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planting the heat of the border at 1 foot deep 
was 64°. The surface was formed into 
ridges from 5 to 7 inches high, and upon the 
top of these the shoots were closely pegged 
down. For three weeks the plants were 
covered every night with large bell-glasses, 
and as a precaution against cutting winds 
throughout the day Laurel branches were 
placed in rows between the ridges. With 
all this care and close attention to other mat¬ 
ters, the shoots do not increase in length ; 
they wither at the points, die off, and are 
succeeded from below the soil by fresh 
growths, which share the fate of their pre¬ 
decessors. The above is the result of my 
experience, and I know that others who 
have tried the plant have fared no better. 
A. Cramb. 
[It is too soon to say what it is worth, the 
tubers not being formed till August and 
September .]—Gardeners Chronicle. 
“A little humor now and then, 
Is relished by the best of men.” 
An ex-commission merchant, confessing 
his rascality, says he once sent the follow¬ 
ing “ returns ” for a crop of corn consigned 
him : 
“Mr. Brown—Sir : I have according to your 
instruction, made a forced sale of your corn, 
and received for it.$475 00 
Against which I liave’commission— 
Boatage. 
.$125 
00 
Cartage. 
_ 12 
00 
Wheelage. 
. 12 
50 
Storage. 
. 90 
00 
Ratage. 
_ 30 
00 
Saleage. 
. 45 
00 
-$314 50 
Leaving, as you perceive, a balance in 
your favor of.$160 50 
You can draw upon me for that sum. Trust¬ 
ing that you will honor me with still further 
consignments, 
I remain, sir,, yours sincerely, 
Sam Swinton.” 
By the next mail Mr. Brown sent back the 
account, with these words at the bottom : 
“ You infernal villian ! put in stealage, and 
keep the whole of it '."—Boston Post. 
Dry Leaves from the Tree of Knowl¬ 
edge. —Money has been called “ the sinews 
of war,” and for this reason: without'money, 
how is it possible for an army to make an 
advance 1 It is with health as with our 
property—we rarely trouble ourselves in 
looking seriously after it until there is very 
little of it left to look after. Few men are 
“driven to desperation,” without having a 
hand themselves in the driving. In female 
phraseology, it is almost invariably a man 
who is “ a great big stupid,” and a woman 
who is “ a great big silly.” Uneasy is the 
head that wears a wig in a gale of wind! 
Poverty must be a woman—it is so fond of 
pinching a person. 
Apfearances are Deceptive. —“Not very 
long ago,” says an English paper, “ an ex¬ 
press train drew up at a railway station at 
no great distance from the borders of Scot¬ 
land, and a gentleman “bearded like the pard,” 
accompanied by a noble looking lady, left a 
first class carriage and entered the refresh¬ 
ment room. Just at that moment, a native, 
who had been paying his devotions with too 
great fervor at the shrine of the jolly god, 
was industriously emancipating an efferves¬ 
cing draught from a flask he held in his hand, 
and either thoughtlessly or recklessly di¬ 
rected the cork towards the face of the dis¬ 
tinguished looking traveler, who jerked aside 
to avoid the missile. “ Oh ! there’s a fellow 
to stand fire,” exclaimed the spirituous hero. 
“You would’nt do for the Crimea.” It was 
the gallant leader, Lord Cardigan, the glo¬ 
rious “ six hundred ” who charged at Bala- 
klava, to whom the taunt was addressed. 
A celebrated English judge, on being asked 
what contributed most to success at the bar, 
replied, “ Some succeeded by great talent, 
some by high connexions, some by a mira¬ 
cle, but the majority by commencing with¬ 
out a shilling.” 
- an inirrmni i m - 
Live Stock of Ohio. —A correspondent of 
the Lousville Courier, who has been travers¬ 
ing Ohio, gives a very interesting account of 
the progress made in that State in the im¬ 
provement of live stock, especially the 
breeds of cattle. Some parts of the State, 
such as the counties of Pickaway, Madison, 
Highland, Licking, &c., have long been cele¬ 
brated in this respect, but it is within a com¬ 
paratively few years only that all sections 
have gone to work industriously and ener¬ 
getically to improve the breeds oftheir cattle 
and establish herds of commanding reputa¬ 
tion. The writer attributes this result in a 
great measure, if not chiefly, to legislation 
favoring the establishment of agricultural 
societies in all the counties. Men of landed 
estates and pecuniary resources are at the 
present time embarking energetically in the 
business of cattle raising, and farmers 
generally throughout the State are catching 
the infection from them. 
Htsulids. 
REMARKS. 
New-York, Wednesday, September 5. 
