0 FOR THE AMERICAN FARMER. vour, and even reciprocity, form no basis for ed with the preceding; they are the corner this or that, good or evil quality, or temperament, their measures towards us beyond the compass of teeth, next the tushes, are called pincers, and o the colour of a horse. All that I am warrantbare expediency. They will consume our raw are those which bear the mark: this mark con ed in saying, from my own observation, is, that I materials when they cannot do better; when they sists in the tooth being hollow, and in the cavity have seen more bad horses, of all kinds among can, they will not not consume them. When the bearing a black spot, resembling the eye of athe light bays, with light-coloured legs, and muzconsumption of our agricultural products comes bean. The tushes may then be felt. At four zle, than amongst any other colours; and the in contact with any principle of political econo-years and a half old, these mark teeth are just most good saddle and coach horses, among the my applicable to their own condition, a hostile visible above the gum, and the cavity is very common bays, with black legs and manes, and tariff meets us at their shores. Hence, the fo- conspicuous. At five years old, the horse hathe chocolate browns. This, in all probability, reign market, for the fruits of our soil, depends shed his remaining four colt's teeth, and his tush-has been accidental. but little on the sale which foreign manufac-es appear. At six, his tushes are up, and appear tures find in this country: and whether we white, small and sharp, near about which is obpurchase more or less, foreign nations will gra- servable a small circle of young growing flesh; duate their policy towards us, by a standard inde the horse's mouth is now complete, and the black pendent of any general system of duties which mark has arrived at, or very near the upper exApril 5th, 1824. we may adopt; at least, so it appears to your tremity of the corner teeth. At seven, the two FRiend Skinner, committee. middle teeth fill up. Between the seventh and If the other numbers of your 6th volume, are How long would Great Britain purchase our eighth year, all the teeth are filled up, the black to furnish the tobacco planters with friends of the cotton, if her own colonies could supply her de-mark hath vanished, and the horse is then said same stamp, with the one who has graced your mands? How many nations would consume any to be aged, and his mouth full. 1st number with a few of his lucubrations from article that is cultivated by the American agri- From that time forward, the age of the horse an unpublished pamphlet," &c. the enemies of culturist if they could find their demand supplied can only be guessed at from certain indications; these ill fated agriculturists, would do well to exon better and more advantageous conditions, by but these guesses are usually made with consi-pedite their attacks; or there will be precious home industry? These questions are answered derable accuracy by experienced people. If his little left for them to do in the “demolishing by their proposition; it is, therefore, the opinion teeth shut close, and meet even, are tolerably way." What can have brought upon us poor of the committee, that the foreign market for white, not over long, and his gums appear plump, devils, such killing kindness, God only knows; our agricultural products, and for the staple ar- you may conclude he is not yet nine years old. At for it far transcends all human intelligence to ticles of our exports, in the shape of raw materi- that age and as he advances, his teeth become comprehend. The author must surely be another als, will not be essentially affected by any in yellow and foul, and appear to lengthen, from the Philo Hamilton; or, as I rather suspect, the recrease of duty on those foreign manufactures shrinking and receding of the gums. The tush-doubtable champion himself; for this publication which are composed of similar materials. es are blunt at nine; but at ten years old, the has the invariable accompaniment of every thing As to the amount of duty which should be cavity or channel on the inside in the upper from his pen, that I ever saw: to wit, scraps of imposed, it must always depend upon a variety tu hes until that period to be felt by the finger, letters without number, and interminable arithmeof considerations, which need not be detailed : are entirely filled up. At eleven, the teeth will tical calculations, which make the natter in hand, it should be sufficient to secure the exclusive and be very long, black, and foul, but will generally (to borrow a southern phrase of much sterling constant demand of our raw materials, and to meet even: at twelve, his upper jaw teeth will value,) "all as clear as mud." But let this piss, sustain the American manufacturer in his pur- overhang the nether: at thirteen and upwards, that I may beg of you, for pity sake, to tell us how suits; it must be competent to build up and pro- his tushes will be either worn to the stumps, or you have stumbled upon such a correspondent; tect those manufacturing establishments, at pre-long, black, and foul, like those of an old boar. or rather, how he could continue to stumble upsent in the country, and which, with a reasonable Beside those exhibited by the mouth, nature ev- on you? could it be necessary, my good sir, to encouragement, will present a constant demand er furnishes variety of signals, denoting the ap- accumulate such a mass of figures, and quotafor those raw materials. proach of old age and decay, throughout the bo- tions, either from real letters, or such as have In fact, as to the articles of foreign growth and dies of all animals. After a horse has past his been fabricated in news papers for purposes of manufacture, which should be taxed in order to prime, a hollowness of his temples will be