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is nearly wasted. So give us our meals, if 
you please, Mistress Cook, when the “ hand 
splits the figure,” and we’ll try to not keep 
the table waiting. 
Runnet for Scours. —Mr. Reed Burritt, of 
Burdett, N. Y., write's the Country Gentle¬ 
man that he has found runnet an infallible 
cure for scours in cattle and lambs. He 
gives the lambs four spoonsful, the same as 
prepared to set a curd for cheese. We 
should be glad to hear his method of pre¬ 
paring the runnet, that we may judge how 
strong to make it; and also what he consid¬ 
ers a dose for a full-grown cow or ox. Un¬ 
less the runnet contains considerable quan¬ 
tities of something besides maw-skins, we 
can not, from its nature, account for any 
beneficial action upon the irritated intestines 
of an animal having the scours. 
Longer than Jack’s Bean. —The Monon- 
gahela City (Pa.) Republican of the 13th 
inst., says there is a pumpkin-vine in the 
garden of Mr. Wm. Coulter, of that city, 
which is already 225 feet long, and has 27 
pumpkins upon it. Will neighbor Hazzard 
report again, about next frost-time, and give 
also the total weight of the pumpkins 1 
The Peach Crop. —The Peach crop in 
New-Jersey and Delaware gives promise of 
being the largest ever known. Contracts 
have already been made for the delivery of 
large quantities of this fruit at very low 
prices. 
Caution to Bovs. —At Newburyport, Mass., 
a son of Phineas Drew, aged 14 years, met 
his death, a few days since, from a rush of 
blood to the head, caused by the very dan¬ 
gerous and common habit among boys, of 
standing on the head. 
Hon. George W. Clinton will deliver the 
address at Flushing, before the Queens Co. 
Agricultural Exhibition on the 20th of Sep¬ 
tember. ______ 
We would direct especial attention to the 
advertisement of Messrs. Elwanger& Barry. 
They have few rivals in this country ahead 
of them in their business. 
BOOK NOTICES. 
THE RABBIT FANCIER; A Treatise upon the breed¬ 
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bits, by C. N. Bement, Author of The American Poul¬ 
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Price 25 cents. 
This is an interesting and practical “hand 
book” for those interested in breeding rab¬ 
bits, and is especially valuable to beginners, 
or those having little experience. 
Some of the August magazines are already 
upon our (able. 
Putnam’s is, as usual, full of sterling origi¬ 
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ing the lead of its more noised and more pre¬ 
tentious rival. Dix & Edwards, No. 10 
Park-place, New-York, Publishers. $3 a 
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The National holds its course, which is 
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lustrated in the best style. Carleton & Phil¬ 
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The Ladies Repository. —The present 
number contains a very life-like and finely 
engraved portrait of Alice Carey, and a beau¬ 
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There are twenty or more longer articles 
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From ovr Foreign Correspondent. 
THARAND—ITS FOREST AND AGRICULTURE. 
Academy-. 
Some twelve or fifteen miles from the city 
of Dresden, in Saxony, nestled among wild, 
romantic mountains, lies the thrifty little 
city of Tharand. Green checkered hill¬ 
sides, dark, rich meadow-lands in the valleys, 
and a grand show of heavy timber on the 
hill-tops—descending in some places down 
the steeper slopes quite to the edge of the 
stream in the valley—meet the eye of the 
visitor on approaching, and give the simple, 
rustic village a real thrifty look that both 
farmer and forester well appreciate. Direct¬ 
ly in the center of the village, upon an ab¬ 
ruptly ending spur of one of the three ranges 
of hills that, crowding upon each other, press 
the little village into an odd triangular shape, 
stands a very picturesque ruin of a castle, 
out of whose ancient windows impudent 
young birches of a few summers peep down, 
cushioning their white elbows on the vener¬ 
able mosses of a former century. The old 
castle does not frown. Oh, no ! it is beyond 
that. It smiles now. The mosses have 
filled up the cracks and the wrinkles of age 
(natural cosmetics for ruined walls), and 
cornice and battlement have crumbled and 
fallen away, leaving an irregular outline of 
turret,twall and window, over which the ivy 
stretches its green mantle and the white 
birch and aspen intertwine their branches, 
as if nature and wildness were asserting 
their claim upon the materials which man 
and art tore from the mountain. From this 
ruin, which is that of an ancient hunting 
seat of the Saxon princes, a fine panoramic 
view may be obtained, and the beauties of 
Tharand will be most impressive, if the first 
view is obtained from this spot. Mineral 
baths, whose chief recommendation is that 
they are perfectly harmless, draw out from 
Dresden many to recreate in the enjoyment 
of the baths, the scenery, the milk, the ber¬ 
ries, and the society of Tharand. 
