VoL. VIII, No. 12.] THEODORE H. CREMER, TM7.1.10. The “JoutexAL" will I), published every AVectirsd ty m n•ning, at two dollars a year, if paid IN ADVANCE, and if not paid within six months, two dollars and a half. No subscription receiver fort shorter pe• riod than six months, nor any pauper discon tinued till all arrearages are paid. Advertisements not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for one (halal., and for every suhsequent insertion twenty five cents. If no definite orders are given as to the time an advertisement is to be continu ed, it will he kept in till ordered out, and charged accordingly. POMTP.7. The tikpirit Bal. DY PHAZMA. There's a deep toned bell, With a wild, lone swzll, In the depth of our nature ringing, And the heart is st,rr'd When its tones are heard, For there's thunder in its swinging! If the hell is swung When the heart is young, And we step to tts inward sounding, 0, a pleasant song ' I' will continue long, With our souls to the music bounding, But when still and deep It is busied in sle , p, With its earliest pealing stifled, Theo' the sharpest wo Shall we learn to know The Monarch with whom we have trifled 0. round and clear, To the spirit's Cal , Is the deep-toned bell in it% tolling, And in every sound Are the fair-spells found, Our hearts with the happy enrolling But a fearful knell, And a stern farewell Is its clang to the scorner, kneeling In his last lone hour To offended power. While the deep-toiled bell is pealing! There's a deep toned hell, With a wild, lone swell, In the depth of our nature rinsing, And the heart is stired When its tones are heard, Fur there's thunder in its swinging! N. 0. Picayune. From the N. Y. Evening Post. The search Aker gest. BY J. CUNNINGHAM When first the Dove, afar and wide, Skimmed the dark waters o'er, To seek, beyond the heaving tide, green and peaceful sh o re. No leafy bough, nor life-like thing, Rose 'raid the swelling main— The lone bird s,ught, with faltering wing, The hallowed Ark again. And ever thus Man's heart bath traced A lone and weary round ; But never yet, 'mid Earth's dark waste, A resting place hath found. The peace for which his spirit yearns Is ever sought in vain, 'Till, like the Dove, it homeward turns, And finds it,: God again. IVIZI3Z.Z.L:.i.9.N.:,OU'EI. DE+rl•:RATtost.—%% hen a man's fortune has become so embart wised that lie is obli ged to give up the broadcloth lot home. spun, pound cake, for brown bread, kid for calfskin and calfskin fur cuw•hitle— in such circumstances we consider there 'is hope of a man, and that Ins credit ought yet be accounted as goal, but when he is driven so low in hard tholes as to say, must economise by stopping toy newspit• per: we ,conclude that the poor man's fortunes are really desperate, and iii fact that he is a gone case. To ihwk of sav ing one's self by snipping a newspaper, is like the hungry man's calculating to grow fat by total abstinence from every thing that can sustain life. LOAFER'S boutoutfe TO IRIS COAT.— Now is a rent here to my i;iscontem —may some kind tailor, or his e on in York, and all the journey men that cabbage in his i house—mend t: and in the deep pockets or the coat all buried, there find a fir. THE J't ''-',E, RNAL. OLD WOMEN.—We respect and love o!d wooer. There's our neat door neigh bor, who must be nearly three score years or age, and never idle. At morning's dawn she is up and busy, and never re tires until she has accomplished her work. When a neighbor is sick, she is always ready to soothe by her little kindnesses, and manifests as much interest in lits or her welfare, as for a near relative. When the wind howls, she feels for and pities the pour sailor. When a cold northseaster approaches, she remembers the poor. fu fine, she is always doing good, as far as her means will allow. Blessings on thi , old women. May they all live in peace and happiness, mod when their work is accomplished, die in composure, to re ceive the welcome plaudit—" Well done good and faithful serventsl" A writer beautifully rein irks, that a man's mother is the representativeof his Maker. Mislortune and even crime set op no barriers between het and her son. While his mother lives he will have one friend on earth, who will nut listen when he is slandered, who will not desert hip► 'then he suffers, who will soothe him in lii. sorrows, and speak to hint of hop,• o lien he is ready to despair. Her ailec tion knows no ebbing toile. It bows uu from a pure lountain, — and speak. happi. ness through till.; vale of tears, anti ceases only at the ocean of eternity. COUSINS_— there is nothing like a cousin ; it