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<JI)C ianiuv'o illoutljln bisitor. 



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When this iialiou h)oks out ncross tho Pacific 

 o!i ihe firlds of Asia, :i crisis will li.ive I'oiiu! in 

 lliis wiM'hl's iiffair.--, iiUc lli:U jjniriil (■.-tliislropho 

 «hii'h tiiiik |ilac« when the hhie-rycd Geniiaii 

 uikI tho l]Uii;;iy Gmli h)ol<ed ihiuii iipon the 

 lieimliriil (ihiiii.s <il' Italy. I'lic hour will have 

 fOiiiK Cor irii;;hl_v chaniies in ihe hiiiii:iii liimily. 



Thet^c thicif^ti must iake place, and tijey will 

 come soon — liulijit! anoihcr yeneraliun has eN)iir- 

 ed— and America — these L'nileil Stales — will he 

 the >;iand inslinmeni in all the world's I'lilnrc 

 levohitious. — Cinrinwtii Chronicle. 



To Cure Hams in a Cheap Mannkh. — Lay 

 your luuns in tuhs, if convoiiieiit, ilesh side np ; 

 sprinkle salt on the fleshy part; let ihem ih-am 

 twenly-toiM" honrs ; then ridi ort' the salt, and 

 lay ihein in a larj;e tid). Then [irepare a brine 

 hy (lissolvin;j; one ponnd oi' salt in one yiHon of 

 wilier, and to every six ponnds of salt three and 

 M half ounces of saltpetre. Make a snfficieni 

 ipiajiliiy to cover the hams. IJoil the brine, ta- 

 kinj; off Uie scnni, and while hoilinx-hnt pour il 

 ov+'r Ihe hams. Let iheni lie in tin; hrino six 

 weeks, then lake them out, drain llicm, and 

 smnke I hem. 



Smokinjr hams is done as follows: Make a 

 smoke wiih corn-cobs, if yon have them — if not, 

 wilh sound hail! wood, wiili damp saw-dnst 

 llnoun over Ihe tire to preCint ii bl.ize. Sus- 

 pend your hams above lliis lit II distaiM-e to re- 

 ceive the most <►(' the smoke. When lliey are a 

 good brown color, which will be in uboul three 

 weeks, they are sniokiH snflicienlly. 



They slionhl ihen be drii^d. Wlieii dry, sew 

 any kind of coiion cloth over iheiii, and while- 

 wash the oMIside; oi- if yon have plenty of ash- 

 es in a dry place, cover the hams with paper, 

 and limy them in ashes till w allied for use. — 

 This preserves thein from huffs, and it istbohfiht 

 to im|nove their flavor. — EmigranVs Hand-Bouk. 



Sausaghs. — Proporlion your meat about h.ilf 

 (ill and half b^aii ; cut it fine ; then lo one hun- 

 dred poninls of inejit add two and a quarter 

 pounds of 'sail, ton ounces safie, and ten ounces 

 of pepper made finr. Warm the meat, and mix 

 them ill tlioroii;:hly and stutV ihem, and the 

 thiiif: is done riylit. If any wish to kci;p them 

 tliroiii;h the summer jrood and fi-e:jli, put ihem 

 in a clean lirkin, warm flit ajiil jionr in milil you 

 cover them; cover .nnd set Ihem in the reilar, 

 and they will keep L'ood ihe year round. 



A Word with Farmers. 



There is seeming assumption in a nian of one 

 ▼ocalion trying to tell others how to do their own 

 business, and Ibis otien delers people from giving 

 good and needed advice. An cdilor may fairly 

 claim exemplion from this mislaken modesiy ; 

 and wo having spent our early years at work on 

 a farm, and regarded a^'ricnltnre with deep inter- 

 est ever since, claim a s|iecial riiiht to speak 

 [ilainly to the farming community. Bear uiih us 

 then, a few momeitis, farming iiieiuls. 



Takinga hasty trip lo Saratoga, some weeks 

 since, we were struck wilh Uvo or three as|iecls 

 of the country. One was Ihe severe suffering 

 from dronglii on lln; rich inlei vales of ihe Hud- 

 son river, especially above Troy. There were 

 hundreds of acres of gently sloping land, devo- 

 ted lo garden and tillage, burnt np by drought, 

 as tbougli a tire liad run through il, anil noi y'itdd- 

 iiig over one third of a fair crop. Yet right be- 

 side that parched intervale, ran a nole river, suf- 

 ficicni io drencn Ihe whole daily wilhonl a sen- 

 Bible diniunilion of ils walera; while ihe plain 

 was c.rosseil almost every mile by a stream com- 

 ing down from the hills to swell the rivei's cur- 

 rent. How can it be that the owners of these 

 fertile acres suffer themselves to be divested of 

 half the reward' of their- toil as often as every 

 other \ear, for want of irrigation? How easy il 

 would be for sciejice Or skill to provide fur the 

 thorough moistening of tho*e intervides at pleas- 

 ure, eitlief by damming the streams as they issue 

 fiom the hills, and carrying their waters alons 

 the bases to be ditfnsed over the plain, or by 

 drawing supplies, by means of wiiid-inills or 

 steam, from tile Hudson itself! But noihijig tif 

 th ; sort is done: tlu' earth is left lo |mucIi, and 

 i.s vegel.itieji lo wiilier. The mere loss in tlii' 

