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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. VIII. 



A FRIEND inquires if the seed of the spring Tare or 

 Vetch, can he procured in Philadelphia; and asks for 

 ftirther information in relation to its culture. Will 

 some of our correspondents be so good as to give it? 

 In the mean time, we would refer to an article on the 

 subject, on page 284, of the last volume of the Cabi- 

 net. Inquiry has been made at several of our princi- 

 pal Seed stores, but we do not find the spring Tare. 



Joseph Bartholomew, Esq., of Strodes Mills, Mif- 

 flin county. Pa., lately informed us, that two years 

 ago, this fall, he sowed a quart of Mediterranean 

 wheat, which at the following harvest, yielded three 

 pecks: this he sowed last autumn, and its produce 

 last harvest, was 23^ bushels, weighing 67 lbs. per 

 bushel! One of his neighbour's wheat, of the same 

 variety, weighed 66 lbs. to the bushel. 



William Bacon will accept thanks for a copy of 

 his Address delivered on the 5th of last month, before 

 the Berkshire Agricultural Society, Mass., at the close 

 of its thirty-third anniversary. He thinks the state of 

 agriculture in a country, may be regarded as a pretty 

 sure index of the civilization and refinement to which 

 its people have attained. In order to compete with 

 the producers on the rich virgin soils of the West, who 

 now send their surplus articles to market so readily 

 and so cheaply, he advises the New England farmer to 

 grow, if possible, on his own lands, all that he needs — 

 direct the ten thousand wild streams of his country, to 

 manufacturing purposes, and be continually on the 

 watch for new subjects, to which he may profitably 

 turn his attention and his efforts. 



The Camden Mail states, that among the exports 

 from Boston to Calcutta, a few weeks ago, were one 

 hundred dozens of peaches, carefully packed in ice! 



At the Agricultural Fair, the other day, at Lansing- 

 burg, N. Y., an exhibition was made, of what seemed 

 appropriately termed "THE FARMER'S COAT OF 

 ARMS." It was a pyramidal structure, twenty-three 

 feet in length, and seventeen in height, in which were 

 tastefully arranged, almost every instrument used by 

 the farmer, from the spade to the threshing machine — 

 from the grain cradle, and the plough, to the churn, 

 and the hay-knife. Well chosen mottoes, inculcating 

 wholesome sentiments, were suspended from various 

 parts of the edifice; and near the centre was observed 

 a miniature engraving, dedicating to William P. Van 

 Rensselaer, Esq., President of the SoQJety, this " FARM- 

 ER'S COAT OF ARMS, composed of machines and 

 implements, for increasing the fertility of the soil and 

 the productiveness of human labour, by his obedient 

 servant, Alexander Walsh." 



The judicious remarks on transplanting trees, which 

 will be found on page 116, are taken from Parsons Sf 

 Co.'s Catalogue of Fruit, and Forest trees, for 1843. In 

 setting out an orchard, or in transplanting ornamental 

 trees, there is too frequently not sufficient care taken, 

 and the hints given, will be seasonable. There is but 

 little use in buying trees, if thoy are not properly 

 managed in the transplanting, and well cared for af- 

 terwards. Cattle and sheep, should by no means, be 

 suffered to run in a young orchard ; and hogs, though 

 not so likely to destroy the trees, had yet much better. 



if practicable, be kept out. A fruit orchard should be 

 steadily kept in tillage for several years, with root 

 crops, or corn, and the ground well manured. Rye or 

 wheat, is believed to be decidedly injurious to young 

 fruit trees. In the neighbourhood of the Atlantic 

 cities, there is scarcely anything on the farm more 

 profitable than fruit. For good apples, cherries, pearst 

 plums, quinces, peaches, the grower may always calcu- 

 late upon receiving a fair price— generally a high price, 

 compared with other things. 



Odr friend Solon Robinson, of Indiana, who has 

 long been an efficient and zealous advocate of every 

 interest of the farmer, and has aided largely, both by 

 his private correspondence and contributions to the 

 agricultural journals of the day, to promote those in- 

 terests, having with his office of Post-master, lost the 

 franking privilege, the Cultivator seconds the motion 

 of the South Western Farmer, by entering his name 

 as a permanent free subscriber. His name has been 

 so entered on the books of the Farmers' Cabinet, for 

 many months. 



The large rooms of the Museum building, on Ninth 

 street, were thrown open to the public, by the Frank- 

 lin Institute, on the 17th ult.,and continued so till the 

 28th. The thousands who continued till the last, to 

 crowd there, were sufficient evidence that there was 

 much to attract. The display made by our mechanics 

 and artists, was really very imposing. The variety 

 seemed as endless as our necessities or luxuries. 

 Every manufactured article, from the huge omnibus, 

 big enough for a pair of elephants, to the buckwheat- 

 cake paddle; and from the kitchen range, and the 

 steam engine, and the bed-quilt often thousand pieces, 

 to the tiniest breast-pin, and the gossamer lace that 

 floated with a breath, were handsomely and tastefully 

 arranged, and every nook and corner of those exten- 

 sive saloons, were occupied with articles finished in 

 the best style, every day in demand, either as matters 

 of course, and for convenience, or as ministering to 

 the most refined elegancies of life. Both the Institute 

 and the public, have reason to be satisfied with this 

 Annual Fair. To the patriot, who has closely watched 

 the progress of the mechanic arts during the last thirty 

 years, the spectacle must have been particularly grati- 

 fying. We had intended to give extracts from notes 

 made on the spot, but the more we were in the midst, 

 the more completely we became bewildered by the 

 multitude of objects— we therefore feel obliged to pass 

 over the concern, without particularizing any thing. 



The Michigan Farmer of 2nd ult., says it had in its 

 office, a water melon weighing 55 lbs., and measuring 

 four feet five inches in circumference. Will some of 

 our Jersey friends send us a larger one next season? 



" DIARY FOR 3844, OR DAILY REGISTER, for 

 the use of private families and persons of business, 

 containing a blank for every day in the year, for the 

 record of interesting daily occurrences, and future en- 

 gagements." Hyman L. Lipman, 139 Chesnut street, 

 has just published a neat little pocket companion, 

 with the above title, which will be found a very con- 

 venient repository for memorandums of every kind. — 

 Price 50 cents : to be had of Kimber & Sharpless, 50 

 North Fourth street, or of the publisher. 



