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then offer for sale will be very select, and 
well calculated to improve the stock of the 
country. We commend Mr. A.’s example 
to breeders, and trust he will reap a rich re¬ 
ward for his enterprize. 
What a noble and beautiful sight must 
such a herd be in the magnificent park pas¬ 
tures of old Kentucky ! We hope, one of 
these days, to visit them. It is twelve years 
this winter since we were in Kentucky, and 
we never enjoyed ourselves more than in the 
short tour we made in this superlatively rich 
agricultural State. 
just looked over the December number, and 
find it replete with information valuable to 
every one interested in the healing art. In 
this number is an article upon the analysis 
of blood stains found upon the garments of 
Francis Dick, the murderer of James Young, 
which all analytical chemists will do well to 
“make a note of.” Edited by Dr. Edward 
H. Parker, and published monthly by Messrs. 
Evans & Dickinson, New-York. Price $3 
a year. The American Agriculturist and 
the American Medical Monthly will be fur¬ 
nished together for $4 per annum. 
HOW MUCH TOBACCO IS USED. 
Thu present annual production of tobaeco 
is estimated to be 4,000,000,000 pounds—four 
billions of pounds! This is all smoked, 
chewed, or snuffed. Suppose it all made 
into cigars, one hundred to the pound, it 
would produce 400,000,000,000. Four hun¬ 
dred billions of cigars ! These cigars at the 
usual length—four inches—if joined togeth¬ 
er, would form one continuous cigar 
25,252,520 miles long, which would encircle 
the earth more than one thousand times. 
Cut up into equal pieces, 240,000 miles in 
length, there would be over one thousand 
cigars which would extend from the center 
of the earth to the center of the moon. 
Put these cigars into boxes 10 inches 
long, 4 inches wide and 3 inches high—100 
to the box—it would require 4,000,000,000 
boxes. Pile up these boxes in a solid mass, 
and they would occupy a space of 294,444,- 
444—two hundred and ninety-four million 
cubic feet! If piled up 20 feet high, they 
would cover a farm of 338 acres, and if 
laid side by side, the boxes would cover 
very nearly 20,000 acres. Let some boy 
who reads the American Agriculturist esti¬ 
mate how large a village or city would be 
required to furnish store houses for all these 
boxes. 
If a person smoke a cigar every 20 min¬ 
utes, and continue this night and day, it 
would require an army of 2,500 such smok¬ 
ers 6,000 years to consume the above ; and 
if each person smoked only four cigars a 
day—a pretty fair allowance we should say 
—it would take 45,000 smokers 6,000 years 
—a larger term than the human race has 
existed—to smoke up all the tobacco now 
produced in a single year. 
Allowing this tobacco unmanufactured to 
cost on the average ten cents a pound, and 
we have 400,000,000 of dollars expended 
every year in producing a noxious, deleteri¬ 
ous weed. At least one and a half times as 
much more is required to manufacture it 
into marketable form and dispose of it to the 
consumer. At the very lowest estimate 
then, the human family expend every year 
one thousand million of dollars in the grati¬ 
fication of an acquired habit—or one dollar 
for every man, woman, and child, upon the 
earth ! ! 
This sum would build two railroads 
around the earth at a cost of twenty thou¬ 
sand dollars per mile, or sixteen railroads 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It would 
build one hundred thousand churches cost¬ 
ing $10,000 each; or half a million of 
school houses costing $2,000 each ; or one 
million of dwellings costing $1,000 each. 
It would employ one million of preachers, 
and one million of teachers, giving each a 
salary of $500. It would support three 
and one-third millions of young men at col¬ 
lege, giving each $300 per annum for ex¬ 
penses. We leave others to fill out the pic¬ 
ture. Is this annual outlay to increase or 
decrease in future 1 Reader, how much do 
you contribute to this fund ? 
Keep yourself innocent if you would be 
ha,op 
The Annual meeting of the Connecticut 
State Agricultural Society will be held at 
the City Hall, in Hartford, on Wednesday, 
January 3d, 1855. The attendance of all in¬ 
terested in the objects of the Society is re¬ 
quested, as business of much importance will 
come before this session. 
