Voi.vin.— Nn.r)2, 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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rels or lialt" barrels, for exportation, shall be sorted 

 and divided by the inspector or his deputy, and 

 denominated as follows. Bone Middlings, Navy 

 Mess Pork, Cargo No. 1, Cargo No. 2, and Refuse 

 Pork ; [a sidisequeiit act provides for No. 3,] and 

 in all cases the following parts shall be taken out 

 for refuse, viz. nose pieces, ears, brains, tails, feet, 

 and lard. Bime Middlings shall consist of middle J 

 pieces taken from hogs well fatted, weighing from 

 one hundred and sixty pounds, to two hundred and 

 thirty jiounds, except the head, fore and hind legs, 

 the shoulderjiint, lard and refuse parts above men- 

 tioned. Cargo No. 1, shall consist of all parts of 

 hogs well fatted, averaging two hundred and twen- 

 ty pounds or upwards, and each of which shall 

 weigh not less that one hundred and eighty 

 l)0unds, and to have no more heads, legs, shoul- 

 ders and other coarse parts that belong to one' 

 carcase, deducting the lard and refuse as above. 

 Cargo No. 2, shall consist of all parts of one and 

 an half hog, well fatted, vvliicli shall weigh two 

 hundred pounds, deducting the lard and refuse as 

 above. Cargo No. 2, also, in half barrels shall 

 consist of pig pork, all parts of one carcase, or 

 not, and not to contain the head or legs of more 

 than one carcase, excluding the lard and refuse as 

 above. 



Refuse Pork shall consist of all other kinds of 

 jjork of an unmerchantable, but wholesome <inalitj'. 

 Barrels filled with pork, heads or feet, shall be. 

 branded Pork Heads or feet as the case may be' 

 and in all cases, where the legs of pork are taken 

 out for bacon, or for any other purpose, the 

 weight shall not be made up with heads or should- 

 ers, but with other [larts of the carcase not less 

 valuable than the legs would be if they were salt- 

 ed. And each barrel of pork shall be well salted 

 with seventy jjounds of clear coarfie salt, exclusive 

 of a strong pickle. 



Every barrel or half barrel, in which pork 

 shall be packed or repacked, for exportation, shall 

 be made of good seasoned white-oak or white-ash 

 staves and heading, free from any defect. Each 

 barrel shall contain two hundred pounds weight 

 of pork. The barrels shall measure seventeen 

 and one quarter inches between the chimes, and 

 contain not less than thirtyone gallons and one 

 half, to be covered three fourths of the length 

 with good oak ash, birch or walnut hoops, leaving 

 one fourth in the centre. 



All barrels and half barrels of pork, packed or 

 repacked for exportation, shall be branded with 

 the first letter of the Christian name, and the sur- 

 name at length of the inspector, who has inspect- 

 ed the same, with the name of the town &c, [as 

 for beef] 



Other sections of the act establish fees, penal- 

 ties for its violation &c. Subsequent acts add a 

 third quality of pork called cargo, No. three, 

 which shall consist of the merchantable parts of 

 wholesome pork, of a quality inferior to No. 2 

 pork — enact that the feet, ears and faces of pork 

 (when separated from the cheek part of the head 

 &c,) shall not be ex])orted under the brand refuse 

 — that the cask shall be branded with the month 

 and year in which the inspection was made, and 

 that three ounces of saltpetre shall be added to 

 every barrel, and two ounces to every half barrel 

 of inspected pork. 



The Cambridge, Md. Chronicle states that a gen- 

 tleman of that place sowed a bushel and a half of 

 wheat on the 29th October last, from which he 

 has obtaiiied a product of fortytwo bushels. 



The cetisus of Massachuselts, turns out much 

 larger than was expected. A writer in the Pat- 

 riot says, — ' There is great ground for the belief 

 that this state will show very near 700,000 iidiabi- 

 tants when this census is completed, making an 

 increa.se of 177,000 in 10 years; and as it never 

 increased over 50,000 in the same time before, 

 may not this great increase be fairly attributed to 

 the great extension of manufactories during the 

 last 10 years.' ' , 



Dr Kidder, of Charlestown, has raised in his 

 garden at Medford, this season, some prodigious 

 gooseberries ; one was four inches long, three 

 round, and lacked nine grains of weighing half an 

 ounce. 



IMr Aymar, of New York, has cultivated the 

 cominon gooseberry three years until he has gath- 

 ered a dozen weighing 5 oz. 17 dwts. 12 grs. — 

 One was 4 inches round, and weighed 10 dwts. 

 12 ers. 



The Cholera Morbus rages at Philadelphia as 

 usual there in the Fruit Season. The inquiry is 

 often made, 'is this occasioned by the kind of 

 fruit, the quantity eaten at one time, its being 

 eaten before it is ripe, or after it has progressed 

 in decay ?' 



Galena Petatoes. — A year ago, potatoes were 

 carried from this place to Galena and sold for one 

 dollar and fifty cents per bushel. At this time, 

 potatoes, not of the same kind, but far su[)erior 

 in flavor and mellowness, were brought from Ga- 

 lena and sold in this place at one dollar per barrel. 

