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Tlmi2;sthat I hare seen — Swine M. 1. 



Vol. 11. 



delphia, (Office 253 Market street.) There is 

 a large collection, and many of the trees are 

 of large sizes and his prices moderate. We 

 understand he has visited the principal nurse- 

 ries in Great Britain, France, and Belgium, 

 and personally selected the best kinds, where 

 the greatest dependence could be placed on 

 the nurserymen. Enterprise of this kind 

 deserves and we hope will receive encourage- 

 ment.] 



For the Fanner's Cabinet. 



Thing's that I have seen. 



I have seen a farmer build a house so large 

 and fine that the sheriff turned him out of 

 doors. 



I have seen a young man sell a good farm, 

 turn merchant, break, and die in an insane 

 hospital. 



1 have seen a farmer travel about so much, 

 that there was nothing at home worth look- 

 ing after. 



I have seen a rich man's son begin where 

 his father left oflj and end where his father 

 beran — pennyless. 



1 have seen a worthy flirmer's son, idle 

 away years of the prime of life in dissipation, 

 and end his career in a poor house. 



I have seen the disobedience of a son, 

 "bringdown the gray hairs of his father with 

 sorrow to the grave." 



I have seen a fine girl marry a young man 

 of dissolute habits, and repent of it as long- 

 as she lived. 



I have seen the extravagance and folly ot 

 children, bring their parents to poverty and 

 want, and themselves into disgrace. 



I have seen a prudent, industrious wife, 

 retrieve the fortunes of a family, v.-hen her 

 husband pulled at the other end of the rope. 



1 have seen a young man who despised the 

 counsel of the wise and the advice of the 

 good, end his career in poverty and wretch- 

 edness. 



I have seen a farmer too self conceited to 

 amend his ways, and too proud to retrace his 

 footsteps. 



I have seen poor boys grow rich by indus- 

 try and good management, and rich boys be- 

 come poor by idleness and dissipation. 



I have seen a man spend more in folly, 

 than would support his family in comfort 

 and independence. 



I have seen a person depart from the 

 truth, when candor and veracity would have 

 served him a much better purpose. 



I have seen a man deliver a fine political 

 oration on a fourth of July, when his cattle 

 were foraging in his grain field. 



I have seen a young man soil his reputa- 

 tion by a departure from principle, when all 

 the waters of the Delaware would'nt wash 

 it out. 



I have seen a man engage in a law salt 

 about a trifling affair, that cost him more i« | ) 

 the end, than would have roofed all the , ( 

 buildings on his farm. 



I have seen money spent in litigation, that i 

 ought to have been applied to manuring a 

 farm. 



I have seen a man work by his wits instead 

 of his hands, till his farm was grown up with 

 bushes and briers. 



I have seen a person neglect to repair or 

 r^'new his feices, till he had lost enough to 

 buy three cows, and had to do it at last. 



'76. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Flax Seed. 



Observing in the last Cabinet some statements 

 respecting the advantages resulting from the feed- 

 ing of flax-seed to stock, my attention was direct- 

 ed to an opinion entertained by many persous 

 respecting it. It is supposed that whon administec- 

 ed to animals under certain circumstances, whether 

 in the form of whole seed or oil, to produce abor- 

 tion. My own experience is very Imiiled; bui i 

 have seen two instances which appeared tojustilV 

 the opinion. If this be a fact, it is well worth^ 

 the serious investigation of farmers, before they 

 commence the pactice of feeding it extensive!^. 



A YOUNG FARMER. 



Breeding, Rcaiiiis? finl Fattening of 

 Swine— No. 1. 



COMPARATIVE VIEW OF DIFFERENT BRgJ^)*. 



Among the various articles of live stock, 

 few are more profitable to the breeder than 

 swine, while tlie number kept on a farm is 

 proportioned to the quantity of ofilil on the 

 premises; especially as the attendance they 

 require is, when compared with that of others, 

 very trifling, and the benefit arising from 

 their dung more than counterbalances such 

 attendance. The charurtrrisfic marks of a 

 good hog are, a moderate length, as to the 

 carcass in general ; the head and cheeks beii^ 

 plump and full, and the neck thick and short; 

 bone fine ; quarters full ; the carcass thick 

 and full ; his bristly hide fine and thin ; the 

 symmetry or proportion of the whole well 

 adapted to the respective breeds or varieties^ 

 and above all, a kindly disposition to fatten 

 early. 



In consequence of the nu nerous sorts and 

 varieties of these animals, found in almost 

 every country, it is scarcely possible to ascer- 

 tain which are the original breeds; under 

 this head, therefore, but little more can be at- 

 tempted than a brief notice of those most se- 

 nerally esteemed, and known under the fol- 

 1 lowing denominations: 



