HORTICULTURAL SUGGESTIONS. Cultivators, who gave close attention to their trees, grounds, and gardens, early in the season, frequently for get many important operations of a minor character at this season of the year. An occasional reminder may therefore be useful. Manure is the mainspring of successful growth; make ample provision therefore for a full supply, thoroughly prepared by composting. A famous horticultural establishment, where nothing scarcely ever fails to grow and flourish, keeps one man constantly employed, with necessary assistants, year in and year out, in manufacturing and mixing fine composts of various kinds. Record the names of young or newly set fruit trees in orchards and gardens. Label them distinctly, and regis ter them in a book kept on purpose. careless until the trees bear, and then they would gladly know the names, but cannot find them. Planters are often Weeds are apt to be overlooked at this time, and allowed to ripen seeds enough for another whole season of labor in extirpating them. Remember, it is easier to dig and destroy one weed now, than a thousand next year. Cabbages, root crops, nursery rows, &c., should therefore be kept thoroughly cleaned. Blackberries and Raspberries should have the old canes cut out, that have done bearing, allowing the new canes for next year's crop a better opportunity for maturing and hardening. liable to this disaster. There are very few pears that are not made better by such treatment. The Bartlett, by keeping it in a dark drawer for a week, will often present a brilliant carmine cheek, when otherwise a faint brownish shade only would be seen. The Bartlett will ripen well in this way, even if picked before fully grown; the English Jargonelle, always rotten at the core if matured on the tree, becomes a good pear by house ripening. On the other hand, a peach is never good unless fully matured on the tree. Peach trees and late growing kinds may be budded as long as the bark will peel freely. The ligatures of buds already inserted, should be removed before they cut into the bark by the increased growth of the stock. served with some moisture, and not allowed to become Seeds of fruit trees, gathered for planting, must be prevery dry, or they will vegetate tardily. This is especially necessary with cherry stones, which must be mixed with fruit; and other seeds, as of apple, plum, pear, &c., are moist sand or peat, within a few days after taken from the better if kept moderately moist, till subjected to frost in winter. Novices often fail to raise chestnuts and horsechestnuts, because they allow the exterior shell to become dry, or partly so. Ground for the spring planting of fruit trees, should be prepared in ample season-by underdraining if neces sary, deep plowing, subsoiling, applying manure or compost, &c., as the case may require. TREE ROSES. Grapes, to keep well, should be well ripened. The main stalk of the bunch, of the Isabella, for example, should have changed to purple, as an indication of full MESSRS. EDITORS-Can you inform me what kind of a maturity. This full maturity, in the Northern States, can stock roses are budded upon to make Standard or Tree be only attained by rich and good culture and proper &c. Also what kind of plants should be in a small flowerRoses? Give the whole "modus operandi" of doing it, pruning. The thick brush of neglected vines bear smaller garden, three rods long by two rods wide, to have a fine grapes, with half-ripened, acid flavor, and green stalks-display of flowers during the summer months? Is a these will freeze more easily than fully ripened specimens, Paonia the same as what is called "Piney" in the country? and wilt if too dry, or decay if too wet, much sooner than Georgetown, O. J. C. HARNEY. those handsomely matured. Tomatoes keep in bottles or cans more perfectly than any other fruit, and with simple preparation, or brief cooking. Lay in a good supply early, while the fruit is high-flavored with summer suns. Sow Lettuce and Spinach for early spring use. A snowbank makes an excellent covering for them during winter, and they may therefore be sown where snow is expected to accumulate, with the previous addition of brush and coarse litter, and evergreen boughs. Lettuce may be had very early in the spring by transplanting these wintered plants into the hotbed as soon as made. They will be fit to use in a few days, two or three weeks before hotbed plants sown from seed. Seeds, of vegetables and flowers, should be gathered as they ripen, wrapped in papers, carefully marked; adding the year, and placed in a dry drawer or on a shelf. Such seeds as do not readily shell out should be placed on spread newspapers, in a garret or on a broad shelf, and allowed to remain there for a few days, or longer, as required. Strawberries, not already set out, should be left till next spring, as they cannot grow much after the present time, and will be in danger of being thrown out or destroyed by the frost of winter. Pears should be picked