editor’s table. 
261 
(Slritar’s ®able. 
Errata. —In the-article “ Farm of Dr. Pool,” page 
209, line 8, for quarts, read pints , —thus: “ The milk 
from one pure Alderney cow yielded at the rate of a 
quart of the richest cream to 13 pints of milk.” 
The same page, line 25 and on, we made some mis¬ 
takes as to pedigree of horses. It should read; “ Me- 
dora, got by American Eclipse, out of Maid of the 
Forest, by Marshal Duroc; g. dam by Lottery, by 
imported Expedition, &c. Indiana was got by Sir 
Archy, out of Votress, by Constitution; g.dam Mere- 
trix, by Magog,” &c. 
Statement of the Value of the Exports of the Growth and 
Produce of the United States , for the year ending on the 
30 th day of June , 1844. 
THE FOREST. 
Skins and furs,. $742,196 
Ginseng,. 95,00S 
Product of wood :— 
Staves, shingles, boards, etc.,. 1,672,179 
Other lumber,. 326,945 
Masts and spars,. 23,274 
Oak, bark, and other dye,. 70,370 
All manufactures of wood,. 919,100 
Naval stores-tar, pitch, rosin, and turpen¬ 
tine,. 818,692 
Ashes, pot and pearl,. 1,140,848 
$5,808,712 
AGRICULTURE 
Product of animals :— 
Beef tallow, hides, horned cattle. $1,810,551 
Butter and cheese,. 758,829 
Pork (pickled), bacon lard, live hogs,... 3,236,479 
Horses and mules,. 315,696 
Sheep,.. 27,824 
'egetable food :— 
Wheat.. 500,400 
Flour,.... 6,759,488 
Indian corn,. 404,088 
Indian meal,. 641,029 
.Rye meal,. 104,391 
Itye, oats, and other grain,. 133,477 
Riscuit or ship-bread,. 388,603 
Potatoes,. 74,108 
tipples,.. 51,465 
Rice,. 2,182,468 
'Xvbaoco,... 8,397,255 
s attoiv .. 54,063,501 
4ul other 'cultural products :— 
Flax-sood,. 23,749 
Hops,. 51,550 
Brown suga.*, . 12,363 
Indigo,. 1,176 
$79,938,410 
A Cow with Three Calves. —We saw yesterday, on 
the farm of N. B. Moore, near this city, the novel 
spectacle of a cow with three calves. The calves are 
about three days old, and though small, evince re¬ 
markable sprightliness. We have often heard of 
cows dropping two calves, but this is the first instance 
of three we have ever known.— Augusta Citron. 
To Kill Crows. —Steep a piece of meat in a solution 
of strychnine or arsenic, and hang it on a pole. The 
crows pick at it with great avidity and are destroyed 
in great numbers.— Somerville Pennant. 
Large Apple Tree. —At Hackensack, New Jersey, 
there is an apple tree, which measures 12 ft. 9 in. in 
circumference, and has produced 1,00 bushels of fruit 
in one season. 
To Measure Corn in the Ear .—In a bulk of corn in the 
ear, measuring 12 feet long, ll feet broad, and 6 feet 
deep, there will be 316 bushels and 8-tenths of a 
bushel of shelled corn, or 633 bushels and 6-tenths of 
ear corn as • 
12 
12 
11 
11 
132 
132 
6 
6 
792 
792 
4 
8 
316.8 
633.6 
The decimal 4 is used when the object is to find the 
quantity in shelled corn, because that decimal is half 
of the decimal 8, and it requires two bushels of ear 
corn to make one of shelled corn. In using these 
rules a half bushel should be added to every hundred, 
that amount of error resulting from the substitution of 
the decimals.— Western Cultivator. 
Beautiful Experiment. —While making some investi¬ 
gations on the chemical forces of plants and the circu¬ 
lation of the sap, we made some experiments for the 
purpose of seeing how far the color of flowers was 
dependent upon the various salts contained in the 
earth, and which are taken up by the forces which 
convey sap. We took a beautiful white rose, placed 
the stem of it in a solution of the yellow prussiate of 
potash, let it remain there four or five hours. We 
then placed it in a solution of sulphate of iron, where 
it remained until morning. On examining it the next 
morning, we found the petals changed to a delicate 
primrose color, the leaves to a dark bluish green, and 
the w T ood of the stem to a deep blue. The fragrance 
of the flower remained unchanged, and it looked as 
fresh as one that was plucked at the same time, and 
w’hich had been kept in a vase of water. 
The rationale of these singular changes seems to be 
as follows:—The prussiate of potash is taken up by 
capillary attraction, and distributed through every 
part of the plant. The same is the case with the sul¬ 
phate of iron. As soon as the two solutions are 
brought in contact, the iron, acting as a re-agent, re¬ 
vives the prussiate of potash. This beautiful experi¬ 
ment can be tried by any one, care being taken that 
the solutions are not too strong. The effects noted 
above will not take place if the solutions are mixed in 
a vessel before using. The experiment may be varied 
by using any metallic solutions, the resulting colors 
of course depending upon the salts made use of.— 
Cincinnati Atlas. 
American Cheese. —The r^pid increase of this im¬ 
portant item of the dairy, at the West, is astonishing. 
Last year, the aggregate value of the amount that 
passed through the canals and the Hudson river was 
over one million and a half dollars. We gather the 
following statistics in relation to cheese from the canal 
office records at Albany :— 
ARRIVED AT THE HUDSON RIVER. 
1834,.... lbs. 6,340,000 I 1840, ■ lbs. 18,820,000 
1835, . 9,586,000 | 1841,.... 14,170,000 
1836, . 14,060,000 1842,..-. 19,004,000 
1837, . 15,560,000 | 1843,-••• 23,334,000 
1838, . 13,810.000 1844,...- 26,674,000 
1839, . 14,530,000 | 
— Hunt's Merchant's Magazine. 
To Kill Lice in Trees. —Mr. G. Reed stated that when 
his trees were infested by lice or aphis, he bored into 
the trunk with a common nail gimblet, about an inch 
and a half, and put into the hole a small quantity of 
imgucntum. In the course of 24 hours they all cleared 
out and died.— Maine Farmer 
