Vol.VIl— N...50. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



395 



" THE WINTER, OR SWISS BEAN. 



We are desired to call the attention of our 

 readers to the merits of this hitely acquired vari- 

 ety of horse bean, which promises to be a valua- 

 ble acquisition to the British farmer. It is an 

 early and remarkably hardy sort ; standing the 

 winter's frost without injury, — podding about the 

 first of June, and ripening in the latter end of 

 July. It may be sown any time between the I5th 

 of September, and the middle of October. Any 

 wheat stubble, in pretty good heart, is suitable ; 

 and no parlicnlar preparation of the ground is ne- 

 cessary. Its early jiodding secures it from the 

 attack of both insects and mildew ; — and being so 

 soon off the ground is an advantage which need 

 not be pointed out to the practical farmer. The 

 produce is about f<inr quarters per acre. We 

 hear Messrs Gibbs, seednien, Piccadilly, have been 

 cultivating them to some extent, and of course 

 can supply the seed in any moderate quantity." — 

 Brilish Farmer''s Magazine, vol. ii. No. 6, p. 72. 



" SOWING FIELD TEAS. 



A correspondent requests information on a 

 practice which is new to him, and may be also to 

 many of our readers, namely, the sowing of field 

 ])eas late in the autumn, which are said to resist 

 the severity of winter, ripen considerably earlier 

 than peas sown in the spring, and to be equally, if 

 not more prolific, than the latter usually are." — 

 n. No. 7, p. 206. 



Last winter a vagrant, grog-drinki:ig tinker, 

 straggled into South Hadley, and remained there 

 some time, getting tipsy as often as he could pro- 

 cure the means. On a stormy day in Marcli, he 

 left a house on the plain to go to the Canal, but 

 did not return, and nobody knew what had be- 

 come of him. On the 15th inst, a dead body was 

 found in the woods a few rods from the road, and 

 about a mile from the Canal ; and the clothes 

 flowed that it was the body of the vagrant. It 

 was in a putrid state, and the head was torn to 

 pieces, probably by dogs. — Hamp. Gaz. 



English Pronunciation. — Most English- works 

 of merit appear iti Germany in the original, or in 

 translations. To translate English prose h very 

 easy to the Germans, but they complain micli of 

 our pronunciation, which is, to them, a perfect 

 chaos. It is incomprehensible to them that 

 enough, and though should not rh3'me, and that 

 enough and hlujf' should. The greatest diflicuity, 

 however, is the th of our language, which is hard- 

 er to them than Shibboleth was for the Ephraim- 

 ites. Mr Dwight, a late American traveller, says 

 he never met with but one German who could 

 say, thirty-three thousand things. With all their 

 efforts, and after screwing and twisting their faces 

 into all shapes, they can only bring forth elirty 

 dree dousand dings. — Ibid. 



Wool. — Large quantities of grade and full blond 

 wool from this county, Berkshire, &c. have been 

 sold to the manufacturers within a few weeks ; 

 but we have not been able to obtain so accurate 

 information respecting prices as we could wish. 

 Some has been sold as low as 25 cents, and we 

 have heard of one lot which brought 43 cents. — 

 We believe that the greater part has been sold for 

 from 30 to 35 cents ; the-average does not prob- 

 ably exceed 32 or 33 cents. The fleeces may 

 have averaged between 90 and 100 cents each. 



Grain Three or four boat loads of grain have 



been brought to Northampton from Vermont.— | The Baltimore Chronicle mentions, that Cant. 

 The rye was sold at 83 cents, corn 67 cents, and ! Kearney, of the Navy, has brought with him from 

 oats 3S cents. These were the wholesale prices ; ' Port Mahon, " two Jacks, four Jennies, a Thibet 

 the retail i>rice for rye is about 02 cents, and of Puim, and a Turkish Horse— the latter a most 

 corn about 75 or 80 cents. A boat load of Mary- | beautiful gray, from the mountains, about ICO 

 land corn has been brought up the river, and sold! miles east of Smyrna ; is small, but very perfect- 

 here for horse feed at 67 cents. | |y formed, can climb like a goa't, and isVemarka- 



The crops of grain are said to be promising in i biy docile. The ram, which is on the farm of 

 all parts of the country, and the prices nmst be Robert Oliver, Esq., is of the species celebrated 

 low after harvest.— /kV. , for its very broad tail, and fur the delicious flavor 



. of the muttoji. One of the Jennies is three years 

 OVER TRADING. | old, and only about thirty inches high, but pro- 



[The following remarks are as applicable to I'ortionably formed, and is truly an interesting an- 

 other villages as to Middlebury.] imal."— L. /. Star. 



