editor’s table. 
101 
(Sbitor’s Stable. 
Genesee Farmer. —We notice that this excellent 
work has changed its quarto form to the octavo. It 
now contains 16 pages, and is issued monthly—price 
bO cents a year. Published by B. F. Smith & Co., at 
Rochester, N. Y. Dr. Lee has become its editor—an 
able man, and we are certain he will make a highly 
useful periodical of it. We wish it a large circula¬ 
tion. 
Boston Cultivator. —Is a weekly folio of eight 
pages ; published at Boston, Mass , by Otis Brewer— 
price $2 a year. It is a family Newspaper, as well as 
an agricultural work; and we are informed that it has 
a circulation of 11,000, which is larger than that of any 
agricultural paper we know. We do not understand 
how our neighbors of the north have got so far ahead 
of our old New Yorkers. It is edited by Messrs. 
Brewer, Cole & Pedder. It commences the present 
year in a very handsome new dress. May it still fur¬ 
ther increase its subscription list. 
The Albion. —We notice that J. S. Skinner, Esq., 
of Washington, has commenced an Agricultural De¬ 
partment in this sterling journal. Mr. Skinner was 
the originator, and for a long time the editor of the 
American Farmer, and we are confident he will fill 
the columns given to him with useful and instructive 
agricultural matter. The Albion is the only paper in 
this city which is mainly devoted to British and Colo¬ 
nial news, Parliamentary debates, literature, science, 
art, &c., &e. It is an admirable paper for the wanderer 
from the fast-anchored isle, who may still have a lin¬ 
gering love of the place of his birth, or who feels any 
interest in the affairs of its vast and multifarious em¬ 
pire. The Albion is a weekly folio of twelve pages. 
Published at 3 Barclay street. Price $6 a-year. 
The American Review; A Whig Journal of Po¬ 
litics, Literature, Art, and Science. Edited by G. H. 
Colton, 118 Nassau street, and published by Wiley & 
Putnam, 161 Broadway, N. Y., pp. 112. Price $5 
a year. This work is started, like the Democratic Re¬ 
view, to uphold and support the principles of its party, 
and general literature. It is ably conducted, and well 
worthy the patronage of the public. No. 1, for Janua¬ 
ry, contains superb portraits of Henry Clay and Theo¬ 
dore Frelinghuysen. 
Guano, its Origin, Properties, and Uses ; showing 
its importance to the Farmers of the United States as a 
rheap and valuable manure ; with directions for using 
,t. This is a neat pamphlet of 80 pages, from the press 
jf Wiley k Putnam, 161 Broadway, by Edwin Bartlett, 
of 42 South street, N. Y., who keeps the pure Peruvian 
for sale—see advertisement. It is the best manual on 
Guano we krioW for the American farmer, as it contains 
many experiments of its use in our own country, and 
the method of applying it in Peru on Indian corn. We 
will send the pamphlet gratis to any one desiring it. 
Mr. Bartlett will also do the same 
American Quarterly Journal of Agricul¬ 
ture and Science.— Conducted by Dr. E. Emmons 
and Dr. A. J. Prime, 8vo., pp. 184; price $3 a-year. 
This long looked for journal has at length appeared, 
abounding with well considered and able articles, of 
rather a scientific than practical cast. About one half 
of the present number is made up of original contri¬ 
butions, the other part is selections from foreign and 
domestic agricultural periodicals. The American 
Quarterly has our best wishes for its success, and we 
shall be happy to aid in its circulation by taking sub¬ 
scriptions for it at this office. It is handsomely got up, 
and highly deserving public patronage. Its editors 
and contributors are all able and well informed men. 
Maine Fa rmer. —This large and handsome weekly 
folio, published at Augusta, Me., at $2 a year, and ed¬ 
ited by the facetious Dr. Holmes, keeps steadily on its 
way rejoicing. It is a good family paper, and deserv¬ 
ing of as many subscribers as w r ere ever grown Quod- 
dy-blue potatoes upon an acre of the richest Maine 
land, cultivated in the best possible style by the in¬ 
defatigable neighbors of the blue-noses. 
Final Report on the Geology and Mineral¬ 
ogy of New Hampshire ; with contributions towards 
the improvement ot Agriculture and Metallurgy. By 
Charles T. Jackson, M.D. Concord, N. H. Published 
by order of the Legislature, pp. 376, quarto i 1844. 
Price stitched $3 50. We have been highly gratified in 
perusing the above Report, and think New Hampshire 
was judicious as w r ell as fortunate in employing a per¬ 
son well skilled in his profession, to perform so impor¬ 
tant an undertaking. Dr. Jackson has long been fa¬ 
vorably known in this country, as well as abroad, as 
an able analytical chemist, and as having made geo¬ 
logical surveys of several of the New England States, 
and particular examinations of the chief mineral re¬ 
gions of North America. Although New Hampshire 
embraces but a small extent of territory, the survey 
occupied more than five years, during which time, he 
examined all the important localities in the State; 
made several hundred barometrical and thermometrical 
observations for the purpose of determining the height 
of mountains and other elevations; performed partial 
or complete analysis of all the principal soils, mine¬ 
rals, and ores which came under his jurisdiction, as 
well as of several vegetable products, including the 
principal varieties of the cerealia and Indian Corn. In 
the mean time, he discovered a rich mine of tin ore, 
the only one known in the United States, as w ell as 
somewhat extensive mines of copper, iron, lead blend¬ 
ed with silver, and several rich quarries of lime 
marl, peat, soap-stone, slate, granite, mica, feldspar, 
black-lead, brick and potter’s clay, ochre, manga¬ 
nese, sulphate of iron, &c., k c. He has also en¬ 
tered fully into the economical geology and metal¬ 
lurgy of the State, suggesting various plans for 
working the mines, smelting their ores, and illustrating 
the same by numerous diagrams. He has collected a 
great amount of statistical information relative to the 
extent, modes of culture, and rotation of crops, and has 
pointed out means for improving the soil and render¬ 
ing it more productive. In short, it is a complete 
Hand Book for the northern farmer and miner, and it 
is to be regretted that the circulation of so valuable a 
w r ork should be so limited. By permission, however, 
from the author, we shall make eopious extracts in our 
future numbers, which we hope will be no less accep¬ 
table to our readers than useful to the community at 
large. 
The Pomological Manual, or Treatise on 
Fruits: Containing descriptions of a great number 
of the most valuable varieties for the Orchard and 
Garden. By William Robert Prince, aided by William 
Prince, proprietor of the Linnsean Botanic Garden and 
Nurseries, Flushing, Long Island. In 2 Parts, pp. 418. 
A Treatise on the Vine : Embracing its History 
from the earliest ages to the present day, wuth descrip¬ 
tions of above 200 Foreign, and 80 American varieties; 
together with a complete Dissertation on the Esta¬ 
blishment, Culture, and Management of Vineyards. 
By the same authors as above ; pp, 355. 
Although some new discoveries in fruits have been 
made since these volumes w r ere published, and a differ¬ 
ent treatment is pursued in the culture of some things, 
still, the above works are highly valuable, and should 
be in the hands of all who wish to be fully informed on 
subjects of which they treat. The crops of fruit in the 
United States are becoming of greater value every 
year ; it is consequently more and more important that 
we give an increased attention to an enlightened and 
profitable culture of them. 
