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Corn unground is quite in demand now in England, 
and if successful experiments are made there 
another year in sowing it broadcast for soiling, we 
are of opinion that a Targe and steady market will 
open for it. We think that the American minister 
at the Court of St. James’ should be instructed to 
use his influence with the British government in 
this matter. Mr. Coleman is worthily exerting 
himself in the good cause there we see, during the 
progress of his agricultural tour. 
In consequence of the almost unprecedented dry 
weather in England, not more than half a crop of 
hay has been made this season ; grass is also quite 
short. The consequence is, that hay has risen 
enormously, and was worth, at our last advices, 
about $40 per ton. Freights across the Atlantic 
rule very low just now, and it can be exported at 
a fair profit. For the English market it should be 
of the best quality and pressed as compactly as 
possible. 
wood or even brick are to be used, we 
would much prefer the plain house or 
" L ’ piazza roofs and 
VILLAS. 
The observant traveller will have noticed, that 
a great change has been going on for the past few 
years in the northern and middle States, particu¬ 
larly in the neighborhood of cities, in the style of 
architecture of villas and country-houses. We 
are forsaking the Grecian and now taking to the 
Gothic ; and so far as it gives variety, and in some 
instances is more comfortable and picturesque, this 
change is to be commended. There are certain 
circumstances, however, under which Gothic 
buildings are attempted, that make them appear 
absurd, and we trust that the fashion now set in 
erecting them will be followed with all due cau¬ 
tion. A Gothic building of wood is perfectly ri¬ 
diculous ; it should invariably be of stone, with 
iron or bronze appendages, and any one attempt¬ 
ing this style in less-enduring materials, will be 
certain to be laughed at by all persons who enter¬ 
tain a proper sense of the fitness of things. If 
cottage, with their 
simple porticos ; and after these, our taste 
inclines to the cottage ornee, partaking 
somewhat of the French style for a cot- 
tage; and the Italian, with the square ; §>|3 
tower in one corner, for a house of two 
stories. But why should we be for ever \ 
copying foreign things ? And why will f 
not our architects get up something on- * 
ginal, combining comfort with true taste, 
and which would find favor as the Amer¬ 
ican style of architecture? Never was a 
better field for the display of invention' 
than in this great country, where tens of;< 
thousands of buildings are annually erect- 
ed. We have often thought that an Om- 
awhaw lodge, ornamented with pillars 
something like the stalks of Indian corn, 
with their leaves and tassels, might be 
made a very pretty model for a~ villa. 
The lodges and huts of other nations 
among the aborigines of this continent, 
and many of our plants, and trees, and 
flowers, may be made to contribute hints 
to the forming and adorning of our man¬ 
sions. But some may say that all this 
has nothing to do with farming. If so, 
we beg leave respectfully to differ with 
them in opinion, and contend that it has. 
The above cut is a handsome illustration of the 
castellated Gothic. It is the residence of a Scotch 
Marquis, and stands at the east end of Loch Tay, 
near the village of Kenmore. A very pretty villa, 
constructed of Sing-Sing marble, has recently 
been erected near Tarrytown, on the east bank of 
the Hudson, which somewhat resembles Tay- 
mouth Castle. Of course, in length and breadth 
of mansion, and height of towers, it is not to be 
compared to the magnificent pile before us; and 
we trust that we shall never have such in this 
country, except as public buildings, or where asso¬ 
ciations are formed to erect whole squares in towns 
and cities, and give their fronts a oneness of ap¬ 
pearance, instead of the helter-skelter, ugly, incon-. 
Taymouth Castle.—Fig. 52 
gruous, misshapen fronts which now present them¬ 
selves on all quarters throughout the United States. 
It is a pity that each city has not a controlling 
architect for such things, whose will were law. 
Every square then in our towns would appear like 
a handsome palace; and the yards in the interior 
be formed into a general one, prettily laid out, a 
fountain playing in it, and turfed, and planted with 
shrubs and flowers. But what are they now? 
Shocking nuisances generally—inimical to health, j 
and such as the refined eye looks out upon with 
loathing and disgust. All these things might be 
remedied without its costing a farthing more. Fu¬ 
ture generations will wonder that their fathers 
could have thus lived. Indeed, a century, or per-.. 
