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spiiily sujri^est, or one equally potent, be applit-cl. I lionet! extent of surlace. On a wall only twenty- 

 Tlie sympioiiis where liie aittick is violent, are live inches in height, and eighteen leei in length, 

 a seeming sense of sutrocaiion, great iiuiisposilion I have lor years trained a vine that is a perlect 

 to move, a deep crimson color, a()|iroachiiig to |)icture of leriiliiy, the whole surliice of the wall 

 purple, all over tiie body, and if forced to move being every year literally covered vviili fine grapes 

 onlv a liiw paces, the animal will pant as if wor- [close down to the very stem of the plant. It will 



rieii by dogs in hot weaiher. If the attack is le 

 violent they will lake more exercise with seem- 

 inurly less pain, will throb in the flanks in much 

 the same way that a horse will when exhausted 

 by (iiiigue and hard usage, are generally inaiten- 

 live to iheir company, are inclined to eat earth 

 rather than their accustomed Ibod ; such general- 

 ly live a long time, but never recover. 1 now 

 proceed to point out the way to prevent the dis- 

 ease, and to cure it if taken in time : Do not suf- 

 ler your hogs to herd together in large lots in 

 cold weather; never sufler them to sleep in hollow 

 trees ; if you have sheds lor them to sleep under 

 let them be set so low that they cannot in great 

 numbers heap together; in dry hard-lreezing 

 weaiher let them have some succulent food, such 

 as apples, potatoes or turnips, but especially let 

 them have plenty of salt and charcoal ; this last 

 is a cure lor the disease above described, if ad- 

 ministered before they entirely refuse to eat. It 

 is known to almost every one, that charcoal is a 

 powerful antiseptic and absorbent, and that hog? 

 will search for and eat it with eagerness, and 

 especially in banks of leached ashes, and so they 

 will unassociated with ashes, if at fiist you will 

 break it up into small lumps and pour a little salt 

 and water over it. 1 have tried the various means 

 in common use, such as tar, antimony, sulphur, 

 &c., and never had one to recover its health until 

 I tried the charcoal, and I have every confidence 

 that it will succeed with others as it has with 

 me, and if it does, I shall be well paid for this 

 communication, feeling as I do, that no n:ian 

 ought to live for himself alone. W. 



GROWTH OF THE VI^E IN ENGLAND. 



From Hoare's Cultivation of tlie Vine. 

 It is not too much to assert that the surface of 

 the walls of every cottage of a medium size that 

 is applicable to the training of vines is capable of 

 producing annually as many grapes as would be 

 worth half the amount of its rental. Every 

 square foot of the surface of a wall may, in a 

 short space of time, be covered with bearing wood, 

 sufficient to produce, on an average, a pound 

 weight of grapes, and I have frequently grown 

 double that quantity on a similar exientof surface. 

 Nor must it be supposed that a single vine re- 

 quires lllpits training a large portion of walling. 

 That very common notion has, no doubt, arisen 

 from the universally defective method of pruning 

 and managing ; whereby the wood is suffered^ 

 and indeed encouraged, to extend itself most dis- 

 proportionately beyond the capability of iis fr-uit- 

 bearing powers. I scarcely ever allot more than 

 from forty to fifty square leet of surface for one 

 vine ; and, unless the soil and situation be very 

 superior indeed, a single vine will require a space 

 of lime, not less than twenty years at leasi, be- 

 fore it will possess a suflicient degree of strength 

 to enable it to mature annually a greater quaniily 

 oi grapes than can be trained on (he Itsi-men- 



ihus be seen that small detached portions and 

 vacant spaces of the surface of walls, which in 

 innumerable instances are deemed of no value, 

 and are therefore neglected, may be turned to a 

 most beneficial account. 



WHEAT AND PEAS, ALTERNATELY. 



From the Franlilin Farmer. 

 Professor Eaton states, in his Agricultural 

 Survey of Rensselaer County, that on the Knicker- 

 backer estate in Schaghticoke, the soil of which 

 may be considered as the standard of excellence, 

 containing 15 per cent, of animal and vegetable 

 matter, and a large proportion of carbonate of 

 lime, the Ibllowing simple system of rotation is 

 pursued : 



The rotation method which has always been 

 adopted by this family, (they have occupied it 

 one hundred and twenty years, and five genera- 

 tions have been born upon it,) has been in the 

 Ibllowing simple order. Certain fields have been 

 alternately devoted to wheat and peas. Those 

 fields are sowed to peas in April. Immediately 

 after the peas are harvested, it is ploughed three 

 times, and sowed, from the lOlh to the 20ih of 

 September, to wheat. Alter the wheat harvest 

 it is pastured, until winter ; but no grass or clover 

 seed is ever sown upon it, as these grow up spon- 

 taneously in great abundance. Sometimes oats 

 and flax are substituted for peas. Thus a crop is 

 harvested on each wheal field every other year, — 

 one year wheat, the other peas, oats, or flax. 

 Though no manure is ever applied to this land, it 

 has yielded from twenty-five to thirty bushels of 

 wheat per acre every other year, for ages past. 



Certain other fields are devoted to Indian corn, 

 potatoes, &c. In the culture of these there has 

 been nearly the same uniformity. 1st. Corn and 

 potatoes. 2d. Spring-sown grain. 3d. Wheat. 

 Thus corn returns every fourth year. 



The whole of Seaghlicoke flats, consisting of 

 almost two thousand acres, is very similar in 

 quality, and cultivated in a similar manner. It is 

 wholly river alluvion, in which the Hosick and 

 the Tomhanick unite their waters. 



THE EIDER-DUCK IN ICELAND. 



From ttie Dillon's Winter in Iceland aud Lapland, 

 The whole of ihn hill to the west of the house 

 was strewn with nesis of ducks. So much do 

 ihese interesting birds feel their security in Vidoe, 

 that five of them had choisen as Iheir location the 

 ground under a narrow bench that runs along the 

 windows of the house; and so perfectly fiiarless 

 were they, that, wiifiout moving away, they 

 would perk ai ihe hand that disturbed them. 

 The rising ground is particularly favorable for 

 ihe birds to build on, being covered with hollows 

 and inequaliiies, mat serve to protect them from 



