EDITOR S TABLE'. 
(Sfoitor* s Sable. 
Fair of the American Institute. —Let it not be forgotten 
that this fair commences at Niblo’s Garden, Broadway, 
on Monday, the 6th of this month, at 12 o’clock, M., 
when all articles for exhibition will be received and 
shown. 
The National Convention of Farmers, Gardeners, 
and Silk Culturists will be held at the Repository of 
the American Institute, in the Park, on Thursday, 
October 9th, at half-past 10 o’clock, A. M. 
The Cattle Show will be held on a plot of ground 
between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets, 
near the intersection of Broadway and the Fifth Ave¬ 
nue, on Wednesday and Thursday the 15th and 16th 
of October. 
The Plowing and Spading Matches will take place 
in the vicinity of the Cattle Show, on Tuesday, Octo¬ 
ber 15th. 
The Egg Trade of Cincinnati. —The export of eggs 
from this city the past year was 11,556,0C0, valued at 
about $90,400. In addition to this, the c onsumption 
in the city, and for its steamboats, &c., is reckoned at 
14.500,000, valued at $97,000 ! 
The Queens' County Agricultural Society holds its an¬ 
nual Cattle Show and Fair at Hempstead an Thursday, 
October 9th. 
The Cotton Crop in the United State:, for the past 
year, amounts to 2,400,000 bales. 
The Sugar Crop in Louisiana the past year is esti¬ 
mated at 200,000 hogsheads—the largest ever known. 
In addition to this, it produced 9,000,000 gallons of 
molasses. 
Value of Agricultural Produce Received at New Orleans 
for the last Year , Ending September ls£, 1845.—This pro¬ 
duce is received entirely from the interior of the Mis¬ 
sissippi valley, and is estimated at 57,200,000. The 
principal items are pork, lard, beef, flour, cotton (nearly 
a million of bales),sugar (202,000 hogsheads), molasses, 
hemp (47,000 bales), tobacco (71,000 hogsheads), 
(732,000 pigs), besides corn, lead, vegetables, poultry, 
&c., &c. 
The American Shepherd: Being a History of the 
Sheep, with their Breeds, Management, and Diseases. 
Illustrated with Portraits of different Breeds, Sheep- 
barns, Sheds, &c. By L. A. Morrell, pp.437. Octavo. 
Price 90 cents. Harper & Brothers.—We have long 
been tired enough of European publications little appli¬ 
cable to our wants and wishes, and are glad at last to 
announce a work on sheep, written in America , by an 
American , on an American subject. Mr. Morrell has 
one of the finest flocks of sheep in this country, and 
for five years past, has devoted himself almost entirely 
to wool-growing; and we know of no person better 
qualified than himself to write a Shepherd's Manual. 
The work was put into our hands just as we were 
going to press : we have, consequently, not had time 
to properly examine it; but we shall do so hereafter, 
and give a more extended notice. In the meanwhile 
w® are willing to take it on trust, or anything else 
comipg from Mr. Morrell. We heartily commend his 
boolc to our readers, believing that they will find 
nothing of the kind on this important subject so well 
suited to the wants of the sheep-breeders and wool- 
growers. The publishers have got up the work in a 
very neat style, and the cuts to illustrate it are spirit¬ 
edly sketched and finely engraved. 
Modern Cookery in all its Branches: Re¬ 
duced to a System of easy Practice, for the use of 
rivate families. In a series of Receipts which have 
een strictly t@st«d, and all given with the most 
minute exactness. By Eliza Acton. Illustrated with 
numerous wood cuts. To which are added directions 
for Carving, Garnishing and Setting out the Table 
with a Table of weights and measures ; the whole 
revised and prepared for American housekeepers. By 
Mrs. Sarah J. Hale. pp. 418, octavo. Price $ 1 . Lea 
& Blanchard : Philadelphia.—This is a capital took, 
and though not much of a gourmand , it fairly made 
our mouth water as we turned over its pages and read 
the savory receipts contained therein. We intend 
when we get settled, that this shall be the vademecum 
of our cook, who, under its guidance, will doubtless 
produce such dishes as editor never yet had the good 
fortune to sit down to. In the meanwhile let every 
housekeeper make a purchase of it. 
The American Farmer. —This old and well- 
known publication changed its quarto form last July 
to the octavo, and from a semi-monthly has become a 
monthly of 32 pages, like our own. It is now hand¬ 
somely illustrated, and issued in a tasteful dress. Pub¬ 
lished by Samuel Sands, Baltimore, Md. Price $1 a 
year. It is edited with spirit and ability, and devoted 
more particularly to south-eastern and south-western 
farming. We wish this Nestor of the agricultural 
press a long and profitable existence. We must apolo¬ 
gize for this tardy notice, as we have but just received 
the first number of the publication. 
The Fruit and Fruit Trees of America. By 
A. J. Downing.— We understand that this excellent 
work has already gone to a third edition, although it is 
scarcely three months since the first was announced. 
This speaks well for public taste, and is a flattering 
testimonial to the author for his excellent treatise. We 
are sorry to see something of a carping spirit with a few 
of our contemporaries in their criticisms on Mr. Down¬ 
ing and his late work, and think in several things he 
has been misunderstood. He is American by birth and 
in spirit; was reared in a garden and nursery at the 
delightful place he now occupies, and is a thoroughly 
practical man ; and we know from personal acquaint¬ 
ance of some standing, and our own observation and 
reading, that his opinions may be generally relied upon. 
He does not profess to be infallible ; but if in error he 
should at least be told so in courteous language. 
Medici Series of Italian Prose. Translated 
by C. Edwards Lester, U. S. Consul at Genoa, and 
published by Paine & Burgess, 62 John St., N. Y.— 
Three volumes are already issued of this series, which 
Mr. Lester intends shall embrace most of the classic 
prose works of Italian literature. Yols. I. and II. are 
the Florentine Histories of Machiavelli—most admirable 
works of their kind, and which we could wish to see 
in the hands of the young men of this Republic, in¬ 
stead of the trashy novels, to the reading of which 
they are so much addicted. The Citizen of a Republic , 
by Ansaldo Ceba, a Genoese Republican of the 16th 
Century, succeeds as No. 4; and in No. 1 we have 
Ettore Fieramosca , or the Challenge of Barletta, a 
powerful historic romance. 
To Correspondents. —Horticulturist^. H. Jenne, 
J. B. Coke, John P. Norton, and Spnex are received. 
The last is under consideration. We have no doubt 
that printing the Transactions was a good job to 
various highly disinterested persons in Albany; but the 
Legislature is almost entirely to blame for it. The 
printing of all public bodies, instead of being made a 
partizan sinecure, should be given to the persons who 
work best and cheapest. As to the offices of Secreta¬ 
ries of the State Ag. Society, how they should be filled, 
&c., we have for the past three years very frequently 
in conversation stated our views, and we intend here¬ 
after to give them in our paper. 
Acknowledgments. —To Albert G. Carll, Esq., 
for an Address of Hon. Gabriel Furman delivered 
before the Queens’ Co. Ag. Societv. at Jamaica, Oct., 
1844. 