is the sweetest relation in hu man nature. There is nu excitement in loving your sister; and cunning a lady in the face of strange family requites the nerve of a martyr; but your d earfamiliar cousin, with her pi ov oking maidenly ie• serve and her bewitching fivetloins, and the romping frolics, and the stolen tender ness over the skein of silk she will get tangled—and then the long rides which nobody talks about, and the big letters on which nobody pays the postage—no, there is nothing like a cousin—a young, gay, beautiful vi itch of a cousin. Tra,l:io4 ihiou g h the wilderness to . Texas, about lolly miles Irmo any habits tion, we met a dejected hooking female, meanly clad, sitting under a tree, het elbows resting on her knees. We accos ted her with a few interrogatories in order more ett•ctually to render some assist atice. "L be first question we propounded, she dill not move, the secunit she deigned ill raise her eyes, and to the last question which was," who are you, and what are you?" she replied, with a deep drawn sigh, I'm the last ruse of summer, left blumning alone." 110 w TO BEAT A , A IFE.-Thr Editor of the Talladega (Ala.) Southerner, Ilas round out it way to heat his wile in the kindest and most considel ate manner.— lit. has hem mesmerized and thenfitgs the operator like vengeance! As feelings, watt, 4c., are translei red, she catches a licking, and the world wont call the hus wind a Mute. Marriage is the sinishine of life—be• neath its genial influence spring up the best affections and noblest virtues of man, which to the sterility of selfish celibacy would have lain dormant and useless. It is the source of virtuous pleasures in youth, the balm and solace of old age. For a lady to dress well, is a sign of both understanding and taste. By "tires. sing well" we mean " becomingly," not gaudily; and few of the blind worship. pet s ut fashion have any claim to merit on this score. " Sam, k you asleep?" said one darkee to another. '• No SI)I, %vat you want?" " I wants, if you have it, to borrow a doilar." " Liss asleep." " Rachel, my daughter, why don't) nu learn as last as your sister Hannah?" o why don't every stalk of clover bear lour leaves, mother!" ..Go and bring in a basket of chips, child." Geniuses make had husband• and bad wives and when two geniuses come to gether in marriage, it is like the meeting of two electric clouds which discharge their thunder and lightning at each other. Nu genius should • ver get marred. HARD Timns.—A Bachelors' 11,11 took place at ILlintiore 4411 ‘Vedneolay night, the tickets for which were M. These fellows had better expend their surplus fonds in taking care or the wives and children they ought to have: Or taking care of the children they ought not to have. SYMPATHY.--%% 11% is in pa thy like tin• blind-wawa hult ' P D'ye eve it up? 8..- eau,e it'd a fellow feeling for a fellow creature. "ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY." HUNTINGDON, PHNNSYLVANIA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5. 1843 AGRICVLTVR.g:~. llrr The following hints to the Farming community are taken from the Baitimure .• American Farmer," where they appear, among others, under the head of WORK FOR MARCH ;" but in our latitude, (this year particularly,) they may be appmpri. ately designated Work tor April. SOWING CLOVER SEED he snorter• you sow your clover seed MI your winter• grain, the better ; but as it should be an with y Oil to t ..v es it, we would ad vine you Ire harrow it in witti a Ii lit ha! r and to follow tai operation mill the roller. ludeed,whether you intend to let your' field remain in grass or not, an etiliethened vol. icy would dictate that you should sow clover serif on all your fields, as by tient fall it would givt• you, if you should I.cl so disposed, an opportunity id ploughing in a fine clover ley; or if you Shull Id please so to do you could turn your cattle in, in early fall, and he assured of a good pasture until host. When we present these alternatives for your acceptance, we do riot mean, that it should be Mfrs red that we are of the opinion that it is best either to plough in Ins clover the first year, or that it should be ;,;,razed : for su far tivin either of these being our belief, we unhesitatingly aver, that we believe that die farmer will find his real Otter, st in suffering his first field 1 to retrain in clover, untouched the first season, and only to turn it under alter lie shall have cut it t‘i 0 successive years, and that, looking to benefit, hr shall let the aloe.