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milk — fed on these figs with some of the dry fodder. One kind 

 of these figs has no prickles. Millon cut them up, for the cow. 

 However hot the air, in and out of the stables, is by day, it always 

 becomes cool at night, and the cattle are let out to enjoy it. 



Pork, is as yet, very little raised in Africa — there are only 

 seven or eight thousand of them, and these belong to the Euro- 

 pean population. Before France had Algeria, the hog was un- 

 known there ! The Mussulman religion forbade the use of its 

 flesh for food ! The Arabs detest pork, which they call allouf I 

 by which they express. their most profound contempt. 



There are many wild boars feeding on acorns, &c. Some colo- 

 nists have let their hogs imitate the wild ones, by driving them 

 to the forests for acorns, &:c., on which they get fat in a month. 

 I have seen some of the hogs grown from crossings with the wild 

 ones, and these are very hardy and do well, nor are they wilder 

 than the domestic herd which they live with. Hogs are readily 

 thriving here when imported, and pork will become a great busi- 

 ness here. These hogs are fit for market at one year old, and 

 some before that. 



[Journal De La Societe Imperiale et Centrale D'Horticulture, Paris, July, 1857. Louis 

 Napoleon III, Protecteur.] 



Extracts translated by Henry Meigs. 



Report of the committee on two American works, by the chair- 

 man, Mons. Duchartre. 



The report of the Commissioner of Patents and of the Agricul- 

 tural Society of the State of New-York. 



These works are due to the Vattemare exchanges. 



The 14th volume of the Transactions of the New-York Agri- 

 cultural Society, has scarcely any other interest than a local one. 

 It is in fact composed of, for the most part, the reports of the vari- 

 ous committees on farming and gardening. 



It contains however the first part of a great work, interesting 

 to farmers and gardeners, out of America. It is a history of all 

 insects injurious to vegetation, or useful to it, in the State of New- 

 York. This first part contains 185 pages of a compact edition. 

 Mr. Asa Fitch, the author, treats of those insects which attack 

 the apple, pear, peach, plum, cherry trees, and the grape vine — 



