editor’s table. 
285 
BMtor’s SaMe. 
History, Character, and Value of Guano, pub¬ 
lished by request of the Farmers’ Club, by D. P. Gard¬ 
ner, M. D., consulting chemist of the Club. This 
pamphlet contains much curious and valuable informa¬ 
tion on the subject of guano, large quantities of which 
are arriving at our ports. It is well known that the 
article differs considerably in value, making tests ne¬ 
cessary for the determination of the good guano. 
These Dr. Gardner has given in addition to other val¬ 
uable matter, and we can only say that the Farmers’ 
Club, by a request for its publication, has expressed its 
good opinion in favor of the merits of the performance. 
The Agriculturist Almanac for 1845 : edited and 
illustrated by Charles Foster: published by Cameron 
and Fall, Nashville, Tenn. A pretty little work, hand¬ 
somely embellished, and replete with valuable matter to 
the farmer. 
The Carolina Planter, a handsome octavo, with 
double columns and 24 pages monthly: published by 
J. C. Morgan, at Columbia, S. C.—price FIFTY 
CENTS. We have just received No. 1, of Vol. I. of 
this periodical, and although it is made up principally 
by selections from other journals, it promises to be an 
excellent coadjutor in the field of agriculture, and we 
wish it much patronage; which, from its very low price, 
we think it can not fail to receive. We are sorry to 
observe, however, that it should be guilty in its first 
issue of the culpable carelessness of copying a long 
article from our June No. without the slightest ac¬ 
knowledgment. 
This makes the fifth fifty cent paper now estab¬ 
lished in the United States, and we expect to have the 
pleasure of recording some five or ten more at the 
commencement of a new year. Seeing that the world 
is now determined on this, we especially commend the 
plan to our western brethren. With such works, or 
even cheaper ones, they will be able to do incalculable 
good, and get hundreds of subscribers where they now 
have one. Where has our spirited and elegant little 
TWENTY-FIVE CENT friend, the Plow Boy, pub¬ 
lished at Cincinnati, kept himself lately ? He prom¬ 
ised to continue on the track one year at least; but we 
have seen nothing of him for some time. Bring up 
your rear, my dear boy, and let us have a regular 
monthly sight of your curious and quite original phiz. 
We are social men here, in the great city of Gotham, 
and like to make our races in a crowd—and be assured 
that we think little of the sport of scampering over the 
track all alone. 
Report of the Commencement and Progress of the 
Agricultural Survey of South Carolina, for 1843, by 
Edmund Ruffin; in which is an account given of Marl 
Beds, Calcareous Deposites, the Primitive Limestone 
Belt, Swamp Lands and their Drainage and Embank¬ 
ment, the Granitic Region, and a cursory view of the 
Agriculture of the State, embracing a particular ac¬ 
count of the culture of Rice, &c., &c., embodied in a 
close printed octavo pamphlet of 177 pages, all of 
which Mr. Ruffin has treated with his accustomed 
thoroughness and ability. This forms an excellent se¬ 
quel to his celebrated work on Calcareous Manures in 
Virginia, and shows, conclusively, that South Carolina 
has inexhaustible elements within herself of renovating 
her worn-out lands, and bringing such as are naturally 
barren into a high state of fertility. It is astonishing 
that the ignorance, prejudices, and niggardliness of a 
few, should have conspired to put an end to the survey 
of Mr. Ruffin; but such, we learn, is the fact, not¬ 
withstanding he has already discovered hidden wealth 
enough in the State, if judiciously employed, to pay 
the expense of his reconnaissance a hundred thousand 
times over. We hope the day is not distant when bet¬ 
ter and more enlightened counsels will prevail, and that 
Mr. Ruffin may be engaged to finish the work so well 
begun. 
We wrote the above three months ago, but it was 
laid over through mistake to the present time. 
An Elementary Arithmetic, designed for acade¬ 
mies and schools ; also serving as an introduction to the 
higher Arithmetic. By Geo. R. Perkins, A. M.; 18mo, 
pp. 264—price 3J cts. There is an originality about 
this work which is rarely found in our school arith¬ 
metics. To those already acquainted with our author’s 
higher Arithmetic, and Algebra, it is unnecessary to 
say that his illustrations and operations are clear and 
concise, well calculated to lead the pupil from the sim¬ 
plest principles up to the more difficult ones by easy 
gradations. Our author claims to have made some im¬ 
provements. He informs us that he has been careful 
to treat of Decimal Fractions before introducing Fed¬ 
eral Money. This is as it should be, since cents and 
mills are but decimals of a dollar, and require not to 
be treated as distinct denominate numbers. We are 
also happy to find introduced into this work, the con¬ 
cise and beautiful method of extracting the cube root, 
which has been deduced from Mr. Horner’s method of 
solving algebraic equations of the third degree. We 
hope the work will meet that encouragement which its 
merits claim. For sale by Saxton and Miles, 205 
Broadway. 
Credit Quotations .—We observe that our spirited co¬ 
adjutor of the Prairie Farmer has at length taken up 
this subject, and lays claim to certain articles walking 
about like a ripe cabbage , under other folks’ great coats. 
My dear fellow, put it on thick, and we will back you. 
It is about time that this corning it from a neighbor’s 
crib, and then charging the blame of the thing on the 
printer’s “ devil,” at the same time that the only “ devil’ 5 
in the matter was the editor’s own carelessness or cu¬ 
pidity was put an end to—it has passed muster with the 
craft now about long enough. 
Show, not Fair. Another good idea. The Prairie 
Farmer uses the proper word Show and not Fair, in 
speaking of Agricultural Society meetings. Really 
you are the cleverest fellow we know, and the most im¬ 
proving. We have now some hope of a reform in this 
word, seeing that we have at length obtained such back¬ 
ing. 
Transplanting Fruit Trees. —Mr. Lovett, of Bev¬ 
erly, Mass., plants his fruit trees between the 20th of 
August and last of September—immediately after the 
summer drought, when the summer growth of wood has 
ripened. He cuts off all the leaves before removing, 
with a pair of sharp scissors, and then, in the morning 
of a clear day, raises the tree, and places the roots in a 
tub of soap suds till the afternoon, then replants it. 
He also grafts in Autumn (he does not mention at what 
time), for fruit for the next year.— Hovey’s Mag. 
Great Yield of Wool. —Mr. Luther Smith, of Spring- 
field, Mass., recently brought into that town from the 
east, a lot of Spanish Merino sheep, from one of which 
he sheared fourteen pounds, and from three others, 
thirty-three pounds ten ounces of wool, being of one 
year’s growth. 
Spruce Beer .—Cold water, ten gallons ; boiling do., 
eleven gallons. Mix in a barrel, and add thirty pounds 
of molasses, and one ounce or more of essence of 
spruce. Add one pint of yeast. Bottle in two or three 
days. 
We have seen the above paragraphs in a dozen or 
more exchange papers, and do not know to which to 
give credit. 
