VOL. Y\. KO. 4 8. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL 



381 



The Cotton Plant was at first fultivateil as a 

 flower in our jjardens, anil a htanlifnl flower it is. 

 Tliis plant alone lias nia<k' a revolution in the fi- 

 nances of the world. Look at the <;rowlli and 

 consornptioM of it in the United States, and the 

 immense nianufactnre of it in Englanil, where it 

 cannot he grown, and you will find my assertion 

 true in the most extended sense. 



Until our |iurcliLse of Louisiana, this rnuntry 

 was indehted to the East and West Indies for su- 

 gar. Ill our country — the thirteen United States 



sugar and molasses were made in small quan- 



tsties, from corn stalks, sweet apples, pumpkins, 

 and maple trees : hut all imt together, furnished 

 but a small part of the sugar demanded hy the 

 great mass of the people. Our people are fond of 

 sacehariiie, or sweetening, to use our peculiar 

 term for it. 



The vcin stalk, the piimkin, and the sweet ap- 

 ple, arc given ui) for sugar and molasses — and 

 the mapfe tree is falling hefore the axe, and we 

 must rely on the sugar cane alone, unless we can 

 suhstitule, as in Framie, the sugar heet. The cul- 

 ture of the sugar bei-t has heen commenced with 

 us, and prohahly will be successful. 



At Philadelpiiia, the gardeners raised but one 

 kind for the market, called the nutmeg, by which 

 they avoid mixing varieties ; and there you are 

 always sure of having good cantaloupes, though 

 their c;imate i.s not so favorable as ours. Last 

 season not one in four was good here, and I ahaii- 

 doiied the purchase of that kind of fruit. Perhaps 

 there is no fruit superior to a fine cantaloupe, of 

 the nutmeg or citriui species, raised on a rich san- 

 dy soil, distant from all others of the melon, s(piash, 

 cucumber or goiiKl kind, as they will mix if plant- 

 ed near any of the above varieties, and the fruit 

 will be ruined. 



If our gardeners will pay proper attention to 

 the above hints, they will find it much more to 

 their advantage, mid improve the character of our 

 fruit majket, which it needs much. 



Landreth's seeds (usually sold by Mr Murray) 

 may be relied on as genuine. L. 



— Cincinnati Gaz.] _ 



Appmcatio.n of Galvahism to Poisoned 

 VVocNDs. — In Germany, a variety of experiments 

 have been made, proving the successful applica- 

 tion of Galvanism, in place of caustics to poison- 

 ed wounds. We shall mention some of them. 



1. A dog had lately been bitten by a mad one 

 in the chest, causing a wound of two inches. 

 After a lapse of twenlyfour hours, the wound hav- 

 ing been dried up, it was for hall an hour expos- 

 etl to the influence of a galvanic battery of forty 

 .small plates. This application seemed to cause 

 c(Hisideiable pain, and produced the discharge of 

 some blood from the wound ; suhseipiently a thick 

 crust formed upon it, which lell oft' on the elev- 

 enth day ; and on the sixteenth day th-; wound 

 was completely healed, and the dog remained 

 well. 



2. The poisonous saliva of the dog which had 

 inflicted the wound, was inoculated in both legs 

 of another dog. After the lapse of (iftyfour hours, 

 galvanism was applied to the wound caused hy 

 the inoculation; the crust formed over it, and fell 

 oflToii the eighih day ; on the twelfth day it per- 

 fectly healed, ami the dog kept wtdl. 



3. Another dog inoculated with the same sali- 

 va as the last, was left to his fate, and died within 

 ten days, of hydrophobia. From these and simi- 

 lar experiments, Dr Peva/. draws the following 

 results : 



1. Uecause he was successful after eii interval 

 of fifty four hours, i)liysicians have sufficient time, 

 in case of accident, to procure a galvanic bat- 

 tery. 



2. As the galvanic fluid operated also at some 

 distance, he advises its application also to deep 

 wounds with fistulas, notwithstanding the appli- 

 cation of caustics. 



3. That, by its peculiar nature, Galvanism af- 

 fords the advantage of destroying the poison at 

 some distance even, and that it greatly counter- 

 acts absoi ption hy causing a counteraction of the 

 capillary vessels. — Macon (Cfeo.) Tel. 



Black Fly. — Sow a bushel of dry ashes to the 

 acre on your turnip field, ns well as all other veg- 

 etables of the same class, while the dew is on (or 

 are moist) when they are two or three ilays old, 

 and it will |«reserve them against the small black 

 fly ; should there come rain to wash it ofl" imme- 

 diately, repeat it, the ashes a!so is highly benefi- 

 cial to promote the growtli of the young plant. — 

 Oftentimes the black fly will take; every vestige 

 from the fields, and lead a jierson, who did not 

 see his field during the first few days, to believe 

 the field had, and attribute the evil to that cause. 

 Many farmers are well acquainted with the above 

 facts, hut they aie not generally known — and this 

 may l)e of sei-vice. A N. '"'. Farmer. 



— A". }'. Farmer.] 



four years of age, is already highly dislinguishcd 

 (or his experiments in chemistry, and his works 

 in polite literature. — Eng. pa. 



