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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



which the rows were sprinkled with a coat of upon it. But I doubt whether this will deter 

 street manure. j ao.V other liirds." 



Mr. Lemuel Davis, in a communication to the I It has been oficn recommended to pour warm 

 Worcester Agricultural Society [sec page 8 of tar over seed corn, and stir it in such a manner 



the N. England Farmer] recommends to " fur- 

 row the ground four feet apart from centre to 



that every grain may receive a coat of tar, and 

 then roll it in ashes, or plaster of Pari'. Seed 



centre to plant the corn in two rows, nine inch- dealt with in this manner will not be pulled up 



es apart, diamond fashion. It is a very simple 

 process, to level the manure when spread in the 

 furrows, and take a pair of small wheels, with 

 pegs in them, made for that purpose, put them 

 on an axle-tree nine inches apart, which will 

 dot the ground with accuracy, when drawn a- 

 cross the field so that a child of ten years may 

 drop the corn without the least difficulty 



by birds, neither zcill it come up at all, unless it 

 is well soaked before the tar is applied. The 

 tar makes a coat or enclosure for the kernels, 

 which will not suffer moisture to penetrate it so 

 as to cause vegetation, it ivould be better, we 

 imagine, to pour water over (ar or turpentine, 

 and let it stand two or three days, till it becomes 

 strongly impregnated with those substances. In 



The distance at which the corn should be (this water soak your seed corn, and then roll it 



planted, either in hills or rows, depends on the 

 «5ze of the kind of corn you plant. In the 

 southern states the corn is generally planted 

 at the distance of seven or seven and an half 

 feet from hill to hill in every direction, when 

 four or five stalks are suffered to grow in each 

 hill ; or four feet apart, when two stalks only 

 are permitted to stand in each hill. Mr. Coop- 

 er, of New-Jersey, a celebrated agriculturist 

 says, " In every kind of soil I have tried, 1 find 

 planting the row.s six feet asunder each waj', as 

 near at right angles as may be, and leaving not 

 more than three stalks it a hilt produces the 

 best crop." 



Mr. Deane directed to let the gro\ind be cut 

 into exact squares by shoal furrows made with a 

 horse plough, from three to four feet apart, ac- 

 cording to the largeness or smallness of the kind 

 to be planted, and to put five corns in the places 

 where the furrows cross each other. 



" Shell seed gently by hand that it may not 

 be torn or bruised at all rejecting about an inch 

 at each end of the ear. And if any corn appear 

 with black eyes, let them also be rejected, not 

 because they will not grow at all, the contrary 

 being true ; but because the blackness indicates 

 cither some detect in drying, or want of perfec- 

 tion in the grain. 



" Some steep their seed. But in general it 

 had better be omitted ; for ic will occasion it to 



while wet, and just before planting, in plaister 

 Supposing also you should boil a few elder roots 

 in this water before you turn it on the tar. 



The soil having been broken up from five to 

 seven inches deep, or if more the better, re- 

 quires shallow planting. When you plant on 

 what is called green sward land, or grass land, 

 merely turned over without ploughing, holes 

 should be made quite through the furrows, and 

 dung put into the holes. If this caution be not 

 observed the crop will be uneven, as the roots 

 in some places, where the furrows are thickest, 

 will have but little benefit from the rotting of 

 the sward. But if the holes are made through 

 the roots will be fed with both fixed and putrid 

 air, supplied by the fermentation in the grass 

 roots of the turf. 



RE.MEDV FOR WORMS IN THE HEAD OF SHEEP. 



In our paper No. 26, page 205, may be found 

 some account of this disorder, its causes, and its 

 symptoms. We shall, however, in this place, 

 give a brief recapitulation of them, and mention 

 a simple preventive remedy which a gentleman 

 assures us is infallible. The disorder is caused 

 by grubs, a kind of hots proceeding from a large 

 bee called by scientific writers Oestrus Ovis. — 

 The bee lays its eggs in the nostrils of the sheep 

 the last of xXugust or first of September, where 



and continue its application till the time of it 

 departure. It would, probably, be safest to be 

 gin to use it «bout the first of August, and cob 

 tinue its use till the lust of September. We d 

 not learn how ot'ten the tar should be put os 

 but would advise to keep the nose constant! 

 smirched so that it may be visible. Tar ie like 

 wise said to be an excellent remedy for con 

 sumption of the lungs, cough, rot, &c. in sheep 

 It promotes and confirms the health of the ani 

 mals, and operates as a specific against near! 

 all the diseases to which they are subject. 



The celebrated anatomist Verhetw, who was bn 

 ric J in the public cemeterj- in Louvain, is said to hav 

 been worthy of the loUowinj epitaph, which was in 

 scribed on his tomb : 



Philippcs Vkrheiw, 



Medicinae doctor et professor, 



Partem 3ui Materialem, 



Hie 



In coemeterio condi roluit, 



Ne templum dehonestaret, 



Aut nocivis halitibus inficerel. 



TRANSLATION. 

 Here lies deposited the mortal part 

 Of one devoted to the healing art, 

 Philip Verhey.v, a sage who thought it beit, 

 Tlie dead should in their cemeteries rest. 

