_AMOUNT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS GROWN IN THE UNITED STATES, TN 1847. £i3t 
AMOUNT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS 
GROWN IN THE UNITED STATES, 
IN 1817. 
The following table exhibits the amount and 
value of the agricultural products grown in the 
United States, in the year 1847', as given in the 
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, for 
that year: — 
• Articles: 
Wheat, . 
Indian Corn, 
Barley, . 
Rye, . 
Oats, 
Buckwheat, 
Potatoes, . 
Beans, 
Peas, 
Hay, . 
Hemp and Flax, 
Tobacco, . 
Cotton, . ] 
Rice, 
Sugar, 
Silk Cocoons, . 
Hops, . 
Beeswax, 
Honey, 
Molasses, 
Wine, 
Bushels. 
114.245.500 
539,350,000 
5,649,950 
. 29,222,500 
167^867,000 
. 11,673,000 
100,950,000 
. 25,000,000 
25,000,000 
Tons. 
. 13,319,900 
116,207 
Pounds. 
220,164,000 
,041,500,000 
103,040,500 
324.940.500 
404,000 
. 1,510,972 
766,530 
. 22,995,900 
Gallons. 
13,000,000 
152,175 
Value. 
$137,094,600 
. 215,740,000 
4,519,960 
. 18,994,625 
41,966,750 
. ; 5,836,500 
20^190,000 
: 25,000,000 
30,000,000 
. 106,559,200 
17,431,050 
. 11,008,200 
72,905,000 
3,091,215 
19,496,430 
808,000 
, 151,097 
168,636 
2,299,590 
. 3,250,000 
. 152,175 
Superior Saddlery and Harnesses. —If any 
of our friends are in want of these articles, we can 
confidently recommend them to the establishment 
of Mr. Thomas Walke, at 64 Broadway, where 
they will find a good assortment of superior manu¬ 
facture, and at reasonable prices. We have never 
been so well fitted as here; and should be glad to 
show any one desirous of seeing it, a recently im¬ 
proved saddle of Mr. W.’s manufacture, that we 
daily have the gratification of bestriding over a 
high-spirited horse, which, for comfort and safety, 
is equal to the best Spanish or Mexican; and for 
lightness, ease, and thorough workmanship, is no 
way inferior to the highest-priced English. 
Mr. Wilkinson’s Sale. —We trust that all those 
interested in fine stock, will not fail to attend Mr. 
John Wilkinson’s sale of choice Short-Horn stock, 
which is to take place at Germantown, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, on the 12th of this month. It is the herd 
that was bred by Mr. James Gowen, of Philadel¬ 
phia, who transferred it to Mr. Wilkinson. Several 
•o.f these cows are celebrated milkers, and the whole 
stock is highly deserving the attention of breeders. 
Comparative Value of Indian Corn and 
Buckwheat as food for Hens.— It is believed 
that a bushel of com will last twice as long in 
feeding hens as a bushel of buckwheat, but the lat¬ 
ter will make them lay eggs more than other grain, 
the profit thus overbalancing the cost. 
MEETING OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. : 
A weekly council pf this association was held 
at London, on the 17 th of May, from the proceed¬ 
ings of which we extract the following:— 
Period* of Suckling Young. Anima\s— Mr. Wyatt 
Edgell, of Surrey, addressed to the council, through 
the president, a communication on the probable 
injurious effects, arising from the circumstance,of 
allowing young animals to take the milk for too 
long a period from their, dams, especially in the 
j cases of mares and ewes, which he conceived were 
impoverished by such a lengthened drain , upp# 
their constitutions,. while their offspring were, at 
the same time, retarded in their growth and devqlt 
opment, from the insufficient supply and inferior 
quality of milk they obtained under such circum¬ 
stances. , Mr. Edgell was led to the consideration 
of this subject from a perusal of the statement, 
made by the Rev. G. R. Glegg, in his travels in Hun¬ 
gary, that the high-bred, foals, at the great stud, at 
Babohna, usually dying at four months old, from 
some vicious quality, as it was supposed, in the 
milk, they were removed from the mares at the end 
of the first month, and fed on boiled carrots, when 
it was found that not one fiftieth of the number of 
foals, that died under the old system, were lost un¬ 
der the new one. Without endeavoring to ascer? 
tain from what cause the milk in the case of the 
Hungarian mares had, probably, become vitiated* 
if a change in the quality of the milk had been the 
cause of the evil, Mr. Edgell thought the period of 
suckling the young of cattle a subject worthy of 
consideration. 
This communication gave rise to an interesting 
discussion among the members present. Mr. Mil- 
ward thought it might be assumed, as a general 
rule, that, under favorable conditions arising from 
the constitution of the mother, a requisite supply of 
proper food, and consequently an abundant secre¬ 
tion of healthy milk, the longer young animals 
sucked the better ; and he could state, from his own 
experience in the case of Short-Horned cattle, that 
the calves could not acquire the full development 
in size or symmetry, unless reared on new milk for 
at least the first six months after their birth. 
Sir Matthew Ridley did not think it advisable t® 
leave calves wfith mothers which had become agaia 
in calf; in that case, as in the case of all choicte 
stock, nurse cows would of course be provided. 
Mr. Fuller had found that those calves were air¬ 
ways the best which had been allowed to suck the 
longest. 
Mr. Tweed considered that foals would be in* 
jured by sucking such mares too long as were acv 
tively kept at work. 
Mr. Dyer was acquainted with a large flock mast; 
ter who constantly lost one tenth of his 500 ewes 
by allowing the lambs to remain with them till 
July; but who, from having last year weaned the 
lambs considerably earlier in the season, had lost 
a much smaller proportion of his ewes. Mr. Dyer 
conceived that by the middle of May, or as soon as 
lambs were four months old, and enabled to get 
their own food, when there was grass enough for 
them in the pastures, they might safely; be weaned 
from the ewes ; and that on the other hand, when 
the ewes were low in condition, disease must ne- 
