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by way of testimony to the implement, or in- 

 ducement to its purchase. If public spirited 

 gentlemen will examine for themselves we shall 

 be satisfied. If our subscribers in the Valley 

 may feel an interest in the subject — we should 

 they would, for they have clods as large as nail 

 kegs — they are referred to our friends, H. M. 

 Nelson and Nath'l Burwell, Esqrs., of Clarke 

 county. They have seen it work, and have 

 engaged patterns of the maker in Richmond. 

 Those wishing to obtain them in time for 

 use this Fall, will have time to see Messrs. 

 Baldwin & Cardwell — consult Mr. Cardivell — 

 in Richmond. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS FOR THE STATE 

 AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S FAIR. 



We omitted, accidentally, in our last issue to 

 mention that Dr. Wm. H. McGuffet, Professor 

 of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy at 

 the University of Virginia, had consented to 

 deliver the annual address before the Virginia 

 State Agricultural Society at its next meeting. 

 We congratulate the Society on the selection 

 that has been made. We think Dr. McGuffey 

 the finest thinker it has ever been our good 

 fortune to ; hear, and no doubt his address 

 will be a treat to those who can appreciate it. 



SOUTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURALIST. 



We have accidentally omitted to notice the 

 revival of this very valuable agricultural jour- 

 nal, this time under the auspices of the newly 

 formed South Carolina Agricultural Society. 

 It is edited, as before, by Col. A. G. Summer. 

 We were sorry when it was discontinued some- 

 time ago — we place it again on our list of ex- 

 changes with very great pleasure. We like the 

 editor. 



"THE GREAT GUANO DISCOVERY." 



Possibly some of our readers may not have 

 forgotten an article we wrote on this subject a 

 few months ago. We heard that we were to be 

 answered, and tendered the Planter as the 

 medium ; but heard no more of it. We have 

 lately understood that the thing blew up; 

 that the guano turned out upon analysis to be 

 worth about as much as our title to the LobOs 

 Islands did upon investigation. 



What amount of stock was sold in Virginia 

 we have never ascertained. 



AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL 

 REVIEW. 



In this State the wheat has all been harvest- 

 ed, and is now safely garnered in the farmers' 

 barns, excepting of course, the limited quanti- 

 ty which has been sent, or may be in transitu 

 to market. We have no definite information as 

 to the extent of the crop, in Virginia, but be- 

 lieve that the annexed general review, from the 

 Whig, of this city, is, in the main, correct : 



"The wheat crop in Tide-Water Virginia is 

 far inferior to any for ten years. In the South- 

 ern part of the State, from Powhatan to the 

 North Carolina line, the crop, with some, and 

 those very few, exceptions, "is miserable." 

 The Piedmont country — extending from Alex- 

 andria along the foot of the mountains, to 

 Franklin — fifty or sixty miles in breadth — the 

 crop is generally very good — though produced 

 at a heavy expense in guano. In the lower 

 portion of the Valley the crop is fair — in Rock- 

 bridge, almost a failure — further west, in 

 South-Western Virginia, satisfactory. A gene- 

 ral alarm, from the mountains to the seaboard, 

 is felt for the corn crop. The rains have been 

 partial and limited in quantity ; the chinch-bug 

 universal, and like the sand of the sea shore 

 for numbers. Many corn fields are entirely de- 

 stroyed by them already, and others can only 

 be saved by timely and copious rains." 



In the July number of the Planter, we inti- 

 mated that the corn crop would probably be an 

 abundant one. From information which has 

 since reached us, we are led to the conclusion 

 that the reverse of this presumption will be 

 nearer the truth. In Eastern Virginia there 

 has been no rain of consequence for six weeks ; 

 the chinch-bug as the Whig states, has made 

 its appearance everywhere, and, in short, if the 

 half we hear be entitled to credit, corn will be 

 a scarce article in Virginia next fall. The corn 

 crop in the Western States has fared rather 

 better, but there is no doubt, but that from va- 

 rious adverse causes, the yield will not begin to 

 equal that of last year. In various localities, 

 the seed failed to germinate until after two or 

 three plantings. From Europe, the accounts 

 are, as usual, conflicting. In England and the 

 Southern part of Scotland, the prospects are 

 favorable, but on the Continent, which has re- 

 cently suffered from calamitous inundation s» 

 fears are entertained that the cereal yield will 

 fall considerably short of an average. 



The first new wheat sold in this market, 



