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LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
TE CAMBRIC CHEMISETTE.
Oh Chemisette ! the fairest yet
'I'hftt A'r YA hncnm nnrer ttViWo!
Thou dost not know what envious woe j
Thv veiling snow hath given the writer.
So neatly frilled so pjrumply filled !
il iL. .. i i
iiuu turn mo cjrcs milt snme aoove hi
J sigh I long nor is it wrong
(At least in song) Dear girl, to love it.
: Sweet Chemisette ! the coral set,:
To chain thy folds in gentle duty, ...
Flings round a glow upon the snow '
To heighten so thy blushing beauty .
And ne'er before, on sea or shore.
Did coral feel a softer billow
Nor could the gold around it rolled,
Though ten tiAWtold, deserve the pillow.
. Oil CbpTniCiifto lkilMT 4V.nn
A rosy ribbon. binds her boddiee ;
i. And in ht-r mein is cle.-irly seen ".
One half the Queen, and one the goddess,
Her voice" is low how sweet its flow 1
Her upper lip disd.iin the under;
Her twir ls like dark waves that strike
. A niiirble elm iiud rush asunder.
Oh ripening grace 1 Oh radiant face !
When love is love, it knows no measure !
TTfl llrinrlsi ftrt. fcm.itl Imfr rot rttn
The power of music at their pleasure.
And as they peep from sleeves of deep '
Wide guipuiv la'ce, ' la tnode liamillies,
Her fingers eem, or else I dream;"
Like stamens in tlie bells of lilies.
Thy robe of blue the violet hue
The green leaves in the dark hair gleaming,
. Thy feet that move fs light as love
Thy breath thy lips have set me dreaming.
My cheeks are wet that Chemisette '
Was filled and won by some enchantress ;
But much I fear, 'twere dreadful dear,
Were she my wife, to pay her laundress.
COURTSHIP OF JOHN ADAMS-
AN INTERESTING SKETCH.
Some ten years since, I spent a college vacation
in th? town of Weymouth, X-rf'lk county, Mass. j
While there, I attended ehuivh one unday . m rn- 1
big. 'at 'what was railed tin- Old -Weymouth Meet
ing lIou- and heard ;i sermon from the venerable
pastor, liev. Jacob Norton. I also made the" ac
quaintance. f a very agreeable old lady w bo related
the substance of .following anecdote of Mr. Smith',
their former-pastor.
'."" Mr. Smith," said she, " was an excellent man,
and a very tine preacher, but he had high notions
0 himself' and lam.il v in other words, he was
. something of an aristocrat.'"
" Mr. Smith had two charming daughters. Ma
r,' was ihe nameof the elder, and the other's name
1 have forgotten. They were admired by. the
beaux, and envied by the belles of lite country
round, '.'lint while the careful guardians of the
'parson's farmlv were holding consultation on the
'subject, it was rumored that twoyoimg lawyers
1 tuink both of the neighboring town of Quincy
--vl. t,.-..,..lv .iii.I - Mr wcrp nv in it their
tl Vfttinn V. ..... -- - O
aidressesto the Misses "Smith.' As every man,
woman, and child, of a country parish in New
Englan!,Jis acquainted with whatever occurs in the
parson's family, all the circumstances of the court- I
ship si.n tra'.ispnvd. . ' ' !
" Mr. Crancli .was of a respectable family of'om j
note, a consmeieu a young iii.in oi jjioiiiist-, .uiu i
.'altogether worth v of the alliance he s-ought. lie;
w. vrv acceptable to Mr. Smith, ami was greeted .
bv'hiinseif and. his family with great "respect and ,
cordirditv. lie ', afterwards rose to the dignity of!
