FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
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FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
By the steam-packet Columbia, we have our files of 
European journals up to the 4th March. 
Markets. —Cotton has fallen §d. since our last ad¬ 
vices. The importation into Liverpool was very large, 
but the sales, we are glad to see, correspond—130,000 
bales having been taken during the last month; and 
it is calculated that the low price will have a decided 
tendency to increase the consumption of this great sta¬ 
ple. Cotton is now lower by one penny per pound 
than it was ever known before.—In flour, there seems 
to be nothing doing, and the price has given way 
Is. per bl.—Tar and turpentine are nominal.—To¬ 
bacco has fallen f d. per pound. An extensive busi¬ 
ness was doing in it, and the market, a few days before 
the packet sailed, had become quite firm.—Quercitron 
bark dull.—Ashes the same.—Tallow has improved.— 
Beef, Pork, and Lard, of this year’s packing, after the 
English method, are selling well, and much liked.— 
Rice has fallen a trifle. 
Money is as abundant as ever, and large sums are ly¬ 
ing in the hands of capitalists unemployed. The Co¬ 
lumbia brings out one and a half million dollars of 
specie. The rate of interest continues as low as be¬ 
fore— 1\ to 2 per cent. The Bank of England is dis¬ 
counting at 3 per cent. 
Great Snow Storm. —The snow seems to have fallen 
as deep in England, almost, as here, and it is possible 
it may have an injurious effect upon the coming crop 
of wheat. 
The Corn Laws. —Wheat and flour, by the way of the 
St. Lawrence, whether of Canadian or United States 
production, it is thought, will be admitted soon at a 
mere nominal duty. If so, it will greatly benefit the 
West. 
American Credit still stands wretchedly low in Eu¬ 
rope, and seems to be in a pretty hopeless way. 
Sheep Breeding.—In the New Farmers’ Journal, we 
see that Mr. Richardson, of Lincolnshire, has great 
faith in what he calls his improved or new Leicesters, 
and offers to show three weathers, for fifty guineas, 
against any other breed in England, at the forth¬ 
coming meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society at 
Derby. 
Buffaloes in Smiihfield Market. —Several of these 
were imported from Gibraltar, and sold readily there; 
whether for meat, or as objects of curiosity, we do not 
see stated. 
Influenza among Stock. —This contagious disorder 
seems to continue with unabated violence in England. 
One extensive cow-keeper, in the vicinity of London, 
lost 170 cows from his herd, and another 40, within 
four weeks. 
Breeding Rabbits. —A farmer in Ringmer, who had 
bred rabbits for some years, says that they have paid 
him as well as a flock of sheep, and he annually sends 
7,000 to the London market. 
The Farmers’ Herald, edited by William II. Evans. 
—This is a new work, of 16 pages, double columns, 
somewhat larger than our own, issued monthly, at 
Chester, upon the same principle as the agricultural 
publications of America. The price is 3 pence per 
number, stamped edition —equal to 72 cents a year of 
our money. We often asked, when in England, why 
a cheap work for the farmer was not issued, but never 
received a satisfactory answer. We have the first 
three numbers of the The Farmer’s Herald now before 
us. It is handsomely printed, with clear type, and on 
fine paper, and is edited with variety, spirit, and 
ability: and we hail its appearance with great plea¬ 
sure. Its low price must insure it a large circulation 
among the small farmers, who have hitherto, unfortu¬ 
nately, been cut off from much valuable agricultural 
information, in consequence of all the periodicals on 
this subject heretofore published in England being is¬ 
sued in too costly a form for their means. We tender 
our best wishes of success to the Herald, and condense 
some paragraphs from its quoted matter. 
Cure for the Red-water in Cattle. —Take a mixture, 
of equal parts of oleum philosophorum, oleum aspic, 
and oleum terebinthum, and put sixty to seventy drops 
in half a quart of lukewarm water for a middle-sized 
cow, and from thirty to fifty for a calf. If it does not 
cure in twelve hours, repeat the dose. 
The Epidemic among Cattle m Ireland is called pleu¬ 
ra-pneumonia, or galloping consumption, and is thus 
described: Acceleration of the pulse, which ranges 
from 80 to 120. The animal invariably hangs the 
head, accompanied by dryness of the muzzle ; the 
flanks heave according to the severity of the disease; 
a husky cough, weeping from the eyes, total loss of 
appetite, grinding of teeth, secretion of the milk sus¬ 
pended, the belly drawn up, a low moaning, togethei 
with a grunt at every expiration—the lungs appear 
ing, also, to be filled by a painful effort only. These 
symptoms are all progressive. 
The. treatment should consist of active blood-letting, 
when the first symptoms appear, to be repeated after¬ 
ward, if necessary—followed up by sedative medicines 
and general spare diet. When an animal is seized, it 
should be bled at once, this remedy being peculiarly 
applicable to affections of the lungs, and the best ad¬ 
vice should be procured. If this treatment be not fol¬ 
lowed in the early stages, rapid effusion sets in, and 
no power can save the animal. From observation, we 
are also of opinion that high bred and highly fed cat¬ 
tle are more subject to attack than those which have 
been less attended to. 
Importation of Alpacas. —Seventeen of these splen¬ 
did South American sheep have recently been imported 
into Liverpool. They had been five months upon their 
voyage, but arrived in fine health, and are for sale, by 
the lot, for £350. The Earl of Derby sheared a fleece 
of 17 lbs. weight from an Alpaca last year. We are 
of opinion these animals would flourish better in our 
climate than in England; it being drier, and more like 
their native region of the Andes. We think, howev¬ 
er, from what we saw of them abroad, that they would 
be more ornamental than profitable to the American 
farmer. 
Changes in Composition of the Milk of a Cow , accord¬ 
ing to its Exercise and Food. —The Chemical Gazette 
reports a lecture on this subject by Dr. Playfair. He 
has adopted a modification of Boussingault and Lebel’s 
method of analysing milk, which he recommends as 
more exact; and he finds considerable difference in 
the amount of butter produced from it when the cow 
is at rest, or when exercising. We quote from the 
lecture so much as regards this subject, as being some¬ 
what curious: 
The cow being in good milking condition, and at 
the time fed upon after-grass, he ascertained the aver¬ 
age amount of her milk for five days, and then pro¬ 
ceeded to analyse it. In the first day it was observed 
that the milk of the evening contained 3.7 per cent, of 
butter, and of the following morning, 5.6 per cent. 
The deficiency in the first observation is referred to 
the consumption of a greater portion of the butter, or 
its constituents, from respiratory exodiation during the 
day, when the animal was in the field, than during the 
night, when it was at rest in the stall. When con¬ 
fined during the day, and fed with after-grass in a 
