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money of lean stock for fatting b- 

 Amidst all this min> 



of accmint, order must be produced. 

 MI! shi-opjiave turnips, 

 wit'. i which the estimate of tin in 



m\;- . not at what they cost, but 



at what : sell for eaten olV the 



field, as v.iey cost more than the latter 

 price, and wore intended to repay in the 

 crops for whirl) the\ prepare. The book* 

 should be even year balanced, about the 

 season at which the farm was entered up- 

 on; and, to avoid arbitrary valuation, the 

 old year's accounts must be continued 

 open considerably after the new ones 

 have commenced, till the fatting 1 beasts 



the corn are sold, and those poin's 

 decided, on which the profit or loss of the 

 former year depended. By these means 

 conjectures may be, in a great degree, pre- 

 cluded, but not altogether, as these must 

 extend to the estimate of the live stock 

 bought and sold within die \ car, and to 

 the implements of husbandry. The stock 

 mus< be estimated r: and in 



settlingthis estinn!-.-, their worth at the 

 verv tin, ; g made, that is, the 



price they would then sell for, must be 

 set down. \\ ith respect to fatting beasts, 

 cows, and sheep, this proceeding must 



'.dlv take place. KM r\ vi :ir, also, im- 

 plements should be valued, and the ba- 

 lance must be carried, where alone it is 

 I e, to the general head of wear and 



The minuteness awl accuracy necessa- 

 ry for^his or any other efficient mode of 



>unt may deter many from its adop- 

 tion, and undoubtedly has this effect on 

 thousands. Tlu- want of attention, how- 

 ever, to this subject has, unquestionably, 

 been the cause to which many individuals 

 may justly ascribe their failure in this art, 

 and lias o remdy to check the 



progress of h, in general. The hints sug- 

 ient to evince its ge- 

 ner.il and particular importance, anil in- 

 duce sonic, perhaps, to fallow up, with 

 care and correct ness, a practice, which ran 

 alone enable tlum to give the fail-results 

 of ir.tere-.'in;C e\p< riim-ms, or qualifv 

 tlle'ii t'> a-ri "lain the particular raii>csof 



ess or failure in genend management. 

 The obscurity and perplexity of coi< 

 ture can In s'ich means alone be changed 

 for the clearness of fact and the beauty of 

 order; and, in short, they can thus only 



vie with truth, and "act with confi- 



A(.UIMOM \, (lyrimoiiti, in hot: 

 genus of Dodocamlri i I)' and 



order: t l s one-leafed, perma- 



nent, perianthium fenced with an outer 

 calyx; the corolla has five petals-, th<- 

 stamina are capillary filaments, shorter 

 than the corolla; the anthers arc small; 

 the pistillum is a germ inferior; t!> 

 simple; the stigmas obtuse; no pericar- 

 diuii! ; there are two roundish seeds. Of 

 .ire five species : the A. 

 paiViHora grows in the borders of corn- 

 fields, shady places ar. i i Great 

 liritain, and most parts of Europe, also in 

 similar places in the United 

 perennial, and flowers in June and July. 

 The root is sweet-scented; an infusion of 

 it is used by the Canadians with success 

 in burning fevers. Dr. Hill says, that an 

 infusion of six ounces of the crown of the 

 root in a quart of boiling water, sweeten- 

 ed with honey, and drank to the quantity 

 of half a pint, thrice a day , is a cure for 

 the jaundice. When the plant comes into 

 flower, it will dye wool of a bright full 

 nankeen colour; if gathered in Septem- 

 ber, it yields a darker yellow. In Prussia 

 it is used for dressing of leather. The 

 American species are three in number: 1. 

 A. cupatoria, of which there are two va- 

 rieties, the hirsuta and the glabra; 2. A. 

 parviflora; 3. A. pumila. 



AGROSTEMA, the garland of the Jidd, 

 in botany, a genus of the Dccandria Pen- 

 tagynia class and order: the calyx is one- 

 Ieafe<k the corolla has five petals ; the 

 staminVare ten awl-shaped filaments; the 

 pistillum an ovate germ, with erect styles 

 and simple stygmas; the pericarpium is 

 one-celled; the seeds are numerous. 

 There are four species, viz. 1. A. githago, 

 corn campion, or cockle : 2. A. corona- 

 ria, rose-campion : 3. A. flos jovis : and 4. 

 A. coeli rosa, smooth campion. The first 

 species is a common annual weed in corn 

 fields, and flowers in June or July ; the 

 seeds are black, with a surface li^ 

 green, and appears in the microscope like 

 a hedge-hog rolled up. The second spe- 

 cies is biennial, a native' of Italy, t; 

 lais, and Siberia; but so long an inhabi- 

 tant of English gardens, that it is become 

 a 'kind of weed, of this plant there are 

 .rieties one with deep rcd : another 

 with flesh-coloured, and a third with white 

 flowers; but they are not much esteem- 

 ed, as the double rose-campion, which is 

 a fine flower, has excluded the others 

 from most good gardens. The single 

 :npions are sufficiently propagated 

 by the self-sown seeds. The variety with 

 double flowers, having no seeds is propa- 

 gated by parting the roots in autumn, and 

 planting them in a border of fresh un- 

 OMgOd earth, at the distance of about 



