No. 4. 



Editorial Notices. 



135 



The American Agriculturist's Almanac, for 1844, by 

 A. B. Allen, editor of the American Agriculturist, has 

 been received. It is calculated for the meridians of 

 Montreal, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Charles- 

 ton, and New Orleans. Besides an abstract of the 

 Census returns for 1840, so far as they relate to our 

 farming productions made by H. L. Ellsworth, Com- 

 missioner of Patents, it gives much other information 

 valuable to the farmer. The above was written a 

 month ago, but in making up our last number, it was 

 unintentionally overlooked. 



Since our last, the 16th and concluding number of 

 the Farmer's Encyclopedia, has come to hand. The 

 enterprise of Carey & Hart, in giving this work to the 

 public in so neat a form, and at a price less than one 

 third of the English edition, deserves, as we think, all 

 commendation and encouragement from the agricultu- 

 rist. As a book of reference, it is of great and lasting 

 value to the intelligent and inquiring farmer, who 

 would have on his shelf the means of informing him 

 self readily, on every subject connected with his call 

 ing. Many of the articles, are each of much more 

 practical worth than the cost of the number contain- 

 ing them. The work, as originally published in Eng- 

 land, contained a great deal of matter uninteresting 

 to the American farmer, and not adapted to our cli- 

 mate, our markets, or our modes of tillage. Dr. Em- 

 erson has very properly omitted this, and replaced it 

 with other matter suited to our own particular cir- 

 cumstances. In the discharge of his duty, the Ameri- 

 can editor has evidently brought to bear upon his va- 

 ried subjects, an industry and research, and a soundness 

 of judgment, that have enabled him to acquit himself 

 well of his task. The work may be obtained at this 

 office, or of the publishers;— price $4, bound. 



ated around the hearth, or at the board, where religion 

 and education combine to cast their hallowed radiance, 

 may be yet more thoroughly enjoyed where habits of 

 active industry have given health to the frame, and a 

 corresponding energy of pursuit, in paths of usefulness 

 and duty. 



At the Agricultural and Horticultural Fair at New 

 Haven, Con., a great display was made of oxen. The 

 districts of Cheshire, Orange and Branford, respective- 

 ly, turned out sixty, one hundred and forty-nine, and 

 one hundred and fifty-two yoke, in their teams. This 

 kind of force is much more generally depended on by 

 farmers to the Eastward, than with us. We do not 

 here, sufficiently appreciate either oxen or mules. 



During the week ending the 19th of Eighth month 

 last, 44,045 persons are said to have passed through 

 the Thames Tunnel. The fare is one penny — not quite 

 equal to two of our cents. Improvements are needed, 

 and proposed to be made to the entrances; when these 

 are completed, and the state of the atmosphere in the 

 Tunnel purified by ventilation, the number of passen- 

 gers will no doubt, be greatly increased. 



A LOT of Ouano has been imported at Baltimore, for 

 the purpose of giving farmers an opportunity to test 

 its value. The editor of the American Farmer, offers 

 it for sale at 5^ cents per lb., stating that 100 lbs. are 

 sufficient to manure an acre. 



The second Annual Cattle Show, &c., of the Balti- 

 more County Agricultural Society, was held at Go- 

 vanstown, Md., about the middle of last month, and ap- 

 pears to have realized all that its friends hoped from 

 it. The weather was fine, and the assemblage nume- 

 rous. The exhibition of stock, including Durham, De- 

 von, Ayrshire, and Alderney cattle — agricultural im- 

 plements, fruit, domestic manufactures, &c., gave 

 gratifying proof of the strong hold the interests and 

 objects of the Society have taken on the farmers of 

 the vicinity. At the ploughing match which took 

 place on the third day, seventeen ploughs were entered 

 as competitors. The prize was borne away by Prouty 

 & Mears' Self-sharpening Centre-draught plough, ir 

 the shape of an elegant silver goblet. William G 

 Read, the orator of the day, though he professed to 

 have wandered from his appropriate field, and to have 

 placed himself in the condition of an estray, by at- 

 tempting to address an assemblage of farmers, never- 

 theless, delivered a very animated, and in most re- 

 spects, an excellent Address. Some views were freely 

 held up in relation to the necessity and value, and 

 honourableness of labour, which those who put a pro- 

 per estimate upon the rich dowry of healthful frames 

 and energetic minds, for their children, would do well 

 to practice upon. It were well for us all to remember 

 that those social pleasures which so sweeten and em- 

 bellish life, and which can only be properly appreci- 



Hovey's Horticultural Magazine of last month— 

 an excellent work, by the way, for the gardener, pub- 

 lished monthly, in Boston, at three dollars a year- 

 gives an interesting account of the late public exhibi- 

 tion of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. There 

 was a prodigious display of fruit of various kinds. 

 The specimens are said to have been finer, and in 

 greater variety, than had been shown at anytime here- 

 tofore. It would seem as if the vicinity of Boston 

 was particularly favourable to the cultivation of the 

 pear. Col. Wilder, the President of the Society, ex- 

 hibited no fewer than eighty varieties of this fruit 

 alone. Of these, the Columbia Virgoulouse, Duchesse 

 d' Angouleme, and Glout Morceau pears, and Coe's 

 Golden-drop plum, were exceedingly large and fine. 

 One hundred and sixty different kinds of pears, were 

 sent from the Pomological garden of the late R. Man- 

 ning, of Salem, many of which would do credit to an 

 amateur. Hacon's Incomparable, Queen of the Low 

 Countries, Beurre d' Amalis, King Edward's, and many 

 others are mentioned, as being superior to any ever 

 before exhibited. Dr. Sparhawk produced more of his 

 mammoth apples, one of whose kindred raised in the 

 vicinity of Washington, D.C., is said in a former num- 

 ber of the Magazine, to have weighed 274 ounces! 

 What dumplings such as this would make! Henry 

 Butterfield. of Cambridge, produced an Italian squash, 

 weighing 102 lbs. 



23- SHORT ADVERTISEMENTS, 43 

 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 

 The money to be paid in advance. 



