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ar as an inference can be firawn I'roin iiis com- 

 miiiiicalion, il may be comi'tehended in these 

 jjroposilions, viz; — 



1. Tliat the (ievourer of the wheat, is not a 

 weevil, bi)t a moth. 



2. That it attacks the grain in its soU and 

 juicy state, as the bug dots the pea. 



J. That it breaks out complete, between har- 

 vesting and threshing time, while the sheaves 

 are in stack or housing 



Franklin, and perhaps in other parU of this 

 county-. We are inlormed that several hund- 

 red acres are employed in its cullure in A"!)- 

 field, and that the quantity of oil extracted from 

 an acre of mint varies from iio to -J'J pounds. — 

 Tl)e [irocess of cultivation is said to l)e tedious 

 land expensive, but we are inclined to think 

 j there are but few, if any crops raised in this 

 j part of the country Ihat make greater returns 

 I (or the money and l.ibop expended on lliem. In 



yards wide, and two spades deep, from which, 



I every two or three years, a large quantity of 

 roots may be obtained. — Iliid. 



4. That to avoid such destroyers of a valua- j (he same town are extracted large quantities of 

 Me crop, there is a mode ol' proceedmg which J the oil of wormwood, tansy, wintergreen, hein- 



I tr;m«cribe »vilh satisfaction, 

 feet round the mow," says he, 



persons cultivated 12 acres of poppies, in 1825 

 from which they obtained 196 pounds of opiuni 



Hamp. Gu~dtc. 



At least two lock, Szc. 

 1 leave a va- Among the medicinal plants raised in Eng- 

 cancy, which is to be well trod with soft hay or) land as farm crops, are peppermint, rhubarb, 

 beaten straw. Therefore, 1 keeji persons con- poppies, liquorice, camomile, saffron, lavender, 

 standy treading down these margins as the mow ■ coriander, &c. In the county of Derby there 

 rises. And when I reach the eaves of my barn, 

 1 lay on and tread down a very thick covering 

 of the same straw or hay; and weigh it well 

 down at the top," &:c. For the reasoning em- 

 ployed to his friend Colonel Lee, whom he ad- 

 tlresses on the occasion, the agricultural inquirer 

 is referred to the original document. 



This is the animal mentioned by Dr Mease, 

 in Cooper's edition of Willich's Domestic En- 

 clyclopedia, (article wheat,) under the name ot 

 moth; the best means of obi ialing the ravages 

 of which is said to be, threshing speedily after 

 cutting the cro|i, and before it is sweated. 



I have retpjesled further incpiiries and obser- 

 vations to be made, which I hope I may be en- 

 abled in due time to lay bel'ore you. In the ' 

 mean while, fur the purpose of bestowing a I 

 specilic name upon the nnnoycr, I propose to' 

 rail il TINEA SEGETis, or moth corroding wheal | 

 in the grain, between the field and the floor.' 

 Specimens of the ripe and unshclled heads are 

 ready for despatch to our distinguished felfow- 

 citizuns, J. 3. Skinner, editor of the invaluable! 

 journ.tl. entitled the American Farmer; to 



.1 Gjod Shot. — A cockney on Wednesday last, 

 who was shooting at Wilsdon, fired at a crow, 

 which he missed, but wounded a cow and a calf, 

 and an old woman who wa^ fathering water- 

 cresses. It was however a d ir shot, as he paid 

 £lO to settle the business.— /iiU 



DESTRUCTION OF CATERPIIJ.ARS. 



A correspondent at Salfcrd, Lancashire, who 

 sigus "• W. S. S. chemist, late South Lincoln- 

 shire," supplies us with the following recipe, 

 in answer to the inquiry in our paper a fortnight 



e 200 acres of camomile. In Winslow, two | since :^To destroy caterpillars, take one pound 



BLEEDING AT THE LUNGS. 



The New-York Evening Post, says, " It is stat 



ed .vith unshaken confidence, and as the result of 



actual and rejieatcd experience, that a half a 



tumbler of giri slina;, well covered with powder- ! 



ed nutmeg, proves a speedy and efhcacioiis slop , 



j in that dangerous and alarming complaint, a ■ 



j bleeding of tlie lungs. — ^^It was tiie discovery nf'i 



i accident, but has never been known to fail, | 



j though often tried, even when all other known i 



means have been resorted to in vain." 



CAST IRON GRIST MILL. 

