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' ' ' V ' ' , - ' UnwarpV ty Vrtv rage, t live lite Brothera." ' ..- " ' V " . ' . ' - V - " S..j -, ." : l i from the Baltimore Mapiing Chronicle. ECONOMY IN FFEIHNG HORSES, STOK, ?c. In consequence' of "-tlje unparalleled roucht with which a very larjre section 0f country in, the middle Itates ha9 been vjs;ted during thesuihmeti there has beeh an nTmost total destruction of every Rpe cf of pasture, as well asl all late crops scCh as corn, turnips, potatoes. &c of vbich e present hih price of such ar ticle" is full proof, rendert if highly ne cessary? that every aKricul'Ural st and feeder'of stf ck, should economize in the ar "tic'e of forage, as far as in his power. In-? deed, I have heen credihlynformed, that a brf e number of farmers have already been compelled to feed their horsps, &c. at this season, as in the, depth of winder, In perusing the 4th volume of the me nio'n of the Philadelphia Agricultural Society. I have seen several "con'munica-; tions laid before that body, by its men bers, on the subject rf chaffing forage of every description ; but mosr particularlyi .hav and corn tops' fr. Jones-an enter-j prising and practical farmed, states tJte resnh rjf an experiment made by him, in feeding four horses for eigbt,weeks. vizrr the first four weeks, he fedhishayin racks, as is usual, previously having it correctlv weighed ; the last, four weeks he made rse of a straw cutter, cutting his hay about one inch long, and f eding it dry in troughs ; fluting the whole right; vfeks, his horses were regularly fed "wit h the same quantity of grain' each day ; th- txpVriment amply compensated him, for his trouble the difiVrence between feeding in rack- and of ctuffpg and feed i ing in trough, resulted iu the gr at 'savirg of upwards of hflf a ton- of hay. in feed ing f ur horses for four weeks, in favor of the latter mode ; and he further tates; that his horses perfrrrrfed as wl, and were equally thrivimc as before. I know of several persons who have for months past, fed nearly all their forage cliaffed, and their' accounts accord with that of Mr. Jrnes, that thej suing is very great; and well worth the attt-ntion of farmersl Frrm-the very gre&t improvements late ly made in straw cutters, the labor of chaff.lng Is rendered very inconsiderable a machine invented by a Mr. Eastman called the cylinder straw cutter, performs to admiration ; two boys, with his larger sized machine, can cut from 40 to SO bgshels of straw per hour, and a greater quantity of hay, and that without labour ing hard; the smaller sizes, cut in pro! portion; they. are alsp perfecly adapted to cutting corn stocks, husks, &c A ma chine has been in operation on tlie farni of R. Smith, Fq. near this city,, for up wards of ten month;' and bas been us-d in culling every description of forage, and given entire satisfaction In. the Ameri can Farmer, a full description of these machines is given, which,, for (lurabilityj god workmanship, ease and exptditirij in opetation, in my opinion, are excelled by none. From the very great; scarcity of provender, it will be of the utmost im portance to farmers, mre particularly the ensu'ng winter than heretffore, to use every means by which'a saving' can be effected, for if a horse is not sutticieni ly fed, he cannot work well, nor without good feeding will an ox make good btef. It niay be necessary or me to strae, I am j.t in any wa interested in the nianufac ture or sale of machines, as it might be sq inferred, by my rtc mmejiduig the cylin der strnw cutter, and I wruld advise those w'shing to purchase, to judge for them sehes. M. - ON FATTENING HOGS. A there is so little economv ohservrrl in fattening hogs in this part of the coun- try. I beg leave to notice that also' and ' point out a better and a cheaDer mode.! ; 1 The common practice is to put them in a jitn, ana inrow me; corn on the? ground; in a wet ieason, they are soon ! up to their knees in mire, and not a i dry pot to lay on. In this situation there nust oe much corn wasted, and they c in tiot possibly thrive but very slowly. My practice has been to make two square pens adjoining; they are both f.oored lith 'rails, and one of them is so cvtrcd as to turn the rain, and is well littered