358 
editor’s table. 
®Mtor’s Sable. 
Sale of Devon Cattle. —When attending the 
late State Cattle Show at Utica, and witnessing there 
the beautiful exhibition of pure North Devons belong¬ 
ing to Messrs. Beck, Garbutt, and Washburn, being 
the first, in any number, ever shown at the State So¬ 
ciety, we felt certain that their sterling merits would 
soon be appreciated by our New York farmers. We 
are not surprised, therefore, in learning, by a friend 
from our Western counties, that Messrs. S. M Brown 
and G. A. Mason, of Elbridge, Onondaga County, on 
the 15th September, purchased of Messrs. Garbutt & 
Beck at their farm in Sheldon, Wyoming County, six¬ 
teen of their beautiful animals for the purpose of stock¬ 
ing their own farms in Onondaga. These animals 
consisted of seven breeding cows, one two year old, 
and one yearling heifers, two heifer calves, one year¬ 
ling bull, and two bull calves, and one pair three year 
old matched steers. The prices, although comporting 
with the times, we learn, w T ere satisfactory to both the 
sellers and purchasers. 
These Devons are walking into the rich and heavy 
soils of our wealthiest agricultural regions, where the 
lordly Short-horns have long ago taken possession, 
and near which some of their most spirited breeders 
reside. But of the results of their trial, we have no 
fear. They will maintain their reputation and in¬ 
crease in the good opinion of the farmer and cattle- 
breeder wherever they are. Messrs. Brown & Mason 
are extensive farmers, who well understand what 
they are about, and we feel quite certain, that the in¬ 
terest they have shown in thus appropriating the 
Devons to their own use, will be abundantly rewarded 
in the future prosperity of their herd. We should 
have noticed in our last number, that the pen of six 
beautiful Devon bull calves shown by Mr. Washburn, 
of Otsego, were all sold at good prices on the ground, 
to practical farmers, for the improvement of their own 
herds. Indeed, we have no doubt that this one exhi¬ 
bition of Devons at Utica has given them greater fa¬ 
vor with the public than they have won in the hands 
of their breeders for the last ten years put together. 
The beautiful exhibition of Devons at the late show 
of the State Agricultural Society, was the result of 
the wisdom of the Executive Committee in enlarging 
last year the premium list for the different breeds of 
cattle, without which scarcely a Devon would ever 
have been on the ground, and to that exhibition is to 
be credited the sales which we have chronicled. Suc¬ 
cess, say we, to the Devons,and to their spirited breeders. 
Working Oxen. —We learn, also, that the Messrs. 
Wadsworth, of Geneseo, who took the first premium 
for the ten best yoke of working oxen, sold every pair 
of them on the ground at liberal prices. They were 
superb animals all, and their ready sale shows that 
such spirited exertions will be abundantly sustained 
by a discriminating public. Would time permit, we 
could also notice many other sales of stock, which, 
we learn, were made at prices satisfactory to both sel¬ 
lers and purchasers. Another year we hope to have 
an accurate report of all the business transactions of 
the “three great days” of the State Cattle Show. 
There is no calculating the value of these State exhi¬ 
bitions to the farming community, and we count upon 
a heavy increase in the future sales at the annual cattle 
shows. Let one day—an additional one, and the last— 
be set apart for this purpose by the Society, and we 
will be bound it will be among the most useful and 
profitable of all. 
Colman’s European Agricultural Tour.— 
Part 1Y. of this excellent work has been laid upon 
our table. Published by A. D. Phelps, Boston. Sax¬ 
ton & Miles, Agents in New York. We are glad to 
see that Mr. Colman has at length come to the more 
practical part of the agriculture of Great Britain, and 
has made this, according to our views, the most valu¬ 
able number of his Tour yet issued. We have so often 
spoken of the merits of this work, and it has become so 
well known to our readers, that a more extended no¬ 
tice of it will not be demanded from us. 
Views, with Ground Plans, of the Highland 
Cottages at Roxbury. Designed and erected by 
Wm. Bailey Lang. For sale by Saxton & Miles, 205 
Broadway, and the Booksellers generally in this city. 
Price $1 50. This is a beautiful quarto, containing 
twelve lithographic views of cottages and their ground 
plans, an observatory, rural bowers, &c. As a speci¬ 
men of the elegant manner in which it is got up we 
would refer to Bute Cottage, page 345 of this number 
of the Agriculturist. Mr. Lang deserves much credit 
for his enterprise in publishing this work, and we 
think it will have a salutary influence in improving 
the public taste in rural architecture We are under 
obligations to Samuel C. Hills, Esq., No. 12 Platt 
street, for our copy of the above views, he taking great 
interest in such matters. 
Peach Culture in Delaware. —This has be 
come an enormous business, Major Reybold, of Dela¬ 
ware city, being the largest producer of them in this 
country. A friend informs us, that he and his four sons 
shipped in a single day in August last, 5,420 baskets; 
holding about three pecks each, from their orchards. 
The Reybold family have about 1200 acres in peach 
trees. The total amount that they have sent to mar¬ 
ket this season we cannot state ; but on the 1st of 
September, it had reached the enormous number of 
sixty-five thousand baskets. On the 9th of October, 
they were still gathering the crop. During the most 
busy part of the picking season, they chartered a large 
steamboat to carry their peaches to the New York 
market.. We have only mentioned one family, of the 
many engaged in this business. It would be very in¬ 
teresting if we could have the total amount of peaches 
that have been sent from Delaware during the season 
of 1845. We intended to visit that county the past 
season, but have been prevented doing so. We hope 
to bring it about another year. 
The Bound Volumes of the American Agri¬ 
culturist. —These can be had at the Agricultural 
Warehouse of Mr. J. Thompson, Charleston, S. C.,who 
will also receive subscriptions for the same in numbers. 
Mr. Solon Robinson wishes us to say, in expla¬ 
nation to his Agricultural friends in this vicinity, that 
his continued ill health has prevented his calling on 
many to whom he was under obligations to do so. 
He is now on his way home, and will leave there on 
his Southern tour on the 1st of December. 
To Agricu ltural Societies. —We received many 
invitations the past month to attend the annual meet¬ 
ings of various Agricultural Societies ; but from our 
numerous engagements at home, it was not possible 
to accept them. We are much obliged to our 
friends for their polite invitations, and are happy to 
learn that an increased attention is being paid, through¬ 
out the country, to agricultural meetings of all kinds. 
Owing to the crowded state of our columns, and the 
expectation of our readers that we shall publish such 
articles as more generally interest them, we are pre¬ 
cluded from taking as much notice of county Agri 
cultural Societies, as we should be glad to do if oui 
paper possessed more of a local character. 
To Correspondents. —Philetus Phillips, E. S., 
John P. Norton, S. S. W. Vick, R. L. A., Improver, are 
received. The second No. of the articles on the Here 
fords and the farm mai^gement of Mr. Sotham is in 
hand, but owing to the absence of the writer from the 
city, was too late for this number. It will appear in 
our next. 
