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V ... What-ttage of ripencfs is -the belt tor cutting . mHtAT.h iiocw afeertained in America j but enough I have .en o cutting early to be convinced that it com; mbniy is IwffercJ to tla .j too longV " it the ti ne of je'pi.ig, wc generally have a clear (ley and peculiarly drying air, which in ibme harvctts ri pen wheat very fu'ideniy, fj that the plants from an appvrcnt Uae of vigor, are killed. in a day or two, and receive iv furthernoiJ,RJmctu fiom the. root mfihk'd""' an.l even the ern -occonie exhaulud ot the nouriih meut which they hid imbibed, To that it could not , reach the car or.grj i ti.' --'lf'wuh t his fudden l heat ad! drying ttate,of the air, the plants be fttuck with rujl, and are lttll. fulTe'red to iiand. lon.ger, the grain .recciv. in jr nu '-more iiourifliment can nt ver fill but by cut iiig it inllantly, and fettling it fhehered to cure gradually, the b:tt chance ia haforjjbtjjninjija wheat. ''The rejpii1 corn, ten to fourteen days earlier than my neighb mrs ( fa y Mr. Parkinfon) is an advan tage 1 have attended to Asr corn bcgin to decay jtrfi at the root, allahe, nour ifh -nen't if can rrccive, while itandmg uncut, after" the decay of root; muft be dc lived ftom the firaw. The dews may feed the ;rain "at one time ; but when nearly ripe and the root decayed, the fiin and wind, have To much power as to ripen it too quickly or lcorch or diy it before its natural period of maiutity." - - . . ' Riding on the road about harvest time, he ohferved a field or, wheat thit had taken the mildew. ,' The jraw wa6 of a tcmc kable deepgreen, and inllead i bting . i . i ... . "i y i -' ...,- " -i dead, appcauu to nave acq 'pea -a greater vtraure ; though alter" fuch appcaiance conuson, it never re ccives any iiouriihmtnt or grows larger, 1'iltrji? whreof the draw becomes diitcmpered, fpotted, and difcoJourcd. The fooner it is then cut the better, lie Took twelve ears of the wheat, which, and the It raw, wtre grck'ii as grals, and at tlic fame time mild.-wed. A great deal ot ram had fallen the .foie"p.-irt of the oflike tolour nd a,ioofition, the property oFMr. -Carmer.- . ' - . fj'. Torh pap " jr. tyr. jt-uri u?"-urxtrxun -n tr. U7 u7 kT-'S it 0 PI ITSBUROUGH ACADEMY. . THE lenn annual cxaunnatiuH ot the Students will commence on Tuefdaythe iltof July next,, .and continue three days. The Trullees flatter them (elves that hofe PartHts and Guardians who can make it convenient to attend, will fecLthjClWves highly , ' raiint' have .madt in the various branches of learning and tru.l the" inllitution-will continue to merit the fame liheial encouragement hitherto experienced from a difecrning public. Terms of Tuition (iw advance, one quarter at !e.ift) 8 dollars per annum lor Heading, Wtiting and Aiith metic; 13 dollarb per aouum foi the Ciafiies, ICiiglilh - G ram ma rf- G c&grsp ii yT t hTT.M4tfifiBiatici. 2 dollars entrance fjr every new fcholar, unUfs- the Paientor Guaidian was a i;ubfcriber to the buildings of the acadmy. . , ', " T. The p ice of.Baar (including wihirt fodg'mg and mending) for a Student in tow-o, 52 dollars per arinT and may be had cheaper tome fmall tiillar.ee from fawn ; huy - number can be very readily accommodated. N. M. VVauted a nerfonquahfied to fill the place of tcond- Teacher in the Academy, which will he vacant on the fir It of July next. The qualifications nectlTa ry arc, a knowledge of the Claiiics, E'-glifii Gram mitf Arithmeiic, wtite a fair hand, and if at quiintcd with fomc of the practical branches of the Maihema- t ics, tlicij) yreagrtjrah.br may be known by aduufling a line to the Rev. Willi am LJuiglum or Mr. "Jmes Baker, Tieafurcr of the Academy. 