Vol. ().— No. 10 



NEW ENGLAND FAllMEU. 



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very degree of the evil I advert to — "Have a j pingfcr, iind lii.s field sliows nolhiiig but a sorry on ; and then we niiist add from 5 to 10,000,000 



crop of sorrel. po\inds, t!iat i.s e.xpooted froin the young state ol 



I don't claim to have made any new discovery Ohio (by tlio way of tlio western canal,) more than 



il;vco for every thin", and keep every thing in its 

 ihi.cc." In the language of a venerated roan, now 

 ,'.>iic to a better world — 



Let order o'er jour time preside, 

 And method all your Ijusiness guide. 

 One thing at once, be still begun, 

 Contrived, resolv'd. pursued and done ; 

 \\-'or till to-mon-o\v'.< light delay, 

 What might as «ell bo done to-day. 

 iNeat he your barns ; vour houses neat j 

 Your doors be clean; your courl-yards su eel : 

 Neat be your barns; 'tis long confess'd, 

 The neal'cst farmers are (lie best. 



From the Worcester Yeoman. 



PLASTER OF PARIS. 



Mr. EorroR,— Having finished my hay harvest, 

 ;ii)d allowed myself some little respite from the 

 loll and fatigues of a long season and plentiful 



in the present instance, because others, to m; 

 knov/lodge, liavo made the o.\pcrinient with equal 

 success ; but it is a fact of no small itnportance to 

 the agricultural interest ; and while I .urn com- 

 forting myself with having, by the process above 

 described, converted a barren cow-pasture, which 

 produced little else than mouse-oar, pennyroyal 

 and hard-hacU, into a productive mowing lot, I am 

 desirous that the fact should be more generallv 

 known. A FARMER. ' 



irorccster, .Ivgust, 1827. 



ever camo to our markets before. Hence it is 

 obvious that the ]>ci)ple of this country must par- 

 sue a now course of " political economy" and give 

 sufiicicnt encouragement to the growers and man- 

 ufacturers of wool to enable us to supply ourselves 

 with our own woollens — and not mortgage to Eng- 

 land our lands for this necessary and important 

 article wliich can be manufactured and the raw 

 material raised here of as good quality and as 

 ciieap in a short time as in any country. 



The Governments of Europe exclude the im- 

 portation of every article of produce that they can 

 any way furnish within tliemselves ; and the time 

 has arrived when tlii.^ country must furnish with- 

 in itself cv(!ry necessary in her power, or the 



INTERESTING TABLE. 

 Mr Editor. — The following is taken from a late 



published a table of the deaths in each year j English paper, with the exception of the prices 



They estimate the average number of white in- ! i" some of the American markets, which I have- 

 habitants to have been 5000. The number of | added and are believed to be correct. The state- 

 deaths of whites in the last ten years, as shown ment is furtlier altered by being adapted to our 



CULTURE OP RICE. 

 A committee of the Savannah City Council, call 

 i the committee of Dry Culture, has made a re 

 crop"'l"am"induced to give" you the result of an I port to show the beneficial effects on the healtli j country is rwneil.—Litdi/Kld Couniy Post. 

 o.-cpe'riment, made with Plaster of Paris, on a field of the city from the prohibition of the culture of' 

 ofclovev. 'But peradventure some previous ac- Rice, To show the improved state of the health 

 .umt of the "ground plat" may be necessary. ! of the city within the last ten years, they hav. 

 The lot contains about four acres, of deep soil, 

 v.hat would generally be termed a dark mould 

 1 loam, is situate on the northwestern portion of 

 i considerable hill, reaching from the summit, 

 where the fences cut each other at right angles, 

 to tlie base, and much resembles the form of an 

 open fan. This lot, until I'jSS, had not been 

 ploughed for more than thirty years — for its for- 

 iiicr owners had considered it too steep for culti- 

 vation, its medium rise being about five degrees ; 

 Imt this was my next lot in course, ttnd in June of 

 that year I made my first e.xporiment with Wood's 

 jiatont plough, to " break up" this side-hill pas- 

 ture, for a crop of rye. In September following, 



the rye was sown. Itr 18-34, after reaping a toler- p,,^^, „j 30,000 Hottentots. The British set- 

 able crop of rye, and drawing rocks sulhc lent from I ., '.,,',,. . . , ., 



the field to make a wall the whole length of the 



by the table, is 3,484. The number of deaths in 

 1817, was equal to I in 11 of the whole white 

 population. In 1819, 1 in 10, and in 1830, 1 in &. 

 For the three last years the mortality has been 

 much less, viz. 1 in o4, 1 in 40, and 1 in »!1. 



CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 

 This important British (formerly Dutch) Colony, 

 in Africa is becoming populous and powerful, and 

 may in time form an independent state. The pop- 

 ulation consists of 90,000 whites, (British and 



measure and currency. PIKE. 



Prices of Wheat per pnshcl of GO lbs. in vari 

 0U3 parts of the world, in May and June, 1827: 

 AMERICA. 

 ?Jorfolk, Va. May. — $1 16 cents. 



