other breeds. Their early maturity is of immense importance to the farmer. A friend in Westborough, Mass., states that a hog twenty months old, raised by Charles Parkman, Esq. of that town, was killed last week, which weighed 600 lbs. and measured from the tail to his nose 6 feet 1 inch; around the body over the fore shoulders 5 feet 7 inches. bellows at the lower part of the bush, and fuming Henry Taylor, Port Royal, Virginia; James Barwith a mixture of coarse tobacco and soft hay. bour, Barboursville, do. Bushes are also speedily cleared of the blights, [We should be glad to learn what is the probable at little expense and trouble, by fumigating them result of experiments made with the Cherokee rose with brimstone strewed on lighted charcoal, this cuttings, by any of the above named gentlemen.] effectually kills the insects; but the workmen must get to the windward of the bush, as the fumes both of charcoal and sulphur are very offensive and per GEORGIA WINES. It is stated in the Newburyport paper that Mr. nicious. James Ferguson, superintendent of the Fatherland Fumigating should always be done in the morn- "The wine made by Mr. Thomas M'Call, of Georfarm in that vicinity, (owned by that eminent agri-ing or evening of a dull heavy day, when the bush-gia, in 1824, of Madeira colour, has sold for $2, a culturist, Gorham Parsons, Esq. of Brighton,) late-es are damp. gallon, as soon as offered at market; and is preferly sold 13 hogs, the weight of which was as follows: [The author of the preceding communication red to any imported wine by our best judges in the 494-424-530-406-556-454-496-336-578, gives a catalogue of 49 kinds of red gooseberries-upper country, and, I doubt not, would be preferred 370-500-400-526; and two pigs, weighing 211 35 kinds of yellow-53 of green-and 44 white. in our sea port towns, where his wine of that year and 255-aggregate 6,536 lbs. at 7 cents per lb., The largest red, he says, is the Top sawyer, weight has not yet been tasted. If our government would amounting to $457.52. They were of the Bedford 26 dwts. 17 grains; the largest yellow is the Nel- give sufficient direct encouragement to this branch and Byfield breeds. [New Eng. Farmer. son's waves, weight 21-6; the largest green is the of husbandry, foreign wines would be forced out of Ocean, 20-11; the largest white is the Smiling our market in twenty-five years." beauty, 22-18.] DEAR SIR, PROSPECT OF CROPS. Extract of a letter to the Editor, dated Columbia county, Geo., April 1, 1826. The present spring has been remarkably forward; some of our forward wheat has been in head for more than a week; first planting of corn generally [The following memoranda came into our hands Much has lately been said about this mill. Will up. We have had several smart frosts since the through a third person, with permission to use it as your correspondent D. G. S. or any other practicalwheat has been in head, and have heard of some an example of the publick spirit of an individual, ly acquainted with it, state whether this mill, like damage being done to both corn and wheat. I ex- who seeks to do good for its own sake, and without all others, does not wear smooth? How long it amined my own wheat, and find the grain has been any wish or expectation of reward beyond the con- may be in constant use before this happens; and if filling since the first frost, and no difference appear-sciousness of contributing, disinterestedly, to the there is any way to have it sharpened? ing from what it was before the frost, am in hopes improvement of agriculture. Let us reflect how the injury is not extensive. HORTICULTURE. GOOSEBERRIES. (Continued from Am. Farmer, p. 29.) GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. Having minutely laid down the cultivation of the gooseberry, whether raised from seed, cuttings, or suckers, to its final perfection in the fruit, I shall now subjoin some hints for the destruction of the insects that infest the bushes. The insects that most infest the gooseberry, are the green-fly, the caterpillar, the red-spider, &c. widely and rapidly the best agricultural products and CHEROKEE ROSE CUTTINGS. STRAW PLAITS. W. The committee appointed by the Royal Dublin Society having called upon some of the most eminent importers and venders of Leghorn hats, to assist, with their judgment, in the adjudicating of premiums, were favoured with two ladies and three gentlemen, who concurred with the Committee in adjudging The first premium of 201. for the hat manufactured by Miss Boake. The second premium of 15l. for that manufactured by Miss Gormly. The third premium of 101. for that manufactured by Miss Duchworth. The fourth premium of 5l. for