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£l)c .farmer's ittotitl)lTj ittsitor. 



a gricultaral improvement—" I find that innny 

 ]>l;iitts flourish well with so much salt, as would 

 immediately prove fatal to others — thus the 

 quantity I accord to a few roots of asparagus 

 would "destroy an oak. 1 am of opinion that 

 those plants which do not receive immediate in- 

 jury from the application of this substance, will 



derive great henefit from it." Gmnanfown 



Telegraph. 



Remedies. 



For a fit of Passion. — Walk out in the open 

 air ; you may speak your mind to the winds 

 without hurting any one or proclaiming yourself 

 to he a simpleton. 



For a fit of Idleness. — Count the tickings of a 

 clock. Do this for one hour, and you will he 

 glad to pull off your coat the next, and work 

 like a negro. 



For a ft of Extravagance and Folly. — Go to the 

 work-house, or speak with the ragged and 

 wretched inmates of a jail, and you will be con- 

 vinced — 



Who makes his bed of brier and thorn, 

 Must be content to lie forlorn. 



7 or a fit of Ambition.— Go into the church- 

 yard ami read the grave-stones; they will tell 

 you the end of ambition. The grave will soon 

 be your bed-chamber, the earth your pillow, cor- 

 ruption your father, and the worm your mother 

 and your sister. 



For a fit of Repining. — Look about for the 

 halt and the blind, and visit the bed-ridden and 

 afflicted, and deranged ; and they will make von 

 ashamed of complaining of your lighter afflic- 

 tions. 



For a fit of Despondency. — Look on the good 

 things which God has #iven you in this world, 

 and at those which he has promised to his fol- 

 lowers in the next. He who goes into his gar- 

 den to look for cob-webs and spiders, no doubt 

 will find them : while he who looks for a flower, 

 may return into his house with one blooming in 

 his bosom. 



For all fits of Doubt, Perplexity and Fear. — 

 Whether they respect the body or the mind ; 

 whether they are a load to the shoulders, the 

 head, or the heart, the following is a radical cure 

 which may he relied on, for I had it from the 

 Great Physician — " Cast thy burden on the Lord, 

 he will sustain thee." 



How TO RENDER NIGHT SOIL INODOROUS. — By 



mixing this substance with burnt mud or peat, 

 and finely-pounded charcoal, its odor will be in- 

 stantaneously removed, while they will retain the 

 ammonia, by means of the power ihey have of 

 absorbing that substance. The quantity of char- 

 coal or burnt mud necessary to be used, will de- 

 pend on circumstances, and can only be deter- 

 mined by actual experiment. As a general rule, 

 one part, by measure, of the charcoal or peat, to 

 five parts of the night soil, will be sufficient to 

 remove the smell and form a rich manure. — 

 American Agricultw ist. 



The Fanner. 



The farmer sat in his easy chair, 



Smoking his pipe of clay. 

 While his hale old wire, wnh busy care 

 Was clearing the dinner away j 

 A sweet little girl, with mild blue eyes, 

 On her grandpa's knee, was catching flies. 



The old man placed his hand on her head, 



With a tear on his wrinkled face, 

 For he thought how olien her mother dead, 

 Had sat in that very same place. 

 As the tear stole down from his half-shut eye, 

 Don't smoke, said the child, how it makes you cry. 



The house dog stretched out on the floor. 



Whpre the sun, alter noon, used to steal, 

 And the busy old wife at the door 

 Was turning her spinning-wheel. 

 The old brass clock on the mantle-tree 

 Had plodded along to almost three. 



Still the farmer sat in his easy chair, 

 While, close to his heaving breast, 

 The moistened brow, and the cheek so fair, 

 Of his grand-child were pressed, 

 His head bent down on her soft hair lay — 

 Fast asleep were they both on that sunny day. 



Lime in Flautiug Trees. 



Many object to planting trees, either for or- 

 chards or use, in consequence of the numerous 

 failures they experience. This, however, it 

 should he recollected, is not a necessary result. 

