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never to be sown in a 



passes, heinj so light, ought 



;indy day, except by machinery, an equal delivery 

 eing a point of great consequence. Wet weather 

 u-'ht likewise to be avoided, as the least degree of. 

 oachinj is injurious. 



" When (he grain is carried off, the young crop o) 

 rass should be but little fed during autumn ; but heav- 

 y rolled in the following spring, in order to press the 

 Dil home to the roots." 



Red Clover is more used in New England in laying 

 ind down to grass, perhaps, than any other grass. The 

 uthor of a valuable work, published not long since in 

 ilbauy, entitled " A Treatise on Agriculture" directs 

 en or twelve pounds of clover seed to be sown on an 

 .ere, if the soil be rich, and double the quantity if it be 

 loor. He condemns the practice of mixing the seeds 

 f timothy (herd's grass of New England) and rye, 

 rass, etc. with those of clover, " because these grasses 

 leithcr rise nor ripen at the same time. Another prac- 

 ice, equally bad, is that of sowing clover seed on win- 

 er grain, before the earth has acquired a temperature 

 avorable to vegetation, and when there can be no doubt 

 )Ut that two thirds of the seed will perish." This wri- 

 er is likewise of opinion ihat clover should not be pas- 

 ured the first year, and observes, that " if the crowns 

 )f young clover plants be nibbled, or otherwise wound- 

 ■d, the roots die. Sheep and horses (both of which 

 lite closely) should, therefore, be particularly excluded 

 rom clover, unless intended for pasturage only." 



The best European cultivators allow from fifteen to 

 wenty pounds of clover seed to an acre. By this mode 

 >f sowing it grows less rank, lodges less, and is more 

 jrofitable for making hay, or soiling. They likewise 

 ecommend sowing tliis grass in the spring, even when 

 he graiii with which it is to grow has been sowed the 

 all preceding. They advise harrowing the clover in, 

 <rben it has been sowed undtf tliese circumstances, and 

 issure us that the harrowing will not injure the grain, 

 )Ut rather be of service to it.* 



If the land be moist and rich, herd's gTaas,alias timo- 

 hy grass, alias me-adow cat's tail, is, perliaps, better to 

 ay it down with than clover. It requires about ten or 

 1 dozen quarts of seed to an acre. This grass succeeds 

 letter in the northen than in the southi rn parts of the 

 Jnited States. Wt believe farmers in general in New 

 England, unless the soil is dry, light and sandy, prefer 

 mixing clover with timothy seeds, in laying their lauds 

 jowD to grass, allowing more or less timothy in propor- 

 jon to the moisture of the soil. And, notwithstanding 

 (he respectable authority of the Albany writer, adverted 

 above, we are not prepared to condemn this practice. 

 'The timothy has a tendency to prevent the clover from 



edging ; clover is more easily made into hay when mix- 

 ed with that grass, and the mixture forms a food, which 

 ippears to be more agreeable to neat cattle than either 

 Df those glasses separately. 



Some English writers advise, when convenient, to 

 pasture land, which has been recently laid down to 

 »rass from three to six years, without mowing it. It 

 will afford more feed, than if it had been mowed a year 

 or two, and will not (as our farmers express it) bind 

 out so soon ; that is the grass roots will not, so soon, 

 become so matted together as to prevent the growtli of 

 the plants, and require breaking up, in order ts render 

 it productive. 



Great Crop of Mangtl WurlztU. — The last American 

 Farmer contains certificates, which prove that .lohn 

 Hare Powell, Esq. raised nine hundred and eighty-two 

 and an half bushels of Mangel Wurtzell roots, closely 

 cut beneath the crowns and free from dirt, on one hun- 

 dred and fifty-five and a quarter square perches, less 

 than an acre of ground. The crop was estimated by 

 the Editor of the American Farmer, from one load's be- 

 ing weighed, to weigh 45,756 pounds, of clean trim- 

 med roots. 



FARMER SUMMARY OF NEWS. 



