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FARMERS' REGISTER 



Ibrlnight of August, and never fails. Its qualiiics 

 are no less reremrkable, as it is both solid and sweet. 



SHORT HORNED CATTLE. 



Never think of buying short horned or Durham 

 cattle, until you are prepared to keep them well. 

 They need an abundance of fresh pasture, and 

 therefore to be frequently changed from one pas- 

 lure to another, in succession, and plenty of food 

 and good shelters in the winter. Thus provided 

 for, they are valuable stock. But neglected in 

 these respects, they are no better than native cat- 

 tle. — Franklin Farmer. 



oft"" one hundred pounds during the chase — but 



still he is a lusty fellow, and you Bostonians may 

 prepare your mouths for a taste of his flesh, as I 

 understand it is the intention of Mr. Dow to ship 

 him at Frankfort for your city. He has been on 

 exhibition in tliis city for the last two days, at 12^- 

 cents a sight. 



CAPTURE OF A BEAR. 



From tlie Bangor Democrat. 



For the last twelve years, there has been resid- 

 ing within forty minutes' ride of this city, in the 

 town of Brewer, near the " Big Pond," so called, 

 a mischievous animal called a bear, of the hog 

 species, with a brown proboscis, and short, but 

 strongly sinewed legs ; during which time, he has 

 fattened upon the corn, cattle and sheep of the 

 farmers who lived in his vicinity. During the 

 past year alone, he has destroyed upwards of one 

 hundred dollars' worth of stock, always taking care 

 to secure his retreat when pursued, till within a 

 few days, when he was accidentally discovered by 

 some men who were employed in logging near the 

 spot where he had taken quarters for the winter. 

 Observing his tracks in the snow, they traced him 

 to the mouth of his den, which was in the cavity 

 of a ledge; when they commenced removing the 

 hrush he had carefully drawn into its mouth. 



In a moment old Bruin began to snuff'and growl, 

 and made an attempt to take leg bail, but was 

 saluted with a blow from a cudgel, cut for the 

 purpose, and fell back into his domicile, where he 

 quivered lor a lew moments, but suddenly regained 

 his strength, and made good his escape for the 

 time being. The next day he was hotly pursued 

 by some half dozen of those on whose stock he 

 had preyed, and the chase was continued lor some 

 five or six days, when Mr. Blood came to this 

 city and informed some of our sportsmen (we 

 have some old ones too,) who, accompanied by 

 their hounds, immediately joined in thechase, and 

 fifteen days from the time the bear was first started 

 from his den by the loggers, (during the whole of 

 which time he was hotly pursued by men and 

 dogs, having been kept on the tramp the whole 

 time, only excepting nights) he was captured and 

 brought mto this city by Capt. Nye, and Mr. 

 Leonard Dow. 



On examining him, thirteen balls were found to 

 have pierced him ; the last shots, however, were 

 those which gave him his qaietus — one of which 

 took effect a little abaft his fore shoulders, and the 

 other near his spine. During the whole fifteen 

 days, Mr. Blood, who is a farmer, kept open house, 

 keeping all of those free of expense who were dis- 

 posed to join in the chase, being determined to 

 have the bear before he gave up. He weighed, 

 when killed, three hundred and twenty-four 

 pounds. The old hunters say he must have ''run 



SPACES FOR SILK-WORMS. MISTAKES OP 

 DATVnOLo's MEANING BY HIS TRANSLA- 

 TORS. 



There ia no subject belonging to or connected 

 with agriculture, which, for some years, has em- 

 ployed the pens of so many writers, or occupied so 

 many pages, as instructions upon silk-culture. 

 Besides the hundreds of particular communica- 

 tions from different individuals to various agri- 

 cultural journals, and the dozen or so of other 

 journals devoted exclusively to the diffusion of 

 inlbrmalion upon silk-culture, there have issued 

 from the American press, within a few years, at 

 least ten several and long treatises, on this one 

 subject. All these publications necessarily con- 

 tain a great amount of useful facts and valuable 

 instruction ; but also, and of course, most of them 

 have much that is either useless, or foolish, or 

 false. There are many particular articles which 

 we should rate very high in value. But, upon the 

 whole, and as a general rule, admitting however 

 of some considerable exceptions, it would seem 

 that the utility and worth of these instructions are 

 in the inverse ratio of their bulk and degree of 

 pretension. It may be said in general that what- 

 ever the treatises in the most regular and system- 

 atic form have presented of value, was drawn 

 from Dandolo, and the balance is good for no- 

 thing. It is much to be regretted, however, that all 

 of the writers who have thus endeavored (o copy 

 Dandolo's rules, should have made some gross 

 and great mistakes of his meaning (and doubtless 

 of his language also, if that could be referred to,) 

 so as to involve the whole of their instructions in 

 error. 



Arithmetical estimates and calculations are par- 

 ticularly adapted to the business and processes of 

 the rearing of silk-worms ; and accordingly they 

 have been so applied very Iretiuently and exten- 

 sively by Dandolo, and by all his copyists, whether 

 of those who blindly approve and aim to follow, 

 or those who profess to condemn in many respects, 

 and who yet no less blindly mistake their illus- 

 trious model and subject. And, as arithmetical 

 calculations, if correctly founded and constructed, 

 and correctly applied, furnish the best of all possi- 

 ble information and of reasoning on any subject, 

 so errors or misapplications of arithmetic serve as 

 much to sustain ignorance and falsehood. 



