Vol. VII.— No. 18. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



139 



Making a saving in one year of $13 38 



;inil ill ten years of $133,80. Thus it appears that 

 in ten years which may with propriety be consid- 

 ered far short of the average time of a mule's ser- 

 vice, it will save its first cost in the article of food 

 olone, and he a good mule then. And further- 

 more, they are not liable to so many diseases 

 which frequently afflict horses, viz : coWs ailment, 

 the glanders, heaves, yellow water and cholic, and 

 they seldom are afflicted with the spavins, ring- 

 lioue or botts, and they will not founder. Admit- 

 ting wliat I have stated to be correct, there can 

 be no doubt of the superior advantage to be deriv- 

 <d from the employment of the mule iu agricultu- 

 ral pursuits instead of the horse. And the ques- 

 tion naturally arises, how are we to procure a stock 

 ,of good mules. I will give my oiiinion as brief as 

 possible ; do away the prejudice which prevails 

 in Maryland, and in ahnost every place where 

 inules have not been bred," that a mare will bring 

 but one mule, and that after having had a mule 

 she will never bring a colt," however absurd this 

 may appear to gentlemen of general information, 

 it is nevertheless cherished by many persons who 

 have not made the experiment, and is the princi- 

 pal reason why those who have kept Jacks in 3Ia- 

 ryland have not found it profitable. As nothing 

 but actual experiment will overcome this preju- 

 dice, I would suggest the propriety of offering a 

 premium of two dollars for every mule two years 

 old raised in Maryland and ten dollars fur.the best 

 Jack which should sire the most foals iti a season, 

 the number to exceed twenty. Should this meth- 

 od be adopted and continued three years, I think 

 much good would result from it, and after that I 

 am confident that the farmers would find a suffi- 

 cient inducement to raise mules instead of horses, 

 and I am confident that from the large mares of 

 Maryland and Pennsylvania, a larger and better 

 stock of mules can be produced than w as ever rais- 

 ed in France or Spain. 



05^ We had an opportunity of seeing in the 

 month of September last a very large and hand- 

 gome jack which was imported into this place di- 

 rect from Malta, and which we understand has 

 since been sent to Caroline county, eastern shore 

 •of Maryland, where he is to stand the next season, 

 when the farmers in that and the neighboring 

 counties who wish to substitute the mule for the 

 liorse to work on their farms will have an oppor- 

 tunity of sending their mares to him. — Editor of 

 the Aeui England Farmer. 



was considered by the old proprietors of that town 

 as of little value — and I believe the sections own- 

 ed by Mr. Abbott cost him less than 50 cents 

 per acre. 



" In July, 1823, he sold from his tract a single 

 rock in its native state for 8150. Mr. Parker, the 

 purchaser, soid it, rough split, in the yard of our 

 State Prison, to the Warden, for $1300, who rea- 

 ized for it in Boston, ,$6,129. 



to the consistence of molasses. With this sub- 

 stance he covered the cancer, and about an hour 

 afterwards applied a plaster of tar, which was re- 

 moved in a few days, and the lye again applied. 

 These processes were repeated till the patient was 

 cured. 



Grain Prospect. — Were we to judge from tlie 

 This single rock ' present appearance of our grain fields, we should 

 made 10,500 feet of facing stone and ornamental predict for the farmer abundant crops the next 



work — and the aggregate weight of all the blocks 

 (smooth hewn) was 550 tons, it having lost only 

 50 tons in being prepared for the market, after it 

 was brought to the prison yard. 



" The walls of one church in Savannah, and 

 another in New Orleans, have already been con- 

 structed of our Concord granite. Twenty years 

 ago we sliouhl as soon have tliought of exporting 

 gold dust and diamonds from the sands of Soncook 

 river, as rocks from Rattle-snake Hill, to build up 

 and embellish the cities of the South. 



" Our New-Hampshire Granite is a more valua- 

 ble mineral than the gold of North Carolina, or 

 any otlier gold : as the granite requires hardy toil 

 and industry to piepare it for the purposes need- 

 ed. Neither does the thirst for its possession, or 

 its preparation and use, prove an incentive to vice, 

 but on the contrary the best corrective of the 

 vicious in the pursuit of the other." 



season. In the district of country round about 

 Wilmington, the wheat presents a most promis- 

 ing appearance. W^e have seen as yet, no traces 

 of the fly : but on the contrary, the fields pre- 

 sent one regular carpet of rich, luxuriant green. 

 We congratulate our farmers upon the present 

 favorable prospect : and hope that neither Jly, 

 rust, or mildew may interfere to destroy a rich and 

 abundant harvest. — Delaware Advertiser. 



Cranberries. — We are informed that a farmer in 

 Mendon gathered last fall off of 6 acres of mead- 

 ow 1300 bushels of cranberries, for which he re- 

 ceived 50 cents per bushel. He had purchased 

 the land but a short time before for $12 an acre, 

 receiving thus more than 900 per cent, upon the 

 cost of his land. — Lancaster Gazette. 



