No. 2. 



Important Invention. — Editorial Notices. 



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To prevent confusion, it will be necessary that all 

 contributions be presented on the Monday and Tues- 

 day previous to the Exhibition. 



Bouquets on the mornings of each day. 



All articles will be returned to the contributors, un- 

 less otherwise directed, of which the Committee will 

 espect to be duly notified. 



Peter Mackenzie, 

 Robert Buist, 

 William Chalmers, Jr. 

 James D. Fulton, 

 Robert Kilvington, 

 John Sherwood, 



Committee of Arrangement. 



Important luvention. 



Mr. Miller, an ingenious saddler, of Lo- 

 thian street, Edinburgh, has devised a mode 

 capable of preventing even the strongest and 

 wildest horse from escaping the control of 

 its rider or driver. On Wednesday last, Mr. 

 Miller made a public trial of his invention 

 in Queen street, in presence of Professor 

 Dick, Mr. Wordsworth, and a number of in- 

 dividuals, includmg several of the county 

 gentlemen, and all of approved knowledge. 

 For this purpose, a strong, active, hard-pull- 

 ing, and notorious run-away horse, was pro- 

 cured, and yoked in a gig, when Mr. Miller 

 boldly took his seat, and requested some of 

 the company to irritate the animal, with 

 which desire they reluctantly complied. Off 

 set the horse, but he had scarcely made a 

 fewr springs, when Mr. Miller at once sub- 

 dued him, bringing him to a literal stand- 

 still. This was repeated several times, every 

 means being employed to provoke still fur- 

 ther, the restive animal ; but he was as often 

 brought up by Mr. Miller, and apparently 

 with a ready facility. All present expressed 

 themselves delighted and surprised, not more 

 by the efficiency than the neatness and sim- 

 plicity of the invention. The apparatus can, 

 we understand, be obtained at a trifling cost, 

 and can, besides, be used with any harness 

 or riding-bridle, without alteration. — British 

 American Cultivator. 



Salt as a manure. — ^I can bear testimony 

 to the beneficial effects of salt as a manure, 

 when judiciously employed. My garden, 

 when I came to it, was so infested with 

 slugs, as to render it almost impossible to 

 preserve a vegetable from their ravages, 

 more especially from those of a large spe- 

 cies, half as large as a man's thumb, pro- 

 vincially termed the herring-back slug. By 

 the advice of a neighbour,! procured a quan- 

 tity of salt, which I kept in a dry shed ; and 

 when a quarter of land was cleared of its 

 crop, I sprinkled it all over with salt, and 



allowed it to remain for a day or two before 

 it was dug in. I likewise, on moist eve- 

 nings, when the slugs were most active, 

 went carefully over the garden and gave it 

 a slight sprinkling with salt, even amongst 

 the growing crop. This effectually de- 

 stroyed those pests without injuring the ve- 

 getables, and my garden is now compara- 

 tively free from them. The salt I use is a 

 coarse salt. — Gardener'' s Chronicle. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



AND 



AJUL^-RICAN HSHD-BOOK. 



Philadelphia, Ninth Month, 1843. 



We would remind our friends that the Convention 

 of Breeders, called by a Circular from the Committee 

 of the State Agricultural Society of New York, and 

 which we published on page 382, of last volume, wil! 

 be held at the Library room of the American Insti- 

 tute, in New York, on the 17th of next month, at 7 

 o'clock, P. M. 



Those who feel an interest in good cattle, in this 

 vicinity— and who is there does not?— will, we trust, 

 take care that they are well represented, feeders and 

 butchers, and barrelers, can none of them plead in- 

 difference to the objects of the Convention ; and they 

 should bring their experience and judgment to bear 

 upon the discussions. The advocate of the " Pump- 

 kin-rump," as well as of the " Straight line," will 

 doubtless be heard, and each may help to settle more 

 definitely than is now the case, what are the constitu- 

 ents of excellence in each of the breeds. 



Can any of our friends inform us where a genuine 

 Southdown buck, coming two years old nest spring, 

 may be obtained in this vicinity?— the price, &c. 



THRonoH the kindness of a friend, we have from 

 time to time, been gratified in looking over the Edin- 

 burgh edition of Professor Johnston's Lectures on Ag- 

 ricultural Chemistry and Geology. Extracts from them 

 have occasionally given solidity and variety to our 

 pages. D. K. Minor, 23, Chambers street, N. Y., has 

 recently published in neat, and convenient, and cheap 

 form. Part third, of these Lectures, embracing the Im- 

 provement of the soil by mechanical and chemical 

 means. This third part is issued previously to the 

 first and second, that the latest information may be 

 put in the hands of the practical man at the earliest 

 period. The first and second parts are promised short- 

 ly, and the fourth, immediately after its receipt fronj 

 England. It is for sale in this city by W. H. Gra- 

 ham, and by Kiniber & Sharpless,— price 31| cents. 



There is at this time a general spirit of inquiry 

 among practical farmers, in relation to the use of con- 

 centrated fertilizing' agents, which wi\l be greatly aided 

 and properly directed, by the labours of Professor John- 

 ston : and as an extensive manufacturer of these con- 

 centrated manures, the publisher very properly and 

 appropriately throws these lectures abroad in an Ame- 

 rican dress. 