 Mr Baily, of Hartford, has invented a cast iron 

 grist mill, which has been tested by grinding 

 wheat, rye, and corn, as well as most kinds ol 

 provender, corn in the ear, oil cake, &c. and its 

 work pronounced by experienced millers to be 



of shag tobacco, boil it in twelve pints of water 

 ; until reduced to six pints; filter, and mix with 

 ; the liquid two ounces of alum, and one drachm 

 of powdered capsicum. When the alum has 

 I sufJicienlly dissolved, put the mixture into a 

 I plate or other vessel wide and long enough for 

 a brush to he di[)ped into it, and as early in the 

 " I season as you can perceive the leaves to be the 

 least eaten, or the eggs upon the leaves,(whicU 

 generally happens in May, when they will be 

 Ibund in great numbers on the veins of the 

 leaves, on their under sde,) draw your hand 

 gently over the hairs of the brush, and the li- 

 quor in which it has been dipped will be sprink- 

 led and thrown in small drops on the leaves ; 

 ihe consequence of which will be, if the eggs 

 are there they never will come to perfection; 

 or if they have already generated worms, in a 

 few minutes after Ihe liquor touches them they 

 will die, or will sicken so as to fall ofT the 

 ; leaves ; at least they will do so upon giving the 

 ; tree a small shake. If, upon falling ofT, they 

 i shall not a()pear quite dead, a little boiling wa- 



Thomas Say, author of the splendid woik on I ^^"''' '" "'''' Pro'^'iced by the common mill- . ,er from a watering pan should be sprinkled 

 North American Entomologv, and lo .Jesse Buel, I ^'f"*""—""'' "°'''« *"'" ?'""' "'" I'li'hels ol , „[,on them, or the earth where they lie turned 

 whom Ihe whole commonwealth knows as cor- "^l'*^'" <"■ Oe per hour, sufficiently hue for flour. | ,^er with a hoe. This preparation is not inju- 



respondiiig secretary of tlie board 



1 tieg you lo accejit, once mure, my friendly 

 salutations and best wishes. 



SAMUEL L. MITCHELL. 



ROCKi^ MOUNTAINS, 

 The Missouri papers wive an account of (he 

 successful enterprise of General .\shlev to the 

 Rocky Mountains, liringing with him one of Ihe 

 richest cargoes of furs that ever arrived at St. 

 Louis. He spent last winter in the mountains, 

 and made excursions in the Spring down several 

 of the rivers which empty into the Pacific ocean. 

 The furs which he obtained were brought on 

 horses to Ihe waters of ihe Big Horn, and brought 

 to St [,ouis by a navigation of about 3000 miles. 

 Gen. Ashley fell in with a [larty in the service of 

 the Hudson Bay Company, who are supposed to 

 have 1000 men in their service, employed west 

 of the Rocky Mountains. 



The cost of a mill, with the machinery for 

 horse to work il, will be from 250 to gSOO. 



Scltcttons 



From file? of English papers receiveJ at the office of the 

 New England Farmer. 



PEPPERMNT. 

 Medicinal plants are extensively cultivated as 

 field crops in some parts of England and France, 

 hut in this country their culture is very limited, 

 being confined t small patches in gardens. Sic. 

 Peppermint is however an exception, that plant 

 being cultivated on an extensive scale in the 

 town of Ashfield, in the adjoining county of 



SPEED OF HORSES. 



A match, which excited much sporting inter- 

 est,.took place on Monday morning for 200 sov- 

 ereigns, from the 113th milestone, near Whit- 

 tington, Worcestershire, to the 60lh milestone, 

 three miles beyond Oxford. A gentleman of the 

 name of Maitland undertook for the slated sum 

 to ride the ground upon three horses in two 

 hours and three quarters, and he was backed al 

 5 to 4 to win. The first horse, a fleet hunter, 

 which had for some weeks been kept up for (he 

 match, performed 19 miles within the hour, en- 

 countering Broadway hill on the road. The 

 second horse was a thorough bred one, belong- 

 ing to the rider, and over a good road he gal- 

 lopped nearly 21 miles in the hour, The last 

 horse gallopped Ihe remaining thirteen miles in 

 forty-three minutes, winriing the match by two 

 minutes. — Fanners Journal. 



rious to the trees. — Lincoln Mercury {Eni^land.) 



Probably the above preparation and means of 

 a[)plicalion would prove too expensive and te- 

 dious for general use in this country. But a 

 simple decoction of tobacco, a])plied with a sy- 

 ringe, or garden engine might, no doubt, answer 

 every purpose of the above in a more cheap 

 and not less effectual manner. — N. E. Farmer. 



IIAINAULT SCYTHE. 



They are so much pleased with this imple- 

 ment in Scolland, that in the Barse of Gowrie, it 

 has been resolved lo provide scythes, and give 

 premiums lo both men and women who may be- 

 come expert in working with them. 



WHITE THORN. 



To get roots of the white thorn, plant a 

 hedge, and on each side trench the ground two 



South-Carolina. — The introduction of rice is 

 said to have been effected in Ihe following man- 

 ner : A vessel from Madagascar touched at the 

 province about the end of the 17th century, and 

 >vhen the Governor, Thomas Smith, visited the 

 Captain, he presented him with a bag of seed 

 rice, informing him of the manner of cultivating 

 It, of its nutriciousness and great increase. The 

 seed was divided among several planters, and 

 was found fully to answer the expectation. From 

 this circumstance, was introduced what has be- 

 come one of the staple cominodities of the state. 



