editor’s table. 
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®bUor*0 Sable. 
Staple Agricultural Articles Shipped front Cincinnati .— 
A statement of the shipments southward from Cincin¬ 
nati, of eight staph? articles, during the year ending 
31st October, 1814, compared^ with the receipts at New 
Orleans, of the same articles, during the year ending 
31st August 1844, and their value. 
Receipts at 
N. Orleans. 
Pork, brls. 484,460 
Beef, brls.. 49,363 
Bacon, hhds. and Vs. 40,305 
Lard, kegs. 976,166 
Flour, brls. 562,507 
Cheese, lbs. 2,264,940 
Butter, kegs... 20,831 
Whisky, brls. 86,947 
Shipments from 
Cincinnati. 
Total. 
209,040 
$1,358,760 
20,992 
625,735 
22,754 
811,181 
360,525 
94,464 
185,633 
742,532 
998,948 
706,733 
16,566 
66,600 
94,231 
66,264 
$4472,269 
Of these eight leading articles of western produce, 
it would seem that Cincinnati alone ships more than 
one half of the entire receipts at New Orleans, leaving 
to the several ports above this on the Ohio river, to 
Madison, Louisville, and the other ports below this, to 
the rich valleys of the Wabash and the Illinois, to St. 
Louis and all the other ports on the Mississippi river, 
to supply the balance.— Cin. Gazette. 
New Cotton Gin. —A few days ago we saw Mr. She- 
rard’s new patent cotton gin in full operation, and we 
cart assure those who have not seen it, that it greatly 
improves the quality of the cotton ginned, and is alto¬ 
gether a beautiful piece of machinery. It is very sim¬ 
ple in construction and easily kept in order. The saws 
are nearly like those of the ordinary gin, save a slight 
difference in the cutting of the teeth. The ribs are 
circular and revolve with the saws; behind the ribs is 
a cylindrical brush, revolving against the saws, which 
takesout motes, trash and dirt; still further behind, and 
a little below, is a similar brush, which takes off ihe 
cotton from the saws and carries it behind a gate, 
which entirely removes the remainder of the trash, 
dirt, &c. Still further back is a brush with wings, 
which blows the cotton through a flue with a tin bot¬ 
tom. perforated with oblong holes similar to those of 
a tin lantern, through which, should there be any re¬ 
maining trash or dirt, the whole will pass. This flue 
has one advantage overall others—it never chokes up, 
and consequently does not require delay of time in 
clearing it. 
The whole is carried by two hands, and works most 
admirably. A fifty saw gin, the size of that Mr. She- 
rard now has in operation, will gin four bales per day. 
We would remark, that the improvement may be at¬ 
tached, at small expense, to the ordinary gin ; and fur¬ 
ther, Mr. Sherard’s new gin will cost but a trifle, if any 
more, than those now in use.— Sumpter County Whig. 
To Destroy Cut Worms. —Mr. Ruffin, of Virginia, 
says these may be destroyed by continued tillage and 
a naked, open soil. 
To Make Wood Incombustible. —Take a quantity of 
water proportioned to the surface of wood you may 
wish to cover, and add to it as much potash as can be 
dissolved therein. When the water will dissolve no 
more potash, stir into the solution first, a quantity of 
flour paste of the consistency of common painter’s 
size : second, a sufficiency of pure clay to render it of 
the consistency of cream. 
When the clay is well mixed, apply the preparation, 
as before directed, to the wood; it will secure it from 
the action of both fire and rain. In a most violent fire, 
wood thus saturated may be carbonated but will never 
blaze. 
If desirable, a most agreeable color can be given to 
the preparation by adding a small quantity of red or 
yellow ochre.— Buffalo Com. Advertiser. 
Fire Blight. — Mr. Bartlett, in the New England 
Farmer, maintains that this disease arises from in¬ 
tense cold. In 1810 the effect was to freeze the sap 
between the bark and wood, and in many instances 
it caused the bodies of the trees to split (from the ex¬ 
pansion of the frozen sap) from the ground to the 
limbs. The destruction of the peach and plum trees 
throughout this section of the country, was general 
and total. The next spring, most of the apple trees 
that suffered, leaved and blossomed as usual, but the 
small apples and leaves mostly shed off during the 
summer: many trees, however, blossomed a second 
time, and to some superstitious persons it caused much 
alarm : they thought it the “forerunner of a bad sea¬ 
son,”—and so it proved; for a large portion of the trees, 
in many orchards, never put out any leaves after that 
season. My father had an orchard, the trees of 30 
or 35 years’ growth, upon a good, deep, loamy, and 
rather moist soil; every tree—perhaps 35 or 40—per¬ 
ished : but he had others on a poorer and more gravelly 
soil, with a northern exposure, that suffered but little. 
This was generally the case through this section of 
the country. 
Such peculiar seasons as 1810, and 1831, in New 
England, and 1843, in the several States named by Mr. 
Beecher, may occasionally occur; when they do, the 
safest way will be to saw off all small trees below 
where they have turned dark-colored beneath the bark, 
for if left with the tops on, the roots being uninjured, 
the sap will rise into the tree as freely as though the 
top was uninjured; but the rupturing and disarrange¬ 
ment of the sap vessels in the bark, and between the 
bark and wood, prevents the elaboration of the sap 
that takes place in the healthy tree. Repletion, fer¬ 
mentation, and acidity ensue, the whole tree becomes, 
if the freezing has been very severe, diseased to the 
very extremities of the roots, and the death of the 
tree is sure to follow. But if the body of the tree is 
sawed off in a healthy part, near the surface of the 
ground, before there is much circulation of the sap 
upward, there will be healthy sprouts from the stump, 
which may soon restore a nursery to its former value ; 
and to guard against such a contingency, or peculiar 
season, I think it would be well for nurserymen to bud 
their fruit trees while small, as near the surface as 
possible. It might, in such seasons as above alluded 
to, save the trouble and expense of re-budding. 
Value of Coal-dust for Strawberries. —Dr. C. Dean, of 
South Plympton, writes us that he set out 24 of Ho- 
vey’s seedling strawberries on the 19th of November 
last—that several of them produced fruit last summer T 
that he put coal dust about some of them, and these 
were the ones that bore fruit; the others hore none. 
— Mass. Plowman. 
Amount of Corn Fodder per Acre. —We notice in a re¬ 
port of Mr. Leak to the Pedee Agricultural Society of 
S. C, that an acre of corn when first cut for fodder, 
weighed 156,816 lbs.—over 70 tons; and that when 
thoroughly cured for forage, the same weighed 27,297 
lbs.—over 10 tons. It was thought the dried forage 
would have been something more had not the com 
been cut too early. 
Improved Cane Cutter. —We were shown yesterday a 
cane cutter, the invention of F. G. Henderson, Esq., of 
this parish. It is much more simple than Mr. Bryan’s, 
and possesses an advantage that renders the latter one 
useless on uneven fields, that of raising or lowering 
the knives according to the level of the field. It is 
moved on wheels instead of a sled, like Mr. Bryan’s, 
and can be easily moved by one horse or mule and a 
driver. In fact, in our opinion, there can be no doub 
that this new invention will answer the desired object 
of saving a vast deal of labor and expense to the sugar 
planter. We shall notice it more at length on a future 
occasion — Baton Rouge Gaz. 
