COBBETT-FARMING. “old farmer, ‘and I belive nane "in the parish ever saw the shaws IN the Register before the last," shaking hands wi' drills four a 66 66 " I gave an account of Mr. PAL-" feet frae ither.' Sir John MaxMER's Crops of Swedish Turnips in well, Mr. Maxwell, Mr. Stewart Herefordshire. The following ar- of Williamwood, and several ticle, taken from the GLASGOW other intelligent agriculturists, CHRONICLES of the 23d instant," have expressed their astonishwill show what has, in one case, at "ment at the bulk of the crop,' any rate, been done in SCOTLAND." and their approbation of the plan "Mr. Alexander Dennistoun, on which they have been culti"has a fine field of Swedish tur- "vated. Yesterday forenoon, six "nips on his ground in the parish" turnips were pulled in succes"of Cathcart, cultivated in the" sion from a drill chosen at ran"way practised and recommended "dom, and they weighed on an by Mr. COBBETT. He selected" average eight pounds, tops and There will be 12,000 field containing about three "roots. acres of an excellent dry, light, plants on the acre, yielding a "free soil, bottomed on whin- produce of forty tons, tops and "stone. He broke ground at "roots included: Three taken "Martinmas, then ploughed it from this field may be seen in across with a common iron our Office. They weigh, wash"plough, drawn by four horses; "ed and without the tops, twenty"next up and down; and after-"nine pounds six ounces.' "wards formed his drills at two This is certainly the finest crop "bouts, four feet asunder. The that I ever heard of. The bulbs "seed was sown on the 6th April, will get much heavier than they "one part in a field near Mr Den- were on the 23d instant, and the "nistoun's house, and another in tops will not diminish in weight a place farther up the Cart, be- till some time hence. There will "side Wilkie's-lin. They were be about thirty-five tons of bulbs "transplanted, and placed exactly per statute acre; and, in any part a foot distant, about the middle of the island, they are worth, on “of June, at the time of the se- the ground, a pound sterling a "vere drought. The ridges were ton; and, mind, they will have "afterwards pared and set up in been, in the whole, but six months, "the usual form. About a month at most, upon the ground. 66 ago, the field had a fine and highly interesting appearance. "The shaws were strong and vi"gorous, rose to a great height, "and completely covered the "soil. The field has been exa"mined by the lovers of agri"culture from a considerable dis"tance, and all who have seen it "have been deeply interested with “the sight. I didna think it pos"sible to raise sic neeps,' said an 66 The transplanting is, on every account, the best method. You have two months longer to prepare your ground in. Besides, by transplanting, you may have your crop come after vetches, after a crop of early cabbages, after a first cut of clover, after grazing all the prime of the grass of a piece of land, after a crop of white clover seed; for, provided the ground be good and well manured, there K does not require such fine tilth | fat four oxen; and Mr. DENNISfor the plants as for the seeds. TOUN, who, without this crop, Then, you are by no means sure might not have been able to fat a that the seeds will give you plants; single ox, may have twelve oxen and, if they do, you are still less in his stall this year. Think, then, sure, that these plants will stand. of the manure, which, during six If they do stand, seldom, or never, months, comes from twelve oxen ! do they stand in such a way as to Think of the constant improveleave no spaces too wide between ment of a farm where there are the plants; so that you are not every year some acres of such sure of having your right number roots! of plants. And, as to the expense, I am very much pleased with the transplanting is the cheapest the circumstance, that the proprie method beyond all comparison. tor of the GLASGOW CHRONICLE Mr. DENNISTOUN transplanted has placed some of these "neeps". in a time of severe drought! Mr. in his Office to be seen. This is DENNISTOUN is a 66 true believer." a mark of public spirit, of which This transplanting in dry weather, we see but too few instances. even in preference to wet, is a dis- This paper, too, has generally. covery wholly my own. No one been my political enemy. Thə ever dreamed of such a thing, till three turnips that are at the Office I put it forth in my little work. must be a sight to behold. Each The sowing and planting at wide weighs, you see, nine pounds and distances, I learnt from Mr. TULL, three quarters, washed and withthe real father of the drill-hus-out tops. Each must be about the bandry, and the great teacher of bulk of a quartern loaf, and solid. the science of husbandry. But, as oak-wood. The thing is adMr. TULL had no idea of trans- mirable altogether, and Mr. DENplanting. Swedish turnips were, NISTOUN deserves the thanks of in his