quence of the toughness of the outer coat, it mon (winter) rye to the acre. The effect of this planted in drills; there was about a table-spoon would be advisable to perform the operation as is, that the rye, which vegetates quickly, serves full of seed received by me; and I gathered about speedily as possible after digging. As soon as this as a nurse to the young grass, against the effects seven quarts of beautiful white seed, although the is effected, grate the roots in a clean vessel of of the scorching sun, and by the time the grass birds destroyed at least one third of it this year. water-then pass the contents thereof through attains sufficient strength to protect itself, the I had intended to have sown it broad cast, but I a sieve this must be repeated, taking care to rye withers and apparently dies. It will howe-am about to change my situation and leave the change the water at every successive trial, so ver again come forth in the spring, and mixed with farm. long as any coarse particles remain in the sieve. the lucerne, will add much to the quantity of The blue corn (from Thomas Ellicott, Jr.) riThe water is then allowed to settle, and if it ex-fodder, and prove a most excellent feed for cat-pened very early, and may be of advantage to hibits a clear and natural appearance, the sedi-tle. The rye will admit of being cut green in those that are fond of obtaining boiling ears a litment is in a fit state to be dried, which should be this way, (before getting into seed,) two or three tle earlier than their neighbours. done, if possible, in the sun, and in a confined times with the lucerne, before it decays. The The corn from Brazil (brought and presented situation, where no dust can reach it. To a ta- quantity of seed I recommend, is at the rate of by Mr. Brown) I had the misfortune to have rootble-spoonful, thus prepared, pour on a pint of 15 to 20 pound to the acre. ed up by some small long-faced gentry. boiling water, stirring it at the same time briskly; The kind of soil most suitable for this culture The corn from Susquehannah county, produced to which add a little nutmeg and sugar, and you is a dry mellow land-but a sandy or clay land more fungi than corn; and will require a few will then have a jelly, pleasant as it is healthful. will also answer, provided they are not wet. In years to naturalize it; I saw it growing on Robert Respectfully your ob'd't servant, a favourable season, the lucerne may be cut the H. Rose's farm, in the above county, very luxuriensuing fall-after the first season you may gene-antly, and I have not the least doubt but that it rally begin to cut it green for cattle by the first produced with him 136 bushels per acre; it was of May, which saves the young pasture, and is planted I think, 3 feet apart one way, and 18 The request for the seed of the Tea Plant, will in every respect a great convenience, as hogs and inches the other, two to three grains in a place, meet the eye of all our readers, and if any of every description of animals devour it with equal and I counted on an average from 15 to 20 ears on them have any, we doubt not they will be prompt-avidity. It produces a great quantity of seed, a hill; it has ears from the lower joint to the ly offered.-Edit. Am. Far. and is much more easily obtained than clover. The second from the top; I cannot but remark that I second and third crops are the most productive have not seen in my travels any upland so proof seed. JOHN S. SKINNER. W. B. SEABROOK. LUCERNE, ITS VALUE AND MODE OF CULTURE. [We have long been persuaded, that the public are not generally sensible of the great value of Lucerne, in comparison with other grasses, for green food, especially in hot and dry seasons, and we are the more gratified in the opportunity of copying the following communication, to the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, founded, as it purports to be, on the experience of ten years. The seed may, we perceive, be now had, of Mr. Robert Sinclair, at 50 cents per pound.]-Edit. Am. Far. TO THE PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PROMO- JOHN PATRICK. ductive in corn, and grass, and I may add wheat, rye, oats, and flax, as Susquehannah county; it will become the best section for sheep in the [The liberality of our correspondents, in sending states; containing beautiful seats for Factories. The ice rined melon seed I have not planted. us seed of rare and valuable plants and grasses, The wheat came too late for this season. has enabled us to distribute a great variety for experiment, in all the climates and soils of our I send by the bearer, my Father, some red-cob extended country. It has given us pleasure to gourd seed corn, which produced for me last believe that in this way we have been the wil-season 714 bushels per acre, on six acres; it is a ling medium of diffusing some practical bone-mixture of the red-cob flint, and the genuine fits, but that pleasure has been alloyed by the gourd seed, and has been carefully selected for neglect of those to whom these seed have been many years-three half bushels of ears will make given for experiment, in not making known the more than a bushel of corn, in consequence of results. This has been promised in many in- the smallness of the cob; some men are very stances, but very rarely performed. To con- particular in lessening the bone of their feeding tinue to send such things when trial has proved animals, and forget to observe the same nicety in them to be unprofitable, would be labour in regard to their cobs. Berth Amboy, 10th July, 1823. Having been for eight or ten years past in the successful practice of