editor’s table. 
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QEMtor’s (Stable. 
Duplicate Articles. —Some of our correspondents 
are in the habit of sending us a copy of articles which 
they also forward to other periodicals for publication. 
We will say, with all due respect, that we want 
none such; for by publishing them simultaneously 
ar after another paper, would make it appear as if 
we had copied it from such paper without giving 
it the proper credit. If, therefore, we cannot be fur¬ 
nished with articles written for and sent to our paper 
exclusively, we do not wish them at all. 
Improved Stock for the South. —We had the 
pleasure of forwarding, the past month, to Mr. E. R. 
Brown of Gallatin, Miss., two beautiful Devon heif¬ 
ers, and a noble pair, each, of Cotswold and South- 
down sheep. All these were bred by Mr. L. F. Allen, 
of Buffalo, and are excellent representatives of his 
fine stock. Mr. Brown ordered last year, a number 
of Merino sheep, selected from the flocks of our most 
noted breeders, and has at various other times pur¬ 
chased choice animals at the north. He certainly 
deserves great credit for his enterprise, and we trust 
that his efforts to improve the stock at the south will 
be crowned with marked success. We know not of a 
superior region of country in the United States, to the 
upper part of the State of Mississippi, for rearing 
stock; and we have no doubt that within ten years, 
it will become celebrated for its fine beef, mutton, pork, 
and perhaps even dairy products. 
Annual Address of the State Agricultural So¬ 
ciety. —Professor Norton, of Yale College, is to deliver 
this address at the next annual meeting of the Soci¬ 
ety at Albany, on the 19th inst. We have no doubt 
that it will be an able and instructive one, and we 
bespeak a general attendance to hear it. 
The Pictorial History of England; being a 
History of the People as well as a History of the King¬ 
dom. Illustrated by severel hundred wood cuts of 
Monumental Records, Coins, Civil and Military Cos¬ 
tume, Domestic Buildings, Furniture, and Ornaments; 
Cathedrals, and other great works of Architecture; 
Sports, and other Illustrations of Manners ; Mechanical 
Inventions; Portraits of the Kings and Glueens; and 
remarkable Historical Scenes. By George L. Craik 
and Charles McFarlane, assisted by other contributors. 
New York: Harper & Brothers. Yol. iii., pp. 885, 
large octavo. Price, 25 cents per number, or $3.50 a 
volume. From what we have already said concerning 
this work, which, by general consent is pronounced the 
most reliable, accurate, and admirably arranged history 
of Great Britain that has ever appeared, it would seem 
superfluous for us to add anything more; but as its pub¬ 
lication progresses, we become more familiar with its 
contents, new features in its pages are brought to mind, 
and we can speak more confidently of its merits. To 
read this work with care and attentively examine its 
illustrations, is in itself an education, and would be im¬ 
possible for a man to accomplish without attaining 
some degree of refinement. Mr. Prescott, the learned 
author of “Ferdinand and Isabella,” says:—“The 
pictorial illustrations are admiratde, not merely as 
embellishments, but for the information they convey; 
sustaining the text in a manner that presents it still 
more vividly to the reader’s mind ; conveying, indeed, 
much of which, from the nature of the subject, it is im¬ 
possible to give an adequate idea by description alone. 
The reader who has studied English history in the 
great works of Hume, Lingard, or Hallam, will find 
still much to be gleaned from a work like the present, 
which, with the narrative of events portrayed by these 
historians, combines the fruits of antiquarian and criti¬ 
cal researches in walks which they have not entered. 
He will gather, in short, from the study of these vol¬ 
umes a more thorough and satisfactory view of the in¬ 
terior organization of the country, its domestic resour¬ 
ces, and its progress in civilization, than is to be found 
in any single work with which I am acquainted.” 
We would invite the special attention of the directors 
or trustees of libraries, as well as the agricultural com 
munity generally, to the preeminent claims of this ster¬ 
ling and most important publication ; and repeat, that 
every family in our land, who can afford it, should 
avail themselves of its perusal. 
The Fruits of America ; by C. M. Hovey, editor 
of the Magazine of Horticulture. Boston ; Hovey & 
Co., 1 Merchant’s Row, and C. M. Saxton, 205 Broad¬ 
way, N. Y. Large octavo with colored engraving. 
Price $1 a number. The third number of this superb 
work has been received and fully equals our expecta¬ 
tions. It contains the description and figures of the 
Swan’s Orange Pear; the Sweet Montmorenci Cher¬ 
ry ; the Hovey’s Seedling Strawberry ; and the Boston 
Pine Strawberry. 
The Scientific American ; a weekly newspaper, 
published by Munn &c Co., 128 Fulton St., N. Y., at 
$2 per annum, one half to be paid in advance, and the 
balance at the end of the year. 
The PIemp Crop. —A merchant of St. Louis, writing 
to the editor of the Cincinnati Gazette, says:— 
“ The most carefully formed estimates of the hemp 
crop of the Missouri River gives the product this year 
in round numbers, as, 13,000 tons. Add to this the 
product of the whole West beside, which may be set 
down at 17,000 tons, and you have an amount equal to 
50,000 tons—from this deduct the quantity used in the 
West in manufactures, say 12,000 tons,, and you have 
for export from 18 to 20,000 tons, or more than equal 
to the requirements of all northern seaports, and leaving 
a considerable quantity for export. 
A Hoggish Conveyance. —A farmer of St. Alban’s, 
Vermont, recently made a grand entree into that place, 
mounted on a small car drawn by four large hogs. 
He entered the town at a brisk trot, amidst the accla¬ 
mations of hundreds, who were soon drawn together to 
witness this uncommon spectacle. After making the 
tour of the market place three or four times, he went 
into the wood pack yard, had his swinish cattle unhar¬ 
nessed and taken into a stable together, where they w.ere 
regaled with a trough full of beans and wash. They 
remained about two hours, while he dispatched his 
business as usual at the market, when they were put to 
and driven home again, multitudes cheering him. 
This man, it is said, has only had these animals under 
training six months. A gentleman on the spot offered 
him $240 for the concern as it stood, but it was indig¬ 
nantly refused.— Ex. Paper. 
State Tolls on the N. Y. Railroads. —In exam-, 
ining the Freight Tariff made in reference to the law 
of the Legislature, which requires the railroad com 
panies between Albany, Troy, and Buffalo, to pay to 
the State, canal tolls, distance being reckoned by the 
canal distances from place to place, it will be perceived 
that tolls are exacted, in several instances, on articles 
that would never pass through the canal at all, on 
account of their perishable natures. Of this class may 
be included fresh meat in carcass, poultry, fresh fish, 
clams and oysters in the shell, sheep pelts, &c. An¬ 
other class of articles are taxed which are perishable, in 
part or would be very inconsiderable in quantity or in 
numbers, in their transit through the canal, as their 
demand is somewhat limited except during the suspen 
sion of navigation. Among this class may be reck¬ 
oned live stock, butter, cheese, and eggs, to some 
extent, green apples, potatoes, lemons, oranges, pressed 
hay, field and garden seeds, &c., &c. 
This tax, it must be remembered, is not levied at the 
expense of the railroad corporations, but has to be paid 
by the producers or consumers. It does seem to us 
that this subject demands public attention, and that 
\ these tolls should be established on equitable principles- 
