372 Ue of Cif 
der. The young bird made a fecond at- 
tempt, commencing where he had ceafed 
before, and continued the fong as long as 
he was able, and when he loft the note 
again, the mother began anew, where he 
flopped, and completed it. ‘Then he re- 
fumed the tune, and finifhed it. This 
‘done, the mother fang over the whole {e- 
ries of notes a fecond time, with great 
precifion; and a fecond of the young at- 
tempted to follow her. With him, the 
purfued the fame courfe as with the frft; 
and fo with the third and fourth, It. 
fometimes happened, that the young would 
iefe the tune, three, four, or more times, 
in the fame attempt; in which cafe, the 
mother uniformly began where they 
ceafed, and fang the remaining notes ; 
and when each had completed his trial, 
fhe repeated the whole ftrain. Sometimes 
two of the young commenced together. 
"Phe mother obferved the fame conduét 
towards them, as when one fang alone. 
This latter was repeated, day and day, 
and feveral times in a day. 
Gypfum, the effects of which, as a 
manure, do not appear to have been fairly 
-tried in England, ftill continues to re- 
ceive the approbation of agriculturifts in 
America. Dr. G. Locan, of Philadel- 
phia, has lately. publifhed a pamphlet, in 
which he endeavours to eftablith, fir/, 
That there is no difference between Eu- 
ropean and American gypfum. Secondly, 
That gypfum acts as an immediate ma- 
nure to grafs, and afterwards in an equal 
degree to grain. And thirdly, That one 
drefiing will continue in force feveral fuc- 
ceeding crops. Judge Perers, of Phi- 
ladelphia, has alfo publifhed a pamphlet 
on the fame fubject, containing an{wers 
toa fet of queries, addrefled by him to 
Various intelligent agriculturifts. <“¢ Af- 
ter ten or eleven years trial, they.all agree 
in the utility of gyplum, as a renovator 
of exhaufted foiis; that one bufhel and a 
half, or two buthels, will be fufficient, if 
yearly repeated, for clover; that it will 
anfwer well in a fandy leam, upon a lime- 
ftone bottom; that though it is fervice- 
able when firewed in powder, on growing 
plants, it fucceeds beit in repetition, after 
ewitivating and drefling flichtly with 
fiable manure, or with ploughing in 
green manures. It does not exhauft more 
than other manures do, particularly dung, 
and to produce its full effect, to be va- 
luable and active, it muft meet with 
fomething in the foil to decompofe it; 
and where this is wanted, it does no good. 
When ftrewed on the furface, it remark- 
ably benefite white and red clover, and 
as a Manures 
moit grafies ; though it did not appear te 
do any good to winter grain. It is good 
for all leguminous plants, buck-wheat; 
flax, hemp, rape, and oily-feeded plants ; 
moit products of the kitcheh-garden, and 
for fruit-trees; as well as for oats and 
barley, when fprinkled at fowing time on 
the wetted feeds. Sowed at all times of 
the year, it anfwers well; if ftrewed over 
the land at any time from the beginning 
of February to the middle of April, it 
fhould be fowed in mifty weather, te 
avoid the lofs of having it blown away 
with the winds, if fown in a dry time. 
Some do not few it until vegetation be- 
gins, though it will have an effe& if 
{owed at any feafon. As to quantity of 
produce by the acre, as much is procured 
trom gyplum as from any other manure; 
the hay is better than that produced by 
dung; the cattle watfte lefs of it; and if 
the grafs is ufed for pafture, they are 
fonder of the plaiftered than of the dunged 
produce. - Its duration is fuch, that 
though fometimes it will be exhauited in 
one year, yet the effect of one drefling, 
of three.or four bufhels to the acre, has 
been felt for five or fix years, gradually 
decreafing in-its powers, and feems to be 
capable of prolonging the efficacy of 
dung; and has been known to do“ good, 
when fowed repeatedly, and in fmall quan- 
tities, for a continuance of twelve years 
and more.”” Thefe facts, and their caufes, 
&c. have fince been further inveftigated 
by Profeflor MITCHELL, in a’ paper 
which he has publifhed in the ** Medical - 
Repoftory.”’ ‘This interefting Memoir we 
fhall infert at length, in our next Supple- 
mentary Number. 
The Agricultural Society of Connec- 
ticut are forming a cblieCtion of faéts fer 
publication, on the ufe of gypfum as a 
manure. 1 
We obferve, with fingular pleafure, 
that Agricultural Societi¢és are forming 
in every diftri€t of America. Sheep of 
various countries, and foreign feeds, of 
different kinds, have recently been im- 
ported and cultivated with faccefs. ‘The 
“* New-York Magazine’ itates, that the 
prefident of the Agricultural Society of 
South Carolina, has received from Mr. 
JEFFERSON, Vice-prefident of the United 
States, upwards of one hundred different 
kinds of rice, which have been procured 
by that gentleman from the Phillippine 
Iflands. 
The remarkable difeafe among the 
Cats in London, mentioned in this work 
for April 1797, appears to have extended 
itfelf ever the entire continents of Europe 
and 
