Anemones.-The treatment of these plants is the same as ranunculuses. When taken up they should | be carefully handled, and properly cleaned from the earth which adheres to them. The anemone will not last more than 12 or 15 years, whereas the ranunculuses will last about 25 years. Hyacinths and Tulips.-The process for taking up these plants is nearly the same with the above. When they are cleaned, the bulbs should be wrapped in separate pieces of paper, and buried in dry sand till the return of the planting season. Pinks-Handsome pinks, during their time of Gloom, should be defended from the sun by an awnng, and the soil should be moistened with water, being always careful to avoid wetting the blossoms. The time to pipe pinks is immediately previous to, or during their bloom; they may also be propagated by slips, taken off now; or in the spring or autumn. has proved much the best, to all who have ven- contemplated race, after which time, his food may tured, in defiance of old opinions and customs, to be increased with his exercise, and he may be reuse that course. When a horse is in health, the gularly fed with from two quarts at a feed to four medicine generally given by grooms, has the effect quarts. His food should be often changed, and of relaxing the muscles, enfeebling the system, and prepared thus: his hominy should be first winded, expanding the pores of the skin. I am clearly of then thrown into clean water, so as to separate the opinion that those large doses, which are so often part that is nutritious, from the husk and chaff; the given, never caused a horse, when running, to fetch oats should be lightly beaten in a common hominy a longer breath, braced his muscles; added to the mortar, to separate them from the hull or chaff, elasticity of his tendons; invigorated his system; or which may be blown off; his fodder should be stemgave to him, in any way, extra powers to perform med whenever it is discovered he has too much belthe task assigned him: but, on the contrary, are fre- ly. A horse never should be drawn suddenly, as quently the means of throwing a horse out of order, nothing is more weakening. that, in all probability, under different treatment, would have proved successful, if not master on the turf. Indeed, this has sometimes been proved by the change of owners, and when a good horse has fallen into the hands of one that has observed plain and simple treatment-the horse that previous to the change never was more than second or third best, has run with more than anticipated success. But many old and ignorant grooms, who have never been benefited by experience, and all the knowledge they possess having been handed to them by persons equally ignorant with themselves, are under a belief, that unless a horse swallows a certain number of wind balls, that it is impossible Double Sweetwilliams-This plant may now be he can win a race; added to which they are ex propagated either by slips, or by laying the young tremely superstitious; and some, even at the present shoots in the manner directed for carnations; in day, confide in tricks and witchcraft. It is to be either way they will root freely, but if the slips are much regretted that a good horse should ever fall planted, they will require shade, as well as occa-into the hands of such blockheads. sional waterings for ten or twelve days afterwards. The first thing necessary in the keeping a race [Philadelphia Album. horse, is a good log stable, about fifteen feet square: then provide plenty of good and sweet old corn, fodder and oats, and a sufficient quantity of clean and dry straw, to change his bed every two or three days. Carnations. An awning should also be placed over carnations when in bloom, so as to be drawn up or let down by means of pullies. The pots should be kept constantly watered at this time, and no favourable opportunity lost to let them have the advantage of light and air, but no rain should be admitted to the blossoms at any period of their bloom. SPORTING OLIO. ON TRAINING HORSES FOR THE 'I'URF. [As far as any rules can be given on this subject, there are none, perhaps, more plain and safe than the description which has been published of the method pursued by Mr. Duval, of this state. But after all, the training is to be regulated by so many circumstances, depending on the constitution and habits of the horse, the length of the race, &c. that it is not easy to give any specific directions that will answer in every case-and this is the opinion of Col. Johnson, of Virginia, who excels in this art as much as Napoleon did in the art of war, and who is withal so liberal, that he would readily communicate what he knows: but judgment and genius are not to be communicated like prescriptions for the use of patent pills. We publish, by request, the following, from Mason's Farrier-a book that ought to be republished.] KEEPING. The best medicine on earth, that can be employed in the keeping of a horse, to give him wind and bottom, as the grooms term it, is good and sweet food. A greater proportion of old oats, hay, or hominy, opens the bowels; and a large proportion of fodder and oats, when prepared in the way directed, has the reverse effect-so that by using food that actually contains nourishment, and will certainly benefit your horse, you may place him in whatever kind of order you think proper, without using those medicines which have a certain tendency to weaken and relax him. About two mashes during the time of keeping, is very beneficial-the first, as soon as you commence; the second, about eight days previous to his running; composed of one gallon of bran, one table spoonful flour of sulphur, and one tea-spoonful of saltpetre. Most grooms are in the habit of giving one, two or three sweats, during the time of keeping; which method of hardening flesh I am much opposed to. If a horse is too gross, gradually increase his exercise, which will have the desired effect. Whenever a horse has to undergo one of those sweats, he is so much weakened and relaxed, as to require at least one week to recover his strength. Should a horse, in Most horses, when