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occasionally. A better kind are made of frame work, 
weather-boarded, or of brick, with a stove and shelves, 
are used. 
The best dry house should be constructed of frame¬ 
work, boarded, and the sides and ends, except a door¬ 
way, filled with drawers, with slat bottoms, to push in 
and pull out, from the outside, like the drawers of a 
bureau. They need not be more than three or four 
inches deep. A large quantity of fruit may thus be 
dried in a small room heated by a stove. 
The Honey-Bee in America. —The native tribes 
of America say that hive-bees were originally intro¬ 
duced among them from Europe, but when and by 
whom none of them could tell. The only name they 
have for them is the “ white man’s fly,” and they re¬ 
gard their wider diffusion as indicating the encroaching 
progress of the white settlers. It is said that the first, 
planters in New England never saw any bees there; 
that the English introduced them to Boston in 1670; 
and that since then they have spread over the whole 
continent. Washington Irving has written an account 
of the progress which the hive-bee is making west¬ 
wards in America; and about sixty years ago, when 
Bartram inquired how it was that westward, among 
the Creek Indians, he had seen no bees, he was told 
by a Dr. Grant that there were few or none west of the 
Isthmus of Florida, and but one hive in Mobile, which 
had been lately brought from Europe, the English sup¬ 
posing that there were none in the country, not finding 
any when they took possession after the Spanish and 
French. Bartram was also assured by the traders that 
there were no bees in West Florida, which he thought 
extraordinary and almost incredible, since they were so 
numerous all along the eastern coast, from Nova Scotia 
to East Florida, even in the wild forest, as to bethought 
by the generality of the inhabitants aborigines of that 
continent. At the present time the honey-bee is abun¬ 
dant throughout the United States, both as a denizen 
of the forest and a dependant on man. Generally 
speaking, the settler in the backwoods prefers the pre¬ 
carious but luscious supply afforded by those swarms 
which have deserted man, and taken up their abode in 
fissures of rocks or hollows of trees, to the more regu¬ 
lar, but less abundant supply, from hives of his own. 
The author of A Tour on the Prairies , says the In¬ 
dians regard the bee as the harbinger of the white man, 
as the buffalo is of the red man; and say that in pro¬ 
portion as the bee advances, the Indian and the buffalo 
retire. The wild bee is said to be seldom met with at 
any great distance from the frontier. When the honey¬ 
bee first crossed the Mississippi, the Indians, with sur¬ 
prise, found the hollow trees of their forests suddenly 
teeming with honey; and nothing can exceed the greedy 
relish with which they banquet for the first time upon 
this unbought luxury of the wilderness. At present, 
the honey-bee swarms in myriads in the noble groves 
and forests that skirt and intersect the prairies, and 
extend along the alluvial bottoms of the rivers.— Use¬ 
ful Insects and their Products , by J. H. Fennell. 
PRICES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. 
New-York, Sept. 20, 1848. 
f FLOUR—Genesee per bbl. $5.87£a$5.94—Extra brand, $6.25a 
$7.25 
GRATN.—Wheat, Genesee, per bu., $1.34—Southern, $1.15- 
Corn. 56a60 cts —Rye, 68c.—Oats, 34a35c.—Barley, 75c. 
‘ BUTTER—Best Goshen, per lb., 20a25c.—Western, dairy, 14 
a 16c. 
CHEESE—per lb., 6a7c." 
BEEF—Mess, per bbl , $13a$13 50—Prime, $6a6 50 
PORK—Mess, per bbl., $ 12.75a$13—Prime, $9.75. 
LARD—in kegs, per lb., 9a9^c. 
HAMS—Pickled, per lb., 5£a6c. 
HEMP—American dew rotted, per ton, $135a$140. 
HOPS—First sort, per lb., 4a5e. 
TOBACCO—Virginia, per lb , 2£a6£c. 
COTTON—Upland and Florida, per lb., 5|a7fc.—New Orleans 
and Alabama, 5a8£c, 
PLUM STOCKS. 
