editor’s table. 
381 
(Suitor’s &abk. 
Removal. —Our readers are informed that the office 
»f publication of the American Agriculturist is re¬ 
moved to 121 Fulton street, New York, where a large 
and complete assortment of agricultural publications 
may be found, which will be sold at the lowest cash 
prices, by C. M. Saxton. 
Gold Medal. —A. B. Allen & Co., of 189 and 191 
Water street, New York, were awarded a gold medal 
for exhibiting the best and greatest variety of Agricul¬ 
tural Implements, at the late annual fair of the Amer¬ 
ican Institute. 
Death of T. B. Wakeman. —It is with much 
regret we announce the decease of Thaddeus B. Wake- 
man, Esq. He died at his residence, in this city, on 
the 7th inst., after a protracted illness of several 
months. Mr. W. was a native of Connecticut, but for 
a large part of his life, has resided in New York. He 
has been connected with the American Institute since 
its commencement, twenty-one years, during all of 
which time, he has held the responsible office of Cor¬ 
responding Secretary. The success of this institu¬ 
tion under the many discouragements it has had to en¬ 
counter, is his best and a sufficient eulogy. 
Scientific Agriculture ; or the Elements of 
Chemistry, Geology, Botany, and Meteorology, &c., 
by M. M. Rodgers, M.D. Illustrated by Engravings. 
Rochester : Erastus Darrow. 12mo. pp. 279. In has¬ 
tily looking over this little work we have been rather 
favorably impressed; and were not the country al¬ 
ready flooded with similar publications, we should 
hope the author would be rewarded for his pains. 
The Breeds, Management, Structure, and 
Diseases of Sheep, with Illustrative Engravings, by 
H. J. Canfield. Salem, Ohio: Aaron Hinehman, 
12mo. pp. 580. This is a very good compilation of 
the subject treated on, made from various authors, 
some of which are duly credited, others not. Among 
others largely drawn from, we notice much from our 
own pages, transferred without comment or quotation 
marks of any kind whatever. Although we conceive 
this adds to, rather than detracts from, the merits of 
the work, we are not at liberty to draw the same in¬ 
ference as to the merits of the author, who was bound 
by all fairness and honorable dealing to have given us 
due credit for his ample extracts. 
Best Kinds of Strawberries for Cultivation. 
—An experienced fruitgrower writes us that after try¬ 
ing thirty of the best and most popular modern varie¬ 
ties of strawberries, he has come to the conclusion 
that but four varieties are worth cultivating on the 
light sandy lands of Monmouth county, New Jersey. 
These are Hovey’s seedling, the Boston pine, large 
early scarlet, and the crimson cone, or Scotch pine. 
Wine in Ohio. —The amount of wine already made 
this year in the neighborhood of Herman, is about 
6,000 gallons. It is worth on an average $1.25 per 
gallon. 
Mammoth Pumpkin.— We were shown yesterday 
a pumpkin grown by Mr. Jas. Smith, of Harrison 
county, Indiana, that weighed 171 pounds, and is up¬ 
wards of six feet in circumference.— Lou. Cour. 
Two Crops of Raspberries the Same Year.— 
Mr. Wm. E. Lyman, picked upward of half a pint of 
raspberries from his garden in this city, the past week, 
being the second crop of this year’s growth. The 
berries were of fine size and flavor .—Buffalo Com¬ 
mercial. 
Introduction of the Tea Pla.nt into the 
United States.— It will be gratifying for our readers 
to learn that several cases of black and green-tea 
plants, of Chinese stock, have just arrived from Lon¬ 
don, in the ship American Eagle, selected and imported 
by Dr. Junius Smith, of this city. The packages con¬ 
tain some 500 plants of from five to seven years’ 
growth, and are designed for the formation of planta¬ 
tions in the mountainous parts of Georgia and the 
Carolinas. 
We also understand that a small quantity of tea 
seed was lately brought to this country by Dr. S., in 
the steamer Britannia, which he received in London, 
overland, from the northwest provinces of India, for 
the purpose of sowing on plantations at the south. 
More plants and seed are expected from India and 
China, this season, and if we may judge from the pro¬ 
gress already made, we have now the means in hand 
of extending tea plantations throughout such sections 
of our country as may be found adapted to its cul¬ 
ture. 
Serious loss by fire. —We regret to notice the 
destruction by fire, on October 29th, of the office, 
papers, stereotype plates, and several thousand volumes 
of the Cultivator in Albany. This is a loss of no little 
magnitude, and one that can hardly be estimated by 
dollars and cents. We sincerely trust, so far as re¬ 
pairable by the latter, the publisher’s loss may be 
amply made up by an increased list of paying sub¬ 
scribers. 
The agricultural implement warehouse of Mr. Em¬ 
ery, in the same building, was also destroyed, with 
several thousand dollars’ worth of tools. The sympa¬ 
thies of the public, and the energies of both the above 
parties, will soon, we hope, reinstate them in their 
former prosperous career. 
Analysis of the Cotton Plant and Seed, 
with Suggestions as to Manures, &c., by Thomas J. 
Summer, Columbia, S. C.: Allen, M’Carter & Co. 
This work consists of a small pamphlet of some 16 
pages, giving the modus operandi and results of the 
author in his analyses of the cotton plant and seed, the 
per centage of the constituents of which are as fol¬ 
lows :— 
100 parts of the ash of the cotton plant gave 
Silicic acid, .... 
6.50 
Sand and coal. 
10.04 
Oxide of iron, ... 
8.20 
Oxide of lime, 
17.66 
Oxide of magnesia, . 
5.33 
Sulphuric acid, 
1.31 
Phosphoric acid, 
13.37 
Potassa, . . . . , 
22 01 
Soda, ..... 
0.99 
Chloride of sodium, 
0.05 
Carbonic acid, . 
100 parts of the ash of cotton seed 
gave 
15.72 
101.19 
Phosphoric acid, 
35.43 
Oxide of iron, 
3.43 
Coal, ..... 
1.05 
Sulphuric acid, 
3.19 
Oxide of lime, 
10.88 
Oxide of magnesia, . 
10.61 
Potassa, . 
27.82 
Soda, 
2.75 
Silicic acid, .... 
Loss and chlorine, . 
trace. 
4.84 
100.00 
To Make Frog Soup. —Wash the thighs and 
backs of fifty frogs; put them into a pot with water 
enough for soup, together with carrots, leeks, turnips, 
parsnips, a little celery, a burnt onion, and a good 
piece of butter; let them boil gently for four or five 
hours and serve them as bouillion gras, 
Voulez vous de frog soup ? 
Mercie, Monsieur, j’ai beau coup. 
