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Excerpt from The Lancaster Farmer, Vol. 1 We have observed them feeding upon carrion of various kinds, and visiting the shores of rivers and creeks, picking up a dead fish, a mussel, or any other substance that might gratify the appetite of a crow. They will also attack corn in the field, and according to the observations of Mr. Chas. H. Nauman, as published in the November number of the American Naturalist after the manner of the common Hawk, they will attack domestic fowls. But these resources are only very partially available, or of rare occurrence, during the winter season. Whatever else they may feed upon, in emergencies, of this we have on many occasions been a witness, and that is, wherever there has been a freshly plowed field, during autumn, winter or spring, there the crows have congregated, and of all the busy bodies in that field, they have been the busiest. We have seen them coming up from the South in the morning, and returning thither again in the evening - perhaps to and from this very Roost - spending nearly the whole day in canvassing the plowed ground, in search of grubs, chrysalides, beetles, cutworms, and other delicacies congenial to the taste of corvine bipeds. It would be impossible to estimate the exact number of these noxious embryo that these crows would devour in a single day, unless we slaughtered them, and subjected their stomaches to an examination, but we feel sure that their name is legion, to say nothing about the legions that are thus prevented from ever coming into being. True, they may destroy some insect friends; but then if the enemies are destroyed, the friends will not be needed. A crow-roost therefore, barring its annoyance, may be a useful institution. Edible Fungi. In the December number of the Gardener's Monthly is an excellent editorial article, together with extracts from the columns of the Gardener's Chronicle, (London, ) on the subject of these singular ephemeral vegetable productions, which we commend to the readers of the Farmer. Among us, these fungoid plants, which spring up during moist nights in summer, and by mid-day are already in the process of decline and decay, are known by the names of Toadstools, Mushrooms, Puff-Balls, Mauricles, Devil's Umbrellas, Truffles, Pipe Stems, &c., &.c, and the edible qualities of but very few of them have been practically tested, but these few have been almost universally pronounced excellent. The larger number by far have been unhesitatingly pronounced poisonous, and although some of them without a doubt are really of that character, yet it appears from the tenor of the article alluded to, that the proportion of the poisonous species is not larger than that which prevails among plants in general, and by ordinary care, may become familiarized, and as subject to detection as other poisonous vegetation is. We profess little or no scientific knowledge of this singular class of plants, but from our earliest boyhood up to the present time, we hare on many occasions tested the excellent quality of the kind commonly called mushrooms, and within the last ten years also of those called mauricles. In our youth we knew persons who esteemed the pipe-stems a great delicacy, but we have not seen them for many years. Now, when everything that can be appropriated to human use as wholesome food, commatids an enormous price, may it not be of some profit to direct attention to these delicious plants. In Europe, and especially in England, where these fungi are extensively eaten, premiums are offered for the best collections, and, what the nobility, the intelligent and the rich approve and endorse soon becomes acceptable to the common people. On a recent occasion a large species was exhibited there, called the vegetable beefstake, and which, when properly cooked, is said to have rivaled the best animal beefsteak. Another, of the puff-ball kind, was three feet six inches in circumference and weighed six pounds, and when sli

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