VOL. XVI. NO. i7. 



AND GAKDENEB'S JOURNAL 



so„,et,mes boti, h.alth an.l life are .lestroye.l.* 

 If ladicH in.M.st „pon making thi.s ascent, their 

 dress shoul.l l,e adapted to the service, an,l none 

 sliouM attempt it l.nt thos« uf firm health an.l 

 sound luns-s an;! although this remark applies to 

 them 1.1 a peculiar manner, it is decide.lly appli- 

 cable al.so to those of the other sex. 

 To be continued. 



e.l ; bnt on its arrival we shall take care to place 

 it in such hm.ls as will be able to give a proper 

 account of it 



POUDRETTE. 



We give place with pleasure to the subjoine.l 

 article on account of our esteemed friend .Minor, 

 who certainly deserves success.' We have been 

 familiar with the use of the crude article in this 

 vicinity for many years ; and with it abundantly 

 mixed with mould and lime. We can speak 

 liighly of its efficacy in the former state ; both in 

 llie hill for corn and as a lop dres.<.ing for gra,ss. 

 The objection that its effects are not lasting we do 

 not consi.ler as deserving much consideration.— 

 Nothing lasts long in this worhl ; nor was ever 

 designed to do so ; but its lasts long enough to 

 compensate most fully for its application. We 

 are apprise,! of the form of preparation which it 

 undergoes in the New York or rather French pro- 

 cess. The material added to it for the purpose 

 of disinfecting it of its bad odor, and rnudering it 

 portable, and easily distributable, forms about an 

 eight part of the compound ; and does not, like 

 l.n.e, destroy its strength. Indeed the article it- 

 self used for this purpose is a good manure. The 

 dividends promised on a share in the Company 

 will bo u.ost ample and liberal; and as the com- 

 pound can be sold at once at tlie yard to farmers 

 '" the vicinity, shares in the company would af- 

 ford a profit of fifty per cent, per annum. 'J'he 

 company is incorporated under the general act of 

 the Legis.'aturc of New York ; and to persons 

 'I'sposed to aid the company, we ourselves from 

 long acquaintance feel entirely satisfied that im- 

 plicit confidence may be reposed in any state- 

 mcnts made by the principal agent, Mr D K Mi 

 nor, N. Y. 



The barrel referred to has not yet been recciv. 



•An eminent writer and orator, one of the brio-hesl 

 ornaments „f ,lu. country, assured me, thnt he Teve 

 recovered from die effects of a rap.d a.c^nt in |„s y.'uh 

 up Mount Ascutney, near Windsor, in Vermont' llich 

 18 not half so high as Mount W,-,shin..ion 



A very lovely and accomplished young lady, of fine 

 alents but „l a spirit which only rose with the diflicuT 



scent up Mount Washington, only a lew yeais sinr7 

 he fjunda ion of an ilhie.s which cut her off prema.' 

 urely ,a a foreign land. 1 Knew her well. I VayTdd 

 ISO, a an encouragement to those who have le.s vio-or 

 (lat 1 have known a gentleman of a very feeble frame 



larming attacks of disease, ascend Mount Ascutney 



^cessive fatigue; but it was done very slowly and 

 mh frequent pauses and resting to recover. I was of 



.e sutfered. If these remarks are of any value to the 

 oung adventurer, who may thus be saved from iniury 

 ^eir introduction on this occasion will be excused ^' 

 mum n-?':?' ■" •L°"^'<'"'i''le observation among 

 garded """"'' '^ '""'' ^"gg^^'i""' "« too litde 



Mw York, May 14, 1838. 

 To the Editor of the N. E. Farmrr: 



I>KAK Sir—You have probably noticed in the 

 New York Farmer, that I have been engaged for 

 soine time p:ist in introducing an improvement in 

 "city economy," by which the contents of privies 

 an article of great value to Agriculture now thrown 

 away, anrl worse than that, as they a,;-, deposited in 

 ttie rivers around the city, instead of bciii<T as I 

 trust hereafter they are to be, converted imn an 

 inoffensive and portable manure. The subject 

 was brought to my attention last year, by a French 

 gentleman, who is familiar with the process in his 

 native country, and who is now engaged in the 

 operation with me here. 



We have had many prejudices to combat on ac- 

 count of the nature of the business, and many dif- 

 hciilties to encounter on account of the general 

 derangement of business, which have delayed our 

 operations, yet we are now preparing about 60 

 bushels ofPoudrette daily, and have a prospect of 

 doing much more after a short time, when other 

 business shall have resumed its accustomed ac- 

 tivity, so that a few additional share.? of our stock 

 m.iy be paid for which will enable us to increase 



the number of teams required to. " remove the de- 

 posits. ' 



Of the value of « Poudrette " as a manure no 

 person of my acquaintance, familiar with its i.rep. 

 aration entertains a doubt, yet there are iew per- 

 sons in this country who are sufficiently ac.piain- 

 ted with its u.se to appreciate duly the benefits 

 which will surely result from the labors of those 

 who shall intro.lucea mode of preparation by 

 which the immense amount of valuable material 

 now thrown into our rivers, and of course, a ,iui- 

 sance to all classes of the community, shall be 

 converted into an inoflfensive portable and hi-hlv 

 valuable manure. The process of (.reparation, in 

 my opinion does not materially if at all deteriorate 

 Its value, as I will satisfy you when you will visit 

 our works. 



