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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. XII. 



He was well and extensively known as an agricul- 

 tural writer, and boing gifted by nature with a mind 

 of more tiian ordinary power, his perseverance and 

 industry enabled him to surmount many obstacles, and 

 procured for liim a position of high respectability in 

 his native State. His paper had scarcely its superior 

 in the country. The Agricultural Press must acknow- 

 ledge the loss it has sustained in the early death of 

 such a man. The results of his practical philosophy 

 and active philanihropy, will also be missed by a 

 large community. 



A New York correspondent of the Pa. Enquirer, 

 under date of the 9th inst., says a committee of fifteen 

 was recently appointed by the Academy of Medicine 

 to e.vamine into the eflects upon the general health of 

 the city, caused by the numerous milk manufactories, 

 distilleries, &:c., and particularly to report the effect on 

 the human economy, of milk from cows fed on swill. 



WuEAT fiour may be quoted at $5 50 to $0 per bar- 

 rel, and wheat at $1 20 to $1 25 per bushel— corn 75 

 to 80 cents— oats 50 to 55 cents. Good old Timothy 

 hay is worth $25 a ton — new, $20. 



It is announced in a late number of the Oenesee 

 Farmer, published at Rochester, N. Y., that it is here- 

 after to be enlarged from twenty-four to thirty-two 

 octavo pages, the price to remain as heretofore. 



We called a few days ago at the "Black Bear" in 

 Fifth street, to look at a loading rake, which was con- 

 trived, as we are informed, by a person in this city, 

 for the purpose of raking, and at the same time load 

 ing hay. The rake is attached to the wagon, both 

 moving together; and instead of the hay being left in 

 the winrow, it, with the rake is raised by means of 

 pulleys, and emptied into the wagon. 



A VERY handsome copy of Vr. Gardner's Discourse, 

 pronounced in the third month of last year, before the 

 .American Agricultural Association, on the Chemical 

 Principles of the Rotation of Crops, has been kindly 

 forwarded by an unknown friend, and we have perused 

 it with much interest. 



There is scarcely a more important matter to the 

 intelligent and ambitious farmer, than a proper rota- 

 tion in his crops ; one that shall be adapted to his lo- 

 cation, his soil, and the market on which he depends 

 for disposing of his surplus produce. Here we have 

 corn, oats, wheat, grass: and not a few of our good 

 farmers, have doubts respecting the expediency of fol- 

 lowing this system so exclusively as we do; but how 

 to improve it, is yet to be explained. 



The Talbot County Cattle Show and Fair, will be 

 held at Easton, Md., on the 27th and 2Sth of tenth 

 month next, for the exhibition and sale of live stock, 

 agricultural implements, &,r. Liberal premiums are 

 offered both for stock and good farming. On the se- 

 cond day of the Show, a ploughing match will com- 

 mence at 9 o'clock, A. M. 



The kindness of B. P. Johnson, Secretary of the 

 New Vork State Agricultural Society, has put us in 



possession of the premium list and regulations of the 

 Society for the approaching Show, which, it has alrea- 

 dy been stated in the Cabinet, will take place at Sara- 

 toga Springs on the Hth, 15th and ICth of next month. 

 Silas Wright will deliver the Annual Address at two 

 o'clock in the afternoon of the Ifith: immediately after 

 which, the Reports of the Premium Committees will 

 be read. 



We would ask attention to the list of premiums to 

 be awarded at the Annual Exhibition of our Agricul- 

 tural Society, at the Lamb Tavern on the 14th and 15th 

 of Tenth month next. Our farmers and agricultural 

 implement makers, we trust, will see that we have a 

 fine display of their stock, produce, &c., and thus give 

 a further impulse to their noble calling. The list will 

 be found on page 25. 



A DisE sE has appeared among the cattle in some 

 parts of Salem county, N. J., which has been cause of 

 much alarm, and is said to be similar to what appeared 

 in the same neighbourhood a few years ago. Running 

 at the nose, and drooping of the head and ears, are 

 symptoms which attend the disease, and copious bleed- 

 ing is found to be a principal remedy. We have been 

 told of several farmers who have lost six or eight cat- 

 tle, and some horses too, have died. It is thought to 

 be contagious. 



After the drought and coolness of the spring, we 

 have since harvest, had copious rains and warm wea- 

 ther. The promise of the corn crop is abundant, and 

 there is no lack of pasture. Butter is still, however, 

 high— 25 cents to 35 cents. Why is this, now in the 

 midst of the grass season, when butter is mostly plen- 

 tiful and cheap? Why, but because our farmers find it 

 more profitable to freeze their cream than to churn it, 

 and thus avail themselves of this rapidly increasing 

 demand for the rich produce of the dairy. So be it. 

 In ice creams or butter, we wish them well remune- 

 rated for every trouble. If they will only keep up the 

 character of our good city for its butter, and improve 

 it— for there is too much poorly made butter comes 

 here— we will be satisfied to give a good price for it. 



The Newcastle County Agricultural Society in Del- 

 aware, has offered a premium of $3, or a copy of the 

 Farmers' Encyclopedia, to the best shocker of grain. 

 This is a judicious proposal. Where wheat is cut be- 

 fore it is sufficiently ripe to place in the barn— and we 

 believe it is always best so to cut it, if practicable — it 

 must be shocked, and it is a nice art to shock well. 

 Rye will stand almost any amount of rain in shock, 

 but wheat requires abundantly more care. Secure 

 shockers are not found in every field. 



Odr friend John Jones, of Wheatland, Delaware,— 

 who, by the w.iy, is one of Delaware's most enterpris- 

 ing farmers, and who drills in all his wheat and corn, 

 has purchased the right for Newcastle county, to Pen- 

 nock's Patent Drill, and has generously offered to each 

 member of the Agricultural Society, who has paid up 

 all his dues, or to any pi-rson who may become such 

 member before the next Exhibition, a right to have 

 one Drill made for his own use. 



