NORTHERN CALENDAR FOR DECEMBER.

Settle all your accounts, collect what is due you, and pay what you owe. "Short settlements make long friends." Examine your farm statistics, and see what have been the results of your experiments with the different kinds of manures, seeds, modes of tillage, &c., &c.; and note them well for future use. No farmer ought to be without such a book, in which all experiments should be carefully recorded at the time, and the results carried into a separate book for his own use hereafter; and if new and valuable discoveries are obtained, communicate them to some agricultural periodical for the benefit of the world. Recollect, you have the experience of thousands to guide your operations, and, by contributing to the general stock whatever may be useful, you are but returning to mankind a part of the benefits you have derived from them. But avoid twaddle and humbuggery, and oft-published statements, and prolix or tedious narration, and give all the circumstances material to the subjects in the briefest, plainest, simplest language possible. Above all things, send in your subscription to one or more valuable agricultural papers, and get as many of your neighbors to subscribe as possible; and consider, in so doing, you are benefiting yourself by it ten times as much as you are the publishers. Summer is peculiarly the time for making observations and experiments, and winter the time for communicating them. Remember the poor, not only in this month, but every month through the year, and especially during the inclemency of winter. You need not give so much to them outright, but endeavor to put them in a way of making themselves comfortable, by affording them employment, by which, you may be benefited, while doing them good. You thus confer on them a triple benefit, by furnishing them the means of comfortable subsistence, teaching them to help themselves, and avoiding the habit of receiving charity, which insensibly weakens their sense of self-dependance.

Stock now requires increased attention: they must be well housed, or at least protected against wind, with a shelter to which they can resort in storms, well supplied with salt, and abundance of water, if possible, in the yard, where they can get it when they want, and without wearying themselves in looking for it, and wasting their manure by dropping it in the road, or by a running stream or pond, where it will all be lost. Their feed should be regular, and given to them as near stated times as possible. They look for their food then at certain hours, and are not uneasy and fretful till the customary period arrives, when they again fill themselves, and rest quietly, digesting their food till it is time to look for another supply. If brought up in regular habits, brutes are much better time-keepers than many are disposed to consider them who have not observed closely their intelligence. Now is a good time to break steers and colts, while the roads are smooth and hard. They ought to be early accustomed to handling and the halter, and be gently treated, by which they are more disposed to yield to the wishes of their master. If they have been always used to good treatment, they will acquire a confidence in their keepers, and the more readily submit to their guidance. 'Tis always better to train them with strong, well-broken animals. Sympathy has more to do with the brute creation than they have credit for generally; and the good habits and orderly behavior of the older animals, they have been accustomed to treat with deference, will not be without their wholesome effect on them.

This is the best month for spreading out hemp for dew-rotting, in the latitudes below 40°, as it gets a whiter and better rot than if spread earlier.

Kitchen-Garden.—Every fine day uncover the frames in which are lettuce and cauliflower plants; otherwise they will become spindling, from want of air. Hot-beds can now be made, for forcing asparagus for the table in January. If the ground is open, continue trenching for spring crops. When the ground is frozen, cart manure, repair fences, clean seeds, prepare tools for spring. Provide pea-sticks, bean-poles, &c., and finish all that will be required in the spring, and which can be done when the ground is frozen.

Fruit-Garden and Orchard.—Finish those things which may have been omitted the previous month. If the weather continues open, digging and plowing may be done advantageously. Perform any work that may tend to forward your business in the spring.

Flower-Garden and Pleasure-Grounds.—Continue to protect your beds of bulbs, and also flower-beds and shrubs as directed in last month. Should the weather continue open in the early part of this month, bulbs may still be planted. They should not be left as late as this, but if such has been the case, they had better be planted now than left until spring. Now carefully protect seedling bulbs. The more tender kinds of trees can have their roots protected from frost by laying manure or long litter about them.

FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS.

By the steamship Caledonia, we are favored by the receipt of our European journals up to the 4th November.

Markets.—Ashes, both pots and pearls, have advanced, and were brisk of sale. Cotton had declined 1/8d. per lb. The recent advices from Bombay and Calcutta of the East India crop, were not quite so favorable. The stock of Cotton on hand at Liverpool on the 1st November, was 720,000 bales, against 520,000 at same period last season. Flour was flat, and little doing in it. Naval Stores, declining. Provisions were about the same as by our last advices, with the exception of Cheese, the finer qualities of which were of quick sale. Tobacco, steady and firm.

Money still plenty, and the low rates of interest prevail.

American Stocks continue nearly the same as at our last. Very few recent transactions.

