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Editorial JVotices. 



Vol. XI. 



Through the courtesy of our friend Thomas B. Flo- 

 rence, Secretary of the Board of Controllers of the 

 Public Schools of the city and county of Philadelphia, 

 we have been furnished with detailed accounts of the 

 operations of the Board for the year ending the last 

 of 6th mo., 1846. 



We have looked over them with great interest, and 

 could not avoid being favourably impressed with the 

 advantageous working of the extended machinery. 

 The statements in relation to the Central High School 

 are particularly valuable. 



The aggregate expenditures of the Public Schools 

 of the county for the year, was $247,418.34. The num- 

 ber of children in the schools at the date of the Re- 

 port was 37,025, and the nun)ber of Teachers 561, of 

 whom 80 were males, and 481 females. 



Three months ago on page 131, we gave an excel- 

 lent receipt for curing hams. Many of our readers 

 know that after they are cured and smoked, it is often- 

 times no easy matter to Keep them satisfactorily 

 through the warm season. The Editor's plan — and it 

 is the best we have fallen upon in a practice of mtiro 

 than thirty years— is, to envelope the ham completely 

 in two or three newspapers, and put it in a muslin 

 bag. Let there bo a string put through the hock, say 

 six or eight inches long, by which it may be hung up 

 —draw the mouth of the bag tight, and tie it round 

 the string. It is better to let the ham, when sus 

 pended in the closet or cellar, bear upon its own 

 string, rather than upon that of the bag in which it is 

 enclosed. The bag will be injured, if the ham bears 

 upon the bottom of it. 



The 8th No. of Colman's Tour, treating of Crops, 

 Live stock, Dairy Husbandry and Manures, has come 

 to hand, and will be found of equal interest with any 

 of its predecessors. H. Colman is now on the conti- 

 nent, and the succeeding two Nos. will probably treat 

 on the agriculture of the parts he may visit. We 

 would much like to furnish more of our subscribers 

 with this highly valuable work. Price complete in 10 

 Nos., $5. 



B^- SHORT ADVERTISEMENTS, 



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. 



Fruit & Ornamental Trees. 



The subscriber offers for sale an extensive assort- 

 ment of Fruit &. Ornamental Trees of the most ap- 

 proved varieties, of tine size and warranted true to 

 their respective names. Orders may be left with J. 

 Tatum, No. 50, N. Fourth street, where catalogues 

 may be obtained or E. P. Middleton, No. 9 Market st. 

 EZRA STOKES, 

 Mt. Laurel, near Moorestown, Burlington co., N. J. 

 Second month 15th, 1847. 



SEED STORE, 

 No. 23 Market Street, Philadelphia. 



The subscriber keeps constantly a supply of White 

 and Red Clover, and other grass seeds; fresh Perennial 

 Rye-grass, and Lucerne seed. Field seeds, consisting 

 of choice Spring Wheat, Barley, Potatoe Oats, North- 

 ern and other seed-corn. Also, in season. Fruit and 

 Shade Trees. Garden and Bird seeds generally. Gua- 

 no in parcels to suit purchasers. 



M. S. POWELL. 



Philad., Feb., 1846. tf. 



PRAIRIE FARMER, 



Devoted to Western Agriculture, Mechan- 

 ics, and Education; 



Vol. 7, 1847. 



Published monthly, at Chicago, Illinois, by 



JOHN S. WRIGHT: 



Containing' 32 very large octavo pages, besides a coloured 

 cover of 16 pages, with advertisements, anecdotes, ^-c, 

 and liable only to single newspaper postage. 



JOHN S. WRIGHT & J. AMBROSE WIGHT, Ed's. 



TERMS— $1 per annum, six copies for $5, thirteen 

 for $10, payable invariably in advance. All commu- 

 nications must be sent free of postage. 



Every intelligent person at the East or South wishes 

 to know, or should wish to know, the condition and 

 progress of the West. Therefore they should take and 

 read the Prairie Farmer, which will supply them with 

 more reliable information than they can obtain in any 

 other way, unless they spend hundreds of dollars in 

 travelling. 



This is no ephemeral publication, for it has reached 

 its seventh year, and has a circulation of nearly 5000 

 copies, chiefly at the West, and has at least a respect- 

 able standing among kindred publications. The mat- 

 ter is almost wholly original, and a large share is sup- 

 plied by correspondents, more than 350 in number, 

 from all parts of the West, which makes the paper 

 practical, and western in its character; and being 

 published chiefly for home circulation, there is no at- 

 tempt to exaggerate or deceive. The information can 

 be relied upon as truthful. 



The SIX BACK VOLUMES, stitched in covers, sub- 

 ject to newspaper postage, and the 7th, as issued, will 

 be sent for $5; and there are no works published which 

 furnish so large an amount of information concerning 

 the West, or its agriculture. 



We really think there is abundance of truth in 

 what our triend J. S. Wright says above of the value 

 of his paper; and certainly every farmer west of the 

 mountains, and many hundreds east of them, after 

 liaving always of course, first subscribed and paid for 

 the Farmers' Cabinet, can hardly spend a dollar to 

 better purpose, than by securing it at once. It will 

 give us pleasure to receive subscriptions at this office 

 for the Prairie Farmer. — Ed. 