17 3 ' Ul;rv (S RSI T f7 a ME'aniiUfal examination in the Univei fity of N. X Cio1rnaf" wi!"ctmmncc6ti ri-h ""?id"of TurieT The Committee ot Vilitation on whom agreeably to "daTiB"u t ttie 'ears (t wheat re .p'rettY clryJJic tiedX JL QXliI!H-.LiH them in a hunch, intending to hang-'tlu-m 110 ;u his ; that time has devolved, will coBliit ot the fallowing honfe to drv and riDcn. Several week, j af.M nMrtis. i lrultees. . v 1 ' having been forgot, betook th-m out of higgr,e.at.coat pocket, when the ltraw was'f undto be (till green. . gralt was then rubbed out, and to hi altoniih ment he. never faw better. It was fine in colour, aiid well tilled ; but what remained in the field from which -,4 -tckik-ihiCc-eaxs, .wa8Tvery.44iwn-adf, litte-value-Tl.is is a it long cafe, which ought to irke a itrong imptcflion on the mind of Farmers He a ids, from . hence it would ieem, that if the farmer would cut his wheit when it is Ihuck with mildcW, and let it up in the Ue'd in f,t all (lackr cf abom a cart load each, fo a. ikutur to beat or mould, it would be better than to let . it (laud, s is ttiC practice, "itcut. He h.vd at the fime time take.n twelve ears o wheat froM.au at'j lining lipcr field, which were like wife found in "the othei pock't of the great coat. Though thefc when gathered, appeared fo-much fuperior io w hat had taken the mildew, they did not turn out neatly f gond . as the others. From the above circumltauces, MrT P .rkinfon was ever afterwards partial' to cutting wheat when the ltraw appeared of a re.ddrlh caft, or (ome of jt green with the joint, full -of f-p ; and it fulfil!ed his expcclations. Tiie,ra,'he adds, is better for th-fT ; the much firer and heavier ;'and for fine fl ur it will grind into broad bran. Hut he d.cs nut think, that if the wheat clcapcs the mildew, it ought to be cut fo gfeen. ItHs probable that the ftete of the wheat, as it ap proaches to ripcriefs in the ei fuing feafon, -will ad mit of. various inllrudtive experiments, to be made by "thole "whom it chiefly, concerns ; cfpecially .tley may, leafn, for their future conduil, how (ir It will Ltar to be cut unripe or green, to advarTtage. -: Hitherto, dur Bg the picfehl month of May, there has been much cool weather, accompanied with - fre- . quent rains. Such was the May in the gteat year of vheat were uucom nonl,y piamimig : but hi it tUe-rujl, and then (though not, till the farmer expected daily the wheat was about to ripen) the J ab tTruck it : by which the crops weic reduced in quality as.well .asi,.quanti.ty what was affecledby fcab could necr be made to jicld good (lour, ut it was more or lefs clammy. During the progiefs of the ruit aifdncab, I examined the roots of many plants, which appeated injured if net dead, at the fame lime that the Italics and blades look- edihriv!ng,V The hon. Judge Haywood, v - Alexander Martin, Richard D Spiight '- David btone, Richard Ueunehan, JSeoijAUW-jitiiy-. - Halifax,, Sahfbury. Newbern. Edentoir. Hii:fiJ.roi:ph. Almi to'w-- In this ttate 'of thincjs, the farmer m4ay take i.ito" Tconfideration a!t , what time it Avill be bell that he cut downjiis wheat ? For a flight degree of rust it need r.ot be hurried ; but when greatly uulttd i 1 its advanc ed ftate of ripeiiing, and when coi iiderablyfcbbed (whicV never happens but in the onvcutbpiti-t . pens) immediately cut- it down, aqd guard it aainft fun t and wind, flrightiy, led by fecunng it too clcfe; it heat, and be entirely fpoiled. VVhat in wheat is by : fome called cab, by others is called empty ears, v.. , . 