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FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS, 
By the arrival of the steamship Caledonia, we have 
our European journals to the 4th of June. 
Markets — Ashes depressed,and few sales. Cotton 
had fallen |d. per lb., and was very dull. Stock on 
hand at Liverpool on the 1st u It., 923,000 bales, against 
717,000 same period last year. Flour firm, in conse¬ 
quence of the cold unpromising weather. Beef J a 
slight advance. Pork and Lard quiet. Lard Oil , of a 
pure good quality, in considerable request. Cheese 
brisk, with a trifling advance. Hemp , dew-rotted 
American, sold for 2 21. per ton—objection, its dark 
color. Rice brisk. Tallow improved. Wool in good 
demand. We notice little change in other products. 
Money was in fair demand at 2k to 21 per cent. 
American Stocks. —Nothing comparatively doing, 
though a better feeling pervaded in regard to them, in 
consequence of the late pacific advices. We have 
before said that we looked upon the idea of a war with 
Great Britain on account of Oregon, as a mere politi¬ 
cal humbug on both sides of the water. 
The Weather was dry and cold, and unfavorable to 
the grain crops. Hence a slight advance in the flour 
market. 
Louisiana Sugar. —The first sale of United States’ 
sugar ever held in England, recently took place at 
Liverpool. The quantity exposed for sale was only 
small, and it went off very well. 
Importation of Wool into Great Britain and Ireland in 
1844.—By an official Report of the House of Com¬ 
mons, we find that the total quantities of sheep and 
lambs’ wool, foreign and colonial, imported into the 
United Kingdom during the year 1844, amounted to 
05,079,524 lbs., of which 5,402,098 came from Russia ; 
1,001,099 lbs. from Denmark; 21,847,084 lbs. from 
Germany; 1,340,043 lbs. from Portugal; 2,818,353 lbs. 
from Italy; 1,280,903 lbs. from Turkey, Syria, and 
Egypt; 1,101,284 lbs. from Morocco; 2,197,031 lbs. 
from the Cape of Good Hope; 2,705,833 from East 
India: 2,180,291 lbs. from the States of the Rio de la 
Plata; 12,406,397 lbs. from New South Wales; and 
4,411,804 lbs. from Van Dieman’s Land. The total 
quantities re-exported from the United Kingdom 
amounted to 1,924,826 lbs. 
Exportation of Wool from the above countries dur¬ 
ing the same year amounted to 8,947,019 lbs. 
Importation of other Wools. —The quantities of wool 
of the alpaca andlama tribe, imported during the year 
1844, amounted to 035,357 lbs., of which 47,848 lbs. 
were re-exported to Belgium and France. The quan¬ 
tity of mohair, or goats’ wool, so imported during the 
same period, amounted to 1,290,771 lbs., of which 
97,529 lbs. were re-exported. 
Exportation of Woollen Manufactures. —The gross 
total declared value of the British woollen manufac¬ 
tured cloths, &c., exported from the United Kingdom 
last year amounted to 8,204,836/. Yarns of woollen 
and worsted, including yarn of wool or worsted mixed 
with other materials, 1,271,906 lbs. 
Importation of Provisions into Great Britain in 1843 
and 1844.—The cured provisions imported in the year 
1843 were as follows: Salted beef, 60,633 cwt.; salted 
pork, 27,118 cwt.; hams of all kinds, 6,919 cwt.; and 
bacon, 448 cwt. In 1844 the same articles were im¬ 
ported in the following quantities : Salted beef, 106,766 
cwt.; salted pork, 30,780 cwt.; hams of all kinds, 6,732 
cwt ; and bacon, 36 cwt. In the latter year the fol¬ 
lowing quantities were taken for ships’ stores : Salted 
beef, 77,248 cwt.; salted pork, 16,987 cwt.; hams of 
all kinds, 1,298 cwt. 