first taken up for the purpose keeping, lose his appetite, it can readily be restored of being kept, require bleeding; which a groom can by a single innocent drench, composed of a quarter always be a judge of from the appearance of the of an ounce of assafoetida, one table spoonful of animal. Good cloths, girts, &c. should be provid- salt, and one quart of sassafras tea. Good food, ed, and kept on the horse, except at the hours regular feeding, moderate exercise, and strict attenfor rubbing, which should be regularly three times tion to rubbing, are of much more importance and a day, in the morning and evening, after prac-benefit to a horse in keeping, than the administertice, and at twelve o'clock-for which purpose ing large doses of physic, which his nature does not a curry-comb, brush, straw, and a large woollen cloth must be provided and well used. Good rubbing assists in putting horse in order, and places on his skin a beautiful gloss. His legs must be washed three times a day in clear cold water, after which they must be rubbed dry with straw, and the naked hand rubbed over the ancles and pasterns, until a small degree of warmth is felt. The stable should be kept perfectly clean. require. When a horse is well kept, he will not appear very fat, but his flesh will be very firm and hard; his legs and ancles must be perfectly cool, and not puffed or swelled; his eyes should be lively, and countenance cheerful; he should possess no bad habits, but be tractable, gentle and manageabie; his actions smooth and graceful; he should be taught patience; and often practised in starting around the race course, never permitting him to start off, until the word go, is given. Many advantages result in a race, to a horse, by being properly broken in starting. A horse should be given such practice as he is well able to bear. As those animals frequently dif fer in every respect so widely from each other, it is impossible to lay down any rule that should govern, relative to the speed or quantity of practice After a horse has gone through his practice, and necessary for horses in training. I will only remark, has been well rubbed, &c. &c. his feet should be that a horse should be practised in a moderate gal stuffed, (during the time of his standing in the stalop the distance he is intended to run, moving brisk ble,) with fresh cow manure, or clay and salt, to ly every time he passes the stand, and for a short prevent his ancles from swelling or being heated; distance on the back of the ground; he then should his legs should be bathed once a week, with equal be walked about a mile, and again galloped in man parts of old peach brandy and fresh butter, or sweetoil and vinegar, stewed over the fire until well mixrequire very little practice indeed: while other har-ed, and applied warm as the hand can well bear it. dy and hard bottomed horses require, and can bear very hard practice. But the appetite of a horse is the best criterion, as relates to that subject. The keeping a horse for a race is attended with much trouble, requires great attention: but is more simple than is generally believed by persons want-ner first directed. Some fleet and delicate horses ing experience on that subject. A large majority of grooms, even to the present day, are in the habit of giving to race horses large quantities of physic, (though the number engaged in this practice has been diminished within the last If a horse refuses to eat, it is an evidence that ten years,) and for the sake of those very valuable his practice is either too hard or too quick-when animals, I hope, ere long, such an injurious prac- he eats heartily, it is a proof that he is able to bear tice will be entirely abolished. All the medicine what is given him. When a horse is first taken into on earth will never give to a horse speed and bot-keeping, his allowance for the first two or three tom, that is naturally deficient in those respects; and if he is affected at all by its use, it must ope rate to his disadvantage. The plainest and simplest mode of keeping borses, days, should be rather short; which should be of Whenever a horse commences his brisk exercise, the under part of his ancles should be occasionally greased, to prevent their cracking, and the scratches being produced. The heels of most young horses crack, during their exercise, unless this precaution is used; fresh butter, sweet oil, or hog's-lard answer well for that purpose. The subject of keeping horses is so extensive, that to treat fully on it, would require a book at least the size of this; the reader, therefore, must be content with the few hints and few pages I have devoted to this subject. MATCH RACE. cares and sedentary labours of office, will snatch The match race between the celebrated northern the opportunity of a day's recreation to enjoy the horse "Bob Logic," and the pony "Jock," the for-purer atmosphere and better cheer, and to witness the less anxious labours of the country. mer to trot, and the latter to pace the distance of three miles, was decided yesterday over the Washington Course. At the word being given to start, the pony took the lead and kept it throughout the We understand the backers of the northern horse are not satisfied with his defeat, and are willing to venture him the field again. race. "These are thy blessings, Industry! rough power; We hope it will not be considered an indelicate The following is the correct time, for each mile, disclosure of the unstudied sentiments of the social as reported to us by the judges: board, that we state, from recollection, one which Time.-1st mile, Sm. 17s.-2d mile, 3m. 13s.was expressed by Governor Kent, in wishing "suc3d mile, Sm. 1s.