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rniXTD AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY,' By PASTEUR 4' WATSOV,;;;: j At $ 3 per annum half in advance: AGRICULTURAL; .; I I I II - 1 from the Memoirs of live Philadelphia Agricultural Society f Notices for a Young Farmer, "particularly one on Worn Lands;' be ing some rudiments for an Epitome of good Husbandry ; and subjects pro motive of its prosperity. Farm Yard to be laid out on d good plan. Water introduced, and stock confined. L You cannot be too careful in forming the plan of your farm-vard ; (the magazine and laboratory of your principal stores for artificial fertil ity,) calculated ultimately for your improved farm. But begin with such parts of your farm buildings onrl accommodations as suit its rire- sent state of culture ; and add such conveniences, as circumstances, from time to time require. t, If no water be in your yard, dig a well, promptly ; and confine your stock from November to' May ; nev er permitting them to wander after water, the provender, of the - 'stalk field, or the miserable fog of other fields ; in which they empty, them selves, gain little nourishment, arid uselessly scatter t:eir dung, the fer tilizing qualities whereof, are thus given to the winds ; and only a dry and inert remnant left, t for future benefit. The stalks and husks of Indian corn should be brought home for feed and manure : instead of KpJnrr wnctffu11 v hrnnrsprl. anrl trnrl- den down by wandering cattle. Let not a hoof, unnecessarily, leave, your yard, or stables ; not, however, neg lecting to give them proper exer cise ; or in the service required from them. . Yard to be stored with all attainable put rescible substances ; to be mixed with the dung and urine in a pen or ster corary.. Valuable qualities of urine. Wight soil. II. Hawl into your yard, a suf ficiency of every putrescible sub stance, within, reasonable distance ; and often clean up your muck. Have a pen, or stercorary, of solid masonry, with its bottom paved, or composed of sound and compacted clay. Your manure gathered into your pen, or stercorary, should be secured against the treading of cat tle, which, by excluding air, prevents the necessary fermentation ; a rea sonable degree whereof is essential, although when excessive it should be checked. Sir H. Davy's discus sion, on this sujbjeet, shews,, one side of the question, and experience must teach the. other. Mix earth with your fermenting litter, or muck, ra ther than lime, until 0 the fermenta tion be sufficiently advanced. If your stercorary be roofed br thatch ed, it will be the more perfect. Have pits secured from leakages, to collect the, drainings of dung, and the urine 6f horses and cattle the most valuable experiments. Hu man urine is also surprisingly ben, cficial ; and generally, fas it re gards rural economy,) wasted. Pre. judice and ridicule, are alive, when it is asserted, that it is preferred by uuracs uuu caiuc io salt and is to them, salutary as a medicine, as well as a condiment, promotive of health, and consequent profit. Our Germans have been long acquainted Many years ago a German wo man kept cows, in a town in Mary land ; and derived a plentiful sup port from the sale of iriilk, cream, and butter. Her cows were re markable' for their goodly appear ance, and every body preferred deal ing with her, to being supplied by "cr cow-Keepers, iinvv was ex- cued ; and she was narrowly watch u t l ength it was discovered, i u ner rivals, that she daily emptied with is uses ; and a late -publica-1 tion io England, shews its powers, and efficacy, as well for domestic animals,' as for fertilizing the soil, when diluted, and judiciously ap plied. Immense collections of it might be made,, not only in cities, town, inns, and manufactories, but qnevery farm. Human ordure, or night soil, however contemptuously regarded by us, has been long us ed in eastern countries as the mosi valuable manure. In some parts' of Europe, it has for some time, past, become an object of attention. Its offensive qualities are readily cor rected by lime. , Fall ploughing ; its advantages. Corn' grub, or Cutworm- Soddy, grounds ; bow to treat them. The Roller, and its uses. . Farm well on a small scale, rather, than extensively and negligent ly. Hessian Fly. ;;-,Alix e&rtlis and plough in green manures. Composts. III. Plough and harrow soddy fields in the falL ; and add Lime, har rowed in ,at that season, if it be within four power. In addition to other advantages of this operation, you will thereby escape, either whol ly, or for the "most part, the annoy ances of the C rg : Gruislftl& what mocle the destruction of tti'e grubs, or the eggs of their parent, (be it a beetle or what it may ; for on this subject there 'are varieties of opin ion ;) is, by these