ed to rains which wash them and carry off at least sirous to ascertain their opinion on the effect of high The juice expressed from 100 lbs. of fruit, was put a part of this matter." keeping, and found, as far my inquiries extended, into a thirty gallon cask, to which I added seventyThe scabby condition of nearly all the Merino that they were unanimous in a settled conviction, two pounds of brown Havana sugar, of a handsome flocks imported into the United States, and their that moderate keeping produced the finest wool; I quality, and then filled the cask nearly full with liability to that disease, when kept in close folds, are also inquired whether they regarded a very copious water. I placed it immediately above ground, in a facts strongly corrobative of Mr. Vauquelin's theory. secretion of yolk as a characteristic of fine wool. frame building, where it was exposed to the greatest But to return to Mr. Luccock who is the chief au- The countenance of every person to whom I put the heat of the summer. It has never been in the cel thority for the opinion of "Curwen" on yolk,-let question indicated surprise that such an inquiry lar, nor has it had any distilled spirits added to it. us hear what he says of his own experience in Me- should be made, the general reply was, I pay no re- My experience has taught me several facts, which 1 rino sheep, the only race in which an exuberance of gard to any marks but the quality of the wool on deem important in the manufacture of currant wine. yolk is found. Page 85. "I have not seen," says he, every part of the carcass; some added, that so far In the first place, I think I have proved the dry box "any of these animals or their produce which are said from regarding the yolk as a favourable mark, they sugar to be much preferable to the common Musto afford a staple equally fine from every part of would always prefer cæteris paribus, the sheep which covadoes, both on account of its greater strength, their body; but conjecture that if this breed were had the least of it. The fact that yolk is no indica- and its not communicating any foreign or molasses minutely examined it would appear that the yolk is tion of the degree of excellence in Merino wool is flavour to the wine. And in the second: The great produced in equal quantities in every part of the so obvious, and can be proved by an examination of objection which stands against the domestic wines carcass." Thus it appears that Mr. Luccock had any flocks in the United States so easily, that I of this country is, that a considerable portion of never seen a Merino, not even a mixed blood of that race. would as soon think of looking into my almanack to the saccharine matter remains suspended in its naCan it be necessary to combat his theory of yolk ascertain the state of the weather while I am writ-tural form. By keeping the wine in a warm situa any further? If it were we have his own admissions ing, as to refer to the authority of any writer who tion, the fermentation goes forward more actively after all the crude speculation he has given, that speaks without experience on such a point. I and perfectly, and approaching a state of dryness, "the copious and regular perspiration of the animal, hope you will excuse this long paper from the same produces, (simply by the process of vinous fermenthough undoubtedly favourable to the production of motive which produced it. tation.) such a quantum of spirit, as makes it engood qualities in wool, is not absolutely essential to Yours, &c. tirely unnecessary to add any artificially prepared. the fineness of the pile." The reader must now be I have been for several years engaged in making satisfied that Mr. L. was a speculative writer, wholly THE ACCOMAC, OR MAGOTHY BAY BEAN. currant and cherry wine, and have now near 3000 destitute of any claim to be regarded as authority on currant trees growing. I am also establishing a this point. I shall, therefore, dismiss him and sug-J. S. SKINNER, Esq. September 15, 1826. vineyard of three acres, from which I shall expect gest a few remarks for the consideration of those Sir.-Some time ago I owned a poor sandy field, some grapes next season. I have been peculiarly who have placed too much confidence in him. It which repeated green dressings with buckwheat cautious in the selection of such kinds, both for the may be considered as a received opinion that high could not fertilize. Having read what is extracted table and wine, as appear to be fitted to the climate, keeping renders wool rather coarser than low keep below from Bordley's Essay on Husbandry, I en- &c., and have every confidence in its proving a proing. The breeders of Merinos have been for some deavoured to procure the Accomac Bean-seeds, but fitable investment of money and labour. time reluctantly yielding to it-the authority of Mr. did not succeed, till just now, when I received some Sheppard, and many others, for this fact is almost from an acquaintance, who was on a visit in Accoirresistible. Now, it is well known that the same mac. Owning no field now, I take the liberty of sheep when fat, secretes more yolk than when lean; sending the seeds to you, supposing, that in the it is also, well known that rams secrete more yolk hands of some one of your friends they may be of than ewes, while the latter have the finest wool. use. These facts are incontrovertible, and are wholly irreconcileable with the theory, that the most volk indicates the finest fleece. In one of the essays published in the American COLUMELLA. HORTICULTURE. RANT WINE. EDWARD H. BONSALL. 