per- speculation, in order to prove the simple fact, increase our agricultural prosperity, your com-ceived; his muscles will be continually losing which (by the way, I believe) no human being mittee would refer, generally, to the tariff now something of their plumpness; and his hair, that denies, that the price of our tobacco has fallen? before the house. The committee do not per-gloss and burnish, which is the characteristic of Or was this the best method your correspondent ceive the necessity of selecting any articles, or youth and prime, will look dead, faded, or en could think of, to persuade us, that the most efof imposing any duties, beyond those embraced tirely lose its colour in various parts. In propor fectual way to benefit ourselves, was to agree, by that bill. tion to the excess of these appearances, will be notwithstanding this diminished, and still dimithe horse's age. nishing revenue, to give him and his friends more LAWRENCE, ON THE AGE OF THE HORSE. HOW TO KNOW IT. The following are among the devices practised for every thing they either have, or may have to by a set of unfeeling rascals, who have no other sell? Truly if such is his logic, and such his rule of conduct than their supposed interest, to mode of coaxing, I cannot but say, that the very counterfeit the marks of age in horses. At four worst of Dr Kitchiner's "peristaltic persuaders" The age of a horse, it is sufficiently well known, years old they will frequently knock out the re- are most admirable viands compared to them. is only determinable with precision by his teeth; maining colt's teeth, in order to make the horse But he sens to think that by calling this ruand that rule fails after a certain period, and is appear five; but you will be convinced of the inous project "the building up a home market,” sometimes equivocal and even uncertain within fraud, by the non appearance of the tushes: and we shall all be cajoled out of our senses. Had that period. A horse has forty teeth; viz.twenty-if it be a mare, by the shortness and smallness of this master mason served his apprenticeship at four double teeth or grinders, four tushes, or the corner teeth, and indeed of the teeth in the erection of the Tower of Babel, some intelsingle teeth, and twelve front teeth, or gatherers. general. To give an old horse the mark, is ligible explanation might have been given of his Mares have no tushes in general. The mark, termed, to bishop him; of the derivation of this present hallucinations. As this could not very which discovers the age, is to be found in the term I have no knowledge. They burn a hole in well have happened, the man who would underfront teeth, next the tushes. In a few weeks, each of the corner teeth, and make the shell fine take to explain them, must have such a head, as with some, the foal's twelve fore teeth begin to and thin, with some iron instrument, scraping all it would be quite a hopeless task to find; for they shoot; these are short, round, white, and easily the teeth to make them white; sometimes they amount to this, that the less we have to buy distinguishable from the adult or horse's teeth, even file them all down short and even. To this with; or in other words the more our products with which they come afterwards to be mixed. they add another operation; they pierce the skin are reduced in price, the more we shall be able At some period between two and three years over the hollows of the eye, and blow it up with to purchase of every thing we want:-"the buildold, the colt changes his teeth; that is to say, he a quill: but such manœuvres can deceive only theng up a home market," being the grand panaces sheds the four middle fore teeth, two above and inexperienced, and in case of dispute would be or solving this unintelligible paradox. And the two below, which are sometime after replaced detected in an instant. Of the colours of horses, only thing necessary to complete this wondrous with horse's teeth. After three years old, two nothing, in my opinion, can be said more to the piece of architecture is, simply to exclude foreign others are changed, one on each side the for- purpose than to repeat an adage of old Bracken, manufactures, or to tax them so highly, as greatmer; he has then eight colt's and four horse's "A good horse is never of a bad colour." Mo y to diminish their importation. teeth. After four years old, he cuts four new dern light and experience have been happily Pray take the trouble to examine for a moment teeth, one on each side those last replaced, and emploved in detecting and exploding the theo how this would work. If by any process of legishas at that age, eight horse's and four foal's teeth. retic whimseys of antiquity upon almost all sublation, either fair or foul, those articles of foreign These last new teeth are slow growers, compar- jects; among the rest, upon that of attributing inanufacture which we are in the habit of pur 1 chasing, are made to cost us more, than they did; which the onus probandi lies before me) in thejtainly desirable, if possible, to obtain some speat the same time that the price of what we sell, supreme court, however urgent in its origin, adcific, which may be relied on, to expel those either falls, or remains stationary, it is as clear absurd in its object, I would import them. terrible insects when actually formed in the as the meridian sun, that we shall be compelled The honest mechanic and real inventor of im-stomach, as well as to prevent their formation. to buy less of them. Nay more, we must also provements, should really be put on their guard As one of your correspondents observes, there is purchase less of the domestic manufactures of the against the inconveniencies arising from the army no doubt that salt exhibited weekly in the food same kind; even admitting the physical impossi of patentees, with which this country