 With proper care there is no more difficulty in 

 transplanting than in planting or propagating 

 from the seed germ. In setting trees, we have 

 ever found that they do best when taken up in 

 the fall, about the time the leaves drop. Fruit 

 and forest trees, shrubs and perennial plants of 

 all descriptions, may, si t that season, be removed 

 with perfect success. In setting we usually put 

 a small quantity of lime in the bole — about half 

 n peck to a tree, mixing it thoroughly with the 

 mould, in order that it may he easily accessible, 

 to the roots, which ramify in every direction in 

 quest of food. An English publication says that 

 an extensive plantation of trees has been formed 

 within a few years, without the loss of a single 

 tree, and this has been effected simply by putting 

 a small quantity of lime in the hole before de- 

 positing the tree. Four bushels are said to be 

 amply Sufficient for an acre. The effect of the 

 lime is to " push on the growth of the plant in 

 the first precarious state." There seems to have 

 existed, at first, an apprehension that liming the 

 plant would force it on prematurely, but this ap- 

 prehension experience has demonstrated to have 

 been perfectly groundless. — .Maine Farmer. 



Of the benefit of lime about fruit trees we 

 have lone been convinced by its use. Old plas- 

 ter, burnt shells, and bones, exercise important 

 and beneficial action, and especially in spots 

 where a tree has failed and been removed, as 

 without fresh earth and lime it is almost impossi- 

 ble to make a tun tree thrive in the same place. 

 All fresh manures are injurious to recently 

 planted trees. — Genesee Farmer. 



Progress of the American Cheese Trade. 



The Detroit Free Press, the State paper of 

 Michigan, furnishes the following statement of 

 this new and rather important branch of trade : 



The Cheese trade is rapidly augmenting in this 

 country. The foreign exports ol it have become 

 a prominent article of supply for distant climes. 

 Up to 1840 there was but a small quantity ship- 

 ped, and that principally on foreign account. — 

 That year Messrs. Goodrich & Co., of New York, 

 and the Messrs. Green, of Boston, made the. ex- 

 periment of large consignments to England. Of 

 course, they met with the usual prejudices, the 

 market before having been furnished with foreign 

 cheese from Ireland and Holland. By persever- 

 ance the American article gradually came into 

 favor, until it has now reached a heavy consump- 

 tion. It fills part of the cargo of almost every 

 vessel that leaves our seaports for Liverpool. — 

 The statistics of export, as will he seen by the 

 following, betoken a still farther extension which 

 is worthy the attention of the farmers of this 

 State: 



Pounds. 



1840 733,713 



1841 1,748,781 



1842 2,450,077 



Pounds. 



1843 3,440,144 



1844 7.433,145 



1845 7,1)41,187 



1840 8,675,390 



This foreign export trade has now reached 



than our own farmers. We are told that at the 

 prices it has borne for the last five years it is 

 much more profitable than butter. In fact, for 

 three months in the year, butter does not sell at 

 any higher price. All dairy-women agree that 

 two pounds of cheese are made easier than one 

 pound of butter. Yet it is neglected. 



In several towns near Buffalo, (Hamburgh and 

 Collins,) it is the principal business of the farm- 

 ers, and all who have embarked in it have great- 

 ly added to their wealth. Cbatauque county 

 farmers have increased their cows lor cheese- 

 making; Herkimer county, N. Y., produced 

 8,000,000 pounds in 1845, according to the State 

 census; St. Lawrence, 9,000,000 pounds. In 

 Allegany county, heretofore, lumber was the 

 principal production ; nearly every farmer now 

 turns out his five to twenty casks of cheese in 

 the fall. All the southern tier of counties in 

 that State are largely embarking in it. The cen- 

 sus of 1835 gives the quantity made in the State 

 at 36,000,000 pounds. Ohio has doubled her ex- 

 ports of it within five years. Indiana cheese is 

 now becoming known in the market. 



