▼OL. XVIII. NO. 51. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 



481 



From the Maine Farmer. 



SIGNS OF THK TIMES. 



Although we have put a political caption to thi 



culture of Silk is coming into vogue in the South, 

 I and may be made so extensive as to put Europe in 

 the shade, if it could b(! encouraged, or the French 

 and other silks kept back. 



i Again, Eii^lnnd is wnking up to the culture of 

 head of this artiele — or rather, one which politi- ! cotton in her East India iwssessions. She has 

 cians love to use, we are not about to enter the i sent an agent into this country and has engaged 

 battle ground of fither of the contending parties nine practical cotton planters to go and takecliargo 

 as they are at present organized. We wish, how- ; of as many plantations in India. They are to have 

 ever, to call the attention of the friends of our own ' a salary of twelve hundred pounds per annum each, 

 country to some of the signs now rising in the dis- i Native laborers can be employed to any extent 

 tant horizon, which indicate that before many years j in India for two doUms per month. Great Britain 

 there will be a change in the existing tariff, and t has appropriated twelve thousand pounds to pusli ' 



that those who live south of Mason and Dixon's 

 line, and who so bitterly opposed that portion of 

 the tariff which afforded encouragement to North- 

 ern Manufacturers and Northern Wool Growers, 

 even to threatening a dissolution of the Union, 

 will ere long change positions and beg right 

 heartily for such an alteration as shall also protect 

 them — aye protect them in their own staple pro- 

 ducts, viz : cotton, tobacco, and hereafter, silk. 

 And we much mistake if they will not then be wil- 

 ling to shake hands with their brethren of the 

 North, ami unite in forming such a schedule of 

 duties as shall be mutually beneficial to all sec- 

 tions of the Union. This is what they ought to 

 have done before — this is what nature itself points 

 out should be done. The two extremes of our 

 country, embracing as it does, such an extent of 

 territory — stretching through such a variety of 

 climate, and well adapted to supply the wants of 

 each other, one would suppose that it would 

 be an object for each to study the other's welfare 

 in accommodating each other. The North is well 

 adapted to the growth of wool, lumber, hay, oats, 

 and to manufacturing. The South to the produc- 

 tion of cotton, rice, silk, sugar, &c. Why not then 

 arrange our tariff that each branch shall be en- 

 couraged .' But the South, by their opposition to 

 the North, have virtually said, we care nothing 

 about you — we had rather trade with Europe — she 

 will accommodate us on most any terms — and Ave 

 are not going to assist in building you up when 

 our mother country is so kind to us. So off with 

 your duties upon woolens, &c., or we will blow up 

 the Union. England, too, when she saw that she 

 could accomplish two objects with one act, namely, 

 sow dissension among us and have our duties re- 

 duced, sung cherrily the siren song of free trade 

 to us, but at the same time shut her own ports to 

 the whole world, except in such cases and in such 

 times as it would be for l,er own particular benefit 

 to open them or change her restrictions. So, to 

 keep the peace among ourselves, the duties on 

 woollens, &c., were reduced — little or no duty put 

 upon silks, and some other articles. But to the 

 signs, what are they ? We see, by the American 

 Farmer, that there is to be a grand convention of 

 tobacco growers in Washington city this month. 

 What is the matter .' Why, it is found that this 

 article, which is now an inmiense article of trade 

 throughout the world, is restricted in some coun- 

 tries. France, for instance, prefers to encourage 

 her own people in this business, to the great detri- 

 ment of the growers of the U. States ; and while 

 we have been so good natured as to admit her silk 

 almost duty free — she has been so ill natured as to 

 hamper our tobacco trade in such a way, tis to give 

 her own people the monopoly. And the Southern- 

 ers begin to think that it will be best to shut down 



forward the enterprise, and it will not be long be 

 fore the Northern manufacturer can obtain his cot- 

 ton from India, cheaper than from Georgia or Al- 

 abama. In addition to this, Texas will be |)ouring 

 it into the market also. Will not the Sjiithern 

 planter cry out for a prohibitory duty on cotton ? 

 We have no doubt of it — and for one we should be 

 willing to give it, provided they would also consent 

 to such an arrangmont that all sections could he 

 mutually encouraged in the crops and manufac- 

 tures peculiar to their climate and situation. 



Our farmers, who control the ballot-box, must, by 

 judicious legislation, provide a stable home market 

 for the products of their industry. We beseech 

 them to weigh well the fact, that there was brought 

 into the United States and sold, no less than one 

 hundred and fifty-seven millions' worth of foreign 

 goods in the year 18.30. And in this connection, 

 remember that the duty on American flour in Eng- 

 lish ports, on the 1,5th of April, 1840, was two dol- 

 lars and fifty cents per barrel. This is more 

 than the flour is worth in the wheat growing sec- 

 tions of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. 