is ravaged. of horses, would assist as 2 preventive; and so bility, that the immediate consequence of the le It is not long since one of this tribe passed will salt-petre and assafoetida occasionally adgislative operation would be, to create instanter, through this county and sold patent rights to a ministered. Currying and cleaning the hair of all the means necessary for their fabrication; cutting box, (Willis's) and in one of the towns the horse is necessary not only for the good apbecause the price of these manufactures would be where he thus picked up $50 or $60, there had pearance, but also for the general health of our augmented exactly in proportion to the addition-been an imported cutting box, on exactly the same favourite animal. al cost of the foreign articles. Of all the remedies I have used and seen used principle, for many years. EGYPTIAN COTTON. It does not remove the difficulty the breadth of The patent law should undergo some alteration, to expel the botts, fish brine is decidedly the a chego's bristle to say, that a home market for and there are no classes where interests call so most efficacious and sure. I have saved several our products will be substituted for a foreign one ; loudly for it, as the industrious mechanic and the valuable horses, after they were actually stretchunless it can be demonstrated that a domestic ma-ingenious discoverer of really new and usefulled on the ground, and apparently in the last agonufacturer can actually consume more, both of principles. nies. bread stuffs, and of all our other products, than a I am, sir, &c. Let a quart of strong fish brine be administerforeign one; but this incredible absurdity I do not CAROLINIENSIS. ed at once; and the dose repeated in an hour recollect, that even Hamilton himself, has yet at- P. S. Would it be unfair to ask of every man afterwards, unless previously there be symptoms tempted to make us swallow. What then would taking out a patent, a security (for an amount of relief. The medicine will show its effects in ensue? Why we should gain no more home custo correspondent to its supposed advantages) that, copious discharges from the relieved animal, mers, thun we should loose foreign ones; but we in the event of his claim to it proving fallacious, which will be accompanied by quantities of dead should be deprived of all the advantages of that would indemnify the individual he should sue for botts. He will not only be relieved, but will be foreign competition which keeps down the prices the invasion of his assumed right? If his claim improved in his health and condition. It is to be of what we buy and much time would inevitably be really founded, and a jury support it, no harm observed, by the by, that all owners of horses elapse, before the home competition would be could arise-in the other case, much benefit would would do well to give them occasionally in their great enough, (if it ever could) to produce the occur, and the punishment be but just. food, and sometimes in draught, small quantities same effect. In the mean time, we should be exof fish brine. posed to every exaction which a state of things, E. H. CUMMINS. but little removed from actual monopoly, would Translation of a letter from Marseilles to the enable the home manufacturers to practice, while Editor of the Paris Journal du Commerce, The following, another Receipt, furnished to us by this all essential indigenous competition was dated Dec. 24, 1823. W. D. Taylor, Esq. of Taylorsville. growing up. Without this legislative interference, "It fails within the province of your Journal to Half pint of elder juice, extracted from the which would be as barefaced an act of despotism, make public a revolution which is preparing in leaves; half pint of linseed or any other oil; as the Grand Turk himself ever attempted, a one of the most important branches of our com-half pint of whiskey and half pint of water, with number of manufactories are daily, and rapidly merce. a small piece of alum, making a quart drench, establishing themselves; and obtaining a firm "It is now four years since M. Jumely, a which will ensure relief in fifteen minutes. footing in the country, which they will maintain; Frenchman, conceived the idea of introducing simply because the nation is ripe for them, and the cotton plant into Egypt from Brazil. The they can successfully meet any competition that experiment completely succeeded; the Pacha can be brought against them. ordered the plants to be propagated as fast as We the subscribers to this certificate, having As to that part of your correspondent's extract possible, and upon the most extensive scale. He this day dined from a saddle of merino mutton, of "heart's ease," wherein he attempts to play has ordered also that this production should be presented by William R. Stuart, Esq. of Queenthe part of a sort of "Amicus Curia" to con called Jumel Cotton. In the second year the Ann's county, to General Forman, do with one gress, I have nothing to say, but that the mem-culture produced nearly 100,000 kilogrames accord, pronounce it to have been of the first bers of this body, both individually and collec[220,000 lbs. ;] in the third year twenty times as quality for fat and flavour; and we invite our tively, are doubtless willing and able, amply to much, and now in the fourth year, at the mo-eastern and western shore friends to send to the remunerate him for his kindness. Whether they ment of my writing, there are in the lazaretto of same address, a similar sample of their good will do so, or not, is quite another affair; but Marseilles, 4000 bales, equal to 600,000 kilo-management, of any breed of sheep; from which with due submission to their better judgments, I grames, which are ready for the manufacturers. we pledge ourselves to make a faithful report, think they certainly owe him, at least abundant