THE STATE AG'L COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA. A fine imposing stone edifice, in the midst of one of the handsomest valleys in the Quaker State. Of this college, also, again. PITTSBURG State, leaner and more weary than when we left, but yet richer in experience, happier, and we trust, better prepared for the work that lies before us. So mote it be. Was all shut up-the people at work on the A New and Valuable Book on Sheep fortifications, upon the heights across the Mo- Husbandry.-There is now in preparation nonghahela. A portion of Lee's army expected next day. Exciting rumors of the approach of the enemy in his march upon Harrisburg. Inspected the fortifications, told the people to keep cool, and dashed into and to be published in a few weeks by J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, and D. D. T. Moore, Rochester, N. Y., a new and complete work on Sheep Husbandry, entitled The Practical Shepherd, by the Hon. H. S. Randall, LL. D., author of "Sheep Husbandry in the South" "Life of Jefferson," "Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry," etc.; also Editor of the American Edition of "Youatt on the Horse," of which over thirty thousand copies have been sold. The author of "The Practical Shepnerd" is well known as the ablest and most reliable Crops, the last of June, looking better than writer on Sheep Husbandry in this country, in Pennsylvania. and the work cannot fail of becoming the standard authority on the subjects discussed. The A day at Columbus, pleasantly spent at the home and splendid nursery of our friend Han-work is intended to give that full and minute ford, and with the able and popular Secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, the Hon. J. H. Klippart; a few days of sickness at the dear old home, where a noble father and brother yet live, and then a resolute dash for Wisconsin, via CHICAGO, Which, after all, especially in view of its late origin, is about the greatest town in America. Splendid shops, magnificent hotels, and, above all, such an array of manufactories, elevators, mills, and shipping and forwarding houses as cannot fail to astonish the most ambitious and extravagant "down-easter." Great is the growth and grand is the destiny of this Metropolis of the Northwest. Found our friend Emery, of the Prairie Farmer, in the midst of a flourishing business, as he deserves to be, good natured and hopeful of both agriculture and country. The Farmer is a gcod paper and deserves a large patronage. IN THE CHAIR EDITORIAL AGAIN. May and June have gone, and we have returned to the peerless capital of the Badger practical information on all subjects connected with Sheep Husbandry which its author has derived from the direct personal experience of thirty-five years with large flocks, together with that knowledge of different modes and systems which has flowed from a very extensive correspondence during a long period with leading flock-masters in every part of the world.. Sorghum-Good Prices Ahead.-The prospect for large returns from the Sorghum crop of the country was never so good as now. The Mississippi is again open, to be sure, but the southern papers report that but little sugar has been produced. We hope our farmers who have been enterprising enough to grow considerable quantities of the cane will take care to provide themselves in time with the machinery and apparatus necessary to work it up. The Tribune Strawberries will be distributed to those of our subscribers who, in subscribing for the Tribune with the FARMER, then expressed a desire for them. Editorial Notes of European Travel have been crowded out this month by Notes of Home Travel. Who are You ?- MR. J. H. HOYT--Dear Machine Wanted.-Will you inform me through your esteemed paper whether and where a machine is to be got to "pill" barley with to prepare it for cooking? C. WIELAND. BEAVER BAY, Lake Co., Minn., May 11, 1863. I Sir-I send you one dollar for my subscrip- NOTICES OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. tion for the FARMER, and a stamp for the strawberries." The foregoing letter, without date and without signature,-money all right-came just recently in an envelope post-marked Ladoga. If our anonymous friend will favor us with his name, we will gladly send him the FARMER and put him on the strawberry list. Madison Mutual Ins. Co.