1826. Baltimore, 9th mo., 15, ON GARDENING. (From the Works of the Prince de Ligne.) "I should wish to inspire all the world with my taste for gardens. It seems to me impossible that a bad man should possess it: he, indeed, is incapable Farmer, a Mr. Bullock certifies that "Southdown HINTS ON THE MANUFACTURE OF CUR of any taste: but if I, for that reason, esteem the pick lock is preferable to Merino pick lock of this searcher of wild plants; the active conqueror of country." If this be true, how does it happen that butterflies; the minute examiner of shells; the somthe Southdowns can produce such fine wool with- TO THE EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN FARMER: bre lover of minerals; the frozen geometrician; the out secreting more yolk than the common sheep of Respected Friend,-The accompanying sample of three lunaticks of poetry and painting; the absent this country-if yolk be the "pabulum of wool," its wine was made in the summer of 1824, at my cur- author; the abstract thinker; and the discreet chyessential support, one would suppose it as important rant orchard, (Germantown, Pennsylvania,) from mist,-there is no virtue which I do not attribute to that end in one race as in another; all who have the common red currant,† in the following manner. to him who loves to talk of gardens, and to form seen badly selected Merino flocks, imported or native, must know that there are often to be found among them, individuals actually inferior in fineness them. Absorbed in this passion, which is the only *The Accomac, or Magothy Bay Bean (Cassia chama- those which derange the calmness of the soul or one that increases with age, he daily overcomes of pile to the ordinary half bloods, while they abound crista, of Linnæus,) has wonders siputed ten itsasaan the order of society. When he has passed the in yolk to a much greater extent. In addition to ameliorator of the light sandy lands in the peninsula of these facts, it is known that wool sheared without be considered as being a Lilliputian locust tree; for al- and physical corruption, to go and work in his Virginia. In size, and other particulars, the plant may drawbridge of the city gate, the asylum of moral washing, and put away in the yolk, takes injury though it is an annual, yet its stem is a hard locust-like lands, or enjoy them, his heart rejoices at the sight which it will not do if well washed on the back, wood, and its leaves, flowers, pods and seeds, greatly re- of nature, and experiences the same sensation as in which state the manufacturers greatly prefer it. semble those of that tree. The woody hardness of the his lungs, on receiving the pure air that refreshes I shall only observe further that I have been in the plant is in appearance against its being a choice amelio- them." habit of examining wool and Merino sheep with very raator, as it is not likely to ferment, and, as it were, minute attention for fifteen years, and from my own melt away in the ground, so soon as buckwheat and experience, and that of every other practical breeder other juicy, soft substances. No plant, however, can and brandy-less wine will be drunk at the next meeting whom I have met with for several years, I cannot exceed the shade it gave on a piece of ground in my of the Trustees of the Maryland Agricultural Society By garden. A Lilliputian might have been there lost in the bye, it has pleased us to perceive, on the part of a be mistaken in the conviction that the quantity of darkness. This shade and a perspiration from the plants, gentleman, hitherto incorrigibly sceptical as to homeyolk in a Merino is no indication of the quality of the during the greatest heat of summer, together with an made wine of every kind, some symptoms of "veering wool, and that a very copious secretion of it is very extraordinary quantity of blossoms, pods, and leaves, about." In the increasing dryness of our summers he detrimental to the wool.-it causes dirt to adhere, which the plants deposit on the ground, are pr bably begins to perceive a better adaption of the climate to and keeps it wet after rains so long as to spoil the what give the great manuring and amelioration, which the culture of the grape; but having himself, perhaps, tenacity of the filament, as any one can ascertain the people of Accomac satisfactorily experience. But the best cellar of imported wines in the state, it was who will compare the strength of the outer ends of this plant, which is not the Partridge Pea, is so difficult not to be wondered at that he should be slow to encou a very dirty fleece with those of one which has little to eradicate, it is said, that it might become an injurious rage the hebetating, unskilfully compounded drink, yolk in it. I was present at a sale of Saxon Merinos weed in other soils and courses of crops than those in which is sometimes introduced under venerable names. Accomac. Their courses being maize, oats, and lay, From a gentleman at Brighton, in Massachusetts, we in New York in June last, there was a very large on a sandy, loose soil. collection of Merino breeders from the states of New received, not long since, a few bottles of very superior [Bordley's Essays and Notes on Husbandry, 2d edit., home-made wine; amongst them some called Brighton York, Connecticut, Vermont and Massachusetts; Phila., 1801, p. 46, note.] Champagne, approaching so nearly to the best importalso several from states further south:-probably [Offerings of this sort are reserved for suitable oc-ed, as to require a very delicate taste to distinguish it. more practical skili, on Merino breeding, than has casions, when they may be submitted to the taste and We shall quarrel with no one who sends to be tasted ever been at one place in our country, I was de-judgment of select parties. This bottle of patriotic such samples of taste.] INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL. (Concluded from page 204.) [Upon these estimates the National Intelligencer makes the following observations:] The result of all these facts is simply