^ol. Vin.— No. 6. 



AJND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



45 



rvation applies to all other kinds of live st^pk. 

 irmers who shall effect great improveiiieiits 

 stock, while they render a lasting benefit 

 cir country, will lay a foundation for a<ivan- 



tlieir own interest, in the denumd, and con- 

 jntly increased prices, of their improved 

 Is. 

 ■Hccting tlirniers, who shall become candi- 



for premiums, will be aware, that if their 

 ;ions should not obtain the honor of a prize, 

 will not pass unrewarded ; as all the im- 

 iments they make, will either give them im- 

 ate profits, or add to the value of their farms, 

 direct object of premiums is not to excite 

 ly trials of skill, but to add to the solid inter- 

 )f farming ; and ho, who shall show how we 

 add most to that solid interest, will obtain 

 ighest prize. 



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diamonds, &c., they seem not to dream of an ap- 

 proaching (lowufal. This writer is apprehensive, 

 as many are in England, that the catastrophe of 

 their fall is at hand. — Ibid. 



PLANTS. 



Catalogue of plants growing without cultiva- 



within 40 or 50 miles of Amherst College, 

 ii'cn prepared by Professor Hitchcock, and 

 |slii<l by the Junior Class in that Institution, 

 ibruces 531 genera, and 1447 species of in- 

 lous and naturalized plants. Many more re- 



to be discovered. 

 Pfie Catalogue contains 5 species of maple 

 within 50 miles of the College, 4 of 

 , 3 of ash, 5 of poplar including balm of 

 d, 9 of oak, 5 of whortleberry, &c. There 



pecies of sponge growing in ponds in Ches- 

 Id, Leverett, &c., which is generally consid- 



an animal, but probably is a vegetable, 

 iig vegetables are toad stools, frog's spittle, 

 lied, puff" balls, ergot or spurs on rye, smut 

 irn, &c. 



ofessor Hitchcock marks the black walnut as 

 which is^not indigenous, in this vicinity. 

 Introduced or naturalized. We learn that 



is a large and thriving tree of this siiecies 

 e land of Rev. Mr Boies, of South Hadley. 



mg from a nut that was planted about 30 



ago. — Hampshire Gazette. 



Farming.— THaring the last year, the business 

 of the farmer has afforded a greater nett jirofit 

 than for some years previous. The pressure of 

 the times seems not to have had nuich influence 

 yet upon agricultural products. These have 

 brought, and still bring about as much as they have 

 done for some years past, while the other ne- 

 cessary expenditures for a family have been di- 

 minished. Thus while the farmer's income has 

 been as large as in past years, his expenses have 

 been, probably, one third less ; his cloths and 

 stores not costing more than two tlurds as much, 

 perhaps, as they did a few years since. These 

 facts are referred to not by way of comi)laint. 

 A few years back, the weight was in the other 

 scale. The business of the agriculturist was pro- 

 portionably depressed below other banches. It is 

 right that they should now have their season of 



greater comparative prosperity. But it mav be ' i » > • .i u i ■,..,. 



j„„. ,p„, „ , ', ,, . * !„ ' 7 "^ I l«ast sour, and m the coldest weather mdk shou d 



doubtful whether things wdl remam {)recisely as 



and absorbs all putrid exiialations so effoctiiallj, 

 that the utmost pm-Jty is restored to the atmos 

 phere. A pound of the Chloride of Liine, which 

 costs only one shilhng, he found sufficient in his 

 experiment ; and the effect of it will last two or 

 three weeks. In the hot season it is highly Im- 

 poitaut. — A*. }■. Daily Mv. 



Rules for making good Butter If y(jiu have 



four or five cows, it is best to churn every day; 

 and by no means less freipiently than every other 

 day. If you cannot churn every day, throw into 

 the cream, when gathered, a handful of nice salt. 

 In very warm weather, when milk sours soon, put 

 two heaping table-spoonfulls of salt into every 

 |)ailof milk, before straining. The quantity as 

 well as the quality of butter is greatly improved 

 by this method. If you have ice, put a small 

 piece iti every pan of milk, and also into the cream 

 when you churn. If you have no ice, put the 

 cream into a pail, and hang it in the well twelve 

 hours before churning. In the warm season, 

 cream should be skimmed as soon as it is in the 



'ghtingale. — The editor of the Boston Palla- 

 in the account of his visit to the Shakers, re- 

 sthaf'the nightingale was pouring a plaintive 

 through an adjacent grove." Is he not mis- 

 ? is not this bird, so celebrated for the soft- 

 mellowness and duration of its warble, a 

 gar to the United States ? The name of 

 :ingale may have been improperly applied to 

 ■ species of birds, whose tuneful notes are 

 what remarkable, but we believe that the 

 lightingale, (?notacilla luscinia,) is limited to 

 d continent. The ancient and modern Euro- 

 have related many wonderful things of this 

 songster. It is said to sing in unison with 

 ute or the lyre, to fill a circle a mile in diam- 

 ivith its melody, and to change its notes with 

 icb judgment as to produce the most pleasing 

 ty.~ — Ibid. 