The Pirates. — Ileporls have reached us by an arrival 

 here, and at Baltimore, that a British vessel of war ha.i 

 succeeded in capturing several pirates, in the neighbor- 

 hood of Matanza". A letter from Havana, of the £Oth 

 ultimo, received ;it Georgetown, coiifiniis these ac- 

 counts, and states that it was the Tyne Sloop of War 

 that had a fight with the pirates in I.ijuapo Bay, and 

 took 29 prisoners. The Tyne lost I -2 killed, besides 

 wounded. '1 he loss of the pirates was supposed to he 

 40 or 50. A piratira! vessel lay ofl" Havana on (he 20th 

 ultimo, which had threatened to capture the brig Eliza- 

 beth- Ann, bound to I'hiladclphia, even if he had to lo!- 

 low her to the Delaware. — JV. Y. J\Jer. Adv. 



The U. S. schooner Alligator was totally lost on the 

 19th Nov. on C'arysford Keef — crew all saved. 



Mr. Symmons 'I brasher, of Attleborough, (Mass.) 

 killed a hog on Friday last, which weighed S'e pounds. 

 Mr. T. purchased this hog about a year since, w hen he 

 was about four months old and weighed only 70 pounds. 



A Mr. Clark, of Albany, has now in his possession a 

 sow two years and seven months old, weighing 6o8 lbs. 

 — two of her pigs 16 months old weighing, the one 

 635, the other 580 pounds, and a pig of nine months 

 old whose weight is 49U — the aggregate amount of 

 weight of the family, 2,893. — N. ¥. American. 



Three large Oxtn. — A few days ago three oxen pass- 

 ed through this city on their way to New York, which 

 weighed, according to the patent scales of L. Bishop, 

 Esq. as follows, to wit— 3U80— 2570— 2456. These 

 oxen were raised and fatted by Col. Chapin, of Spring- 

 field, (Mass.) We are informed that a year or two 

 ago Col. Chapin sold a pair of oxen in Boston for $1050, 

 neither of which weighed as much as the largest of the 

 first mentioned oxen. It remains to be seen that the 

 New Yorkers will be as liberal as the Bostonians.— 

 .\bout ten days since the mate of the l«irgest of these 

 three oxen died, and more than 300 pounds of rough 

 tallow was taken out of him, exclusive of the kidney 

 tallow. — New Haicn Register. 



Warning to Teamsters. — On Friday last, Mr. Michael 

 Sweet, a respectable teamster, was precipitated by a 

 sudden jolt from the tongue of his ox cart, the wheela 

 of which passed over him, and besides injuring his 

 scalp, fractured his right arm so badly, that amputa- 

 tion, it is feared, may become necessary. Let this un- 

 fortunate accident operate as a warning to teamsters 

 not to sit upon the tongue of their wagons. — Providcnct 

 Americart,. 



The LTComiog Gazette gives an account of a Pan- 

 ther's being killed by two dogs belonging to a person, 



Congress, and the President's Message. — The second 

 session of the seventeenth Congress commenced on the 

 3d inst. The Message of the President was received, 

 read, and 3000 copies, together with the documents, 

 ordered to be printed. The message commences with 

 a favorable view of the political system of the L'nited 

 >tates, which will not call for augmented cares, but 

 states that other causes exist which are highly inter- 

 esting as well to the United States as to the whole civi- 

 lized world. It gives a pleasing view of our commer- 

 cial relations with France and Great Britain — States 

 that his Imperial Majesty the Fjnperor of Russia on 

 the question submitted to him by the United States 

 and Great Bri-ain, concerning the construction of an 

 article of the Treaty of Ghent, has been received, and 

 that a convention has since been concluded between 

 the parties, under the mediation of his Imperial Majes- 

 ty, to prescribe the mode of carrying the article into 

 effect, in conformity to the decision — It informs that a 

 Territorial Government has been established hi Florida 

 — That the fiscal operations of the year have been 

 more successful than was anticipated at the commence- 

 ment of the last session of Congress, and that there is 

 now a surplus in the treasury, and a greater one is an- 

 ticipated — It commends the organization of the l'nited 

 States' Army — Speaks highly of the Military Academy 

 — Remarks on piracy of the West Indies as of a recent 

 date, and of the efforts of the U. States to suppress it — 

 States that a serious malady has deprived us of many 

 valuable citizens at Pensacola, and ch'cked the pro- 

 gress of some of those arrangements v/bich are impor- 

 tant to the territory — That the Lead Mines require an 

 agent skilled in mineralogy — That the Cumberland 

 i-oad needs repairs — That our manufactures have in- 

 creased and are increasing — It gives a concise view of 

 the aspeert exhibited by foreign nations, which shows 



that the U. S. as a member of the great community of I ^i,o was ir^ pursuit of wolves" The conTbat took place 

 nations have rights to maintain, duties to perform, and 1 ;„ the ni^ht, and was very obstinate. 

