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FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
By tne arrival of the steamer Caledonia, we are in 
receipt of our foreign journals up to October 4th. 
Markets. — Ashes were brisk of sale at an advance 
of Is. 6d. per cwt., and a prospect of still higher prices. 
Cotton a shade higher, with large sales. The stock on 
hand at Liverpool on the 1st of October, was 655,000 
bales, against 957,000 same period last year. Beef\ 
Pork, and Lard , no change. Cheese , a limited supply, 
and much wanted. Butter of a choice quality the 
same. Hemp scarce at an increased price. Flour an 
advance of 3s. per barrel. Indian Corn an advance. 
Naval Stores in good demand, with an upward ten¬ 
dency. Tar scarce. Rice , large sales. Tallow very 
scarce, and an improvement of Is. 6d. per cwt. To¬ 
bacco in fair request. Wool firm, at an advance. 
Money remains unchanged. Rate of discount 3 
per cent. 
Crops. —The spread of the potato disease has been 
signally arrested, owing to the uncommonly fine au¬ 
tumnal weather. Many more will be saved than was 
anticipated. Turnips prove a great crop, and will 
almost entirely supply the place of potatoes for feed¬ 
ing cattle. The latter math of grass and clover is 
also very abundant. With the exception of last year, 
the old stock of wheat on hand is larger than it ever 
has been since the autumn of 1837. The present 
wheat crop of England is an average one. Taking all 
these things into consideration, the American mer¬ 
chant should be very cautious about making specula¬ 
tions in grain. 
Imports of American Flour and Indian Corn into Eng¬ 
land. —There were imported into Liverpool this year 
from America, 877,659 barrels of flour, and from Cana¬ 
da, 246,276, in all, 1,123,935 barrels. The increase of 
Indian corn is remarkable In 1845 the import was 
37,000 quarters—in 1846 192,000 quarters. The stock 
a«t present in Liverpool, is 340,000 barrels of flour, free 
and in bond, and about 200,000 quarters of wheat, free 
and in bond. The other grain may be estimated at 
100,000 quarters. Thus we perceive what a trade the 
corn trade in Liverpool is likely to be. 
Free Importation of Grain into Frankfort. —The senate 
of the free city, Frankfort, has just published a procla¬ 
mation allowing the importation of corn duty free, into 
the territory of the republic. 
Rise of Bread. —On Monday, the full-priced bakers in 
the metropolis advanced the price of the 4lb. loaf to 
8|d., an advance of one halfpenny. 
Produce of a Bushel of Wheat and other Grain in 
Scotland. —The following shows the average produce 
of a bushel of wheat weighing 60 pounds, manufactur¬ 
ed at the water of Leith Mills :—25J lbs. of fine flour; 
22 £ do. of seconds ; 1 do. of pollard; lOi do. of bran— 
loss 11 lbs. 
A Table of the quantity of Flour and Bread from Grain. 
; Weight 
per 
Bushel 
j in lhs. 
Weight 
of Flour 
in lbs.' 
I Weight 
of Bread 
in. lbs. 
Wheat,. 
60 
48 
64 
Barley,.. • • 
48 
371 
50 
Rye,.... ■ 
54 
42 
56 
Oats,. 
40 
22| 
30 
Peas and Beans - • 
60 
51 
68 
— Gardener's Chronicle. 
A Leaf from Burritt's Journal .—Elihu Burritt, the 
learned blacksmith, who is now engaged in making a 
pedestrian tour in various parts of Europe, is giving 
the result of his observations in the “ Christian Citi¬ 
zen,” from which we make the following extracts :— 
I have just got out “ An Olive Leaf, from the House¬ 
wives of America to the Housewives of Great Britain 
and Ireland, or Recipes for making Various Articles of 
Food, of Indian Corn Meal,” containing all the recipes 
I received before leaving home from our kind female 
friends in different parts of the Union—heaven bless 
them ! I have had 2,000 of these Olive Leaves struck 
off, and intend, in the first place, to send a copy to 
every newspaper in the realm. I shall have a thou¬ 
sand, all of which I shall put into the hands of those I 
meet on the road. I have resolved to make it a condi¬ 
tion upon which only I consent to be any man’s 
guest, that his wife shall serve up a johnny-cake for 
breakfast, or an Indian pudding for dinner. I was in¬ 
vited yesterday to a tea party which comes oft' to¬ 
night, where about 30 persons are to be present. I 
accepted the invitation with the johnny-cake clause, 
which was readily agreed to by all parties. So to¬ 
night the virtues of corn meal will be tested by some 
of the best livers in Birmingham. 
Monday , July 20 th. —Wrote like a steam engine tiL 
noon, to clear from my hands a peck of letters which 
had accumulated in the course of a day or two, under 
the auspices of penny postage. After dinner 1 mount¬ 
ed my staff, and knapsack, to open my pedestrian 
campaign with an afternoon’s walk towards Worces 
ter, which lies twenty-five miles south of Birming 
ham. Good Joseph Sturge accompanied me a short 
distance, then bidding me God speed in all the bene¬ 
volence of his great heart, left me, like Bunyan’s pil¬ 
grim, to go on my way rejoicing. In a few minutes I 
had reached the summit of an eminence, upon which 
Edgebaston Hall stands half hidden and half revealed 
in the solemn shade of its “ ancestral oaks.” De¬ 
scending this, Birmingham, with all its towering fac 
tory-chimneys, disappeared, and I found myself sur¬ 
rounded by the beauty and magnificence of the coun¬ 
try scenery of England, in its summer portraiture, and 
summer music ; for the very foliage of the trees, that 
in some cases over-arched the road, seemed to be 
vocal with the music of singing birds,, of the merriest 
mood. The little things—they must have been small, 
else I should have seen some of them—owed nature 
and art all the melody of their throats for such a beau¬ 
tiful world to sing in. In these lovely groves and 
hedges, and along the green borders of the meadow- 
brooks, they were out of the reach of the “ villainous 
saltpetre,” and of truant schoolboys, affected with the 
mania of speculation in speckled eggs. So the wee, 
twittering songsters may sing right on, without a 
semiquaver of apprehension from these sources of 
trouble and interruption. Haying time is about half 
over, and the wheat harvest has just commenced, and 
the reapers are on the road, sickle in hand, to gather 
in the crops. What with stopping occasionally to 
talk with the hay-rickers, or walking a little way up 
the narrow lanes walled with “ living green,” to see 
an unique cottage through the meshes of its ivy veil; 
or with looking through a hole in the hedge, at a herd 
of sleek, mottled cows feeding or ruminating grace¬ 
fully in a new-shorn meadow, I was four hours in 
making eight miles. I reached the “ Rose and 
Crown” about eight o’clock, where I found everything 
in keeping with the rigid simplicity of an English 
country inn. The hostess—for whether married or 
j not, she is the most visible and vigorous person about 
such an establishment—a neat, ruddy Englishwoman, 
in a few minutes served up tea with accompaniments 
of romantic frugality. One of these articles is wortliy 
of notice, as it is common to every table which I have 
seen thus far in this country. It is a shaving , not a 
slice of buttered bread, not much thicker than a shav¬ 
ing which a fore-plane would take at a stroke from a 
straight-grained board of pine. A hungry man would 
j eat a square-yard of these bV*eved bread-shavings at 
a meal without much impairng his appetite for suh- 
! stances less superficial. 
