FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
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FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
By the arrival of the steamer Niagara, we are in 
possession of our foreign journals to the 1st of July. 
Markets. — Ashes, little doing. Cotton, a decline 
of \d. per lb. Flour Grain, dull and falling. 
Provisions, the same. Owing to the late terrible insur¬ 
rection in Pari8, and the continued continental diffi¬ 
culties , business generally is seriously affected abroad. 
Money still continues abundant, more for want of 
knowing how to safely use it, than from any other 
cause. 
The Weather was fine and crops promising. 
Abolition of Cotton Manufactures in Egypt .— 
Ibrahim Pascha appears to have the intention of gradu¬ 
ally abolishing the manufacture of cotton cloths in 
Egypt, and has recently discharged from his service 
the chief superintendent of his cotton mills. This is 
generally considered a very wise step on his part, as 
manufactures can always be imported from England 
and the United States at a cheaper rate than they can 
be made in that country. 
The Aberdeen Bee-hive Strawberry Condemned .— 
Professor Lindley, the editor of the London Garden¬ 
ers’ Chronicle, in speaking of this hitherto famous 
variety of strawberry, describes it as very much like 
the “ Grove-end scarlet,” if it is not the same. He 
says that it is a poor thing, and wholly undeserving 
the character of either a novelty or any improvement. 
How to Kill Cockroaches. — White arsenic (rats¬ 
bane), spread on cucumber rinds, if eaten by cock¬ 
roaches, it is said will kill them. 
Proposed Remedy for the Hoven in Cattle. — At a 
late weekly council of the English Royal Agricultu¬ 
ral'Society. Mr. Eaton, of Haverford West, recom¬ 
mended a drink of one quart of new milk, fresh from 
the cow, as an effectual preventive of the hove in 
cattle, provided it be administered while the animal 
is able to walk about. 
Mr. Fortune has resigned the curatorship of the 
Botanic Garden, at Chelsea, England, having been en¬ 
gaged by the East-India Company to proceed to China, 
for the purpose of procuring tea plants and seeds for 
their tea plantations in the Himalayas. Mr. Thomas 
Moore has been appointed curator in his stead. 
Seeds from California —Mr. Hartweg has lately 
returned to England, with a collection of seeds for 
the Horticultural Society, after an absence of more 
than two years, most of which time was spent in 
California. 
Speckled Dorking Fowls. — -A correspondent of the 
London Gardeners’ Chronicle, says : “ Having myself 
kept the pure speckled Dorking now for nearly twenty 
years, without ever experiencing, in a single instance, 
their liability (as complained of by a correspondent 
in your last), to pine away and die just when attaining 
maturity, it seems only just to the merit of this breed 
of birds to state that such-and-such-like maladies do 
not appear to be necessarily connected with the Dork¬ 
ing fowl. Having been careful to introduce a fresh 
:and well-selected cock bird or two into the walk every 
■second or third year at furthest, I have found the race 
uniformly hardy, healthy, and prolific. 
Devonshire Butter. —Scald your cream, in a zinc 
pan, over a charcoal fire ; but do not let it boil. When 
the cream is cold, say the next morning, take it off 
with the hand. Put the cream into a wide wooden 
bowl; stir it with the hand for ten or fifteen minutes ; 
and the butter will be the same as out of a churn, and 
to be dealt wfith the same. A cow that will make one 
pound of butter per day, that is seven pounds per 
week, if the cream is scalded, it will make nine pounds 
in the seven days. Great care must be taken not to 
let any dust rest upon the cream.— Gardeners 1 Chro¬ 
nicle. 
Butter Making. —Lord Clarendon recommends the 
following mode of making butter :—Put as much milk 
as cream in the churn. This, he says, improves the 
color of the butter. Put as much hot water around 
the churn as will raise the temperature of the whole 
to 62° or 63°F. This will always insure the butter 
to come from 20 to 30 minutes, which will be of 
better quality than if it were longer or shorter in 
churning. 
Prolific Duck. —Mr. James Howard, farmer of Sol- 
Ion, has a duck that lately sat upon twenty-one eggs, 
from which she brought out twenty ducklings, eigh¬ 
teen of which are now living. Seven days after she 
had hatched, she commenced laying again. She is a 
half-bred, between the w r ild duck and the tame. 
Importations of Cider into England. —Large im¬ 
portations of cider are at present taking place from the 
channel island of Jersey, into this country, at some 
of the ports on the coast, as well as the metropolis. 
Some arrivals of this esteemed summer beverage have 
also taken place from the United States. 
Twin Colts. —A farmer, residing at Kingston, has a 
mare with tw T o colts. They were foaled on the 19th 
of May last, and are quite well, and give promise of 
becoming strong, healthy horses.— Kentish Observer. 
Selling Live Stock by Weight. —In the sale of fat 
stock, living weight seems the proper way of ob¬ 
taining a fair transaction ; this was the opinion of 
Lord Karnes, which is still of great weight. He gives 
the following division of the ox and sheep :— 
Ox.—The four quarters-£ of living weight. 
The skin.l-18th do. 
Tallow.. ,l-12th do. 
These make 23-36ths of the whole. The head, feet, 
tripe, and blood, give the remaining third. 
Sheep.—The four quarters_§ of living weight. 
The skin.1-llth do. 
Tallow.l-10th do. 
Offals, less than. i do. 
Without entering into minute calculations, a 
knowledge of the living weight would render the 
transaction fairer for both parties, as, at present, the 
butcher offers according to what his experience leads 
him to suppose is the weight.— Gardeners' Chronicle. 
Monstrous Potato Stalk. —A correspondent of the 
Dumfries Courier, says: There is at present grow¬ 
ing within a house at Dalswinton village, a single 
potato, the shaw, or stalk of which already measures 
seven feet two inches in length.” He calls this 
monstrous murphy a “ rara avis /” 
Importation of Cheese into Great Britain, in 1847. 
—The aggregate quantities of cheese imported into 
the United Kingdom, in 1847 (ending 6th of January, 
1848), amounted to 354,802 cwt., including 109,322 
cwt. from the United States of America, and 413 cwt. 
from British possessions abroad. The quantity of 
foreign European cheese exported from the United 
Kingdom, in 1847, amounted to 4,834 cwt. 
Rearing Canary Birds in a State of Freedom. —A 
gentleman, in England, is mentioned in the cc Times” 
as having succeeded in rearing Canaries in a state of 
freedom. These birds built their nests in his garden 
—one of them in a Cyprus tree, having three young 
ones, the hen having been reared in the open air in 
July, 1846, since which time she has been generally 
free to fly about at pleasure. Another nest was built 
in a magnolia, by a hen, free from the time of her birth 
(in May, 1846), which contained two young birds, 
hatched on the 15th of April last. The old birds and 
the young ones, also (with the exception of one that 
disappeared), continue their flight about the grounds, 
coming in to feed. Each hen has now a second brood; 
one consisting of four, and the other of three young 
birds, which were expected to take flight in a few days. 
