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New Publications«Editor*s Table. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
“Farmers’ Encyclopedia, by Cutbbert W. 
Johnson. London, 1842.” We have received 
the concluding number of this highly valuable 
work, which has been in course of publication 
for the last year. It is intended to give ge¬ 
neral views on the various subjects of which 
it treats, and it will be found to contain a 
large amount of valuable information, though 
some subjects might be omitted entirely, and 
many more curtailed, without detriment to 
the American reader. It will have been no¬ 
ticed we have made selections from it for the 
previous numbers, as well as the present, of 
our work. The style is pleasing and popular, 
the arrangement judicious, and the matter 
well-selected and ably treated, either by the 
editor, or the best writers from whom he has 
selected. We presume, from the decided 
merits of the work, it will be republished in 
this country; and we trust the publishers, 
whoever they may be, will thoroughly digest 
their plan, before submitting it to American 
readers. 
“ The Dollar Farmer,” published monthly 
by Prentice and Weissinger, Louisville, Ky. 
We have received the first number of this 
new periodical, devoted entirely to the far¬ 
mers’ interest. It is a neatly-executed 
monthly, of 16 pages, quarto, and is well 
filled with editorial and selected matter, 
adapted to the general interests of agricul¬ 
ture. We hope to see the circulation of 
sterling agricultural works extended, till one 
or more copies shall be found in the hands of 
every farmer of the U. States. 
New Work.— “The Farm House of the 
19th Century, or Encyclopedia of Practical 
Agriculture. With more than 2,000 Engra¬ 
vings. New York, S. S. Haskell, 138 Fulton 
street, 1842.” The first No. of this work has 
been sent us. It is to be published in forty 
semi-monthly Nos., of 48 pages ; 25 cents 
each. It is a translation from a recent French 
work of conceded merit, being a compilation 
on the various subjects of agriculture as un¬ 
derstood and practised in France, by several 
of their most scientific agriculturists. The 
translator has, in a spirited preface, well set 
forth the necessity of enlarged information 
among the farmers of this country; which 
the work is well calculated to afford. 
Several books on agricultural subjects were 
handed in too late for notice in this No.; 
they will appear in our next. 
EDITOR’S TABLE. 
Directory for Fairs in 1842. 
IP" Those sending notices of Fairs will 
please to observe, that if sent us printed in a 
newspaper , they subject us to no postage ; if 
sent in a handbill , they will cost us letter 
postage. 
N. York American Institute, to be held in the city 
of New York. Gen. James Talmadge, Pres’t; T. B. 
Wakeman, Cor. Sec. 
N. York £tate Society, at Albany, Sep. 28th and 29th. 
James Wadsworth, Pres’t; H. S. Randall, Cor. Sec.; 
L. Tucker, Rec. Sec. 
Oneida County, at Rome, Oct. 12th and 13th. P. 
Jones, Pres’t; E. Comstock, Cor. Sec.; R. S. Doty, 
Rec. Sec. 
Rensselaer County, at Lansingburgh, first week in 
October. Joseph Hastings, Pres’t; Giles B. Kellogg, 
Sec. 
Ontario County, at Canandaigua, 12th and 13th Oct. 
Erie County, at Buffalo, 5th and 6th Oct. L. F. Allen, 
Pres’t; Warren Bryant, Sec. 
Monroe County, at Rochester, Oct. 13th and 14th. 
Genesee County, at Batavia, Oct. 20th and 21st. 
Onondaga County, at Syracuse, Oct. 5th and 6th. 
Seneca County, at Waterloo, Oct. 20th and 21st. 
Wayne County, at Palmyra, Sep. 5th and 6th. 
Tompkins County, at Ithaca, Oct. 6th and 7th. 
Livingston County, at Genesee, Oct. 4th. 
Union Ag. Soc., at Aurora, Kane County, Ill., 19th Oct. 
J. T. Gifford, Pres’t; J. S. Wright, Cor. and Rec. Sec. 
New Haven County, at New Haven, Sep. 28th and 29th. 
B. Silliman, Pres’t; Henry Whitney, Sec. 
The Wellington U. Canada Fair, at Fergus 4th Oct., 
'at Berba 7th; at Guelph 11th. 
The Gore District U. C. Ag. Soc., at Dundas, 13th 
Oct. 
The Royal English Ag. Soc. was to hold its annual 
cattle show at Bristol, commencing July 14th. 
Geo. Reed, Esq., Cor. Sec. of Wisconsin Ag. Soc., in 
his letter dated 23d May, says:— 
Will you allow me to suggest the enlarge¬ 
ment of your statistical table on agriculture, 
in some future No.; bringing into connexion 
with what is already published, other equally 
important information, which, I presume, can 
be found in the census returns, &c. &c. &c. 
We should most gladly increase this kind of informa¬ 
tion to a large extent, could we procure such as could 
be relied on for this purpose. But many of those ob¬ 
tained in the last U. States census, were grossly inac¬ 
curate, and were corrected with much labor and inves¬ 
tigation, subsequently, at the Patent office, in Washing- 
tsn. We trust that competent men hereafter may be 
appointed to this office, who have capacity to understand 
their duty, and integrity and character to execute it; 
not mere political machines, as they not unfrequently 
are. We should then possess an immense amount of 
information on all matters relating to agriculture and 
political economy, of incalculable value to the states¬ 
man and philanthropist. 
Silk Cocoons.— For the benefit of silk- 
growers throughout the country, we mention 
the fact, that our state authorities at the Sing- 
Sing State-prison are paying $3 per bushel- 