operations, accom plished, or their ravages prevented, is a subject of laudiblc curiosity and speculation ; but the fact of the purpose being achieved, is all im portant ; and in numerous instan ces', ihcontestibly proved. That spring ploughing is generallg ineffii cacious, is too frequently 'and fatally known Instances of failure to pro duce the effect mentioned, by fall ploughing have been adduced- On examination into the facts or some, it is founds that the operation has not, been performed either well or in due time, and on ly partially ; and I in other cases, eitner. uncommon grub years, or other peculiar cir cumstances,) .have becured. The great balance of factsis, ntost assur edly, favorable to this practice ; and warrants its adoption. It is so ben enciil in Qjther Respects, that it should be followed, even without re gird to its effects on the grub. Some acute diseases defy common remedies ; and dams and m minds resist common floods, yet yield o innundatians. Nevertheless, med icine, and medical skill, and preven tatives of overflo ws, should not be set at naught. Nor should any benefi cial operation in husbandry, be disre garded, because it does not iu every instance succeed. Fall ploughing enables you to plant corn early: and' it is better thus to risk spring frosts; which do less injury to your plants, than do early frosts, in autiim, to the corn fully grown. 1 It is alleged by several highly re spectable farmers, that, in -holes made near the hills, with a pointed stick, inconceivable numbers of grubs have perished. In a letter to the Society, on the information of one - who actually experienced the fact, it appears, that by a ditch diig for the purpose, across a field, the nassacre of Cutworms from a field which had been destroyed, to one uninjured, was obstructed ; and six. bushels of grubs were thus collected. This would seem indubitably to prove them to be migratory ; and to shew the consequences of leav ing part of a field unploughed in the autumn ; which attords harbor tor grubs, which may from thence wan der over the fall ploughed portion. oeverai iarmers naye escapea me the contents of the urinal, into the tood of her cows. She acknowl edged this to have been the magical cause of the superiority of her but- ter and cream. But when thee- observed that the common: pot li cret was discovered she could sell qUor, from the boiling of pork or X- , , 01 me ceieoratea , aruciesj wnicn had heretofore been souniver- sally admired. It is bnlv by stealth, that such prejudices can be pre vented, or subdued, by a conquest over theimagination. grub, by steeping the seed corn in SpiriiS OI lUI JJCUimCj -rtUU.fi I I1UU It in plaster. . ;l : .j Soddy grounds' should he .'tolled, md well harrowed, in the direction r c... fa K.;n. v.i- up so deeply, as to place beyond' o,t . anrl hxr rKn - rut-ufotlnn K orrt r anrl hv tlllln- u.AiU. cAom tr dUmrh w;tK., n u, lo pro mute ..its u ""uk i , 1 , , . capacity to grow. The dead fibres, beetjand poric. I bought some Bal (nature's restoratives,) are thus re. . timore cows one fall, & found them Alined in the soil, for - appropriate . mh akcr, and more difficult to manures. LimW Plaster, .Marle winter, for their . appearance, than - w, . .; . . i ti . V i anv 1 pvsr tftfl : nnri.if is mv nnm. Sec. no co-operate witn, x ne soa . , r--.i ?' i it i lett on edge, eimer aries uselessly or vegates with-all its pests. I n. ....j . .i . "uer 15 ""L"c ;. mistakenlv suDDOsed to consolidate too much : whereas it crushes and 4 , j Separates clods, and loosens the soilj On Clay and heavy ground, the Spiky Roller is best, as it is on all hide-bound . surfaces- of, meadows and rnowing grounds .- particularly,; but like in all other operations, rol ling must be performed, judiciously, .and adapted to spils and circumstan ces. Few, indeed, are the soils, on which it is not highly beneficial. Sow no more ground, with winter grain especially, than you can per- fectly till'f and manure ; one well dressed acre, being worth many neg ligently treated, Manure, good til--lac:e, and late sowing, which latter is only justified by the two former, are guards against the, Hessian tlye If even to good farming, mWfdrtune occurs, losses are not ac companied by self reproach. Shed DatsJ :6r that grain sow.i with the wheat, sometimes a.tracf the Fly, . befits' being more iorwird and tempting ; for this insect has no predilection for wheat, although rour interest to this .'grain,- induces our peculiar at tention to its misfortunes ; , but like the' Raddish 3wrtwith Turnips, success d oesmot .always attend the experiment, though well worthy of UldU If you cannot get lime, or animal manure, mix earths of differen qual ities & textures, or plough in green manures, such as buckwheat, clover, &c. Turn them m deep, to prevent