 dangers to encounter-The situation of Spain and the | Spontaneous Combustion occurred on the 29th ult. in 

 Independent Governments south of the U. S. is con- ! ^j^^'^^^, ^.^^j „j.j^,^ j^^^^ Jamison, Baltimore. The 

 c.sely adverted to- ■ he si uation of the Cree-ks is «,« occuired in a mass of coals, containing about five 



spoken Ot with teehno" '•^ iUrti enr-li ^ .-rtii.ifrw thnnlH .... - . . ' . » . ... 



*See Messrs. Wells i Lilly's edition tf DeaTWs JVcw 

 England Farmer, article " Clover." 



Senna. — The Editor of the American Fanner states 

 that he has received a small parcel of Senna seeds from 

 Wm. Cattell, Esq. of Charleston, S. C. which has been 

 cultivated and found to possess tb« Tirtues of U>( im- 

 ported Senm. 



en ot with leehng, " that such a country should ^;^^^,,^^^ ,^„,bels, and though apparently extinguished 

 have been overwhelmed, and so long hielilen as it were ;„„„„„,,;„,,.;».;„„:„ ,,„„^^„„f'„„,, „i - 

 from the world under a gloomy despotism ;" but " a 

 itrong hope is entertained that these people will recov 



several times, it again broke out, and was the cause of 

 successive alarms. 

 ! The Rochester, N. Y. papers inform that emigrants 



er their independence, and resume their natural sta-i , , ^ ,^ , , , ,. 



tions among the nations of the earth"— The effort which | ^^^ conveye^ on the Grand Canal, at the low rate o^f 



has been made in .Spain and Portugal to improve the 

 condition of the people is mentioned as consoling to all 

 benevolent minds, and the President observes, that 

 " when we see that a civil war of the most frightful 

 character rages from the Adriatic to the Black Sea ; 

 that strong symptoms of war appear in other parts, 

 proceeding from causes which, should it break out, 

 may become general, and be of long duration ; that 

 the war still continues between Spain and the Inde- 

 pendent Governments, her late Provinces, in this hem- 

 isphere ; and that it is likewise menaced between Por- 

 tugal and Brazil, in consequence of the attempt of the 

 latter to dismember itself from the former ; and that a 

 system of piracy of great extent is maintained in the 

 neighboring seas, which will require equal vigilance 

 and decision to suppress it ; the reasons for sustaining 

 the attitude which we now hold, and for pushing for- 

 ward all our measures of defence with the utmost vig- 

 or, appear to me to acquire new force." 



Matthew St. Clair Clark, of Pennsylvania, has been 

 chosen Clerk of the House of Representatives. 



Mr. James Little, residing near Auburn, N. Y. was 

 killed on the 16th ult. by his wagon overturning, and 

 together with its contents falling on him. 



Counterf.-it $10 bills of the Phoenix Bank, N. Y. and 

 on the Baak of Troy, are said to be in circulation. 



one cent a mile, and in proportion for furniture and ef- 

 fects. 



We have been informed from a source that leaves us 

 no reason to doubt the fact, that the society of Shakers 

 at Canterbury in this state, have, within three weeks, 

 sold TF.s barrels of Cider in Boston, for which they re- 

 ceived ONE HPNDRED DOLLARS in Cash. Good com- 

 mon cider has been selling in this town for one dollar a 

 barrel. Such is the difference between good, and very 

 good ! — Portsmouth Journal. 



A cow may now be seen at Harrisburg (for 12 1-2 

 cents) upwards of 16 hands high, and supposed to weigk 

 1600 lbs. She was raised in Columbia County. — Penn. 

 Correspondent. 



An English horse, called Childers is said to have been 

 the swiftest ever known, and has been known to have 

 run ne ar a mile in a minute. He cleared the course in 

 New Market, which is only 400 yards short of four 

 mill s in 6 minutes and 40 seconds ; running at the rate 

 of82 1-2 feet in a second. Eclipse is said to surpast 

 him in strength, and to be but little inferior in swift- 

 ness. 



DIED— In Medford, Thursday morning. Rev. David 



Osgood, D. D. aged 75. In this city, Isaac lUnd, 



M,D. A. A. S. aged 80. 