-Total, 9m. 31s. cess to the useful designs of the Maryland Agricultural Society"-and one by Governor Barbour, in compliment to "Hayfields and its proprietors-The good management of the one, and the hospitality of the other, deserve all commendation." [Charleston paper. THE FARMER. BALTIMORE, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1827. We have omitted for some time to notice the proceedings of the Board of Trustees of the MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. Accidental circumstances had occasioned a long interval between their meetings until 25th ult.; when, at the residence of Mr. S. W. Smith, a very full meeting was held there being but two members absent; and from every attending circumstance, the highest satis faction and encouragement were derived. The committees were appointed for various objects, and the next meeting was appointed for Thursday last, at Col. N. M. Bosley's. The gratification of the party was enhanced by the presence of Col. Bosley's father, mingling with his guests, at nearly ninety years of age, in good health and spirits; precious fruits of a life of industry and temperance. CHERRIES. The perfection and variety of this delicious fruit, sent by Mr. Willis from his rich collections at Oxford, to several gentlemen in Balti more, and by them to Mrs. Bosley, at Hayfields, were very striking, and attracted something more than words of admiration! If such specimens can no longer add much to his reputation as a skilful fruiterer, they will always make an agreeable impression on every man of taste. FOR SALE, A FULL BLOOD IMPROVED SHORT-HORN BULL, by Cham pion out of Shepherdess, both imported from Mr. Champion. He will be three years old in July; the price is $200. Inquire at the office of the American Farmer. FOR SALE, A very handsome young Cow of the ALDERNEY and BALTIMORE PRICES CURRENT. TOBACCO.-Inspected last week, at the three State warehouses, ending Saturday, 900 hogsheads, 200 from New Orleans of Kentucky. Some little selling, but at lower prices than some time past. Ohio continues to come in, and gradually selling off. Maryland common is also in demand at very low prices, now and then a tolerable sale is effected-one small crop of four hhds. Maryland sold the other day, one $3.00, two at $6.00, and one at $10.00, the prices vary according to the qualities and condition, as near as we can tell from; for Maryland second as in quality $2.50 a 6.00-Common crop, 3.00 a 3.50-Do. red, 4.00 a 4.50-Good red, 5.00 a 6.00-Fine red, 7.00 a 8.00-Yellow and red, 7.00 a 10.00-Yellow, 10.00 a 15.00-Fine Yellow, 15.00 a 3.50-Kentucky, fine, 3.50 a 6.00--do. for wrapping, 25.00-Fine Virginia fat, 6.00 a 8.00-Rappahannock, 6.00 a 8.00. FLOUR-Howard-street, superfine, 4.871 a 5.00-City mills, 4.624 a 4.75-Susquehanna, $4.374-CORN MEAL, per barrel, 2.75 a 2.87--WHEAT, best white, .88 a .95-best red, .90 a .91-ordinary, .85 a .90-inferior, .70 a.75-CORN. .43 a .44-RYE, .55 a .60-OATS, .41 a .43-WHITE BEANS, 1.25 a 1 371--PEAS, .60--CLOVER seed, 4.00 a 4.50-TIMOTHY SEED, 3.00-BARLEY, 1.00 FLAXSEED, .95-COTTON, Virginia, 9.00 a 10.00-Upland, fair, 10.00 a 11.00-Louisiana, 11.00 a 13.00-N. 11.50-WOOL, country, washed on the sheep's back, 18.00 Carolina, 9.00 a 10.00-Tennessee and Alabama, 10.00 a a 22.00-cross-breed, do. free from tags, 20.00 a 22.00The Committee appointed at the last meeting to half do. 24.00 a 26.00-three-quarters, 28.00 a 30.00select a proper situation for the next Cattle Show, full blood, 30.00 a 35.00-FISH, Herrings, No. 1, p. bbl. reported, verbally, that they had viewed the several 2.374 a 2.44-do. No. 2, do. 2.121-Shad, in good orplaces mentioned, and were unanimously of opinion der, 6.00 a 7.00-Mackerel, 4.50 a 5.50 a 6 00-BACON, that Carroll's Point combined more advantages than best hams, 9.00 a 10.00-middlings, &c. 6.00 a 6.25— any other, and they accordingly recommend it as country, (assorted,) 5.50 a 5.75-WHISKEY, in hhds. the Committee was accepted. The following Re-3.00-Lambs and Mutton, with the wool, 1.75 a 2.00; the most eligible for the purpose.-The report of 28; in barrels .29-FEATHERS, .28 .29--LIVE STOCE, beef on hoof, 5.00 a 5.50-Pork do. 4 a 4.50-Veal do. solution was submitted and adopted. without wool, 1.25 a 1.50-BUTTER, fresh, .20 a .25. CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. Observations on the different classes of Farmers, and MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. With the last meeting of the Trustees of the MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, at Hayfield's, June 7, 1827-At a meeting of the Trustees held the residence of Col. N. M. Bosley, some incidents this day at Col. Bosley's, present. J. B. Morris, were connected, which gave to the occasion more Chairman pro tem. R. Caton, J. Carroll, Jr. J. Swan, than ordinary interest. The day was fine; the dis-S. W. Smith, N M. Bosley, J. Williamson, Jr. J. C. Cox, Treasurer, J. S. Skinner, Cor. Secretary, J. play of luxuriant crops of clover, timothy, and Howard, Rec. Secretary. orchard grass, was magnificent. The meeting was numerous, and the proceedings, in reference to the next Cattle Show, were harmonious and encouraging. Carroll's Point, a convenient and beautifully shaded spot near the city, was recommended unanimously by the committee, and so accepted by the Board, as the best site for the next exhibition, and a committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements. Col. Bosley had extended his invitations to some of the most successful practical Resolved, That J. Carroll, Jr. J. S. Skinner, and farmers in his immediate vicinity, and to the Secretary of War and Governor Kent, to the latter of S. W. Smith, be a Committee to prepare the place whom the former was on a visit at Annapolis. If selected, and make all necessary arrangements for these gentlemen have been known and honoured the Cattle Show; to fix the days on which it is to on the injurious error of occupying more land than can by their country with prominent stations, as la- be held, and to publish the handbills. be cultivated properly, by Lorain-On Grasses and other bourers in the publick vineyard, they have been Plants, from G. Sinclair's Hortus Gramineus, with notes, &c. (Agrostis stolonifera, large-leaved creeping bent, fiequally well known in their respective states, as ju orin; Agrostis vulgaris, common bent, fine bent, herd'sdicious, practical and humane cultivators of our G. CALVERT, Esq. one of the wealthiest far- grass; Agrostis alba, white bent grass)-On the advangreat