FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
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FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
By the arrival of the steamer Cambria, we are in 
receipt of our foreign journals up to July 4th. 
Markets. — Ashes, Pots were in fair demand; Pearls 
dull of sale. Cotton rather looking up from the late 
slight depression. Stock on hand in Liverpool on the 
1st of July, 757,000 bales against 1,038,000 same period 
last year. Flour and Meal dull at a decline. Beef and 
Pork a slight reduction in price. Lard without change. 
Cheese , the finer qualities much wanted. Naval Stores 
steady. Rice in good request. Tobacco no alteration. 
Wool had fallen 2d. per lb. 
Money was plenty without change in the rates of 
discount. 
The Weather was unusually fine, and considered 
highly favorable for an abundant harvest. 
Passage of the Corn Bill—This is one of the most im¬ 
portant acts, as regards the United States, that has 
ever passed the British Parliament. It admits pork, 
beef, flour, and grain, nominally free, and will be the 
means of taking off annually a large surplus of our 
agricultural products; and what is of more import¬ 
ance, it will have the effect of binding for all time, 
two great nations closer and closer together in the 
arms of friendship. America and Great Britain are the 
same in language, and essentially the same in blood, 
and we trust now that the Oregon question is settled, 
nothing will ever arise to disturb the harmony of an in¬ 
timate and greatly extended intercourse between them. 
To Destroy the Wheat Fly .—Take Orpiment (which 
can be procured at any druggist’s), and, with lighted 
charcoal, burn the orpiment close to the wheat, any 
time after sunset, and before sunrise, at the time 
when the plant commences to flower—it should be | 
repeated while the fly is found to exist. One ounce 
is sufficient for six acres. 
Another, and perhaps equally efficacious Remedy — I 
So soon as the fly is discovered, or so soon as the j 
plant shows a disposition to open its flowerets, carry l 
around the patch of wheat strong lights at night, and 
the darker the better—the flies will all rush to the fires 
and destroy themselves. 
Both the above have been successfully tried in 
Canada, and no farmer should run the risk of losing 
his wheat when it can be saved at so little cost and 
trouble .—Quebec Gazette. 
Summer Pruning —Standard apple, pear, plum, and 
cherry trees, require particular attention in regard to 
pruning, for several years after they are planted, other¬ 
wise their tops will get into confusion. Pruning, 
therefore, is essential in the first instance, even if you 
should find it impossible to regulate them every year 
after they get large. Having tied in every shoot of 
your pear and plum trees, and converted each branch 
into a sort ofbesom, you must forthwith loosen them; 
for you will find that much of the foliage is in the 
way of being blanched, and from such no good will 
result. Thin out the shoots that have been most 
shaded, and gradually shorten the other forerights till 
the spur-leaves at their bases are duly exposed to the 
light; but take care not to do this all at once. It is 
now a good time to shorten the shoots of dwarf 
standards. One-fourth of their length may be cut off. 
Shoots are useless, or worse than that, if their foliage 
cannot be well exposed to the light.— Gard. Chron. 
The Horse-charmer ,—Doubtless, our readers must have 
heard of the extraordinary gift said to be possessed by 
an Irishman named Sullivan, who exercised a power 
over horses that no other horse-breaker in the United 
Kingdom ever obtained, by means of whispering. He 
is, therefore, better known in the sporting circles by 
the sobriquet of “ the whisperer.” It may not be 
known that the grandson of this extraordinary man 
(George Church), who practises the art of horse- 
breaking and training in Sidney, possesses the secret 
of charming this noble animal which gained for his 
grandsire so much celebrity. We have had frequent 
opportunities lately of witnessing his performances, 
and can confidently vouch for his skill. He will take 
a wild unbroken colt from the bush, and in 24 hours 
make him so docile and obedient, without severe 
treatment, that the animal, at command, will lie down 
under him, feigning death, and remain until roused 
from the apparent stupor in which he has been 
thrown, by mesmeric passes and slight manipulation 
(as it appears to us) on the nervous system, by the 
slight touch of a rattan. The animal will then lick 
the face of the operator, put his tongue in his mouth, 
and whisper in his ear at a signal. Church will then 
lie down on the broad of his back, and place the 
animal’s fore-foot on the pit of his stomach, also his 
hind-foot in his teeth, without danger of being pressed 
too hard. When the horse is relieved from the stupor 
in which he appears to have been thrown, he resists 
a repetition of the operation as long as he can, until 
subdued by the irresistible charm of this extraordinary 
man, he relapses into the mesmeric state, and is then 
passively obedient to his will.— Ibid. 
How to Kill Rais .—A good mode of destroying rats 
and mice is to cut old corks in slices as thin as wafers, 
and to fry them in the frying-pan after it has been 
used for frying any meat, but not burnt; place them 
about where the vermin appear, and all will be de¬ 
stroyed, for they eat them voraciously.— Ibid. 
Supply of Indian Meal at Cork .—Such is and has 
been the extensive demand for this article throughout 
Ireland since the price was fixed at £10 per ton, that 
there have been issued from the government depot at 
the Lee Mills, in this city, one thousand tons per 
week to the several relief committees who receive 
supplies ; that is, ten thousand pounds worth of Indian 
meal per week is issued from Cork alone, to make up 
for the deficiency caused by the failure in last year’s 
potato crop, independently of the amount sold by im¬ 
porters, on private account, which, however, we have 
no opportunity at present of ascertaining, but which, 
we are assured, must be very considerable. A cargo 
of yellow meal, in prime condition, was last week 
offered to the relief committee at 30s. per quarter, or 
about £8 per ton, and from the extensive importations 
that have taken place, and the prospects of an early 
and abundant harvest, and the reduction in price of 
other bread stuffs, the price is expected to fall still 
lower .—European Times. 
Concentrated Extract of Malt and Hops .—Few modern 
inventions are likely to prove a greater source of pub¬ 
lic benefit than this important patented article, which 
is now being extensively manufactured in London by 
a company established solely for that purpose. It is 
a thick, straw-colored, saccharine essence, and has 
only to be dissolved in hot-water, and fermented, to 
afford a fine home-brewed ale All the inconvenience, 
waste, loss of time, and uncertainty, attending the 
old method, when using the malt directly, for family 
brewing, is entirely avoided. By this compact and 
cleanly process, one or more butts of beer may be got 
ready for fermentation within half an hour. Those 
who know the medicinal virtues of malt and hops 
will, no doubt, avail themselves of this efficient means 
of obtaining a glass of fresh wort at pleasure; it is 
well said, that brewers are their own doctors, such is 
the efficacy of sweet wort to invigorate a declining 
constitution.— Ibid. 
Watering .—If you can loosen the surface of the 
ground and soak it with water in the evening, the 
garden will be much benefited, but a slight sprink¬ 
ling is of little service; the reason why gardeners 
object to watering in hot weather, is that the ground 
is apt to become baked; but a very little skill might 
remedy that inconvenience. 
