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med to harmonize with one another, and the 

 intenedd effects were nearly produced. What 

 it was wished to bring forward appeared al- 

 ready prominent. What was to be conceal- 

 ed, or thrown into the back ground, assumed 

 that station. The foreground trees, (the 

 best that could be procured,) placed on the 

 pastern bank above the water, broke it into 

 parts with their spreading branches, and for- 

 med combinations which were extremely 

 pleasing. The copse or underwood, which 

 covers an island in the lake, and two prom- 

 ontories, as also an adjoining bank that ter- 

 minates the distance, was seen coming down 

 nearly to the water's edge. What was the 

 most important of all, both trees and under- 

 wood has obtained a full and deep-coloured 

 leafj and health and vigour were restored to 

 tehm. In a word, the whole appeared like a 

 spot at least forty years planted." 



[ From the Massachusetts Agricultural Repository. 

 RAW POTATOES BAD FOB MILCH COWS. 



The following article taken from a for- 



ign magazine, has been copied lately into 

 the American Farmer and New England 

 Farmer : 



"Many farmers are in the habit of giving 

 raw potatoes to all kinds of stock ; but they 

 ne of a watery and griping nature, and ac- 

 cidents have frequently happened from their 

 use, before the cattle have been accustomed 

 to them. For milch cows, they are very 

 bad, purging them, and rendering their milk 

 too thin and poor, even for suckling. If 

 given raw to fatten oxen, good hay and bean 

 meal should be allowed, to counteract the 

 watery quality of the roots. There is, how- 

 ever, much difference in the nature of pota- 

 toes, and the mealy approach nearest to the 

 nature of corn, the yellow, afford the strong- 

 est nutriment." — Scotch Magazine. 

 Remarks. 



Nothing can be of greater importance to 

 jvery farmer, than a correct knowledge of 

 the comparative merits of tb,e different vari- 

 eties of food for his cattle. Of course no- 

 thing can be more pernicious, than throwing 

 out loose and general censures of any par- 

 ticular species of food, particularly of those 

 most easily raised, and therefore the cheap- 

 est. I certainly am not disposed to set up 

 my authority against opinions advanced in 

 sstablished works. But there is no treason 

 in stating facts, in relating careful and long 

 •ontinued experiments. For nearly twenty 

 years, I have been in the practice of allow- 

 ing my milk cows, from November till they 

 go to grass, about three pecks of roots a day, 

 with good English, or upland hay, to their 

 full content. I first % commence with the 

 beet, because it is most perishable ; carrots 

 'hen follow, and from February till May, 

 'hey have raw potatoes. In commencing 

 with the potatoes, they will be for a|few days 

 relaxed; so they will, (often) to as great a 

 degree, with Indian meal ; after a little use, 

 they return to their natural state of body, 

 and are always in high condition when they 

 ere turned out to grass — perhaps they are 

 too fat. 



Potatoes, then, cannot be a watery, gri- 

 ping food ; my miiV is as rich as the milk 

 of cows not thus managed. My cows have 

 have been almost always raised by myself, 

 ■(Tom my own stock,and I usually keep them 

 till they are aged. If the proposition stated 

 j) the extraot at the head of these remarks 

 had been true, or nearly true, or had any 

 •Tegree of soundness in it, it seems to me 



impossible, that I should never have remar- 

 ked the ill effects stated. 



Some farmers may consider these remarks 

 as of less weight, as coming from a man not 

 bred a farmer. Some may say that I trust 

 the eyes of others, and am deceived. To 

 these possible objections, I reply, that my 

 own cows are objects of special regard, as 

 furnishing me with one of the most valua- 

 ble luxuries ; that I attend to them person- 

 ally and carefully, and I can see uo good 

 reason why an ^attention of twenty years 

 should not enable me to form as correct an 

 opinion as a thorough bred farmer. I am 

 not, however, without support from persons 

 of that description. An intelligent practi- 

 cal farmer, whose dairy is in such repute 

 that he obtains from thirty-one to thirty-se- 

 ven cents a pound for his butter, assured 

 me, that he always gave his cows in winter 

 the long red potatoe in a raw state, and that 

 he estimated two bushels of that potato for 

 his cows as equal to one bushel of corn. 

 JOHN LOWELL. 



A MEETING OF EUTLER [Ohio,] COUNTY AG 

 R1CULTURAL SOCIETY, 



Was yesterday held in the Court House 

 in Hamilton. A respectable number of far- 

 [mers and citizens attended the meeting. 

