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thinks to be after these wretches with a stick 
or a—■—” Here he was taken with a fit of 
coughing, and ruptured a blood vessel which 
broke up the meeting. 
The convention was timely, and the' dis¬ 
cussion was on home topics, as we discov¬ 
ered the first time we visited our own gar¬ 
den. There were the saw-dust piles about 
our apples and quinces. We took a sharp- 
pointed knife, and a piece of wire, and were 
immediately upon the track of these animal 
augers, auguring so ill for their future use¬ 
fulness. The white-livered wretches caught 
it for once, so that we shall have a clean 
conscience when that remonstrance of the 
convention comes to town. The pears, 
some of them, were covered with the white 
scale insects, which we soon scattered 
with a strong decoction of soft soap suds 
and a coarse brush. The peach trees we 
cleaned around the collar, cutting out the 
white worms that clustered under the oozing 
gum, and treating the wounds with a good 
covering of wood ashes. We saw, in a very 
short examination, that the speakers at the 
convention were manifestly dealing in home 
truths in their remarks. Possibly some of 
our readers may find their own gardens an 
illustration of the same truthfulness. At all 
events, it will be perfectly safe to examine 
your trees without delay—do [not let them 
die of neglect. 
We have more than once spent consider¬ 
able time in a fruitless search for a few 
pounds of sulphate of ammonia, to supply 
subscribers who wish to try it as a fertilizer. 
We have never yet. found it for sale and are 
glad to see it now offered through our ad¬ 
vertising columns. 
We also refer our readers to the adver¬ 
tisement of the Philadelphia Saturday Even¬ 
ing Post. 
CREDENTIALS OF THE AMERICAN AGRICUL¬ 
TURIST. 
Several of our cotemporaries have, from 
time to time, published their “ credentials,” 
and we are perhaps following a foolish cus¬ 
tom, in for once imitating them. Those who 
have read this journal for years have formed 
their own opinion ; but having a large num¬ 
ber of new readers, it may be interesting to 
them to know the opinions of others. We 
can not go over our letter files and gather up 
numerous expressions of approbation from 
correspondents, and we have not been care¬ 
ful in treasuring notices from our cotempo¬ 
raries, From such as are at hand, we give 
the following brief extracts, from recent num¬ 
bers. The articles from which these extracts 
are made, would fill the ivhole paper. 
From the Scientific American. 
-The American Agriculturist is one of 
the best journals of the kind, now pub¬ 
lished. .... 
From the Windham County Telegraph. 
_The New-York Mirror never came 
nearer the truth, than in the following short 
sentence : The American Agriculturist is a 
newspaper that no practical or scientific 
farmer can do without. Our readers all 
know our opinion of the publication, and 
many of them have for some time knotvn 
the publication itself. Selections from it are 
by no means rarities in our agricultural col¬ 
umns. 
From the New-Brunswick Times. 
_We clip the following extract from a 
notice of this excellent agricultural paper, 
from the People’s Journal for the month of 
October. Read it and subscribe : “A friend 
of ours now temporarily residing in France, 
partly in order to acquaint himself with 
French agriculture, to whom we have been 
sending a number of agricultural papers, 
writes us as follows : ‘ You may discontinue 
all the papers except the American Agricul¬ 
turist. After reading and comparing them 
all for some time, the American Agriculturist 
suits me best. It comprises the substance 
of the whole of them. I find in its pages a 
greater variety of agricultural information 
than in any one of the others.’ The above 
is the deliberate opinion of a practical man, 
and we take pleasure in adding to it our own 
endorsement.” 
From the Hartford Courant. 
_The Am erican Agriculturist is a first- 
class journal. 
From the Repository and Whig. 
... .It is one of the very best agricultural 
journals in the country. 
From the Germantown Telegraph. 
_It is a weekly, well printed on the 
best paper, and is a “ crack ” implement, ful¬ 
ly able to plow its own furrow. 
From the Miners’ Journal. 
_This work is eminently worthy the 
patronage of farmers, affording ample infor¬ 
mation on all subjects in which they are in¬ 
terested. 
From the Monmouth Enquirer. 
_The American Agriculturist is always 
filled with entertaining and instructive mat¬ 
ter for the farmers of our country. 
From the New-Jersey Standard. 
... .Our readers are scarcely aware of its 
value, or we should see large lists coming 
among our agricultural population. In quar¬ 
to form, on good paper, well printed, and 
ably edited, and illustrated, price only $2 a 
year, with reductions to clubs, do not let us 
hear of a member of the new Monmouth 
County Agricultural Society being without a 
copy of it. 
