Vol. VIII.— No 49. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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tiMiisitions, and disposed to take on this sad inflain- I tact with tlie body, actually enclosed him, and 

 ination with all its fatal results. struck the wall with tremendous force, one horn 



on each side of the terrified gentleman ! The 



SNUFF-TAKING. I hull, hurt by the reaction, ran quickly off without 



If any mode of taking tobacco be more objec- 1 inflicting injury. So violent had been the blow 

 ;ionable than another, we should certainly deem it given, that the horns were considerably injured. 



;o be in the form of snuff, when taken in an im- 



noderate degree. Under tliese circumstances it j 'Drink a Little.' — ' Driidv no longer water, but 

 s apt to derange the stomach so as to bring on [ use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine 

 lisease. By constant use, the stimulus of snuff is often infirmities.' 



ost, it diminishes gradually until it be no longer' The following ancedote is a good illustration of 

 elt. It is then that we would ask what pleasure Paul's advice to Timothy. Professor S. while 

 )r benefit can be derived from uselessly attempt- ' giving an excgetical lecture upon the e|)istles of 

 ig to irritate a callous surface. It is then that Timothy, came to the verse here quoted. The 

 nuff-taking may truly be called a beastly habit. ' students imagined that considerable ingenuity 

 The immediate effect of a pinch of snuff, in quick- would be requisite to explain the text so far as to 

 iniug the imagination, is like that of a glass of avoid collision with the temperance measures, 

 ipirituous liquor in giving cheerfulness ; it is false jThe professor, after the verse was read, observed 

 ire in both ; it is most |)crceived by those who are ' in substance as follows : — ' What a renjarkably 

 ess accustomed to these things ; and use wears it temperate young man Timothy was, that it should 

 )ff. Those who are habituated to snuff, feel no require the authority of an inspired apostle to in- 



h effect from it ; and for the rest, all that de-|(luce him to drink water no longer, but to use a 



\ IS consideration is, that we are sure, by this, little wine even when his health required it ! 



iff may effect the brain. In some persons its Very few at the present day are so scrupulous as 



ive use evidently blunts the apprehension, 

 uiM Iiy a long course brings on a condition of ab- 

 •nlute stu])idity, a torpor of the faculties, and, as 

 t uiTc, a lethargy of the mind. To be brief, the 

 iii-iralile consequences brought on by a long and 

 KiMtual course of inveterate snuff-taking are only 

 (1 lie obviated by relinquisliing the custom. — 

 l-'rvin a little work enlilted Health tvithout Physic. 



it regards drinking wme.' 



How little reason have the friends of strong 

 drink to quote this advice of Paul to Timothy, 

 while propping up their sinking cause ! — Black 

 River Gazette. 



Improvements in the manufacture of sugar from 

 the beet root, in France, are in constant jirogress ; 

 and it appears probable that in a few years, those 

 Millet. — This gram appears hkely to become as countries of Europe in which high duties are 



charged on imported sugars, will manufacture for 

 themselves nearly all that is wanted. A paragraph 

 taken from an English. paper, states that ' a man- 

 ,, and 30 J bushels of clean seed. ' The seed i "facturer of sugar from beet root, at Telloy Pas 

 rn manufactured into flour makes a cake more J« Calais, has discovered a most economical pro- 



asliionablo as it is useful among farmers. A 

 ouiliern paper gives the following as the product 

 if iis cultivation on one acre, viz. Three tons of 



ilcsome and equally palatable with buck 

 ■••It.' It may be sown from the first of May to 

 first of July. Quantity of seed about one 

 jushei to the acre. Col. Powel, of Pennsylvania, 

 :ays ' Millet succeeds best on light land, and re- 

 [uircs as much strength of soil as oats. I have 

 lot seen either in Europe or America, any green 

 ;rop which so largely rewards accurate tillage and 

 )lentiful supplies of manure. I have sown it from 

 he first of May to the 20lh of June, and have in- 

 ariably obtained more fodder than could have 

 )een had from any grass under similar circumstan- 

 ;es.' In another connnunication he says, ' Millet 

 hould never be grown upon land which is not i)t 

 ^ood condition and very fine tilth. The seeds should 

 le lightly covered by a harrow with wooden teeth 

 nd after rolled. Of thirty acres upon which my 

 St croj) was growji, I tried various experiments. 

 Che field which was the most lightly harrowed 

 ras the most productive. I am led to believe 

 lOAvever necessary the harrow is in all cases, to 

 iiiiperly cover the seeds, yet in few is it used with 

 iillicient care, or in a fit shape. — Excepting wiu- 

 ei- u'rains I know no seeds which are not, I think 

 isually too deeply buried." 



