AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
381 
Gutta Percha. —Iu twelve years the won¬ 
derful utility of this new material has been 
established in very various application. But 
the gum would have remained compara¬ 
tively useless but for the inventive spirit 
which has subdued every difficulty of a new 
manufacture. The substance is now ap- 
plied to the humblest as well as the highest 
purposes. It is a clothes-line defying 
the weather; it is a buffer for a railway 
carriage. It is a stopping for a hollow 
tooth; it is a sheathing for the wire that 
conveys the electric spark across the Chan¬ 
nel. It is a cricket ball; it is a life-boat in 
the Arctic seas. It is a noiseless curtain 
ring ; it is a sanitary water-pipe. It resists 
the action of many chemical substances, 
and is thus largely employed for vessels in 
bleaching and dyeing factories ; it is capable 
of being molded into the most efficient ma¬ 
terials for multiplying works of ornamental 
art. The collection of gutta percha has 
given a new stimulus to the feeble industry 
of the inhabitants of Java and Sumatra, and 
Borneo, and anew direction to the commerce 
of Singapore. It has brought the people of 
the Indian archipelago into more direct con¬ 
tact with European civilization. 
Lard. —The Cincinnati Price Current has 
some interesting statistics on the lard pro¬ 
duce of this country. The number of hogs 
killed the last season and packed for com¬ 
merce is three millions. The average 
amount of lard, per hog, is 32 pounds. The 
total amount of lard in commerce is estima¬ 
ted at ninety-six millions of pounds. Of 
this amount, twenty millions are shipped 
from Cincinnati. England and Cuba take 
more lard of us than all the rest of the 
world. Each of these countries buy over 
eight millions of pounds annually. In the 
West Indies lard is very generally used as a 
substitute for butter. 
Lard oil is made more extensively at Cin¬ 
cinnati than at any other point in the Union. 
Thirty thousand barrels of it are annually 
sent from that city. The demand for lard 
over the world is on the increase, and prices 
"'will probably be sustained. 
Hickory Nut Oil —A New Light. —Hick¬ 
ory nut oil, considered equal to the best lard 
or sperm oil for burning and machinery, is 
manufactured by Mr. Warren Estabrook, of 
Dayton, in this State. The nut oil remains 
in a fluid state at a very low temperatnre, and 
it does not “ gum ” like the ordinary qualities 
of oil. It is used in very delicate machine¬ 
ry, and when properly refined could be used 
by watchmakers. The pignut is preferred 
in the manufacture, on account of its thin 
shell, and greater abundance of oil material. 
Mr. Estabrook believes that oil manufactured 
from the ordinary shell-bark and large sweet 
hickory nut, would come into general use for 
the table .—Toledo (Ohio) Republican. 
fine for the season. At the south it seems 
very genial, and we hear of peach and other 
trees in bloom, corn, peas, potatoes, &c., up 
in the gardens, and field planting going on 
extensively. Would that we had their early 
springs, with an average of seven degrees of 
less summer heat. Our climate would then 
be delightful. 
PRODUCE MARKET. 
Tuesday, February 20, 1855. 
The prices given in our reports from week to week, are the 
average wholesale prices obtained by producers, and not those 
at which produce is sold from the market. The variations in 
prices refer chiefly to the quality of the articles. 
The weather to-day is clear and cool, and 
the market unusually lively. The potato market [espe¬ 
cially, is exceedingly brisk, as there is a prospect of an 
advance in prices in a few days. The supply is very 
limited, and such is the cold at the north and west, that it 
will keep them back for ten or twelve days to come. It 
is impossible to bring them to market except by railroad, 
and here the freight is no less than $1 p* bbl. The sup¬ 
ply comes principally from New-Jersey. 
For the same reason apples are much higher, and very 
scarce. In butter eggs, and cheese, we find no material 
change. 
In all respects, therefore, the prospect is very flattering, 
and farmers will not be likely to find a better time to dis¬ 
pose of their produce than now. 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes—New-Jersey Mercers.. ... ^ bbl. $3 75®4 25 
Western Mercers. do 3 75®4 00 
White Mercers. do 3 50®— 
Nova Scotia Mercers.if bush. 1 12(5)1 16 
New-Jersey Carters.^ bbl. 3 75(5)4 00 
Washington County Carters. do 3 50®3 75 
Junes. do 3 50®— 
Western Reds.do 2 75®3 00 
White Pink Eyes. do 3 50®— 
Yellow Pink Eyes. do 2 75®3 12 
Long Reds. do 2 75®3 00 
Virginia Sweet Potatoes. do 4 00®— 
Philadelphia sweet. do none 
Tilrnips—Ruta Baga. do 1 75®2 00 
Russia. do 1 75®2 00 
White. do 1 25® 1 50 
Onions—White. do 4 50®— 
Red. 
