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Ni:\\ KAGLAM) FAIiiUllU. 



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of oxplauatioii, may bo projior. Inl-lnglniul, 



: Til) pounds, if not more, have heeii shorn 



1 shooiJ. Our approaches to this have been but 



; : sheep ol" ordinary size rarely ever shear 



i!kui ;? or 10 pounds of good wool, except 



lire oMv eloped in their fleeces : thai li, so far 



iiuve their legs to tlie knee, and their bellies 



rod, whicli is the case with those in question, 



ly under the latter pisrt, of fiom 3 to G 



es long, of good quality for domestic purposes. 



in a proportionate degree owing to this cir- 



itanctMhat such weights arc obtained; and 



:roater the quantity of wool carried on such 



s, tiner, closer, and longer, so will bo an in- 



scd ratio of the dirt attached to it. One im- 



ant remark for those who may breed sheep 



is description : attention must be paid to the 



i, but particularly the. wetl\ers, that the urinal 



age be not intercepted by the great growth 



wool surrounding it ; from the accumula- 



of filth a mortification frequently takes place, 



1 inch or two of the wool is not shoni from 



nd the part. I have formerly lost some of my 



wetlicrs for tlie want of this precaution. — 



I my best wishes for the increasing usefulness 



le Farmer, 



I am, respectfully, yours, 



R. K. MEADE. 



1WTI1 AND MANUFACTURE OF SILK. 



verul individuals in this vicinity have recently 

 ted some attention to the cultivation of the 

 hcirt/, and the manufacture of silk — and the 

 . Dr Wood, of Boscawen, has for some years 

 lied his family with silk from his own garden, 

 great use now made of silks, and the import- 

 • of the article in a commercial point of view, 

 er the subject at least deserving of inquiry, 

 le surprising costliness of silk, and the myste- 

 'ils production, rendered it one of the mo.st 

 ired of oriental luxuries. Its cost was so great, 



" when the wife of Anrelian besought him to 

 base her onlt/- one. robe, of a purple colour," 

 cfused, because it would cost more than twice 

 .eight in gold. For ages the secret was con- 

 1 to China and India, until two Persian monks, 

 filing in those countries, actiuired the myste 

 md imparted it to the Emperor Justinian. — 

 at was his astonishment to learn that it was 

 need by a species of worm, and that the monks 



purloined and brought off a quantity of eggs 

 le hollow of a cane, by means of which they 

 ht be propagated in his dominions. The monks 

 e munificently rewarded — manufactories were 

 blished under their direction — and the luxuri- 

 Romans were no longer indebted to their ene- 

 3 for their costly fabrics, with which it was 

 r delight to clothe themselves. From Con- 

 itinople, the silk worm spread upon the wings 

 ommerce over Europe; "and will probably ere 

 r, be as active in our ov.n country, as in its na 



regions in the remotest east." — jV. H. Jour 



and for im[)arting rich tints to glass. The bound- 

 aries of the gold region iinve been enlarged and 

 new and rich veins opened. The extreme points 

 of the localities of this preiious metal are more 

 than eighty miles asunder, and include an area of 

 more than two thousand square miles. A peculiar- 

 ity of its history is its occxrrence in a bed of Iron. 

 It has heretofore been fouud in quartz, among slate 

 rocks, scattered in fine sand, and accompanying a 

 dense blue mud. The largest vein has yielded not 

 less than $10,000. The occurrence of vein.-; so 

 near tlio surface is regarded as an auspicious cir- 

 cumstance, affording encouragement for the em- 

 ployment of industry in making extensive excava- 

 tions and a capital proportioned to the productive 

 nature of the enterprise. [Nat. /Egis.] j 



It appears from a North Carolina paper, that the 

 alarm respecting Erend stuffs in N. Carolina had 

 subsided. Notwithstanding the drought the crops 

 appear to have proved as good as usual, and ac- 

 cording to the information of a gentleman who has 

 been travelling in several counties, if prices war- 

 ranted, or necessity demanded it, from lH tu 20000 

 barrels of surplus corn could be exported from 

 Edgecombe county alone. Old Corn was selling 

 for 00 cents a bushel. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



'he accounts of the rich mineral productions and 

 cious ores of this state, have long occupied 

 spicuous places in the columns of newspapers, 

 m the mineralogical notices of the learned 

 ■fessor Olmstead, w-e find that Manganese exists 

 arge quantities of suflicient purity, to make it 

 ■thy of the market. This article is of the value 

 <-}0 per ton, and is useful in the arts for dis- 

 rging colors in the process of bleaching, as a 

 ■erial in forming cement for hydraulic works, 



DEPREDATIONS ON ORCHARDS, &c. 



The rights of the owners of fruit yards, orchards 

 and gardens, are strictly guarded by the laws of 

 this Commonwealth, and the violations of their 

 property by a system of petty depredations and 

 injuring, prohibited by severe penalties proportion- 

 ed to the vexatious nature of the offences. As 

 this is the season when temptation may lead some 

 inadvertently to expose themselves to the uncivil 

 greetings of the Commonwealth, it may not be 

 useless to the careless to be informed, what is the 

 punishment in modern times for the plucking for- 

 bidden fruit, lest they fall into the hands of the 

 officer? of justice. 



