AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



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[London Farmers' Magazine, March, 1856.] 



COVENT GARDEN MARKET. 



Fruit. — Piue apple, $2 to $3 per pound; grapes, $3 to $5 per 

 pound; strawberries, 1^ 6d to 3* per ounce; oranges, 25per dozen. 



Potatoes, 5^ to Ss a bushel; lettuce (cabbage) 1^ to 2^ a dozen 

 heads; cabbage, Is to 2s a dozen heads; country potatoes, (York,) 

 3* a bushel. 



It is now full 20 years since we had a supply of potatoes in 

 rich abundance. Hundreds of tons will be consumed by cattle, pigs 

 and horses. The average price is not over four shillings a bushel. 

 The potato crop last year was enormous, and sound now. 



All entomologists know that the larvae of insects feed upon 

 decaying vegetable matter in preference to that which is in a 

 growing and healthy state, and the presumption is that such 

 vegetables had been previously injured by frost or other cause. 

 Grubs seem to be an effect rather than cause of injury. Decay- 

 ing vegetables are attacked by myriads of grubs. The rooks are 

 after them in our fields — iii fact it is one of the modes nature has 

 devised lor freeing the earth from the decaying vegetable and 

 animal matter upon its surtace. 



Reaping Machines tried on the farm of M. Dailly^ at TrappeSj 

 near Paris, August 2d, 18b5. 



No. 



Name. 



Cournia, 



Countryf 



France, . . 

 America, . 



Atkins, .... 



Laurent, France, 



-Vlazier, France, 



Manny, [America, . . 



Brookhill&BelLEngland, .. 

 McCormick, . . .America, . . 



Dray, lEngland, . . 



Canadian, i 



Breadth of Square, 

 cutting, metres. 



ft. in. 



4 3 



5 3 

 5 



2 

 4 

 5 

 5 

 5 



6 6 



1,628 

 1,733 



1,825 



* 



1,900 



* 



1,987 



t 



2,250 



Price. 



.£26 

 36 



26 

 45 

 30 

 25 



The grand Medal of Honor to Mr. McCormick, of Chicago, 

 United States of America, for his reaping machine. 



Professor Wilson considered the fish manure [engrais poisson) 

 specially worthy of notice. The fish after having been steamed 

 are pressed into cakes and dried. In this form it is said to con- 

 tain from 10 to 12 per cent of nitrogen, and from 16 to 22 per 

 cent of phosphate. Price about £8 per ton, $40. 



• Broke down. f Ketired. 



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