staple products. But they are more emphati-mers of the United States, has recently returned tages of the Rare-ripe Wheat, and its freedom from cally called planters; and though familiar with the from making a tour through England and a part of the ravages of the Hessian fly-Hints on the manageplan of renovating exhausted lands by grass cul- the continent of Europe. The great English far-ment of Sheep-Extraordinary yield of a Durham short ture, had not been so much so with the system mer, J. C. Curwen, has sent to Mr. Calvert a va-horned cow of Col. J. H. Powel's-Prospect of Crops practised upon at Hayfields-where grasses consti riety of Agricultural implements, addressed to Alex in North Carolina, and Queen Anne's county, Maryland tute the permanent and chief staple; where pro- ander Brown & Sons, of this city. Mr. Calvert has Sharpless, of Philadelphia-On the destruction of -Essay on the cultivation of Silk, by Doctor John T. digious crops of timothy crown the most elevat- offered, through the Editor of the American Far smooth-skinned stone Fruit-Additions to Horticulture, ed hills, and where grain, instead of being the pa-mer, to leave these implements to the inspection of by Commodore Hull, from Chili-Essay on Female ramount object, is resorted to as auxiliary to clean-implement makers, to take models of, and thus in- Education, by A. G. Thomas, Esq. of South Carolinaing foul meadows, and bringing them again to put troduce such as they may find adapted to the uses Flower Garden for June, (Ranunculuses. Anemones, forth heavy and unmingled swarths of selected of American cultivators. Hyacinths and Tulips, Pinks, Carnations, Double Sweet grasses. Williams)-On Training Horses for the Turf, from Mason's Gentleman's Farrier-Match Race, at Charleston -Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of the MaryThe subscribers offer for sale, a quantity of Buck-land Agricultural Society-Editorial-Advertisements WHEAT selected for seed; and MILLET of good quality. With the exhibition of this system, in full force at Hayfields, under the invigorating influence of lime and good management, Governors Barbour and Kent expressed much satisfaction, as with all the circumstances of their excursion. In short, it is flattering to the judgments of those who chose the part of rural life, its toils and allurements, to see how cheerfully those who are burdened with the JAS. HOWARD, Secretary. SEED BUCKWHEAT AND MILLET. Also, GRAIN CRADLES, GRASS SCYTHES, and Snead's -Prices Current. Printed every Friday, at Five Dollars per annum, for JOHN S. SKINNER, Editor, by JOHN D. Toy, corner of St. Paul and Market-sts., where every description of Book and Job Printing is handsomely executed. No. 14.-VOL. 9. AGRICULTURE. EXTRAORDINARY COW, AMERICAN FARMER-Baltimore, June 22, 1827. YIELDING 8 POUNDS 13 OUNCES IN 3 DAYS, OR TWENTY AND AN HALF OF MILK PER WEEK. Philadelphia county, May 31, 1827. JONATHAN ROberts, Esq. 105 Affirmed before me this thirty-first day of May, Linnæan Society, vol. vi. first pointed out the iden- GEORGE C. LENTNER. tity of the Panicum dactylon with the doob-grass of the Hindoos. The seeds of this highly celebrated grass in India, were communicated to the Duke of Bedford, from the East Indies, by the Marquis Philadelphia County, ss. of Hastings. The seeds were sown in the experiPersonally appeared before me the subscriber, mental grass-garden at Woburn Abbey, where they one of the justices of the peace in and for the coun-vegetated readily, and produced plants which flowty aforesaid, Maria Sturgis, who being duly affirmed ered the second year from seed. These perfected President of the Pennsylvania Agric. Society. seed in the month of October, and the plants raised according to law, deposeth and saithDear Sir,-My residence, as you know, adjoins That on Monday night, the 28th inst. she skim- from this seed the following spring differed in no Powelton. My intimacy with Mr. Powel, and the med the milk which Sarah Sterling had received respect from those the produce of the Indian seed; interest I take in his agricultural pursuits, particu- from Thomas Morrison, between Thursday morn- our figure is taken from a plant of the later sowing larly in the breeding of live stock, have made me ing and Saturday evening immediately preceding; A portion of the seed was sown in the hot house, and familiar with the details of his farm, and the ma- that she churned it the next day, (Tuesday,) and ob- the plants cultivated there in order to ascertain the nagement of his cattle. I enclose various deposi- tained eight pounds and thirteen ounces of butter, effects of climate on the habit of the grass. Exposed tions, taken by George C. Lentner, Esq. of Block-which was weighed by Mr. Milnor in her presence. in the grass garden, and cultivated by the side of the ley, shewing that an IMPROVED DURHAM SHORT- She further saith that she measured, on Wednes- English species, the habit of the Indian plants dif HORNED Cow called Belina, produced milk between day, the 30th inst. a quart of cream taken from Be-fered from the former in the shortness of the leaves, Thursday morning, the 24th inst. and Saturday lina's milk, that she churned it, and obtained one which grew nearly flat on the ground, and were of evening, the 26th; i. e. in three days, from which pound five ounces and a quarter of an ounce of but-a reddish brown colour, instead of the slight glaueight pounds thirteen ounces of butter were ob- ter, which was also weighed by Mr. Milnor in her cous green tint of the native English plant. The tained by the usual process, at the rate of 20 pounds presence. foreign plants flower freely every season, but the per week. native ones of this species of grass very seldom, for during fifteen years the native plants have twice, only, produced flowers. In the hot-house, the Indian plants proved of a habit exactly the same as the native plants in the open ground, having the leaves equally as long as those of the latter, of their glauThis last fact is a very remarkable one as connectcous colour, and not producing any flowering culms. mates on the same species