There is, beyond doubt, too great a disposition • 



to oye)--/rarfc among the people — a habit of swell- Muscatel Grapes. — The Muscatel grajie vine 

 ing expenses so as to pledge the income of a ' '^^s been raised near Adamsville, South Carolina, 

 season in advance, rather than a determination to | f™ni t''e seed of the raisin. A late paper from 

 curtail them within the amount of earnings al- j '•'«' quarter says, " the vines are apparently ihrif- 

 ready made. A friend of ours has made an esti- j 'i' ""d flourishing, and bid fair to jnoduce fruit 



mate, founded upon considerable inquiry, of the 

 amount probably due at this moment to the mer- 

 chants of our village. He assured himself, that it 

 did not fall much short of one hundred thousand 

 dollars ; and it is probably safe to say, that from 

 30 to 40,000 dollars of this sum is due by citizens 

 of Middlebury alone. Now we wish to inquire of 

 our friends, — and an inquiry of the sort may be 

 appropriately made in almost any tov.n, — how this 

 heavy debt is to be paid oft'? What must be the 

 inevitable result, if merchants in Boston and New 

 York, who are already much pressed, should de- 

 mand of our country dealers a prompt payment ? 

 These will not consent to stop business until they 

 have pursued their customers through the courts 

 of law ; and where in Jliddlebury can $30,000 

 or even $10,000 be raised to i)ay off the shop- 

 keepers without great perplexity and sacrifice .' 

 It is unquestionably true, and it is a fact upon 

 which we wish the people to think, that the prop- 

 erty of many of our citizens is indirectly at the 

 mercy of the merchants in large towns; and that 

 commercial revulsions, which are sudden and not 

 unfrequent, may compel them to discharge their 

 debts by a sacrifice of entire estates. It is the 

 object of our present brief remarks to call the at- 

 tention of the farmer and mechanic to a subject 

 at all times interesting, and one which may be of 

 disastrous importance to them in times of com- 

 mercial and manufacturing difficulty — such as we 

 apprehend will in some degree soon be felt. We 

 cannot too often repeat that the system of over- 

 trading — of living upon the liberal calculations of 

 profits yet to be made — has kept and still keeps a 

 large portion of our fellow citizens in entire de- 

 jicndence upon the merchant and spectdator. — Vt. 

 American. 



this season. We sincerely hope that the attem'-.t 

 to naturalize this delicious exotic may be crowned 

 with success, and at the same time recommend to 

 our agricultural readers a further (rial of the ex- 

 periment." — Masonic Record. 



Making Butter in ffinter. — A writer in the 

 Ainerican Farmer, asserts that the quality of but- 

 ter is injured in proportion to the time which the 

 cream takes to rise ; and that cream which has 

 been long rising, reipiires more labor and time in 

 churning. To expedite the rise of the cream, 

 the vessels containing the milk should be kept in 

 warm water of uniform temperature. Cream ob- 

 tained in this way produces sweeter butter, and 

 requires, in the operation of churning, never more 

 than twenty-five minutes.' 



The object of setting pans of milk in cool wa- 

 ter, in summer, is to prevent the nfilk from be- 

 coming sour, and afford the cream a longer time 

 to rise. 



Oranges. — This excellent fruit finds a congenial 

 soil in the territory of Florida. It is computed 

 that upwards of fifteen hundred thousand oranges 

 are gathered every year at St Augustine. Many 

 of the trees, (says Mr White, tiie Florida delegate 

 in Congress,) bearing 4000 oranges, are believed 

 to be 120 years old. The lemon, citron, lime, 

 and olive thrive equally well. — Bchiderc Apollo. 



Transplanting Cedars. — About the year 1820, 

 in the month of February, xohen there was no frost 

 in the ground, I took up about eighty smaH cedars, 

 retaining a small ball of earth about each, and 

 planted them for a hedge. More than seventy of 

 them arc now living, and form a pretty close 

 heilge, which has been trimmed to about breast 

 high for several vears. — Am. Farmer. 



The Weather. — Since the first week in June, the 

 atmosidiere has been so remarkably cool and drv, 

 that some fears are entertained that the sprint- 

 crops will be extremely light. The short showers 

 which have occasionally fallen, cculd not bo of 

 much service to the ground, already so much 

 parched, while the air continued so alarmiii'dy 

 dry. Hay will be light in this vicinity, beyond a 

 doubt. Indian corn will scarcely recover, even 

 should the weather become more congenial to its 

 growth. Fruit of all kinds has suffered extreme- 

 ly. Such are the prospects for the farmer, so far 

 as our information extends. — Catskill Recorder. 



I A writer in the Mobile Register of May 29, 

 asks, " What are we to do for corn, and hay for 

 our horses through the summer ? There is not 

 as much in our market as will answer the con- 

 smnption. Corn is said to be two dollars a barrel, 

 and hay is two dollars a hundred." 



It is now about six months since a law was 

 passed prohibiting the circulation of any bank 

 notes mider the denomination of five dollars in 

 Pennsylvania. This arrangement has met with 

 general approbation and support! The numerous 

 gangs of counterfeiters and passers of counterfeit 

 money no longer find business in that State, and 

 have retired to the State of Now York. 



