Vol. 6.— No. 41. 



:Tood and evil. It >vill therefore, not be amiss to 

 jay something about Me art of making bad butter. 

 Altliough this is generally known, and almost uni 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



From tlie Nalional Lilclligcnccr. 

 DYSPEPSIA. 

 Messrs. Gales Sf Seaton, — Seven 



years ago a 



versally practised, still I know some who are yet ' case of this afflicting disease occurred, under the 

 unacquainted with it ; and it is to put them on j immediate notice of your correspondent, which 

 their guard, as well as to reform others that I j was completely cured in two months by the most 

 make this comiiuinication. , simple and efficacious of all remedies, abstinence. 



In the first place, then, after your churn, and ' It had been brought on by great heedlessness in 

 other vessels, have been used in making butter, living, excessive smoking, irregular hours, inac 

 be sure not to scald them, for hot water will (ie- tivity, and a free but not very inordinate*' use of 



32.^ 



mastication, because the misery and torment at- 

 tending upon indigestion, arc wholly inconceiv 

 able to all who have escaped it. 



Philanthropos. 



From Wilson's Economy of the Kitchen Garden, &,c. 

 LIMA BEAN. 



The Lima Bean, whose excellence, both in point 

 of quality and productiveness, may be considered 

 as almost, if not altogether, without a rival in the 

 prive them of the oily substance that will adhere the bottle. The subject was tbrty-threc years old, T®^®'^'''^ ^^°'''''- Tbe pods are never used. The 

 to them, and soon acquire a strong, rancid flavor and of excellent constitution ; unconscious of the i ^'^^" "^i and cooked like green 



and taste, which will impregnate every succeed- approach or presence of dyspepsia until it became i P**^' ^^'^^®'' "P '■° '^'''® ^^'^'' (^""awn butter — and 

 ing batch, in the same manner that leaven does confirmed, and in all likelihood incurable. Heap- 1 y'®!''' ^'together, a deliciousness of repast, of 

 in the making of bread. Secondly, keep collect- plied to a friend one of the most eminent physi ^'''''<^'^ 'hose wlio have never tasted, can form no 

 ing your cream into one vessel, day after day, un- cians in Washington, who gave him little hope ' ''''^*' T'"^y are very e.xtensively cultivated ; and 

 til it has made some progress in putrefaction, then of an entire cure, at his time of life, but suggest- j "° '".*"' ^!^^' cultivates any thing, need be at any 

 churn it, and the business is done. You may ed the following plan of regimen, as the only j '°^^ '"'"'"*'"& "'^^''' '^o'' 'heir produce is the most 

 work it, and season it, as you please, afterwards, probable means of procuring any degree of relief, j '^"'"*'" ""^ ''" ^'^^^'''''les here. They ^are rather 

 but Its constitution is unalterable. The principal viz ; to abstain from the use of cigars, from stimu- ""^ '"°®' productive in a strong, rich soil ; but they 

 quality of which will be a tendency soon to be- lants of all kinds, to keep regular hours, and to | succeed well in all soils, if well laboured and ma- 

 come unfit for any use whatever, in any article of keep crackers constantly at hand, of which to oat ""^^ 

 food. When butter is thus made, it will be often half a oneevery half hour,masticatingitthorough- 

 beaittijltd with a variety of colours, and possess a ly in order to produce as great a discharge as 

 rapidly increasing rancidity, which may be agree- possible from the salival glands, for the purpose 

 able enoujrh to those who have been brought up of qualifying the gastric juices of the stomach to 

 with it from their infancy, btit insufierable to oth- promote digestion, and to allay the raging hunger 

 ers. And the buttermilk, thus made, is very prop- at meal times, which is an invariable symptom, 

 erly condemned as fit only for ho^s. No wonder, ; and which may be almost denominated both the 

 then, thit buttermilk is abhorred in those parts of cause and the effect of this most unhappy of all 

 our country where such is the method of making maladies. 



it, and no other is known. | The Doctor represented the stomach as being 



(To be concluded in our next.) \ of the nature of gum elastic, or India rubber, which 



having lost its elasticity, dyspepsia ensues; and 



The mode of preparing the ground for their re- 

 ception, and the manner of planting, is the same 

 as for the other kinds, except that the hills for 

 this kind, especially in very rich ground, should 

 be four feet apart, every way ; and, except m 

 very dry, warm situations, they need not be plant- 

 ed earlier than the middle of May. The seed, if 

 planted early, is sometimes liable to rot, and that 

 is the only accident I have ever seen the plant 

 subject to ; hut it is easily remedied, by planting 

 over again — and, whenever the plants get fairly 

 above ground, there is no doubt of their future 

 success. 



Those planted about the eighth of May begin 

 to produce abundance of beans, fit for table, by 

 the first of August, and continue one uninterrupt- 

 ed succession, from the same plants, during the 

 three following months, or until the commence- 

 ment of pretty siuirp frosts, which, in some sea- 

 sons, overcome them in October ; but I have fre- 

 (juently seen them continue bearing for a week or 

 two in November. 