a week before they would fully ripen on the tree, and placed in drawers or dark boxes to mature. They will thus color finer, ripen more deliciously, and those liable to rot at the core, be far less The best stocks to bud for tree roses, are strong growing kinds which do not sucker. The hardier sorts of the Prairie rose, if first made to grow upright, do well for this purpose. A large number may be kept in an upright position by tying to a horizontal rod at proper hight. The Boursalts sucker too much. This is also the chief objec tion to the Manetti, an excellent stock in other respects. Tree Roses are difficult to manage, and require skill and much attention to preserve in a symmetrical form, and in a vigorous state of growth and blooming. We would not advise our correspondent to undertake them, except for trial in a small way. If the heads are not as large in diameter as their hight, and they are not kept in a free growing state by good culture and pruning, they appear meagre and unsatisfactory. It is usual to bud them three or four feet high, and sometimes more-two or more buds are usually set-and the shoots springing from them are cut back the second year, so as to form an evenly distributed head. Free growing varieties only should be chosen-if of summer blooming sorts, a fine display can be had but once in the season; the strongest growing among the hybrid perpetuals, as La Reine and Mrs. Elliott, will, with skillful pruning, make good trees, but they will only occasionally bloom, not profusely through the season. The word "Piney " is a corruption of Pæonia or peony, and means the same thing. THE BEST LEGACY.-No man can leave a better legacy to the world than a well educated family. Abstracts from our Exchanges. HOMES AT THE EAST.-The Homestead, in an article on "Homes at the West," well says that "homes in the east can be bought for less of labor and life, though for more money. Here, too, there are farms to be bought for less than the buildings and fences cost; but the reason is to be found in the lack of energy, knowledge, common sense of the old proprietors, who have in laziness or ignorance, or for some other reason, allowed the land to run down, the weeds to encroach, and the need of repairs and manure so to press upon them that they have not the energy properly to meet it. These farms are near the school and the church, and near the market; they can be reclaimed, and the old soil will respond quick to the quickening in fluences of energetic, sensible husbandry. Not a farm exists in Connecticut, no matter how run down, but it can be renewed and restored to as great fertility as it ever had, from its own resources. Here is a chance for you, young men fortune seekers--there is more money to be nade with a less outlay of labor and life than in the West." BOILED CORN FOR HOGS AND OTHER STOCK.-Wm. Van Loon, writing to the Prairie Farmer, says that he has practiced feeding boiled corn to his stock and hogs, and is "satisfied that he saves one-half his grain, and gains as much more in time;" that one bushel of corn on the cob, boiled, will produce as much pork as two fed raw, and in one-half the time. In one experiment he fed three bushels of boiled corn, per day, to 27 hogs, for ten days. The average gain was two pounds per day. He then fed the same lot of hogs on three bushels of raw corn per day for twenty days-they gained a mere trifle over one pound per day. These were small young hogs-larger ones would have fattened better. FIRE-PROOF WASH FOR SHINGLES.-The following simple application will no doubt prove of great value. We quote from the Albany Knickerbocker: "A wash composed of lime, salt and fine sand, or wood ashes, put on in the ordinary way of whitewashing, renders the roof fifty fold more safe against taking fire from falling cinders or otherwise, in cases of fire in the vicinity. It pays the expense a hundred fold in its preserving influence against the effect of the weather. The older and more weatherbeaten the shingles, the more benefit derived. Such shingles generally become more or less warped, rough and cracked; the application of the wash, by wetting the upper surface, restores them at once to their original or first form, thereby ciosing the space between the shingles, and the lime and sand, by filling up all the cracks and pores in the shingle itself, prevent it from warping for years, if not for ever." COMPOSTS OF SEAWEED, MUCK AND MANURE.-The following hint (which we find without credit) will be of interest to farmers on the coast, and worthy of the attention of all who can put it in practice: "Let the farmer take four parts of rockweed to two parts of barnyard manure, two parts of muck, have them thoroughly mixed by swine, then piled up to heat, and he can produce more from his farm, and at one-half the expense, than he can by using any of the high-sounding fertilizers. On five-eighths of an acre I cut three tons of hay the first crop. It was done by applying this compost. I would not plow in manure to raise grass, more than three inches; but dress it with a light top-dressing every year, and then have thus grown large crops of hay." kip leather are not thus affected, but the best as well as the poorest calf skins are subject to it. THE CATALPA FOR FENCE POSTS.