The American Agriculturist. Vol. II. No. XI, December 1843: Designed to Improve the Planter, the Farmer, the Stock-breeder, and the HorticulturistVarious
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The American Agriculturist. Vol. II. No. XI, December 1843: Designed to Improve the Planter, the Farmer, the Stock-breeder, and the Horticulturist
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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.
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