cultivating lucerne, I think it may beneficially promote the interest of Agri-| culture, to offer you a few remarks on that subject. This article, (frequently denominated French Clover,) I have found by experience, to be not only the most convenient, but also the most profitable of all grasses. It vegetates quicker in the Spring than any other grass, it resists the effect of droughts, it may be cut 4 or 5 times in the course of the season, and it will endure from 10 to 12 years without renewing. Of all other grasses it is the most profitable for soiling. I am It fully of opinion, that one acre properly got in would be more than sufficient to maintain at least 6 head of cattle from the first of May, until the frosts set in, for before it can be cut down in this way, the first part of it will again be ready for the scythe. English writers have recommended the drill system for this grass, but in this climate I have found this plan not to answer. vain, from which we have a right to be exone- I also send some guernsey parsnips, which fo" courtesy due to their publick spirit and disin- I forward too, some Mercer potatoes, which I is under these impressions and views that we RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS In Pennsylvania, with Egyptian Millet, various The proper mode is to put the land in good TO THE EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN FARMER order; to sow it broad cast, and to get the seed Esteemed Friet, Altho' I must acknowledge that you have had enough lately to sicken you with the Politicks of Agriculture, yet I must take the liberty once more to introduce them, (at least incidentally,) to your attention. A correspondent of yours from Frein during the month of April, or the early part I must acknowledge my negligence in not rederick County, in Maryland, has lately conferred of May. Fall sowing will not answer, as when turning my thanks for the many parcels of seeds upon me certain favours in your paper, which I sowed so late, it, like clover, is found not to re-thee has sent me ; but I think I am now prepared trust you will permit me to endeavour to return. sist the effects of the frosts. It may be got in to give an account of the success of the most of with Spring rye, or barley, or with oats, but in them. As he begins and ends with complaints and grievances, I have not much hope that I shall be the last case, the oats would require to be cut The Egyptian millet grew to the height of from able to say any thing which may change his tone; green and before getting into seed, and by this ten to twelve feet, but the season was too short although an effort shall not be wanting, to do so. means, an early feed for cattle would be obtained for it to ripen; it was astonishing to see the a In the first place he censures my name of "Ruris without impoverishing the soil. But the mode I mount of provender from a single seed, which Consultus," as "unfarmer-like;" and then imwould most confidently recommend, would be to when partially dried, the cattle ate greedily. mediately follows the example he condemns, by Sow with the lucerne, about half a bushel of com- The parcel that was simply styled millet, I adopting for himself that of "Philo-Hamilton:" These trees a name surely, as little resembling that of a far- and he was one of the most extensive breeders in length I concluded, could I completely shield the mer, either in sound, or in nature, as any which this county. His practice was always to give his parts likely to be affected, it would answer the the most fanciful imagination could invent. He horses, particularly while in the stable, an handful purpose; I cleaned a number of trees, and put a next gives us an epitome of his losses and crosses, of salt once a week to each horse. This practice coat of lime mortar, about an inch thick, round the all of which are most conveniently charged to I have followed on my farm for twenty years, and body, then drew the earth up to it. Government account; although for aught that I never saw one of my horses afflicted by botts, are now perfectly healthy, and there has not the public can tell to the contrary, they may I am also a considerable breeder. As a feed for been the sign of a worm about them since, alhave been justly attributable to the same greedy, young stock of that kind, I make great use of though it is about five years past, that the eximprovident, and miscalculating spirit, which, dur- carrots, and I see none that look better or have periment was made.-I have since tried the same ing the late war, ruined so many other builders better growth than my own. of air castles for manufacturing. However, since he speaks of his disasters in so risible a humour, we may spare our sympathy for the misfortunes of a gentleman who appears so well able to do without it. Yours, respectfully, MANUFACTURES. Statement of the Amount and Value of Dutiable STATES, &c. Maine In his predictions respecting the projected tariff, I hope for his own sake, that he is mistaken; since to have a man's fingers and his wits "a woolgathering" at the same time, would be rather more labour, I fear, than he could well perform -however solicitous he may be to engage in this twofold occupation. As for "the Crisis" which your correspondent seems to suppose, was written specially for the edification of President Munroe, by that most edifying of all writers, Hamilton; I must inform said correspondent, that I have actually read it through; and have found it to be little else, than a mere transposition of the same phrases and calculations, with which the same author has again and again dosed the public for the last four