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editors’ table. 
(Editors’ liable. 
Please to Pay Your Postage. —Under the new law 
we prepay postage on all letters addressed to our 
friends, and hope they will invariably do the same in re¬ 
turn. Forty per cent on the amount of postage will be 
thus saved by both parties. 
Alderny Bull Calves. —For some very superior 
bull calves, bred from first-rate imported stock, see ad¬ 
vertisement page 262. 
Agricultural Shows and Fairs. —The secretaries 
or other officers of State and County Agricultural 
Shows and Fairs of all parts of the country are invited 
to send us by the 10th of the present month, the dates 
and places at which they are to hold their annual ex¬ 
hibitions, in order that they may be announced in our 
September number. 
Shorthorn Bull Calves. —For advertisement of 
some superior calves of this breed, see page 261. They 
are the get of the superb imported bull Exeter, of the 
Princess tribe of shorthorns, and their dams are first- 
rate milkers, giving from 24 to 80 quarts per day. 
Their colors vary from strawberry roan to nearly deep 
red. We do not know of a better opportunity to pur¬ 
chase, for any one wishing to obtain a first-rate dairy 
stock bull of fine quality. 
Fair and Show of the New-York State Agricul¬ 
tural Society.— This exhibition will be held at Ro¬ 
chester, on the 17th, 18th, and 19th of September. 
The grounds selected for the purpose are about a mile 
and a half from the centre of the city, and comprise 
25 acres. The location is said to be well suited for 
the occasion, and unusual pains will be taken by the 
citizens to arrange and embellish the grounds. Among 
other objects of interest, the mechanics of Rochester 
propose to erect a wooden building, rendered fire-proof 
by a chemical process, to which they intend to apply 
fire at the close of the fair to test its incombustibility. 
Peaches in Louisiana.— General Felix Huston is 
preparing to pour into New Orleans whole avalanches 
of peaches. He has 30,000 trees in East Feliciana, and 
it is stated that he is intending to plant 50,000 more, 
on high clayey land, of the choicest varieties, so as to 
have a succession of fruit from May till November. 
The New-Orleans Courier says: “ Dr. Stone, in whose 
blunt sayings there are always deep thought and sound 
philosophy—yesterday declared that Huston’s move¬ 
ment was worth a thousand quarantines for the health 
of New Orleans. ‘ No more scurvy,’ said the Doctor. 
“ Eat stewed peaches, if you would keep off indigestion. 
Plenty of fruit for the people, and no yellow fever!’ 
“ The statistics of General Huston’s plantation verify 
this remark. Before he bought it, great mortality pre¬ 
vailed there. One of its former owners lost fifty ne¬ 
groes. He whipped his negroes whenever they were 
caught eating a peach, a melon, or an apple. He plants 
30 acres in melons. His negroes live in the peach or¬ 
chard. He whips them unless they eat the best and 
choicest—and this they take care to do! There have 
been but three deaths on the place—and these were 
old, obstinate negroes, who would’nt eat peaches /” 
Return of a Traveller. —Dr. J. Y. C. Smith, who 
held the office of Port Physician to the city of Boston 
for more than 20 years, has recently returned from an 
eighteen months’ journey through various countries in 
Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land. During that time, 
he has collected many valuable seeds, which he has 
very properly placed at the disposal of the Massachu¬ 
setts Horticultural Society, besides an immense amount 
of useful information relative to the agriculture, arts, 
antiquities, and natural and social condition of the 
countries through which he passed. Among the other 
objects he had in view, he devoted a large share of his 
attention to the investigation of pulmonary diseases, 
for which he learned or discovered means of greatly 
mitigating or of effecting a final cure. We understand 
he is about to publish his journal, through the medium 
of which, his discoveries and researches will be made 
known. 
Vermont State Agricultural Societal— In pursu¬ 
ance of a call made by over 200 of the agriculturists 
and raisers of stock in this state, a public meeting was 
held at Middlebury, on the 16 th of June, 1851, at 
which it was 
Resolved, That a State Fair be held at Middlebury, 
on the 10th and 11th days of September next. The 
main object of the fair is to make an exhibition of our 
stock, our cattle, our horses, and our sheep. The pub¬ 
lic may be assured that the best specimens of Black 
Hawk colts, Morgan, Hamiltonian and Eclipse stock, 
and of French and Spanish Merino and other breeds 
of sheep; the best Durham, Ayrshire, Hereford and 
Devonshire cattle, including oxen, cows, and young 
Cattle. The following officers were chosen:— 
President, Fredrick Holbrook. 
Vice Presidents, William Nash, George Chipman, 
Paris Fletcher, E. D. Barber, G. A. Austin, F. E, 
Woodbridge, Addison county; Charles Paine, John 
Gregory, Roderick Richardson, Washington county • 
John Yv r heeler, L. G. Brigham, Ezra Meech Jr., Chit¬ 
tenden county; J. K. Hyde, Jesse Hines, Rutland 
county; John S. Pettibone Bennington county; Epa- 
phro Seymour, George Campbell, Windham county; 
P. B. Southgate, Ebenezer Bridges, Windsor county ; 
J. P. Kidder, J. Thomas, Orange county; A. M. Clark, 
John S. Foster, Franklin county ; Henry M. Bates, Or¬ 
leans county; Nathan Smilie, Stillman Churchill, La¬ 
moille county; John Dewey, Essex count}"; Samuel 
Adams, Grand-Isle county; E. Fairbanks, Caledonia 
county. 
Secretary, E. R. Wright. 
Marshals, Abraham Foot, D. S. Church, W. S. John- 
son. 
Committee of Arrangements, Merrill Bingham, Ed¬ 
win Hammond, Alonzo L. Bingham, David Hill, Seth 
Langdon, William Phelps Nash, Lyman P. White, Jo¬ 
seph Warner, S. W. Jewett. 
Committee to invite an orator for the occasion, S 
W. Jewett. 
