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YouatCs British Cattle. — Frank, ^c. 



Vol. V. 



Youatt's British Cattle. 



We beg to recommend to the attention of agricultu- 

 rists generally, and to all those who are engaged in the 

 rearing and feeding of cattle in particular, " Youatt's 

 work on British Cattle," published by Grijg & Elliot, 

 No. 9 North 4th Street, Philadelphia. The portraits 

 there given of all the different breeds of cattle of the 

 British Islands, are strictly faithful, and the engravings, 

 done from the original work, are Iiighly creditable to 

 the artists of this country ; while the hi.story of each 

 distinct variety, the numerous anecdotes connected 

 therewith, and the most full and perfect directions for 

 the improvement of that all-important description of 

 ptock, render it a most valuable work for the library of 

 every farmer in the United States; indeed, the farmer's 

 library ought not to be considered complete without it. 

 It consists of (iOO paecs of highly interesting matter, 

 the work of one of the most pleasing and intelligent 

 writers of the day, known also as a veterinarian of the 

 highest standing in the profession. One half the book 

 is devoted to the description and cure of the different 

 diseases to which cattle are liable, whfre these " brutes 

 are treated like men ;" and by the information and in- 

 structions contained therein, the owner will, in all 

 common cases, be enabled to operate as his own cattle 

 doctor: many very interesting and instructive anato- 

 mical plates accompany the second part of the volume. 



By an arrangement with the publishers of this stand- 

 ard work, we shall he enabled periodically to present to 

 our readers, the portraits of the different and very dis- 

 tinct breeds of cattle, taken from its pages, pointing 

 out, as we proceed, many individual animals in this 

 country, possessing the characteristic marks of some of 

 these varieties, in their purity of blood, and highest 

 marks of good breeding; showing that, with care in 

 the selection, many of the tinest breeds may be perpetu- 

 ated by means of stock, already in the hands of fiirm- 

 ers in this country, with the advantage of their perfect 

 acclimature — a consideration of great moment to those 

 who are engaged in the rearing of cattle. 



We commence in the present number, with the " Jer- 

 sey Cow," an e.xcellent portrait of " Lady Emily," the 

 property of Joseph Swift, Esq., Philadelphia, imported 

 in the year 1839. 



Frank. 



We cannot withstand the temptation — will our read- 

 ers forgive us— of copying from the pages of the Albany 

 Cultivator, the following notice in commendation of 

 the " Dialogues;" such testimony, from such a source, 

 is peculiarly gratifying. To our other friends who have 

 kindly noticed them, particularly the proprietor of the 

 " Baltimore American Farmer"— the father of the ag- 

 ricultural press in the United States— we beg most sin- 

 cerely to tender our best thanks; and take the oppor- 

 tunity to say, they are published by Messrs. Kimlicr & 

 Sharpless, 50 North 4th Street, Philadelphia ; price 75 

 cents. 



We would also add, in reply to the very numerous 

 inquiries for "The Yellow Shoe-strings," that very 

 small work, which has been honoured— we are quite 



willing to confess — with a favour far beyond its very 

 slender pretensions or deserts, is just published by Kay 

 & Brother, Henry Perkins, and Kimher & Sharpless, 

 Philadelphia, and C. H. Kay & Co., Pittsburg. 



"'Frank, or Dialogues,' &c. We have received, 

 from the author, this neat little volume, and can most 

 cordially recommend it to the notice of all engaged in 

 agriculture, particularly to that portion who are young. 

 In these Dialogues, which have already had an exten- 

 sive circulation in the farming periodicals of the day, 

 Mr. Pedder has condensed a great amount of useful 

 and pleasing matter, in a form at once attractive and 

 instructive. The portraits of individual character 

 drawn in the volume, are such as will be recognized in 

 every neighbourhood, and the lessons inculcated from 

 such examples, such as will be everywhere useful. In 

 the language of the author, ' these dialogues may be 

 considered as the reminiscences of a long life, devoted 

 to the pursuits of agriculture, husbandry, and rural 

 affairs, and in which the characters are real, not ficti- 

 tious, for there is a Frank and a sister Susan, a Grabb 

 and a Sykes ; the circumstances also having a local ha- 

 bitation and a name, and the observations and reflec- 

 tions being the result of much experience and reflec- 

 tion.' We <ioubt not, that in the dwelling of the Ame- 

 rican farmer, 'Frank' will be a far more beneficial 

 book than the most celebrated novel Bulwer has ever 

 written; and, as such, we trust it will have a circula- 

 tion commensurate with its merits." 



Large Carrots and Parsneps. 



We owe our best thanks to James Gowen, Esq., of 

 Mount Airy, Germantown, for a basket of the finest 

 carrots and i)arsneps it has ever been our lot to see in 

 this country — a ])roof of what can be done by superior 

 cultivation, on a soil by no means naturally fertile, but 

 which, by the hand of such a man, can be made to yield 

 equal to the most favoured. The carrots measure 18 

 inches in length, and 1)| inches in circumference, per- 

 fectly formed, and quite free from canker, although 

 grown on an isinglass soil ; the parsneps, of the sugar 

 species, measure 18 inches in length, and 15a inches in 

 circumference, and are as delicate as those grown in 

 the best cultivated garden. The yield of both, as well 

 as that of his corn, is enormous, and we hope to have 

 the pleasure of laying the particulars of the mode of 

 cultivation, and the acreable produce of all his crops, 

 corn, carrots, parsneps, sugar-beets and mangel-wurzel, 

 before our readers in our next, by which time too, it is 

 expected that the premiums for the best crops will be 

 awarded by the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, 

 when we shall also have the pleasure of recording Die 

 names of those who have so well deserved " the thajike 

 of their country." 



The quantity of rain which fell during the 



llth month, (November,) was 2.48C inches. 



John Conrad. 

 Pennsylvania Hospital, 12th mo. 1, 1840. 



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