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materials to foini a shady walk or bower. In a 



colli, wpt seiisoii, or h lien requisite to have a lew 

 plants more forw.ird than the general <To|i, some 

 Kc'arlels may he sown in A|iril, eiiher in a slight 

 hoI-lie(l,or in |'ols, under liamts ol' hand-glasses, 

 to raise ami (iirwani the plants, till two or three 

 inehes high : then, at the end of iMay, traiispluni 

 llieri) into the open garden. As the plants come 

 np, and advance IVoiii three to six inches in 

 growth, hoe some earth to the stems, cutting 

 down all weeds. When they hegin to send ("orlli 

 niniiers. place siiitalile supports to each row; — 

 and conduct the lemlrils to the slicks or lines, 

 turning them in a contrary ilirerlion to the sun. 

 The ascending plants will soon come into flower, 

 podding at the joints, in long succession. They 

 are so prolitir, thai the returns I'roiii three sow- 

 ings, in IMay, June and .Fitly, will last rroiii July 

 till Ocloher. 



Taking the Crop. — Gather the pods, both from 

 dwarls and riiimers, while they are young, 

 fleshy, hiittle, and lender, for then they are in 

 the highest perlection (or the table; and the 

 plants will hear more fully, and last longer in 

 fruit, tinder n course of clean gathering, not 

 leaving any siiperabimdant pods to grow olil. 



To snve Seed. — Eiiher sow a [lortion for that 

 oJiject, or leave rows wholly uniiallieied of the 

 main crop, or preserve a suflicieiiey of good 

 pods promiscui)iisly. The beans saved should 

 Im the first fruits of a crop sown at a period 

 which throws the entire course of growth into 

 the finest part ol' summer. Let them hang on 

 the stalks till they ripen fully, in .August and 

 September; then let the lianlin be pulled upaiid 

 placed in the sun, to dry and harden tht; seed, 

 which should be alierwaids cleared out of the 

 husks, bagged up, and housed. 



The pea, English bean, and kidney bean, are 

 liable to the attacks of various insects, especially 

 the aphiiles, [plant lice,] in dry seasons. When 

 early crops are newly sown or planted, mice will 

 burrow (or iind eat the seed, and when it be- 

 gins to penetrate the soil, it is attacked by snails, 

 sings, the cut-worm, (fce. The usual means ol' 

 guarding against the ravages of insects must, 

 therefore, be resorted to by the gardener. 



As regards the field culture of the bean, we 

 would observe, that the white kiuil, which is 

 most generally approved of in New England, 

 will produce pretty good crops on poor, sandy, 

 or gravelly soils; but, when planted on such 

 protind, it is good husbandry to wet and roll 

 them in plaster before planting. They may be 

 jdanted in hills or drills, the rows two and a half 

 or three feet apart, according to the strengh of 

 the soil, and cultivated like other hoed crop's. 

 They may be planted the latter end of IMay, or 

 beginning of June, or ahniil the time of planting 

 Indian corn. If planted in bills, they may be 

 placed from fomteen to twenty-four inches apart 

 in the rows, and the rows the distance before 

 irienlioned. Five beans are quite enough to re- 

 main in a hill. Hogs' dung, mi.xed with ashes, is 

 6nid to be the best manure for them ; and it is 

 eaid to be very injurious to beans to hoe them 

 while the i\e\v is on, or in wet weather. 



Judge Buel, of .\lbany, has given the follow- 

 ing notices of some e.speriiiients in the field cul- 

 ture of this vegetable : 



"Beans m:iy be cultivated in drills or in hills. 