Judg"! of. tin.' ''!nrt of Common i'tias of -Massachu ;
seit.s and va fatfier of the present' Juuige Craticli, j
f the 1 )istrict of ( olumb.ia. " . ' '
" Tlio suitor of the' .other . a ugh for wasJohn
'Adam', who afterwards became President of the
T'. W. ..I S!tif 'lint :if lli.if time in the oniliiim ;
.. 4 ....tl. r,i,l f'.n. ill- li.. ,r-i .i I. lit tl..n.lnl- ni-rv-''
Ol .111. Mltll ll'l Kl-.iii, il. itn' vjn -m- w ivi ;
mistvof tin distinction to which be afterwards ar-
rived. - His . pretensions .were scorned by all the ;
family, excepting theyung lady to whom Jm ad- j
dresses were especially directed. Mr. Smith diow- j
ed him none of the ordinary civilities of th house ; j
ho was not asked. to partake of the hospitalities of-!
the table; and it was reported that his horse was ;
doomed to share with his master the neglect and i
mortification -to which he was subject, for he was i
frequently seen shivering in the cold, and gnawing i
the post of the parson's door, on the long winter
evenings. In si tort, it was reported that the par- j
. son had intimated to him that his visits were mi-j
acceptable, and t. at he would confer a favor by j
discontinuing them. He told his daughter that
John Adams was unworthy of her that his father
was an honest man atid-tradesman, who had tried
to initiate John into the. arts of husbandry and
shoemaking but without success ; and that he bad
sent him to college, as a last resort. He begged
l.ii Ja.ugUiff not. to think of . making an alliance
witlTone so inuch beneath her.
"Miss Smith was one of the most dutiful of
' daughters, but she saw Mr. Adams through a me
dium very different from that in which her father
viewed him. She would not offend Or disobey her
father in anything reasonable; but still John saw
something in her manner, which seemed to say
i PrsevtreV and on that hint he acted
"Mr. Smith, like a good p rson and affectionate 1
f,tr'l,:.,l told bis daughters, that, he would preach !
ijv,r - o
. them a sermon on the Sunday after the joyful oc-;
casion and that they should have the privilege of
choosing the text. . ' j
44 The espousal'of the older daughter, Mary, ar- j
rived, and she?.was united to Mr. Cranch in the-; peak so, to a poor blind boy : but mother will be
matrimonial bonds, with the approval, the bless- j waiting for the clothes. ,
; i rigs, and the benedictions, .'of her parents and her j ;" This evidence of the little fellow frankness and
friends. ' Mf. Smith then said, 1 My dutiful child, I -fidelity pleased me. I had become much interest
am ready to prepare your sermon for next Sunday. ! ed, and made up my mind, to tind.out more about
rWhat do you select for your text V , . j him. So I took some money out of my pocket,
My dear father,' said Mary, 'I have selected and gave it to him, telling him to take it to buy
; the latter part of the forty-second verse of the tenth ! something for his sick father. Again the tears
part of th
. chapter of Luke 44 Mary hath chosen the good j
part which shall never be taken from her.
. " Very good, my daughter,'. said he, and so the
sermon was preached.
"Mr. Adams persevered in his suit, in defiance
of all opposition. It was many years afier, and on
a very different occasion, and in resistance of very
. different opposition, that he uttered these memora
. U wtrrds ; ' 8ink or swimY live or die, survive or
J
perish, I give my heart and hand to this measure.
But though the measures were different the spirit
was the same. Besides, he had already carried the
main point of attack the heart of the young lady
and he knew that the surrender of the citadel
. must soon ol low. After the usual hesitation and
delay that attend such an unpleasant affair, Mr.
Smith, seeing that resistance was fruitless, yielded
the contested point. After the marriage was over,
Mrs. Adams remarked to her father, ' You preach
ed Mary a sermon on the occasion of her marriage.
, Won't you preach me one likewise ?
" 4 Yes, niy Sear girl,' said Mr. Sra;th, ' choose
your text, and you shall have your sermon."
Well,' said the daughter, 'I have chosen the
thirty-third verse of the seventh chapter of Luke
" For John came neither eating bread nor drink
ing wine ; and ye say he hath a devil !" "'-
The old lady, my informant, looked me very
- archly in the face, when she repeated this passage,
and observed :
" If Mary whs the most dutiful daughter I guess
the other had the most wit."
I could not ascertain whether -the last sermon
was ever preached. Cm. Ch.
m i ;
Woman's Beauty. It is not the smiles of a
pretty face uoFthe tint of her complexion nor
the beauty and symmetry of her person nor the
costly dress or decorations, that compose woman's
loveliness. Nor is it the enchanting glance f her
eye with which she darts such lustre on the man
she deigns worthy of friendship, that constitutes
her beaut7.