that manufactured by Miss Bickerstaff. The hon. Judge Story, Boston; the hon. Timothy Pickering, do.; the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, to the care of Mr. Timothy Pickering; David Pitts Lloyd, Essex county, Virginia; Charles Edmonston, Charleston, South Carolina; Wm. Pugh, After many experiments and attempts to destroy North Carolina; John L. Glaser, Pittsburg, Pennthese species of insects, I find the following mixture sylvania; Dr. James Glasgow, Belle Air, Harford The Committee report, That, in their opinion, to be the most effectual and cheapest; and being county, Maryland; Joseph P. Casey, Baltimore; Dr. the cynosurus cristatus is not the material best adaptconfident of its utility, I submit it for the use of my S. S. Griffin, Gloster county, Virginia; Robert Weir, ed for this manufacture, its nature being too hard readers: in the first place, get a large handful of Tappahannock, Virginia; Thomas P. Bennett, Eas- and wiry, and generally not even in colour. The young elder leaves and twigs, one pound of the ton, E. S. Maryland; H. Skipwith, Balls Ville, Pow-straw of rye, scoale corale, is, in their opinion, much coarsest and strongest tobacco, and boil them toge-hatan county, Virginia; William Mewburn, South preferable; and that one of the hats which obtained ther in some old pot or copper, in two or three gal- East, Genito Bridge, Richmond; Thomas H. Har- the first premium, composed of "sweet-scented verlons of soft rain-water; let them be well boiled, vey, Wicomico church, Northumberland county; nal grass," anthoxanthum odoratum, appears to be after which take out all the leaves and twigs of Robert Douthat, Richmond; Charles Palmer, do.; superior to any other produced. each, and put half a gallon of quick lime into the Fielding Lewis, James River; Henry E. Watkins, The report adds, "That the extraordinary imliquor, and after it is well dissolved, take out all Prince Edward, Virginia; Alexander Morson, Fre-provement evinced in the manufacture of these arthe grit of the lime and throw it away; then add to dericksburg, do.; Thomas R. Rootes, Gloster; John ticles, within three years, and the excellence to the liquid half a pound of blue ointment, five pounds S. Skinner; Tench Tilghman, Eastern Shore, Md; which they have attained, induce your Committee of soft green soap, two pounds of flour of sulphur, T. F. Wallis, P. M. Bethlehem, Georgia; Benjamin to be of opinion, that, if it be steadily persevered and three pounds of campignon, or puff balls, and Anderson, Goochland Court House, Virginia; Ed-in, Ireland very shortly will be adequate to compete if necessary another gallon of soft rain or pond ward Garland, do. do., Wm. H. Tilghman, Talbot with Italy in that article; in which opinion they feel water; set them over a gentle heat till properly dis- county, Eastern Shore, Md.; Winter Bray, Tappa- warranted by the importers, who declared, with solved, during which time they are to be stirred hannock, Virginia; Isaac Smith, Northampton, do.; respect to the hats which obtained the first premiround with a stick; when all is properly dissolved Robert H. Row, Susquehannah county, do.; John um, "that if they were put in a case with Leghorn and mixed up, take it off the fire, and immediately Scott, Fauquier county, do.; Sir John Sinclair, Edin- hats, as if imported here, there was not an indiviput it into a coarse vessel or vessels, with about burgh; Richard H. Cocke, Cabin Point, Virginia; dual in the trade who could distinguish them from twenty gallons of rain or pond water; shut it up, John P. Cobbs, Richmond, do.; John Eddowes, Mid- the best description imported from Leghorn." and let it remain for a few days, when it will be fit dletown, Delaware; Thomas Chase, Annapolis, Md.; Dublin, Dec. 15, 1825. for use. Henry Holliday, Eastern Shore, Md.; Charles Neale, The best mode of using the above liquid is with Alexandria; Robert Oliver, Baltimore; J. H. Ber- MR. SKinner, a hand syringe, or squirt, as you can most conve-nard, Richmond, Virginia; W. W. Anderson, States- I perceive, by both English and Irish papers, that niently get it round the bush, and under the leaves burg, South Carolina; Leonard Abercrombie, Oua- the Societies in Great Britain and Ireland are offerwhere the insects are most destructive. chita, Louisiana; James Flemming, Wilmington, ing premiums to encourage the manufacture of la When a bush is infested with an easterly blight, North Carolina; G. & W. Hopkins, Baltimore; Ed-dies' hats in imitation of those imported from Legit is easily destroyed by throwing some thick bass ward Stabler, Sandy Springs, Maryland; Lemuel horn. Would it not be well for the Agricultural ats over the bush, and entering the fumigating Taylor, Matanzas; James Fort Muse, New Orleans; Societies in the United States to follow the exam No. 5.