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CONSUMPTION. 



Completely to eradicate this disease, says a 

 correspondent of the U. S. Gazette, I will not 

 positively say the following remedy is capable of 

 doing; but I will venture to affirm, that a tempe- 

 rate mode of living — avoiding spirituous liquors 

 wholly — wearing flannel next the skin, and taking 

 every morning, half a pint of new milk, mixed 

 with" a wine glass full of the compressed juice of 

 liorehound, the complaint will not only he relieved, 

 but the individual shall procure to himself a length 

 of days beyond what its mildest form could give 

 room to hope for. 



I am myself a living witness of the beneficial 

 effects of this agreeable, and though innocent yet 

 powerful application. Four weeks use of the 

 liorehound and milk relieved the pains in my 

 breast, gave me to breathe deep, long and free, 

 strengthened and harmonized my voice, and re- 

 stored me to a better state of health than I had 

 enjoyed for years. 



BEAUTIFUL. WHEAT AND BARLEY. 



Dr. Hosack sent us a few days ago, a sample 

 of wheat grown on his farm at Hyde Park, the 

 present season, which all who have seen it pro- 

 nounce the finest they have seen. It is of the 

 variety known as the while flint wheat, and it is 

 said to reach the extraordinary weight of sixty-six 

 pounds to the bushel. We understand the yield 

 was thirty bushels per acre. We have frequently 

 during the season heard Dr. Hosack's field of bar- 

 ley spoken of as uncommonly beautiful, affording 

 promise of a most bountiful crop. The field is 

 said to have contained fifty acres — and we have 

 heard more than one gentleman, accustomed in 

 former years to observe the barley fields of old 

 England, and for some years to notice such as 

 are usually grown in this country, speak of Dr. H.'s 

 as decidedly the best field of barley they had ever 

 seen in America. — Poughkeepsie Journal. 



PRESENCE OF MIND. 



AVhe.n- danger befals us, we generally lose our 

 self possession ; but here is an instance to the con- 

 trary, from a Paris paper: — "A serious accident 

 recently happened to Mine. Cesar Moreau, which 

 but for her own presence of mind, and prompti- 

 tude of her husband, might have been attended 

 with dangerous results. Mine. Moreau was seal- 

 ing a letter, when her dress caught fire, and be- 

 fore she observed it, the flame had made such 

 progress, that she had only time to throw herself 

 on the floor and roll part of the carpet round her, 

 by this means to endeavor to extinguish the fire. 

 M. Moreau, hearing her cries for assistance, was 

 instantly on the spot ; and though the flame was 

 happily subdued, he found his lady seriously in- 

 jured. Recollecting the virtues attributed to cot- 

 ton in similar cases, he without a moment's loss of 

 time applied this material to the injured parts, and 

 the effect was really remarkable ; notwithstanding 

 that her back and one of her arms were very much 

 burnt, such was its efficacy that the sufferer was 

 enabled herself to receive her friends, and of 

 course to reply most satisfactorily to their inqui- 

 ries." 



GAMA GRASS. 



Wf. have observed in several papers, notices of 

 this grass. The accounts of its wonderful prolific 

 qualities, are such as to stagger belief. It is said to 

 be indigenous in the Southern States, in the neigh- 

 borhood of the sea, and in the western prairies. 



The first notice of it appeared in the 13th volume 

 of the American Farmer. Experiments upon it 

 have been made by gentlemen of Missouri, Alaba- 

 ma, and North and S. Carolina. The united tes- 

 timony of these persons is, that it produces on the 

 light sandy pine hauls of the South on an acre, at 

 the rate of between twenty and thirty tons of cured 

 hay per year — that stock of all kinds eat it greedily. 

 That in that latitude it may be cut on the first of 

 May, and every thirty days after till frost comes. 

 The root is perennial, and grows in tufts of many 

 branches from a common root which is tuberous 

 in its form for about three inches, and terminates 

 in many small but strong radicles. The leaves, 

 which, previous to the period of flowering, all issue 

 from the root, are of a deep green color, from two 

 to three feet long, and from one to one and a half 

 inches wide, are shaped like a blade of fodder, and 

 rough or sawed at the edges. The mode recom- 

 mended for its culture, is, to sow it in drills three 

 feet apart, and two feet between each root in the 

 drill. It is uncertain whether it would succeed in 

 this latitude, but if it yields such astonishing bur- 

 thens as has been represented, it would be well 

 worth the experiment, even should it be attended 

 with some trouble and cost. — Detroit Journal. 



From the Ge7iesee Farmer. 

 PALL PLOUGHING. 



A gentleman called upon us a few days since, 

 and gave us an account of an experiment he was 

 making the present season, to prove whether 

 spring or fall ploughing of sward land for corn 

 was the most profitable. 



