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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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rilK CROUP. t'oUou.s ooiisi.ler wlietlier their coinplniiits arc 1 MKBl) CORN', 



ke four ouikos of the best olive oil, nJd to well f;roiiudcd. For tlic last eiijht or ten yenrs, I havft been very 



m 15 to at) {jrains of ipecacuanha, well in- i Mr Samuel llubhanl, of Charlestown, N. H. the I curious and attentive in selecting iVoni the various 

 rated with the oil, and give one or two tea present season fattened and carried to market ' regions and climntps of our country, the almost 

 nsfnll every liitccn minutes. R'xthc the <eet thirteen hogs, the aggregate of which as weighed j endless v..rieties of this grain, which they afford, 

 irm water. Let the patient drink the follow- ' in market w*.s su Ihiiv sand one hundred am/ In the autumn of 1818,1 commeni cd in Jersey, 

 decoction, viz: take a pint of water, in n.'vK/^-hi.o pounds ; for which he received in cash ' and colle<:tcd specimens, from thence tliroughout 

 h put a roasted onion, with some oil and Eng- Mrce hundred sevenly-seven dollars and .wifn/iy- 1 the Northern and Eastern States, and from both 

 saflron, boiled together, and continue the a- ' .■JCifn cfn/j. fJood attention in feeding at proper ^ the provinces of Canada; amounting to not less 

 until the patient is relieved, which is gen- times, and in suitable (luantities, rendered the than forty or fifty sorts, differing at least in ap- 

 y the case after taking t!ie second or third expense of fattening this pork comparatively trifl- i pearaiice, from eacli other. I found none of them, 

 . If the croup should assume a serious char- ing and so much money could not in any other however, valuable to us ; like most other things' 

 r, you may apply a blister to the wind pipe. ^ way be made so easy from a small farm. { they had found their proper level, and settled iii 



'he above recipe is said to have been found : [Dellows Falls Intelligencer.] , their proper places. What I now send you is 



ng the papers of Dr. John .Morgan formerly of ' w hat I got as the genuine Tuscarora, and has been 



idelphia, and to have proved eliicacious in' '''<"«'■">'«*«<■"'•« "/.'/'""' «««*''«— Mr Benjamin I am satisfied, improved in my possession, by nev- 

 ,• instances.] [Nantucket Inquirer] ' Douglass, of Stephentown, N. Y. had an o.x taken er planting a grain that was not selected in the 



• T7, ^7 ; r7~. ,■ . ■ ',"''' ^^°"' "''' "'"''"'' °^ ■'"'^ ''''' ' "''"''"" '"'"' "'''''■ ('■'"■ four o-- five years past) from those stalks, 



■uncan Butto„s.-We always take delight in the opinions about the cause ; any however but which produce two or more ears. I am this year 

 :ing the advances of our ingenious country- ; the true one was assigned, until the o.k was killed carrying the selection still further, the number of 

 in he different branches of mechanics ; and on Thursday last, when on e.xamination a large ears containing IS rows and averaging 900 crrains 

 ce that instances so often occur of successful rf«r,n-»ff «eerfie was found in his heart-the heart ; was so considerable, that I have collected a suf- 

 .etition with our brethren across the At- had become entirely ulcerated,and was of the size ficiency to plant half of my next year's crop from 

 c. What we would particularly notice at of a bushel basket, and weighed fifty-four pounds ' them, and as I purpose placing the field at a suffi 

 time IS tlio manufactory of gilt buttons at , and nine ounces, contained about /our ^ro/Zoxs of 



time IS lue manutactory ot gait buttons at and nine ounces, contained about /our s-««<.». of dent distance to prevent anv admi.xture of the 



^borough, owned by Richard Robinson & Co. ulcerated matter. The needle was probably taken! farina of any other sort, I shall be able to judge 



H^.TJIT."'!"! *''*l!'l ''.^'^.'h°"' ^\'° I ''y ^^^ ""^ "' ^PP'^ Pearings. [Berk. Am.] | ,„ore correctly upon the now disputed point of the 



with any that ,„.,,„ T~ ,, „ . „ ;; : ,. ,,! advantage of selecting seed— of which, by the bye, 



'e are to d by fViJd Turkei. — Mr C. L. Bonaparte, m his Nat- . i „„ °, , • r . lx '^ 



c 1.U1U u^ ./ i- , a 1 now entertain no manner of doubt, 



of a superior iral History of the Birds of the United States, re- t u . i i l, , . <. 