evaporation in grasses, which would occur in summer fallows, superfi cially iptoughed. For composts, m)ve old fences and plough up their sites ; thus de stroying hedge rows, and other nuis ances ; and mix tussocks,- weeds, (cut before going to seed,) and all putrescible substances, in land and low beds, to be turned by the plough. Go into your woods, and compost leaves and wood soil; also use mould from low places, washed thither by rains and floods, and throw out the beds of stagnant ponds. Lime, with the latter, is beneficial, and plaster operates wonderfully with the former, on the decayed ve getable matter, as do ashes on pond or river mud. Plaster, in compost in which vegetable matter isi mixed, is more beneficial than lime. Whether salt be or not a manure, is not well ascertaii ed, but it has had success in small quantities. The Chinese make much use of sea-water as manure -on land near their coasts ; and those in the interior, scatter salt over the field? .before the v are tilled. The same practice is pursued in dostun. '-y (To be continued.) - FROM THE AMERICAN PARMER. ON FEEDING OF COWS. Mr. Editor. In compliance with your urged request, I proceed to state the substance of my remarks, in con versation with you, concerning the effects of certain kinds of feed on the constitution of the hog and the cow; And first of the hoc; I have bacon, to be iniurious to conhned bogs, and no benefit (if not an inju- rv to those runninc at larce. In my opinion it produces a disposition to mange. (I think that the large hogs, fed in Boston, by iMjr. Patter I liau UUl lUUU puia, .wtjvgi- tion. And next the tow. "I was formed, by au old gentleman who practised .the veterinery art at Balti mtjre. for several vears betore, nis d,eath - that.he, believed that most the complaints of cows in Balumx of imore, .originated from feedinc: on slops, comoosed in Dart of the boilings ot . v -v. yr'-" J r inn. that this dunnsitmir was nrn. , r - ;---. jj .w.b ow have above described. And I am .:of the opinion, that it is contrary to v - . u.ni. 1 ii'Ji iir 'j r i i ti l 1 1 r-1 r i c r f i nr lirM li ii i ---j . feed on its i)wn kind. The best feed I have ever criven to hojrs is milk : and it is at the same time the worst for dogs. Rich pot li quor will fatten does, and kill hogs. If these, observations are consider ed worthy a place in your paper, you may insert them. " ; v' A ROUGH FARMER. St. Domingo Farm , May 2 1 , 1819- NOTE. The facts and reasoning of our es- teemed c orrespondent, would seem to be confirmed by the known aver- sion of carniverous birds and beasts of prey, to feeding on . their own kind. Naturalists tells us, that birda which feed on carrion, are most fond of dead animah which bear the nearest resemblance in charac ter and propensities to themselves but they refuse to draw subsistence from the inanimate remains of their own kind. The buzzard will feed on the dead hog-: the dog on the carcase of the dead horse : but buz 1-9 ' SmM zard will not eat buzzard r nor dog, d'g. Every thing in life has its en emies. and its victims ; bdt it would 4 ' appear to be. imcomp itible with th6 standing ordinances or nature that any order o f animated beings should derive the means of life, andpros per by the consumption of its own kind ; in a wo id that it should be in terested in the, destruction of is own species, implies a eo ntradicti(jn in the order of things. In the human family we know, that nothing is more injurious to health, or more offensive to the sense, than j the effluvia which es capes y from 4 the body of our own kind ; hence arises, in a great de gree, the unhealthiness of jails, birth decks, &c. &c. Nothing, it is said, is more disgusting than such places when not well ventilated ; and it is, we believe, the settled opinion of medical men, that man would live longer in close confinement with any other animal than with man. Con sumptive patients have been lodged in stables, while their presence have been thought to be hurtful to their own family, confined and too closely lodged in the same room. There is ' no doubt, that horses are often diseased, by being kept too mu jh crowded in stables, not well aired. We make those hasty re marks on the letter of our corres pondent, to show the reasonableness of the tacts ; of the truth of his own assertions " we have no more doubt than we should have , of: our own experience, i ne cumiuvi, u pinion is, that pot-liquor is very wholesome and fattening to, hogs ; r.A cn it mw hp. but that mav be because a very great proportion U ; thf Honor of other than 1 of hoar meat ; and because it is known to be the case, it is made into a swill which contiins many other nutriti ous ingredients. But let those who would make the experiment, and it 11 - .t. kainn mrp. let them is wen worm .. . 