It is her pleasing'dcportment her chaste con-
- versation thesensibiiity and purity of her thoughts
her affable and open disposition her sympathy
with those in adversity her comforting and re
lieving the afflicted and distressed, and above all,
the humbleness of her soul, that constitutes true
loveliness. Beauty, unadorned with but those of
natureamLSimpIieity, will shine like the refulgent
sun and display to man that the beauty of your
person is not to be found in tinsel ornaments of
your body ; but in the reflection of the rectitude .;
and serenity of a well spent life that, soars above
the transient vanities of this world.
YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT.
BLIND ROBERT.
One 'day. I met a little boy in the street, who was"
'going along very hwlv, feeling his way. by the
houses and the fences; and I knew that he was
blind. If he had eyes to see with, lie would have
been runniiigand jumping about, or driving, a hoV.p,
or loinr a ball, like the other boys in the street.
1 pitied him. It:-eened so hard for the -little fel
low to go about in the drk all the time, never to
see the .miii. or any of the pretty things in the
world; never to see even the fac-s of his parents,
an.d brotheis, and Msters. So I slopped to talk
with him. - He told. me that his name was Jiobcrt,
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that his father was sick at home, that his mother
had to take in washing, and work very hard to get
a living. All the other children had some work
to do; but as he could not see "to woik, he 'as
sent after clothes, for his mother to wasJi. I adicd
him if. he did not feel sorry-becan.se he was bliud.
"He looked very thoughtful and solemn for a mo
ment. -and thin he Miiiled, --smiled just as an an
' gi" might smile in heaven,! and said, ."' Sometimes
1 think it hard to have to creep about, s-o. Some
times I w'ant to look at t! e bright sun that warms
mv, and the sweet birds that sing for me, and at
the floWers that feci so soft when 1 touch them.
Gyd made me blind, and-1 know that it is best for
nle; and 1 am mi glad that lie did not make me
deaf and dumb too ! I am so glad that lie gave
me a good mother, aud,a Sabbath school to go to,
instea ! of making me one of the heathen children,
that pray to -snakes and idols ?" -
; " Hut, Robert, if you could see, you could help
your'mother more.'- I said this without thinking;
--.TnTTwas sorry as soon as I a"kl it; for the little
boy's smile went right away, and tears rilled- his
blind eyes, and ran down his pale cheeks.
" Yes," he said, " I often teil mother so ; but she
says that I help her a great deal now, and that she
wouldn't spare me for the world ; and father says
I'm the best nur.ie he ever had, though I'm blind."
'I ain sure you are a good boy Hubert," I a'n
sweved quickly.
' "No, Si i," he said, I am not good, but have
"ot a very wicked heart ; and I think a great many
wicked thoughts; and if it wasn't for the Saviour,
1 don't know what I would do."
': And how does the Saviour, helo you V
O, Sir, 1 pray to Him, and then he comes into
my heart, and says, 4 1 forgive you, Robert ; I love
you, poor blind boy ' 1 will take away -your evil
heart, and give you a new one-' ' And then I feel
so happy ; and it seems to ine as if I could almost
hear the angels singing in heaven."
44 Well, -Robert, that is right: and do you ever
expect to see .the angels V
,:. 44 O yes, Sir! When I die, my spirit will not be
blind. It is only my clay house, that has no win
dows.' I cau see w ith my mind now ; and that,
mother tells me, is the way they see in heaven.
And I heard father reading in the' Bible the other
day, where it tells about heaven ; , and it is said
there is 4 no night there,' But here it is night to
blind people all the time. O, Si r when 1 feel
c'oss because i cannot see, i think about heaven,
and it comforts meT"
I saw now that Robert began to be .uneasy, and
actd as if he wanted to go on. I satd44 Don't
you like to talk with me, Robert ?" ;
' 44 Yes, Sir, I do ; and it's very kind of you to
filled his blind eyes.
44 0, Sir," he said, 44 you are too good! I was
just wishing I cou'd buy some-hing for poor sick
papa: he has no appetite, and we have nothing in
the house but potatoes. He tries to "eat them, and
never complains; but if I could only get some
thing good for him, it would make him better, I
know it would. But I don't want you to give me
the money : can't I work for you and earn it !"
