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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
season ; and not to neglect their grass and root 
crops, for these also are excessively high now. 
The approaching war cannot fail to affect our 
supply of grain; but we would guard against 
the attempt that will in all probability be made, 
by interested parties, to raise the price beyond 
what the occasion warrants. England will pro¬ 
bably lose a great part of the supplies which 
she has hitherto drawn from Russia direct, and 
from the corn countries of the Mediterranean 
and Black Seas, which are, or which may come 
under the influence of the Northern usurper; 
but we are much mistaken if it is an event to 
“ fright the isle from its propriety,” and it would 
be a source of regret if it should be turned to 
such an unrighteous purpose. America, as well 
the British provinces as the United States, will 
still be the provedore of England, as it has been 
for some years past; and the supplies which we 
shall draw from thence, as auxiliary to our own 
produce, and that which we shall receive from 
other sources beyond the reach or influence 
of Russia, must prevent anj r thing like scar¬ 
city or inordinate prices. 
A return which has been laid before Parlia¬ 
ment, within the last few days, is somewhat 
consolatory on this head. The quantity of 
grain, meal, and flour which we received from 
the United States, in 1852, were equal to 1, 400,- 
558 quarters, converting meal and flour into the 
equivalent in quarters of grain ; from Egypt 
775,745 qrs., Denmark 770,196 qrs., and Prus¬ 
sia 554,742 qrs. From Russian northern ports, 
England received in the same year 343,948 qrs., 
and 957,877 qrs. from the Black Sea ports. 
From Wallachia and Moldavia, we also received 
713,877, quarters, a source of supply which we 
suppose will be no longer available, at present. 
On the whole, then, we may calculate on losing 
about two and a quarter millions of quarters of 
grain by the approaching hostilities. We have, 
however, every reason to believe that cultiva¬ 
tion has greatly increased in the United States 
since 1852, consequent on the number of immi¬ 
grants arrived there from the British islands, 
from Germany, and other parts of Europe ; in¬ 
deed, the official account of the sale of land 
which has taken place in the United States ; and 
brought under cultivation, since 1852, would 
fully warrant us in believing that instead of one 
and a half millions of quarters of grain, which 
was the supply from thence in 1852, it will, in 
the present year, reach about double that quan¬ 
tity. But, besides the United States, we know, 
on authority which we have no reason to doubt, 
that our own North American Colonies are pro¬ 
gressing in the raising of corn of all kinds, more 
especially wheat, in a most astonishing manner; 
and it is not going too far to say that we may 
expect, from this source, a supply which will be 
double the quantity ever exported to England. 
Turning to our own agricultural prospects, 
as the surest source of dependence, there is 
every reason to expect that the supply will be 
much in excess of what it was last harvest. 
Last season was one of the worst we have had 
in England for many years; the quantity of 
rain which fell in the beginning of the year, 
prevented much of (he land being plowed and 
prepared for spring seed, and what was sowed 
was materially injured by the wetness of the 
season. Indeed, the general calculation is, that 
the crop was about one-fourth deficient in yield 
compared to the ordinary average; while we 
have reason to believe that, both in England and 
Ireland, the prospect of war will induce much 
more land to be put under crop this year than 
heretofore. In Ireland especially, we know 
that, last year, tillage was much neglected, as it 
was considered rearing and feeding cattle for 
the English market would pay better. It will 
now bo of the greatest importance to attend to 
our own corn crops in these countries, and we 
are confident that, if it be done, any deficiency 
in the Russian supplies of grain will be amply 
compensated by our own produce, and the quan¬ 
tity we are likely to receive from other foreign 
countries. The present season has hitherto 
been most propitious for preparing for the spring- 
crops ; and from all parts of the country, we 
learn that the winter frosts, and the dry and 
favorable weather during the early spring, have 
been attended with the greatest benefit to the 
land. Indeed, from all appearances at present, 
we may anticipate an abundant harvest, should 
the summer and autumn prove favorable. 
We would disabuse the public mind of the 
impression that a war with Russia will necessa¬ 
rily produce a scarcity of bread corn in Eng¬ 
land ; we think that we have shown that such 
a result by no means follows, and that any at¬ 
tempt to raise prices, under this plea, will merely 
be the act of speculators and jobbers. For¬ 
tunately, England is perfectly independent in 
all its resources; and it is a proud and satisfac¬ 
tory position for a country to be placed in, that, 
while it does everything in its power to eschew 
war, it is always prepared to meet it without ap¬ 
prehension for the consequences. 
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THE JAPAN PEA. 
Much has been said within a year about a 
new luguminous plant, said to come from seed 
brought from Japan. 
Mr. Tesehemacher gave a description of the 
plant, which he calls Cajanus bicolor, a native 
of East Indies, Amboyna, Japan, &c.; flower 
small, interior yellow-, vexillum purple, erect 
shrub, pubescent, nearest in alliance to Lupinus. 
The seeds are good to cat, and when young, 
very delicate. On soaking the round seeds for 
an hour in moderately hot water, they take 
exactly the form and appearance of the common 
w-hite bean, become quite tender, and have a 
pure and delicious nutty and oily flavor. The 
whole plant, with the seed, is excellent for fat¬ 
tening hogs and cattle. 
