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^l)e larmer'0 iBontl)lB_^isttor. 



uas an niKler.too.l irreconcilal.le difference be- 

 twee.. Jol.n Adanisaml Timothy rickcnng: th.s 

 aiflL-re..ce shone lo.lh to iho «<.rUl vvh^n lhe«<.n 

 of the first joined the party of Mr. Jefferson ui 

 1808 «hile hoth the gentlemen were Senators 

 in Conu-ress from Ma^sachnsetts. Obr impres- 

 sion *vas tliut when Ur. Park ren.oved the Ke- 

 ncrtory from Newbnryiiort to Dosion, his pape- 

 was the selected orgat, of the highest toned led- 

 eralistsofthatday. We knew that the Ccnunel 

 previous to tltat tnne had been Mr. Lowell s oi- 

 gan of connnnnication with the public: Mr. Low- 

 ell was one of those men who never disg.used 

 ins sentinte.,... Our imp.W.on of the motto 

 with which he headed so.ne of his boldest arti- 

 cles in favor of a dissolution of the Unton " 



other lot of cattle had died. They s ated ,t was 

 nrettv wwb just such u time as I have sta ed 

 i hove br this lot of cattle had .bed m ano her 

 field tut joined the one that ,.roved so la al to 

 , an like ours had no water m .t.) Havtng 

 ever heard the neighbors that lived on the e.lges 

 or the same prairie complam ot losmg any 

 rattle, I still thon^dU it strange, for tl!7,;vere as 

 ne.'li.'ent as those that lived in the .mddle ol the 

 t.rairre. and labored under the same disadvali- 

 ages about water. Well, sir, this ts the cause 

 ol"n,y new idea, and it is this : 1 hat when cat- 

 tle are in such .exposed situations and there comes 

 on surh bad weather, they runout horn the fence 

 and feed very greedily and svyallow 'be husks a - 

 most whole, to get back to the fence again as it 

 is all the shelter they have, and that is a very 

 Door one They there stand drawn up, shivering 

 "°h cohl, their^teeth clenched, and nothing b.it 

 a Uu-e ,,uantity of corn busks in their stomachs, 



"ood sense and gallantry will induce them to select and 

 bring home such plants as will be most prized by their 

 fair acquaintances.— Hoiu-fon {Texas) Teicgraijh. 



clesin favor of a dissolution o. tne -■""" l^-?"'!^' - ^l' ;; ^ed and snowed upon 

 „,ore distinct than the paper containing hem . ; \;,-;,;'';;,|;";;;i:;;,:-,^ „o strength left in tliem 



~ "■■■■ ,o heat or'oxelte the stomach to action, and the 



an mal is too cold to chew its cud ; (for you m.is 

 know that in very cold binstering weathei^ neat 

 cattle, when compelled to stand exposed to it, do 

 ,ot chew the cud, especially when "?t fed o 

 ..ood strong food-so says my observation ) am 

 [his large .nass of worthless l^Dod, swallowed 

 without chewing, and the animal being oo cold 

 o re-chew, it deranges the stomacdi and causes 

 inflammation and d'Jath, when the mamO.kl is 

 comparatively in good ordei\ 1 1^'^- 



"Blowyelhe irum,.d in Zwn." We had sup- 

 posed it was the Rcpcrionj, and not the Ccntind, 

 that contained these essay?. 



Of Doct. I'ark, although personally a stranger, 

 we have been glad to learn that since he retired 

 from bis uewspaiier an<l |.olilical Jife, probably 

 nearly a quarter of a century ago, he was long 

 ' known as the head of a academy for the instruc- 

 tion of ladies at Hoston which enjoyed a high 

 reputation; that he has an educated son who has 

 enjoyed, beyond his ,n-ofe6sion, both representa- 

 tive and senatorial honors from the city of Bos- 

 ton ; and that when we saw the old genileman 

 at a late agricultural meeling of the noble coun- 

 ty of Worcester, his face and appearance vvas 

 that of one who had well enjoyed life thus far, 

 and might enjoy more years in the consciousness 

 of having well acted his part. 



From tlie Piairid Fanner. 

 Shelters, Death of Cattle in Cornfields. 



' Messrs. Editors :-Snme of your correspon- 

 dents seem to think that when cattle die in coin- 

 field.s it is caused entirely by the closing or stop- 

 „aae of what is generally termed the mamluhl. 

 This is no doubt the final cause m most cases 

 bu not always, according to my observation =md 

 experience; Ibr 1 have seen cattle die f.om ea - 

 ing cornstalks which on examination of he man- 

 fold and passages appeare.l as loose and open as 

 n a perfectly tilt or healthy beet, instead ol be- 

 ng s'topped ti.ht and hard, as your correspon- 

 dents say. They seem to think it is the want of 

 t'llLr and nothing else, that causes the death ot 

 the animal. 1 will give you some .strong arg.i- 

 menis to the contrary of that idea beioie ! c o^e. 

