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Editorial Notices 



Vol. VIL 



of Iowa, was recei** in St. Louis, this spring. We 

 all know, that a very few years ago, the whole terri- 

 tory was a wilderness. 



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POUDRETTE. 

 Arrangements have been made by the subscriber 

 ■with D. K. Minor, of New York, for the sale of this 

 valuable manure. It may be obtained at the office of 

 the Farmer's Cabinet, No. 50, North Fourth street, 

 where we expect to keep a supplyconstantly on hand. 

 The price will be two dollars a barrel, where one or 

 two only are taken— for three or more, it will be some- 

 what reduced. Josiah Tatum. 



The Philadelphia Agricultural Society, at its meet- 

 ing held on the 7th. ult.. resolved that the premiums* 

 which have been offered for the best cultivated farms, 

 be witheld until the next year: the Committee will 

 nevertheless continue to examine all such farms as they 

 may receive notice of; and the condition this yeiif, as 

 well as next, will be considered. 



The 30th No. of the " Farmer's Encyclopedia," has 

 been received. The Publishers Carey & Hart, of this 

 city, are placing in the hands of the farming interest, 

 a work of far more than ordinary value. Any subject, 

 connected even remotely with his business, whether it 

 be in relation to tillage, stock, soil, manures, imple- 

 ments or crops, the farmer will find aptly illustrated. 

 It should not fail to be on his shelf: and the more fre- 

 quently it is referred to, the more it will be valued by 

 himself, and his sons. It should not be forgotton too, 

 by the way, that a goodly portion of the work is highly 

 interesting and useful to the housewife. 



A Sample of new Vircinia wheat, of good quality, 

 was shown in the New York market on the 3rd. inst. 



* See No. 8 — page 261, present vol. of Cab. 



Luther Tucker, Esq., of the Cultivator, Albany^ 

 and Secretary of the New York State Agricultural 

 Society, will please accept the thanks of the Editors of 

 this paper, for copies of the Transactions of that So- 

 ciety during the past year. 



This is a handsome volume of more than 400 page?, 

 and however exalted our expectations may be in rela- 

 tion to the Agriculture and public spirit of the Empiri 

 state, it really does them credit. We have read tl»e 

 address of Governor Seward at the Annual Fair. last 

 fall, and that of the President, James S. Wadsworth, 

 before the Society in the winter, with a great deal of 

 satisfaction. There is embodied in the work, an abun- 

 dance of matter in detail, highly beneficial to the far- 

 mer, and particularly calculated to encourage him to 

 look abroad among his brethren of the Plough, and 

 gather from the progress they are making, fresh incite- 

 ments for the agricultural race before him. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



PAGE. 



Milk Cellar 361 



Site for building,— Agriculture in Mississippi 302 



Destruction of the Curculio 363 



Relative weight of Roots and leaves 364 



Chaumontelle Pear 365 



Guano as a Manure 366 



Soap Suds on Cabbages 367 



Locust years, — Urine of animals 368 



Jones' Multiplying and Equalising Bee Hive 369 



Pursuit of Knowledge 370 



Lime a Stimulant, — Salting and Preserving Butter 373 

 Making Sugar from Corn Stalks, — Cone's Dyna- 

 mometer, 373 



Daguerreotype, — Cast Iron Buildings 374 



Silk Culture 375 



Bone Dust, &c 37d 



Galloway Cow 377 



Cheese Making, — Alderney Cow,— How to make 



money,.. , n ,7S 



Neal's Patent Lard-Candle Lamp, — Farmer's Land 



Measurer 379 



Agricultural Exhibition, Sale, &c 380 



Convention of Breeders, &c. — West India Corn 

 and Oranges. — Editorial Notices 382 



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