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MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Wilder, tlie President of the Horticultural Society of Massachusetts, as worthy of aU 

 honor and esteem among those who would discriminate between men who distinguish them- 

 selves in the peaceful, usefiil, and elegant pm'siiits of Agriculture and Horticulture, rather 

 than in schemes of mere money-makiug, or in fields of blood. 



It is with porti'aits and memoirs of such men as these that we should delight to ornament 

 and enrich the pages of the Farmers' Library. 



LONG PREFACES. 



Mr. Editor : I wish you could*ersuade all wi-iters for the public to come at once to the 

 point. In our country nothing is Bo precious as time. Do you not often meet witli essays in 

 w^liich the pith of the matter is to the preface like a tail to a kite, reminding you of those 

 bad nuts that have an immensely tiiick hull, and a very small, though it may be rich, kernel? 

 In the British American Cultivator before me is an article of a column and a half on " Saving 

 Horses from Fire," the whole gist of which is — 



" I recommend first, to blind the animal thoroughly, and second, to unloose or cut the halteri 

 and the teiTified animal will, 7vith kind and gentle risaffe, at once suffer himself to be led past, 

 nay. even through tlie raging element. I have myself been benefited by possessing the knowl- 

 edge of this plan, and have satisfactorily and practically put it to the test, after all other means that 

 could be thought of — both gentle, persuasive and compulsory — had been tried in vain." 



1^ Mr. Rand.4.ll's interesting Letters on 'Sheep Husbandry in the South' will be 

 continued in our next. 



PRICES CURRENT. 



[Corrected, June 23, for the Monthly Journal of Agriculture.] 



ASHES— Pots, 1st sort ^ 100 ». 4 7.5 ® 4 87; 



Pearls, 1st sort, '46 5 87i® 



BEESWAX — .Ajnerican YeUow — 24 @— 25 



CANDLES— Mould, Tallow.. f*' 16... — lO-i®- 12 



Sperm — 30 'ai — 31 



COTTON— From ^ H5. — lOi®— 14 



COTTON BAGGING— American... — 13 ® 



CORDAGE— American ^ lb. — 11 ®— 12 



DOMESTIC GOODS-Shirtmgs,^y. — .5 ®— 11 



Sheetings — 6^®— 15 



FEATHERS — American, live — 28 @ — 33 



FLAX— American — 8®— 9 



FLOUR & MEAL— Genesee, ^ bbl. 7 37J-S 



Ti-oy ® 



Miehi-an 7 12i@ 7 25 



Ohio, Flat Hoop 7 m® 7 25 



Ohio, Round Hoop — 



Ohio, via New-Orleans — 



Pennsylvania — 



Brandywine — 



Georgetown 7 



Baltimore City Mills 



Richmond City Mills 



Richmond Country 



Alexandria, Petersburg, &c 



Rye Flour 



Com luteal. Western and Jersey.. 



Corn Meal, Brandywine hhd. 



GRAIN— Wheat, White ^ bush. 



Wheat, Red and mixed 1 60 @ 1 



Rye, Northern 1 10 ® 



Com, .lersey and Northern yel... — 98 ® 1 — 



Com, Southern, yellow — 93 ® — 95 



Com, Southem (weight) ® 



Oats, River and Canal — 55 ®— 56 



Oats, Jerfey ® 



HAY— North River in bales, f^'lOOm — 50 'a)— 55 

 HEMP— American, dew-rotted.. tonlOO — ®110 — 



'• " water-rotted 175 — ®200 — 



HOPS— Istsort 1846 — 9 ®— 12 



IRON— Americsm Pig, No 1 ®32 ."JO 



'■ Common 22 50 ®25 — 



LIME— Thomnston ^> bbl. — 80 ® 



LUMBER— Boards, N.R., ^M. ft. clr. 30 — 'S,35 — 



Boards, Eastem Pine ® 



Boards. Albany Pine ^pce. — 10 ®— 18 



Plank. Georgia Y. Pine. ^ M. ft... 27 50 ® 



(96) 



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6 — ® 



4 75 ® 5 — 



5 25 ® 5 37.V 

 1 85 ® 1 87i 







Staves, White Oak, pipe. ^ M 50 



Staves, White Oak, hhd 40 



Staves, White Oak, bbl 30 



Staves, Red Oak, hhd 24 



Hoops 20 



Scantling, Eastem — 



Scantling, Oak — 



Timber, Oak ■F cubic foot — 



Timber, White Pine — 



Timber, Georgia Yellow Pine — 



Shingles ^ bunch 1 



Shingles, Cedar, 3 feet, 1st quality. 26 

 Shingles, Cedar, 3 feet, 2d quality. 22 

 Shingles, Cedar, 2 feet, 1st quality. 17 

 Shingles, Cedar, 2 feet, 2d quality. 15 



Shingles, Cypress, 2 feet 13 



Shingles, Company 28 



MUSTARD— American — 



NAILS— Wroucht, 6d to 20d...^ 16. — 



Cut 4dto40d — 



PLASTER PARIS— ^P' ton 2 



PROVISIONS— Beef, Mess, ^bbl... 13 



Beef, Prime, 9 



Pork, Mess, Ohio, new , 16 



Pork, Prime, Ohio, new 13 



Lard. Ohio ^ 16. — 



Hams, Pickled — 



Shoulders, Pickled — 



Sides, Pickled — 



Beef. Smoked ^' 16. — 



Butter, Orange County Dairy — 



Butter, Western Dairy — 



Butter, Grease — 



Cheese, in ca.sks and boxes — 



SEEDS— Clover ^ 16. — 



"llmothy ^' tierce 13 



Flax, Rough 9 



SOAP— N. York, Brovm ^16. — 



TALLOW — American Rendered ... — 



TOBACCO— Virginia ® IB. — 



North Carolina — 



Kentucky and Missouri — 



WOOL— Am. Saxony, Fleece,.^ 16. — 



American Full Blood Merino — 



American | and J Merino — 



American Native and I Merino... — 

 Superfine, Pulled Country — 



