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Editorial JVotices. 



Vol. IX. 



WiiLtAM CRTsriN; of Gloucester co., N J., broni^ht 

 to this office a few weeks ago, from his farm on Tim- 

 ber creek, several famous stalks of Timothy, some of 

 which were five feet seven and a half inches in height, 

 with heads ten and a half inches long. The stoutest 

 stem of Timothy we have ever seen, was a solitary 

 one found in the woods several years ago, near a ra- 

 vine. It was about five feet nine inches in height, 

 with a splendid head ten inches in length. 



The Annual Fair and Cattle Show of the New York 

 State Agricultural Society will be held at Poughkeep- 

 sie, on the 18th and 19th of next month. Those which 

 have heretofore been held at Albany, Syracuse and Ro- 

 chester, have been largely attended, and have been 

 objects of strong interest to the farmer. Adequate 

 preparatious are making to render the approaching 

 Show equal to any which have preceded it; and as it 

 ia easy of access to persons from a distance, many 

 will doubtless be drawn thither. 



The Washington Reporter, published at Washing- 

 ton, Pa., says the crop of wool in that county, the 

 present season, has been large, amounting to at least 

 800,000 lbs.; and that the market has been unusually 

 brisk for some weeks past. It has been generally 

 taken up by dealers in that county and in Pittsburgh, 

 at an advance of 30 or 40 per cent, on last year's 

 prices. Three hundred thousand dollars make no tri- 

 fling sum to scatter among the farmers of a single 

 county, for one single article of its produce: a county 

 too, which claims to be but little behind any other in 

 the State, in the largeness of its grain crop. 



On the 25tli ult., we saw for the first time this sea- 

 son, in our markets, sweet potatoes from Jersey, of 

 quite a respectable size. — Price eight cents per pound. 

 This is rather earlier ihan usual fpr the appearance of 

 this excellent vegetalilc. The season, as we all know, 

 has been perhaps ten days more forward than ordi- 

 nary. 



It is stated in one of the New York papers, that 

 $900 freight were received in one day, two or three 

 weeks ago, by the New Jersey Transportation Com- 

 pany, on the article of green corn alone. A friend of 

 ours in the vicinity of Portsmouth, Va., who removed 

 from New Jersey, informed that he paid last season, 

 upwards of 81,20U freight on his vegetables to the 

 Philadelphia market. 



The proprietor of the " American Farmer," pub- 

 lished at Baltimore, being about to enter upon other 

 engagements which will very much occupy his time, 

 is desirous to dispose of his well known establish- 

 ment. Tlie American Farmer is the oldest Agricultu- 

 ral paper in the country, it being more than a quarter 

 of a century since it was commenced by J. S. Skinner, 

 that veteran friend of the farming interest, "chiefly 

 as a vehicle for the outpourings of his own crude no- 

 tions of what might be done to improve the processes 

 and implements of American agriculture, to meliorate 

 our domestic animals and fruits and vegetables, and to 

 vindicate and elevate the cause of agriculture, as a 

 great and neglected national interest." It was long 

 and ably sustained by him, and has been in the hands 



of Samuel Sands, its present proprietor, one of our 

 best conducted papers. 



The kindness of the publisher Laurens Wallazz, No. 

 25 Minor street, in this city, has placed in our hands a 

 very neat copy of the fourth edition of Ruffin"s Essay 

 on Calcareous manures. It is not designed to give at 

 present anything like a synopsis of this well known 

 work. We have in the course of our labours, many 

 times referred to it, and availed ourselves of its con- 

 tents , and would recommend to every practical farmer 

 to acquaint himself familiarly with them. 



In the concluding paragraph of the first edition, 

 published in 18:12, is the following remark: " My task 

 is completed. Whether I shall be able to persuade my 

 countrymen to prize the treasures and seize the profits 

 which are within their reach, or whether my testimo- 

 ny and arguments shall he fruitless— soon or late, a 

 time must arrive when my expectations will be real- 

 ized. The use of calcareous manures, is destined to 

 change a large portion of the soil of lower Virginia 

 from barrenness to fertility." These sanguine expecta- 

 tions, so beautifully expressed twelve years ago, their 

 writer has now the satisfaction of beholding in good 

 measure answered. This is plainly shown by the 

 statements* which he made at a Farmers'' dinner, 

 given him near the close of last year, by his old friends 

 and neighbours of Prince George county. And thou- 

 sands are prepared to acknowledge that no man has 

 laboured more industriously or more availingly for the 

 agriculture of Virginia, than Edmund Ruffin. 



We keep on hand at this office, and will supply our 

 friends with Agricultural works generally. Among 

 which are 



THE FARMERS ENCYCLOPEDIA, full- 

 bound in leather;— Price $4 00 

 YOUATT ON THE HORSE, with J. S. Skin- 

 ner's very valuable Additions; 2 00 

 BRIDGEMAN'S GARDENER'S ASSISTANT; 2 00 

 THE AMERICAN POULTRY BOOK; 37i 

 THE FARMER'S LAND MEASURER; 37i 

 DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 60 

 Complete sets of the FARMERS' CABINET, 



halfbound, 8 vols. C 50 



BEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 31i 



BUISTS' ROSE MANUAL, 75 



SKINNERS CATTLE DOCTOR, 50 



AMERICAN FARRIER, 50 



THE FARMERS MINE, 75 



JOHNSTON'S Agricultural Chemistry, 2 25 



LIEBIG'S AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, 25 

 ANIMAL CHEMISTRY, 25 



FAMILIAR LETTERS, 12i 



As well as his larger works on Chemistry and Agri- 

 culture. 



Subscriptions will be received for Colman's Agri- 

 cultural Tour in England and on the Continent. 



TQr We are prepared to bind books to order. 



trr SHORT ADVERTISEMENTS, 43 

 The subject matter of which, may correspond with the 

 agricuUural 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 linis. 



Sje last vol. of Farmers' Cabinet, p. 270. 



