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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. IX. 



COLMANS AGRICULTURAL TOUR IN 

 EUROPE. 

 It will not be forgotten that subscriptions to this 

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

 net; where every fanner in the country will be hear- 

 tily vvelcmne -as a subscriber to these publications. 

 Single Numbers will be sold. The subscription price 

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

 is §5; single Numbers fifty cents each. 



Journal 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 96 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 p^ments 

 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. The se- 

 cond number will shortly be ready for publication. 



Erastos 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 Barnes i^'. TF. JoAr<s«o», Jlf. ^., F.R.S.S. L.^-E., 

 with an Introduction by John Pitkin JsTorton, of Farm- 

 ington, 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. ]48 Chesnut st., 

 and at this office. 



A COPY of the proceedings of the Hamilton County 

 Agricultural Society, Ohio, has lately been forwarded 

 by the " Ploughboy," who, we are glad to find, has 

 again waked up, and prepared for his spring labours. 

 We could wish it might please him to spell his name 

 correctly. 



At their Shmo held in the Ninth mo. last, at Mount 

 Pleasant, a few miles north of Cincinnati, J. W. Hoel 

 exhibited 43 pumpkins weighing 543 lbs., being the 

 product of one vine ! 



In the Address delivered by Wm. H. H. Taylor, allu- 

 sion is made in strong terms to the little attention 

 paid to the protection of stock from the inclemency of 

 the weather. It is an erroneous idea, we think by far 

 too prevalent, that these animals are provided by na- 

 ture with all that is necessary in this repect. Having 

 become domesticated, and subservient in all things to 

 our wants and wishes, they look to us, and have a 

 right to do so, to give them house room to shield them 

 from the discomforts of exposure to cold and storm. 

 Not only in Ohio, are remarks of this character sea- 

 sonable and judicious, but here also in our own vicin- 

 ity, the interests of the farmer, as well as humanity, 

 call for more attention to the shelter of his stock in 

 winter. 



best crops, without a measurement of them to show 

 what they actually amounted to, some of our friends 

 thought there was room to infer, that the Editor sup- 

 posed it probable that some of the crops mentioned in 

 the Report immediately preceding tlie remarhs, though 

 the best offered, were yet in fact, wretched ones. Tho 

 Editor thinks such an inference cannot be fairly drawn 

 from the language used. It gives him pleasure, how- 

 ever, to say, that no one at all acquainted with the 

 good farming characters of the persons who bore ofl" 

 the premiums, or with the Philadelphia Agricultural 

 Society, would for one moment suppose that premiums 

 would be awarded for any other than remarkably fine 

 crops. We take this opportunity to repeat, that where 

 Agricultural premiums are competed for, it is abun- 

 dantly satisfactory to know that the ordeal of the half 

 bushel or the steelyards, has been submitted to: this 

 only will satisfy strangers. 



In some remarks of the Editor on page 244, of last 

 No., in relation to the awarding of premiums for the 



The following premiums will be awarded by the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, at an intermedi- 

 ate meeting on the 6th of next month. 



For the best single Tulips, twelve named varietieaj 

 to be exhibited, $3. 



For the next best do. do. $2. 



For the best forced Cauliflowers, three in number, $3. 



For the next best do. do. $2. 



For the best Asparagus, three bunches of one pound 

 each, $2. 



For the best Rhubarb, blanched, two bunches of four 

 pounds each, $2. 



And at the stated meeting on the 90th of next 

 month: 



For the best American Seedling Camellia, exhibited 

 at any slated meeting from December to May, inclu- 

 sive, $10. 



For the best Everblooming Roses, twelve named va- 

 rieties, in pots, 57. 



For the next best Everblooming Roses, twelve named 

 varieties, in pots, $4. 



For the best American Seedling Everblooming Rose, 

 $3. 



For the best forced Potatoes, half a peck, $2. 



James S. Lawrence, of Monmouth co., N. J., in- 

 formed the Editor a few days ago, that in the fall of 

 1843, he put some apples— the Redstreak—inlo his cel- 

 lar in open casks, which in the early part of 1844, he 

 overhauled and packed in barrels with plaster of Paris. 

 Three barrels were thus headed up, and remained in 

 the cellar until the early part of last summer, when 

 they were again assorted and put away in a box, with 

 alternate layers of dry oak saw-dust. This box was 

 put away under lock and key, access only being had 

 to it as the apples were wanted. The family continued 

 using them occasionally, till some time after early ap- 

 ples were ripe last year, and it was supposed they were 

 all exhausted. On the 11th of last month— it being 

 Town-meeting day— on unlocking the box for the pur- 

 pose of again filling it with apples and saw-dust, he 

 was surprised to find three of the apples of 1843, as 

 originally put there, and which must ha.ve matured 

 eighteen months ago. They were in good keeping, 

 perfectly sound, and of pretty good flavour. 