-Some very important figures illustrative of the business of this flourishing Company for the six months ending June 30, 1863, will be found, as furnished by the able Sec'y at the close of the Annual Report of said Co., on the 2d page of our Advertising Dep't. It appears that the number of members at that date was 20,000, No. Policies 27,338, total am't accumulations $429,827 19. Probably few companies in any country can present a better record. We believe, as heretofore, that there is no better or safer Co. in the world. The season is at hand wherein the farmers are particu far more with a view to their protection than to any in- Our Article on Wool in the Stock Reg-larly liable to suffer loss by fire and lightning, and it is ister was printed before our great victories in July, and the consequent decline of gold. Within limitations determined by actual imperative demand, wool and wheat, being sta-vertise in this No. Trees, Vines &c. for fall trade. ples, will fluctuate with gold; which last, therefore, may be looked to as a pretty reliable indicator. Let us have the victories, even though wool should go down to 30 cents! Importation of Sheep from the East. -Mr. C. H. Jones, of Sun Prairie, the same who recently sold a buck to Moses Chase for $100, goes to Vermont to purchase other sheep for introduction West. disposition to improve the breed of our seeep. O. B. Maxwell & Co. advertise Pear and Plum trees, and a general assortment of Nursery Stock. Great Western Nurseries.-See advertisements of Reiter & Maddocks, Tolebo, Ohio. Agents wanted STATEMENT Madison Mutual Insurance Company, FOR THE YEAR ENDING We are glad to see this Made to the Governor of the State of Wisconsin, as re Sorghum Machinery, &c.-In answer to many enquiries in relation to machinery &c., we feel bound to say that we have yet to be made acquainted with any Cane Mill better than the "Climax Adjustable Sugar Mill,” manufactured by E. W. Skinner, of Madison; or any Evaporator superior, all things considered, to Cook's. Horse-Hoes &c.-A letter, making enquiries in relation to implements of this kind, dated Stoughton, May, 1863, and signed "G," came during our absence, and could not be answered in time to make the answer of use this At a convenient time we shall publish the enquiries and answer them. season. What's become of all the Spinning Wheels ?-Mr. J. R. Crocker, of Belleville, has ransacked Madison and the surrounding towns but finds not one,-that is, of the good old sort. The enquiry is suggestive, if not important, and somebody should be able to answer it. quired by the provisions of chapter 103, of the General Total amount of accumulations,... Unimpaired premium notes of policy holders....... Cash on hand and due from .$281,000 07 $327,464 67 policy holders and agents, for cash premiums,......... Office furniture and fixtures,... Whole No. policies issued... Am't of outstanding risks thereon........$15,962,000 00 Number of policies issued in 1862,. 7.706 Am't of outstanding risks thereon... $6,069,813 00 Am't premium notes thereon,. 108,323 93 Am't cash premiums thereon, less commissions to agents,... Am't interest received,. Total am't losses reported during 1862, Total am't losses paid during 1862, 89 in Am't claimed for loss, resisted as fraudulent number,... Losses adjusted and due.. Losses adjusted and not due.... All other claims against the company,... 45,727 80 972 18 $17,744 16 21,413 97 2,000 00 none. none. 292 35 97 50 1,763 66 540 50 600 00 82 02 7,290 98 before frost, and secure in well-bound stooks. SPRING WHEAT-Plow for, this fall, and plow a little deeper than usual. BUCKWHEAT.-Harvest as early as ripe.Straw will answer for bedding stock and for manure. If there is to be an agricultural fair in your county it is your duty to attend it, and not merely with your wives and children, as interested, selfish spectators, enjoying the fruits of the labor and enterprise of others, but as exhibitors. If you have anything worth showing, prove your merit by placing it alongside of other things of like character; and if you have produced nothing worth showing, then take the best of what you have, and manfully and repentantly bear the shame of being a laggard in your profession. But almost any of our readers, even the slowest and laziest, will have some thing-a calf, a pig, a chicken, a trace of corn, a turnip, a potato, an apWEEDS-Wherever found, cut them down, ple, a pound of butter, a pair of stockings, or a skein of yarn-that might be added to the gather before seeds will shell out and burn in display of articles, and so increase the inter-heaps. It's too late to make them into manure. est of the exhibition. ROOT CROPS may still be cultivated with profit. SORGHUM MANUFACTURE.