this, that cost of that part of the canal which conveyed it to 25 miles of Canal, with its lockage included, have the consumer. been bona fide, put under contract, with skilful and responsible contractors, for less than 9000 dollars the mile. The breadth and depth of the Canal be ing the same with the dimensions of the canals of New-York. On the subject of coal, the gentlemen from whom It was publicly stated on the floor of Congress, during the last winter, that the portion of the a part of the above facts are derived, furnish the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, between Cumberland following gratifying particulars: That coal is now and tide water, being in length one hundred and supplied from Pittsburg by water carriage, to Louiseighty-four miles, with a lockage of 578 feet, and ville, at the distance of 550 miles, in arks that never having a breadth of 50 and depth of 5 feet, would return, at from 6 to 8 cents the heaped bushel. That, in Pittsburg, it is conveyed from the coal cost upwards of 8,000,000 of dollars. In this estimate, it is understood that portions of the labour and excavations to the dwelling houses and factories in town, a distance of from one and a half to five miles, materials, were computed at the following prices: at 3 cents the like bushel. And, the following anaIn Masonry and Stone Work, for dry lysis of this price, shews that it is not founded on walls, where stone is on the spot, $3.00 the perch.transient circumstances. For walls constructed with mortar, per the cubic yard $5 81 cents, equivalent to, For bricks per thousand, Lime in all its uses, at And day labour, per day, at Lockage, per foot lift, at 5 37 These estimates may be reduced, it is believed, on the most expensive part of the route of the canal, after the first ten or twenty miles, as follows: For dry walls, $1.50 2.00 For walls constructed with mortar, 4.00 For lime, per bushel, 25 For labour, by the month, at the rate per day, of 50 the perch. It is well known, that, after reaching the Blue Ridge, these prices may be yet further reduced: The rubbling of the external surface of the Canal Banks, to prevent abrasure, by river freshes throughout, to Excellent stone laid in mortar, Bricks, per thousand, near the tunnels, where alone they will be required, Lime, per bushel, in stone, one of which will make near two of slaked lime, to Labour, as before, &c. 16 2-3 LADIES' DEPARTMENT. FOR THE AMERICAN FARMER. "Falstaff. Boy, Page. Sir? Falstaff. What money have I in my purse? Page. Seven groats and two-pence. Falstaff. I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse. Borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable." Unfortunate Sir John! so fond of good living with means so slender!-1 condole, I sympathise with thee, merry knight, being in the same predicament myself. The day labour of the hand, who excavates the It may be useful to some of your readers, Mr. coal, and brings it to the mouth of the cavern, sup- Editor, to know by what process my purse, once plies one hundred bushels, which, at 1 cent the bush- distended by gold and silver has been thus sweated 50 the bushel. el, allows for his labour a subsistence, and the rent down-how it contracted this incurable consumption. 1.00 of the mine one dollar the hundred bushels. I commenced the world with some advantages: such 1500 00 A wagon, with five horses and a driver, makes as family, reputation, property.-Finding the world four trips a day, over a distance, by a turnpike, of combined against bachelors, partly to please it, one and a half miles, bringing, at each trip, 70 bush-partly to please myself, I got married; and although els, and in the day, 280 bushels, which at 3 cents I did not find matrimony "such great things as it had per bushel, allows four dollars for the use of the been cracked up for;" I was pretty well satisfied, wagon and team, and leaving, for more distant sup- until I found my expenses increased in an alarming plies or for profit on these, from the nearest caverns degree. "My dear" soon discovered that we wanted one hundred and sixty cents per day, to the capital a vehicle to ride in. I reminded her of our "chaise ists engaged in this business. and one," the good old style of our country; but she It is known that the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal preferred a "coach and pair." I objected to the will, in any of the contemplated routes, across the cost-that I could not spare the money.-She remountains, reach, in the first two hundred miles, plied that neighbour Dash, no richer or better than and pass through inexhaustible beds of excellent myself, had a "double carriage." I tried to concoal, which may be loaded in a boat at a cent and a vince her that this would bring on "double trouble," $100 the perch. quarter the bushel, transported to Washington with as well as double expense. "We can drive the 1 75 do profit, by the canal, for four cents more, and paying chaise ourselves-the chaise costs only one half as a toll of six and a quarter cents, leave one and a much as the coach, and, besides, we have the chaise 3 50 pr thousand quarter cents a bushel, for the rent of the mine; already--one horse costs and consumes but one half and yet, be sold in the Washington market at as much as two-and, again, we already have twelve and a half cents the bushel, and in that of "Dumpling," for whom I have no match, and, thereBaltimore, Philadelphia, or New-York, at 30 per fore, should have to buy a pair, which, you know, 50 the day. cent. less than any coal now supplied to these mar- are not worth any thing unless they are exactly alike. From beyond the Allegany, the Delegates from kets. Messrs. Denny and Craft state, that seventeen The coach must have a coachman, and, in this counPittsburg supply the