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i\K\V EiNGLAND FARMER. 



288 



COCOA. 



and her second availed himself of the clothes of 



^^VJV^vi.l. aim 111:1 »i;t.-wiiu ai.ii.^-u .......^v... v. «.- -- 



nrgininn, who has published, in the Rich- 1 the first, and among other things but on a pair of 

 Enquirer, " Sketches of Caracas," in South | boot."!, lie was shortly afterwards taken ill and 



j, . "Jicn"* describes the mode of cidtivatinj: cocoa ' Jied. A third husUand followed 

 Lltl acao)inthc valley of Caracas. The seed.-. tU- san'C fate. Another BranliMi. 



ujl/'ri „vn, and after the young trees have attained I by what had happened, and induce. ,. ,._, 



h eio'ht of 18 or '.24 inches, tliey are transplan- the accumulation wealth, became tlie fourth hu 



^'°"'v|,to%ow6 12 or 13 feet apail, and plantain and bund, "'■ ' "-" '""■' "•"- " 



trees are planted in the same ground to tie sn: 



A pamphlet has recently been published in 

 Englanil, entitled a Jl Cumplete View of Joint 



„^, ,„,„ Stock ( ompaniifs: It is compiled by a Mr English. 



and e.\porienced 1 (a pcr.5on compi:tent to the task) and presents a 

 lie alarmed summary of the modes, the mean.-* and pretences, 

 perhaps, by through which the profit lo.ing Ciigliahnieii. 



_ whether cheaters or c.heatccs, contrived to vvasti 



h'y chance discovered the fang of a rat- [some fe.v do.-.eti millions of good solid money, 

 itriking through the instep of the hoot, | It appe.irs that tlie years I8'J4 ami 182.') gav. 



trees are planted in the same ground to Me snake, striking through the msiep 01 tun uooj, , .. iip|,^.<.» ..... .,,. j>.„.o .^., „ ^~.. 



fcthem The plantations are provided with , which being worn by his predecessors, had, in a ; rise to no less than o24 ne«> money making pro 



■^ ;« ami in dry seasons the ground is over- climate where n.ortification soon occurs, been Jects, requiring towards their -compelion the rea 



''•lionoff'i .' . •' ,.„ . L.X:„ .„ K„.r .n J ...;. !,„.., ,i.,„i>t »!,„ ^o„=o nf thpir Hciths. ' souable sumot rather more than ,1/2 millions stg 



moir Ui 



;irlli. J' 

 ffelelii' 

 .leasts' 

 »il ioit '' 

 leiioMit; ' 

 lie lift' 



with 



es, ani in ury »fan"..» ...-. {..v-- - ^. .,.,,..„ - ■■ - " , . , 



id with water. The trees begin to bear in 4 without doubt the cause of their deaths. 



i hut are not in full vi.ror until the 7th year. " The spider reaches an enormous size, . ., , , 



are about as hi.h as peach trees, and last different habits from those of Europe. It stretches Irish corapaui.-s. Ijponthe above projec 



v50vears Th;podsarefromfourtosixin- its web frow tree to tree, and no longer appears a tal there was actually paid, not .ncludin„ . 



in len'th and three or four in diameter, and solitary insect ; many hundreds live together, and nms, £17,600,000, wh.ch at the present price 



o.; the t unk and branches. The form nets of such strength, thai I have assisted in ! Uie several stocks, is worth in the market «bou. 



sonable sum of rather more than 372 millions stg 

 and this exclusive of many provincial Scotch and 

 rish companies. Upon tlie above projected capi 



premi- 



Ml/j((« ' 



V [lorn on iiit^ iii.jiix -..i. ^.«..^.. — .^ v -----p, 



k produces more than the branches, the pods liberating a bird of the size ot a swallow, quite ex- 



Dtimes growing so low, that they touch the bausted with struggling, and ready to fall a prey 



ind. Th^e cocoa is gathered every 15 or 20 to its indefatigable enemy." 



