VOL. XV. SO. ll. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL 



85 



(From the Baltimore Fnrmer.) 



The article on the recent introduction of the 

 Waterloo Cesarean Evergreen Cabbage, into En- 

 gland, as food for cattle, which will be found in 

 this day's paper, we copy from the September 

 number of the Horticultural Register and Gard- 

 ener's Magazine, an excellent work piililjslied in 

 Boston. 



We have a few hundred cf these plants grow- 

 ing at our little establishment, but as the season 

 has been in luspicious, and they have not had a 

 fair chance for luxuriant growth, we cannot say 

 what may be the result of our expcritrient. We 

 obtained the seed of Robt. Sinclair, Jr. at $5 a 

 pound, those in England are, or were held at $5 

 for 20 seeds. The next season we shall take time 

 by the forelock, and give the article a more fair 

 and perfect trial, if it should prove by projier 

 test to realize a moiety of what has been said of 

 it, it will certainly i)roduce a new era in agricul- 

 tural pursuits; but as the veiuiers of the seed of 

 new things, are not always the most scrupulous in 

 pronouncing their eulogies on their virtues, time 

 and actual cultivation are necessary in order that 

 their capacities may be properly demonstrated. 



In the more southern portions of our country, 

 if this cabbage should prove as valuable as some 

 of its economists have stated it to be, it will, in- 

 deed, be a blessing. But of its properties after 

 we have had titne to form a correct practical opin- 

 ion, we shall speak more fully. 



CoR>. — The cold weather of the past summer 

 and spring, it is known, prevented the growth of 

 the Indian Corn, so njucli as to interfere greatly 

 with the harvest of thai important grain. Aware 

 of the effects of short seasons on summer grains, 

 Mr E. J. Pierce, who has a delightful farm near 

 Germantown, procured a quantity of seed corn 

 from the norlherii part of New Hampshire, where 

 the summers are about the shortest of any part of 

 our country. 'Ibis corn was planted on the first 

 day of June, and on the first day of September, 

 that is, on 'I'hursday last, it was harvested. We 

 have now before us two ears from Mr P.'s field ; 

 they are full of large grains ; and we understand 

 that the eight acres planted by Mr P. with this 

 seed will produce nearly 400 bushels. Does it 

 not concern our farmers, generally, to provide 

 themselves with a quantity of such seed, in order 

 that they may be prepared against the effects of 

 such a summer as the past upon their corn-fields ? 

 — U.S. Gaz. 



JVole by the editor of the Baltimore Farmer. — 

 We procured Northern corn for our planting. The 

 first p.Ttch, about two acres, we planted on the 

 14th May; it came up just before the cold and 

 longcontiimed rain which commenced on the 24th 

 of that month, and did not terminate for several 

 weeks ; it has been subsequently subjected to al- 

 ternations of scorching droughts and rains, and 

 preserved, through all the disadvantages of the 

 season, a healthful app;^arance. On the 20th of 

 August, eight cattle broke in upon it and consum- 

 ed and broke oft' a large number of the ears. — 

 Those which were broken off on exajiiination we 

 found to be perfectly matured. 



A FLOATING Faf.m Yaiid. — The following 

 sketch of a family floating down the Ohio, on a 

 raft, is at once highly graphic and characteristic 

 of our inland emigration : 



" To-day we have passed two large rafts, lashed 



together, by which sim])le conveyance several 

 families from New England were transporting 

 themselves and their property to the land of pronj- 

 ise in the western woods. Each raft was 80 or 

 90 feet long, with a small house erected on it, and 

 on each was a stack of hay, round which several 

 horses and cows were feeding, while the [laraph- 

 ernalia of a farm yard, the ploughs, wagons, pigs, 

 children and poultry, carelessly distributed, gave 

 to the whole more tie appearance of a permanent 

 residence, than of a caravan of adventures seek- 

 ing a home. A respectable looking old lady, with 

 spectacles on her nose, was seated on a chair at 

 the door of c-ne of the cabins, employed in knit- 

 ling ; nnother female was at the washtiib, the men 

 were chewing their tobacco with as naich compla- 

 cency as if they had been in the land of steady 

 habits ; and the various avocations seemed to go 

 on with the steadiness of clock work. In this 

 tnanner our western emigrants travel at slight ex- 

 pense. They carry with them their own provi- 

 sions; their raft floats with the current ; and hon- 

 est Jonathan, surroimded with his scolding, squal- 

 ling, grunting, lowing and neighing dependants, 

 floats to the point proposed, without leaving his 

 own fireside; and on his arrival there, may go on 

 shore with his hou.sehold and commence business 

 with as little ceremony as a grave personage, who 

 on his marriage with a rich widow, said that he 

 had " nothing to do but walk in and hang up his 

 hat." 



