editors’ table. 
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(Suitors’ ^Table. 
Me. A. Sherman, our agent, will spend most of the 
month of February in North Carolina, and the month 
of March in Southern Virginia and Maryland. 
Mr. Solon Robinson, our assistant editor and agent, 
is now in Florida, and can be addressed at Tallahassee, 
as late as the 20th of February. He will then slowly 
return north by the way of Savannah, Charleston, 
Wilmington, Richmond, and Norfolk, tie will arrive 
at the latter place about the loth of March, and spend 
the residue of the month and part of April, in Lower 
Virginia. J 
Brazilian Tea. —We have received from JDom L. H. 
F. d’Aguair, Consul General of Brazil, near New York, 
several packages of tea, grown in that empire, the 
quality of two samples of which (Nos. 9 and 16,) in our 
judgment, are equal, if not superior, to that of China.. 
Other samples, (Nos. 2, 4, and 6,) we suspect, from want 
of sufficient manipulation, were not so agreeable to 
the taste. The consul says: “We are trying the cul¬ 
tivation in the empire, and according to the success 
obtained, it promises to be a new acquisition to the 
country, as well as a source of wealth; and, should the 
success be equal to that of the coffee, the day will not 
be far distant when we shall be able to furnish your 
country, (the United States,) with two beverages so 
much in use, both of which have been so useful to the 
cause of temperance.” We congratulate our continental 
brethren of the southern hemisphere in the successful 
cultivation of this useful and almost indispensable lux¬ 
ury, and trust that an increased supply will tend to 
the advancement of the agriculture and commerce of 
the two countries, and will prove to their mutual ad¬ 
vantage. 
Great Sale of Milch Cows.—We desire to call at¬ 
tention to Mr. Bell’s advertisement of the sale of cows 
to take place on the 25th of next March. Mr. B. has 
been for years selecting and breeding with a direct 
reference to milking properties, and he has now got 
together, probably, one of the best herds in this respect, 
to be found in the country. The sale will be positive, 
and we trust that all those in want of first-rate family 
cows, will not fail to attend it. For particulars, as to 
the breeding of these animals, see advertisement. 
Southern Si-ieep Husbandry; by H. S. Randall. 
Mr. Saxton has purchased the entire edition of this 
popular book, of the publisher. 
Stephens’ Book of the Farm. —This valuable work 
is now offered, complete, by C. M. Saxton, 123 Fulton 
street, at the reduced price of $3.50 per copy, with 
paper covers for mailing, or $4 neatly bound. Every 
farmer and every rural library should possess this work. 
The quantity of valuable information to be had for a 
small sum is astonishing. 
Agency at Pittsburg, Pa.— Mr. Henry McCormick 
is appointed agent for the Agriculturist at this place. 
He will also keep on hand a full supply of C. M. Sax¬ 
ton’s agricultural books, at the publisher’s prices. 
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, W. 
H. Bidwell, editor and proprietor, 120 Nassau street. 
Of all the foreign republications, the Eclectic, in our 
judgement, is immeasurably superior. The good taste 
of the editor leaves out all trash and the more local 
articles, selecting those only which have an immediate 
interest among us or are of permanent value. It is, 
therefore, nearly as valuable to bind up at the end of 
the year, to occupy a place in the library, as to adorn 
the centre table from month to month. Each number 
contains 144 pages of large octavo, in double columns, 
making 1,728 pages a year. 
Agriculture in Switzerland. —Ur. J. V. C. Smith, 
the editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 
has been travelling in that mountainous region of the 
world, and in one of his letters, notices some of the agri¬ 
cultural products of localities where the best efforts of 
the husbandman produce but a poor return in grain or 
potatoes. Hence the production of crops unknown to 
American farmers. One of these is poppies, which are 
grown by thousands of acres; not for opium, but the 
seed, from which a beautiful transparent oil is pro¬ 
duced, which is much used in house painting, and is 
considered far superior to linseed oil, because it is 
almost colorless, and when used with white lead, does 
not turn yellow like the oil of flaxseed, when exposed 
to the light. Poppies can be grown upon soil too sandy 
and light to produce flax. Why should not this new 
crop be sown in this country ? Who will try it ? 
Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation and 
Garden Calendar for 1851, by Thomas Affleck, 
Washington, Adams county, Miss. This is a neatly- 
executed pamphlet of 132 pages of highly instructive 
matter, which is useful to every planter in the South. 
Several southern staples are therein treated at consid¬ 
erable length and with much judgement and ability, 
and we hope to hear that the work has a wide circula¬ 
tion. We are glad to see that the enterprise com¬ 
menced by Mr. A. some, years since, the publication of 
“ The Plantation Record and Account Book,” is ex¬ 
tending and likely to be generally adopted. We are 
also pleased to see that Mr. A. has commenced an ex¬ 
tensive southern nursery; and from his taste, energy, 
and experience in this department, we anticipate for 
him entire success in his undertaking. We are certain, 
at least, he will deserve it. 
Phosphate of lime. —We have it in our power, at 
last, to record the discovery of an extensive deposit 
of phosphate of lime, at Crown Point, on the north 
shore of Lake Champlain. It is said that 92 per 
cent, only of the rock is phosphate, but even this 
amount will render it a valuable acquisition for the 
farmer’s fields. In some of our previous volumes, we 
noticed the absence of any information on this subject 
in the extended report of the state geologists, and then 
predicted we should ere long find some deposits of 
this valuable manure w T hich they failed to detect. We 
shall hope for the speedy discovery of still richer, and 
to us and the farmers of the Atlantic seaboard, more 
accessible accumulations of this long-stored treasures. 
