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The Hessian fly (as it is called), which 
has been so destructive to the young 
wheat in autumn, may be avoided by 
good culture and late s sowing; indeed an 
agricultural friend, (G. Clymer, esq. 
President of the ’ Philadelphia Bank,) 
whose knowledge of the country is of 
longer standing “than: mine, assured me 
that it has been of great service to the 
farmers, by inducing them to bestew on 
their land an extra portion of tillage and 
manure. 
The moth-fly is a more troublesc me 
insect, especially in the States of Mary- 
land and Virgina. In some seasons it 
devours the wheat while in the stack. 
The best remedy for this is the thrashing- 
mill. 
Although the chmate of the United 
States is more subject to extremes than 
that of England, it isin many respects 
more favourable for agricultural opera- 
tions. At the time of harvest, as I be- 
fore mentioned, the weather is “generally 
fine. Thunder-storms and heavy showers 
frequently oceur in summer, but they are 
almost. invariably succeeded by fine 
weather in less than twenty-four hours. 
The extirpation of weeds by the plough 
is much facilitated by the powerful heat 
of the sun; and as the grain ripens in 
July, a crop of turnips, or buck-wheat, 
cai be raised on the wheat-stubble the 
same season. 
Maize, or Indian corn, is a useful ad- 
dition to the crops of the American far- 
mer. It is excellent food for hogs, horses, 
and poultry; the meal is esteemed 
superior to oatmeal for culinary uses ; 
and the tops, (the stems of the male 
flowers,) are cut and dried for fodder. 
Plaister or gypsum, as a manure, is an 
invaluable acquisition to «the United 
States. The small quantity of a bushel 
of ground plaister to the acre, which 
costs half a dollar, when strewed. on 
clover, will generally double or treble the 
produce. By the aid of this manure, 
lands worn out with repeated corn-crops 
and bad tillage, may be speedily and 
cheaply renovated. 
The parochial payments, consisting of 
the county rate, poors’ rate, and acontri- 
bution of money or labour for repairs of 
roads, amount to about six-pence sterling 
per acre. The expences of government 
are all paid by the duties on imported 
goods; and in this country the farmer 
is free from taxes and from tythes: here 
are no test-laws as.a stigma on the reli- 
gious tenets of one part.of the commu- 
nity; nor is the elective franchise with- 
held from another part, Ali sects are on 
On the Annual Meeting of the Charity Children. 
‘To the 
[July i, 
an equal footing, and all live in amity with 
each-other. 
It must however be admitted, that 
political bigotry has been, and in some 
measure still is, too prevalent in this 
country. ‘The present President of the 
United States has exercised his power 
with the utmost moderation; but in 
1798, when the other party was predo- 
minant, the political intolerance of those 
times’ formed a counterpart with the 
associations against levellers in England. 
Happily, both nations have recovered 
their senses. May no future infatuation 
embroil them with each other! 
W. BakEWELLE, 
Failand Ford, Pensylvania, 
February 2, 1807. 
iiditor of the Monthly Magazme, 
-SIR, 
AVING attended the sini meet- 
ing of the charity-children at 
St. Paul’s, on the 28th of last month, E 
can hardly find words to express how 
highly I was gratified, as well with the 
spectacle of ‘upwards of six thousand 
poor children clothed, maintained and 
educated at the public expence, as with 
the astonishing eifect produced by the 
union of sounds from so many voices, 
chanting the. praises of their great Cre- 
ator... 
I should not, however, have troubled 
you with this, were it not at the same 
time’ to transmit some observations I 
made whilst there, in the hope, that by 
communicating them to the public through 
your widely-extended miseellany, they 
may be attended to by those concerned, 
and the effect of the whole improved to 
the greatest degree possible. 
_As I was there pretty early, and be- 
fore many of the children had taken their 
places, the first observation I made was 
that, notwithstanding the immense theatre 
erected and provision made, there was 
yet hardly sufficient room to accommo- 
date the whole of the different schools; . 
many of the children finding a difficulty 
in seating themselves, and, when settled, 
were rauch crowded. Owing to this 
probably it was, that some few were oc- 
casionally had down to the school- 
mistresses below, to be plied with 
smeiling-bottles to be kept from fainting. 
And. this would perhaps have happened 
to a much greater cegree, had not the 
day been as favourable as possibly could 
have been for the ee without 
either rain or extreme he 
As each school must doubtless be made 
_acquainted 