TJsEFDi. Invention. — The London Literary 

 Gazette publishes an account of a pressing ma- 

 chine for Peat, which must be of vast utility to 

 Ireland and part of Scotland where this article is 

 had in great abundance. It states that the ma- 

 chine was invented by Lord Willoughby de Eres- 

 by, and it compresses the Peat into a mass which 

 renders it equal to all the purposes for which 

 Coal is used. For a long time attem[)ts have been 

 made to eflfect this desired object, and Lord Wil- 

 loughby has, at last, overcome every obstacle, and 

 by a very simple machine can convert the Peat 

 rapidly into a combustible fit for till the uses of 

 Coal, and, in some cases, being devoid of sul|)hur, 

 superior to that valuable substance. The Peat is 

 cut and pressed into a chamber, upon which a 

 powerful weight is made to descend. The mois- 

 ture, squeezed out, runs through vertical grooves, 

 and is carried oflF, whilst every time the incumbent 

 weight descends, knives pass through these grooves 

 and keep them clean for the next operation. At 

 the bottom of the chamber a slide is withdrawn, 

 and the solid peat is precipitated to any conve- 

 nient receptacle. Being dried for a very short 

 [)eriod, it welds iron, and is fit for all that coal 

 furnaces can do. Penknives have been manufac- 

 tured in this way, and the success of the experi- 

 ment demonstrated to be complete. Great nation- 

 al results are anticipated from the improvement: 

 the prosperity of Ireland and the amelioration of 

 the north of Scotland are its ready and obvious 

 consequences. 



The field of Waterloo is now converted into a 

 large manufactory of sugar from the beet root, 

 several Belgian capitalists having established 

 works on the spot. The soil in that neighbor- 

 hood is said to be excellent. It has been well 

 manured with human gore, and must produce no 

 other than the blood beet. 



Pricf. of Bread Stdffs. — We would not 

 needlessly interrupt the enjoyment of those who 

 look forward to the next winter as a time of gen- 

 eral starvation. But lest their dreams should be 

 too suddenly broken, we must call their attention 

 to the facts contained in the last news from Eu- 

 rope respecting the prices of breadstuffs there. — 

 We happen to know of an operation at Liverpool 

 by which fifty thousand bushels of wheat are to 

 be immediately forwarded to this coimtry, iind by 

 the prices which are published, there is little doubt 

 that much larger supplies will be soon forthcom- 

 ing ; for the long continuance of high prices, the 

 successful issue of the recent importations, and 

 the fact, well ascertained that our doiriestic sup- 

 plies are inadequate to our wants, will give nev» 

 confidence in future operations. Let us see at 

 what prices we can be supplied. 



In Paris the price of bread is about 2 cents, 

 and in London 3 cents per lb. We found a shil- 

 ling loaf in New York yesterday to weigh 2 lbs. 

 3 oz., which is near 6 cents per lb. The price of 

 wheat in Paris is 112 cents a bushel, and the price 

 of flour $5 a barrel. In London flour is $8 a 

 barrel. In the ports of the Mediterranean and of 

 the Baltic, bread stufis are much cheaper than 

 in either London or Paris. The price of good 

 wheat at Naples is 2s lOd sterfing a bushel,^or 67 

 cents. From any one of these places freight 

 might be obtained at 38 cents per barrel' on flour, 

 and 12 1-2 cents per bushel on wheat, or about 

 half the rate charged on transportation of the 

 same articles from Rochester, and one fourth o' 

 what is charged from Ohio. Fifty thousand 

 bushels of corn have lately been received here 

 from O'liio by one house, at a freight of 49 cents. 

 The duty on flour is one dollar a biirrel, and on 

 wheat 25 cents a bushel. Wheat, therefore, can 

 be imported from Naples and laid down in New 

 York at 125 to 135 cents a bushel, ail charges 

 paid, and from a hundred other places at the same 

 or n less price. Corn and rye are not burdened 

 with a duty, and may be imported to great advan- 

 tage. The countries of Europe and Asia afford 

 stores of biead stuffs almost inexhaustible, so 

 that the supplies for this country, if they should 

 run to the liighest possible quantity, could only 

 afiect prices in a very slight degree. Free trade 

 will supply all our wants, and the cost, with a lib- 

 eral mercantile ])rofit, will not carry prices above 

 150 cents for wheat, 100 cents for rye and Indian 

 corn, 50 cents for oats per bushel, and $7 50 for 

 flour per barrel. So let the desponding cheer up 

 for no one who is industrious and frugal need 

 starve in 1836 or 1837. — Journal of Commerce. 



Cold Weather On the 5th, 6th and 7th of 



Sei)tember were smart frosts, and fires in our 

 dwellings were very comfortable. A gentleman 

 from Europe s.tys the summer has been remark- 

 able for cold weather. Another gentleman from 

 China says that snow fell last winter in Canton 

 two inches deep, to the amazement of the Chi- 

 nese, having never before been known or seen in 

 Canton — they thought that the spheres were 

 wheeling about. 



Intelligence from the westward confirms the 

 reports of an unfavorable season and of short 

 crops. Even in our own fertile valley the crops 

 look sorry. However unfavorable appearances 

 may be respecting the crops, circumstances may 

 yet falsify all these predictions, and give the far- 

 mer a plentiful harvest. 