or five years; and which have been as often exposed and refuted to the satisfaction of every man in the nation, except the would-be New Hampshire, "wool-gatherers" at the public expense, and Massachusetts, their coadjutors. Be this, however, as it may, I Rhode Island, acknowlege myself much indebted to Philo-Ham-Connecticut, ilton for his very friendly and gratuitous sugges Vermont, tion in regard to the nature of my future studies; New York, but particularly so for his advice to read that New Jersey, most rare and precious pamphlet, the Crisis, as Pennsylvania, it is obvious he designs it all for my good. The Delaware, reason he assigns for these kind admonitions, I Maryland, consider a still stronger evidence of his regard, Columbia District viz: "because I appear to him to shed my ink Virginia, more for the purpose of convincing myself, than N. Carolina, others." Truly, if he has made as many notable S. Carolina, and ingenious discoveries in the science of agri-Georgia, culture on his "thousand acres," as this is in the Alabama, science of mind-to say nothing of the matchless Louisiana, feat which he has performed for that of Political Tennessee, Economy, he shall have, at least my vote to be Kentucky, henceforth installed our Magnus Apollo:—and to hold the office,-not durante bene placito, but for life. Ohio, Amount and value] of dutiable articles Capital invested. Amount of Capital corporated by State laws. on a great number of trees with equal success. Thou WILLIAM SHOTWELL. From the Philadelphia Daily Advertiser. MR. POULSON, A writer in your paper wants to know the Chinese method of propagating fruit trees.-A volume before me contains the following:-" The ingenious people of China have a common method of propagating several kinds of fruit trees, which has been practised with success in Bengal; they strip the bark off in a ring about an inch in width, from a bearing branch surround the place with a ball of fat earth or loam bound fast to the branch with a piece of matting; over this they suspend a horn with water, having a small hole in the end, just sufficient to let the water drop, in order to keep the earth constantly moist-the 2,144,816 4,542,325 21,049,000 branch, throws out new roots into the earth, just above the place where the ring of bark was strip878,558 2,107,222 2,429,204 3,144,525 5,540,000 ped off. The operation is performed in the spring, and the branch is sawn off and put into the ground 784,349 691,157 4,844,387 7,774,049 18,304,000 at the fall of the leaf. The following year it will bear fruit." 919.419 1,725,495 2,360,000 5,049,276 6,123,077 1,115,000 561,500; 1,557,296 424,648 740,894 494,752 102,311 439,808 893,065 2,455,000 0 163,040 1,769,234 5,671,837 4,466,500 Directing a geological and mineralogical survey 45,200 to be made of the State of North Carolina. 2,708,077 3,138,557 473,656 376,508 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 70,922 280,775 State of North-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted 219,635 by the authority of the same, That it is hereby 36,501 made the duty of the Board of Agriculture of 48,750 33,025 North Carolina to employ some person of compe1,924,221 976,229 tent skill and science, to commence and carry on 2,141,089 2,575,522 a geological and mineralogical survey of the 3,134,772 3,955,8391 various regions of this State; and that the person 142,692 150,754 or persons so employed shall, at stated periods, 126,498 74,465 furnish to the Board true and correct accounts of 160,419 41,845 the results of said surveys and investigations, 60,835 which shall annually be published by the Board 1,700 aforesaid, for the benefit of the public, as provided by the sixth section of the act of the last General Assembly, entitled "An act to promote Agriculture and family Domestic Manufactures within this State. 34,500 Dollars, 32,271,984 46,837 266 55,289,500 One word more, Mr. Editor, and your friend "Ruris Consultus," with the "unfarmer like name," bids you adieu forever. I observed in the very next article to Philo-Hamilton's most vivacious letter, that the first words were "Wild Geese!!"-Will you be candid enough to tell an old subscriber, whether th was merely an acci-To which should be added-Capital indental juxta position, or one of those apparently fortuitous readings which has more meaning, than meets the eye. II. And be it further enacted, That for the pur5,833,000 pose of carrying the intention of the foregoing 6,840,000 section into effect, a sum not exceeding two hun1,900,000 dred and fifty dollars, be, and the same is hereby 797,000 annually appropriated for four successive years, out of the unexpended balance of the agricultural Total, $70,656,500 fund, as created and set apart by the above recited act; and that the Treasurer of the State is hereby directed to pay the same to the order of the Board of Agriculture of North Carolina. FROM THE RAHWAY ADVOCATE. PEACH TREES. [What is hereby wisely ordered by the State DEAR SIR, of North Carolina, has been done in the State of The following observations if you think of sufNew York, 2d. Mo. 8th, 1824. New-York by the munificence of an individual, ficient importance, you may give a place in your Esteemed Friend, Gen. Van Ransellear.