-Several facts are given in the Valley Farmer, going to show that the wood of the Catalpa tree is equally as durable for fencing purIt grows rapidly, may be readily poses as the red cedar. transplanted, and only needs to grow in situations protected from high winds, (which are very apt to split and break the branches,) to attain to a large size. It is a handsome shade tree, both in flower and foliage; it is little employed save for ornamental pianting, out of its indigenous localities along the Ohic River and south of that latitude, though it may readily be grown elsewhere. PASTURING MEADOWS. -An old farmer, writing to the Boston Cultivator, gives several facts from his experience going to show that newly seeded clover does best when pastured down in the fall, and that "old fog" meadows never produce as valuable hay as they would if fed down moderately in autumn. The grass ought to start close to the ground, and not from the stalks left by the scythe, as in that case the sprouts do not get sap enough to support them and give that quick growth that is required for good hay. He adds also that he "never knew good corn to grow on land that had been mowed several years and the hay carried off, and the old fog left on the land unfed." MANURING GRASS LANDS WITH STRAW.-A writer in the Prairie Farmer by spreading a quantity of straw over a timothy meadow in the spring, increased the product of hay one-third the same season, and it has been double for two seasons since over the remainder of the field. He says he had no trouble in raking the meadow with a horserake without disturbing the mulch, and that he has since used all his coarse litter in the same way, with good results. MIXED HUSBANDRY-MANURE.-A correspondent of the Ohio Cultivator gives the following illustration of the advantages of raising animals on a farm, for the purpose of the manufacture of manure. He says, if 100 acres are occupied with 75 acres of corn and 25 of grass, about 32 bushels of corn will probably be raised per acre. But if 57 acres are occupied with grass and 25 with corn, the increased manure, and one half the total amount of labor, will give 99 bushels of corn per acre-just as much as before-with a great increase of stock, the land every year becoming more fertile. GREEN CORN AS A MANURE.-A farmer in Bucks Co., Pa, a few years since, made some experiments going to show the value of growing corn for manurial purposes. On a field of forty-seven acres-part of a farm which had been rented for more than ten years, and had become as most rented farms do, very much impoverished—he sowed ten acres to corn in July, at the rate of two bushels per acre. It was left to grow until about four feet high, and then plowed under about ten inches deep. No manure was put on this part, but the remainder of the field was heavily manured, and the whole sown to wheat. The crop averaged 34 bushels per acre, that on the ten acres fully equal to that dressed with manure. We believe that lime was applied to the whole field before sowing on the grain assisting with the deeper plowing, very materially in restoring the soil to a highly productive state. CULTURE OF WINTER BARLEY.-J. Mackelcan of Hamilton, C. W., describes in the Genesee Farmer, the method of growing winter barley practiced by a farmer in that section, and formerly in England. He plows a clean wheat stubble, rather shallow, immediately after harvest; harrows it, and lets it remain until the weeds in the soil have EFFECT OF AGE ON LEATHER.-The Scientific Ameri-grown up; then manures it heavily. The manure is spread can says "that calf-skin leather, instead of improving in quality with age (as generally supposed) when made into boots, deteriorates rapidly. It is subject to a species of dry rot, and in the course of three years becomes as tender as brown paper. It first appears at the edge near the soles, in the form of a black glossy sweat, resembling var nish, gradually proceeding over the whole." Grease, we are further informed, rather accelerates than arrests this decay; sole leather endures much longer under constant use than when laid away in a dry situation. Cow skin and and plowed in six or seven inches deep the middle of September, ridging it up into lands twelve to eighteen feet wide. He sows and harrows in the seed the first week in October-not earlier; two and one-half bushels per acre is the proper quantity. Put in this way, he thinks it less liable to winter-kill than wheat, and far more profitable than spring barley. The Ag. Society of the Muskingum Valley holds its show this year at Zanesville, Ohio, Sept. 18-21; Presi dent, Valentine Best-Secretary, F. A. Seborn. them up, and should not know where to look for our money.' THE CULTIVATOR. delivery, but