PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. fig, BlliH-STKEET, BETWEEN SECOND AND 77/7/J7? STREETS, PHILADELPHIA
[No. 91, of Vol. II. j
ABSTRACT of the EXPORTS of the United State.'
from the commencement of the Cuftom-Houfe'
in the several States, which were at differen
times in August, 1789, to the 30th day of Sep'
i 790._
SPECIES of MERCHANDIZE.
EXTORTED
Ashes pot, tons,
AAies pcail, do.
Apples, baircls,
Boats,
Bomb Shells,
Bricks,
tons,
Beer ana Porter. casks,
Brandy, do.
Cordials, boxes,
Cordage,
Carriages,
Candles Tallow,
Candles Wax,
Candles Myrtle,
Cyder, barrels,
Cotton, bales,
Coffee, lbs.
Chocolate, do.
, Its.
do.
do.
Cocoa, do.
Caflia and Cinnamon, do.
X)eer {kins,
Buck American, bolts,
Duck Russia, do.
Earthen and Glass Ware,
Eflence Spruce, boxes,
Flax-Seed,
casks,
Flax,
Furs,
furniture,
("Fish dried, quintals,
. ! Fish pickled, barrels,
C ! Oil Whale, do.
J Oil Spermaceti, do.
| Candles, lbs.
(.Whale-Bone, do.
f F»uck-Wheat, bulhels
t! | Corn, do.
« Oats, do.
Rye, do.
[ Wheat, do.
Cinfeng, casks,
Cun Powder, lbs.
gallons,
Gin,
Grindstones,
-Hair-Powder, lbs.
Hats,
Hay,
Horns,
Ironmongery,
Iron Pig,
Iron Bar,
tons,
tons,
do.
indigo,
r Horned Cattle,
•5 J Horses.
<§ J Mules,
I Sheep,
*4 H °g s >
L Poultry,
dozen,
T Staves and Heading,
• Shingles,
I Shook Hogsheads, 52,,558
Hoops, 1.908,310
1 Boards, 46.747.73°
| Handlpikes, dozen, 2.361
Calks, 2,423
Scantling, feet 8,719,638
« Lumber of differnt kinds, do.
Timber of do. do.
Leather, lbs.
Logwood,
Lignumvitar,
Lead and Shot,
Mahogany,
Medicine and Drugs.
Merchandize,
Molasses,
Muskets,
Nank-ens, bales,
Oil Linseed, barrels,
' Flour, barrels
Bread, do.
Meal, do.
Peas & Beans, bush.
Beef, barrels
i Pork, do.
£ | Hams& Bacon, lbs.
•fS Butter, firkins
w Cheese, lbs.
Potatoes, barrels
Tongues, do.
Onions, Vegetables,
J Hogs Lard, firkins
J Honey, do.
COyfters Pickled, kegs
Pimento, bags
Proper, lbs.
Paper, reams
tons,
do.
do.
gallons,
• *
«e I
#<!
* I
Ib.s.
barrels
ib S.
Paint,
Pitch,
Raw Hides,
Kaw Silk,
Rosin, barrels
Rice, tierccs
Rum American, gallons
Rum Wcftindia, do.
Raisins, casks
Salt, bufticls
Sago,
Soap,
lbs.
boxes
Value.
661,634
17 7-459 5°
6,318
372
100
Qiiant'tty
7>°s° 10
>.M 8 55
5,898
8
10
2,617 50
4,612
3,016
637
5.739
28,017
14.876
2,461
52
849
58,408
45.753
3.537
95°
9.715
33> 00 9
777
2,200
i,99°
600
870,55°
472
*97
236
2 20
149,680
5.274
*i -
44a
2,027
254-75 2
29,882
10,632
. 9>39 2
77
220
"5
236,072
40,019
21,97 a
1,468
60. .515
8 351
828,531
»'3 > t6 S
124 908
79»54 2
378,721
36,804
'5-765
5,43'
70,379
121,281
27,724
20,41 7
7.562
2j102,137
98,842
2 >5 72
1,083,581
20,900
13,181
1.398.99 8
47,024
861
16,989
450
1,687
1.392
12,851
1,052
2 1 j 7 6,5
1,124,458
813
5,800
18,02 s
203
1 a 5534
2,126
7,878
9 1 >379
3 '555
>6,723
537-379
612,119
,5.4°6
8,628
99,960
339-5> 6
8,846
237
10,058
5>3°4
3.704
i 7
14,481
6,263
36.402,301
67.33 1 ' 1 '5
463,229
120,151
32,002
■ 9,598
?.60,213
*>5°5
3 6 97
95.3°8
128.503
339>3'-«
5.3 02
22,698
264
1 76
6
3.9'»
1,760
810
>8-531
>'735
28,1^6
3»9°4
500
a 5>537
100
11
"9
724,623
75.667
99.973
38.752
44.662
24,462
2 53>555
2.3'5
1,^62
4>59 l > 2 93
209,674
302,694
25.746
2 79'55>
208.099
19,728
48,587
8,830
6.C09
1.598
£2,936
3».4rs
99°
•2 72
. _ , O
8.379
•44.73+
5.318
641
6 '35S
165
272
4,928
7*5
6,100
1,440
381
9 6 3
17*488
169
4, 6 5°
8,875
3' 6
100,845
37°>33>
12,623
778
»• 753.796
j 35>4°3
5-795
1 ,205
8,236
3'>935
2,319
697
455
3.9 6 7
Saturday. March 12, 1791.
