VOL. XV. NO. ir. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL 



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parched, wlien the depositesof the crranaries have 

 been removeH, and the desolated fields yield no 

 surplus, the inquiry rises with startling force what 

 can the piijs do ? It coines home to the pot and 

 plate of every lover of his country. Our lands, 

 our liI)erties,our wives, our children are dear, and 

 pork is dear also, and gr.ows dearer day by day. 

 The subject is one of vast relations. Where would 

 be patriotism without pork? where virtus, where 

 valor, where ancient faith, svhere niodern degen- 

 eracy, without swine ? The soul of honor cannot 

 be sustained without the body of bacon. The 

 lamp of love would burn dim without spareribs. 

 The very face of fashion would grow rough with- 

 out bristles to beautify its smoothness. 



But althuogh the |)rospects of the race have been 

 gloomy as the clouded heavens, that constancy and 

 unconquerable resolution, alluded to by the Presi- 

 dent, have been found still in the pens. Tlie spirit 

 of the Pilgrims' pigs still animated their succes- 

 sors. Beneath the stormy clouds the committee 

 have heard no swine swear, they have seen none 

 elevating their spirits by depressing other spirits, 

 none stooping to smoke long nines or chew pig 

 tail. There has been no unswinish repining at 

 the allotments of Providence. The only boar of 

 the festival was noticed to wipe his eyes with his 

 fore foot instead of a pocket handkerchief, as if in 

 tears: but it was ascertained that he was only 

 brushing away the rain drops. Such firmness in 

 wet and affliction deserves the wish that it may be 

 rewarded by sleeping many a long summer day 

 in all the lu.xury of mud, with the soft green earth 

 beneath, and the l)riglit blue sky above. 



All which is, as much more might be, most re- 

 spectfully submitted. 



WILLIAM LINCOLN, Chairman. 



Rattle Snakes. — The Illinois Spectator states 

 that ''a gentleman of great intelligence, who has 

 recently travelled much in this State, gave us a 

 new remedy for the poison of the rattlesnake. It 

 is the free use of saltpetre internally, as well as to 

 the injured part. He illustrated the value of his 

 rcme<ly by an example. While crossing the ()rai- 

 rie his horse was bitten ; the limb and side soon 

 became very nnich swollen. It was some hours 

 before he arrived at a house, when he commenced 

 bathing the swollen part with a strong solution of 

 saltpetre, and gave it internally. The swelling 

 rapidly disapfieared, and the horse soon recovered. 

 The person who proposed the remedy, said it 

 was a sure cure. While llie saftst practice is no 

 doubt to cut the part bitten, and apply cupping 

 glasses, or what is better, suck the wound with 

 the mouth ; this remedy is well worth remember- 

 ing and trying, especially when it is too late to 

 cut the bitten part, as will be the case after the 

 swelling has commenced. 



The grain crops on the Black Sea, arc, as we 

 learn from Odessa, unusually abundant. Our 

 Russian trade to that quarter, and our commercial 

 treaty with the Porte, combine every opportunity 

 to facilitate the stipplies of grain which may be 

 required in the United States from the failure ol 

 our crops. 



A gentleman of Brooklield, Connecticut, lately 

 shot on the banks of the Still River eight wild 

 geese, at four successive shots, and wounded a 

 ninth. The largest bird killed weighed near forty- 

 five pounds. 



Mammoth Ox.- — The mammoth Ox, Massa- 

 chusetts, raised and owned by Mr Nathan Slade 

 of Somerset, was drove to this p!ac i on Wednes- 

 day last, and exhibited to hundreds of our citizens. 

 He weighs twentynine hundred and two pounds. 

 His dimensions we have not ascertained exactly 

 — but he is supposed by good judges to measure 

 from the nose to the rump not less than eleven 

 feet and from three to six inches. He is finely 

 proportioned every way — is the largest, fattest, 

 and take him all in all, the finest looking ox we 

 have ever seen. 



By referring to Goodrich's Family Encyclope- 

 dia, pid)lished in 1835, where are given the weight 

 and dimensions of many of the largest and heavi- 

 est cattle raised in Europe and America, we find 

 but one, (Columbus) whose weight exceeds that of 

 the Ox, Massachusetts — and that one by sixty 

 pounds only. He is seven years old. 



Jlr Slade ranks among our best and wealthiest 

 farmers. He has obtained several premiums for 

 fat cattle at different times — and the rearing of 

 the present ox, is alike creditable to hiui, to the 

 country and to the Commonwealth. 



The Ox is now on his way to New Bedford, 

 where he will not fail to attract the attention of 

 the lovers of good beef, and the admirers of a no 

 ble looking animal. — Fall River Monitor. 