-Vor.. 8.] ple? The Editor of the Farmer, if he chose to do so, could excite such a spirit. In a late Irish paper, I saw an article which seems to me to be well calculated for that purpose, by throwing light towards an important improvement in this manufacture, chiefly in pointing out the best material to be used in making hats as good as the imported ones. If I recollect right, rye straw is thought here to be the best material; but in the account which I now send to you, it is believed that the sweet-scented vernal grass is the most proper. WATER BORING AT HARPER'S FERRY. [From the Alexandria Herald.] And by no means exclude your ser-loquacity! "Let my lot be to please at home," says on your head. vants from the hallowed privilege. Independent of the poet; and truly I cannot help feeling a contempduty, you wish for honesty and fidelity from them, tible opinion of those persons, young or old, male and how can you reasonably expect these while you or female, who lavish their good-humour and pleaneglect to lead them to the source which produces santry in company, and hoard up sullenness and silence for the sincere and loving group which comsuch good conduct. "When once a woman is married, when once she pose their fireside. They do not behold home with has enlisted among the matrons of the land; let not the same eyes as did the writer of the following her fancy dream of perpetual admiration; let her lines:-not be sketching out endless mazes of pleasure. The mistress of a family has ceased to be a girl. She can no longer be frivolous or childish with impunity. The angel of courtship has sunk into a woman; and that woman will be valued principally as her fondness lies in retirement, and her pleasures in the nursery Mr. Tindrel, who has been engaged since last of her children. And woe to the mother who is June at Harper's Ferry, in boring for water, arrived obliged to abandon her children during the greater in town yesterday. He states that he has perforat- part of the day to hirelings-no, not obliged; for ed the solid rock to the depth of 266 feet, and found there is no duty so imperious, no social convenience good water at a far less depth, but that it would rise or fashionable custom so commanding as to oblige to only a certain height and no further. That he her to such shameful neglect: for maternal care, let continued his operations till the great freshet in the her remember, supersedes all other duties." In the matrimonial character which you have now Potomac; when on a sudden the muddy water of the river backed into the hole he had bored in the assumed, gentle lady, no longer let your fancy wanrock, which induced him to believe that there was a der to scenes of pleasure or dissipation. Let home communication between the hole aforesaid and the be now your empire, your world! Let home be now river. He was right in his conjectures, for when the sole scene of your wishes, your thoughts, your the freshet subsided the water in the hole came plans, your exertions. Let home be now the stage down to its usual level, leaving the same limpid on which, in the varied character of wife, of mother, water as heretofore. And now Mr. Tindrel is on and of mistress, you strive to act and shine with his way to New York to procure copper tube, which splendour. In its sober, quiet scenes, let your heart when fixed, and the interstices between its exterior cast its anchor, let your feelings and pursuits all be and the rock being chinked up with a composition centered. And beyond the spreading oaks that shaprepared for the purpose, he adds, there can be no dow and shelter your dwelling, gentle lady, let not doubt but that the water will rise to the surface of your fancy wander. Leave to your husband to disthe earth sufficient for all purposes. tinguish himself by his valour or his talents. you seek for fame at home; and let the applause of your God, of your husband, of your children, and your servants, weave for your brow a never fading chaplet. "'Home's the resort of love, of joy, of peace;' So says the bard, and so say truth and grace: Home is the scene where truth and candour move, The only scene of true and genuine love. 