no. 10. 



THE FARMERS CABINET. 



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.he mode of dress common in cities, this 

 rightful disease is, in proportion to the 

 )opulation, vastly more frequent. During a 

 )ractice of six years among the ' Pennsyl- 

 rania Dutch,' he met with but a single case 

 )f this afTection ; and this case occurred in a 

 "amily who had adopted the present universal 

 node of suffering tlie neck and upper part of 

 he hreast to remain uncovered. — Baltimore 

 Vraiiscript. 



Hop Culture. 



A subscriber wishes some of our corres- 

 jondents to describe through the columns ot 

 he Cabinet the proper method of cultivating 

 ^ops — the entire process from the beginning 

 o the end. The quantity of work and care 

 'hey require — the preparation of the land, &c. 

 \ccordingtoalate publication it appears that 

 ibout 50,000 acres are appropriated to this 

 ;rop in England, and that the duties paid to 

 -he British Government (tax on the crop, 

 rom which the American cultivator is hap- 

 lily exempt,) amounted to one million seven 

 luiidred thousand dollars in a single year. 



A mechanic of Paris, has lately invented 

 machine which he calls voiture moiilin, 

 lestined to follow armies and grind and bolt 

 ill kinds of corn. It is with two wheels, 

 )ne horse, and is driven by a man who sits 

 ike a coachman, and can stop the mechan- 

 sm at pleasure. The impelling force is the 

 novement of the wheels. When it stops, 

 lowever, it hiay be worked by hand or by wa- 

 ;er. In action the whole day, it can grind 

 two hectolitres and a half, with one man ; 

 five with two ; and nine with a horse. 



Important. — A Mr. Gabriel Winter has 

 >ucceeded in extinguishingall sparks from the 

 •himney of the steam engine by passing the 

 i^scape steam into it at a proper distance 

 ibove the boiler. The vapor entirely extin- 

 :,niishes the sparks. 



Valuable Recipe. — Mr. A. Bronson, o^ 

 Meadville, Pa., says, from fifteen years ex- 

 perience, he finds that an Indian meal poul 

 tice, covered over with young hyson tea, sof- 

 tened witii hot water, and laid overburns and 

 frozen flesh, as hot as it can be borne, will 

 remove the pain in five minutes; that if blis- 

 ters have not arisen before they will r^ot after 

 it is put on, and that one poultice is general- 

 Iv sufficient to effect a cure. 



Beet Sugar. — Pennsylvania takes the 

 lead in introducing the sugar beet, and agents 

 are now in France from that State procuring 

 seed and collecting information. A gentle 



man who has been conversant with the rise 

 and progress of this production in Europe, 

 says that as to climate, a northern latitude is 

 found to suit this plant best. The north of 

 Germany, Prussia and Siberia, the countries 

 where this new application of it was first 

 made, are more favorable to it than the nor- 

 thern department of France, as experiment 

 has amply established, and the trial of it in 

 the South of France has constantly failed, 

 though it was at first supposed that this root 

 would as well as other productions, contain a 

 'arger proportion of Saccherine principle than 

 those of colder countries. This hypothesis 

 is founded on a mistaken analogy supposed 

 to exist between plants growing above and 

 below the soil, proved, as might have been 

 expected, completely fallacious, and the cul- 

 ture is now given up. — Newburyport Herald. 



Peach trees. — A correspondent of the 

 New York Farmer says that a cultivator of 

 peach trees in Pennsylvania preserves them 

 in a bearing condition until they are ten or 

 twelve years old, by the following very sim- 

 ple mode of treatment. From the second 

 year of the growth of the tree he seeks for 

 traces of the gum, which he considers a sure 

 indication of worms beneath. This he re- 

 moves 90 as to expose the aperture into the 

 body of the tree, and then fills it with quick 

 lime. He repeats this operation every month, 

 examining the roots as well as the body. 

 The short life of the peach tree, and their 

 liability to be destroyed by worms, has dis- 

 couraged most farmers from attempting to 

 cultivate this delicious fruit; — but if their 

 lives can be prolonged and effectually secur- 

 ed against the attacks of the worm thus easi- 

 ly, we have no doubt our markets will be 

 supplied and at reasonable prices. — Silk Cul- 

 turist. 



Penny Roval. — Farmers might easily 

 save the flesh of horses and cows, and con- 

 fer great kindness on their animals, in pre- 

 venting the usual annoyance of flies by sim- 

 ply washing the parts with the extracts of 

 Penny-royal. Flies will not alight a moment 

 on the spot to which this has been applied. 

 Every man who is compassionate to his 

 beast, ought to know this simple remedy, 

 and every livery stable and country inn ought 

 to have a supply on hand for travelers. — 

 Yankee Farmer, 



Universal Language. — At a Scientific 

 Congress now assembled at Liege, one of 

 the subjects under discussion is the possi- 

 bility of a universal language, as a conse- 

 quence of iron rail-roads. — Tennessee farm- 

 er. 



