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ter of Paris iis a iimiiure. lis action is more im- 

 iiit'dialc. and ii.or.; a|)|iaiciit on some kiinl.s ol 

 luiiil and ujioii .some kinds of CTO|)s lliaii n|iiMi 

 ollicrs. VVi; bclifvi- its (-(riTis will always sooiMir 

 or lali.-r lie Hit on alinosi i:vi'ry kind ol' li^lil sdi- 

 rions soil, ami llial If' it lias lilllc ui-tion in a wet 

 season its virtors iL-inain lor action aliervvards on 

 lliu sanii: ^roniid. 



rnini the (i.-iii-ll:' of llip liialcil States. Nov. 7, I7e;). 

 Plaster of Paris. 

 Copy of a Icllrr from Roheti Morris to Jesse Law- 

 rence. 

 Alter tlie roiivfrsavioii that passed lietuefii 

 ini; and tliee on lliti suliji^ct of ria.-lcr of Paris, 

 I conceived it ini^lit not lie ini|iro|ier to -live lliec 

 an account of tin; several liials vvliicli I liave 

 made with it as a iiiaiiiire for land. Purlia|iS it 

 nii^ilit have liccii in the year 1775 that it was 

 rcconinicndcd to mo as ji rnaninn for land: I ac- 

 cordiriiily pnrchasHi! five liiishels— yc^t my liiitli 

 ihereiii Cv.is so weak, that it lay nnlil 1778, when 

 in the month of IMaicli I sowed at the rate of 

 two and a half Imshels per acre on Jiome j;round 

 which I had tilled and sow,;d with clover seed 

 the spiiiijr preeeedin.i:, Icaviii!; a piece in tlie 

 middle not isowcd, anil likewise on eaMi side. 

 Thai season, where then; was no phisler sown, 

 the clover sigod on the j;roniid aliont twelve 

 inches liii;h ; lint w here the plaster was sown tla; 

 clover siood upon an avera;;e tliirty-foiir inches 

 liiLdi. This ^'roiind I jsowed for alioni four sea- 

 Soi;s alter, and liiiind i' to have le.s.s giMss every 

 year, lhoni;li that which was sown with the plas- 

 ter had as ninch more in proportion as the (iist 

 year. 1 afterwai<!s plon^heil up all this f;ronnd 

 except one fourth of an acre: upon this 1 apain 

 put Pla>t(M' of I'aris in the year 178.i, and no 

 oilier manure whatever since 177t^, and it is now 

 in much helter older than it was at that time, 

 and it h;is produced me alioiit two ton,'< of hay 

 every year for the fust crop, and a lolerahle i.'ood 

 Sfcond cr<ip, andssometirnes a ihiid crop or very 

 irood pa>tm-e; ihonjili the la<t time 1 maiinred it, 

 1 pot in the pnipi^rtioir of ^i-.x linshels cd' this 

 phi>ter to the acre. ] havf likewise made many 

 expel iment.>t otherwise ; I have tried it with In- 

 dian coin, where it does Kderahle well — uiih 

 lliiekwheat, and it makes it ;;rovv r^o r.-ipidly that 

 il ha.s always lalleii down, and 1 have lost my 

 crop. ] have tried it with whe;it, and it^ is not 

 pos^ihle to discover that it makes any difterence 

 when sown on liic: cro|i: lint when il is sown on 

 frrass jrroiind, and this .L'loimd tinned up and laid 

 down in wheat, it is ainazin;; the advanuige it is 

 of to the crop. Last lall was a year 1 put ilo\vii 

 ahont eiuht acres of wheat, which 1 harrinved 

 in and then sowed clover .-eed, which c.ime up 

 and looked very fine in the fall ; hut the winter 

 heiii^' vervseveM! with hot lillh- snow, the clover 

 was dead in thc^ sprinir: when I sowed it a^'ain 

 with clover seed and ahont .-^i.-J hiishels of plaslev 

 t<i the acre ; and hy harve.-l time ] had clover 

 all over the piece helter than twelve inches lii;;h. 

 and which I mowed ahont two or three weeks 

 afier mv rlrver vvas cut. J lielieve 1 mi;:lit have 

 cut a liill ton of hay oti' li-um each acre; and I 

 am well satisfied that if I had not put piaster on it 

 that I shiaild not have had any •.'iMss that 1 could 

 have cut. I have likewise sold this mannrt: to 

 manv people in ihis State as well as in New .ler- 

 sev, iMaryland, IJehiware, &c. and after trial their 

 applicaiions to me !iir more have lieeii very ;;real, 

 vv-,;(di indnces me to helieve they have found 

 \'.,r. like lii-nelit from the use of it as 1 have my- 

 seli: 



With respect, 1 am thv friend, 



ROBKKT iMOllRlS. 



To .IesSIC I.AWKr.NCF.. 