-Quere? when will the Lepaper, as I see the subject incidentally mentioned Being a great lover of good fruit, I have parti-gislature of Maryland turn its attention seriously in one of your papers on the botts in horses. cularly regretted the loss of our peach trees, by to the developement and augmentation of the inknew a farmer of forty years experience, who the worm, and have tried every remedy that Iternal affairs and resources of their constituents?] old me that he never lost a horse with botts, could hear of, but all to little or no effect. At\Edit. Am. Far. "A Southerner," whose name is left with the ought to be clear of sediment. If the tube for held agreeably to adjournment at EUTAW-the editor of the Philadelphia Democratic Press, of- the wick runs down into the bulb of the lamp, it residence of B. W. Hall, Esq. The attendance was fers to run a horse against Eclipse the ensuing will heat the oil, and cause it to burn freer than almost unanimous, and punctual to the hour fixed, spring, either on the Long Island, Baltimore or it otherwise would. In fixing the wick care should and the subjects presented for discussion being of Washington courses, agreeably to their respective be taken that it be only large enough to sustain importance to the society, received corresponding rules; or he will run against him at either of the itself in the tube-if it is too large, the oil will attention. The committee previously appointed above places, and each horse carry such weight not ascend the wick quick enough to supply the to prepare a scheme of premiums, made their reas the owner may think proper. flame freely. The black crust should be cut off port, which was canvassed by the board, and its from the wick every day, and it should not then details modified and finally arranged as now pubbe raised too high, as it will smoke, or spread lished. Engrossed by the various interests and out, as I have often seen done, as that will cause objects of their institution, and cheered by the it to crust very soon, and the flame will soon grow pleasures of conversation, and the interchange of CUMBERLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. Fayettville, March 11, 1824. The annual meeting of the Cumberland Agricultural Society, was held in this town on Monday and Tuesday of last week, and agreeably to the provisions of the constitution of the society, requiring the election of officers, the following officers were duly elected for the ensuing year: John A Cameron, President. John Hodges, and Vice President. L. Bethune, James Seawell, Secretary. John Matthews, Treasurer. John Black, John Smith, Henry Elliot, Stewards. Josiah Evans, Daniel M'Lean, dim. Facts deserving attention in this community. In Salem, Massachusetts, the Poor House is a source of income to the amount of 1,300 dollars per annum.-In Quincy, Massachusetts, the labour of those of the poor who were able to do any thing, not only supported the sick and infirm, but also paid the interest of a debt contracted for the erection of a suitable house, and every year a part of the principal of that debt. The passages of the ship Lancaster, of this port, having recently been the subject of discussion, we have, for the sake of accuracy, obtained the following abstract of the periods occupied in making three different voyages from land to land. The following resolutions were then adopted: Liverpool, Dec. 25, 1817-Arr. Days Hours. Resolved, That the sum of 120 be placed at ship Lancaster, West Philad. 17 12 the disposal of the Board of Managers for the May 22, 1818, Arr. do. do. 15 15* ensuing year, to be distributed by them in premi-June 25, 1819, Arr. do. Burkhart uns, for the best specimens of such articles of domestic manufactures, as may by said board be * A passenger in the ship on this voyage, wrote deemed advisable; the exhibition (or show,) to to his friends at home whilst off New Castle, and be held at such time and place as shall be agreed again wrote to them from Liverpool, after a lapse upon by the Board of Managers. of only sixteen days. Resolved, That the President be requested to deliver, on the day of said exhibition, a suitable address. 16 0 agricultural opinions and views, the day glided swiftly away, and the Board finally adjourned to meet on Wednesday the 7th of April, at the residence of Jacob Hollingsworth, Jr. Esq. on Elkridge. of the amount of their subscription lists, to the It was decided that the Trustees make return Treasurer of the society, before the June meeting. objects for which premiums are offered, and Judges are yet to be appointed for the several measures ought to be taken without loss of time, to renew the application to the legislature, for a donation for a limited time. ITEMS OF NEWS. NAVAL.—Com. Porter, in the John Adams, has arrived off St. Barts, after a boisterous passage, he stops there to enquire for Spanish and South American privateers, pirates, &c. &c. and will scour the West Indies in his way to Key West. This gallant officer now.commar.ds all our naval forces afloat, except those in the Pacific and Mediterranean Seas. The U. S. ship Peacock, Capt. Carter, sailed from Hampton Roads on Thursday last, to join the squadron in the Pacific.-Lieut. Kennon, attached to the Frigate United States, Capt. Hall, TO THE EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN FARMER. goes passenger in the Peacock, after having been honorably acquitted by the court martial at NorThe meeting was punctually attended by the Frederick County, March 24, 1824. folk. Capt. S Smith was tried and cashiered for President and Vice President, and most of the SIR, conveying merchandize on freight, in a national other officers, as well also by the members gene- The enlightened agriculturist and distinguished vessel, but has been restored to the service by an rally; and all manifested much laudable zeal in breeder of cattle at Powelton, in Philadelphia order of the President, the court having recomthe promotion and advancement of the great ob-county, has favored the public through your Ame-Weaver, of the navy, has been cast in a suit mended him to the Presidential clemency. Lieut. ject of the society-Agriculture. rican Farmer, [and at your instance] with the peheld at Meadow Branch, on the farm of John A. at the same time mentioned their valuable pro- contract to go in a merchant ship to Lima, and to The agricultural show and exhibition, will be digree of his "improved short horn stock," and against certain merchants in New York, after receiving from them more than $12,000, under a Cameron, Esq. adjoining this town, on the 4th perties "as milkers, quick feeders, and small and 5th of November next. A list of the pre-consumers."