 A. I. Chittenden Esq. president of the So- 

 ciety, took the chair and called the meeting 

 to order, and the constitution read by Dr 

 Corey, one of the Secretaries, and several 

 amendments thereto proposed and adopted. 

 A few remarks, were made by several mem- 

 bers, and an essay on the weevil was read 

 by Taylor Webster, Esq. After which the 

 following Resolution was offered by Mr. J. 

 Millikin, Esqr. and passed. 



Resolved, That the President shall appoint 

 a committee to report to this society at its 

 next regular meeting rules and regulations 

 for the annual exhibitions of the society, 

 and also to propose the severral animals, im- 

 plements of husbandly and other articles 

 for which premiums shall be offered with the 

 amount of the premiums to be given. 



We were pleased to see many of the sub- 

 stancial farmers from different parts of the 

 country in attendance. The next meeting 

 of the society will be held on the first Wed- 

 nesday of July at the Court House in Ham- 

 ilton. Hamilton Intelligencer. 



Drunkenness Presented. 



The Grand Jury of New York ci y, in 

 a late presentment, thus speak of drun- 

 kenness : 



The grand Inquest for the body of the 

 city and county of New-York, being a- 

 bout to separate,cannot in justice to their 

 own sense of propriety forego the oppor- 

 tunity which thus presents itself, of say- 

 ing, that most of the buisiness that has 

 come, before them, has arisen out of quar- 

 rels and outrages caused by drunkenness : 

 — That this drunkenness is occasioned, 

 in most instances, by the facility with 

 which liquor is obtained at tippling shops, 

 in whose neighborhood those quarrels 

 and breaches of the peace commence. 



Some of these shops are well known 

 to be the receptacle of stolen goods, and 

 the persons who keep them appear to be, 

 in many cases, of the most abandoned 

 character. They hold out inducements 



to young men to commit depredations u» 

 pon the public, that they may reap the 

 benefit of them : and indeed, were it not 

 for these monsters of iniquity,those keep- 

 ers of tippling shops and receivers of 

 stolen goods, their victims, instead of be* 

 ing arraigned at the bar of their country 

 for crimes at which they once shuddered, 

 might be raised to become respectable 

 citizens, and to deserve and receive the 

 commendation of all good men. 



Ought licences to be granted for the 

 sale of liquor to men who keep nothing but 

 dram shops, and who thereby corrupt, de- 

 moralize and destroy the youth of our coun- 

 try? The original and proper object of. 

 a license to sell liquor, was to accommo- 

 date houses of entertainment — that trav- 

 ellers and strangers might be accommo- 

 dated and refreshed. They were never 

 intended to be granted to men of bad 

 character, who keep mere stews and 

 sinks of iniquity. This is not, and can- 

 not be, their legitimate use. To such 

 men, then, they ought never to be given. 

 To the Temperance Societies of out 

 city and country much credit is due for 

 the good they have done, and are doings 

 and if the authorities of our city, whose 

 business it is to grant licences, would but 

 give their aid to the same good cause, by 

 withholding licenses from the unprinci- 

 pled and the profligate, we might, at no 

 distant day, congratulate our fellow-citi- 

 zens on the wholesome improvement in 

 the habits and morals of our people which 

 would naturally flow from such causes. 



Let the above be read and re-read : let 

 neighbor go with it to his neighbor, and 

 let them talk over the cause together. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Soci- 

 ety have determined, says the Patriot, to 

 establish a Garden of Experiments and 

 a Cemetery, to be united together, after 

 the plan of Pere la Chaise, near Paris.-— 

 An act of the Legislature has been obtain* 

 ed, and a company of gentlemen have 

 associated for the purchase of the beauti- 

 ful location called Sweet Auburn,in Cam- 

 bridge, of about seventy' acres. — Travel' 

 ler. 



Simple Means of purifying Water If 



is not so generally known as it ought to 

 be, that pounded alum possesses the pro- 

 perty of purifying water. A large spoon 

 full of pulverized alum, sprinkled into a 

 hogshead of water, (the water stirred 

 round at the time,) will, after the lapse 

 of a few hours, by precipitating to the 

 bottom the impure particles, so purify ir. 

 that it will be found to possess nearly all 

 the freshness and clearness of the fines! 

 spring water. A pailful, containing font 

 gallons, may be purified with a single 

 tea spoonful. 



The legislature of Massachusetts, have 

 appropriated $7000 for the erection of a 

 small pox hospital at the Lazaretto, id 

 Boston harbor, 