J c „:„,..„,! ;« .t.« u.t M„,*k 4 • L. ■ -I . I have sent you also, a very remarkable plant of 



ed preference viewed in the last i^orth American Review asserts ' u . <•,, ,, . , . ^ ■ 



ons will stand a fair comparison with any that 



imported from England, and \ 



ers in the article, that they are 



'.ty and are entitled to a decided preference i ■'"=■•=>'"' "'"^ "'^'- '^'"•i" ^"'i^-iiijiu ncwcw laB.'suris u . r., ,, , , , - . 



»i ... ■ . 1 , ■ , ■ ui . .1. ij » T • »■ i- « ■ ,1 wneat, 01 the blue stem or purple straw, species, 



those that are introduced into this country that the wild turkey is a native ot America, and 1 t. ■ -n ., j % i "i'cvi.o. 



., , , i. I, o. I ■ , ■ i . .T, 1 1 ij »ii f .1 ,■ 't 's "".s you will see, the product ot a sinp'le ffrain, 



the work-shops of Europe. So highly are »'as a stranger to the old world till after the dis- ; ,. ■',.-,, !,,.-..-, ", T^ 



and has WO grain stalks, which if they had been 



allowed to mature, would have produced an aver- 

 age of :30 grains to the ear, or upwards of 5000 

 grains for 1 — This extraordinary product I am in- 

 duced to attribute entirely to the quality of the 



juttons of Mr Robinson esteemed in the prin- coveries of Columbus. It was sent from Mexico to 



cities of the United States, that within a Spain in the early part of the 16th century, and 



; period, they have been mainly supplied by thence to England about the year 1524. By de- 



and are daily iss-iing their orders. The fact grees it spread over E:irope, Asia and Africa. — 



^disputable tlist he can manufacture them very The English supposing it to have come from Turk 



iderably cheaper than they can be imported 

 Europe. Mr R. laboriously persevered for 



ttetn years, before success or rather profit 

 vned his exertions. [Boston Traveller.] 



„.. .u^^.T^u v„„;„ ■• ,u r m 1 ■ ^0''> 3'* there were at least a dozen p ants ffrowme 



ey through t>pain, gave It the name of Turkey. — ,„ \, „ . , „',„,, = s "™"'S 



Ti = „ ;i 1 „T, 1 *!,„ j„ ... 1 r.i together, all averaging upwards of 100 staks that 



The wild and the domestic turkey are of the same ; ^ i. o „ f 



=r,on;<>= tj,.^„ n..~ ^vere of chance or spontaneous growth, 



species. — Hump. uaz. i mi -i • , . 



^__^ I t he soil IS a compact, greasy, bituminous clay, 



Enclymenes, a scientific agricul*i-ist, addressed ^^''^'' ^"'^°" "■'°'^* '^ °f ^ f^^ep black colour, it per- 



'ravelling in Prussia.— We copy from a for- some inhabitants of Athens who called to see him yadesaneckof about aOO acres, in a stratum of 



paper the following official notice of certain ' at his country house ; "You imagine yourselves *'''"" '"^ '° '^ '^''','" '■'"^''""^s^' ^"^^ generally lies 



Illations of the Post, just published in the Ber- i free within the enclosure of your wr.Us, but that ?' ""^ '^'^P'''' "^ '^ ""■ ^ ^'^^^ '"''O"' 'he surface, which 



