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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS. 
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Back Numbers. —We have taken the precau¬ 
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lost by a subscriber, will be freely supplied. 
Specimen copies sent to any person, whose ad¬ 
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We find that by using such good paper, our 
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and especially large for those who wish to stitch 
their paper together with an index, without be¬ 
ing at the expense of binding. To obviate this, 
we have concluded to be at the expense and 
trouble of making out an extra index with No. 
26, so as to form a complete volume of the first 
26 numbers. The index for the next 26 num¬ 
bers will be given at the end of the year, or with 
No. 52. This arrangement will make it conve¬ 
nient for all, as the 52 numbers can be stitched 
or bound in two volumes with an index for each, 
or in one volume with the double index at the 
close. 
We hope all will preserve their numbers, for 
there are many single articles each of which will 
be worth the price of the volume, for future ref¬ 
erence. When the paper arrives from the post- 
office, a good plan is to see that it is properly 
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stitch 26 numbers together. To do this, arrange 
them in regular order, and with an awl punch 
several holes about one-fourth of an inch from 
the back, and through these run a strong thread 
two or three times with a darning-needle, and 
the work is done. We have scores of volumes 
of papers, pamphlets, and addresses, thus pre¬ 
pared, which serve all the purposes of a bound 
volume, and occupy less room in storing and 
carrying. We would, however, prefer to see 
volumes of agricultural papers neatly bound and 
laid upon the book-shelves or tables of farmers. 
They are much better and more appropriate or¬ 
naments, than gilded volumes of trashy maga¬ 
zines or novels. 
ONE WORD MORE.—We thank our friends 
for the liberal aid they have afforded us in ex¬ 
tending the circulation of the Agriculturist. 
Our list has increased beyond our expectation, 
and we are daily encouraged to labor with the 
utmost diligence, to make our paper worthy of 
the confidence and admiration of our largely in¬ 
creasing list of readers. Our reliance for the 
continuance and increase of our list is upon 
those who are already readers. As stated above, 
w t c now divide the year so as to give either one 
or two complete volumes of the 52 numbers. 
Number 27 begins the second volume, or half 
of the year. We respectfully request all our 
present subscribers to make a little exertion at 
this time, and each send us on at least one new 
name. If you cannot get your neighbors to 
send on for a year, ask them to try the paper 
for six months, as in that time they will get a 
complete volume. 
To Correspondents.— We have several com¬ 
munications on hand which we will look over 
as soon as we have time, and some of them will 
be published. It is no trifling labor to prepare 
for the printer many communications which we 
receive. Some are written so closely that there 
is not room to put in corrections, without re¬ 
writing the whole. We cheerfully prepare ar¬ 
ticles, unless there is manifest want of care on 
the part of the writer. If he docs as well as he 
can, we make all needful changes and correc¬ 
tions. 
As most writers doubtless wish to improve 
their own style, we suggest to them to keep an 
exact copy of their communications, and then 
compare this copy with the printed sheet. They 
may often learn something in this way. 
We are not anxious to receive original poetry. 
We have little space for rhyme, and we have 
good selections enough to last us a year at least. 
Good poetry, however, will not be rejected ; but 
we advise all who attempt to write in verse to 
remember, that good rhyme does not constitute 
good poetry; on the contrary, some of the best 
poetry we have ever seen does not “ rhyme ” at 
all, while some of the best rhyme contains not a 
single poetic sentiment. 
APPEARANCE OF CROPS. 
The Crops.— The following from the Palmyra 
(Wayne Co.) Democrat , is a fair sample of the 
expressions of the press in the State in regard 
to the prospect of the coming crop: 
“The prospect for a good crop is very fair in 
our count} 7 . Wheat looks remarkably well, and 
bids fair to fill well, and an early harvest may 
be expected. And such appears to be the con¬ 
dition throughout Western New-York. We 
are also in receipt of favorable accounts as to 
the crops in Western States, and there is no 
doubt a prospect of very abundant harvest gen¬ 
erally.” 
We understand that the prospect for a good 
wheat crop in Wabash Valley is very poor— 
many fields where wheat had been sowed, have 
been plowed up for corn. On the line of the 
Michigan Central R. It., and on the line of the 
Southern R. R. in Michigan, the wheat fields give 
bad promise for|a good crop.— Ind. Sentinel. 
We indulged in a drive into the country some 
days ago, and assure the timid we never saw 
the wheat crop more promising at this season 
of the year. There will be plenty of grain 
raised in Ohio this season to supply the inhabi¬ 
tants of four such States; so there is no danger 
of starvation.— Columbus {0.) Journal. 
The Wheat Crop. —The wheat crop in this 
section of country, looks fine, and bids fair to 
produce an abundant yield. In riding through 
New Castle county, on Saturday last, we saw 
that the prospect of a good harvest in that 
county was also very flattering.— Smyrna ( Del¬ 
aware) Herald. 
