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.