the great fact which ALBANY, N. Y., AUGUST, 1860. We give elsewhere as complete a list as our present data will afford, of the Agricultural Shows and Meetings of the coming Autumn. Will our friends oblige us by furnishing such additions and corrections as they can, in order that we may, if possible, hereafter incorporate with it all the other county and district Fairs to be held throughout the country? This end can be brought about if every reader will take the pains to supply any omissions or correct any errors that he may now discover. " In general, however, we presume payment is made upon crops out most strongly above, is that the power and public confidence are there with the Farmer, whose standing for probity, uprightness, and justice, or even generosity, in dealing with others is certainly unsurpassed by that of any other class in the community. The writer met incidentally with one or two cases, in which farmers whose contracts turned out unusually well for themselves in comparison with the results to the buyer, voluntarily relinquished a part of the advantage for the benefit of the latter; and, while we have also known of similar instances in this country, we regret that we cannot regard the strictures of our contemporary as wholly unfounded or uncalled for with respect to the dealings that take place among far too large a part of our farmers. Our list is especially defective in several of the Eastern States, in Pennsylvania, and at the South. At the west we have somewhat fuller returns, but there must be many omissions in all the States, unless it is Ohio, in which we think there cannot be many lacking. Several counties in this State are not yet set down, and we have almost noth-it. ing at all from several of the British Provinces. Imperfect as this list is, however, it is a more complete one than we have ever yet seen published, and with the aid of our friends, as above requested, it can be greatly perfected with little farther difficulty. Over Four Hundred Fairs are already embraced in it. MARKET DAYS.— Buyers will see what they buy, and will not trust samples. At present we believe sales by samples are quite out of the question. In conversation with some of our merchants, recently, this subject has been discussed, and we are ashamed to say that their estimate of the honesty of farmers in general is at a very low stand. Several of them tell of the most astonishing disregard of contracts and engage ments, and give reason enough for their distrust. This they say will be long a difficulty in the way of establishing market fairs where grain and produce can be sold by sample, and we fear it is so. Of course all admit the punctilious honor and honesty of many, but still assert the reverse as a general rule. So says the Homestead in commenting upon the subject at our head. We may mention an instance illustrative of the fact that in Great Britain the relative position of the Farmers and the Merchants, is exactly the reverse of what it generally is in this country. The "merchant," as we call him, who keeps the country store, is there looked upon as a tradesman or shopkeeper, and if there is any difference between his social rank and that of the farmer, it is most decidedly in favor of the latter. We regret to say that the common feeling here is too generally of quite the opposite kind; and, until the self-respect of the farmer car be elevated, he will not overcome the difficulty of keeping his sons at home instead of seeing them go away from the farm into any kind of mercantile or peddling trade that comes along. แ The same feeling that prevails as to the relative standing of the two classes, is in Great Britain carried out with regard to their relative reputation for punctilious honor and honesty," and the instance of this referred to in the foregoing paragraph, is the following:-The farmers in the Lothians who make their sales in Edinburgh, not only dispose of their crops by sample, which it is intimated that buyers here dare not do, but they actually receive their money on the credit of the sample and in advance of the delivery of the grain. The writer, in conversation with that excellent model farmer, Mr. HOPE of Fenton Barns, was inquiring in regard to the Edinburgh Markets, and was told that the farmers about there take up their samples, sell whatever quantity they choose to offer, pocket the cash, and do not deliver the grain sold until their return home. Asking how purchasers liked this arrangement, the answer was that they had often attempted to change it, but "the farmers were too strong for them." "We are known," was the reply, in effect, as occupants of so much land, where we are always to be found-if we should not live up to our bargains, there we are, and the remedy is in the hands of the law. But what do we know about the corn-brokers? If they are at their stands today they may meet with misfortunes and be unable to pay what they owe us, to-morrow-at least we can't follow PROSPECTS OF THE ELMIRA FAIR.