editors’ table. 
133 
(gfritovg (Stable. 
The Farmers’ Club, of the American Institute, have 
appointed Tuesday, the 1st day of April, at 12, M., for 
the discussion of Indian Corn, and the preparation of it 
for food. Also, Tuesday, the 8th day of April, for the 
discussion of cattle of the various breeds, and the best 
method of breeding. Persons interested are invited to 
attend at the Repository of the Institute, 351 Broadway. 
An Agricultural Truth. —He who is within scent 
of a dunghill smells that which his crops would have 
eaten, if he had permitted it. Instead of manuring 
his land, he manures the atmosphere, and before his 
dunghill is finished turning, he has manured another 
parish, and perhaps another country .—Arthur Young. 
Youatt on the Structure and the Diseases of the 
Horse, with their remedies, brought down to 1849, by 
W. C. Spooner ; to which is prefixed an account of the 
breeds of the United States, compiled by Henry S. 
Randall. Derby & Miller, Auburn, H. Y. Any one at 
all conversant with that noble animal, the horse, is well 
aware oft the merits of Youatt’s admirable work on this 
subject. Mr. Spooner, a veterinary surgeon of high 
standing, wrote a valuable supplement for the late 
English edition, bringing the science down to 1849. 
This, Mr. Randall, with excellent judgment, has incor¬ 
porated into the body of the volume before us, in foot¬ 
notes, under the different appropriate heads of the 
work. We think this quite an improvement on the 
English edition. Mr. Randall’s part of the work is 
well done; and as the publishers have brought it out 
in handsome style, we trust the book will have a large 
sale. 
Models of Fruit. —We have never seen so fine life¬ 
like specimen of modelled fruits as were recently 
shown us by Mr. T. Glover, of Fishkill Landing, H Y. 
They did not represent the faultless fancy sketch so 
often shown by artists, but like Cromwell’s leathern 
face, with the mask fully developed, they showed the 
dents and defacements incident to the peculiar fruit il¬ 
lustrated. A bystander, to whom we offered one, very 
gravely put it to his nose to detect the delicious odor 
such tempting specimens yield. This art is capable of 
subserving the advancement of horticulture in various 
ways; and to its votaries, we most heartily commend 
the specimens and the artist by whom they have been 
furnished. Samples of them may be seen at our office. 
Sale of Mr. Morris’ Shorthorn Stock. —By refer¬ 
ence to the advertisement page 135, it will be seen that 
Mr. Lewis G. Morris, of Mount Fordham, Westchester 
county, is to have a large sale of grade and thorough¬ 
bred short horn stock. These animals have been bred 
with direct reference to great milking qualities, in which 
Mr. M. has been particularly successful. The grades 
are mostly, if not all, crossed with celebrated Dutch 
milking stock. Quite a number of similar-bred animals 
were sold by Mr. M. at his great sale in the autumn of 
1849 ; and we are informed that generally, those who 
then purchased, are highly gratified with the great 
milking properties of the cows then obtained. Mr. 
Morris imported last year several high-bred shorthorns, 
from the celebrated herd of the late Thomas Bates, Esq., 
of Yorkshire; he has also imported a few fine Devons: 
and a small flock of choice Southdown sheep, bred by 
the celebrated Jonas Webb, of Babraham, England. 
The Soil of the South. —This is a new work just 
started at Columbus, Georgia, 16 pages quarto, month¬ 
ly, price one dollar a year, Charles A. Peabody, Esq. 
and Col. James M. Chambers, the supervisory editors, 
assisted by quite a number of highly talented and 
practical planters. Col. Chambers is the publisher. We 
like the first number of this paper very much; it is 
spirited, practical, and common sense, which is all that 
is required to make periodicals of this class. We have 
no doubt it will exercise a highly beneficial influence on 
the agriculture of the south, and it has our best wishes 
for its success. If planters and farmers would read 
fewer political papers and more agricultural, it would 
be infinitely better for them, both in an intellectual and 
pecuniary point of view. 
Cattle. —By Youatt and W. C. L. Martin, being a 
treatise on their breeds, management, and diseases, 
comprising a full history of the various races; their 
origin, breeding, and merits ; their capacity for beef and 
milk; the nature and treatment of their diseases; the 
whole forming a complete guide for the farmer, the 
amateur, and the veterinary surgeon; with 100 illustra¬ 
tions. Edited by A. Stevens. Hew York: C. M. Sax¬ 
ton. pp. 410. 12mo. Price, in muslin, $1.50. This 
useful and much-needed work, announced some time 
since as in preparation, very opportunely has come to 
hand. We need not reiterate our opinion of the capa¬ 
bilities of the editor, nor of the service the publisher 
is doing to his countrymen in issuing similar works. Of 
these, the reader must already be aware. Suffice it to 
say, the book is neatly and handsomely got up, and is 
just the thing a majority of our farmers require. 
There is one feature, however, in the work, that is 
new, and to which we will briefly allude. The author, 
in the treatment of diseases has adopted the system of 
Hahnemann, called “ homoeopathy,” which is based on 
one general law, similia, similibus curantur; that is, 
“ like cures like,” or in other words, “ a system of me¬ 
dicine, which cures diseases by such agents as produce 
similar symptoms, when taken by an individual in 
health.” These medicines are given in extremely small 
doses, one of which is administered at a time, and the 
substances employed must be perfectly pure. The 
medicines are prepared by able chemists in this city, 
and may be had on reasonable terms. 
Immigrants continue to pour into Hew York from 
abroad in great numbers. Let them come, but in the 
mean time let measures be taken by an organised com¬ 
pany with either public or private means, to send 
them out of the city, to make them cultivators of the 
soil, instead drones and deprapators upon the industry 
of the people Help them out to the vast territories of 
fertile soil in the west, and teach them there to help 
themselves. They will soon become producers instead 
of consumers. 