Materials of Good Sheep Dipping Composition. —White 
arsenic one ounce and a half, to be put into a bag and 
boiled for half an hour in a gallon of water, two ounces 
of tobacco with three ounces of soap, to be also boiled 
ia the same quantity of water, and then mixed toge¬ 
ther, adding two gallons of water. This will be suffi¬ 
cient for from sixteen to twenty sheep ; the mixture 
may therefore be brewed in the quantity required, so 
that a pound of arsenic will suffice for 150 sheep. 
Care must be taken that the head is not dipped, but 
the water must be thoroughly saturated. 
How to get rid of the American Bug in Apple Trees .— 
Mr. Waterton, in his essays on natural history, ex¬ 
presses his conviction, that nothing short of a com¬ 
plete deprivation of air can destroy these destructive 
insects; and describes the following very simple mode 
of effectually accomplishing this object:—“ I mixed 
clay with water till it was of a consistency that it 
could be put to the injured parts of the tree, either 
with a mason’s trowel or with a painter’s brush. I 
then applied it to the diseased places of the tree, and 
it soon smothered every bug ; a second coat upon the 
first filled up every crack which showed itself when 
the clay had become dry, and this resisted for a suffi¬ 
cient length of time the effects of both sun and rain. 
The sickly parts, now effectually freed from the ene 
my which had been preying on their vitals, were 
placed in a state to be cured by the healing process of 
nature, and that nature has done her duty, my apple 
trees amply testify.” 
Disinfection of Sewers , Cesspools , <Sfc.—M. Siret finds 
that a mixture of copperas, charcoal, and gypsum, in 
the following proportions, if thrown into a sewer o-r 
cesspool, will purify it to a remarkable degree : Sul¬ 
phate of iron (green copperas). 200 lbs. Sulphate of 
zinc (white copperas), 25 lbs. Vegetable charcoal 
(common or wood charcoal), 10 lbs. Sulphate of lime 
(gypsum), 265 lbs. 
New Manure. —It is said that Professor Liebig has 
discovered a mineral substance, which, when com¬ 
bined with guano, will produce one of the most ferti¬ 
lizing manures known. A joint-stock company, with 
a capital of .£120.000 sterling, composed for the most 
part of leading English capitalists, has been formed 
for the purpose of carrying on upon a large scale the 
manufacture of the new compound. Among the sub¬ 
scribers are several eminent professors of agriculture, 
who, according to the Impartial du Rhin , give out that 
the application of this substance to the culture of lands 
will produce an entire revolution in the agricultural 
system. 
Plumage of Birds. —An instance of the effect of car¬ 
bonaceous food upon the color of birds, is exemplified 
by feeding the common bulfinch, for a lengthened pe¬ 
riod, on rape seed. Under the influence of that diet, the 
scarlet plumage on the breast will be observed gradu¬ 
ally to turn brown, and, by its further continuance, 
ultimately to change to a dirty black.— Medical Times. 
Dressing for Asparagus — Give it salt and water every 
fortnight while the summer-shoots are growing; and 
when they cease doing so, cease salting also. Your 
stable-dung will no doubt prove a capital preparation, 
in addition, for the crop of next year, which will be 
much improved by not cutting this year. Add guano 
to the salt and water during this summer, the result 
will pay you. Nitrate of soda will not act well unless 
succeeded by wet; in dry weather it does more harm 
than good— Gardeners ’ Chronicle. 
Fibrous Covering Stimulates Vegetable Growth. —A 
light covering of straw, for instance, on grass land, will 
stimulate its growth in an extraordinary degree ; much 
more indeed, it would appear, than can be accounted 
for on the supposition that the ground is thus kept 
moist in dry weather.— lb. 
Poultry. —A chicken was hatched in my hen-house 
from a nest egg which had so long served the purpose 
that it was on the point of being removed ; it was 
hatched by the hens which successively chanced to 
lay their eggs in the nest, aided by tne unusual and 
equable heat of the atmosphere.— lb. 
