AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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ceipts are from the south. So behind-hand 
are farmers with their work, and so loth are 
they from other considerations to sell their 
grain, even at the present high prices, that 
almost a famine still prevails among con¬ 
sumers. We have still to dread the results 
predicted by us two weeks since, viz: noth¬ 
ing to be realized by farmers now because 
they will not sell, and little to be realized 
when they do sell, because every body will 
be selling at the same time, and prices will 
sink so lo w. A nother week’s reports furnish 
no reasons for changing the opinions ex¬ 
pressed during several weeks past, viz : that 
there is a superabundance of wheat in the 
country. Even allowing the wheat to be 
only an average yield, there is a prospect— 
now almost a certainty—that the corn crop 
is to exceed all former years. This enters 
so largely into consumption, that it will 
save a great amount of wheat. 
Potatoes are coming in finely. So far as 
we can yet hear, the rot will be less preva¬ 
lent this year than during several years 
past. Speculators have got up rumors of 
the rot on Long Island and elsewhere, but a 
sifting of these reports show them to be 
with small foundation. On Saturday last 
2,000 bushels of potatoes were sold in New- 
burg on the Hudson river, by a single dealer, 
for 28 to 3li cents per bushel. 
Flour has fallen during the past week say 
25 to 50 cents per barrel. Corn has fallen 
about 3 cents per bushel. 
Potatoes rose at one time to 75 cents per 
bushel, but have got upon the descending 
scale, where they will probably remain. 
Cotton is i of a cent per lb. lower. In 
other southern products, no change worth 
recording. 
The Weather has been quite cool—unusu¬ 
ally so for this season. Large quantities of 
rain fell on Thursday and Friday of last 
week. Since that the weather has been gen¬ 
erally fine. 
PRODUCE MARKET. 
Reported Exclusively for the American Agriculturist. 
Tuesday, Aug. 28, 1855. 
The prices given m our reports from week lo week, are the 
average wholesale prices obtained by producers, and not those 
at which ^produce is sold from the market. The variations in 
prices refer chiefly to the quality of the articles. 
The price of the different qualities of Po¬ 
tatoes varies less than it did last week. All of them are 
worth about $1 50 per barrel, though the price varies 
very much on different days,>wing to the irregularity of 
the supply. To-day sales are dull. 
The supply of Peaches is as abundant as last week, and 
the quality is improving. Delawares are out of the Mar¬ 
ket, and the Jerseys, of good quality, command a ready 
sale, though those of poor quality sell for almost nothing. 
Tomatoes continue at prices such as barely to pay for 
bringing them to market. 
Apples have their “ ups and downs ” from day to day. 
We quote them a little higher. 
Waterin' Ions continue in good demand at sustained 
prices, and Muskmelons are growing plentier and de¬ 
clining. 
Sweet Potatoes are more plenty, though the price con¬ 
tinues as last week. 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes—Long Island Whites.... ip basket $—50© 56 
Do. do. Mercers.do. 50© 56 
New-Jersey, Dyckman’s.p bbl. 1 75® — 
Do. Mercers.do. 1 50® — 
Sweet Potatoes—Delawares.do. 4 25® — 
Do. Virginias.do. 3 50® — 
Onions—Red.p bbl. 1 50® 1 75 
Do White.....pbask. 100® — 
Do Silver Skins.do 75® 81 
Corn—sweet. P 100 75® — 
Cabbages. P 100 2 00®5 00 
Cucumbers. 
31® — 
Squashes—White. 
25® — 
Yellow. 
37® — 
Tomatoes. 
12® 25 
Beans—Lima. 
75® — 
Do String. 
25® 37 
25® 37 
25(a) — 
25® 37 
Plums—Blue Gages. 
75®1 50 
Green Gages. 
1 —©1 25 
Apples, Sour. 
$1 50®1 75 
Sweet Bow. 
I 75®2 — 
Common. 
...].. . 
50® 75 
Pears, Bell. 
3 25©3 50 
Common. 
2 —©2 50 
Peaches. 
Extra do. 
Watermelons. 
Musk Melons. 
Butter Orange County.... 
Stale. 
Western. 
.do. 1 75®2 — 
.P lb. —®25c. 
Eggs State. 
Jersey. 
Poultry—Spring Chickens 
Fowls. 
Turkeys. 
Egg Plants. 
NEW-YORK CATTLE MARKET. 
Reported Expressly for the American Agriculturist. 
Wednesday August 29, 1855. 
N. B.—The rates in these reports refer to^ the estima ed 
weight of the beef in the quarters. 
The total supply of beeves for the week 
does not vary much from our last report. The quality of 
the cattle in market is quite as good as then, but sales are 
duU, with a decline of full half a cent a pound admitted 
by owners. 
The highest price realized to-day was, for most stock, 
not more than 101c., and but very few reached that figure. 
