1S36.] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



357 



These birds come upon us lilce hordes, Sir, of Huns 



And take cave to keep out of range of our guns ; 



Some people have triixl a contrivance we know 



Which all have consented to call a scare-crow; 



liut I've seen them light on il with great iionchalcnce, 



And hopping about as if learning to dance. 



A plan 7 once thougiit of, I'll freely disclose, 



'Twas to grant. Sir, a pension to each of these crows : 



If I gave them as much of my corn as they'd eat, 



I thought that to steal it, would not be so sweet; 



But alas, Mr. Speaker, they'll just as soon go 



To the corn you have planted, as that wliich jou strew. 



I own Sir, a farm in the old Northern Neck, 



Where crows would outnumber the grains which they 



peck, 

 And unless some provision is made in our laws 

 I fear Sir, the planter must give up his cause. 



Mr. R n. 



Although, Mr. Speaker, I moved that three counties 

 Should also partake of these ruinous bounties, 

 I did it alone from a sense of my duty, 

 And not that 7 saw in the scheme any beauty. 

 What the gentleman said who was last on the lloor, 

 In the truth of my dogmas, but rivets me more ; 

 The plan of a pension we've heard him rehearse. 

 Has proved, like the poor laws, an infinite curse. 

 Ilis system Sir, failing, conclusively shows 

 It swells but the number of paupers and crows; 

 JMalthus and others have proved that such laws 

 Increase but the cramming of bellies and crcnrs. 

 I therefore shall vote Sir, against the whole bill. 

 And I wish that the Senate would help me to kill. 



Mr. C. J n. 



That bill, Mr. Speaker, proposes to tax 

 ./IHwho reside in that county Fair-fax — 

 The grower of corn and he who grows none : 

 'Tis wrong Sir, injustice like this should b3 done. 



Mr. F 7/. 



A law about wolves, Mr. Speaker, 's been made, 



And a tax on the county requesting it, laid. 



The man who grows wool and the man who does not 



Are surely involved in a similar lot. 



The principle- here is the same. Sir, I trow; 



If you tax for the wolf, you may tax for the crow. 



Mr. S p. 



A single remark, Mr. Speaker, — the man 

 Who does'nt make corn, eats bread if he can. 

 The more that is made, the cheaper he buys. 

 Then does'nt he profit when any crow dies ? 



The Speaker arose from his arm chair at last 

 And ask'd if the bill in his hand should be passed. 

 And the "ayes" seem'd to have it, he said by the sound. 

 And the foes ol the crows, how they crowed on the 

 ground ! 1 



Feb. 10. 

 We hasten to notice an error we fell in 



Reporting this bill, as regards Mr. A n. 



That gentleman moved an amendment, to wit, — 

 "If laws on the subject were thougiit at all fit, 

 Those laws should be gen'ral, and each county court 

 In its wisdom, to scalping of crows might resort ; 

 He thought that a body so grave as the Senate 

 Should not have a thing like a crow-bill within it; 

 If the bill should go through with its one-sided features. 

 Then year after year we should hear of these creatures ; 

 'Twas best in his judgment to deal such a blow. 

 As would shut up forever the bill of the crow ;" 



And this was the speech which gave Mr. R n 



What Fairfax would call a fit of ''humgrvffin." 

 "He had no objection he said to the bill- 

 As regards other counties, — enact what you will ; 

 But as for his county, he warmly protested, 



By bell, book and candles, if crows were molested, 

 The worms there would fearlessly riot and revel — 

 All chance of a crop would be sent to the devil."' 



ACCOUKT OF A SHEEP OK TWO LEGS. 



To the Editor of the Farmeis" KcgUtor. 



Crawford County, Pa. July 18, 1836. 



As any tiling of interest connected with domes- 

 tic animals would be gratilying to you to know, 

 alhjw me to give 3'ou an ai^count, in Tew words, 

 of a lamh which walked on two legs. 



Being on a visit to a friend of mine some short 

 time since, my altention was directed to a Iamb, 

 which irom having been brought fijrth unexpect- 

 edly to the owner, in a very inclement season 

 early in the spring, lost both of its hind legs very 

 near the body. The poor animal was suflercd to 

 live — and when I saw it, it could travel (upon its 

 two fore legs) as nimbly as any of the fiock, and 

 that without raising the hind quarters, so that the 

 centre of gravity should fall upon the fore feet. I 

 consider the circumstance of a nature most extra- 

 ordinary, and well worthy to be recorded. The 

 animal must be endued with extraordinary muscu- 

 lar power : its hind parts while it is walking, stand- 

 ing, or eating, maintain very nearly their natural 

 position — -a little higher if any thing. It sometimes 

 gets on its knees and eats, without however, touch- 

 ing any other part of its body to the ground. While 

 I was observing it, it leaped over a stick without 

 any difficulty, and lit on its feet. The animal is in 

 good condition, and likely to live as long as any of 

 the flock. 



JOS. C. G. KKNKEDY. 



DEATH OF THE SECOND BlULE S COLT. LAND, 

 AND OYSTER SHELL BAKICS OF NANSEMOND. 



To the Editor of llie Farmcis' Register. 



Spring Hill, Nansemond Co., Aug. 26, 1836. 



Dear Sir: — Permit me to record, in your Regis- 

 ter, the death ol my second colt, the issue ol" a 

 mare mule, by a horse. The colt w'as born in 

 August, 1835, and died on this day, having been 

 sick two or three days. Having lost one, I was 

 desirous of raising this. It was in fine order — the 

 mother doing nothing, upon a good pasture. It is 

 true, the mother nor the colt had not been housed 

 until the night before it was taken sick. 1 had 

 another colt running in the same pasture, treated 

 in the sarne way, and is as yet doing well. Every 

 thing was done for the mule's colt that could be 

 done, but it suffered nmch and died at last. A 

 passage could 'never be gotten through it, and 

 when dead, 1 had it openetl, and all that could be 

 discovered, was, that every thing that had been 

 siven it was then in its stomach, and had never 

 passed on to the bowels. It was blistered on its 

 forehead — the blister drew well, but in vain : and a 

 question arises with me — can an offspring deliver- 

 ed of the body of a mongrel breed, be raised? 

 That question I should like to hear solved by 

 those better informed upon that subject than I am. 

 If it should be thought to be possible to raise one, 

 I will then try the mare mule with a jack, as sug- 

 gested by A. B. C. (in No. 4,) whose opinion I 

 should like to have upon this subject. 



Could you not favor us with a visit some time 

 this full? I should like for you to do so, and to 



