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instincts not to lead its victim to certain death, which would be 

 the case if any king bird or other fly-catcher were to eat a honey 

 bee. One of these writers says I know nothing about king birds, 

 bees, or anything else than books. I have learned one thing from 

 books that he has not, I have learned how very little it is I knoWy 

 and how much there is to learn. 



Dr. Watei bury, of Delaware county, N. Y., exhibited the model 

 of a cultivator plow, invented on purpose for cultivating carrots, 

 which is so contrived that it loosens the surface, cuts up the 

 weeds, and leaves the soil in the same position without turning 

 a furrow slice. It is a cheap implement, and it is thought by 

 members present that it would be a useful tool for some purposes. 

 It has no mold-board, the outer edge of the wing of the share is 

 turned up so as to turn the dirt inward. For common use it is 

 not so good a tool as Langdon's cultivatorj because it does not 

 like that rake out the weeds. 



RELATION OF INCREASE OF CROPS TO NATIONAL 

 PROSPERITY. 



This subject, continued from last week, was now called up. 



Dr. Waterbury, of the city of New-York, late of Delaware 

 county, said, the statistics of Mr. Waring seem to prove that there 

 has been a falling off of the principal grain crops of Dutchess 

 county in the last few years. I am unable to say, sir, from what 

 sources Mr. Waring has derived the amount of ploughed land. 

 The amount of improved lands in that county is said by the cen- 

 sus to be decreasing and yet I am disposed to attribute this to 

 the disposition of the farmers to give in their land to the tax as- 

 sessors at as low a figure as they can. And yet, sir, we must not 

 forget to observe that on the last ten years there has been a very 

 marked increase— an increase too marked to be a mistake in the 

 production of hay ; and in the last five years an uncommon in- 

 crease in the amount of the production of rye. 



This county Dutchess, as well as Westchester, wiiich I will add 

 to the same list, has been engaged lately in buying Western stock 

 and fattening it for the New- York city market. For all our pur- 