 1 was of your correspomlenl's wayol thmkmg 

 before last winter, ami hut l"^'■f :"->""'^"l^J'!; 

 loss of several fine steers, migi have died in 

 that belief: Another and mysell had a hundred 

 or more steers last winter, ;i 

 of feed, iHircliMsed of our n ., , ,, 



,0 winter then, on; and from the oss of a gen- 

 tleninnthe winter previous who kept a ot <d 

 cattle in the same neighborhood, and our old no- 

 tions and ideas ; we were deteriiimed that our 

 cattle should be waKM'ed every day, tind shoiih 

 not snller for it. Fo^ several weeks things wen 

 „ff v.ry well, and we had almost piovetl he 

 thill" to an ocular demonstration, as we thoiiglit; 

 when onr cattle were turned into a field that was 

 more than usually exposed, and there came on a 

 snow storm and a cohl northwest wind, which 

 histed some three d.iy.-. At the expiration o( 

 the second day, 7 or 8 of our cattle died. 1 hey 

 had the same atieiitioii that they had had all win- 

 ter This was a ilaniper, and 1 set to thinking 

 and en.piiring. Upon reflection 1 ivco leeted to 

 have heard tliat an a.ljoinmg lield to this, which 

 was exposed in like manner, but had a Large creek 

 nmning through it, and l.rove.l ecpially hital. 

 enrpiire.l of its owner about it, and he in orined 

 n.e that bill as many of his cattle had died as any 

 of his iieighl.or.s, and at the lime when he knew 

 thevconld.etwalcrbyg<ungt,. It. lie Inrthcr 

 informed me that his cattle had died generally 111 

 cold blustering weather, or a li-W hours tbeieal- 

 tcr I then emiuircd of the neighbors what kiinl 

 of wentber it was the winter pieviou-s when this 



Mexicau Plants. 



OUR VOLUNTEERS AN ARMY OF BOTANISTS. 



A.- our volunteers are about to enter upon a new 

 campai-n in Mexico, we would suggest that they im- 

 prove he opportunities that will soon be offered, to co - 

 feet the see'ds of valuable plants, that "« ^"';'™ f^'j "^ 

 the latitudes of Me.xico corresponding with the Uitudes 

 n which they reside. It is well known that there are 

 man ropic,d plants that have become so acchmated 

 "yl^ngculture^T, the temperate regions of Me,uco 

 tl^.t th° V are as fruitful, and grow as l"^""^'""; " 

 northern latitudes as in their native chme. M""^ «[' « 

 northern plants also, have _become so acchm,a d f,y 



The Art of AngUug two hundred years ago. 



Among the sports which are most fascinating 

 is that of the angler, or expert fisherinan. With 

 what appetite does the fanner or mechanic, boy 

 or man, of a lowery, dull day go to the pond, or 

 the river, or brook rife with living animals siiort- 

 ing under the surface and only to be seen as 

 drawn out of the water with the hook. We are 

 no fisherman : it is nearly twenty years since wo 

 last vexed ourselves on the Turkey pond at one 

 end of the boat nearly a whole half a day with 

 scarcely " one glorious nibble," while our com- 

 panion at the other end drew to his hook, one af- 

 ter another, and hauled over many of that agile 

 fish, the iiickerel, weighing half a pound to one 

 or two pounds. But we have young men in our 

 eye about us, the fruits of whose sporting we 

 have sometimes tasted, who go forth to the ponds 

 near us, and now and then travel miles and tarry 

 out nights, pursuing in the woods the beguiling 

 employment of trouting in the hill and mountaia 

 brooks. iMany thousands of the brook trout are 

 taken in the .streams westward and northward 

 from this through the range of the White Moun- 

 These beautiful fish, more delicate than 



tains. 



any fish we know of caught in the sea, are taken 

 in great abundance in the summer months— so 

 great that all visitors to our mountain and lake 

 region have them as their " feast of fat things" 

 in'july and August, when enjoying such a cool 

 retreat as is not perhaps rivalled in any other part 

 of the United States. 



There is no mistake about the enjoyment of 

 men of that teste of the angler for fishes : it is a 



„.u. cuU^:^:^:h;^^;c^r^::g:or c;rSl:^i::r th^ spo.. of ancient times, then as well or het.r ut. 

 ll,^y could pi^bably be iiuroduced from theiu into our j^,.,,„„,|_ diati it is in these more refined days. 

 Southern States, and cultivated to great advantage. It -- -c... 



Southern cuues, ami i.u.......^v. ..- „ ^ 



is well known that the celebrated but """"f ""■' f ;; 

 Perrme devoted the latter period of his valuable hie to 

 Ire apparently fruitless atten.pt to -clima e many of 

 ,l,e t epical plants in the southern portions of 1 lor da. 