of plant. In the hoted with the long-continued effects of different clihouse more soluble or nutritive matter, and also this grass, than was afforded by the plants of it more vegetable or woody fibre, were afforded by cultivated out of doors in the grass garden. This cow has had no other food, than slop of Indian meal, clover and orchard grass, and has yielded repeatedly by measurement, and so far as can be ascertained by the bucket, continues to yield, twenty-six quarts within the twenty-four hours. I carefully superintended the trial recorded, and sufficiently know the parties who were employed in the operation, to believe their statements, independently of the occular demonstration which I have had. I am, dear sir, most faithfully, yours, DEPOSITIONS. Philadelphia County, ss. That he has been employed as foldman at Powelton for nearly nine years; that he has milked the cow called Belina, since she was imported in 1825; that he has never seen nor heard of any extraordinary management, either of this or any other cow, nor of the milk upon the Powelton farm; that all the milk given by Belina, from Thursday morning the 24th ult. until Saturday evening following, was drawn and kept separately; that no mistake could be made, as all the cows which were not dry, had been, and are yet upon distant meadows, excepting Belina, and another, whose milk supplied her calf, a month old, running at her side, and the family, during the time mentioned, which milk was always sent immediately into town from the field. Affirmed before me this first day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. GEORGE C LENTNER. Philadelphia County, ss. Affirmed before me this thirty-first day of May, GEORGE C. LENTNER. Extract from the Minutes of the PHILADELPHIA 1827. John Hare Powel having presented some cream, accompanied by the following statement, R. Haines, Esq. was appointed by the chairman to ascertain by a stop-watch, the time necessary to convert it into butter. Whereupon he reported that it requir ed three seconds, which was received unanimously, as the members witnessed the fact. "The grass, cultivated in an artificial tropical climate in the hot-house, contained a superior quantity of nutritive matter to that cultivated in the open air in the grass garden, in the proportion near R. Haines stated that he had questioned the servants, and was satisfied that no preparation had been required. The cream was produced from an Improved Dury of 39 to 31; and the woody fibre afforded by the ham Short-horned Cow, bred by J. Whitaker, Esq. ceeded the woody fibre contained in the grass of grass of the plants cultivated in the hot-house exof Burley, (England,) and now in the possession of the plants cultivated in the open air in the proporJohn Hare Powel, Esq. "This cream was skimmed by me on Sunday morning, from milk which was taken from the cow on Saturday evening. It had stood from 8 o'clock until 7 the next morning. Nothing was done to it but as common. I strained it with the milk used for the family, and placed it in a common milk pan in the vault. Tuesday, May 15." ELIZA TAUSIAS W. S. WARDER, Secretary. ON GRASSES AND OTHER PLANTS. Extracts from G. Sinclair's Hortus Gramineus-with tion of 4 to 3. "In the East Indies the doob grass grows luxuriantly, and is highly valued as food for horses, &c. In this climate, however, it scarcely begins to vegetate till the month of June; and the above details shew that its produce and nutritive powers here are not sufficiently great to hold out any hope that its valuable properties in the East Indies can be made available in the climate and soil of Britain. "Sir William Jones, in his Works, vol ii. p. 5860, gives a figure of the doob-grass. The essential specific characters of the grass, as exhibited in the figure given by Sir William Jones, and those which our figure present, are precisely the same; the greater size or luxuriance of growth indicated by the former figure, is clearly the effects of climate, one plant being the produce of the East Indies, and the other the growth of England. (Continued from page 99.) "Sir William Jones observes, that every law"CYNODON dactylon. Creeping Dog's-tooth grass. book, and almost every poem, in Sanscrit, contains Personally appeared before me the subscriber, Durva, Dub, or Doob-grass, of the Hindoos. "Specific character.-Spikes four or five, crowded in the fourth Veda we have the following address frequent allusions to the holiness of this plant; and one of the justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, Sarah Sterling, who being duly together, corolla smooth. Sm. Engl. Fl. i. p. 95. to it, at the close of a terrible incantation:' "Thee, Obs.-The roots are tough and creeping, al-O Darbha! the learned proclaim a divinity not subaffirmed according to law, deposeth and saithThat she received from Thomas Morrison Beli-most woody, with smooth fibres; stems also creep-ject to age or death; thee they call the armour of na's milk from Thursday morning the 24th inst., ing to a great extent, matted, round, jointed, leafy, Indra, the preserver of regions, the destroyer of until Saturday evening following; that it was mere very smooth; leaves tapering, sharp pointed, ribbed, enemies, a gem that gives increase to the fields; at ly strained and put into common milk pans in the hairy, a little glaucous, with long striated smooth the time when the ocean resounded, when the spring-house, from which every drop of milk had sheaths and a hairy stipula; spikes four or five, li- clouds murmured and lightnings flashed, then was been previously removed; that there could be no near; flowers purplish, shining, ranged in two close Darbha produced, pure as a drop of fine gold.'mistake, as the key of the spring-house door was alternate rows; the corolla is longer than the calyx, Again, May Durva, which rose from the water of kept by her, and no person was allowed to enter, very much compressed, opposite. See Sm. Eng. Fl. life, which has a hundred roots and a hundred stems, efface a hundred of my sins, and prolong my excepting with her; that several persons on the farm daily counted the milk pans, and noticed all that existence on earth for a hundred years.' was done. No. 14.