'To balls and routes for fame let others roam, Be mine the happier lot to please at home.' Clear then the stage: no scenery we require Save the snug circle round the parlour fire; And enter, marshall'd in procession fair, Each happier influence that governs there! First, Love by friendship mellowed into bliss, Lights the warm glow, and sanctifies the kiss; When, fondly welcom'd to the accustom'd seat, In sweet complacence wife and husband meet; Look mutual pleasure, mutual purpose share, Repose from labours to unite in care! Ambition! does Ambition there reside? Yes: when the boy, in manly mood astride, With ruby lip and eyes of sweetest blue, And flaxen locks, and cheeks of rosy hue, (Of headstrong prowess innocently vain,) Canters;-the jockey of his father's cane: While Emulation in the daughter's heart Bears a more mild, though not less powerful part; With zeal to shine her little bosom warms, And in the romp the future housewife forms: Think how joy animates, intense though meek, The fading roses on their grandame's cheek, When proud the frolic children to survey, She feels and owns an interest in their play; Tells at each call the story ten times told, And forwards every wish their whims unfold." "To be agreeable and even entertaining in our faAn ingenious writer says, "If a painter wished to mily circle," says a celebrated writer, "is not only draw the very finest object in the world, it would I cannot help quoting the following passage from The workmen have got to the depth of 440 feet; be the picture of a wife, with eyes expressing the positive duty but an absolute morality." water is within about 32 feet of the surface of the serenity of her mind, and a countenance beaming Mrs. H. More, as an admirable illustration of true earth. The specimens of stratum for the first 150 with benevolence; one hand lulling to rest on her sweetness of temper, patience, and self-denial-quafeet are the same as those of 440 feet, alternately bosom a lovely infant, the other employed in pre-lities so essential in a wife and mistress of a family. varying from clay to sand, of various casts and co-senting a moral page to a second sweet baby, who "Remember, that life is not entirely made up of stands at her knee, listening to the words of truth great evils, or heavy trials, but that the perpetual [Since the above was politely communicated to us, we have conversed with Mr. Tindrel, who confirms its particulars.-EDIT. A. H.] lours. WATER BORING IN ALEXANDRIA. [Alex. Herald. LADIES' DEPARTMENT. and wisdom from its incomparable mother." Do I am a peculiar friend to cheerfulness. Not that kind of cheerfulness which the wise man calls the mirth of fools, always laughing and talking, ex A WHISPER TO A NEWLY-MARRIED PAIR. hausting itself in jests and puns, and then sinking A WHISPER TO THE WIFE. ON FAMILY DUTIES. a recurrence of petty evils and small trials is the ordinary and appointed exercise of Christian graces. To bear with the feelings of those about us, with their infirmities, their bad judgments, their ill-breeding, their perverse tempers--to endure neglect where into silence and gloom when the object that inspired we feel we have deserved attention, and ingratitude it has disappeared. No-no! The cheerfulness I where we expected thanks-to bear with the comwould recommend must belong to the heart, and be pany of disagreeable people, whom Providence has connected with the temper, and even with the prinplaced in our way, and whom he has perhaps prociples. Addison says, "I cannot but look on a cheer- vided on purpose for the trial of our virtue-these ful state of mind as a constant, habitual gratitude are the best exercise; and the better because not At your entrance into the marriage state, gentle to the great Author of nature. An inward cheerful- chosen by ourselves. To bear with vexations in bulady, you commenced a character which involves on siness, with disappointments in our expectations, you new duties and new responsibilities.-Your hus-ness is an implicit praise and thanksgiving to Providence under all its dispensations: it is a kind of ac- with interruptions in our retirement, with folly, inband, as the master and mainspring of his family, trusion, disturbance, in short, with whatever opposes ought certainly to lead the devotions of it. But quiescence in the state wherein we are placed, and our will and contradicts our humour-this habitual should he be so unwise, so unfortunate, so lost to his a secret approval of the divine will in his conduct towards us." I think there is something very lovely acquiescence appears to be the very essence of selfown happiness, as to treat lightly the things which in seeing a woman overcome those little domestic denial. These constant, inevitable, but inferior evils, belong to his everlasting peace, the task, gentle lady, devolves on you. Influenced then by that disquiets which every mistress of a family has to and might well, in the days of ignorance, have suawful verse in Jeremiah where the prophet invokes contend with; sitting down to her breakfast-table