-We are glad to know ful Show at Elmira. Secretary JOHNSON says, in the State that the prospects are now good for a thoroughly successSociety's Journal, that according to present indications Already notices of exhibiting stock, implements, &c., "the exhibition will be equal to those that have preceded than they were last year at this time." from different portions of the State are more numerous contains a new feature-"For the first time, the ExecuThe Prize List tive Committee have offered a prize for the best bull, cow or heifer, in the five leading breeds-Short-Horns, Devons, Herefords, Ayrshires, and Alderneys-open to prize animals, heretofore receiving the first prize; to American bred and imported stock. Already we have assurances that this prize will be contended for; and animals equal to any heretofore exhibited will be on the ground, from our own as well as from other States." Homestead for the cattle disease in Massachusetts, to distinguish it PULMONARY OR LUNG MURRAIN, is a name given by the Editor of the from the common PLEURO-PNEUMONIA, which is a different disease, and not contagious. We can see no object in thus complicating matters; this disease is popularly known as the Pleuro-pneumonia (or "the Pleuro" for short,) throughout Great Britain, and it can only be a source of confusion to christen it differently here. The "common Pleuro-pneumonia" has its aliases already-as "inflammation of the lungs" for instance, or simply Pneumonia, which seem quite sufficient for purposes of distinction. CHESS IN WHEAT.-Doct, Crane of Franklin, handed into this office last week, several stalks of wheat, the root of which was produced by one kernel of wheat. On these staiks are heads of wheat and heads of chess, each distinctly and fully formed and developed. It has been doubted whether chess ever comes from the well formed, healthy grain: but here is proof positive that it does, for in this instance one and the same kerne has produced both. The curious in such matters can see this sample by calling at the Democrat office. We copy the above from the Portage (Ohio) Democrat of August 8, for the purpose of saying that the statement cannot be true. A careful examination will show that the chess and wheat have no natural connection with each other, and that each proceeds from its own root. LEADING ENGLISH MANUFACTURERS OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.-The North British Agriculturist, in an article on the Canterbury Show, gives an estimate of the amount of business done by several of the leading firms, who do not this year exhibit. We quote, changing pounds into dollars:-The firms absent are Messrs. Clayton & Shuttleworth, who produce annually agricultural implements and machines to the value of $1,500,000; Messrs. Garrett & Sons, Ransomes & Sims, and Hornsby & Son, who each produce annually to the value of $500,000; Howard to the value of $450,000 to $500,000; Tuxford, Barret & Exall, and Samuelson, who each manufacture to the value of $350,000; Henry Clayton, to the value of $250,000; Smith Whitehead, of Preston, H. &. E. Crosskill, and one or two others, to the value of $100,000 to $150,000. "The absent firms exhibited one-third of the entire money value of the whole implement department at Warwick.” In some recent Notes about Farming in Franklin Co., Mass., the production of Butter and extent of Stock feeding in the town of Greenfield were particularly re ferred to. We are now informed that the amount of Butter sent from Greenfield Station to Boston, for the year ending July 15, 1860, reached a total of 201,576 lbs., equal to 100 1576-2000 tuns. The number of cars of stock sent to Cambridge during the year, was 242; of which 142 were sheep, averaging 12,780 sheep; 100 were cattle, averaging 1,500 cattle; total 14,280. operations of a newly made Ketchum mower, on the farm of J. B. Shurtleff, near Boston, where over an acre was cut at the rate of an acre in twenty-four minutes. The grass was a ton and a half to two tons per acre, and the weather excessively hot and close. On the previous day, which was cool, the same team and machine is reported to have cut an acre in fifteen minutes. The knife bar was six feet long, and the swath averaged UNLOADING HAY.-Can you give me the post-office address of Mr. G. H. GREGG. In the July no. of THE CUL-five feet and six inches-requiring three swaths to make TIVATOR, on page 228, Mr. Gregg describes a mode in use a rod wide. Consequently, a mile and a half must be among the Shakers of New-Lebanon, of unloading hay by travelled for each acre; and in cutting the acre in 24 means of hooks, which strikes me as being superior to the minutes, as above stated, the speed of the team, including horse-fork, both as to the easement and dispatch. I have all stoppages, must have been three miles and three-quar used a horse-fork now two seasons, and for me, (being a ters per hour; and in cutting the same amount in fifteen light man,) I find it hard work to govern the fork as it minutes, as reported, the average speed, also including rises heavily loaded, and rather dangerous, when unload-stoppages, must have been six miles an hour. Is there ed, of hitting the man on the mow when the stale falls. not some mistake in the statement? I wish to address Mr. Gregg, to get the dimensions of the hooks, that I may get them made, for I feel sure that they will be better for me than the horse-fork. JoHN MOORE, Oxford, N. Y. [We are unable to give Mr. G.'s address, but the above may perhaps draw out the information wanted by our correspondent.] to LARGE PREMIUMS.