-•■ " -.^:-. ic .- •>/! [Caldcieugh's Travels in South America.] 



£9,000,000 stg. 



d !, and the pods, which usually contain 15 to 30 

 or grains, are opened by women ; and the 

 after being fermented in a heap, are dried 

 un till they are fit for market. The tre 



Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road. — The books^ 

 for subscription to 15,000 shares in the capita! 

 stock of this rail road company, were opened in 

 Baltimore at 10 o'clock on Friday last, to be kept 

 i\t half-past one o'clock on the 



AGRICULTURE IN CHINA. , 



,'e =un tinVhe"y are fit for market. " The trees i The most prevailing crop in China is rice, es- , °P'" ,^^" ^^ ,4 ^OO shares were subscribed 

 d from e to'one and a half pounds each, and j pecially in the southern P-vmces and wherever ; ^^^^ J'^ ^^ ^.^J ^^_^;_^^_. ^^ ,^ ,,,^ ^^„^, 



man can m-.nage 1000 trees. >"-o is a sufhcien command « -'- NeU o , ^^^ ^^^^ ^^.^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^j,^^,.,,^, 



" ... I rice, barley is most generally cultivated , vvneai '= - - 



very common, particularly in the northern d 

 tricts ; and the other grains are buck-wheat, mil 



arge quantities of cocoa are imported into th 

 ited States for the purpose of making chocolate 

 the year 1S23 a duty of 2 cents per pound was 

 d on 787,.58fi pounds 



Chocolate is said to be prepared in the following 

 nner : The coroa is first roasted, then pound- 

 in a mortar into a coarse powder, which is 

 ound very fine on a stone, and heated, when it 

 ;put into flat moulds, in which it congeals and 

 ms cakes. Sugar and various other ingredi- 

 ts are sometimes mixed with the cocoa. We 

 licve that cocoa of the first quality commonly 

 .lis at 8 or 10 cents per pound more than 'Welsh's' 

 o. I chocolate. It may be inferred from this, 

 lat chocolate is composed in part of cocoa of in- 

 rior quality, or some other cheap ingredients. — 

 he shells sold by the merchants are the husks 

 lat envelope the cocoa kernels. 

 The cocoa-)!i(i-;»fe that grows in the islands of 

 le Pacific Ocean, and many other places, is en- 

 rely different from the cocoa tree described a- 

 ove. It attains the height of sixty feet ; the 

 ;aves are 15 feet long ; and a full grown nut con- 

 ains about a pint of liquor. This tree affords 

 neat, drink, cloth and oil. [Hamp. Gaz ] 



and Ohio Rail Road Company, were subscribed on 

 the day that the books were opened, and 1,5G6 on 

 the second day, making in the two days an excess 



tricts; and the other grains are DucK-wneaL mi-, ,,,,,,,,1,0,0 The amount fo be taken by 



let, maize, peas and beans. The principal Pl''"'^ ; ;,;■.,„! ,,,,,„ibcrs. The book« are to remair 



and shrubs, cultivated as crops, are the sugar 

 cane, cotton, hemp, lint, tobacco indigo, the tea 

 tree, the mulberry tree, the varnish-tree, the cam 

 phor-tree, the tallow-troe, the cinnamon tree, &c. 



individual subscribers. The book* arc to remain 

 open eight days longer. In consequence of the 

 regulation, that in case of an excess of the amount 

 subscribed, it shall be reduced by a deduction from 



lor-tree, the tallow-tree the cinnamon tree, «c. 3„bscription3, it is understood that gen 



The,r method of p,cpagal.r,g frmt trees ^s cuu- -^ J^ ^^ ^^ proprietors, hav 



tlcmen who wish to be large proprietors, have 

 procured proxies authorizing them to take sharet 

 in the names of a great number of individuals. 



[Bait. Adv.] 



