No. 2. 



Editorial Notices. 



71 



Agency Tor the Purchase & Sale of 



IIPEOVED BREEDS OF CATTLE. 



The subscriber takes this method of informing his 

 friends and the public, that he will attend to the pur- 

 Chase and sale of the improved breeds of cattle, sheep, 

 &c., for a reasonable commission. All letters post 

 paid, addressed to him at Philadelphia, will be attended 

 to without delay. AARON CLEMENT. 



Sept. 5t/i, 1844. 



POUDRETTE— a valuable manure— of the best qual 

 ity, prepared in Philadelphia, for sale at the office of 

 the Farmers' Cabinet, No. 50, N. Fourtli street, or at 

 the manufactory, near the Penitentiary on Coates' 

 street. Present price, $1 75 per barrel, containing 

 four bushels— $5 for three barrels— $15 for ten barrels, 

 or thirty cents a bushel. Orders from a distance, en- 

 closing the cash, with cost of porterage, will be prompt- 

 ly attended to, by c"iirefully delivering the barrels on 

 board of such conveyance as may be designated. 

 Farmers to the South, and in the interior, both of this 

 State and New Jersey, are invited to try the article. 

 As a manure for turnips, buckwheat, &.C., it has been 

 used to great advantage. The season for applying it 

 to the wheat crop, is now at hand. Those who con- 

 template using it this fall, would do well to secure it 

 early. Josiau Tatum. 



From a statement made in the North American, it 

 appears there are published in this city, six daily sub- 

 scription papers, and eight daily penny papers. Con- 

 nected vi'ith these dailies, are fourteen semi-week- 

 ly and weeklies— there are fourteen secular, and 

 fifteen religious weeklies, making in all, including 

 two printed in German, fifty-jiine daily and weekly 

 papers. These, it is said, throw oif weekly, about 

 576,000 sheets, or nearly 30,000,000 annually. 



It is not easy to calculate the influence which these 

 periodicals e.xercise over the public sentiment. But 

 for evil or for good, it is unquestionably very great: 

 and how vastly responsible is the situation of those 

 who wield this mighty engine, and throw abroad daily 

 into the minds of half a million of people the re- 

 flection of their own thoughts, and thus mould the 

 public feeling similar to their own. 



The South Western Farmer says that " Mr. Hatch 

 of Vicksburg, is paying great attention to the nomen- 

 clature, or naming of fruits. He expects by another 

 summer to bo able to give to each of the fine peaches 

 and nectarines now scattered nameless over our coun- 

 try, their true names. Wherever he cannot determine 

 the real name, he has the fruit drawn, painted and 

 described in full." It is also stated that the painting 

 and description are then forwarded to our Horticultu- 

 ral Society, iti order that the true name may be ascer- 

 tained. No such communication has yet come to 

 hand. 



We cannot forego the inclination felt to call the at- 

 tention of our readers to the article of Dr. Swift, on 

 page 58. The suggestions thrown out, are not only 

 exceedingly curious in a speculative point of view, 

 but should they be realised, their practical importance 

 may be found of greater moment than we can readily 

 calculate. We invite the experiments of the agricul- 

 turist in relation to this subject : the physiologist too, 

 will not fail to examine it thoroughly. The closely 

 observing, and philosophical mind of the Dr. will, we 

 trust, scrutinize the matter, and favour us with the 

 results. He may be found in Race, between Twelfth 

 and Thirteenth streets. 



A LIST of premiums to be awarded by our Ilorticul 

 tural Society, at the exhibition to be held on the 18th, 

 19th, and 20lh of this month, was published in the last 

 number of the Cabinet. The Society will occupy the 

 two grand saloons in the Philadelphia Museum, at the 

 corner of Ninth and George streets, and will make 

 them attractive as usual, by having on the ground, ar- 

 ranged in the neatest manner, the richest and the 

 rarest of vegetables, plants and flowers. Competition 

 is open to persons from any section of thaJJnion. 



The potatoes to the eastward, and in sotne parts of 

 New York, are said to be diseased ; short crops in those 

 places will be the result. We have as yet heard no 

 complaint of this kind in this vicinity, though the 

 drought will doubtless affect the late crop unfavourably. 



The Constitution and Eye-laws of the Cumberland 

 County Agricultural Society, adopted at their first 

 meeting in the Fifth month last, has been kindly for- 

 warded by its President, Frederick Watts. From the 

 list of oflicers appointed, and the steps taken for the 

 public exhibition at Carlisle, on theS4th of next month, 

 we anticipate satisfactory results. They ask the fa- 

 vourable opinion and zealous aid of all their citizens, 

 in the promotion of the purpose for which they have 

 associated, and we trust they will be cheerfully ren- 

 dered. 



We observe that they avoid the otfer of premiums in 

 money. For the best managed farm, fcr instance, 

 having regard to product, economy in the working, 

 neatness in management, arrangement of barns, cribs, 

 shedding, &c., they propose a survey of the farm, de- 

 signating each enclosure, marking the contents of each, 

 and locating handsomely on the plot, the dilferent 

 buildings. For the best crop of wheat, not less than 

 30 bushels to the acre, and not less than five acres, 

 they oflbr a pretnium plough, with a certificate of 

 merit. As premiums for other crops,— superior stock, 

 farming implements, &c., they offer agricultural works, 

 or papers, which as we have heretofore suggested, is 

 preferable to the offer of small sums of money. 



The quantity of rain which fell during the Eighth 

 month, (August,) 1844, was nearly three inches and a 



half. 3.4 inches. 



Penn. Hospital, 9fA mo., 2nd. ] 



A FRIEND who has just returned from Bellefonte, 

 Centre co., Pa., informs us that Robert V. Miller, of 

 that place, cut a field of very fine oats this last har- 

 vest—he threshed C2 dozens of w hat he believed to be 

 the average, and they yielded 158 bushels. The crop 

 of oats in Centre, is uncommonly good this year. 



