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editor’s table 
columns, and the embellishments are really neat and highly 
illustrative. This work of Dr. Forry is one of uncommon 
merit, and is prepared with great care, after years of study 
and labor. It deserves the serious attention of all engaged 
in the important study of meteorology. 
South-western Farmer, published weekly, at Ray¬ 
mond, Mississippi, by N. G. North. 8 pages quarto. Price 
$3 a year. J. Jenkins, M. W. Philips, and N. G. North, 
editors. This paper commenced its second Yol. the 10 th 
of March last. It has been edited with spirit and ability 
since its commencement; but it will now be more varied 
and interesting in its columns, since the addition to its 
editorial corps of Dr. Philips. We are almost afraid to 
speak of this gentleman as he deserves, in consequence of 
his being a correspondent of our own ; yet a warmer or 
more enlarged heart, and one more devoted to the noble 
cause of agriculture, we do not know. We commence this 
month the publication of a series of articles on the culti¬ 
vation of cotton, from his pen. They will be continued 
monthly, and probably extend to 6 Nos. before being com¬ 
pleted 5 five of these we already have in hand, and we be¬ 
speak for them the careful attention of our southern read¬ 
ers, as Dr. Philips is a practical planter , a southern-born 
and southern-educated man. But we digress. We like the 
South-western Farmer for one thing particularly, and that 
is, it talks to us of southern agriculture ; and for those here 
at the north who take interest in these matters, we shall 
be happy to forward their subscriptions to this excellent 
periodical. Will the publisher please send us No. 1 of 
current Yol., as it has not come to hand. 
The Honey Bee, its Natural History , Physiology , and 
Management , by Edward Sevan^ with 35 engravings on 
wood. Carey and Hart, of Philadelphia, publishers. 128 
pages octavo. Price 311 cents. This is a fair average 
work upon the exhaustless subject of the bee, with better 
embellishments and more reading matter for the price, 
than any other within our recollection. We regret that 
the enterprising publishers did not issue it on better paper, 
and charge the difference of price on the cost of the work: 
the matter and illustrations are worthy of it. 
The Medical News and Library, 32 pages monthly, 
double columns octavo. Price $1 a year, is a recent 
issue from the press of Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia. 
It strikes us as a work of merit; and the articles are writ¬ 
ten in language so popular, that we recommend it with 
great pleasure to the attention of our readers. Health is im¬ 
portant to all, and this little work gives excellent rules on 
this subject, and discusses the nature and causes of dis¬ 
ease with ability. We shall be obliged to the publishers, 
by their sending us the first three Nos., and their con¬ 
tinuing it in exchange. 
Berkshire Hogs. —We clip the following paragraph 
from the Hamilton, Ohio, Intelligencer:— 
Many very fine hogs have been driven from various parts 
of the country ; but pre-eminent among them all was a 
drove of 157 Berkshires, averaging 304£ lbs. net, slaugh¬ 
tered by Thomas Millikin and packed by A. McCleary 
about ten day ago. These hogs were all bred and fattened 
by Cornelius S. Hagerman on his farm in Madison town¬ 
ship, Butler county, Ohio. Twenty-five of them were only 
16 months, and the remainder between 18 and 20 months 
old. For vigor, symmetry, fatness, and uniformity of size, 
they were pronounced on all hands the most beautiful and 
perfect hogs ever driven to this market. 
ANCIENT EGYPT. 
George R. Gliddon, Esq., late U. S. consul at Cairo, 
Egypt, and for twenty-three years a resident in that coun¬ 
try, has recently published through the New World press, 
one of the most valuable and remarkable books of the 
age. It is no less than a detailed account of the process 
by which hieroglyphics have been discovered, classified, 
and translated: the results of such translation : fac-similes, 
to the number of several hundreds, of hieroglyphical let¬ 
ters and symbols, engraved in wood expressly for this 
work; together with translated tables of Egyptian chro- 
nology and a mass of well-digested historical facts, estab¬ 
lishing the high antiquity of the pyramids, and corrobor¬ 
ating the truth of biblical records, in a thousand interesting 
and striking particulars. As this book is sold for twenty- 
jive cents , we take it for granted, that no sensible man in 
the country will fail to supply himself with it. 
That the reader may have an idea of the above work, 
we give the hieroglyphics and translation of the most 
ancient threshing song known in agricultural literature. 
A Threshing Song. 
$ 3 Tread ye out 
aaaaa 
i I i 
VwNv\ f°r yourselves 
[twice) 
be suna 
•VWN/N 
I ■ 1 
C 5 >\\ twice (i. e. bis, meaning this sentence to Be sung 
O oxen 
Tread ye out 
BIB for yourselves 
/VW\A 
AWA 
<11 
the grain (a bushel pouring out grain) 
who (are) 
your masters. 
III Or paraphrased. 
Hie along, oxen ! tread the corn faster; 
The straw for yourselves, the grain for your master. 
To Correspondents. —M. A. Philips’s articles on the 
cultivation of cotton, up to No. 5, are received with many 
thanks, and will appear monthly. Obed Hussey, D. S., 
Wm. Partridge, R. L. A., J. M. Sherwood, Dr. Cartwright, 
W. H. Sotham, Geo. W. Fahnestock, A. and G. Brentnall, 
J. R. Barbour, Americus, C. N. Bement, John J. M’Caughan^ 
in our next. 
We are in receipt of numerous letters from different parts 
of the United States, all complaining of the hard winter, 
late spring, loss of stock, great scarcity of forage, &c., &c. 
Such communications are valuable to us, and we are always 
obliged to our correspondents for them, although we may 
not at the time have space for their publication. 
S. S. Full-bred Merinos are best for your purpose. 
J. B. Mr. Bement has the cuts, and we shall address 
him upon the subject. 
