Agriculture is the most healthful, the most useful, and the most 
noble employment of Man.— Washington . 
VOL. III. NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1844. NO. X. 
A. B. Allen, Editor. 
Saxton & Miles, Publishers, 205 Broadway. 
SAVING SEEDS. 
October is the month in which most of the 
garden seeds, and some of those of the field crops 
ripen; due attention, therefore, must be paid to 
gathering and preserving them. We think there 
is too often great carelessness displayed in select¬ 
ing for planting; the husbandman does not bear 
in mind the oft-repeated adage that like produces 
like , but seems to think that anything will do. 
With the unreflecting, a seed is a seed whether 
good or bad; and strange to say, that many either 
consume or sell the good and reserve the bad for 
planting, thinking this the best economy! Let 
such be assured, that by sowing bad or indifferent 
seed, they must expect a poor crop in return : 
we know but one exception to this general rule, 
and this is by no means fully proved to our 
mind—we allude to small, unripe potatoes, which 
a late writer in England contends produce the best 
crops, especially where disease is to be apprehend¬ 
ed. The great improvements in seed and root 
crops, as well as domestic animals, have been 
made by carefully choosing the best for propaga¬ 
tion, aided, of course, by a superior system of feed 
and culture. It behooves the farmer, therefore, to 
bear these facts steadily in mind, and in all cases 
use sound and discriminating judgment in selecting 
such seeds and roots as will be certain to produce 
the best and most abundant crops. 
MAKING VINEGAR. 
So far as our observation and information ex¬ 
tend, this is one of the most abundant fruit years 
that we have had for a long time, and as is often 
the case, it may be followed by an untoward sea¬ 
son, in which the greater part of the fruit may be 
cut off. Making cider for drink is happily nearly 
abandoned throughout the country, but for vinegar, 
we think that it is quite too much neglected ,* the 
consequence is, that under the name of vinegar, we 
have the vilest trash and compounds which can be 
conceived of, palmed upon the community for this 
highly necessary preservative and agreeable con¬ 
diment. Vinegar from well made, unadulterated 
apple cider, is not only the cleanest and purest in 
our judgment which is manufactured, but it is also 
more highly prized and more surely depended upon 
by the good housewife. Let every farmer then 
reserve a sufficient store of cider for it the present 
season. He should always have a two years’ 
stock on hand, and in abundant fruit seasons he 
ought to provide for three years ahead, as it is 
easily kept and subject to considerable fluctuation 
in price, of which he will then be able to take 
