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FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Foreign Agricultural Ntros. 
By the steamer Cambria, we are in receipt of our 
foreign journals to 8 th of June. 
Markets. — Ashes, in limited demand. Cotton, as per 
our last. There is so little change in all other Ameri¬ 
can exports, that we find nothing more worthy of par¬ 
ticular remark. 
Death of Gay Lussac. —M. Gay Lussac, the cele¬ 
brated chemist, died in Paris, on the 9th of May. 
To Kill Cockroaches. —Sink in the floor of the room 
a common basin, partly filled with beer. They will 
tumble in by hundreds. After persevering nightly for 
a few weeks, you will reduce the number to nothing; 
provided you kill with boiling water all that you catch. 
This should be done every morning.— Gardeners' 
Chronicle. 
Adulterated Guano.-* There are places near London 
where loam is sifted, and dried till it looks like guano. 
We could lay our hands upon a gentleman who has 
found a California on a hill side, so ample is the har¬ 
vest of gold which he digs up. He is said to have a 
contract with one house for 30 tons of loam per week, 
at 20s. a ton—a little revenue of something like a thou¬ 
sand a-year, after paying expenses. A field of loam, 
assisted by a few such contracts, is, we suspect, a bet¬ 
ter placer than Sutter’s mill-itself. 
Must we again for the hundredth time, inform the 
world that guano doctoring is a trade? and a very 
great one too ; that, with the exception of what is pro¬ 
cured from the only importers, or from their authorised 
agents, all guano is falsified ? and that a substance, the 
cost of which, when bought by the cargo, is £9 5 s. per 
ton, cannot be sold for less, except by rogues ? Yet it 
is. notorious that “fine, genuine Peruvian guano” is 
offered all over the country at a much lower price. A 
few circumstances that have come to our knowledge 
lately may explain how this is managed.— Agricultural 
Gazette. 
Proposed Analysis of the Potato Plant. —It would 
be most interesting to farmers and gardeners, if some 
scientific persons would make an analysis of pota¬ 
toes under various circumstances; 1st, when thoroughly 
ripe and fresh from the soil, after drying two or three 
days; 2d, after having been allowed to heat in a bury; 
3d, when they have sprouted half an inch in the spring, 
previous to planting; 4th, the same description of po¬ 
tato kept under cover during the winter, and turned 
frequently, to prevent both growing and heating.— Ibid. 
Growing Vegetables on Railway Embankments .— 
It has occurred to us, that vegetable marrows, gourds, 
pompions, and even cucumbers, (if really useful,) might 
be profitably cultivated on railway embankments ; in 
addition to some gain, such plants would produce an 
agreeable appearance on the embankments, and there 
can be no doubt that on south aspects, at least, they 
might be grown in perfection. They should be planted 
on well-cultivated grounds, about a yard apart, on the 
summit of the banks, and allowed to grow with their 
heads downward.— Ibid. 
Death of Dr. Corda. —It is with painful feelings 
that we announce the untimely death of Dr. Corda, of 
Prague, who perished at sea on his return from Texas, 
where he had been residing ten months, during which, 
he had made many valuable collections and observa¬ 
tions that, we fear, are now entirely lost to science. Be¬ 
ing a man of very varied talents and by no means a 
mere botanist, he had been employed by the emperor 
of Austria to report on the Industrial Exhibition at 
Paris in 1844, where we had the pleasure of his society 
for some time; and a high sense of his abilities induced 
the Prince Colloredo to select him, as a fit person to 
conduct a large party of emigrants to New Braunfels, 
in Texas, where the Prince was about to establish a 
colony.— Agricultural Gazette. 
The American Churn in England. —The -American 
new churn, patented in England, which was exhibited 
at the Mansion House, on Easter Monday, was again 
shown, a few days since, at the Ship Tavern, Water- 
lane, Tower street, in presence of several gentlemen 
connected with the butter trade, and Dr. Ryan, of the 
Polytecnic Institution, when from four quarts of cream 
and two quarts of London sweet milk, it produced five 
pounds of butter of excellent quality and flavor. The 
result elicited unqualified approbation from the gen¬ 
tlemen present.— Ibid. 
Sale of Mr. Bates' Shorthorn Cattle. —This great 
sale came of on the 9th of May, at Mr. Bates’ late resi¬ 
dence, Kirklevington, Yorkshire. It is estimated that 
from 3,000 to 5000, persons were present, a larger num¬ 
ber than were ever before congregated on a similar oc¬ 
casion. The catalogue contained 48 cows and heifers, 
and 22 bulls, making 70 head in all. The sale went 
off with spirit, but the prices obtained were not so 
great as anticipated. The highest was 205 guineas, 
($1,025,) and the average of the whole herd, was 63 
guineas ($315). We shall give full particulars in our 
next. Here is another evidence of the estimation, in 
Great Britain, of the shorthorn breed of cattle. If we 
could get half these prices in the United States, we 
should feel better satisfied; and yet, they would hardly 
pay a choice breeder for the time, talents, and capital, 
necessary to be devoted to the business. 
To Destroy Ants. —Various plans have been already 
proposed for the destruction of these insects. Rags, 
well saturated with turpentine thrust into the crevices 
where they abound, will certainly destroy them, as 
also will oil, if it come in contact with their bodies. Dr. 
Bostock found lime very servicable in expelling them, 
and water, in which the outer green skins of walnuts 
have been soaked, has been used with success; salt 
has also been stated to be objectionable to them. One 
of the simplest and most effectual remedies is to lay 
wide-mouthed bottles in their tracks, or near the 
mouths of their burrows, placing bits of raw meat 
within. The ants will greedily attack the latter, and 
may be destroyed from time to time by shaking the 
bottle over hot water.— Dr. Westwood. 
The Stanwick Nectarine. —The original tree of this 
variety is in the possession of the Duke of Northum¬ 
berland, at whose seat, at Stanwick, it has borne fruit 
for several years, and from which it derives its name. 
The duke received it from the late Mr. Barker of Suse- 
dia, in Syria, a gentleman whose attention has long 
been turned to the acquisition of the finest fruit trees of 
the East, in the hope that they might be valuable 
in his native country. 
In excellence, the Stanwick nectarine is as far be¬ 
yond all other nectarines as a green-gage plum is be¬ 
yond all other plums. Beyond this, praise cannot 
reach. It may, nevertheless, be as well to repeat on 
the present occasion, what we stated some time since, 
when the high quality of this nectarine had first be¬ 
come perfectly ascertained. 
“ The nectarine forming the subject of this notice is 
about the size of an Elruge, and like it in shape, except 
in being less heart-shaped at the base. Its skin is 
pale, like that of the white nectarine, where shaded, 
with a violet tinge next the sun. The flesh is white, 
exceedingly tender, juicy, rich, and sugary, without 
the slightest trace of the flavor of prussic acid. The 
stone is middle-sized, ovate, with rather a prominent 
sharp edge, very rugged, and of a chocolate color. The 
kernel is sweet, like a nut, possessing nothing cf the 
bitter-almond flavor.— Gardeners' Chronicle. 