-math restrains untoculied by hid Atiiek. In all cases where it may be considered desirable to provide ft pa-tme tor ow stock, we think its quality will be ;real I v improved by sowing iirciatill grass wnh dove, seed, 1 bushel of the former, to 12 lbs. of the latter pvr acre. if lover seed should be sown alone, at least 16 lbs. per acre should be given to the earth. GRASS SEEDS GENA RALLY —35 Timothy, Herdsgrass, Perennial Rye Grass, Orch ard Glass, Lucerne, Sain:loin, and in deed, all the artificial varieties, may now be sown, and the ,nosier the better. 0 Lucerne, v e confess that we desire to see some experiments made with it for purposes of suiting both horses and cows; from the limited opportunity we have had of observing its nature and growth, we ill cline to the belief that every farmer should have an acre appr.tpriated to its culture witl. the object of providing green prov• ender its work horses and milch cows through the summer and fall. On a rich, clean soil, liberally immured, it will per haps afford as touch suostantial eating as any other of the cultivated grasses, and beside its productive nature, it possesses other qualities which should recommend it to favor. It i. aiming the earliest gras• ses in spring to yield its product, and the latest in the fall to resign its powers of production—The soil that suits it best, is a dry deep 141;1111 with a healthy sub•soil, and as its lap roots penetrate the earth in great depth, the earth should be vet y deep ly ploughed, and, it possible, sobsoiled.— Besides this preparation by ploughing, the harrow must be u-ed !leery, to reduce the soil to a state of fine pulverisation, and the seed after being tightly harrowed in, - . must be 'lolled. The tin:unity seed per acre is 20 lbs. %%Ilia should be soaked in tepid water, dried in plaster or ashes, be fore being sown. HAULING OUT MANURE—As there is much to do at this season of the year, and time is precious, commence at once haul ing out your manure, and cease not until you have hauled out enough to give your corn ground a generous dressing. 11, al ter you examine your manure heaps, you should find you have not enough to do this, send your cart to the woods and haul in a sufficient quantity of o. aid leay. s to make up the d, ffcirnry ; mix these wtlh your dung, taking rare to sir., a It of plaster over every ten or twel !mid , of it, as the operation of mixing, may lie going mt. While upon the subject of haulitig nut manure to the corn ground. we ile.ire to pre s. this tiuth it lolly to iltpect a large product of corn without an .ibundant supply or manure. OArs—We need scarce tell you, that the earlier you sow your o its, the heavier will be the Intuitive oI grain, as you know that alreaply ;--bur it may be serviceable Io remind you of what you have often done before, and perhaps are about to do IF Ike piece of ground you have se lected Inc your oat crop, is coon, don': be disappointed if your crop is of the sante character. The slight which this excel lent gram receives from almost every one, cannot he too severely reprehended.— Generally speakintr, some poverty strick en field is selected for its culture, and then, because the yield is small, the oat culture is denounced from Maine to Georgia, whereas the fault is with the cid ! ut lets. Oats r. quire good land, good preparation, and early sowing, and under these circumstances, ut favorable years and situations, will prove a profitable crop. A hundred bushels to the acre •.ave often been produced, 40, 50, GO and 80, still oftener, nd yet we doubt whether the average product in our country, is shove 15 bushel:. Why is this thing so —the reason can be as:igned in one word, and that word is—neglect. Where the ground may not be good, in all cases a bustlel of plaster to the acre stiould be WWII and harrowed in with the reed. ii plaster cannot be had, a few bushels per acre, say ten, of either lime m ashes will answer as a very excellent sub stitute. 'to prevent injury from the worms, a bushel 01 . salt per acre, should be sown pretious to rolling, and here we %t ill re mark, !hat all sowing- of oats should not Ue conmilered completed until the field has been rolled. As to the quantity of seed per acre %a e would remark, that the best crops that we have ,eeti, and read 01 as having been grown, have always resulted !rum a heavy allowance of seed. Three and four bush els to the acre in most cases, while the generally good crops have had 2. and 2i mishels to the acre. Less than two bush els never should be sown, and great care should be taken, to select good Navy seed for sowing. clov'er seed be sown upon the oats, 'wring's it would be best riot to sow more bushels of seed per acne. SPlrtsG 1.