THE CULTIVATOR. 
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and scarcely interfering with the amount of grain and 
other farm crops already raised. Nor need any fear of 
overstocking the market, while our own cities and large 
villages are so scantily supplied with the best sorts, some 
of the finest having yet rarely ever passed the bounds of 
the amateur’s garden, and most of the best being yet un¬ 
known to nineteen-twentieths of purchasers. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
“ Views of Canada and the Colonists —embrac¬ 
ing the experience of a resident; views of the present 
state, progress, and prospects of the colony; with detail¬ 
ed and practical information for intending emigrants; by 
A Four Years’ Resident. In a recent tour through 
a portion of Canada, we had the good fortune to make 
the acquaintance of the author of the above work, (Mr. 
J. B. Brown, now of Montreal,) from whom we are 
happy to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of it, which 
we have read with much interest and satisfaction. This 
work was written and published at Edinburgh, during 
recent visit of the author to his native country, in order 
to supply the information so necessary for those who 
contemplated emigrating to the Canadas; and it contains 
a larger amount of information relative to these thriving 
colonies, and exhibits their social and political condition 
and natural advantages, with more apparent candor and 
truth, than any thing we have before met with. To emi¬ 
grants, intending to settle in the Canadas, we should think 
it would prove of great service. The statistical portions 
of the work, seem to have been prepared with care, and 
are, we presume, entitled to full credit. He furnishes 
statements of the agricultural products of some of the 
most populous districts; from which we make the two 
following extracts, believing they will be regarded with 
general interest. The first refers to the cc London Dis 
trict,” so called, Canada West, which in 1843, it is stated, 
contained 109,706 cultivated acres, and possessed a popu 
lation of 29,657. It produced— 
Bush. 
Wheat, . 246,045 
Barley,. 16,075 
Rye,. 10,162 
Oats,. 224,769 
Bush. 
Peas,. 112,734 
Indian Corn,. 79,851 
Buckwheat, . 23,558 
Potatoes,. 268,619 
The live stock owned in the district, by the official re¬ 
turns of 1842, were 
Neat Cattle,. 47,678 I Sheep,. 43,327 
Horses, . 7,232 | Hogs,. 2,929 
The Niagara District is composed of two counties, 
having twenty-three townships, and a population of a 
little over 38,000, and 150,000 acres of land under culti- 
vation. 
In 1842, the district produced— 
Bush. 
Bush. 
Wheat, 
. 249,000 
Peas,. 
Barley, 
. 42,000 
Indian Corn,... 
Oats, . .. 
. 249,000 
Buckwheat, ... 
.. 69,000 
Rye, .. 
... 9,000 
Potatoes,. 
The live stock in that year comprised 35,000 neat cat- 
tle, 54,000 sheep, 33,000 hogs, and 10,000 horses. 
The work is for sale by Armour and Ramsay, Mon¬ 
treal. 
A Universal Pronouncing Gazetteer, containing 
topographical, statistical, and other information, of all 
the more important places in the known world; with a 
map. By Thomas Baldwin, assisted by several other 
gentlemen. Philadelphia; Lindsay & Blakiston—1845. 
12 mo. pp. 550. 
Every teacher, every reader of travels or of history, 
and indeed every intelligent citizen must join with us in 
welcoming the appearance of this work. The need of 
a complete and correct system of geographical pronunci¬ 
ation, has long been felt by all classes of the community, 
and from a careful examination of the book before us, as 
well as from the ample testimony of a number of the 
most distinguished literary gentlemen in different parts of 
the Union, we entertain no doubt that the great deside¬ 
ratum has at last been effectually supplied. 
The present work exhibits the clearest evidence of a 
scrupulous attention to accuracy in every part, and the 
high character of the authorities cited, both in the geo¬ 
graphical and orthoepical department, cannot fail to in¬ 
crease the confidence of all respecting the great value and 
correctness of the Pronouncing Gazetteer. The book is 
necessarily of limited dimensions, to fit it for introduction 
into our common schools; it is however more compre¬ 
hensive than many other gazetteers of much greater size. 
It contains a neat and handsome map of the United States, 
exhibiting the various canals and railroads up to the 
present date. To use the words of S. S. Randall 
Superintendent of Common Schools of this state, “ the 
information brought together in this work, is exceed¬ 
ingly valuable, as well as varied and interesting ; and I 
know of no other source from whence it can be so profi¬ 
tably and readily derived.” 
It must be a source of gratification that both the plan 
of the work and its execution are wholly original and 
American, and cannot fail to add to the reputation of 
American literature. 
Farmer’s Library and Monthly Journal of Ag¬ 
riculture. —Each succeeding number of this work 
comes to us with increased interest. The August No., a 
notice of which was crowded out of our columns, con¬ 
cludes the republication of Petzholdt’s Lectures to 
Farmers on Agricultural Chemistry. The Jour¬ 
nal Department contains many interesting articles, the 
first of which is a Dissertation on Horse-Breeding, and 
the Trotting Horse of the United States, prefaced by a 
lithographic portrait of the celebrated trotting mare 
Lady Suffolk. The second is an obituary notice of Gen. 
T. M. Forman, of Md., with a Curious History derived 
from him, of the importation of Lindsey’s Arabian. 
Other articles follow on Under Draining, Irrigation, En¬ 
tomology, Comparative value of different kinds of Sheep 
for the New York farmer, &c., &c. 
The September number is decidedly the most interest¬ 
ing that has been issued. It commences the republica¬ 
tion of The Principles of Agriculture, by Albert 
D. Thaer. From the attention we have been able to 
bestow, we think this a highly valuable work, evincing 
deep investigation and sound judgment on the part of the 
author. The articles in the other part of the work, are, 
A Brief Sketch of the Qualities of the Short-Horned 
Cattle, and their Introduction into Maryland, with a lith¬ 
ographic portrait of a bull of that breed; On the good and 
bad points of Cattle, and the formation of fat and muscle, 
by Mr. Read, V. S.; Sugar, its culture and manufacture; 
Comparison of Guano with other manures; Entomology; 
Silk Plant; Native or Wild Maize; Trials of Sulphuric 
Acid and Bones for Turnips. The frontispiece to this 
number is a beautiful colored engraving of the Cotton 
Plant in its various stages. 
American Journal of Insanity. —This publication 
has just entered on its second volume. It is issued quar¬ 
terly, each number containing 96 pages octavo. We 
have but just glanced at the first number of the current 
volume, (which is the only specimen of the work we 
have seen,) but notice that its contents are varied, and 
embrace articles on several interesting subjects—as “ His¬ 
torical and Descriptive Account of the Bloomingdale Lu¬ 
natic Asylum,” with a handsome engraving of that insti¬ 
tution —“ Modern Improvement in the Construction, 
Ventilation, and warming of Buildings for the Insane,” 
—“ Lunatic Asylums of the United States”—“ Selected 
cases of Insanity”—“Progress of the Periodical Litera¬ 
ture of Lunatic Asylums,”&c. The work is edited by 
the officers of the New York State Lunatic Asylum, and 
published by Bennett, Backus & Hawley, Utica, at one 
dollar per annum, in advance. 
Medico-Chirurgical Review, for July, 1845.—This 
work comes as usual, well filled with articles of the 
greatest value. It is published quarterly, each number 
containing 288 pages octavo. The American edition is 
issued by Messrs. R. & G. S. Wood, 261 Pearl-street, 
New-York, at $5 per annum, in advance. 
North Carolina Planter.— The two first numbers 
of this publication have reached us. It is an octavo o! 
24 pages, published monthly at Raleigh, N. C., at one 
dollar a year in advance. Edited by Thos. J. Lemay. 