Mr. Ernst, of Cincinnati, has done considera¬ 
ble to get tiiis new plant before the American 
farmers, considering it a valuable one for this 
country. The seed is as good as the common 
white bean for food, and better adapted for rich 
soils and warm climate, and the straw is excel¬ 
lent fodder for stock; and it promises to yield 
bountifully of both. In planting the peas, be 
careful to give them plenty of room to spread, 
as the stalks grow- from three to four feet high, 
with an erect, bushy stem, having numerous 
branches, which are set with short, woolly pods. 
It seems to delight in a rich, loamy, moderately 
dry soil, and a rather warm climate; but it does 
not need a very long season. It certainly is a 
most wonderful prolific bearer, and no doubt 
w-ill prove a valuable addition to our farm crops. 
So says the N. Y. Tribune. 
Vegetable Monsters. - — Oregon seems to 
rival even California in the productiveness of its 
soil, and the mammoth size to which vegetables 
attain. Mention is made by the papers of a 
huge cauliflower, raised opposite Portland, 
weighing forty-five pounds, and the world is 
challenged to beat it. Mr. Justin Chenoweth 
writes from the Dalles that he is growing in his 
garden a cabbage which he has carefully mea¬ 
sured, and found it to cover a space embraced 
in a circumference of nearly fourteen feet, being- 
four feet and six inches in diameter. The solid 
head is twelve inches in diameter. He thinks 
that the whole would weigh over fifty pounds. 
The seed which produced this plant w-as not 
sown until the 21st of May, and the head will 
probably attain sixteen inches in diameter. In 
the same garden he- has grown turnips, many 
of which weigh ten pounds ; and water-melons 
and tomatoes rivaling, both in size and flavor, 
the best that he had seen in the Mississippi Val¬ 
ley — all being of the first crop without plowing 
or spading, the planting and tending having 
been done exclusively with a light Yankee weed¬ 
ing hoe and a garden rake. 
Of the 340 members of the Massachusetts 
Legislature, 109 are farmers, 46 lawyers, 46 
merchants, 23 manufacturers, 9 physicians, 6 
clergymen, &c. 
FARMERS’ GIRLS. 
Ur in the early morning, just at the peep of day, 
Straining the milk in the dairy, turning the cows 
away. 
Sweeping the floor in the kitchen, making the beds 
up stairs, 
Washing the breakfast dishes, dusting the parlor 
chairs; 
Brushing the crumbs from the pantry, hunting for 
eggs at the barn, 
Cleaning the turnips for dinner, spinning the stock-' 
ing-yarn, 
Spreading the whitening linen down on bushes be¬ 
low, 
Ransacking every meadow, where the red strawber¬ 
ries grow; 
Starching- the “fixens” for Sunday, churning the 
snowy cream, 
Rinsing the pails and strainer down in the running 
stream, 
Feeding the geese and turkies, making the pumpkin 
pies, 
Jogging the little one’s cradle, driving away the 
flies; 
Grace in every motion, music in every tone, 
Beauty of form and feature thousands might covet 
to own, 
Cheeks that rival spring roses, teeth the whitest of 
pearls,— 
One of these country maids is worth a score of your 
city girlp. H. M. Ladd. 
North Hero, Vt. New-York Tribune. 
The following three recipes are valuable : 
Fresh Meat Griddles. —Chop all the bits oj 
cold fresh beef or veal, season with salt and 
pepper; make a griddle batter, and lay on a 
spoonful on the iron well buttered, to prevent 
its sticking, then a spoonful of the chopped 
meat, then a spoonful of batter over the meat, 
and when cooked on one side then turn, and 
when done carry them on hot, and they are 
very nice. 
Excellent Apple Fritters. —Pare your ap¬ 
ples and cut in thin slices, and mix them with 
your flour. Stir in a quart of milk and four 
eggs, a little salt and saleratus, to make a thick 
batter. Fry in plenty of lard. 
Fruit Cake.— Take one pint of light dough; 
one tea-cupful of sugar; one of butter; three 
eggs, a teaspoonful of saleratus, one pound of 
raisins; nutmeg or cinnamon, to the taste, bake 
one hour. Let it stand and rise a little before 
baked. 
Buckeye Bread. —Take a pint of new milk 
warm from the cow ; add a tea-spoonful of salt 
and stir in fine Indian meal until it becomes a 
thick batter, a gill of fresh yeast, and put it in 
a warm place to rise. When it is very light, 
stir into the batter three beaten eggs, adding 
wheat flour until it has become of the consist¬ 
ence of dough; knead it thoroughly, and set it 
by the fire until it begins to rise ; then make it 
up into small loaves or cakes, cover them with 
a thick napkin, and let them stand until they 
rise again, then bake in a quick oven. So says 
the Lynchburg Luminary. 
The Farmer’s B'ank. —Vault—Mother Earth. 
Exchanges—the transplanting of the nursery 
and garden. 
Deposits-—Happiness, sobriety and manly in¬ 
dependence. 
Assets—Shining fields, waving harvests. 
Liabilities — Indebted to God alone, who sends 
the funds, the sunshine and the rain.— National 
Free Press. 
She neglects her heart who studies the glass. 
