THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



approved, from any known trini, for iis culture to 

 be continued. It is meniiontul here merely be- 

 cause of its resemblance in appearance lo J^oliiim 

 tcviulcntum, and lor another reason, its luiviii<; 

 been recently introduced and spread abroad \n tliis 

 country (either I'rom ignorance or designed decep- 

 tion of seedsmen) as "■English greensward,'" and 

 as such sown lor a good yard or lawn grass. For 

 this purpose iis manner of growth is altogether 

 unsuitable; and those persons who have thrown 

 away their labor and expense in the trial, are addi- 

 tional examples of the many who have been de- 

 ceived and put to loss by the application ol' impro- 

 per nan)es to grasses, which ought to be, and 

 otherwise would be, well known by name as well 

 ae by qualities. E. R. 



FATTENING SWINE. 



From Eliott's Husbandry, 1747. 



I find by experience the best time to fatten 

 ewine is to begin at the first of August, if you 

 liave old corn. Hogs will fat slowly in very cold 

 weather : they will eat much and latlen but little : 

 if you make a very warm house, they heat in bed 

 and catch cold when they come out into the cold 

 air. 



To save corn, steep it in water or swill till the 

 corn grows very soft ; this opens the parts : give 

 ihem the corn to eat and the water to drink in 

 which the corn has been steeped : the hard dry 

 corn, a great deal of it, passeth through them 

 undigested ; this is the hardest part of the corn 

 and that which principally makes the flour. There 

 is a tradition that if you leed one hog with corn, 

 the dung of the first hog wdl fat another hog, and 

 his dung a third. Although I believe the story 

 to be (abulons, yet it serves to show that the sense 

 of mankind is, that in the manner we feed swine, 

 there is a great deal of loss. 



I took ihe hint of steeping corn, from the ad- 

 vantage I once found by some corn I bought that 

 had been shipwrecked, and lain in the v/ater till 

 it was grown soft. 



Such is the difference in corn and in swine, 

 that it is impossible to fix it absolutely and know 

 certainly how much there is saved by this method. 

 It is better than grinding, besides what we save in 

 the toll and the time and charge of the carriage ; 

 for it is found by experience, that even bran, when 

 steeped in water a long time, is much the better. 



I asked an honest, and judicious neighbor of 

 mine, who had leisure to try this method ofsteep- 

 incr corn longer and with more exactness than I 

 had done, how much bethought was saved by it? 

 He said, at least one bushel in seven — he believed 

 more. 



Since the foregoin? was written, a person of 

 good credit informed me that there being in his 

 neighborhood a dealer in horses, who was famous 

 for skill in making horses fat in a short time ; he 

 desired the jockey to tell him how he did it: the 

 secret was to mix Indian corn and oats together 

 and soak it in water till it was soft ; that in cold 

 weather he steeped it in a cellar, that it might 

 be kept from freezing. 



My informant told me, he had made trial of it 

 and found it did well, giving it to his horse in the 



same proportion as he was wont to do of dry pro- 

 vender. 



suivcivrAHir of nuvts. 



Friday, September 3, 1841. 



An individual named Thomas M. Harlup, has been 

 committed to prison at Washington, on the charge 

 of having been one of those concerned in the mob 

 that insulted the President. — Phil. Led. 



R. C. Knapp, brother of the Cashier of the Mineral 

 Point Bank, has been arrested and held to bail in the 

 sum of #120,000. This is the bank in which the 

 Commissioners could find no money. Knapp was 

 found to be in possession of about $100,000 in drafts, 

 checks, certificates of deposit, bank bills, &.C., belong- 

 ing to the bank, most ingeniously secured under the 

 blank or fly leaves of some books. The amount is 

 supposed to be sufficient to render the bills of the 

 bank worth 75 cents to the dollar. — 76. 



The greatest fall of water ever known in Charles- 

 ton, came upon us on Tuesday (Aug. 2.3) afternoon 

 and night — principally between 11 o'clock in the 

 evening and daylight. The continuous roar of the 

 rain was like the thunder of the ocean in a storm. 

 The quantity of water which fell from 9 A. M. 

 Tuesday to 9 A.M. Wednesday, we learn from the 

 Citadel, was 7 24.100 inches. The actual period 

 during which this deluge was pouring, was not over 

 7 hours. The cellars in all the lower situations of 

 the city were flooded, some to the depth of two feet, 

 and much loss was sustained by those who had va- 

 luable groceries in their cellars. The city drains in 

 some places were burst by the press of water. The 

 damage to the crops from this frightful flood cannot 

 but be great, as there was every appearance that the 

 rain was general, and it was also accompanied by 

 considerable wind. The business prospects for the 

 coming season are very gloomy. The health of the 

 city, however, continues good — probably it was never 

 better at this season, and we have now a fair prospect 

 of escaping the visitation of yellow fever." — Ch. 

 Mercury. 



The bark Eugenia, from Vera Cruz, brought $81,000 

 in specie to New York. But no matter how much 

 specie is brought into the United States by the course 

 of trade, as much and more will as fast be sent abroad, 

 by the necessary operation of the bank suspension 

 and irredeemable paper policy. 



The bill for distributing the proceeds of the public 

 lands among the states has passed both houses of Con- 

 gress. But by an amendment of the senate, its gene- 

 ral and worst practical operation is restrained. This 

 amendment provides that the distribution shall not 

 take place when the tariff' of duties is made to exceed 

 20 per cent. Thus the land distribution must either 

 serve to keep down the exnrbitancyof a protective tariff, 

 or such a tariff will nullify the land distribution. The 

 operation of the new bankrupt bill does not com- 

 mence until next February. This will allow time 

 for amendments at the regular session. 



The revenue bill is still before Congress. 



It is now considered doubtful whether the last bill 

 to establish a national bank will ever, by passir)g the 

 senate, reach the president. Should it be so however, 

 his veto may be deemed certain — and a dissolution 

 of the present cabinet is^ certain to follow. 



United States bank stock sold this week in Phila- 

 delphia as low as 8 J dollars for the 100 — but has since 

 risen to 10|. 



