Vol.V No.lil. 



NEW ENGLAND FAIJMEU. 



lo. f'ly from your diseases : tliey Will not, tlie iii:i:iy accidents owiny lo the pn-posteioiis cus- 

 ley cannot pursue you." Here she ended: she tomsofopen fire places, and muslin dresses in 



oppeJ the parchment upon the earth ; a cloud winter — T. C Domestic EncychpeJia. 



coived her, and she immediately ascended, and ^___ 



isappeared from their siglit. A silence ensued, Every attentive observer will remark anion"- 

 lore e:<pressi\e of approbation than the loudest 'he plants of almost every kind of crop, some in- 

 of applause. t)ne of them approache 1 with dividual stalks which are distin{;uisliablo from the 

 jvcrence to the spot where she liad stood, took °'''ers by a greater degree of health, or In.vuriance, 

 p the scroll, and read the contents of it to his O' fecundity, or earliness, or some to other pe- 

 ompanions. It contained directions to each of <^ul'^i'ity. A friend of mine remarked some years 

 lem, wliatjhey should do to restore their iiealth. ago n particular stem of peas among his earliest 

 hey all prepared themselves to obey the advice crop, which came into flower and ripened long be- 

 fthe heavenly vision. The gouty man broke 'ore the others. lie marked this stem and saved 

 s vial of elixir, threw his powder into the fire, f's whole of its produce for seed These came as 

 nd walked four or five miles every day before much earlier as they had originally done, 'i'hispro- 

 reakfast. The man iiffiictod with the gra^^ el, "luce was also saved for seed; and thus he ob- 



rcw aside his drops, and began to work in his tained a particular kind of early pea, that came at 

 arden, or to play two or three hours every day '^ast a week before tlie Jcsi ,5or< he could buy in 



t bowls. Tlie hypochondriac and hysteric pa- !'ie shops, if sown at the same time with them. 



ents discharged their boxes of assafoetida, aud The Doctor relates facts similar to this respecting 

 3ok a journey on horse back, to distant and op- 'vheat and beans. The general idea he means to 

 osite ends of the island. The melancholic threw inculcate is obvious, and extremely worthy atten- 

 side his gloomy systems of pliilosophy, and sent ''""• — Dr. Anderson's Recreations, 

 r a dancing-master. The studious man shut up 

 is folios, and sought amusement from the sports 

 iiildren. The consumptive man threw his 

 alsams out of the window,and took a voyage to a 

 listant country. After some mouths these all re- 

 n.nedto the pl.ice they were wont to assemble. ;"^'^>" ""' be done gathering corn to select their 

 ov appeared in each of their countenances. One i'^®^" 'l"^- It 'las long been the judicious prac- 

 nd renewed his youth : another had recovered if '^'^ °*^ "^"^ f'*™*'"'^ ^^■"'''" '">' "^"o^^'-e dge, to se- 

 he use of his limbs : a third who had been hdf i ''-''^' ^^^" ^^^'^ ^^o""" ^'^"" "'C '^«'st bearing stalks 



1G8 



From the American Farmer. 



ON THE SELECTION OF SEED CORN. 

 Dear Sir, — Now is the time for those who 



ent for many years, now walked upright ; a 

 biirth began to sing some jovial song without be- 

 asked ; a fifth could talk for hours together 

 lithout being interrupted with a couah; in a word, 

 >■ all now enjoyed a complete recovery of their 

 lealth. They joined in olVering sacrifices lo 

 lygeia ; temples v.ere erected to her memory. 



I -Many other farmers consider this practice as idle, 

 I and some sneer at it ; but they only betray their 

 own want of observation ; every attentive gar- 

 dener is well aware of the advantage of selecting 

 the best seeds — and how many fiirmers are con 

 jstantlyin quest of the best variety of wheat— 

 Now, of all the grains we know of, corn mixes it: 



nd%he continues to this day to be worshipped Iv ! '!'"''^ '""' "'^ greatest facility. The natural ef 

 dl the inhabitants of that island. ' j ^."f .°"'""" '^' '*''" "'"^ varieties of corn arc ahuost 



, I innnite — and hence the need for selecting voiir 



BURNS AND SCALDS. pt=«' corn is vastly greater, and more palpably 



Apply oil of turpentine frequently and cover I ™a"''est, than for s. Iccting any other seed gr;.in. 

 hem from the air with carded cotton ; or apply Those who sneer pt a farmer for seleciiuj; his 

 logs lard or soft pomatum ini.\ed up with wiiite 'seed corn, must be under thf; impression, that the 

 ead. Or take of caniphorateil spirits two drachms, ; '=°''" '" t^h^ field is all preci.;tly the same kind, and 

 jioulard's extract one drachm, and a pint of watei. , th^' O"^ stalk's bearing three oars, another two 

 The mixture to be made in the order in whicli the}' and a third but one, is the more eflcct of accident 

 ire set ■jown,otherwise tue camphor will separate 

 The application to be rencved till the pain and iij. 



But this cannot be the fact. In passing through a 



poor part of my field the other ('ay, I was struck 



bmmation subside j the wound may then be dres-P*'''-'' '^ stalk, and upon e:..:mination fot:nd five good 



;ed with white cerate. 

