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and all apparatus for working, is $300 to $400, accord¬ 
ing to size. The charge for pulling stumps is 15 to 25 
cents each. For particulars address R. Hall, Owego, 
N. Y. 
Mott’s Agricultural Furnace. —R. C. G., Randolph 
county, Ga. The price of this article of the capacity of 
40 gallons is $18—for 45 gallons$20. For sale by Emery 
& Co., Albany. 
“ Dow’s Winter Pippin.” —W. A., Canajoharie. We 
know of no apple by this name. 
Gilmore’s Apiary—A letter received from Philadel¬ 
phia, requesting information in regard to the report of 
the committee who examined this article at the late State 
Fair, has been mislaid. If the writer will give us his 
address, the information called for will be immediately 
forwarded. 
Killing Alders. —W. J. B., Bethmont, 1ST. C. The 
last of August is considered the best time to cut alders, 
for the purpose of destroying them. Performed at this 
season, the operation has generally been successful. 
More or less will generally sprout the next year, but if 
the sprouts are bruised off at the same time in the year 
that the previous cutting was done, the extirpation will 
be pretty much accomplished. 
Tall Oat-grass. —This grass has been tried in some 
instances in the eastern and middle states. It grows 
well on loamy or lightish soils, but its quality is not very 
good, either for pasture or hay. We have not heard of 
its being cultivated in the southern states. 
Chilian or Peruvian Clover. —The plant we have 
seen under this name, is not “ identical with Lucerne.” 
We are not sufficiently acquanted with the former to 
give an opinion as to its adaptation or value for this 
country, neither can we tell where the seed can be had. 
Gardening Implements. —J. S. M., Drummondville, 
C. E. A box of gardening implements can be had of 
Emery & Co., Albany. The price is $16. The same 
amount of money laid out in a selection of other tools, 
will bring more value. 
Michigan Sod and Subsoil Plow.™ J. C., Freehold, 
N. J. The proprietor of the patent for this plow is 
Newell French, Rome, N. Y. The plow is for sale by 
Emery & Co., Albany. 
Black-Walnut Lumber. —J. W., Berrien Springs, 
Mich. We learn that good black walnut planks are 
worth $30 per thousand, board measure. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine.— The number 
for January 1851, contains many interesting articles, 
with several handsome engravings—'the whole executed 
in the usual fine style. It is not surprising that this 
magazine, when we consider its cheapness and high value, 
should have reached, in the short period of eight months, 
a circulation of over 50,000. Three dollars a year or 
twenty-five cents a number, each number containing 144 
pages octavo. Harper & Brothers, New York. 
Lossing’s Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution. 
—We have received No. 10 of this beautiful work. Its 
interest as well as its superior typographical execution, 
is fully kept up. It ought to be in every family in the 
United States. Published by Harper & Brothers, 
New York, at twenty-five cents a number, each number 
containing forty-eight large octavo pages. The work 
will be completed in about twenty numbers. 
Phrenological Journal. —This publication has been 
enlarged to quarto size, and in addition to information 
on the subject of Phrenology, there are departments for 
Physiology, Mechanics, Educattion, and general Miscel¬ 
lany. The work is beatifully got up, and has numerous 
illustrations executed in a superior style. It is published 
monthly by Fowlers & Wells, 131 Nassau street, New 
York, $1 a year. -- 
Eighth Annual Report of the American Institute. 
—This is a neatly printed volume of 544 pages, from the 
press of C. Van Benthuysen. It contains the pro¬ 
ceedings of the second Congress of Fruit Growers, (1849,) 
and several other valuable papers. 
The Home Journal. —This delightful journal enters 
upon the new year in a new and beautiful dress, and 
shows an increased and wonderful activity on the part 
of its Editors, in catering for the public taste. It has 
several new features, which no one but N. P. Willis 
could sustain; and is altogether unique in its whole tone 
and character. It cannot fail to have a “great run.” 
Enclose $2, to Morris & Willis, 107 Fulton st., New 
York, and its Nos. will greet you weekly for the coming 
year. 
“Flax Cotton.” 
The English papers announce the discovery of a mode 
of preparing flax for the manufacturer, by which the 
slow and wasteful process of steeping or rotting is en¬ 
tirely superceded. In connection with this discovery, 
another of still greater importance has been made, which 
is thus described by the London Morning Chronicle 
“ M. Claussen has succeeded in manufacturing the un¬ 
steeped flax into various descriptions of material, which 
possess respectively all the warmth of wool, the softness 
of cotton, and the glossiness of silk—and which so close¬ 
ly resemble these several fabrics, both to the eye and 
the touch, that we should neither credit the fact our¬ 
selves nor task the faith of our readers by the assertion, 
had we not before us actual samples of the results pro¬ 
duced, exhibiting in one and the same bundle of fibres, 
the raw flax at one end and the gwasi-silk or cotton at 
the other.” The same paper further remarks, “ that the 
process employed, like that used in the preliminary pre¬ 
paration of the raw material, is exceedingly simple and 
inexpensive. The cost of converting the unsteeped flax 
into cotton, amounts, we understand, to no more than 
seven sixteenths of a penny per lb.” 
The difference between the price of flax when thus 
prepared, and that of raw cotton, is estimated as “ from 
one-third to one-half in favor of the former.” Another 
remarkable fact connected with these discoveries is, that 
“ the same invention which dispenses with the operation 
of steeping, renders the flax suitable for a process which 
adapts it to the cotton mill.” It is stated that the “ flax- 
cotton” has been tried at Manchester, and the paper 
before named, thus speaks of the result:— 
“ The cotton spindles took as kindly to the new ma- 