Rich Soil. — On the 4th inst. a lot in the village 

 of Rochester, of 34 feet front by C5 deep sold for 

 $5131. 



stantly ann uniiormiy luoisi. i i.c u.a....... w.ic. The proprietors of Waterloo Bridge London, 



treated in this jianner, throws out new roots into are going to dispose of that splendid structure by 

 the ball of earth just above the ring, from which lottery. They have been driven to this incasiire 

 the bark was taken : and. if sawn off and planted by the smailness of their profits, 

 at the fall of the leaf, it bears fruit the following ^^^.^,„,,^— ;:^ ^„ ,,^ ^.^eA-.-The bill which 

 "ThTchinese are particularly eminent in the art had passed the Senate of New York to grant 

 of embellishing garden grounds, which maybe 1000 barrels of flour for the relief of the Greeks, 

 con'dered as U,e^ onlv one of the fine arts, in after a debate of four hours in the House of As- 

 which' they display either genius or taste. In scmbly, was lost by a vote 42 to 48. 

 this department, they are said to have attained a 1 



ous, and may be v^forthy of notice. In the spring 

 season, they strip a ring of bark, about an inch 

 wide, from a bearing branch ; surround the place 

 with a ball of fat earth or loam, binding it fast 

 with a piece of matting; and suspend directly 

 above it a pot or horn full of watei, with a small 

 hole in its lower part, sufliciont to let the water 

 drop in such quantities, as to keep the earth con- 

 stantly and uniformly moist. The branch, when 



high degree of perfection. 



[New Edinburgh Encyclopedia.] 



The U. S. ship Peacock caught .300 turtle in 4 

 I days in Essex Bay, Gallapagos Islands. At the 

 JMerquessas many of tho young natives wished to 



lATS, RATTLE-SNAKES, AND SPIDER.S. 

 IN BRAZIL. i 



"The city of Rio Janeiro and its environs are 

 nfested to a surprising degree by a large variety 

 of rats. Many of the first houses are so full of 

 them, that during dinner it is by no means an un- 

 usual circumstance to see them playing about the 

 room. The canine race appear quit regardless of 

 fhem, and they are often seen feeding at the same 

 heap of garbage. Their dental powers are such, 

 that a thick clumsy door of hard wood is frequent- ^een common in Southern States, A genueman -- "TT;!.'^;!! L P^inorted This is the 



ly perforated in one night. „f that peninsula (Northampton, Va.) had at U | silk manufactures will be exported- _ims__is 



"id, that ,^_ . a>unn ,„r^<.tU fr/^m .^fl nrrps. 



Maniland Cotton.— The culture of cotton in j come away in the Peacock, and two were receiv- 

 this State, particularly east of the Chesapeak, ap- 1 ed on board of her. At Otaheite, at the last 

 pears to be susceptible of great increase. It is j dates, a civil war appeared on the point ot breaK- 

 statcd that Dr. Muse, of Dorchester county, raised ling out against the Queen Regent, because she 



a considerable crop last year, and that it yielded 

 one third clean Cotton, whereas one fourth has 

 been common in Southern States, A gentleman 



In this climate, it may easily be imagine 

 the number of reptiles is very considerable. The 

 rattle-snake does not exist near this part of the 

 coast, but in the province of the mines it proves 

 very destructive to negroes. At Saint Joao del 

 Rcy. a young man went into the woods, was bit- 

 ten on the instep by a rattle-snake, come home ill 

 ,.ind died. His widow Uime being very precious 



had got married again. 



It is expected in England that in a short time 

 =,.lk manufactures will be exported. This is 

 opinion of the ultras in the free trade notions. 



cents a pound, .f 800 worth from 30 acres. ^^__^ 



now at Greenwich village, town of Horse Neck, [he who runs may res 



two Geese, both of the age of 82 years— one is 

 now sitting. They have both laid regularly for 



.ina oieu. nis wiuuw . umc i^c.g >^.j k 81 years. They now belong to Mr Jared Mead, , 



with the fair-Bex in Brazil) soon married again, | j^^^j were hatched on his father's place." 



■ Friend, whosoe'r you be, 

 That come to visit me, 

 Make quite despatch, and go away. 

 Or labour with me, if you stay." 



