410 



tlieii- way to Nuw York and Boston, and the af^ri- 

 ful'Lira) products of New York and New England 

 will have to sustain a competition la our own mar- 

 kets with those of the whole western world.. 



[Hamp. Ga2. 



P/;N.\HYLVANIA AGRICULTUR-IL SO^ 

 CIETY. 



NEW EP»< GLAND FARiVIER. 



July 21. 1826. 



Iiam Sliort Herns,) and think them superior to any ! 

 other breed although I am an owner of Dcvons." j 

 From r, gentleman in Kentucky, who had some ! 

 years %ince imported short h.orned and long honied ' 

 cattle, in'i'jiring for an Improved Durham Short ; 

 Horned Bull, and coarse woolled sheep, contending 

 '• it must be greatly to the interest of the farmers 

 of this state to increase the quantity of wool, with- 

 out much increase of the number of sheep. Th 



pounds of purging salts.— This disease waa also 

 prevcntc.i in an Acadeay at Bordentown, N. J. 

 by giving molasses very plentifully to all the 

 scholars, Hl:ich hat) the effect of keeping the bow- 

 els in a la.xative state. 



Another rule to be observed is to avoid exposure 

 lo the dampness of the night air ; and when ne- 

 cessarily exposed, the bowels sliould be more 



f the 



Ouarkrlij Mnling. , out mucu mcrcase ol the number of sheep. They | carefully protected than any other parts' oi 



Tiie Chairman of the Committee appointed to want wool of a strong staple, easily manufactur- ■ body. Tlic En-vptians Mr Dever tell - r v,' 



confer with tlie Board of Health on their communi- 1 ed into blankets, linseys, &.c. for negro clotliing. ' purpo.-e, tie albeit about their h i- ^'{"" ■ "^ 



cation read at their last meeting, reported— land for working clothes for the whites. Kine | tl,e happiest effect. These directions '^emanatP 



That he had been examined by a Committee of tenths of our wool is con.=!umed in such fabrics— j from a high source, and deserve -eriou- consider-, 

 the members of the city and country delegation atj A cross by males of the long wooled breed, on the I tion. The facts adduced are '■trik' 

 Harrisburg — that a law had been pnssed to effect ! females of the common breed of our stale, would, - induce others to adopt similar 



Itiiink, best answer such an end. My intention } prevention of this destructive disease. fN Y Obs 1 



was to have associated two or three gentlemen '- ' 'J 



with myself, and for this object import some sucli I T.1E.\TMENT FOR SEED WHEAT. 

 sheep." I A v.ealthy retired Somersotehire farmer asserts, 



thirty-tliree 



the objects contemplated, and that ho bad no doubt 

 ve'ry useful results would proceed therefrom. 

 Tlie following communications v.'ere read : 



From the Secretary of the New York Agricul- 

 tural Board, presenting the third volume of their 

 Memoirs, an interesting and valuable work, em- 

 bracing the most important topics of agricultural 

 inquiry. 



Fro.n James Williams, Esq., of Hilton, Philadel- 

 phia county, on the comparative merits of various 



and should 

 measures for the 



From Ike Philadelphia JVational Gazitle. 



esculent roots — on the seasons for sowing them — i branch of industry in tliis country, I consider it the 



on prejudices as to the influence oft'ic moon upon 

 vegetation — on an ingenious contrivance for de- 

 positing seed in drills — on deep plouffhing, and 

 the advantages of stirring the soil between grow- 

 ing crops — on the extraordinary success and skill, 

 displayed by Mr Walker, in the management of 

 his farm near Holmesburg. 



From J. Whitaker, Esq., of Burley, Yorkshire, 

 Eng. giving his mode of managuig and rearing 

 calves, condemning the practice of feeding them 

 from pails, shewing tliat his /;!f*; short honied 

 hdfers are reared by allowing one "nurse" to 

 nourish two calves until the early part of tlie au- 

 tumn — that during the wititer they arejid with 

 straw, turnip tops, somdimes mith a littte Unseed 

 cake meat — the succeeding summer they are kept 

 on grass alone, and the following winter fed, to- 

 gether with the dry cows, on straw and turnips. 



From a gentleman of Philadelphia, inquiring as 

 to the probable success of a German farmer, dis- 

 posed to emigrate with a flock of 500 Merino 

 sheep — the district of country best suited to his 

 purposes, and the price of land, &o. 



From Loyd Jones, Esq., of Montgomery county, 

 ' on orciiard grass — its superiority for pasturage- 

 its excellence when converted into hay — its nu- 

 tritious properties — the large quantity of seed it 

 :,ffords — the profits of its cultivation — the causes 

 jf ils occasional failure, from the wajjt of accuracy 

 ui tillage, and tlie had quality of the seeds, too 

 often encumbered with chaff, and frequently in- 

 jured by improper management in securing them. 



Mr Jones' communication was confirmed, by the 

 experience of Mr G. W. Roberts and Mr Powel. 



Proui Mr Massey, of Delaware, on his decided 

 preference for white cattle, as better fitted to en- 

 dure heat. 



