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Volume,” page 11th. 
Who is Reviewer ?—We intended to have answered 
this question in this number; but our visit to the “ Cap¬ 
tain,” being among the last articles sent to the printer, 
was unfortunately left over for want of room. It will 
appear in February, sure. 
Post-Offce Matters and Mail Arrangements.— 
Success of Cheap Postage. —Maugre all the apprehen¬ 
sions of the croakers heretofore connected with the 
P. 0. Department, comparatively, cheap postage is en¬ 
tirely triumphant. The gross revenue for the year end¬ 
ing June 30th, was $4,905,176; the expenditures for 
the same period, $4,470,049; while it is estimated the 
receipts for the current year will be $5,783,848, and the 
expenses $4,750,138. If congress and the departments 
could muster common sense enough to put the maximum 
postage at 5 cents, for the greater distances, and the 
minimum at 2 cents, for the least, they would soon have 
money to invest in the government stocks. 
Lard Oil.— There seems no end to the pork statis¬ 
tics of Cincinnati. It is estimated that 11,000,000 lbs. 
of Jard, or its equivalent in pork, will be used for mak¬ 
ing lard oil, the present season, in that city. Nearly 
one third of the raw material will be converted into 
stearine. At one of the lard manufactories, 600 dressed 
swine can be reduced to lard per day. Seven large, 
circular tanks hold in the aggregate 96,000 lbs. After 
taking off the hams, the remainder of the carcase entire 
is thrown into these, and steam is then admitted at a 
pressure of 70 lbs. to the inch, when the grease through¬ 
out the 1 whole carcase is effectually extracted. 
The Great Industrial Exhibition, in London in 
1851.—The proposed subjects of exhibition are fourfold: 
raw materials, machinery and mechanical inventions, 
manufactures, sculpture and plastic art in general. The 
design is comprehensive, and there is no taste which 
will not find its food in such variety of store. The 
arrangement is progressive: it begins with the rude mass, 
without form and void, and ascends to the noblest con¬ 
ceptions of man, as far as they admit of material sub¬ 
stance and form. It is proposed that the first quin¬ 
quennial exhibition shall begin the half century, in 1851. 
All nations are invited without distinction or preference. 
The prizes are to be one money prize of £2,000, four 
of £1,000, one in each of the above sections, and medals, 
which it is hoped may be conferred by the Queen. The 
promoters of the splendid design feel no misgiving as 
to the possibility of raising £100,000, ($500,000,) or 
more, for the general expenses of the exhibition; and 
the many influential names, both in the provinces and 
in the metropolis, now pledged to the undertaking, leave 
us at ease on this point. What more is wanting to the 
success of so grand and so useful a design, than the 
zeal of science, and the substantial encouragements of 
enterprise and wealth ? The pecuniary amount of the 
prizes, not to speak of their glory, is certain to allure 
all nations to the arena. In that universal competition, 
it is impossible but that all will mutually impart some¬ 
thing of their several excellencies; England her me¬ 
chanical ingenuity, America her boldness of invention, 
France her unequalled delicacy and novelty of taste, 
and even the least and lowest nation its traditionary 
crafts and household lore. 
Great Show of Poultry.— The New-England Con¬ 
vention of domestic-fowl breeders and fanciers, held 
their first show at Boston, on the 15th and 16th- of No¬ 
vember. It was a large display of various kinds, shapes, 
and colors. There was the magnificent swan, the su¬ 
perb goose, the waddling duck, the gaudy peacock, the 
splendid turkey, the bright Guinea hen, the strutting 
barn-door fowl, and the meek-eyed pigeon. From 8,000 
to 10,000 persons were present, and the sales of all 
kinds were quite large. Cochin-China fowls, weighing a 
dozen pounds or so, brought from $10 to $20 per pair; 
and little Bantams, weighing only five ounces each, sold 
for half these prices. Among other curiosities present, 
was a venerable goose, belonging to Col. Jaques, of 
Charlestown, which, if we may credit the papers, has 
produced, in her useful life, five thousand descendants, 
each of which sold for $5. This would amount to 
twenty-jive thousand dollars! She must have laid 
golden eggs indeed, and be better stock than California 
mines. 
Great Potato Crop. —Mr* Nickerson, of Piscataquis, 
Me., raised 4,000 bushels of potatoes on ten acres of 
ground, last season. They were worth 25 cents per 
bushel, which would be $100 per acre. This certainly 
is profitable farming. 
Good Cows. —The cows which received the premiums 
of the Essex-County (Mass.) Agricultural Society, last 
year, gave the following products: The one which took 
the first premium was six years old, and of mixed 
breed; from 3d of June to 3d of July, she gave an 
average of 18 quarts of milk per day, beer measure, 
which yielded 10 pounds of butter per week. Her 
feed common pasture only. The one which took the 
second premium gave, from April 28th to September 
28th, 2,405 quarts of milk. The one which took the 
third premium was eight years old, a cross of the Dur 
ham breed. She gave, from the 27th of May to the 
25th of June, an average of 454 quarts per day, which 
yielded a little over 2 pounds of butter per day. 
weighed after it had been twice thoroughly worked, 
In 121 days, her milk gave 192 pounds of butter. Her 
feed was good pasture, with 15 quarts of meal during 
the trial of 30 days. The one which took the fourth 
premium, was nine years old, and gave, in one year, 
8,767 pounds of milk—probably about 4,383 quarts— 
or an average of about 12 quarts per day. The one 
which took the fifth premium, was eight years old, and 
afforded 15 pounds of butter in a week, in July last. 
Her feed common pasture, and one quart of meal per 
day. The one which took the sixth premium, gave 
2,448 quarts of milk from April 25th to September 
26th.— The Plow, Loom, and Anvil. 
Agency for the Purchase of Articles of Domestic 
Economy, Ac.—W e would call the attention of our 
readers to the advertisement of Mr. Browne, on the 
following page, as affording a proper medium for ob¬ 
taining almost everything required for ornament or use. 
His experience, as a traveller, a nautical man, and a 
practical engineer, as well as his knowledge of com¬ 
merce, the sciences, and the arts, is a sufficient guarantee 
for the faithful execution of such orders as may be com ■ 
mitted to his charge. 
Large Turnip.— Mr. Reuben Eaton, of this place, 
has raised a ruta-baga turnip that weighed, when first 
taken from the ground, twenty-six pounds. Mr. E. took 
the premium for the best crop last year.— WatervUle 
Mail. 
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