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NEW-JERSEY FARMING, ETC. 
RICE HULLERS. 
These machines are of recent invention, and 
will hull from one to ten bushels of rice per day, 
according to their size. They are found to be very 
convenient for domestic use where the planter, or 
farmer, raises his rice in a small way ; but where 
Fig. 83. 
large crops are produced, a different machine is re¬ 
quired. 
NEW-JERSEY FARMING. 
Few states comprise a greater variety of soil 
than New Jersey. There is the shifting sea sand, 
the tenacious clay, and the porous gravel, with all 
the intermediate mixtures of light, middling, and 
heavy loam. Then there is the rich, wide-spread 
salt marsh, the fertile fresh meadow, the rolling 
hill, and the rocky mountainous region. In cli¬ 
mate, too, New Jersey greatly varies. At Cape 
May, which is nearly as far south as Washington, 
they grow the fig and sweet potato in great perfec¬ 
tion, in the open air, while among the mountains 
of Essex, corn, except of the dwarf kinds, will 
hardly ripen. 
With all this diversity of soil and climate, there 
is necessarily great diversity of practice in farming. 
Nothing would give us greater pleasure than to 
make an agricultural exploration of New Jersey, 
from one end to the other; but, confined as we are to 
business, our excursions in this state have not been so 
extensive nor so frequent as we could wish. We 
trust, therefore, that the farmers themselves will take 
this matter in hand, and remedy our deficiencies, by 
giving us full accounts of their soil, climate, crops, 
manures, stock, and general management. Fine 
writing is neither what we ask nor expect; but plain 
facts, such as all can easily understand and put in 
nractice. Such things are always acceptable; and 
that publication will ever be considered the mos* 
useful which most abounds in them. 
The farmers throughout the country ought to 
write more for our journal than they do. We gen¬ 
erally find them ready to talk, and that freely and 
intelligently; but when we ask them to write, they 
are very backward in fulfilling ®ur wishes. We 
trust that hereafter they will become more free in 
their communications, and will shower down their 
favors upon us with a liberal hand. 
SMALL POX IN SHEEP. 
A correspondent of Col. Hodges, British consul 
at Hamburg, thus describes the small pox in sheep, 
which is, at present, prevailing in various parts of 
Europe to an alarming extent:— 
In this disease the sheep suffer previously inter¬ 
nally, with loss of appetite, heaviness, and indis¬ 
position to move, difficulty of breathing, swelling 
of, and discharge from, the eyes, and of a viscous 
matter from the nose; in from three to five days, 
spots appear on the bare parts of the legs and body, 
which become large and form blisters, in the cen¬ 
tre of the red circumferance of which yellow spots 
come, and at last fill with yellow matter. If these 
spots become blue, or blackish, they unite, and a 
thin stinking matter issues from them, which is the 
height of the disease ; but death ensues, if the pus¬ 
tules should not come properly out, or should strike 
in again. The last stage of the disease, when it 
terminates favorably, is marked by the drying away 
of the sores, on which a black scurf forms and falls 
off. The animal has the disease, as with man, only 
once ; in a flock, it is contagious, but not so among 
cattle. 
During this disease, good hay and drinks of a 
decoction of barley, are good, to which a little com¬ 
mon salt may be added. At the commencement of 
the disease, the nose and mouth must be kept clean 
with vinegar and water; the eyelids are to be often 
washed with warm milk, and an electuary of three 
parts flower of brimstone, and one part common 
salt and honey, is a useful remedy. But I am de¬ 
cidedly of opinion that inoculation of the whole 
flock, the moment the disease shows itself, even in 
one in the neighborhood, is the only preservative. 
Storing Pumpkins and Squashes. —Considering 
the expense and difficulty of keeping pumpkins and 
squashes, we generally found it more profitable 
to feed them out as fast as they ripened. For 
this purpose, we kept an extra number of animals 
through the months of September and October, and 
when the pumpkins, &c., were consumed, we either 
finished fatting them on grain, or disposed of them 
to the drover, or butcher. 
Pumpkins require much room in storing, and, 
in spite of the best care, often decay rapidly ; be¬ 
sides, as soon as the weather gets cold, they are of 
such a watery substance, that, if fel in any consid¬ 
erable quantity, they are liable to scour the stock 
and give them the cholic. It is the same if fed 
raw with the turnip, beet, and other roots. Our 
advice, therefore, is, if you have not the proper 
conveniences for cooking vegetables, get rid of them 
as fast as you can do so profitably, during the mild 
autumnal months 