I made him take the money, and then watched
hirs to see what he should do. He went as fast as
he could for the clothes ; then bougrlt a fowl to
make soup of; then a stale loaf of bread, for toast :
and felt his way home, trembling all over with de
light. I followed him without his knowing it. He
went to a little old-looking house, that seemed to
have but one room. I saw that he put the bread
and fowl under the clothes, and went, (as I thought, j
hv .t.l. nnn to his father's bed, before he
showed them then dropping the clothes, he held j
up the loaf in one 'hand, and the fowl in the oth- j
er, saying, " See, father, what God has sent you
He then told about my meeting him, ami gmuS
him the money, and added, li I am sure, father,
that God put it into the kind roan's heart; for
God sees how much you wanted something to
nourish you."
I am afraid, children, that there were some tears
in Uncle John's eyes, as he turned away from the
blind boy's home.
How beautiful to love God and to trust in Him,
as poor Robert did! Could you bo so contented
and happy, if you were as poor as he was, and
blind, too"? Think about it, dear children ; and
perhaps I'll telj you more about blind Robert, some
other time. Christian Treasury. ' ,
To the Girls. There is an old." lady out in
Mahoning, who says you go to the frolics, apple
butter boilings, singing and quilting panie three
or four evenings in a week, and then say you have
not time to read. Then you go to the circus or
show every time it comes into the neighborhood and
spend money in these amusements, while you pre
tend 'you cannot subscribe for a periodical, paper or
a book. Xow, if I dd not know you very well, I
would be sine she was slandering you. It does
appear absurd to suppose girls should be such
ninnies; but as you and I are so well acquainted
I know she is just telling the truth about a great
maiiy of you who act as if you did not care to be
either wiser or better than you are now. It is al'
mere fudge to talk aboUt'iiot having time to re:tll.
or uioney to get books or periodicals. Every body in
this country who wants to read, can find time, and
the means of improvement. Nobody need expect
to be respected and happy through lite, who does
not love to read. It is leading more than any
thing else, that makes one woman or man superior
to another. Sava es do not read, but spend their
lUure time "going to frolics," as this Mahoning
lady sas you d , and this is what keeps them
sa a ge . Mrs. Str isshel in.
BliOTIlEKS AMI SlSlliiiS. By endeavoring to
ac-uiie a habit of politeness, it will soon become
familiar, and sit on you with ease, if not with eie-
gance. Let it never be forgotten that genuine
politeness is a great fosterer of family love; it allays
accidental irritation, by preventing "harsh retorts
and rude contradicti--ns ; it softens the boisterous,
stinrutatts the nlolent, suppres-es selfishness, and
ty t 'l'mitig a habit ot consideration ot others,
harmonizes the whole. B-.-liieness begets polite
ness, and, 'brothers may be easily won by it to leave
it . i i . i , . i
on me rime ways they bring home trom school or
college. Sisters ought never to receive any little
attention without thanking them for it, never to
reply to their questions in mono-yilables. and they
will soon, be ashamed to dosudi things themselves,
Both precept and example ought to be aid under
contribution, to convince them that no one can
have really good manners abroad, 'who i not
habitually polite at home.
'FARMERS' DEPARTMENT
TRAINING HORSES.
e copy the following from the Loi don Sport-
ing Magazine .
Let it never be forgotten that with beasts, as
men, the lesson imparted by kindness is far. more.
rea-hly. lean ed and distinctly remembered-than
that which is forcibly instilled into a pupil, cowed
by severity and confused by feai. Some men are
sufficiently tint! horsemen and blessed with such
nerves, as to be capable of instructing young horse-
I while on their backs, without interferm" with their
i - .
heads, or otherwise withdrawing the attention of
I the animal from the immediate business in hand
i but such riders are indeed uncommon ; a d ibeie-
fore it is, that I conceive the 'leading system to be
j so judicious a method, the beast being left entirely
l to his own resources, whilst the man's courage and
i patience run no chance of being overtaxed and fail
i ing at the critical moment.
Nothing but practice will' make a horse a.supe
S rior timber-jumper. It is a description of leaping
which more than any other, requires coolness and
confidence, for it must be done with energy, but
without hurry ; and to retain the requisite, amount
of practice, I conceive a leaping bar to be absolutely
necessaiy. The single bar is only better than none
at all ; but it is at the double bar that a horse
learns to raise himself on his hind legs, and what
is termed fling himsek', in the form which distin
guishes all the best timber-jumpers.