-vot.. 9. A. B. Lambert, Esq. in the Transactions of the * Called Bermuda grass, in the southern States. "The doob-grass flowers in September, and the seed is ripe about the end of October, and sometimes in November. The plants, natives of the English coasts, flower about a month earlier than the above." [From a Southern paper.] numerous contributions, you will enable us, by a generous support, during the ensuing year, to make Having been informed of the advantage of using domestic manufactures, and implements of husbansuch a display of the produce of crops, of animals, This grass, which is believed to be a foreigner, the tops of Indian corn, cut as rye straw, to be is naturalized in the southern states. Mr. Elliott mixed with potatoes or meal, as a food for horses dry, as shall attract a respectable assemblage of or cattle, I have been making the experiment during the deficiencies which have occasioned the disapfarmers and visitors, and make ample amends for describes it as "a tender delicate grass, growing the present winter. I find that my cattle thrive over and binding the most arid and loose lands in better on this fodder, than on rye straw, (cut and pointment we announce. our country, and apparently preferred by stock of Addressed by order of the Trustees, all descriptions to every other grass. The cultiva- used in the same manner.) The corn stalk certainly tion of this grass on the poor and extensive sand contains a great quantity of farine substance, and them into sheep walks of great value; but it grows lent mess for milch cows. hills of our middle country, would probably convert must be highly nutritive. Being cut and scalded with a small quantity of bran, they afford an excelin every soil, and no grass in close rich land is more formidable to the cultivator: it must, therefore, be introduced with caution."-Sketch of the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia, vol. 1, p. 133 "POA compressa. Flat-stalked Meadow-grass.* Specific character.-Panicle flowering on one 66 N. HAMMOND, Chairman. Easton, 5th Oct. 1826. In the common way of METHOD OF RECLAIMING SWAMP LAND foddering cattle with tops, the blades are greedily In ADDRESS ty for the Eastern Shore. the State of New York, in a Letter from Wm. Thompson, Esq. of Goshen, to Simion De Witt, of Albany. The land in this country generally made use of for the raising of hemp, is our sunken swamps and side, rather dense; spikelets oval-oblong, 5-7 flow-To the Members of the Maryland Agricultural Socie- bog-meadows, of which we have a number, and ering; flowers connected at the base by a complicated web of hairs; culm compressed; root creep ing. Sm. Engl. Fl. i. p. 121. GENTLEMEN, The insufficiency of subscriptions to the Association proposed for the support of Cattle Shows, and the difficulty of collecting them from some of those who favoured us with their signatures, have induced the Trustees of the Society to postpone until the next autumn the Exhibition which was intended for the present. many of large extent, the loose black soil of which is frequently from two to ten feet deep, before you reach the clay; this we find of importance, in order "Obs.-Culms from a foot to a foot and a half to lay the lands sufficiently dry. When we comhigh, compressed, decumbent at the base, oblique mence the draining of one of those pieces of land, afterwards, and erect towards the top; striated, we begin by removing all obstructions in the outlet, smooth, sometimes sending forth culms at the joints; and frequently cutting through old beaver-dams, and leaves short, linear, acute, flat, somewhat glaucous; clearing out the creek, or cutting a sufficient new panicle erect, short, directed one way, glaucous, ditch, wide enough, if possible, to carry the whole bluntish, condensed; florets from three to nine, ac- Whatever may be the cause of this backwardness stream in the time of a freshet, and to lay the water cording to the age and strength of the plant, close-on the part of our agricultural friends in upholding from two to three feet below the surface, when the ly imbricated, oval, angular, three-nerved, purple the Trustees in promoting schemes of this nature freshet is over: for we find that hemp is an article below the tip, which is silvery and scariose at the whether it be owing to doubts of their utility, or to that will by no means bear overflowing, and does base, connected by very fine complicated short vil- the embarrassments under which the cultivators of not succeed well unless you can keep the water in lous hairs. Dr. Withering says that they are rarely the soil are suffering from the scantiness of crops your ditches at least two feet below the surface. woolly at the base, but I have found them univer- and the reduction of their prices-certain it is that After your main outlet is completed, your swamp sally so. the necessary expenses of these exhibitions cannot must be ditched into small lots, of from two to five, "If the produce of this grass was of greater mag- be defrayed without your pecuniary assistance; un-six or seven acres, and generally long and narrow; nitude, it would rank as one of the most valuable less it be supposed that the Trustees are always to and if there are any springs, they must be led off by grasses, as it produces foliage early in the spring, of supply the deficiencies out of their own resources a ditch, and it requires generally a shore ditch, to be stronger nutritive powers than most other grasses. as they have already done. But we cannot believe cut a small distance from the shore; across the It has been recommended as a grass to cultivate on that it is your desire or intention that the Trustees heads of the lots, to carry of the land springs. The poor soils; but the produce is so very deficient, that should be unreasonably burdened. During the year division ditches are generally four or five feet wide, there are other grasses that might better answer they devote their time and attention to the purpo- and about two and a half feet