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Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia. Price $2.75. We 
believe we do not err when we say, that Col. Hawker’s 
work is considered the best of the kind yet published in 
England; and the reader may judge of the additional mer¬ 
its of the American edition, when we inform him that 
its accomplished editor has not only drawn from his 
own large experience in all sporting matters, hut has 
also liberally taxed the distinguished pens of Herbert, 
Audubon, Giraud, Chapin, Thorpe, Lewis, Sibley, Wil¬ 
lis, Alexander, Haliburton, Kendall, and several oth¬ 
ers too modest to own their contributions. The illus¬ 
trations are really beautiful, and in all respects the 
publishers have done well their part. Every country 
gentleman ought to possess this volume; for, aside from 
its merit as a sporting work, it contains valuable arti¬ 
cles on Natural History, and essays of a high literary 
order. 
The Boy’s Summer Book: By Thomas Miller. 
New York: Harpers, pp. 128, 12mo. Price37| cents. 
This little volume, which is a reprint of the London 
edition, constitutes a part of the Boy’s Own Library, 
and is descriptive of the season, scenery, rural life, and 
country amusements of England. It is beautifully 
illustrated, and will form a handsome present for any 
good boy who has behaved well in school, or made him¬ 
self useful at home. 
The American Architect, comprising Original De¬ 
signs of Country Residences adapted to the taste and 
circumstances of the Merchant, the Farmer, and the 
Mechanic. By An Association of Practical Archi¬ 
tects. New York : C. M. Saxton, 205 Broadway. Price 
25 cents per number. 
The American Penny Magazine and Family 
Newspaper, edited and published by Theodore Dwight, 
112 Broadway, N. Y., at $2 a year. Every subscriber, 
after sending his payment in advance for a year, will 
be furnished with 25 seeds of that elegant tree, the Ca- 
talpa. The history and directions for rearing it will be 
found in the work. Persons sending the money for 
several subscribers, will receive a proportionate return 
in such seeds as they may choose, or such others as can 
be procured. Seeds of curious and valuable new trees, 
shrubs, and flowers, will be occasionally sent in small 
numbers to all punctual subscribers with instructions. 
The Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricul¬ 
tural Society have been received, and will be no¬ 
ticed in our next number. 
Great Sale of Stock. —We beg to call the particu¬ 
lar attention of our readers to the sale of Stock adver¬ 
tised in this number of our paper by Col. J. M. Sher¬ 
wood, of Auburn, New York. We have often had the 
pleasure of examining his flocks and herds, and think 
them equal to anything of their kind in the United 
States. He was judicious in his first selections, and has 
since bred with great care and intelligence. With the 
present high prices of produce, our farmers can well 
spare the means for improvements; and what among 
these is more desirable or pays better than choice 
breeds of stock 'i A most excellent opportunity is now 
offered by Col. S., in the sale of his fine animals, which 
we hope the agricultural community will improve for 
their benefit. Whatever is offered, gentlemen may be 
assured will be sold without reserve , they can therefore 
bid at this sale with the utmost confidence that it will 
be conducted throughout in good faith. 
Mastodon Cotton. —-Since the appearance in our 
pages of Mr. Abbey’s articles on this subject, we have 
received several communications from planters in Mis¬ 
sissippi, saying that they have tried this cotton in dif¬ 
ferent kinds of soil, highlands, swamp alluvions, and 
creek-bottoms, and that it has not answered their expec¬ 
tations. Indeed, they say it is not equal to common 
Mexican, and very plainly pronounce it a “ gross hum¬ 
bug on the planting interest.” We profess to know 
nothing of the merits of the case ourselves; but having 
seen this cotton highly commended for two or three 
years past in several of the most respectable journals of 
the South, we solicited Mr. Abbey, when on here last 
summer, to -write us a series of articles on the subject, 
which he readily did. Several of our friends at the 
South are making experiments with it again this sum- ’ j 
mer, and promise us next fall a candid statement 
of facts regarding it, which we assure them shall be 
promptly published in our journal. We trust, there¬ 
fore, they will pardon us declining their present com¬ 
munications, and that they will patiently wait the result 
of further trials. No one can be more opposed to hum¬ 
bugs than ourselves, and no one can more sternly set 
his face against them ; but at the same time we must 
not condemn too hastily, otherwise we may do great 
injury for want of proper knowledge, or a partial or 
unfortunate trial of the matter in hand. 
Members of the Board of Agriculture of the i 
American Institute of New York. —Philip Schuy¬ 
ler, New York City, President; Nicholas WyckofF,. j 
Bushwick, L. I., Vice President; J. Lawrence Smith, ; 
Smithtown, L. I., Secretary; R. T. Underhill, New 
York City, Charles Henry Hall, Harlem, N. Y., Thos.: | 
Bridgeman, New York City, W. J. Townsend, Asto¬ 
ria, L, I., Henry A. Field, New York City, Robert S. j 
Livingston, Barrytown, Dutchess Co., Thomas Bell, , 
Morrisania, Charles Dennison, Morrisania, E. M. i 
Dodd, Orange, N. J., Edward Clark, Brooklyn, L. I., 
Francis Barretto, Yfest Farms, N. Y., James Monroe, 
Plarlem, N. Y., Benjamin L. Benson, Plarlem, N. Y., j 
Thos. Addis Emmet, New York City, Jordan L. Mott, I 
Harlem, N. Y., Lewis G. Morris, West Farms, N. Y., j 
John G. Bergen, Gowanus, L. I., James De Peyster, ! 
New York City, Samuel Walker, Boston, Mass., John i 
O. Choules, Boston, Mass., H. A. S. Dearborn, Rox- ' 
bury, Mass., R. L. Pell, Pelham, Ulster Co., N. Y., I 
James Rennie, New York City, Roswell L. Colt, Pat- | 
terson, N. J., Ambrose Stevens, New York City, D. S. ' 
Mills, Newtown, L. I., Robert Grant, Pleasant Yalley, 1 i 
Dutchess Co,, N. Y. 
The Van Schaick Premium.— The $1000 gene-, j 
rously given by Myndert Van Schaick, Esq., of this I 
city, to be bestowed by the American Institute in pre-. 
miums of $100 for ten successive years, will be award¬ 
ed at the Twentieth Annual Fair in October, 1847, as; 
follows: 
The Silk to be the growth of the United States, and to j; I 
be manufactured within the year. 
For the best piece of silk, 27 inches in width and 
60 yards in length, .... • • $50 
For the best piece of silk for handkerchiefs, 60 
yards in length,. 30 
For the best piece of silk velvet not less than 20 
yards,. 20 
For the best exhibition of silk ribbon, not less than 
12 pieces of 10 yards each,. 20 
For the best reeled silk, not less than 10 lbs,,. 10 
Second best, do do do . 5 
For the best sewing silk of any color,. 10 
For the best bushel of peanut cocoons,. 10 
Second best do do . . 5, 
To Advertisers and Correspondents.— Please to 
remember that in consequence of the large edition of our 
paper, and the necessity of going to press at an early 
day in order to get it out in season, all matters of cor¬ 
respondence should be forwarded us by the first week of 
the preceding month, and advertisements by the second 
week. For example, if an article be destined for Au¬ 
gust number, forward it as early as the 7th of July, if 
an advertisement, by the 14th, or earlier if convenient. ’ 
Any favors coming to hand later than the above dates 
are liable to lie over for a succeeding number of the 
paper. 
This we often regret, for, in consequence, the ar¬ 
ticles are frequently inserted quite out of season. We 
wish correspondents would reflect, that it is better to be 
a month too early than a month loo late. 