The Wheat Crop. —In every part of the 
Greenbrier (Pa.) Country, so far as we can 
learn, the wheat crop promises excellently. 
Since the incoming of this month, the weather 
has been worthy of May in any clime—continu¬ 
ous sunshine, with the exception of one or two 
showers. A day’s rain would not now be amiss. 
— Greenbrier Era. 
The Joint Worm in the Wheat. —We regret 
to learn, says the FredericJcsburgh Hews of the 
22d insf., that the Joint Worm is playing sad 
havoc in Carolina and Spottsylvania counties. 
An intelligent farmer told us on Saturday, that 
until ten days before, the promise of an unusu¬ 
ally large crop had never been better. 
The Canadian Wheat Crop.— The Hamil¬ 
ton ( C. W.) Journal of the 19 th inst., says that 
it has, from almost every part of the adjoining 
country, very favorable accounts of the state of 
the wheat crop. It is described as seldom hav¬ 
ing presented a better appearance at this season 
of the year. 
Vegetation at the West.— A letter from 
Richmond, Ind., says the season is very forward 
there; apples as large as hickory nuts on the 
trees; and the prospect excellent for a large 
yield of all kinds of fruit. 
New Wheat. —The Chicago Journal of the 
19th inst., speaks thus encouragingly of the 
wheat crop in that State : 
“Notwithstanding the backwardness of the 
season, we learn that the wheat crop is in 
greater forwardness in the State, than has been 
before known. We are advised that in many 
of the counties South, and in the interior, a 
considerable quantity of wheat will be cut as 
early as the tenth of June.” 
The Palmer Worm, a deadly foe to fruit 
trees, is making its reappearance in Western 
Massachusetts, and fruit growers arc obliged to 
destroy all infected trees, to prevent worms 
from reaching others. 
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From the Mark Lane Express, Monday, May 8. 
REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE. 
We have now arrived at a period of the year 
when the weather exercises more influence on 
the tone of the grain trade than any other cir¬ 
cumstance. The rise which took place in the 
temperature in the early part of the week, and 
the supply of moisture so much needed, have 
not failed therefore to have the effect of some¬ 
what depressing prices. The downward move¬ 
ment has been further assisted by the extent 
of the foreign arrivals. In addition to consid¬ 
erable receipts from the Black Sea and Mediter¬ 
ranean off the coast, a fair quantity of Wheat 
has again come to hand from the Baltic; besides 
which, we have had good arrivals of Flour, 
partly direct from America and partly re-ship¬ 
ments of American Flour from France. The 
latter have been directed to London, and the 
former principally to Liverpool. At the same 
time the deliveries from our own growers have 
somewhat increased; this is shown by the re¬ 
turn of the sales made at the towns furnishing 
the averages for the kingdom. The quantities 
sold stand thus for the week ending, 
Qrs. Qrs. 
April 8, 1854.. 36,628. Corresponding week, 1853.. 88,343 
“ 15, “ 41,926. “ “ 75,972 
“ 22, “ 54,353. “ “ 68,439 
“ 29, “ 70,581. “ “ "4,904 
The confidence of holders in regard to very high 
prices appears to have been considerably shaken 
by the facility with which our wants have 
hitherto been provided for, notwithstanding the 
war with Russia, and the shortness of the yield 
of the last Wheat crop in many of the principal 
Wheat-growing countries on the continent. We 
are, however, inclined to think that extraordi¬ 
nary exertions have been made to profit by the 
high rates which have been current in the 
British markets, and that it will not be easy to 
collect any very large quantity of Wheat in the 
Baltic during the summer months. There is 
also reason to believe that the supplies which 
have lately reached us from France would not 
have been received if money-matters had been 
easier there; and we should certainly not be 
surprised to find France compelled to purchase 
here before harvest. We are therefore of opin¬ 
ion that the fall from present rates will not be 
great; and any decline which may take place 
would be very likely to be recovered, if the 
opinion in regard to the exhausted state of the 
stocks on the continent should prove to be cor¬ 
rect. The reports from the agricultural dis¬ 
tricts are, on the whole, of a satisfactory nature. 
Wheat has improved in appearance within the 
last week or two; and though the plant is un¬ 
questionably thin in many parts of the country, 
with propitious weather the produce might, and 
probably would, be large. The Lent-sown Corn 
and Pulse crops already exhibit the benefit of 
the recent warm showers; and the growth of 
grass has also been promoted. The dull reports 
from Mark Lane, of Monday last, produced less 
effect on the trade at Liverpool on Tuesday than 
usual; indeed, Wheat partly recovered the de¬ 
pression of the previous market-day, bringing 
rates nearly equal to those current on that day 
se’nnight. This was owing to a large country 
demand, the attendance of buyers from different 
quarters being described as one of the most 
