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rough manner, ami tvas in bad order wlien 

 le seeds were sown, it hnil been sliglitly top 

 lessed with barn manure some years past, and 

 as still in good heart ; the growth of the crop 

 Millet was rapid and luxuriant, insomuch thai 

 attracted the attention of every person who 

 sited the place. Intending to use the crop as 

 ly, and finding the heads quite full of seed, 

 id in some instances tailing on the ground, I 

 It down, on the ICth of July, (with cradles lo 

 le scythes) lour acres, leaving the Millet ?o 

 t to lie in swarth for a few hours. In the af- 

 rnoon of the same day, it was carefully tuni- 

 1 over, and the next morning, after the deiv 

 as off, it was bound in sheaves, and in the 

 urse of the same day, it was hauled to the 

 »rn loft and put away. During the whole of 

 is process, the weather was as fine as could 

 desired. The remaining acre, which was 

 tended for seed, was cradled on the 23d of 

 ily, and left in swarth till the next day widi- 

 it turning it, when it was bound in sheaves, 

 d set up in small open shocks, with the heads 

 the sun, till about 3 P. M. of that day, when it 

 IS hauled to the barn aHd packed away. The 

 lole crop was cured of a fine green color, an I 

 hough the stalk appeared in the field to b: 

 ong and stiff, it became in a few days after it 

 IS housed, nearly as flexible as clover, or tin^- 



wreighed the sheaves taken indifferentl/ 

 ')in some of the wagon loads, and in this wa/ 

 isfied myself that the product of each acre 

 is about 3500 lbs. Having entertained (iron 

 lat I had read on the subject) very sanguine 

 ipectations of the product of this piece of 

 Diind, I expressed to my foreman ray disaj?- 

 intment at this result. His observation was, 

 nt he presumed that those who had gathered 

 ger crops had probably mowed them, where- 

 the stubble lel't on the ground, in conse- 

 ence of the cradle having been used, would 

 ve added twenty or twenty five per cent to 

 ; quantity. I then went over the field and 

 ind the stubble to be about half leg high, and 

 many places much taller ; but the protection 

 lich it afforded to the ground, and the bene- 

 which 1 presumed it would derive from be- 

 • turned in for the reception of small grain, 

 ;ermined me in future to pursue the same 

 <de of cutting, believing that the sacrifice of 

 Tt of the hay would be more than compensat- 

 by the improvement on the land and the in- 

 sased product of the succeeding crop of 



rver, and at present promises a rich harvest. The 

 'ond crop was nearly as good as the preceding sum- 

 r, though it suffered much from the drought in May 

 1 June. Sheep are particularly fond of the Millet 

 ss, but not more so than horses and other stock. — 

 e MUlet seed, when ground and well bolted makes 

 ad equally as good as the buck wheat meal. Soil 

 t answers for grain or grass, is adapted to the 

 wth of Millet. It may be sown at any time from 

 25th of April till the 1st of August, at the rate of a 

 shel to the acre. 



Iracl of a letler from John Hare Powel, to Jonathan 

 loberls, President of the Pennsylrania Agricultural 

 yociely. 



' iMillet succeeds best on light land, and requires as 

 ch strength of soil as is necessary to prodxice heavy 

 s. I have not seen either in Europe or America, 

 f green crop which so largely rewards accurate til- 

 ;e and plentiful supplies of manure. I have sown 

 rom the 1st •f May, to the 20th of June, and have 

 'ariably obtained more fodder than could have been 

 ifrom aoy grass u&der similar circumstances. '' 



grain. Another advantage in cradling seems 

 to be, that tlie hay, by being spread, can be 

 more easily removed and put away than if it 

 were mowed and treated as timothy or clover. 



The Millet cut from the last acre, on the 23d 

 of July, WHS carefully threshed in the autumn, 

 and, to my great disappointment, produced on- 

 ly 15 bushels of clear good seed; but, I then 

 discovered from the quantity of chaff and light 

 grains thrown away by the fan, that 1 had cut it 

 much too early for seed. Had it remained on 

 the ground until the seed were ripe, I think it 

 Iiighly probable that the quantity would have 

 doubled, or nearly so. The Millet was gener- 

 ally from 6 to 7 feet high through the lot, and 

 the heads from 5 to 6 inches long, and well fill- 

 ed. Judge Peters says that he has raised a ve- 

 ry fine crop of wheat on the millet stubble, 

 when, in the same year, his crop was indifferent 

 in the oat stubble, under the same circumstances. 



On the 5th of May, five bushels of Millet seed 

 were sown, on four acres; on the 5th of July, 

 the crop was hauled, and estimated at four tons 

 per acre? I have obtained this season, forty 

 tons from sixteen acres of which four only had 

 been manured ', the remainder could not have 

 borne a good wheat crop. I have generally us- 

 ed a large quantity of seed, as not more than 

 two thirds of those which are generally sown 

 vegetate. Whilst my oxen consumed Millet in 

 its green state, they performed their work with 

 more spirit and vigor than they had done be- 

 fore, or have shewn since, except when fed 

 with grain. My cattle of all ages prefer it to 

 both red and white clover meadow hay. All 

 kinds of birds are very fond o( it, and not more 

 so than the different species of poultry — an in- 

 valuable food for fattening them. The seeds in 

 the upper parts of the stalks, generally ripen 

 first ; I therefore cut it when the upper parts of 

 most of the heads contains seeds which are hard. 

