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Notices of the Press—European Agricultural Tour and Survey. 
particularly well reported in the Traveler, and its con¬ 
tents otherwise are varied and interesting. 
The Maine Farmer and Mechanics’ Advocate, 
has entered upon its 2d vol., of a new series. This is 
in large newspaper form, and to agriculture and me¬ 
chanics, it unites miscellaneous news. It is published 
weekly by William Noyes, at Two Dollars a year, pay¬ 
able in advance, Dr. E, Holmes, editor, and is one of 
the best and most spirited papers of the kind, with 
which we exchange. 
The Southern Planter, published monthly at 
Richmond, Virginia, edited by C. T. Botts and L. M. 
Burfoot, at One Dollar a year, in advance, 24 pages 
double columns, Royal octavo, embellished with en¬ 
gravings. This excellent paper with its handsome 
cover, is got up in rather neater style than any other 
agricultural publication at the south, and we are glad 
to see it entering upon its 3d vol. with so much 
success. We should suppose its price would en¬ 
sure it a large circulation, but in addition to this, it is 
well filled with good practical original and selected 
matter. 
Another Southern Planter is just started at Au¬ 
gusta, Georgia, at the same price as the above, but we 
understand that the editors did not know that the Old 
Virginian had taken the field before them, or they 
would not have come in thus unceremoniously for his 
cognomen. It is the intention of Messrs. Jones to 
change the name in the 2d No. which, when we receive, 
we shall announce in due form. We don’t know but 
Messrs. Botts and Burfoot will begin to suspect that 
there is a conspiracy on foot to drive them off the field, 
since this is the second time that their name is as¬ 
sumed. It is doubtless somewhat provoking, but we 
could not resist a smile, when we first unbagged this 
third Dromio. We hope all new comers will be kind 
enough to let us alone. 
Central New York Farmer. —The 2d vol. of this 
paper comes out in an enlarged size, having assumed 
the quarto form. It is a monthly of 16 pages, embel¬ 
lished with engravings, published at Rome, this state, 
at Fifty Cents a year, and is edited by Messrs. John¬ 
ston & Comstock. This paper is eminently practical, 
and calculated to do great good among our farmers. 
We have but one objection to it, and that is the price, 
it ought to be as high as One Dollar, to afford its pro¬ 
prietor a fair remuneration. We know, however, that 
there are many who will take a fifty cent paper, who 
who would not subscribe for a dollar one, and perhaps 
it is no more than right that the views of such persons 
should be met, if they can be consistently. 
The British American Cultivator. —This also 
has entered upon its 2d vol., is a quarto of 16 pages, 
published monthly, by W. G. Edmunson, at Toronto, 
Upper Canada, at One Dollar a year, edited by Wm. 
Evans, and a capital periodical it is too, and of a high 
tone, and well calculated to improve the farming com¬ 
munity where it is published. We hope that every 
emigrant who comes into that fine province, will be a 
subscriber to the Cultivator, for a most excellent man¬ 
ual he will find it, in a land whose crops, and climate, 
and system of agriculture, are so different from that 
of Great Britain. 
The Colonial Farmer. —This is an octavo with 
wide double columns of 8 pages, published monthly, by 
R. Nugent, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, at Five Shillings 
a year, and is edited by Titus Smith. We are in re¬ 
ceipt of No. 1, of the 2d vol. of the Farmer, and we 
perceive that it is pushing ahead in the true spirit. Its 
original and selected matter is capital. 
Our readers will perceive by the above notices, that 
the agricultural periodicals of the country are deter¬ 
mined to persevere in their praiseworthy efforts to ex¬ 
alt and instruct the farming community, and it will be 
a burning shame if they are not well supported. If 
one-hundredth part of the money now spent in rabid 
politics and sentimental nonsense, which injure and de¬ 
base the mind rather than do it any good, was turned to 
the support of agriculture, it would prove a great bless¬ 
ing to our country. The above are such papers only 
as have commenced or continued their career since 
January. All new volumes or new papers for the en¬ 
suing year, will be noticed by us in the same full and 
liberal manner as fast as commenced, and may they all 
live and flourish—enlighten and instruct that worthy 
class of people, for which they are especially designed. 
A Popular Treatise on Vegetable Physiology, 
published under the auspices of the Society for the Pro¬ 
motion of Popular Instruction, with numerous cuts, 
301 pages, octavo. From the cursory perusal given 
to this, we think it all its title indicates, and the 
best work for the general reader on the subject of 
Vegetable Physiology, that we have yet met, and as 
such, we recommend it to the public. 
A Popular Treatise on Agricultural Chemis¬ 
try, intended for the use of the practical farmer, by 
Charles Squarry, 154 pages, octavo. We have shown 
our opinion of this work, by frequently quoting from it 
in the back numbers of this paper, and it may be suffi¬ 
cient for us to add here, that we think it one of the 
most valuable re-publications from the English press 
lately issued. It has the merit also, of being written 
in as plain and familiar a style as it is possible to treat 
such subjects. The two works above are published 
by Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia. 
The Bible in Stain, by the Rev. George Bor¬ 
row. —We are greatly mistaken if this work does not 
have a large sale, for it is the most original, pictu¬ 
resque, and deeply absorbing book of travels which we 
have read for many years. We had marked some ex¬ 
tracts on Spanish stock and agriculture for insertion, 
but they are crowded out for want of space. We are 
favored by two editions of this work. One beautifully 
got up, of 232 pages, Royal octavo, double columns, 
price Fifty Cents, by Saxton & Miles, 205 Broad¬ 
way ; and another of 1J 0 pages, by J. Winchester, 
30 Ann street, in form of an extra New World, price 
Twenty-five Cents. The public must be fastidious 
not to be well suited with either of these handsome 
editions of the popular Mr. Borrow. 
EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL TOUR AND SURVEY. 
Several gentlemen interested in the advancement of 
agricultural science and improvement, and of rural ed¬ 
ucation, have proposed to Mr. Henry Colman, late 
Commissioner of Agricultural Survey of Massachusetts, 
to visit Europe for these objects. The plan is for him 
to spend a year in England, in the examination of the 
Husbandry and Rural Economy of that country; and a 
year on the continent, in the examination of French, 
Flemish, Swiss, and German Husbandry, and especially 
the Agricultural or Manual Labor Schools and the Ex¬ 
perimental Farms. 
It is thought that.such an examination, as yet never 
undertaken by an American, might, if well conducted, 
essentially conduce to the advancement of agricultural 
knowledge and improvement in this country, and es- 