following facts, as the basis of a bushels of heaped coal are computed at Pittsburg, try of gates, a foot man, and I have not them to yet lower estimate, being that derived from the ac- to furnish as much heat as one cord of the best spare." "But, my dear," said she, “you are of tual contracts for constructing 25 miles of the new hickory wood; and sixty bushels, which cost, deli- a good family, as well as myself,-every genPennsylvania Canal, extending up from Pittsburg, vered at the factory, one dollar and eighty cents, teel family has a coach-and, you know, I cannot along the Allegany river. give motion, for twelve effectual and thirteen and a drive." I urged the example of neighbour Thrift's Abstract from the contracts entered into on the Western Sec- quarter actual hours, to three thousand cotton spin- wife, who could drive, ride on horseback or walk, tion of the Pennsylvania Canal. dles, while the factory is, at the same time, and by as might be most convenient: but she remarked that the same fuel, warmed throughout. "Mrs. Thrift did not come of a good family, and It is left to arithmetical calculation, guided by a that this, in her, was all natural enough. How knowledge of the arts and of the uses of such fuel, should I look were I to meet Mrs. rolling in so cheaply provided, to estimate its consumption, a coach, and I driving Dumpling?" I replied that and the profit which its supply must yield, upon the Mr. had died a bankrupt, in consequence, canal, the cost of which, it is now confidently believ-as it was thought, of her extravagance, and that the ed, between the excavations in the mountains that coach she now used was borrowed. furnish the coal, and of which they are in a great The contest was often renewed; at length, whether measure composed, and the tide water of the Poto- from the flattery contained in her argument, or the mac, will not exceed four millions of dollars. sake of a quiet house, the coach was bought; and Six and a quarter cents toll are charged upon the from that moment I date the commencement of my bushel of coal; not because in any tariff this would ruin;-not exactly from the cost, but from the style bear a fair proportion to its price, but because the of living it introduced. commodity will bear the toll. When the other uses The importance of a family, in the country, is of the canal shall admit of it, this toll may be re- wonderfully increased, in their own conceit, by a duced to two cents the bushel, and coal supplied to "double carriage," not a negro on the farm but the District on cheaper terms than it is now furnish-feels it, and becomes more proud and worthless.— ed from Pittsburg to Louisville, viz: at six and a For a long time little was thought of, by my wife quarter cents the bushel-one fourth of a cent be- and servants, but sporting the coach and long-tail ing the reduced rent of the Canal Bank. bays. Dumpling was reduced to the ranks; and I Allowing 150 bushels for every family, and con- could not help thinking that he reproached me every fining the consumption of coal to the inhabitants, time we met. My plough and cart frequently stood whom it would reach, on the waters of the Poto-still, when they ought to have been moving, for the mac and the Chesapeake, alone, it cannot be ques-want of my principal hands, the coachman and foottioned, but that at six and a quarter cents the bush-man. Every thing went wrong. Instead of selling lel, it would pay an income of six per cent. on the 'I had to buy corn; instead of putting out money at No. Section. 1, 21 71 c. 7 ft. 64 c. 88 c. 10, 21 10 61 c. 14, 18 74 15 ft. 9 c. 69, 21 Locks, per perch, less than $4, including all expense, or $3990 for a lock of ten feet lift, say $400 a foot lift, including all expense, fit for boats to pass through. The locks are ranged and hammered stone. Stone work, per perch, on culverts, &c. from $1.49 to $1.99. Small aqueducts across the creeks, $7 per foot run. We also state that common day labourers are hired at $15 per month, including boarding, &c. This is the highest rate. Lime, 1 cents per bushel, (stone.) Best brick $34 per thousand. JAMES S. CRAFT, MISCELLANEOUS. PENSACOLA-CLIMATE, SOIL, PRODUC- "SIR, dle Steer, one of the Chillicothe twin calves, the property of Mr. George Renick, and found the weight to be two thousand nine hundred and ninetysix pounds. JACOB EIKELBURNER, weigh master. interest every year, I had to borrow-to put my name on the "lender's book." The wheat went for necessaries and luxuries-we had a constant round of company; and every farmer knows how that operates. I gradually lost my spirits, my good humour, (Extract from a private letter to the Editor.) had my misgivings-saw breakers ahead, but did Pensacola, Aug. 3, 1826. not change my course. At length I was obliged to State of Ohio, Ross county, Mayor's Office, Chillicothe, ss. mortgage my land. After that I resigned myself to "The navy yard is laid out, and a few temporary I, Levin Belt, mayor of the town of Chillicothe, my fate. I formerly delighted in improving it--but buildings have been erected-next year, it is supdo certify, that Jacob Eikelburner, who signs the who ever improved a mortgaged farm? when it comes posed, much work will be done on the buildings above weight of Mr. George Renick's Steer, has to that the game is nearly up--you may almost say, walls, wharfs, &c. At present we have to dispute been regularly appointed by the council as our "Othello's occupation's gone." possession with the rattlesnakes. weigh master, and that faith and credit is due to all Ruin now approached with rapid strides. My This city fell short of my expectations-it is in a credit sunk-my neighbours began to prophesy; state of dilapidation, and the country around it mise-his certificates as such. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed friends to be ceremonious, and shy, especially at rably poor. The climate, however, is agreeable, vendues-sometimes remarking, accidentally, in my and the people kind and hospitable. I met with an my name and affixed the seal of my office, this fourhearing, that they had come to a resolution not to be old acquaintance in the commander of the military teenth day of November, in the year one thousand security for any one. here, Colonel Clinch, who, with a number of other eight hundred and twenty-two. LEVIN BELT, Mayor. "Misery makes a man acquainted with strange gentlemen, has been very attentive to me. I have bed fellows."-I found it so-numberless evils, not been to at least, (or might have been) half a dozen [The live weight of Mr. Barney's Ox, Columbus, foreseen, as the result of poverty, were now not only balls, to say nothing of dinner parties. Judging from was 2,962, (see Am. Farmer, vol. 1, page 4.) It is seen, but felt. Shifts for "raising the wind," and appearances I should not expect the yellow fever to to be regretted that we are not told of what breed keeping up appearances, were resorted to that I do originate here. That which desolated the place in these calves were.] not like to remember. Friends fell off-creditors 1822, according to the account of the inhabitants, ITEMS, pressed-my note was no longer current at bank-was produced by a cargo of damaged cod fish. The Riot.-Between 20 and 30 Irishmen, labourers crops, worse and worse. Interest accumulatingwater from springs is abundant and excellent. The on the U. States fortifications at Newport, made a bay affords good fish-the woods game-and our riot on Long wharf in that place on the 10th inst. expenses undiminished-what was to be done?Luckily one of the servants (that is the fashionable vicinity to New Orleans enables us to get almost They fought with violence for some time, but were phrase) misbehaved, and was sold to a negro trader any that we are able to buy, in a few days. The quelled by the civil authority, and the ring leaders of it went against my conscience the idea that we had frost in 1822 killed all the orange trees in Louisiana the mob were committed to jail. eat him up, though an odd one, haunted me continual- and West Florida; but they are putting up again ly. This expedient, not to say crime, served for a from the roots, and will bear next year. The fig is time; but, although repeated, again and again, it produced here in perfection. The vine makes but would not do. Suits were brought-judgments, exelittle figure; but it will, no doubt, do well. The (From late English Papers received at the Office of the cutions and cash sales soon followed, and swept eveSpaniards pay no attention to improvements, and American Farmer.) ry thing by the board. The predictions of my neigh- the first swarm of adventurers after the transfer It was unusually sickly at Liverpool, and other bours were fulfilled-they "knew it would be so"soon passed away. Many of the houses that brought places, occasioned as was supposed by the extreme "pride must have a fall." I took pains to get a good fifty dollars per month rent, can now be had for ten. heat of the summer. master for Dumpling-as for the bays they were know of several that are occupied rent free. struck off to a jockey, who nicked, and sold them to a spendthrift, who is travelling the same road to ruin. Adieu, Mr. Editor-avoid "double carriages" and long tail bays. OLDSCHOOL. THE TOMB OF WOMAN. AN EXTRACT. I I The gardens produced wonderfully to their looks. In Manchester and Salford, there are thirty thousThere is little or no soil-nothing but white sand, and individuals who receive relief from the subscripthe reflection from which is disagreeable and hurtful tion fund, in addition to those who are partly supto the eyes. Bathing in the bay is much practised, ported out of the poor rates. These rates, includand is a luxury within the reach of all. ing 10,000l. paid by the county, amount to 50,000l. The good land in the Territory is estimated at per annum, and fall at present as a tax on rental to only 250,000 or 300,000 acres. That around Tallahas- the extent of 3s in the pound. se, the seat of government, is of a sandy loam, and pro- Norwich, Aug. 4.-It is much to be regretted that back-about 500 miles. 'This is the land of flowers-the cape jasmine is abundant, but the most beautiful shrub I ever saw is the fringe myrtle-I must try and send you some of the seed when ripe. THE CHILLICOTHE TWIN CALVES. SPORTING OLIO. LONG ISLAND RACES. The Union Course Races, on Long Island, com- "For myself, I can pass by the tomb of a man with somewhat of a calm indifference; but when survey the grave of a female, a sigh involuntarily escapes me. With the holy name of woman, I associate every soft, tender, delicate affection. I think of her as the young and bashful virgin, with eyes sparkling, and cheeks crimsoned with each empassioned feeling of her heart; as the kind and affectionate wife, absorbed in the exercise of her domestic duties: as the chaste and virtuous matron, tired with the follies of the world, and preparing for that grave into which she must so soon descend. Oh! there is something in contemplating the cha- A Steer and a Heifer, raised by George Renick, racter of a woman, that raises the soul far above near Chillicothe, were seven years old last spring; the vulgar level of society. She is formed to adorn and for size and beauty far exceed any animals of and humanize mankind, to soothe his cares and their kind ever produced in the western country, or strew his path with flowers. In the hour of distress perhaps in America. The steer is 16 hands high, is she is the rock on which he leans for support, and 9 feet 6 inches long from the top of the head to the when fate calls him from