V..1. IX.— No 5. 



AIND IIOIITICULTUIIAL JOUIINAL. 



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le mail ilog lias the propi'iiy, wlicii inserted iin- 

 sr the skin, orroiiimiuiiciitiiiij hyilroiihuliiii lo oth- 

 ■ animals as well as to mail. I\l. Cosier has heeii 

 )le, hy me.niis orolilorine, to <Ioc(im|iose tliisdead- 



[loisoii anil iciuler it liariiile>s, pii-vontiii!; the 

 iproarh ofhydiopholiia in animals hitten l)y dujrs 

 iciiiodly raliiil. There can ha no dmilit of the 

 iciiracy of the experiment on whii-h this rfaie- 

 eiit is predicated. From this the mo.st imiior- 

 nt practical resnlts folloiv : 



Make a strong wash by dissolvinj two tahle 

 oonrnlls of the chlorm't of lime in half a jiint of 

 atcr, and instantly and repi-atedly liailie the pint 



ten. The poison will in this way he decomims- 

 It has proved siici-essfiil whi-n applied witli- 



si.v hours after the animal has been hitten. 



Silliman's Journal. 



From a very well written, (hut somewhat coii- 

 ited) article on Geology, in the last American 

 uarterly Review, we quote the following para- 

 ii|)h : — ' If a giod elementary wo'k, on the 

 cory of hnshandrv, were introiluced into our 

 mnion schools, it would set thousands of inge- 

 iis and clever boys thinking. The adinixiure 

 soils, the application of manures, the spread- 

 ^ of sea shells upon the sandy fields, the eftects 

 oduced by doses of lime in the tenacious clays i 

 these our farmers are familiar with — they see, 

 t they know not — they stand iipim the very 

 -eshuld of the temple of knowledge ; it is the 

 ty of a government to remove the HIni from lie- 

 e their eyes, that they may enter, and partake 

 eerfully and fearlessly, of the bounties and glo- 

 s of nature.' 



BUYING ON TRUrtT. 



The practice of purchasing small articles on 

 St, is as had for the purchaser as for the dealer, 

 leads him often beyond his depth, particularly 

 a great city, wliei-e every desire is tempted al- 

 st befoie it has e.xisteiice, and ere he is avvaii-, 

 finds himself ' up to his ears in debt,' and final- 

 overwhelmed and lost. The fact is, that mosi 

 n are horn from three to twelve uionlhs too 

 They live thus much in advance of their 

 alls, and when ihey die, their estates are en- 

 iihered with a host of small debts, which, if 

 y do not absorb, and more than absorb, every 

 n of property they have, subject it to serion> 

 barrassments and losses. Articles purchased 

 :liis way, are almost always procured disadvan- 

 eously, often unnecessarily, and when pay day 

 nes, fir it will 'come at last,' the ])Oiir man 

 Is it much harder to raise the necessary amoiiiu, 

 n he would have done to meet the payments 

 small sums as the articles were called i'or. 

 ere are few men in this country, who cannot, 

 ndn<try and persevering economy, bring up in 

 w months their liabitiial arrears, and then ihey 

 have the satisfaction of feeling themselves 

 ependeiit, will procun- their articles to better 

 Ullage, and as ihey walk the streets, will not 

 e to keep a sharp lonk-ont ahead, list they 

 1 meet with some of their creditors. A man 

 o is free from debt, is the only freeman ; and 

 how nianj' sell themselves to a most perplex 

 bondage, from sheer inismanagenieut and ex 

 ,agance, as if it w.eie belter to wear a fiiii 

 t and an anxious face, than to dress a lilili 

 iuer and he their own masters. If the poon- 

 s of citizens, and indeed all classe.s, would Col 

 ' the maxims of Franklin on this subject, th 



need not de.-icribe, for they know llieni already 

 toovvtil by experience. 



We are here speaking of honest nieii, who 

 wish and intend to p.iy their debts. There is an- 

 other cl.iss of dcbiiirs, and some of iliem very 

 dasliy ones loo, whom we look upon as mere 

 swindlers, and therefore have no advice to give 

 them, except — to take care, lest they exchange 

 their superfine bruadidollis, gold chains and ruffles, 

 for a suit of striped homespun, at Sing Sing, or 

 Ulackwell's Island. — AT. Y. Journal of Commerce. 



The season gives the very best promise. Eng- 

 lish (Jiain of all kinds will be heavy ; Hay abim- 

 dant ; Indian Corn somewhat backward, lint he- 

 gi IS to lodk np well. Fruit killeil in the valle> 

 by the lale frost*, but the Imughs bend under the 

 weight on the hill. — Keene J^'. H. Sentinel. 



jo uld avoid a thousanfl perplexities which we 



The following remarks on Education from Blackwood's 

 Magazine, are worthy the atleniioa of every Parent. 



Shepherd. — Pronounce in ae monosyllable — the 

 power o' education. Praise ? 



Enu:lish Opium- Eater. — Love. 



Shepherd.— llow often fatally tliocht to be. Fear ! 



English Opium Eiler. — Lovr. ! Look on the or- 

 phan, for whom no lui'i cares — for whom no face 

 ever brightens, no voice grows musical ; who per- 

 iiiims in slavish drudjxery her soliiary and tliank- 

 less labors, and feels lliat, from morning to niglil. 

 the scowl of lyraimy is upon her — and see bow 

 iialure pines, and shivers and gets stunted, in the 

 absence of the genial light of humanity. 