'An u affair of honor", which was intended to have, ""t akf nplaceTJno,ft? FerrVi was ptevented by trie oracious intetierence ot sssofsrf !! ii'-i1'1:" ' 'ii-.i :"L'trrrf!rrrr' ' an ofli?er"of julice, WKo arrelfecToneFthe parties in Broad wiy, as h was poitirig la the held. His anta ' gonilt Ha efcaped- ..The name of- the geatlemati fe- . Jacob Moore, in Fuc ftrftt ; the other la a. geatlirnaa ven of range number tivihty : A Ifo, all the Jiaftionat pints of the quarter townlhips acijojning to -the Txti . . . Scioto, except the quarter towprtiipa number cne and . four in townlhip number one of range number nineteen f the quarter tow nfliips number tivo and three, of town fliip mimbc t three, in range number .ninct en ; and t ike : qujrte'r townlhips number one and Jour in tourfhip numhert;', of range number -i-wenty ; together with the flty qiistct townlhips hneafter dtferited, .are .re.-. J fervtd to UeJ lociilviW ".".-.'. rants granted" for military fervices, or their heirs, fa lots of one hundicd acreit purfuaut to the aft' above recited. , ' ' " "-. ' 2d. The following is a dtferipion of the fifty quar ter townfliips referred to-in-the preceding articles and which were tlefihdt ed b lot in the pi efence of the Secretary of War, purfnant to the aft above recited 7? 1 2 - C 2 3 J 4 ' - '. 8 4" 7 3 ' s i : ' 10 1 8 2 ti ' 6 i 2 2 3 8 3 8 1 . - 3 7 '4- 2 lS 4 5 1 6 1 15 1 3 5 3 . 7 2 2 2 3 1 1 8 2 .1 7 , 3 . 7 1 .1 .. 2 3. - : . 7.. 1,4 -" . 17 " 4 3 J6 24 84 5 1 i 4 4. 4 3 7 2 6 1 o 3 9 3 7 3 3 9 1 3 7 4 . - 7 J 7 , 4 JJ J 4 : ' 9 1 3 ' q ( 1 I 1 . J 'iiti Hay, Fjyctteville. jotcph-Diekfon, .Mtngan. j The oflice of tlu- Commiitee of Vifitatiou is to fd periti'cud an 1 pronoiincf their juigment on the exa mi tat i; m, to la iiiTelau 5 -to tkcond'uft':.atid p'rofici- e'ney. of the Students, and to xamine into the. (late of the- Pabhc Buildings, Library, Apparatus, 'Sec. a4 of the lnititutiou in gtneral, To as to report tlieiCv on to tTie Board at the next annual metting. It is hoped that the magnitude of the truft icpofed in tt.em will -of illelf be futBcicnt to convince the Gentlemen of "the Commiitee, that a difcharge of the dutics in cident to it is of. the gtealeit irrportance to the'ii.tet tit of the lultitution, inu that (heir punftual attend ante is of cburfe cafffjftly fohcited,. fi3 The Examination w ill begin with, the Prepara tory Schoul, on Monday the 2 3d of June, and pro cesd in the i'lvtrtel ordei)f the cffes from c'ay to day uncH the Z 5th or 271!!, '.v'hea the Senior Clafs will be examined. On rirjifday the 26'h, tKere wiltte a cimpe!tio:i a nong tht St udents befoie the Committee of Vilita tion, for the honourof (peaking. On the fotcntion of Friday the 27th,, alifcouift will be delivered onl,he F-iewell Addrefsof Pit lid via Vyalhington to the people of' the United. State",""5 ' . On the evening of the fame day, Options will be delivered by the intermediates, and by perfons chofen from the two focjeties two from each. " ' 0 11 lint fort noon of Satui day t lie 2 8th, Orations -will be delivered by per fons d ill ing uiHicd by t he Facul ty at tlTe fall quarurly examination on account of good fchoi'arlhip. ' . - r Un the evening of the fatre day, -Orations will be delivered, by ptffons felefted for good Icholarfhip, and -by the candidates for degrttfThe-whoit to conclude with the'trremony of .. cot.fcr'rip'2 degree., aiid a Va ledrdtory Oration. v ." - r m 'J h uliif cr'm afiiduity of the Studentr, fincc the cortmencemerit of the piefent ftfiicn', affords a -very flattering profpeft of this examination, and renders it au o jeft wdliworth the 2tftntion,of literary charac ters, and all fuch as fctl thtmfelvcs intttclted in the progrc!sof general improvement?" -. : Twblifhed by order, :' WILL : EHVE33. Chapel Hill, Atyy 20. ' -''''"" V V. - ' T RE AS QR Y BEPARTMENT, ''.'