No. 



Editorial JVotices. 



263 



COLMAN'S AGRICULTURAL TOUR IN 

 EUROPE. 



It will not be forgotten that subscriptions to this 

 work, are received at the office of the Farmers' Cabi 

 ket; where every farmer in the country will be hear- 

 tily welcome as a subscriber to these publications 

 Single Numbers will be sold. The subscription price 

 of Colman's Tour, as we have repeatedly advertised, 

 is S.5; single Numbers fifty cents each. 



By a letter lately received from the publisher in Bos- 

 ton, we regret to learn that the third number has been 

 somewhat delayed by the indisposition of our friend 

 Colman. It was also delayed by a visit paid to seve- 

 ral large and well conducted estates, for which he re- 

 ceived polite and urgent invitations, only a short time 

 since. He says he was abundantly paid for the time 

 spent upon them. In his desire to make tlie work 

 valuable, he spares no expense of time and money, to 

 obtain correct and useful information. The manu- 

 script is looked for by the steamer on the 20th instant, 

 and we hope to be ready to deliver it in the early part 

 of the Fifth month. -« 



The Report for the year 1844, of the Pennsylvania 

 Hospital for the Insane, situated a couple of miles on 

 the other side of the Schuylkill, has been kindly for- 

 warded by Dr. Kirkbride, physician to the Institution. 

 We have read it with great interest. Though there is 

 certainly abundance that is sufficiently humiliating in 

 the revelations recently made to different Legislatures, 

 by the indefatigable and philanthropic D. L. Dix, yet it 

 is not a little cheering to contemplate the improve- 

 ments which have been made within the last quarter 

 of acentury,in the mode of treating this most alflicted 

 class of our race. The improvements are clearly de- 

 veloped in this, and Reports of similar Institutions, 

 which are annually thrown before the public. The 

 history of a nation, it has been said, may be read in 

 its statute book: and so, too, most unquestionably, are 

 strong evidences afforded, of its advancement or other- 

 Wise, in Christian practice and substantial civilization, 

 by the modes most general in the treatment of the in- 

 sane. 



The employments of the garden, the field, and the 

 workshop, are resorted to as eminently calculated to 

 divert and improve the minds of the unsettled; and 

 although from occupations of this kind, a small pecu- 

 niary advantage may result, this is as nothing, says 

 the Doctor, "in comparison with the beneficial effects 

 produced on the health of the patients. The true profit 

 of labour about an insane hospital— and it is a profit 

 that cannot be estimated in money— consists in the 

 tranquility and repose which are given to irritable 

 and excited minds, the removal of painful thought, the 

 comfort of a quiet evening after a day's toil, the sound 

 and refreshing sleep, the blessings of a good digestion, 

 and all the happy results which follow these advan- 

 tages." The spirit of kindness and law of love, even 

 for those deprived of the use of their reason, remark- 

 ably characterise this Report; and it appears to us 

 they are brought into operation manifestly to the ad- 

 vantage of all who are under the Doctor's care. 



JODRNAL OF PRISON DISCIPLINE AND PHILANTHROPY. 



This work is published quarterly under the direction 



Of the Philadelphia Society for the Alleviation of the 

 miseries of public Prisons. It is an octavo of 9G pages, 

 and the subscription price $2 per annum. The object 

 of the work may be readily gathered from the title, 

 and from the high character of the Society who have 

 charge of it. It is published from the office of the 

 Farmers' Cabinet, where subscriptions and payments 

 will be received. Money transmitted from a distance 

 to Josiah Tatum, No. 50 N. Fourth street, Philadel- 

 phia, kindly franked by the post-master, will ensure 

 the prompt return of the work as published. 



Agency for the Purchase & Sale of 



IMPROVED 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. 



March 15th, 1845. 



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

 friends with Agricultural works generally. Among 

 which are 



THE FARMER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, full- 

 bound in leather; — Price S4 00 

 YOU ATT ON THE HORSE, with J. S. Skin- 

 ner's very valuable Additions; 2 00 

 BRIDGEMANS GARDENERS ASSISTANT; 2 00 

 THE AMERICAN POULTRY BOOK; 37i 

 THE FARMER'S LAND MEASURER; 3?i 

 DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 6o' 

 Complete sets of the FARMERS' CABINET, 



half bound, 8 vols. g 50 



DOWNINGS Landscape Gardening, 3 50 



DARLINGTONS Flora Cestrica, 3 00 



RELiaUI^ BALDWINIANiE, 1 OO 



A MERIC-VN Poulterer's Companion, 1 25 



BEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 3ii 



BUISTS' ROSE MANUAL, 75* 



SKINNERS CATTLE DOCTOR, 50 



AMERICAN FARRIER, 50 



THE FARMER'S MINE, 75 



JOHNSTON'S Agricultural Chemistry, 2 25 



HANNAM'S Economy of Waste Manures, 25 



LIEBIG'S AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, 25 

 ANIMAL CHEMISTRY, 25 



FAMILIAR LETTERS, i2> 



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. 



g^* We are prepared to bind books to order. 



Erastds H. Pease, of Albany, will shortly publish. 

 If indeed by this time he has not already published, A 

 Catechism of Agricultural Chemistry and Geol- 

 ogy, by James F. W. Johnston, M. A., F. R. S. S. L. Sf E., 

 with an Introduction by John Pitkin JVorton, of Farm- 

 ingion. Connecticut. This will, we apprehend, be a 

 valuable work, judging from the well known charac- 

 ter of the author. It will, as soon as it appears, be 

 for sale at George S. Appleton's, No. 148 Chesnut St., 

 and at this office. 



