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editor’s table. 
to save him from the hand of the assassin. He was 
rapidly increasing in size until the time of his depar¬ 
ture, which was in November last, at the age of two 
years and six months. At the post mortem examina¬ 
tion of his remains, it was found that his enormous 
bulk had reached the weight of more than twelve hun¬ 
dred pounds ! What prodigality of fatness was there ! 
What a mass-meeting of pork concentrated in a single 
individual! The county of Essex challenges the World 
to produce his equal. Mr. Alley informed us, with 
apparent sincerity, that he subsisted mainly on raw 
Indian meal and potatoes-—but the committee had sup¬ 
posed it more likely that he lived on green turtle soup 
and pound cake, with an occasional meal of boiled sal¬ 
mon and canvass back ducks.” 
Great Yield of Onions. —Barnabas Hall, Esq., of 
Dennis, has raised from little more than five rods of land, 
47| bushels of onions—all of them large enough to 
make a person cry. This is at the rate of 1,500 bushels 
per acre.— Yarmouth Register. 
Great Yield of Potatoes. —Mr. Thacher Clark of 
Dennis, has raised the present year, from one rod of 
ground, six bushels of potatoes, being at the rate of 960 
bushels to the acre. Two potatoes of the size of a 
hen’s egg were placed in each hill. One of the hills 
produced one half a bushel of potatoes—one potato 
weighed 2f lbs., and another 2 lbs. 3 ozs. Pretty fair 
for Cape Cod sand.— lb. 
Great Yield of Cranberries. —The same paper above 
asserts that cranberries have been grown the present 
year by Mr. Lovell, in small patches of a few square 
rods, on land which, ten years ago, was a barren waste. 
We wish Mr. L. would give us the particulars of his 
treatment of this land, and how he has made it produce 
such large crops of cranberries. 
Eclectic Magazine; published by Leavitt, Trow, 
& Co., 194 Broadway. It gives us great pleasure to 
commend this excellent work, for we know of none 
other at all equal to it in the value and variety of its 
selections. No person who has a desire to keep up 
with the foreign literature of the day can dispense with 
the Eclectic Magazine; and it will be found of more 
interest to our readers in consequence of occasional 
agricultural articles made up in its miscellany. Per¬ 
haps we can not do greater justice to its merits than 
copying the following reasons from its Prospectus why 
its should be preferred : 1. It is the cheapest Periodical, 
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Literature. 3. Its Engravings, by Sartain, are exquis¬ 
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day. 
European Agriculture and Rural Economy, 
from Personal Observation, by Henry Colman, Yol. I., 
Part II. Published by Arthur D. Phelps, Boston, Mass.; 
Wiley & Putnam, London, England. Saxton & Miles, 
205 Broadway, New York, special agents. Subscrip¬ 
tion price $5, of which $2 is payable on the delivery of 
Part I. To be completed in ten Parts. The content 
of Part II. are: 
XIII. Allotment System (continued). 
XIV. Quantity of Seed. 
XV. Steeping Seeds. 
XVI. Spade Husbandry. 
XVII. Condition of the Laborers. 
XVIII. Progress of Agriculture, compared with other 
Pursuits. 
XIX. Actual Improvements in English Agriculture, 
including under this head: 1. Draining, Irrigation, and 
Warping. 2. Livestock and Vegetables. 3. Agricultu¬ 
ral Implements. 4. Application of Steam to Agriculture. 
5. Increased Production. 6. Royal Agricultural Soci^w. / 
7. Agricultural Society of Scotland. £/ 
XX. Relation of Landlord and Tenant. 
XXI. Game and the Game Laws. 
XXII. The Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland. 
XXIII. Model Farm and Agricultural School. 
XXIV, Dublin Botanical Garden. 
In the second Part of his European Agriculture, 
Mr. Colman has taken up more particularly the subject 
of practical farming, and proves conclusively, not only 
greater returns, but a greater profit from land placed 
under a high state of rotatory cultivation; and the ex¬ 
amples he gives to substantiate his assertions, are 
not from the practice of the large farmer and the 
rich, but from the humbler class, and more especially 
those cultivating after the best directions of science, 
from only one to five acres; thus showing that im¬ 
provement may be made and wealth gained, even by 
the poorest in means and possessions. We recom¬ 
mend the Allotment System, as detailed by Mr. Col¬ 
man, to the earnest study of our own farmers, as con¬ 
cerning them more than anything else yet published in 
his Survey, saving the Model Farm and Agricultural 
School in the vicinity of Dublin, Ireland. We think in 
this his second issue, Mr. Colman has made a valuable 
contribution to agricultural literature, and we regret 
that we can not now give some extracts from it. We 
hope, however, that the public will seek them in the 
work itself, resting assured that it will be no less grati¬ 
fied than instructed in the perusal thereof. 
The American Poulterer’s Companion.— A prac¬ 
tical treatise on the breeding, rearing, fattening, and 
general management of the various species of domestic 
poultry; with illustrations and portraits of fowls, taken 
from life; by C. N. Bement; Saxton & Miles, publish¬ 
ers, 205 Broadway, N.Y.; pp. 379. Price, $125. We 
are glad at length to be able to announce this excellent 
work, which has been delayed some time passing through 
the press, from the unusual care bestowed in engraving 
the illustrations. These are upward of seventy in num¬ 
ber, and our readers can judge of their elegant finish 
and general truthfulness and beauty, from the speci¬ 
mens given from it in our columns in the three prece¬ 
ding numbers of this periodical. Mr. Bement has been 
a great poultrj'-fancier for years, and has devoted much 
time to the breeding, rearing, and diseases of the dif¬ 
ferent varieties of the domesticated feathered race. His 
book details his knowledge on this interesting subject 
thus practically acquired; it may therefore be taken as 
a safe guide in all these matters, and more especially 
as it is adapted to our own country and its wants ; thus 
making it emphatically the American Poulterer’s Com¬ 
panion. Mr. Bement has treated the subject in a lively, 
agreeable style, and the publishers have issued it in the 
handsomest style of paper and typography. We are 
persuaded that the value of its contents, and general 
beauty of its appearance, will ensure it a deserved 
popularity with all who take any interest in breeding 
and rearing poultry. 
