AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Sensible. —The Natchez Free Trader tells 
the following story : 
Mr. Allen, a passenger on the ill-fated 
steamer Princess, had on board a very fine 
horse, which he was carrying down to New- 
Orleans, which acted in a manner truly 
philosophical. 
The horse was tied on deck, and while the 
flames were raging around him so near as to 
burn him quite severely, he remained per¬ 
fectly passive until the halter by which he 
was fastened was burned, when he quietly 
walked to the edge of the boat and plunged 
into the river and swam ashore. After get¬ 
ting on terra firma he turned slowly around 
and surveyed the scene of conflagration with 
the eye of a philosopher. After gazing upon 
the scene until the ropes by which the boat 
was moored were burned in two, he slowly 
walked up the bank of the river to the crowd 
in which his master was, and deliberately 
delivered himself up, notwithstanding he 
was in a most tempting corn-field. 
Just Like Him. —The man “ who is too 
poor to take a paper,” has bought a, slab- 
sided dog, an old shot gun, and a twenty 
shilling gold watch. He educates his chil¬ 
dren in the street, and boards his Shanghais 
on his neighbors. 
Never drink intoxicating liquors as a bev¬ 
erage. 
REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE. 
Office of the Mark Lane Express, } 
London, Nov. 20, 1854. $ 
The tone of the Wheat trade has remained 
quiet since our last; buyers are evidently 
anxious to ascertain" what may be the effect 
of the arrival of the anticipated foreign sup¬ 
ply. Importers, who are better informed as 
to the probable extent of the same than pur¬ 
chasers can possibly be, appear quite con¬ 
tent to hold on to the trifling stocks they 
have on hand, reckoning with confidence on 
a renewed demand. In this position of af¬ 
fairs the transactions have been of little im¬ 
portance, but nothing has occurred to lead 
us to alter our views in regard to the proba¬ 
ble future course of prices. Periods of ex¬ 
citement and calm are likely to be experi¬ 
enced ; but the tendency of prices will, in 
our opinion, be upwards for some months to 
come. What is nowon passage from abroad 
is really too unimportant to make any last¬ 
ing impression. Granaried stocks are every 
where light, not to say exhausted, and farm¬ 
ers have already delivered a larger propor¬ 
tion of the last crop than is usual at the cor¬ 
responding period of the year. 
For the moment, business is certainly dull, 
and at several of the leading provincial mar¬ 
kets held since Monday, the value of Wheat 
has given way more or less ; the decline, 
from the extreme rates of last week, may be 
estimated at from 2s. to 4s. per quarter. 
This reduction will probably have the effect 
of rendering the growers less eager to real¬ 
ize, more especially as wet weather, such as 
we have experienced this week, is unfavor¬ 
able for threshing and bringing corn to mar¬ 
ket. The millers, on the other hand, are not 
in a position to hold off for any lengthened 
period. In this state of affairs we can 
scarcely calculate on any continued depres¬ 
sion, and we should certainly not be sur¬ 
prised if the small decline tvhich has taken 
place were to be immediately recovered. 
SECOND GRAND NATIONAL POUL- 
TRY SHOW. 
NEARLY $504) CASH PREMIUMS. 
The National Poultry Society, for the improvement of Domestic 
Poultry, will hold its SECOND ANNUAL FAIR at the 
AMERICAN MUSEUM, 
In the City of New-Yorlt, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 
JANUARY 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th, 1855. 
It will include the exhibition of all kinds of fowls, pea-fowls, 
ducks, geese, swans, fancy pigeons, gold and silver pheasants, 
&c. Premiums will also be offered for the best specimens of 
rabbits and deer. 
The Frst Annual Show of the Society (which was held in Feb- 
luary last, in Barnum's American Museum) presented a truly 
surpassing coUection of rare and valuable Poultry, and not only 
attracted to an extraordinary extent the public attention, but 
thousands of gratified visitors of all classes, from all sections of 
our country. 
Flattering as was this success, the Managers are determined 
to make the SECOND ANNUAL SHOW a still more attract¬ 
ive illustration of the vital purpose of the Society to render uni¬ 
versally popular a pursuit hitherto limited to the sympathy of a 
few amateurs, and thus encourage every possible improvement 
in a branch of American Industry so intimately associated with 
our ideas of domestic enjoyment. 
The Managers, therefore, will make NO CHARGE WHAT¬ 
EVER TO COMPETITORS FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF 
EXHIBITING THEIR SPECIMENS. 
Exhibitors will be admitted free at all times during the Ex¬ 
hibition. 