As a sample of its increase, we give the fol- 

 lowing statistics of the amount that arrived at 

 tide-water on the Hudson river, from the Canal 

 Collector's books: 



Year. Pounds. Exported. 



1834 6,340,000 



ia35 9,586,000 



1836 14,060,000 



1837 15,500.000 



1838 13,810,000 



1839 14,530,000 



1840 18,820,000 



1841 14,170,000 



1842 19,004.000 



1843 24,334 000 



1844 26,672,500 



1845 29.371,000 



1846 34,812.513 



Here is a large quantity, but a ready market is 

 found. The increase of foreign exports is large. 

 Up to last fall the duty on it in England was 

 $2 42 per 100 lbs. Sir Robert Peel's new Tariff 

 reduced it to §1 per 100, which will cheapen it 

 to British consumers. The prices range in Liv- 

 erpool, according to quality, from $10 to $15 per 

 112 lbs., and for three years past the London 

 market has never been overstocked but three or 

 four times, which has lasted but two to five 

 weeks. It is getting introduced into all circles, 

 and driving the Dutch article out of market. Mr. 

 Column, in his Agricultural Tour in Europe, says 

 he found it gracing the tables of the lords and 

 nobles, where, five years ago, it had never found 

 its way. He dined with a Marquis, who treated 

 him to American cheese, American apples, 

 American cranberries, and American cider in 

 bottles. 



It is now exported to the East Indies in boxes; 

 found in Calcutta, and goes, with other notions, 

 to the Celestials of China. None but the real 

 skim-milk grindstones, however, can stand a hot 

 climate. 



It goes to 

 customers in 



Hayti, 



Pounds. 



150,046 

 Br'nishGuiana,162,420 

 Scotland, 88,041 



Venezuela, 40,812 



over a million of dollars annual!' 

 fifty-two countries. Our heaviest 

 1846 were— 



Pounds. 

 England, 6,744,699 



West Indies, '807,040 

 Cuba, 227,270 



Canadas, 185,915 



Until within five years, cheese has usually 

 been kept on sale in our Eastern cities by gro- 

 cers and produce dealers, with a general assort- 

 ment of other products. A total revolution in 

 this respect has taken place. In New York and 

 Boston, extensive houses, exclusively for cheese, 

 are doing a large hn.-itiess. Several commission 

 houses are now solely engaged in it. 



The farmers of our State seem to have neg- 

 lected this important blanch of the dairy. Every 

 other salable product is produced here in abun- 

 dance ; why not add this to our list of exports ? 

 We certainly possess the grazing laud. Still we 

 do not make 20 per cent, of the cheese consumed 

 in the Slate. Daily it is shipped here from Buf- 

 falo, and goes into the interior of this State. — 

 Ohio also sends her hundreds of tons to our 

 markets. Neither Western New York nor Ohio 

 possesses more advantages for its manufacture 



723,713 

 1,748.781 

 2,456,677 

 3,440,144 

 8,433,145 

 7,941,187 

 8,675,390 



Thomas Campbell, the poet, says that Ameri- 

 ca is the only nation in the world where the 

 whole population have at all times enough to 

 eat. This is a remarkable fact, and during the 

 present disturbances in Europe will serve to 

 draw immense numbers of all classes, from ex- 

 kings to half-starved peasants, to this vast and 

 glorious country. Our agriculture will improve 

 rapidly, not less by the increase of numbers to 

 consume its varied products, than by the general 

 diffusion of knowledge among the tillers of the 

 earth. — Genesee Farmer. 



Caterpillars. — An English agricultural pa- 

 per gives the following method of destroying 

 caterpillars, which was accidentally discovered 

 and is practised by a gardener near Glasgow. 

 A piece of woolen rag had been blown by the 

 wind into a currant-bush, and when taken out 

 was found covered with the leaf-devouring in- 

 sects. Taking the hint, he immediately placed 

 pieces of woolen cloth in every hush in his gar- 

 den, and found the next day that the caterpillars 

 had universally taken to them for shelter. In 

 this way he destroys many thousands every 

 morning. 



