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THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



oned, their legs and feet rotting off. A gnl of 

 sixteen lost both her legs, and died; of the 

 mother, both the feet came off at the ancle, and 

 the flesh decayed from the leg-bones ; a girl of 

 fourteen lost one foot nt the ancle, and the other 

 leg at the knee ; a child of ten years old lost a 

 foot; of two hoys, one lost his feet, and the oth- 

 er his legs. This dreadful calamity was referred 

 by the Professor, with great probability, to the ac- 

 tion of ergot, which he finds attacks the Revet- 

 wheat of the neighborhood of Wattisham, a kind 

 of grain on which this ill-fated family was fed. 

 Draining was mentioned as the only known pre- 

 ventive of ergot." 



CIRCULAR. 

 To the Agriculturists, the Manufacturers, Me- 

 chanics and Artizans of the United States. 

 The American Institute of the City of 

 New York have directed us, the trustees, to an- 

 nounce to the public, that the fourteenth annual 

 fair will be held in this city, in the early part of 

 October next. The time and place, with a vari- 

 ety of details, will be made known and published 

 by the managers as soon as convenient, after 

 their organization shall be i)erfected. This In- 

 stitute was established and incorporated by the 

 Legislature of the state of New York, to promote 

 domestic industry and improvements in the Uni- 

 ted States. Among the means suggested in the 

 charter are public exhibitions of meritorious pro- 

 ductions, and rewards lor such as are most de- 

 serving. 



Thirteen great annual fairs liave already been 

 held. Their beneficial effects in exciting emula- 

 tion have been seen and directly felt in more than 

 half the states of the Union. The popularity of 

 these exhibitions, the extended and intense com- 

 petition they have e.vcited, is without a precedent. 

 iMore than one himdred thousand visiters have 

 been admitted, and more than fifteen thousand 

 specimens of domestic products have been ex- 

 hibited at a single anniversary. 



A repository for the daily exhibition of im- 

 provements, and a library, of great utility lor 

 practical purposes, have both been established 

 liy this Institute, and been open for years free 

 of expense to contributors and visiters. Five 

 ploughing exhibitioas have been held on iields 

 in the vicinity of New York; and many eloquent 

 addresses, iustructive lectures, and able reports, 

 have been made on different occasions, all hav- 

 ing a bearing on productive industry. 



The amount of gratuitous kbor, bestowed by 

 the conductors of this Institute in Iburteeu years, 

 it is believed, is without a jxirallel in the hi.story 

 of our public institutions. Hitherto the Institute 

 has been sustained by volimtary contributions, 

 unaided by city or state bounties. Impressed 

 witii these idea.*, the Legislature, in a law just 

 passed, intended for the promotion of "agricul 

 ture and household manufactures," have wisely 

 included the American Institute, and on certa' 

 conditions appropriated to it nine hundred and 

 fifty dollars per annum for five years, rerjuiring 

 premiums to be awarded as suitable means for 

 accomplishing the object of this enactment. In 

 addition to the pecuniary aid contemplated by 

 this act, which is timely, and will enable us to 

 extend our premiums, it is a public testimonial of 

 the high consideration maintained by the Insti- 

 tute in the opinion of our Legislatui-e. The con- 

 fidence reposed in the Institute is in the highest 

 degree honorable to its conductors, making it 

 thereby the direct agent to carry into effect a 

 law important in its future effects, and expressly 

 enacted to encourage the great ami paramount 

 interests of agriculture, which supplies not only 

 the principal materials on which all other labor 

 is employed, but also affords sustenance to the 

 whole human race. 



Accommodations will be jirovided at the four- 

 teenth fair for the exhibition of every kind of 

 agricultural and horticultural productions, for ma- 

 chines and implements, and steam power and 

 engines. Separate and suitable places will be as- 

 signed for exhibiting cattle, horses, sbeep, swine 

 and other farming stock. The best productions of 

 the manufactory and the workshop, including 

 woollen, cotton, silk and linen fabrics, will have 

 their appropriate rooms. Labor-saving machine- 

 ry %vill not only be examined by competent 

 judges, but also tested by steam power. All 

 new and useful labor-saving inventions will com- 

 mand attention, and publicity given to their mer- 

 its. Purchasers will have the best possible op- 



portunity to examine, compare and select such 

 articles as they wish. Gold and silver medals, 

 silver cups, diplomas, as well as rewards in mon- 

 ey, will be bestowed on the most deserving. 

