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Whectt Worm — Devon Cow — Pumpkins. 



Vol. IL 



related by the chiefs, and preserved [Col- 

 den's History of the Five Nations, London 

 I747,] will shed some light upon the ques- 

 tion under discussion. It commences in this 

 way : "The Aridondacks formerly lived 300 

 miles above Trois Riviere, where now the 

 Utawawas are situated ; at that time they 

 employed themselves wholly in hunting, 

 and the Five Nations made planting of corn 

 their business. By these means they be- 

 came mutually useful to each other by ex- 

 chano-ing corn for venison. But a war broke 

 out between the Five Nations and the Ari- 

 dondacks, in vi^hich the former were the con- 

 querors, fioon after this, (says this tradi- 

 tion,) the French arrived at Canada and set- 

 tled at Quebec." 



Carver, the celebrated Enfflish traveler, 

 who traversed upwards of 5,000 miles of the 

 interior of North America, tells us that the 

 Oltagaumies, the Saukees, and all the east- 

 ern nations, were found growing Indian corn. 



But Dr. Benj. Smith Barton places the 

 Lenni Lennapb at the head of the column 

 of North American Indians, and they are 

 generally acknowledged to have been of 

 more ancient establishment in the country 

 than many others.* Their tradition was, 

 that they were formerly a very powerful 

 people, inhabiting the country to a great dis- 

 tance westward and along the sea shore east 

 and south. The great extent to which their 

 language was spoken, gives countenance to 

 this tra'dition. Besides this the tribes along 

 the Mississippi called the Delawares their 

 ' o-rand-father.' Of all the Indian nations 

 which formerly inhabited this country from 

 Massachusetts to the Mississippi, and be- 

 tween the Ohio River and the Canada Lakes, 

 none but the five nations and the Delawares 

 had a right to call a general council. It also 

 appears 1rom an inspection of Indian vocabu- 

 laries that the language of the Lenni Len- 

 nape could be traced beyond the Canadian 

 Lakes, on the North and in the South, among 

 the Pampticoughs, who formerly inhabited 

 North Carolina and Sawaranoo, vi'ho lived 

 in Georgia, and even to South America, 

 [Barton,] Massachusetts, Connecticut, Mon- 

 ongahela, Alleghany, Muskingum, Savan- 

 nah, Mississippi, and Missouri, are all de- 

 rived from the language of the Lenni Len- 

 napes. 



Now every thing which these Indians 

 • considered as original or «a^t»e among them, 

 they distinguished with the word "Lenni" 

 placed before it; the oak and hickory they 

 ■ called " Lenni Hittuck," the original or na- 

 tive trees; the chub fish was original and 

 common in all their rivers and brooks ; they 

 called it " Lennameek,'" the original fish : 



they called themselves the Lenni Lennape, 

 the original people; and the Indian corn 

 they called "Lenchasquem," "the original 

 GRAIN," thereby declaring their opinion that 

 it was a native of their country. 



To be continued. 



Preventive of tlie Wheat "Worm. 



A correspondent of the Maine Farmer says, 

 " Mr. Herrick, of Poland, informed me that a 

 year ago, last spring, he had two and a half 

 bushels of wheat sown on one piece — ground 

 all alike — and on one bushel of sowing he 

 sowed two bushels of good strong ashes. 

 The ashes were sown in the time of a heavy 

 dew, and when the wheat was just coming 

 into blow, and sowed as much as he could 

 on the wheat heads. The result was, that 

 from one bushel of seed he got fifteen bush- 

 els of wheat entirely free from the weevil, 

 and from the remainder one and a half bush- 

 els, he got only five bushels of poor blighted 

 wheat, almost wholly destroyed by the wee- 

 vil or worm. The whole was sown at one 

 time, ground manured alike, and the only 

 difference in the management, was the addi- 

 tion of the two bushels of ashes." 



• The British called them " the Delawares," and the 

 Frencli, " Les Loups." 



"Winter Products of a Devon Coav. 



Abraham P. Holdnch, Esq., of Spencer- 

 town, had an accurate memorandum kept of 

 the butter made from a Devonshire cow, 

 which calved late in autumn. The result 

 was, that from the 10th Dec. to the 10th Jan , 

 including both days, there was made from her 

 milk sd'lbs. of Vv-ell-worked butter, nearly 

 equal to two lbs. per day. The cow was fed 

 with roots, hay, and buckwheat bran. Esti- 

 mating it at 20 cts. per lb. the butter made 

 during the month, and in the depth of winter, 

 was worth $11 20;' and if we consider this 

 the average product of 8 months in the year, 

 the aggregate amount for that period would 

 be $89 60. We need no better illustration 

 than this, of the importance of keeping good 

 animals, and of keeping them well. 



To preserve PunipltiiistUro«slitlie win- 

 ter and spring. 



When taken from the vine open them, and 

 throw away the soft contents which are found 

 in their inside. Then cut them into small 

 pieces, and dry them in the sun, or in an oven. 

 Preserve them in a dry place. They may be 

 either pounded or boiled before they are used. 

 Prepared in this manner, they make a cheap 

 and excellent food for cattle, horses and hogs. 

 Many thousand pounds might be saved in 

 grain to our farmers, and to our country, by 

 the general use of this wholesome and nourish- 

 ing food for domestic animals. They afford 

 more nourishment than the potatoe or scarcity- ' 

 root; they are cultivated with less trouble, and , 

 yield a inuch larger increase from the same 

 labor. — Southern Planter. 