The plan I have always adopted myself, and
have found successful, has been to inclose a space
of some six feet in w idth (in fact narrow enough to
prevent a horse from wishing to turn round,) and
some twenty or twenty-two feet in length, between
twewstrong rails, six feet high in the middle, and
sloping gradually down to the two extremities.
The upper surface of the.se rails is made smooth, so
that a rein slips easily along them, and the man
leading the horse runs outside, where he is in per
fect security, and out of the animal's way.' In the
centre of the lane, so call it, are placed the two
leaping-bars, from six to seven feet apart, that be
ing, in my humble opinion, the most effective dis
tance to prevent the scholar from attempting to
clear the whole thing at one effort, whilst atthe
same time it is narrow enough to force him to bend
and fling himself to double it cleverly. I generally
commence by laying the bars upon the ground, or
rather on the tan or other soft substance, on which
all such tuition should take place, and walk the
horse backward and forward over'them till he
ceases to feel any alarm at the novelty of his posi
tion. After this, I raise them some six inches from
the ground, and so by degrees get thera higher,
till he finds it less trouble to make a slight spring
and cant his hind legs after him than to knock his
shins against the unyielding wood in trying to step
over. When this is accomplished without touch
ing, I consider the lesson over, and that we have
done well for the first day. The great thing is
not to disgust the pupil at the commencement of
his studies ; if we can only make him fond of them
our task is easy indeed. When a certain degree
of confidence has been acquired, and the horse be
gins to jump freely and willingly, a stage at which
some reach much soouer than others, I begin to
instruct in real earnest, putting up the first bar
(which I only use to break his stride, and teach mm
to raise himself on his hind legs) a foot from the
i i
ground, and the second (which represents the tetice.
and requires all his energies) about three or
th'-ee
and a half feet. He comes into the lists staring
about him, and would, if a high-couragtd horse,
perhaps jump the height of a turnpike gate, with
out becoming one bit the wiser; but the low bar
compels h'm to look where he is g- ing, and brings
him so, near the further one that he must draw
himself back as he rises, to keep clear of it. This
it is which teaches him to jump as timber should
be jumped ; and when he-can do this cleverly at
the height of a common table, he is not very far
from being perfect. They get on wonderfully when
they have once captured the knack ; and although
it may take weeks to raise the bar to three feet,
be not disheartened a very few lessons will get it
up to five.
When the horse has acquired dexterity and con
fidence, we must vary the performances, placing
both bars a good height from the ground, and
vvatc ing how cleverly he will go in and out with
out touching ; and I think it always advisable, after
the first two or three times, to conclude the lesson
with a jtitfip at the single bar, which he mliy be
allowed to suing over as fast as be pleases, in order,
that we may not too much cramp his efforts by
continued practice in doubling. Alost -'horses will
be found to get quite fond of the amusement, and
eager for the exertion ; nor would any one believe,
who has not witnessed it, the height over which
they will bound with the greatest apparent ease ;
five feet and upwards being within the compass of
any animal whose hind quarters are qualified for
the hunting field.
Although 1 would deprecate all attempts to "get
them down," I must insist upon the bars being
! fixed so strong that they will turn a horse com -
pletely over rather than give way. I am one of
those that think the fewer falls horses have, the
greater is their courage likely to be ; but in cases
of extreme idleness or awkwardness, it is far better
that the anim.-H should sustain a tumble w hich he
will. not soon forget, than that he should acquire
the idea, so dangerous to his rider, that timber may
be rattled with impunity : and upon the tame priu-
j pi,. Ie ;. vomer bin's,, till lie is: neif,-t ahnul.l t.vr
j be ridden at a weak place. The smaller the fence
j t'u,; belter 'but "little and good " should be t e
j mi!to wjlh t,l,e trio. Above all, make the lesson
j sl,ort, anj.1 send him home directly when he has
j ,nU(. wi;xt vou require of him. By this means he
t;lkt.s a r,,,rtSUre an, .j, j,, lis j.iormance, and
ac,jUi,. a Jocji;,y readinoss which all the
severity of a Lycurgus could never inculcate.
