Vl>l.. \T. M>. J. 



AND no U T I C I' 1. T U ii A I. R E G I S T E R , 



61 



I ilu- icloliniy (if llinse ciircl in Cincinnati is 

 IT jjroal. Tins piirt niiift be licivy niiluiiit lio- 

 ' \nTi;v — roiinil, tliiok nnil |>liiiii|> — lliii ([<•••]), 

 iij;li prinoi()»lly lenn, yet nurblod hi;Ii Tut. Next 

 llic hnin, the lard and side nienl yield lis the 

 latest return — the roriii'T must be nbundsnl in 

 intity and line.jjrnined ; winch never if the case 

 h any li <g until ho hax sonicuhut ninlurod : the 

 ;er must carry its thickness tliroiiylniul, hamij^ 

 thin tl'inky parts; and must be t'lit. And lust 

 rank tlie sliuuldtr and the jonl. 

 Many ol the llo:iton and Richmond dealers, and 

 se Iroiii the other citirs in the Kost .mil Suntli, 

 le here annually to have meat packed; they all 

 fer buch a hfg as I have described, and will 

 ' no other if they con help it. 

 f'or my own part, and for my use for pnckinj, I 

 It neither an exlravajjanlly large hoi;, nor yet a 

 y small one. A hog that has to be fed two win- 

 1, never will pay first cost; if he can bo had of 

 icient siz.' without winterinfr at all, so much the 

 c profit. A sprin^j pig killed in the fill at ?00 

 nds nett, will evidently pay belter than if the 

 e hog had been kept over winter, and reached 

 second tall 500 lbs. nett. 



have been speaking now as a pork-packer, not 



breeder ; and what I have said, I say in all 



perity. I have no desire to injure the business 



my other breeder of improved hogs, nor to pre- 



their continuing their improvements to as 



a point as they please. But I do regret to 



gentlemen of science and experience going 



to a large, coarse hog, such as the Woburn, 



Grazier, or Leicester, when they can procure 



«d so infinitely superior — the improved Berk- 



JOILN MAHARD, Jr. 

 ineinnati, JiJy 5, 1841. 



!'..■ ibo .% . i:. I'urniFi . 



•rUHMI'S AMt)Ni; COUN — AGAIN. 

 Mr I'lt'mam — Dear Sir — Yon ore riglit. There 

 tcan n mistake in my .VIS. By recurring to the 



shingles, and clnpboard.n are to bo seen off his 

 buildings, month after month, wiihoul beinjf re- 

 placed, and Ins windows are full of rogn. He 

 feeds his hogs and horses with uhole grain. If 

 the lambs die, or the wool comes otV his shee]), ho 



does not think it is for want of cure or food. He , , ,. , . ,■ ■ ■ , 



ia iTonornllu n ,rr.,.>i !,.,.,...„ 1 II I eoistlo ol iiiy correspoiitlcnt. I hiid ihnttlio avcrogc 



IS generally a great borrower, and seldom returns i ,, ,, . . , • , „ i i , ,- 



tin. ililn.r l,.,rr..>,<<.t II. i... I i i vicld, Bs Ihcrc Staled, wns »irf«//ir(f busliels ol com 



tnt tiling borio»0(l. Ho is a poor husband, a poor ; ., . , , ., .. , 



hiil>..r n i.,..,i- .,>,i„i.i. .- . •.• 1 I to the slatiilo acre ; Ihn tame quunlily, precise y, 



lather, a poor neiglibor, a poor citizen, and a poor,, , , . , , .1 .1 . j 1 



christian bait Far ' "^^'"H '"•'''" harvested from the acre that produced 



the iiinetysix buslicls of turnips, as from that which 



produced only corn. 



Nor do I think this an unusual result, except, 



perhaps, in cases where the corn is planted close 



CROPS. 



'I'he wheat harvest, it may now bo coiifidcnlly 

 said, will yield more than iin average crop, not- together, and where the draft upon the vegetative 

 wilhstiuiding partial failures in Virginia, in I'enn- i powers of the soil is thereby rendered greoier, it 



mtiy be, than it can bear. In such cases, the sow- 



sylvania, and in this Slate. .Small parcels of the 

 new crop at the South have already come into mar- 

 ket, and have been sold for from 118 to 12.5 cents 

 a bushel. The product of the United States in 

 bread, corn and other vegetable food, is thus stated 

 in the recent census: 

 Bushels Wheat raised in the U. S, 



ing of turnips, or, indeed, the adiiiixliire of any oth- 

 er vegetables, would be highly injudicious and ab- 

 surd. 



