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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
The Portland State of Maine , in giving an 
account of the peppering lately administered to 
the town of Grcytown, by a U. S. ship, appro¬ 
priately calls the vessel Cayenne. 
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The most unpopular truth in the Bible—the 
record of ladies’ ages. 
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Chops in Washington Co., N. Y.—A subscri¬ 
ber writes the 4th inst., that “all through hay¬ 
ing and harvest, we have had intervals of rain, 
so that corn and buckwheat promise all that 
can be wished. Oats, which are middling short- 
strawed from earlier dry weather, are well filled, 
though the indications were against them when 
they first began to ripen.” 
From Ihe Mark Lane Express, Monday, July 17. 
REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE. 
TnouGH the weather of late has been far from 
auspicious for the growing Corn-crops, the trade 
has remained very quiet; and there is an evi¬ 
dent unwillingness to enter into speculative in¬ 
vestments at the existing high rates. The fact 
is that the supplies from abroad have thus fat- 
proved more than equal to expectation, and the 
idea of any actual scarcity being experienced 
between this time and harvest appears to be no 
longer entertained. 
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STATE AGRICULTURAL SHOWS IN 1854. 
Name. Where held. Date. 
Morgan, 
McConnellsville, 
it 
3-4 
Ross, 
Chilicoth, 
it 
3-5 
Hamilton, 
Carthage, 
a 
4-6 
Wood, 
Portageville, 
a 
4-5 
Ashland, 
Ashland, 
a 
4-5 
Geaugo, 
Burton, 
a 
4-6 
Henry, 
Napoleon, 
a 
5-6 
Holmes, 
Millersburgh, 
a 
5-6 
Gallia, 
Gallipolis, 
a 
5-6 
Harrison, 
Cadiz, 
a 
5-6 
Trumbull, 
Warren, 
a 
5-6 
Licking, 
Newark, 
a 
11-12 
Preble, 
New-Paris, 
a 
11-13 
Coshocton, 
Coshocton, 
a 
12-13 
Defiance, 
Defiance, 
a 
12-13 
Carroll, 
Carrollton, 
a 
17-19 
Pennsylvania County Snows. 
Dauphin, 
Harrisburg, 
Sept. 
13-15 
Delaware, 
Chester, 
a 
14-16 
Mercer, 
Mercer, 
a 
19-20 
York, 
a 
20-22 
Monongahala 
Yalley, Monong.’ City, “ 
28-29 
Alleghany, Pa., Pittsburg, 
Oct. 
3-6 
1 toga, 
Tioga Valley, 
(( 
4-5 
Somerset, 
Somerset, 
a 
5 
Lawrence, 
a 
11-13 
Westmoreland, Greensburg, 
u 
11-13 
Montgomery, 
Springtown, 
Fulion, 
McConnellsburg, 
a 
26-28 
New-Jersey County Shows. 
Cumberland, 
Bridgeton, 
Sept. 
15 
Gloucester, 
Woodbury, 
<( 
19 
Monmouth, 
Freehold, 
U 
21 
Illinois, 
Springfield, 
Sept. 12-15 
Kentucky, 
Lexington, 
li 
12-16 
Lower Canada, 
Quebec, 
a 
12-16 
Vermont, 
Brattleborough, 
a 
13-15 
Ohio, 
Newark, 
u 
16-22 
Michigan, 
Detroit, 
a 
26-29 
Pennsylvania, 
Philadelphia, 
a 
27-29 
Missouri, 
Boonville, 
Oct 
2-6 
New-Y'ork, 
New-York, 
u 
3-6 
New-Hampshii 
o, 
a 
3-6 
Maryland, 
Baltimore, 
a 
3-6 
Indiana, 
Madison, 
a 
4-7 
Wisconsin, 
Watertown, 
a 
4-7 
Connecticut, 
New-Haven, 
a 
10-13 
North Caronina, Raleigh, 
a 
17-20 
Tennessee, (East,) Knoxville, 
u 
18 19 
Georgia, 
Augusta, 
a 
23-26 
Iowa, 
Fairfield, 
u 
25 
National Cattle 
Show, 
Springfield, Ohio, 
a 
26-27 
New-Yoric CountyJShows. 
Oneida, 
Rome, 
Sept. 19-21 
Rensselaer, 
Lansingburgh, 
<( 
19-21 
Delaware, 
Delhi, 
U 
20-21 
Franklin, . 
