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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
FARMERS' COLLEGE AT CINCINNATI. 
We have upon our table a pamphlet contain¬ 
ing a brief history of Farmers’ College, with a 
plan for an Agricultural Department, and a Ex¬ 
perimental Farm. This College is located on 
one of the finest of the hills that environ our 
city, and appears to have had a most vigorous 
growth. Though it is but a few years since it 
assumed the name and character of a College, 
it already rivals the older Colleges of the State, 
in the number of its students, and in the facili¬ 
ties for a thorough mental discipline. 
We hail the proposal for the establishment of 
a scientific and practical agricultural department 
in this College, as the promise of a new era in 
Ohio farming; and we hope our citizens, of all 
classes, will foster the undertaking with a liber¬ 
ality commensurate with its importance to the 
best interests of the State. The Directors of 
the College enter into it with earnestness,and they 
have committed the business of raising the en¬ 
dowment into the hands of F. G. Cary, Esq., 
the late President of the Institution. We con¬ 
gratulate them upon their good fortune in se¬ 
curing so competent and energetic an agent— 
one whose whole soul is in the enterprise, and 
whose tastes are strongly in this direction. 
If the plan, whose author is given in the cir¬ 
cular, can be earned out upon a liberal scale, it 
will be productive of vast benefit. It will have 
a tendency to dignify labor, and elevate the 
profession of the farmer. Something that will 
have this effect is greatly needed just now where 
the current is setting so strongly toward other 
occupations. 
It is obvious too that in the older portions of 
our State, the soil is becoming impoverished, 
and that without a change of tillage, it will soon 
cease to pay the co§t of cultivation. Some 
means should be used for drawing the attention 
of farmers to the subject of rotation in crops, 
sub-soiling and draining, and to the importance 
of applying fertilizers to their reduced lands. 
Our agricultural papers give many valuable 
hints on these points, but our farmers are not 
able to profit by them—they are not able to ap¬ 
ply the remedies proposed. These things are 
scarcely more intelligible to them than a pro¬ 
blem in trigonometry to one who has never 
heard of a triangle. They must be educated. 
They must have a knowledge of soils, and of 
the comparative efficacy and adaptations of the 
different manures. They should be at home in 
all the branches of agricultural chemistry. 
Away with the notion that ignorance is the 
mother of thrift in farming, and give us men in 
intellectual culture as well as in bones and sin- 
eivs to till the ground. 
We hope College Hill will be made a point 
from which light will emanate on all subjects 
connected with the cultivation of the earth. 
Agricultural education has attracted much at¬ 
tention in some of the older States, and the sub¬ 
ject of “ Farm Schools” has been warmly dis¬ 
cussed. For the last two or three years, we 
believe, a proposition for the endowment of such 
a school has been debated in the Massachusetts 
Legislature, but no result has been reached. 
Ohio may yet be the first in the possession of 
an Agricultural College and experimental farm. 
We know of no expenditure of money that 
would yield a better return, and we hope this 
appeal to the public will meet with a generous 
response. We commend this circular to the 
attention of all our citizens.— Cincinnati Ga¬ 
zette. 
Tobacco in Connecticut. —Few are aware of 
the extent of the culture of tobacco in Connec¬ 
ticut. In many towns, in the valley of the 
Connecticut river, tobacco is now the principal 
crop grown, and of course is profitable. A 
“Tobacco Growers’ Convention” was held at 
Hartford last week, and a company was formed 
with a capital of $25,000, for the purpose of 
opening a Tobacco In.-pection Warehouse in 
that city. It is to be governed by a large board 
of directors representing the various tobacco¬ 
growing districts, with a President, Treasurer 
and Secretary, as executive officers. The capi¬ 
tal invested is to be used to buy or advance on 
such crops as must be realized on by the own¬ 
ers the season they are grown, and to defray 
the necessary expenses. 
Wrongly got up. —A Western paper says:— 
“ When you see a girl so lazy that she can’t 
sweep her own seven-by-nine chamber, and then 
goes to a shindy and dances all night with the 
power of a locomotive, make up your mind that 
she is “ got up” on bad principles. The sooner 
you take your hat and depart, the better. Such 
sort of calico has been the ruin of manyaman.” 
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Non-Silent Partners. —Lucy Stone, in one 
of her lectures, asserts that women are as well 
fitted as men for every kind of mercantile em¬ 
ployment. We know some women that would 
not make very good silent partners. 
Punch defines a Court House as a place 
where a penny’s worth of justice is purchased 
with a shilling’s worth of law. There is only 
one thing less profitable than suing people, and 
that is going their security. 
Shaving. —It cannot but be a custom most 
insulting to nature to shave off the beard, which, 
if kept in proper trim, as birds and beasts in¬ 
stinctively keep their plumage and hair in good 
order, completes the perfection of man’s face 
and the external distinction of the sexes, and, 
whatever ladies pretend to the contrary, ren¬ 
ders him far more attractive to women—at any 
rate, when custom has had time to lessen their 
seeming repugnance; for their preference to 
men with good whiskers is certain. Shaving 
was forbidden by Moses, and therefore, accord¬ 
ing to Jews and Christians, by God; it was a 
severe punishment among the Indians, and an 
irreparable insult to the Germans. The Osmanli 
swears by his beard, and spends half the day 
upon it. Shaving prevails in Europe because 
the kings of France set the example to their 
courtiers, who were followed by the nation, 
which formerly gave the ton of neighboring 
nations, and therefore was at length followed 
by all in this troublesome and unmanly fashion. 
— Dr. Elliotson's Human Physiology. 