with lea; es or straw; and fresh litter add u at Wast once a week. . In the other pen trough is placed, in vrhich they are tt t from- twice to three times a day. One meal they are fed on peas, and the'other two on com; it is sometimes boiled and ell salted and fct other. times raw. This has been my practice for three winters; J'id my hogs have always fattened verv fa-N and eat much less jhan those fed iii the uncomfortable manner above descri bed. , n ; ' Last winter after, killing off half my fattening hogs, the others were fed alto gether on fine corn meal, and although earner naa ot much more oevere, tney fattened much faster than they had cone before, and eat Mill less. i Last winter when my. fields were eat out, 1 commenced feeding my little stock out hogs on corn ; their allowance was quarts ; but when the weather became vere, they fcU away fast on this allow- ance. I then laid the corn aside, and had four quarts of corn meal boiled every day, in ten gallons of water, until it boiled ("own to about eight ; in this a half, pint of salt was occasionally thrown while boil ing ; when done it was taken up in a large tub and given them the next day, and in one week from the day this practice was adopted hey looked much better, and from that 'time increased in flesh. When the spring opened, they were fed. only three times a week,' in the same manner, and in the .month of May, reducfd to twice a week, and by ht middle of June it wkf discontinued. Had I persisted in giving them the six quartsof raw corn I m satisfied more than half would not have seen the spring; , -jl hate also, adopted the practice of grinding all my horse corn into fine meal, and I find that I save a third after paying the toll. . With much respect, vour obV. serv't, ; , J.D.GAILLARD. J.T.Lewis. From the Providence Journai. CIDER. r a . ' ' A few years ago I was dining with a friend, who knew .my fondnrss for ci'W with my food. He remarked my friend I have no cider to offer you. Our apples have been principally cutoff by frosts and insects, for several years past: but I can give yoti some add r 'wine.' I took some of it, and diluted it with water, sufficient as I calculated to reduce it to the strength of late made cider. When I drank of it. to mv surprise. I found I had a glass of I very excellent cider, with mly a taste of a little apple brandy in it. The discovery of this fact suggested to my mind, the fol lowing, conclusion. That farmers in a plentiful year of apples, may with a little care, lay up a : supply of good cider, a giiinst a year of scarcity. This niay be done, within a small compass in the follow -n$r manner. J- . ' Take your first made cider, which is fit only for the still, nd convert it into bran dy ; put nme gallons of this brandy into a new barrel ; then fill the barrel with late made cider, well strained, and bung: it tight. . This "gives vou the strength of r.ear four barrels; of cider in one. The strength given to it by the br:mdy wili presere i's sweetness entire for many y-ars. Tht which 1 drank w;s ten or welve years old ; and it was mn impair ed by age. When it is sed, it only re quires a sufficient quaritityjof water mix rdx with it. to render it excellent cider. The barrel should be new, and clean. To guard against the rotting which in caused bv damp cellars, they should be iron b. und ard well painted. In this manner, any farmer, who has the fruit, mav nut nnl in l 7 i'- six barreb, the essence of twentv barrels of good cider, and keep it until a time of need. It will Jine itself ; and will gro bettor with an increase of age. besides ; if it i.s not wanted as cider, itus a very pleasant cordial, when undiluted; und with the addition of a. bushel of wild grapes bruised, and put into a barrel, it imbibes the' peculiar flavour of the grape, and becomes a verv nleasant wine. As there is an unusual quantity of ripples thU year I have thought this communication might be useful to agriculturalists Now is the time for grinding up the early wind falls ; ahd the cider which these produce, if distilled, will furnish the brandy neces sary for making the cider wine. And, I assure you, my friends, prepared n this way, it is imich pleasnttr. and less inju rious to health and morals than when drank, in the usual manner, mix-d with water. Those farmers, who are fond of good cider with their food, and who have telt the Want, of it, in consequence of a scarci ty of applesi will, I trust, feel the impor tance of attending to this subject, now, when they are blessed with abun - of fruit. . And another season, whrn tle t neighbours are destitute, the possession rt plenty of excellent cider, in their cellars, will more fully realize to them the value of this' communication, if ; they will make the experiment. 