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THE FARMERS CABINET. 



VOL. I. 



assuredly come up and ttourish as well as the 

 good grain, and sometimes, being more hardy 

 or earlier, may altogether overcome it. 



It is a principle in nature, that genuine 

 distinctions can by no process of art be 

 changed, the one in tlie other, and wheat and 

 chess belong to very distinctly different gene- 

 ra. It is not even likely that the pollen of 

 the one, fertilizing the pistils of the other, 

 has produced a mongrel or hybrid, for we do 

 not hear of any intermediate plant, such as 

 would be the result of a mi.xture. 



Providence has wisely appointed, that what 

 a man sows he shall reap, and does not suffer 

 him to receive in return for the most useful 

 of all grains, a useless and even deleterious 

 seed. 



We should not have noticed this matter, 

 had we not seen in print several articles, 

 evidently written by firm believers in vege- 

 table transubstantiation. Desiring to correct 

 a heresy so gross, we have entered our protest 

 against it. 



The serious effects said to be produced by 

 a large quantity of chess ground up with 

 wheat, as giddiness and delirium, render it 

 an important object to get rid of this plant. — 

 We suspect that sowing clean grain on clean 

 ground will be found the very best method 

 of accomplishing this object. — New York 

 Farmer. 



From the New England Farmer. 



Flax — Food for Cattle. 



Mr. Fesseptoen : — If the following re- 

 marks are worthy of a place in your valuable 

 paper, you are at liberty to publish them. 

 Some years since there was a great scarcity 

 of hay. At that time I had on hand a large 

 stock of cattle. Sometime in the month of 

 February my stock of hay was about all gone, 

 and where to obtain more, I could not tell. 

 It could not be had short of 20 miles, and 

 there at the price of thirty dollars per ton. 



One day I went to the stable, and no sooner 

 than I entered, every eye was upon me for 

 aid. You may imagine what my feelings 

 were, when I knew of no relief which I could 

 bestow. I stood a while to reflect on what 

 course to pursue, or what to do. At last 1 

 thought of some flax which had been lying on 

 the beams of my stable for several years, 

 which had not been rotted. I threw down a 

 few bundles, and gave some of the flax to my 

 cattle. They took hold of it with such 

 eagerness, that I was obliged to take it from 

 them to prevent their being choked with it. 

 I then took a block of wood and a broad axe, 

 and chopped it up short. I then gave a very 

 little to my cattle, and continued so to do, 

 until it was all gone. 



From what I then discovered of the virtue 



and oily substance that the flax contained,.! 

 am of opinion that what I could take up be- 

 tween my two hands and fingers, after being 

 chopped, and given to a cow each day through ■ 

 the winter, would carry her through the fod- 

 dering season. My opinion is that the bulk 

 of one ton of hay in flax, will be of more 

 value to a stock of cattle than four tons of 

 hay. 1 am also of opinion that oil can be 

 obtained from flax. As I have an oil mill, I 

 intend to try the experiment the ensuing sea- 

 son. I would recommend to farmers to sow 

 more seed the coming spring than usual ; for 

 flax and the seed are of more value than peo- 

 ple are aware of. 



Stephen Perley. 

 Meredith, Feb. 20, 1837. 



Bv THE Editor. — Tlie use of unrotted flax 

 as food for cattle is new to us, and we have 

 never, before we received Mr. Perley's 

 communication, heard or read of its being 

 applied to that purpose. We are of opinion 

 that Mr. P. has made a valuable discovery, 

 and are much indebted to him for its commu- 

 nication. 



Chinese Mulberry or Morus Milticatj- 

 Lis Seed. — We caution our friends not to buy 

 seeds purporting to be the Chinese, or Morus 

 Multicaulis, expecting to raise their kind from 

 them. The Morus Multicaulis cannot be 

 produced from seed, as all well know who 

 have studied the character of the tree; and he 

 who will advertise, in a manner calculated to 

 mislead the uninformed, is a foe to the inter 

 ests which he pretends to advance. The 

 cat once signed dreads the fire. The farmer 

 once fleeced will not be likely to try again. 



C. 



Process of making Beet Sugar. 



We have often been asked the manner by 



which sugar was extracted from beets, but 



were unable to give satisfactory answers. 



To those inquirers the following article, from 



the Silk Culturist, will be found interesting. 



The attention of the public having been 

 some time drawn to the manufacture of sugar 

 from the beet, and having repeatedly recom- 

 mended its cultivation to farmers as a profita- 

 ble crop, we have felt ourselves under an ob- 

 ligation to give tiiem the details of the pro- 

 cess by which it is extracted. We have, 

 therefore, examined the best authorities on 

 the subject, and consulted several gentlemen 

 of some practical knowledge and experience 

 in the business, and the result of our investi- 

 gation is that the process is altogether more 

 simple and less expensive than has generally 

 been supposed. In describing the various 



