbe necessity for it. 



Many of our readers are subscribers to Colman's 

 Agricultural Tour. They will be pleased to learn that 

 the fourth part is now in press at Boston, and we shall 

 be able to furnish it in the course of three or four 

 weeks. N. P. Willis, in one of his letters to the New 

 York Mirror, says, "Mr. Colman, the a!?riculturist. 

 has made a strong impression on society in England" 

 His strong good sense and fresh originality of mind 

 are well suited to be relished in this country." 



Peaches have been again this season abundant and 

 cheap ill our market for several weeks. Thousands of 

 baskets were daily landed at our wharves, whence 

 they were distributed to our citizens, and into neigh- 

 bourhoods where they are more of a rarity. Tens of 

 thousands of baskets have been forwarded to New 

 York, v\ hie h has had the good eflect both to enable the 

 Knickerbockers to luxuriate in our superabundance, 

 and to keep up the price here We have been informed 

 that the Reybold family in Delaware, including the 

 Major and his four sons, had sent to market up to the 

 29th ult., 63,:i:M baskets, and that they had in one day, 

 shipped 5,420 baskets. We found upon our table the 

 other day from these orchards, half a dozen as delicious 

 in flavor, as they were noble in size. 



The quantity of rain which fell during the Eighth 

 month, 1845, was 7.30 inches. At the Pennsylvania 

 Hospital for the Insane, in Blockley, there fell 8.14 

 inches. 



Penn. Hospital, 9th mo. ist. 



The abstract from Von Thaer, on page 67, will be 

 valuable to our readers; both they and the Editor 

 thank our Chester county friend for his kindness, and 

 ask a continuance of it. 



PHILADELPHIA AGRICULTURAL, HORTICUL- 

 TURAL, AND SEED WAREHOUSE. 



No. 194i Market street, between Fifth and Sixth 

 streets, South side. 



For sale as above, Prouty & Mears' Patent Centre 

 Draught Self-sharpening 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'snew Patent Straw-cutters— Guillotine 

 Improved 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. 



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- 

 closing the cash, with cost of porterage, will be prompt- 

 ly attended to, by carefully delivering the barrels on 

 hoard 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 

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

 invited to try it. It is now seasonable for wheat, &c. 

 JOSIAH TATUM. 