igland. — A London correspondent of the 

 . Commercial Advertiser, says the growth of 

 gality and extravagance in the higher classes 

 s to keep pace with that of distress in the 

 Persons in America can form no coiicep- 



f the ])itch to which luxury has arrived in 

 and ; those who give the tone to the fashion- 

 world, almost equal the orientals in luxury 

 sxtravagance, and their vices are enormous ; 



displaying their costly liveries, equipages, 



they are now, in these particulars, another 

 twelve month. The products of the earth the 

 present year promise to be abundant beyond 

 example. From Quebec to New Orleans the 

 accounts agree in representing the crops of 

 every description to be uncommonly thrifty and 

 large. We have seen it estimated that there will 

 be a quarter more flour manufactured in the Uni- 

 ted States this year, than there ever has been 

 any year before. All this must of course depress 

 the prices ; but not so much perhaps as to make 

 the whole income from a farm very much less 

 than it has been, although the buyer, who is in 

 other business, will pay less than he has done for 

 the same articles. He may, therefore, be benefit- 

 ed, if the farmer is not proportionably injured by 

 a reduction of prices. These observations are 

 intended to apply particularly to this portion of 

 the country, and would not perhaps be equally 

 aj)plicable to the cotton and wool growing dis- 

 tricts of the United States. — Taunton Reporter. 



Franklin, Pa. July 28. 

 The Crops. —Wheat and rye in this county, are 

 supposed to be better the present season than they 

 have been before ; they are thicker on the ground, 

 and yield much better. To give an example of 

 the yield, Mr Daniel Smith, of Rockland town- 

 shi|), a few days since threshed seven dozen and 

 two sheaves of wheat, out of which he measured 

 six bushels ; and he states that 2 or 3 quarts at 

 least, went to fill the small crevices about the 

 floor and walls. We have heard of several other 

 similar trials of the present crop of wheat. 

 After supplying all our iron works at home, we 

 shall have considerable surplus [iroduce to send 

 abroad. Corn, Buck wheat and oats promise also 

 to be very productive this season, and fruits of all 

 kinds are more abundant than they have ever 

 been known — almost every apple and peach tree 

 is now bending under the weight of its fruit. 



Chloride of Lime. — A gentleman who has been 

 induced to make an experiment with Chloride of 

 Lime, in consequence of seeing a recommenda- 

 tion of it in Mr Silliman's Journal of Science and 

 \rts, for the abatement of nuisances, has request- 

 ed us to direct the attention of our readers to it. 

 It corrects the most impure air in a few minutes. 



not stand more that thirty-six or foity-eight hours. 

 The utmost care should be taken to keep every 

 article used in making butter, perfectly sweet, by 

 frequent and thorough scalding. Journal of Hu- 

 manity. 



Perpetual Motion. — We were much gratified 

 yesterday with the result of an examination of a 

 self-moving machine, which may be seen at Bowls- 

 by's Merchants' Hotel, in State street, and which 

 the inventor calls a perpetual motion. 



And we have no doubt of its being Nearer a 

 perpetual self-moving principle than any invention 

 which has preceded it, and as near as any we 

 ever shall see. Its great merit, aside from its 

 practical uses, is its simplicity, and the certainty 

 and readiness with which you perceive that it 

 covers no trick or deception. It is little else than 

 an illustration of one of the most obvious lavis 

 of nature. The agent is the atmospheric air, 

 bearing directly, by means of perpendicular boxes 

 and oblique tubes, upon the buckets of a wheel, 

 which is propelled with greater or less velocity ; 

 but which is constantly propelled, and " will con- 

 ,tiiuie to run without the possibility of cessation, 

 whilst the materials of which it is formed last, 

 and the present laws of nature cojitinue." 



The inventor is Mr Richard Van Dyke, of Or- 

 leans county, in this state, who gives it as the re- 

 sult of five or six years' a|)plication to the subject. 

 He is a venerable man> communicative and intel- 

 ligent, and described as highly respectable by seve- 

 ral citizens of the west, on whose representations 

 entire reliance may be placed. He affects bo 

 mystery ; but clearly and satisfactorily explains 

 the arcana of the machine. — Mbany Argus. 



The Norfolk Herald republishes the following 

 recipe for Dyspepsia: — 



"One pint of hickory ashes, one quart of boil- 

 ing water, and a tea cup of soot. Let it staud 

 twenty-four hours, strain and bottle it." 



And subjoins : — 



We have ourselves witnessed the eflicaey of 

 the recipe, (without the soot, however,) and e«n 

 testify to the fact, that it was the means of resto»- 

 ing more than one of our acquaintances afflicted 

 with dyspepsia in its worst character, to a sound 

 and healthful state. — The decoction of ley from 

 hickory ashes is entirely tasteless, and what msy 



