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To every person forwarding us one new sub¬ 
scriber, with $2, ice will send, post paid, any 
TWO copies of the following boohs in the 
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Gardener; 2, Wilson on the Culture of Flax; 
3, Dana’s Prize Essay on Manures ; 4, Ele¬ 
ments of Agriculture, by Skinner; 5, Top- 
ham’s Chemistry Made Easy; 6, Leibig’s 
Agricultural Chemistry; 7, Leibig’s Animal 
Chemistry : 8, The Horse, by Richardson ; 
9, Horse’s Foot, and How to Keep'it Sound, 
by Miles ; 10, Milburne’s Cow : Dairy, Hus¬ 
bandry, and Cattle Breeding; 11, Knowl- 
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Hog; 13, Domestic Fowls, by Richardson; 
14, the Poultry Breeder : 15, The American 
Fowl Breeder; 16, The Hive and Honey 
Bee, by Richardson ; 17, Phelp’s Bee Keep¬ 
er’s Chart; 18, Every Lady her own Flower 
Gardener; 19, Richardson on Dogs; 20, 
Johnston’s Catechism, by Norton. 
Or one copy of any of the following: 
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Gardener’s Instructor ; 2, Schenck’s Garden¬ 
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Bridgeman’s Fruit Cultivator’s Manual; 5, 
Chorlton’s Cold Grapery ; 6, Buchanan on 
Grape Culture ; 7, Pardee on the Strawber¬ 
ry; 8, Cole’s American Fruit Book ; 9, Ele¬ 
ments of Agriculture, by Skinner ; 10, Da¬ 
vis’s Text Boqk of Agriculture ; 11, Norton’s 
Scientific Agriculture; 12, The American 
Veterinarian, by Cole ; 13, American Pocket 
Farrier; 14, Guenon’s Milk Cows ; 15, Nef- 
fin on Milk Cows ; 16, Weeks on the Honey 
Bee ; 17, The Cottage and FarmBee Keeper; 
18, American Rose Culturist; 19, Browne’s 
American Bird Fancier. 
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American Farm Book; The American 
Poultry Yard; Buist’s Kitchen Gardener; 
Stockhart’s Chemical Field Lectures ; Beat¬ 
ty’s Southern Agriculture ; Allen on the 
Grape ; Thomas’s Fruit Culturist; Dana’s 
Muck Manual; Johnston’s Elements of Ag¬ 
ricultural Chemistry and Geology ; Blake’s 
Agriculture for Schools; Hind’s Farriery 
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Economy; Practical Farrier, by Mason ; Al¬ 
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Young Gardener's Assistant; Johnston’s 
Dictionary of Modern Gardening ; Elliott’s 
American Fruit Grower’s Guide ; Guide to 
the Orchard, by Lindley ; Neill’s Fruit, Flow¬ 
er and Kitchen Garden; Downing's Fruit 
and Fruit Trees of America ; Barry’s Fruit 
Garden ; Browne’s American Field Book of 
Manures; Ruffin’s Calcareous Manures ; 
Leibig’s Complete Works ; Youatt on the 
Structure and Disease of the Horse ; Youatt 
and Martin on Cattle, by Stephens; Farm¬ 
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LangstrothonBees ; Buist’s American Flow¬ 
er Garden Directory ; American Rose Cultu¬ 
rist ; London’s Lady Companion to the Flow¬ 
er Garden; Allen’s Rural Architecture; 
Smith’s Landscape Gardening; Wheeler’s 
Rural Homes ; Youatt on the Dog; Evan’s 
Sugar Planter’s Manual. 
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the first 19 books named in Premium No. 1. 
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books. 
WESTERN CORN CROPS-PORK OF THE YEAR- 
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Remarkable as our country west of the 
Alleghanies is for the production of Indian 
corn, few people are aware of its true capa¬ 
city for growing that all-important article. 
For example : the premium crop of corn at 
the Bourbon County Exhibition in 1853, in 
an entire field of sixty acres, was thirty-five 
barrels, or 175 bushels to the acre ! Yet so 
severe was the drouth the present year, that, 
on the same field, and with equally good 
cultivation, the owner of it offered his whole 
crop to any one who would pay him for 
thirty-five bushels per acre, instead of that 
number of barrels, as last year. 
During several days that we traveled in 
the western States the past autumn, in which 
we had intercourse with many intelligent 
farmers, we came to the conclusion that, 
taken altogether, the crop of corn is about 
two-thirds an average one. In some sec¬ 
tions it was quite as good as usual; in oth¬ 
ers the yield was half to two-thirds of a 
crop; while in some extreme localities it 
was not to exceed one-fourth to one-third 
the usual rates. There was, however, per¬ 
haps quite one-fourth of the last year’s crop 
left over, which, added to the new, makes a 
very tolerable supply, and will carry our 
western farmers very comfortably over to 
the next harvest. 
There will be much less corn-fed pork this 
year than last. But the quantity of hogs is 
greater than ever before, and the supply of 
pork will be large, but of not so good quality 
as usual. Acorns, hickory and beech nuts, 
will do a vast deal of the hog feeding. The 
mast (nuts) in the woods has never been 
more abundant, and innumerable numbers of 
swine have been driven into them for feed¬ 
ing. Many extensive pork raisers told us 
that they should sell more pork than ever, 
and without feeding a bushel of corn to their 
hogs ! It will be thinner and lighter than if 
corn-fed ; but, if properly cured, still a tol¬ 
erable article ; while the hams, shoulders, 
and bacon, will be palatable and fine. 
The New-England Farmer, heretofore 
published by Messrs. Raynolds & Nourse, is 
hereafter to be published by Mr. Joel Nourse, 
one of the partners of the well-known firm 
of Ruggles, Nourse, Mason & Co., Manufac¬ 
turers of Agricultural Implements. We 
learn from the publisher’s notice, that the 
editorial arrangements will continue as be¬ 
fore. We are glad to learn this, as we have 
ever considered the Farmer one of our best 
exchanges. We trust the Lieutenant Gov¬ 
ernorship, to which he has just been elected, 
will not turn the attention of Mr. Brown, the 
present editor, altogether from Agriculture. 
We are sorry he has stooped from the digni¬ 
ty of his profession to meddle in politics. 
He would scarcely have done it had he not 
recently too intimately associated with those 
who Know Nothing. 
“An Old Subscriber” is informed that for 
very cogent reasons we do not answer any 
anonymous communications. If he has been 
a subscriber during the past ten months, he 
can scarcely have failed to read in our col- 
