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Receipt for a Cold or Cough — Mowing. 



Vol. III. 



and daily companion, cheers him in his toil 

 and delights him when at leisure? 



These birds I have often seen so tame that 

 they would scarcely leave my path, and I re- 

 member a covey tliat, durintjone winter, would 

 frequently come to my (Travel walk, to receive 

 the feed that was placed tliere for them. — 

 They amounted to about twenty, and I set a 

 high value upon them ; hut there came upon 

 my farm, during my absence, two gunners 

 with their dogs, and destroyed them all. 1 

 assure you, I felt the loss of those birds more 

 than I Vv'ould that of the best horse in my sta- 

 ble. 



For myself, 1 feel in regard to my birds, as 

 the ancients did of their household goods; 

 nor can I control a feeling of indignation and 

 a sense of injury, when I see my neighbors or 

 strangers wantonly destroying them upon my 

 premises. There are many depredators in our 

 wheat-fields that are destroyed by the par- 

 tridge ; for it is on these he feeds. The lark 

 and the plover do their work in our grass 

 lands. The sparrow, blue-bird, wren and 

 other small birds, labor diligently in our gar- 

 dens, orchards and pleasure grounds, and they 

 should be welcomed as agreeable visiters by 

 all who reside in the country. 



Boxes for their accommodation, should be 

 nailed to the trees, and by carefully avoiding 

 to alarm them, and other kind means, they 

 could be domesticated among us. They will 

 otherwise take to the woods and by-places, 

 and we shall be deprived of the pleasure of 

 listening to their cheering songs, and lose the 

 advantages of their incessant labors. 



Farmers, think of this. Let us not be un- 

 kind to our neighbors, nor deny them reasona- 

 ble privileges, but do not continue to re- 

 frain fiom expressing a sense of injury at 

 their depredations, and of making known to 

 all the high value we set upon our birds. 



Penn. 



Receipt for a Cold or Cougli. 



Take a small tea-cup full of flaxseed, put 

 it in a quart of water, and let it boil down to 

 a pint. Then add tour large table spoon- 

 fuls of the best sugar-house molasses; let 

 it simmer oyer the fire about ten minutes; sot 

 it away until cool ; then add a few drops of le- 

 mon juice. Dose — a wine glass full occasion- 

 ally through the day for an adult. 



Another. — Two ounces of flaxseed, the 

 same quantity each of hoarhound and bone- 

 sett in the herb, — boil in half a gallon of wa- 

 ter until reduced to about a quart; then add 

 a tea-cup full of the best sugar-house molas- 

 Fos, let it stand over the fire a few moments. 

 Dose, same as the above. 



Finish every thing as you go along. 



Mowing. 



They who have not been in their youth ac- 

 customed to do this work, are seldom found 

 to be able to do it with ease or expedition. 

 But when the art is once learnt, it will not 

 be lost. 



As this is one of the most laborious parts 

 of the husbandman's calling, and the more 

 fatiguing, as it must be performed in the hot- 

 test season of the year, every precaution ought 

 to be used v\Iiich tends to lighten the labor. 

 To this it will conduce not a little, for the 

 mower to rise very early, and be at his work 

 before the rising of the sun. He may easily 

 perform half the usual day's work before nine 

 in the morning. His work will not only be 

 made easier by the coolness of the morning 

 air, but also by the dew on the grass, which 

 is cut the more easily for being' wet. By this 

 means he may lie still and rest himself dur- 

 ing all the hottest of the day, while others who 

 begun late are sweating themselves exten- 

 sively, and hurting their health, probably by 

 taking down large draughts of cold drink to 

 slake their raging thirst. The other half of 

 his work may be performed after three or four 

 o'clock, and at night he will find himself more 

 free from fatigue. 



If the mower would husband his strength 

 to advantage, he should take care to have his 

 scythe, and all the apparatus for mowing, in 

 the best order. His scythe ought to be adapt- 

 ed to the surface on which he mows. If the 

 surface be level and free from obstacles, the 

 scythe may be long and almost straight, and 

 he will perform his work with less labor, and 

 greater expedition. But if the surface be un- 

 even, cradlcy, or chequered with stones, or 

 stumps of trees, his scythe must be short and 

 crooked. Otherwise he will be obliged to 

 leave much of the grass uncut, or use more 

 labor, in cutting it. A long and straight 

 scythe will only cut off the lops of the grass 

 in hollows. 



A mower should not have a snead that is 

 too slender, for this v;ill keep the scythe in a 

 continual tremor, and do much to hinder its 

 cutting. He must see that it keeps perfectly 

 fast on the snead; for the least degree of 

 looseness will oblige him to use the more vio- 

 lence at every stroke. ]\Iany worry them- 

 selves needlessl) by not attending to this cir- 

 cumstmce. 



Mowing with a company ought to be avoid- 

 ed by those who are not very strong, or who 

 are little used to the business, or who have 

 not their tools in the best order. Young Ir.ds, 

 who are ambitious to be thought good mow- 

 ers, often find themselves much hurt by mow- 

 ing in company. 



Mowers should not follow too closely after 

 each other, for this has been the occasion of 