1 ' ON PROCRASTINATION. From the Brief Pemdrker, :; The nation nom which we derive our language, has been distinguished, above j ti haps alj othcr, for steady persevering industry : and several Erglish old sayings, or proverbs correspond with this promi nent feature of national character. . One ' f the&e fchcient sayings of English origin, is, " Never to put off till to-morrow what may be done to-day.". On the contrary; sluggishness and procrastination are na ; ionul attributes of the Spaniards, who, tliouglr acting: with great spirit aud vigor when rdnsed to action, continue slothful and dilatory at all other times. fJ-Norls it a lit le remarkable, that there is a Spa nisji pruvt rb directly of opposite meaning to the Englbhr'bne just now mentioned. Laborde, in his View of Spain, affirms it to be a Spanish proverbial maxim, "That, one should never do to-day what may be put off Ull to-morrow . i t Whether it be owing to natuie, of to edacatioa shiiJ, habi'v or from whatever ly country, a prevailing disposition to fol low the last of these twoopposite maxims; though we arb all ready to aamit the rea sonableness of its contrast. ' No infatua tion is more deplorable.'nor yet more ge neral, the whole christianized world over, t han the vain hope that leads us to put off froVn day to day the; gre3t work "which must be done, or ourselves be forever uh done. But I now am tp speak not of the common and most deplorable infatuation, which relates! to the concerns of immor tality, but "of that which concerns our temporal interests. Of the fatal error of the former, the Holy Volume and the Pulpit give solemn warning ; of some of the mischiefs of the latter, It is mine to treat in this short essay. Few things are more ruinous, even to our secular affairs, than customary pro crastination. ; It confuses and blights eve ry kind of worldly business ; for business not attended to in the proper time and season, either not done at all, or dne with more labor and difficulty, and to less purpose. ; , ' v. . y Some men are in the practice of letting their accounts lie unsettled for tseveral years together. It is no matter forsooth ; they are near n ighbors and dose friends, and can cqme to a. reckoning at any time. At length a, settlement between them commences. The accounts of each, how ever ho.n st, are swelled beyrtd the. ex pectation of the otlu r. On both sides, se veral items afe vunifched from the re membrance of him who is charged with ! them. A warm disinnV ensues ; perhaps an arbitration ; pf radv nure an expen sive lawsuit ; and these ciose friends are severed forever., I Some men neglect to make their Wills, tliough they know their estates would be inherited contrary to their own rr.indsand to the rule of equjty, if they should chance to die intestate. Knowing-this, and sin cerely wishing that right miy be done to their heirs, 'they 'are fullv determined to perform the necessary 'act and deed, some tixe or other. But why just now ? An other time will do "as well.'" And thus they delay the thing from year to year, till at last the time of d ing it is gone by t a. precious widow, or a beloved and de- ' serving child is left to suffer through life ! the bit'pr consequences of this default. Some farmers double their labor, and , lose half their profiis, for want of doing ! things in the proper season. Their fields ' are overgrown with bushes and thorns, all j which a little scunonuble labor might have ; prevented. Their fences, and even their i buildings, ' are neglected, till tiie cost of repairs becomes increased several fold ; : besides their sustaining a train of inconve ! niencies and of serious injuries from the ! neglect. And so also their crops cost ! more labor, and at the same time are j leaner in bulk, or