Snuff,
lbs.
Seeds and Roots,
Siioes and Boots,
Sadlery,
Starch,
pans
Sugar X,oaf,
Sugar Brown, dc
Saflafras, d(
Stee), bundles
Stones fa wed,
Tdllow,
hhds,
Tobacco,
chests
Tea,
Tar, barrels
Turpentine, do.
Do. Spirits, do.
Tow Cloth, pieces
calks
]?ipes
lbs.
Vinegar,
Wines,
Wax,
To the north-weft Coast of America,
Amount of fcveral Returns received fnee the
i£ih February, 1791.
* One Quarterly Return from feveial small Diftntts are de
ficient.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
ON AGRICULTURE,
BEING on a journey sometime ago, I put tip
at a very decent inn, and was not displeased
to find my landlord disposed to entertain me with
his conversation : He feeined to be of a cheerful
temper, and saw things on the bright fide. After
touching upon politics, which, next to the wea
ther, is the firft topic to scrape acquaintance
with, he ex-prelled his fatisfaclion that husban
dry was beginning to prosper. It was a fliaine,
he said, that freeholders should be so little ambi
tious to shew, by the fkiiful management of their
land, that it was their own. But he was happy
to find, that at last the lpirit of improvement had
reached them—they were getting into the prac
tice of tilling no more land than they were able
to manure so well as to obtain very great crops.
This method was found to cause a considerable
saving ot labor, as well as a great incieafe of
grain. He said that the molt thrifty farmers in
the village and neighbourhood, had agreed to
meet at ltated times, under the name of the Far
mers' Club, and to communicate such ufeful ob
servations as had occurred to them. Some of the
club were direcfted to procure feeds, by way of
change, from distant parts ; others agreed, from
time to time, to make experiments, and to com
municate the result to the club. One of their
number, who was not at the last meeting, had
sent his observations in a letter. My landlord
finding that I was pleased with the letter, direct
ed his son to make me a copy of it : If you think
it will be ufeful, you may publish it.
Gentlemen,
BEING lame, I cannot, as usual, attend your
meeting ; but 1 fend you, in writing, lome ob
servations, which I intended to have communi
cated in person.
Doubtless it was decreed that we should get our
living by hard work. We have no cause to com
plain of our lot in this regard : It brings with it
many blellings, and shields us from many evils.
The scholar fits pale at his books, and even white
bread turns four on his stomach ; the Ealt wind
makes him fliiver, and the sultry South wind de
prives him of strength and spirits. We, on the
contrary, swing the scythe, without faintnefs, in
the dog days > and, iu the winter, the manage
ment of the axe keeps us warm, though uptothe
knees in snow. But though it is ordained that
we should work hard for our living, I cannot be
lieve that we are to work hard and not get it.
Yet, how many get but half a living, and go be
hind hand notwithstanding. What is thecaufe?
Is it not the low state of the noble art of husban
dry ? Io do all that is polfible to be done to im
prove it, will require great estates, great lkill,
and a very long course of time, to establish new
methods of practice. But some improvements
are obvious, within the reach of every one, even
the poorest farmer, and, if pra<ftifed, would ena
ble the poorest farmer to pay his taxes, and to
live comfortably.