That you may be better acquainted with the 

 article, and have an opportunity to test its value, 

 as well as its inoffensive character and portahility, 

 I send you a barrel, and shall be much obliged by 

 your using it for any kind of vegetables, or grain, 

 or on grass, as may be convenient for you and 

 noting Its effects as compared with other ma- 

 nures. 



I cannot give practical instruction as to the best 

 mode of application, but will observe that I am 

 nsing It in my garden, for experimental purposes 

 by putting some in the hill, some in drills, and 

 spreading some broadcast and raking it in. 



I estimate its strenglh, or value, in the propor- 

 tion, of one bushel of Poudrette to ei-rht or ten 

 bushels of good stable or barnyard manure, and 

 equal, bushel for busiiel, to bone dust. We have 

 not yet, for want of means to extend our works 

 been able to furijsh a bushel' to any person except 

 those who have taken a share or shares of our 

 stock, although numerous applications have been 

 made for it, in small and large quantities, as well 

 by gentlemen in neighboring States as by those in 

 this vicinity. 



To tho.se who pay in $100, or take a share, we 

 lurnish two hundred bushels of Poudrette as their 

 annual dividend, within three and six months from 



the time of payment which is equivalent to sixty 

 per cent, on their ihvestinent, as we can receive 

 at the works, thirty cents for every bushel we 

 make. 



We hope soon to be able to extend our works 

 HO as to furnish Poudrette in large quantities, and 

 i am in hopes that important benefits will result 

 from this new source of improvement to a.nicnl. 

 ture. 1 say new source—it is new in this country 

 at least m its application lo any extent. The en- 

 qu.ryis«/.o,." and " Ao,<, mucA " shall we use- 

 not " IS It useful," all appreciate i.svalue, but most 

 persons are too delicate to think it can be made 

 useable. 



I hope to hear from the effects oC the barrel sent 

 to you shipped on the Uth iiist. on board of the 

 sclir. Marietta, Matson, master. 

 1 am sir, very truly 



Your ob't servant, 



D. K. MINOPv. 



( For the N. E. Farmer, j 



CRUEL MODE OF SLAUGHTERING 



CALVES. 

 It is a well known fact that some butchers, both 

 in England and this country, make it a practice to 

 suspend calves by the hind legs for some hours 

 previously to killing iliein, and then to bleed them 

 slowly to death, in order to render the flesh white 

 For the attainment of the same u.seless object, this 

 most harmless of all creatures is made to suffer 

 during the whole period of its short existence — 

 During the first eight weeks of im life, it is bled 

 in the neck, i^erhaps twice every week, in order 

 to prevent its getting into robust health, which 

 might make its flesh less delicate. When it has 

 attained the age of four months, it is perhaps sold 

 to the butcher, who bleeds it once or twice before 

 It 13 killed, sometimes so copiously that the poor 

 animal falls down through weakness, and some- 

 times dies in the course of the night, owin- to 

 mere exhaustion. Should it survive, it is in due 

 time pulled up by a rope tied to the hinder legs 

 and the fatal knife applied. Sometimes the last 

 ceremony is preceded by a stunning blow on the 

 head. 'J'he bleeding is performed by tying a rope 

 pretty tightly round the neck, and opening the 

 vein ; the bleeding is stopped by removing the 

 ligature, and running a pin tlirough the two edges 

 of the wound to keep them together. Let the 

 lovers of white veal contemplate this treatment of 

 the poor animal; let them remember that when 

 they refuse to allow on their tables any hut pale 

 sickly veal, they sentence the poor calf to the mis- 

 ery of being kept in a constant state of artificial 

 weakness and ill health ; that the butcher, to 

 please them, will not buy a calf that has the bri-rht 

 aild hery eye of health ; that to bring a proper 

 price, the eye mu.st be dull, white and ghastly ■ 

 in hne, that the whiter the vea! the more sickly 

 was the calf Can any one believe that such food 

 IS the best.' and may we not suspect this state of 

 the flesh to be often the cause of the disturbance 

 of health which eating veal is, sometimes known 

 to produce .' 



Milk Sickness.- The Legislature of Ky. at 

 their last session, passed a bill awarding §0 QOO 

 premium for the discovery of the cause of the 



di-sease termed milk sickness Vevny (Ind) 



Timet. ^ '' 