in properly improved, furnish a good moral discipline, the morning with a cheerful, smiling countenance, perseded pilgrimage and penance." Another rethe Almighty to pour out his fury upon that call not on his name, (Jer. x. 25,) let the Bible and endeavouring to promote innocent and pleasant mark of the same author is also excellent; "To susconversation among her little circle. But vain will tain a fit of sickness may exhibit as true heroism as be every morning laid on the table after breakfast," be her amiable efforts at cheerfulness, if she be not to lead an army. To bear a deep affliction well, and let a chapter be read with attention; and then assisted by her husband and other members around; calls for as high exertion of soul as to storm a town by a short but fervent prayer call down blessings and truly it is an unpleasant sight to see a family and to meet death with Christian resolution, is an when collected together, instead of enlivening the act of courage in which many a woman has triumphferent avocations, it is generally difficult to collect them quiet scene with a little good-humoured chat, sitting ed, and many a philosopher, and even some generals, When a family disperses after breakfast to their difbefore the breakfast things are removed, or, at least, be- attention of the other. And then, when a stranger (To be continued under the head of Conduct towards Relaagain. Therefore, to obviate this, let the Bible be brought like so many statues, as if each was unworthy the comes in, O dear, such smiles, and animation, and tions acquired by Marriage, &c.) fore the party stand up from the table. the families have failed." SPORTING OLIO. OBITUARY OF CELEBRATED TURF HORSES. after which he became the property of Mr. Leedes Fortitude, 1789 . and was in high esteem as a stallion. Brainworm, 1812 Buffcoat, 1757 19 Gamenut was shot in the autumn of 1815 12 Fortunio, April 21, 1802 11 Fox, 1738 22 24 20 12 22 14 24 Gimcrack, sire of Medley and grandson of the Godolphin Arabian, the best give and take horse of his day, covered at 30 gs. in Lord Grosvenor's stud. 15 R. of R. [We here record the obituary of one hundred and Buzzard, left England late in 1804, died in Ken- Giles, June 3, 1810. seven celebrated English running horses, with the tucky, 1811 pedigree and performances of some of them. By Cade, September, 1756 calculation, we arrive at the fact, which may, we Canopus, 1817 think, be considered as proof of the longevity of Chrysolite, 1788 the blood horse-that, of these one hundred and Cleveland, 1812 seven fine animals, their average age was twenty- Competitor, the last surviving son of Eclipse, Deone years and seven months. Those in italics have cember 29, 1816, . been added to the list by a gentleman south of the *Conductor, August, 1790 Age when they died. 30 23 28 23 uncertain. The Cullen Arabian was brought to England 29 Alexander, in the spring of 1811, Babraham, 1760 20 20 Diamond, sent to France in 1818, where he died. Babraham was a very strong horse, 16 hands Dick Andrews, January 28, 1816 19 high, said to have been equal to 18 stone. He Don Quixote, 1806 22 was got by the Godolphin Arabian, out of the Hartley mare. There are few instances of a horse running in such high form as he did, and covering mares the same season. Basto, 1723. Basto died in 1723. This beautiful horse, the property of the Duke of Devonshire, was bred by Sir W. Ramsden; his sire the Byerly Turk; his dam was Bay Peg. Basto was sire of Gimcrack, Soreheels, Little Scar, &c. The Byerly Turk was Capt. Byerly's charg-Faggergill, August, 1791 er in Ireland, in 1689. He was sire, also, of the Florizel, 1791. Duke of Kingston's Sprite; the Duke of Rutland's †Flying Childers, 1741 Black Hearty and Archer; Lord Bristol's Grasshopper, and Halloway's Jigg. This famous horse, the property of the Duke of Bolton, was got by Hautboy. In 1710, when 5 years old, he won the gold cup at York, beating eight 6 yr. olds-a circumstance of rare occurrence. He also won two matches of Mr. Frampton's celebrated Dragon; after which he was kept as a stallion, and was sire of Sloven, Fearnought, Starling, Syphax, Camilla, Gipsy, and Whitefoot. The sire of Hautboy (Old Hautboy,) was got by the D'Arcy White Turk. Bay Malton, by Sampson. He ran at York, 4 miles in seven minutes fortythree seconds and a half, being 7 seconds less than it was ever done before over the same course. He was bred by the Duke of Bolton, and got by Bay Bolton, out of a daughter of Makeless and Hautboy, son of Old Hautboy, who was out of a royal mare. In April, 1733, he beat Mr. Panton's Mouse, in a 4 mile match, for 300 gs.; the same year he won the King's purse at Lewes, Lincoln, and in October at Newmarket; and in April, 1734, the King's purse at Newmarket: *The Master of the Horse was sent into the Levant, by order of Charles II. to procure horses and mares for to breeding, with a view to the improvement of our native stock; and the mares brought over by him, and also many of their produce, have been styled royal mares. 