1 - tur a short time, tne li quor of the hog meat on y, or to a ? ... uf .onn of which much is . r tnwns. and question if it would not be very soon discovered, that the effects would be such as the " rough " . but very intelligent and observing farmer, has described Farmer. n-ivpn to incm . " -7 we son with kitehen swUl' must hay e FOREIGN NEW-YORK AUGUST IS. By the Trident, . Captain Wilkinson, theEditors of the Mercantile Advertiser have received . Liverpool papers to jhe 7th, and London papers and Lloyds Lists to the 4th of July, inclusive July, inclusive. PARLIAMENT. , In the House of Commons, orf Mon day last, the House having resolved it self into a committee, Lord " Castlereagh -thrnupht forward the Kino?s Meww i-Ii urougm lurwuru lue xvuig message rel Utiveto provision being made for the branches of the Roval Famiv and hav. . . , o ' fi. .-. tlor of several ot the Fnnces, concluded WUII IllUVIllg .i for a sura not exceeding Ll4)00, lor the use of his Royal High ness the Duke of York. Lord A.iHamiltonexpressed his sur prise that the Noble Lord had wholly omitted to mention anV provision for the Queen. On one occasion the Noble Lord had said, that when the tune came for making a provision for the other branches of the Royal family, he would then introduce the subject of a prov ision for the Queen. . . t " i vAt present, he believed that her Ma jesty had no legal Income whatsoever. What she might receive from his Maies- I ty's Ministers was illegally granted and unduly made use of. He knew not in wliat situation her Majesty would be pla- ai 1 IC rAPIIdllun 01 in,s session 5 and 11 was me more. necessarv that a nrnnpr sum should be voted for her service. since if the proceedings now in progress, went .on,' sue woukl have occasion for a much larger command of pecuniary re sources than she possessed at present. It was most ungenerous and most unjust to seize oh the present moment, in order to deprive her of any provision which she might have formerly enjoyed. If he did not receive a plain answer from the Noble Lord on this subject, he would move, 'that the chairman do leave the chair, Sor the purpose of giving Ministers an opportunity of considering the impro priety of their conduct, and also to ena ble the House to decide how far they would abet and sanction that impropriety. Lord Castlereagh said, that every care had been taken to prevent any personal inconvenience Which miglit be likely 1 to affect her Majesty. Provisions had been made' tq meet any particular expense which the Queen might' :nr,iir in conse quence of the pending enquiry. ; This point had neither escaped the King or his Ministers. It had been specially no tified to her Majesty that every means would be allbrded to her (or the defence of her character and conduct. With re- spect 10 we moae 01 granting tnis allow ance, the jealous feelings of the Nobler Lord would be quieted, if he took the trouble of reading the re;-outionof April last,' which went to continue for a limited time, ceitain grants, that had been previ ously made, and which were chargeable on the consolidated fund. Of these grants, the sura annually paid to the Queen! was. one. ; - Y: : . I After some further conversation1 Mr Penman said he wished to observe, that the question was brought before the com mittee without her Majesty's knowledge. There was a subject nearer her heart than that of expense ; it was the dread lest the interference of foreign powefs. should prevent her from baring the bene fit of those witnesses who were necessary to her e'xculpation. She feared that cer tain foreign powers, particularly Austria, which had been exceedingly active in her persecution, would deprive hrr ot those individuals without whom her justification would be incomplete. When she wa-? at last, accused before a public tribunal, whatever the decision of that tribunal might be, she called for a fair opportuni ty to sustain her character, and with that view she demanded that all diificulties and obstades-shouhfbe removed.. The votes to the Duke of York and the several branches of the Hoy alj Fami ly were then agreed to. The Chancellor of the Exchequer af terwards moved that the House should resolve itself into a committee of the whole House, to take into consideration a further supply to his Majesty, s r , Mr. Creevy said he was aware that the Rt. Hon. Gentleman was about to intro duce the expense of the ensuing corona tion. There had nut been any estimate placed on the table relative to this cere- I mony, and till such estimate appeared. uc wuuiu iiui buuMTiu iu ine gram vi a single farthing: Indeed it was his opin ion, that under the present circumstances of the country no coronation ought to take place. The other House had P"- ceeded so far in the inYestigation of the
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