-The Directors of the Livingston County Agricultural Society offer the following premiums, to be competed for at their Annual Cattle Show in Geneseo, occurring September 26, 27 and 28: Best thorough bred Durham Bull, 3 years old or over........ $100 30 Best 2 years old Durham Bull.... Competition is open to the United States and Canada. The Awarding Committee consists of Hon. A. B. DickinSon, Hon. James S. Wadsworth and Messrs. Freeman, Barber and Blake. Drs. A. S. COPEMAN, of Utica, and H. MOORE, of Poughkeepsie, are the Veterinary Surgeons whose names are announced by the President and Secretary of our State Society, pursuant to the Resolutions passed at the last meeting of the Board and published in our columns, WHEAT FROM THE NORTH LATER IN RIPENING.-A farattend to any requests in relation to the cattle disease, mer in Pennsylvania, thinking that seed wheat from the should it appear in our State, and persons desire advice." North, like seed corn, would ripen earlier when taken We do not anticipate that they will have many calls from South, last year procured several bushels from Canada, two this source upon their time, but we publish their addresses, hundred miles north, and sowed it at the same time with as being well qualified with reference to the Pleuro-pneu-home-grown sorts. it ripened, according to the Genesee monia, in order that if any of our readers suspect the presence of the disease they may know to whom they may refer with confidence. Farmer, two weeks later than the native seed, as we might reasonably expect. NORTH CAROLINA.-A correspondent in New Hanover It may be remarked, in connection with this subject, county, writes us that there is a decided spirit of improvethat the Vermont State Society, in common with many in ment among farmers, manifest in that county, and that the the Eastern States, have determined to offer no cattle County Ag. Society have purchased a beautiful sight for premiums this season. As a measure of precaution their Fair grounds on the plank road near Wilmington, throughout New-England, this is very well, but we see lit- and will soon commence the erection of the necessary tle reason for hesitation as to exhibiting cattle anywhere buildings, &c., to put their grounds in order for the comin New-York or other States. Our western friends in ing Fair. That portion of his letter in relation to the chief some localities appear to be exerting themselves some-crop of his vicinity will be published next week. what to excite apprehensions-wholly without any reasonable cause so far as we can discover. Elsewhere the We are indebted to a friend who arrived last week 'panic" has apparently had its course. A correspondent by the Persia, and who was present at the recent Paris writes us under date of Greenfield, Mass., July 30: "The Agricultural Show, for a copy of the Prize List and Catacattle disease undoubtedly exists yet in Worcester county,logue of the Exhibition, which certainly deserves a brief but it has never been west of the Connecticut river." Public attention was first called to the importance of fast walking horses for Agricultural purposes, we think, through the columns of the Co. GENT., and the suggestion made that our Societies should offer prizes, having in view the encouragment of this particular object. At the last meeting of the Executive Committee of our State Ag. Society, a communication was presented from Lewis B. Brown, Esq., of New-York, a life member of the Society, placing at their disposal the sum of $25 for premiums of this kind-a public spirited offer which was at once accepted by the Board, and, at the Elmira Fair the sum of $15 will therefore be awarded for the best and fastest span of matched horses or mares, and $10 for the best and fastest walking horse, mare or gelding. We learn that Mr. Brown has also offered a similar amount to be awarded at the National Horse Show at Springfield, Mass, the first week in September. VELOCITY OF MOWING MACHINES.