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Editorial JVotices. 



Vol. IX. 



meeting, was by far the strongest recom- 

 mendation the plough hid ever before en- 

 joyed." The results of the three trials 

 were as follow : 



Newcastle county, Del., October 12th, 

 ,'1844. — First premium, $20, best edge fur 

 rowing, awarded to Vv^illiam Banks, Prouty 

 &- Mears' Centre-draught plough. No. 5| 

 First premium, $10, best flat furrowing, 

 awarded to John Newlove, Prouty & Mears' 

 Centre-draught plough, No. 23. Premium 

 $10, and Farmers' Cabinet for one year 

 awarded to William Banks, as the best 

 ploughman. Prouty & Mears' Centre- 

 draught plough, No. 5^. 



Philadelphia Agricultural Society, Oct 

 I8th, 1844.— First premium, $10, for the 

 best plough after trial, Prouty & Mears' 

 Centre-drauglit plough. No. 23, John New- 

 love, ploughman. 



St. George's Society, Delaware, October 

 26th, 1844. — Second premium, $2, for the 

 second best ploughing, awarded to William 

 Banks, Prouty & Mears' Centre-draught 

 plough, No. 5^. It being impossible for the 

 committee to award the first premium to a 

 plough so perfect in all its parts, as to go 

 without guiding; the premiums being in- 

 tended for the ploughmen, and not for the 

 ploughs. James Pedder. 



October 24th, 1844. 



congratulated himself upon the high slate which the 

 mechanic arts have attained among us. Only one 

 hundred and sixty years ago, the founder of this Com- 

 monwealth landed at New Castle, and the only evi- 

 dence of civilization that was at that time to be found 

 on the bank where our noble city now stands, was 

 afibrded by a Swedish or Danish hovel, here and there, 

 scattered along. The onward march of our country 

 since that period— a very recent one, compared with 

 the dynasties of Europe— has, under the Divine bless- 

 ing, been one of almost uninterrupted prosperity. We 

 have now only to look abroad, and watch the opera- 

 tions of our workshops, to perceive that in all the 

 useful productions of art, we can not only supply our 

 own wants, but can enter into competition with the 

 finest productions of foreign labour. From among seve- 

 ral thousand articles exhibited, the committee selected 

 fifty-nine, which after careful examination, appeared 

 to be the most deserving, and awarded to them silver 

 medals. To one hundred and fifty-four others, certifi- 

 cates of honourable mention were given. 



Public Baths. — It is proposed to establish 

 at London, four public baths, three on the 

 Middlesex and one on the Surrey side of the 

 river, at an expense of £30,000. The annu- 

 al charge to be met by those who use them ; 

 one penny for a cold, and two pence for a 

 warm bath, towel inclusive, being the rates 

 for the bather.s, while at the wash-house all 

 means for six hours' washing, scrubbing, and 

 ironing, are supplied for two pence. It is 

 expected that an establishment of this kind 

 would soon support itself It has already 

 stood the test of experiment at Liverpool. — 

 London Spectator. 



The Agricultural Society of Hamilton County, Ohio 

 has appointed A. Randall, editor of the Plough Boy, 

 and Charles Whittlesey, formerly one of the Geologi- 

 cal Surveyors of the State, to make an Agricultural 

 Survey of that county, and they have been for some 

 weeks engaged in the undertaking. They propose to 

 give the practice of different farmers and the result of 

 their management, with something also of the natural 

 history of insects, &c., injurious to the grain and fruits 

 of the county. Remuneration for the labour will be 

 partly looked for in the sale of the Report. 



THE FARMERS' CABIj¥ET, 



AND 



iLISISIlICjaST ISSHD-BOOK. 



Philadelphia, Eleventh Month, 1844. 



The Annual Exhibition of articles of American 

 manufacture by the Franklin Institute, continued 

 from the 14th to the 30th ult. It was held in the 

 large rooms of the Chinese Museum, which were both' 

 well filled and well arranged. Thousands of our citi-l 

 zens were gratified with these evidences of skill, and we 

 sippose hardly an individual passed among them, but 



The editor of the Cultivator will accept thanks for 

 his Almanac, for 1845. In addition to what is 

 usually found in these Annuals, we have several pages 

 of valuable matter for the farmer. 



We have on our shelves for sale, "Dr. Darling- 

 ton's Flora Cestrica: an attempt to enumerate 

 and describe the Flowering and Filicoid Plants of 

 Chester county, in the State of Pennsylvania; with 

 brief notices of their properties and uses, in Medicine, 

 Domestic and rural Economy, and the Arts." It con- 

 tains an extensive Glossary of the principal botanical 

 tesms used in the work. To every lover of botany in 

 this vicinity, this volume will be found highly inte- 

 resting. 



M'e have also, compiled by the same author, " Reli- 

 quim Baldwiniavx: Selections from the correspondence 

 of the late William Baldwin, M. D., Surgeon in the 

 U. S. Navy." We have heretofore spoken of this work. 

 Dr. Baldwin was passionately fond of Natural His- 

 tory, and bis correspondence gives one a lively picture 

 of his pursuits. 



American apples, it is said, make quite a display 

 on the fruit stalls of London and Liverpool. 



We learn from the New England Farmer, of the Cth 

 inst., that the 2nd number of Colman's Agricultural 

 Tour, has made its appeajance in Boston. We shall 

 soon be able to supply our subscribers. 