We find that the produce of land is greater or
less in proportion to the manure that is laid on
it. Indeed, new lands for several years, and in
tervals near rivers, will do without; but what 1
have remarked is true, of almoftall the old lands
in the country. ]f wc could find means to in-
777
s>®°9
2 >'35
5,741
5-54 1
1,125
>5,35°
5,861
>6,429
33.'358
49,5°4
3>43 2
2 >'-37
555
97<*
550
200,020
118,460
20,722
4>349>567
11:1,582
1-26,116
7 2 >54 1
1,032
1,672
85,067
28,326
*93
67
».274
®3> 2 49
57.597
1,074
2 3M5 8
2°,194,794
10,362
210,810. 84
Dollars, Total, * 20,415,966. 84
hfkso
[Whole No. 195.]
crease manure, it would be better to do it than
to buy more land ; for an acre, well manured,
will yield as much as two without manure the
crop is got for half the money; and in cafe of
cold wet springs, or dry summers, it is not so
likely to be cut off. All this you well know.
But perhaps you do not all know, because you
have not tried ihe m£ans of increasing manure
by comport. I have tried ic, and wilh you to fol
low my example.
Adjoining the stye where your swine are {hue
up, which should be dry and warm, fence a yard
for them to wallow in ; twenty or thirty feet
1 qua re will be large enough for half a dozen hogs ;
cover this in the fall i>r spring with mud, or any
rich earth or grass sods ; common loom should
not be refufed, if richer earth cannot be procured.
1 he hogs, having no rings in their noses, will
render this mud or earth, if not more than two
feet deep, an exceeding rich conipoft in a year's
time. They will keep it llirring and fermenting
with their clung and urine, which will be incor
porated with the mud, and thereby their \yhole
strength will be saved ; for the mud or earth
will prevent the virtues of the dung and urine
from being wafiied into the ground by theheavy
rains, or evaporated by the fun and air—it not
only saves them, but makes them stronger, by
keeping them in a state of conltant fermentation
—the fermentation will be increased, and the
whole mass will be improved by making this yard
the receptacle for the weeds of your garden—
throw into it your soap suds, brine, and all the
greasy flop of the kitchen—you may add potatoe
tops, which should be carefully saved for the pur
pose when you gather the potatoes —theftubborn
corn-stalks, which rot slowly in the cow-yard,
will soon con fume in the hog-yard. Indeed anv
vegetable or animal fubltance may be added, for
there is none which will not make manure when
rotten. Half a dozen hogs, if confined to a ftyc,
and such a yard, will make more than 20 tons of
the bell manure in one year. The manure should
be laid in heaps to mellow with the frofts of one
winter, and it will aiifwer to put into the hills of
Indian corn as well as horse dung.
It is not neceflary to tell farmers how to life
manure, nor liow much the crop will be encreafed
by it. You all know that my crops have been re
markably large, and 1 allure you that I have ob
tained them by manuring my grounds in the be
fore-mentioned manner. The dung of hogs is fin
for moll purposes, but particularly for Indian
corn, which is a great exhauster of the earth :
It ferments more llowly than hoife or sheep dung,
and furnilhes a Heady supply to carry oil the
growth of this plant to the ripening of the ear.
The dung or hogs, valuable as it is, is almost en
tirely 101 l throughout the country; and their
urine, not lei's valuable, is totally loft and ab
foibed by the ground. A thick layer of earth in
the ho'g-yard, as has been observed, not only pre
vents this lols, but improves the manure.
I advise you, therefore, to make trial of thi s
method without loft of time. Do the like in y ou r
cow-yards—spread a thick layer of earth there,
gather all the litter and rubbish, weeds, leaves
ajid iti aw, that you can, and let the cattle tread
it into the mafsj if it should get hard trodden,
ltir it with an iron bar, or turn it up to the air
several times in the Cummer with a plough. A
diligent farmer will be surprised at the quantity
of his manure, and a fkilful one will not be at a
IoU toi methods to improve the strength of it.
It will be his own fault if the compost is inferior
in llrengtji to dung which xs unmixed with earth
01 mud. 1 his compoll will improve by lying in
Leaps, expolcd to the frofts of the winter. Spread
on giafs land, it makes fine crops—and indeed ic
answers every purpose of dung.
Our farms will certainly grow worse, unless
we ny io increase their fertility by comports and
artificial manure. Inrtead of wearing our lands
out, and spoiling the earth we live on, it is time'
to turn our attention to the important fubjedt of
manure, after the example of England, where
husbandry is greatly encouraged. My own ex
perience has taught me that we may get better
crops, while the fruitfulnefs of our grounds /hall
be made to advance from year to year.
You fee, gentlemen, that 1 endeavor to contri
bute my mile to the benefit of the club. No mem
ber wishes it success more heartily. God prosper
the plough, is the daily prayer of your humble
servant,
PETER THRIFT.