-In order that others may form a pass her under the proteer on of the Franklin 74, just estimate of the first named quality, it is desi- as her store ship. Congress have passed a law to rable to know, how much milk per day his cows divide the commissions arising from the transporwill give on an average, say in two or three weeks tation of specie in national vessels, into thirds, after calving, and when six or eight months in between the captain of the vessel, the other offiRichmond County, Va. 22d March 1824. calf; as to their being beautiful animals, and arcers, and the navy pension fund. The Secretary On the 30th December, I sowed garden peas, riving at early maturity, we already have suffi- of the Navy, has issued an order, prohibiting under certain restrictions and limitations, the arrest and they were discovered to be up on the 11th cient testimony, but from appearances, some surof officers within the United States; which order January, they were sowed in the open garden, prize is felt at their being "deep milkers, and is calculated to diminish the number of vexatious but after Cobbett's plan of digging a trench 5 or 6 small consumers."-Mr. John P. Milnor, assistant inches deep, and filling of it nearly full with sta-recording secretary of the Pennsylvania Agricul ble manure on which a little rich mould was put, 3d. inst., that Mr. Powel's short horn heifers fed tural Society, says, in a letter addressed to you and the peas sowed on it and covered three or four inches deep. With the mould, and a cover-upon mangel wurtzel roots," yield very large ing of pine brush over that, they have stood the quantities of milk, affording the richest cream he winter without the least injury, and are now eight how much this very large quantity was per day, ever tasted."-It would be satisfactory to know or nine inches high. miums, &c. will be published in our next. [Observer. QUICK VEGETATION FOR THE SEASON. FROM THE NEW BEDFORD MERCURY. LIGHT! MORE LIGHT! Mr. Printer, J. D. and if Mr. Milnor ever saw or tasted cream from THE FARMER. and expensive courts martial, and courts of enquiry. A bill to reorganize a naval peace establishment, has been reported in congress, creating Admiral, which are just as necessary and proper, as two new grades-that of Vice-Admiral and Rearconfounded with sense-then call them Incas, or Colonel to a Regiment, or a General to a Division -it's only the name that offends-sound is often any thing else, only ensure us the practical effect of appropriate grades and due subordination. a FOREIGN.-England is at war with the Algerines -this war will probably not be of long duration or great extent-it may compel her to fit out an expensive expedition, and then the Turks will make peace-and then--they'll break it again—-In Spain, all is despotism and darkness-discontent and bloodshed-a king without talents or humanity; a venal soldiery, without any love of counThe last monthly meeting of the Board of Trus-try-a priest-ridden, degraded, and ignorant potop always open and free from dirt. The oil tees of the Maryland Agricultural Society was pulace-stimulated to partial rebellions by leaders I am persuaded from the little observation I have made, that the prejudice existing against an oil light, arises almost entirely from the ignorance| of the person who trims the lamps. To produce a good light from oil, the inside of the lamps should be perfectly clean, and the vent hole at BALTIMORE, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1824 THE LAST AND THE NEXT. cts. with some illustrious exceptioms, venal and corrupt, | with a spotless integrity, which, like the confi - Retail prices of provision market-Beef, prime HOME AFFAIRS.-The Tariff is under discus dence it inspired in his fellow citizens, had no pieces, 10cts.-Veal, 10 cts.-Mutton, 5 to 7 cts.sion in the House of Representatives-two of the limits or interruption. Turkeys, 75 cts. to $1-Geese, 50 to 56 most distinguished members, P. P. Barbour, and That he was deeply impressed with the benign-Chickens per pair, 50 to 624 cts.-Eggs, 124 H. Clay, have spoken; the first against, the se-doctrines of the Christian Religion, he gave the cents-Butter, first quality, 20 to 21 cts.-Turcond in favour of the general principles and po- best of all proofs-a constant adherence to the nips, per bushel, 50 cts.-Potatoes, do. 50 cts. licy of the bill.-Its fate is doubtful, and its ten-principles, and a daily practise of the virtues they dency of the utmost concern to the nation.-The inculcate. congressional committee on agriculture, have re- We are not in the habit of inserting obituary Garden Seeds. ported against any particular measure on the sub-notices, but in this case we have sought to gratify Just received by the ship Belvidera from Liverject of duties on raw materials and produce from our own feelings, by bearing testimony in this way pool, a variety of choice seed, selected by a seedsother countries, except such as are specified in to the honourable character, the benevolence and man of the first respectability in London. I am the general tariff bill, the principles of which the publick spirited and useful actions, of a man assured that they are of prime quality, and of they approve and recommend.