existence, her tears be- root of the tail, measures 10 feet round at the girth, dew his grave. Can I look down upon her tomb and 10 feet 10 inches at the thickest part of his body, without emotion? Man has always justice done to and weighs 2,996 pounds. his memory-woman never. The pages of history The Heifer has not been sufficiently docile to ad- terday, on the Union Course, near Jamaica, Long lie open to the one; but the meek and unobtrusive mit of her measurement or weight being taken; but Island, between a sorrel cropped horse and a bay excellencies of the other sleep with her unnoticed is supposed by the best judges to be within 200 mare; both owned by gentlemen of this city. The in the grave. In her may have shone the genius of pounds of the weight of the Steer, and is undoubted- distance trotted was one mile and repeat, and the the poet, with the virtue of the saints; the energy ly the finest ever raised in America. of the man, with the tender softness of the woman. The following certificate of the weight of the Steer She too may have passed unheeded along the ste-is added for the satisfaction of the publick: rile pathway of her existence, and felt for others as I now feel for her." I Publick Hay Scales, Chillicothe, Nov. 9, 1822 TROTTING MATCH. $500 300 200 [Times. 214 ahead. Time of this heat, three minutes and a se- TROTTING MATCH. The match for Mr. Ferguson's gr. trotter, Arbitrator, to perform sixteen miles in one hour, with feather-weight on his back, was won. June 16, over two miles of the Newstead-enclosure, as follows: Two miles. Ditto . Ditto Ditto M. S. LEAP EXTRAORDINARY. M. S. 7 30 7 20 7 10 7 20 RECIPES. TO KEEP APPLES FOR WINTER USE. [SEPT. 22. 1826. rigid and sagacious management of the proprietors; FOR CLEANING THIN COTTONS, AS GOWNS, "O happy he! whom, when his years decline, Samuel Fletcher, a sailcloth weaver, at present the case when the soap is rubbed on the body of in the employment of Messrs. Maberly & Co. leaped the cotton; for then we often find much soap in the over the old bridge of Don, into the river, a height of about fifty feet. Within two seconds after his fall pores of the cotton, which prevents such parts from he rose to the surface of the water, and swam ashore receiving the dye, or appearing clear: whereas the amid the acclamations of all present. We under| solution, if made as described for quilts, &c., will Of sleep with double nutriment descend." stand that on Monday next, in the afternoon, he in- happens in coloured cottons, where greens, reds, &c. to old customs but when they are sanctioned by extract all impurities, and do it evenly. It often gentleman alluded to, is original, never adhering tends to repeat the experiment. In farming, as in other things, the course of the are used, that the colour will run; in such cases his own reason. some acid, as lemon juice, vinegar, oil of vitriol, or is that he secures to his people that greatest of The reader would know how it any other, should be infused into the rinsing water, all blessings, health, which money cannot buy? As to preserve the colours, especially in Scotch plaids. far, then, as we understand it, the outline of his TO REVIVE THE FADED COLOUR OF BLACK CLOTH. system is, to provide for his labourers abundance If a coat, clean it well; then boil from two to four ounces of fogwood in your copper or boiler half an first of September until after frost; and a strict proof animal food, good clothing, a most rigid confinehour; dip your coat in warm water, and squeeze it hibition, under severe penalties, of fishing and exment of every one to his house after sunset, from the as dry as you can, and put it into the copper, and boil half an hour. Take it out and add a piece of biscuit and bitters before going to work to stay the The Cub Mare, celebrated as a runner in Mary-it another half hour, then draw it, and hang it in trees planted to harbour musquetoes near the house. green copperas about the size of a horse bean; boil stomach until breakfast. Grass kept down and no posure to night air. To these precautions, he adds a land and Pennsylvania in 1790, we trained and run the air for an hour or two; take it down, rinse it The result is rapid itnprovement of land, large crops, by the late John Gibson, of Harford, in partnership in two or three cold waters, dry it, and let it be well fat cattle, robust health, and banishment of the Docwith Mr. Christie. She was killed at Lancaster, brushed with a soft brush, over which a drop or tors! and happily for his friends and to his own hoPennsylvania, when running a second four mile two of oil of olives has been rubbed: stroke your nour the health which exercise procures, and the heat, by a quarter horse crossing the track. She coat regularly over. was aged at the time, but it is not probable Ratler, &c. could have descended from her. The descripNature has added to his other blessings a heart to wealth which is acquired by commercial sagacity tion given of her in the American Farmer is very welcome and a spirit to enjoy the society of his are not united with a churlish and miserly temper. Sc. friends. for self gratification, not only the board is spread For them, and their diversion, more than with all the delicacies of land and water in their season, but game of all sorts is reared and preserved, and the means of pursuing it kept always at hand. Such of them as delight in the chase, may there, when exact. THE HUNTSMAN'S CALL. O'er hill and dale, through bush and brake, To horse! and mingle with the chase, The field-sports chide delay; Diana calls-The sylvan race Repeat the hark-away. Content, the rural pastimes yield, Where horns and hounds invite; cepted,) will not exceed three half pence. If any THE FARMER. BALTIMORE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1826. The writer of the communication "ro EMIGRANTS," in the last American Farmer, will much oblige us by giving us his address; as we wish to place in his hands a communication from a friend who desires to purchase 700 or 800 acres of land— or, if he will not disclose his name, will be have the goodness to specify where such lands are to be had for the price named. We have not the least doubt, that valuable lands on navigable water may be had for $5 per acre, but we have not been in the way of knowing exactly where such lands are now for sale. The better way perhaps would be, for both parties to advertise, as the case may be, what they have for sale, and what they wish to buy. the cheerful morn But if the breathless chase o'er hill and dale We cease to repine at the inequalities of forSickliness of the tide water courses.