Editor’s table. 
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Destruction of Sheep. —Our friend. Mr. Smither, told 
us on Monday, that four of his neighbors had lost be¬ 
tween 100 and 130 lambs by dogs, during the last two 
months. One f&rmer alone had lost about 80.— 
May settle Eagle 
Cure for Piles in Pigs.— When the intestines pro¬ 
trude, make a tea of mullen leaves, and after washing 
the parts affected with warm soap suds, bathe with 
the mullen tea, and in a short time they will take 
their proper place inside of the pig.— Maine Far. 
Merino Sh^cp.— We call attention to Mr. Lewis G. 
Collins’ advertisement of Merino Sheep in this num¬ 
ber of our paper. His flock w'as selected with great 
care about ten years ago, by one of the best judges of 
sheep and wool in Connecticut. Their breeding is 
equal to anything in New England, and if there be 
any pure Merinos in the country, these are unques 
tionably such. Mr. C. is now breeding his ewes to a 
pure Rambouillet buck from the flock of David C. 
Collins, Esq., of Hartford, Conn. Some of his ani¬ 
mals offered for sale were got by the Rambouillet 
buck Grandee, out of choice Merino ewes, owned by 
Mr. Collins, of Hartford Grandee.was the largest 
and best Merino sheep we ever saw. 
To Produce Cherries 'without Stones. —Early in the 
spring, before the sap is in full flow, a young bearing 
tree is divided in two, down to the branching off of 
the roots, the pith carefully removed with a wooden 
spatula, the parts then united, the air being excluded 
by an application of potter’s clay the whole length of 
the opening, and bound together by woollen cord. The 
sap soon re-unites the severed parts, and in two years 
the tree will produce cherries of the best kind, and 
having in their centre, in the place of the usual ker¬ 
nel, a thin soft pellicle.— Courricr des Etats Unis. 
Consumption of Corn Meal in the West Indies. —A 
writer in the New Orleans Bulletin estimates this in 
Antigua, Dominica, Granada, Montserrat, Nevis, St. 
Kitts, St. Lucie, St. Vincent, Tobago, Guadaloupe, 
Martinique, Virgins’ and Bahamas, with a population 
of 184,000 souls, must, in common calculation, 
consume— 
Annually about - - - 200,000 bbls. 
Barbadoes, 25,000, Trinidad 10,000 35,000 “ 
Demerara ----- 15,000 “ 
St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John’s 44,000 “ 
Porto Rico, 40,000, Jamaica, 30,000 70,000 “ 
The Farmer’s Library and Monthly Joui 
Making 
364,000 « 
The average net price of corn meal for 20 years 
throughout the West Indies, may be computed at $2£ 
per bbl., a price sufficient to recompense its manufac¬ 
ture. The meal must ba equal to the best Philadel¬ 
phia, kiln dried, made from the best yellow corn, 
packed in barrels of 196 lbs. net: and, so packed, that, 
on opening the barrel, it is perfectly full. The barrels 
should be clean when shipped, have a plug for conve¬ 
nience of sampling, well lined and riveted. 
To preserve Hams from the Fly. —These are effectually 
preserved from the fl^, while their quality is not at all 
injured, by throwing red pepper upon the fire in the 
smoke-house during the latter part of the operation.— 
Tennessee Agriculturist. 
Analysis of Cotton —Professor Shephard of South 
Carolina, made an analysis of cotton, including the 
wool and the seed, w r hich is reported in the Southern 
Agriculturist. We regret that he does not state the 
respective proportions of the constituents. They were 
carbonate of potash with traces of soda ; phosphate of 
lime with traces of magnesia: carbonate of lime car¬ 
bonate of magnesia ; silica ; alumina; sulphate of po- 
tassa; chloride of potassium; chloride of magnesium; 
sulphate of lime ; phosphate of potassa; oxide of iron 
and manganese. 
jo? Agriculture: Edited by John S. Skinner, ant 
published by Greeley and McElrath, Tribune Build 
ings, New York, pp. 112, double columns, octavo 
| Price $5 per year. The first number, for July, of thb- 
| work, has been laid upon our table. It is got up in : 
' style superior to anything yet attempted in the agricul 
tural periodical line in America ; and is equal in poin. 
of paper, typography, and embellishments, to the bes. 
published in Europe. Of its contents, it gives 4i 
pages in the “ Library,” to the republication of the 
highly valuable work of Petzhold’s Lectures to 
Farmers on Agricultural Chemistry, and 64 pages ot 
the “ Monthly Journal,” to original articles from the 
editor and his correspondents, and extracts principally 
from foreign periodicals. The embellishments are, 
1st, a highly finished and spirited portrait on steel of 
the late Patroon—Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer ; 2d, 
a beautiful lithograph of a group of Southdown sheep; 
and 3d, a lithograph of the Silk Plant from Tripoli. 
In editing this work it is the design of Mr. Skinner to 
fill up a niche not yet before attempted in American 
agricultural periodicals; and if we are to take the first 
number now before us as a sample of such as are to 
follow, he is bound to succeed, and that eminently. 
The name of the veteran John S. Skinner, the father of 
agricultural periodical literature in the United States, 
is so well known to the public that it needs no further 
endorsement from us. We welcome him to New 
York, and hope he may find such encouragement in 
this State, and the country at large, as to warrant his 
continuing his publication as long as he may be able 
to look upon a green field, or wield the agreeable pen 
he does, descriptive of its treasures and its beauties. 
Catalogue for 1845 and 6, of Camellia Japoni- 
cas, Green-house and Stove Plants, &c., &c., cultivated 
at the Exotic Nursery and Horticultural Gardens of 
Valk & Co., Flushing, Long Island, New York. This 
is an elegant octavo pamphlet of 92 pages, and will be 
sent gratis to any one soliciting it , free of postage. We 
shall be pleased to execute orders for any of our 
friends desirous to obtain plants, flowers, &c., &c., from 
the magnificent and extensive conservatory and gar¬ 
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recently returned from a tour in Europe, for the pur¬ 
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line ; and taking it altogether, we think their estab¬ 
lishment the best stocked of any other to be found in 
the United States. 
Alabama Planter, Edited and published by W. 
W. McGuire, Mobile. Folio, 8 pages, weekly. Price 
$5 a year. The first number of this paper is well 
selected, and mixed in with a few racy editorials. It 
is designed, more particularly, to advance the agricul¬ 
ture of the South. Such publications are much 
needed there as well as here, and we trust the enter¬ 
prising editor will find sufficient encouragement to go 
on with his periodical by the 1st of October next, as 
he proposes. 
Postage. —Under the new postage law, the letters 
addresssed us, have increased at least five fold. But 
we beg our correspondents to reflect, that because 
postage is cheapened, it is no reason why we should pay 
it all. Postage to the many who address us, is a 
small amount individually, but a large one to us in 
the aggregate. We are always happy to pay postage 
on good contributions for our paper, and on our own 
affairs; but when the business is that of the person 
addressing us, and it puts us to some trouble without 
any profit, it would be no more than fair for corre¬ 
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Acknowledgments. —The Premium Lists of the 
Oneida County, N. Y. Agricultural Society, and; 
Agricultural and Horticultural Society of. New 
Haven, Conn. 