A True Yankee. —A young man in this city 
wrote to a gentleman in Northampton, recently, 
signifying that he had been very unexpectedly 
thrown out of employment, and requested the 
person whom he addressed to procure him “ a 
situation.” He said he would like to work at 
“ sawing or making doors and blinds,—few 
(said he,) can beat me at that; or, I should like 
to get into a livery stable; or, any of the stores 
as salesman, for I am a good one, and under¬ 
stand the business; or, to drive a team, I will 
be on hand ; or, a chance to peddle stoves; or, 
a chance to tend a saw-mill; or, almost any 
thing else;—get me a chance, and I will be on 
hand.” Of course such a young man was not 
destitute of employment many days. He has 
got a “ smart chance,” and like a right smart 
fellow, he is improving it.— Springfield JRepub- 
lican. 
IJtarluts* 
WESTERN HOG TRADE. 
TnE following statement of the receipts of 
Hogs during the week ending January 17th, is 
from the Cincinnati Gazette : 
By River. 1,013 
By Railroads and Canals. 10,042 
Through Toll Gates. 2,560 
From Kentuck)^. 550 
Slaughtered in Plainville. 2,100 
Slaughtered in Covington. 
Total for the week. 16,265 
Previously reported.,.362,791 
Grand Total.379,050 
To same date last year..*..355,124 
The total number, it will be seen, is a little 
over that of the same period last year. Pork 
is lower this week than it has been for some 
time past. The supplies are said to be short 
however this season, and a high average price is 
expecting during the year. The relative amount 
of provisions exported from the United States 
in 1852 and 1853 were as follows: 
1853 1852 
Pork brls.131,213. 80,315 
Bacon hhds. 38,245. 8,631 
Lard kegs.583,543.385,186 
According to the Louisville Journal the pack¬ 
ing business has closed for the present around 
the Falls. The total numbers given are as fol¬ 
lows: 
Jackson, Hull & Co.105,412 
R. Atkinson. 72,041 
Jarvis & Co. 54,500 
Huffman, Cunningham & Co. 51,000 
Teeter, Maxey & Co. 39,500 
Total at Louisville.322,453 
Hamilton, Rickets & Co., Jeffersonville, 64,280 
New Albany. 20,300 
Total around the Falls.407,938 
Last year.301,000 
Excess. .* .106,033 
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PRODUCE MARKETS. 
Wholesale prices of the more important Vegetables, 
Fruits,'&c. 
Washington Market, Jan. 21,1854. 
Vegetables —Potatoes, Mercers, bbl., $3@$3 25 ; 
Junes, $2 75@$3 ; Western Reds, $2 50 ; Sweet Potatoes, 
$3 75 ; Cabbages, $ 100, $6@$6 50 ; red do., $7 50@$8 ; 
Savoys, $5@$6 ; German Greens, $2 ; Onions, white, 
bbl., $2 ; yellow do., §1 75 ; red do., §1 50 ; Parsneps, $ 
bbl., $L 75@82 ; Carrots, $1 75 ; Beets, $1 50@$2 ; Tur¬ 
nips, $ bbl., Ruta Baga, $1 50@$1 62% ; white do., $1 25 ; 
Spinach, $1 25 ; Corn Salad, tg basket, 50c.; Celery, ^ doz. 
bunches, 75@87Xc.; Parsley, 25c.; Leeks, 50c.; Lettuce, 
25c. 
Fruits. —Apples, Newtown Pippins, $4 50@$5 ^ bbl.; 
R. I. Greenings, $3 50@$4 ; Spitzenburgs, $2 75@$3; 
Baldwins, $2 50@$3 ; Vandervere, $2 75@$3 ; Swaar, $2 
50@$2 75 ; Seek-no-further, $2 50 ; Roxbury Russets, $2 
2E@$2 50; Gilliflower, $2 25; Cranberries, $ bbl., 
$7 50 ; Hickory nuts, ^ bushel, $2 ; Chestnuts, $ bushel, 
$ 2 . 
We have very few remarks to offer as to the state of the 
vegetable market this morning. The weather was so dis¬ 
agreeable as to make_purchasers scarce ; the streets in the 
vicinity of the market being a sea of mud. 
During a spell of frost there is no opportunity to uncover 
vegetable heaps; and at such times the supply becomes 
limited, and prices rise. Spinach, for instance, fluctuates 
very much according to the facilities offered by the weather 
for cutting it. Parsneps, celery, and other such articles, are 
taken from the ground in quantities, and should the ground 
be frozen for a length of time, the supply will of course be re¬ 
reduced temporarily. Potatoes are now almost beyond the 
reach of the majority of housekeepers ; the mechanic must 
soon consider them as a luxury ; indeed, to many they are so 
now. 
Apples are a little advanced in price since last week ; they 
spoil rapidly in such weather as has prevailed for some 
days. 
Poultry is sold from 8@llc. wholesale. 
Eggs, same as last week. 
NEW-YORK CATTLE MARKET. 
January 23, 1854. 
The extreme severity of the weather was unfavorable to 
the market this morning, as all were anxious to get in 
doors, and could not keep their temper in the yards. This 
perhaps had the effect of expediting business which was 
rather dull. The butchers are still supplied, and not much 
in need of animals ; this is the only reason we can assign 
for the small demand. The number of cattle at the Wash¬ 
ington yard is larger than that reported last week, and 
would have been still increased had not the Hudson Railroad 
delayed some cattle, which were not forwarded till noon to¬ 
day, too late of course for market. The general impression 
still prevails that beef is too high, and prices this week show 