Food and water will be provided by the Society for all fowls 
on exhibition, and proper persons will be appointed to regularly 
feed and provide for them, without expense or inconvenience to 
the owner. 
Fowls intended for exhibition may be sent any time after the 
10th of January, 1855, and they will be takencare of by the Man¬ 
agers, free of expense to the owners. They should be directed 
to the “ Poultry Committee, at the American Museum, New- 
York.” All specimens should arrive on or before the 16th Jan’y. 
In awarding prizes, the judges will take into consideration: 
1st. Purity of'Blood; 2d, Points of Form; 3d, Size ; 4tli, Beauty 
of Plumage. 
The Railroads generally, as well as other public conveyances, 
will, it is believed, transport Fowls to and from the Exhibition 
Free. Fowls thus transported gratis are at the risk of their 
respective owners. 
REGULATIONS. 
Every coop is to be marked with the true name of the 
Fowls exhibited ; and, when they are for sale, the price 
asked is to be legibly marked thereon. 
Exhibitors are expected to have their fowls exhibited in 
neat and tasteful coops, as small as convenient; and, for 
the sake of uniformity, it is recommended that they be 
made of one-half inch stuff, and be 36 inches in length, 28 
inches high, and 24 inches deep, with wire fronts. This 
rule, however, is not compulsory. 
Each exhibitor is expected to furnish, in writingg, all 
interesting information regarding the name, parentage, 
age, or importation of the fowls exhibited by him, the man¬ 
ner in which they have been fed, with an account of their 
production, &c. Any person who shall willfully render a 
false statement, in regard to the fowls exhibited by him, 
will forfeit all claims to premiums. It is not desirable 
that more than four specimens ol any one breed or variety 
of Gallinaceous Fowls be exhibited in one coop. 
No poultry of a common kind will be received by the 
Committee, and no exhibitor will be allowed to remove 
his contributions from the show Rooms until the close of 
the exhibition, without the joint permission of the Presi¬ 
dent of the Society and the Chairman of the Local Com¬ 
mittee of Arrangements. 
Any person may become a member of the Society by 
subscribing his name to the List of Members, and paying 
into the Treasury the sum of $3. Membership entitles 
the possessor to admission for himself and family at all 
times during the exhibition. 
The list of Judges will be called at 12 o’clock, M., on 
Tuesday, the 16th January, and they will immediately 
thereafter enter upon their examinations. At 10 o’clock 
on Thursday morning, the awards will be announced. 
On Friday morning at 10 o’clock, an appropriate Ad¬ 
dress will be delivered, and a CONVERSATIONAL 
MEETING held in the Lecture Room of the Museum, 
in which it is hoped that all interested in the subject will 
join. 
Tne most extensive arrangements will be made for ex¬ 
hibiting all the specimens of the Poultry in the FIVE 
SPACIOUS IIALLS OF THE MUSEUM, and NO EX¬ 
TRA CHARGE WHATEVER will be made. 
Admission to the National Poultry Show, including also 
all the usual attractions of the Museum and the Lecture 
Room, will be ONLY TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. Chil¬ 
dren under ten, half price. Open from 7 A. M. until 10 
P. M. 
Persons to whom large Premiums are awarded can 
have all or any portion of the value in Silver Plate, appro¬ 
priately inscribed, if preferred. Premiums not called for 
before the 15th of March will be considered donated to 
the Society. P. T. BARNUM, 
66-70nll44.] President ofthe National Poultry Society. 
Remarks. —Flour is about the same as per 
our last. Com has advanced 4 to 6 cents 
per bushel. The highest quality is now one 
dollar—precisely what we anticipated it 
would be several months ago, when ruling at 
80 cents. Even at a dollar per bushel, it is 
the cheapest food, relatively, we can eat. 
Corn is almost invariably disproportionably 
low. 
Cotton and rice are a little lower. Sugar 
and tobacco more in demand. 
The weather the past week has been quite 
mild for the season, with half a inch of snow 
on the 17th, and a couple of inches on the 
18th, which melted away as fast as it fell. 
PRODUCE MARKET. 
Saturday, December 16, 1854. 
The prices given in our reports from week to week, are the 
average wholesale prices obtained by producers, andnot those 
at which produce is sold from the market. The variations in 
prices refer chiefly to the quality of the articles. 