Any man with good hands, mild temper, and a
pair of spins, can do all that is necessary in the
j open dek!s . butto tuadi oW., U;lllVf Jt js ab,uiuteIy
i essential to consider the tfmper," disposition anil
j pi.evious habits of the pupil. If he is an eager,
j impetuous horse, take him out by himself, and get
j thoroughly acquainted will, bin," before you bring
; lim ilUo comj.aIiy . vvien there let him go in front,
i Rlld :,t ,.ase? w 1()OSes ,lis ,-estlessns, and can
be coaxed into dropping back to his companions.
j If he has a heavy boring mouth, ridt
nun m a
j severe bit with light hand, till he finds it far pleas
j auter to champ and play with it, than to inflict
j pain on himself by hanging on the instrument; if
so sensitive that he will scarcely bear his mouth to
j be touched, ut on thick smooth snafHes and r
un-
ning 'martingales, liil he is no longer afraid to ask
j for that support to which he is entitled at his rider's
hands. In short, in these "days of " bridles ". tl
lere
: is no excuse tor any noise being improperly bitted ;
j and when we have got the key to his m,.uth, it is
! our own tank it we put him -out of tune.
THE HOG "CROP" PROFITS OF MAKING
MEASURING CORN, &c.
Messrs. Editors : As an evidence that we can
better afford to make tkan buy our own pork. I
sepd you the following statement : On the 22d
j of December, 18,31, my sow dropped ten pigs
fhey were fed during the winter on, say ten bush
els of corn and peas peas boiled. In the early
part of the summer they had a few carrots after
wards they had only the run of the oat stubble,
and a few peaches, until I commenced feeding
them in July or August. Wishing to try a plan,
which appeared, perhaps, in the Southern Planter
and was copied into the Soil of the South, I com
menced feeding with greeu corn, stalks and all.
This gave them a start to grow, and put them in a
thrifty state. After corn ripened, I fed corn in the
ear, until the pigs were killed, except two weeks,
when they had the run of the peas, gathering their,
own food. Nine of the pigs were killed December
11, 1852, kicking twelve days of being a year old,
and weighed as follows : 186, 192, 160, 142, 184,
150, 156, 166, 172 aggregate, 1,508 lbs. aver
age, about 168. Xow, for cost: nine bushels
corn and peas, 9, carrots an J green corn, 3 ; 90
bushels corn $45 total, $57. This is making
slaughtered clean pork at a cost of less than four
cents per pound, with the common native stock,
with high priced food in the beginning, and by a
young farmer. I do not include in the cost the
gleanings of the oats and peas, because without the
hogs they would have been wasted, but I think I
put the fattening corn at rather too high a figure
ten bushels per head.", My limited experience is
in favor of killing hogs young. Never keep them
through two winters. 44 A short life and a merry
one," is good hog philosophy.
ine louowing my rule tor measuring ear corn
,u iuc u.UJ,,j, togemer iue inside length,
breadth and depth, in feet, or feet and fractions of
u:i .1 i .
a foot; then multiply this product by 4, and cut
off the right hand figure, for dividing by 10. The
reason of the rule is this: a cubic foot jcon tains
1728 cubic inches, ant a bushel contains 2150.4
inches. Now, if the cubic foot of the crib (found
by multiplying' together the length, breadth and
dppth,) be multiplied by 1728, and divided by
2150.4, we shall have the number of bushels of
shelled corn or wheat that the crib will hold. But
1728 bears the same proportion to 215.40, as 4
does to 5 very nearly. So that multiplying the
cubic feet by 4. and dividing by 10, answers the
same purpose as multiplying by 1728. and divid
ing by 2150.4, and then taking half f r the cob.
If the corn is very good, with deep grains, or the
crib holds over 500 bushels, I would divide by 9
instead of 10.
In conclusion, let me inquire of you and your
correspondents what rule will do for measuring un
shucked corn in a, crib or pen ? Also, how many
pounds of peas in the hull will thresh out a bushel ?
Respectfully,
W'infuld. Geo., May, 1853.
V. M. Barnes.
From the Farmers' Companion.
SEED WHEAT.
We would call the attention of our wheat grow
ers to the following novel idea, started by Eusebus
Weston, of Bloomfield, Me., in the Patent Office
Report for 1850. It appears to have, escaped the
notice of the editors of our periodicals and no
wonder with such a worthless index as the volume
contains but we think it decidedly deserving of
attention, and experimenting upon ; especially in
the western country where so much wheat is sown.
