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Editorial JVotices. 



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I LETTER from Salem, Iowa, dated the 23rd ult., 

 9 that " wheat is worth between 40 and 50 cents a 

 hcl on the Mississippi — corn and oats Id to '20 cts. — 

 ns 50 cents, and buckwheat flour $1 50 to $-2 per 

 .." The increasing demand for bread sliifls in Great 

 lain and on the continent, may probably increase 

 se prices. By the Britannia, arrived at Boston on 

 7th instant, the report of short crops in Europe is 

 firmed, and the probability is strengthened that 

 ; country will be looked to for a supply of the defi- 

 icy. 



'he total amount of coal shipped from the various 

 1 regions in this State during the present season, 

 :o the first week in this month, has been as follows. 



From 

 Schuylkill Coal Mines, 

 Lehigh, 

 Lackawanna, 

 Wilkesbarre, 

 Pine Grove, 



tons cwt. 



1,020,221 00 



470,714 12 



275,-152 16 



389,582 06 



64,719 12 



Grand total, 2,032,690 06 



he retail price is $5 50 for Lehigh, and $4 75 for 

 uylkill. 



f E called a few days ago to see Fitzgerald's newly 

 ented Threshing Machine, which has been highly 

 ken of, and of which, without however being so 

 unate as to see it in operation, we formed a fa- 

 rable opinion. The beaters are plain, instead of 

 [es, and it occupies but little room. It may readily 

 ittached to the endless chain horse power now in 

 , or may be driven by steam, wind, or water. We 

 e told the grain and straw come out unbroken, and 

 I great velocity may be given to the cylinder, with 

 3asy moderate pace of the horse. 



T a recent meeting of the New York Farmers' 

 b, a paper was read from the minutes of the Hor- 

 Itural Society of Paris, giving "an account of a 

 •essful experiment of grafting a stem of the tomato 

 n the stalk of the potatoe, by which a crop of to- 

 los was raised in the air, while one of potatoes 

 (V in the earth." 



wo bucks and six ewes of the Leicester breed — very 

 erior sheep, and in remarkably fine condition, ar- 

 id here last month from Liverpool in the ship Fran- 

 ia,Capt. Smith. They went on by rail way to their 

 ;ination at Ashland, where we could hope they long 

 f live to benefit the Kentucky flock, and do credit 

 Henry Clay, their enterprising owner. Their cost 

 Sngland, we understood was about $100 each, and 

 ir freight about jCa 10s. sterling each. 



HE Annual meeting and E.xhibition of the Bucks 

 inty Agricultural Society, took place at Newtown 

 the 15th ult., and was largely attended. The day 

 ! pleasant, and the Newtown Journal says it was 

 mated that 3000 people were on the ground. " The 

 )lay of stock," says that paper, " was unusually 

 , as well as that of produce and agricultural imple- 

 jts." The ploughing match took place in the af- 

 loon. Diplomas were awarded to the owners ofi 



numerous fine horses, cattle, hogs and poultry, as welj 

 as for a good display of agricultural implements and 

 products. Five ploughs were entered and contended 

 for the honour of superior workmanship; but the com- 

 mittee were unable to give any one the preference. 



Edward M. Paxson delivered a very sensible address, 

 in which he takes occasion to express his surprise that, 

 considering the great proportion of our people who are 

 engaged in agricultural pursuits, so few farmers are 

 sent to the legislature. He thinks it hardly reasonable 

 to raise the complaint so frequently heard, that taxes 

 are oppressively heaped upon them, when they so 

 quietly throw the powers of legislation into the hands 

 of others who may forget their particular interests. 



A FRIEND extensively acquainted in the state of 

 Ohio, says the wheat harvest there was unusually 

 fine, and that much more ground has been seeded tiiis 

 autumn than ever was before. The Hamilton Jldver- 

 tiser estimates the crop in the Canadas at 12,000,000 

 bushels. We are also advised that the yield of wheat 

 and corn in Iowa was excellent. We think there is 

 every prospect, that with the increased demand in 

 Great Britain, we will be able to supply it to a great 

 extent at fair prices. Such is the fertility of our soils, 

 and the general character of our seasons, that if Eu- 

 rope will give us one year's notice, we may undertake 

 to supply bread stuffs to any amount. 



Passing the door, a fortnight ago, of our townsman 

 John Hagey, confectioner, in Market street, we ob- 

 served three large boxes with Isabella grapes, packed 

 in nice clean leaves. He was selling them at twelve 

 and a half cents per pound. They came from Heading, 

 some sixty miles in the interior, and were in good or- 

 der. Will our farmers avail themselves of the hint? 



O* A YOUNG man with a family, acquainted with the 

 farming business, would be willing to take charge of 

 a farm as overseer, or manager, and thus promote as- 

 siduously the interests of the owner. Address the 

 Editor. 



Norman's Southern Agricultural Mmanac for 1847, 

 edited by Thomas Affleck, of Adams county, Missis- 

 sippi, has been received. There is much in it highly 

 valuable to the Southern farmer and planter. 



The Farmers' Library for the present month, is val- 

 able as ever. The plates are fine. Our friends Gree- 

 ley & McElrath, with their Editor, really deserve to 

 succeed in their enterprise, they throw so much liberal 

 expenditure into it, as well as industry and good judg- 

 ment. When we looked at the cut on page 213, we 

 made upourmind pretty conclusively, that agriculture 

 must be in its nature a progressive art. The price of 

 the work is $5 a year. 



In a letter from a subscriber at Johnstown, Cambria 

 county, dated 30th ult, he says, "The potatoe disease 

 is general in our mountains ; most farmers have not 

 gathered more than they planted. They are selling 

 here from 37^ to 50 cents, and cannot be had for that 

 in any quantity." 



