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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[August 1^ 



Brazil from China; and in 1820 the pl.ui had 

 so tar succeeded that the number of plants a- 

 Hiounted lo COOO : I'lit it was found that altlioiifrli 

 Ihe leaves- had hcpn prepared precisely in ihe 

 Chinese manfier. the infusion had a run2:li and 

 earthy taste. \M!h()iit any of the fine flavor ol 

 the tea of China. By this time the Chinese 

 had become home-sick; some had died and others 

 lelt the garden and repaired lo the town, and 

 thus ended the tea pi;oject in Brazil. The 

 Quarterly Review says the attempt to raise tea 

 can never succeed where the price of labor ex- 

 ceeds two pence or three pence a day. 



ABSTRACTS FROM THE NEW ENGLAND JOl'RNAL OF 

 MEDIl INE AND SURGERY. 



Cucumbers.— In the last No. of the Journal are 

 reported two cases of convulsions and delirium, 

 produced by eating raw cucumbers with the 

 green rind on, onp of which terminated lalally. 

 The symptoms were similar to those ol a pi rson 

 suTering under the effpcis of some narcotic pois- 

 on, of not a very active nature. 



Tvmor. — A daughter of C. Baldwin, Esq. of 

 Chelmsford, died in .Inne, 1824, in corisei|uence 



noorlv fed and but half of l^em stabled, sell ten, er strikes it, nor does it shrink by (allmg down ; 



■nd ifive the remaining ten feed to the amount and it answers well to sow again atler wheal. 1 



eoual to what the twenty originally had ; pro- last September collected a quantity of Ihe white 



cure const mt slabliu'' for'them, and vou will tind flint lor 'eed, and sent to dilTerent parts of this 



ih-.t you will receive quite as much milk and slate, a»d lo Vermont, »vhere they bad raised 



butler in return as was derived from, the Imm- but lillle wheat for many years, on account of 

 ermode of treat'ing 20 Sweet polaloes, cairols, the inserts «nd ihe wiulers. I have heard Irom 

 pumpkins, and ground oats, are unquestion.a.ly ; most ol the places w_here I sent wheat, an.l Ihe 

 amono-the best articles of food for milch callle; inlormalion is, that the while flint wheat excels 

 Ihev occasion the milk and holler to assume a all o.h.r kinds and bi.is (air to he a sure crop, 

 fine flavour and colour, as well as increase o^ where Ihe culUvai.on ol wheat had been almost 

 ^.lanUty.-Tremon Emrorium. |tol,,lly given up. I have selected and sold lo 



IRA HOPKINS. 



jRolieil Sinclair, of your city, (Baltimore,) 500 

 Compo.;/ior,/o.pr.^i«gaHii«rf.o/W (Aeibusheis of exceileni clean seed, where the lar- 

 roofs of l.ousesic. from Fire and H^u(er.-1 ake -n^rs ol your slate can be supplied-and lo tliem 

 one part of fine sand, two parts ol wo..d ashes, 

 three parts of slacked lime, ground up with lin- 

 seed oil and laid on with a painier's brush. Air 

 slacked lime will answer the purpose. The Iti- 

 gredients oughl lo t'e ground together on a 

 stone, like paints, after passing through a hiie 

 sieve. Xitt. Inlellignicur. 



Essence nf snap for sAOTt";i?.— Take a pound 

 and an lialf of tine »vliile *oap, in thm sli.rs, and 

 add thereto two ounces of salt of larlar ; mix 



I can cheerlully rccoiurnend 

 Youis, respectlully, 



[We should su|ipose that it would now be 

 easy to ohtiiin a kuowleiige of the peculiar qual- 

 ities of this wlie.it, as leslod by our own soil and 

 i;/»;nu(c, so much ba\i'ig been sowed last year 

 in this 'lale ;ind Virgiiu.i. \el no one in this 

 stale, though (I'lblickly inviied. h.is wrilleii even 

 a line, to slaio mailers of fact and obs(r»alion in 

 regaril to it. In i company of prait >,al farmers, 

 ihe olhi r day, vvli.^ had .ill culliv:ited ihis wheat. 



of a -welling on her «houlder, occasioned hvaUhem togelher and put this mixture into "u^^ we ht-ard it maintune.l by some, thai General 

 fall upon the ice while pnmpin? a pitcher ofj quart of spirits of wine, in a botile which Wl I Cocke was righl m idenlilying it wiih the h.w- 

 water in March. 1823. The tumor measured hoi. I d itible the quanlity ot the ingredients; tie ip^ ivjieat— and by others, ihal there was an ob- 

 '- .' . . . . till .1 _ _. L ..r . I,., t...f . irt ....1 ..fi/.b I . .J. (r«,., V x\M — „.. ,.*•,.„ ; . 1 



33 inches round the largest part, and weighed a bladder over the mouth of the liotile, and prick 



21 pounils. 



Cholera Mnrhiis. — For Ihe last seven years, 

 the cholera morbus has been extending its rav- 

 ages over the south of Asia. Atler scourging 

 India three or four years, it extended in 1820 

 through Siina and China, and visited the islands 

 in the Indian Ocean. In 1C21 it made its ap- 

 pearance in Persia, Arabia, and the ea.stern part 

 of Turkey. In a few weeks of hot weather 

 60,000 persons died in Muscat and its environs, 

 and in a few months 123,000 of the VVhechabites 

 perished. In Bassora and its neighborhood 18, 

 000 died, in Schiraz U'l.OOO. in Cender-Atmsh- 

 cr 14,000, in Jesd 7000, and in Bagdad 5000.— 

 It attacked Ihe Persian army in the neighbor- 

 hood of Bagdad and destroyed 2000. In 1822 

 and 1823 the cholera extended in a northern di- 

 rection to the Caspian Sea and the Russian 

 province of Sharvan, and to the west it reach- 

 ed the Mediterranean, visiting Aleppo, Laodi- 

 cea, &,c. The Arahs call this disease El-Houwa, 

 i.e. the Storm; it is also called the India plague. 



