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Art. II. Agriculture of the United States. Jin Address 

 delivered lith of April, 1841, before the American Insti- 

 tute in jsTeio York. By Henrv Colman, Commissioner 

 of the Agricultural Survey of Massachusetts. Pamphlet, 

 30 pages. New York, 1841. 



This is the fifth address of Mr. Colman, which we have 

 noticed within a short period. Like others of his production, 

 they are full of valuable information upon the great art of ag- 

 riculture, both in a general and practical view. Mr. Col- 

 man's long and familiar acquaintance with agriculture, formerly 

 a practical man, to some extent, and latterly a writer for 

 farming papers, as well as the Commissioner for the Agricul- 

 tural Survey, has given him the opportunity of making more 

 accurate observations, and storing up more statistical informa- 

 tion, than any other individual in the country. 



It would be impossible for us to give any thing like an ab- 

 stract of this address, the topics which it discusses are so 

 various. It will have the tendency to spread a taste for farm- 

 ing among the citizens of our sister State, and its extensive 

 circulation by the American Institute, will give it a very gen- 

 eral perusal. 



Art. III. Bee-breeding in the West. By Thomas Af- 

 fleck. 1 vol. 12 mo., 70 pages. Cincinnati, 1841. 



This is the title of a small volume which we have received 

 from the author, and, what is unusual for us in a work not ex- 

 clusively horticultural, we have read it through, and are 

 highly pleased with it. It is a plain and practical treatise, 

 written, as the author states in his preface, expressly as a 

 "Western work," but it may be read with profit by every 

 bee-keeper, whether in the east or west. 



In the prefatory remarks, the author alludes to the patent 

 hive of Mr. Weeks, (who has also published a treatise on the 



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