 The appropriation will enable the managers, 

 more liberally than heretofore, to reward indus- 

 try generally, and more particularly female iu- 

 dustry, (or ingenious fabrics of household manu- 

 facture. 



On behalf of this Institute, we would earnest- 

 ly invoke the patronage and exertions of pros- 

 perous and intelligent agriculturists, to enable us 

 to fulfil the expectations of the Legislature. In 



of the annual charge on cai)itals, &c., standing in 

 the names of the conunissioners. The Excheq- 

 uer bills outstanding and unprovided for on the 

 5th of January,1840, amounted to £90,051, .550, 

 and on the 5th of January 1839, to £24,030,050. 



DEPARTURE OF THE ATL.\NTIC STEAMERS. 



its wisdom it lias laid the foundation of 



great ; 



lasting good to the state. But much of the sue 

 cess and popularity of the law to encourage agri- 

 Iture will depend on the American Institute, 

 position in the city of New York is of all oth- 

 ers the most favorable. There will always be in 

 this great emporium choice spirits, and such as 

 know well the inestimable value of agriculture, 

 and who are able and willing to aid any and all 

 great and beneficial objects. The whole island 

 is surrounded with fertile and highly cultivated 

 farms and gardens extending into the interior, 

 which bring their supplies daily to our numerous 

 maikets, to meet the vast demands of city con- 

 sumption. A lai'ge proportion of all the farm- 

 ing and gardening implements used iii this and 

 the adjoining states is supplied from this city ; 

 and with the facilities of conveyance by horses 

 and by steam, by laud and by water, it would 

 seem to be the chosen place for agricidture and 

 hoiticidture to present their fairest and best con- 

 tributions, and the radiating point from which 

 the knowledge of improvements may be readily 

 made to flow to every jjortion of our country. 



In conclusion, we would also respectfully ap- 

 peal to all the multiplied interests of industry 

 and art to make their contributions of the best 

 specimens, that the most perfect miniature viiiw 

 may be presented of the skill, the genius, and the 

 ample resources of our country at the coming 

 anniversary ; and to the public at large, whose' 

 countenance and cheering approbation has ii 

 tiu-iiily attended all our undertakings for m 

 than thirteen years, and to whoso favor this In 

 tute owes its existence, we appeal with unqu 

 fied confidence, and, at the same time, w it! 

 strong desire for the especial and best infli 

 of our fellow citizens, at this time, to enable us 

 triumphantly to carry out the coming exhibition, 

 and discharge the obligation conferrerl by the 

 recent legislative grant By the kind aid which 

 the public can confer, and the means provided, t 

 new impulse may be given to agricultural im- 

 piovcnionts. and to invention and the arts, ovei 

 our wliiile stale; other itates, some of which art 

 bciiiml, will tln'ii hy bo induced to profit fron 

 our example, and thus the benign influences of 

 liberal legi-slation will be excmpliti~d in ever 

 section of onr wide spread country. 

 Repository of the American Institute, 

 New-York, May, 1841. 

 Trostees. 



JAMKS TALLMADGB, 



ADONIRAM CHANDLER, 



WU-LIAM INGLIS, 



JOHN TRAVERS, 



ALEX. J. HAMILTON, 



T. B. VVAKEMAN, 



JOSEPH TITCOMB. 

 Editors of newspapers and jieriodicals, par- 

 ticularly agricultural, are reiptested to give the 

 loregoiiiET one or more gratuitous insertions. 



P. S. Gentlemen friendly to the objects of the 

 Institute, both in the city and country, are invited 

 to become inenibei-s. Admission fee $.3 — annual 

 dues $2. Applications must be madfe in writing, 

 naming place of abode and occupation. Mem- 

 bership confers the privilege of the repository 

 and library, attending the meetings, also hearing 

 the addresses and lectures, and visiting the annual 

 fairs, with ladies, free of expense. 