15 25 26 29 10 Godolphin Arabian, December, 1753 This extraordinary horse was a brown bay, about 15 hands high, with some white on the off heel behind. That he was genuine Arabian his excellence as a stallion is deemed a sufficient proof. He was imported into France from Barbary, whence it was suspected he was stolen. "So little was he valued in France," says the author of the Sportsman's Repository, "that he was actually employed in the drudgery of drawing a cart in Paris." He was presented to the Earl of Godolphin, by Mr. Williams, proprietor of the St. James's coffee-house, who obtained him from Mr. Coke, who brought him to England. In 1731, he was teazer to Hobgoblin, who refusing to cover Roxana, she was put to the Arabian, and from that cover produced Lath, a beautiful horse, pronounced by many to be the best that had appeared at Newmarket for several years, Childers only excepted. It is remarkable that there is not, at this period, a superior horse on the turf without a cross of the Godolphin Arabian. There is an original portrait of him, by Seymour, in the collection of the Marquis of Cholmondeley, at Houghton-hall, Norfolk. A picture of him and his favourite cat,* by a French artist, is in the library at Gog Magog, in Cambridgeshire, (where he died, the property of Lord Godolphin,) from which a copyt Flying Childers, generally allowed to be the was taken by the celebrated Stubbs, and engravswiftest horse ever produced in this kingdom, ed by Scott, and which forms one of the splendid was bred by Mr. Childers, (who sold him to the embellishments of that popular and highly inteDuke of Devonshire,) got by the Darley Arabian, resting work, called 'Scott's Sportsman's Reposiout of Betty Leeds, the daughter of a sister to tory,' lately published. He was sire of the folLeeds, got by Old Careless, who was got by lowing, viz: Cade, Babraham, Bajazet, Blank, Spanker, son of the D'Arcy Yellow Turk; his Blossom, Dormouse, Dismal, Regulus, Skewball, grandam was got by the Leeds Arabian, sire of Sultan, Slug, Noble, Tarquin, &c. which were Leeds; his great grandam by Spanker; his great not only extraordinary good racers, but proved great grandam which was dam of Spanker, was a most excellent stallions. natural Barb mare. Childers was sire of the Gohanna, April, 1815 Hampton-court Childers, Mouse, Blacklegs, Od- Goldfinder, 1789 sey, Plaistow, Fleece'em, Second, Blaze, &c. Hambletonian, March 28, The Darley Arabian.—Mr. Darley, a merchant Haphazard, April, 1821 settled at Aleppo, and a member of a hunting Hartley's Blind Horse, 1742 club there, succeeded, through his interest and §Highflyer, October 18, 1793 connexion, in obtaining a courser from the de- Imperator, August, 1786 sarts of Arabia, which he sent to England as a John Bull present to his brother, a sporting gentleman of Jupiter, 1802 Yorkshire, about the latter end of the reign of King Fergus, 1801 Queen Anne: he is one of those few horses on the purity of whose blood we can place positive reliance. This Arabian was sire of Flying Childers, of never-dying fame; he also got Almanzor; a white legged horse belonging to the Duke of Somerset, full brother to Almanzor, and thought to be as good, but meeting with an accident, he never ran in public; Dædalus, a very fast horse; Le Sang, 1778 Dart, Skipjack, Manica, Aleppo, good horses, though out of indifferent mares; Cupid, Brisk, &c. &c. He did not cover many mares, except Mr. Darley's. An original portrait of this horse is in the possession of H. Darley, Esq. Aldebyhall, Yorkshire, an engraving from which has been lately published. The Darley Arabian was a bay, about 15 hands high, with white fetlocks behind, and a blaze on his face. By Matchem, (see Mark Anthony,) own brother He was a bay horse with a blaze face and four Great Driver, son of Old Snake; his dam was Pipator, February 20, 1804 bred by the Duke of Devonshire, and got by Fly-Pontifex, 1794 Regulus, 1765 23 Witchcraft, in 1813, had his leg broken by the 25 19 17 10 29 1821. 