 They are a valuable croi) : and, with good care, 

 are as profitable as a wheat crop. They leave 

 the soil in good tilth. The China bean, with a 

 red eye, is to be preferred. They ripen early, 

 and are very productive. I cultivated beans the 

 last year in three d'ffirent ways, viz.: in hills, in 

 drills, and sowed broad-cast. I need not des- 

 cribe the first, "hich is a well known proeess. — 

 1 had an acre in drills, which was the best crop 

 1 ever saw. My manaL'oment was this: on aii 

 acre of light iironiul, where the clover had been 

 frozen out the preceding winter, I spread eight 

 loads of long manure, and immediately ploughed 

 and harrowed the ground. Drills or furrows 

 were then made with a light plough, at the dis- 

 tance of two and a halt' feet, and the beans 

 thrown along the furrow.s, about the 25lh of 

 May, by the baud, at the rate of at least a bushel 

 on the acre. 1 then gauged a double mould- 

 board plough, wliich was passed once between 

 the rows, and was followed by a light one-horse 

 roller, which flattened the ridges. The crop was 

 twice cleaned of weeds, by the hoe, but not 

 earthed. The product was more than forty-eight 



bushels, by actual meaeiirement. The beans 

 brought me one dollar the bushel last fall. The 

 third e.xperiment was likewise upon a piece of 

 ground where the clover had been killed. Ii 

 was ploughed about the first of June, the seed 

 sowed like peas, upon the first finrow, and har- 

 rowed in. The drought kept them back; but 

 about si.vty-five rods of ground, on which the 

 experiment was made, gave a product of twelve 

 and n half btisliels. The crop was too ripe 

 when it was harvested, and as it was cut with a 

 scythe, I estimated that about two and u half 

 bushels were left upon the ground. No labor 

 was bestowed upon them from the time they 

 were sown till they were harvested. 



Potato Kot. — At a meeting of the Farmers' 

 Club, held on Tuesday, the Secretary reail a pa- 

 per ilraHii up by Mr. Cozzeiis, in which he gives 

 askelih of some visits to the potato fields on Long 

 Island, and in New JtMsey. Me found the potato 

 almost every where suffering more or less from 

 the rot. The opinion seems to be general thai 

 the disease is inherent, a natural decay for which 

 there is no remedy ; and that we must obtain new 

 varieties of potatoes if we would be well [irovi- 

 ded with that important vegetable, in 1773, the 

 favorite, and almost the only potato in Bear 

 (Washington) Market in this city, was the l>each, 

 or round red potato, brought from New Jersey ; 

 this was then dry and mealy ; it soon degenerated, 

 however, became wet, soggy, and uiifil to eat. lis 

 place was supplied \\h\, ibc Kiiglisli white pota- 

 to, which was then brought from Couiieciiciit. 

 In a few years these became heavy, bitter and poi- 

 sonous. Next came the fox potato, which degen- 

 erated in the same luauuer, and gave way to the 

 blue-noses, which, in their turn, made room for 

 the famous pink-eyes. The latter were remarka- 

 bly good, but partly from degeneracy, and partly 

 from their small yield, they were abandoned for 

 tlie prolific Mercer potato, which has now been 

 cultivated about eleven years and lor the last three 

 years has been rapidly deteriorating. All these 

 varieties have been run through iii East New Jer- 

 sey, since 1773. Other varieties have been culti- 

 vated in the interior of the State, but not in ex- 

 tensive quantities. Farmers are anxiously inqui- 

 ring where they shall get seed for the new varie- 

 ties. The balls, once so plenty on the vines, and 

 from the seeds ol' which new varieties were some- 

 times raised, have almost entirely disappeared. 

 [The present destructive potato disease has spread 

 even to the Cape of Good Hope.] The great 

 difliculiy now is to get new and healthy varieties. 

 ,V. Y. Evening Post. 



Importance of well Directed Labor. 



" Wliat great effect from lillle causes spring. 

 What weallli does labor well directed bring." 



A single stroke of an axe is of little conse- 

 quence; yet by the continual application of that 

 small power, properly directed, what amazing 

 eft'ects are produced ! Tlie sturdy oak and lofty 

 pine do not simply own its power, but whole 

 forests before it, and the wilderness becomes a 

 garden. 



Industry well directed, will give a man a com- 

 petency ill a few years. The greatest industry 

 misapplied is useles.':. 



As an example, there is my neighbor, Seth 

 Steady, the Blacksmith, is not only an industrious 

 man, liut his industry applied to one object. — 

 His hammer is heard at dawn of day, and the fire 

 blazes ill his shop during the evenings, from the 

 a(llh of September to the 20lli of March. Go to 

 this shop at any time of the day for any kind of 

 work, you are sure to be waited upon, -ll'lie 

 consequence is, his purse is filled with dOTar.<, 

 and his cellars well filled with provisions, and 

 that's v\ hat I call quite comfortable. Although 

 suitably lilieral, and enjoying the good things of 

 life as he goes oii, ten years of health will enable 

 him to purchase a good (arm. 



As a contrast, there is my friend Nat. Notional, 

 the busiest and most industrious mortal in exis- 

 tence ; as the old saying is, '• he has to many irons 

 ill the tire," and with all his industry he goes be- 

 hind-hand. 



He has a fine farm, but instead of pursuing the 

 cultivation of it, he flies and seizes on every new 

 project that occurs. 



