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promoting it grow up, supported by the public purse; 
and to what object can it be dedicated with greater 
propriety ? Among the means which have been em¬ 
ployed to this end, none have been attended with greater 
success than the establishment of boards, composed of 
proper characters, charged with collecting and diffusing 
information, and enabled by premiums, and small pe¬ 
cuniary aid, to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery 
and improvement. This species of establishment con¬ 
tributes doubly to the increase of improvement, by stim¬ 
ulating to enterprise and experiment, and by drawing 
to a common centre, the results everywhere of individ¬ 
ual skill and observation, and spreading them thence 
over the whole nation. Experience accordingly has 
shown, that they are very cheap instruments of im¬ 
mense national benefits. 5 ’ With this subject, it is to be 
hoped, that Congress will take into consideration the 
founding of an institution, near the seat of government, 
for instruction in the science of agriculture, in connex¬ 
ion with its practical operations. The plan of such an 
institution has been suggested to the public by the sub¬ 
scriber, while acting as the Agent of the Washington 
Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum So¬ 
ciety, which received the commendation of distinguish¬ 
ed gentlemen in every section of the Union. Of the 
practicability of this plan, scarcely a doubt is entertain¬ 
ed by any one; and it is believed that an enlightened 
community will encourage the speedy establishment of 
this school. The publisher of these valuable memoirs 
of him who was “ First in war, first in peace, and first 
in the hearts of his countrymen,” feels confident that 
they will be highly appreciated by every American, and 
regarded as precious relics which all will desire to pos¬ 
sess. 
The above work would be a very appropriate pre¬ 
mium indeed for distribution by our State and County 
Agricultural Societies, and we trust that each of them 
will give liberal orders for this purpose. We are con¬ 
fident that it would be highly prized by the recipients, 
and be the means of effecting a great good, as much as 
Washington is loved and revered by his countrjunen. 
Subscriptions received by Saxton & Miles, 205 Broad¬ 
way, New York. 
Wedgwood’s Revised Statutes of the United 
States. —W. B. Wedgwood, Esq., of this city has pre¬ 
pared a very valuable work from the Constitution and 
Laws of the United States, designed for the great body 
of the people. It contains a mass of information that 
no citizen should fail to know. Mr. Wedgwood has 
prepared similar works from the statutes of the several 
states. For sale by Saxton & Miles, 205 Broadway. 
Price 50 cents. 
Every Man his own Cattle Doctor. By You- 
att & Clater; revised and adapted to the United States, 
by John S. Skinner. Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia— 
price 50 cents. This excellent little work was obliging¬ 
ly sent us three months ago, and we wrote a notice of 
it at the time ; but whenever the paper was made up 
t)ie printer carelessly left it out, till at last it was lost. 
Now some one has had the kindness to pocket the vol¬ 
ume from our table. May be he was an editor, got 
lost accidentally in a brown study, and in appropriating 
oar Messrs. Youatt, Clater, & Skinner to himself, 
thought it was only an article from the Agriculturist to 
be transferred to his own paper as original. We 
shall feel under obligation to the delinquent if he will 
return it, as we think highly of the little work in ques¬ 
tion, and that the possession of it may be worth ten 
times its price to every farmer in the land. 
Chemistry as Exemplifying the Wisdom and 
Beneficence of God. By George Fowne3. We are 
glad to see the noble and important science of chemis¬ 
try treated in so exalted a light as is here done by Mr. 
Fownes. It is a Prize Essay, written for the Royal In¬ 
stitution of Great Britain, and we scarce need add one 
of high value. It is very handsomely reprinted, in a 
volume of 158 pages, by Wiley & Putnam of this city. 
The New England Fruit-Book, being a descrip¬ 
tive catalogue of the most valuable varieties of the 
Pear, Apple, Peach, Plum, and Cherry, for New Eng¬ 
land culture, with a colored engraving of the Bon 
Chretien Pear, and numerous cuts. By Robert Man¬ 
ning. Second edition enlarged by John M. Ives.—W. 
& S. B. Ives, Salem, Mass.; B. B. Mussey, Boston. 
The New American Orchardist ; or an account of 
the most valuable varieties of Fruit of all climates, adap¬ 
ted to cultivation in the United States ; with their histo¬ 
ry, modes of culture, management, uses, &c. : with an 
appendix, on Vegetables, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, and 
Flowers; the agricultural resources of America, and 
on Silk, &c. By William Kenrick, seventh edition, 
enlarged and improved, with a supplement. Otis 
Broaders & Co., Boston, Mass. 
The first of the above works contains 130 pages; the 
last 450. Both are handsomely got up, and are well 
known as treatises of the best authority on the subject 
of fruits. We have looked over them with attention, 
and are highly pleased with their contents; and now 
that fruit has become so important an object of culture, 
not only with the amateur gardener but with the far¬ 
mer also, these new editions are issued at a very ap¬ 
propriate time and we trust that they will have a large 
sale. They certainly deserve it, and we announce 
their recent issue with particular gratification. 
The New England Farmer. Since our last, this 
favorite periodical has commenced its 23d volume, and 
comes out in a handsome new dress. It is published at 
Boston, Mass., by Joseph Breck & Co., weekly, in a 
quarto form of 8 pages, price $2 a year in advance. 
This excellent old paper is so well known that it needs 
little praise from such a junior as we are; and all we 
can say, is, the older it grows, the better it becomes; 
which if we can get any one to think the same of us, 
we shall be very glad indeed. We thank the Farmer 
for the elegant compliment it pays our correspondent, 
R. L. Allen, and think that not only he deserves it, but 
several others also who contribute to our columns, 
whom it might be invidious in us to mention. But 
why should it merely “believe” that we are “ an expe¬ 
rienced farmer. 55 We have been more or less directly 
engaged in farming ever since we were a child big 
enough to toddle into a field, and we should feel quite 
mortified, and totally inadequate to the task of editing 
this journal, did we not know something of the practice 
as well as the theory of agriculture. If it were not for 
boasting, we should, like the late honest governor of 
old Massachusetts, to one who once doubted him, chal¬ 
lenge the Farmer “ to mow a field, or dig a crop of po¬ 
tatoes 55 against us by way of giving it a practical con¬ 
viction of our knowledge of the farming art. Why, 
man, we can show you sickle-scars upon the third finger 
of our left hand, and axe-scars upon our lower limbs 
and toes, besides sundry other things too numerous to 
mention, by way of proof if you need it, that we are 
quite a veteran in the practice of agriculture. 
The Valley Farmer is a fresh laborer in the field, 
published in Winchester, Va., by J. P. Bentley, every 
Tuesday, in a quarto form of 8 pages—price $1 a year. 
It is a neat affair, and we hope it will receive sufficient 
encouragement to continue as a co-worker in the good 
cause in which we are embarked. 
To Correspondents.— D. Stebbins, Charles Starr, Jr., T. Af¬ 
fleck, D. P. Gardner, and some others, are received and will appear 
next month. 