Malone, 
U 
20-21 
Jefferson, 
Watertown, 
a 
21-22 
Washington, 
No. White Creek, 
a 
21-22 
Dutchess, 
Washington Hollow, “ 
24-27 
Albany, 
Albany, 
a 
26-28 
Putnam, 
Carmel, 
a 
26-27 
Columbia, 
Chatham-Four-Corners, 
29-30 
Ohio County Shows. 
Guernsey, 
Cambridge, 
Sept. 
6-8 
Pickaway, 
Circleville, 
it 
6-8 
Clinton, 
Wilmington, 
a 
12-13 
Delaware, 
Delaware, 
u 
13-14 
Medina, 
Medina, 
u 
13-14 
Ashtabula, 
Jefferson, 
a 
26-28 
Lucas, 
Toledo, 
a 
26-27 
Sandusky, 
Clyde, 
a 
26-27 
Hardin, 
Kenton, 
a 
27-28 
Lorain, 
Elyria, 
a 
27-28 
Richland, 
Mansfield, 
a 
27-28 
Miami, 
Troy, 
a 
27-29 
Geauga, (Free,) Claridon, 
a 
27-29 
Mahoning, 
Canfield, 
a 
28-29 
Summit, 
Akron, 
a 
23-29 
Belmont, 
St. Clairsville, 
Oct. 
3-5 
Logan, 
Bellefontain, 
a 
3-5 
Clarke, 
Springfield, 
a 
3-5 
Clermont, 
Bantam, 
a 
3-6 
Columbiana, 
New-Liabon, 
u 
3-5 
County Shows Miscellaneous. 
Hillsborough, N. H., Nashua, Sept. 
Rockingham, N. H., Exeter, “ 
Grafton, N. H., Lyme, “ 
Che:hire, N. H., Keene, “ 
Merrimack, N. H., Fisherville, “ 
Fairfield, Ct., Stamford, “ 
North Aroostook, Me., Presque Isle, “ 
Cass, Mich., Cassopo, Oct. 
Livingston, Mich., IIowcll‘ “ 
26-27 
13-14 
21-22 
26- 27 
27- 28 
26-29 
4-5 
3-4 
3-5s| 
Expiring Subscriptions. —As we have before 
announced, the Agriculturist is sent no longer 
than ordered and paid for; so that any one re¬ 
ceiving the paper need not expect to receive a 
bill for it afterwards. With the last number of 
any subscription we send a notice that the time 
is up, or what is equivalent, we generally send a 
bill for another year. The bill is made out at 
the full price $2 a year. Those belonging to 
clubs will of course remit only the club price. 
SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS. 
Bound Volumes. —We have a few sets (26 
numbers) of volume eleventh, bound and un¬ 
bound. The price, at the office, of the unbound 
volumes is $1.00. The bound volumes are neatly 
put up in cloth covers, gilt backs, at $1.50. 
We can also furnish the covers separately, 
gilt and all ready for putting in the paper, for 
twenty-five cents each. With the covers thus 
prepared, any bookbinder can complete the 
binding for twenty-five cents. Volumes sent to 
the office will be bound complete for fifty cents. 
We are having printed a new edition of the 
first ten annual volumes of the monthly Agri¬ 
culturist, which can be supplied for $1.25 per 
volume or $10 for the set of ten volumes. 
We find that by using such good paper, our 
volume of 832 pages will be quite large to bind, 
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 conye- 
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 
folded, and then pin or sew it through the mid¬ 
dle and cut open the leaves. It is very easy to 
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, 
we 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. 
Back Numbers. —We have taken the precau¬ 
tion to print each week a large number of extra 
copies, so that we can still supply new subscri¬ 
bers with full sets from the beginning of this 
volume, (March 15.) Any copies accidentally 
lost by a subscriber, will be freely supplied. 
Specimen copies sent to any person, whose ad¬ 
dress is furnished post-paid. 
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 does 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 thefr 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. 
pprkets, 
Remarks. —Flour has fallen the past week 
from 25 to 50 cts. per bbl., and Corn 3 to 5 cts. 
per bushel. Pork is 25 to 374 cts. lower, wflfile 
Lard has advanced a trifle. Beef stationary. 
Wool dull. 
Sugar is firmer, no change in other Southern 
products. 