deep. The fall or the end, as the meadow-barley, yellow oat, hard ses of preparing the means for the Exhibition of a spring after our lands are thus drained, and the ground fescue, and crested dog's-tail-grass. The roots, in Cattle Show and Fair, and for Agricultural Im a little settled, we begin to clear, by cutting up the some situations, penetrate to a considerable depth, provements; and they have freely contributed their bogs, hassacks and bunches of elders, &c. The as in stony, dry soils. It grows in abundance on proportional share of the expenditures; and they most effectual way of doing which is to cut them up the walls which embank the ponds in Woburn park. are not sensible of any advantage they derive from by the roots, which may be easily done, if you have "Dr. Smith, in the English Botany, observes, that these purposes beyond what is enjoyed by their proper instruments for the purpose. Besides the this grass can scarcely be put to any agricultural brethren of the plough, which can make it reason-bog-hoe, which is in common use, we have two inuse: the trials that have been made of it here con-able or proper that they should incur a greater de- struments, one called the bog-hook and the other the firm that opinion. It is true that the produce is gree of expense than others of their own profession | bog-knife-the hook is from twenty to twenty-four augmented by cultivating it on a richer soil, but not who are equally able. in that proportion which is the result of a similar treatment in other grasses. The culms and leaves attain a greater length on a rich soil, but never form a close turf, being, under every circumstance, thinly scattered over the surface. Though it cannot, therefore, be recommended for cultivation, nevertheless it is worthy of further trials, on account of its superior nutritive powers. "It flowers in the second week in July, and the seed is ripe about the middle of August." This grass affords a highly nutritive pasture, but is not much esteemed in mowing grounds, as it yields but a meagre crop, and is difficult to cut withal. The roots are remarkably tenacious of life; which renders it a troublesome plant to the farmer, in practising the alternate husbandry, especially among Indian corn. YANKEE CALF.-A cow belonging to Major Gibson, of Francestown, N. H. lately produced a bull calf, which weighed, when dropped, 108 lbs.-and when three months old, 836 lbs.; being an increase of more than 24 lbs. per day. Cow native breed; the parent bull half Denton. * Called Blue grass, in the United States. We believe that no doubt ought to be entertained of the value and usefulness of these exhibitions. That great improvements have been made in most branches of Agriculture during the years that have lately elapsed, must be evident to all of you who traverse our country; and it cannot be denied that these favourable changes have been mainly produced by the scenes which have been exhibited, by the interchange of sentiment and good will among the visitors and attendants, and by the laudable emulation excited by the distribution of rewards. The least improvement, generally observable, is in the article of neat cattle; but this is not to be as cribed to a want of opportunity or taste so much as to the inattention of our farmers in not appropriat ing pasture-grounds for their use during the summer, and not preparing shelters and a sufficiency of provender during the winter. inches long, and as crooked as a common scythe, but wider, made very thick and substantial in the back, with a strong round eye twisted a little upwards so that the edge lies flat on the ground, when a man holding the handle stands half erect. With this instrument, if properly and substantially made, a man, acquainted with using it, will be able to cut more in a day than two or three men with the common bog-hoe, and with more ease to himself. The bog-knife is an instrument in my opinion preferable to the bog-hook; it is made about twenty or twenty-two inches long, and about five inches broad, and round at the point; it is laid around with the best steel, and in plating it out it is left thicker in the middle to give it sufficient strength. At the other end is made a strong tine with a hole punched through it to fasten it on a strong handle in the same manner of the common pitchfork; the tine is bent a little upwards, and the instrument made a little We hope, however, gentlemen, that you still feel crooked, so that a man strikes horizontally with it the true spirit of husbandmen, and are perfectly when he stands half erect. With this instrument, alive to the interests of agriculture; that you will if you cannot cut off a bog or hassack at the first cheerfully continue members of the society, and stroke, you may generally do it with a back handed persuade your neighbours and friends to unite in stroke without moving from the spot. With those our association; and that sharing in our mortifica- instruments, sapplings as thick as a man's leg may tion in the necessity of the present postponement, be taken up with great facility. When the ground which might have been avoided by small but morel is thus cleared in the month of May, when the spread it on the floor of a barn two or three inches Mode of making the unction to destroy ticks on Sheep, viz. ciety in this neighbourhood; and if any thing should result from its labours worthy of public notice, you shall receive information of it. PROSPECT OF CROPS. Extract-Mount Columbo, Alabama, May 27, 1827. ANDREW PICKENS. HORTICULTURE. Take one gallon of tar, put it in an iron kettle, N. B. The next day after washing the sheep, they Our legislative gentlemen talk very much about economy in the use of public money.