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easy and cheap method of remedying a very com- 

 mon evil, and one al this season very extensively 

 complained of. The lime should be fresh, and for 

 a common-sized family, say of six, the piece should 

 not exceed the size of an English walnut. 



Fried Potatoes. — The French method of cook- 

 ing potatoes afford a most agreeable dish. The 

 potatoes are peeled, wiped, and cut into thin slices, 

 then thrown into a fiying pan containing an abun- 

 dance of hot lard. As soon as they become brown 

 and crispy, they are thrown into a cullender to 

 drain, then sprinkled with salt, and served up as 

 hot as possible. 



Corn Griddle Cake with Eggs. — Turn one 

 quartof boiling milk or water, on to a pint of Indian 

 meal. When lukewarm, add three table spoonfuls 

 of flour, three eggs well beaten, and teaspoonful of 

 salt. Bake on a griddle. 



NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS. 



The Flower Garden, or Bheck's Book of Flow- 

 ers. — This is a new work, which will be very ac- 

 ceptable to the public, as it describes all the vari- 

 ous hardy herbaceous perennials, annuals, shrubby 

 plants, and evergreens, desirable for ornamental 

 culture. The author is well known as a skilful 

 florist, and we know of none better qualified to at- 

 tend to the task which he has so faithfully executed. 

 This work is an able, valuable and interesting con- 

 tribution to floriculture. Published by John P. 

 Jewett & Company, 17 and 19 Cornhill. 



Report of the Agricultural Commission. — At 

 the last session of the Legislature an Agricultural 

 Commission, consisting of Mashall P. Wilder, Ed- 

 ward Hitchcock, Samuel A. Eliot, Thomas E. Pay- 

 son, and Eli Warren, was appointed to report on 

 the establishment of an Agricultural School, and 

 other subjects relative to the advancement of the 

 interests of agriculture in this commonwealth. This 

 report is now before us, embracing over 100 pages; 

 but we have not had time to peruse it. As this is 

 an important subject, we shall give particular at- 

 tention to the report, and give our readers a review 

 of it, or some of the most interesting parts. 



The Horticulturist, by A. J. Downing; pub- 

 lished by Luther Tucker, Albany, N. Y. Jos. 

 Breck &:Co., agents, Boston. This work continues 

 its high reputation, and that of its well knov/n au- 

 thor. Besides the large amount of instruction in 

 each number, it is emphatically, as it professes, a 

 work of rural taste. Besides various illustrations, 

 each number is embellished with a beautiful engrav- 

 ing. 



Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture, by Chs. 

 C Hovey. The author is among the most inde- 

 fatigable of pomologists in the country, searching up 

 and descovering new fruits, and instituting compar- 

 isons with old ones. The work also treats largely 

 and minutely on floriculture and ornamental plants, 

 shrubs and trees. 



Annual Report of the Board of Agricul- 

 ture OF THE State of Ohio for 1850. — We are 

 indebted to Mr. F. R. Elliott for this work,which 

 we have not yet perused. 



Report of the third session of the Ohio Nursery 

 men and Fruit Growers. This favor also from 

 friend Elliott. 



Model of Fruits. — Mr. Townsend Glover, of 

 Fishkill Landing, N. Y., has recently exhibited at 

 the Horticultural Rooms in this city, fine models 

 of a great variety of fruits, which, generally, were 

 executed with great exactness. At a short distance 

 from these fruits, they appeared perfectly natural, 

 and on close inspection, those that were best exe- 

 cuted appeared like fac-similes of the originals. 

 Mr. Glover's ait is his own peculiar invention. 

 In order to recognize those fruits that are rare, 

 and seldom seen, it is desirable to have exact mod- 

 els of them, and models of all fruits would be 

 very useful to learners in pomology, and even 

 adepts in the art would sometimes receive an 

 advantage from them. 



Large Hog. — We lately saw at the stall of 

 Flint & Richards, 28 Faneuil Hall market, a hog 

 raised by John T. Gates, Claremont, N. H., was 

 19 months old, and weighed 728 pounds. He was 

 a cross of the Suffolk breed. 



33= The New England Farmer is publisheii every other 

 Saturday by .Iohn Raynolds and Joel Nourse, at Quiiicy 

 Hall, South Market Street, Boston. 



Terms, .$1,00 per annum in adviince. 



The Farmer, under the editorial charge of S. W. Cole, is 

 devoted exclusively to Agriculture, Horticulture, and- their 

 kindred Arts and Sciences, making a neat octavo volume of 

 416 pages, embelli.shed with numerous engravings. It may be 

 elegantly hound in muslin, embossed and gilt, at 25 cts. a vol- 

 ume, if left at this office. 



0° Also published at the same office every Saturday, on a 

 large himdsome folio sheet, the New England Farmer and 

 UosTON Rambler, an independent Journal, devoted to Agri- 

 culture, Domestic, Foreign and Marine Intelligence, Congress- 

 ional and Legislative proceedings, Temperance and Religious 

 Intelligence, and the usual variety of Literary and Miscellane- 

 ous matter, adapted to family reading. Letters from Home 

 and Foreign Correspondents will appear from week to week, 

 together with a variety of contributed and selected articles of 

 a Literary, Scientific, Historical, Biographical, Humorous and 

 Juvenile character, short Moral Tales, (fee; containing more 

 reading matter ihan any other Agricultural Family Newspaper 

 published in New England. Every thing of a hurtful or even 

 doubtful tendency will be carefully excluded from our columns. 



Terms, $2,00 per annum in advance. At the close of the year, 

 the publishers will bind the semi-monthly Farmer grntis for 

 any person who subscribes for both publications, paying one 

 year in advance for each. 



[nr The Semi-Monthly Farmer contains nearly the same 

 matter as the Agricultural department of the weekly. 



O" All papers will be forwarded, until an explicit order for 

 iliscontinuance is received; and whether taken by the subscri- 

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 he will be held accdUiUable until he orders a discoiUinuance, 

 and pays up all arrearages. 



33= When subscribers wish to change the direction of their 

 papers, or when they return a copy to this office, they will 

 \'\esise he particular to name the Post Office, and State, to 

 which it has been sent, as well as the one to which they wish 

 it directed; as it often hai>pens that two or more of our sub- 

 scribers are of the same name, and annoying mistakes have 

 occurred in consequence. 



[nr Postmasters and others, who will forward four new sub- 

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O" AH letters and communications should be addressed 

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