Agricultural School.—We see by the Berwick Warder, that an Agricultural School is established in Aberdeenshire, by the practical farmers of that county, which promises to be a very useful institution. It is superintended by Mr. R. O. Young, and we like its arrangements better than anything of the kind we have yet seen. To explain these, we make a few quotations from the prospectus.

The young gentlemen who may be intrusted to Mr. Young's charge for the purpose of being instructed in the principles and practice of Scottish agriculture, will have daily opportunities of witnessing the regular routine of farming operations going on at the farm, and of taking an active part in these operations.

They will be required to keep, in a farm-book, a daily record of what has been done on the farm. Explanations will be given of the principles upon which the different operations are conducted, and upon which they will be examined at stated times. Regular minutes will be kept by the pupils of all such explanations, as well as of any facts that may come to their knowledge through their occasional intercourse with the farmers of the country.

There will be stated times set apart for reading, as text-books, the most approved agricultural works of the day; and on the subjects of their reading Mr. Y. will minutely examine the young gentlemen, and will also require them to write exercises upon given agricultural topics—particularly those that bear on practice.

While it will be Mr. Y.'s care to direct the attention of the pupils to chemistry and geology in their application to practical agriculture, a branch of study until lately very little attended to, he will make arrangements for procuring the services of the professor of agriculture in the University of Aberdeen, for a few weeks every summer, to give lectures and conduct experiments on the analysis of soils, manures, &c.—thus securing to the pupils more than a mere theoretical knowledge of this important branch of agricultural education.

As nothing is so much calculated to impress any subject upon the youthful mind, as to invest it with a personal interest, Mr. Y. proposes to devote to the exclusive use of his pupils, a small farm, of about 50 acres in extent, adjoining to his other farm. This small farm contains a variety of soils, upon which experiments of different kinds may be conducted, on a small scale. It will be possessed and managed by the pupils, under Mr. Y.'s direction, and upon certain equitable rules as to each pupil's share of the concern. Each pupil will be required to keep regular books, exhibiting all disbursements and receipts, and the results of all experiments tried, with every particular connected with such experiments. Each pupil will be required to take his share of management, &c., and the profits of the concern, after paying a certain moderate rent, will, at each term, be divided among the young gentlemen, in proportion to their respective interests. It is conceived that such a plan will have a strong tendency to promote exactness, regularity, and business habits; but, without the consent of their parents or guardians, pupils will not be asked to join in this scheme.

Farmers' Magazine.—Meat-Salting Instrument.—The instrument resembles a common syringe of more than ordinary dimensions, and, although not quite so simple in its construction, it is intended to be used in the same way as the syringe, provided the point or tube be not exposed to the air. The advantages to be derived from the use of the instrument are explained by the fact that a joint of meat may, in the simplest manner, be properly salted in less than ten minutes. The brine is made of the usual ingredients, and after the salt and other substances are completely dissolved, the liquid is poured into the machine, and the nipple or tube (the circumference of which is perforated with three small holes) is inserted into the most solid part of a joint of meat, and the contents are, by a very strong pressure, forced through the fibres until the brine is seen to escape on the surface. For this purpose a smaller quantity of pickle is used than is employed in the ordinary method of curing meat, and the bone (if there be any,) in the centre becomes thoroughly impregnated with the fluid. By the present mode of salting meat, it is a matter of some difficulty to inject the brine into the innermost part of a large joint, whereas by the process which is adopted in the use of Mr. Carson's instrument, the size or substance of the meat presents no additional trouble to the operator.

Prince Albert's Annual Sale of Live Stock.—Since Prince Albert has turned farmer, he has an annual sale of his fat stock, and is said to realize from 50 to 60 per cent. profit on it. The last took place in October, at which time 417 sheep, 55 oxen, and 9 cows and heifers, were disposed of, realising him £1,743, (about $8,000;) a clever sum for fat sheep and cattle.

Produce of Ewes.—Count de Gourcey states in that part of his Agricultural Tour in Europe, just received, that Mr. Walker, manager of the late Duke of Gordon's estates, in Scotland, informed him that from 200 Leicester ewes, and as many Southdowns, they bring up on an average, 450 lambs. We wish we had possessed this information when writing our notes to Mr. Grove's letter in this paper, as it would have been something of an argument in our favor, regarding the difference of opinion existing between us about the number of lambs bred in the United States.

New Farmers' Journal.—Exportation of Cattle to Prussia.—One bull and eight heifers have been recently purchased in England, for the Royal Agricultural Society of Prussia.

Netting for Sheep-Folds.—The fibre of the cocoa-nut is said to make the most durable netting for sheep-folds; it out-wearing several sets of tarred-hemp netting, and is so light, that a herdsman can with ease carry 200 yards of it.