 All my observations have confirmed me in the 

 belief, that, in this stage, it affords fodder more 

 nutritious, and more easily made than any sort 

 of l»ay. 1 would recommend Millet not mere- 

 ly for its value as food but for the means it af- 

 fords of making clean the land, without summer 

 fallows or drill crops. Deep ploughing at pro- 

 per seasons, is, I conceive, the basis of all good 

 (arming. Such crops as shall enable the hus- 

 bandman to extirpate weeds, and obtain large 

 supplies of fodder, without much exhaustion, 

 should be the great objects of his aim. When 

 Millet is cut down with cradles to the scythes, 

 a considerable quantity of vegetation is left on 

 the ground; and the general opinion is, that it is 

 sufficient to prevent any exhaustion of the land ; 

 such has been the result of experiments by the 

 most judicious farmers. 



Method of preserving Meat in Tunis. — Take 

 half a pound of black pepper, half a poand of 

 red or Cayenne pepper, half a pound of the best 

 saltpetre, all beat or ground very fine; mix 

 these three well together, then mix them with 

 about three quarts of very fine salt; this mix- 

 ture is sufficient for eight hundred weight of 

 beef As the pieces are brought from the per- 

 son cutting u|), first sprinkle the spice, and in- 

 troduce a little into all the thickest parts ; if it 

 cannot be done otherwise, make a small incis- 

 ion with a knife. The first Salter, after rubbing 

 salt and spice well into the meat, should take 

 and mould the piece, the same as washing a 



shirt upon a board ; this may be very easily 

 done, and the meat being lately killed. Is 

 soft and pliable ; this moulding ojiens (he grain 

 of the meat, which will make it imbibe the 

 spice and salt much quicker than the common 

 method of salting. The first Salter hands his 

 piece over lo the second sailer, wlio moulds and 

 rubs the salt well into the meat, and if he ob- 

 serves occasion, introduces the spice; when the 

 second Salter has finished liis piece, he folds it 

 up as close as possible, and hands it to the pack- 

 er at the harness tubs, who must be stationed 

 near him ; the packer must he careful to pack 

 his harness tubs as close as possible. All the 

 work must be carried on in the shade, but 

 where there is a strong current of air, the har- 

 ness tubs in particular; this being a very male- 

 rial point in curing the meat, in a hot climate. 

 Meat may be cured in this manner, with the 

 greatest safety, when the thermometer in the 

 shade is at 110°, the extreme heat assisting in 

 the cutting." — Jackson on the Commerce of the 

 Mediterranean. 



Invention. — The ingenuity of our mechanics 

 is proverbial. We have examined a machine 

 invented by a Tailor by the name of Camfield, 

 the corner of Provost and Chapel streets, for 

 measuring persons on mathematical and anatomi- 

 cal principles for clothes, by which he furnishes 

 a complete suit immediately. He would not 

 permit us to have a specification of it, but it is 

 on curious principles. He fits boys immediate- 

 ly.— A'of. Adv. = 



According to the observations of M. H. Du- 

 trochet, the lieight of the Meteor, which pro- 

 jected the meteoric stones, at Charsonville, in 

 the Department of the Loire, on the 23d of 

 November, 1810, was about 14,724 toises. Mr. 

 Bowdich found that the perpendicular altitude 

 of the meteor, which discharged the meteoric 

 stones at Weston, in North America, on the 

 14th December, 1807, was 15,360 toises, or 

 about Itj miles. — London Monthly Magazine. 



There is a disease very prevalent in Wur- 

 temberg, (Germany) but little known elsewhere, 

 which is induced by eating smoked sausages, 

 and is most fatal every spring, especially in the 

 month of April. A pamphlet on this subject, 

 by Dr. Justinus Keimer, has appeared at Tubin- 

 gen. According lo this work 76 persons were 

 taken ill, from eating smoked sausages in a ve- 

 ry short time, and in quite different parts of the 

 Kingdom ; 37 of these died; others dried up to 

 mummies, and carried the poison in them for 

 many years. The liver sausages are the most 

 dangerous; of 24 persons who ate them, 12 di- 

 ed. It appears by Kemirinswert's discoveries, 

 that this poison is not prussic acid. It is diffe- 

 rent from all hitherto known poisons, inasmuch 

 as it leaves ttie brain and spinal marrow unaf- 

 fected; but suspends the action of the sympathet- 

 ic or ganglion system, in its whole extent. Hence 

 arise very remarkable results for physiology. — 

 Thus, for instance, in a person affected by sau- 

 sages, not the slightest pulsation of the heart 

 was perceived for months together; while, 

 notwithstanding this, the pulsation of the arte- 

 ries remained almost regular. This poison 

 appears, according to Keimer, to have the 

 most resemblance to the dipass serpent, or to 

 the supposed effects of the aqua tofana. 



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