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editor’s table. 
The Western Farmer and Gardener’s Alma¬ 
nac, for 1844, edited by A. Randall, published by E. 
Morgan & Co., 13 Main street, Cincinnati. This is 
a duodecimo of 114 pages, containing a brief northern 
and southern calendar, together with much other mat¬ 
ter useful to the farmer. It is handsomely embellished 
with numerous wood cuts, which we presume are from 
the pencil of Mr. Foster. The price is 25 cents, and 
if it were a dollar, the work would be well worth pos¬ 
sessing. We recommend it to the farmers especially 
at the west and south, and hope it may have a large sale. 
The New Genesee Farmer commenced its 5th 
Volume on the 1st January last, and continues its 
quarto form of 8 pages monthly, for 50 cents a year. 
Dr. Daniel Lee of Buffalo, among the most able agri¬ 
cultural writers of the day, and T. C. Peters, Esq., one 
of our own best correspondents, are now associate edi¬ 
tors with Mr. Bateham, in the Farmer. It ought to 
have a large subscription list. 
Transactions of the Essex Agricultural Socie¬ 
ty for 1843 ; an octavo pamphlet of 111 pages, for 
which we are indebted to the Secretary, the Hon. Allen 
W. Dodge. The address is by Mr. Saltonstall, and a 
capital good one. The report on plows is a valuable 
document; that on cows shows good milkers of the 
native breed; while the one on swine, “ henceforth to 
be the lights of the world,” gave us many a hearty 
laugh. But we can not give further particulars, save 
that we see fruit and forest-trees reported upon, and 
some other things to which the societies in this state 
have not yet turned their attention. It would be well 
for them to copy the example of old Essex. 
Travels in the Californias, and Scenes in the 
Pacific Ocean; by Thomas J. Farnham, author of 
Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac, 
and the Rocky Mountains, and in the Oregon Terri¬ 
tory, in Nos. of 96 octavo pages each, price 25 cents. 
Mr. Farnham is a very pleasing and intelligent writer, 
and all who feel any interest upon the subject of the 
Californias, the next country destined to be settled by 
our nomadic tribes, can not do better than to purchase 
these graphic Travels. 
Second Annual Report, by Henry S. Randall, Su¬ 
perintendent of Common Schools of Cortland county ; 
together with a special report on Common School Li¬ 
braries. We have merely had time to glance our eye 
over this report of Mr. Randall, and what little we 
read we liked; but why are not agricultural books 
mentioned by him ? it certainly can not be that he un¬ 
dervalues their importance, when he himself is one of 
our most pleasing writers on this subject. 
The Young Gardener’s • Assistant, in three 
parts; containing Catalogues of Garden and Flower 
Seeds, with practical directions under each head for the 
Cultivation of Culinary Vegetables and Flowers ; also 
directions for Cultivating Fruit Trees, the Grape-Vine, 
&c.; together with select sorts of the same ; to which 
is added a Calendar to each part; showing the work 
necessary to be done in the various departments, each 
month of the year—the whole adapted to the climate 
of the United States. Tenth edition, improved; by 
Thomas Bridgeman, Gardener, Seedsman, and Florist, 
with a portrait of the author: New York, 1844; for 
sale by Saxton and Miles, 205 Broadway. 
This is a handsome octavo edition of upward of 500 
pages, containing in fact three works in one, by one of 
the oldest, most experienced, and practical writers on 
Horticulture in the United States, and the title which 
we have coined at length, above, contains the best idea 
that we can give of this work. When the reader is 
informed that this is the Tenth Edition, he will be 
satisfied that a discriminating public have pronounced 
it the best and most complete on Horticulture yet issued 
from the American Press. The price is $2. 
The Fruit Cultivator’s Manual, The Kitchen 
Gardener’s Instructor, and The Florist’s Guide, 
comprised in the above volume, are also published in 
separate parts, and may be had bound in boards, at 50 
cents each. 
Proceedings of the New Castle County Agri¬ 
cultural Society and Institute, at the Eighth An¬ 
nual Meeting, held at Wilmington, September, 1843, 
with the address delivered by William Darlington, 
M. D. This is an octavo pamphlet of 58 pages, the 
reports of which are to the point, and appropriate. 
Dr. Darlington, the celebrated botanist, made an ad¬ 
mirable address, in which, among other things, he for¬ 
cibly points out the advantage to the farmer of making 
himself acquainted with scientific names of plants, &c., 
which most immediately concern him. 
Great Dairy Qualities of a Devon Cow. Mr. C. P. 
Holcomb of New Castle, Delaware, has a Devon cow 
called Lady, which produced 19 lbs. of butter in a sin¬ 
gle week, and averaged 14 lbs., 9 oz. for 12 weeks. 
Who now shall say that the Devons are not good dairy 
cows, especially where making butter is concerned ? 
Lady was awarded the first premium at the Newcastle 
Agricultural Show, and well she deserved it. 
American Hemp going to England .—We understand 
that a house in St. Louis has engaged to send 1,000 
tons of hemp to England the ensuing season. 
Simultaneous Communications. —We have on 
hand, recently sent us, several communications which 
we find are also furnished other papers simultaneously 
with us for publication. We now say to all corres¬ 
pondents that we want no more such. If a communi¬ 
cation can not be sent to us solely, and allow sufficient 
time for it to appear in our columns before another 
paper makes use of it, however valuable it may be, we 
do not wish to receive it. In all such matters we are 
determined hereafter to stand first or not at all. 
To Correspondents. —We have been favored with 
a shower of communications the past month, which 
shall have a place as fast as we can find room for them. 
We had selected a number of excellent articles from 
other journals for publication; but so long as our cor¬ 
respondents continue thus to favor us, we shall devote 
the paper mainly to them. We had several editorials 
written for this No., which we have thrown out, and 
have also cut down the Foreign Agricultural News 
department, and Editor’s Table, each of which we 
wished to extend. These, however, we shall enlarge 
hereafter. Several articles announced last month we 
have not found room for, and have since received com¬ 
munications from Thomas Addis Emmet, Americus No. 
5, J. S. S., Robert L. Pell, A Traveller, B. G. Bos¬ 
well, Examiner No. 3, T. W. Coit, H. E. M., William 
R. Prince, A., Philip Winfree, Cornelius Baker, 
L. Bostwicli & Co., and J. H. Lyman. 
The attention to agriculture is greatly on the in¬ 
crease, and a renewed spirit is reviving in our land. 
The farmers seem disposed to arouse themselves from 
their late lethargy, at least we so judge from our great¬ 
ly increased subscription list. But we find our paper 
is still unknown in many parts of the Union, and shall 
feel greatly obliged to our friends to take every possi¬ 
ble pains to extend a knowledge of it. Never mind 
giving away an occasional number, we will gladly al¬ 
ways freely replace it. 