The lazarettoes of Leghorn and Trieste, contain according to the best of our taste and judgment. thanks for his very supererogatory care. For the about the same quantity which we have here, and honor of the nation, let them not in this remark-letters of the highest authority say that the enable case, furnish another item to blacken the tire crop will exceed 5,000,000 kilogrames long, and truely lamentable catalogue of acts of [about 40,000 bales.] We can place no limits to MR. SKINNER, ingratitude so generally exhibited against repub-the future increase of this plant; the Pacha has Be pleased to publish the above certificate, licks. it cultivated very high up the Nile. which will oblige the subscribers thereto, and your friend, A SUBSCRIBER. Your Friend, NICOTIANA' D WILLIAM LEE, of Grove Point. April 6th, 1824. DER OF THE STATE. "The quality of this cotton, which is of the long staple kind, is excellent; when it obtains a little more whiteness in color, and is better hanTO THE EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN FARMER. dled, it will entirely supercede the Louisiana and Pernambuco cotton. It is probable that our maSouth Carolina, March 10, 1824. nufacturers will give it the preference, more es-PUBLISHED IN THE AMERICAN FARMER, BY ORMR. SKINNER, pecially on account of the low price to which the I perceive a Mr. Hoaxie, (for that if he is a abundant crop will reduce it. What will be A report of the tobacco inspected at and depatentee of the ordinary class of patentees) has the effect of this upon our commercial relations livered from Sheppard's Inspection Warehouse, called your attention to his iron wheels, and ex-with the United States? Baltimore, during the quarter commencing on the pressed a wish to sell the right to their use in I stop here, and leave this subject, of which first day of January, eighteen hundred and twentythe different parts of the United States. the consequences will be vast, to the consideration four, and ending on the first day of April eighteen He must permit me to tell him that six years of your readers, and of manufacturers and mer hundred and twenty four. since, I imported a pair of wheels with cast iron chants. [Signed] hobs, by a peculiar axle tree, made by a Mr. Bennet, of Bristol. And as long ago have I seen at Edinburgh, the carriage of a carriage, altogether made of wrought iron. The wheels of that were of the same metal, and seven years since they were common enough in Great Britain. Hence, In the American Farmer I have read with insooner than submit to the decision of a suit (interest, several remedies for the botts. It is cer ARMAND. EFFECTUAL CURE FOR THE BOTTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN FARMER. Domestic growth Growth not Re-inspected. Total, 165 165 205 Number in- livered. LANCELOT WARFIELD, Inspecter "FOR THE AMBRICAN FARMER REMARKS ON KEEPING COWS. APPLICABLE TO TOWN AND COUNTRY. cess. The dairy-maid calls it the strippings or and am fully convinced that none of the inland afterings. His theory is this: He considers milk counties of this vast country, which do not enjoy in the udder of an animal, as being nearly in the the advantages of an easy and cheap navigation, same circumstances as milk contained in a vessel will ever be as flourishing and populous without Many families in town are induced to forego the out of her body altogether. It is without the manufactures, as with them. The objection to economy and satisfaction to be derived from an pale of the animal's secretion, and nearly in a manufactures on account of immorality, is nonabundance of milk, especially where there are state of absolute rest. Its component parts, sense. I am well acquainted with most of the children, in the apprehension-first, of their cow therefore, will obey the same laws in the one manufacturing districts of England, and assert that being stolen, by miscreant thieves who make a state as in the other. Now the cream, which is they are to a certainty not more immoral than sort of living between fear and trembling, by cow the lighter and more oleaginous part of milk, as-our cities; where the population is dense, there stealing; and secondly they think, erroneously, cends to the surface of that which is contained in a will be more immorality than in less populous that the expense of keep is greater than the in-vessel, becomes supernatant, and leaves the more places, where vice is more observable-but what come. The liability to have our cows stolen by watery and heavier portion below. In like man- statesman must he be, who objects to an increase wretches who are on the watch to take them from ner, because the part called afterings, which re- of population on that account-we do not live in the commons, and sell them in the country for dry sembles cream, is specifically lighter than the Utopia. cows-or to exchange them for fresh ones, is a more aqueous portion of milk in the udder, it as- Take the manufactures away from Great Bricrying nuisance, and amongst the vast variety of cends to the upper region of that organ, and conse-tain, and the effect will be the same which the new fangled societies, "A society to arrest and quently is the last which is expressed during the loss of her Carrying Trade has produced on Holbring cow thieves to condign punishment," would process of milking. land-they are the main stay and base of her be niore useful, than some others; at least its The following method is recommended for the greatness and power, and as the natural advanta benefits would be felt and seen nearer home. preservation of milk, either at sea or in warm ges possessed by this country are much superior Then as to the profit and loss-a cow need have climates:-Provide pint or quart bottles, which to those possessed by great Britain, I think they no better food than the following:-hay I under-must be perfectly