Agriculture is the most healthful, the most useful, and the most 
noble employment of Man.— Washington. 
VOL. 81. 
A. B. Allen, Editor. 
MAPLE SUGAR. 
We have received from Mr. Joel Woodworth, 
of Watertown, a sample of his maple sugar, which 
received the first premium at the State Agricultu¬ 
ral Show, lately held at Rochester. It is in a 
crushed state, white as crystal, and scarcely infe¬ 
rior in taste to the better qualities of refined loaf 
sugar. We think that Mr. Woodworth deserves 
high praise for manufacturing so superior an arti¬ 
cle. If a little more attention was paid to the pro¬ 
duction of maple sugar, it would, we are confi¬ 
dent, be highly beneficial to the farmer, and greatly 
increase the wealth of the country. 
In 1840, the state of Vermont produced only 
5,500,000 lbs.; last year we understand its prod¬ 
uct was 2 0,000,000 lbs., which, valued at 5 cents 
per pound, would amount to the large sum of 
$1,000,000. In our own state, with something of 
an increased attention to this important article, we 
are confident that we could easily produce double 
the quantity made in Vermont. Every farm should 
have its sugar orcnard. A maple-tree will grow 
well where almost any forest-tree will flourish. 
It is one of the most beautiful trees of North 
America, and is valuable alike for wood and tim¬ 
ber. Now is the proper season to set' them out, 
and many a road-side and lane, and pasture, and 1 
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waste place on the farm, may be beautified and 
turned to a profitable account by a row or clump 
of maples. We trust that those who are engaged 
in clearing lands the present winter, will have 
some regard to the reservation of the maple-trees. 
They can easily be preserved from the high 
winds and the scorching rays of the sun, by allow¬ 
ing them to stand in small masses, or leaving a 
clump of other trees around them for protection. 
SCARCITY OF SWINE, AND THEIR PRICES. 
We understand from drovers who have been 
out to the west for the purpose of making their 
annual purchases, that swine have become com¬ 
paratively scarce, and high priced. We anticipa¬ 
ted this eighteen months ago when at the west. 
Pork had fallen to so low a price, that an unusual 
number of farmers stopped breeding pigs, and oth¬ 
ers continued the business to a very limited extent. 
We forewarned our friends in regard to so inju¬ 
dicious a course, and now they will begin to see 
the effects of it. Whole hogs, fresh killed, are 
now selling readily in this market from 6 to 6^ 
cents per pound; and pork in barrels is worth 70 
to 80 per cent, more than it was last year at this 
time. What the price of swine will be at the 
1 west this season we are unable to say, as the time 
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 16, 1843. 