P':Unilclp}wi. Feb. l.">, 178D. 



Cidifitilhl Clement ii/(W/f.— " The said piaster 

 is hronjiht from Nova Scotia, and is in irreat re- 

 pute." ' 



A new Agricultural M'riiikle. 



A fnimy story is told id" an old friend of mirs 

 — one who, sick and tired of the c.ire ami hustle 

 of a city life, has retired into the <-oniiIry and 

 "mine til farmin,!.'," as the sayinu' is. His land, 

 albeit well situated and commanding sundry ro- 

 maiitie prospects, is not so particularly fertile as 

 some we have seen — required .■■cietititie culture 

 and a lihiu-al use of irnaiio of .some sort to induce 

 an alumdaiii yield, tfo far hy way of e>,plaiiatioii. 



1 Once upon a time, as the story-hooks say, our 

 friiMid, hein:; on a short visit to the city, was ai- 

 teiulin;r an siiiction sale down town, and it so 

 happened, they were sellini,' dama;;cd sasuages at 

 the lime. 



There were some ei^ht or ten barrels jif them, 

 and they were '■jiini :itrA\'^ at filiy cents per bar- 

 rel," svlieii the auctioneer, with all apparent seri- 

 ousness remarked that they were worth more 

 than that to maiinre land with. Here was an 

 idea. "Si.xty-two and a half." said our friend. 

 " Jnst goiiif: at sixty-two and a half— third and last 

 pall— gone." retorted the auctioneer. '• Cash 

 lakes them at ,»i\ly-tvvo and a li.nlf per barrel." 



To have them shipped for his country seat was 

 tlie immediate work of our friend, and as it was 

 pl.iniiii;; time, and the sausages, to use a common 

 expression, " was petting no bettor very last ;" 

 to have them sali; under ground, and out of the 

 way was his next moveiiKUit. He w;i,s about to 

 plaul a liefkl of several acres of corn — .so, here 

 was just the spot for this new experiment in ag- 

 ricnhiire, this new wrinkle in the science of yeo- 



I ies. One " link " of sausage heeing deemed 



amply sufiicient, that amount was placed in each 

 hill, accompanied hy the usu.il number of kernals 

 of corn and an oc-casional pumpkin seed, and all 

 were nicely covered over in thi^ usual style. 

 Now, after premi.-in:; that several days have oc- 

 eiired sinci; the corn was planted, the sequel of 

 the story shall be told in a dialogue between our 

 friend and one of his neighbors. 



Neighbor,—" Well, tiiimd, liave you planted 

 your corn ?" 



Friend.— "Yes, .several days since." 



Neighbor. — " Is it up yet ?" 



I.'iji.'uii. — "Upl yes; up and gone; the most 

 of il." 



Nei-hbor.-" How's tliat?" 



Friend.— Well, yon see I bought a lot of dain- 

 aacil sausages in Orleu,iis the other day, a sttiooih- 

 toii;;ned auctioneer saying they wonhl make ex- 

 c(dlcnt uiunnre, if nothing else. I brought the 

 lot over, commenced planting' my corn at once, 

 as it was time, placed a sausage in each hill, 



Neighbor.—" Well, and what ■" 



Fiieiid.— '• And felt satisfied that I had made a 

 good jiib of it. Some days after I went out to the 

 field to see how my corn wan coming on, and a 

 pretty piece of business I h.ive made of trying 

 aiiricullnral experiments." 



Neighbor. — "Why, what was the matter?" 



l.'iif.ud. — ".Mailer! the first thing 1 saw, before 

 reaching the field, was the greatest lot of dogs 

 digging ami siratcbiiig all over it! There were 

 my do:;s, and your dogs, and all the neighbor's 

 ddgs, besides aboin three hundred strange dogs 

 1 never set eves on before, and every one was 



that the more minutely blood has been examined, 

 the more clearly it appears to be not only an im- 

 proper, but a daiigeroua food. Jt is extremely 

 subject to putresceii<:e. Scarcidy is it exlrHvan- 

 ated and exposed to the air, tliaii it sliow.s obvi- 

 ous svmploms of putridity. Hence wolves, foX(!S, 

 &L,r., more sagacious than hnmati blooil-eaters, 

 .suck it from llie vi'ins of the animals. Kxpose 

 it a short lime to the iiifiiieiice of the air, and 

 the most voracious brute will rtd'use to ta,-,te it. 



Blood is also the seat and organ of almo.st 

 every animal disease: inflammation and putridity 

 are the seeds of disease, and these have nut only 

 their origin in the blooti, bin are often (Concealed 

 and secretly working in it, huig ere the disease 

 shows itself in the system. 