 (jiiantily of prodoct, is but an. in-m; the vegeta- 

 bles there cultivated would have connnanded 

 double tlio price if hastened forwaril for early 



constiniption, while Saratoga and all the inland 

 towns were full of pleasure-seeking travellei;?, 

 that llii:y did when nitimalely fit for the table. — 

 'I'lnit they would have been liir mure juicy and 

 palateable also, if abundantly supplii'd wilh wa- 

 ter, need not be urged. 



Irrigution and Dit/t Ploughing. — These must be 

 generally adopted in our country. We blinilly 

 follow our Ibitish ancestors in neglecting the 

 fiirmer, wilhonl rellecliiig that sunshine is almost 

 as rare in Kngland as rain is heie. As to dee|i 

 ploughing, all science, all practice, all anlhoriiv', 

 recommend it, and yet ihree-fourths of our far- 

 mers persist in skinning their land over from five 

 to eight inches deep, or not half what is rcipiired. 

 We saw field alter field of corn which will not 

 \ield len bushels to the acre, (and poor stuff at 

 that,) which might have been put ui) to twenty, 

 by deep ploiiging alone. Of course, one year 

 would not exhiliil all the benefit of this culture, 

 ihougli evtMi the first year, if a dry mie, would 

 show its decided advantage ; but let l.ind have 

 time to get useil to deep ploughing, and it will 

 tell you plainly how il lelishes thai treatment. — 

 And the man who ploughs deep, is pretty apt lo 

 put sooicthiiu! else into the sod as well as iron. 

 He will usually have muck and peat from his 

 swamps, ai d a noble compost heap near his barn. 



We hear fiirmeis complain, and most truly, ihal 

 they can make nothing by their bti-incss ; and 

 ibis while they are paying Ia.\es, keeping up fen- 

 ces, and perhaps payiii:.' niortgage-inierest on 

 twice as much land as they can cullivale well, 

 and leiiing half of it go from year lo year with- 

 out tillage, and olien growing up to bushes. Now 

 the wonder is, noi thai such larmers do not thrive 

 ^ihe marvi'i is, that ihey manage lo exist. Let 

 any manulliclurer, nirciianic. or nierchanl, do 

 hi> business after this pattern, and he must fail — 

 there is no help for it. 



IJut must we conclude that bad farming has be- 

 come invpierate among our people? that our far- 

 mers have resolved, though ibey know better, to 

 hold twice as much land as they can till tliorongh- 

 ly, and lorinent it till it ruins them ? We will 

 not. I'Aery farmer wilh whom we converse ad- 

 mits tlie evil — says he and his neighbors run over 

 too much land, cnllivate too slovenly, arc not 

 sutliciently wideawake lo the march of improve- 

 ment, tiiid lay out two much main strength on 

 what could be easier and better done by the aid 

 of skill and science. All are awiuo that they 

 must farm better, or break : for the car of im- 

 provement moves on, and the only choice is to 

 ride on il, or be run ovarii/ it. — jV. Y. Tribune. 



Southerners, means Ave busliels of shelled corn. 

 — limigranCs Hand- Book, 



Measuiing Corn. 



The following rule for ascertaining the quanti- 

 ty of shelled corn in a house or body of any di- 

 mensions, is by Wm. Muiray, Esq., of Sonlli Car- 

 olina, communicated to the Sonliiern .\gricnllii- 

 risl : 



Rule. — Having pjeviugsly levelled the corn in 

 the liiaisc, so that it will be of equal depth 

 lliroiighonl, ascerl.iin the length, breadth, and 

 depth of the bulk ; multiply these dimensions lo- 

 gcther, and their products by lour, Ihen cut off" 

 one figure from the right of this last product. — 

 This will give yon so many bushels and a di'ci- 

 mtil of a bushel of shelled corn. If it be required 

 to find the (pianiity of eared corn, snbslitute 8 for 

 t, and cut otf one figure as belbre. 