interior in quality, by ; reason that much of the lob ,r that had been bestowed upon them was out of sea son. Nor is it -uncommon. to' see farmers of this sort in a mighty hurry and bustle. They are behind their; business and run ning to overtake it ; w hich is the cause J of their being so often in a greater huny th in their neighbors. Many a one-loses his custom as a me chanic, by not doing his work in season. It makes no odds, he thinks, whether the thing b? done precisely at the time agreed up"n but so think not his customers. What dees not a merchant lose, in cus tom, in credit; and in cash, by neglecting f his backs, though it be only a few months. or a few weeks. ILw hard docs he tint! it to set right, what might easily have been kept right if he had done the work of each day within the day. . ... Honest Jonathan borrows a sum of mo ney of his particular friend, on the ex press promise -of scrupulous punctuality. He gets the. money by the day: but being busy here andthere, he delays, to carry or send it. llie m6ney happens to be wanted the very day it becomes due and, with thai particular friend, Jon a-t than's borrowing-credit is utterly lost. ? .. D.-ctor - possesses undoubted skill in his profession; but loves talk better than practice. Called away in a case of press ing emergency, he sets out with speed ; but meets an old acquaintance, to whom he tip'ens a budget of news and ", politics, which takes him up half an hour in the relating ; and by the time he arrives, au is over. Half an hour sooner, and his pa tient might have been saved. " Violent pains and fevery chills seize us. If they go not off, we will send for the physician to-mdrow. Ere to-morrow ar rives, the distemper "gains a firmuess that baffles the physician's skill." . ' "V' Hark! The crv of fear and dismay. The Small Pox! Our' children have caught the contagion ; we meah,t'to have them vaccinated, but had it, put off, and the time for it is now p isv. . ; Urn the whole : That which may be done at any time, is seldom done in sea son, and often left undone j whereas a lit tle ti.t.e that is known tobe theonly ti-T.et suffices for bringing much to pass. KAgnin, when we. have various means of obtaining our object we are less likely to obtain it tlvan if we had only one, and that a fea sible and good one ; for k, vibrating mind is inactive, and he that loiter rarely suc ceeds. For the same reason, one good p',I1'iit ic IsMiit tlton Vlf a rto-TPn. k MORALS. That every man would be rich tf a, t?ish -I could ohtain riches, is a' position whtchI believe fewwill contest, at least ina na tion, like ours, in which commerce ,nas kindled an universal emulation of wealth; and in which money receives all the ho nors which Jt;e;the proper right of know ledge and of virtue. . A 5--: Yet though we are all laboring for gold as for the. chief good, and, by the natural effect of tin Wearied ' diligence, have found many expeditious ine hods pf obtaining it, we have.not been able to Jmproye tbe art of using ifr oi to make it. produce .more happiness than it afforded in former times, when every declaimer expatiated on its mischiefs, and every philosopher taught , his fnllowers to despise? it. . Many of the dangers imputed of old to Exorbitant- wealth are how at an end. The rich are neitlier way laid by robbers, nor watched by informers ; there is no thing to be dreaded from proscriptions, dr seizures The necessity, of concealing treasure has long ceased ; no man now needs counterfeit mediocrity, & condemn his. plate, and jewels to caverns and dark ijess, or feast his mind with the conscious ne?s of clouded splendor of finery which is useless till 'it is shown, and which lie dare not sKow. - ;.' ' ! '.. '.' In our tooe thepoor are strongly tempt ed to assume the appearance, of wealth, but the wealthy very rart ly" desire to be thought pnor; for we are, at full .-iibenyi to display riches by, every mode of ostein? -tation. Vve fill our houses with useless ornaments, only to shew that we can buy them ;. we cover our conches with gold, and employ artists in th discovery or nkvt fashions of expense ; and yet it can nf t be found that riches produce happiness.