 Beneath some distant and secluded sod, 

 A'ot poison and pollvte Ike HocSE of God. 



they soon hatch, so that by the 20lh of the 

 perish in the ground, if the weather should not month you may discover in the cavity between 



prove warm enough to bring it up speedily. If 

 planting a second time should become necessa 



the nostrils and the wind pipe, from 25 to 100 

 small white grubs, with black heads, and a black 



ry, by means of the destruction of the f-rst seed ; streak on the back. They obtain their growth 

 or if planting be delayed on any account till the in July or August of the following season. The 



beginning of June, then it will be proper that 

 the seed should have boiling water poured on 

 it. Let it not soak more than half a minute, 

 and be cooled speedily, and jilanted before it 

 dries. The corn will be forwarded in its growth 

 several days. The seed should be covered with 

 about two inches of earth." Judge Peters says 

 " the seed should be wetted and rolled in plas- 

 ter, or steeped in a decoction of Hellebore or 

 •copperas : or what produces a surprising effect, 

 a strong solution of salt petrc ; but do not soak 

 or steep it too much. In dry weather, the ger- 

 mination is accelerated by the' steeping injuri- 

 ously ; so that the plume and radicles perish : 

 and in long wet seasons they rot." 



There have been a variety of other methods 

 recommended for preparing seed corn in such a 

 manner as to preserve it from birds and insects. 

 Dr. Deane directed to "steep some corn in a 

 stroiig infusion of Indian poke, or refuse tobac- 

 co, and sprinkle it over the ground before the 

 crop is up. White threads stretched over a 

 6m\J, of corn, will prevent crows from alighting 



symptoms appear towards spring, at which time 

 the infected animal shows appearances of the 

 disorder by a sickly countenance, wasting of the 

 flesh, and apparent attempts to blow something 

 from the nose. The wool stops growing, gen- 

 erally much of it falls off; many of the lambs 

 are lost, and those which live are stinted by 

 reason of the eives being poor and sickly, and 

 consequently giving but little milk. Sometimes 

 the sheep affected lingers along, pining away 

 continually, and dies in June or July. 



These worms or sheep-bots are very tena- 

 cious of life, and will exist for some lime in 

 alcohol, sulphuric acid, spirits of turpentine, ice. 

 The usual remedies are vinegar, a decoction of 

 tobacco, assafustida, &,c. injected into the nos- 

 trils of the sheep. Dry snuff blown up the nose 

 with a quill is likewise sometimes made use of. 

 These are all troublesome and uncertain. The 

 remedy recommended by our inlbrmanl, whi) 

 says he has had abundant experience of its elli- 

 cacv, is to smear tlu imse of the sheep •ujitli tnr. 

 Apply it before the tly makes its appearance, 



Mortification. — Dr. Ainsle, of the British East Indi 

 Company, has written a letter to the Editor of th 

 Courier, stating, that he has discovered that the Ba 

 sam nf Peru is a sovereign remedy to arrest the pr< 

 gress of mortification. The mode of using it is to di 

 a piece of lint in the baham and lay it over th 

 affected part the moment mortification appears ; th 

 to be rftpeatetl moriiingf and evening until healthy gr: 

 nulations shall appear, then simple dressing will ai 

 swer. The doctor says he was first induced to try ti 

 etficacy of the balsam in the torrid zone, in conseqnenf 

 of its antisceptic qualities, and its peculiar gratefi 

 odour, which so admirably conceals the foetor of putn 

 faction. He says it smarts a good deal for a minute < 

 two and then feels quite grateful. It is a valuabl 

 discovery if it be found eflficacious. 



FOREIGN. 

 QirLATE A.\D IMPORTANT jVEWS. 



The Packet Ship Leeds, Capt. Stoddart, lately arrii 

 ed at New York, brought files of papers from Londo 

 to the 22d, and from IjiverpooKto the 24th April, sis 

 teen days later than had been before received. O 

 the 7th of April the French passed the Bidasoa, tb 

 frontier river, and advanced into .Spain. They, prev 

 ously, had a skirmish with some straggling French am 

 Italians, in which the latter were dispersed with tb 

 loss of fifteen killed and wounded. Four French ofl 

 cers were likewise wounded. At St. Sebastian th 

 French received a check, with the loss, according t 

 some accounts, of about 800 killed and wounded, 

 letter from Paris states that the French army goes o 

 but slowly — they had experienced two defeats befof 

 St. Sebastian and Pampeluna. The constitutionalist 

 fight with a desperation not expected by the Frend 

 The affair at St. Sebastian, according to private ac 

 counts, was very serious, and the hospitals were full < 

 French soMiers. The royalists at Valencia, accordin 

 to a Madrid article, have been defeated with the lo! 

 of 1600 killed and made prisoners. The Duke d'An 

 "ouleme has issued a proclamation, much in the usuj 

 style of such articles, in which the Spaniards are, i 

 substance, informed that they are to be attacked ft 

 their own benefit. " I am about," he says, " to cros 

 the Pyrenees, at the head of a hundred thousani 

 Frenchmen, but it is to support the Spaniards who ar 

 the friends to order and the Uhs ; and to aid them t 