It is not often that we can learn anything practical
from eastern farmers, but this may prove an ex
ception. 44 It has been suspected for a long time that our
seed was in fault, at least for a part of the deplora
ble deficiency in the wheat crop. I could not see
why a flour mill cleanser should not be the best
t hing to prepare wheat for sowing till an experien
ced miller told me it would kill one half of it. Re
flecting on this fact, I was led to see what effect the
common threshing mill would have, when many
kernels are broken in the operation. These sug
gestions have been experimented upon, and it is
found, on repeated trials of samples sown in com
mon saucers and broadcast in the ground, that one
fourth or more of the largest kernels are killed and
never germinate, and some will produce a shoot
and no root the root sprout being killed by the
machine. This accounts, in some measure, for our
wheat coming up thick enough, but shortly becom
ing thin.. Many kernels, from native strength,
shoot 'up, but having no roots, die.
In our flour mills may be seen the cans of the
root sprout, blown out by the blower or fan, under
the hopper, by-'quarts at a time, besides that which
is blown out above. One farmer told me he had
tried the experiment by accidentally having a bar
rel of wheat threshed by hand, and sown with an
other barrel threshed by a machine, and the differ
ence was at least one quarter. Thus it is seen that
at least one quarter of the seed is killed by the
machine for threshing; and then the. whole is run
through an ordinary fanning mill, all together, and
sown from the mass. We raise our wheat, year
after year, from about three quarters of the seed
I sown, and that of the poorest quality; the best
and fullest being killed. Now to my mind, this
is enough to account for the diminuatioii of the
wheat crop from 20 to 30 down to from 5 to 12
bushels. No seed on earth could stand such a test.
Formerly, the wheat w:is threshed with flail, and
winnowed in the north-west wind, and then the
seed taken carefulty from the north-west corner of
the pile, so that very little was sown except the
first order of kernels. Some even went so far as
to select heads of the largest and bjst growth by
pulling them from the sheaves. A gentleman, who
tried the last experiment, had a quart of wheat,
j which was sowed on a corner of the field ; and he
I assures me that he could see the difference in the
grain. 40 or 50 rods he plants being a darker
green, "broader leaf, and taller growth. If this be
so, it is high time that it was attended to. Which
of our intelligent readers will experiment upon it
this fall, trying wheat selected by hand, threshed
by flail, and by machine, equal quantities of each,
sown side by side, and rep ort to us the result ? ' In
1850, over 500,000 bushels of wheat were prob-
j ably sown in Michigan. We have at band the
j statistics of the other western states, yet if this
j staPement is correct, not only were more than 100,
j 000 bushels ot wheat thrown away in one State.
but the next crop was much diminished.
There is said to be a strange disease anions the
I fall wheat in Wisconsin. However well and thick
j it may look in the fall, it dies and dries up in the
! spring, leaving the field bare. May not this al-
leged fact, in part, account for what is otherwise
j so difficult to explain ?
! Atttcmn Transplanting of Fruit Trees.
i Hovey's Magazine gives the following reasons whv
autumn transplanting is preferable to that of spring,
on all soils in good condition for the growth of fruit
trees, and they should be nlanted in no other :
Autumn planting is better than spring for the
following reasons:
1. The time is longer than spring.
2. The ground is in better condition.
3. The trees are then in the most dormant state.
4! The roots, where cut, heal better, and are
prepared to send out fresh ones even before the
frost is out of the ground.
5. The winter and spriug rains settle the earth
around the roots.
6. The trees are well established before warm
weather overtakes them.
Removing the Flavour of Turnips
FROM
Milk. The means adopted by Mr. Skilling, of the
Glasnevin Model Farm, who has directed consider
able attention to the subject, is as follows: Take a
small quantity of nitre, and pour on it as much
water as is merely necessary to dissolve it, the salt
being previously reduced to a fine powder. The
proportion in which this solution is to be used is a
wine-glassful to about ten quarts being placed
the vessel before commencing to milk.
Suggestions. When I see pi -wing done, year
j alter year, in the same track, beside a fence or
i gully, till a dyk of considerable height is thrown
up, and of course a corresponding leanness in the
interior, think I to myself there is a want of good
J - o
husbandry
When I see a stone wall topped out with a sin
gle tier of round stone, thinks I to myself the upper
foot in the height of such walls ought never to have
been put on, and look out lor dull scythes and loss
of hay. .
