ALBANY, APRIL, 1846. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Communications have been received, since our last, 
from F. A. Wier, Horace Goodhue, A. B. M’Clean, F. 
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Exordium, Richmond, Wm, Ansley, J. P., R. B., B., D. 
Rounds, W. H. T., J. M. Weeks, J. Sherman, Wm, 
Byers, S. S, G , J. T. Grant, H., Rev. H. W. Beecher, 
K. Haven, Zea, Iota, Inquirer, James Jones, E. C. F., 
Gaius Stebbins, John Rankin, Wm. Bacon, G., G. P. 
Waldo, C. Easton, A Subscriber, J. S. Pettibone, C. E. 
M’C., J. J. King, Germanicus, G. D. W. Elwood, A. 
H. Halleck, S. N. Hawes. 
Books, Pamphlets, &c. have been received as fol¬ 
lows, since our last: 
Notes on the Iroquois, or Contributions to the Statis¬ 
tics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethno¬ 
logy of Western New-York. By Henry R. Schoolcraft. 
From C. Van Benthuysen & Co. 
The American Journal of Science and Arts. By Prof. 
Silliman, B. Silliman, Jr., and James D. Dana. No. 2, 
for March, 1846. New Haven, tri-monthly, $ 5 a year. 
From the Editors. 
Vergennes Vermonter. From S. W. Jewett, Esq. 
Transactions of the Ag. Society of New-Castle coun¬ 
ty, Delaware. From J. Jones, Esq. 
Proceedings of Clinton County (N. Y.) Ag. Society. 
From Willets Keese. 
The New-York Dissector, a quarterly Journal of Me¬ 
dicine, Surgery, Magnetism, Mesmerism, and the collat¬ 
eral sciences; with the mysteries and fallacies of the 
Faculty. New-York—H. H. Sherwood, M. D. 56 p. 
octavo, $1 a year. 
Address before the Ontario Ag. Society. By Z. Bar¬ 
ton Stout, Esq. From the Author. 
Address at the Fair of the Hamilton County (O.) Ag. 
Society. By the President, J. W. Caldwell, Esq. Un¬ 
known. 
Constitution, By-Laws, &c. of the Westchester Ag. 
and Hort. Society. 
Belcher’s Nova Scotia Farmers’ Almanac, for 1846. 
From the Author. 
Schedule of Premiums offered by the Massachusetts’ 
Hort. Society, for 1846. The list is as follows: 
For Designs and Decorations,.$200 00 
“ Fruits, .. 500 00 
£C Plants and Flowers,. 500 00 
“ Vegetables,.... 150 00 
$1,350 00 
Vermont Mercury, with an article on Wool Growing, 
by J. W. Colburn. J. S. Pettibone. 
Three numbers New-York Evening Post, with arti¬ 
cles on the prices of wheat on the continent of Europe, 
and on “the weather.” 
The Morning Telegraph, with notices on Farmers’ 
Clubs. 
Proceedings of the National Convention of Farmers, 
&c. held at New-York, in connection with the Fair of 
the American Institute, 1845. 
The Farmer’s Dictionary, a vocabulary of the tech- 
nlcal terms recently introduced into Agriculture and Hor¬ 
ticulture from various sciences, and also a Compendium 
of Practical Farming; the latter chiefly from the works 
of Rham, Loudon, Low, and Youatt, and the most emi- j 
nent American Authors, with numerous illustrations, j 
Edited by D. P. Gardner, M. D. Harper and Brothers, j 
New-York. [Notice next month.] 
“ P.”—Thanks for your suggestion. We shall endea¬ 
vor to accomplish the object you suggest. 
Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. —We are 
glad to see a sixth edition of this last work of Mr. 
Downing, announced as just issued from the press. No 
better evidence of the estimation placed upon it by the 
public, need be desired, than that which is afforded by the 
rapidity with which successive editions of it have been 
called for. That Mr. D. has accomplished a work re¬ 
quiring immense labor and the most minute research, 
with great credit to himself and to his country, will 
not, we think, be denied by any candid and impartial 
judge, and we are gratified to learn that he is reaping the 
reward so justly due to his labors. 
New kind of Wheat. —J. V. E. Vedder, Esq., 
of Geneva, has brought to our notice a new kind of 
wheat which seems to possess superior qualities. Its 
origin, in Mr. V’s hands, was a few kernels which were 
lost from a package in passing through the post-office 
at Geneva. Mr. Verplanck of that town sowed these 
few kernels and saved the produce. Last year, the 
quantity of seed was 13 lbs. and 12 oz. This was equally 
divided between Mr. Verplanck and Mr. Vedder. Mr. 
V. produced from his part (6 lbs. 14 oz.) four bushels 
and one peck, by measure, weighing 64 lbs. per bushel. 
It is of very superior appearance—the kernels large, 
white, and the skin very thin. The heads are of un¬ 
common length—some of them seven inches. The 
whole length of the stalk, including head, is in some 
instances, over five feet. 
New Kind of Peas.— Mr. Wm. Merrifield has 
left us a sample of peas which are quite different in their 
appearance from any we have before seen. They are 
said to be proof against the pea-bug or weevil which is 
often so destructive to peas. They were entirely free 
from the insects last season, though other kinds culti¬ 
vated by Mr. Merrifield were attacked as usual. They 
are said also to be very prolific. We understand they 
were lately brought from Germany. 
Fine Mutton. —We acknowledge the reception of 
a saddle of superior mutton, from Mr. J. M’D. M’In- 
tyre, of this city. It was from a half Cotswold and 
half South Down wether, only 22 months old; yet the 
saddle weighed 424 pounds. We have tried the quality 
of this mutton, and find it excellent. If mutton of this 
quality could be generally produced, we cannot doubt 
that it would be preferred, by most people, to any other 
meat—while at the same time it could be produced at 
much less cost. Mr. M’Intyre breeds both the Cots¬ 
wold and South Down sheep, pure, and is in the habit 
of fattening wethers of both these breeds. Last season 
he sent forty-two to Boston, which sold at nine cents 
per pound dead weight. He has just sent over twenty 
more, which sold at the same price of the former. The 
two lots averaged from 25 to 30 pounds per quarter. 
Sweet and Sour Apples.-—M r. J. E. Elliott, 
of Clinton, N. Y., has sent us several apples of the kind 
usually called sweet and sour. In those sent, the divi¬ 
sions between the sweet and sour portions, are very 
distinctly marked by external ridges. The proportion 
of the sweet and sour parts, varies in different apples. 
In many cases, there are alternate strips or divisions, 
each distinctly sweet or sour, over the whole apple—■ 
there being sometimes four or more of these divisions. 
We have several times seen this kind of apple before, 
it having first been brought to our notice at least twen¬ 
ty-five years since. But we have never seen or heard 
of but one kind having these peculiar qualities. The 
sour part is in appearance and taste a Rhode-Island 
Greening—in fact the apple would at first sight be taken 
for a genuine Greening, and were it not for the sweet 
portions, they would be considered identical. 
Muni ficent Offer. —At a late meeting of the 
American Agricultural Association at New-York, R. L. 
Pell, Esq., stated that Gardner G. Howland, Esq., 
had offered the use of his fine farm of 300 acres, at 
Flushing, Long Island, with all its cattle and imple¬ 
ments, for five years, to be used as an experimental 
farm and such other purposes as might be desired by 