But where the soil is in good heart and the corn 



! planted in hills from three to four feet asunder, and 



7(), 174,849 I free from weeds, we have every reason lo believe 



SIGNS OF A POOR FARMER. 



grazes his mowing land late in the spring. 

 of his cows are much pa.=t their prime. He 

 cts to keep the dung and ground from the sills 

 building. He sows and plants his land till 

 exhausted, before lie thinks of manuring. He 

 too much slock, and many of iheiii aie unru- 

 IHc has a place lor nothing, and nothing in its 

 If he wants a chisel or a hammer, he cun- 

 id iL He seldom does any thing in stormy 

 er, or in an evening. Vou will often, per- 

 hear of his being in the bar-room, talking of 

 imes. Although he has been on a piece of 

 wenly years, ask him for grafted apples, and 



I tell you he could not raise them, for he 

 had any luck. His indolence and carelcss- 

 ■jbjocl him lo many accidents. He loses ci- 

 r want of a hoop. His plow breaks in iiis 

 to gel in his seed in season, because it was 

 used ; and in harvest, when he is at work on 

 nt part of his farm, the hogs break into his 

 I, for want of a small repair in his fence. He 

 : f< els in a hurry, yet in his busiest day he 

 .ip and inlk till he has wearied your patience. 

 seldom Ileal in his person, and generally late 



: worship. His children are late at school, 

 r books are torn and dirty. He has no cii- 

 aiid is sure to have no money, or if he 

 ave it, makes great sacrifices to use it ; and 

 fiack in his payments, and buys altogether 

 It, he purchases every thing at a dear rale. 



II ste the smoke come out of his chimney 

 ler day-light in winter. His horse-stable 

 ally cleansed, nor his horse curried. Boards, 



17, (m,(m 



297,8.5,5,(JJ8 



106,370,1.43 



6,9.52,.32(! 



3,848,149 



101,981,439 



From the data here furnished, i.'aking a fair al- 

 owance for the States and Territories not included 

 in the slatement, it appears that nearly four bush- 

 els and a half of wheal nie raised for each inhabi- 

 tant; of other grain, nearly thirty bushels to each 

 inhabitant ; and of potatoes, about six bushels and 

 a half to each inhabitant — making an aggregate of 

 fortyone bushels of grain and potatoes to each in- 

 habitant, including men, women and children, bond 

 and free. From such a surplus, it is obvious there 

 will be much ready for export, if any opening 

 should offer — JVeiv York .'Initrican. 



Kidney Worms. — There is not now the slightest 

 excuse for any farmer allowing Ins hogs to die 

 Iroin this disease. In addition lo the testimony of 

 Drs. Kirtland and Martin, and of others who have 

 proved it, we can add our own : — a few days', or if 

 needful, a few weeks' feeding on corn boiltd in ley, 

 will cure almost any case of kidney worm. Where 

 the dragging of the hind (|uarters is occasioned by 

 this complaint, there is not a doubt but this will 

 effect a cure. The cruel process of cutting into 

 the flesh of the back over the kidneys, and poiirinc 

 in spirits if turpentine, even were it a certnin cure, 

 may thus be dispensed with — Southtni Plnvter. 



that a tolerable crop of English turnips maybe 

 grown on the interstices between the rows, without 

 essential injury lo the corn. 



Even if the corn should be somewhat injured, 

 the turnips would more than repay the djimage, 

 probably ; a;id in case of early frost, or the de- 

 struction of the corn by any other untoward cause, 

 they would ihen fill up the gap belter, and to a 

 much greater extent, than could be done in any 

 other way. Truly yours, H. I). W. 



Windham, Me., Aug. 18, 1841. 



In 1790, the wheat groivn in Great Britain was 

 only 14.0(0 bushels; in 18.30, the crop was estima- 

 ted at 100,000,000 bushels. This is about 24,000,- 

 000 more than all the wheat grown in the United 

 States at the last census. 



New wheat has been contracted for at Roches, 

 ter, N. Y., at .<Sl per bushel. The price fer seve- 

 ral years, has been from 1 50 to $J. 



The flnnest friendships have been formed in mu- 

 tual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by 

 the fiercest flame. — Lacon. 



From the New Geneseo Farmer. 



PRESERVING PORK. 



Messrs Epitors — The following hints respect- 

 ing the preservation of pork, may be useful to some 

 of your readers. 



It is generally the practice of farmers, I believe, 

 to scald their old brine, before putting it on their 

 pork ; and so absolutely necessary is it supposed 

 to be, by most people, that nothing short of the 

 price of their pork, would induce them to use their 

 old brine without first scalding it. Now, allow me 

 confidently lo say that the idea is erroneous, and 

 the practice entirely useless. If your old brine is 

 sweet and good, and has kept your old pork good, 

 depend upon it, it will keep the new. For what 

 possible reason is there lo suppose that brine which 

 will keep old pork, will not keep new also.' It 

 may be said that the brine is full of matter which 

 it has received from the old pork. True it is, and 

 therefore it cannot extract the best juices of the 

 new. — For right successive years I assisted in 

 putting down pork, and pouring upon it the same 

 brine, without being once scalded ; and the older 

 the brine, the sweeter and better was the pork. — 

 The brine was always sweet, and had plenty of 

 salt at the bottom. The pork was laid down in the 

 usual manner, with salt, and the old brine poured 

 back upon it. The advantages are, having belter 

 pork, besiiles a saving of labor and trouble. 



P. 



Relive the iinforlunale and you relieve yourself. 



The most simple and perfect cure for the effects 

 of the poison from the sting of a bee, is to wet a 

 piece of indigo and rub on the spot — this will im- 

 mediately relieve the pain, if applied soon, and 

 prevent the swelling. The juice of a raw onion is 

 also said to be equally efficacious. 



