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 September 4th. 
Markets. — Ashes were in greater request. Cotton 
had advanced fully &d. per lb., with large sales. The 
stock on hand at Liverpool on the 1st of September, 
was 744,000 bales, against 934,000 same time last 
year. Beef an advance of 6s. per tierce, with a light 
stock on hand. Pork had improved. Lard , the same. 
Cheese , quick of sale with a light stock on hand. But¬ 
ter, little doing. Flour, an advance of 6d. per barrel. 
Indian Corn had risen 3s. per quarter. Naval Stores, a 
slight advance in Tar. This article was scarce in 
market. Bice, an advance. Tallow, brisk. Tobacco , 
a moderate demand. Wool , United States, little on 
hand, and no recent transactions to quote. 
Money. —The Bank of England has reduced the rate 
of interest to 3 per cent. This has given an increased 
activity to business, and slightly advanced the price 
of stocks. 
The Weather had been favorable for the completion 
of the harvest. 
The Crops were gathered, and Wheat turns out an 
average yield; Oats, the same; the Potato crop, 
owing to the rot, a great Jailure. The crops on the 
Continent, especially in France, are rather short than 
otherwise, so that Great Britain will have to look to 
the United States for her chief supplies in Provisions. 
This will be a great boon to the American farmer the 
ensuing year. 
To Exchange Papers. —We have one word to say to 
such of our contemporaries as are in the habit of 
copying our foreign summary, which is this : we shall 
expect them hereafter to give credit to this paper for 
it, as well as the Foreign Journals; for said Journals 
cost us no small sum per annum, and the condensa¬ 
tions from them give us a great deal of extra labor. It 
if, therefore, no more than just that we should also 
have credit for the same. 
Importation of Grain. —The quantity of wheat im¬ 
ported during the past year, has not been so great as 
in 1845, but that entered for home consumption is 
much greater—fully 2,000,000 quarters. The import 
of Indian corn is nearly six times greater this year 
than during the same period of 1845. Of wheat pieal 
or flour there has been an enormous increase in the 
arrivals from foreign countries. A large quantity of 
Indian meal has also been imported this season, 
which forms no part of the returns in 1845: a small 
quantity appears to have been imported in 1844. Of 
the total quantity of grain taken into consumption 
during the period already stated in 1S45, was 543,898. 
and in 1846, 2,301,949 quarters, and of flour and meal, 
97,847 cwt. were taken for a like purpose; in 1846, 
the quantity had increased to 2,197,554 cwt. 
The Scarcity of Apples and other fruits in England 
this year will, we expect, afford to the American cul¬ 
tivator of apples an opportunity of exporting that 
article to this country to some advantage. 
Importations of Provisions into Great Bntain. —This 
trade has already received an important impetus by 
the late measures of commercial reform. The im¬ 
port of bacon during the six months ending July 5, 
1846, is nearly one hundred times greater than during 
the same period of 1845. Salted beef more than 
double; fresh beef 150 times greater; hams are also 
more than double ; and in salted and fresh pork there 
is also a considerable increase, but not anything like 
the others. The importation of cheese has not in¬ 
creased during the last year; but, notwithstanding 
the competition of foreign countries, the value of 
English cheese has not merely been maintained , but 
considerably advanced. For example—in 1843 the 
quantity of foreign cheese imported was only 63,497 
cwt. In that year, in the Wiltshire markets in August, 
the price obtained by the large dairy farmer was 45s. 
the cwt In the present year the quantity of foreign 
cheese imported has been 113,428 cw:., and the price 
obtained in the Wiltshire markets during the last 
month has been no less than 60s. the cwt. The total 
quantity of provisions, which includes bacon, beef 
salted and fresh, and pork, imported from January 5 to 
July 5, in 1845, was 70,311 cwt., and during the same 
period of 1846, 122,230 cwt.— European Times. 
Nourishing Quality of different Vegetable Substances, 
reckoned from the amount of Nitrogen contained in them ; 
by E. N. Horsford, of Albany, New York, U. S., 
(Annal. der Chem. und Pharm., vol. lviii., p. 166.)— 
This is a very able research conducted in the labora¬ 
tory of Prof. Liebig by the author, who appears to 
have devoted much time and care to the analyses. 
Besides simply estimating the amount of carbon, hy¬ 
drogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, and ashes in the 
various vegetable substances that passed through his 
hands, the proportion of vegetable azotized substances 
contained in each one is also laid down ; this is cal¬ 
culated from the amount of nitrogen and the known 
composition of these principles as made out by Mul¬ 
der, Scheerer and others. 
The followingis the statement of the nutritive value 
of some of the substance alluded to in the extensive 
table accompanying the memoir. Wheat is taken as 
the standard, and the numbers in the table represent 
how many parts of the corresponding vegetable are 
equal to 100 of wheat. 
Theory. 
Experiments on animals 
by Boussingault. 
Dried at 212°P. 
Fresh. 
Fresh. 
Wheat..-.- 
100. 
100. 
94 
Rye...... 
98.8 
97.6 
97.6 
Corn.. 
115. 
113. 
108 
Rice. 
220. 
225. 
Buckwheat 
170. 
166. 
122.7 
Peas. 
57. 
60. 
90.7 
Lentil. - • • • 
55. 
58 
Potato- 
220. 
596.3 
429 
Yellow Beet 
182.7 
919.4 
5897 
— Silliman's Journal. 
Potatoes. —We must again draw the attention of our 
correspondents to the importance of not coming to 
hasty conclusions respecting this important matter. 
It is the worst Kind of trifling to pretend that this, that, 
or the other little experiment has secured a crop, 
when we are only just at the beginning of the end. 
We must therefore decline to give insertion to a large 
number of representations which can have no value, 
and which their writers would regret to see on record 
hereafter. To imagine that planting shallow, or 
planting deep, earthing up or letting it alone, and fifty 
more such crotchets, can have any effect, is worse 
than absurd ; it is mischievous, for it tends to mislead 
unreasoning minds.— Gard. Chron. 
Potato Seed. —Seeds produced by healthy plants from 
which the tubers have been removed, and the flowers 
hybridized, is, perhaps, the best; but large ripe plums 
collected from the healthiest plants will answer 
equally well. They may be spread on a dry loft until 
they become shrivelled, and then mixed with twice 
their bulk of fine peat or sand, turning the whole over 
occasionally until the pulp becomes dry and mixed 
with the peat or sand, in which the seeds will keep 
good for four or five years. The plan of washing the 
seed out of the shrivelled plum, and thoroughly drying 
it, also answers perfectly ; and, suspended in bags in 
a dry situation, it will keep good for a long time, more 
especially if the slime has not been too much rubbed 
off in the operation of washing. Care must be taken, 
however, to keep it from mice, as they are fond of it.—- 
Ibid . 