-Are very cautious of supporting any academy or other useful One observation more seems necessary respecting public establishment, for fear of increasing the taxes. the marine and nitrous salts, which are abundant in Now, if this calculation be correct, it will be in their Spain and England, compared with the interior power to save to the state more than three times the parts of America. Sheep and cattle in Spain and amount of all the state taxes every year. If we are England will not lick salt, because the air which not misinformed, the amount of the revenue in the they breathe supplies them with all necessary salts; gross, is 446.437 dollars, which multiplied by 3, is but it is exactly the contrary at the lakes, and in 1,339,511, which is 164,689 dollars less than the the interior part of America, therefore, shepherds amount of expense in maintaining the useless dogs must supply their sheep weekly with marine salt, or of the state. [Lynchburg Press. they will lose their health and lives. WHEAT AND RYE STALKS. MESSRS. A. & C. MINER: I send you a stalk of wheat from the field of Esquire Henderson, at the Gap Tavern, the length S. B. Io ameliorate sheep and wool in America, this article must be strictly attended to. MILK. (From the Philadelphia Album.) ON THE CULTIVATION OF SILK. By Doctor John T. Sharpless, of Philadelphia. (Continued from p. 101.) The eggs of the Silk Worm, during the winter, should be kept in a dry place, and well secured from mice and roaches, both of which are fond of them. It matters little what may be the temperature, for a cold, 38° below zero, does not injure them. On the approach of the warm season, they must be kept cool, or they will burst the egg before the food is prepared; and a cellar, or even an icehouse may be employed till the mulberry leaves have arrived at a size sufficient to afford a full supply. In Italy, Count Dondola recommends that they be rinsed through some wine, on the approach of the time for hatching, which takes place in that climate at the beginning of April; but in Pennsylvania, in May. They must then be brought into a warm room, and placed in the sunshine or near a fire. In some parts of the world, the eggs are carried about the body to receive heat, but a warm room is much preferable. The author just quoted first day; and should be gradually increased till the says, a temperature of 64% of F. is sufficient for the animals appear. Unless damp and frosty days prevent the hatching, the spring of our climate will generally bring them forth sufficiently early. When the animal is about to quit the shell, the colour changes from a dark purple to a pale blue. When great numbers are raised, the eggs must now be placed on a cloth or board in layers of half an inch in thickness, lightly covered with sheets of paper, full of small apertures for the animals to pass through, as they rise to the top after escaping.They ought not to be allowed to collect in large quantities on the paper, as they become much entangled; but should be removed and separated.They may be left on the sheets till after the second moulting, when the employment of a different apparatus is necessary. It is a machine first adopted by the Rev. Mr. Swayne, of England, and is now generally used in Europe and this country. A frame, four feet long and thirty inches deep, supported on four upright posts, about six feet high, is QUERY BY A RESPECTED CORRESPONDENT IN LOUISI-made with side projections, on which can slide ANA-MAY 15, 1827. shelves with wire work middles, below each of My object in troubling you with this scrawl is to which a moveable drawer is placed at a short dis tural food of the young progeny, may be acceptable Among the modern improvements in farming, the 6 feet, 2 inches-it struck me as being rather un-dairy has of late years, been very much neglected. common; the whole field is nearly of the same So much of the profit of breeders depending upon height. Yours, respectfully, the facility with which the milk of the cow may be June 11, 1827. reserved during the suckling time of the calf, the NOTE by the Editors.-Our wheat crop is putting following substitute, used in Germany, for the naon the most promising appearance. The field of Mr. John Marshall, East Goshen, is one of the most luxuriant ever presented to the eye. That of Mr. Wollerton, in this Borough, is as heavy as it can ripen. The grass is generally excellent. We have no lofty mountains sterile and sublime-no foaming cataracts, to give grandeur to our landscape, but in all that is lovely and beautiful, the view from the Cupola of our Court House, is not exceeded in the wide world—even in the vales of Italy, or the green fields of Old England. A Stalk of Rye, was brought by our Post-rider, last week from East-Nantmel, which grew in the field of ABRAHAM GRUBB, and measured eight feet ten inches in length. Let as much water be heated on the fire as the calf will be disposed to drink; and, when it boils, throw one or two handfuls of oatmeal* into it, and after continuing in that state for one minute, take it off, and let it be cooled to the temperature of new milk, when one or two pints of skimmed milk are to be added to it. With this beverage the young animal will fatten and thrive prodigiously; the milk of the parent will be applied to the dairy, and the intelligent farmer will immediately discover the great advantage to be derived, in the produce of the dairy, from such an expedient. [Ed. U. S. Gaz. A Stalk of Rye from the plantation of J. Smedley, of Willistown, was shewn us, measuring 8 feet 51 inches. Taller stalks have been measured, it is true, in Philadelphia, but the growth of this is extraordi-request you to invite, through the medium of your nary; it shews the strength of vegetation on highly cultivated lands this charming season. SHEEP. Mr. R. Parkinson's receipt for the cure of Foot Rot. A speedy and easy remedy for both prevention and cure. To prevent it, take lime from the kiln, paper, gentlemen living in the cotton and sugar The meal of Indian corn is successfully used for tance, to receive whatever falls through. The apertures in the wire must be adapted to the age of the worm, and the drawer below should be placed so near that the animal may get up if he falls down. It is of the first importance that the worm, in every stage of its existence as a larva, should have a free circulation of air, and at the same time be preserved from damp, and from voracious animals. Count Dondola, who has probably paid more attention to |