VOL. XI. NO. 24. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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in one day, fVom having eaten wlieat partially 

 damaged. The wheat had laid in a pile in his 

 barn floor where it got wet from a leakage in the 

 roof, and had began to spoil. On making the dis- 

 covery, our informant had the grain thrown out to 

 his stock. His horses ate of it, and the consequence 

 was as above stated. On opening their stomachs, a 

 quantity of undigested wheat was found in each of 

 them, and the coat of the stomach considerably in- 

 flamed. They all died within four or five hours 

 .•\fter eating the graui. Hogs ate of it without any 

 visible bad effect. — Southern Planter. 



From the Rictunoml Chrislinn Sentinel. 

 THE VIRGINIA PARMER. 

 The following picture, though not a perfect 

 one, may tend to show off the character of some 

 of our young farmers. A young man of mode- 

 rate circumstances, gets, what every good citizen 

 ought to have, a teife. He inherits two or three 

 hundred acres of land, or obtains as many by 

 marriage. At first his prospects are dazzling — 

 he lays his plans, and is vigorous in the execution 

 of them. His miud may have turned upon emi- 

 grating to the west, but his better half is averse 

 to removing from the society of her friends and 

 relatives, and he resolves in good earnest to set 

 about what he calls the improvement of his farm. 

 But gentle reader, perhaps you can easily divine 

 what this improvement consists in. If you are at 

 any loss to guess, then I must inform you. The 

 young farmer first goes to work m enlarging and 

 improving his dwelling and out-houses. Carpen- 

 ters are set to work, all is bustle and business ; 

 timber must be haided, hewn and cut into plank, 

 workmen must be fed, and paid too for their labor. 

 During this time farming goes on slowly- ^tWe 

 ditching is neglected, the fences are only patched 

 to answer for the present ; wheat is seeded late, 

 and ploughed in carelessly ; manuring, if that is 

 thought of, is deferred until a more convenient 

 season ; there is little time for fallowing, and every 

 thing is hurried over for the present — at the end 

 of the year, (and who would doubt it) the crop is 

 short ; and the farmer finds himself in debt in the 

 bargain — but he calculates to do better the year 

 following. Having now a comfortable house, it 

 would be thought strange if he did not invite his 

 friends to see him. He must necessarily take some 

 part in the politics of the day, consequently attend 

 courts and places of elections, his negroes mean- 

 while study their own ease more than their mas- 

 ter's interest. The farmer finds every year his 

 affairs getting worse, he discovers that his farm is 

 poor, and that there are rich lands in the Western 

 country — he is smitten deeper than ever with the 

 desire of emigrating. After some preparation he 

 mounts his horse, and off he goes, taking the usual 

 route, through Buford's Gap, along to Abingdon, 

 and then to Nashville, and from thence perchance 

 to Jackson's purchase, then turning to the loft to 

 view the genial soil of Mississippi, where the cot- 

 ton stalks grow to the height of ten feet or more. 

 He concludes after purchasing a quarter section of 

 good cotton land to return home. 



He returns, advertises, sells at a considerabte 

 sacrifice, his stock, crop, plantation utensils, and 

 the plantation itself, upon a credit. At length his 

 wagon and team are ready, and all start IVir the 

 far west — this young farmer fmds a home in the 

 west, lives perhaps in a cabin of rude construction, 

 has plain furniture and plain fare, with scarcely 

 an acquaintance, much less a friend in the neigh- 



liorhood — he applies himself to work 'from sheer 

 nece.ssity, because he has nothing else to amuse 

 him, or attract his attention abroad. He has corn 

 and cotton in abundance, but these do not afford 

 the kind of happiness which renders life agreeable. 

 Had he been contented with the same style of 

 hving in Virginia, and exercised the same atten- 

 tion and industry, he would have made money as 

 fast, or perhaps faster ; and would certainly have 

 heen happier, every man, woman and child of 

 them. Mismanagement is, in many instances, the 

 ground work of emigration. I am much mistaken 

 f himdreds who remove to the west are not more 

 discontented there than they ever were before. 

 There is always some Utopia which is yet to be 

 readied, where all the blessings of an earthly 

 paradise are to be enjoyed — the restless Virginian 

 thiidis that it is in Kentucky, or Tennessee ; he 

 gets there, and finds he has been mistaken, it is in 

 Mississippi, Missouri, or Arkansas; but let him go 

 to the utmost limits of population, and he will 

 imagine it is still farther on west. 



From the Southern Planter. 

 WOODS AND CHOIjERA. 



