editor’s table. 
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®awe. 
Colman’s Agricultural Tour.— We are informed 
that the publisher, Mr. Phelps of Boston, has been in 
the receipt of the manuscript for the second number of 
this long and eagerly expected work, and that it will be 
issued from the press in a few days. 
Simmond’s Colonial Magazine. —We are just in 
receipt of a few numbers of this highly valuable work, 
recently sent us from England by its obliging editor, 
and have looked over its pages with absorbing interest. 
It is devoted to the agriculture, manufactures, com¬ 
merce, and policy of the vast colonial possessions of 
Great Britain, and treats its subjects with fearlessness, 
candor, and ability. In the Colonial Magazine we find 
several articles on the agriculture of the East and 
West Indies, Africa, and the Pacific Islands. These 
Would be especially interesting to our sourthern plant¬ 
ers, and we earnestly call their attention to the work. 
It is published in octavo form, 128 pages monthly, 
price 2s. 6d.—would probably cost $8 to $9 in this city. 
Journal of the Agricultural and Horticul¬ 
tural Society of Western Australia —for the year 
1842. We have also received from Mr. Simmonds the 
above excellent Journal, for which he has our thanks. 
We have not yet found time to peruse it, but propose 
doing so shortly; for in running our eye down its con¬ 
tents, we notice the heads of several articles on subjects 
of which we have long desired to inform ourselves. 
The American Quarterly Journal of Agri¬ 
culture and Science. —Under this title, Dr. E. Em¬ 
mons and Dr. Prime, propose issuing at Albany, on the 
1st of January next, if sufficient encouragement be 
given to the enterprise, a quarterly periodical of 150 
pages—price $3 a year, payable after the issue of the 
first number. They say that while the aim of their 
journal “will be to become the advocate and ally of 
American agriculture, it will at the same time em¬ 
brace all foreign matters which may be interesting to 
farmers and scientific men. It will contain original 
Essays, both scientific and practical, on the various 
branches of husbandry—Animal and Vegetable Phys¬ 
iology—C hemistry— Botany— Geology— and all the 
branches of science connected with farming,—Notices 
and Reviews of Agricultural and Scientific works— 
Agricultural News, both foreign and domestic—details 
of accurately conducted Experiments and their results— 
and all discoveries in Science or Art which offer advan¬ 
tage to the farmer. The aid of some of the ablest men 
in this country has been secured, who will furnish its 
pages with valuable matter. But while it is intended 
to give this Journal a high character for science, it will 
be our steady aim to make it also highly practical and 
useful in the every-day business of the farmer.” 
Subscribers are requested to forward their names 
through the Postmaster of the place, to J. A. Prime, 
Newburg, Orange Co., N. Y., to whom all communica¬ 
tions in relation to the subject may be addressed, post¬ 
paid, until farther notice. 
We shall be pleased to take subscribers’ names for 
the above, and give any assistance in our power to the 
establishment of a work of its proposed high charac¬ 
ter; for we think it much needed now in the United 
States—that it would be conducive of great good, and 
tend to the advancement of agricultural knowledge, 
and the interests of the country. 
Lectures on the Application of Chemistry 
and Geology to Agriculture, by Jas. F. W. John¬ 
stone: Part IV. Wiley & Putnam, 161 Broadway, 
New York—price 31| cents. Here we have the con¬ 
cluding lectures of Professor Johnstone, which are su¬ 
perior to anything we have yet met, for condensation of 
matter; felicity of illustration; simple, copious lan¬ 
guage; cautious array of facts, instead of uncertain 
theory and induction; and the latest and most reliable 
knowledge on the highly important subjects of chemis¬ 
try and geology, as applied to agriculture. They have 
been published by Messrs. Wiley & Putnam, at a very 
cheap rate, in clear type, on good paper, and are 
stiched or bound in handsome style. No farmer now, 
and none wbo have a taste for the science of agricul¬ 
ture, should be without these highly instructive and 
entertaining volumes. 
The Kitchen and Fruit Gardener. —A select 
manual of kitchen gardening and culture of fruits, con¬ 
taining familiar directions for the most approved prac¬ 
tice in each department; descriptions of many valuable 
fruits, and a calendar of work to be performed each 
month in the year. Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 
418 pages octavo—price 25 cents. This is an excel¬ 
lent little work, containing a great deal of instruction 
in a small compass, and is highly worthy the attention 
of the public. 
Essays on Practical Agriculture, including his 
Prize Essays carefully revised; by Adam Beatty, Vice 
President of the Kentucky Agricultural Society. Pub¬ 
lished by Collins & Brown, Maysville, Ky. We have 
here a goodly volume octavo of 293 pages by one of 
the best practical farmers and most gifted agricultural 
writers of the west. Among the subjects discussed in 
it are the general agriculture of Kentucky and the best 
system to be adopted; cultivation of corn, hemp, to¬ 
bacco, &c.; rotation of crops; breeding and grazing 
horses, cattle, and sheep; soils and their treatment, and 
the food of plants; setting woodlands in grass and 
making and preserving timothy meadows; cultivation 
of wheat *in rich vegetable soils; advantages of manu¬ 
factures to agriculture; the cultivation of the locnst, 
being his article published in Volume I. of the Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist entirely rewritten; and many other 
subjects of great interest and importance, not only to the 
western, but also to the eastern farmer. We have read 
Judge Beatty’s work with a high degree of satisfaction. 
Every sentence shows the judicious practical man, and 
a safe guide in the theory and art of agriculture. The 
essays are written in a clear, easy style, terse, yet such 
as the plainest man may readily comprehend. We ear¬ 
nestly recommend this book to general perusal. 
Canary Seed. —The Boston Cultivator says that a 
superior crop of canary seed may be raised by sowing it 
in the fall at the same time we do rye. It produces 
largely and brings a high price in market. 
Silk in France. —The silk culture in this country is 
increasing with great success, and the present crop is 
estimated to be worth 160,000,000 of francs.— National 
Intelligencer. 
Mr. Hovey in Europe. —We noticed that C. M. Ho- 
vey, Esq., editor of the Magazine of Horticulture, in 
Boston, sailed for Europe in the steam-packet of the 
1st of August last. We wish him a pleasant trip 
abroad, and have no doubt that he will obtain such in¬ 
formation while absent, as will be of essential service 
to him in his business and the future conduct of his ex¬ 
cellent journal. 
Poison in Rhubarb Leaves. —A family in Bedford, Ct., 
were lately poisoned by eating rhubarb leaves as 
greens. The stalk of this plant is used for tarts and 
sauce without danger, but the leaves contain oxalic 
acid.— Boston Cultivator. 
Maple Sugar. —The New York Sun states that 10,000 
hogsheads of maple sugar are sold annually in this 
city. 
Swan for Sale.-— Who has any, and what is the price ? 
