No. 2. 



Hi Jits to Farjners. — Editoj'ial Notices. 



69 



Hints to Farmers* 



A farmer should never undertake to cul-; 

 (tivate more land than he can do thoroughly; 

 half tilled land is growing poorer; well till- 

 ed land is constantly improving. 



A farmer should never keep more cattle, 

 ihorses, sheep or hogs, than he can keep in 

 good order; an animal in high order the first 

 of December is already half wintered. 



A farmer should never depend on his 

 I neighbour, for what he can by care and 

 good management, produce on his own farm; 

 ;he should never beg fruit while he can plant 

 iitrees, or borrow tools when he can make or 

 'buy them — a high authority has said, the 

 i borrower is a servant to the lender. 



A farmer should never be so immersed in 

 apolitical matters as to forget to sow his 

 wheat, dig his potatoes and bank up his 

 'cellar; nor should he be so inattentive to 

 Ifthem as to be ignorant of those great ques- 

 tions of national and state policy, which will 

 | always agitate, more or less, a free people. 

 No farmer should allow the reproach of 

 'neglected education to lie against himself or 

 .family — if " knowledge is power," the com- 

 ! >mencement should be early and deeply laid 

 ,iin the minds of his children. 



A farmer should never use intoxicating 

 liquors as a drink ; if, while undergoing 

 i severe fatigue and the hard labour of the 

 summer, he would enjoy robust health, let 

 \ him be temperate in all things. 



A farmer should never refuse a fair price 

 i for any thing he wants to sell : we have 

 known a man who had several hundred 

 bushels of wheat to dispose of, refuse eight 

 shillings, because he wanted eight shillings 

 1 and six pence, and after keeping his wheat 

 six months was glad to get six shillings for it. 



We see it stated that a barrel of Ameri- 

 can salted beef, imported into Dundee, Scot- 

 land, under the new English tariff, was 

 brought to Perth, and sold at three pence 

 per pound. The meat is said to be of good 

 quality, fat and well flavoured. We believe, 

 says the paper, that the regular supply of 

 this novel commodity, will now be obtained 

 in this quarter. We are informed that a 

 quantity of American mutton hams, have 

 also been sold at three pence per pound. 



To make Hominy. — Take the white flint 

 corn — the same as is used in the southern 

 states, let the miller pass it through the 

 hopper as coarse as possible ; take what 

 quantity is wanted, and sift it in the usual 

 meal sieve ; blow out the hulls, then wash ; 

 put it in the pot with plenty of cold water 

 and a little salt ; boil till soft, which will be 

 in about an hour or so. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



AND 

 .AMERICAN HEH3-BOCE. 



Philadelphia, Eighth Month, 1842. 



New-Jersey Marl beds. 



We have rarely passed a day more pleas- 

 antly, in any little excursion, than we did 

 the 2nd and 3d insts., in company with our 

 highly valued friend, Edmund Ruffin, editor 

 of the "Farmers' Register." He was de- 

 sirous of viewing some of the mart beds 

 of New Jersey, and we made a flying visit 

 to a few of them in Gloucester county, 

 about five miles south-east of Woodbury. 

 There has already, been a good deal said 

 and written, upon these remarkable depo- 

 sites ; as well as upon the almost incredible 

 effects, that have resulted from their appli- 

 cation to the soil ; but much more informa- 

 tion is requisite, before their value will be 

 thoroughly appreciated, or their character 

 distinctly understood, especially, by those 

 who have not seen them. It is not our in- 

 tention to make even the attempt, to throw 

 any new light upon this exceedingly inte- 

 resting subject; but merely to name the 

 places we visited, — a few of the results 

 mentioned, as having grown out of the use 

 of marl, and to draw if possible, the further 

 notice of others, to these abundant sources 

 of wealth, to our native state. 



It is well known the marl region of New 

 Jersey, stretches through the interior of the 

 state, from Monmouth, across the entire 

 breadth of Burlington and Gloucester coun- 

 ties, and penetrates, also, the upper parts of 

 Salem. The beds lie at various distances 

 from the surface, and of course offer every 

 difference of facility in excavating them, 

 and are overlaid by a great variety of mate- 

 rial. Our friends Benjamin Whitall, and 

 William R. Tatum, accompanied us in our 

 ride, and from their familiarity with every 

 location in their neighbourhood, were ena- 

 bled to make many interesting statements, 

 with respect to the change which the use 

 of marl has made in the face of the country. 

 We visited the marl bed of James Davis, 

 which lies a mile and a half east of Wood- 

 bury, and two or three miles to the west 

 of the western limits of the district which 

 includes the green-sand marl. It lies in the 

 bottom of a valley, covering a few acres, 

 and is overlaid with bog iron ore, of so much 

 richness, as to have been purchased some 

 fifteen or twenty years ago, by a person of 

 the name of Richards, and transported, prin- 

 cipally by water, to his Iron works on Egg- 

 harbour river. This marl appears to be 

 intermixed with sand and clay, as well as 