- ' . -. "f Of riches, as of every, thing else, the hope is more than the enjoyment ; while we consider them as the means to be u sett, at some future times for the attain ment cf felicity, we press on our pursuit ardently and vigoroustyand that ardour secures us from weariness of ourselves; but no sooner do we sit down to enjoy 0ttr acquWticr.s, than we find them insufficient to fill up the vacuities of life.. One cause which is notjalways observ ed of the insufficiency of' riches is, .'that they very seldom make their owner rich. jTo.be rich, is to have more than is ty nt- e:d ; to have something which may be spent without, reluctance, and. scattered without care, with which the sadden d fptfnds of desire may be gratified, the ca sual freaks of fancy 'indulged,- or the unf expected opportunities of benevolence improved, f ' .. . '-'''ti; p i Avarice is always poor, but poor by her own fault. There is another poverty to which the rich are exposed with less guilt, by the orficiousoess of others. Eve rv man, eminent for exuberance of for tune,. is surrounded from morning to even ing, i and from evening to midnight, by flatterers, whose art of adulation con sists in exciting artificial wants, and in forming new schemes of profusion. ". Johnson. FOR SALE . A LIKELY NEtiRO C I RL, between 17 & xIl 1 8 year of Age. 1 Apply to KOSS & scott: Sept. 19. lOOtf CARRIAGE MAKING IJJ ALL ITS BRANCHES. THE Subscriber begs leave to return his gTatffiit thanks to those who have favor, ed )m with their patronage since his com mencement of Business So" this place, and to inform them and the Publici' thkt he has re moved his Workshop to a most ceijtral and eligiblesituation5 onCVl 1 thihgtonSt r eef a biiut 60 yards from the south east corner of the State-House Squaii where lie will con stantly keep art assortment Or "COACHES, CARRIAGES, GIGS and light SUtKEYS, for travelling', of the most? fashionable vand convenient construction, made front the best materials that can be procured,' and of a. su perior style of workmanship whjeh he will sell at very moderate prices and on accommo- dating terms- K'-'""' ? ' y Having; made arrangements to be constant ; ly provided with acomplete stock of Trim-1 mings and alTother necessary MaterialsMof the best quality ; be mos- respectfully soli ots that patronage from the public, which it has ever been his earnest wish to deserve- ! JOHN RQRKE Ralegh, Sept. 10 99 8w ' : JUST PUBLISHED, IL1IAP CK, v . FOR ? !' . Containing, besides the Astronomical and Weather Calculations, f some valuable pieces on Farming and Rural -Afl airs many useful MiscellaneousArticles, Medicaid Receipts; Anecdotes, &c ; a list of the Officers of tKe Government of the United St Hies and of .this State, with their sal&ies i the t imes of held v ing all the different Courts in this SUte? a list of the Members f Assembly, &c. v . . ": 5old wholesale &.retail by the Publishers ; by Stuart; Birdsall, & Co. Fa etteyille j D. Smith. WdmiBffton i and Salmon Hall, New- berh ; and retaded by most of the Storekeep ers in the Stajte. Sept 25. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. fBlHK Boardj for internal Imprnrements for V ' A I HhStatje: ofrNbrih-Csrohna will' meet Y u.j at Raleigh on Afonday tb 5 25th vf November ; : v next; j Of.whie.hall persons having business ' ' with the Doard ViU please tftke noticed , . . ; J , ! j S j'-7vV ' tVV-''Vvj; ": CiALES, ): Afv j.1 1 jw." " Secretary to;the Rb4r4; October 14. - -iff Mm IN THE PRESS ' . Qf Joseph .Gates ef Son, vl AND SPKEDllY will be puCLisnfcn, "" 4 TheNorth-Carolijsa Rpitcr and,' ! United States Cnlendar for the: year j of our Lord 1 823? bpinft i he 47lHif j the Independence of the IJniteq States ; i -crnnpiletl from authentic documents. By the jievColiiv M'lver." j i i ' . - -.; r- :;,,'v'- A ifpHIS Vork, besfdes an accurate Calendar ' t -1 i with tlie isur1 astirpnomical calculations till contain ihe names of .the several Officers V'r J .who'leonduct the State, Government, eithec J in a Legrslativey Executive or Judicial capa ! ciUr the names of all the Magistrates and 1 1 ' I ' .. C'il . ' ... suDoramaie umceis pi line sever i ; counties withinthe Staite-the , names of the several , incorporated Companies and . voluntary 'Asso- V . ciations for useful, beneficent and pious pur- v poses which exist withinj he State, vvith lists 1 v of tle principal ofEcers employed in conduct-' " ing the affairs of these Institutions -a list of -the, Post Offices in the State, witlj the natoe? "'.'