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will be consumed of it, and the more easily will our ma¬ 
nufacturers be enabled to compete with foreigners, and 
thus increase our manufacturing population, who will 
be customers to the farmer for flour, meal, and other 
products. Besides we wish to produce wool so cheap 
as to be able to put an end to all importations of this 
article, and greatly extend our exports, which we are 
perfectly satisfied the shrewd and enterprising Ameri¬ 
cans will make haste to do. It would be a great 
boon to the United States to be able to come in for a 
large share of the English and French wool markets. 
This is a prize well worth contending for; and so far 
from being discouraged at the present low price of 
wool, every farmer should endeavor to make it higher 
to himself by improving his breed and 'producing it 
cheaper. Do this and we may defy competition, and 
make that profitable among ourselves, which would 
be attended with a loss to others. The Spanish pro¬ 
verb is, “wherever the foot of the sheep touches, the 
land is turned into gold.” May this prove to be the 
case with American farmers; and in order to hasten 
the realization of it, not only let them grow and use 
more wool, but eat more mutton and much less pork— 
for the former is by far the healthiest and cheapest. 
NEW AGRICULTURAL WARE-HOUSE. 
The public has long felt the necessity of a more 
extensive agricultural warehouse in this city, where 
the farmer can obtain everything he may want in 
the way of implements and field-seeds, with the as¬ 
surance of their being of a first-rate quality. Having 
been repeatedly solicited by numerous friends to com¬ 
mence an establishment of this kind, we have at 
length yielded to their wishes, and opened a commo¬ 
dious store at 187 Water street, with the most com¬ 
plete assortment yet offered in New York. We now 
respectfully solicit the attention of our friends and the 
public to it, and trust that so far as our establishment 
is found deserving we shall be favored with their cus¬ 
tom. Agricultural mechanics have always been a fa¬ 
vorite study with us, and many an implement have 
we made with our own hands. We profess to know 
as much of the good qualities of an axe, a plow, a har¬ 
row, a hoe, and indeed most farm implements, as we 
do of those of a horse, a cow, a sheep, &c.; and we 
hope not only to be able to select the best of each 
kind for our customers, but even to suggest improve¬ 
ments in many things already in use. We can be of 
considerable service to mechanics in this way, and 
also to the growers of improved grain, grass, and 
roots. Nor shall we in the mean while forget our 
love for fine stock ; but will continue to execute all 
orders sent us for the purchase of superior animals. 
We trust that none of the readers of the Agriculturist 
will think, in consequence of our undertaking the 
management of an active business, that our periodical 
will be neglected. Quite the contrary—as we have 
arranged to have it move on with greater ability and 
variety than ever; and they will see, that however 
actively employed, we shall not forget to give them 
rare matter for thought and practice from month to 
month, and many a useful hint for the improvement 
of their farms, gardens, and stock. 
And one word to our editorial brethren. We have 
been ever ready to lend them a helping hand, and say 
a good thing in their favor, when their pleasure or 
interest was concerned. Whatever little notice they 
can conscientiously give in their columns of our new 
enterprise, we shall take as particularly kind, and be 
happy to reciprocate the favor any time they may 
desire. 
PRUNING STONE FRUIT IN THE FALL. 
Have any of our readers ever made experiments 
between pruning peach trees and other stone fruit, in 
the fall, summer, and spring ? In the following arti¬ 
cle, taken from the Gardener’s Chronicle, the writer 
contends that the former season is best in England ; 
yet we doubt whether his reasons will hold good in 
the drier climate and more frosty winters of this coun¬ 
try; and we are still of opinion that the months of 
May and June are the best here for pruning peach as 
well as all other trees. 
“ It is a well known fact that just before or just as 
the leaves are falling in autumn, when sufficient sap 
■is in motion, and in its downward course, a more 
speedy and perfect cicatrization will be effected than 
in spring. Those who have been in the habit of mak¬ 
ing cuttings of shrubs, &c., well know that if the 
cuttings are put in early in autumn, success is beyond 
a doubt, but if they are delayed until late in the sea¬ 
son, or until spring, that failure is as certain. In the 
former case a callosity is formed by the descending 
sap, and roots are eventually sent out, and a plant is 
established ; in the latter, no callosity is formed, and 
the cutting dies. It may be inferred from this, that 
the wounds are healed by the descending sap before the 
approach of winter; so much so, that no moisture can 
enter from without, and hence no injury can result from 
frost. There is another important consideration which 
must not be overlooked in favour of autumn pruning. 
In many parts of England the young wood of the 
peach does not ripen to the extremities, more particu¬ 
larly in wet seasons, and the consequence is that early 
frosts rend the bark in all directions, the sap escapes, 
and the unripened part of the shoot dies. This is of 
common occurrence. Were their shoots shortened 
in autumn instead of in spring, just while there is 
action enough left to heal the wounds perfectly, the 
declining energy of the tree would be economised ; for 
instead of being uselessly expended in assisting to 
repair the extremities of the shoots which are ulti¬ 
mately to be cut off, it would be husbanded in the part? 
left, which would of course be greatly strengthened, 
and the buds would also assume a prominent, healthy 
and vigorous appearance. I am strongly of opinion 
that autumn is decidedly the bes* time for pruning 
every kind of stone fruit, for the masons I have ad¬ 
vanced.” 
STORING CABBAGES. 
A very good and compact method of storing cabbage 
is, in the same manner that we have practised with 
the sugar beet. Select a dry piece of ground, cut the 
heads of the cabbage from their stumps, and place* 
them in parallel rows, with the top part down, and 
any desired length or width. Make these rows one 
less in width and length every layer, so that when 
the heap is finished it will come to a point, and appear 
very much like a pile of cannon ball in an arsenal. 
Over this heap place a covering of straw, and then pul 
on the dirt sufficiently thick, the same as on a potato 
heap, to keep out the frost, and the work is done. 
The earth should be spatted down hard on the foul 
sides, making the top sharp, like the roof of a house 