23 He was never beat: he was got by the Godol-Worthy, after the season of 1814 phin Arabian; his dam was the celebrated Grey Young Cade, November 27, 1764 Robinson, by the Bald Galloway; his grandam by Young Eagle, 1810 . Old Snake; his great grandam was the famous Young Marske, October, 1800 mare called Old Wilks, and got by Old Hautboy. Young Whiskey, at the close of the season, Regulus was sire of Trajan, Royal, Cato, Smil-Young Woodpecker, 1817 ing Polly, South, Brutus, Sappho, &c. Rockingham, 1799 Royalist, in America, 1811 Sampson, 1777 . ing Childers, out of a daughter of Grantham. Pot-8-os, November, 1800 From 1748 to 1755, he was winner of thirty 50%. Prospero, suddenly, after covering a plates; in 1749, he won the town plate at New-July 17, 1816 market; in 1750, he again bore off the same prize, carrying 12 st. For an account of his running against Aaron, at Epsom, in 1754, see Annals of Sporting, vol. ii p. 28. Mambrino, Lord Grosvenor's. It is his blood that gives the New York Eclipse his value. He got Messenger, who go: the dam of Eclipse. Mambrino was, perhaps, the strongest blood horse ever bred. Duroc, Eclipse's sire, was but so so. R. of R. Mark Anthony, Conductor, Pyrrhus, and Pantaloon, were all of a year, and all the first foals of their respective dams-except Pyrrhus, they proved excellent stallions as well as racers. Mark Anthony won 19 times over Newmarket, and received forfeits and compromises equal to 2530 gs. although he broke down at six years old. N. B. He was then a young horse. Marske, July, 1779 R. of R. 29 32 Mr. Fenwick, the owner of Matchem, derived more than 17,000l. profit from his services as a stallion, exclusive of his winnings as a racer. Mercury, April, 1793 . Meteor, June, 1811 Morwick Ball, January 4, 1787 Overton, May 30, 1801 Pandolpho was shot in 1813 14 28 25 13 24 29 Shark, in Virginia, about 1795-6-he won a cup of He is allowed to be as fine a stallion as any ever bred in this kingdom. Old Partner was got by Jigg, son of the Byerly Turk; his dam was got by Curwen's Bay Barb; his grandam by Old Sir Peter Teazle, August 10, 1811 Spot; his great grandam by the chestnut white-Sir Solomon, April 20, 1819 legged Lowther Barb, out of the old Vintner Skyscraper, December, 1807 mare. Curwen's Bay Barb was a present from Slope, 1794 Muly Ishmael, king of Morocco, to Lewis 14th, Snap, July, 1777 and was brought into England by Mr. Curwen, Snip, May 8, 1757 who procured two Barbs, (from Counts Byram Soldier, 1802 and Thoulouse, two natural sons of Lewis 14th,) Spadille, 1803 both of which proved excellent stallions, and are Spectator, 1772 well known as Curwen's Bay Barb and the Thou- Squirrel, 1780 louse Barb. Curwen's Bay Barb was sire of Mix- Stamford, 1820 bury and Tantivy; the first was only 13 hands Star, in South Carolina, 1811 inches high, and yet not more than two horses Stripling, September, 1817 of his day could beat him; Brocklesby, Little Tandem, February, 1793 George, two Mixburys, full brothers to the first Tartar, 1759 Mixbury; Brocklesby Betty, considered by many to be the best mare that ever was in England; her dam was called the Hobby mare, bred by Mr. Leeds; her sire was the Lister or Stradling Turk, brought to this country by the Duke of Berwick, from the siege of Buda, in 1686, in the reign of James the second. Curwen's Bay Barb was sire also of Long Meg and Creeping Molly, extraordinary high formed mares; Whiteneck, Mistake, Sparkler, and Lightfoot, very good mares. He Tortoise, 1776 got two full sisters to Mixbury, one of which Trentham, bred Partner, Little Scar, Soreheels, and the dam Usquebaugh, late in 1822 of Crab: the other was the dam of Quiet, Silver Volunteer Eye, and Hazard The Thoulouse Barb became Warter, February, 1812 afterwards the property of Sir J. Parsons, and Waxy, April 10, 1818 was the sire of Bagpiper, Blacklegs, Mr. Panton's Weasel, March, 1801 Molly, and the dam of Cinnamon. 23 26 22 19 16 The following fact will prove the advantage of 27 giving cloth such a finish. One of our first auctioneers bought a coat, the cloth off a piece he had sold at auction. After the tailor had damped it, he found the polish and face undisturbed; thinking the damping cloth bad not been wet enough, he gave it more water and damped the cloth again; finding the face did not start, he examined it closely, and discovered it was so set, that nothing would disturb it. He immediately bought the whole piece, and gives a decided preference to this finish, above all others. HOPSON. 