Messrs. King and Ripley, and other nurserymen who have used 
these plum stocks, prefer them to the imported or any other sort 
ever tried by them. 
None less than 15 inches high will be put in. 
Price $10 per 1,000—$90 for 10,000, delivered in New-York. 
Also, a large collection of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Grape 
Vines, &e. Apply to SAMUEL 1. GUSTIN, Newark, N. J. 
Oct. 1—2t. 
FRUIT TREES. 
'T'HE Subscriber now offers for sale at his nursery in Canterbury, 
Orange County, N. Y , a general assortment of Fruit Trees, 
embracing all of the most valuable varieties of fruit, with many 
that are new and Rare. And having obtained them all from the 
best sources, or from bearing trees of well known varieties, and 
proved a large proportion of them on his own grounds; and the 
budding and marking of all his trees being done with his own 
hands, assisted by his Son ; and devoting his entire attention to fruit 
trees only, he believes them to be equally correct with those of any 
other establishment. 
His stock of APPLES, embracing many thousands, is large and 
very thrifty, at $20 per 100- 
Trees of so all size for the Western States, at low prices. 
With grafts of all the varieties at low rates. 
See Catalogue, which will be sent to all post paid applicants. 
Also for sale, 30,000 SEEDLING PLUM STOCK8, one year old, 
and 5,000 one year old BUCKTHORN PLANTS. 
Canterbury, Oct. 1, 1848.—It. CHARLES HAMILTON. 
PRINCE’S LINNiEAN BOTANIC GARDEN AND 
NURSERIES, Flushing, N. Y. 
T/yM. R. PRINCE & CO. Successors of Wm Prince, and sole 
* ™ proprietors of his great collection, offer the largest and choi¬ 
cest assortment of 
Fruit and Ornamental Trees and Plants, 
To be found in America ; and will transmit Descriptive Catalogues 
to all post paid applicants desirous to purchase. 
The choicest varieties of fruit which are scarce elsewhere, are 
here extensively cultivated, and applicants will not be disappointed. 
Every desirable fruit enumerated by Downing, Manning, Kenrick, 
and Hovey, and in the Catalogues of Europe can be supplied. Of 
the finest varieties of Pears, 50,000 trees can be supplied, of which 
15,000 are of bearing age on both the Pear and the Quince. Pur¬ 
chasers are solicited to visit the establishment and judge for them¬ 
selves; but the same attention will be paid to the selection for all 
distant correspondents. The prices are as low, and mostly lower 
than trees of equal quality can be elsewhere obtained. And above 
500 varieties of Fruit Trees, and a much larger number of Orna¬ 
mental Trees can be suppled, that cannot be obtained elsewhere in 
the Union, except in a few casual instances. 
Every premium for Roses and Strawberries, was awarded to us 
by the Long Island Horticultural Society. 
A Wholesale Catalogue will be sent to all venders. 
The transportation expense to the West is now moderate, and 
the Agents’ Receipt will be sent to each purchaser, which will pre¬ 
vent the possibility of loss. Cash or a reference can be sent with 
the order, by those who are strangers to us. 
N. B We caution the public against a spurious use of our name 
and title by a man named Winter, who never purchased any trees 
from the late Wm. Prince, and is calculated to deceive many. 
Oct. 1.—It. 
JOHN MAYHER & CO. } 
United States Agricultural Warehouse, 195 Front, one 
door south of Fulton Street, New-York City, 
YT7HERE they have for sale over 200 different patterns and sizes of 
vv Plows, of the most approved kinds, and suitable for all kinds of 
soil, together with the most extensive assortment of Agricultural 
Implements ever offered for sale in the city of New-York, which 
will be sold at lower prices than they can be purchased at any other 
establishment. Purchasers will do well to call and examine their 
stock before purchasing elsewhere. Among the plows advertised 
will be found J. Mayher & Co.’s celebrated and unequalled First 
Premium Eagle D. Plow, without doubt the best and cheapest plow 
to be had in the United States. 
N. B. Castings of all kinds made to order. 
New York, Oct- 1, 1848.—tf. 
