FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
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FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
By the arrival of the Hibernia we are favored with 
our European journals to the 4th of July. 
Markets. — Ashes have slightly declined and sales 
limited. Cotton has advanced altogether § d. per lb. 
the last month, and the prices are now considered steady. 
The import into Liverpool from January 1st to July 1st, 
amounted to 896,000 bales, against 1,150,000 same pe¬ 
riod last year; the stock on hand was about 926,000 
bales, against 912,000 last year—an enormous quanti¬ 
ty, and the largest ever known. We see that a crop 
of 2,500,000 bales is anticipated in the United States, 
which considering the great loss by the overflow of the 
southern rivers, strikes us as being a large estimate. 
Flour and Grain are dull. In Provisions of the finer 
qualities more was doing; in other things we see no 
change worth noting, except in Turpentine , which has 
undergone a serious decline. Tallow, a trifle higher. 
Money abundant, and the rates of discount unchanged. 
American Stocks. The transactions in these have 
been on a limited scale the past month and prices mere¬ 
ly nominal. A better business was anticipated in the 
good stocks after the payment of the English dividends. 
The Weather had been favorable, with considerable 
falls of rain latterly, and the wheat crop looked es¬ 
pecially promising. 
Rise of Wool. —Considerable of a rise in the prices 
of wool has taken place recently. In some instances 
it is selling from 30 to 45 per cent, higher than last 
year. 
Incendiary Fires continue to an alarming extent in 
England ; there had been 131 in the county of Suffolk 
alone since Christmas. 
Subsoil Plowing. —Col. Scobell states that he had 
found it most valuable in many instances. In a farm 
of his at Buryan, it had almost worked miracles. It 
was a very foul estate, and by subsoil plowing, and 
rooting out the under weeds, his land and crops had 
been improved to a surprising degree. On the farm at 
Bortrea he subsoiled a portion of the land, leaving a 
strip in the middle not subsoiled. In the part subsoiled 
he had a good crop of oats, while on the portion not 
subsoiled he had very few. 
Save the Faces. —According to Boussingault, the 
solid excrements of man amount on an average to 1| 
lb, daily, 5-4 lb. of urine, and \ lb. of faeces, and both 
taken together will amount to 547 lbs. in one year, 
which contain 16-41 lbs. of nitrogen, a quantity suf¬ 
ficient to yield the nitrogen of 800 lbs. of wheat, rye, 
oats, or of 900 lbs. of barley. 
To Propagate Tender Roses by Cuttings. —Let a bed 
of well-fermented stable-litter and leaves be made by 
the side of a north wall, and place a one or two-light 
frame on it so as to face the north. In this put about 
eight inches of leaf-mould that has been previously 
well soaked with water; then spread over all about 
three inches of sharp pit-sand, and make the whole firm 
and level. The back part of a span-roofed pit, running 
east and west, with a wall in the centre, is also a suit¬ 
able place for the purpose. It should be filled to with¬ 
in a few inches of the glass with the same kind of ma¬ 
terial. In selecting the cuttings, tolerably weak wood 
of the present year’s growth should be taken, if it is 
sufficiently ripened at the base or has made one full- 
formed leaf. Strip the cuttings with the finger and 
thumb, and smooth the base, reserving the detached 
portion of the parent bark; cut them close above the 
first leaf, and insert them in the sand, but not so thick 
that their leaves will overlap one another. When this 
is finished the bed should be watered, to settle the soil 
about them, and they should have plenty of air for the 
first four days; but it ought to be lessened by degrees, 
so as to gradually inure them to a confined atmosphere. 
As the preservation of their leaves in a healthy state is 
essential to success, the bed may be formed and the 
cuttings put in on the same day, without waiting until 
the material becomes heated, as a thin covering of 
cellular tissue should be formed over the wounded end 
of the cutting before that takes place: In the third 
week the greater part will be rooted, and in the fourth 
they should be potted off into 60-sized pots, in a soil 
composed of leaf-mould and loam. They should be af¬ 
terward removed into a damp frame or pit, without any 
water being given to their roots; but they may be 
slightly syringed over their leaves, and when they be 
come well-rooted in the new soil, they may be harden¬ 
ed off and either shifted into larger-sized pots or planted 
out in a sheltered border, where they will make fine 
plants for next year. 
Cuttings. —Nothing is better than silver-sand for 
striking cuttings in. If you use charcoal, it must be a 
very soft sort, and should be mixed with half its bulk 
of good soil. 
Utility of Toads. —A person lately opened a toad in a 
wheat-field, and found 16 fresh beetles in its stomach, 
which the patient animal had probably snapped up 
while they attempted to cross the path. Toads are 
often kept with advantage on hot-beds for killing in¬ 
sects, and are among the gardener’s best friends. 
Root Excretions. —The most carefully conducted ex¬ 
periments show that excretions do not take place from 
roots. 
Guano a Preservative of Flowers. —Those who are 
lovers of flowers, and delight in having them constantly 
in tlieir rooms, may continue to keep them fresh for a 
very considerable time, by putting into the water a 
pinch of Peruvian guano, which is rendered immediate¬ 
ly soluble and taken up by the cuttings. Guano is es¬ 
sentially different from all other manures : it possesses 
most of the constituents of plants, and contains a great 
portion of salt and other antiseptic, and yet the most 
fertilizing ingredients. 
Rone-Dust and Sulphuric Acid. —Dissolve two or 
three bushels of fine bone-dust in 40 or 60 lbs. of sul¬ 
phuric acid and apply this mixture to an acre of land, 
and it will generally produce as good a crop of turneps 
as 20 bushels of bone-dust. 
Indian Corn. —In reference to Mr. Colman’s remark 
upon Indian corn being well worthy of a trial as green 
food for cows, I feel convinced that this plant might be 
grown with much advantage for this purpose, even in 
the north of England, and much more in the south. 
Last year I grew about a score of plants of seed I 
brought from the north of Italy, which, from Mr. Col¬ 
man’s description of u the Canadian variety with small 
yellow ears,” I should think were the same kind. These 
yielded so much excellent food for cows late in Septem¬ 
ber, and they were so fond of it, eating cob half-ripe, 
leaves, and stalk, with the greatest relish ; but I have 
this year sown all the seed I had, (two cobs,) and am 
only waiting for rain to transplant it. I should be very 
glad to induce others to try it in the south, and state the 
result in the autumn. It comes in for cow-food pt a 
time when vetches are finished, when clover is much 
better eaten by sheep than cut again, and when it is 
wasteful to give turneps, as they are fast increasing in 
bulk and goodness.— Gar. Chron. 
We often recommended Indian corn for soiling to 
the farmers of England when there, and have no doubt 
large quantities will eventually be exported for seed 
for this purpose. During the late dry season it would 
have grown remarkably well. 
