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bcin. Mo partly rises up in tlic bcJ ; but his licad, 

 lirougliout, feels as bad as liis cyos. Oli, how la- 

 bels! Ho iiiusl lio a littlt longer, if every lliui^; 

 ►ocs to wreck. Sa down he pnes ugnin to sloop 

 while lonm'r, or rulher to lit ami suffer longer, 

 tut at Inst he must get up, at some rate — so he 

 rags luMiself out. 



But now his mouth and throat, how they feel ! 

 loated with lur or mucus, and having an ugly, 

 cid taste : — what shall be done ? Before the days 

 f temperance, a little tansy or wormwood billers 

 could clear away tlu bad feelings of the eyes and 

 cad, and make liim forget the bad tusle in the 

 loulh. But ah, the days of temperance have come, 

 nd ho has pledged himself to touch not, taste not, 

 andle not, that which he knows full well has al- 

 'ays been a curse to him and to the rest of the 

 'orld around him. But what shall he do ? I again 

 sk. 



The best part of repentance is reformation. Let 

 le advise him to repent of his late suppers, and 

 eform. Let supper be taken by five or six o'clock, 

 nd let it even then, be light Whatever else may 

 «»e been taken during the day, let the supper be 

 rincipally of bread, and — if any liquid is used 

 ith it — perhaps a little milk. Or, if he is so 

 ungry or tired at supper time that he cannot eat 

 lain bread, or other very plain food, let him go 

 ■itlioiit any supper at all. No person, however 

 ard his labor may he, who has eaten breakfast, 

 incheon, and dinner in the usual country style of 

 Jew England, would be materially injured by ab- 

 Uiining from supper. He would probably gain 

 lis by abstinence in preference to gluttony — that 

 •e would wake up ne.\t morning refreshed by his 

 leep, and in the enjoyment of a good appetite, 

 •till I am not urging total abstinence from food at 

 upper time. H' there is a good appetite for plain 

 read, I would eat moderately, by all means. 



The grand reason, as 1 tliink, why late suppers 

 hould be avoided by laboring people, e.'pecially 

 y farmers, is thiit which has just been mentioned 

 1 this article. Late suppers are unfavorable to 

 roper rest and sound sleep ; and where there is a 

 ant of either of these, no one will feel well ne.\t 

 Horning, nor even through the day. Late suppers 

 .len, ore an occasion (observe 1 say an occasion, 

 ol tht occasion, for there are many others,) of bad 

 ■uppers ; bad suppers of bad sleep ; bad sleep of 

 ad feelings next morning ; bad feelings in the 

 norning of late rising, or at least of bad eating 

 nd drinking at or before breakfast — and the whole 

 eries of wrong doing is a precursor, almost inevi- 

 bly, of bad feelings and much wrong doing 

 liroughout the day. It deranges, in time, the 

 »eneral health and is unfavorable to long life. 



In this way, however, many go on from day to 

 lay, from week to week, from month to month, and 

 rom year to year. Many, I say, but I mean a few 

 ather. For while a few who have robust consti- 

 utions, go on thus, multitudes become afflicted 

 vith disease in some of its thousand and one forms, 

 ind nature has a chance to recover herself, at least 



—their own health, and timt of thc-ir families, do- | found it pnifitablo to sow turnips among tho corn. 



inestic animals, soils, &.C., and hove made some 

 preparation for the publicnlion of hucIi b work. — 

 My heart is with the plain, common sense people 

 of this country, and ever has been ; ond I would 

 fain do the little in my power while I live, to pro- 

 mote their health, happiness, and usefulness. He 

 who shall bring not (miy Hygiene, but Chemistry 

 anil Physiology to bear upon our farmers and their 

 wives and families, and upon their fields, fortsls 

 and yards, will, in my view, perforin a great and 

 lasting service to his country. 



WM. A. ALCOIT 

 Dedham, Jlug. 2rf, 1841. 



For iho New England Parmer. 



TURNIPS AMONG CORN. 

 ^ Audi alttrom partem." 



I noticed recently in the columns of the Farmer, 

 an article under the editorial head, relative to the 

 practice of sowing turnips nmong corn. 



I have a few facts to communicate on this sub- 

 ject, and hope thtit others will add more. 



Last year a farmer of my acquaintance, who had 

 ever been sceptical as to the propriety nf the mea- 

 sure, was induced to try it, and the result, so far at 

 least as one year's experience is capable of throw- 

 ing light upon the question, goes far in establish- 

 ing the utility of tlie practice. The modus operan- 

 di was as follows: — At the last hoeing, which was 

 performed in tlie latter part of June, or the tirst of 

 July, he sowed three ounces of English turnip seed 

 on a part of his corn land, leaving the other which 

 he manured and cultivated precisely in the same 

 way as that on which the turnips were sowed, 

 without any thing but the corn. 



Tlie hoeing was performed almost exclusively 

 with the Cultivator, or horse-hoe, and the surface, 

 nstead of being broken into inequalities by hilling, 



In some iiistniiiM-s they have found it so in fuel. 

