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that the high prices of farm produce bei- g the result 

 of a "combination amongst farmers" is a ridiculous 

 idea. Following the advice of our Philadelphia Edi- 

 tors last season, the people attempted to break up the 

 "combinations" by not eating butler; but they 

 soon learned the truth of the old adage, that " there 

 are many w sys of killing a dog, " and that "cho'cing 

 liim with butter" was not one of the best. Butter 

 went down f r a few days, when it was plenty ; but 

 as soon as the people used it, the price went up 

 again — of course' it would. 



The fact is the increase of dairy products in the 

 Eastern States, and probably in the v/hole United 

 States, does not keep pace with the demand for 

 them. Not ten years ago there was scarcely an At- 

 lantic port that did not export amongst other things 

 a large quantity of butcer, — we have w^atched the 

 returns carefully the past year in the leading ports 

 and find that this has entirely ceased. It is all 

 wanted at homo. On the other hand, places to 

 whence we sent butter have increased so immensely 

 their dairy facilities that in view of the heavy })ro- 

 fit incidental to such scarify, they are planning to 

 ship to these states butter in large quantities. 



We see by the California papers, that prepara- 

 tions are m king there to sliip butter on the most 

 extensive scale. One single firm in Maria County, 

 mifk 2000 cows, and employ 200 men in butter 

 making. In San Francisco, we see a firm is exclu- 

 sively employed in making butter casks for shipping, 

 employing regularly thirty men in making them. 

 The receipts of butter in tlie port of San Francisco 

 from the interior, we see estimated at 8000 Firkins 

 per month, and in ant ther place, we note that the 

 consumption is in that city supposed to be about 

 5000, so that about one-haJf must be raised for ship- 

 ping jlsewhere. 



Now, these figures alone tell tlie whole butter 

 story. VV e are satisfied that Pennsylvania and New- 

 York together, do not raise any more butter now 

 than they did at the last census, when together 

 they reported a little over a hundred million pounds 

 per annum, a very small quantity per head for 

 each individual, and showing a splendid chance 

 for intelligent men to make money by Dairy Farm- 

 ing. 



These matters are a little out of our line, as we 

 generally confine ourselves to strictly HorlicuUiiral 

 topics, leaving " the Farm " to be handled by our 

 able contemporaries of the agricultural press ; but 

 with this handsome book of Mr. Flint's before us, 

 we could not help feeling that there must be an 

 immense demand for such a work, and as our own 

 (5)^ better-half, (than whom we may be pardoned for 



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saying), there is not a better dairy woman in the 

 whole famed region of Philadelphia butter, says 

 it is "just the thing, " we think we may safely 

 recommend it to general perusal. 



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New Fuuits. — The new fruits of value that have 

 made their a; pearance recently a;e not numerous, 

 although new appearances are plenty. The great 

 difiiculty is that unlike new plants which are named 

 by competent authority, we have no means o' ascer- 

 taining whether many of the new things off"ered are 

 really new or are but old things under new names. 

 Whenever we notice arjything which we have an 

 opportunity of examining our elves, or which appears 

 to have been passed up n by persons in whose gen- 

 eral intelligence we have confidence, we have a place 

 for it in our record of iicm fruits, but for all this 

 many will prove of not much value. 



New Western Strawberries. — Mr. F. W. 

 Kramer, an industrious German and a scientific 

 gardener, after many years of expe{;imenting, has 

 succeeded in producing two new and valuable seed- 

 ing varieties of the strawb rry, wdiich have been 

 named, by Hon. Tim. Davis and Judge King, the 

 "Kramer" and " Julien. " 



Tsl^^ssrs. Davis and King, who have tested the 

 fruit of these new varieties, furnish the following 

 d:scnptions : 



Kramer. — A seedling of Wils n's Albany Pro- 

 lific; large, handsome, and crimson colored. Not 

 so acid as its parent; of excellent fiavor and great 

 firmness ; valuable as a market berry. 



Juh'en. — A seedling of the Peabody. One of the 

 most beautiful berries we have ever seen ; fair and 

 uniform in size ; rich glossy scarlet in color, and of 

 highly aromatic flavor. . It combines some of the 

 most valuable qua. it.es as an amateur and market 

 berry. — ]Vesterii Paper. 



The Walter G-rape.— I hi\ve seen the fruit of 

 the Walter grape for three years past ; on the last 

 occasion at Mr. Charles Downing's who had just 

 received some of the fruit. The Walter grape, in 

 my opinion is a seedling of the Diana, and exceed- 

 ingly like its parent; so much indeed, as to require 

 a very nice taste to distinguish the one from the 

 other. If the vine should prove to be vigorou ii and 

 healthy, and the fruit ripen as early as it is claimed 

 to, th3 Walter will have much vilue; otherwise 



