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Sale of Durhams—Notices of the Press* 
Till we can have just and proper National legisla¬ 
tion on this subject, we must do what we can indi¬ 
vidually. Foster and protect and encourage your 
own manufacturers. Every thousand dollars invested 
in manufacturing, requires the products from ten 
thousand invested in agriculture to sustain it. Mas¬ 
sachusetts annually buys at a round, price, from the 
Western farmer,'more flour than the total exportation 
to England of the same article, which we have shown 
above, is made at a positive loss. Which then is the best 
nation for the West to trade with, the English nation 
or the Massachusetts nation? She gives you a better 
article for a less price, when she has had protection for 
awhile till she can get fairly into operation with her 
manufactures, as has been already experienced by her 
selling a better article of cotton goods now for 8 cts per 
yard, than was imported 30 years ago for five times 8 
cents. What is true of cotton goods, is also true of 
many others; and will be of all, if we can have pro¬ 
tection for awhile. And what is said of Massachu¬ 
setts may be said of many other states, and your own, 
perhaps. The domestic markets afforded by your own 
manufacturers are worth all the foreign markets in 
the world ten times told. Sustain and cherish them; 
Cease to buy from abroad; and with intelligence, 
economy and industry, the currency will take care of 
itself. Had we the best in the world at this moment, 
excessive importation would make it the worst in 
three years; and starting with the worst now, we pre¬ 
dict that adequate protection of our Home Industry 
would make it the best in an equally short period. 
But we have not room to pursue this subject now, but 
may recur to other features of it hereafter. r, 
£CJr We call the attention of our Western 
readers to the extensive sale of Short Horn or 
Durham cattle, advertised in our present num¬ 
ber, to be sold in Ohio next month. There are 
27 in the catalogue. The cows are celebrated 
for their milking qualities. Lady Ann has 
given 32 quarts per day for two months in suc¬ 
cession ; and most of the others will average 
24 quarts per day on grass alone, and when not 
in milk, will fatten kindly, thus uniting two 
great essentials of cattle excellence. Such cat¬ 
tle for breed, are worth more than their weight 
in some Bank paper. For crossing on native 
cattle, they are invaluable. There is no corner 
lot speculation in buying such. 
1 Mr. Mahard’s Berkshires are among the best 
in the country, including some of our recent 
importations. A few of these, as also some 
choice Leicester sheep, are held on private sale. 
Id 3 Some good animal cuts we intended for 
the present number were not prepared in time. 
They will appear hereafter. 
We have an editorial article on the cultiva¬ 
tion of Hemp—also, Kentucky farming, which 
will appear in part in- our next number. 
Grapes may be preserved fresh, by be¬ 
ing suspended in any air tight vessel so as to 
prevent pressing on each other, or by packing 
in saw-dust in a close jar and placing it in a 
dry, cool place. 
NOTICES OF NEW WORKS. 
“ A Muck Manual for Farmers. —By Samuel L. 
Dana.—It is usual to help the ground with muck, 
and likewise to recomfort with muck, put to the roots, 
but to water it with muck water, which is likely to be 
more forcible, is not practised.—Bacon.” Here is 
an unpretending title and as quaint a motto. Not so, 
however, with the treatise. We have a fnost impor¬ 
tant, the most important, subject of a farmer’s attention 
treated in its general principles by an experienced, 
ingenious, and reflecting mind. Dr. Dana has been 
long and favourably known to the agricultural public 
by his ingenious and practical essays on matters es¬ 
sentially connected with their prosperity. This work 
will lay them under still deeper obligations to the au¬ 
thor. There is much of novel theory in this work, 
which perhaps extended observation may be required 
to establish and confirm; but there is also enough 
of well-authenticated facts, to commend it to the 
careful consideration of every farmer. The theory, 
too, will be found attractive to the intelligent and in¬ 
quiring mind, and will well repay investigation. We 
shall enrich the columns of the Agriculturist by some 
of the more practical quotations from it hereafter. 
We have been especially gratified in the perusal o t 
this work, to witness the devotion ol American genius,so 
generally absorbed as it is by professional or political 
pursuits, to a subject, though eminently practical in 
its results, yet combining so much of thorough science 
and pure intellectuality. The work is for sale at 
Wiley and Putnam’s. Broadway. 
We acknowledge, also, from the above gentlemen, 
the receipt from England, by late arrivals, the Lon¬ 
don Farmer’s Magazine, six numbers of C. W. John¬ 
sons Encyclopaedia, and a continuation of J. W. F, 
Johnston’s Lectures on Chemistry and Geology as 
applied to agriculture. 
We must also acknowledge the receipt of va¬ 
luable papers from the Agricultural Press of this- 
country; and our thanks for the complimentary man¬ 
ner in which our humble efforts have been noticed by 
the press generally. We esteem this the more high¬ 
ly from a conviction that it has been done from a grow¬ 
ing fondness for the subject, rather than our own 
deserts. 
« Transactions of the New-Haven Horticultural and 
N. Haven Co. Agricultural Societies fi have been po¬ 
litely forwarded us bv Charles Robinson, Esq. We 
are always gratified to learn the result of these com¬ 
mendable enterprises, and especially so, when as 
successful as the reports of the above indicate. We 
hope, ere long, to see similar societies.organized in 
every county in the United States; active, efficient, 
exciting agents, giving spirit and success to the ef¬ 
forts of the cultivators of the soil, by calling out and 
rewarding a well-directed competition. We have 
only room for a single extract: — 
“ Of the working oxen, who can speak in terms of 
too much praise*? Nearly six hundred were on the 
ground; and if any other county, or state, or coun¬ 
try, claims to have finer or better, where is it 1 We 
are ready for a challenge. The splendid teams ot 
one hundred and seventy each, from Bethany and 
Woodbridge, collected during the storm, proved con¬ 
clusively the courage of the farmers there, and their 
admirable taste in the selection, and skill in rearing 
and training of stock.” 
Six hundred premium working: oxen, shown from 
a single county, in a most terrific storm, and that 
scarcely half represented! and this county affording 
a large proportion of light soil, and sterile mountain l 