A providential escape was lately made by a 

 es|)ectable old gentleman in Perth (Scotland,) who 

 lad placed himself in the way of an enraged bull, 

 vhiih was ranging through the streets. The gen- 

 It'iiian placed himself against a wall, in hoi)es 

 li:it it might ])ass without giving him any nioles- 

 atiuii. The ainmal, however, made a furious on- 

 ct, but fortunately it was possessed of enormous- 

 y large horns, which, instead of coming in con- 



cess for refining that article. At the trifling ex- 

 pense of one sous, fifty pounds of sugar may, with 

 very little more labor than by the common meth- 

 od, be obtained much richer in crystals, free from 

 all disagreeable smell, and of unequalled white- 

 ness.' 



Parsnips. — The British island of Guernsey, 

 near the coast of France, is famous for the culture 

 of parsnips. — The ju-oduct per acre is 44,000 

 pounds, or near 20 tons. Some of the roots are 

 16 inches in diameter. The farmers of Guernsey 

 prefer this plant to the carrot, turnip, and potato. 

 They fatten hogs and cattle with parsnips, and 

 give them to their milch-cows and horses. This 

 root fermented furnishes also a kind of wine. 



If'ings of Lisects. — The transparent wings of 

 certain insects are so attenuated in their structure 

 that 50,000 of them placed over each other would 

 not form a pile a quarter of an inch in height. — 

 Cabinet Cijclopasdia. 



From a Baltimore paper. 



BREAKING HORSES. 



I have pursued for many years the following 

 plan for breaking horses. The colt is taken be- 

 tween three and four years old generally, a mouth- 

 ing bit is i>ut on with two reins, a broad surcingle 

 is buckled round the animal, and a crupper attach- 

 ed to the surcingle ; and the colt checked or reined 

 up as a horse should be in a carriage. He is then 

 turned out in a lot or yard for several hours, for 

 several days in succession. This tames and sub- 

 dues them greatly in a very short time. About 



the fourth day, the animal is led into a field where 

 there is light ploughing to be done, and attached 

 to a plough by the .side of a gentle, true horse ; the 

 colt is led up and down by a careful and resolute 

 hand, and another at the stilts of the plough ; the 

 plough is not at first permitted to enter the ground, 

 but after walking a short time is gradually entered, 

 and the animal is thus by degrees accustomed to 

 the draught. When symptoms of fatigue are man- 

 ifested, it is taken out and led to the stable. ."Vfter 

 a few spells of work in this way, the colt, after 

 being taken from the plough, may then be mount- 

 ed without difficulty and rode home to the stable. 

 I have broken many without the le.ist degree of 

 diflicultv, not having to lead them five mimitcs. 



Etm^ asrca-iLiisriD s«ii52sai2iUj 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 2 5, 1830. 



HEALTH PRESERVING PRECAUTIONS. 



Decayed and rotting vegetables, particularly 

 cabbages, beef-brine, pork-brine suffered to stand 

 too long, and other similar substances in cellars 

 &c, are often the unsuspected causes of diseases. 

 Every housekeeper ])ariicularly at this time of 

 the year should carefully insjiect his i)remises, 

 and see that nothing noisome or offensive is left 

 to pollute the atmosphere in and near his resi- 

 dence. The carcases of dead lambs, cats, &c, in- 

 stead of being suffered to poison the atmosjihere, 

 and introduce disease and ileath into the family 

 of the farmer, should be covered with five or six 

 times their bulk of soil, and suffered to remain for 

 a few months. In this way their decomposition 

 will impregnate the soil with matter, which though 

 nauseous and pestilential to animals is food for 

 vegetables. . 



MAKK THE MOST OF TOUR MANnRE. 



It will be well to mix the soil with which such 

 carcases are covered with about one ])art of lime 

 to five or six of earth ; and at the time of its 

 removal also to mix a little more quicklime with 

 it to prevent the disagreeable effluvia which may 

 arise without such precaution. 



Not only the carcases of animals, but stable and 

 barn yard manure is rendered of little value by 

 long exposure to the air, suu and wet weather. — 

 Every moment of such exposure robs it of some 

 part of its fertilizing ])rinciples as well as con- 

 taminates the atmosphere. 'He who is within 

 the scent of a dung-hill,' says the celebrated 

 Arthur Young, ' smells that which his crop woidd 

 have eaten if he would have permitted it. In- 

 stead of manuring the land he manures the at- 

 mosphere ; and before his dung-hill is finished he 

 has manured another parish, perhaps another 

 county.' Fresh maniu'e should be kept as care- 

 fully from sun and rain as grass which is cut for 

 hay. When cattle have been yarded over night 

 it will be well to throw their manure into heaps, 

 and cover them with soil previously prepared for 

 that purpose. 



The author of' Letters of Agricola' says. Earth 

 is a ))owerful absorber of all the gasses which 

 arise from putrefaction. Put a layer of common 

 soil along the top of a fermenting dung-hill, from 

 twelve to eighteen inches thick and allow it to 

 remain there while the jirocess is carrying on with 

 activity, and afterwards sep.irate it carefully from 

 the heap, and it will have been impregnated with 

 the most fertilizing virtues. The composts, which 

 of late have attracted so universal attention, ant' 



