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four hours before being set out, they would often grow 
when they had appeared to be entirely dead. 
The philosophy of the matter appears to be this: 
the bark and outer vessels of the tree, in drying, are 
contracted; and though the vessels of the roots, upon 
being again buried, distend and perform their functions, 
there is not force enough to carry the sap far up the 
trunk. By burying the whole tree in moist earth, the 
cells of the trunk and limbs are expanded in like man¬ 
ner with the roots, so that when again set out, the sap 
is speedily carried through the whole tree. In this 
region, where trees are often carried to so great a dis¬ 
tance, this fact, if true, is particularly valuable, and 
should be remembered.— Prairie Farmer. 
To protect Hens from Vermin. —A gentleman from 
Hanover requests us to state the fact that pennyroyal , 
woven into their nests, will perfectly and certainly 
protect hens from the annoyance of vermin. He gen¬ 
erally makes the nest entirely of this strong-scented 
herb.— Southern Planter. 
Extraordinary Wheat. —We are indebted to Myron 
H. Adams, of East Bloomfield, for a fine specimen of 
white flint wheat, raised by him the past summer. 
We are informed by Mr. A. that 177£ lbs. of this wheat 
produced 144£ lbs. of flour, and 32 lbs. of bran and mid¬ 
dlings—averaging 48 lbs. of flour to the bushels. If 
any of the new varieties of wheat introduced among 
our farmers can show a greater yield of flour than the 
white flint, we should like to have an account thereof. 
Mr. A. has two or three hundred bushels of said wheat 
for sale for seed.— Ontario Repository. 
Pennsylvania Wool. —Some 10,000 lbs. of Pennsylva¬ 
nia wool have been shipped for Liverpool from Phila¬ 
delphia. The wool was of the most delicate texture. 
Value of ihe Products of Ohio. —During the last year, 
as near as they can be ascertained from the data with¬ 
in reach, they are as follows : 
Agricultural .$45,362,400 
Manufactures . 17,505,600 
Commerce. 9,660,379 
Mineral. 2,931,218 
Forest and lumber. 1,013,063 
Fisheries. 10,525 
Total.$76,483,185 
The value of the products of Ohio, exported from 
the State during the past year, have been about 
$25,000,000. 
Egyptian Cotton. —Mr. White, of Louisiana, has on 
his plantation a cotton stalk, from Egytian seed, about 
fifteen feet in height. Mr. White obtained twenty 
seeds, gathered from the garden of the Pacha. He 
thinks, if carefully managed, it would probably yield 
from 2,500 to 3,000 lbs. of seed cotton to the acre. 
English Duty on Tobacco. —Mr. Clay mentions the 
startling fact, that on the single article of American 
tobacco, England levies annually an amount of reve¬ 
nue equal to the whole amount of duties levied annu¬ 
ally by the United States upon all the articles of im¬ 
port from all the foreign nations of the world, includ¬ 
ing England herself. 
Peaches in Illinois. —The idea has become prevalent 
that our climate is too cold for peaches. The experi¬ 
ment, however, has been made the last year, and the 
result is, that with proper care, as good fruit can be 
grown here as in more southern climates. A number 
of persons have had bearing trees this year. One gen¬ 
tleman informs us that he had one hundred trees bear¬ 
ing excellent fruit. He states that by spreading straw 
about tne roots in the spring, before the frost comes 
out of the ground, all damage to the trees will be pre¬ 
vented.— Galena Gaz. Ad. 
Mastodon Cotton. —We were yesterday shown some 
samples of cotton by the commercial house of Hoops 
& Marye, which were indeed remarkable. They were 
all from the plantation of Mr. Abbey, on the Yazoo. 
Some had already been ginned, and some was in the 
boll. It is a new description of cotton, never before 
grown in the United States,and but twenty bales have 
been picked this year. Mr. Abbey has christened it 
the Mastodon cotton, considering it much finer than 
that grown from the common Mexican seed. The 
seed, he states, was procured in the city of Mexico, 
four years ago. It was not known or grown there to 
any extent, and could only be had at one bit a piece, 
which was the price actually paid for it by a gentle¬ 
man who brought a few from Mexico in his pocket- 
book to the United States. Mr. Abbey intends plant¬ 
ing no other henceforth, thinking that he can raise 
from 50 to 100 per cent, more from this than the usual 
seed.— N. O. Picayune. 
Slaughtering Sheep for the Tallow and Pelts. —They are 
killing sheep by the thousands at the west, and trying 
up all of the carcase, except the hind quarters, into 
tallow. The pelts are shipped to England, and being 
admitted duty free, pay a fair profit. 
To the Maine Farmer. —We shall be greatly obliged 
by the personal appearance forthwith, of the beautiful 
concentration of the royal blood of all the Penobscots 
encased in the promised wigwam. It can at least be 
said, there is no degeneracy of stock here, that is, so far 
as enbonpoint goes. We have read that sheep, through 
the influence of climate, were not the only animals 
that bred fat rumps at the Cape of Good Hope. The 
specimen figure so gorgeously portrayed, has undoubt¬ 
edly a strong cross from that quarter! Cannot a tripli¬ 
cate proof be spared ? We want a few for distribution 
among our friends. 
Acknowledgments. —To J. P. Fairbanks, Esq., of 
St. Johnsbury, Vermont, for the Caledonian, contain¬ 
ing the proceedings of the Caledonia county Agricul¬ 
tural Society; to C. N. Bement, Esq., of Albany, for 
his Address before the Housatonic Agricultural So¬ 
ciety, Mass..; to Hon. J. S. Skinner, for the Transac¬ 
tions of Newcastle county, Delaware, embracing his 
eloquent Address upon the occasion’; also, to the 
same, for a pamphlet on Guano ; to Ebenezer Mack, 
Esq, for his Address before the Tompkins county 
Agricultural and Horticultural Society; Mr. T. Bridge- 
man, for his Report as Chairman of the Committee on 
Horticulture, at the late Fair of the American Insti¬ 
tute ; Edwin Bartlett, Esq., for a valuable pamphlet 
of 95 pages, on Guano, its Nature, Properties, and Re¬ 
sults ; to Messrs. Wm. R. Prince and Co., of Flushing, 
Long Island, for their splendid new Catalogue of over 
100 pages, descriptive of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, 
& c., kc. ; Albert G.Carl, Esq., for Transactions of the 
Queens county Agricultural Society for 1843, and the 
Address of the Hon. Wm. T. McCoun. It would af¬ 
ford us great pleasure to give a further notice of these 
valuable productions, but want of time forbids our 
doing so. 
Inquiry. —Can any one inform us, without taxing 
us with postage, where Guinea, or African Geese, pure 
breed, and the small China Geese, can be had ? Also, 
Bolton Grey, Ostrich, and White Poland Fowls ; Can- 
vass-back Ducks ; Wild Turkeys ; Lop-eared Rab¬ 
bits ; and English Fowls. We have constant orders 
for choice poultry, and shall be pleased to be informed 
of everything either rare or valuable. Always state 
prices per pair, &c. 
To Correspondents. —In addition to those insert¬ 
ed in this number, we have received communications 
from A. M. Burton, John P. Norton, Thomas Affleck, 
R. L. Allen, G., Thomas Spaulding, J. H. Cowper, 
S. C. Charles, Jared P. Kirtland, Sullivan Bates, 
J. M. K., Querist, K., Ambrose Stevens, A. R. D., Solon 
Robinson, and T. S. P. We are greatly indebted to oui 
correspondents for their excellent communications, all 
of which shall appear in due course. 