Fruit Trkes may be removed and transplant- 

 ed after the first of October. Most farmers who 

 transplant fruit trees, suffer a great loss by not 

 doing the work wtll. The principal care needed 

 is, first, to dig the holes large, say six feet across, 

 and fifteen or eighteen inches deep ; secondly, to 

 preserve carefidly, the roots as entire and tuiin- 

 jured as possible, and not to suffer them to become 

 dry out of the ground ; and thirdly, to fill the 

 hole with finely pulverised, rich earth, (not ma- 

 nure) shaking it in in small quantities, and pack- 

 ing it closely but gently about the roots, so as to 

 leave them in their natural position in the soil. — 

 The whole expense of this would not be more 

 than half the price of the tree, and in five years 

 it would be three times the size which it would 

 be if transplanted by the common way of digging 

 small holes and doing the work hastily and im- 

 perfectly. — Gen. Farmer. 



Rochester is undoubtedly the greatest flour 

 manufactory in the world. The Flouring Mills 

 are massive stone edifices, some of them eight 

 stories high and nearly three hundred feet long. 

 There are twentyone mills with ninetysix runs of 

 stone in the city. Twenty thousand bushels of 

 wheat are required daily to keep them in full op- 

 eration. They can manufacture and put up ready 

 for market, five thousand barrels daily. It is es- 

 timated that during the year which terminated 

 with the first of August last, six hundred thou- 

 sand barrels of flour have been sent to market 

 from Rochester, worth about four millions of 

 dollars. 



A " Beet Root " meeting was held in this town 

 last Wednesday, Edward Church, Esq. of this town 

 in the Chair and Col. Edwards of Southampton 

 Secretary. Some preliminary measures were ta- 

 ken for the formation of a Society and a letter 

 from Mr Isnard, the French Consul in Boston, 

 furnishing valuable details, was read. — JVorthamp- 

 ton Courier, 



Munificent Bequest. — The late John Low- 

 ell, Jr., Esq., of Boston, who died a few months 

 ago near Bombay, lefl property to the amount of 

 more than half a million of dollars. We leara, 

 bytlie Boston Gazette, that he has beq leathed one 

 lialf of his property, to trustees to be appropriated 

 to found an Institution in Boston, for the ])urpogc 

 of the delivery of lectures on scientific subjects. 

 With the excejition of one or two [irivate legacies 

 we also learn that he has left the other half of his 

 large fortune to be equally divided between a 

 brother, a brother-in-law and a sister-in-law. 



Copper Mine. — We understand that a copper 

 mine in Bristol, in this county, has recently been 

 opened, which affords some very rich and beauti- 

 ful specimens of Ore, ca|)able of yielding rising of 

 60 per cent of Copper. — Hartford Times. 



Great Yield. — A field of 15 acres of land, 

 belonging to Mr Peter Ackerman of Fishkill, 

 Dutchess Co. New York, produced last season, 

 555 bushels of wheat, being 37 bushels to the acre, 

 which brought $833 15. 



Flowers. — The terrestial stars that bring down 

 heaven to earth, and carry up our thoughts from 

 earth to heaven : the poetry of the Creator, writ- 

 ten in beauty and fragrance. " He who does not 

 love flowers," says Ludwig Tieg, a German wri- 

 ter, " has lost all fear and love of God." Another 

 German author defines woman as something be- 

 tween a flower and an angel. 



Old Oak. — A large oak in the forest of Cerisy 

 known under the name of Puenesse, at a little dis- 

 tance to the right of the great road to St Lo, is 

 supposed, by comparing various data, to be cigh» 

 or nine hundred years old. In 1834 it measured 

 thirtysix feet in cii-cumference, just above the soil, 

 and was about fiftyfive high. The trimk is now 

 hollow, and will hold from fourteen to fifteen per- 

 sons. 



James H. Holyer, of Newtown, L. I., has a 

 hunch of onions containing one hundred, from 

 seed sown this year, weighing 120 lbs — Also, 

 thirty bushels averaging one pound each, the 

 whole raised on the farm of Beuj. Denton, Esq. 

 of the former place. 



Apples are so plenty in New York, that good 

 pippins are selling at thirtyseven cents a bushel in 

 the city, and in the country it is impossible to gath- 

 er them all. 



A great number of vessels have arrived at the 

 different ports in Nova Scotia, both east and west 

 of Halifax, from the Labrador,* all full sharesj of 

 fish, and represent fish to be very plenty on the 

 coast. 



Great Feat. — A Mr Walker of Doncaster, 

 stacked in ten hours, 20 tons of hay. 



Blackwood's Magazine holds forth that bricks 

 are the most durable material for building. — Pro- 

 fessor Silliman will laugh at that idea. 



A bridge four thousand feet long is now erect- 

 ing over the Susquehanna at Harrisburg, by the 

 Cumberland Valley Rail Road Company. It has 

 rough stone piers and a wooden superstructure. 