WThen I see a fruit tree loaded with twice the top
necessary for bearing well ; and this perhaps partly
dead,; thereby keeping the rays of the sun from the
under crop, thinks I to myself, there is an indica
tion of bad h usbandry. Northern Planter.
HUMOROUS
DEUTSCHE ADVERTISEMENT
BY C. TOLEK Wol.f.K.
' Mine horse is shloped, and I'm avri(.
He hash peen daken, or stoK n, or shi ' '
Mine piff plack horse dat looks s0 's.pC' ''
Tout fourteen ocler twelve 1 1 ui,ls hi''
lie has peen got shust four bets y,
Mit shtriped snots all down 'i,s pack '
Two legs pefore and two peliinds '
Pe shure you keep all tlU iu Vind.
He's plack all over, dat is tri.,
All but his voice, and dat's piu k t0o
He drots and gtaters, vaux : pace" ;
And outvorks Pelaebub in raei-s '
And ven he gallops in der shjn-et
He vaulks upon his legs and ifeet ;'
Yon leg goes down and den de ouVr
And always follows von an4Cr:
He has dwo ears- shtuck 'p.,; his h,
.Bote ot dem a neuter white nor red
But bote alike, shust von, ydii see
Ish placker den de oder pe :
Duly he lost von toder day.
And ven you vish to d ake a
He,
Shump on his pack on ludde
side.
And it is shust as gospel drui,
De eye vat's plinJ will not se you.
Hi dail's pehind him long ar d shleek
Only I cut him off last - week,
And darefore ttis not any more
As half so longer as pefore.
He cock$ his ear and looks so gay,
, And vill toot shtart and run
But yen he's scar't, he nnike
way; -von
-.Win,.
And shumps apout like cveify dine-
r""s.
He rides apout mit shaiz and cart,
, I never see such horse for sliniart;
Ahcf somedimes he go on de road,
Mitout nobody for his load.
But pag of corn, and takes de track
Mit little poy upon his pack.
Mine horse ish not so very ijld,
Not haff so young as ven hcjs foiled
And ven he gallop, rear or.sjniinp,
His head conies all pefore him plump,
And den his dail goes all pcind,
But somediines. ven he dakfs a mini.
Gets mad and diirns all rouiil. pe 4mre
Vy den his dail goes all before.
Whoever vill mine plack hori-c got
Shall pay den tollarson de sjipot,
And if he prings der lief alii e,
Vy den he paysnie twenty-five,
Mitout no questions ax'd pyjrne,
By mine advertisement yoiill see.
I, live out. here py Schneider" (lap,
1 Near Schlofflefuuk's.
Weekly review of the Maiiklt.-
lxti:i;tj
much sought after. -The entire!
had a fit. of the blues since our
l'oliie fuivt: km:
last.
Cream of tarter was " moiling" a: kst .iiioiv
Hons, lnat unfortunate bmitii havin1' aim im
well thrashed by Ids wife, and c .mjvlW b
for mercy.
Lead is undoubtedly heavy. Fifty pigs of tk
last importation were on hand jfit the close of siej
and pronounced, by competent judges, to be "hm
as lead.'' : .
RrCE is in improved demand.. Mrs. Skin-a-fin:
having unexpectedly treated hejr boarders to a rict
pudding, they fell to with sucii! hearty jjood i,
that if she had been one, they would have nait
nothing of Jier, also. j f
American Stocks are much fancied. Fast w.
and embryo swells who are anxious' to prop a;f
shirt collar, sporting them to ;w alr.nnin en
Pick. i
Anv kind person having anj old cooking stov
of no use to them, to srive awavL will confer a ltm-
favor upon a young couple, whj are entirely with
out one, and no means to purchase on,-, this m&
ment weather. A line aVld reused o .Vi
Herald, office, will meet with attention.
The above shews the latest dodo-e in tje art of
begging; nevertheless, we trust
the j,cn:
mmI of tht
notice. will aw aki n the dormant fire-fch v
such a degree, in the reast of some " khwsuii
that the stove will-be forthcoming, before the fart
- t
Pick.
A toast given a few years agio for the shoe J
leather manufacturers ot Dan vers : May .they
have all the women in" the coujntry to ito-and
the men to bootP '
For Ihe Southern Weekly F
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MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA
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the Saxon race.
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live.
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the Telescope.
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