Review of the Market—Contents, 
REVIEW THE MARRETb 
Prices Current in New-York, October 29, 1S42. 
ASHES. Pots, per 100 lb. .. $ 5 50 to 5 62 
'Pearls, do.. 5 87% .. — 
BEESWAX, Yellow, per lb. 29 .. 29% 
COTTON, Louisiana, do. 6 .. 10% 
Upland, do. 5% .. 9 
Florida, do. ... 6 .. 9 
Alabama, do. .. 6 .. 10 
FEATHERS, American, live, per lb..... 25 .. 34 
FLAX, American, per lb.. 8 .. 8 % 
FLOUR, Northern and Western, via Erie Ca- 
nal,per bbl. .... 419 ..425 
do. via N. Orleans,... 4 12% .. 4 19 
Southern, per bbl... 4 50 .. 4 87% 
RYE, per bbl. 3 12£.. 3 37£ 
MEAL, Corn, per bbl. ... 2 75 ..3 00 
do. perhhd. 13 50 ..14 00 
WHEAT, Western, per bushel,. 83 .. 88 
Southern, do. 70 .. 80 
RYE, Northern, per bushel,. 60 .. 61 
CORN, do. do. 54 .. 57 
Southern, do. 49 .. 53 
BARLEY, per bushel,. 46 .. 48 
OATS, Northern, per bushel,... -24 .. 27 
Southern, do. 18 .. 20 
PEAS, Field, do. — .. — 
BEANS, White, per bushel,. 
CLOVER SEED, per lb. 7 .. 7* 
TIMOTHY SEED, per tierce of 7 bu. 11 50 . .12 00 
FLAX SEED, rough, do. do. ...... 10 00 .. 10 50 
clean, do. do. — .. —00 
RICE, per 100 lb. ... 2 44 .. 3 25 
HEMP, Russia, per ton, ..210 00 215 00 
American, do. 2 80 .. — 
HOPS, first sort, per lb. 11 .. 14 
LEAD, Pig, per lb. ... 3% .. 3$ 
Sheet and Bar, per lb... 4 % ,. 5 
OIL, Linseed, American, per gal. 90 .. 96 
PLASTER OF PARIS, first quality, per ton, 2 25 .. 2 75 
unground do... 1 87% .. 2 00 
... 7 25 .. 7 5,0 
. 2 75 ..3 50 
.. 2 50 .. 2 75 
. 7 50 ..9 50 
. 5 00 .. 6 50 
...... 7 .. 8 
BUTTER, best Table, per lb. 16 .. 18 
Western, good, per lb.... 12 .. 14 
Shipping, do. 6 .. 7 
CHEESE, in boxes and casks, per lb. 5 £ .. 6 % 
HAMS, Smoked, per lb.. 6 | .. 8 
Pickled, do. — ,, — 
Shoulders, smoked. — .. 
BEEF Mess, per bbl. 
Prime, 
do. 
Cargo, 
do. 
PORK, Mess, 
do. 
Prime, 
do. 
LARD, per lb. 
SALT, Liverpool, ground, sack . 
do. fine, do. .. 
u 
1 62%!! 
5 .. 
3 
1 47 
1 72£ 
6 
6 
SUGAR, New Orleans, per lb.. 
TOBACCO, Virginia, do. 
Kentuckv. do. 
3 
7 
TALLOW, American, do. 
WOOL, American Saxony fleece, per lb.. 
Full blood Merino do. do. 
Half to three-fourths do. do. 
Native to half do. do . 
SHEEP PELTS, each, .. . 
8 .. 
32 .. 
28 .. 
24 .. 
18 .. 
8 * 
35 
30 
26 
20 
HAY, per 1001b. 
POTATOES, new, per bash el, . 
EGGS, per 100, . .. 
56 
25 .. 
1 00 
( i Jj 
Remarks.— The market remains at its former rates, nearly ; a 
slight reduction in the prices of flour and grain, being the principal 
ones we notice. American water rotted hemp will at pre¬ 
sent command from our navy, by the judicious protective poli¬ 
cy they have adopted towards this article, $280 per ton, which is a 
sufficiently liberal encouragement, it is presumed, to insure a full 
supply hereafter. 
An agent from a commercial house in Liverpool has travelled 
extensively through various sections of our country this season, 
and by circulars, has distributed extensively the modes of putting up 
provisions for the English market. The experiment is worth the 
trial whether we can export these articles to a profit, and we trust 
it will be thoroughly tested. Lard should he put up in large tight 
barrels, and if it arrives in prime-order, it will there be opened and 
re-packed m bladders, after the Irish mode, or in small neat kegs, 
and offered as English lard, and sold at a fair price. Directions for 
packing beef and pork, can be found in most of the Western papers, 
copied from the above circular. Good, butter pays a duty of 5 cents 
per lb. ; its exportation, therefore at any fair profit is out of the 
question. By reducing the quality to shipping butter, in which con¬ 
dition a large portion of it is now brought to this market from the 
west, it pays the shipper here handsomely at our quoted rates, 6 to 
7 cts. being sold abroad as grease. 