clean, sweet and dry; draw ought to be called into play. I, for one, am very stand is now selling at $10 per ton, but say $1.40 the milk from the cow into the bottles, and as willing to submit to reasonable taxation, for the per hundred, that would be for they are filled, immediately cork them well up, sake of manufactures; nor do I claim any merit and fasten the corks with packthread or wire. on that account, as I moralty deem I shall be be Fourteen pounds per day-an ample supply, 3 galls. of ship stuff, or 6 galls. Virginia bran, 10 cents. Then spread a little straw on the bottom of a nefitted by it. 7 17 TO THE EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN FARMER. Extract dated Fort Osage, 29th Feb. 1824. This has been the mildest winter that I ever knew here, we have had little or no snow, and but very few cold days. Though we had one day in January colder by 4 degrees than I ever before noticed. The Missouri has not been frozen over here this winter, a circumstance that has not ocgoodly number of cach, have entirely subsisted cured before since 1808. My out cattle and hogs, hemselves, so far, in the river bottom, and are all in good order-hay has frequently been thrown to the cattle, but they refuse to use it except to lay on, though the hay is good. Respectfully, yours, &c. a G. C. SIBLEY. | boiler, on which place bottles with straw between them, until the boiler contams a sufficient quantity. Fill it up with cold water; heat the water, and as soon as it begins to boil, draw Yield of milk at least 10 quarts per the fire, and let the whole gradually cool. When day the year round, at 5 cts. per quart, 50 cents. quite cold, take out the bottles, and pack them Consume in the family one gallon per day of with straw or sawdust, in hampers, and stow them' good rich milk, giving abundance of cream for in the coolest part of the ship, or in a cool place tea and coffee, and still you would have six quarts Milk preserved in this manner, has been carried per day for sale, giving 30 cents per day, or $9 to the West Indies, and back again to Denmark; per month, this would pay the whole wages of and although it had been eighteen months in the the best man servant, to take care of the cow and bottles, it was as sweet as first milked from the do all the work of the house besides, and give cow. yeast money in the bargain!! But if instead of long forage, cut hay, or cut straw, be used, a woman may easily milk and feed the cow. The best way to give the bran or ship stuff, is to Sir, moisten it first-either one gallon of ship stuff or The bay horse, Roanoke, got by Sir Archy out two of Virginia bran; then pour on it a gallon of of the imported mare Lady Bunbury, will be perboiling water, and after stirring it well, add two mitted to cover the winner, or dam of the winner or three gallons of cold water and give it warm of any plate, match, or sweepstakes, of not less to the cow-some cows will not eat slop well in than £50 value, gratis. He is a fine blood bay, the beginning; in that case put a little water at with black mane and tail, and black legs; was first and increase it gradually. To this food may never backed, but is quite gentle; is nearly, or be added the slop of the kitchen-or that may be quite 16 hands high; a much handsomer horse given to a hog, and will give you 300 weight of than his sire; and many good judges think of After the carbuncle is cut or split open with a good meat in a year. These are among the equal strength. The horse is at Mr. Randolph's knife, begin to apply nettle root in a fine powdersmall matters" which the master of a family is Middle Quarter in Charlotte county, Virginia. ed state, then lint over it, and a plaster of salve too apt to think beneath his notice-but he should He never covered until 1822, and his foals of last next. This is to be done night and morning; at remember that trusting too much to other's care year are uncommonly fine. He was suffered to which times the carbuncle is to be washed, not is the ruin of many, for "in the affairs of this go to none but his owner's mares. He is seven only in warm soap suds, but in a tea of red oak world, men are saved not by faith but by the want years old this grass. Lady Bunbury is by Trum- bark.-A sufficiency of powdered nettle root is of it," as poor Richard says, and "the eye of a pator, out of Theopha by Highfler; Plaything, to be put on so as to cover the carbuncle at each master will do more work than both his hands." by Matchem; Vixen, by Regulus, &c. &c. &c. dressing. And again, if you would be wealthy think of saving as well as getting; "the Indies have not made Spain rich, because her out goes have been greater than her in-comes " Milk Alley. DOLLY THRIFTY. Apply to Edm. Morgan, the overseer. Editorial Correspondence. DEAR SIR, J. S. SKINNER, Esq. Baltimore. FOR THE AMERICAN FARMER. RECEIPTS. A CURE FOR CARBUNCLES. I do not know the botanical name of this kind of nettle, but the root grows to a great depth in the soil, and hogs are very fond of it, and are seen to root two feet into the gronnd after it; it has a thick rind or bark, which when stripped or pealed off, exhibits the root of a beautiful white, which, when thus prepared, is to be hung in the air to dry, and when dry, it is easily, with a knife, ON MILK AND ITS PRESERVATION, scraped or grated into a powder for use. This With reasons why the portion last drawn from Annexed, you have my draft for $10, on Prime root is pleasant to eat, as it has a sweet taste comthe cow is always the richest. Ward & Sands, New York, in payment of Mr. bined with a gentle pungent taste. Some of the At a late sitting of the Glasgow Philosophical William Drinker's and my own subscription for Medical faculty have pretended to deride the use Society a memoir was read by Mr. Maclure, a the Farmer of the ensuing year. of this root as not having sufficient efficacy to surgeon, in which he presented a simple but sa- I hope the Tariff bill will pass-and I am cure so dreadful an inflammatory tumour as a carthepertory explanation of the well known fact much pleased with the extract from the unpub-buncle.