-There is tune when she happens thus to pour her gifts inte a general impression too much warranted by the the lap of those who have hearts to disburse them fact, that all farms on our water courses are very freely at the call of benevolence and hospitality. liable to bilious disorders, yet we have known striking exceptions, growing as we are sure, out of the Harewood estate, from which the best buck is al*There are more than one hundred deer on the ways selected as an annual offering to the venerable stallion of any foreign horse, before or since im-Georges, after having been here some days, with CARROLL, of Carrollton, on his birth-day. The last ported." the best opportunities of knowing, told us that he of these recurred on Wednesday last, the 20th inst. We hope the farmers of Maryland are beginning thought the prices worse than they had been at any when in fine health and spirits he received the to open their eyes to the practicability and the profit time since the war. The best Prince Georges will heartfelt gratulations of his family and friends, at of getting deeply into the blood. Why do not re-not bring more than $8. his manor, on Elkridge. It was highly gratifying spectable farmers, who unite means and spirit, get to see the last surviving signer of the Declaration of a fine blooded horse in each county? If they doubt Waverly butter sold readily in the market this Independence passing into his ninetieth year, still the profit of it, let them look at the sale of Mr. morning at 37 cents per pound. Peaches for 50 exhibiting so perfect a model of elegant manners, Field's horses in Virginia, a few days since. There cents per peck, of common quality. Pears, the such a happy example of cheerfulness and intel- a single horse sold for $3500, a mare for $1650; and best, for $1 per peck. Beef, best pieces, for 8 cents lectual refinement, erect and sprightly as any of the seven, the whole number, averaged about $1000 per pound. Watermelons, the best, for 10 cents. party; left, as it would seem, by Providence, to in- each. culcate by their visible fruits the inestimable value In our own state, two gentlemen in Cecil county, of temperance, cleanliness, regularity in diet, and were deemed extravagant for sending their mares For fear of mistake, and as this is the last pabodily and religious exercises, and a wise govern-to New York and paying $50 for the services of per that will be issued prior to the meeting, it is ment of all the grosser passions. He plunges into Eclipse; but not long after, it was stated that they again stated that the next meeting of the Trustees his limestone spring bath every morning before sun-had been offered $500 for each colt, which they re- of the Maryland Agricultural Society is appointed rise, and still rides on horseback with pleasure in fused. We now happen to know that as to one of for Thursday next, at Brookland Wood, the seat of good weather. A large portion of the day is de- these colts, a gentleman farmer of Ohio would have R. Caton, Esq. voted to reading. Having received, at St. Omers. been glad to have gotten him (now two years old,) the best classical education, he has always retained for $1000, if he could have done it, a few days since. his partiality for Latin and French literature. Boyd, which measured seven inches in circum acres, WANTED-A small Farm, of about 75 or 100 within seven miles of Baltimore, for a dairy Inquire at the office of the American Farmer. AN EXCHANGE PROPOSED.-A very handsome And what was his object? Why, be it known to Pointer Pup for a good running Fox Hound. our Maryland readers, it was not for the pleasures, BUSSORAH.-The very beautiful sorrel Ara- or the hazards of the turf; but to rear horses from bian horse, Bussorah, which was imported into New large mares, for sale as carriage and saddle horses, in One was left on our table, last week, by Mr. A. FIGS have been unusually fine this season. York, a few years past, and there sold for upwards Baltimore and elsewhere in Maryland!! Hence we of $4000, is now standing to cover mares, and will see that for a single thorough bred colt of two years, ference. remain at Fair-View, Potter's Race Course, for aa price might be had equal to the tobacco product month to come. of a large farm. This stallion is from the land of Joв, who, we have no doubt, was a good judge of horse flesh, and HORTICULTURAL AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF farm. wrote under the inspiration of a grateful and gene- JAMAICA.-A Society, with the above title, has been rous attachment, when he pronounced on that no- established in Jamaica under very favourable ausble animal the much admired eulogy:pices. The following gentlemen are among the "Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou officers of this institution: Patron, His Grace Wil- As people begin to understand the true qualities clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make liam, Duke of Manchester, &c.