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editor’s table. 
Agricultural Publications. —As a consequence of the 
low prices, (speaking of agricultural products through¬ 
out the west,) we found a very considerable decrease of 
interest in agricultural publications. There are a great 
many who have not lost their interest, and some are 
awaking to a new interest in this behalf—but we found 
large numbers who had formerly been subscribers to an 
agricultural journal, but who did not now take any— 
alleging that there was no money to be had—that with¬ 
out knowing anything more about farming, they could 
raise sufficient to eat and clothe themselves; and if 
they raised more, it would sell for nothing—that they 
farmed to live, and when they began to farm to make 
money, they would take a paper. In travelling about 
six hundred miles, we did not find, from frequent in¬ 
quiry, more than two agricultural papers beside our 
own, and in one county not a single copy of any sort.— 
Prairie. Farmer. 
It really strikes one with melancholy to read the 
above paragraph. What, wait till you can “make 
money” before you will instruct yourselves ? Shame 
on such a principle. Pray, will you wait till your chil¬ 
dren can “make money” before you send them to school ? 
If you do they will get precious little instruction in 
this world. But we are not willing to let the argument 
rest here, and will answer that the agricultural jour¬ 
nals, by teaching you an improved system of farming, 
will also better instruct you how to “make money,” 
than any other means you can possibly devise for ac¬ 
quiring it. 
Sea-weed a Preventive of the Curculio. —The Maga¬ 
zine of Horticulture says, that sea-weed spread round 
plum trees as far as the branches extend, have prevent¬ 
ed injury to them by the curculio. 
Farming to some purpose. —Mr. Adam Anthony, of 
North Providence, during the month of April, sent to 
market eight tons tv:o hundred and fifty-six pounds of 
milk , the produce of twenty-seven cows. The average 
quantity of milk which’ each cow gave daily, was eight 
quarts and three gills. The last item appears to us to 
be an important one to farmers, as it shows how much 
milk may be expected, on an average, from such a 
number of cows. Mr. Anthony keeps his cows in beef 
order, and sells them for beef as soon as their milk be¬ 
gins to fail. During the months of May and June, 
Mr. Anthony sent to market seven tons and a half of 
milk each month.— Providence Chron. 
Great Butter Qualities of a Grade Devon. —Mr. Wm. 
Bellows, of Walpole, N. H., states in the Mass. Plough¬ 
man, that he has a grade Devon cow, whose milk from 
June 17th to 24th (from fourteen milkings), made 16 
lbs. 10 oz. of choice butter. Her milk churns remark¬ 
ably quick, never requiring over ten minutes, and fre¬ 
quently coming in one half or one third of this time. 
Her only feed was grass pasture. 
Refusal to credit Extracts. —When we saw the arti¬ 
cle in the North Arkansas of July 3d, extenuating its 
conduct in copying articles from this paper without giv¬ 
ing credit, we thought in general justice to ourselves, we 
should reply to it at length; but on further considera¬ 
tion, its course is so palpably unjust, and so directly 
contrary to the rule of all respectable papers, that we 
think it entirely unnecessary, and shall be contented 
by giving instead, the example of Dr. Philips, one 
of the editors of the South Western Farmer. Dr. 
P. wrote originally for the American Agriculturist, a 
series of Southern Calendars, a good share of which 
was afterward incorporated for us, by another person, 
into a more general Southern Calendar, published last 
year in an almanac, and now monthly in this periodical. 
If any person then had a free right to the use of these, 
it would be Dr. Philips. But does he seize upon them 
after a mere general announcement in his paper that 
he intends doing so, and monthly order their insertion 
without giving us credit ? No, indeed. So conscien¬ 
tious is he in this particular, that he asks our permis¬ 
sion to publish them before doing so, and then scrupu¬ 
lously gives credit every time they appear. Now he 
was perfectly welcome to make just such use of the 
calendars as he pleased, and it surprised us that he 
should ask leave at all in the matter; but it showed 
that he was determined upon being punctiliously hon¬ 
orable in this point. We are certainly very much 
obliged to the North Arkansas, as well as to all other 
papers for what they have so kindly said in our behalf, 
and were our situations reversed, we should have most 
gladly done the same thing for them; but all this can 
not justify taking articles on a general announcement, 
and refuse afterward to give credit for the same. To 
show the injustice to us of such a proceeding, we have 
repeatedly seen the same articles taken from the Agri¬ 
culturist, credited by other papers to the North Arkan¬ 
sas ; so that however well informed its subscribers may 
be on this subject, its exchanges seem to be ignorant 
thereof. If our paper has not been regularly received 
by the Arkansas, the Post-office is to blame, and not 
we—it has been regularly mailed it from our office. 
But to conclude the whole matter, and put an end to 
all cause of complaint, forward us the amount of the 
six dollar subscriptions talked about, and you shall have 
our first two volumes handsomely bound, sent gratis 
to your address by the first conveyance indicated. All 
we ask is justice. 
ITT Forgetfulness. —The following regular agricul¬ 
tural papers have taken the subjoined articles from us 
and omitted giving credit. We shall expect their first 
issues after reception of this No. will contain a correc¬ 
tion,sent to us done up outside, and marked with ink lines. 
American Farmer, No. 13, p. 102—“ Plaster no 
Longer Beneficial.” 
Farmers’ Cabinet, No. 1, p. 36—“Pigs Sucking a 
Cow,” is credited to the Christian Intelligencer instead 
of this paper. 
N. Y. Farmer and Mechanic, No. 3, p. 47—“To kill 
Lice on Cattle.” 
Carolina Planter, No. 1, p. 18—“ The Cow Pea, 
Peach, &c.” 
Southern Cultivator, No. 15, p. 119—“Pigs Sucking 
a Cow,” it credits to the American Farmer. 
Conn. Far. Gaz., No. 20, p. 310—“ Value of Urine.” 
“ “ p. 319—“A Sheep Trough.” 
“ “ p. 319—“Sources of Ammonia.” 
To drive away Rats. —Sprinkle unslacked lime in 
their holes, and about where they congregate, and they 
will depart without fail. 
To Correspondents. —W. D., S. B. Parsons, A 
Traveller, T. Affleck, L. F. Allen, and Canadian Nat¬ 
uralist, will appear in our next. 
Deer in Parks. —The gentleman addressing us on 
this subject shall be answered in our October No. We 
have often kept them. 
Acknowledgements. —To Benjamin Hodge, for a 
catalogue of trees, shrubs, &c., cultivated in his 
nursery and garden at Buffalo. To the secretaries 
of several agricultural and horticultural societies, for 
programmes of their forthcoming shows, the time of 
holding of which we have given under their proper 
head. We are surprised that we do not get more of 
these, and unless sent to us in good time, marked, it 
can not be expected that we should notice them. An 
editor generally has too much pressing upon him to 
give sufficient leisure to look out such things in his ex¬ 
changes—they must be brought directly to his eye or 
; they are most likely to pass unnoticed. 
