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tliall " if lliQ ul>l fulks oro mllin);, rciipacirully 

 leave (o s(»y ull ni;jlit." lie liaa now just dropt 

 mil wiiii't iiilrudp. 



Rispcctlullv. UELNRY COL.MAN. 



t<uloii,Xov.i7lb, H?-ll. 



For the N. £. Karnior. 



IIKNS. 

 LLK!» Pi'T>AM, K»q. — Ocnr 



lis r,>."i HijKiiiil ii.it be cxiicclei! uiiloaii llio fowU ore 

 «cll I'od and slicllprcd. 



Mr Doswell apeaka liiglily of the •• Poland," a 

 bluck lien with a white tul'l on the head, •riieso 

 ha nnrnea as one of the most useful varietien, par- 

 ticnlnrly on account of the aluiiidancu of cj;j;a 

 >Wiicli thoy lay, bcinp less inclinnd to Kit thnn any 

 ' other breed — nlionco Ihey ore soiiicliinca called 

 \evcrl,istinf^ /nyrrj. Our ubaervations ngrco very 



Sir I notice in ' *"" "'"' ''"""' reinnrks upon tlie Poland. 



New Kngrlund Farmer of the Pth inst., an in- | J^everal inquiries linvo recently been niado of us 



under ih-; signature of L. P. Parks, relative to ' i^l'^'i^e |<> hens — and the best reply wo can mokr 



nproveinent in the breed of hens, and whore ! '" to advise those who are seeking infornialion, to 



of the best breeds may be obtained — which ."''tain this work of Mr Boswell's. Its cost proba 



ies I propose tf> answer. | ^'y *'" ""' '•« "'<"'e tlian 37 1-2 or .'»0 cts. — lio. 



havo had some experience in that line, and ■ 



d mnny of different breeds : I have found none j 0>f RAISING POTATOES FROM SEED, 

 irofitablc as a cross of the Malay and Java j A correspondent of the Massachusells Plowman 

 ds. They lay early in IIkj spring, and nol on- i says : 

 ove to be good layers, but excellent mothers, i it ■ i 



"Having been frequently asked liow to raise po- 

 tatoes from the seeds of the balls, and believing it 

 very important to produce new varieties by this 

 process, I will describe my mode of doing it. Wlicn 

 the bulls ore ripe, mash them, •.vasli out the seeds. 



liu objert with inc is to be in advance of my 



ibors in the market, and in this I have been 



successful. I raised, this year, over one hun- 



chickeits by the last of July. From that tin>e 



e 20th of August, I sold them all from 20 to , , , , 



s. per lb. at wholesale, they weighing from 6 | '^'^ "'"^ '"y '^^'." """y ^°' "^C- ^o* them like 



carrots or parsnips, and keep the plants free fron 

 weeds. Each stalk will have one potato, and sel- 

 dom more than two. T<iey vary in size, but arc 

 not often larger than a pigeon's egg. 



Care should be taken when digging them, to no- 

 tice wlielher two or more belong to any one of the 

 la inv mode of treatment, &c., I will cheerfully I ^'""',^: ^^o or more belonging to one stalk are of 

 lunicate to such us desire ihe information. 1 °"^ '""'' ^"'^. ''"'"'y' "'"^ "''""l'' be secured it, one 



lb. per pair dressed while at the same time | 

 eigUbors, with the common fowls, were not I 

 to get theirs to market before October, when 

 would command only 8 to 10 cts. per lb. This i 

 ihew your correspondent the advantages re- 1 

 from an improvenient of breed. As it re- ! 



DOW on band six pairs of the kinds described 

 , which I will dispose of on reasenable terms 

 y of your friends who may desire to puichase 

 Very respectfully, voure, 



JOHN GILES. 

 ovidttkct, Dec. 13/A, 1841. 



"THE POULTRY YARD." 



paper, and planted in one hill. I believe that there 

 are as many sorts or varieties as there arc stalks 

 the first year. 



Save only the largest and best shaped — prefer- 

 ring the kidney shaped. Plunt them fifteen inches 

 apart, with only one potato in a hill, except when 

 more than one belonged to one stalk. Yoa will 

 then have as many sorts as you have hills. 



When you dig them, keep the different sorts sepa- 

 ia is the title of a work by Peter Boswell, of i rate, and save only the best The next spring, 

 ilaw, Eng., an American edition of which we j plant all belonging to one hill, and ihen put down 

 has been recently published by Wiley & Put- i a stake ; then all from another hill, and put down 

 New York. This edition has not found its i another stake ; and so of tlie rest. 

 o us, but our English copy we have read from In this manner I have obtained fourteen bushels 

 jage to the end. The work is from the pen of one sort the fourth year. The labor is but little, 

 le who is evidently well acquainted with his and I think the advantages are great. S. W. 



t, and his treatise would give much valuable Bridgewatcr, .Vof. Q7tk, 1841. 



nation to most of our fdrmers in relation to 



ducks, gce.<e, turkeys, &.c. ; their origin, There is unfortunately a sort of mania which 

 1, wonts and the proper modes of feeding and , pervades our country once in a while in favor of a 



ig each kind. Experiments there detailed 

 that rye is not generally well relished by 

 but that all the other grains are. Boiled po- 

 1 and roots generally are found beneficial. 

 quantity of grain which o hen will eat in a 

 rhen she has it always by her, is found to be 

 oats, buckwheat, or barley, 92 pints, 



wheat, 09 " 



maize, or Indian corn, 58 " 



rye, 35 " 



particular thing or a particular kind of stock, which 

 is scarcely limited within the bounds of reason. 