-But facts speak loud-and a lady of my the the milk which is ol tained towards the conished pamphlet, inserted in your last paper; as acquaintance, has cured many of these carbonchision, is much richer than that which the cow is likely to open the eyes of many of your les (which have come under my personal yields at the commencement of the milking pro-readers. I have long seen things in that light,tion and observation,) by the above remedy. C The nettle root has also been found useful when A cure for breakings out, or eruptions of the skin, particularly on children who are much given to them. Be careful. CATNIP POULTICE. The materials of the bed are then to be laid in into a glass jar, filled with raiu or river water, following proportion and order : 6 inches of common dung-hill manure. 6 inches of dung as before. 6 inches of sifted earth. 8 inches of turf. 6 inches of very rotten dung. 8 inches of the best earth. The best layer of earth must then be well mixed with the last of dung. The quarter must now be divided into beds 5 The jar must be kept always full, and the water removed every ten or twelve days, adding each time a like quantity of the liquor: the flowers also must be placed on the corner of a chimneypiece, where a fire is regularly kept. The same mixture may be employed for watering flowers in pots, or filling the dishes in which they are placed, in order to keep the earth or the bulbs or plants which they contain, in a state of moisture. Take the inside of Elder bark and stew it in hog's lard-a sufficiency of the bark must be put in to colour the lard pretty highly; and to each table-spoonful of lard thus prepared, add as much feet wide, by paths constructed of turf, 2 feet in On publishing the new Russian Tariff, the Loncalomel as will lie on the point of a penknife.- breadth and 1 in thickness. The asparagus must don Times makes the following, amongst other Apply this preparation twice a day with a feath-be planted about the end of March, 18 inches observations:-"The Ministers of the Emperor er, and by this invaluable remedy, the most asunder. In planting them, the bud, or top of Alexander have, it seems, made a considerable Creadful eruptions of the skin on children will the shoot, is to be placed at the depth of an inch addition to the import duties on foreign manufacbe speedily cured with ut leaving a scar. and a half in the ground, while the roots must tures and produce. In other words, they have be spread out as wide as possible, in the form of been throwing fresh difficulties in the way of an umbrella. A small bit of stick must be placed Russian exports to foreign countries. To what For obstinate Ulcers in the legs, &c.-Direc- as a mark at each plant, as it is laid in the ground. extent the English trade may suffer from the tions were given in the last number of vol. 5, for As soon as the earth is settled and dry, a spade-adoption by Alexander of these fiscal barbarisms, mating this poultice, which were founded on mis-ful of fine sand is to be thrown on each plant, in already worn out and condemned by the discerninformation as to the ingredients, and manner of the form of a mole-hill. If the asparagus plants ing nation against whose interests he would now preparing them.-The following method should should have begun to shoot before their trans-direct them, it is easy to guess. Russia cannot be pursued. plantation, the young shoots should be cut off, and injure Great Britain by means which are calcuBoil the catnip for a while in vinegar, then the planting will, with these precautions, belated to repress the rising industry of Russia hertake it out and put in new milk thickened with equally successful; though it should be performed self, but to rouse the enterprise of Englishmen light bread, unsalted butter, and keep it simmer- in this country (Eng.) even as late as July. Should into a search after new paths of commerce, and ing over the fire, until soft enough for a poultice. any of the plants originally inserted, have died, into a cultivation of resources before untried, onShould inflammatiotion indicate a return of the they also may be replaced at this season. The ly because the want of them had not been hitherulcer, apply a salve made of bees-wax, rosin, plants ought to be two years old when they are to experienced. We have little to dread from a mutton suet, and hog's lard, and the inflammation transplanted: they will even take at three: but rival armed with those very weapons which we will be checked and removed. at four they are apt to fail. In three years the largest plants will be fit war of prohibitions is disasterous to none so comEconomy and safety in making Soap.-I ob- to cut for use. If the buds be sufficiently pletely as to him who wages it; and the Russian served in your paper of last evening, an account large to furnish a supply in this manner, the as-government, by this gross blunder, proves against of a Mrs. Jacobus having four children scalded, paragus should be cut as fast as they appear; itself an absence of political civilization, no less by a kettle of soap falling from the fire. To pre- otherwise they must be left till the quantity re-remarkable than that moral and social rudeness vent a recurrence of similar accidents, I am in- quired has put forth; in which case the variety which have long been a reproach to its subjects." duced to offer the following safe and economical in colour and size prevents them from having so receipt to make this useful article. To 32 gallons of lye, of strength just sufficient to bear an egg, add 16 lbs. of clean melted grease, which, by being placed in the hot sun, and occasionally stirred, will, in a few days, produce a soap of first quality. A HOUSE KEEPER AND SUBSCRIBER. Can this be true?