Btate Gazette of J\'ov. 4 : 'independence which the laws grant to you is in- '^ ^ ^°^^' tenacious whi^e clay, it is isolated, and 



a every post station, on the principal roads of j cessantly torn from you by the I/ranny of society. , ^^ ^" "^ '. '^^^ ascertain, not found any where else 



Prussian States, there has been prepared for Have you not employments to intrigue for and to '" *'^^ vicinity— I send you a specimen of it, and 



convenience of persons travelling by post, a ! discharge, powerful men to soothe an.: flatter, se- would be glad if some of your chemical friends 



a to receive them, either in the post-house it- cret mischiefs to foresee and to shun, and <''itios would analyze it, and ascertain its properties.— 



or if that is notsufficiently large, in its neiirh- jof ceremony, more vigorous than those of nature ^^ ''^'^ '""S thought it very probable that it pos- 



lood. This room will be properly furnished, , to fulfil .»' Are you not compelled to a continued ^^^^'^'^ """^^^ fertilizing virtues, but chance and 



ted during the night, and warmed during v\ in- [restraint in your dress, demeanour, actions and ""t enterprise, at length developed them in the 



Travellers will be received there gratis at ! words ; to endure the insupportable pressure of *"ollowing way. In cutting a ditch bordering on 



•y hour, -without being oblieed to incur anv I idleness, and the tedious persecutions of the un- i '^ fi^'*^ °^ wheat. I penetrated in several places, 



:nse for provisions. In this r'oom wll be found I fortunate ? There is no kind of slavery by which ! ^^ '°^' ''^ ""^ stratum, and threw a portion of it 



ble of the tax of the general post office, point- j y°u are not held in bondage." 



out refreshments which can be called for, and " 



r current prices. There shall beside be a j H is stated in the Albany Argus, t'lat the Steam- 

 ster open, in which shall be written the gen- i ^°"'^ ^°"^'''""''" ''"'' Constellr. . .n have each 

 rules for conduct. On the blank leaves trav- j "'^"^P'"'^'"' ■^"'**''" passengers m their trips the 

 rs may inscribe their complaints, if they have ''^*' season, notwithstanding tl 

 to make respecting the slowness and incivihty'''"'"^^'^^'"''"""'' hesides two boats and sloops 

 he attendance, the bad quality of the meats, &c. I P'^J'"S o" the Hudson. The whole number of 

 .ae ci.mplaints wiU be forwarded v\ithout rielay ' P"^*'"^^" *""-''P°"°'' '" steam-boats on the Hud- 

 he authorities, that grievances may be careful- ; ®°" ^"'"'"g '^^ season is estimated at 350,000. 

 xamincd and addressed. These arrangements ' j. ■ ~- 7'- TT 7- 



made public j It is mentioned in a Connecticut paper as an ex- 



: traordinnjy ;^fice,that hay of the first quality bears 



'hile the farmers generally are complaining of ' '''^ P"**^ °^ *'' ^ *•"" ^^ Northampton on Conncc- 

 .piessure of the times, the low price of beef, ^"="' river. In this town, (Concord, N. H.) good 

 k and other products, let them, in reading what i '"'»>' ^^"^ l"''^'^ ^* *'"'' P^'' '""• t^. H. pa] 



in heaps for the purpose of making some experi- 

 ments with il. It was neglected, however, and 

 when the field was seeded in wheat, a few scat- 

 tering grains happening to fall upon those heaps, 

 they all grew in this extraordinary manner. Dur- 

 e were seventeen ing the early part of last June, we were visited 

 with myriads of black caterpillars, which did 

 great injury to our wheat, by devouring the blades, 

 the entire heads of the young underling growth, 

 and the top of the cell or chamber containing the 

 grain, as ycu will perceive by examining the plants 

 sent you. I was obliged therefore, to pull up some 

 of them, in order at least, to preserve a sample of 

 the number of shoots. 



Yours, very truly, J. MERCER, 

 Ccdin- Park, 20fA December, 18a«. 

 [American Farmer.] 



