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editor’s table. 
Large Berkshire Pigs. — Calvin Rood, Esq., of Shef¬ 
field, on the 15th November, killed a hog which 
weighed when dressed 510 pounds. The hog was 15 
months old only. Also, at the same time, another 
which was only 18 months old, and which weighed at 
the time of the purchase, about the 15th of Nov. 1843, 
137 pounds. It weighed when dressed 651 pounds. 
Allowing the shrinkage in dressing to equal the weight 
of the hog when purchased, there leaves a net gain of 
651 pounds—showing an increase in weight daily of 
more than If pounds.— Great Barrington Courier. 
Sugar on the Highlands. —The Baton Rouge Advo¬ 
cate states, that the experiment of raising sugar in the 
highlands of Louisiana—hitherto deemed chimerical 
—has been altogether successful, and that planters are 
now quite generally turning their attention to the sub¬ 
ject. 
The Yield of Coal in Pennsylvania the present year, 
amounts to 1,570,682 tons. 
Imports and exports of the United States for 1844.—The 
imports during the fiscal year ending on the 30th of 
June, 1844, are valued as follows: 
Free of duty, .... $24,766,082 00 
Paying duty, .... - 83,668,620 00 
Total imports, - - - $108,434,702 00 
The exports for the same time were: 
Of domestic products, - - 100,183,497 00 
Of foreign merchandize, - - 10,944,781 00 
Total exports, - - - $111,128,278 00 
The Gross Revenue from customs within the year 
was $29,137,060 60, and the net amount paid into the 
Treasury was $26,183,570 94: making the cost of 
collection $2,953,489 60. The exports exceed the 
i nports only $2,693,576. 
Population of the United States in 1900.—Mr. Daibv 
very fairly estimates that our population at this period 
will be 102,S40,201 ! The idea of such an incredible 
number of people constituting this nation only 55 years 
hence, absolutely amazes one ; and yet w r ith the bless¬ 
ings of Providence we can have no doubt it may be so 
—and there is many a one now living who will see it! 
Stable Economy : A treatise on the management 
of horses, in relation to Stabling, Grooming, Feeding, 
Watering, and Working. By John Stew r art, Professor 
of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery in the Anderso- 
nian University of Glasgow. From the third English 
edition, with Notes and Additions, adapting it to Ame¬ 
rican Food and Climate, by A. B. Allen. Appleton 
& Co., 200 Broadway, N Y.; pp. 350, 12 mo. Price 
$1 00 . We are sensible that we may be considered 
somewhat presumptuous in attempting to edit, with a 
view of improvement, a work of the established repu¬ 
tation of the one at the head of this article ; but the 
difference of climate and food between the United 
States and Great Britain are so great, and the habits 
and wants of the people are in many respects so dis¬ 
similar, that in re-publishing a certain class of works 
here, great changes are requisite in them. The horse 
has been a perfect passion with us from childhood, and 
more or less the object of our care, from the time w r e 
could go alone up to the present hour. A residence of 
nearly two years on the continent of Europe, gave us 
an excellent opportunity of studying the different 
breeds from the pure Arabian down 5 also of looking 
over the large military stable establishments there, and 
many eminent private ones. During' a late ramble 
in England we paid considerable attention to horses 
and stable economy; and for several years here in our 
own country, we w T ere directly engaged in breeding 
and rearing them on our own farm, and fitting them 
for the market. Thus it will be seen that we have had 
some little experience in this matter. Of the manner 
in which w r e have acquitted ourselves of our task we 
shall leave the public to judge. The work will soon 
be ready for delivery, and we intend to present each of 
our contemporaries with a copy. If any fail of receiv¬ 
ing one they will be kind enough to notify us of the 
fact, and the manner in which another shall be sent 
The work is handsomely got up, with numerous em¬ 
bellishments. Among them wall be found several that 
were not in the English edition. We particularly com 
mend illustrations of the stables of William Gibbons, 
Esq., of New Jersey. 
Ohio Cultivator. —Thisisa new r periodical of eight 
pages quarto, issued semi-monthly at Columbus, Ohio, 
by M. B. Bateham, Esq., late editor of the New Gene¬ 
see Farmer—price $1 a year. Mr. Bateham has had 
several years experience as an editor, and we have no 
doubt he will make an excellent paper of the Culti¬ 
vator, and one highly worthy the patronage of the 
farmers of the west. His periodical is handsomely 
got up; and is lively, agreeable, and instructive, in 
its contents. He has, both publicly and privately, our 
best wishes for his success. 
Vestiges of the Natural History of Crea 
tion : Wiley & Putnam, 161 Broadway, N. Y., pp. 291, 
price 75 c*ents. The author’s name is not attached to 
this book, but it is supposed to be written by the cele¬ 
brated author of Architecture of the Heavens. It treats 
of the arrangement and formation of the bodies of 
space 5 the constituent materials of the earth; era of 
the primary rocks ; commencement of organic life, and 
so on to that of fishes, birds, animals and man, together 
with the secondary and tertiary formations; and, 
finally, the mental constitution of animals, and the pur¬ 
pose and general condition of the animated creation. 
It is an admirable book from beginning to end, and the 
best condensation of the subjects of which it treats, 
with all that is recent about them, that has yet been 
published. 
Farming for Ladies. —This is a very pretty Eng 
lish volume, 510 pages 12mo., elegantly embellished, 
and treating of the Poultry-yard, Dairy, &c., &c.,by the 
author of British Husbandry. Imported and for sale 
by Wiley & Putnam, 161 Broadway : price $2 25. 
The Chemistry of Vegetable and Animal 
Physiology : by Dr. G. T. Mulder, Professor of Chem¬ 
istry in the University of Utrecht. Translated from the 
original Dutch by P. F. H. Fromberg, first assistant 
in the laboratory of the Agricultural Chemistry Asso¬ 
ciation of Scotland. With an Introduction by Prof. J. 
F. W. Johnston. First American edition, with Notes 
and Corrections by B. Silliman, Jr. Vol I., Parti., 
No. 1 . Wiley & Putnam, 12 mo , pp. 78. Price 20 cts 
The author of this work enjoys a high reputation as a 
man of science, and takes up an entirely new theory 
on the subject of the action of organized beings. He 
contends that vitality is simple molecular action, analo¬ 
gous to certain known chemical operations, and not an 
imaginary power hitheito called vital force or nervous 
influence. We shall be better able to judge of this 
theory when we have read the other parts of the work. 
In the mean while w ? e commend it to the considera¬ 
tion of the lovers of science. 
Annual Meeting of the New York State Ag¬ 
ricultural Society. —This took place at Albany the 
past month, and seems to have been well attended, 
We did not receive the Argus containing the proceed¬ 
ings till the 25th ult, too late to give any account of 
them this month, our paper being already made up 
save this paragraph. We ought to have received these 
papers several days sooner from the Secretary. Full 
particulars will appear in our next. 
Answer to Correspondents. —T., Young Farm¬ 
er, H. Carpenter, G., Alexander McDonald, H. A., and 
Thomas Spalding, wfith a box of grasses, the tallow- 
tree, and view of his house, are duly received. The last 
should have been acknowledged the past month. 