-Edit. Am. Far. To make Transparent Soap. have ourselves cast aside as unserviceable. The agreeable an appearance. An iron knife is used CHESS. The London Chess Club have receiv Another Method. Suet is the basis of all the soaps of the toilette, Make the bed quite flat, five feet wide, of good known by the name of Windsor soap, because soil, without any dung, long or short: sow it olive-oil forms a paste too difficult to melt with onions. Then sow two asparagus seeds (lèst again, and contains an odour too strong to be one should fail), about one inch deep, near each TROTTING MATCH.-We understand that mixed with essences. The suet soap dissolved other: twelve inches each way sow two more; a trotting match took place a few days since on hot in alcohol retakes its solid state by cooling. and if the spring is cold and dry, let the weeds Long Island, between a celebrated horse called To this fact is due the discovery of transparent grow until rain comes. In October, cover the bed Poppet, belonging to a gentleman in Philadelphia, soap, which, if well prepared, has the appear- with manure, or rotten hot-bed. The next spring but formerly owned in this city, and a mare named ance of fine white candied sugar; it may also be remove the weakest of the two plants, and keep Betsey Baker, the property of a young gentlecoloured, and the vegetable hues for this purpose, the bed free from weeds. To raise seed, select man in this city. The distance was three miles are preferable to mineral; any person may make the thickest stems: after blossoming sufficient, for a purse of $1000. The mare won the match this soap, by putting in a thin glass phial, the take off the tops, to make the seed strong. This by about 60 yards, having performed the distance half of a cake of Windsor soap-shavings; fill it is also the best way to raise double ten weeks and in 9 minutes, 46 seconds. We understand that with one half of alcohol, and put it near the fire Brompton stocks. Six pounds are sufficient for the knowing ones came out at the little end of the until the soap is dissolved: this mixture placed any strong plant: setting them to flower near horn. into a mould to cool, produces the transparent double ones is of no use. The excess in petal soap. arises from cultivation, and transplanting into rich soil: wild flowers are seldom double. Keep all small seeds in the pod until you sow them. Vegetable Liquor to hasten the blowing of Bulbous LITERARY. Proposals have been issued by Packard & Van Benthuysen, for publishing by subscription, the Journals of Travels of ELKANAH WATSON, Esq., from 1777 to 1820 inclusive, interlarded with occasional Memoirs, Projects, Essays, and Letters from distinguished men, as well in Europe as in America. To cultivate 1sparagus. That part of the garden which is longest exposed to the sun, and least shaded by shrubs and trees, is to be chosen for the situation of the asparagus quarter. A pit is then to be dug 5 feet Take nitre, three ounces, common salt, one in depth, and the mould which is taken from it ounce, pot-ash, one ounce, sugar, half an ounce, must be sifted, taking care to reject all stones, rain water, one pound. Dissolve the salts in even as low in size as a filbert nut. The best gentle heat, in a glazed earthen pot, and wher parts of the mould must then be laid aside for the solution is complete, add the sugar, and filte making up the beds. the whole. Put about eight drops of this liquorfalso be received. These proposals may be seen at the office of the American Farmer, where subscriptions will SIGNS OF RAIN. An excuse for not accepting the Invitation of BY THE LATE DR. JENNER. 1 THE hollow winds begin tɔ blow, 2 The clouds look black, the grass is low; 7 The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, 9 The walls are damp, the ditches smell, 10 Clos'd is the pink-ey'd pimpernell. 11 Hark! how the chairs and tables crack ; 13 Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry; 17 Low o'er the grass the swallow wings; 29 The frog has chang'd his yellow vest, 31 Though June, the air is cold and still; 34 Quits mutton bones, on grass to feast; 37 And seem precipitate to fall- 39 Twill surely rain, I see with sorrow A RARE AND VALUABLE APPLE. ferred to a committee to graduate the scale of tion to the whole crop is considered, the planter a premiums, fill the detail and report at the next and his manager, certainly deserve a handsome meeting. We have the pleasure to inform the premium at the hands of the Maryland Agriculladies that among the variety of articles chosen ral Society. for the display of their ingenuity, skill and taste, The tobacco of this quality heretofore inspect- THE FARMER. BALTIMORE, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1824. pre The famous hogshead made and sold last year by George Cook, Esq. on Elkridge, brought within a fraction of fifty dollars; but it weighed less than 300 pounds.-We shall be glad to shew the sample before us to any one curious to see an article so exceedingly fine of its kind.—The fibres Our next number will be enriched by a va-branching from the main stem through the leaf, luable communication on the subject of the are as attenuated as possible, and as yellow as the valent and lamentable cause of decay in our peach leaf itself.-Though much depends on firing, and trees:-we are indebted for it to the indefatigable after management, much also arises in the proinvestigations of Evan Thomas, Jun. and his oblig-duction of such tobacco from the nature of the ing compliance with our solicitation to communi- soil, whereof we should be glad to have a particate them for the publick good.