S/if/)/ierrf. — Like a bit unlucky lily, chance-plant- 

 ed amaiig the cald clay on a bleak knowe to the 

 north, where the morning sun never, and the 

 evening sun seldom shines, and bleakness is the 

 general character o' the imgenial day. It strug- 

 eles at a smile — does the bit botinie stranger 

 while lily — but youseeit's far Iraeliappy, and thai 

 it 'II be sune dead. The bee passes it by, for it's 

 quite scentless ; and though some draps o' dew do 

 visit it — fin- the heavens are still gracious to the 

 dying outcast — yet they canna freshens up its 

 dniopin' head, so weak at last, that the stalk could 

 hardly bear up a butterfly. 



Ene:lish Opium Eater. — Even the buoyant — the 

 elastic — the Jiiry — the volatile spirit of childhood 

 cannot sustain itself against the weight of self- 

 degradation thus bearing it down with the coii- 

 sciousne.ss of contumely and contempt. The heart 

 seems to feel itself worthy of the scorn it so per- 

 uetually endures; and cruel humiliation destroys 

 its virtue, by rubbing it afrits self-esteem. 



Shepherd. — God's truth. 



English Opium-Ealer. — Look on that picture — 

 and on this. See the child of the poorest parents, 

 who love il, ]>erhaps, the better f irtheir poverty — 



Shepherd. — A thousan' — a million times the bet- 

 ter — as Wordsworth nobly says — 



' A virtuous household, tlioush exceeding poor.' 

 English Opium Enter. — AViih whom it has been 

 early made a partaker in pleasure and in praise — 

 I and felt its common humanity, as it danced before 

 its father's steps when he walked to his morning 

 labor — or as it knelt beside him at morning and 

 evening jirayer ; and what a contrast will there 

 be, not in the happiness nierely, but in the whole 

 nature of llio.se two beings ! 



Shepherd. — A rose-tree full in bearing, balming 

 anil biightening the wilderness — a dead withered 

 wall flower on a sunless cairn ! 



English Opium Enter. — Change their lot, and 

 you will soon change their nature. It will, in- 

 deed, be difficult to reduce the glad, and rejoicing, 

 and .self-exulting child to the level of her wdio 



s so miserably bowed down in sonielliin!; worse 

 than despair; but it will be easy — a week's kind- 

 ness will do il — to rekindle life, and self-satisfac- 

 tion, in the heart of the orphan-slave of the woik- 

 h. Mi.se — to lift h r, by love, and sympathy, and 

 praise, up to the glad consciousness of her moral 

 being. 



Shepherd. — Aye — like a star in heaven set free 

 frae the cruel clouds. 



English Opium E'lter.— So essential is self-e.sti- 

 mation, even to the happiness, the innocence, and 

 the virtue of childhood ; and so dependent are 

 they on the sympathy of those to wboni nature 

 constrains it to look, and in whom it will forgive 

 and forget many frowning days for one chance 

 smiling hour of transient benignity I 



Voracity of Insects. — The amount of leaves 

 eaten by the caterpillars produced from one ounce 

 of esrcs, is upwards of 1200 lbs! Afiin'jle silkworm 

 consumes, within thirty days, about 00,000 times its 

 primitive weight. 



A table spoonful of the spirits of Camphor, is s'lid 

 to he an infallible remedy against the fatal effects of 

 drinking cold water in warm weather. Several in- 

 stances of its good effects are quoted in the Newark 

 (N.J.) Eagle. 



To Destroy Thistles. — The Canada papers tell U3 

 of a very easy and eliectual way to destroy Thistles, 

 which are gradually encroaching upon some parts of 

 our country, and are likely to be as injiirions to our 

 agriculture as theirs. Let the thistles be mown be- 

 fore they go to seed, and the first rain, by soaking 

 into the stalks, will cause their decay. 



STJ3W issroa-aiiisra) s»iiasassj 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1830. 



RYE. 



This very useful grain is capable of being cul- 

 tivated on triost kinds of land, b:it light sandy 

 soils, where wheat will not thrive, an; the sorts of 

 soil on, which, in' general its culture will be most 

 profitable. • 



In Memoirs of the JVew York Board of Jlgn'cul- 

 ture, vij\. i. page 82, it is said, ' Uye slioiilil be 

 sowed the last week in August, or the first week 

 in September, at the rate of about thirty six quarts, 

 per acre, some say forty eight quarts. J'ut if it 

 is not sowed at that time, it ought to be delayed 

 until late in November, so that it may' not come np 

 till spring. A. Worthington had a good crop, 

 which he sowed in a January snow storm. Rye 

 rai.sed on upland makes much better flour than 

 that which is raised on low or damp land.' 



Rye may be sown in autumn to gicat advan- 

 tage lor green fodder for cattle and sheep, ],artic- 

 ularly the latter, in tlies|iring Ewes and lambs 

 will derive great benefit from it, at a time when 

 little or no other ereeii fiiod can be procured. 

 When it is meant for this purpose, it should not 

 only be sowed early in autumn, but should be sow- 

 ed thicker than when it is intended to stand for a 

 cro|( of seed. Some say that it may well be mow- 

 ed for hay two or three times in the course of 

 the summer, and this piece of liusbandry has been 

 recommended by English writers, for fiirnicra 

 whose lauds are mostly dry or unsuitable lor grass. 



