To Stock Breeders. — Ever-bearing Raspberry < 
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splendid Cotswold eAves, that will be hailed by 
the long wool and large mutton advocates, with 
unaffected delight. About one fourth of the 
flock were lost on the passage. 
We hope our farmers will soon he enabled 
to furnish the tables of our bon vivants, with 
English mutton, and not force them to send to 
England for it at the rate of 25 cents per lb., as 
was recently paid in the Boston market. It is 
from the longwools and South Downs the large 
mutton is made, which frequently commands 
such extravagant prices. 
To THE BREEDERS OF DOMESTIC STOCK 
in the United States. —As our great 
object is to discuss all questions relating to 
agricultural improvement in the spirit of can¬ 
dor and fairness, and to elicit such truths as 
will in practice attain the greatest utility ; 
and knowing full well that in a country so 
extensive and diverse in its climates and soils 
as ours, various breeds of domestic stock are 
required for the different purposes and locations 
of the farmer, we invite the advocates of all the 
different varieties, to a full discussion of their 
several merits, in our paper. 
Each party shall have a fair hearing, and 
i very animal advocated, a candid judgment 
awarded them. We are the advocates of no 
one favorite race, as suited to all localities. We 
believe each is suited to some one peculiar 1 
position, and having conceded this in its broadest! 
and most liberal sense, we shall be happy to 
treat all correspondents with the consideration 
due to their communications, in which they may 
discuss the merits of their different breeds. But 
we would most earnestly beg of them to give 
us the plain unimbellished facts on which they 
base their preferences, and establish the pecu¬ 
liar merits of their favorites. Facts are the 
main things to rely on; indeed, where expe¬ 
rience is to be the guide, the only data we can 
or ought to base an opinion upon. All personal 
allusions we desire may be carefully avoided, 
as they tend neither to the dissemination of 
knowledge, or the attainment of that utility 
which we especially desire should be the resuit 
of the deliberations we offer to the public. 
Free discussion in agriculture, as in politics, 
is the great highway to truth, and we invite it 
to its fullest extent; always reserving to our¬ 
selves, however, the privilege of judging the 
limit to which discussion may beneficially pro¬ 
ceed, and making such notes or observations on 
whatever is written, as a due respect for the 
writer, and a regard to the true interests of the 
subject, may require. 
With these remarks, we cordially invite the 
reflections of the stock breeders, graziers, and 
dairymen of the country, to our columns.. 
Ie^Subscribers are particularly requested 
to write their Names, Post-office, County, and 
State in full, that there may be no mistake in 
the direction of their papers. They must also 
recollect orders must invariably be accompa¬ 
nied with the money, as the extremely low 
price at which we furnish the paper, will not 
allow of our sending it on credit in any instance, 
T3ie Ever-bearing K.a§pberry. 
We have often remarked, that there are many 
indigenous productions existing in the varied soil and 
climate of the United States, that if brought to light 
and improved by cultivation, would not only add great¬ 
ly to the comfort but to the wealth of society also $ 
and we hope through the work just commenced, to be 
enabled to contribute our mite in assisting to bring 
them before the public; and to enable us to do so most 
effectually we wonld recommend to our correspon¬ 
dents frequent trials, aud systematic perseverance in 
the selection and cultivation of all plants in the least 
degree promising. Are there not trees, shrubs, grasses, 
plants, vegetables, and fruits, now existing unheeded, 
that show as fairly in their humble originals, as did the 
potatoC, when first discovered. How largely this 
single root now contributes to man’s sustenance, we 
need not say. The population of Ireland receives 
probably one half its food in this highly improved and 
most excellent farinacious root. 
In illustration of this remark, we introduce the letter 
of Mr. Carpenter below, thanking him heartily for the 
information it contains. It will be proper however, for 
us to add that all with whom we have conversed, do not 
agree with our respected correspondent in his remarks 
as to its flavor, but this may be owing to an unfitness in 
the season, or climate where it was produced. We know 
that the wild northern Raspberry is superior in juci- 
ness and flavor to that of the more southern regions ; 
and from all that we can learn, the “ Ever-bearing ” 
would probably improve greatly by an introduction to 
more northern latitudes ; and as it is very hardy, and 
rapidly and easily propagated, we recommend the 
lovers of good fruit to give it a trial. Now that a con¬ 
servatory and green house are considered as necessary 
appendages to a gentlemans residence, why might it 
not be there introduced, and give him delicious fruit 
throughout the winter 1 
Mr. Ernst can supply it in any reasonable quantity 
from his fine nursery grounds at Cincinnati; and we 
presume it may be had in this vicinity, as cuttings hav® 
been repeatedly sent on here, through the well known 
liberality of Mr. Longworth; and we shall be happy 
if cultivated with success, to give the public informs* 
tion in our columns where it can be had east of tbs 
Alleganies. 
Cincinnati , Jan. 1, 1842. 
A. B. Allen, Esq. 
Dear Sir,—The Ohio Ever-hearing- Rasp¬ 
berry, was first discovered some fifteen years 
ago, in the northern part of this State, near 
Lake Erie, but in what particular part I am 
unable to say. Mr. Longworth of this city 
introduced it into his garden in 1832. It has 
been little known here, however, until within 
the last two years, but there is now great effort 
made by our gardeners to cultivate it for this 
market. The fruit resembles the wild native 
black raspberry but is much larger, more 