From the Weekly Gazette. 
_It is one of our most valuable ex¬ 
changes. 
From the Derby Journal. 
_It is devoted exclusively to the cul¬ 
ture of the soil, and is conducted with marked 
ability, combining scientific research with 
results of experience. 
From the New-York Observer. 
_We have great pleasure in calling at¬ 
tention to this valuable weekly. It embraces, 
a large amount, and a rich and well chosen 
variety of useful information—adapted to the 
reading of every family which takes an in¬ 
terest in the natural productions of earth, of 
art, and of mind. 
From the News and Advertiser. 
_This is an excellent agricultural pa¬ 
per. 
From the Dollar Times. 
_We notice that this leading agricultur¬ 
al paper has entered upon the eleventh vol¬ 
ume. It is issued weekly, each number 
containing sixteen large quarto pages, and 
furnishes a great variety of the earliest, most 
reliable, and practical information on all sub¬ 
jects connected with farming, planting,gard¬ 
ening, fruit growing, stock breeding, &c._ 
From the Niagara Courier. 
American Agriculturist is the title of the 
best agricultural journal on our exchange list. 
There are papers among us professing to be 
devoted to agriculture, which are mere im¬ 
positions, their conductors having no knowl¬ 
edge of the subject, practical or scientific, 
and no positive talent of any kind. The 
American Agriculturist is conducted with de¬ 
cided ability. Its editors are practical farm¬ 
ers, and well understand the subject on 
which they write. It is published on a su¬ 
perior article of paper, and at the close of 
the year, will make a valuable and conve¬ 
nient volume for reference. 
From the Hartford Daily Times., 
... .It is the cheapest paper of its charac¬ 
ter in the country. 
From the Ohio Democrat. 
-Farmers that are taking their own 
county paper, and feel able to do so, can not 
do better than to subscribe for the American 
Agriculturist . 
From the Connecticut Whig. 
... .If any of our readers wish to subscribe 
for a paper devoted to the farm and garden, 
we should recommend the American Agn- 
culturist . 
From the St. Mary’s Gazette. 
_If there is an agricultural work pub¬ 
lished in this country, that can be called truly 
American in its character, the American Ag¬ 
riculturist is the one. It is national in its 
principle, in its character, and in its sympa¬ 
thies. It is an honor to the nation, and to 
the cause in which it is engaged, and a bles¬ 
sing to every farmer who enjoys the privi¬ 
lege of reading its richly stored pages. 
From the Abingdon Virginian. 
_-.It is a journal entirely worthy of the 
patronage of the country. 
From the Suffolk Gazette. 
_It is overflowing with subjects inter¬ 
esting and valuable to all. 
From the Shelby Democrat. 
_Farmers desirous of securing a relia¬ 
ble agricultural paper, in our opinion can 
not do better than to secure the American 
Agriculturist. It is filled with the choicest 
original and selected articles. 
From the Misissippi Chronicle. 
....This valuable work is neatly gotten 
up, ably conducted, and is decidedly the 
leading agricultural paper of the country. A 
new volume has just commenced making it 
a very good time to subscribe. Every farm¬ 
er should read it. 
From the Farmers’ Cabinet. 
_It is beautifully printed, ably edited, 
and worthy of a place in every farm house. 
We cheerfully recommend it to our readers 
as the best of our exchanges devoted entire¬ 
ly to agriculture. 
FRIENDSHIP. 
There is no possession more valuable than 
a good and faithful friend. [Socrates. 
Wicked men can not be friends, either 
among themselves or with the good. [Ibid. 
Friendship is one soul in two bodies. 
[Aristotle. 
Procure no friends in haste, nor, if once 
procured, in haste abandon them. [Solon. 
Real friends are rvont [to visit us in our 
prosperity only Avhen invited, but in adversi¬ 
ty to come of their own accord. [Phalereus. 
Do good to your friend, that he may be 
more wholly yours ; to your enemy, that he 
may become your friend. [Cleobulus. 
It is pleasant to grow old with a good 
friend and sound reason. [Socrates. 
We ought to be equally mindful of our ab¬ 
sent and present friends. [Shales. 
He who has many friends has none. 
[Aristotle. 
Be the same to your friends, both in ad¬ 
versity and prosperity. [Periander. 
We should behave to our friends just as we 
would have them do to us. [Aristotle. 
Jiuncis Mweengso 