 Our country increases in natural wealth as we ad- 

 vance'towards the extremities St Louis Times 



In a paper by Dr Brewster, on Polarized light, 

 which was read at the Royal Society, it was sug- 

 gested that the icebergs which have been lately 

 fallen in with, in the southern hemisphere, have 

 been separated from a Southern Polar continent 

 by a recent earthquake. 



CURE FOR CORNS. 



Take a small slice of raw, lean, fresh beef, about 

 the thickness of a dollar, and bind it on the corn ; 

 do this three or four successive nights, and the 

 cure is said to be certain — try it. 



Sheet Lead it is thought will soon be used very 

 generally in roofing buildings in the Western 

 States. 



^ Flaming Comparison. — Sir Walter Scott, in 

 his life of Napoleon, says, that the French nation, 

 at the time of the revolution, might be compared 

 to a great bedlam set on fire by the patients, vvho 

 remained dancing in the midst of the flames ! 



Upwards of $70,000,000 of Saving Banks cap- 

 ital is now invested in the National Debt of Brit- 

 ain. The poor have thus a direct interest in the 

 preservation of the Government. 



3130 chairs were made by one person in the 

 Newburyport Chair Factory, in the year ending 

 Jime 30. 



Curious Circumstance. — As Mr B. K. Crandall, 

 ('who resides within a short distance of this place) 

 was standing in the street, a few yards from our 

 office, a swarm of bees lit on his hat, covering it 

 completely ! At the moment of our writing this, 

 he is on his way home with the strangest covering 

 for a head, in this age of fantastical head gear, 



that has been seen ' about these days.' It would 

 puzzle the ladies, we guess, to ' fulluw this fash- 

 ion.' — JViagara Courier. 



In Reading, Pa. a receipt for destroying cater- 

 pilhirs, from an old almanac, has been tried with 

 success. Take a long pole, and tie a piece of 

 sponge at the end — dip this in spirits of turpen- 

 tine, and conduct it to the nosts — the spirits will 

 penetrate them and aflfect the vermin to such a 

 degree that in ten minutes they v/\\l be completely 

 destroyed. With one gill five trees were lately 

 cleansed. 



Bronchotomij. — Dr Asa Heath, of Monmouth 

 lately performed the operation of Broncbotomy on 

 his own child, a boy about three years old. Some 

 dry pieces of wood, which it is supposed the child 

 was chewing, were drawn into the wijidpipe. 

 Before the operation, his respiration was almost 

 totally obstructed, pidsation at the wrist had almost 

 ceased, his eyes were fixed, and he appeared like 

 one in the last stage of life, having been about an 

 hour in the situation described. After the incis- 

 ion was made, be vvas innnediately relieved, and 

 breathed thmugh it till the obstruction, which was 

 above the incision, was removed, after which he 

 soon became playful as usual Portland Mirror 



A bald eagle was shot in Springfield, on Satur- 

 day, July 3. His head, neck, and tail, were of the 

 purest white, and his body and wings of beautiful 

 auburn brown. His talons and beak were very 

 large, and inilicated great strength. He measiu'ed 

 across the wings when spread, seven feet four in- 

 ches. 



J\'tw Himpihire Growth A young man passed 



thrfiugh this village on Sunday week, on bis way 

 to Michigan, who measured six feel nine inches und 

 a half. — He was a native of Concord, (N. H.) 

 On visiting the steam l)oat Superior, he felt ratlier 

 disappointed at not finding a birth sufiiciently long 

 to accomodate him — a bystander, however consol- 

 es! him by remarking, that in case the boat upset 

 he certainly had the advantage over his fellow 

 passengers, as he might wade ashore. — Buffalo 

 Republican. 



Mr Nicholas Norris of Baltimore county, has, 

 at his farm. Mulberry Grove, situate about two and 

 a half miles from Baltimore, on the York road, 

 50,000 worms now engaged in spinning silk. Mr 

 L. Jenkins, of Canandaigua, N. Y. is also exten- 

 sively engaged in the silk business, and has a fine 

 grove of white mulberry trees growitig. 



Peaches. — One farmer who resides within three 

 hours, sail of this city, sold thirteen thousand dol- 

 lars worth of peaches in our market last season, 

 the product of his own orchard ; and he expects 

 to bring to market nearly 10,000 bushels ths com- 

 ing season. Several other farmers in thr; same 

 vicinity hare from 5 to 10,000. — AT. Y. Sentinel. 



1940 children, between four and sixteen years of 

 age, attend the public schools at Springfield, Mass. 



Dull Times. — The Marshal at Philadelphia re- 

 ceived several applications for the office of Hang- 

 man. 



Letters from St Pctersburgh, state, that the Em- 

 peror of Russia has made a deduction of three millions 

 of ducats in favor of the Porte, and that everything 

 is now finally settled. 



The small-pox is said to prevail to some extent in 

 the New York penitentiary. 



