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Sow a few for autumn use, and while you 

 are providing for your own tabic or market, 

 recollect that your cattle would be grateful 

 if you were to put in an aero for their use, to 

 afford them succulent food at that season 

 when ijreen hcrbajrc is scarce. 



MILLET. 



This vegetable product may bo sown any 

 time during this month, and, indeed, up to 

 the 15lh of July, cither for liay or grain. 

 Those who may not have a sufficiency of 

 land in grass for hay, cannot do better than 

 to put down a few acres. If sown in good 

 light sandy loam, well manured, it will aver- 

 age from ^ to 4 tons to the acre. 



PUMPKINS. 



No farmer or planter should omit to put in 

 among his corn a few acres of this excellent 

 and substantial plant. For early winter feed- 

 ing there is scarcely any product of the earth 

 better adapted for farm uses. We are aware 

 that an objection has been made to its use by 

 some as food for hogs, on the ground that it 

 ia scouring, but this objection is easily re- 

 moved by cooking them, which process not 

 only renders them more palatable, but greatly 

 increases their nutritive properties, by con- 

 centrating their saccharine matter. With 

 others another objection has been urged ; we 

 allude to the difficulty of ploughing the corn ; 

 but this is more ideal than real ; for if put in 

 after the corn is up, before the vines assume 

 any considerable length the corn will be near- 

 ly ready to be put by. But should it be other- 

 wise, it would be an easy matter for a care- 

 ful hand to precede the plough, and turn the 

 vines out of the way until it should have 

 passed, v/hcn the vines could be replaced. 

 This labor could be performed without any 

 perious inconvenience as to time, and as the 

 pumpkins would not materially substract from 

 the yield of the corn, while tliey would im- 

 mensely add to the solid comfort of the barn- 

 yard dependents, we do hope that such of 

 our readers as are not in the habit of culti- 

 vating them, will new commence the good 

 work. 



Our Country— Agriculture— Si!^<. 



The present unexampled depression of 

 trade; the great derangement of our money 

 matters; the high prices of most of the ne- 

 cessaries of life; and the utter prostration of 

 thousands who thought themselves rapidly 

 advancing to wealth, seem to require of all a 

 careful examination of the causes which have 

 led to these disastrous results, and an adop- 

 tion ol the best means of lightening the pres- 

 sure, and forever preventing its renewal. So 

 fer as the inquiry involves financial or politi- 



cal considerations, the columns of the Farmer 

 are not deemed a proper place for their dis- 

 cussion; but it appears to us that the great 

 interests of the nation, which it has been the 

 aim of this journal to advocate and enforce, — 

 the imprnvemcnt and extension of our agri- 

 culture, and the more complete development 

 of our ample resources, — cannot be more 

 forcibly presented to the American people 

 than by the present position in which wc find 

 ourselves placed. 



With a country confessedly the richest in 

 the world; embracing all the varieties of 

 soil and climate retjuircd for the production 

 of all the necessaries, and most of the luxu- 

 ries of life; and a population proverbially ac- 

 tive and intelligent; we find ourselves pur- 

 chasing bread of foreign nations, and involved 

 in a debt beyond our present ability to pay, 

 without the most ruinous sacrifices. Such 

 a state of things ought not to exist; it is a 

 shame to us to be importing wheat from 

 abroad, when that article has, and should still, 

 form an important item in our exports. The 

 existence of such a fact would almost justify 

 the charge, and the continuance of it will 

 certainly subject us to the allegation, of being 

 unable to appreciate the natural advantages 

 bestowed on us by heaven, or if appreciated, 

 not possessing the energy and forethought 

 necessary to render them available. 



Nearly one-third the population of the 

 United States are engaged in the production 

 of a single article — cotton. Their bread, 

 their meat, their clothing, they buy ; and as 

 the times and the prices of cotton have been, 

 the planters have found themselves getting 

 rich with unwonted rapidity. But by this 

 course, the south has placed themselves, and 

 in a great measure all the commercial and 

 manufacturing interests of the country, com- 

 pletely at the mercy of foreigners. They 

 have touched the article of cotton, have re- 

 duced its price at their pleasure, and the pros- 

 perity of the nation seems at once crumbling 

 to dust. There must be a change in these 

 respects. We boast of our independence, and 

 find ourselves slaves to foreign merchants and 

 broilers; we pride ourselves on the inex- 

 haustible fertility of our soils, and buy our 

 bread of the impoverished regions of Europe; 

 we talk of our advancement in wealth, of our 

 manufactures and our commerce; but as if 

 on purpose to disturb the pleasing illusions of 

 our day dreams, half a dozen men, the direc- 

 tors of a single monied institution in England, 

 readily convince us that with all our boastdd 

 prosperit}^ we can scarcely pay our debts. 



The remedy which common sense points 

 out for this deplorable state of things, is not 

 to rid ourselves of the present difficulty by 

 new promises to pay hereafter; but to go to 

 work like honest, independent Americans, 



