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Agriculture is the most healthful, the most useful, and the most 
noble employment of Man.- — Washington. 
VOL. 111. NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, 1844._NO. XI. 
A. B. Allen, Editor. Saxton & Miles, Publishers, 205 Broadway 
ARABIAN AND PERSIAN HORSES. 
We wish to inquire of any of our readers, 
whether the imported Bussorah, a small, but very 
beautiful sorrel horse brought to this country from 
the head of the Persian Gulf, in 1819, being then 
5 years old, is still living ? if so, where does he 
now stand ? If not living, where and when did he 
die ? and in what places has he stood since he 
left the vicinity of New York several years ago ? 
Also, where are some of the best bred of his get 
now to be found ? for instance, the horses Selah, 
Sir Harry, Ranger, and Hanover; and more espe¬ 
cially the mares Lady Mary, and Josephine, or 
either of them ? Also, where are the two Arabian 
horses imported a few years since by Commodore 
Elliott, especially the grey one? Where have 
they been standing since their importation into 
the United States? and how have their stock 
proved as racers, roadsters in harness, and under 
the saddle? We make these inquiries, having 
understood that very few if any of Bussorah’s 
colts proved successful racers, though we know 
that some of them made very superior animals on 
the road, and sold at high prices, being much bet¬ 
ter liked than those usually got by the English 
and American thoroughbreds. We would like 
also to be informed what has become of the two 
Arabian horses which arrived a short time since at 
Salem, Mass., sent by the Sultan of Muscat to the 
President of the United States, and when and 
where they are to be sold. 
BLIGHT IN PEAR-TREES. 
A friend has just mentioned to us a remedy for 
this formidable disease in pear-trees, which he 
has found effectual. On discovering the blight 
which had become very general on his trees, he 
immediately cut off the branches it most effected, 
then scraped the bark from the trunk and limbs 
thoroughly, to the live bark, and applied a strong 
ley from wood ashes. Although the bark bled 
profusely in many places, and was turned to a dark 
brown on applying the ley, the trees immediately 
put out deep, green leaves, and have since been 
entirely recovered. The common ship-scraper 
was made use of in scraping the trees. 
The result of the above treatment would seem 
to indicate, as has been latterly asserted, that 
blight is owing to a minute insect concealed with- 
in the bark. We should be highly gratified by 
the reception of any communications on this sub¬ 
ject, proving more fully, if possible, whether we 
are correct in our supposition. 
