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Guano. — Bess. — Hogs at Cincinnati, SfC. 



Vol. IX. 



gether with a certificate of my election as an 

 honorary member of the Philadelphia Agri- 

 cultural Society. 



I beg that you will do me the honour to 

 express to the President and members of 

 your Society, at its next meeting, that I 

 greatly appreciate this mark of distinction. 



I have now laboured a quarter of a cen- 

 tury, in the constant view, to benefit man- 

 kind generally — thus, any mark of approba- 

 tion coming from a point so distant, is doubly 

 gratifying, and marks that humble, though 

 persevering labours, are not always unno- 

 ticed. 



As you state that packets of any size can 

 reach you duty free, I enclose a few grains 

 of new, or excellent varieties of Wheat, 

 which, if entrusted to some careful farmer, 

 may prove useful.* 



You will pardon me for adding that, my 

 early career in life was in the war with the 

 United States, on the Niagara frontier. It 

 always distressed me to hear, my own lan- 

 guage was that of my opponents, for I felt it 

 to be a sort of civil war ! How unhappy is 

 it, that nations springing from a common 

 source, should not rather seek to benefit each 

 other by the friendly relations of commerce, 

 than by seeking to injure each other by 

 war. 



It affords me infinitely more pleasure to 

 fancy that any grain I may send you, may 

 become the source of wide spreading fields 

 of golden produce, harvested by hardy hus- 

 bandmen, than to contemplate any victory, 

 with its train of devastation and rapine. 



I am convinced that the dissemination of 

 those admirable bodies. Agricultural Socie- 

 ties throughout your noble country, will tend 

 there, as in Europe, to this happy result — the 

 husbandman is averse to war, he loves indus- 

 try and peace. In England and France, the 

 whole body of husbandmen dread war, they 

 are the last to desire it; unquiet spirits with 

 hazardous professions, alone seek it. May 

 it pt*ver be ^gain waged by nations spring- 

 ing from one root ! I shall be happy at any 

 time, to send you seeds of any new grain, 

 if you will let me know the proper period. 



I have the honour to be Sir, your very 

 faithful and obliged, 



T. LE COUTEUR, F. R. S., 



^ A Governor of the Royal Agricultural 



Society of England. 



Alfred Langdon Elvvyn, Efq. ) 

 Cor. Sec. Philad'a Ag. Soc. \ 



* It may be stated, that these splendid samples of 

 Wheat, were placed by the Society in the liaiids of 

 James Gowen, of Mount Airy, who will, doubtless, 

 take all proper care of them.— Ed. 



Guano. — The Guano trade still forms a 

 prominent branch of commerce. It employs 

 a large amount of shipping; and, as the ar- 

 ticle is getting scarce, the price has risen 

 considerably. A great deal of business has 

 been recently done on speculation ; and the 

 rage for investment for this new description 

 of manure is increasing daily. 



The consumption last season of Peruvian 

 and African guano was 60,000 tons. The 

 stock on hand at tlie beginning of the pre- 

 sent year was 39,000 tons. The demand, it 

 is expected, will this year exceed 160,000 

 or 200,000 tons. — English paper. 



Bees. — Dr. Waterman gives in the Cleave- 

 land Herald, his mode of catching the bee- 

 miller or moth. He says, " I took two white 

 dishes, (I think white attracts their attention 

 in the night,) or deep plates, and placed them 

 on the top of the hives, and filled them about 

 full of sweetened vinegar. The next morn- 

 ing I had about fifty millers caught ; the se- 

 cond night I caught fifty more ; the third 

 night being cold, I did not get any; the 

 fourth night being very warm, I caught 

 about four hundred. 



Hogs at Cincinnati. — The Cincinnati 

 Gazette says : — " We are indebted to Mr. 

 Clearwater, for the following statement of 

 the number of hogs slaughtered in Cincin- 

 nati and Covington the past season. Instead 

 of giving the names of the several slaught- 

 ering houses, we number them as we did 

 last season. 



No. 1, 36,715 head. 



" 2, 29,4.56 » 



" 3, 28,228 " 



» 4, - 23,612 " 



» 5, 16,089 " 



« 6, 12,838 » 



« 7, 11,906 " 



« 8, (at Covingtoi^,) 12,384 " 



171,228 head. 

 We shall know in a few days the number 

 of slaughtered hogs received this season by 

 wagon and river. We suppose it to be only 

 about 15,000 — which would make the entire 

 number packed here this season, 186,228 

 head. Last season, the entire number pack- 

 ed here was 240,000 head." 



Rats. — Last week, as Mr. Arnold, farmer, 

 of this place, was taking in a small Wheat 

 rick, he found about the middle of it a nest of 

 young rats, containing twenty-nine, all about 

 the si/X' of mice. The old one was seen, but 

 made her escape, unluckily for tlie owner, she 

 being so good a breeder. — English paper. 



