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FARMERS- REGISTER 



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SALE OF DUBHAM SHOUT-CORN COWS. 



The following are the names and prices of 

 ehort-horn cows, recently imported from England, 

 and sold near Philadelphia, in November. 

 Dairy Maid, calved in 1835, sold for ^540 



- - - - 520 

 530 

 500 

 400 

 500 

 360 

 380 



Victoria, 1835 

 Viviana, 1835 

 Thornville. 1835 - 

 Lobelia, 1836 

 Enchantress, 1836 

 Minerva, 1836 

 Sarah, 1836 



Two were brought to Virginia, and therefore, 

 their pedigrees also will be given. 



Hunnia, roan, calved June, 1835, by Bywell, 

 dam by a son of VVellingion, 683, g. d. a very 

 good cow. The breeder was very particular in 

 the selection of his bulls; though he paid no re- 

 gard to pedigree, he neveriheless took as much 

 pains as any breeder of the present day Bywell, 

 by Marlish, dam by the VVarless Duke ol" Wel- 

 lington, 231, g. d. by Sir Harry, 1444. Should 

 calve to a bull bred by Sir Charles Lorain — sold 

 for g500 to Corbin Warwick, Esq. 



Lady Whitworth, dark roan, calved in 1836, by 

 Mr. Hudspiih's celebrated roan bull, and he was 

 by Mr. Snowball's Wharmsley, dam by Mr. 

 Coate's Exmouth, g. d. by Warless Duke oi' Wel- 

 lington, 231. Lady Whitworth's dam, bred by 

 MT. Connel. of New Laith's Hall, by ('umber- 

 land. Exmoulh, by Wellington, 683. Cumber- 

 land, by Phenomenon, 491, clam by Colonel, 152, 

 g. d. by a son ol'Hubback. Should calve in Feb- 

 ruary next to Edmund— sold lor $530 to J, M. 

 Warwick, Esq. 



For the Farmers' Register. 

 IB THE PLANET -WHICH WE INHABIT BE- 

 COMING COLDER? 



An opinion prevails extensively, I find, among 

 the philosophers of the present liay, that this 

 earthly habitation of ours is becoming constantly 

 colder and coldtT, iuul that tins has been the case 

 •ever since the creaiion. This opinion is louiideil 

 upon a certain philosophical theory, which theory 

 16 founded on certain geological iacts which the 

 <liligence of modern research has brought to light. 

 I do not mean to say any thing of those facts, or 

 ot the theory founded on them. I mean only to 

 inquire what evidence we have from history that 

 the earth is becominir colder and colder. And 

 even this inquiry I should not consider as very | 

 Buitable lor an agricultural publication, were it not 

 that some efforts have been made to diffuse the 

 opinion, I have mentioned, among agriculturists. 

 They are told that the earth is becoming colder 

 ^nd colder; that this results Irom an invariable 

 law of nature; that this process has been goiiii; 

 on from the creaiion to the present hour, and must 

 continue to go on until the earth becomes too cold 

 for animal and vegetable life; that this cooling 

 process has gone on so rapidly in the last half 

 century that it is clearly perceivable by the old 

 and middle aged inhabitants of our country now 

 living ; that the middle states are becoming too 

 cold for the production of wheat ; that the culti- 

 vation of that article must soon become the em- 

 ployment of the people of the southern states, and 



the cultivation of cotton must, about the same 

 time, take up its residence wiihin the tropics; and 

 the end of the process must be that poor old Vir- 

 ginia will become a land of perpetual snow and 

 ice. 



These are gloomy prospects. Such anticipa- 

 tions are very discouraging, and have a lendency 

 to paralyse the efforts of the larmer. 1 would say 

 to him, on the contrary, cheer up! Be not dis- 

 couraged. Whatever philosophers may tell you 

 about the dissipation of the internal heat of the 

 earth, or whatever you may believe on the sub- 

 ject, be not discouraged. There is a "more sure 

 word of prophecy to which you would do well to 

 attend." It is in the following words, viz : ''While 

 the earth remaineih, seed lime and harvest, and 

 cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day 

 and night shall not cease." (Gen. viii. 22.) That 

 prophecy has been fulfilled to the latter, more than 

 lour thousand years, and it ceriainly requires no 

 ijreat stretch of faith to belive that it may be ful- 

 filled during lour thousand years to come. But 

 let us proceed, at once, to consider the question 

 we propose to discuss, viz : Is there any evidence 

 in history which ought to induce us to belive that 

 the earth was warmer in ancient than we find it to 

 be in modern times? The most ancient, as well 

 as the most authentic history which has come 

 down to modern times, is contained in the scrip- 

 tures of the Old Testament. These scriptures 

 were written chiefly in Palestine ; the prophecies 

 of Daniel, perhaps, in Babylon, and tlie Book of 

 Job in Arabia; but they all relate almost entirely 

 to the countries of Palestine, Egypt, Arabia, Sy- 

 ria, and Mesopotamia. Within tlie last hundred 

 years, numerous travellers from Europe have tra- 

 versed all those countries, and of late years, a con- 

 siderable number from the United States. Does 

 it not appear evidently from their descriptions of 

 the habile, the buildings, the productions, and the 

 climate of those countries, that they now have the 

 same temperature they had in the days of the pat- 

 riarchs, 3500 or 4000 years ago? Did it ever oc- 

 cur to any one who had read the scriptures of the 

 Old Testament and the accounts written by mo- 

 dern travellersof the countries just mentioiied, that 

 the cliinale ot those countries is in modern times 

 materially variant from what it was in ancient 

 (lays? But let us descend a little to particulars. 

 When the patriarch Jacob, who lived al)out 1700 

 years belore the christian era, was overtaken by 

 Ills fniher- in-law, Laban, among other severe 

 ihinjj's which he saiil to him, were the following: 

 "This twenty years have I been with thee, ***** 

 *****, in the day the droughl consumed me, and 

 the frost by night, *****, surely thou woutdst now 

 have sent me away empty." .Jacob had kept La- 

 ban's fl.M'ks in the plains of the Euphrates. Would 

 any shepherd of modern times complain more bit- 

 terly ol' the fi-ost of that country than Jacob did? 

 The book of Job flirnishes us with additionid evi- 

 dence on this subject. It is agreed, I believe, on 

 all hands, that this book was written, or at least, 

 that the events which it narrates took place, about 

 1500 years belore the christian era, and it is also, 

 I believe, universally agreed the land of CJz, 

 where Job dwelt, lay in Arabia to the south or 

 south-east of Palestine. Arabia is well known to 

 be, at the present day, a very hot country, yet Job 

 speaks of cold, frost and snow, as things well 

 known there in hie day. Tliere is one passage a 