-Get ready for it, and begin last of month. STOCK. If intended for fattening, com We repeat it; go to the Fair, but don't go emp-mence feeding early and regularly; and if ty handed! FARM WORK. Don't forget our injunction of last month as to the care of grain and hay crops. Many a put-off-till-to-morrow farmer, after spending much labor in putting in, cultivating and harvesting his crops, loses the advantage of what he has done for want of a very little labor necessary to make them secure. The shock, the stack, the granary-these are yours, but rain, fire and vermin stand ever ready to destroy them. Take care of both grain and straw. CORN. Select the best ears on the best stalks for seed; gather when ripe; trace and hang up in a dry place. Cut up, for fodder, not, still it will pay to feed well, for it is always poor economy to let stock run down in flesh just before winter. If grass should be very short and dry, a little help from the corn field, oat stack, or corn and bran bin should be afforded them. THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN. Not much to be done this month but to care fully gather and sell or put up autumn fruits, to wash and scrub the trees with strong suds, and to dig out the apple and peach borers. GRAPES.-Allow such as are intended to be put up for winter to remain on the vines until the approach of frost. BLACKBERRIES AND RASPBERRIES.-Cut out the old canes, leaving but three or four of the strongest young shoots in each clump, for next partial civilization, to very extraordinary year's bearing. growths. MELONS. Put broad chips under those ripening and occasionally turn, so as to expose all sides to the sun. Well, we shall not forget it hereafter, for here, before our astonished senses, stand the representative products of a colonial dominSQUASHES.—Gather as they ripen, and be-ion which, exclusive of British India, embrac fore the frost spoils them. CUCUMBERS.—Save all you can for pickles. The soldiers of the great Union army will need them if you don't. The Great International Exhibition. NO. XI. THE BRITISH COLONIES. es an area of not less than 3,350,000 square miles, and a population of some ten millions! If India be added—and geographical boundaries will hardly be anticipated or feel abused if we do so include her-then the Colonial possessions of Great Britain embrace an area equal to nearly one-third of the land of the whole earth, and a population scarcely less than two hundred and twenty millions! Standing again under the great Eastern Dome, and looking to the right as far northBut let us descend from the dais under the ward and then westward as the naked eye can dome and review this most interesting divisdistinguish the armorial ensigns and the ion of the Great Exhibition a little more in more prominent objects displayed by the dif-detail-and yet very rapidly, for the world of ferent nations, we are filled with amazement other nations is yet before us. at the number of provinces here gathered home by the great parent Empire upon whose glories with ever kindling enthusiasm we have already dwelt so long. Nothing is so well remembered as what we learn in youth. The newspapers, now and then, and quite often, considering the importance of the event, have heralded to the world the accession of some new portion of the globe brought under the sway of the royal seeptre of "the little sea-girt isle," and we have once and again admired the indomitable energy and unquenchable ambition of this leader of Anglo-Saxon destiny; but other events of still greater importance to us as a yet more composite and more wonderful race of new people have so engrossed us that those occasions have not all been numbered and recorded in the memory. We have lived a quarter of a century-some of us twice that since on our maps of the world we traced the British Islands and their dependencies, at the country school, and until our eyes here corrected us, we have preserved the outlines of her empire just as they were then; forgetting that the geography of great nations is exceedingly liable, in these times of but First, on our right, proceeding northward, we encounter THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS A full cluster of them, and finely represented by products of every class, both natural and artificial, for which these interesting tropical islands are remarkable-Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbadoes, Demerara, Bermuda, St. Vincent, Dominica. As yet the arts are only in their infancy in these islands, but the