13 [* Will Mr. P. please send it to us.] 26 26 EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY. Thunderbolt, full brother to Smolensko, was found cast in his stable stifled, his hip dislocated, and his head almost beaten to pieces. One of Four ewes on the farm of John S. Sellman, Esq. of his fore hoofs was hitched fast in the throat-band this county, yeaned this season fourteen lambs, which of his headstall. At three years old, when in are all doing well. Two of them brought forth training, Sir Charles Bunbury refused 2000 gui- such breeders would soon give a man a flock to four each, and the other two three each. A few neas for him; he was soon after accidentally lamed, and turned into the stud. [Annapolis pa. watch 14 18 28 RECIPES. CURE FOR THE POLYPUS IN THE NOSE. In conversation with a friend from the Western 24 country, I have been informed of a fact, too important as it appears to me, to be withheld from the publick. Wellesley Grey Arabian, in the winter of 1811-12. *Best son of Highflyer out of Purity by Matchem, † By Highflyer out of Papillon by Snap.-R. of R. His daughter was troubled with a polypus in the nose, which was extracted by a surgeon but soon grew again to its former size. He heard of the blood-root as a cure, and it was tried with such efficacy, that the polypus shrivelled away in about ten days, and was soon entirely gone. had one so large as to spread her nostrils consideraAnother young woman in the same neighbourhood * He be truly said to have earned more money may than any other horse in the world. During nine years was engaged to cover 25 mares at 50 gs. He was the quietest stallion ever known, to which may be attribut the blood stock of Cheshire, and almost ruined the bly, and affect her speech. After using the blooded his great age. He died February 21, 1781, in his fine stud of Lord Grosvenor, who bred from him too root a short time, the polypus dropped out entire, $3d year. PRICES CURRENT. ARTICLES. WHOLESALE. RETAIL. per. from lb. Recipe. Take half an ounce of blood-root, (San- and distillers should in due time be apprized there- FROST-BITTEN. [Providence pap. It is said that if a frozen limb be immersed in warm water in which a quantity of alum has been dissolved, the effects of the frost will be entirely removed. The proportion is a pound of alum to a gallon of water. ASTHMA. A lady has been entirely cured of a long asthmatick complaint, which resisted other remedies, by taking, from time to time, a spoonful of mustardseed steeped in vinegar. THE FARMER. BALTIMORE, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1826. With a view to this facility, it is respectfully hoped that Western editors will be pleased to give this short note a place in their respective papers. DEAR SIR, MISTAKE CORRECTED. Havana,. COTTON, Louisiana, &c. An advance of 1 cent to from to 10 8 101 32 33 CANDLES, Mould, Steubenville, April 18, 1826. 4 4 25 lb. 9 11 25 lb 5 00 5 50 68 70 85 65 70 80 83 65 70 80 bush 3 871 4 25 4 75 1 1 25 2 00 1 50 Clover Seed, Red Oats, Do. ib. 1 70 ton 215 220 LEE'S MEMOIRS.-It has long been a matter of you. 130 37 7 8 lb. 61 73 24 25 45 26 Ib. 6 9 1 27 1 31 1 75 2 00 30 gal. 11 The Editor of the Farmer will receive the names J. G. CHAPMAN. We have observed, with great pleasure, in a respect be Gazette of Chilicothe, an extract of a April 21, 1826. letter from a gentleman in Baltimore to a member of Congress, representing the anxiety of the nu Mr. J. S. Williams' newly invented machine for merous graziers and distillers in the vicinity of prizing Tobacco, with a cut-J. Buel's opinion of the Baltimore, that the drovers of the Western country Hainault Scythe, and of R. Sinclair's Cultivator-Mr. would bring a portion of their lean cattle to this John McDowell's flock of Merino Sheep-On Planting city for sale; and, at the same time, presenting to Indian Corn-Diseases of Pigs-On Diseases and Accitheir view a prospect of extensive and beneficial dents of Farmers, continued-Remedy for the fouls in sales in the event of their coming to this market. Cattle-Remarkable Swine-Prospect of Crops-TreaThis extract, we are given to understand, has been tise on the Gooseberry, concluded-Distribution of the republished in almost all the papers of Ohio. These Cherokee Rose Cuttings, by Mr. Rowan-Wine made circumstances, combined with other considerations, by Mr. McCall of Georgia-Cast iron Grist Mill-Straw Plaits-Water Boring at Harper's Ferry and at Alexinduce a strong presumption that some of the andria, D. C.-Whisper to a Newly married pair, conWestern drovers will this year bring their lean tinued-Obituary of celebrated Turf Horses-On Steepcattle to Baltimore for sale. Should there be such ing Cloth-Miscellaneous Scraps-Recipes-Prospectus a disposition, it would be proper that our graziers for second edition of Lee's Memoirs-Editorial 8 50 9 00 31 14 54 27/1 gal. do. Prime,. SALT, St. Ubes, - lb. 9 00 950 7 75 9 50 10 11 6828 19 22 20 23 70 75 1 00 7 12 17 25 bush 43 45 47 471 75 cwt. 9 50 12 50 WINES, Madeira, L. P. gal. 2 50 3 00 3 50 1 20 1 30 2 00 1 15 1 25 1 50 1 75 doz. 4 do. do. crossed, . . 8 gal. 1 50 2 00 2 50 5 00 9 00 Printed every Friday, at $5 per annum, for JOHN S. |