-M. I. Sylvester to whom this city is deeply indebted, not so much the last summer's growth, viz; Peas, Cabbage, Robello, has arrived from Rio Janeiro, as Minister for the prosperity which his enterprise so essen-Radish, Lettuce, Brocoli, Cucumber and Mellons to the United States from the Emperor of Bra-tially served to augment, as for the moral influ- all assorted, with a variety of other articles, zils, who is the son of John, King of Portugal.-ence of a life which teaches posterity that dili-which in addition to my former stock, makes my It is said the father is fitting out an expedition to gence and rectitude are the true paths to indepen-assortment very complete. Also 400 lbs. Lurecover the dominion of his Brazilian possessions, dence and usefulness, and qualify those who prac- cerne seed. and some think, in concert with his son-who in tice them, at the close of their mortal career to Oh death! where is thy sting? the mean time, holds on as a mere locum tenens. exclaim triumphantly, IN STORE, Glade and other oats, early seed BALTIMORE MARKET. more. The The Editors of newspapers in the State of to 65 cts-Oats, 22 to 25 cts.-Whiskey, 1st proof, Delaware, and the eastern shore of Maryland, 25 to 26-Peach Brandy, 4th proof, 65 to 75-Will be sold at Publick Sale. would probably render to their agricultural rea-Apple do. 1st proof, 27 to 30 cts.-Gin, Baltimore, On the seventh of the fourth month (April) ders, an acceptable service, by copying the first 50 to 60 cts.-Ditto, New England, 35 to 40 cts.next, a variety of the most valuable and best imarticle in this paper on MarL. We embrace this Flax seed, rough, per bushel, 70 to 75 cts.-cleanproved stock ever offered in this state, consisting opportunity to put another question to their con-ed, per cask, $8-Flax, lb. $10 to $11-Beef, of a horse called Hickory, twelve years old, full sideration, and leave the decision cheerfully to northern mess, per barrel $10-Cargo, No. 1, blooded, and famous for his speed; another called their justice and liberality. Almost every $8 to 8, 50-do. No. 2, $6-Baltimore prime, Chester County Bag, a complete draught horse, paper in this state copies, without loss of time, $10-Bacon and hams, per lb. 10 cts-Cotton, W descended from Robert Bakewell's stock of Dishour account of the current prices of country pro-I. Island, 18 to 20 cts.--Louisiana, &c. 15 to 17 cts. ley, England, beautiful, strong and active. duce-by thus giving the very item most accept--Georgia upland, 14 to 16 cts. -Alabama, 12 to A bull, Oakes, from the imported improved able to their country readers, they of course di-13 cts-Cotton Yarn, No. 8, 30 cts.-with an ad-Durham Short Horned bull, Celebs, and from minish the demand for the Farmer, and the num-vance of 1 cent on each number up to No. 18-the celebrated Oaks cow of Massachusetts, which ber of its subscribers. These prices are collected Candles, mould, 12 to 13 cts-Dipt, 10 to 11 cts. made from the 5th of May until the 20th of Deeach week with great care, labour, and consump -Spermaciti, 28 cts.--Coal, Virginia, bush. 20 to 25 cember, 4844 lb. of butter, and fatted a calf; he tion of time. If, then, they appropriate to their cts.-Susquehannah, per ton $6 50 to 57-Fea- is two years and eight months old. own use, that very portion of our labours, which, thers, live, 30 to 35 cts.-Fish, cod, dry, quintel, $3 Baron, a large bull-he was by George, out of while it is most laborious, most emphatically falls herrings, Susquehannah, 8275--shad, trimmed, a celebrated cow called the Queen, which took a within the range of an Agricultural journal, is it per lb. 86 to $6 50 cts.-Hops, fresh, 35 cts. per silver cup at the First Maryland Cattle Show, unreasonable to ask that they should copy the ib.-Hides, dryed, 15 to 18 cts. per lb.-Hog's nearly related to Bergami; two years and ten next square only, giving our table of contents-lard, 9 cts.-Iron, pig, $35 to $40 per ton-months-a number of Dishley sheep-some half that their readers may see that there is some- American, bar, $75 to 895 do.-Russia, $85 to 90 Dishley, and half Irish. thing useful in our journal, besides what they in-do.-Swedes, assorted, $90-Hoop, $120 to $130 A fine large imported Bedford Boar.-Two fine variably cull out of it? We submit it to their good do-Sheet, 8160 to $180 do.-Nail rods, $125 to heifers, by Oakes, and some good cows. feelings and sense of what is fair and right. $130 do. Castings, $75 to $85 do.-Lumber above stock took premiums at the last exhibi| board measurement, cargo prices--Oak timber and tion of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society to scant. $1 to 1 25-Boards all sizes, $150 to 82 the amount of $50. DIED on the 30th ult. WILLIAM WILSON,-Pine scantling, do. $1 to 1 25-Boards 4-4, An excellent brood mare, with foal by Hickory the venerable President of the Bank of Baltimore $1 to 1 25-White do. 5-4, $1 75 to 2 50-do. -a horse colt by the same; and a Prizefighter The deceased exhibited in the various relations co. 4-4, 1 15 to 1 30-do. cl. 4-4, $1 80-Shin- filly. and uniform tenor of a long and useful life, an ex-gles, cyp 18 in., $3 to 3 50-Shingles, junip. 24 ample worthy of the highest respect, and preg-do. $7 50 to 7 75-jun. com. $3 50 to 5-Staves, nant with salutary suggestions, alike to the poor W. O. pipe, $40 to 45- do. hhd. $25-do bbl. and the rich. The former may have learned by $15 to 17-R. O. bbl. $15-do. hhd. $17his successes, what may be amassed, both of cha-Wool, fleece, merino full blood, 35 to 40 cts. racter and fortune, from a laudable ambition to per lb.