 Hut where the corn is large, our obscrvaticmi are 

 not in favor of the practice. And if H. 1). W. ha* 

 mudc no mistake in his figures, the case lio men- 

 tions will sustain nnr belief. 



If the two acres averaged aizlylhrce bushels, and 

 if the acre where the turnips grew gave only fijly- 

 three bushels, then the other ucrc on which no tur- 

 nips were sowed, must have yielded aettnlylhrtt 

 bushels of cum — and wc are left to infer that the 

 injury to the corn by llie turnips, was twenty bush- 

 els per acre. Such is the apparent teaching of 

 this case ; but we strongly suspect there is some 

 mistake in the MS. ; for the experimenter would 

 Dot be so much pleased with the operation, had it 

 resulted ns here described. — En. 



From the Kaf (net's Cabinet. 



GREEN CROPS FOR' TURNING DOWN. 

 Mr Euitor — Wc hear mnch of sowing crops 

 for the purpose of plowing them down while green. 

 Did it ever occur to the minds of our fanners, how 

 many and what heav/- " green crops" may be cut 

 from their rushy bottoms, their ditches, their woods ; 

 but above all, from the margins of their rivers and 

 creeks; and which, if;baried in the bottom of their 

 furrows, would fern out and become as valuable 

 manure as any that could be grown for the purpose 

 at the expense of plowing and sowing, and which 

 would enable them to mow these for their cattle, 

 and thus obtain from them an addition to their cat- 

 tle keep, instead of robbing them of so many acres 

 of fodder ? There is upon record an account of 

 an experiment on growing potatoes, where it was 

 found that a single cabbage-leaf laid on every set 

 of the potatoes while planting, produced as large a 

 crop as was taken from the rows drcesed with sta- 

 I ble manure. Then what would be the result of a 

 was kept throughout perfectly smooth and even to , ^^^^^ covering of water lilies, reeds, or the rushes 

 the last. j„ J weeds from our boggy bottoms ? I' am at 



The seed germinated rapidly, and by the time p^^^^^j ^ ^^^^^ ;„ ^ j^y ^^^^^ gtore in Msrket 



the corn was full in the milk, the plants had at 

 tained the size of a man's hand ; but the process 

 of " bottoming," as it is called in farming technolo- 

 gy, was but little advanced before harvest. The 

 denouement I shall make known in the language 

 of the experimenter himself, who -.vas so highly de- 

 lighted with his success, and withal so astounded 

 at the wisdom of" Book Farmers," from some one 



street, but shall be free in the spring, when I. will 

 ascertain if agriculture will not pay for capital ex- 

 pended as well as trade, J. D. 

 Philadelphia, June 20, 1841. 



There is more than loving-kindness — there is a 



superabundance of goodness in every part of nature. 



of whom I believe he obtained the hint, that he im- j The presence of some races of animated beings is 



mediately abjured his prejudices against written 

 wisdom, and became a book-farmer, in the fullest 

 sense, himself. In his letter he says: 



"My experiment, in order to lest the feasibility 

 of the new method of turnip culture, has been sin- 

 gularly and completely successful. From one 

 acre of corn land, I have harvested ninetyslx.bivsh- 

 els of as fine turnips as I over belmld, and fifty- 

 three bushels of corn. The turnips have not injur- 

 ed the latter in the least — sixtythree bushels to 



a source of pleasure to others — the glittering joy 

 of a summer day is occasioned by the general stir 

 of happy existence. Suppose all the other crea- 

 tures extinct, and man left the solitary mas'er of 

 the globe, what a different being would he become '. 

 how would the face of nature be changed I there 

 would be desolation, and in the prospect the heart 

 would sink. — Selected. 



the acre, being the average yield of the piece, which 

 jartially ; unless, indeed, the transgression has | measures exactly two statute acres." 



leen so great that no return is possible. Tlion- 

 lands and thousands of the '• light afflictions," to 

 lay nothing of the severer troubles which flesh is 

 leir to, come of late suppers, and will never be 

 vhoUy removed from the lot of humanity till men 

 earn not to mistake fatigue and nervous depres- 

 lion for genuine hunger. 



I have long thought, Mr Editor, that our farmers 



He is trying the experiment again this season, 

 ond thus far with similar success. 



Yours, &,c. H. D. W. 



Hindham, Me., July 28, 1841. 



Q^" Jludi alteram partem," — that is, "I have 

 heard another side to that story," says our corres- 

 pondent. We have heard tlie same. It is not 



leeded a plain, rationol, proctical manual o/A«a/<fc i new to us that many fanners have thought they 



Success is a constant motive to activity : every 

 stroke of your hoe is a step forwards, and mokes 

 you approach nearer to the object you have in 

 view. 



The praises that we receive after we are buried, 

 like the posies that are strewn over our groves, 

 may be gratifying to the living, but they are noth- 

 ing to the dead : the dead are gone, either to a 

 place where they hear them not, or where, if they 

 do, they will despise them — Lacon. 