time, wholly unknown, and the whole country. the other turnips are very watery things, and hardly fit for transplanting, Mr. TULL even expresses the impracticability of transplanting; and, which is very curious, says, as an objection to it, that you must wait for moist weather to do it in! The transplanting in dry weather is a great discovery, and should be borne in mind by all farmers and gardeners." We know enough of Cobbett to Well, now, can any one look advise our correspondent not to at this prodigious crop of such va- believe what he says." Now, did luable roots, without admiration, not the reptile who wrote this deand a desire to have the like? serve to have the book, binding Suppose an ox to eat a hundred and all, crammed down his lying weight a day for six months. That throat? will make him a fat ox from being a lean one. Each acre will then I wonder whether the FARMERS' JOURNAL will insert this Glasgow article! When my book first appeared, the Editor of that paper was applied to by a correspondent for information, as to whether the Editor thought that my plan was a good one. The answer of this teacher of English farmers was something like this: The book, in which this farming is taught, is my "Year's Re sidence in America," price 5s. [this at present, because the GlasIt will be said, that I want to sell gow paper, above quoted from, my book: To be sure I do. Who would assuredly never have been makes a book without a desire to seen by me, if, by mere accident, sell it? But, I want also to im- a servant in my absence and that prove the farming of the country; of the rest of the family, had not and, what improvement equal to taken it in. If it had gone to this was ever introduced at once, 183, Fleet-street, I should have and by one man. Besides, my been sure to see it. Suppose there book is the cheapest that ever was to come only one letter and one sold in England. I never attempt paper a day: here are 51. 4s. to extort upon the public. I have a year, given to the THING of some (though not many) copies of the Lord Charleses. And, what Mr. TULL's work, price 13s. 6d. should I give it for? I will not If any man wishes to be thoroughly give it; and I again request all instructed in the principles of those who direct to me, to direct to vegetation, he ought to have this 183, Fleet-street, London. book. WM. COBBETT. YELLOW FEVER. The following article, which I I cannot conclude this article without expressing a wish, that, if not very inconvenient, Mr. DENNISTOUN Would send me a couple of the largest of his "neeps," to be placed in my Office in Fleet-street. If sent in a box, by the mail-coach, I shall not grudge the expense of take from the London has carriage. This would be very given me singular pleasure, and pleasing to me, and I hope the I will presently tell the reader that the request will not be thought unreasonable. why. papers, Experiments relative to Yellow Let me here notify to my friends all over the country, that all letters and newspapers, which they send to me, ought to be sent to 183, Fleet-street. The letters, if sent to Kensington, cost 3d. in ad“ 1. June 18th, 1822, he took dition to the London postage; and "the shirt of a soldier affected the newspapers, which cost no- "with the yellow fever, which thing, if sent to London, cost a was completely soaked (tout penny, if sent to Kensington. "imbibée) in the sweat of the There is no reason for my giving" patient, put it on immediately, this money to the THING that" and wore it for 24 hours. At will not let me turn my fat into "the same time he was inoculatsoap and candles. Having given" ed in both arms, by M. Cuppe, this notification several times, and "Surgeon of Marines, with the having also said, that I would re- yellow matter, from blisters in ceive neither letters nor papers "a state of suppuration. directed to Kensington, I have refused hundreds of both. I say" "2. June 30. M. Guyon drank a small glass, holding about two ❝ in 66 were "ounces, of the black vomit; and opinion, the proofs against it, "afterwards, having rubbed both as clear as daylight; and, I conarms with the same matter, was tended for the truth, and set my "inoculated with it by M. Cuppe. pen against the humbug, and I "3. July 1st. A patient having did this, not for the purpose of "died of the yellow fever, on the fixing the disease upon the climate "fifth day of the disease, M. Guy-of America; but, for the really "on put on his shirt, impregnated humane purpose of inducing peo"with black matter still warm, and ple to attend upon the sick, and immediately went into the bed not to fly from them and leave "of the deceased, which was soil-them to perish, which they did, "ed. He remained six hours and even from parents and children, "a half, sweated, and slept in it, to a most disgraceful degree. presence of many witnesses. Nevertheless, I was called a d-d 4. July 2. The patient who Englishman, and an enemy of the "had afforded the opportunity of country; and I verily believe, making the first experiment hav- that, had my enemies not been "ing died, his body was opened. scattered by their fears of sick"The stomach contained a pretty ness, I should have been tarred large quantity of black matter, and feathered at the least. Not "of a bloody appearance; and at all dismayed by abuse and "the internal membrane was red menaces, I proceeded in my "and inflamed. M. Guyon was own way, and, amongst other 2. again inoculated in both arms things, I related a story that had, "with this matter, and the punc- at last, made me change my opi"tures were covered with nion. I gave portions notice of this change "of the diseased's stomach. The a few days before I published my applications were removed 24 promised account of my conver"hours after; the inoculated parts sion; and there was great curiowere inflamed and painful, and sity to learn it. My story, in "the auxiliary glands somewhat substance was, that I had lately "tumefied. been in the country, where I had "M. Guyon enjoyed uninter- received undoubted proof, that a "rupted health during the per- Mulatto girl, brought by a French"formance of these experiments, man from the West Indies in "which took place before nume- "the family way," had commurous witnesses, and the authenti- nicated the complaint to all the "city of which is guaranteed by farmers and labourers daughters "the signature of M. Donzelot, within many miles of her resi"Lieutenant-General and Go-dence; and, as this fact was un"vernor.-Revue Medicale.” doubted, I could no longer doubt that the Yellow Fever might come When I published a paper in from the Havannah in deal boxes Philadelphia, we had this fever of sugar, and kill the Americans, twice. The theory of the Ame- while it affected not the crew of ricans was, that it was CONTA- the ship in which the boxes came. GIOUS, and that it was brought This story excited a degree of into the country from the West rage against me that I should in Indies. The reasons against this vain attempt to describe. How ever, I soon after had the Yellow | zette, will speak for itself, and I Fever myself, and my enemies am sure my readers will heartily consoled themselves with the hope thank me for laying it before them. that I should die. They were I have seldom read any thing that disappointed; and by the time gave me more pleasure. that I got about again, we forgot our quarrels, and were all as good friends as ever.... Monument to Mr. James Watt. SIR.-I take the liberty to reMonsieur GUYON has settled quest of you some information re→ the point; and a point of great lative to the Subscription in this importance it is; for, if people town towards Mr. Watts's Monubelieve the disease to be con- ment. Several weeks ago the tagious, the sick will be in many Manchester papers (one of them cases abandoned to their fate, at least), gave a most miserable and then their death is certain. list of contributions, few in numThere were most horrible instances ber, and beggarly in amount. It of this abandonment in America. was felt by the projectors of the A tradesman, who had, like a kind scheme, that, in publishing such husband and father, sent his wife a list, as the result of a públic and children to a relation's in the meeting and high sounding resocountry, who was a farmer, re- lutions in this great steam-bloated mained in town himself until taken district, they were making a very ill with the fever. He was then laughable exhibition; and, accordtaken, in a cart, to his family. The ingly, the public were informed, cart was not suffered to enter the that it was hoped a greatly increasyard, or approach the house. The ed list would shortly appear, But, poor man got out of it, and was to the utter confusion of all lovers going on towards the house. He of Mr. WATT's memory; to the was called out to not to approach; dismay and disgust of all who and, at last, a gun was brought, looked for gratitude in the "cotand he was threatened with be-ton-fuz people generally towards ing shot, if he did not go away! He crept into an out-house, where he soon expired, without a soul going near him! Was it not, then, a duty to endeavour to put a stop to this selfishness and barbarity, arising solely from the fear of contagion? M. GUYON has settled the question, and mankind is greatly indebted to him. 66 the maker of their fortunes; here we are, after weeks and weeks of that "hope deferred which maketh the heart sick," taunted and jeered by CORBETT and his disciples, and ashamed to answer when they triumphantly ask us WHAT'S WATT?" For, if he was that which we have described him to be, what can be said of us, who, having "entered into his labours," will not club down our sixpences to build him a monument? The disgrace, Sir, is too great to be borne. Where are the Committee? What are they about? Two or three M.P.'s, and nearly a score of SQUIRES, all of them people |