From a gentleman in New York, complimenting 

 tlie Society upon tlicir exertions for the introduc- 

 tion of improved races of farm stock, applying for 

 Improved Short HoniH, and Southdown sheep%nd 

 asserting that he liad found root crops higlilv val- 

 uable in promoting the health, and tlie useful se- 

 cretions in neat cattle and sheep. 



From a gentleman in Connecticut, ordering .an 



Improved Short Horned hull calf, uddiug "I am 



decidedly in favour of the cattle flmpiwcd Diir- 



j that lor tiiirty three year.s he treated his seed 

 wheat in the following manner, and always grew 

 SILK WORMS. I good crops, e.icmpt fr'om smut or blight. He col- 



Mr Editor. The culture of the Silk Worm ' ^'^'^''5'' ^^ many half bushels of sheep's dung, as 

 having lately been agitated to a considerable de- 1 ^"^ in'onded to sow quarters of wheat : as much of 

 gree, and being likely soon to become an important ! ''^e dung placed in a cooler, or other large tub, s 



the quantity of wheat allotted to it, and sixteen 

 gallons of water, and four gallons of pork or other 

 brine, of sufficient strength to swim an egg, would 

 permit. The brine and water he put togeUier in a 



copper or furnace, and make it scalding hot in 



which state he poured it into the vessel that con- 

 tained the dung, covering the former sufficiently 

 close 'vith facks, to prevent as much as possible, 

 thd steam from evaporating. When the compound 

 had become suliiciently cool to admit of the opera- 

 tioa, he had the sheep's dung rubbed, by hand, till 

 it \i.'is entirely dissolved ; and then, whilst the liq- 

 uid was still lukewarm, he infused the wheat 

 vvhidh remained in soak, closely covered, for thir- 

 ty-six hours — at the expiration of which, it was 

 taken out of the liquid, placed in strainers, and as 

 soon as it had done dripping, spread on the floor of 

 a barn or granary, after the manner of malt on the 

 ■floor of a malt house,freqiiently turning it till near- 

 ly dry, well powdering it, whilst a "little damp, 

 with finely pulvori^ed lime. 



duty of every one possessing information in any 

 way relating to it, to lay it immediately before the 

 public. Under this impression, I take the liberty 

 of sendi;ig you the following extract from a Phila- 

 delphia paper, hoping it may be found useful to 

 those interested in raising the worui. 



At the .same time I would remark, that at the 

 date of the publication of this extract the culture 

 of silk had become so extensive, that a company 

 was instituted, under the title of " The Filature," 

 which purchased cocoons at from three to five 

 sliillings currency per pound. The subsequent 

 troubles with England, in all probability, put a 

 slop to this concGCiU. p. 



Philadelphia, .Tunc 9, 1772. 

 " It may be worth the attention of the raisers of 

 Silk Worms, that there were two instances in 

 Bucks County last year, where the worms throve 

 well till after the third moulting, and when they 

 were almost ready to spin, they left off foedin?, 1 

 crawled about, their tails became small axiA turned j 

 yellow, the deadly symptoms among us, and they 

 began to die fast ; but merely by accident in one 

 of the instances, and from design in the other, oak 

 leaves were laid in their way, which tliey devoured 

 greedily, gained health and vigour, and spun as 

 well as any worms could do." 



HOW TO AVOID DYSENTERY. 



Rules which the celebrated Dr Rush recom- 

 mended for the prevention of this disease; — He 

 advises that spices, and particularly Cayenne peji- 

 per, and the red peppers of our own country should 

 be taken with our daily food. Mr Dewer, a Brit- 

 ish surgeon, informs us that the French, while in 

 Egypt, frequently escaped the diseases of the coun- 

 try, by carrying pepper with them to eat with tlie 

 fruits of the land. Purging physic should also oc- 

 casionally be taken, as any medicine of laxative 

 nature by preventing cosfivenoss,will act as a pres- 

 ervaUve from this disease. A military captain in I 

 the year 1778, while stationed at Amboy, presorv-* 

 ed his whole company from the dysentery which 

 prevailed in the army, by giving each of them u 

 purge of sea salt; and some years afterwards sav- 

 ed his family and many of his neighbors from tlie 

 same disease, by distributing among them a few 



GRASWHOPPERS. 

 These destructivelnsects are ravaging the fields, 

 and laying waste the hopes of the husbandman.— 

 Such swarms have never been known in this vi- 

 cinity as the present season furnishes ; they are 

 indeed as the sands of the sea shore. Many fields 

 of English grain are already entirely destroyed, 

 and every field more or less injured by them. It 

 has been suggested to us, that a field may in some 

 measure be preserved by the following method; 

 let two persons sweep the grain with a rope, be- 

 tween sunset and dark, and again in the morning- 

 before the sun rises, by which means the grass- 

 hoppers are thrown on the ground, and their rav- 

 ages for the time prevented. It is said they only 

 prey upon the grain during the night. A farmer 

 in this town has practised the above method with 

 success, and wc hope that farmers generally will 

 try the experiment. [N. Hampshire Spectator.] 



WARTS. 



.\way with the idea, ye sons and daughters of 

 reflection, that charms and witchcrafts are neces- 

 sary lo remnve your JIatts ; rub them with spirits 

 of turpcntini^ and they will soonlessen — gradually 

 decrease — yea, vanish forever ! [N. J. Advocate]. 



