No. 1. 



Imporfanl and Useful Remedy. 



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quarter pound each. Many of the stalks 

 measured sixteen feet six inches in length, 

 and produced four hundred and thirty buslicls 

 of seed. Israel E. Brown." 



I would observe that I commonly manure 

 my land at the rate of from thirty to forty 

 loads per acre — such was the dressing the 

 land got previous to the planting of the broom 

 corn. The land being in high tilth, produced, 

 from careful attention, a most luxuriant crop 

 of stalks; I think they must have averaged 

 from fourteen to sixteen feet in height 

 throughout the whole field. I have not been 

 inclined to encourage the rearing of the broom 

 corn more than a sufficiency for family use. 

 I consider the broom corn a much more ex- 

 hausting crop to the soil than any other grain. 

 There appears to be an oleagineous quality 

 peculiar to it, and somewhat analogous to 

 flax seed, which in my judgment has a ten- 

 dency to produce the impoverishment of the 

 soil. The seed makes excellent food for hogs 

 and cattle. 



Its nutritious quality may easily be disco- 

 vered from the fine color and taste which it 

 imparts to butter from the cows which are 

 fed on it. The best way to use the grain is 

 to grind it with a portion of oats — say about 

 one-third of oats to two-thirds of the seed. 

 Indeed it is so hard and flinty that it should 

 always be ground before feeding it to any 

 kind of stock. 



Good broom corn seed weighs about fifty 

 pounds to the bushel. Its value compared to 

 oats may be considered as about half as much 

 again; so that should the market price of 

 oats be, say twenty-five cents per bushel, the 

 broom corn seed would be worth thirty-seven 

 and a half cents. 



BROOMS. 



1 think there is a difference of twenty-five, 

 if not thirty per cent, in the quality of brooms 

 sent to market, from such as I general- 

 ly use in my family. I always endeavor to 

 procure from the manufacturer, and for which 

 I pay him an extra price, such as are made 

 from the stalks before the seed ripens on 

 them. A broom made from such tops will 

 last much longer than one made from the 

 ripe brush. But the peculiar excellency of 

 the broom consists in its fibres being more 

 soft and elastic, and performing the act of 

 brushing or sweeping, similar to the brush 

 made of bristles, without injuring the carpet 

 if used prudently. After the broom shall 

 have been used in sweeping the parlor, and 

 the finer parts worn away, it will then be as 

 good to sweep the other parts of the house, 

 a.s the best new broom made from the ripe 

 corn. Ladies who set so deservedly such a 

 high value upon their beautiful Turkey and 

 Brussels carpets, should purchase none other 

 than such as are made from the unripe brush. 



The broom made from such may be easily 

 known by the color of the straw, which is 

 that of tea or sage ; the fibre or straw is 

 much finer and of a softer feel than that of the 

 broom made from the ripe corn — the color of 

 which is red, or inclining to red. 

 Yours very respectfully, 



RoBT. G. Johnson. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Important and IJseful ^Remedy* 



The readers of the Farmers' Cabinet will 

 no doubt be surprised at finding an article 

 within its pages so foreign to the usual direc- 

 tion of your publication. Information, how- 

 ever, in which every individual in society 

 may have an interest, should not be with- 

 held, but communicated to them through the 

 medium most likely to be generally diffused 

 and rendered permanent. If recorded in 

 medical books, it would rarely meet any other 

 than the physician's eye — and publications in 

 the newspapers of the day endure but for a 

 moment, when read they are cast off as use- 

 less, and their contents no more remembered. 

 We oflen meet with distressing accounts of 

 the fatal effects produced by taking corrosive 

 sublimate into the stomach, where it acts as 

 a virulent poison, inevitably producing death 

 unless a prompt and efficient preventive is 

 presented that will disarm it of its destructive 

 properties. Fortunately, infallible preven- 

 tives are within the reach of every person, 

 which require neither medical skill or expe- 

 rience for their administration. Corrosive 

 sublimate is a compound of muriatic acid and 

 mercury. The antidotes are carbonates of 

 soda and potash. If to a solution of corrosive 

 sublimate a solution of carbonate of soda or 

 potash be added, an immediate change is pro- 

 duced ; the muriatic acid unites with the 

 soda or potash, forming a muriate of soda or 

 potash, while the carbonic acid unites with 

 the mercury, forming a carbonate of mercury, 

 a harmless substance which may be removed 

 from the stomach by any carthartic medi- 

 cine. As the quantity of the carbonates ne- 

 cessary to be given must depend on the 

 qatintity of corrosive sublimate taken, and as 

 there might be difficulty in ascertaining the 

 amounts, it would in all cases be advisable to 

 give a sufficient quantity to insure a perfect 

 neutralization, nor is there any danger to be 

 apprehended from a small excess. 



Wealth. — Wealth in this country may 

 be traced back to industry and frugality: the 

 paths which lead to it are open to all ; and 

 such is the joint operation of the law and the 

 customs of society, that the wheel of fortune 

 is in constant revolution, and the poor of one 

 generation furnishes the rich of the next. 