The Statute of 1S18, Chapt. 3, enacts, that if 

 any person shall enter upon any grass land, orch- 

 ard or garden, without permission from the owner, 

 with intent to cut, destroy, take, or carry away, 

 any grass, hay, fruit, or vegetables, with the in- 

 tent to injure or defraud such owner, he shall for- 

 feit and pay for every such offence a sum not less 

 than two or more than ten dollars to the use of 

 Commonwealth, to be recovered on complaint be 

 fore any justice of the peace within the county, 

 and be liable in damages to the party injured. — | 

 If the person so offending shall take any vegeta- 

 ble, fruit, or shrub cultivated for ornament or use, 

 he shall be liable to pay a forfeiture not under five 

 nor more than fifty dollars to the use of the Com- 

 monwealth, and three times the value of the arti- 

 cle carried away. If the offender break, bruise, 

 cut, mutilate, injure or destroy, any fruit trees, 

 tree for ornament or shade, or shrub cultivated for 

 ornament or use, the penalty provided is not less 

 than ten, nor exceeding one hundred dollars, to be 

 recovered by indictment or information before the 

 Court of Common Pleas. If any of these trespass- 

 es should be committed in the night time or on 

 the Lord's Day, double the above mentioned pen- 

 alties accrue. — Ibid. 



Coal is becoming more and more an important 

 item- in the export and import trade of Philadel- 

 phia. Large quantities of it have been brought 

 to that city from the Lehigh and Schuylkill this 

 season, and shipped i;ound to New York and Bos- 

 ton. 



K.\l'KKi.Ui;XTS WITH Si'EhP. 

 December 7, 1787 -Sowed fourteen beds with 

 the same vheat seed, as bl.ick with the smut as 

 ever I saw any. 

 •'Vo. Sniutli/ fan-. 



1. Sown dry, nothing done to it, had 377 



2. Washed well in clean water, had 32.5 



3. do. in lime water, ha<l - 4;5 



4. do. in a lye of wood ashes, had .31 

 .5. do. in arsenic and salt mixture, had 28 

 <!. Steeped in lime water 4 hours, liad 12 



7. do. in lye 4 hours, had :{ 



8. do. in arsenic four hours, had I 

 !'. do. in lime water 12 hours, had <> 



!0. do. in lye 12 hours, had 



11. do. in arsenic 12 hours, had 4 



12. do. in lime v.ater 24 hours, had 



13. do. in lye 24 hours, had 



14. do. in arsenic 24 hours, had .5 



Young's i^nnals. 

 MU ST A R U—(!:>inopis.) 

 Two species of the Mustard are objects of gar- 

 den culture, — the Black, which is cultivated for 

 the seed, and the White, which is a good substi- 

 tute for Spinach, and which is sometimes used with 

 pepper grass, as an ingredient in sallads. Both 

 species grow well in a great diversity of soils and 

 with a small portion of labour — but the richer the 

 soil, the greater the care, the more vigorous will 

 be the plants. 



If the seed of the first species be our object, we 

 should remember, that as the pods do not either 

 form or ripen but in succession, we must not de- 

 lay our harvest until all have been matured — as in 

 this case, we should lose the seed soonest ripe, 

 (which is always the best,) for the sake of preserv- 

 ing that which is later and worse. The best rule 

 therefore is to pull up or cut off the crop, as soon 

 as the stems become yellow, and carry it into a 

 barn, where it may reniuin covered with straw for 

 a month. At the end of this time, it will be fit to 

 thresh, and this will be done on cloths, and not 

 with flails, which would bruise and break the seed, 

 but with bunches of rods. Passed two or three 

 times through a fanning mill, it will be fit for use, 

 and the sooner it is ussd after cleaning, the bet- 

 ter mustard it will make. — JV. Y. Board Agricult. 



THE PLAIN OF JERICHO. 

 The traveller Brocchi, in going from the Dead 

 Sea to Jerusalem, took Jericho in his way. With 

 respect to the apple of Sodom, whose outward 

 form and beautiful appearance allures the eye, and 

 deceives liim wlio thinks to enjoy it, containing 

 witliin nothing but a light dusty substance, he be- 

 lieves that Halbequist has erroneously taken it for 

 the fruit of the Solanum Mdongena, which our 

 traveller found no where near Jericho, but only 

 the Solanum Sanctum. He himself conceives the 

 apple of Sodom to be nothing else than the blad- 

 der-formed gall-nut, which is raised by the stings 

 of insects upon the Pistatia Terebinthus. He re- 

 marked, that nowhere had Flora undergone great- 

 er changes than in the Plain of Jericho. The val- 

 uable shrub which gave the balsam, had disappear- 

 ed : of the celebrated rose of Jericho, no vestige 

 is left : of the numberless palm-trees, on account 

 of which Jericho was called the City of Palms, 

 ihere remains only a single representative : in 

 vain should one look for that fig-tree of which St. 

 Luke speaks. The whole broad plain is now a 

 naked desert waste, which stretches from the 

 mountain of Judah to the banks of the Jordan. 



[Nuov Gior do Litterati.] 



