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Out OF Date! — It has ever been our aim to fill the 
pages of the Cultivator with articles of permanent and 
enduring value, and we often recur to our old volumes 
and draw instruction and entertainment from them. This 
is a '^fast” age, however, and we shall probably soon be 
obliged to issue a Daily Agricultural Paper, with Tele- 
graphic Intelligence “in advance of the mails,” in order 
to meet the wishes of our impatient subscribers. Read 
the following, just received from a Tennessee “ patron,” 
as a sample of the remonstrances which are often sent us : 
“W. S. Jones — Dear Sir : — The January and February 
numbers of the Southern Cultivator did not reach me un- 
til the 5th inst. You will please forward them sooner, as 
they ^vill be of no service to me unless I can get each num- 
ber by the Is^ of each month. The March number should 
be here at this time. Respectfully, your 
Friend.” 
March 6, 1856. 
Now, a moments’ reflection would have convinced our 
friend that the regulation of the mails is entirely beyond 
our control, and that his disappointment might more 
reasonably be laid at the door of “Uncle Sam” — the bear- 
er of our “dispatches.” Our paper is almost invariably 
mailed before the first of the month, and we hope it does 
not become entirely worthless, even should it be several 
days in reaching its destination. The eagerness of our 
Tennessee friend to obtain it, however, speaks well for 
his estimate of its value, and we trust he will not have 
any future reason to complain of its non-arrival in due sea- 
son. 
United States Agricultural Society. — The Execu- 
tive Committee of the United States Agricultural Society 
had a meeting in Philadelphia last week. The Philadel- 
phia Ledger says ot it : 
“Colonel Wilder, the efficient and distinguished chief of 
the Association, presided. The object of the meeting was 
to arrange certain preliminaries for the next Annual Ex- 
hibition, wliich has been fixed to take place in this city 
on the 7th of October, and which it is proposed to conduct 
on a scale of unexampled liberality and splendor. It was 
decided to embrace, as objects of the exhibition, horses 
and horned cattle, swine and sheep, agricultural imple- 
ments, cereal and vegetable products, poultry, and native 
fruits and wines. 
“A grand banquet, in which ladies will participate, was 
also settled as part of the programme ; and it was agreed 
to appropriate ^12,000 or §'5,000 in premiums.” 
Agricultural College of Maryland. — The bill to 
incorporate and endow an Agricultural College, appropri- 
ating .§‘6.000 annually from the State Treasury, has finally 
passed both branches of the Legislature, and is now a law. 
This annual appropriation is, however, not available to 
the College until subscriptions to its capital stock to the 
amount of 2,000 shares at §25 per share be actually se- 
cured and made good. A committee has been appointed 
to superintend the building of the College. 
American Pomolooical Society.— The Sixth Session 
of this Society will be held in Corinthian Hall, Rochester^ 
New York, commencing on Wednesday, the 24th day of 
September, 1856, and will continue for several days. The 
Circular of the Society will be published in full in our May 
number. 
OUR BOOK TABLE. 
The American’s Grape Grower’s Guide. Intended es- 
pecially for the American Climate. By Wm. Chorlton, 
author of “The Cold Grapery,” &c. New York: C. 
M. Saxton & Co. 1856. 
This little treatise contains directions for the management 
of the Grape in hot-house, cold grapery, retarding house 
and out door culture. Also plans for the construction of 
the requisite buildings, and the best method of heating the 
same, &c., every department being fully illustrated. The 
work is worthy of the attention of Gardeners and Ama- 
teurs, as it contains many valuable hints on this very im- 
portant subject. 
A Complete Manual for the Cultivation of the 
Strawberry; with a description of the best varieties, 
&c., &c. By R. G Pardee. New York ; C. M. Sax- 
ton & Co. 140 Fulton street. 1856. 
This is the “third revised edition” of this most valuable 
work, which, in addition to a very full treatise on the 
Strawberry, contains much useful information on the 
culture of the Raspberry, Blackberry, Cranberry, Currant, 
Gooseberry and Grape. It is the most complete treatise 
on these delicious small fruits that has yet been published. 
Every Fruit Grower should possess it. We are greatly 
obliged to the author for a copy. 
Both of the above may be ordered per mail from C. M. 
Saxton & Co., New York. Price 60 cents each — postage 
prepaid. 
Address delivered before the New York Agricultural 
Society, at its Annual Meeting in February, 1856. By 
Samuel Cheever, President. Published by order of 
the Society. 
Judge Cheever will accept our best thanks for copies 
of his most excellent and practical Address. We had 
marked some pages for insertion, but the crowded state of 
our columns will oblige us to postpone their publication, 
for the present. 
Circular relating to the growth, culture, soil, &c , of the 
Cranberry and Neve Rochelle Blackberry. By F. Trow- 
bridge, New Haven, Conn. 1856, i 
Cranberries are not adapted to our hot climate ; but the 
Rochelle Blackberry thrives finely, and is worthy of a 
placein all gardens. Mr. Trowbridge gives us its history, 
culture, &c., in a brief though satisfactory manner. 
Sugar Crop of Louisiana. — The Planters' Banner 
(Franklin, La.) of the 28th Feb , says : — “Agentleman who 
has recently visited many of the sugar parishes of our 
State, informs us that the planters universally complain of 
the destruction of their seed cane by the frost and the 
thaw which ensued. In many places the stubble has also 
suffered severely from this cause. He gives it as his 
opinion that the next sugar crop will fall considerably 
short of the last, and that those who can hold on to their 
sugar this season will be amply repaid for it. 
To Correspondents. — Communications are on file 
from J. M.-J. E. D.— A. C.— T. P. M.— Essex— J. R, 
A.— J. T. E.— L Y. F.-J. S,— J. C. W.— D. B — J. S. G. 
— W. E. M. — G. B. — Dr. M. W, P.,and many others. 