Soiling.—Feeding animals in the summer-season with green food, cut daily, and given them in stalls or yards, is far preferable to grazing—First, because the food is consumed with less waste; secondly, because rest is an equivalent for food. The bodies of animals do not remain stationary, but are constantly wasting in proportion to the amount of exercise they undergo—hence, while they rove at large, they must receive from time to time new supplies in the shape of food, to make up for this waste, which are not needed when they are at rest, and consequently, by the system of soiling, less food will be required to fatten them. Thirdly, because by soiling there is an increase of valuable manure, which, by the old method of grazing, was nearly altogether lost.

American Provisions.—Within the last few days, 204 boxes of American cheese have been received in Liverpool. Every year the quality of the American cheese improves. Another article, which is arriving in very large quantities, is American lard, which is coming into use for many purposes for which salt and even fresh butter has been employed. Very excellent salted beef has come from the United States in considerable quantities.

Epidemic among Cattle.—This has broken out again in a most virulent shape in the north of England.

Journal of Agriculture.—Miller's Safety Reins.—These consist of gut covered with leather, and are, therefore, proof against fracture; and being round, and of neat light appearance, form a rather ornamental and sporting-like appendage to harness or saddle. They are mounted in this way:—They pass through a hook placed on the head of the harness-bridle, and through a leather loop on the head of the riding-bridle, and come down on each side of the neck. About middle-way down the neck is a coupling with two swivels, which receive the reins from the head, and they then pass through the dees of the harness, and through the turrets of the harness-saddle, and along to the front of the splashboard to a rein-holder, by which they are held always ready for use. The head of the horse and the turrets of the saddle being both higher than the throat, and the coupling being short, and having leave to traverse the reins on each side of the neck, it settles on that part of the throat at which the reins, on being pulled, exert the greatest force, when, the windpipe being forcibly compressed, the horse becomes affected in his respiration, and, therefore, stands still, or slackens his pace for breath, which he immediately obtains on the reins being slackened. Thus, feeling he is mastered, the horse shows no farther inclination to run off again; but in case he should renew symptoms of starting off, a few firm grips of the coupling on the throat will let him feel the futility of his attempts.

In explanation of the origin of the invention, Mr. Miller stated that he was a farmer's son, and that, in his youth, he used to be employed at times to assist in catching horses at grass, by means of surrounding them with a rope, borne by a person at each end of it. He remarked that, in this service, although no restraint was laid upon the horses when the rope rested on their chests, yet, whenever it could be got upon their throats, they instantly stood still and allowed themselves to be taken. The idea which this recollection suggested, of the probable effect of pressure on the throat in stopping a runaway horse, led Mr. Miller to the contrivance of his safety-reins. In his first experiment, the band which connects the reins under the neck was attached to the headstall by hooks and straps; but it has been considered an improvement to allow it to move freely upon the reins, on which it settles in contact with the throat, in a proper position for use when required.

Our communications with Mr. Miller impressed us favorably in regard to his contrivance; but, wishing to see it in practice we availed ourselves of an offer by him to afford us an opportunity of judging of it in operation. We, accordingly, on a day appointed, accompanied him in a carriage drawn by one horse, for the purpose of trial; and we witnessed as spectators, as well as made ourselves, repeated tests of the reins, with the horse going at a smart canter, both on a level road and on a descent, and we invariably observed that the tightening of the reins caused the horse immediately to stop. No injurious effect seemed to be produced on the horse by the interruption of his respiration. He always appeared to breathe freely, and to be ready to resume his work, as soon as the tension of the reins was relaxed.

Upon the whole, therefore, we consider Mr. Miller's invention to be a neat and simple, as well as, to appearance, an effective contrivance for the accomplishment of its important object, in the prevention of the disastrous accidents which not unfrequently occur from horses running away; and we think it reflects much credit on the ingenuity of its inventor.

Gardeners' Chronicle.—Rhododendron.—There is a variety of the Rhododendron ponticum growing here, which appears to be different from any of the others. It comes into flower about the same time as the others, but instead of unfolding its blossoms at the same rate as its neighbors, it only opens a few at a time, and continues long in flower. It did not cease flowering this season the whole month of August; consequently was nearly a month longer in bloom than the others. It has a southern exposure, and is sheltered from the north and east.

