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Who sees Me — Vegetable Cicffer, «§•<'. 



Vol. III. 



ing dressed with some kind of liniiaent, it 

 was covered over with raw cotton ; this form- 

 ed a very easy bandage around the sores, and 

 did not prevent the little sufferer from chang- 

 ing its position and using its limbs, and still 

 it constituted a perfectly elastic bandage, and 

 protection against the atmosphere. Would 

 not raw cotton form an excellent covering, 

 after the application of the soot and lard, or 

 butter, as it could so easily be removed in 

 small parcels, to permit fresh applications, 

 and be replaced by little at a time, saving the 

 sufferer much pain at the time of dressing, 

 and the evil to be apprehended from long ex- 

 posure to the external air. 



The knowledge of so valuable a remedy 

 for one of the most afflicting accidents to 

 which we are liable, should be made as pub- 

 lic as possible. To do my duty in this re- 

 spect, I have transcribed it and affixed the 

 paper to the door post of a large manufactory 

 in which I am engaged, where it was read 

 in a very short space of time by more than a 

 hundred persons, and communicated by them 

 to many more, before the day was over. Let 

 every one " go and do likewise." 



I consider the readers of the Cabinet much 

 indebted to you, sir, for the insertion of so 

 valuable a paper into your interesting work. 



Philos. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



l¥lio sees I?Ie? 



" O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us 



To see oursels as others see us '. 



It wad frae monie a blunder free us 



And foolish notion."— ^urnj. 



A respectable, worthy farmer lately stated, 

 that he never went any where but what he 

 learned something useful. 



He said, that if he saw things wrong and 

 in bad condition, it was an admonition to him 

 to avoid errors and blunders of a similar de- 

 scription ; and if he observed any thing that 

 was an improvement on his own ways and 

 plans, he adopted it ; so that in either case he 

 was instructed, and promoted his interests, 

 either by the evil or the good he noticed in 

 others. He stated, that on a particular occa- 

 sion he was at a tavern, where there was an 

 elderly man who was intoxicated, and a num- 

 ber of ill-bred, vulgar yo.'ng men were en- 

 gaged in deriding and scoffing at him; the 

 inebriate, after some time of silence, turning 

 round, observed to them ; young men, " what 

 you find wrong in me, try to mend in your- 

 selves.''^ This remark, he said, made a last- 

 ing impression upon his mind, and had been 

 very serviceable to him in his journey through 

 life; and he thought, that if farmers gene- 

 rally would adopt the plan of mending in their 

 own practice, what they see wrong in the 



doings of others, it would very soon effect 

 a great and wholesome change in the agri- 

 culture of the country ; greatly increase the 

 number of blades of grass, and ears of com, 

 and make them longer too; and it would 

 much promote the prosperity and independ- 

 ence of many families, who now consider all 

 times as bad times with them. Remember, 

 The busy bee gathers honey from every flower. 

 EZERIEI.. 



Vegetable Cutters. 



Friend Libby, — I have lately subscribed 

 to the "Farmers' Cabinet," and have read 

 parts of all the numbers from July 1836, to 

 that of last month, and I now intrude upoa 

 the columns of this valuable agricultural as- 

 sistant, to inquire of its readers, whether there 

 is now in use any apparatus for cutting, with 

 economy of time and labor, ruta baga, tur- 

 neps, sugar beets, or other roots which are 

 with us a common winter food for cattle. 

 The common practice of throwing them into 

 a mess box, and chopping them up with a 

 spade or shovel, is not only laborious, but does 

 not cut them in that regular manner which 

 should be observed as a preventive of choking. 

 The practice of steaming or boiling is becom- 

 ing more general ; but I am inclined to think 

 that some machine which could be worked, 

 by a boy to cut up these valuable roots would 

 be a great desideratum to the farming inter- 

 est. I hope if any reader of the " Cabinet" 

 has such a machine, or knows'of any, he will 

 give an account of it in the next number. I 

 write in an uncouth style, but I hope I am 

 understood. Could not the sugar beet rasp 

 be in some way modified to answer the pur- 

 pose ? Inquirer, 



Burlington, N. J., 2ndrao., 9th, 1839. 



There are a variety of vegetable cutters in 

 use, particularly in New England, and " In- 

 quirer," and all other friends, will be able in 

 a short time, to supply themselves with ve- 

 getable cutters, and all other improved and 

 useful implements in agriculture, at the new 

 Agricultural Depository about being opened 

 at No. 87 North Second-street 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Sugar Beet and Mangel 'W'urtzel* 



If those about to cultivate either of these 

 roots, would soak the seeds for twenty-four 

 to forty-eight hours, and then roll them in 

 plaster or fallen lime, they would become so 

 completely coated as to resemble peas, and 

 may be drilled, or planted by hand, with much 

 less difficulty, and more certainty of success. 



Beta. 



