1855. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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LONDON VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



We have received from our attentive corres- 

 pondent at Liverpool, a copy of the London Jour- 

 nal, in which we find the following table, giving 

 an account of the kinds and quantities of vegeta- 

 bles sold at several of the markets of tliat city. 

 The article was prepared for the Morning Chron- 

 icle, and wo presume gives the amount sold for a 

 year, although it is not so stated in the returns. 



CovENT GAr.DE>f Market, all of home produce : 



Apples— 360,000 bushels. 



Pears— 230,000 do. 



Cherries— 90,000 do. 



Plums— 280,000 half-sieves, or 93,000 bushels ; three half- 

 sieves go to a bushel. 



Gooseberries — 140,000 bushels. 



Currants— Red , 70,000 sieves ; white, 3S00 ; black, 45,000, or 

 178,200 half-sieves ; being the produce of 1,069,200 bushes, as 

 6 bushes on a,n average fill a sieve. 



Strawberries— 58.000 half-sieves, or 638,000 pottles ; 11 pot- 

 tles go to a half-sieve. 



Raspberries — 30,000 sieves, or 22,500 bushels. 



Walnuts— 20,000 baskets, each li bushels, or 25,000 bushels. 



Cabbages— 16,000 loads, 150 to 200 dozen each, or 33,600,000 

 cabbages. 



Turnips— 10,009 loads, 150 dozen each, or 18,800,000 turnips. 



Carrots— 5,000 loads, 200 dozen each, or 12,000,000 carrots. 



Onions— 500,000 bushels. 



Brocoli — including cauliflowers — 1000 loads, 150 dozen each, 

 or 1,800,000 heads. 



Peas — 135,000 sacks. A sack is two bushels. 



Beans— 50,000 do. 



Celery— 1,500,000 rolls of 12 each, or 13,000,000 heads of 

 celery. 



Asparagus— 400,000 bundles of 150 each, or 30,000,000 buds. 



Endive — 150,000 scores. 



French Beans— 140,000 bushels. 



Potatoes— 83,000 t.ms. 



Watercresses — 21,060 hampers or 26,325 cwt., each hamper 

 being li cwt. 



EoRoacH Market. In all the returns "cauliflowers" are in- 

 cluded under the head " brocoli." 



Cabbages— SOOO loads, 200 dozen to a load, or 19,200^000 cab- 

 bages. 



Turnips— 2000 loads, of 200 dozen each, or 4,800,000 turnips. 



Brocoli — 15V6 loads, of 200 dozen each, or 3,782,400 heads of 

 brocoli. 



Carrots — 442 loads, 300 dozen each, or 1,571,200 carrots. 



Potatoes— 36,000 tons. 



Peas— 25,000 sacks. 



Beans— 10,000 sacks. 



Currants— 30,000 bushels. 



Cherries — 45,tOO bushels. 



Strawberries— 10,000 bushels. 



Gooseberries — 35,000 sieves. 



Apples — 25,000 bushels. 



Pears— 10,000 bushels. •> 



Spitalfiei.ds Market, all home grown : 

 Potatoes — 55,000 tons. 

 Peas— 50,000 sucks. 

 Beans— 5000 sricks. 

 Cabbages— 5000 loads, 200 dozen to a load, or 12,000,000 cab- 



Turnips— 20C0 loads, 200 dozen to a load, or 4,800,000 turnips. 



Carrots— 1000 loads, 200 dozen to a load, or 2,400,000 carrots. 



Brocoli— 1200 loads, 200 dozen to a load, or 2,880,200 bushels. 



Cherries — 15, COO bushels. 



Apples— 250,000 bushels. 



Pears— 83,000 bushels. 



Plums — 15,000 bushels. 



Gooseberries — 91,500 bushels. 



Currants— 45.000 bushels. 



Strawberries— 12,000 bushels. 



Kaspberries— 2500 bushels. 