-What he recom-cular description, with an account of its previous mends is the result of careful observation; and its natural growth, and the manure applied, if any; efficacy, besides having been proved by experi-though we suppose it was the product of new and ment, has the great advantage of being preven- unmanured land. We understand Mr. Dorsey tive rather than remedial; coming under the old has two other hogsheads as beautiful as this, and adage-" An ounce of prevention is better than that the three will probably command One Thou"a pound of cure." sand Dollars ! ! ! Another fine hogshead has been inspected and Our number for next week will also con- sold at Calhoun's warehouse this week, price $30 tain "MR. WATERTON'S NEW METHOD OF PRE- property of Mr. Reuben Hays-and the following "general quotations will be found as nearly correct as can be :Extra fine yellow, Fine yellow, Fine spangled, SERVING SPECIMENS IN NATURAL HISTORY 30 to 45 20 to 30 15 to 20 in demand. 15 to 20 8 to 12 6 to 10 3 to 5 1 to 8 Fine red and cinnamon, which has been placed at our disposal by the politeness of ROBERT GILMOR, Esq. and in regard to which the Editor of the English journal in which it appears, says. "The disclosure of the secrets by which this gentlemen has kept in perfect preservation, the fruits of his arduous and enterprising researches, and retained in the dead animal all the vivi colours the pe fect symmetry and animated expression of the living, must be regarded as an important era in science." This Comparing the prices, as ascertained by parpaper will be read with pleasure, and found use- ticular enquiries, of other articles, with our quoful to all persons ford of preserving objects con- tations last week, we find nothing worthy of note, The grafts mentioned below, were distributed nected with natural history; to the officers of our except the above memoranda relative to tobacco. without accompanying explanation.-The Ex- navy, who are extending the range of their stutract from Mr. Hardin's letter dated Shelbyville, dies, and taking, in foreign countries all occasions ERRATA-n "The Stud of a gentleman of the South (Kentucky) 12th March last, will acquaint those of leisure to prosecute researches, and to collect of Virgin.a.' No. 3. for " Magician's Sam," read Ma to whom they were sent, with the qualities of the objects calculated to extend the circle of every gicians Dam. No. 55. for out of "Roanoke," read out of Roanoka See No. 13. fruit which they may be expected to yield. science, and to improve the practice of every art, Edit. Am. Far. and to augment the knowledge an enhance the "The eight grafts you will receive, are from a profits of the manufacturer and the agriculturist. seedling apple tree, in my orchard.—If pulled the To the keepers of our museums which are The climate of the United States, 'as connected with its first week in August, they ripen, turn yellow, and rapidly increasing, this essay will prove especial-agriculture-New and approved method of steeping Flax, as are the best fruit for the season, I have ever seen, ly acceptable and valuable. practised in Flanders-Egyptian Millet-New Wheat-iteport of the Committee on Agriculture, in the House of being quite juicy, not too tart, and withal, epresentatives of the United States-Lawrence, on the age the most easy of digestion of any apple I ever The first recipe on page 31 was sent us by of the Horse-Answer to the Extracts from an "Unpubtasted. This makes them the finest apple for a gentleman of high character in North Carolina, lished Pamph et '-Caroliniensis, against Patentees-Egyp children that can be procured.-I have but the but on account of the use of that dangerous me-tian Cotton-Effectual Cure for the Botts, by E. H. Cumone tree of the sort, and never knew its value un-dicine, calomel, great caution must be observed mins, of Baltimore, and one by W. D Taylor, Esq., of til the past season, never having used them be- in using it. fore except for cooking. They keep well until the last of September, without rotting or shrivelling. CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. Taylorsville-Certificate respecting a saddle of Merino viutton presented by Wm. R. Stuart Esq., to General Firman -Tobacco Report-Remarks on keeping Cows, applicable Not one item of news have we to commu-to town and country-On Milk and its preservation. With nicate, of a nature to interest those who, happily, reasons why the portion last drawn from the cow is always do not allow their time or their feelings to be the richest―The Bay Horse, Roanoke-Extract to the The Trustees of the Maryland Agricultural engrossed by the politicks and passions of the Editor, dated Montrose, (Pa.) April 5, 1824-Extract daSociety for the Eastern Shore, met on Thursday day. ed Fort Osage, Feb. 29, 1824-A cure for CarbunclesA cure for breakings out, or eruptions of the skin, praticuthe 8th inst. at Plimhimmon. They formed a larly on children who are much given to then-Catnip Poultice; for obstinate ulcers in the legs, &c.-Economy and safety in making Soap-To make Transparent Soap-To cultivate Asparagus-Another Method-Vegetable Liquid to TOBACCO. hasten the blowing of bulbous rooted Flowers-lhe London l'imes on the new The Cattle Show was fixed to be held at Eas- On our table this morning, we found a sam-Match --Proposals for publishing the Travels of Elkanah Russian Tariff-On Chess-Trotting ton on the first Thursday, Friday and Saturday of le of tobacco equalling in colour and texture, Watson---Signs of Rain--A rare and valuable AppleNovember next.-The objects for competition v specimen of that article we have ever seen; Meeting of the Trustees of the Maryland Agricultural Soand reward, were selected and settled,—and re-and when the quality and the quantity in propor-ciety---Editorial notices---Prices Current, &c. quorum at an early hour, though the members PRICES CURRENT-carefully collected every day. |