Sheep Dogs of Brazil. — For the purpose of shep- that, by keeping this organ constantly, yet gently 

 herding a flock of one thousand, two cur-dogs are distended by so salutary an aliment as the crack- 

 sufficient, bred up in the following mode: — As ers form, together with the saliva from the glands 

 .soon as they are whelped, the lambs of a ewe arc of the mouth, occasioned by patient mastication, 

 billed, the puppies are put to her, and she suckles it slowly recovers its action, its elasticity, and its 

 them until she becomes habituated to treat them power to perform the office intended by its place 

 as her young, when upon opening their eyes aud in the system. His patient carefully and steadily 

 seeing no other benefactor, they attach them- observed his directions, got good sleep in the 

 Eelves to her, and play with the lambs as if they course of a fortnight, which ho has enjoyed ever 

 were of the same species. Nothing is ever given since, (bein^ now about fifty years of age)except- 

 them to eat ; they are shut in the fold with the ing v/hen other causes operated to prevent it ; 

 sheep, on obtaining strer.gth and vigor to attend took to eating his meals regularly, but moderate- 

 the flock, they are suffered to go at large, when ly ; in the course of two months, resumed his hab- 

 they accompany it to the field. In a little time, it of smoking, and the use of stimulating drinks in 

 and without more instruction they are so familiar- some degree, has enjoyed good hfialth ever since. , , ,, 



ized with the sheen that they never separate from and is growing more fleshy than he ever was be- I '^""''' '°"'^ '"^^'- '^P'^'''- ^"'^ ^" '°=h in depth. Tiie 

 them. When it happens that a ewe lambs in the fore. It should bo remarked, that there can be c<> j ^^'V'JI'yj''^^".^ '',7^ '/." ^^^^^ ^^^""^11 ^^" '?" 

 field, and the l-imb cannot accompany the mother, dimger of exhausting the saliva from the glands, 

 in consequence of its not yet having sufficient for such has been the wise provision of nature, 

 strength to follow her, one ot the dogs v.fatches that the whole body is tributary to tlie reproduc- 

 near, and if he finds that the lamb cannot follow tion of this most salutary and indispensable agent 

 the mother to the flock, he carries it in his mouth, '■ of digestion ; and it is most probable that the ex- 

 wilhout doing it the least harm. No other ani- i ercise of the secretory vessels by which it is con- 

 nial or unknown person can approach the sheep | veyed, may assist in promoting the health of the 

 of which these dogs are the guardians, without I whole system. 



the risk of being attacked. The other domestic I will lake the liberty, here, to relate an ancc- 

 dogs and the chiiiiaroe dogs, are the greatest en- dote which I remember to have read in an old „. , . , m, • , , 



• ... a , • , .u „ 1 .• 1 .J »• r r k k 1 A ui Crir/un cucumber. — 1 his plant produces a small 



omies to the flock ; against them, and tno birds of Lngliih book, a good while ago. „ . , , . ,. , , , , / , • 



, ■ , • , . r. r .L 1 u .• -ni , ■ .u . .1- _•!.• ,1 fruit, about the size ot a blacK walnut, and is used 



nrev, whicli pick out the eyes of the lambs, tne The custom in that country ot permitting the , „ . ,, ^ ,. , . ■ 



'• -'i i-., .. 1. J ■ ■ •> tr J n 1. . 1 • . ■ . • II onlv for pickles, tor which purpose It 13 very much 



vigilance ot the watch-dogs i£ requisite. — Wenacr- faculty to make experiments upon convicts is well ; - ! , , • :, , 



1 tj- J /• o -I I T K- . r .1 1- 1 u ■,. ; esteemed. Its culture is the same as other cu- 



■lons Histoni of Brazil. known. 1 wo subiects of the kind were submit 1 , , . , ,, i , , i- ■ , 



. J . ., ^ ,, f o, - . i- , ,^, I cumbers; but it should be planted, even for pick- 

 : ted to the College or Physicians, ot age, health ,. . -, •. , , j ,, -^ , , 



P..,^„,.»,-„„ „/• ™,.ii„„ <„<!..,/,•,.-..„.•„).»„/• „!. ! L u-. I 'i ui 1 .1 linrr, in May, as It seldom produces well, if planted 



roportion oj mutton to me live weight oj sheep.] ami hah\ts, as nearly equdii as possible, and they = i th f n 



—Vancouver states that the sheep-graziers in | gave to the one bread, soaked in water, as his "^ ''^^'^ "'^ "'^ "'"^''^ ^'° picLles. 



Devonshire ascertain the proportion of mutton only food ; to the other the same quantity of hard Early Fiuil. An Apricot, measuring three 



from the live weight of the sheep by multiplying | bread and water, requiring him to take them se-| inches and one quarter in circumference, which 



the live weight by five and dividing by nine parately ; the latter preserved good health : the grew in an open garden in this city, was exhibited 



Should the sheep be very fat divide by eight. In other pined and died in a few months. Inst evening at the meeting of the Horticultural 



general 8J may bo about the mark. 1 I give this anecdote to show the great use of! Society. — M Y. Ev. Post. 



Okra. — The green pods of this plant are very 

 valuable ingredients in soup, and it succeeds here 

 remarkably well. The seed should be sown on a 

 piece of good ground, about the first of Alay, in 



ches' distance in the drill ; and, when the plants 

 are well up, thin them out so as to leave only 

 one plant to stand at that distance. The ground 

 should be frequently well hoed ; and as the plants 

 advance, the earth should be brought up around 

 the bottom of their stems, to a height of five or 

 six inches. The ripe seeds of this plant are fre- 

 quently used as a substitute for coffee, and are 

 said to be very good for that purpose. 



