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editor’s table. 
(Editor s ®ctbk. 
To Advertisers and Correspondents. —As the 
matter of each number of the Agriculturist must ne¬ 
cessarily be arranged by the 10th of the month pre¬ 
ceding its publication, all those who wish to advertise 
in season, should avail themselves of the opportunity. 
Correspondents should forward their communications 
for publication by the 1st of the month. 
New Work on Agriculture. —We give in this 
number an extract from the American Farm Book 
of R. L. Allen, revised and enlarged, from the for¬ 
mer editions of “ The Compend of American Ag¬ 
riculture.” This work is now in press, and will 
embody a large amount of practical information, 
condensed into the smallest compass. It is plainly 
written, and adapted to the humblest capacities, yet 
embodying the latest and best information on all the 
leading subjects of American husbandry. It is well il¬ 
lustrated with engravings, and contains from 300 to 
400 duodecimo pages, handsomely got up, and will be 
for sale by C. M. Saxton, publisher, 121 Fulton street. 
N. Y. Price $1. 
Mr. Bement’s Sale of Ayrshire Stock.— We 
would call attention to this important sale, which is 
to come off on the 14th of March. See advertisement. 
Discontinuance of the American Journal of 
Agriculture and Science. —We regret to learn that 
this favorite work, after completing its seventh vol¬ 
ume, has been discontinued, as its familiar and in¬ 
structive pages will be sadly missed by its friends and 
supporters. Mr. C. N. Bement, its late conductor and 
proprietor, has recently disposed of his celebrated 
farm, near Albany, and is about, as we are informed, 
to retire. We shall wish him all sorts of prosperity 
in his new home. . 
The Cultivator, a monthly paper, devoted to ag¬ 
riculture and rural affairs, published by Luther Tuck¬ 
er, No. 10 Green street, Albany, N. Y., price $1 a 
year. The enterprising publisher of this excellent 
periodical was so unfortunate as to be burned out 
in the month of November last, and met, consequent¬ 
ly, with a heavy loss. The January number of the 
Cultivator, however, is placed before us with its 
usual promptness, appearing like a new phoenix just 
fledged from its ashes. It abounds with handsome 
illustrations, and useful matter, and ought to be taken 
in every farm house in the United States. We 
trust that an increased subscription, from year to 
year, will amply compensate its enterprizing pro¬ 
prietor for all his losses. . 
The New-England Farmer, a semi-monthly jour¬ 
nal of 16 octavo pages, devoted to agriculture and all 
its kindred arts and sciences, edited by S. W. Coles, 
Esq., and published by J. Nourse, of Quincy Hall, 
Boston, at $1 per annum, has lately been revived, 
and from the well-known reputation of the editor, 
and the enterprise of the publisher, as one of the ex¬ 
tensive firm of Messrs. Ruggles, Nourse & Mason, of 
Boston and Worcester, we trust it will find a liberal 
support. It is got up in handsome style, and is filled 
with varied and useful matter for the farmer and 
general reader. 
Root Propagation of Fruit Trees. —The Ha¬ 
verhill (Mass.) Whig, says :—Two or three of the best 
farmers, within our knowledge, secure their fruit 
trees thus : They dig at some distance from a favorite 
tree, until they find a root which they cut off. The 
part disjointed from the tree is turned up, so as to 
appear above the ground. This sends forth shoots 
the first year, and bears, in a few years, fruit pre¬ 
cisely like the parent tree. 
v Bananas. —The cultivation of this fruit has been 
attended with complete success on several plantations 
on Galveston Bay. 
Model Sheep. —We have received from J. A. 
Taintor, Esq., of Hartford, several statues of his late 
imported Merino sheep, beautifully modelled in plas¬ 
ter. The merits of these specimens consist in the 
perfect accuracy of form, character, and appearance. 
They are the work of an accomplished Italian sculp¬ 
tor, who made a few models by way of parenthesis, in 
his more important avocations. 
We think these efforts invaluable to breeders,, 
as perpetuating the genuine appearance, embodying 
whatever excellencies or defects distinguish partic¬ 
ular breeds or individuals, and placing them within 
the reach of all. Those alluded to above are in our 
office, where we shall be happy to show them to those 
who take an interest in such matters. They are real¬ 
ly the most exact and life-like things of the kind we 
have ever seen, and show Mr. Taintor’s noble sheep 
with great accuracy. He certainly deserves great 
credit for spending a little money in the way of mo¬ 
delling animals. We look upon a statue as far supe¬ 
rior to a painting, for the purpose of giving an accu¬ 
rate idea of an animal. 
Officers of the Cortland County Agricultu¬ 
ral Society for 1849 :— 
President —Peter Walrod. 
Vice Presidents —Charles Taylor, Alfred Chamber- 
lain, Moses Kenney (of Truxton), Chauncey Morgan. 
Treasurer —Ira Bow r en. 
Corresponding Secretary —Amos Hobart. 
Secretary —Geo. J. J. Barber. 
Executive Committee —Amos Graves, Harry Wool- 
ston, Morris Miller, Hiram Hopkins, Francis Hibbard, 
Richard Cornell, Thomas Harrop, Amos Rice, Henry 
Sessions, Selden Munger. 
Marshals —Noah Hitchkock, Jr., Israel Boies, Pa¬ 
ris Barber. 
Disinfecting Property of Coffee. —Coffee 
is one of the most powerful means not only of ren¬ 
dering animal and vegetable effluvia innocuous, but 
of actually destroying them. A room in which meat 
in an advanced degree of decomposition has been 
kept for some time, may be instantly deprived of all 
smell on an open coffee roaster being carried through 
it, containing a pound of coffee newly roasted. 
Saratoga Mineral Waters. —We are glad to 
perceive that some enterprising capitalists are mov¬ 
ing in the matter, of supplying the city of New York 
with water, self delivered from the mineral springs 
of Saratoga. We think this one of the best enterpri¬ 
ses of the day. and hope it may be speedily carried 1 
out. It will place those healthful streams, that are 
now permitted to run to waste, within the reach of 
hundreds of thousands, who cannot, for the want of 
leisure or money, procure them. Every town or vil¬ 
lage along the route can use them, as well as immense 
numbers who live near the city, and are constantly 
visiting it. Here is a convenient and economical 
point, also, for shipping it to any part of the Union, 
and the world. We have no doubt, besides this being 
an enterprise fraught with the blessings of health, it 
is also certain to pay the proprietors, if rightly man¬ 
aged, a large per centage on the capital necessary to 
accomplish the object. 
This will be rather better than resorting to the Aix- 
La-Chapelle waters of Jacob street, in this city, which 
used to be kept at their requisite potency, by the 
drainage from all the tanneries and sewers of the 
Swamp. 
Names and Value of Small Spanish Coins 
in Several States of the Union. —The Spanish 
real, valued, at 12| cents, in Massachusetts is called a 
nine pence, in New York a shilling , in Maryland a 
levy, in South Carolina seven-pence, and Louisiana a 
hit. The half real, valued at 6J cents, in Massachusetts,, 
is called four -pence-ha’ -penny, in New Y ork six-pence* 
in Maryland a fp, and in Louisiana a picayune. 