The Funded Debt, &c. of Great Britain 

 AND Ireland. It appears from oflicial reports 

 on the subject now befoi-e us, that the public fun- 

 ded debt of Great Britain (exclusive of tlie cap- 

 itals translerred to the commissioners) amounted, 

 on the 5lh of January, 1840, to £732,649,694, 18s. 

 5d., and that of Ireland to £33,897,989, 18s. lid., 

 making altogether £766,547,(184, 17s. 4d. The 

 total annual charge upon which, including Ire- 

 land, amounted to £28,748,794, 76, 8d., exclusive 



THE MARKETS. 



NEW YORK MARKET. 

 From the Journal of Commerce, May 20. 

 Pot Ashes continue steady at g5, with a good demand. 

 Pearls are dull, and the price unsettled — some sales have 

 been made at g5 37.^. Sales of ICKX) bags Brazil Coffee 

 at 9J a lOic, and 1000 Java at 12 a 12^0.— Sales 4000 lbs 

 Sal Ammoniac at 13c ; 6000 lbs Sugar of Lead at 15c, G 

 mos. Dry Cod Fish are without change. 50 half bbis 

 ■ ■ "h.id were unsold at S725 a 750, and 

 " ' Sales .5000 lbs Jersey Fla.'C at 8c 

 T Hides are small, and the Rales 

 ;ales 550 lihds Porto Rico Molas- 

 50 tierces Cuba Honey «t 47c, 

 urks Island Salt, 



lb, cash. The arrivals 

 are made at full price. 

 ee8at27_4a30c,4mos, 

 cash ; 5o0 



I supposed at 524c, 

 at 5ic, cash. 1300 

 "Oic ■ "" 

 I Oil 



Pimento is scarce, and sells i ^ ^ 

 bbls Whale Oil were sold for export at SOic, cash. There 

 have been large transiictions in Linseed Oil at about 80c, 

 cash to 85. 600 slabs Banca Tin at 19c, 6 mos. 441 bbls 

 good Western Whiskey at 204c.— Drudge Whiskey is in 

 (air demand at 20c. Tlie market for Tobacco is in active 

 demand. 85 bales African Wool were sold at about Sc. 

 Beef sells slowly at former prices. Prime Pork is in a 

 little better request, but Mess is dull. There is but little 

 Flour ofanv kind in market. Genesee isste-iUy at j(i 75; 

 Ohio via New Orleans at ;j,'4 C34 a 4 75. Corn Meal re- 

 mains without change. Pules of Northern Corn at 64 a 

 65c, weight. Wheat is scarce. 



The Tea sale this morning went off with considerable 

 spirit, but at a decline of 1 a oc on the prices obtained last 

 I'riday, and 3 a 5c from those which were brought by 

 the same ships on the 7tli instant. Canton packed shew- 

 ed the least depression. 



NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET, Jl/aj/ 24, 1841. 

 (Reported for the Journal of Commerce.) 



\t market I'JOO brad ot beef cattle, including 300 led 

 i.vc r l.nst week ; JOO was from the South, balance from this 

 ;>lilo. 85 inilch cows, and 500 sheep and lambs. 



The demand for beef was active, and about 1100 head 

 ivcru tJk«u at gO tu gO M, averaging 57 25 the 100 lbs. 

 One hundred o( the above were taken for the Boston mar- 

 ket. 



-Milch Cows were nearly all sold, at ^25, JJ35, and S38. 



Sl^cp and Lambs continued in good demand, and all 

 sold ; Slieep at g2, gS and J?4 50; Lambs at 1 50 to 325. 



BRIGHTON MARKET— .Monday, MayU, 1841. 



(Reported for tlie New England Farnrer.) 

 At market, 285 Beef Cattle, 10 pair Working Oxen, 25 

 Cow? and Calves, 210 Sheep, and 200 Swine. 90 Beef 



Cl.uIc! ri-m.-iin unsi.l.i. 



ri.i. I — .'; r /v„,7;,_r;i . l,;,vr M^jin declined, and 



ed«3and ^5. 



Siuinc— Alott 

 and a lot5J a CJ. 



peddle 5i for Sows and 64 for Barrows 

 At retail from C to 74. 



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