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Canada Thistle in JVewcastle Co., Del. — Good Coffee. Vol. VIII. 



Canada Thistle in Newcastle County, 

 DelaAvare. 



To the farmers of Newcastle county, — 



Gentlemen, — The members of the Agri- 

 cultural Society of Newcastle county, liave 

 ascertained, beyond doubt, that tlie Canada 

 thistle, the most pestiferous of all thistles 

 or noxious weeds, which infest land and de- 

 stroy the hopes of the husbandman, has ap- 

 peared, and now flourishes in a small way, 

 in this county, upon lands seeded by a cargo 

 of timothy seed, imported from the western 

 part of New York ; and that its extirpation 

 is immediately and loudly called for by every 

 lover of the soil and true friend of agricul- 

 ture. Before this noxious thistle seeds, I 

 hope to lay before you the best mode of its 

 extermination, drawn from the most authen- 

 tic sources and regions where it flourishes 

 in the United States, where it has made its 

 appearance. Suffice it to say, that it is 

 spreading within our own bailiwick, New- 

 castle county, and can be seen growing in 

 Brandy wine, Ciiristiana and Newcastle hun- 

 dreds of this county, and must be extirpated 

 root and branch, or else all your valuable 

 labour, seeds, lime and manure, will be lost; 

 — the value of your lands depreciate — the 

 fields tiiat now give you bread, yield you 

 worse than stones, and your meadows and 

 grazing grounds, instead of yielding you hay 

 and beef, milk and butter, will soon be over 

 run by tins foreiffn pest — and you and yours 

 be speedily driven from your homesteads, 

 and your cattle on a " thousand hills," be 

 suffered to perish and die for lack of their 

 accustomed food. 



To enable you all practically to know and 

 distinguish this "thi:^tle" from all others of 

 the family of thistles, I shall cause speci- 

 mens of the Canada thistle to be left daily 

 at the seed store of Mr. George Reynolds, 

 Market street, Wilmington, and at the print- 

 ing offices of the Delaware Journal, Dela- 

 ware Gazette and Delaware Republican, for 

 the next ten days, earnestly recommending 

 on behalf of the Agricultural Society and 

 Farmer's Club of this county, its speedy ex- 

 termination wherever found, until a more 

 full and detailed method, now being sought 

 after by the Society, is published. We re- 

 commend, where the thistles are found few 

 and scattered, digging them up by the root 

 and covering the place thickly with lime or 

 salt; where thick and embedded, to mow 

 them close and saturate the earth with un- 

 adulterated salt-ley from the soap houses, or 

 with a thick covering of coarse salt or lime 

 But by all means, and by all exertions, never 

 to suffer another Canada thistle to bloom or 



ripen its seed, for vegetation in our faithful 

 and valuable soils of this county or state. 

 Signed, 



James W. Thomson, 

 Pres't Ag. Society N. C. C. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



To make good Coffee. 



First, procure the best coffee in the 

 market ; wash it very clean, and roast it to 

 the colour of a golden brown, but not a 

 deeper shade by any means. Then take 

 the whites of three eggs to each pound of 

 coffee, mix very carefully with the coffee 

 while warm, and immediately transfer to 

 earthen vessels, tying them over with blad- 

 ders to render them air-tight Take from 

 these vessels sufficient coffee tor one nmking 

 only at a time; grind it, place it in a flne 

 muslin bag, suspend it about mid-way in the 

 pot, turn on the boiling water, and put on 

 the cover, to prevent the escape of steam. 

 By this mode the coffee will be very strong, 

 but it is best to reduce it by the addition of 

 boiling-hot milk, when it will form a most 

 delicious beverage, very different indeed, 

 from that which is produced by boiling the 

 ground coffee in water. And to be con- 

 vinced of the fact, that by the above method, 

 which is simply infusion, all the virtues of 

 the coffee may be obtained, it is only to take 

 the dregs left in the bag, and boil them in 

 water for a considerable time ; the result 

 will be, a black, bitter, nauseous, feverish, 

 woody extract, without a trace of the fine 

 flavour of coffee, and answering to the name 

 by which it was known on its first introduc- 

 tion into use, according to the account pub- 

 lished in the eighth volume of the "Harleian 

 Miscellany," namely, "the devil's black 

 broth !" The making of tea is by infusion, 

 not decoction; who ever thinks of boiling 

 tea ? B. 



A HEN WITNESS. — Two men were lately 

 apprehended in Stamford market, on suspi- 

 cion of having stolen sixteen hens and nine 

 chickens. Handbills were issued to find 

 the owners; and on Monday, Mr. Peake, of 

 Holme, having had nine chickens stolen, 

 came to Stamford, bringing with him the 

 hen which had reared the brood ; she was 

 set down in the room with the other hens 

 and the chickens, and the moment she gave 

 one chirp, the whole of the chickens flew to 

 her. Upon this, one of the thieves confessed 

 that the fowls and chickens were stolen on 

 that night. He was fully committed for 

 trial. — English paper. 



