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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. VIII. 



D. K. Minor, having made arransements with our 

 Board of Health, for the deposite of the material, has 

 lately commenced operations for the manufcictory of 

 PoUDRETTE in the Nnrlhwesiern part of this city. 

 We have, within a few days, received from him an in- 

 vitation to visit his establishment, in order, as he says, 

 " that you may be satisfied from your own observations 

 in relation to the mode of preparation,— that you may 

 know that the materials used in the process, are of 

 themselves valuable fertilizers, and that the process is 

 one calculated to rettftn, rather than to dissipate the 

 fertilizing properties of the iiight-snil." We have not 

 been able, as yet, to avail ourselves of the invitation, 

 but shall in the course of a few days. 



Having been for more than six years, engaged in 

 Now York, in the preparation of concentrated manures 

 — but more especially of PooDRETTE — and havingover- 

 come the ditficulties and discouragements, and prcjudi 

 ces, which were continually throwing themselves across 

 his path, D. K. Minor brings with him all the advan 

 tages of long experience, and commences his opera- 

 tions here, under very favourable circumstances. He 

 contemplates carrying on the business in this city, 

 next season, more extensively even, than he does in 

 New York, thereby enabling all farmers and garden- 

 ers, who desire to use it, to obtain it at the cheapest 

 rates — of the best quality, and at any time. We con- 

 sider the subject well worthy the attention of all who 

 want manure. Easy of transportation, and of itself 

 the strongest food for plants, farmers and others are 

 invited to try it, and let it speak for itself. We expect 

 to have the article at our office, in a few days. 



The Farmer's Manual, a Practical Treatise on the 

 nature and value of manures, with a brief account of 

 the most recent discoveries in Agricultural Chemistry, 

 by F. Falkner, Esq., author of British Husbandry, has 

 been recently published by George S. Appleton, 148, 

 Chesnut street, Philadelphia, and D. Appleton & Co., 

 New York :— price 31i cents. It would really seem as 

 if both authors and publishers, were determined to 

 take our agricultural readers by storm. They have 

 sometimes been charged with entertaining a decided 

 disrelish for "book farming," and now, forsooth, book 

 after book, is thrown before them, in rapid succession, 

 and withal so well written, and so judiciously put to- 

 gether, that it has become both their interest and their 

 pleasure, to buy and to read them: and doing this, they 

 can hardly help being benefited by them, if they would. 

 The Manual before us, for which the publishers will 

 accept our thanks, is well arranged, and thoroughly 

 practical, and is certainly not less calculated to be 

 useful, than many of the best that have preceded it. 

 The motto of our author is, " Muck is the mother of 

 money:"' and his main effort, as his title implies, is to 

 instruct the farmer in the increase, and good manage- 

 ment of the contents of his barn-yard:— that bank, as 

 it has sometimes been called, whose issues are just as 

 good as old gold. "To increase the quantity, and pre- 

 serve the fertilizing properties of farm-yard manure 

 by skilful management, and to provide efficient substi- 

 tutes, from every available source, are objects so deeply 

 interesting to the agriculturist, and important to the 

 public welfare, as to require no argument to enforce 

 attention." 



It is twelve or fifteen years since our good city was 

 permitted to luxuriate in such an abundance of peaches 

 as we have had for several weeks past. Our friends 

 in Jersey and Delaware, are in the midst of a rich 

 harvest; for notwithstanding their plenteousness,they 

 have all through commanded a fair price to the grow- 

 er, and yet been so reasonable, as to be within reach 

 of every class. While they, who buy nothing but the 

 best of every thing, may, for five and twenty, or thirty 

 cents a half peck, indulge in peaches whose beautiful 

 variety of colour, and richness of pulp, to say nothing 

 of their size, would astonish the taste of a West In- 

 dian, who had all his life before, concluded there was 

 nothing more delicious than his own orange; those 

 whose purses are shorter, or whose tastes are less fas- 

 tidious, procure an excellent article, for one-third or 

 one-half the sum. We do not pretend to any thing 

 like accuracy in the calculation; but as the result of 

 some inquiry from others, and our own observations, 

 we believe there have, for several weeks past, landed 

 daily, at our wharves, not less than from three, to six 

 thousand baskets, of this wholesome fruit. • 



The friend who forwarded the Delaware Republican 

 of the 1st inst., calling attention to the Ploughing 

 match, &c., at Wilmington, on the 13th and 14th insts., 

 did not bear in mind, that it would be past, before our 

 paper was out. 



The first No. of Vol. 4, of the Western Farmer and 

 Gardener, and Horticultural Magazine, comes to us 

 with a large amount of valuable matter. This work 

 IS published monthly, at Cincinnati, at one dollar a 

 year, by R. P. Brooks, and is ably edited by Charles 

 Poster. The Horticultural part will be superintended 

 by Robert Buchanan, President of their Horticultural 

 Society, recently organized. From the list of premi- 

 ums offered by the Hamilton County Agricultural So- 

 ciety, we should apprehend their movements are quite 

 spirited, and that they mean to do good : indeed, much 

 may be looked for, from the neighbourhood of the 

 Queen city. 



Some time ago, we took occasion to commend some 

 of our Agricultural Societies, who, instead of money, 

 offered many of their premiums in valuable Agricultu- 

 ral works, or papers. We are entirely impressed with 

 a belief that premiums offered of this character, which 

 are calculated to induce a spirit of inquiry, and in- 

 struct in their calling, those who may receive them, 

 are far more appropriate than silver cups, medals, and 

 spoons. These last may gratify for a time, and be for- 

 gotten; but our best agricultural periodicals, and stand- 

 ard works, that cost but little, will create, and satisfy 

 a laudable inquiry. They may do much to bring about 

 an improved husbandry, that shall not onlychange the 

 whole face of our country, but multiply the comforts 

 of tens of thousands. They are at once the most effi- 

 cient and enduring agents, that can be employed to 

 promote the objects intended by the Societies which 

 dispense them. 



Since we last went to press, the 13th and 14th No's, 

 of the "Farmer's Encyclopedia" have been received 

 from the publishers, Carey &: Hart, of this city. The 

 Essay on Manures, in the 13th Number, is particularly 

 valuable. 



