FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
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FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
By the steamer Hibernia, we are in receipt of our 
foreign journals to 27th April. 
Markets. — Ashes, slow of sale ; Cotton remains 
Unchanged ; Flour and Indian Meal have declined, 
and a heavy market in general for American pro- 
ducts. 
Money continued plenty at a low rate of interest. 
The Weather has been as severe in Europe as here. 
Snow fell on the 20th of April in London, and 
other parts of England, sufficiently deep to cover the 
trees and earth. Hard frost followed. 
Couve Tronchuda, or Portugal Cabbage. — The 
seeds of this plant may be sown and treated exactly 
like those of the common cabbage. The white ribs 
make a dish somewhat resembling seakale, and the 
heart boils very tender. 
Amount of Combustible Matter in Soot. — The 
" Farmers' Almanac" gives an analysis of soot, show- 
ing that of 1,000 parts, 671 consist of combustible 
matter — in other words so much fuel wasted. 
Shipment of Eggs from Spain to Ireland. — A 
cargo of eggs, direct from Spain, recently arrived at 
Cork. 
Planting oj Potatoes in Ireland. — The planting of 
potatoes is going on most vigorously in every part of 
Kerry. There is also sown in the same county, a 
very small breadth of wheat, as well as large quan- 
tities of oats. 
A Benevolent Rake. — The Marquis of Waterford, 
of knock-down-watchman memory, in order to give 
food to the peasantry, and thereby repress crime, is 
now employing on his estate, in Ireland, 1,000 labor- 
ers in draining, ditching, hedging, and other occupa- 
tions. 
Packing Potatoes for Long Voyages. — When quite 
ripe, pack them in dry clay, rammed tight in a stout 
wooden box, in a part of the ship perfectly dry. — 
Agricultural Gazette. 
Potatoes in India. — The potatoes from Bombay, Dar- 
jeeling, and Cherra Poonjee seed; were wonderfully 
fine and healthy and to enable the public to form 
9ome idea of the state of perfection this grand and 
staple vegetable has been brought to, in this district, 
it is here recorded that 40 potatoes out of one garden 
weighed 20 lbs. The skin of all delicately white and 
fine, and every potato free from knots. — Jour. Agri- 
cultural and Horticultural Society of India. 
JVeiv Use of Peat. — A valuable discovery has re- 
cently been made in Paris, in extracting, by a chemi- 
ial process, ammonia, naptha, soda ash, oil, and 
spermaceti from peat. At an expense of £30, the 
aroduct of 100 lbs. of peat will amount to £148. 
This is regarded as one of the greatest discoveries of 
the age. 
A Sow Living Five Weeks Without Food. — A far- 
ner, in Brickendon, lately missed a fat sow for five 
veeks, when she was found alive under a barn floor. 
The poor animal, which weighed 224 lbs. when miss- 
id, weighed only. 70 lbs. when discovered, having 
vasted 154 lbs. When released, she could not rise 
rom the ground ; but, after having some milk, she could 
iyalk, and has since rapidly improved; in fact, she 
i said to be getting quite fat again. — English Paper. 
Directions for Putting Up Seeds for Long Voy- 
ges. — All seeds should be picked when fully ripe, 
nd carefully kept dry d*ring the voyage. Various 
leans of doing this have been tried, such as soldering 
I tin cases, hermetically sealing, &c. But perhaps 
he best way of all is, to wrap your seeds in separate 
ags of thick brown paper, and put all these bags 
)gether in a strong canvas sack, which must be so 
lid, in a dry place, as to be easily got at during the 
syage ; then you must choose fine dry sunny days, at 
intervals, on which the sack may be emptied out, and 
each paper bag carefully examined ; if any have be- 
come at all damp, hang them up to the roof of the 
cabin, or other convenient place, until dry, and then 
restow them. The stern cabin, in the poop, is the best 
place for keeping your seed bag. — Gardeners' Chron. 
Pig Tails. — Pigs with little hair on their bodies are 
most liable to lose their tails, showing a weakness 
of the tegumental structure. It may be prevented by 
crossing with a more hairy breed. The writer has a 
black sow, principally of the Berkshire breed, whose 
first litter, by a boar very similar to herself, nearly all 
lost their tails. Since then, she has had two litters by 
a white Yorkshire boar, not one of which has been 
deprived of this ornamental appendage. — lb. 
Curious Arrangement of the Seeds in an Orange. — 
A gentleman of Helston, Cornwall, on opening an 
orange the other day, found 30 seeds all attached 
together, and very much resembling a bunch of grapes. 
The orange was of ordinary size, but all the seeds 
were much beyond an average. . The most singular 
part of this lusus natura is, that the bunch of seeds 
was suspended by a stem growing from the side of the 
orange. — lb. 
Difference in Quality beetween Stall-fed and Barn- 
yard Manure. — The analysis of manure recently 
made at the London Agricultural College, from boxes 
and from ordinary yards, is as follows : — 
Box Manure. Yard Manure. 
Water, ..... 
71.4 
71. 
Nitrogenised matter, capable 
yielding ammonia, 100 parts 
dried, • 
2.37 
1.7 
Salts soluble in water, con- 
taining organic and inorganic 
matter, '.- - 
10.7 
4.6 
Organic, - - \ - 
6.42 
1.82 
Inorganic, |- 
4.28 
2.78 
Phosphoric acid, ... 
0.3 
0.26 
Alkalies — Potash and soda, 
2. 
0.08 
97.47 82.24 
Sale of Louis-Philippe's Stud. — There were lately 
sold at the. Park of Monceaux, in France, the stal- 
lions, brood mares, and colts of the haras of St. Cloud, 
Meudon, and Versailles ; but the prices obtained were 
low. Va-nu-Pieds, a seven-year-old stallion, was 
sold to M. Debeague for 1,050 francs, which is not a 
fifth part of his value in ordinary times. Rabat Joie, 
a six-year-old stallion, which had been valued a 6,000 
francs, was sold to M. Guilloteau for 1,075 francs. 
Saklawy, a nine-year-old stallion, presented by the 
Viceroy of Egypt to Louis-Philippe, was bought by 
the Minister of Agriculture for the haras of St. Cloud 
for 3,020 francs ; orders had been given to go as high as 
6,000 francs. A bay brood mare, presented to Louis- 
Philippe by the Sovereign of Mascara, was sold to M. 
Bayeux for 700 francs. Among the best prices was 
4,150 francs for a bay colt purchased by M. Perceval, 
and 5,200 francs for a four-year-old, purchased by M. 
Manuel, an agent-de-change. A few carriages were 
disposed of at this sale. The char-a-banc, in which 
was the Ex-king with the Royal Family, when Le- 
comte fired at his Majesty at Fontainebleau, and 
which cost 18,000 francs, sold for 2,200 francs. It 
was purchased by the sons of the late Ibrahim Pascha, 
who intends to send it to Egypt. The small coupe in 
which, notwithstanding its restricted space, Louis- 
Philippe, the Queen, and three persons of the family, 
made their escape to St. Cloud on the 24th of Feb- 
ruary, was sold to M. Thierry for 865 francs. An old 
landau, in which Loui3 XVIII. returned from Hart- 
well to St. Ouen, in 1814, was sold to a breaker-up for 
150 francs. — Galignani's Messenger. 