He stated that he bad a field in which the soil 

 was very uniform ; that he ploughed one half of 

 it last fall, laying the furrows as flat as possible; 

 the other half he ploughed this spring. In prepar- 

 ing that part which he ploughed in the fall for 

 planting, he had cross-ploughed a part of it break- 

 ing up the sod, and a part of it he had prepared 

 by harrowing without disturbing the sod. He 

 had also managed that which was ploughed in the 

 spring, in the same way. 



He said, so far, the corn which was planted up- 

 on that part of the field which was ploughed in 

 the fall, and prepared by dragging was more for- 

 ward and of a better color, than that which was 

 prepared by cross-ploughing ; either part of the 

 field ploughed looked better than that which was 

 ploughed in the spring. 



He gave his opinion decidedly in favor of fall 

 ploughing, us being more economical with regard 

 to team work — that it was more easily cultivated, 

 and that the crops would undoubtedly be better. 



NEW ENGLAND FIGS. 



Mr. John Tufts, has laid upon our table several 

 full grown and well ripened figs, grown in the 

 open air, in the yard of his hotel in West Cam- 

 bridge. The tree is five years old and has pro- 

 duced fruit three years, though the figs did not 

 until the present season reach maturity. There 

 are at present two other crops of fruit on the tree 

 in different stages of growth, numbering about 

 eighty, from the size of a pea, to that of a full 

 grown fig. — Boston Traveller. 



QUICK. LETTER DELIVERY. 



The late Duke of Queensberry, undertook, for 

 a heavy bet, to convey a letter fifty miles within 

 an hour. The letter was enclosed in a cricket 

 ball, and thrown from one to the other of twenty 

 four expert cricketers, and delivered within the 

 time. — Quarterly Reviett. 



APPLES FOR FARM STOCK. 



We copy from the N. E. Fanner, an article 

 written by a man who has for years kept hogs, 

 horses, oxen, &c. in his orchards. There are, we 

 believe, some erroneous notions in the communi- 

 ty on this subject. Twelve or fifteen years since, 

 we kept at different times a horse, a cow, and 

 a flock of sheep, in an orchard where there was 

 an abundance of apples, and so far as we could 

 judge, they all thrived and gained flesh. We 

 have kept a milch cow where apples were all the 

 time lying upon the ground, and experienced no 

 injury. There is some danger at first in turning 

 hungry cattle into an orchard full of apples; but 

 after they are accustomed to feed upon them, they 

 will seldom if ever eat too many. According to 

 our recollection, the sheep were quite as much 

 benefitted by the apples as any other animals, but 

 they were somewhat fastidious after apples had 

 fallen plentifully, and ate less than before, and 



would not eat any of some kinds Hampshire 



Gazette. 



LARGE APPLES. 



We were shown yesterday eight apples, weigh- 

 ing 7 lbs. 1 oz. one of which weighed over 15 oz. 

 They are of a splendid green color with a little 

 tinge of red, and of the kind called the "Manning 

 Apple." We were also shown a beautiful apple 

 called the "Blue Permain." The above wer 

 raised in this town, in the garden of Mrs. S. W 

 Stearns. — Obs. 



WEAVING. 



Roxanna Love, wove in the Williamsville Fac- 

 tory, Killingly, Conn, in the month of June last, 

 on three looms, three weeks in succession, 806 

 yards per week, making in the whole 2418 yards 

 of 37 inch Sheetings, averaging to each loom per 

 day, 44 7-100 yards ; yarn No. 18. She also 

 wove in one week, on six looms, commencing Au- 

 gust 19th, to Saturday the 24th, inclusive 1576 

 3-4 yards same kind of cloth as above named, aver- 

 aging 43 3-4 yards to each loom per day ; for 

 which she received six mills per yard — $9 45 cts. 

 for one week. — Prov. Jour. 



LARGE PEACH. 



The Portsmouth paper mentions, as a wonder, 

 a Peach raised in a garden in that town, weighing 

 6 oz. and measuring 8J inches in circuit, every 

 way. Mr Daniel Millet, of this town, a few days 

 since, exhibited a Peach which grew in his gar- 

 deu, weighing half a pound, and measuring 9£ 

 inches one way, and 9 inches the other. — Salem 

 Register. 



A GOOD DAY'S WORK. 



Mrs. Deborah Perkins, of Brookfield, N. H., 

 completed her eighty-ninth year on the 7th inst., 

 and on the same day she spun six skeins of yarn, 

 "doubled" four of them, walked half a mile, 

 gathered hemlock for a broom, returned to her 

 house and took tea an hour before sunset. 



OATS. 



Springfield, Sept. 14, 1833. 

 We published in our last an article from the N. 

 E. Fanner, stating that Mr. Smith, of Duxbury, 

 bad raised this season an " unprecedented crop " 

 of 74 bushels and 3 pecks of Oats, from four-fifths 

 of an acre, or 93 bushels to the acre. James 

 Kent, Esq., of West Springfield, has this season 

 raised upon an acre only, one hundred bushels. — 

 Republican. 



