editor’s table. 
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(Sriritor s Sable. 
Culturist. —We are favored with the first No. of a 
new agricultural paper under the above title, published 
by Wm. J. A. Bradford, Baltimore, Md., at one dollar a 
year. It is 16 pages quarto, and very neatly got up. 
Mr. B. has our best wishes for his success ; but why 
not carry his patronage to the old established Ameri¬ 
can Farmer? There are no publications so poorly 
paid as the agricultural, and instead of starting new 
ones, would it not be better to get a stronger support 
to those already in existence ? Independent of collate¬ 
ral business, we do not believe there is a purely agri¬ 
cultural paper in America that is more than paying 
expenses—and seven-eighths of them are not even 
doing that. We have placed the Culturist on our ex¬ 
change list. 
The Mechanics’ Mirror. —This is a beautiful 
octavo monthly of 28 pages, edited by Robert McFar¬ 
land, Esq., and published by John Tanner, Albany, 
N. Y., at one dollar a year. The matter in the first No. 
at hand, is highly valuable, not only for the mechanic, 
but for the general reading of families. The work is 
well arranged for popular favor, of which we hope it 
may find much, for its appearance certainly promises 
it to be highly deserving. 
Peruvian Corn. —Edwin Bartlett, Esq., of this 
city, has kindly given us five barrels of Peruvian Corn, 
recently sent him from that country. It has the 
iargest sized grains of any we ever saw before, and is 
quite a curiosity. There are two kinds • one called 
by the Peruvians, maiz bianco (white corn). This is 
the Chancay corn used for fattening pigs. It is a 
coarse, inferior article, but grows very rank and 
strong. The other kind, maiz amarillo (yellow corn), 
from Huacho, is large and fine, and is said to make the 
sweetest kind of bread. Mr. Bartlett informs us it is 
a great yielder. Any one wishing a quart or two of this 
corn for experiment, can have the same gratis, by call¬ 
ing at our warehouse, No. 187 Water Street. We are 
of opinion, it will do best south of the Potomac, as it 
is a southern corn. 
Solon Robinson, Esq. —We regret to say, that 
just before this eminent friend of agriculture was 
ready to start on his agency for this paper, and our 
agricultural establishment, he was seized with a vio¬ 
lent fever, which reduced him very ’jew for a time. 
When he last wrote us he was convalescent, and our 
readers will see that he has made some happy efforts 
fd^rlieir amusement and instruction in this No. of our 
paper. We trust he is on his way to New Orleans, by 
this time, via the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Thence, 
if his health grows better, he will find his way through 
lower Alabama to Florida, and so north, as the spring 
advances, through Georgia, the Caroiinas, &o. We are 
much obliged to our southern friends who have offer¬ 
ed him so kindly a welcome, and shall request him to 
call upon them on his route hither. 
Western New York Agricultural School.— 
Dr. Daniel Lee, of Buffalo, editor of the Genesee 
Farmer, has made arrangements with Gen. Rawson 
Harmon, to open an Agricultural School at the resi¬ 
dence of the latter in Wheatland, Monroe County, 
N. Y., on the 1st of May next, to teach the science 
and practice of agriculture. The farm of Gen. Har¬ 
mon contains 200 acres of improved land, which is 
under excellent cultivation in the various kinds of 
crops suitable to the climate. Dr. Lee thus speaks of 
their undertaking in his prospectus. 
“ Great pains will be taken to ascertain what ani¬ 
mals furnish the most profitable living machinery for 
changing grass, grain, roots, straw, &c., into milk, but¬ 
ter, cheese, beef, pork, mutton, fat, and wool. To im- 
oait a thorough knowledge of the organic structure of 
all this machinery, and of the office or function per¬ 
formed by each organ, there will be minute dissections 
of all domestic animals. A museum, illustrative of 
the anatomy and physiology of all the living things 
which the farmer labors to produce, and keep in a 
healthy condition, will also be formed. Lectures 
will be given in these departments of natural science, 
and no pains will be spared to render their study both 
interesting and truly useful. Work in a chemical 
laboratory for the analysis of soils, manures, fertilizers, 
and all vegetable and animal substances, will form an 
important department in the school. Lectures will be 
given in this branch of science with the view to pre¬ 
pare teachers of academies, and common schools, to in¬ 
troduce the study of agricultural chemistry into these 
seminaries of learning. A suitable text book, and a 
cheap apparatus for the use of school teachers and pri 
vate gentlemen, have long been in a course of prepa¬ 
ration. Agricultural geology will also be taught 
A full course of study and practice will occupy four 
years; during which, the pupil will be required to 
keep in his own handwriting a journal of his studies 
and progress, and an accurate debit and credit of all 
farm operations. He w r ill be charged for his board and 
tuition, washing, &c., and credited at a fair price for 
whatever service he may render on the farm. But we 
cannot promise work and pay for all that may offer. 
The object, of the proprietors of this school will be to 
turn the labor of young men to the best possible ac¬ 
count, and to give them the full benefit of their skill 
and industry. 
“ The price of board, washing, lodging, lights, and 
fire wood, will be from $1.50 to $2.00 per week. 
Tuition from $8 to $12 per quarter. This will include 
instructions by Gen. H., as well as the editor’s 
lecture fees.” 
From the well known characters of Gen. Harmon 
and Dr. Lee, we have no doubt that they will keep an 
excellent Agricultural School, and one highly deserv 
ing the patronage of the public. The pages of this 
periodical will bear witness to the zeal with which 
we have continually advocated them, and we are re¬ 
joiced to be able to announce that one is at length to 
be established in this State. We hope it may meet 
the patronage that it is sure to merit, and that it may 
be followed by others throughout the country. It is 
high time that farmers’ sons were taught their busi¬ 
ness scientifically as well as practically. We are of 
opinion that, ten years hence, people will look back 
with perfect wonder that agricultural schools were not 
established at the first settlement of the country. 
The Present No. of the Agriculturist. —It 
is not often that we praise our own paper, but we 
think the present No. contains several very able arti¬ 
cles. We would especially point to that on “ Hereford 
Cattle,” and the one containing “ Mr. Pell’s Essay,” 
read before the American Ag. Association the past 
month. Let no one be deterred from perusing them 
by their length; for they have been prepared after 
much study and thought on the subjects of which 
they treat. We do not intend to make our periodical 
a light ephemeral, but a work of instruction to be read 
and studied as a book. 
Acknowledgments. — We are indebted for the 
Transactions of the Hampshire, Hampden, and Frank¬ 
lin Agricultural Society for 1845; for the Address be¬ 
fore the Hartford County Agricultural Society by Hon. 
I. W. Stuart, together with the Transactions of 
the same for the past year ; for the Brockville Re¬ 
corder, C. W., containing an account of the Johnstown 
District Agricultural Show, in October last, which 
must have been a highly spirited affair. 
To Correspondents. —J. D. Williamson, L, Per- 
sicus, A Subscriber, Solon Robinson, E. S., Benj. N. 
Huntington, and Henry Watson, are received. 