 The Merino sheep have had their day ; the blood 

 horse his day; improved cattle have had their day ; 

 the mulberry fever has raged and it has left the 

 patient in a complete state of collapse. These 

 over zealous efforts might even produce benefits by 

 disseminating a good thing through the country ; 

 but sometimes they are so overdone as to produce 

 destructive and revolting reaction. The pig, the 

 •ne experiments which we made two or three ; hog, is now lord of the ascendant, and more par- 

 since, led to the conclusion that a hen would | ticularly attracts the attention of the whole coun- 

 me of yellow tiat (southern) corn, about five - try than any thing else in the farmin? way. Mr 

 or 60 pints per year. The cost of keeping ! Lossing, Mr Bement, Mr -Martin and Mr Ilurlbut, 

 when confined, is probably about ■$ I per year, j not forgetting our worthy friend in Hollins street, 

 lumber of eggs which can be obtained from i are the great men of the day, and if they do not 

 9 variously estimated at from 125 to 17.5. quarrel too much among themselves, we may yet 

 nnallest of these numbers is as high as can chance to elect one of them to the presidency. You 

 Iculatcd upon with any safety. And so many will see here all the favorite varieties of that use- 



ful uniMinl, the h.)g now become so universally pop- 

 ul !r. 'I'hc oiiiatc'iir in good liaina, and llie specula- 

 tor 111 |)ork and Inrd, uiny fcnst tlicir eyen lierc to- 

 day to tlieir lieorlH' c intciiL The tiiilh u, it would 

 seem, we have been so Imig required by rescript 

 "to go the whole hog," that wc now go to hiin 

 vnliiiilarily and from pure choice. — lien. Kmory'$ 

 Mdrtts be/ore Ihe Maryland ,1g. Soc. 



Lucerne — We published in our lost a paper from 

 the pen of Mr Robert Hakcr, England, upon the 

 culture of this excellent, ihoiigh with lui, neglected 

 gr.\sR. Since then we liave paid a Hying visit tn 

 Mr BeltzhooverV farm, near this city, (Hnltiniore,) 

 where we had the pleasure of geciiig a patch of 

 about a third of an acre, and was pleased t« learn 

 that it had fully realizeil the highest expectation* 

 which that gentleman had formed of its value as a 

 soiling grass, and as a proof ivc were pointed to an 

 !iddilional patch which had been sown this fall, Iho 

 which, if we were not opposed to croaking, wo 

 would say, wo fear that its setting was delayed loo 

 late. Wc learned that the first patch to which we 

 alluded above, afforded five or six cuttings the 

 present spring, summer and fall, yielding well oL 

 each cutting. The advantages of an acre or two 

 of this grass upon a farm, to be used ss green meat 

 for the working horses and nulch cows, we think 

 cannot be too'h.j'ily appreciated, and wc would 

 again urge Jt opor. our brethren to make the neces- 

 sary arrangements this winter, to set a small quan- 

 tity of ground nextapring with it .imti. Far. 



Film in the Eye of a Beaal A correspondent of 



the Yankee Farmer suggests what he considers a 

 new rcme^^K a film, i. e. spitting tobacco juice 

 into the^^^^Bc animal. He remarks, that he 

 has scei^^^^^Bly twice, but each time with en- 

 tire succe^^^ffa with very sensible caution con- 

 cludes, by saying "the remedy requires to be more 

 fully established." We can assure our cautious 

 friend that the remedy has been fully established 

 down South foryears. The memories of our oldest 

 tobacco clievvers reach not the antiquity of its dis- 

 covery. We have often seen tobacco juice spit in 

 a horse's eye, when weeping or looking weak, and. 

 entire telief afforded. — S. C. Teinp. Adv. 



Burning nf Antliraeite Coal i»i Stoves Much 



use is made of hard coal in jitoves, and great use is 

 made of iron vessels for evaporating water lo regu- 

 late the atmosphere of the apartments thus heated 

 by coal fires. Ijistead of putting water in the iron, 

 vessels, put a quantity of dry sand, and in this sand, 

 set an earthen bowl containing pure water, and this 

 renew every day, and at the same time rinse out 

 the bowl, so that it is made clean. Water evapo- 

 rated in iron vessels is very offensive, which ren- 

 ders the atmosphere of the aparlmenls impure a» 

 well as disagreeable. For parlors where the at- 

 mosphere is desired to be pleasant and agreeable,' 

 a small quantity of Cologne or perfumed water may 

 be added to the clean water, which will diffuse it- 

 self in the atmosphere of the room and make it. 

 pleasant. 



The heat produced by hard coal is very different, 

 from that produced by bituminous coal, and is inju- 

 rious to persons in delicate health. Rooms in. 

 which hard coal is burnt, require more ventilatioa 



than those where bituminous coal is used A". Y- 



Jour. of Com. 