Example. — In a bulk of corn in the car,. meas- 

 uring 1"2 li-et long, 11 feet broad, and Gleet deep, 

 there will be . 310 bushels and eight tenths of a 

 bushel of shelled corn, or G.33 bushels and six- 

 tenlhs of ear corn, as — 



12 12 



11 11 



The best cure for hard times i.s, to cheat the 

 doctor by being temperate, ihe lawyer by keep- 

 ing out of debt, the demagogue by voting for 

 honest men, and poverty by being industrions : 

 {ly'eAY THE piii.NTKR, if yon wish to prosper 

 anil be happy. — Snlomon Young. 



[The idiovc contains a whole volume of wis- 

 dom, and proves the author worthy of his christ- 

 ian title. How it would rejoice lis to see many 

 — yea, mnni/ of our dear patrcns, adojAing as one 

 iif their habits, the advice given in (Ac closing clause .' 

 So mote it be.] 



132 

 6 



792" 

 4 



132 



6 



792 



. 8 



aie,8Rhelkd. 0:33,6 in ear. 



The decimal 4 is used when the" object is to 

 find tlie quanlity in shelled corn, because it is 

 half of the decimal 8, and it requires Uvo bush- 

 els of ear corn to make one of shelled corn. In 

 u~iii^ these rule~i, half a bushel maybe added 

 t'or every hundred: that amount of eiii's results 

 from the substitution of the decimals. 



The term "iflrr«i o/" corn,", go much need by 



Fish, Flesh, Fowl axd VEOETAiiLiis. — Ii is ii 

 singular fact that fatal diseases are, at the present 

 moment, prevalent amongst members of all Ihe 

 above named irilies in Europe, ('althi have long 

 been afHicted with a dislcniper which has de- 

 siroyed numbers: grouse have died in hnndreda 

 of some malady, which has been variously de- 

 scribed ; and ihe tnitrrain among ihe poatoes 

 has destroyed the crops over a great portion of 

 Europe. It is now stated that a plague of some 

 description has broken out amongst the fish in 

 the rivers, numbers of pike, eels, and other fish 

 being found dead, or dying on the surfai^e of the 

 water.— .V. Y. Mirror. 



CULTUKE OK I'oTATOIiS. — S. Widiiev, Piqiia, 

 O., informs ns that he successfully cultivates po- 

 tatoes on the following plan : Plant in bills, and 

 when the potatoes are about an inch out of the 

 ground, take alight plough and rtm it so close to 

 them as to cover them lightly with earth. When 

 they get through this an inch or so, cross plough 

 tbeni, covering upas before. This mode is sta- 

 ted to be equal lo the best hoeing, beside being 

 a great saving of lalior. Mr. W. states that he 

 has pracliced this mode for several years, and 

 has never lost a hill, or had theiii at all injured 

 by covering. — Jllb. Cult. 



The Potato Crop. 



[The following remarks from the London Gar- 

 dener's Chronicle, are by its editor. Prof Li.nd- 



LEI.j 



One word more concerning the Potato disease. 

 It is observed by some of our correspondents 

 that the water in which this year's potatoes are 

 boiled, has an offensive odor, and advice is given 

 how to proceed in such cases. We, too, must 

 ofier a word of counsel. 



All potatoes which retiiier offensive the water 

 in which they are boiled, are beginning to decay. 

 The disease is present, although it may not be 

 visible; and we doubt vvhelher any precautions 

 can prevent their putrifying after a few weeks. — 

 Such potatoes should not be stored, but consum- 

 ed immeiliately ; and those only put away for the 

 winter in wliicli no such symptoms are discove- 

 rable. A few samples can easily be boiled for 

 the purpose of ascertaining the condition of the 

 crop. 



It is the custom in many parts of the country, 

 and especially vvilh small fields or patches of po- 

 tatoes, to collect them, as soon as dug up, into a 

 heap ill the centre of the field, wliei" a space 

 has previously been partially dug out to receive 

 them ; and when the whole is thus collected to- 

 gether, they are covered over with earth pressed 

 smooth with the spade on the side.s. We cannot 

 ton strongly urge on all, the importance of drying 

 the potatoes as much as possible beltire storing 

 Ihem for the winter, and of sorting out all that 

 appear in anyway diseased. Considering tho 

 inlectioiis nature of the potato rot, and the rapid- 

 ity with which it sometimes spreads, the time 

 and trouble consumed in doing this, will be well 

 bestowed if it enables us to save a portion of the 

 crop. 



The custom of storing the potatoes in the same 

 field in which they have grown, is decidedly ob- 

 jectionable, being very likely lo develop rot in 

 them, in all cases where the rot has manifested 

 itself, even though but to a slight extent ; it is far 

 belter to store the sound potatoes in a separate 

 piece of ground. If ibis cannot be done, the risk 

 of danger may be probably diminished by lining 

 the sides and bolloin of the place dug to receive 

 them, wilh new-burnt charcoal, to a de|illi of 

 3 or 4 inches; it is, however, betler by far not lo 

 ■tore them in the field where they grew. 



