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Peach Trees — Procrastinatioji, ^"C. 



Vol. If, 



ringbone in Chester county as in the moon. 

 I would also suggest tliat any other warm 

 poultice may be substituted tor "a cake of 

 chapped rye" without detriment to the cure. 

 It" these remarks shall enable any of my 

 anti friends to cure their own horses at hocee 

 and save them a journey to "the far-famed 

 land of lunacy," I shall no doubt receive the 

 reward due to an Anti-Lunarian. 



Chester County 4th mo, 20th, 1838. 



For the Fanners' Cabinet. 

 Keep your domestic auimals cleaui 



By cleanliness we carry out a law of nature, and ihete- 

 by essentially promote our best interests. 



In a state of nature, all animals keep them- 

 selves clean; instinct prompts them to do so, 

 for the preservation of their health, and the 

 promotion of comfortable feelings. In a do- 

 mesticated state, it becomes the interest and 

 duty of those who have ciiarge of them, to 

 keep them neat and clean by artificial means, 

 or to furnish them with the liberty requisite 

 to enable them to indulge their natural in- 

 stincts so far as to carry out that great law of 

 nature, which prompts them to resort to such 

 simple means of promoting cleanliness and 

 health, as are indispensible to their own well 

 being, and the only certain means of render- 

 ing them objects of true interest and profit to 

 their owners. 



Poultry should always have a place of resort 

 under a dry shed, well supplied with dry dirt, 

 spent ashes or effete lime m which to rub and 

 dust themselves. This is the process to which 

 they resort to comb themselves, and to get 

 rid of lice or vermin; and it at the same time 

 opens the pores of the skin, and permits the 

 confined, peccant fluids to make their escape 

 from their bodies, which essentially promotes 

 their thrift and causes them to lay many more 

 eggs than they otherwise would. To keep 

 poultry perfectly clean, quiet, and retired, 

 increases their profit to the owner more than 

 four fold. They should never on any occa- 

 sion be suffered to feed, lay, roost, or even 

 make occasional visits to the stalls or mangers 

 of horses or cattle, hogpens, or sheep houses; 

 the excrement and lice they leave where they 

 visit or frequent are injurious and poisonous 

 in ahigh degree to all other domestic animals, 

 and do more towards preventing their owner 

 from realizing his anticipated profits, from 

 their generous keep, than any other cause 

 whatever. ' R. 



7'o the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet, 

 DIRECTION FOR PLANTING PEACH TREES. 



Sir, — If our Jersey friends, at the time of 

 planting their peach trees, would e.xcavate the 

 earth to a good depth into the sub-soil, and 

 Cover the bottom with six or eight inches of 



brick and morter rubbish, and then mix marl 

 with the surface mould into which to plant the 

 tree, treading it firmly about the roots, there 

 would be no further complaint of the worm, 

 which is the consequence of the disease, not 

 the cause. The sub-soil of ferruginous and 

 acidulous or lime and calcareous earth act as 

 corrector of these evils. An Old Farmer. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Procrastination. 



"Procrastination is tlio thief of time." 

 It is an old and true saying that a thing be- 

 gun, is half done — but to break the ice is the 

 difficulty — when that is accompli-shed, most 

 people can go a-head easily and pleasantly. 

 I have a neighbor who is good at planning, 

 none better; but it requires more energy of 

 character, than he can command at pleasure, 

 to enter promptly on the execution of his de- 

 signs; he hesitates, he tries to invent some 

 plausible excuse for "putting off till to-mor- 

 row what ought to be done to-day "; not be- 

 ing fully satisfied in his mind of the truth of 

 the saying, tiiat those who are good at making 

 excuses are seldom good for much else. He 

 has a good farm within a reasonable distance 

 of market, but he is not yet out of debt, and I 

 fear, that, unless he muaters up a little more 

 courage, and exhibits more promptitude of 

 action, he never will be. He lacks energy, he 

 puts off, he procrastinates, and of course he 

 seldom has time to do many essential things, 

 because he is always resolving to do a great 

 many things, that never get done properly. 

 For example, he determined, forty years ago, 

 to plant an orchard, for he liked good fruit, 

 and thought it might be profitable; this wise 

 resolution has been fixed in his mind for exe- 

 cution about twice a year nearly ever since; 

 but in the spring his other work presses upon 

 him and he thinks the autumn the best time 

 for planting trees, as they get fixed firmly in 

 the ground before the sap begins to run, which 

 he now conceives to be very important to their 

 future growth and vigor : when autumn ar- 

 rives, there is the potatoes to get in before 

 frost, the corn to husk, and numerous other 

 matters to be attended to before winter sets 

 in ; and then he conceives the spring would 

 be the best time to plant, for neighbor B. has 

 informed him that the hard frosts of winter 

 might injure the roots of recently transplant- 

 ed trees. Moreover, he hopes he will 

 have more time for the operation before the 

 ground is in order for spring ploughing ; so 

 he still resolves to have a fine orchard of fruit 

 trees, and six months or a year won't make 

 much difference in the time when it shall come 

 to perfection. In this way, resolving.and re-re- 

 solving, he has moved along ever since I was 

 a boy, and he has no orchard yet; in fact he 

 is now worse off than he was formerly, for the 



