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salads along with the Cress, or Pepper-Grass, and 

 is sown and cultivated in the same way. (See 

 Cress.) The black is that which table-mustard is 

 made of. — It is sown in rows, two feet apart, early 

 in the spring. The plants ought to be thinned to 

 four or fire inches apart. Good tillage between the 

 rows. The seed will be ripe in July, and then the 

 ! stalks should be cut off, and, when quite dry, the 

 seed threshed out, and put by for use. — Why should 

 any man that has a garden buy mustard ? Why 

 should he want the English to send him out, in a 

 bottle, and sell him for a quarter of a dollar, less 

 and worse mustard than he can raise in his garden 

 for a penny ? The English mustard is, in general, a 

 thing fabricated, and is as false as the glazed and 

 pasted goods, sent out by the fraudulent fabricators 

 of Manchester. It is a composition of baked bones 

 reduced to powder, some wheat flour, some colour- 

 ing, and a drug of some sort that gives the pun 

 gent taste. Whoever uses that mustard will 

 find a burning in his inside long after he has swal- 

 lowed the mustard. Why should any man, who 

 has a garden, buy this poisonous stuff? The mus- 

 tard-seed ground in a little mustard mill is what 

 he ought to use. He will have bran and all : and 

 his mustard will not look yellow like the English 

 composition ; but, we do not object to Rye-bread 

 on account of its colour ! Ten pounds of seed will 

 grow upon a perch of ground ; and ten pounds of ^ 

 mustard is more than any man can want in a year. 

 The plants do not occupy the ground more than 

 fourteen weeks, and may be followed by another 

 crop of any plant, and even of mustard if you like. 

 This, therefore, is a very useful plant, and ought to 

 be cultivated by every farmer, and every man whe 

 has a gan^.en. 



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