No. 9. Cure for Horn Disternper — To Correspondents — Sj-c. 



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Cure for Moraa I>isteiis|>cr. 



Take one handful of tanzy, two red pepper 

 pods pulverized fine, two spoonfuls of fine 

 salt, a sufficient quantity of rye flour wet 

 with vinegar, to make them into pills about 

 the size of a cherry — give five or six at a 

 time. 



The above was griven by Mr. Zaccheus 

 Hovey, of Pownal, Vermont, with a request 

 that it mi^ht be inserted in the Farmers' 

 Cabinet. " M. F. L. 



Keiiseliear Co. N. Y. Nov. 18, 1837. 



To Corr^spoiadents. 



We acknowledge the receipt of several com- 

 munications, but not in season for our present 

 number. We have several articles of interest on 

 file, for the ensuing number, among them a 

 valuable paper entitled " Observations on Insects, 

 with a view to arrest their destructive ravages, 

 by James Worth, Esq., of Bucks county." 

 Also an abstract of the tenth Report of the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society. 



Farmer's Meeting. 



At a meeting of farmers, convened at the 

 house of Jacob Gilbert, Hay Market Hotel, in 

 Sixth street, near Philadelphia, on the 7th of 

 11th month, 1837, Jacob Shallchoss was ap- 

 pointed Chairman, and John P. Tow?isend 

 Secretary. It being suggested that the interest 

 of farmers would be likely to be benefitted by 

 their having an opportunity of conversing toge- 

 ther on subjects connected therewith, It was on 

 motion, Resolved, That the farmers generally in 

 the surrounding districts, be respectfully invited 

 to attend a meeting to be held at the above-men- 

 tioned place on 7th day, the 16th of the 12th 

 mouth, (December) next, at 10 o'clock, A. M., 

 for the purpose of conferring together on sub- 

 jects connected with agriculture. 



Spring "iYlieat Agaiij. 

 Some of our subscribers who ordered the 

 spring wheat of Mr. Peirce, in consequence of 

 the notice in No. 31 of the Cabinet, complain 

 of the advanced price now charged for it. We 

 beg leave to assure all who may think them- 

 selves aggrieved, that we stated the price as given 

 to us by Mr. Peirce at the time our first [lublica- 

 tion was made. He subsequently informed us 

 that he had raised the price to § 12 — this we an- 

 nounced to our readers. We now learn that 

 $ 15 per barrel is asked. This is certainly a 

 high price, but nothing in comparison to the ad- 

 vantage of the grain to the farmer, if it answers 

 the expectations of its advocates and friends. 



Sugar Seet Seed. 



We have on hand a small quantity of the 

 genuine Sugar Beet seed, imported from France. 

 Orders directed, post paid, to the editor of the 

 Cabinet, will be attended to. Price One Dollar 

 per pound. Also for sale a few copies of Mr 



Pedder's Report, made to the Beet Sugar Society 

 of Pennsylvania, on the culture of the Sugar 

 Beet, and the manufacture of Beet root Sugar 

 in France." The edition of this work is nearly 

 exhausted. 



Aralj Cultivation of tlie "Watcrniellon* 



The Camel's Thorn, or Hcdysarum Alhagi, 

 as the botanists call it, abounds in the sandy 

 and arid deserts of Arabia, India, Africa, Tar- 

 tary and Persia. Camels feed upon it; but 

 the Arab puts it to another use. The stem 

 of the plant is, in the spring-, divided near 

 the root; a single seed of the watermellon is 

 then inserted in the fissure, the earth replaced 

 about the stem of the thorn. The seed be- 

 comes a parasite, and the nutritive matter 

 which the brittle succulent roots of the mel- 

 on are ill adapted to collect, is abundantly 

 supplied by the deep-searching and tougher 

 fibres of the root of the camel's thorn. An 

 abundance of good watermellons is thus pe- 

 riodically forced by the Arab from a soil 

 incapable of other culture. 



Durbaui Stock. 



Fifty head of Durham cattle, belonging; to 

 the Ohio Company, were sold on the 20th 

 October, for $36,443. The prices ranged 

 from forty-eight to seventeen hundred dollars. 

 The following are noted among the prices : 

 Matchem, bought by A. Renick, $1200 



Young Waterloo, Gov. Trimble, 1700 

 Duke-QfYork, R. R. Leymerer, 1100 



Experiment, Gov. Trimble, 1400 



Comet Halley, R. R. Leymerer, 1.500 



Nimrod, E. Florence, 1040 



Duke of Norfolk, Gov. Vance and 



J.H.James, 1400 

 Goldfinder, I. Cunningham, 1095 



Blossom, cow,- R. R. Leymerer, 1000 



Matilda, cow, A. Watts, 1000 



Moss Rose, cow, J. Renick, 1200 



Malina, cow, I. Cunningham, 1005 



Flora and calf Pow- 



hattan, G. Renick, 1805 



Young Mary and calf 



Pocahontas, E. J. Harness, 1500 



Tees Water and 



Calf Cometess, J. J. Vanmeter, 2225 



Acknowledgments. — We acknowledge the 

 receipt of a pumpkin, of the mammoth species, 

 from our friend Joseph E. Howard, weigh- 

 ing ninety pounds. Also a quantity of mer- 

 cer POTATOES from a subscriber in Edgemont 

 township, fifteen of which filled a half bushel 

 measure. 



Persons who wish to procure the firsl vol- 

 ume of the Cabinet, would do well to apply 

 soon, as there are but a few hundred copies 



remaining. 