-, . of the several Postmasters and a great va, t Ecclesiastical nature, relating to this State 1'' and to the United States, a reference to--f which I must prove a considerable coriveni- ence to alhour citbens. ThcVork will ie Completed by the time.fixed for the rotpting of the Legislature ; and should it meet wit ft .; suitable patronage frpm the public, a similar 4 ' V ork :may, jn tuture, be annually . expected OctJ 25. ; ... .... ,v . -5 it . - - , ; ) ..- " -. " : - - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, I JTOHTn-CARoiliri TJISTKICT. " ! j District of Catf-rVt -fo-tnV. 1; ,; Bfi iTHiMBMBERBi), that bn the 14th day of August, in the year of bur Lord one thou. sand -..eight hhndred and tweutj-lwo, and of r the IndependencV of Jhe'United States of A merica the forty-seventh, the Rev. Colin M'lver, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title (ot a lBook, the right whereof he claims aa proprietor, indie words foHom ,16 Wit :-'-; x- V t -,v ' ): ; The: North-Carolina Register and United States Calendar, j for the year of our . LortI 1823, bein the 47th of the Independence ot ; the United States'; . Compiled from authentic :' documents. By the Rev. Colinl'lver,? r . In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, ''An afct fprth encouragement of learning, by securing th copiesi of Maps, Charts, and Books, to th authors nd proprietor of such copies, dur-' ing-the times therein mentioned." V "witness whereof, Carleton Walker, Clerk: of said District, has berbunto set his hand ' the date above written,,. " CARLETON WALKER. 'jt-. EOR SALE. , :-'i'r' ' fffHE valuable plantation, iate the proper- , tL ty bf George Nichols, decd, ccntafnin about 800-acres, lying 5 miles south of . the ,City of Raleigh; adjoining the lands of Hut- chins Atkins, Richard King, and others. V ; There is enough; cleared land to, einploy; 6 or 8 hands to advantage ; . the balance is wood land, of superior; quality. Part of the ' tract is superior, and all of it of as good qua-" lity as any so near Raleigh. On the preht iseti is a comfortable two 'story d elling-house, jiear, an excellent 'Spring, with necessary . outhouses. i; .!. .. ; The vicinity to Raleigh of this Land, where every' article of produce will find aTeady cash market, its . being in a good neighbor- , hood, and vvithal A ery-healthy, renders it a -desirable residence. ; ' ; ! '. Those wishing to purchase, will, of course, vier the premises. The jnore it is known, , the more valuable it will appear. t If not sold before it will be rented on the first of Janu ary next for the ensuing year . : FOR RENT," ' , . Twodwelluig-houses in Raleigh, one now occupied by Ntne Subscriber, whicn is two . stories high with all the neces3ary,put hous J es; and a large and excellent garden. The, , other is now occupied by.'Mr.-H. JVVbb, and to it is also attached all necessary out houses,' . and a large garden. , ' . V" Possession , of the one I occupy may be Jiad on the first of December; and of that occupied by Mr. Webb, on the-first of Janii-. ary next. e ; . - . ' . Benjamin A. Barhap is authorised to-rsell, the land and rent the houses. . . ' - ;. r MARGARET N, HAS SAM. - Oct, 24th, 1822. .:V.v.n5 , ' '4 ::$XO GAOLERS. ; '' PETEReft mypianttton in Lancaster DistncCS- C. on the Sih in&U Hei22 ears old, 6 feet 5 or 3 inches high, of slender make and thin visage 1 speaks wah much consequence' and commonly Jih his head thrown a little back. He has a cancerous r affection on the bottom of his nght f(ot. The,' sorest present is small, but the surround -ng sc&r larger than a . dulls r his toes-on . that root are bseles'sV and,he alvays wears a shoe . on it- I bought him last May o McJhn R. Vincenti irs Y. said that he brougi.t him frodt Orange County, N. Cneur th CVwell liiie. lftaken up I expect he denies bu name and owner. ,j . . . . '-!', .'iV'"' ' 'Aivy Gaoler Who may have him in cuno ly, wiil.pieas.e direct a l.ne to meat LiOfci-tyHut,- 5. C- and .atislactory acknowicomtiits bUau- be 1 endereo. JOHN GOOCft. Stnt. 20183?. -6t -u- A i 1 s
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