-Mowing machines usually cut on an average a strip of grass a little over four feet wide. The knife is longer, but the driver cannot use its whole breadth without danger of leaving an uncut strip. If the speed of the horses, therefore, average two miles an hour, including stopping to clear obstructions, turning, &c., just one acre will be cut in an hour. In ordinary practice, the various delays reduce the amount to nearer an acre in two hours. We observe, however, in the last number of the New-England Farmer, an account of the notice in these columns, although we have not the space at command to give anything like a just idea of the extent of the ground covered, and the apparent perfection attained in all the arrangements and regulations concerned. The Catalogue contains 650 pages half the size of those of the Co. GENT., in paper cover, with large plates folded in, representing plans of the grounds, and of the Palais d'Industrie where the Exhibition was held-the whole sold at the marvellously low price of one franc (20 cts.) Seventy odd pages are filled with the decrees establishing the prizes and regulations, together with the names of officials. Then follow Les Especes Chevaline et Asine (Horses and Asses) to the number of 788, divided into English blood, Arabian blood, and Anglo-Arabian blood horses; half-bloods for Coach-Horses, comprising Normans and other French breeds classified according to the Departments from which they come; "light" carriage horses, and heavy and light draught horses in similar classifica tion, concluding with the breeds of Asses of Poitou and the Pyrenees. The entries of Cattle are 1,475 in number-the pure French races, followed by the Durhams and Ayrshires as representatives of England, then the Holland and Swiss breeds in classes by themselves, then every imaginable cross of the Short-Horn, concluding with other mixed bloods. The entries of Sheep were 548; of Swine, 243; of Poultry, (a few goats included,) 921; of Bees, 1; under the head of Instruments, 3,976, including not only all sorts of implements, but also books, plans and engrav ings; of "Products" 3,615, under which head come But ter and Cheese, Wines, Grains, Vegetables, Tobacco, and almost every sort of agricultural product on, whether in the raw or manufactured state. The whole concludes with a list of five or six hundred samples of Algerian products. We have made no calculation of the aggregate amount of the prizes offered, but when we say that first prizes for horses run from 800 up to 1500 francs, ($160 to $300,) first prizes for cattle from $100 to $140, and for sheep and swine from $60 to $80, it will readily be seen that with so many classes the amount could not have been by any means a trifling one. THE POTATO DISEASE.-It has already indicated its presence among us. Some two weeks since our tops showed signs of affection, but the cessation of rains for that time has stayed the progress of the disease in a good degree. Some early kinds have rotted, and all our different varieties are plainly predisposed to the malady. All that seemed necessary to hasten the terrible calamity was rain, and we are this-Monday-morning, getting a plentiful shower, and may now look for the work to progress with fearful rapidity. Strange disease! this potato rot. Who shall satisfactorily explain its causes? S. W. R. Clinton, Oneida Co., Aug. 13. Mr. Obed Hussey, of Baltimore, the inventor of numerous improvements in Agricultural implements and machinery, but best known from the Reaper which bears his name, recently lost his life at Exeter, N. H., by falling between the railway cars, his seat in which he had left for the purpose of procuring a glass of water for a little child near him who complained of thirst. Mr. H. was a native of Maine it appears, and was on his way thither upon a visit. He was 68 years of age, and a worthy member of the Society of Friends. We have had few more persistent and industrious inventors, but many who with less desert have been more the favorites of fortune. In gate more minutely the anatomy of an animal in which so great pecuniary interests are involved, as in the Ox. We learn from Mr. WEBB that the South-Down by Mr. J. C. TAYLOR of New-Jersey, is the one which he ram hired at his last Letting, and subsequently purchased, exhibited at the Royal Ag. Society's Canterbury Show, and which there received the first prize of £20. The Philadelphia (Pa.) Society for Promoting Agriculture, is to have an exhibition this year, September 25-28, at Powelton, near that city-Dr. A. L. Kennedy, Secretary. The following Premium is a new feature:The Society has been authorized by ELIAS BOUDINOT. Esq., a memher, to offer a premium of Fifty Dollars for the best display of RUSTIC SEATS, for the Piazza or Lawn, to be competed for by young farmers, being their own invention and production. It is hoped this handsome premium will attract many competitors. The Premium List of the Albany Co. Ag. Society is now ready for distribution-show on the Washington Parade Ground in this city, Sept. 18-21. President, Wm. Hurst; Secretary, Jacob C. Cuyler. The Second Circular of the Maryland Agricultural College, for which we are indebted to some attentive friend, contains the Catalogue of Students at its First Sessioned fairly under way. Pleasantly and accessibly located, it nearly seventy in number, so that it may now be considerwill undoubtedly become a favorite with parents in all the Southern States, and we notice that the two Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Delaware, the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania, are already represented among the pupils. Hon. CHAS. B. CALVERT is President of the Board of Trustees, and Dr. MONTGOMERY JOHNS, of the Faculty of Instructors. Mr. J. WESLEY JONES of Chatham 4 Corners, has shown us some very handsome Hollyhock blooms raised by him the present season, including among others the following sorts-Solfaterre, Pink Perfection, Purple Defiance, Pride of Denmark, Floral Beauty. "The Register of Rural Affairs" for 1861 will soon be out. WATER FOR BEES.