A case of remarkable costivenes'; is reported 

 by Dr. Woodward, of Connecticut. "From April 

 to September nothing whatever passed the bow- 

 els, a period of exactly 138 days !" The pa- 

 tient recovered. 



Several cases of successful ampiitalinn.at the 

 hip joint have been recorded within few months. 



Hanipahirt Gatelte. 



a pin ihrourh the bindder ; set it to disest in 

 gentle heat, and shake the contents from time to 

 lime, taking care to take out the pin at such 

 times, lo allow passage for the air from williin; 

 when the snap is dissolved, tiller the liquor 

 through paper to free it from impurities; then 

 scent it with a lillle bergimol or essence of 



vious JilTerence. When men of experience thus 

 ili^agrie upon siilijecls susceptible of being de- 

 cided by aclual inspection and compaiisoo, it 

 does rot any longer follow that " seeing is be- 

 lieving," and there can be no longer any want 

 of rroin for di.scussion in matters of agriciillural 

 /((C(, more than in metaphysics. As to the as- 

 serted solidity of the slalk, those which we ha\ e 



lemon. It will have the appearance of tine oil, seei were hollow as oilier w beat.] Ep. Am. Far. 

 and a small quantity will lather wiih water, like 



soap, and is much superior in use, for washing 

 or shaving. 



COWS. 

 Keep no more cows than you can keep well — 

 one cow well fed will produce as much milk as 

 two indillerently treated, and moru butler, and 

 if the cow be wintered badly, she will rarely 

 recover, during the succeeding summer, so a* 

 to become protllable to the feeder. Cows should, 

 by all moans, he housed in extreme weather, 

 and pailicularly those which give milk, or a fail- 

 ure ill the quarilily of milk will be experienced. 

 Wherefore, insiyad of keeping twenty cows 



To cure the colic in hor.ies.—A correspondent 

 of the American p'arnier say, in sutisauce, 

 that linseed oil, administered m Ihe quartity ol 

 from half a pint to a pint, in proporlion to the 

 violence ofthe symptom*, is a never failing rem- 

 edy for co'ic in horses. Sails, he says, art some- 

 times efficacious, but often fail in cases of colic. 



From Ihe .iintrican Farmer. 



WHITE FLINT WHEAT. 



Auburn, Cayuga Co., Ju\y 20, IS'JS. 

 Mr Skinner. 



As there "has been much said in your nsefiil 

 paper as to the origin of the white flint wheal, 

 perhaps it might be of use to say something a- 

 to its qualities. It is a fact, that those who have 

 raised it the longest, are most in favour of il 

 The season with ns has been remarkably good 

 for all kinds of wheat ; yet the while flint wheal 

 surpasses all other kinds. The proper time to 

 test its peculiar excellence is in unfavouralde sea- 

 sons lor wheat, as it is :i hardier plant nnd has pe- 

 culiar qualities to withstand a hard winter, and 



ihc ravages of Ihe fly in the spring and summer. 



ON THE S.\GACITY .4 Ml UgEFULNESS OF 

 SPANISH SHEPHERD'S UOGS. 



Powellon, 182-1. 



Dear Sir, — One nf the mosi serious obsl;irlea^ 

 lo ihe-improvemeni of sheep by Ihe inlroduc- 

 ron of cosily individuals, is the difliciillv of 

 guarding them against Ihe attacks of their nat- 

 ural enemies, the various races of sporting and 

 cnr dogs. 



The first importations of Merino sheep, were 

 accompanied by some of ihe laree. and power- 

 ful dogs of Spain, possessing all Ihe vahi.ible 

 characteristics of Ihe En>;lish Shepherd's dog, 

 with sagacity, fidelily, and sirenglh, peculiar to 

 themselves. The imporlani uses, lo which Ihey 

 are applied, render ihem the objecis of gieat 

 ciire among husbandmen, on ihe continenl of 

 Fuiope. In some countries, where the bound- 

 arifs of difleren! proprietors, are often designat- 

 ed, but by a stone or sm.ill diUh, Ihey are sta- 

 tioned as faithful sentinels, to Sfnard the flocks 

 from attack, and lo confine them to their prop- 

 er grounds. Their ferocily when roused by an 

 intruder, Iheir allachm>nl to their own flock, 

 and devotion lo their masier, would, in the un- 

 nillivatrd parts of .'\merica, make Ihem an ac- 



]'iisition of infinite value, by aflordin,<j a defence 



, ,. . , , , , ..igainst wolves, which Ihey readily kill, and va- 



1 he only obieclion 1 ever heard any one make i ^ , , „„ u.„k fl„",i.<, „_„ „.■ 



•' . J . •'. I grant cur dogs, by which our nocks are ollen 



to it was, that it was hard lo t'lresh ; hut we Ihal i ^__. ,- 



, • 1 -, .- ■ I . /■ de«ilroyed. 



have raised it some time, consider it a lavnnra-, l,,, " ,. -.,... , , 



!il8 circumstance, as we can harvest our other! 1 he force of Iheirinslmclive nttachment to 



grain, and lot the flint stand eight or ten days at- j "."^^I'' ""' ""'"' 'e'"'"'''"' •" "Hacking e»ery 



ler it is ripe, and experience no injury liy i,, ! -I'')?. «»>ch passes near to iheir charge, have 



shelling o; growing in the field. The r«./nev-"'««" ^"'"'^^^ "'"^"^ "I'"" '"^ ^""^' 



