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raencing an apiary, took the diminutive liive, and 

 as soon as cold weather set in, he placed it in the 

 common apartment of his log hut, which was con- 

 stantly kept warm, and every day they were fed 

 with molasses, or sugar, spread on wheat bread, 

 which they would come down, as regularly as 

 chickens when called, and eat from his hand, and 

 at the same time they appeared to be continually 

 busy in the hive. As soon as spring opened he set 

 them out doors, and shortly afterwards they sent 

 out a swarm, which was rapidly succeeded by five 

 others, from the parent h.ive, all of which had left 

 the hive before there had been a single swarm from 

 his neighbor's bees, although he had more ikaa for- 

 ty hives. One of these new swarms alterwards 

 swarmed again, which made an increase in a sin- 

 gle summer from one to eight swarms of bees — all 

 in consequence of the trivial attention bestov.ed on 

 them throuirh the winter. 

 BuJJalo,'lOth July, 1833. 



ON THE DURATION OF VITALITY IX GARDEN 

 SEED. 



From the Southern Agricultuiist. 



Rocky Grove, jJbbeviUe District, \ 



March 19, 1833. $ 



Dear Sir, — I send you a few extracts from 



my note book on gardening, which you can use 



as you think proper. 



Question — How many years old wiil Carolina 

 grown seeds vegetate in Caroliiia? 



^-Inswer — Cabbage, 2 years — not one tiic third 

 year ; two experiments 



Civie Beans, 



Musk Melon, 



Cucumbers, 



Water Melons, 



Pumkins, 



Squashes, 



Snap Beans, 



Carrots, 



Okia, 



Tomatoes, 



Turnip, 



Radish, 



Onions, 



Lettuce, 



Endive, 



English Peas, 



Water Cresses, 



2 years, do. do. 



4 years, not one the fifth year. 

 4 years, do. do.* 



4 years, not tried further. 



ter ; the old seed sometimes takes fifteen days to 

 vegetate. Respectfully, 



THOMAS PARKER. 



4 years, do. 

 3 years, do. 

 2 years, do.f 



2 years, do.j 



3 years, do. 

 3 years, do. 



5 years, do. 

 3 years, do. 



2 years, do. 



3 years, do. 

 3 years, do. 

 2 years, do. 

 2 years, do. 



I have observed a dilfernce of (en days in sprout- 

 ing, between old and new seed in favor of the lat- 



* Cucumber seed, five years old, planted in a common 

 garden soil — not one came up — planted in a dung hill, 

 and watered morning and evening, came up perfectly 

 well on the fifth day. 



f In filling up the cracks of a log-house with clay in 

 this neighborhood, a small bag of snap beans was ac- 

 cidentally enclosed between two logs in the clay. This 

 clay was removed fifteen or twenly years after, when 

 the bag of beans being discovered, they Vv-ere planted 

 by way of experiment, and the greater part of the m 

 vegetated 



I Three small beds of carrots sowed by way of expe- 

 riment in June. Bed No. 1 , was watered in the even- 

 ings and afforded a fair crop of carrots. Bed No. 2, wa- 

 tered morning and evening — scalded by the sun and 

 destroyed. Bed No. 3, watered morning, noon and 



liitei'iicil liiiproTeiiieiit 



OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



/Jddress of the Committee. To the P eople cf North 

 Carolina. 

 A numerous and respectarde portion of your 

 fellow -citizens, who assembled at this place on the 

 late Anniversary of American Inilependence, to 

 consult on the means of improving the condition of 

 the stale, have directed us to lay liefore you the re- 

 sult of their deliberations. Without pretensions 

 to authority or the wish to obtain it, without parly 

 or sectional views of any sort, and with no influ- 

 ence save that of reason, we claim your attention 

 simply because of our communion of interest with 

 you on a subject of deep and abiding importance, 

 and because of a sincere and hearty zeal to advance 

 the prosperity of our common country. Nor do 

 we deem it too much to hope that, even at this 

 moment, amid the din of political strife and the 

 struggles of contending candidates for your favor, 

 these claims Avill not be disregarded by an intelli- 

 gent and well meaning community. 



North Carolina is endeared to us by every tie of 

 nature and every obligation of duty. Her ad- 

 vancement in v.'hatever is great and good is inse- 

 parably interwoven with our hopes and wishes, 

 our patriotism and our pride. Keen, therefore, 

 is the mortification, to be obliged to confess that 

 she is falling behind several of the states of this 

 glorious confederacy, in that career of distinction 

 to which all were invited by the bounties of Pro- 

 vidence, the freedom of tlie American Institutions, 

 and the capacity of tlia American People. Forty 

 four years'have passed away since, under the aus- 

 pices of the Federal Constitution, she entered up- 

 on this generous competition. In extent of terri • 

 tory she had then the'advantageof New York and 

 of Pennsylvania. Excluding their principal cities, 

 she was not inferior to either of them in wealth. 

 In free population she nearly equalled Nev^ York, 

 and v,as but a third less than Pennsylvania. Her 

 superiority in extent of territory yet remains, but 

 in 'all other points of comparison how changed is 

 tite scene ! Her free population is now^ to that of 

 Pennsylvania as one to three, and to that of New 

 York "as one to four, while in wealth she bears to 

 each of them but the ratio of one to six. In New 

 York and Pennsylvania, colleges, academies, sci- 

 entiiic and literary institutions are spread through- 

 out tlie land, presenting the opportunities of ac- 

 quiring a finished education to th.ose who have the 

 means to procure this invaluable blessing; while 

 ample provision has been made by law for com- 

 municating necessary instruction to every child in 

 the community, however poor and destitute. In 

 our state, notwithstanding the injunction in our 

 constiiuiion, and except in the erection of the Uni-- 

 versily, and in the incorporation of a few acade- 

 mies either without funds or witli funds not deriv- 

 ed from legislative grant, no public schools have 

 been established ' for the cheap and convenient in- 

 struction of youth.' in Pennsylvania, more than 

 seven hundred miles — in New York, six hundred 



miles, of canal navigation have been created, while 

 evenmg— these advanced in growth rapidly ahead of ! railways are everywhere in the process of con- 

 No. 1, and were remai-kably large and fine, | slruction, stimulafrng and employing labor, ma- 



