VOL. XII. NO. 1. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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Interrogatories. 



1. What natural resources of manures have you ? 

 Which Jo you prefer, and how do you use either 

 sort you have, and the quantity per acre. 



2. What are your means of making manure and 

 the methods you adopt? 



3. Have you any particular system in relation to 

 manures and manuring, and what is it ? 



4. In what state ought manure to be hauled out 

 into the field to impart most benefit to the land and 

 crops ? 



5. Have you tried various modes of planting and 

 growing Indian corn and which do you prefer ? 



6. What is the best mode of laying off a farm 

 taking into consideration fields, lots, homestead, 

 garden, orchard and pasture ? 



7. What third crop, or additional crops do yon 

 believe that a farmer can most advantageously 

 grow with a given number of hands, who grows 

 a full crop of Indian Corn and Wheat ? 



8. What do you believe to be the best mode all 

 things considered, of threshing out wheat, for far- 

 mers of moderate means, who have no other 

 sources of support than the produce of their farms ? 



9. Have you any plan, or do you know of any 

 that has been practised that makes young Horses, 

 Cattle, Hogs or Sheep more exempt from disease 

 — and what is it ? 



10. What is the best and cheapest mode of rear- 

 ing colts. 



11. What is the best and cheapest mode of 

 rearing Calves ? 



12. What is tho best and cheapest mode of 

 keeping a stock of Hogs ? Do you keep hogs of 

 different kinds and sizes separate from each other, 

 and how ? What is the best disposal of pigs after 

 they are weaned to make them earliest fit forthe pen? 



13. What species of Sheep do you consider 

 most valuable to Farmers generally — and what is 

 the best mode of managing sheep and lambs ? 



14. What is the best and most economical 

 mode of keeping milch Cows in full milk during 

 winter. 



15. Do you consider Oxen valuable as hauling 

 beasts — what is the best manner of breaking them 

 to the yoke — and what the best and cheapest 

 mode of feeding them in winter when put to se- 

 vere work ? 



16. What is the cheapest and most attainable 

 drench for a horse that will operate quickest and 

 safes: as a purgative ? What the proportions — 

 how mixed — and how given ? 



17. Are you of opinion that, by the present 

 mode of farming, our lands are impoverished more 

 than they were formerly? if you believe they are, 

 what is the cause ? 



In attempting to draw the attention of the agri- 

 cultural world to the foregoing interrogatories, and 

 by them to such subjects as are immediately con- 

 nected with agriculture, the Board are well aware 

 that there is a vast deal of valuable information- 

 among a certain class of judicious practical farm- 

 ers, who are unaccustomed to write, to which they 

 desire to have access, that they may bring it be- 

 fore the world for the general instruction of all. 

 Such farmers thus unaccustomed to commit their 

 thoughts and views to writing, may feel a difficulty 

 or even repugnance to appear before the world as 

 authors. To such we say^ it is so desirable to 

 gain your knowledge and experience upon this 

 great subject that so much concerns us all, that if 

 you will only furnish us with the plain matters of 

 fact, and with your experience to be laid before 

 the Board, we will give to them the necessary form, 



and treating such communications as we do those 

 of our own members whatever we find advisable 

 to publish we will do so, declaring the true au- 

 thor's name or not, as the person furnishing the 

 information may wish. 



To Farmers accustomed to commit their thoughts 

 to paper, we would suggest, how useful they 

 might be, not only in giving to the world the re- 

 sults of their own practical experience with their 

 reasonings upon it, but in drawing upon the valu- 

 able stores of knowledge amassed by their broth- 

 er farmers, before alluded to, in aiding them to 

 communicate — or, where unobtrusive merit, chast- 

 ened by habits of rural retirement, is averse to meet 

 the public scrutiny, to collect and collate from 

 their treasures of knowledge and practical experi- 

 ence, and present the valued offering to the world. 



Nothing can be more desirable than a continued, 

 regular, and general contribution of agricultural 

 knowledge — it- promotes the interest of individ- 

 uals and families, and gives wealth to nations — it 

 throws abundance and improvements all around — 

 and whilst it is thus the means of plenty, it pro- 

 motes peace — it elevates and gires dignity and eclat 

 to the profession of the plough — it rescues it from 

 the unmerited obloquy of being a dull, subordi- 

 nate, and contracted pursuit, by showing that its 

 sphere of action embraces earth and skies— and last 

 though not least, it shows that the practical agri- 

 culturist, most of all men, is daily, hourly re- 

 minded of his dependence upon the Great Ruler 

 of the Universe, on whose bounteous will, depends 

 the success of every hour's labor — whose Sun and 

 Clouds throw fatness over the land, and whose 

 mercies are tasted in every fruit, and flower, and 

 balmy breeze, as well as witnessed in every plant 

 and blade of grass that springs. 



