MTSTERns OF Beb-keeping Explained : being a complete 

 Analysis of the whole subject. By M. Quinbt. 



Mr. Quinby has evidently had large experience 

 as a bee-keeper ; and his work is at once com- 

 prehensive, plainly written, and full of original 

 thought, prompted by personal observations of 

 the industrious insect of which it treats. The 

 more of such works published the better ; and Mr. 

 Saxton is rendering the country an essential ser- 

 vice, by making its agricultural literature more 

 popular, instructive, and interesting. The letter- 

 press, paper, and binding of his books, deserve 

 commendation ; and the one under consideration, 

 which contains STG duodecimo pages, will be sent 



by mail, free of postage, for a dollar. 

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Landscape Gakdenixg ; or, Parks and Pleasure 

 Grounds : with Practical Notes on Country Eesidenoes, 



Villas, Public Parks, and Gardens. By Charles H. 

 SMmi, Landscape Gardener, Garden Architect, etc. With 

 Notes and Additions, by Lewis F. Allen, author of Eu- 

 ral Architecture, &c. Published by C. M. Saxton, New 

 ¥ork, Agricultural Book Publisher. 



This is a reprint of an English manual on 

 landscape gardening, written in a plain style, by 

 an intelligent, practical man, who appears to un- 

 derstand his subject. It treats of planting fruit, 

 forest, and ornamental trees, of kitchen gardens, 

 and other matters of general interest, beside 

 parks, villas, and landscape gardening. It is a 

 book that ought to be read by every one who 's 

 so fortunate as to own a quarter of an acre of 



ground. Price, $1.25. 



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Elemunts op Agricultural Chemistry and Geology. 



By James F. W. Johnston, M. A., F. E. 8S. L. and E. 



With a complete Index and Preface, by Simeon Beown, 



editor of the New England Farmer. 



No agricultural writer in England is better 

 known in this country than Mr. Johnston ; and 

 we are happy to see that some errors in his Lectures 

 have been corrected in this later and more con- 

 densed work. 



Peinoe's Melodeons. — Our readers have noticed 

 the advertisement of Geo. W. Pei.nce & Co., in 

 previous numbers of the Farmer. Being well 

 acquainted with these instruments, we can say 

 that they are the best extant — the smaller ones 

 just the thing for the parlor, and the large size 

 unoqualed as an instrument for small churches. 

 Our friends would do well to note this fact 



Inqitmc0 antr '^Ansxotvs. 



Orchakd Grass. — A subscriber wishes to learn 

 if orchard grass has been much grown at the 

 North ; and we shall be thankful for any infor- 

 mation on the subject Our own experiments 

 with it have »ot been successful. We have twice 

 attempted to cultivate it in the District of Colum- 



bia. We have, however, often seen it growing. 

 It is, we believe, more cultivated in Pennsylva- 

 nia, Ohio, and Kentucky than in more northern 

 States. Our correspondent resides in Wayne 

 county. New York, and desires to learn the kind 

 of land to which it is best adapted, the quantity 

 of seed to be sown per acre, <fec. 



He suggests that we should publish the Gene- 

 see Farmer weekly, and devote a part of the 

 paper to the great mechanical interest of the 

 country. The idea of a weekly paper addressed 

 to the producing classes generally, but more 

 especially to farmers and mechanics, we have 

 long regarded with favor. But some how the 

 250,000 mechanics and 500,000 farmers in the 

 State of New York have always been disinclined 

 to co-operate in any way to build up their com- 

 mon interests. They permit a few politicians to 

 use them as the working men of political parties 

 from generation to generation ; and what fruits 

 which are really valuable do these partizan 

 labors bring forth? Weigh them in an even 

 balance, and see how little they accomplish to 

 elevate the honest industry of the country, 

 whether agricultural or mechanical*! 



There is still great room for improvement in 

 our farming implements, while there are many 

 improvements already invented which are gene- 

 rally unknown. Inventors and manufacturers 

 will do well to advertise their goods in agricul- 

 tural papers. 



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Vitality of Egos. — It is well known th-it eggs will keep 

 a considerable time in milk of lime, or other means of en- 

 tirely excluding atmosphere. We have an account of some 

 (lug out of an old wall of a sacristy, near Lago, Maygiore, 

 quite sound, after having been encased SOO years. It be- 

 comes, then, a curious inquiry, how long the j)roductive 

 vitality of eggs can exist in this state of atmospherio exclu- 

 sion — whether they retain it like toads, snakes, and cold- 

 blooded animals, sometimes found in solids? Can any gf 

 your readers give or refer us to any instances respondent 

 to the question ? 



The vitality of all sound and duly impregnated 

 eggs presents a wide field for economical and scien- 

 tific investigation. Why should not the egg of a 

 crocodile (the\' are about the size of a goose 

 egg, but of equal bigness at both ends), excluded 

 from the atmosphere and kept cool, preserve its 

 vitality unimpaired for indefinite ag's? May 

 ruot the eggs of our domestic poultry, and of other 

 birds, be kept for hatching months and years in 

 a similar manner? 



Since railroads enable farmers and others who 

 raise poultry to send their produce fresh, and fre- 

 quently, to market this branch has assumed an 

 importance never anticij)ated twenty years ago. 

 The consumption of the flesh of fowls, and other 

 domestic birds, is enormous ; and it will increase 

 as fast as the supply. 



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