To prepare ivnier-proof boots. — Boots and Shoes 

 may be rendered impervious to water by the fol- 

 lowing composition : — Take 3 oz. spermaceti, and 

 melt it in a ])ipkin, or other earthen vessel, over 

 a slow fire ; add thereto six drachms of Indian 

 rubber, cut into slices, and these will presently dis- 

 solve. Then add of tallow, 8 oz. ; hog's lard 2- 

 oz. ; amber varnish, 4 oz. Mix, and it will be fit 

 for use immediately. The boots or other materials 

 to be treated, are to receive two or three coats, 

 with a common blacking brush, and a fine polish 

 is the result. 



INTERESTING FACTS. 



Slated before the Merrimack (New Hampshire) Agricultural 

 Society, October 15, 1828. 



" Though our mountains are of no other use at 

 present, than to attract the visits of travellers, for 

 their height and subhmity, their bowels may here- 

 after disclose mineral riches in abundance, and 

 their bases become surrounded with flourishing 

 towns and villages, supported by labor on the ma- 

 terials yet undiscovered. 



" One of the humblest of our Alps affords the 

 richest iron ore in the world, already furnishing 

 employment for thousands ; and so far advancing 

 the population, industry aud wealth of the State ; 

 and articles, not now dreamed of, will hereafter be- 

 come sources of wealth, and subjects of exporta- 

 tion. Permit me to mention a single fact that will 

 warrant this prediction. Lieut. Amos Abbott, of 

 Concord, owns part of the hill where our State 

 Prison stones are quarried. The whole of this iiiU 



TRANSPLANTING TREES. 



It is a notorious fact, that of the number of trees 

 transplanted in our public walks and streets for 

 many years past, particularly on the Battery and 

 in the Park, at least three-fourths have never veg- 

 etated at all, and of the few that have, no small 

 number of them have died the first season, and 

 the remainder are now as it were, struggling m a 

 sickly state between life and death. The sole 

 cause of which is, they have all been set a great 

 deal too deep in the ground, and the consequence 

 has been tiiat the bark above tlie root has become 

 rotten, and extinguished all vegetable life. 



The few that have escaped this catastrophe, 

 will, if examined, be found to have entire new- 

 roots, formed above the old, and the latter pos- 

 sessing no vegetable life whatever. J^alure plain- 

 ly shows how deep all trees ought to be planted. To 

 set them in the least deeper than they originally 

 grew, is dangerous ; to set them much deeper, 



fatal. Those that have been set out in the public Alpine Plants are not, as commonly supposed, 

 walks in this city, have generally been planted a of a hanly nature, but the reverse. On the Alpine 

 foot or more deeper than they naturally stood, and | mountains they are deeply buried in snow during 

 It is the height of absurdity to expect such to live Ube winter— covered, as it were, with a pile, of 

 and flourish, with so great a proportion buried in warm blankets, and thus effectually secured from 

 the earth, which by the law of nature grew in the i the frost ; and when the summer arrives, which 

 open air. j jg jj^fj, Jater and much more rapid in its advance 



To bury animal life and expect it there to hve I than with us, they are suddenly exposed, not to a 

 and mature, is not more preposterous — In unusu- temperature such as that of our spring, but to heai; 



Preservation of buildings from fire. — Dr. Fuchs, 

 Professor of Mineralogy at Munich has invented a 

 composition, which, on being applied to wood, is 

 said to preserve it completely from fire. It con- 

 sists of 10 jiarts of potash or soda, 15 parts of 

 sand, and one part of charcoal ; which are first 

 melted togetlier, and then dissolved in water. It 

 may be applied either by itself, or mi.xed with 

 earthy matter. 



equal to that of the hottest of our dog days 



ally exposed situations to guard against injury by 



high winds, it is only required to shorten the tops, 



and otherwise trim them ; but on no account what- Large Leaf. — At the last meeting of the Ross 



ever ought any part before nursed by its native air I Horticultural Society, a leaf was exhibited of the 



to be buried in the earth .V. Y. Journ. Com. Oriental Palm, or talipot tree, which had been 



taken from a tree in Ceylon, upwards of 100 feet 

 high, and was presented to the Society by the lady 

 of Gen. Sir Robert Brownrigg. It measured no 

 less than forty feet in circumference. 



Cancer. — A person who signs his name Thom- 

 as Tyrrel, in a communication for the Missouri 

 Republican, states in substance that he was afllict- 

 ed, for many years, with an inveterate cancer, and 

 submitted to several surgical operations for cut- 

 ting it out, which merely increased the evil. He 

 was, however, eventually cured by the use of the 

 lye of the ashes of the Red Oak bark, boiled down 



A farmer in South Carolina, during the last 

 year sold Wine to the amoui>t of two thousand 

 four hundred dollars, the product of four acres of 

 land. 