-Cropped, 28 to cts.-Common counacquire both by persevering industry and fair try, 20 to 30 cts.-Skinn, 35 to 40 cts.-Wher Marl, how analyzed, directions for using-its effects on vadealing; and the latter may have seen in his mild assorted and cleaned, any of the above will ob-rious soils-Next Maryland Cattle Show, when to be, and deportment, and his numerous charities, how pos-tain an advance of 15 to 20 cts. premiums offered-Ohio, Interesting facts connected with its sible it is to enjoy and diffuse, the blessings Tobacco-common crop, $2 to 84 per cwt.climate, soil, and productions-Arrow Root, its valuable proof wealth unassociated with avarice, pomp, and Red and Brown, do. $5 to $9 do.-Cinnamon, do.perties, its culture and preparations described and recommnded -LUCERNE, its great value and culture-Experiments with vanity. $10 to $15 do.-Spangled do. $16 to 35 do.-Vir-va i us seeds in Pennsylvania, by Joseph Kersey-Rurs ConFew men ever more nearly fulfilled the wise ginia, fat, $5 to $7 do.-do. Mi dling, 83 to $4-sultus' Reply to Philo-Hamilton-BOTTS IN HORSES, Simple injunction to "know thyself," for he never aspired Rappahannock, $3 do.-Ken cky, $3 to $6. and certain preventive-Chinese method of propagating fruit to stations of power beyond the compass of his Prices of Seed.-Orchard Grass per bushel, trees-An Act directing, a geo ogical survey of North Carolina abilities, and was ever less eager to acquire in- $2 50--Lucerne, per lb, 50 cents-St. Foin, do-Challenge of Eclipse by a Southerner-Cumberland N. C. fluence, than to use what he justly possessed for do. $7-Red Clover, do. do. $5 50-Timothy, do. Agricultural Society, election of offices and other proceedthe good of society. do. $4-Herds Grass, do. do. $2-Millet, do. do.ings-low to trim and use lamps-Enquiries about Short Horns-Editorial Remarks-Items of News-Obituary NoAll the numerous trusts both publick and pri$1-Mangel Wurtzel, do. do. $150-Ruta Baga, tice-Prices, &c. Vate, committed to his keeping, were discharged do. do. $1. JOSEPH KERSEY. N. B. Full and satisfactory pedigrees will be given to purchasers. CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. J. K. No. 3.-VOL. 6. NATURAL HISTORY. RABBIT, CUNICULIS, IN ZOOLOGY. AMERICAN FARMER.-BALTIMORE, APRIL 9, 1824. 17 ern hill side for a warren, and the only way I "Rabbits are subject to two principal intimes. could prevent their burrowing out, was to place First, the rot, which is caused by the giving a row of bricks, laying them flat with their ends them too large a quantity of greens, or from the Interesting and authentic account of some of its against the wall, and sunk only level with the giving them fresh gathered, with the dew or rain curious habits. surface, so as to form a nine inch pavement all hanging in drops upon them. It is excess of mois[This little animal affords a remarkable instance, around the warren; the rabbit will commence ture that always causes this disease; the greens, in the variety of its colours, of the effect of immediately at the wall to burrow out, the brick therefore, are always to be given dry, and a sufdomestication. In its wild state, it is uniformly pavement prevents it. Some few days before par- ficient quantity of hay, or other dry food, interof a brown cast; when tamed, its colour ranges turition, the female burrows her hole from our mixed with them to take up the abundant moisthrough every shade, from raven black, to the to six or eight feet, and carries grass, hay, orture of their juices. On this account, the very whiteness of mountain snow. whatever litter is most convenient, and forms her best food that can be given them is the shortest They begin to breed at a year old, sometimes bed; she then closes the mouth of the hole by re-and sweetest hay that can be got, of which one sooner; and multiply five, six and seven times turning to it part of the dirt, and pressing it down load will serve two hundred couples a year; and a year, having from four to eight at a litter, with her fore feet, so as to leave no appearance out of this stock of two hundred may be eat in thus increasing so rapidly, that to say that of the hole. Just before parturition, she opens the family, two hundred sold to the markets, and "she breeds like a rabbit," is to express, pro- the hole and lines this bed with her own fur, and a sufficient number kept in case of accidents. verbially, the idea of great fecundity. immediately after parturition she comes out, "The other general disease of these creatures is When the buck approaches the dce, he first beats securely covers the hole, and runs in search of a sort of madness: this may be known by their and stamps very hard with his feet, and after the buck, and in less than ten minutes receives a wallowing and tumbling about with their heels embracing her, falls backwards and lies motion-new impregnation. She does not visit her young upwards, and hopping in an odd manner into their less, as it were in a trance; in this state he may but once in twenty-four hours, unless it is in the boxes. This distemper is supposed to be owing be readily taken, but he soon recovers from it. night, which I do not believe. I have seen them to the rankness of their feeding; and the general The extent of rabbit warrens in England, where, open the hole, go in, and uniformly in two minutes cure is the keeping them low, and giving them in some districts many hundred acres in a body by the watch return, close the hole securely and the