.' ' April 2r, i8oo. PUBLIC 1S0TICE is hereby given, in purfuance of tli.e. aft of Congrcfs paffedon' the full day'pf. March", one fhoufand eight hundred, intituled Aii aft in addition jto an'adt, intituled, :h aft regulating therawnrjyf W fervices ijnd for the hocM eating tl.e Gofpel among the Heathen," as fellows ; lit. " AH the fractional parts of the quarter town fiiips atljoii ing to the Indian boundary line of thetraft and-rtfi quarter to.wnfhips number Jour in town&ip numbery?. -r--r-Atithg-latMl-s eaeh of-the--aboye fifty quaf trrownSipaiid'Ttr",the frafttmrar-prs-nHrtfr ''- townlhips before defenbed, h-ive been divided upon the refpeftive plats thereof, as returned by the Survey or General, into a9 many lots of one hnndrtd ?ctes each, as the quantity fuch quarter townfi.ip or fraftion is itateJ to contain' will admit, in the manner pointed out and required by the above recited aci. 4jh. The plats divi'! as hfoiefiidjn'.) ! its of one h7rudrcaCKs tTpoITf cdTn The e fiuFof the . gider of the Treafu-y wju-rc the locations nre to be made ; and upqn fiiireiHleriffg ttie warrants which (hall be thus roclifed, atcilts wiir b and upon jhe jrotuij? ions , pi ef.'i ihed by lav. Given under my hand af Philadclphu, te day and ' year above tr.eiitioned. - OLIVER VrOLCOTT. , xc 3m. . Secretary of the 'Trrifury. i EN DOLLARS RE WARD. TT) AN s way fion the lul fciiber in Kobefon county, X. l'ie icth of March taft, a negVo vverch named . Wfnny ; (he is about 26 years of age, very (rout, fquints with one eye, was born and ralfed in Wayne county in this Ihte Inlotigrd once to Kcbcit Bel of that place had on when (he went away, .a firiped hcmefpoti wrapper and petticoat, aid carried wiili her feetl -Othejrarticlcs of e loathing';' nd t wo pjir Scotrh'blankcts.l l thii k it probable that flie nay h?ve made towards Turtle River in Georgia, as her hr.fband "J3 been ta- ken there. The above rewaid ; nd alt reafnable char ges will he paid to any pe1f4i.11 that-, will deliver her to me or ft cure- her in any gaol l"o r hat I gvt her again, RobTon county,. May 6. JOHN M PHA1L, '1. - ' " - - - ST A P ii o f M) ii' I'H-CA K0L1NA, illl.LSBOKOUGH TJlSTRtC r. ,1 . p - ' Clerk and Majhrs OJia, May 17, lSco.', J A Report having Letn c iiculated by fome. means or other, unknown to ms, thut jje buGr efs of a Ma;rterH:TE dtltrift afoiela:d can Lot he " lawfully ,onc, and that rr.y powers 'are fiifpc-udcd in ' that re fpeft, which may prove very dttri;nntal to the fuito'rs of this Court, and pr duftivc of confequencea pernicious to my own i-.itereU : 1 therefore think it my tluty o inform all perfons concerned, that the report . is not true ; and that they ake notice, that my office is open, and propcr'altcutjon-giyen for the difpatch of all "bijjfinefs itlative to "the fan e as ufwaf. r 16 u.; Robert bell; ck. & m. e. B O OKS fo r SALE. ; lrcdellVRLVlSHLofthc Laws' of North; Carol! nay with a Supplement containing the public afts of -the General (AtTembIy, from the year 1796 until the prefent time ; and an index to the Supplement all ii eat-by bojina Lin oreVofume. J '- - ALSO, REPORTS of CASESdjirdged .in the Superior Courts of Law and Equity of the State of - NORTH CAROLINA, by JOHN HAYWOOD, Efq . one of theJudges of the viuperior Courts of Law arid Equity. ; - ' '- " .'. The abpve are .for ,fale' at the Here of Mr. Albert Torfcnctf -m SiiiribTiry,' atMr, ShoBer'4" 'n'SJaiem," at r Parloiouh, at Mr: r. . Webber's in Newbern, at Mr. H. Wijls' in-Edenton, and at the piiating-onl.-, t cts in Rafeitfh and'Halifax.- The fqbfcribcrs to HarV ct the above places. re-mjttcil iy foi tireir cjfiei- I -V 2? .' '.'"' :. - i;
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