 Tlie following directions are recommended in 



ears on it. I looked to the next hill — there were 

 I two stalks — one had one car, the '-•t'ner none. I 



rases of the burning of females, by their clothes j examined many hills round — I found most of the 

 laving caught Sre. If no person is present to as-i^'^^'l^'s '^''''h one good ear, several with two, and 

 fi t her, she may relie\e herself by throwing her °"e or two with three : but this «ii,gle stalk, tho' 

 clothes over her hcad,an- iicing down and rolling I "°t larger, had more cars on it than any iuU nenr 

 pon [hem. She must by no means run away.and i'- where there \\ ao either one, or two or three 



iame always tendiug upwards, much ofthemis- 

 :hief .-ill be prevented if a person in that unfortu- 

 v.ic )i..^ia'.ion will throw herself on the ground, 

 f r oc^ible rull about h"r a csii.et, hearth-rug, &c. 

 f another person bo present, Mien, without any re- 

 jard fo delicacy, such person should instajitly pass 

 Jie hand un^^er all the clotjies to the lowest gar- 

 ner*..- ud raise the whole together,and close them 



.stalks in the hill. Now, sir, this could notbe 

 the enect cf accident : it must be the effect of 



his crop. The second year the increase from the 

 second selection was not so manifest, nor so great; 

 but his crop still improved : and when he went in- 

 to his field to gatlrer his seed, after three years 

 previous careful selection, lie asserted to me, that 

 lie found Diore stalks beariug three ears than he 

 could find uf Bialks bearing two ears the first 

 season he began to make the selection. 



CORNUCOPIA. 



EdiMo Island, S. C. J\/ov. 20, 182(). 

 Dfar Sir — It will bo recollected, that last year 

 I addressed you on the relative value of seed from 

 the butt end, middle, and point, or sitiall end, of 

 corn. You will also remember, that the result of 

 my experiment seemed to indicate the superior 

 productiveness of the grains from the point. I 

 have since tested the experiment on a larger scale. 

 I selected three contiguous acres of poor land, and 

 planted every alternate half acre with seed from 

 the three artificial divisions of the ear. When the 

 crop was harvested, the product of each acre, on 

 measurement, was found to be as follows, viz, 

 B. P. q. 

 Point, or small end, - 8 3 2 

 Middle, - - ]0 1 <i 



Butt end, - - II 4 



It would tiius appear, that the ascendant gene- 

 rative power of the small end of corn has not been 

 fully confirmed, to wit, that tlie seed from the butt 

 end is decidedly more productive than that from 

 the middle. In the first experiment, the advan- 

 tage of the former over the latter, in a half acre, 

 was one peck and one quart ; in this instance, two 

 pecks and six quarts. To this result, as exempli- 

 fied in two fairly tested experiments, our practice, 

 so far from having conformed, has hitherto been 

 in direct opposition, and hence obviously to the 

 impairment of our interest. 

 Respectfully yours, 



WHITEMARSn B. S^EABROOK. 



Railway — The Boston Gazette informs us that 

 the committee appointed by the Legislature of 

 this State, to collect information with a view to a 

 canal or railway from Boston to Albany, will re- 

 ort in favour of the great utility and of the prac- 

 ticability of a railway. According to the most ac- 

 curate calculations one may be constructed be- 

 tween those cities (165 miles) for one and a half 

 millions of dollars. A railway would be useful 

 in winter as well as in summer. 



At a meeting held at Greenwich Village, Nov. 

 27, it was resolved " that we highly approve of 

 the proposition before our Legislature, for the con- 

 struction of a railway from Boston on the most 

 eligible route to the western line of tho state," 

 and "that we use all fair and honourable exertions 

 to carry such an object into effect." — Hamp. Gaz. 



3ver tl r head, by which, in an instant almost, the | '" Iring you such bearing stalks, not from acci- 

 flatijfr will b.j indubitably extinguished. This is j dent, but because it is natural for like to beget 

 the n-.ost evpeditioMs and effectual method of pre- 'ike, and for seed to produce its own kind. I 

 ventirig the dire effects of a terrible accident l^ear J a farmer say, the first year he tlms selected 

 whii'h is perpetually occurring. his seed corn, he produced an increase of twenty 



Or, roll the person in the carpet. This is one of per cent, or twenty bushels in every hundred of 



Mr Adams bequeathed to his son, Mr J. Q,. A. 

 his mansion house and valuable papers. He gave 

 breed. I do not believe that you can find a corn|to the town of Quincy, a valuable lot of land, esti- 

 mated at :JIO,Of)0 to erect a granite house for the 

 Church of which he was a member for 60 years, 

 here every where open to | jjg ^jg^ bequeathed another lot of land to the town 

 for an academy, and his library, of more than 

 2000 volumes, for the use of that academy. 



[Host. Pat.] 



field in which there are not twrnty different kinds 

 of corn, nii.^:cd in endless shades and degrees. — 

 What a field then 

 select a choice from. You plant from a stalk that 

 has borne you three ears, it will be most likely 



The Baltimore Patriot scolds Gov. 7*^6)-, of Vir- 

 ginia, for not alluding to the death of Mr. Adams 

 in his message to the Legislature. Mr Jefferson's 

 death is noticed by his excellency. 