The Crops — The Chilicothe (Ohio) Gazette, 

 of the 18th ult. says : " We are assured by intel- 

 ligent lartiiers, that the wheat fields promise fully 

 an average ciop throughout tliwse sections, vvliere 

 tins great staple is chiefly cullivalcd, in Koss and 

 the adjoining counties. 'I'he season has been un- 

 usually cold and <liy, hut for several days we have 

 heen fiivored witli refreshing showers. 



The Chamhersburg (Pa.) Repository of yester- 

 day mentions, that within a week or two, a great 

 improvement is s^id to be visible in the grain in 

 that neighborhood. The reports from Pennsyl. 

 vania are indeed, generally favorable in reference 

 to the growing crops. At this moment, the pre- 

 vailing opinion we believe to he, that there will 

 he at least, a full average crop in that state. The 

 Hccounls from the Eastern shore ol Maryland as 

 to tlie growing wheat crops, are also favoiable." 



Flour at Pittsburg. — The Pittsburg Bulletin 

 of Thursday last, says : 



'* Our warehouses still continue to he supplied 

 to overflowing with fresh arrivals of flour, iles- 

 tiued for tliu East, principally from the connti-y 

 bordering on the Ohio. We observeil yesterday 

 about two tliousanil barrels stored in one of the 

 warehouses, at the canal depot, and whilst re- 

 flecting upon how long are these times to last, 

 we were disturbed in our irieditation by the an- 

 nouncement that two himdre<I and ten barrels of 

 flour had just arrived per steaudioat \S'ellsville, 

 all intended for speculation in the East." 



The season thus far has heen of a most favcra- 

 hle character for the crops. Neither fruit nor 

 grain hiive as yet suffered in the least, either from 

 drought or frost. Our farmers are quite sanguine 

 in their antici|iations, and unless the future should 

 prove unfavorable, they will be mnre than real- 

 ized. — Wheeling Gaz. 



Wool. — Many of the wool growers in this part 

 of New Hampshire and Vermont have their last 

 year's stock on hand, hoping to realize much fiigli- 

 er prices than tliose it woidd then command. A 

 large quantity of sufierior quality is kept in this 

 way. Some mixed lots have been sold thiss|)ring 

 to supply the demands of manufacturers in this 

 section, for 62 cents ; but the pi-nwers generally 

 prefer holding ©n: tb the best, to disposing of it at 

 reduced prices. The new clip is coming in soon, 

 awd it certainly will be remarkable if, in the pres- 

 ent state of things — the stoppage and suspension 

 of many manufacturing establishments — the dilfi- 

 ciilly of realizing any thing ii[ion their goods, 

 which lie i<lle at home or in the hands of their 

 facte rs — this great Northern staple should not ex- 

 perience a decline. — A*. H. Eagle. 



Tke Melon This is the season for planting 



the melon. Our market last year was very badly 

 BUjjplied with the better kinds of cantaloupe. 



Important Process. — A new process has been 

 discovered at Strasburg, hy means of wliich chrys- 

 talized sugar is produceil in twelve hours from 

 beet root, and which does not require any further 

 refining. The invention is the more curious, as 

 neither any acids or chemical agency is employed 

 in this remarkable operation, and the use of ani- 

 mal blood is entirely dispensed with. It has also 

 the advantage of saving 25 per cent, in the con- 

 sumption of fuel. The new process 1S applicable 

 in all the j)resent mauufiictories of sugar, with the 

 excejilion of those upon the prlnci|ile of dessica- 

 tion of the heet root. The invenlor is Mr Ed- 

 ward Stolie, who, though not morj than twenty- 



Valuablb Invention. — It is reniarable that an 

 invention far more valuable to all who travel up- 

 on the seas, lakes, and rivers of this great com- 

 mercial country, and more important, on the score 

 of humanity, than any other devised hy human 

 ingfinuity, should remain in cfmparative oblivion 

 and neglect. We allude to that beaiitifid prepar- 

 ation of pulverized cork, for seamen's and passen- 

 gers' inattrasses and beds. Will it be believed 

 that a inattrass made of this material, weighir.g 

 only tweiilyfive j oiinds, cannot be sunk by the 

 weight of seven men ? and that one or two per- 

 sons friight float on it in the midst of the ocean, 

 with as great security from drowning, as if he 

 were on board a ship? Yet such is a fact, as 

 demonstrated by experiment. The beds, cush- 

 ions, &c., made of this |ireparaliou of coik, are 

 more elastic, soft and comfortable than those of 

 the best hair, and have the superior advantage of 

 never becoming matted. Every ship and steam- 

 boat should iuuiiediately substitute them for all 

 others, and every passenger going to sea should 

 purchase one. — JVeio Era. 



Importation of Wheat. — The New York 

 Transcript states that the importation of Wheat 

 into that city from various countries of f^urope, 

 during the last year and a half, amounts to 1,369,- 

 3O0 bushels. Of this, the larger part came from 

 England and Germany ; from the former 432,000 

 bushels, from the latter 393,500. 