spirit of progress is beginning to be manifest. Here is JAMAICA With a fine collection of objects in Natural History-fishes and turtles, peculiar sea shells &c.; a display of the economic minerals of Jamaica, including iron, lead, zinc and copper ores; botanical specimens of much interest-Guinea corn, sugar cane, mountain cabbage, bamboos, 253 specimens of the woods, such as rosewood, mahogany, ebony, cedar, yacca, &c.; a very large and remarkably fine collection of vegetable fibres, roots barks, &c., used by the nations in the manufacture of paper, ropes, hats, umbrellas, and various fabrics; beautiful furniture from the yacca wood; wax models of fruits and vegetables, includ work, for which the smiths of Malta are so noted the world over. But we may not linger. Another step, and we stand, as if transported by magic, where "the spicy breezes blow soft o'er "CEYLON'S ISLE. ing the yam, the cocoa, turmeric, common ginger, pine apples, pears, oranges, lemons, limes, bread fruit, &c; seeds, nuts and preserved fruits, coffee, pimento,; sugars, oils in great number, starches, flours, and 192 samples of rum-chemical preparations, perfumes, soap, wax, honey, choccolate, leather, The satinwood, the ebony, and the cocoanut fibrous mats, window blinds, calabashes, and palm, with its multiform products-oil, sugar, a great variety of miscellaneous articles; arrack, vinegar, ropes, nets, mats, torches, specimens of printing and binding; ladies' calabashes, furniture, &c., &c.-betel nuts, ornamental work; engravings, photographs, cinnamon trees and cinnamon bark, cotton, water-color drawings of Jamaica scenery, and rice, tobacco, coffee, pepper, numerous spices a number of excellent stereoscopic views of which we have not time to name, and bread Jamaica. Jamaica has now a population of about 380,000, mostly colored, and is gradually increasing in importance. The display made by the other islands is of similar character, and need not be so minutely examined. Next to the West Indies comes MALTA, Some four thousand miles, more or less, from Jamaica. A long distance, if we were to take a ship and cross over the sea to where it lies in the warm lap of the Mediterranean; but only a step here in the Great Exhibition. fruit; fibres in great variety, seeds without number, and tropical fruits in abundance, preserved in spirits. The air is filled with the sweet odor of the spicy isle, huge elephant's tusks lie around, the broad palm-leaf hats and palm umbrellas are overhead, the car is now and then saluted by articulations of what is known to be the Cingalese tongue, and one finds but little difficulty in imagining himself to be a veritable inhabitant of this most interesting island of the Indian Ocean. Another wave of the wand, and we stand in the midst of the forest timber, the rocks and minerals, the ores, the skins and furs, the agricultural products, and the machinery and implements of THE CANADIAN PROVINCES ! We shall find none of the beautiful woods here which added so much to the interest of the Jamaica display, for in Malta there are no forests-scarcely brushwood even. The These are most admirably represented, essirocco which blows from the African coastspecially in the department of natural producwill not tolerate their growth. Nevertheless tions. In the centre of the north end of the the nations, who are supposed to have come originally from the Arabic stock, are skillful workers in wood, and have acquired quite a notoriety for their cabinet ware. Transept stands a magnificent trophy of timber which opens wide the eyes of all but Americans (who are familiar with gigantic trees) and attracts very great attention. This Cotton is the staple product, and we have trophy is 90 feet high, the timber composing here before us interesting samples of the raw it being sections, transverse and longitudiral, material and of the fabrics (Militensis vestis) of walnut, oak, ash, pine, and the other forwhich have long enjoyed a high reputation in est timber grown in Canada. Here are pine Rome and the Italian States generally. But planks of great length and fifty inches wide the most remarkable articles in the Maltese-without a knot-sawn from trees 22 feet in Court are, the famous Maltese lace, which oc- circumference 120 feet to the first limb curs in patterns of great variety and beauty and 250 feet high. And here are most splen—capes, collars, shawls, coiffures, &c., &c.— did polished plank and squared timbers of and the exquisite gold and silver filagree the beautiful black walnut, such as a vast ma |