New-York, June, 20, 90 



Montreal, Ca. June, 90 



Cincinnati, Ohio, June, 50 



Pittsburgh, Penn. June, 44 



NORTH OF EUROPE. 

 Jjondon, June, 20, — .$1, 79 cents 



j tiers raise barley, Indian corn, potatoes, and othe 



, . ,, . ,,, ,1- , I vegetables, and possess large herds of cattle. — 



south line. I tnrned in the stubble, taking care to ! „° ,-,,,<. ' n , 5 r ii n, u . 



soul,!! iiiic:, 1 ^•""v. a I The Dutch farmers, called Boors, follow the beat- 



Tun the furrows, horizontallv, to prevent Its wash- , , <• ,i • . i ,u- u » 



ru.i iiic iuii""=i 'J . 1 en track of their ancestors, and care nothing about 



I planted it with corn the next season, using 



from ten to twelve cart-loads of manure, from the 

 barn-yard and hog-pen to the acre, put in the liill. 

 The 6orn yielded butindifferently, but about twen- 

 ty bushels to the acre. In April, ISail, the ground 

 was prepared and sown with oats, which were 

 ploughed in: after which the grass-seed, viz. one 

 peck of herds-grass and four lbs. clover-seed to 

 the acre, was sown upon the furrows, in two di- 

 rections of the field, crossing each other in order 

 to lay the seed even, and then harrowed down 

 witha heavy bush-harrow. About one bushel to 

 the acre of plaster was then cast over the field, 

 and left until harvest, when a most plentiful crop 

 of oats was gathered, and the young clover, not- 

 withstanding the extreme drought which prevail- 

 ed, appeared on most of the fields in luxurious 

 abundance. Last spring, while most people were 

 ploughing up, or pasturing the grounds they had 

 stocked down the year before, this clover present- 

 ed a beautiful prospect, and in July reali'cd to me 

 as large a crop as is ever desirable — having a 

 small intermixture of herds-grass, say about one 

 tenth part. That the plaster was the principal 

 agent in producing this crop, I am morally cer- 

 tain, from several reasons. There were narrow 

 strips, several rods in length, where the plaster 

 did not strike, that bore no grass at all. My 

 aeighbour had cultivated a field adjoining this on 

 the south, with the same succession of crops, and 

 managed in a similar manner, saving the use of 



the culture of the mind. They are seated on 

 large tracts of land, frequently of 4, 5, or 6000 

 acres each, and some of them possess 10,000 sheep 

 and goats, and 1200 or l.'iOO head of cattle. — 

 Many of them are destitute of huts, and live en- 

 tirely in wagons ; they are unpolished and rude, 

 but kind and hospitable. — Hampshire Ga:. 



PAWTUXET FAIR. 



On Wednesday and Thursday the .3d and 4th of 

 October, the annual Fair of the Rhode Island So- 

 ciety for the Encouragement of Domestic Indus- 

 try will be holden at Pawtu.xet. The premiums 

 offered for the best productions in agricultural 

 and manufacturing industry are numerous and 

 >well allotted, and we hope the competitors for 

 them will be on the spot betimes and will be both 

 numerous and zealous. It has not yet been an- 

 nounced who is to be the orator on this occasion. 

 Prov. Journal. 



CHEESE AND WOOL. 

 It is a fact that notwithstanding the unparallel- 

 ed drowth of the last season there was not much 

 less than .500,000 lbs. too much Cheese made for 

 the consumption of our market. If that was the 

 case last season, I ask, how will it turn out this 

 season ? Many who kept sheep last year now 

 keep cows, and those engaged in making cheese 

 last year, have increased their dairy in conse- 

 quence of the high price cheese brought last seas- 



Antwerp, May 30, 

 Hamburg, May 25, 

 Bremen, May 25, 

 Dan'zic, May 25, 

 Stettin, June 15, 

 Copenhagen, May 31, 



SOUTH OF EUROPE. 

 Nice, June 15, $1, 31 cents. 



Milan, May 31, I 27 



Santander, Spain, May, I 26 



Fiance, June30, I 17 



Genoa, May 26, 1 05 



Leghorn, May 31, 1 03 



Civita Vccchia Jlay 31, 90 



Naples, May, 31, 88 



Trieste, June 15, ^ 83—— 



Odessa on the Black 



Sea, May, 49 — — 



[N. Y. Nat. Adv.] 



CURE FOR THE EPILEPSY. 

 Lately, a woman passing through the streets of 

 Glasgow, was suddenly attacked with a fit of epi- 

 lepsy. Among the persons attracted to the spot, 

 was a young sailor, who, on seeing the woman, 

 called out for some grains of coarse salt, which he 

 forced into her mouth. This immediately had th& 

 effect of restoring the woman's sensation and 

 speech, and her convulsion was at once put a stop 

 to. The young man, who had been at Madagas- 

 car and other foreign places, says he has seen thi* 

 remedy applied in epilepsy with great success. 



Four hundred and fifty excellent Bass, weigh- 

 ing 2700 lbs. were lately caught at one draught; 

 at a fishery near Saco 