But though I have an eye to all natural 
beauty, and an extraordinary fondness for 
berries and milk, it was another feature of 
the pretty village that claimed for me most 
interest. Tharand is the seat of a Forest 
and Agricultural Academy, which as a school 
of forest culture is the first in Germany. 
A prominent building of not unpleasing 
architecture, from its size and general look 
of distinction, attracts the stranger’s atten¬ 
tion. Its cornice and portico are ornament¬ 
ed with stag horns and emblems of the chase. 
Its spacious stair-cases and halls arc pro¬ 
fusely decorated in the same way. The 
heads of the elk, the stag, the roe, the rein¬ 
deer, and the boar, give the school of science 
the look of a feudal castle of the thirteenth 
centpry almost. Still everything is arranged 
with taste and appropriateness. The building 
contains a large and well selected library, 
almost exclusively of works pertaining to 
agriculture and forest-culture, and closely- 
related subjects ; a zoological cabinet of the 
animals, birds and insects of Saxony; geo¬ 
logical and mineralogical cabinets ; a collec¬ 
tion of tools used by the forester and the 
farmer, and many models of machines for 
various purposes ; models of barns, stables 
and sheds for various uses ; miniature hay 
and grain stacks of various forms ; horse¬ 
powers, dog-chains, etc. The building con¬ 
tains, besides, a well-arranged chemical la¬ 
boratory; and the remainder of the building, 
except that part occupied by the family of 
the janitor, is filled by the spacious hall, the 
“ aula,” and the lecture-rooms. 
There are six professors and about eighty 
students. A charge of about 80 thalers 
($60) is made, which entitles the pupil to 
attend all the lectures and other courses of 
instruction, including the practical course in 
the chemical laboratory, for half a year. 
Among the professors, Dr. Stosckliardt is 
best known in the United States. He is, in 
the estimation of many, the very first of the 
real teachers of agriculture in Germany at 
the present time. His great aim seems to 
be, to make knowledge popular, to enable 
the people to reason independently and cor¬ 
rectly in regard to the many minor ques¬ 
tions of agricultural practice and policy that 
can not be treated of generally in the books, 
and he certainly does present principles in 
such clear, simple forms to the mind, that 
they are grasped almost without an effort, 
Dr. S. is the author of an elementary chem¬ 
istry, of which there is an American edition, 
and which is very elementary, very full, and 
very excellent. Another more recent work 
of his, “Chemical Field Lectures for , the 
German Farmer,” has been translated by 
the late Dr. Tescheraaclier, and pretty wide¬ 
ly circulated in the United States—and from 
this one many obtain a good idea of the man 
and of his writings. The book is, in almost 
every respect, as applicable to the American 
as to the German farmer. 
I have to regret that Prof. Stceckhardt was 
absent at the time of my visit. His house, 
a new, pretty cottage, is cuddled under the 
old ruin, in a wild sort of place, having the 
beautiful Forest Garden as a back-ground 
and the fine view of which I spoke. 
By Prof. Krutsch I was shown through 
this Forest Garden, and really a wonderful 
place it is. It is several miles in extent, 
laid out in avenues and paths, and every ad¬ 
vantage is taken of the natural beauties of 
the spot. The trees are, or seem to be, 
perfect examples of their kind, and the great 
variety of them awakens astonishment. I 
observed many species natives of the Amer¬ 
ican forest -looking finely, and apparently 
doing quite as well on Saxon soil as some of 
the genus homo, who find their way here also. 
