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Changing the Bearing Year of Apple Trees. 
— Mr. Manning, of Salem, Mass., by cutting off all the 
blossom buds from a Baldwin apple tree, in the spring 
of the bearing year, prolonged the time of bearing until 
the following season, and thus changed the unfruitful 
year to one of bearing, and vice versa. 
Address of John Delafield, Esq. — We acknow- 
ledge the receipt of a Penn-Yan paper, containing 
this address, delivered before the Yates County Agri- 
cultural Society, at their late annual meeting on the 
29th of September, and we pronounce it one of the 
best things of the kind we ever read. Surely to such 
men as Mr. Delafield, our country is largely indebted, 
and cannot but make progress in agricultural improve- 
ment from their example. «» 
European Agriculture and Rural Economy. 
From personal observation. By Henry Colman. Vol. 
II., Parts ix. and x. Boston : Arthur D. Phelps. Lon- 
don : John Petherham. For sale by C. M. Saxton, 
121 Fulton street, New York. All the preceding 
numbers of Mr Colman's work, have been devoted to 
the agriculture of Great Britain and Ireland ; these 
now before us, treat of that of France, Belgium, Hol- 
land, and Switzerland. We have as yet only had time 
for a cursory perusal of these last numbers ; but hope 
to give a more extended notice, with extracts, hereaf- 
ter. We think the present numbers the most inter- 
esting and useful to American farmers, as the pro- 
ductions and climate of the countries of which he now 
speaks, most nearly approaches our own. This num- 
ber completes the series contemplated by Mr. Colman. 
He has recently returned to his native country, where 
we are sure he will find a cordial and deserved wel- 
come from his family and numerous friends, from 
whom he has been so long separated. We shall be 
mistaken if Mr. Colman does not soon favor the pub- 
lic with other valuable matter, collected during his 
travels abroad. 
Ice. — The intrinsic value of ice, like that of metals, 
depends on the investigation of an essayer. That is 
to say, a cubic foot Lower-Canada ice is much colder 
than a cubic foot of Upper-Canada ice, which con- 
tains more cold than a foot of Wenham ice. Again, 
the Wenham or Boston ice contains much more 
cold than a cubic foot of Cincinnati ice ; and thus, al- 
though each of these four cubic feet of ice has precise- 
ly the same shape, they each, as summer approaches, 
diminish in value ; that is to say, they each gradually 
lose a portion of their cold, until, long before the 
Lower-Canada ice has melted, the Cincinnati ice has 
been converted into warm water. 
The Ice Trade. — The entire statistics of the ice 
trade are highly interesting, not only as evidence of 
the magnitude it has assumed as an item of commerce, 
but as showing the indefatigable enterprise of the man 
Yankee. There is scarcely a nook or corner of the 
civilized world where ice has not become an essential, 
if not common article of trade. 
The ice trade, but a few years ago a novelty and ex- 
periment in the way of commerce, is exclusively a 
Yankee idea. Ice has become an important and staple 
item in commerce. The first cargo ever taken from 
the United States, was shipped from Boston, in 1805, 
by Frederick Tudor, a gentleman who had previously 
despatched agents to the West Indies for information 
touching the enterprise. 
Up to 1S32, the business was confined to the enter- 
prise of this one individual. At that period, others 
embarked extensively in it, and in 1S33, Tudor ex- 
tended his operations to Calcutta, Madras, and Bom- 
bay. The shipment of ice from Boston in the year 
1847, coastwise, amounted to 51,887 tons, making 
158 cargoes ; shipped to foreign ports, 22,591, making 
95 cargoes. The freight, storage, and other expenses 
on the whole, amounted to $335,151. In the same 
year, 29 cargoes of provisions, fruits and vegetables, 
valued at 072,500 cost, were shipped in ice from the 
United States, to ports where such articles could not 
otherwise be sent. 
Eight ice houses, in Massachusetts, erected pur- 
posely for the trade, are capable of containing 
141,332 tons. The consumption of ice in Boston 
alone, in 1847, was 27,000 tons, employing 66 wagons 
in the delivery. In Havana, ice sells for 6| cents per 
pound, in Calcutta at 2| cents, in Boston at 13| cents 
per one hundred pounds, on the average, and in New 
York 25 cents for one hundred pounds. 
Agricultural Sketches of Black Rock and 
Buffalo. — The following is a statement of the num- 
ber of tons of agricultural products coming from other 
states, by the way of Buffalo and Black Rock, during 
the last twelve years : — 
Troducts of Products of Vegetable Other agric'l 
Year, the forest. animals. food. products 
1836... 3.755 1,593 23.207 1,961 
1837... 7,104 4i083 29.229 884 
1S38... 4,615 3.282 5S.907 379 
1839... 22.835 4i219 70.2S4 361 
1840... 18,133 5.592 111.533 688 
1841... 35; 126 14.877 188.036 1.480 
1S42... 26.229 13,590 45.096 1.642 
1843... 31.211 16.400 166'.327 2^21 
1844... 52,061 17,470 165.761 1,757 
1845... 72.674 14.963 137.379 1.587 
1S46... 61,957 23.899 298.970 2,393 
1847... 85,539 26.567 532.676 2,996 
421,238 146,535 1.862,405 18.649 
In making the above statement, it was assumed that 
all the flour, wheat, bran, and ship stuffs, cleared at 
Black Rock, came from other states. 
Dandies for Scarecrows. — It is said that every- 
thing was placed on earth for some wise purpose, but 
what under heaven these bipedal nomenclatures were 
put here for, has always been a mystery to us, and 
one which we could never solve. To be sure, the 
things keep a large quantity of bread from moulding, 
and patronize the tailors extensively on the endless 
credit system. And then, too, they make very good 
dolls for soft-pated young women ; but what else are 
they fit for ? They have never, as yet, been known to be 
of any essential service to mankind, neither will they 
ever be, until they are stuck up in some farmer's 
cornfield for scarecrows. 