Blight on Grain from the Barberry.—In the Chronicle of August 19, under the head of "Vulgar Errors," we read as follows: "People still maintain that the barberry blights their grain." This is, nevertheless, a matter deserving attention; for in this, as in many other instances, a popular prejudice has been founded on truth, although the real cause has been often overlooked. Some writers have treated this subject with respect, and among them is Dr. Thornton. The latter says that the "leaves are very subject to the rubigo, which will infect the grain in the neighborhood." Here the secret is at once explained, and the aversion of farmers to the barberry-bush at once justified. The vulgar notion is, that the barberry exercises some evil agency upon grain within a certain distance, and accordingly farmers will never suffer it to grow near their fields. They are right as to the effect, but they attribute it to a wrong cause. I have seen some remarkable instances of grain perishing in a semicircle, in front of a barberry-bush, and extending a good way into a field. Any one who has but superficially noticed the barberry, must have observed that the leaves and young shoots of the shrub were covered with a peculiar kind of blight or mildew. Now it is by no means extraordinary that this should be carried by the wind into grain-fields, and infect the grain so as to cause its destruction. This is the true explanation of the mischief caused by the barberry to grain in its neighborhood. [This is the common explanation, but if any one will take the trouble to examine the parasitical plant which attacks the barberry, and that of grain, he will find that they are totally different things. One is the Æcidium Berberidis, and the other some species of Uredo or Puccinia, for it is sometimes one and sometimes the other. We should as soon believe that a hen's egg would be hatched into toads, as that the seed of an Æcidium would produce an Uredo or Puccinia. We are aware of the facts mentioned by Mr. Wighton, for we have seen them ourselves, and they form a curious problem yet to solve.]

REVIEW OF THE MARKET.

PRICES CURRENT IN NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 28, 1843.

ASHES,	Pots,	per 100 lbs.	$4 62		to	$4 68
	Pearls,	do.	5 12		"	5 18
BACON SIDES,	Smoked,	per lb.	3	½	"	4	½
	In pickle	do.	3		"	4
BALE ROPE		do.	6		"	9
BARK,	Quercitron	per ton	23 00		"	24 50
BARLEY		per bush.	52		"	56
BEANS,	White	do.	1 12	½	"	1 25
BEEF,	Mess	per bbl.	6 00		"	7 00
	Prime	do.	4 00		"	5 00
	Smoked	per lb.	6		"	7	½
	Rounds, in pickle	do.	4		"	5	½
BEESWAX,	Am. Yellow	do.	28		"	30
BOLT ROPE		do.	12		"	13
BRISTLES,	American	do.	25		"	65
BUTTER,	Table	do.	12		"	15
	Shipping	do.	6		"	10
CANDLES,	Mould, Tallow	do.	9		"	12
	Sperm	do.	32		"	38
	Stearic	do.	20		"	25
CHEESE		do.	4		"	7
CIDER BRANDY,	Eastern	per gal.	35		"	40
	Western	do.	28		"	35
CLOVER SEED		per lb.	8	½	"	9	½
COAL,	Anthracite	2000 lbs.	5 00		"	6 00
	Sidney and Pictou	per chal.	7 00		"	7 50
CORDAGE,	American	per lb.	11		"	12
CORN,	Northern	per bush.	56		"	58
	Southern	do.	54		"	56
COTTON		per lb.	6		"	11
COTTON BAGGING,	Amer. hemp	per yard.	16		"	18
	American Flax	do.	15		"	16
FEATHERS		per lb.	27		"	31
FLAX,	American	do.	8		"	8	½
FLAX SEED,	rough	per 7 bush.	8 75		"	9 00
	clean	do.	— —		"	— —
FLOUR,	Northern and Western	per bbl.	4 56		"	4 75
	Fancy	do.	5 50		"	5 62	½
	Southern	per bbl.	4 50		"	4 75
	Richmond City Mills	do.	5 50		"	5 62
	Rye	do.	3 00		"	3 12
HAMS,	Smoked	per lb.	5		"	7	½
	Pickled	do.	4		"	5
HAY		per 100 lbs.	40		"	45
HIDES,	Dry Southern	per lb.	9		"	11
HEMP,	Russia, clean	per ton.	185 00		"	190 00
	American, water-rotted	do.	140 00		"	180 00
	do dew-rotted	do.	90 00		"	140 00
HOPS		per lb.	6		"	8
HORNS		per 100	1 25		"	5 00
LARD		per lb.	5	½	"	7
LEAD		do.	3	½	"	4
	Sheet and bar	do.	4		"	4	½
MEAL,	Corn	per bbl.	2 75		"	3 00
	Corn	per hhd.	12 50		"	13 00
MOLASSES,	New Orleans	per gal.	23		"	25
MUSTARD,	American	per lb.	16		"	31
OATS,	Northern	per bush.	30		"	32
	Southern	do.	26		"	28
OIL,	Linseed, American	per gal.	75		"	80
	Castor	do.	90		"	1 00
	Lard	do.	55		"	65
OIL CAKE		per 100 lbs.	1 00		"	— —
PEAS,	Field	per bush.	1 25		"	— —
PITCH		per bbl.	1 12	½	"	1 37
PLASTER OF PARIS		per ton.	2 00		"	2 25
	Ground, in bbls.	per cwt.	50		"	— —
PORK,	Mess	per bbl.	10 50		"	11 38
	Prime	do.	9 25		"	10 12
RICE		per 100 lbs.	2 75		"	3 12
ROSIN		per bbl.	65		"	95
RYE		per bush.	65		"	66
SALT		per sack	1 35		"	1 50
SHOULDERS,	Smoked	per lb.	3		"	4	½
	Pickled	do.	3		"	4
SPIRITS TURPENTINE,	Southern	per gal.	38		"	40
SUGAR,	New Orleans	per lb.	6		"	7	½
SUMAC,	American	per ton	25 00		"	27 50
TALLOW		per lb.	7		"	7	½
TAR		per bbl.	1 25		"	1 50
TIMOTHY SEED		per 7 bush.	13 00		"	14 00
TOBACCO		per lb.	3		"	6	½
TURPENTINE		per bbl.	2 62		"	2 87
WHEAT,	Western	per bush.	1 00		"	1 05
	Southern	do.	90		"	1 00
WHISKEY,	American	per gal.	23		"	25
WOOL,	Saxony	per lb.	35		"	50
	Merino	do.	30		"	35
	Half-blood	do.	25		"	27
	Common	do.	18		"	22