A rapid stride has been made during the 
past week, towards the fall in flour which we 
have predicted for some weeks past, and 
which we have warned our readers to be 
prepared for. Flour is to-day fully $1 per 
bbl. lower than one week ago. Some few 
brands, sueh as the “ Fancy Genesee,” “ Fan¬ 
cy and common to good Ohio,” have de¬ 
clined 75 to 87£c.; while “ Favorite and Ex¬ 
tra State ” and “ Extra Genesee,” have gone 
down $ I 25 to $ I 75 per bbl. Wheat has, of 
course, declined correspondingly. Con¬ 
tinued reports come in from various parts of 
the country of the great yield, not only of 
wheat, but of almost all other crops. . A let¬ 
ter from Sycamore Mills, Tennessee, says 
that wheat is so abundant that it is selling 
for 50c. per bushel, and corn, recently worth 
$1, will soon sell for 20 cents ; and yet farm¬ 
ers are making more money than at the 
higher price, as every thing grows so luxu¬ 
riantly. 
Corn is- every where flourishing, though 
we hear of too cold weather, and in some 
instances of frosts, thus early, in the north¬ 
ern towns of New-England. We may yet 
have frosts early enough in the northern 
States and Canadas to materially injure the 
Corn crop. 
Potatoes also promise to be an extraordi¬ 
nary crop, but we begin to hear occasional 
reports of the rot. The worst reports are 
from Long Island and eastern Massachusetts. 
Yesterday we learned that two farmers on 
Long Island,, near Coney Island, had lost 
about 4,000 bushels by the rot. Such re¬ 
ports are, however, quite limited as yet. 
But notwithstanding the recent veryjfavor- 
able reports of excellent crops in Europe, as 
well as generally in this country, it is not 
worth while to get frightened at the pros¬ 
pect of extraordinarily low prices. Our re¬ 
cent articles upon this subject, both in the 
American Agriculturist and in the Times , 
have been extensively copied throughout the 
country ; wheat growers are taking the hint 
and sending their grain to market; so that 
the danger of all the crop being withheld till 
spring, is not so imminent as it was two or 
three weeks since. The crop [will come to 
market more uniformly, and better prices 
will be maintained throughout the year than 
we had'reason to fear at one time. Specu¬ 
lators have now disposed of their old stocks 
of flour, and they are ready to operate for a 
fall. It will now suit their purpose to spread 
the most glowing accounts of abundant crops. 
We may add, however, that the chief cause 
of the fall in flour has not arisen so much 
from the increased amount sent to market, 
as from the cessation in the foreign demand, 
which lias heretofore exhausted all the sur¬ 
plus flour in our seaboard cities. 
Corn has fallen 4 to 5 cents per bushel. 
Oats are 8 to 10 cents cheaper. 
Sugar, quite an advance. 
Cotton is unchanged in price. 
The W T eather begins to feel autumn-like, 
but is generally quite pleasant. We had 
considerable rain on Monday, and a little on 
Sunday; otherwise the week past has been 
clear, and even delightful. 
NEW-YORK CATTLE MARKET. 
Reported Expressly for the American Agriculturist. 
Wednesday Sept. 5, 1855. 
tV. B.—The rates in these reports refer to the estima ed 
weight of the beef in the quarters. 
The decline in the price of beeves contin¬ 
ues. It is more difficult to-day to reach the fractions above 
ten cents than last week. Butchers claim the reduction of 
another half cent, which owners are unwilling to submit 
to, and sales are dull. One hundred head were left over 
from last week. 
The best cattle this week are grade Durhams, from 
Kentucky—shipped at Cincinatti—lay by to rest one day 
at Erie, 2 days at Buffalo, and one day at Albany. Home 
weight averaged 1,669 ; will dress by estimation 850 lbs., 
selling at about 10f cents. The majority of sales were 
under 9c., and inferior cattle sold for less than 8c. 
At Allerton’s there has been during the week .2,482 
There is to-day..2,582 
Of these 355 were in the New-York Yards. 
There came by the 
Harlem Railroad—Beeves. 105 
Cows and Calves. 
. 18 
Veals. 
. 223 
Sheep and Lambs. 
.1454 
Swine. 
. 9 
Hudson River R’d. 
—Beeves. 
Erie Railioad. 
.. Beeves. 
. 1500 
0 
Sheep and Lambs. 
. 127 
Swine. 
. 116 
There were from 
New-York. 
327 Ohio. 
. 820 
Illinois. 
441 Indiana... 
— 
Penna. 
61 Kentucky .. 
. 417 
At Brownings the receipts were, of 
Beeves. 
....790. 
.at 70101 
Cows and Calves.. 
....118. 
. $30040 
Veals. 
....152. 
. at 46c 
At O’Briens— 
Beeves. 
....426. 
Veals. 
Cows and Calves.. 
. 94. 
$25O$50 
The supply of Sheep and Lambs is: 
At Allerton’s. 
At Browning’s .... 
At Chamberlain’s . 
.8764 
Total. 