New-York Cattle Market, Oct. 24, 1242.—At market 1350 
hoad of fresh Cattle, (400 from Pennsylvania,) 3000 Sheep and 
Lambs, and 20 Cows and Calves. 
Prices BeeJ" Cattle have been dull of sale, and we put our 
figures at $5,50 for prime cattle, fair to ordinary sold as low as 
$3,50. At which prices several lots were taken for barrelling. Un¬ 
sold 300. Cows and Calves—All at market taken at $20 a $35. 
Sheep and Lambs—2800 taken at from $1,50 to $2 for Sheen, and 
$1 to $2,25 for Lambs. 
ORCHARD GRASS SEED, 
Of the first quality, this year’s growth. Orders received at the 
Office of the Am Agriculturist, where a sample may be seen. 
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S. & M. intend keeping a full supply of all works relating to 
Agriculture and its improvement, and to the sciences connected 
therewith ; and to make their store a Depot, where the Farmer 
especially can find any thing he may wish, whether pertaining 
to his business or otherwise ; and also where he can send his or¬ 
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faithfully attendedto. 
THE HEALTH ALMANAC for the YEAR 1843.— 
Devoted to the Law which regulates the animal, origi¬ 
nally designed for the Spirit of Man—By a Vegeta¬ 
ble Eater. 
CONTENTS.—Equinoxes and Solstices. .Eclipses in the Year 
1843—Calendar, with Maxims on Health, Law, Policy and Mind 
—Agricultural Statistics of the U. S. by Hon. H. L. Elsworth— 
Mastication—Life—Milk—Nothing made in vain—The Stomach 
and Internal Canal—Worms in Living Creatures—On Swine’s 
Flesh as food—Original Food of Man—Relation of Man and Wife 
—Relation of Parent and Child—Preparation of Bread Stuff- 
Bread Making—Head Ache—Life and Death—Formation of the 
Teeth—Bankrupts—Eating—Query answered—Disease and Pani 
—Bathing—Sleep—Dreaming—General Differences of the Sexes of 
the Animal and Vegetable Kingdom—Rates of Postage, <$'C. 
Published by SAXTON & MILES, 205 Broadway—price 6 cents 
single copy; 371-2 cents per doz ; $2 50 per 100; 20 dols. per 1000 
R H hendrickson" — 
Middletown, butler county, ohio, 
Is now prepared to fill orders for thorough-bred Berkshire Pigs, 
from the late imported boars Windsor Castle and Earl Craven, and 
twenty choice sows purchased of A. B. Allen, a part of liis recent 
importation. Pigs in pairs from this superior stock will be furnished 
substantially caged and delivered on the canal at Middletown, or on 
board steamboat at Cincinnati, from $30 to $50, according to age 
and quality. Orders'accompanied with cash, will always secure 
the preference. 
ALSO—Pigs bred from the superb’boar Kenilworth, of a stock of 
the largest and finest kinds of white hogs in England, also imported 
by Mr. Allen last October, crossed on the splendid large white Mi¬ 
ami hogs of this country. The Miamis have been long noted for 
their large sizes. Animals of this breed have occasionally come 
up to the enormous weights of 1200 and 1400 lbs., and it is believed 
that the cross of Kenilworth on them, will easily attain the weights 
of 700 to 1000 lbs. at 18 months and two years old, if well fatted. 
Pigs of this cross $25 per pair, caged and delivered as above. Refer 
to the editors of this paper. 
Contents of this Number—Editorial. 
Premiums of the Agricultural Fair of the Am. Institute 
for 1842, 228 
Notice of the Agricultural Fair, 22 
Notice of the Fair of the Am. Institute at Niblo’s, 22 
PammStucco—Erie Co. Fair—Palmer Worm, 230 
Raising Indigo —Tour in England No. 8 . 231 
The Valley of the Miami, 234 
Anthracite Ashes and City Manures—Testing Plows—Dyna- 
mometors—Raising Wheat, 236 
Co rrespondence.—Sheep on the Western Prairies, 237 
Long and Short Manure, 238 
Notices of Correspondents—Plan of a Bee Hive, 239 
Cultivation of the Locust, 241 
Exchange Papers—To Correspondents—Letters from Thomas 
Bates, Esq., &c. 243 
Boys’ Department.—The Pigeon, 244 
Selections.—Biography of Bakewell, 246 
Comparaiive merits of Horses and Oxen for farm work—Com¬ 
parative value of different kinds of Fodder, 250 
Hy.lraulic Press, 251 
Review of Books.—Barnabe Googe, 252 
System of Farming practised by Lord Leicester, 253 
French Plow, Cottage Cookery—The Treaty and the Tariff, 254 
To Subscribers—Lard Lamps—To the Southern Planter _255 
V. L. Dill, Stereotyper, S. W. Benedict, Printer 