The majority of sales were from 9 to 10c., while a few 
light cattle brought not more than,8c. Kentucky sends the 
best cattle this week. 
At Allerton’s there has been during the week.2,284 
mere is io-uay. 
There came by the 
Harlem Railroad— 
-Beeves. 
. 109 
Cows and Calves. 
. 4 
Veals. 
.203 
Sheep and Lambs. 
.1368 
Swine. 
Hudson River R’d. 
—Beeves. 
. 536 
Erie Railioad. 
. .Beeves. 
. 1150 
Swine. 
. 174 
Hudson River Boats. Beeves. 
Sheep and Lambs. 
. 799 
There were from 
New-York. 
247 Ohio. 
. 823 
Illinois. 
571 Indiana’... 
. 104 
Penna. 
44 Kentucky. 
. 369 
At Brownings the receipts were, of 
Beeves. 
....823. 
.at 8®10c 
Cows and Calves. 
. 55. 
.at 5®61c 
Veals. 
.at 5®6,c 
At O’Briens— 
Beeves..— 
.406. 
Veals. 
The supply of Sheep and Lambs is: 
At Allerton’s. 
At Browning’s ... 
Sheep are better to-day than 1 previously. More fat 
sheep in market and fewer store sheep. Good sheep sell 
from $4 to §5. Extra, $6 to even $9. Store sheep from 
$1 25 to $3. 
Lambs range from $3 50 to $5. 
Veals sell from 4 to 51c. live weight. Extra, 61c. 
Swine.—Stock hogs are selling from 5 to 7c. Fat hogs, 
Of to lie. Pork, 8i®9|c. 
Mr. Chamberlin reports— , 
Beeves.612.at 7®101 
Sheep and Lambs.... 8428.at 2®6Jc 
Cows and Calves. 94.at $25®60 
Calves.204.at 6®7c 
Mr. Mortimore reports the Sheep market better this 
week than last. Sheep average $3 25. Lambs, $2 75. 
SPECIALLY INTERESTING TO ALL OUR SUB¬ 
SCRIBERS. 
For two years past we have been con¬ 
stantly importuned by great numbers of our 
subscribers, to add to this paper a “ News 
Department." Say they, “ We like your 
Agriculturist better than any other paper, 
and can not do without it—but we also want 
news, and now we must pay for two papers, 
which we are not all of us able to do.” 
We have felt the force of these oft-repeat¬ 
ed requests, but have not heretofore yielded 
to them, for two reasons : First, we wish to 
make the Agriculturist peculiarly agricultu¬ 
ral in its character ; and fill its pages chiefly 
with such matter as will be of a high order, 
and adapted to binding or preserving ; and, 
Second , we have ourselves little inclination 
for devoting the amount of time and thought 
to miscellaneous reading which would be 
required of us, in order to make up what we 
consider a well-digested miscellaneous news¬ 
paper ; and we may add, as a third reason, 
that we consider the condensed column of 
items of news usually made up for religious 
and agricultural papers, as very dry and un¬ 
satisfactory, and little calculated to give 
correct and desirable views of the progress 
of the social and political world. To say a 
certain law was passed, a disaster happened, 
a battle fought, a riot occurred, a building 
was burned, &c., without the accompanying 
circumstances, is dry detail—it is the skele¬ 
ton of a body without the living organs, the 
nerves, blood, muscles and color that give it 
animation. 
These are some of the considerations 
which have deterred us from making the 
Agriculturist a general newspaper. But we 
think we have at last hit upon a plan, which 
will furnish our readers with just what they 
desire and need, viz : both an agricultural 
journal, of the first order, and a comprehen¬ 
sive newspaper, and that, too, at no greater 
price than is now paid for the Agriculturist 
alone. Our plan is this : 
First —The present volume closes with 
No. 10-1—one week hence—and at that 
time we propose to increase the Agricultu¬ 
rist to 24 pages, printing it on superior paper 
to that now used, and devote its pages ex¬ 
clusively to such matters as pertain strictly 
to rural life (see new Prospectus on last 
page), and to issue it on the first of each 
month instead of weekly, and to reduce the 
price to one dollar a year —half its present 
rate. The size of the pages and style of the 
monthly paper will be uniform with the pres¬ 
ent weekly issue, and suitable for binding 
up with it. Several pages now devoted to 
prices current, markets, advertisements, and 
miscellaneous matters, will be omitted, and 
nearly the whole 24 pages be devoted to 
practical agriculture, gardening, stock rais¬ 
ing, domestic economy, &c. 
Second —To supply a full and complete 
newspaper, with an extensive department of 
reports upon produce and live stock markets 
and other agricultural news. We have ar¬ 
ranged with Messrs. Raymond, Harper & Co., 
to print for us weekly an extra edition of the 
N. Y. Weekly Times, one of the largest 
newspapers in the country. This we shall 
mail each week to all our present unexpired 