 He was so far successful, that we believe owing ma n- 

 \y to his labors, the plaintain the date, the oh-, P "e 

 annlo arrow root, guava, and a large nunilicr ot the 

 pf s Yucatan that are used in the n.anu acture of 

 CO da-e, &c., have been cultivated successfu ly ,n Flo- 

 ida °Tfe indofatisable naturalist was so elated wtth 

 I'rt success of his uieful experiments, that he ventuied 

 ,„ predict that the Canary plamtain would ;>''e^ ^ 1°'^» 

 process of culture, be so acclimated as to produce 

 ? i on the banks of the Roanoke. It has been so a - 

 cli mated at this time as to produce fruU in l.ou.s.ana, 

 and it is by no means improbable that >' "-y "^"^ " 

 ly be so acclimatcl ns to ripen its fruit f'" north 

 of that state. It is well ascertained that sugar cane, 



"or lifieen years ago would have destroyed the ,, ant. 

 ■I'be plantain may in a similar manner hocon.e g a u- 

 ,lly acclimated in the Southern States, and yield 



We have before us "The Whole Art ut" Hus- 

 bandry," bearing the imprint of " London, 1(J31," 

 two hundred and seventeen years ago-a. book al- 

 most as old as the art of printing. This book 

 was "first written by Conrade Hereshalch, ix learn- 

 ed Nobleman, then translated (fVom German to 

 En-lish) by Baniaby Goog-e,Es(piire,aiid now re- 

 newed, corrected, enlarged and adorned with all 

 the experiments ami practices of the English na- 

 tion, which were wanting in the former editions. 

 By Captain Gervase MarUmm." The writing of 

 the book was probably a hundred years anterior 

 to the date of this edition. The ingenious angler 

 who never goes forth without taking his mess, 

 will be delighted to perceive that all the " means 

 and appliances" for their fiuorile sport were so 

 well understood two and three hundred years ago 

 tlial the instructions then may well go for m- 



quantity of natri 



lious food far superior 



to 



nlnit that is now cultivated without thp tropics A 

 'mc.vico has been settled by Europeans I;"' '^ ■""/;'' ™- 

 ger period than the United States, its '"l'^''"'^:"'- '"^ 

 U,e advantage of ns in acclimation ol man) v.luabic 



lints and we should by ^-U '''-'-■■'-' T^'r^ur 

 l,c favorable opportunity that is olTercd 'o F»'^»;^ 

 ihem i:ach volunteer, on his relurn, can bring a lc» 

 tds of the choices, fruits that are cult.v.itec a Mon- 

 t..rev, .Monclova, SaltiUo, and other eitics ll at a,.,suu 

 .ted n the latitudes corresponding "".' ""f","^ ''^' 

 Southern States. At Monterey may he found led- 

 vocado pear, a delicious fruit, which can be aisccl . 

 , .„ ,ev".ral 'varieties of the orange and prohhl.V 1 . 

 olive and citron. At I'arras a variety of ''« S'''?'"^^^^' 

 been loa» cultivated that yields a wine highly esteen - 

 ennalll-aits of Mexico. At Saltillo and Monclma 

 veral varieties of the apple ami pear "-;;"' '','^' 

 .nd Iho seeds of them, if planted in the -^o"" " 1 " 

 lions of Louisiana, Alabama or (icorgia, »>';; '' .P' '':^ 

 blv produce trees that would yield exce lent li uit.— 

 ■1 he'i'e aie also cultivated llowers and sh".bst.e seeds 

 of which would be acceptable to the l^',''"'" ' ' " ' '".'-J- 

 lions of the Union. It is suflic.ent wo hope, '^^^ij" 

 make this suggestion to the volunteors, and their own 



nyothe' structions tiow. We copy from the English black 



letter volume, maUing the orthograi.hy and capi- 

 talization as of the present ilay. 



From Uio Wtlote Art of llusbainlry, 1011. 



I will not enter here into any large enconn- 

 nn s, touching the prnise of this art of an.gling. 

 ""all sntlice me that all men know it, that few 

 -o Incn but love it, and a world of poor men ive 

 by t • neither will I .stand upon the use and vii- 



e he f, beca.ise it is either for profit or re- 

 . ea ion ; nor upon the autiqmty, because no 

 nai ivii" knew the beginning ; nor upon any 

 „ ' t\s linked unto it by tb- curtous. will 

 ol. Vest nivs^lf upon the art itselt, and lullv as 



1 e shortness of the time and the slowl.e^s of 

 my :|K"ch will give ...c leave, deliver unto you 



"'The::;rofS;go-lieartofdeceivi,^.is^^ 



r;rini^r.:::^^s;x.i:;;n"nh;s;u^ 



.'ood or ill for the purpose. 



"Touching the man, however some would hx 