-According to a recent work on Bee-Keeping, when bees are building comb rapidly they require a great deal of water. When a supply is not contrough, and put in a lot of gravel, sand, and the like, and venient to the hive, it recommends to make a shallow renew the water daily, leaving the gravel and stones partexposed, so that the bees can get at the water without of being drowned. REAPING MACHINES IN FRANCE.-The results are now before us of the Imperial Trial of Reaping Machines at Fouilleuse the first week in August. "It was in every way an important one," writes the Mark-Lane Express, "whether we take the English firms, as represented on the occasion, or in comparison with the French manufactures brought out to oppose them. The entries reached to thirty-nine, and the nineteen English included Burgess and Key's M'Cormick; Cranston's Wood; Bell's; and Cuthbert's; while there were five of the French. so bad a condition, however, was some of the crop, that only two machines got through their work in good time-fear Burgess and Key, and Dr. Mazier. The award was ultimately thus declared: 1st prize and grand medal of honor as the best of all machines tried-Burgess and Key; 2d prizeCuthbert; 3d prize-Wood. French machines: 1st prizeDr. Mazier; 2d prize not awarded; 3d, Legendre. The Emperor himself was present at the trials, and evinced much interest in examining the several implements at work." FATTENING CATTLE ON EARLY CUT HAY.-A writer in the Boston Cultivator, says that "John Ball, of Langdon, has fattened cattle every winter, for more than twenty years past, on no other feed than hay." He generally commences haying about the 20th of June, and reserves the bay first cut, for feeding that portion of his stock intended to be sold for beef in the spring. Hay allowed to ripen its seed is of very little value; though the whole should be eaten by stock, the seed remains undigested, and therefore furnishes no nutriment. LEICESTERS VS. COTSWOLDS.-The owner of a large stock farm in Canada, who gives much attention to these two breeds of sheep, has nearly two hundred Leicesters, all descended from Bakewell's flock, and several of them imported directly from that celebrated breeder. According to a notice in the Genesee Farmer, his Leicester ewes generally produce two lambs each year; "he gives them the preference to the Cotswolds, and estimates that he can ber of Leicester ewes, as he can in three years from the obtain as much mutton in two years from a certain numsame number of Cotswolds. He thinks they consume less grass than the common sheep, and finds an acre of good His sheep are wintered on pea straw and turnips-of the, grass will keep ten of his sheep throughout the summer." latter he grows annually about ten acres, averaging 1,200 there is some reason to doubt whether there are sheep in bushels per acre. B. [As Mr. Bakewell died in 1795, Canada or elsewhere, "imported directly from that celebrated breeder."] AMERICAN GLIMPSES OF AGRICULTURE IN GREAT BRITAIN. BY LUTHER H. TUCKER of "The Country Gentleman," and Treasurer of the New-York State Agricultural Society. A pamphlet, 58 pages, 8 vo. Mr. Tucker has furnished a very interesting account of his observations upon British Agriculture, made during a recent tour, to the Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society. His letters to the COUNTRY GENTLEMAN have embodied the same general matter, and here it is presented in a com We are indebted to Dr. ANDREW MCFARLAND, Jacksonville, Ill., for a copy of his Report as Commissioner from that State to investigate the Massachusetts Pleuropneumonia cases. The Country-outside, at least, of the districts which have been the sufferers-will not be without cause for thankfulness in this Cattle Disease attack, if it should have the effect of cailing more general attention to the importance of some thorough veterinary knowledge on the part of Farmers themselves, and of a higher stand-pact and convenient form for reading and reference. Few ard among those who practice as "Cattle Doctors." Nor ture of any country, who have in so excellent a general view, persons have ever written from observation upon the agriculwill it do any harm that many members of the Medical given so many desirable details or so much of value, in equal Profession should have been lead, like Dr. M., to investi- compass.-Hartford Homestead |