The Danvers physicians, who visited New York 

 to observe the cholera, remark that the disease 

 begins in low, damp, foggy or filthy situations 

 among the intemperate and the debauched, and 

 that as the atmosphere becomes more filled with 

 the choleric influence, it prostrates individuals of 

 better habits, and visits higher and more healthy 

 situations. They think the progress of the disease 

 in this country confirms the fact noticed by the 

 French physicians m Russia — " that woods, and 

 j)robably the fir tree [including doubtless the pine 

 and resinous trees] more than any other, have the 

 property of destroying or neutralizing that un- 

 known cause which generates cholera. Very 

 woody districts in Russia were entirely preserved 

 from this destructive scourge. Kristosky Island, 

 situated among the populous islands of St. Peters- 

 burg, and containing three villages, was completely 

 preserved from the disease although coinimmi- 

 clting daily with the city by a thousand barges 

 Dhe island is low and damp, but is covered with 

 saperb forests." 



CURING THE AGUE. 



[We are told the following anecdote of Boer- 

 haave's practice.] The physician who believes that 

 mind and matter act in unison, will remember how 

 tbat truly celebrated great man, on a certain occa- 

 sion, cured the ague. — That complaint was very 

 prevalent in his neighborhood, and he had treated 

 it with indifferent success ; when his nohle con- 

 ceptions of the united agency of mind and matter 

 suggested the following treatment. He desired 

 about a dozen patients whose fit of the ague came 

 on about the hour of the meridian, to come to him 

 at ten o'clock. — They were she^vn into the same 

 room ; and after a little while were informed that 

 the doctor was busy, and would wait u]>on them 

 as soon as possible. At the time the attendant ad- 

 dressed them he placed a number of irons in the 

 fire, which he increased to considerable size. After 

 the eleventh hour the servant again entered the 

 room, apologized again for the doctor's absence, 

 and turned and paid great attention to the irons 

 that were heating. One of the patients inquired 

 the use of the irons and was mformed that tliey 

 were heatmg for the purpose of an operation on 

 the patients who }iad the ague. This was soon 



whispered from the one to the other. The man 

 had lefl the room, the doctor came not ; and more 

 and more were their attentions directed towards 

 the now red-hot irons. Surmise and conjecture 

 had a strong base to play upon ; the red-hot irons 

 were for the use of the ague patients ; every one 

 felt the coming crisis of his own case. They 

 looked ; they walked about the room ; they were 

 soon, every one of them, in a violent perspiration ; 

 and the doctor came not till one o'clock, and the 

 ague fit came not at all. To his inquiries he found 

 all well ; and the time had passed, and not one 

 had upon him the symptoms of his complaint. 

 And taking them into another room, one by one, 

 with care, and caution, and some trifling medicine, 

 be dismissed them, saying that he hoped they 

 would not need recourse to any violent remedy. 

 In truth, agitation had excited that apprehension 

 which completely curetLthem of their disorder.' Ih. 



SPORTING ANECDOTE. 



A fact. — As a respectable citizen of Heard 

 county, a few days .since, was engaged in remov- 

 ing the rubbish from a piece of newly cleared 

 ground, he discovered a hawk in close pursuit of 

 a partridge ; the latter in the rapidity of his flight, 

 in endeavoring to escape from the talons of the 

 hawk, came suddenly and violently in contact with 

 a sharp splinter of the limb of a tree which pierced 

 him through the body. The hawk, with great 

 rapidity closely pursuing his prey, likewise en- 

 coimtered the same splinter, which he also run 

 through his body, and thus clinched himself fast 

 upon the partridge. In this manner they were 

 both taken by my informant. Tb. 



JVone of your " small Potatoes." — We have been 

 presented with a Sweet Potato, raised by Sir. M. 

 Chisholm, measuring fifteen inches and a half in 

 circumference, and weighing four [jounds and a 

 half. He produced many others equally large. 

 They grfw on fresh ground, but without any extra 

 cultivation. Ih. 



To ike JEditor of the Southern Planter. 



Heard C. H. Oct. 29th, 1832. 

 DeabSir — I send you the following invaluable 

 prescrifition for a cough. I have tried it success- 

 fully in many instances and have never known it 

 to fail (ffecting an entire cure in one single night. 

 Takf 2 table spoonsful of molasses, 

 2 " vinegar, 



2 tea spoonsful antimonial wine, 

 40 drops laudanum.- 

 Mil them together and take six tea spoonsful on 

 going to bed ; if a cure is not eflfected the first 

 night repeat the dose the succeeding night. 



If you think proper you may insert the above 

 in tie Southern Planter. The efficacy of the 

 reinfdy can be attested by twenty members of the 

 bar and many others on the circuit. A. B. 



American JVankeen. — A sample of this article 

 has been shown us, made of the Nankeen colored 

 cotton raised in Georgia on the estate of Senator 

 Forsyth. It is sold at two dollars tlie piece, and 



is fircr than the India Nankeen ordinarily worn 



still liner samples are intended to be manufactured. ^ 

 It differs advantageously from the India, in the im- 

 portant particular of not fading from wear — on the 

 contrai7, a sample was shown us, which had been 

 ui wear two years, and grown of a darker and 

 richer color. It is made at Paterson, N. Y. 



Bait. Patriot. 