To Correspondents.

—A. B. Your package of Essays is sent to T. C. R. of P., as directed, and we have written you in full in it. The sheep-articles shall be condensed as you suggest, if we can possibly find room, and papers in any event sent to the gentlemen whose names are given. Good South-Downs, or Merinos, can be had from $10 to $20 each. It is not worth while to transport lower-priced animals such a distance. For Rambouillets, $30 to $50 each. See Mr. Collins' letter, Sept. No., page 166.

Henry A. Field, J. W. Stuart, S. B. Parsons, James Bates, and D. K. Minor, in our next.

Acknowledgment.—From some unknown friend, we have received a tin case containing two fine paintings of cattle, sheep, &c. We should be pleased to know to whom we are indebted for these, for no note accompanied them, and we can hardly guess.

BLACK GALLOWAY CATTLE.

A pure-bred imported cow, and a bull of the Galloway or Kyloe breed of Scotch Highland cattle, are for sale in this vicinity. These animals are very fine of their kind, and were chosen from one of the most celebrated breeders of this stock in Scotland. The cow took several prizes at the agricultural shows before being shipped to this country, and gives a superior quality of milk. The bull is quite equal to the cow, and they will be sold at a reasonable price.

Apply, post paid, to the Editor of this paper.

FARMING LANDS FOR SALE.

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WINTER & Co., Proprietors.

Flushing, Oct. 24th, 1843.

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Andrew Campbell.
E. Cornell, Ithaca, N. Y.
H. Kirkland, Northampton, Mass.
John Bonner, White Plains, Georgia.

CONTENTS OF DECEMBER NUMBER.

EDITORIAL.		Page.
Fattening Poultry,		[321]
Fertility of Sea-Mud,		[322]
Sketches of the West, No. 2,		[323]
Breeds of Fowls,}		[325]
New York Farmers' Club,}
Next Annual Show of the State Ag. Society,		[327]
Tour in England, No. 15,		[328]
Agricultural Shows,		[330]
Sale of Rambouillet Merinos,}
Price of Sheep Dogs,}
Annual Meeting of the New York State Ag. Society,}		[332]
List of Premiums of the American Institute (continued),}
Foreign Agricultural News,		[349]
Review of the Market,}
To Correspondents,}		[351]
Acknowledgment,}
Terms and list of Agents,		[352]
EXTRACTS.
Making Capons,		[334]
Grafting and Budding,		[335]
High Cranberry,		[339]
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
H. D. Grove, Fine-Wool Sheep,		[340]
R. B. C, Sea-Mud as a Fertilizer,		[341]
Henry Meigs, Farm of Hugh Maxwell, Esq.,		[342]
Robert L. Wright, Mediterranean Wheat,}
C. McD., Topping Cotton-Marl,}		[343]
R. L. Allen, Hints on the Cultivation of Wheat,		[344]
S. A., A Pennsylvania Dairy,		[346]
Wm. Partridge, Reply to the Gardeners' Chronicle,}		[347]
Amer. Ag. Almanac, Southern Calendar for December,}
do. do. Northern do. do.		[348]

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