With an earnest desire to be in some way use- 

 ful to the great interests of agriculture, the Board 

 is ever ready to fulfil the original objects of its in- 

 stitution 'in promoting Cattle Shows and Fairs 

 whenever a disposition is manifested by the com- 

 munity to bear with them an equal portion of the 

 necessary incidental pecuniary charges— until 

 which time they are disposed to give all aid iu 

 their power to another object, viz. that of collect- 

 ing and diffusing abroad the best agricultural 

 knowledge and experience within their reach, to 

 enable them to do which more effectually they in- 

 vite the co-operation of agriculturists far and near. 

 By order of the Board, 



It. II. Goldsborough, Chairman. 



Martin Goldsborough, Sec'ry. 



WHEAT FLOUR. 



In looking over a small volume, entitled "Phi- 

 losophical Recreations," published by John Bab- 

 cock, Esq. London, we meet with the subjoined 

 method of testing wheat flour. As we knew of no 

 better means whereby the purity of this " Staff' 

 of Life" could be ascertained, and supposed that 

 in this respect there were many like us, we con- 

 cluded it would be well to transfer it to our own 

 paper for the benefit of its readers : 



" Flour which is pure and unadulterated, may 

 be known by your seizing a handful briskly, and 

 squeezing it half a minute; it preserves the form 

 of the hand in one piece, although placed rudely 

 on the table. Not so with that which contains 

 foreign substances ; its adhesive property is weak, 

 and it falls to pieces immediately. The whiteness 

 of flour is no evidence of its goodness; the differ- 

 ent materials used in adulterating flour, have a 

 tendency to whiten it. — Maryland Republican) 



THE CHOLERA. 



At Cincinnati, for the week ending on the 15th 

 there were forty-six deaths, 24 of which wen re- 

 turned as of cholera. During the corresponding 

 week of 1832, there were only 15 interments. 



At Lexington, Ky., from the first breaking out 

 of the disease up to the 14th June, the number of 

 deaths is variously estimated at from 200 to 350, 

 including many persons of great worth and re- 

 spectability. 



At Wheeling on the 20th, 3 cases and four 

 deaths. 



At Bridgeport it has abated. At Mavs\ille it 

 still prevails. At Nashville it was also abating. 



The papers teem with prescriptions for the cure 

 of cholera, and we have given one or two of them. 

 The disease varies so much that reliance can be 

 placed on none of them. All cases of diarrhoea 

 ought to be immediately attended to, and the judg- 

 ment of the physician must be mainly depended 

 on. 



Remedies. Dr. McNairy of Nashville, during 

 the prevalence of the cholera, had 50 cases and 

 lost but one. His remedy was to dissolve a table 

 spoonful of salt in a common sized tumbler of hot 

 water, and 3 or 4 glasses will generally vomit, keep 

 up the vomiting until the stomach is completely 

 unloaded, then administer a dose of oil, or oil and 

 calomel. 



Dr. Drake of Cincinnati says, the first symptoms 

 of cholera are, in most cases, a diarrhoea or lax, 

 slight sickness of stomach, weakness of the limbs 

 and dizziness. Of all the directions that could be 

 given against the epidemic, none is so important 

 as to attend at once to these early symptoms. 

 They are best removed by an early dose of calo- 

 mel, of 10 or 15 grains; to which, if the individual 

 have much pain or is chilly, or the lax is profuse, 

 a grain of opium, with or without a couple of grains 

 of red or black pepper or camphor should be add- 

 ed. — The dose may be repeated every 2, 4, or 6 

 hours, during which the patient should take little 

 other drink than warm ley of common wood ashes. 

 All who are suddenly or violently attacked with 

 these symptoms, or have fever, should be bled ; 

 and if the feet be cold, bathe them in hot salt 

 water. They should likewise lie down, as nothing 

 is so apt to convert a mild into a fatal case, as 

 going about. Finally, all who may be affected, 

 even in the slightest degree, should refrain entirely 

 from solid food, and take gruel or weak broth. 



At Maysville, Ky., all the usual remedies failed, 

 and it is said that the Thompsonian practice suc- 

 ceeded. 



The cholera has prevailed and is prevailing at 

 Flemingsburg, Washington, Georgetown, Paris and 

 Cynthiana, and in the neighborhood of those places, 

 in Kentucky ; at Aurora and Brookville in Indiana, 

 and at Columbia, below the mouth of little Miami. 

 Dr. Drake is decidedly of the opinion that the whole 

 western country will be visited by it during the 

 present year. 



How truly may it be said, that " in the midst of 

 life we are in death !" A dreadful pestilence is 

 spreading its wing over the land, levelling all be- 

 fore it : it spares neither age nor sex, the temper- 

 ate as well as the intemperate, the righteous as 

 well as the unrighteous, are alike subject to its 

 fatal influence. And now the admonition, " Set 

 thine house in order for thou shalt surely die,'' 

 comes upon each and all of us with full force, in^ 

 voking us to prepare for the changes that await 

 the children of men ~Ohio Repository. 