prickly herb, called tare-thistle, to eat." are appropriated to the raising of rabbits for leave it. I have then by removing the box and The general computation of males and fesale, would appear surprising to those who had examining the young, found them quite full. In males is, that one buck rabbit will serve for nine never adverted to the subject. As enquiries about three weeks she leaves a small opening at does; some allow ten to one buck: but those have been made by correspondents relative to the mouth of the hole, the young then occasion- who go beyond this always suffer for it in their the proper construction of rabbit warrens, and ally come out, in a few days more she closes the breed." their man gement, we give sketches from Eng-hole when they are out, and when they are thirty lish authorities, which follow the interesting days old she has a new litter. When I have and curious remarks of Mr. Hardin, on the wanted to use the young for broiling, I have at the habits of that animal.] time of parturition, and for some time after kept the mother secluded from the buck, so that she micht suckle them a few weeks longer.-If these statements be true, Doctor Macaulay's supposi-with extra assistants at killing, tion is without foundation. So much for facts, take my conclusions for what they are worth-my own conclusion has been, and still is, that at parturition, the mother leaves with the bed of young exactly the kind of odour, which accompanies Rent is said to be 78. an acre, her to the buck, after the first caresses she The capital employed is the above plays the coquet and hides from him; in his with the addition of stock paid for: search for her, if he comes to the bed of young, suppose this as stated about three And should any speculative theory appear ino which he is guided by the scent, unless they couple an acre at 28. 4d. your columns, it is then either of us (whose expe are very secure) he scratches them to pieces, not rience conflicts with such theory) is substantial- from motives of destruction to them, but to drive ly called on to contribute his mite Under this the doe (which he believes there hid) from her impression (and not from a spirit of contradic-lurking place. Near Shelbyville, Ky. 6th March, 1824. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN FARMER. Dear Sir, When we become subscribers to the Ameri can Farmer, I consider it a tacit admission, that we belong to the same social compact, and that our general experience is a kind of common pro perty, upon which you have a right to draw whenever you may think it beneficial to its members. tion I assure you, sir,) do I give you some of the This too may be a speculative theory, and I Respectfully, yours, MARK HARDIN. M. H. [The estimate of the warren, on the estate of Thorseway, in England, of 1700 acres, as given by the tenant, Mr. Holgate, with the silver sort of rabbits is this:] "Labour; three regular warreners, Fences, Nets, traps, &c. &c. £. 8. d 85 0 0 42 10 42 10 00400 14 21 595 Whilst I resided in Frankfort, I procured the P. S. You may think strange that I have gone white, the black, the gray, and the blue rabbits, so much into detail. This is my apology-long and after a few years, son.e of the offspring turned since some of your subscribers called for informaout entirely yellow, or copperas coloured. Astion respecting warrens, and I have never seen an they were a rarity with us, I was not inattentive answer to it, of course if he is not better supplied, to their habits, and all that I relate of them is what I have said is intended for his benent. from personal observation. From the entire level of my lot, there was no bank, or hill side for them to burrow in, of course their cells were frequently deluged by rains, and their young "The food of the tame rabbits may be cole Or about 221. per cent. (the 5 per cent. includdrowned; to protect them from this casualty, I wort and cabbage-leaves, carrots, parsnips, aped) on capital employed. This the writer obfrequently dug down to the extremity of the hole, ple rinds, green corn, and vetches, in the time of serves is very great, reckoned on the capital, ut and fixed an inverted box over the place, so that the year; also vine leaves, grass, fruits, oats, and small reckoned by rent, as it amounts to only half the young might be placed in the box during hard oatmeal, milk-thistles, sow-thistles, and the like; a rent. But suppose the gross produce of 1500, rains. I castrated most of the males when young, but with these moist foods they must always have which he takes to be nearer the fact; then the so th it at all seasons of the year. they were fit a proportionable quantity of the dry foods, as hay account will stand thus: for table use: to distinguish the stags, I always bread, oats, bran, and the like, otherwise they split one of their ears, so that I might not be will grow pot bellied, and die. Bran and grains mistaken in catching them. Although I have mixed together have been also found to be very never had an hundred at a time, yet I have had good food. In winter they will eat hay, oats, and upwards of ninety. Like all domestic animals, chaff; and these may be given three times a day they may be taught to come to food by any par but when they eat green things, it must be ol ticul. sonnd-I chose a peculiar kind of whistle served, that they are not to drink at all, for between the hands, and by shelling corn around would throw them into a dropsy me, could take by the ears any one of them with times, a very little drink serves their turn, but out disturbing the rest. I would advise a south-that must always be fresh." VOL, 6.-3. |