Chemical Lectures. —We notice in our 
advertising columns the announcement of a 
one month’s course of lectures, by Prof. 
Porter, who has charge of the department of 
Agricultural Chemistry at Yale College. 
The course is shorter than heretofore, and 
on this account it will be much more conve¬ 
niently attended than if continued, as former¬ 
ly, two months and a half. The expense 
will be less, and many can leave home for 
that time who could not do so for a longer 
period. We do not attach much value to the 
general analysis of soils in the present im¬ 
perfect development of that particular appli¬ 
cation of chemistry, yet we are quite sure 
that chemistry is doing much to advance 
agricultural improvement. Especially is this 
the case in reference to the various manures ; 
and whoever studies but a little into this sub¬ 
ject, will be amply repaid for any outlay 
of time or expense. A month in the labora¬ 
tory, where chemical laws and changes are 
studied, with the apparatus and reagents in 
hand, is worth a year's study of books only. 
We advise every young and middle-aged 
farmer who can possibly leave home, to 
spend a month with Prof. Porter the present 
winter. For any particular information as 
to expense, board, &c., address as per adver¬ 
tisement. 
Daily Journals. —Messrs. Francis & Lou- 
trel, of 77 Maiden-lane, have prepared a 
number of patterns of these for 1855, which 
are very convenient for making daily notes 
of business and other matters. We have 
found one of these, in pocket form, having a 
page for each day, very useful during the 
past twelve months. A very great advan¬ 
tage in such a book is, that we can turn for- 
wai'd to any future day and note down any 
thing requiring attention at that particular 
time. We have just received a copy of fools¬ 
cap size, designed for the desk, which is 
quite tastefully ruled and bound. 
Ameican Medical Monthly. —We are glad 
to reckon among our readers a considerable 
number of medical gentlemen, and we take 
pleasure in recommending to their attention 
the American Medical Monthly, We have 
National Magazine. —We have received 
an early copy of the January issue of this 
valuable magazine. Taking into considera¬ 
tion its cost, the elevated and unexceptiona¬ 
ble character of the contents, the excellent 
mechanical execution and the great number 
of highly finished engravings, we place this 
in the first rank of American monthlies. 
Published by Messrs. Carleton & Philips, 
No. 200 Mulberry-street. Price $2perann. 
The American Agriculturist and the Nation¬ 
al Magazine will be furnished together for 
$3.50 per annum. 
Dickens’s Household Words. —There are 
few more readable periodicals published in 
our language than this. The American edi¬ 
tion is an exact reprint of the English work, 
and is issued here as soon as the first sheets 
can be brought over. Mr. J. A. Dix, No. 10 
Park-place, is sole publisher. The work is 
issued in both a rveekly and monthly form, 
at $3 a year. The American Agriculturist 
and Dickens’s Household Words, monthly, 
will be furnished together for $4 a year. 
American Machinery for the British Gov¬ 
ernment. —We learn from our friends the 
Messrs. Buck, of Lebanon, N. H., whose ad¬ 
vertisement for machines of various kinds is 
to be found in our colums, that they have 
just executed a large order for their improved 
machinery, for the Royal Armory, at Wool¬ 
wich, England. They also say, that Messrs. 
Robbins and Lawrence, at Windsor, Vt., a 
few miles below them, on the Connecticut 
river, have executed another for the same 
party and destination, to the extent of 
$80,000. The latter is exclusively for the 
manufacture of Minnie rifles, guns, &c., 
for which purpose our American machinery 
is, and long has been, unrivaled by any in 
the world. 
Bayard Taylor, the great traveler, says 
that he prefers Mexico for the beauty of its 
scenery—Germany for its society—Califor¬ 
nia, specially, for its climate—and the Uni¬ 
ted States for its government. 
The best “hit.” in the last number of 
Punch is at Prussia. In allusion to the prac¬ 
tice at London theaters of admitting persons 
at. half price after the performance is partly 
over, he says, “ theater of war—Prussia is 
waiting till half-price begins.” 
Rum has sunk more seamen than all the 
tempests that ever blew. 
