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FOREIGN . AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS, 
By the Steamer America, which arrived at Boston, 
in the unprecedented passage of ten days from Liver¬ 
pool 1 , we are in receipt of our foreign journals to the 
3d hf June. 
Markets. —Ashes dull. Cotton was \d. per lb. low¬ 
er; Floior, Wheat, and, Provisions , in limited request, 
at m. slight reduction of price. Indian Corn and 
Meal, quite brisk, at a slight advance. In other ar¬ 
ticles, we notice little or no change. 
Money is abundant at low rates of interest. 
.'Weather was uncommonly fine and the pros¬ 
pects of a good harvest never better. 
Effect of Stopping Potato Shoots. —A farmer on 
the island of Valencia, in the county of Kerry, Ireland, 
on the 4th of April, when the stalks of his potatoes 
wete about 9 inches high, pinched off half an inch 
from their tops, agreeably to the plan recommended 
by Dr. Klotzsch. On the 25th of the same month, the 
operation was repeated, and the result was, that the 
dwarf stems became much thicker, and appeared more 
vigorous than those in the other part of the field, 
Which had been left to grow in the usual way. 
Sale of the Late Lord Spencer's Stock. —The sale 
of the celebrated herd of Short-Horns of the late 
Lord Spencer, took place at Wiseton, on the 28th of 
May. The whole number of animals sold was 90, 
varying in prices from £19 to £189 for heifers and 
coWs, and from £15 to £420 for bulls. The proceeds 
of the sale amounted to £5,743 10s. 
It will be seen from the-above sale, that Short- 
Horn cattle are as highly prized as ever, in England, 
for. it seems one of the bulls brought about $2,000, and 
one of the cows over $900: and yet there are herds 
in that country, if put under hammer this day, would 
bring much higher prices on an average. 
Resumption of Potato Culture in Ireland. —The 
cultivation of the potato has been revived in Ireland 
with increased eagerness. The most trustworthy ac¬ 
counts agree in representing, that, an enormous extent 
of land is already cropped with it. The peasantry 
haves been selling their clothes, their bedding,and, in 
short, every saleable thing, in order to procure seed 
of this calamitous plant. 
There seems to be a confident belief, among the 
IrislV, that the potato disease has worn itself out, and 
they’ are probably right. For, it has been obvious that 
the plant has been improving in health for some time 
past,'and that a sound crop may reasonably be accounted 
upon, for a little while, at least. But the inevitable 
result must be, sooner or later, a renewal of the famine, 
which has prevailed throughout the land with such 
indescribable horrors for a year or two past. 
How to Kill Worms.—For lawns, use lime water¬ 
ier gray el : walks, corrosive sublimate. 
How to Get Rid of House Bugs. —Pull down all 
loose paper, remove all loose plaster, take up all old 
carpeting, &.C., and consume them with fire. Fill up 
all 'cracks in the walls and ceiling with a mix¬ 
ture of corrosive sublimate and plaster of Paris, or 
putty; also; dlV crevices in the floor,’ as well as the 
crack's in furniture ' and the joints of bedsteads, 
with corrosive sublimate and. soft soap. By these 
means you will exterminate the bugs, but not other¬ 
wise.— Hwmgn Paper. . ,. 
Ornampntfd , Water Fowls are, advertised for sale 
in London,, consisting of black and white swans, Egyp¬ 
tian, Canada,'China, barnacle, brent and laughing 
geese, sheldrakes, pintail, widgeon, summer and win¬ 
ter teal, shovellers, Gadwall, Labrador, gold-eyed and 
dun divers, Carolina ducksr-&c., domesticated and 
pinioned Spanish , Qnchin-CIpna, Malay,.. Po¬ 
land, gufrey apd , Dork^g fowls.;, .white. .its|pan, pied 
and'comrno’! pea fowl 
Fattening Poultry.—Coop up poultry to fatten y 
and they will do well up to 12 or 14 days. Keep 
them in the coops beyond that time,.and feed them 
as much as you like, they will grow leaner every day 
until they grow a skinful of bones, and die.— Agri¬ 
cultural Gazette. 
Glass Milk Pans are becoming in general use in 
England, and are advertised at 2s. each, when 12 
inches in diameter, and 6s. when 26 inches in diam¬ 
eter. 
Curious Mode of Making Butter. —If I want but¬ 
ter only for my own breakfast, I lay a sheet of blotting 
paper upon a plate, and pour the cream upon it. In 
a short time the milk filters through, and the butter 
is formed. If I wish to expedite the operation, I turn 
the paper over gently upon the cream, and keep it in 
contact for a few moments, and then press upon it, 
and the butter is formed in less than two minutes. If 
you submit it to severe pressure by a screw press, it 
becomes as hard as when frozen. I cannot think but 
the simplicity of this mode of proceeding would be 
universally adopted, if any better material than blot¬ 
ting paper could be thought of for the filter—the 
paper adhering too firmly to the butter, and the finest 
muslin admitting the passage of the cream.— Garden¬ 
er's Chronicle. 
Shoeing Horses. —At a meeting of the Royal Agri¬ 
cultural Society of England, some time since, Profes¬ 
sor Sewell remarked that he had found old horses 
shod with a layer of leather, forming an artificial sole, 
between the shoe and the hoof, recover from the se¬ 
vere affections causing injury to the hoof; such, for 
instance, as contractions, brittleness, sand cracks, or 
even disease of the foot itself, as thrushes, canker, 
corns, &c. and perfectly regain its original elasti¬ 
city and firmness. The mode in question had been 
practised by Professor Sewell for the last' thirty 
years. 
Mode of Bottling Fruit. —Fill the bottles quite full 
with fruit not quite ripe ; place them, with the corks 
put lightly into them, into a copper of cold water 
up to the necks, and gradually raise the temperature 
of the water to 160 C , and not exceeding 170° Fahr. 
Keep them at this temperature half an hour ; then 
take each out separately and fill it up with boiling 
water from a kettle to within an inch of the cork. 
Drive in the cork firmly, tie it over, and dip it im¬ 
mediately into bottle wax, and lay the bottle down 
on its side to keep the cork alway-s damp. To pre¬ 
vent fermentation, turfi each bottle half round twice 
or thrice a week, for two or three weeks ; after that, 
they will need no further care. The corks should b ; 
soaked in water two or three days before they are 
used.— English Paper. 
Interesting Dairy Experiment. — Many observa¬ 
tions Lave been made as to the best depth of milk for 
casting up the greatest proportion of cream. I lately- 
found the following result. A lactometer of usual 
width, lOJ inches high, gave 12. per cent, of cream. 
A glass vessel 2| inches wide, with 3g inches depth 
of milk, yielded per cent, of cream ; another vessel 
of glass, with two inches depth of milk, and 10| inches 
wide, yielded not quite 2 per cent, of cream. The 
milk was not a mixture, but all from one and the same 
cow, and stood 36 hours. This would warrant the 
opinion that cream is cast up in greater quantity 
when not placed in very shallow vessels. The cream 
was carefully taken off the two latter vessels and 
the skimmed milk put into a lactometer. That from 
the widest vessel gave 2 per cent, of cream, and that 
from theisecond in width about | per cent. [Here must 
be sqme mistake.] A thermometer placed near the ves¬ 
sels ranged from a littie above 47° to nearly 50° the 
whole time. — Gardener's Chronicle. 