-President, Edward and superior value of thorough bred horses, a conhim afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his Nathaniel Bancroft, M. D, Fellow of the Royal stant reader of the American Farmer will thank nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and College of Physicians, &c.-Vice Presidents, Ho any gentleman who can supply for the "sporting rejoiceth in his strength. He goeth on to meet the nourable John Mais, Samuel Murphy, Esq.-Trea- olio" in that paper, the pedigree of Tuckahoe, runarmed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affright-surer, Robert Smith, Esq -Secretary, John Miller, ning back four generations on each side. Rumours ed: neither turneth he his back from the sword. M. D.-Honorary Members of the Council, The are afloat that one of the streams is not clear. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Jamaica-The spear, and the shield. He swalloweth the ground Hon. William Anglin Scarlett, Chief Justice-The [COMMUNICATED.] with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that Hon. William Burge, Attorney General. George DORCHESTER COUNTY CATTLE SHOW it is the sound of the trumpet He sayeth among Manners, Esq, His Britannic Majesty's Consul, in the trumpets, ha! ha! and he smelleth the battle Boston, and J. S. Skinner, of Baltimore, are electafar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shout-ed Honorary Members to this Society. ing " Bussorah is not, we should think, fifteen hands strength and activity. AND FAIR. The Dorchester Agricultural Society, will hold their 2d Cattle Show in Cambridge, on Thursday and Friday, the 9th and 10th November next, 1826; to commence each day at 8 o'clock, a. M. but is of perfect symmetry, with marks of great We understand that Doctor Muse, of Dorches ter county, has 30 acres of cotton, which has been The first day will be allotted to the exhibition of Of the celebrated Godolphin Arabian, the source visited lately by several gentlemen from the South, of the best English racing blood, we have in our who all declare it to be not surpassed, if equalled, in Domestic Animals, Domestic Manufactures, Liquors, library a portrait taken by Stubbs, and the follow-their South Carolina climate. His cotton (wholly and Butter, as set forth below. In the afternoon, at 2 o'clock, an Auctioneer will dispose of, free of cost ing remarks by Lawrence, who says he was "in upland,) is, one third of it, five feet high; the re reality a Barb." mainder from three to four feet, all heavily loaded to the seller, any stock that may be for sale. The second day will be devoted to the exhibition "This Arabian was fifteen hands in height, of with pods and flowers. He was to have a heavy great substance, of the truest conformation for gathering in a few days after the 6th instant, much of Implements of Husbandry and the Ploughing strength and action, bearing every indication of a being then ready. It is believed that he will have Matches. At 9 o'clock the ploughing will commence. Lots of 1-16th of an acre will be laid off. real coursera horse of the desart. His colour thirty thousand weight of seed cotton; yet the At 1 o'clock, the reports will be read and the was entire brown bay, with mottles on the buttocks season is said to have been peculiarly unfavourable, and crest, excepting a small streak of white upon and he is at least six weeks later in his crop, from premiums distributed to the successful competitors. the hinder heels. He was imported into France the drought, than in common years he would be At 3 o'clock P. M. the sales will be renewed. from some capital or royal stud in Barbary, whence Not more than three acres of his ten of Palma Premiums, in appropriate pieces of silver plate. it was suspected he was stolen, and said to have Christi escaped destruction from the drought and been foaled in 1724. So little was he valued in mole. This little animal has been said to be pecu- For the best five contiguous acres of Wheat, France, that he was actually employed in the liarly annoyed, and even expelled by this plant. to be not less than 30 bushels per acre, $8 00 drudgery of drawing a cart in the streets of Paris. But Doctor Muse can offer the testimony of all his the best five contiguous acres of Corn, to Mr. Coke brought him over from France, and gave neighbours, that it is singularly attractive of the him to Williams, master of the St. James' Coffee mole, which delights to operate in the hills contain-For the best five contiguous acres of Hay, to be not less than 50 bushels per acre, House, who presented him to the Earl of Godol-ing it, and to feed on it, in all its stages of growth. phin. During the years 1730 and 1731, the Ara. The parcel preserved was fine, and nearly all ripe bian served in that noble Sportsman's stud as teaser and sound on the 6th September, (inst.) to his stallion Hobgoblin, which horse refusing to cover Roxana; she was in consequence put to the Arabian, and produced a colt foal, the famous Lath are not inattentive to their interest, but in very For the best acre of Mangel Wurtzel, not less the most elegant and beautiful, as well as the best truth, their staple commodity has been for a long racer of his time. The mutual attachment between time so much depressed that it has depressed us to the Godolphin Arabian and a stable cat, is well think of it. A highly respectable and most judiknown. He died in 1753, the most successful as alcious Planter, one of the Electors from Prince For the largest crop of Seed Cotton, Our tobacco Planter friends are aware that we For CROPS. be not less than ten tons, For the best entire half acre of Potatoes, to be not less than 250 bushels per acre, For the best acre of Carrots, not less than 400 bushels, 8. 00 8 00 8.00 8 00 than 800 bushels, 8 00 Volunteered by a Member. 10.00 |