 Shall our own agricultural interest have no coun- 

 tervailing protection ? We imported, last year, 

 twehtyone millions of silks, duty free. Suppose, 

 instead of sending twentyone millions of specie, or 

 its equivalent, to pay for these silks, we had man- 

 ufactured that amount more of goods at home, at 

 at least ten millions of provisions, in one shape 

 and another, would have been consumed in the 

 operation; and all the profits of the manufacturers, 

 Ihe producers of the raw material, mechanic la- 

 bor, and the food consumed by all, would have en- 

 riched our own citizens. 



Our mechanics, such as. shoemakers, black- 

 smiths, carpenters, tailors, and the like, have a 

 deep interest in the encouragement and protection 

 of domestic manufactures. Indeed their interests 

 are the same with nearly all other classes, who 

 must depend on the productive industry of the 

 country for their own individual prosperity. — 

 Hence, the great national importance of encourag- 

 ing, by all suitable means, every man, woman, and 

 child, to be botli industrious and economical. 

 Hence our republican family should not so disgrace 

 themselves as to madly run into debt to Europe 

 147 millions a year, for worthless aristocratic 

 finery, and then have one half of the property in 

 the Union sold under the hammer to foot the bill. 

 All sensible men should insist on an effectual pro- 

 tective tariff, that shall cut off this disastrous ex- 

 travagance. If the rich will have one hundred 

 millions worth of silks, wines and the like, from 

 abroad, let them pay into the national treasury at 

 least forty millions, which can be well expended as 

 a common school fund, as has been done with the 

 surplus belonging to the State of New York. 



I'niin Ibo New Uonesoc Fariiiu 



Mkssrs Editors — I saw a statement in your 

 last number, of an ox that was taken sick and died, 

 supposed from the horn disease. Now, I am not a 

 farrier nor a farrier's son, but I learned forty years 

 since how to cure the horn distemper, and can do 

 it without risk or failure if applied to in season. 

 I have cured them when fat, and past standing, 

 and in winter when they were poor. You will 

 (Easily discover when it is the horn ail, by their 

 dull sunken, dry nose, cold horns, and refusing to 

 eat. 



The following is my remedy : — Take half a ta- 

 ble spoonful each of spirits of turpentine, camphor, 

 fine salt, and black pepper made fine, and one gill 

 of sharp vinegar. Mix them together, warm them 

 to a blood heat, turn the animal's head so that the 

 ear will be uppermost — take hold of the ear and 

 put in as much as you can, hold it tight, and pull 

 it up several times ; then serve the other the same 



do it once a day for three or four days — split the 



tail if necessary — and the cure 



There is no mistake about it. 



Byron, Genesee co., A'. Y. 



be effected. 

 DIBBLE. 



From the same. 



the gates upon their silks, unless they will change I'his will be a tax upon luxury for the benefit of 

 their course in regard to tobacco. Besides, the education, general science, and intelligence. 



THE CURCULIO. 



'I'he fruit-garden is a delightful promenade in 

 summer and autumn ; but too many freeholders 

 forget all about it in the planting season. Where 

 the enclosure is large, plums, apricots, and necta- 

 rines, ought to stand in a quarter by themselves, so 

 that the hogs may be confined among them at the 

 time when the Gijrculio is most active. This sug- 

 gestion had not occurred to us when we planted 

 our fruit-garden ; and the benefits to be derived 

 from the presence of the hogs, are in some meas- 

 ure, lost. As a remedy, however, we have fed 

 screening and other small grains, under some of 

 those trees ; and a few days ago we went to ascer- 

 tain the result. A sheet was first spread under 

 several trees in a remote part of the garden which 

 had received no attention, and from these we got 

 more than twenty of these insects; but not a soli- 

 tary one was caught where the hogs had trodden 

 the ground hard. 



Since that time we have frequently gone into 

 the fruit-garden with a basket of grain in one hand, 

 and a mallet in the other, the whole drove of hogs 

 following. Having jarred the tree with the mal- 

 let, by striking against the stump of a limb cut off 

 for the purpose, we strewed the contents of the 

 basket without delay. This ^.insect is timid, and 

 its danger in lying on the ground at this juncture 

 is not merely ideal, for a fearful trampling suc- 

 ceeds ; and if it should not be instanly crushed, 

 we hope it will not soon return to the spot t 



Stirring the ground. — Nothing conduces more to 

 the growth of crops than frequent stirring of the 

 ground; especially is this necessary in dry weath- 

 er, and where the soil is inclined to bake or be- 

 come hard. Ground which is frequently stirred in 

 dry weather, will be found moist, while that which 

 is not stirred, will become perfectly dry. We say 

 then, stir often, use the hoe, rake, cultivator, what- 

 ever you please, but if you wiint great crops be 

 sure and keep stirring — Genesee Far 



