editor’s table. 
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(ffbitor’s ®ablc. 
Catalogue of Agricultural Implements, &e.— 
We have had many requests for our catalogue for the 
past four months, with which we have been unable to 
comply in consequence of the edition having be¬ 
come exhausted. We shall print a second edition in 
August, and shall then be happy to furnish all appli¬ 
cants gratis. Our friends will please to send in their re¬ 
quests any time after the 1st September for such as may 
be wanted. 
The American Veterinarian ; or Diseases of 
Domestic Animals, showing the causes, symptoms, and 
remedies, and rules for restoring and preserving health 
by Good Management; with Directions for Training 
and Breeding. By S. W. Coles, editor of the Agricul¬ 
tural department of the Boston Cultivator, assisted by 
Sanford Howard, Esq., of the Albany Cultivator, and 
Dr. Holmes of the Maine Farmer. Boston: John P. 
Jewett & Co. pp. 288. 18mo. For sale by C. M. 
Saxon, 205 Broadway, N. Y. Price 50 cents. The 
fanner and stock-breeder will find much valuable in-, 
formation in this little work, which it concerns them 
much to know; by reference to its directions they may 
oe enabled to save many a valuable animal which oth- 
srwisc might be lost. We recommend all those who 
keep domestic animals to procure Mr. Coles’ book. 
De Bow’s Commercial Review—New Orleans, 
Mav, 1847. Monthly, of 100 pages. Terms $5 a 
pear. This work has now been published regularly 
for eighteen months, and embodies an extensive 
Rmount of information in relation to all the practical 
interests of our country, and more particularly of the 
South and West. Its circulation has been continually 
augmenting, and its character established all over the 
Union. Among the contributors may be mentioned 
the names of Hon. Joel Poinset; R. Greenhow, De¬ 
partment of State, Hon. B. F. Porter, J. P. Benjamin, 
and E. J. Forstall, of New Orleans; Col. J. Gadsden, 
Hon. W. J. Grayson, and R. F. W. Alston, Charleston ; 
Hon. Geo. Eustis, Hon. T. McCaleb, Hon.Maunsel 
White, New Orleans; R. Abbey, Mississippi; Dr. J. 
C. Nott, Alabama, etc. etc. The Chambers of Com¬ 
merce of Charleston and New Orleans have both pass¬ 
ed series of resolutions unanimously approving and 
commending the work. A large number of the first 
merchants of the former city have published a card to 
the public to the same effect. We think that we may 
with safety commend the Review to the patronage of 
the whole American public. The Editor, J. D. B. De 
Bow, may be addressed at New Orleans. The work is 
well got up and embellished with numerous wood cuts 
of cities and other matter connected with commerce, the 
mechanic arts, and agriculture. 
Imported Stock. —By the ship Constitution which 
arrived here from Liverpool, on the 12th May, George 
Vail, Esq., of Troy, received a superb three-year-old 
Short-Horn heifer, called Arabella, from the celebrat¬ 
ed stock of Thomas Bates, of Yorkshire, England. She 
was got by the 4th Duke of Northumberland, her dam 
by Duke of Cleveland, her grand dam by Belvedere, 
&c. Her color is red, save a few white spots. 
Being descended from good milking stock, she will 
prove a great acquisition to the herd of her enterpris¬ 
ing owners, and of much service in improving the 
stock of the country. 
Pictorial History of England. —This excellent 
work has reached the twenty-second number, and its 
character and execution are fully sustained. 
Officers of the American Institute.— The An¬ 
nual Meeting of the American Institute, of New York, 
was held on the 13th ult., and the following officers 
'chosen:—Mahlon Dickerson, President; Shepherd 
Knapp. James J. Mapes, John Campbell, Vice Presi¬ 
dents ; Henry Meigs, Recording Secretary; T. B. 
Wakeman, Corresponding Secretary; Edward T. 
Backhouse, Treasurer; T. B. Wakeman, Superintend¬ 
ing Agent. 
The Christian Parlor Magazine, Edited by J. T. 
Headley, and published Monthly, by E. E. Miies, 151 
Nassau street, N. Y., at $2 a year This work is 
prettily got up. with numerous handsome engravings, 
and is a very proper one for the parlor table. Its editor is 
well known as one of the most brilliant writers of the 
day, and we have no doubt he will be the means of 
making this periodical eminently popular throughout 
the country. 
The Pig, by William Youatt, with the History, 
Rearing, Feeding, and Diseases of Swine. This work 
has recently been published in London, and is the last 
with which we shall be favored by the lamented author, 
he having died previous to its passing through the 
press. It is an octavo, and beautifully got up. We do 
not think it is edited with the ability and completeness 
of Mr. Youatt’s Treatise on the Horse, Cattle, or Sheep. 
Nevertheless, it is quite a respectable publication, es¬ 
pecially in that part which relates to the diseases of 
swine, and one that has long been wanted. In one 
thing the author has been rather unfair upon us, he 
having repeatedly quoted from our writings and other¬ 
wise made use of our ideas, without giving us the 
slightest credit whatever. However, we shall not com¬ 
plain, as our writings on this and other subjects have 
been general plunder with the agricultural press for the 
past ten years. 
We have for some time been engaged in collecting 
the materials for writing a work on Swine, to be pub¬ 
lished by the Messrs. Harper, and shall soon bring it 
out. We trust, when it appears, it will be found wor¬ 
thy the confidence of the public, and such a one as will 
meet the wants of the American farmer. Messrs. Lea 
& Blanchard will immediately republish Youatt, but 
that will not interfere in the slightest degree with our 
contemplated work. 
Floral and Horticultural Exhibition of the 
American Agricultural Association. —The first ex¬ 
hibition of fruits, flowers, and vegetables, of this insti 
tut ion was held at their rooms, in the Lyceum Build¬ 
ing, in Broadway, New York, on the 19th and 20th of 
last month ; although not very numerous, the specimens 
were of the choicest kind, and in the most healthy con¬ 
dition. . 
Shrubs .—Among the ornamental shrubs we noticed 
a beautiful Araucaria excelsa from Messrs. Dunlap 
and Thompson, also Spiraea rcevesiana and flowers of 
Paulownia imperialis from Messrs. Thomas Hogg 
and Son, the latter of which attracted general attention, 
as they were the first ever produced in this country. A 
sample of Datura arborea from Mrs. Win. B. Astor, 
which had been highly invigorated by applying to its 
roots a solution of sulphate of iron (three drachms of 
the iron to one quart of water). 
Flowers .—A splendid seedling Camellia, several spe¬ 
cimens of Calceolaria, and Pelargoniums from Noel J. 
Becar, of Brooklyn; Pelargoniums from James ,Pen- 
niman. W. Russell, of Brooklyn, fine seedling Pelar¬ 
goniums. Mr. Boll, a. variety of seedling Azalias. 
Garden Vegetables and Fruit .—Asparagus from J. 
C. Beelrmail \ T. Burrowes, Abraham Van Sicklen; 
Rhubarb from Van Sicklen, J. Briell, S. P. Jones; 
Lettuces, cucumbers, and cauliflowers from J. C. Beck¬ 
man ; New potatoes from the Miss Paitherfords of 
Newark, and J. C.Beekinan ; Strawberries and green 
peas from A. P. Halsey; Mushrooms from R. K. Dela- 
field. 
The next monthly exhibition will be held on the 3d 
Wednesday of June, the lGth. On account ofthegreater 
number of fruits and flowers at that season, it will be 
found highly worthy of a visit. 
