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editor’s table. 
(fbitor’s <£abk. 
Social Meeting of Farmers and Gardeners. 
—At the earnest solicitation of our friends, we have 
concluded to devote suitable rooms at our office, 189 
Water street, on the first and third Wednesday of 
each month, from 12 to 2 o’clock, P. M., to the use of 
farmers, gardeners, and any others, disposed to come 
and have a. social, informal chat, on the subjects of 
agriculture and horticulture. 
These meetings are to be entirely free from charge 
of any kind whatever, to those who may please to at¬ 
tend them. There will be no formal speaking, but 
every person present will be left to pass his time as is 
most agreeable to him, either in listening to what may 
be going on, or in conversing with any one to whom it 
maybe agreeable for him to address himself. 
All those who may have anything particularly curi¬ 
ous, rare, or useful, in the way of plants, flowers, 
fruits, seeds, vegetables, farm or garden implements, 
fertilizers, &c., are requested to bring, or send speci¬ 
mens for exhibition ; and all those who may have new 
information to give, on the subject of agriculture or 
horticulture, are requested to attend and make such 
information known. 
A regular report of the proceedings will be pub¬ 
lished once a month, in this and other journals. 
The first meeting will take place on Wednesday, 
the 2d of August. The second meeting on Wednes¬ 
day, the i6th of this month, to which we cordially 
invite all our friends to come, without ceremony, and 
bring whatever they may have for exhibition, as spe¬ 
cified above. 
Annual Show of the New-York State Agri¬ 
cultural Society. —We trust our friends will bear 
in mind that this great Show takes place at Buffalo on 
the 5th, 6th, and 7th of September. It will, doubt¬ 
less, be the largest and best exhibition of farm and 
garden products, improved stock of all kinds, and 
agricultural implements, that has yet been made in the 
United States : and it will be found well worthy the 
attention of all interested in the noble cause of agri¬ 
culture. There will be a Great Fair attending the 
show. A large number of the finest animals will be 
for sale, as well .as the products of the dairy, imple¬ 
ments, &c. Those who wish to supply themselves with 
anything of the kind, will do well to attend and make 
purchases. See advertisement in this number of the 
Agriculturist. 
Premium. Tobacco.—A premium of $50 for the 
best hogshead of shipping leaf tobacco, was raised* by, 
and awarded to, Mr. V. B. Carney, of St Louis county, 
and bought at $5.50 by Mr. Grantham. The second 
best hogshead of shipping leaf tobacco was raised by 
Mr. J. Anderson, of Montgomery county, and received 
a premium of $25. It was bought by A. Meier & Co., 
of this city, at $4.35. 
Mr. Williamson Shaw, of Pike county, raised the 
third best hogshead of manufacturing leaf, which sold 
at $10.80 per 100 pounds.— St. Louis Union. 
An .Egg-SAMPLE.—An egg, measuring nine inches 
in longitudinal circumference, and weighing 5g ounces, 
has been shown to the editors of ~the New Haven 
Journal. An egg-sample for hens in general. 
Two Crops of Apples the Same Year. —We re¬ 
ceived yesterday, from Mr. J. L. Kintner, of Harrison 
county, la., a sample of delicious early apple. He 
gives it no name, says that it originated in Harrison 
county, grew on trees from four to seven feet high, 
and that the trees bear a second crop in the fall, of 
which he says he will also send us a sample. The 
apple is of good size, fine form, of exceeding beauty, 
and very delicious. The color of most of the apples 
sent us, is all over a bright cherry-red, but some are 
green, with a broad red cheek. We regard it ar 
eminently worthy of cultivation, and request Mr 
Kintner to forward us a quantity of grafts next win 
ter, that we may propagate some of the trees for the 
nursery market.— Louisville Journal. 
The American Quarterly Register anb 
Magazine ; conducted by James Stryker, Philadel¬ 
phia : E. C. and J. Biddle, pp. 304, 8vo. The pri¬ 
mary design of this work is to embody, quarterly, a 
comprehensive record of all the events and facts that 
belong to the history, the improvements, and the 
progress of the times in which we live; and thus, at 
the end of each year, to form a full and accurate book 
of annals, with documentary proofs and a valuable 
collection of statistical tables and statements. The 
number before us, fully corresponds with the 
above-named design. We should say that the work 
will resemble in its character the London Annual Re¬ 
gister and Littell’s Living Age. C. M. Saxton, agent 
205 Broadway, N. Y. Price $5 per annum. 
New Jersey Water-Cure Establishment.— 
Those of our friends who are disposed to avail them¬ 
selves of the benefits of “ Hydropathy,” or water-cure 
treatment, we would recommend to the estab¬ 
lishment of Dr. Meeker, at South Orange, in the 
Orange Mountains, New Jersey, situated only fifteen 
miles from New York, on the line of the Morris and 
Essex Railroad. 
Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricul¬ 
tural Society. —The Transactions of the N. Y. State 
Agricultural Society, with an abstract of the Proceed¬ 
ings of the County Agricultural Societies, for the year 
1847, have been received, and will be further noticed 
hereafter. 
Recent Publications.— Through the politeness 
of Messrs. Stanford & Swords, 139 Broadway, we have 
received the following publications:—Hawkstone ; a 
Tale of and for England, 2 vols., 12mo.; Mark Wilton, 
the Merchant’s Clerk, by Charles B. Taylor, 12mo. ; 
The Vast Army, an Allegory, by Rev. Edward Mon¬ 
roe, 18mo.; and Always Happy ! or Anecdotes of 
Felix and his Sister Serena, written for her children, 
by A Mother, 18mo. These works are handsomely 
got up, some of them illustrated, and all adapted for 
family reading. 
A Caution to Drinking Young Men. —An old 
lady resident of a neighboring place, kept a large fam¬ 
ily of turkeys, perhaps sixty. She, like a great man}/ 
other people thought a great deal of her turkeys, con¬ 
sequently valued them very highly. Opposite her 
door was a ££ West-India goods store.” The man 
one day emptied his cask of cherries, intending to re¬ 
place them with new. This old lady being economi¬ 
cal, thought it a great pity to have all these cherries 
wasted, and in order to have them saved, she would 
just drive over her turkeys and let them eat them. In 
the course of the day the old lady thought she would 
look after them and see if they were in no mischief. 
She approached the yard, and lo, in one corner, lay her 
turkeys in one huge pile. dead. “Yes, they were 
stone dead.” What was to be done ? Surely the old 
matron could not lose the feathers'? She must pick 
them ! She called her daughter and picked them, in¬ 
tending to have them buried in the morning. Morn¬ 
ing came, and behold there were the turkeys stalking 
about the yard, featherless enough (as may be sup¬ 
posed), crying out ££ quit, quitfeeling no doubt mor¬ 
tified that their drunken fit had been the means of 
losing their coats. Poor things, if they had said 
“ quit” before they began, they would not have been 
in this bad “fix.” We would* advise all young men 
who are in the habit of drinking, to leave off before 
they get picked; and to those who do not, let every 
young lady say “ quit.”— Alabama Planter. 
