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Whole value annually of each country. 



France — Beef, milk and work — about $140,000,000 



Great Britain — Beef, milk and work — about 180,000,000 



Great Britain has 2,000,000 horses, worth 120,000,000 



France has 3,000,000 horses, worth 90,000,000 



Great Britain has better pigs, and more of them, than France, 

 but she has no chance in poultry, compared with France, who 

 sends out |20,000,000 worth of eggs per annum, and her fowls are 

 worth 120,000,000— while all the poultry and eggs of Great Bri- 

 tain are worth only $5,000,000. 



The Journal says that the doctrine now is that every farmer 

 with 200 to 300 acres, who has not a steam engine on his farm, 

 has a great lesson to learn. 



[Minutes of the Session oftheSociete Imperiale D'Horticulture, Paris, 1S53 — Extracts — 

 Mons. Payen in the Chair.] 



Dr. Aube repeated — That fruits which do not arrive at perfec- 

 tion have not been fecundated. The suppression of the stamens 

 will render the fruit abortive in general. He recalled the prac- 

 tice of the Arabs on their date trees ; they cultivate none but fe- 

 males, to whom they bring and apply the branches of the male 

 flowers, in order to fecundate them. A discussion on this point 

 ensued. 



Mr. Bossin remarked that the Germans took away from the buds 

 of their stock gilly flowers the stamens before the flower had 

 bloomed, opening the buds to get at them. 



Mr. Vattemare said that he had heretofore remarked that an 

 artist in plastic substances had frequently presented to the Impe- 

 rial Society model fruits executed by him with great perfection, 

 and had promised him a collection of them for the United States, 

 but afterwards changed his mind. 



Mr. Vattemare has before announced to the Imperial Society 

 that an American has made model fruits of a similar kind, to the 

 number of more than 400, and that the society would find itself 

 compensated by sending for them. 