The supply of potatoes in market at the present time is 
quite limited, but if this warm weather continues it will 
doubtless soon meet the demand. Western Reds, as well 
as Pink Eyes, are very scarce, on account of the great 
demand for them for seed at the South. Cabbages sustain 
about the same prices, but the market is not as lively as 
heretofore. There is also a poor supply of Onions. Of 
other kinds of produce there is an abundance, but there 
has been a great falling off in prices since last week. The 
tightness of the money market, it is said, begins to be felt 
very sensibly. 
Apples vary but little either in supply or prices. Cran¬ 
berries are nearly out of season. 
Butter, Eggs; and Cheese, no change. 
Vegetables.— Potatoes, New-Jersey Mercers, $3 50® 
$3 75 p bbl.; Western Mercers, $3 25®$3 75; Nova 
Scotia Mercers, $3 50—$1 121 P bush.; New-Jersey Car¬ 
ters, $3 50(a)$4 ip bbl.; Washington Co. Carters, $3®$3 
50; Junes, $3(®$3 29; Western Reds, $2 75®$3 124 ; 
White Pink Eyes, $3 25®$3 624 ; Yellow Pink Eyes. $2 
50®$3; Long Reds, $1 87|ffi$2 25; Virginia, Sweet Pota¬ 
toes $3 25®$3 75 ; Philadelphia, $4 25 ; Turnips, Ruta 
Baga ; White, $1 124®$1 50 ; Onions, White, $4®$4 50, 
Red, $2 25®$2 75 ; Yellow, $2 75®$3 ; Cabbages, best 
kind, $5®$8 ip 100 ; inferior, $3®$5; Beets, $1 25 p bbl. 
Carrots, $1, Parsnips, $1 50; Celery, $1®$1 25pdozen. 
Fruits.— Apples, Spitzenbergs and Greenings, $2 25® 
$2 50 p bbl.; Russets and Gilliflowers, $2. 
Butter, Orange Co . 21©24c. pib.; Western, 15®18c. . 
Eggs, 23®26c. P doz.; Cheese, 10c.®llc.. p ft. 
SHEEP MARKET. 
Monday, Dec, 18, 1854. 
The market was very dull all last week, and is equally 
so to-day. This is occasioned by an over-supply, which is 
likely to continue for two or three weeks to come. The 
animals, probably, do not average over $2 50 p head. 
We noticed to.day a very superior lot of sheep, fifty in 
number, at Brownings, and sold by Samuel McGraw. 
They were a cross between the Leicester and Southdown 
breeds, and raised by Hayden and Brothers, of Syracuse, 
N. Y. A finer lot of sheep, we understand, has not ben in 
market for five years. These gentlemen could hardly 
wisli a higher compliment. Their sheep were selling as 
high as 124c. p ft, and atan average of$12 50 p head. 
NEW-YORK CATTLE MARKET. 
Thursday, December 14, 1854. 
The number of cattle in market to-day is unusually 
small—being little over 1,000. This may account for a 
slight advance in prices—nearly all the best cattle selling 
as high as 10Jc. p lb. Considering the number of cattle, 
however, the market is unusually dull, and doubtless will 
be, so long as poultry and other kinds of ffesh are to be 
had at the present reasonable prices. Some of the butch¬ 
ers, we understand, supplied themselves with stock on 
Monday, which has a further influence on the demand 
to-day. 
The appearance of the animals is, on the whole, rather 
better than last week, though it comprises a spectacle 
which must be agreeable to lovers of variety. To say- 
nothing of that class which belongs to the lower order of 
brutes, there was one small lot which is worthy of partic¬ 
ular notice. It consisted of five full-blood Durhams, 
(three heifers and two bullocks,) from Fayette Co., Ky., 
and owned by E. P. and F. L. Turner. The bullocks 
were three years old, and as perfect in flesh and build as 
it is possible to conceive of. Finer animals, it is said, 
were never raised in Kentuclcy, nor seen in New-York 
market. In fact, the most fastidious judges pronounced 
them faultless. They were raised by Captain Garrett, of 
Woodford Co., Ky., and sold by Geo. Ayrault, to Philip 
Nesbaum, for $450. 
It may be added that, after Christmas, the market-day 
will be held on Wednesday. 
Superior quality beef is selling at. .. .10® 10}c. p lb. 
Fair quality do. . 8®10e. do. 
Inferior do. do. . .. 6i®8c. do. 
The following are about the highest and lowest prices: 
Beeves.7c.® 104c. 
Cows and Calves.. .$30®$60. 
Veals. .. ,41c.®6}c. 
Sheep. $2®$5. 
Lambs.. $1 50©$4 50. 
Swine. 4V.(5£)4 J, 