3 
00®3 
25 
Yellow. 
3 
50®- 
Cabbages. 
.if 100 
7 
00®10 
00 
do . 
i 
00®1 
75 
Beets. 
.if bbl. 
i 
75®2 
00 
Carrots. 
i 
87® 2 
12 
Parsnips. 
i 
75®2 
00 
FRUITS, 
ETC. 
Apples—Spitzenbergs. 
.if bbl. 
$4 
00®4 
50 
Greenings. 
3 
50®4 
00 
Gilliflowers . 
3 
50®4 
00 
Baldwins. 
3 
75fa>4 
24 
Butter—Orange County . 
.I? lb. 
25® 30c. 
Western. do 20® 23c. 
Cheese.. do 10®llc. 
Eggs.P doz. 23®24e. 
NEW-YORK CATTLE MARKET. 
Wednesday February 21, 1855. 
Although the day is most delightful and most favorable 
for the market, we find it much less firm and active than 
last week. For some reason or other the market is over¬ 
stocked, and the butchers accordingly have things more to 
Hard Times. —The receipts for the seven¬ 
teen operatic performances by the Grisi and 
Mario troupe, in Boston, are estimated at 
from $45,000 to $50,000. 
A mocking-bird was sold at auction in 
Philadelphia, Tuesday, for forty-seven dol¬ 
lars, and a pet poodle for twenty-five dollars. 
Newboryport Herald. 
UlitrMs, 
Remarks. —There is no change since our 
last in the staple articles of produce which 
is rather a remarkable feature of record. 
The weather has been moderately cold and 
themselves. 
With the exception of a few animals the stock is very 
ordinary, the quality running mostly to extremes. Mean¬ 
er cattle we have never seen than in some of the yards, 
and belter we may really hope to see; the latter however 
bear a small ratio to the former. Of the choice kinds Mr. 
McConnel & Son had 58 from Ross Co., Ohio. They were 
to have been in market two weeks ago, but have been 
kept back on account of the snow storm. They were sel¬ 
ling at about 11c. lb. 
We noticed also a very choice lot, 14 in number, from 
Genesee Valley They were high fed and very fat, and 
could not sell for less than llc.®12c. ^ lb. The owner we 
did not learn. 
There were also one or two pairs of very superior ani¬ 
mals. One pair from Tioga Co., fed by Mr Pompelli, and 
owned by S. Hand. Was held at $500. We have rarely 
seen anything superior. There was also the prize steer 
of the State Agricultural Society, an enormous animal 
weighing 3,800 lbs. It is to be raffled for this'evening, of¬ 
fering 80 chances at $5, each. The owner and winner are 
to give $25 each for refreshments. 
The following are about the highest and lowest prices: 
Superior quality beef is selling at. 10® 11c. p lb. 
Extra quality at.12c. 
Fair quality do. .9®101c. do. 
Inferior do. do. . 7£®9Je. do. 
Beeves.7ic.®llc. 
Cows and Calves.$30®$60. 
Veals. 4Jc.®6c. 
Sheep. $4®$8. 
Swine. 3c.®7e. 
The report of sales for the week, at Browning’s, are as 
follows: 
Sheep and Lambs.2705 
Beeves. 525 
Veals. 83 
Cows and Calves. . . 45 
The following sale were made at Chamberlain’s: 
469 Beef Cattle.8®llc 
73 Cows and Calves.$25®$60 
4,594 Sheep. $2®$8. 
43 Calves.41®7c. 
SHEEP MARKET. 
Wednesday, February 21, 1855- 
The Sheep Market is not as good this week as last. The 
supply on hand is large, and in fact quite overdoes the 
market. Mr. McGraw reports the sale of 10 sheep at 13c. 
if lb—$100 50, and also the following sales: 
161 Sheep. 
177 do. 
20 do. 
. 691 90 
. 127 00 
. 143 00 
73 
do. 
. 219 00 
120 
. 540 00 
8 
do. 
. 32 00 
6 
do... 
. 39 00 
616 
Average ^ Head.. 
$2,432 99 
..$3 93 
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FARMER—A Farm in the vicinity of Providence, R. I., of 
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barn, 50 bv‘.40 feet* with cattle and horse stalls, and a convenient 
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For further particulars inquire of WM. S. PATTEN, 
Providence, R. I. 
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