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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. VIII. 



after the repeated solicitations of several dis- 

 tinguished breeders in different sections of 

 the United States; and if pursued, the co- 

 operation of skilful and experienced indivi- 

 duals will be rendered. But Ibr the integ- 

 rity of its execution, the undersigned will be 

 solely responsible. 



As this work is not proposed in the antici- 

 pation of private gain, so neither will it be 

 expected to involve pecuniary loss. It is 

 therefore necessary to ascertain the extent 

 of encouragement which will be given to it 

 before proceeding; and for tliat purpose the 

 undersigned respectfully asks the publica 

 tion of this notice by the agricultural press 

 generally in tiie United States and the Ca^ 

 nadian provinces, for which, together with 

 a copy of the paper containing it, directed 

 to him, he will present the proprietor with 

 a copy of the work, if prosecuted. 



He also requests all who approve the plan 

 tx) write him, post paid, if by mail, previous 

 to the first day of July next, stating the 

 number of animals they propose to register, 

 together with the number of copies they 

 will take. If a sufficient number of re- 

 sponses are made to encourage the under- 

 taking, the work will proceed ; if not, it 

 will be given up. The determination of 

 going on with it, will be announced through 

 the agricultural papers as early as Septem- 

 ber next, and those proposing to patronize 

 the work will then be notified to forward 

 their respective registers of cattle immedi- 

 ately, together with the necessary evidence 

 of their correctness, that it may be issued 

 as early as the spring of 1845. 



As it is not expected that the sales of the 

 book will more than pay for the printing and 

 publication, a small charge for admission 

 will be required, say from twenty-five to 

 fifty cents for each animal, as the number 

 may determine. 



Well executed portraits of animals, the 

 plates being furnished by the owners, will 

 be inserted with the register. 



The full pedigree of each animal will be 

 given, running back through its whole ex- 

 tent in the English Herd Book, if thus fur- 

 nished, together with its reference numbers, 

 so as to render the American Herd Book a 

 perfect record of every animaPs genealogy. 

 An index containing the name and resi- 

 dence of every breeder whose cattle are 

 registered, will be inserted. 



Another index will contain the name of 

 every animal and the page on which it is re- 

 corded. 



The work will be prefaced with a full and 

 accurate history of the Short Horn breed of 

 cattle, drawn up from the best English au- 

 thorities, together with a particular account 



of their extraordinary productions both in the 

 dairy and at the shambles. 



It will be executed as nearly as possible, in 

 the style of the English Herd Book, well 

 bound, and delivered to subscribers at a price 

 not exceeding three dollars a copy, either at 

 New York, Albany, or Buffalo, at their op- 

 tion. Lewis F. Allen. 

 Black Rock, N. Y., April, 1844. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



AND 



.A.MEmCAIT liXSBD-BOOK. 



Philadelphia, Fifth Month, 1844. 



One of our friends at Washington, has forwarded a 

 Report on the means of improving the management, 

 cultivation and fabrication of Hemp, translated by 

 order of Congress, from the Russian, by P. Von 

 Schmidt. 



To the planters in the rich Hemp growing districts 

 of Kentucky, Missouri, &.C., the Report will be exam- 

 ined with lively interest. Tiie translator, besides 

 being a native of Riga, in Russia, famous for its su- 

 perior production of this article, has been for many 

 years, successfully cultivating it in the valley of the 

 Wabash, in Indiana ; and he believes that if properly 

 pursued and encouraged, the time may not be very 

 distant, when, instead of paying millions of dollars 

 to foreign countries, for supplies necessary for oui" 

 navigation, we may become exporters of Hemp to a 

 considerable extent. We have in the office a remark- 

 ably fine specimen raised at Ashland. 



We hear a good deal said about the Corn laws of 

 England, and of their operation. For the very inte- 

 resting pamphlet in relation to them, a part of which 

 appears in the present number, we are indebted to the 

 kindness of Dr. Mease. 



Willis Gaylord, senior editor of the Cultivator, 

 died at his residence, Limerock Farm, Onandago co., 

 New York, on the 27th of Third mouth last, afler an 

 illness of little more than four and twenty hours, in 

 the 51st year of his age. It was in the ordering of 

 Divine Providence, that from his boyhood he should 

 struggle with severe bodily infirmities, which shut 

 him out from the more active pursuits of life. With 

 a mind, however, of more than ordinary strength, and 

 more than ordinarily well disciplined, it was his de- 

 light to encounter the obstacles which physical weak- 

 ness placed in his path. It was his privilege, too, to 

 surmount them: and in dispensing the rich stores of 

 knowledge which he had acquired, he rendered himself 

 extensively useful to others. As an agricultural wri- 

 he was well known and highly res^pected. If we 

 might do so without a charge of obtrusiveness, this 

 opportunity should be embraced to acknowledge that 

 we sincerely sympathize with the editor of the Culti- 

 vator, as well as with the family of the deceased, in 

 their bereavement. We shall feel in common with 

 the whole agricultural community, that we greatly 

 miss the labours of one, to whom we have heretofore 

 been fund of looking for instruciion. 