None of the milder animals eat blood- liotio 

 but the most savage, ferociou.-* and arlfiil brutes 

 live on it. Humanity is characleristir- ot' man ; 

 how improper, then, would il be, were it per- 

 mitted in man to act as a brother to animals the 

 most ferociniis of the brutal world ! 



I pursue the siibject no liirlher, though iniicll 

 more minlit be said in deprei-atioii of the recom- 

 mendation of" M. S. H," which I tru.st none will 

 follow. — Quercus, in Lotion .7g. Gaz. 



Meteorological Observatioiis at Concord, 



Taken just bcftirc surt-rUe ami '3 o^rlDck V. M. 

 BY A. CHANDLER. 



^ Churaurr of Uondj^ etc. 



hard at it mining afier the sausage's. S<imehow 

 or othiM-, the rascally whelps had scented out the 

 business, and they have dug up every hill by tlii? 

 time. If I could set every doo; of them on that 

 anctioiu^er I'd be satisfied."— jV. O. Pic. 



AfiiiicuLTURi-: IN New York. — The N. Y. 

 Ueiald puhlislie.s- the following ollicial aggregates of the 

 iij:iic»ltiiral resources of that st,ite for the year eatl- 

 iiig. l"3l.> : 

 Aires of Improved Laiul in the Stide 



" Barley under cultivation 



Bushels of Barley raised 

 Acres of Peas under cultivation 



" Rye sown 



Bushels of Rye h:irvestcd 

 .'\cres of O.its sown 

 Bushels of <)ats harvested 



*' Peas raised 



.\cies of Beans under cultiv;aiou 

 Bushels of Beans raised 

 .\cri's of Buckwheat under cultivatiron 

 Bushels of Buckwheat raised 

 Acres of Turnips under cultivation 

 Bushels of Turnips raised 

 .^cres of Potatoes under ciillivalioii 

 Bushels of Potatoes raised 

 .\cres of Klax under cultivation 

 Pounds of Plax raised 

 Acres of Wheat sown 



Wheal harvested 

 Biish'ds of Wheat raised 

 ."Veres of {"orn sown 

 Bushels of Corn harvested 



ll,7ti7,276 



192, .503 



3,108,704 



117,379 



317,099 



2,930,322 



1,026,915 



2(i,:J23,051 



1,761, .503 



16,231 



162,187 



2.55,495 



3,634,679 



15,.322 



1,350,332 



255,762 



23,653,418 



46,089 



2,397,062 



1,013,665 



958.233 



13,391,770 



595,134 



14,722,111 



lOidriz/.liiig. 

 riiiiiiiig. 

 fitralUM. 

 clfar. 

 uirro-strutuB. 



— in snowiiic- 

 tfiiowia;;. 

 .stratus, 

 stratus. 



11 clear. 



— 1 clear. 



— clear. 



— 10 cirro-sPrattiF. 



— 10 stratiiB. 

 W. 4 slralu!.. 

 W. 4 slraliii;. 



— Ojcli'ur. 



— clear. 



lOJiii'lit raiH. 



ciTro-5tratu9* 

 stratus, 

 rjrro titratus. 



cirro-Ptrntu!'. 



cirro-stratuii. 



drizzling. 



cirro-sltatiiy. 



cirru-straliiK. 



cirro-iitrataB. 



— 10 

 VV. 9 



_ 



— n 



— 



Bf,ooi> AS A Substitute for Potatoes.— 

 Willi retV-rttiire lo a coiiinimiiralion fVniii a cor- 

 icsiionUfnt, signing hitusclf*' M. ^. B.," I Iniiicvo 



,cirro strains. 

 cirro-stratus, 

 clear. 

 clear. 

 clear. 

 clear. 



jcirr<i-.«tratusv 

 cirro-i^tratusr 

 lisht snow, 

 light snow. 

 liolitsnow. 

 light ?now. 



lear. 

 Imzy. 



cirru-stratit-s. 

 cirro-stratus, 

 r.irro-stratiif. 



irro-stratus. 

 strniiis. 



itralus. 



clear. 



clear. 



From the Albany Cultivator. 



Ou the curing of Provisions for the British 



3Iarket. 



L. Tucker, Esq.— The riirinjr of meat is a 

 Ini8ine86 ue are daily eiijra:i;p)l in : an iirt attaiii- 

 Hil by proceptH and fbiiiidrd on priiicifjios, the 

 knowled^'e t>r ulii.-ii is of iriiiju;iji.c iin[ntnaiicc 

 not only to llie iieallh, l)Lit l<> ihe coiprurls and 

 econotriy of inau ; yet strauiic lo say, it is a sci 

 enre about which, not one word has ever been 

 writteti ; and ih.tt we look in vain lbrou<rh the 

 printed masses of tlic new and llie old world, for 

 a sin<:le ireriiiso upon the suliject. When you 

 reflect upon tliid Hirr y<"i :•■''! yn'ir rondcrs will. 



