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stable very hot, I would, after having seen liim 

 well dried, only pive him a sniiill quantity, (or 

 two reasons ; first, because his eagerness fur wa- 

 ter may lead him to drink more at a time than 

 is 2;ood for him; and, secondly, because a large 

 quantity of water will probably cause him to 

 break out into a cold sweat, in which he may 

 remain all t)iglit if not looked to. ACier having 

 taken a third, or less, of a stable pailllil of water, 

 lie should be kept without any for some tinie, and 

 then lie allowed to take wlial he pleases. When, 

 however, you intend to stint your horses in this 

 way, do not sutler your groom to offer him a 

 pailful of water, and to take it Horn him when he 

 has druid< a small portion of it, but let just the 

 ()uantity you wish him to have, and no more, be 

 given to ivm ; he will then li^el to a certain de- 

 gree satisfied with what he gets; whereas by 

 taking from him what lie expects to iiave, he be- 

 comes fretful and di.-conteiited. In the first in- 

 stance he makes up Jiis mind to slake his thirst 

 with a short allowance of water; whereas in the 

 second his just expectations are balked in mid 

 career, and his imagination cheated as it were 

 in the height of his enjoyment — and there is 

 much more in this than may be supposed. Phy- 

 siologists are well aware of the connexion existing 

 between the stomach and the brain ; and those 

 who have not inquired into this fact milst either 

 do so before they attempt to refute if, or take what 

 I have said as proved. 



WITCH [or WIRK] grass. 



From tlie Maine Cultivator. 



A writerin the Farmers' Register, whose article 

 we find copied into the New England Farmer, af- 

 firms with great confidence, as if he had made a 

 very important discovery, that lands inlested with 

 witch grass, may be effectually expurgated of that 

 weed by pasturing sheep upon it. The man is 

 mistaken. He supposes, because the roots, after 

 the land is laid down, become fine and almost ina- 

 perceptible, that the soil is entirely free from them. 

 If he will plough up and cultivate the land again, 

 he will find that those little fine roots, which he 

 supposes can no longer be witch grass roots, be- 

 cause they are so small, will swell up again and 

 stretch out as they were before being driven into 

 insignificance by the land's having been laid down. 

 We have been deceived in the same way ourselves. 

 A neighbor had a piece of land that was formerly 

 inlested with witch grass, but for several years 

 latterly had been devoted to the pasturing of sheep. 

 On turniriLT up the sward with a shovel, it appear- 

 ed as if there were no longer any witch grass roots 

 in if. Wishing to improve a small garden spot we 

 removed several loads of the soil to the garden and 

 ploughed it in. In a short time the deceitful lit- 

 tle roots swelled out, and we found that we had 

 thus unwittingly introduced an enemy to a fearful 

 extent. The theory of the Farmers' Register is a 

 mistaken one. 



After all, witch grass is not so bad an affair. It 

 does but little injury to crops if of;en hoed, keeps 

 the soil light and free — and, as a jrrass plat, affords 

 the earliest and most constant feed for cattle. — 

 There is no sweeter grass than this, and none lliat 

 makes better hay when cut early. You can get 



three crops of witch grass hay in one season, as 

 well as two crops of any other sort of grass. It is 

 an enemy indeed in the garden, and the best way 

 to exterminate it here, is to dig it all out ii-orn the 

 beds by the roots, and carry it off. We have gone 

 over a garden of an acre in this way, and have 

 completely triumphed. 



TO FARMERS. 



For ttie Farmers' Register. 



No country can be truly wealthy, without being 

 a large agricultural producer. All the commerce 

 and manufactures of England, great and mighty 

 as they are, could never alone enrich her. This 

 assertion may seem a fallacy to some; but it is 

 nevertheless true, that her chief wealth is her en- 

 lightened spirit of agriculture. It is from this 

 source iv.ainly that her princely nobles derive their 

 immense income ; and of more real comfort than 

 the average of our agricultural community. I 

 speak of the tenantry, not of the laborers ; but 

 even tfiis latter class is a thousand times better off' 

 than their newspaper statements would lead us to 

 believe. The main attention of America should 

 continue to be her agriculture ; they cannot be too 

 often, too earnestly, or too emphatically urged 

 upon the minds of her enterprising sons; pay 

 strict attention to this, and manufactures and com- 

 merce will follow as a necessary consequence. 



Our wealth and strength will be greatly in- 

 creased ; we shall obtain a much greater average 

 crop from the same number of acres under culti- 

 vation, having better roads, better buildings, and 

 above all a more enlightened and thorough educa- 

 tion to the agricultural community. If any one 

 class of men in our great republic is to be better 

 educated than another, it should be the directors 

 of the agriculture of the counirj', A Ptpil, 



Chesterfield, 1840. 



ARTKSIAN WELL AT CRENELLE. 



From the Mining Review. 



At the last sitting of the Academy of Science, 

 M. Arago staled that he had that morning been 

 making some thermometrical experiments at the 

 Artesian well at Grenelle, in order to ascertain the 

 temperature at the depth which had already been 

 attained, viz., 483 metres, or 1584 feet. When 

 the workmen had reached 460 metres the chalk 

 was of a green color, indicating the proximity of 

 water. Sirfce then the chalk had become mixed witii 

 clay, and of a dark color, a still stronger indication 

 that the sheet of water which it is intended to 

 meet is near. M. Arago usedjhe thermometer of 

 M. Walferdin, and after having taken all the ne- 

 cessary precautious in order that the pressure, 

 which at such a def)th is equal to fifty atmospheres, 

 might not injure the bulb, six thermometers of the 

 same kind were successively let down to a depth 

 of 481 metres, car-e having been taken not to low- 

 er them until lh>ly-six hours had elapsed after 

 the boring, in order that the heat which this work 

 might have communicated should have subsided. 

 The thermometers were left in the well for thirty- 

 six hours. The heat at this depth was twenty- 