A lew years ago he concluded to give up the 

 dairy business, in consequence of the low price 

 of butter and cheese; sold his cows at a low fig- 



ure, and purchased sheep at a high rate, for wool 

 then commanded a high price. By the time he 

 got fairly into ihe raisingof wool, down went the 

 price of wool, and np went the price of butter 

 and cheese. He then sold his sheep and pur- 

 chased cows again, for cheese was up, and wool 

 was ilovvn. Last year, after sowing a' number of 

 acres of grain, he resolve<l to rent his farm, sell 

 the grain on the ground, buy a team and go to haul- 

 ing; for, by a nice calculation, he had proved that 

 111011(7 might be made by it. A team was pio- 

 ciired ; but aftc'-oneor two trips, he concluded to 

 sell his team, build a saw-mill, and go largely in- 

 to lumbering. The dam was complete<l, the irons 

 procured, and three-fourths of the expense in- 

 curred when by a nice calcniatiou, (for no one 

 m.-ikes nicer calculations,) he found that an oil- 

 mill would iifi'urd the best profit; and to work 

 he Heut with great industry, building an oil mill. 



I happened to go there a few weeks afterwards, 

 and the whole organization of the mill was un- 

 dergoing an alteration, to fit it up for a cotton 

 and woollen 'manufactory. 



A (piizzical friend intends to propose to him 

 to abandon that project and enter largely into 

 the inanuliicture of flour, and I have no doubt 

 that he will readily accede to the proposal. 



So with all his inilustry and expense, he is 

 neither benefiting himself nor the public — Jllb. 

 Cull. 



The Wild Horse of Tkxas. — We rode 

 throngli befis of sunflowers miles in extent, their 

 dark seedy centres and radiating yellow leaves 

 following the sun thrniigh the day from east to 

 west, and drooping when the shadows fell over 

 them. These were sometimes beaiitifufly varied 

 with a delicate flower of an azure tint, yielding 

 no perlume, but forming a pleasant contrast to 

 the bright yellow of the sunflower. About half 

 past ten we discerned a creature in motion at an 

 imineuse distance, and instantly started in pur- 

 suit. Fifteen minutes riding brought us near 

 enough to discover by its fleetness, that it could 

 not be bnftalo, yet it was too large for an ante- 

 lo(ie or a deer. On we went, and soon distin- 

 guished the erect head, the flowing mane, and 

 the beautiful proportion of the wild horse of tho 

 prairie. He saw us, and sped away with an ar- 

 row fleetness till he gained a distant eminence, 

 when he turned to gaze at us, and suffered us to 

 approach within four hundred yards, when he 

 bounded away again in another direction with a 

 graceful velocity delightful to behold. We paus- 

 ed, for to pursue htm with a view to capture was 

 clearly out of the qiiesiioii. WMieti he discover- 

 ed we were not following him, he also jiaused 

 and now seemed to be inspired with .a curiosity 

 ecpial to our own ; for, after making a slight turn, 

 he came nearer, until we could distinguish the 

 inquiring exfiression of his clear bright eye, and 

 the quirk curl of his inflated nostrils. VVe had 

 no hopes of catching, and did not wish to kill 

 him ; but our curiosity led us to approach liiui 

 slowly. We had not advanced fir, liefore he 

 moved away, and, circling round, approached on 

 the other side. He was a beanliliil animal, a sor- 

 rel, with jet-black mane and tail. As he moved, 

 we could see the muscles quiver in liis i;lossy 

 limbs; aud when, half playfully, and half in 

 bight, he tossed his flowing mane in the air and 

 flourished his long silky tail, oiir admiration knew 

 no bounds, aud we longed — liO|)elessly, vexa- 

 tiously longed— to possess him. We might have 

 shot him where he stood; but had we been 

 starving we could scarcely have done it. He 

 was fiee ; we loved him for the very possession of 

 that liberty we longed to t.ake from iiim ; but we 

 would not kill him. We fired a rifle over his 

 head. He bearii the shot and the whiz of the 

 ball, and away he went, disappearing in the next 

 hollow, showing himself tigaiii as he crossed the 

 distant ridges, still seeming smaller, until he fa- 

 ded away to a speck on the far horizon's verge. 

 — Kamulifi Texas. 



From tlic Portland Argus. 

 The Disease of the Potato. 



The disease of this excellent, as well as almost 

 indispensable culinary root, has of late engrossed 

 much atteulioii. The (aruier has become alarm- 

 ed at the failure of his crop; our Agricultural 

 Societies, tliruughuut the country, have solicited 

 instruction ; and the Slate of Maine, being first 

 ill the Union in the growth of this vegetable, may 



