No. 5. 



Editorial JVotices. 



167 



The iron steamer, Great Britain, now being built at 

 Bristol, England, is 308 feet long and 50 wide, and 

 measuring from the figure-head to the tafferell, 322 feet. 

 Her grand saloon aft, is 98 feet by 32, and 84 high. 

 The boiler will be heated by 24 fires; and the vessel, 

 driven by a propeller somewhat upon the principle of 

 the screw, will be operated upon by four engines, each 

 of 250 horse power, and the force of 1000 horses, will 

 urge her to her point of destination. She will con- 

 sume about 64 tons of coal per day: — to provide her 

 then, for a voyage of twenty days, would require 

 nearly 1,300 tons. She is expected, however, to make 

 her way, piifling and blowing, across the Atlantic, in 

 ten or eleven days. About 1,500 tons of iron will be 

 used in her construction, and her cost will probably be 

 je]00,000. 



The Soothern Cultivator, published at Augusta, 

 Ga., every fortnight, at one dollar a year, by J. W. and 

 W. S. Jones, is one of the neatest agricultural papers 

 we are in the receipt of, and is eminently calculated 

 to be useful. In a late number, which is near the 

 close of the first volume, a sensible, manly appeal, 

 which we hope will prove an efficient one, is made to 

 the planters of the South, and to all the friends of ag- 

 riculture, to assist in giving such a circulation to the 

 paper, as will enable it to sustain itself, and its pub- 

 lishers to continue their efforts in behalf of the great 

 agricultural interests of that section of the country. 



The farmers ef Salem county, N. J., met at Salem 

 on the 18lh ult., and formed an Agricultural Society, 

 by the adoption of a Constitution, and the election of 

 officers for the management of its concerns. James 

 Newell, was chosen president; Paul Scull, W.m. F 

 Reeve, and Joseph Black, vice-presidents: Samuel 

 Abbott, recording secretary; J. M. Hannah, corres- 

 ponding secretary; and Smal. P. Carpenter, treasurer. 

 From the character and thorough farming habits of 

 the men who are active in this measure, we anticipate 

 a still further impetus to what may already be called 

 the good farming of Salem county. With a soil abun 

 dantly prolific— lying on the Delaware, and its tide- 

 water creeks bringing the advantages of navigation 

 to the foot of almost every farm, this county is per- 

 haps second to none in the State, in the amount of its 

 agricultural prosperity and wealth. It possesses too 

 in the extensive beds of green-sand marl, in the vi 

 cinity of Woodstown, a mine that is better than one 

 of gold; for while it enriches for many miles around, 

 all who dig for its treasures, it does not enervate them, 

 but on the contrary, urges them on to continued in- 

 dustry and toil. 



Our friend A. W. Townsend, whose letter appears 

 on page 154, and who forwarded a couple of the ears 

 of his Calico corn, accompanied by a handsome sample 

 of flour made from it, informs us, that it was latterly 

 brought from the Oregon Territory, aud he values it 

 highly. 



The editor of the Southern Planter, Richmond, Va., 

 will accept our thanks for the copy of his Address be- 

 fore the Henri'-o Agricultural Society, delivered on the 

 1st ult. We have beeu much gratified in its perusal, 



and liave marked some paragraphs for insertion in a 

 future number. 



We are indebted also to B. P. Johnson, President of 

 the Oneida county Agricultural Society, for his Ad- 

 dress delivered before it, at Rome, N. Y , on the 5th of 

 Tenth month last. It is really very gratifying to no- 

 tice the evidences all through our country, of increas- 

 ing interest in the promotion of agricultural improve- 

 ments. From the North and the South— from the East 

 and the West, these evidences come to us almost daily. 

 It is always cheering to see difficulties overcome, and 

 the strong energies of the farmer and mechanic brought 

 into action, in proportion as circumstances are appa 

 rently unfavourable. The president acknowledges that 

 his own State is indebted to Massachusetts for almost 

 every superior implement of husbandry; and that the 

 agricultural products of the latter State, upon a soil 

 far less fertile, and less favourable for cultivation than 

 New York, are snch as to require the most improved 

 and efiicient system of husbandry, on the part of New 

 York to equal her. 



Liebig's Familiar Letters on Agriculture, Chemis- 

 try, &c., were noticed in the last number of the Cabi- 

 net, as published by George S. Appleton, of this city. 

 We have lately received a copy of the same work, 

 published by James M. Campbell & Co., 98 Chesnut 

 street, in uniform style with their editions of Agricul- 

 tural and Animal Chemistry, by the same author. 

 The price of this also, is only 124 cents, and may be 

 read to advantage by every one who holds the plough. 



THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHEMISTRY, is now 

 publisliing monthly, by Carey & Hart, at 25 cents a 

 number. The second number of this valuable work, 

 by James C. Booth and M H. Boye, has been placed 

 upon our table. It is handsomely got up, and, as its 

 title imports, will embrace the whole range of chemi- 

 cal science, and be enriched with all its latest discove- 

 ries. 



We have received a letter from Wm. M. Paul, of 

 Milton, Wayne county, Indiana, in which he speaks 

 highly of a plough, called the " Universal Corti Plough, 

 or Cultivator," the castings of which may be so regu- 

 lated as to turn two furrows at onee: for instance, 

 supposing the rows of corn or potatoes. Sec, to be 

 three, or four, or five feet apart, as the case may be, a 

 furrow may be thrown to each of two rows at the 

 same time; and by properly adjusting the castings, the 

 middle, left after the first furrows have been turned, 

 may be readily divided. The cost is about $8; and 

 patent rights are for sale. The writer, who is origi- 

 nally from the East, is of the opinion, that unless ma- 

 terial improvements have been latterly introduced into 

 our mode of constructing our ploughs for working 

 among corn, this will be found superior to any we 

 have. It is of course, impossible for the editor to form 

 an opinion of the merits of the plough in question, 

 and he will express none. The use of the Cultivator 

 with five teeth or hoes, and Prouty &. Beach's small 

 ploughs, really seem so complete, that it must be a 

 very superior article that shall drive them out of the 

 corn-field. 



