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SILK MANUAL, AND 



Antidote to Poisons. — The fact that 

 Ground Mustard proves a sure i-emedy in all 

 cases where vegetable, and in nearly all where 

 mineral poisons are taken into the stomach 

 either by mistake or design, if given immedi- 

 ately after such deleterious substances have 

 been received, is a circumstance that should be 

 v.niversally known. 



We are led to make these remarks in conse- 

 quence of two cases of accidental poisoning 

 having come under our observation within the 

 last four weeks : one from Oxalic Aoid, the 

 other from Nitrate of Potash ; in both cases 

 they were taken, supposing them to be Sulphate 

 of Magnesia, or " Salts." The former did its 

 deadly office, by reason of its victim's living at a 

 distace from medical aid, and being ignorant of 

 the fact that ground mustard, taken in a dose of a 

 table spoonful, mixed in water, is an instantaneous 

 and powerful emetic ; the other one availed him- 

 self of this remedy upon the spur of the moment, 

 and no ill effects from the poison have since 

 arisen. — Bunker Hill Aurora. 



[From the Mechanic & Parmer.] 

 Mauufactaring Oats Into Bread StufTs. 



Mr Sayavard : — Believing that you are strong- 

 ly inclined to the interest of the Agriculturist in 

 this section of the country, I therefore, through 

 the medium of your valuable paper, offer a ^qw 

 hints to my brother farmers on the objects and 

 advantages of raising and manufacturing Oats in- 

 to bread stuff. The cause of my writing this ar- 

 ticle at this time is, that a considerable number of 

 my friends and neighbors are making preparations 

 to move to the far West, because, they say, " we 

 can't raise no corn," Now, sir, it is my firm con- 

 viction, that the region in this latitude is not adap- 

 ted to the culture of corn. This, every man of 

 moderate understanding does, or ought to know. 

 But, sir, one thing is certain — we can raise a 

 plenty of good potatoes, and get as n)ueh for them 

 per bushel, in our cellars, as can be got for a bush- 

 ed of corn, in their barns, in either Ohio, Indiana, 

 jlli'uois, or Missouri, We are positive that we 

 can /aise good crops of wheat, and that this sec- 

 tion oS the country is excellent for the culture of 

 that arti <^le. A friend of mine, who 1 can believe, 

 told me yt'^sterday, tnat he has this season raised, 

 after two bushels sowing, sixty bushles of good 

 wheat, i myself had, last year, over 46 bushels 

 after two bushels sowing, on burnt land ; this year 

 I cannot tell how much will be the increase, not 

 having threshed any this season — but it looks 

 well. We have in this section, generally,- good 

 health, caused, no doubt, by a ptn-e atmosphere, 

 and good wells of water — which no writer of 

 any candor has ever stated (to my knowledge) is 

 possessed by the settlers who go from New Eng- 



land to the West : there they have the bilious fe- 

 ver and ague, to an alarming extent. Besides, if 

 they would only consider the high prices they 

 would have to pay for sheetings, shirtings, cali- 

 coes, and cloths of all kinds — not to mention teas, 

 spices, and other luxuries, which the people of 

 New England have been accustomed to, from their 

 childhood — I think they would be more content 

 with their present situation. 



Now, Mr Editor, if we should substitute Oats 

 for corn, by sowing them in season, (not sow them 

 in the middle of June, as some do,) that they may 

 be filled — then husband them, as we would wheat 

 — carry them to mill, and have them floured — I 

 will bo botmd in that case there never will be such 

 a cry for want of bread stuffs as has been heard 

 the past year, in the County of Penobscot. This 

 county is as well adapted to the culture of oats as 

 Scotland, my native coiinti-y, where the staple 

 bread stuff is oat-meal; and if the people would 

 once get into the way of using it, they would pre- 

 fer it to brown bread, being sweeter and equally 

 as substantial. The floiuing of oats is much prac- 

 ticed in some parts of Vermont, Rygate and Bar- 

 net ; they carry them to Dover and Great Falls, 

 N. H., and to Lowell and Boston, Mass, 



It must be observed that an oat-meal mill must 

 be built, or rather fixed on purpose for them — 

 besides, there must be attached to the mill, a kiln, 

 for the drying of them before they are ground. 



If these hints meet the eye of any brother far- 

 mer who may appreciate them, I shall be glad to 

 discuss the subject more at length. 



Bradford, Sept. 1836. John Pender, 



AGKICUI^TITRE. 



We observe with astonishment and regret the 

 conclusive evidence which appears in every di- 

 rection that the business of agriculture does not 

 receive the attention due to it in this country, but 

 is treated with absolute negk^ct, compared with 

 other pursuits. This ought not to be, and the in- 

 habitants of this country will yet learn that they 

 have committed a gross error by abantloning the 

 cultivation of the soil for less independent and 

 more precarious modes of obtaining a livelihood. 



Who has ever before heard of such a state of 

 things as now exists here ? We have a soil as 

 fertile as any that the sim ever shone upon, a 

 cormtry almost boundless in extent, and land so 

 cheap that any man may purchase a farm with 

 the proceeds of a few month's labor, yet we are 

 actually importing for consumption, immense 

 quantities of agricultural products from foreign 

 countries! A people thinly scattered over a land 

 unequalled in fertility and exhaustless in its resour- 

 ces, are buying their bread at enormous prices 

 from countries so overburthened with inhabitans 

 that political economists have feared that the earh 