It is a curious fact connected with this market, that whatever 

 produce is sent to it from Enfield, in fdiddlfsex, is subject to 

 neither turnpike nor market tolls ; an exemption granted to 

 Enfield, because, during the Plague, in 1065, vegetaldirs and fruit 

 were sent almost exclusively fri>m thence— of course at the risk 

 of the lives of all who ventured into the pest-stricken city. 



FaRRINGTOX MARKEt : 



Potatoes— 14,000 tons. 



Peas— 7,000 sacks. 



Beans— 1200 sacks. 



French Beans and Scarlet Runners— 3,000 bushels. 



Cabbages— 3500 loads of 200 dozen each, or 8,400,000 cab- 

 bages. 



Brocoli— 1300 loads, or 5,320,000 heads. 



Turnips and Carrots— 700 loads, averaging 50 dozens a load, 

 or 504,000 turnips and carrots. 



Onions— 6,000 bushels. 



Gooseberries — 12,000 bushels. 



Currants— 5,000 bushels. 



Cherries— 12,000 bushels. 



Plums— 3,000 bushels. 



Apples— 35,000 bushels. 



Pears— 20,000 bushels. 



Strawberries — 450 bushels. 



Watercresses— 46,800 hampers, or 58,500 cwt. 



There are also 60,000 flower roots sold in a year. 



AGHICULTURE IN NORTH CAROLINA. 



We have before us an address delivered by the 

 lion. Kenneth Raa'ner, of Hertford, before the 

 North Carolina State Agricultural Society, in Oc- 

 tober last. Mr. Rayner was for several years a 

 member of Congress from that State, and was an 

 active politician. We are glad to find that he 

 has turned his attention to the development of the 

 agricultural resources of the "Old North State," 

 and hope that through the influence of the State 

 Society, thousands of the acres of sand and pine 

 barrens within her borders may be brought into a 

 state of beauty and fertility. Below are estracta 

 from the Address, all we have room for at pres- 

 ent. 



EFFECTS OF SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT. 



It is our good fortune to live in an age of w on- 

 derful invention, of startling scientific develop- 

 ment. It is emphatically the age of rapid pro- 

 gressive improvement. The striking peculiarity 

 of the knowledge of the age is its direction and 

 application to useful and practical ends ; in min- 

 istering to the necessities, the comforts and luxu- 

 ries of man. In fact it is the demand for that 

 species of knowledge, that is whetting invention, 

 stimulating ingenuity, and taxing intellect for its 

 mightiest achievements. Geology, mineralogy, 

 chemistry, botany, zoology, and natural philoso- 

 phy, are not now cultivated, as the mere avoca- 

 tions of intellectual research, or to satisfy the 

 philosopher's abstract thirst for knowledge ; but 

 as the instruments by whicli man is to subdue the 

 material world to his control, and apply the im- 

 mutable laws of nature to the satisfying his 

 wants. A minute knowledge and classification of 

 primeval rocks, from the disintegration of which 

 the soil is composed — the deductions arrived at 

 from an acquaintance with the various strata and 

 fossil deposites of the crust of the earth — an ex- 

 amination of the constituent elements of all ma- 

 terial nature, their relations, attinities and repul- 

 .sions for each other — an acquaintance with the 

 structure and vegetable pliysiology of plants and 

 trees and flowers ; and the principle of their 

 growth, decay and reproduction — an understand- 

 ing of the peculiarities, habits and capacities of 

 animals, whether of the higher type or of crawl- 

 ing insects — the study of those laws of motion, 

 and physical forces, by which Infinite wisdom 

 governs the boundless universe — all these branches 

 of knowledge are pursued with a vigor and tenac- 

 ity unknown to the votary of ancient learning, 

 and to answer the purposes of practical utility. 

 They are made to servo the purposes, and direct 

 the course of the miner in his search for mineral 

 treasures in the bowels of the earth ; and in ran- 

 sacking the coal-fields which nature has laid aside 

 in her great store-liouse for the use of man, after 

 the forests have fallen before a redundant popu- 

 lation. They afford data by which the physician 