% HEAT--Front SlllllO experi omits made at the Eastward, upon fields . of winter wheat, which had be.•n greatly killed out by the frosts of winter, we are Inclined to think, that spring wheat might advaniageously lie sown over such fields; but otherwise, we would not advise its be log touched unpvliere this side of the Susquehanna. Coati --As we are the advocates of ear ly pl.4,tiog, we, of course, would tiro tip frost is suflicirnily out of the ground to allow of its being plon,theil and put in good order. Deep ploughing, heavy ma iming, thorough pulverization in the pre paration of ground, and i► dry bed, are in ' dispensables in the beginning, as mach so indeed, a- constant stirring of the soil is in the suet culture, up to the point of •topping. II we were asked how deep we wouid plough for it corn crop? our answer would be never--never less than seven inches, and as much deeper as we could get, adding each year an inch or two to the depth of our soil; always toaawing freely with vegetable and_ animal manures, and never omitting either to lime, to ash, or to, plaster. WORKING HORSES, MULES AND OxEN. —A.s the time has now arrived, when ev ery muscle and nerve of these faithful creatures will be strained to their utmost al your service, see that they are cared for as the working animals of cltristian men should be. Let them be well clean - d twice a day, well bedded at night, and receive three generous feeds of grain duo' the day, and as much hay at night us they can profi'ably eat. Salt them twice a week; give them during this month a half Imo of lin.teed meal twice a week, and 14,1..114;1(m.y ashes, say a gill at a time, la their food, three or four days in suc• cession. MEADOWS, of all kinds, that may be be turf-bound, should as soon as the bust is out of the ground, have the harrow pass ed over them so as to loosen up the soil and let the rains and atmospheric gasses into the routs—and they would be greatly bent-fitted, by being top dressed with ash. es, or some rich compost. GRAIN FIELD. , --- %1 heat and Rye would be greatly benefited as soon as the grown( is dry enough to admit of it, by (let g harrowed and rolled. lI.CH Cows—As the season has 'ar rived when you may expect your snitch cows hi nrihg forth theie.v'oung't mould ail, 1-e you to see that they receive increas ed car, and an ad., ition d of Mod, ~nd be sure hit a portion of torit daily .illowance is comprised of such substances its the animals Call readily convert into milk. As for making a good cow on dry 'food, or keeping her to her milk mt it, tnere is nothing natural about it, He, who expects good milk yielding cows, must feed them. STOCK GENERALLY—Stock of all kinds must receive additional attention during this month, and each would be the better of a hall a pint of linseed nil, and a gill of hickory ashes in a few of their feeds. SHEEP—Be careful to give your ewes either grain or roots during this month; see that they are dryly lodged, well bed ded, regularly sidled, awl have good fod der or hay ; and while attending to your ewes, don't forget that the wales of every description have appetites as well as they. ROOT Cnnvs---If it be your intention to rai-e root crops this year, to provide a supply of succulent food for milch cows and sheep next winter, now is the time that you should be making tile necessary arrangements, as providing the manure, selecting the ground, and securing the seed. Don't say you have no manure to spare, for that is no excuse, as a couple of carts can haul enough loam and leaves in two days to manure many acres aground. AsHES AND PLAsTEß—Secure a supply of bo,liels of the tomer and one of the latier, for every acre of corn you mean to plant, that you may be able to put a gill to each hill of corn. Small as this quantity may appear, it will make a differ ence of twenty-five per cent. to the yield of your corn. FescE3--Let us enjoin it upon you as a duty that you owe yourself and your neighbors, to see that your fences ate is good revile. ORCHARD 4 may be pruned the early part ul this month. EARLY POTATOES—Let hint who wishes t to succeed with a patch of early potatoes, seize the first opportunity when the frost t is out of the ground, to get it ready. lo ihe first place the ground 'oust be well manured, ..truatlcast, ploughed deep, and I harrowed, then let the furrows be struck I off three feet apart and 5 inches deep. In these furrows strew long manure, leaves from the woods, or pine shatters, say two inches deep, then plant your potatoe setts l ien inches apart and cover them with long manure, taking, care to sprinkle plaster over them. This done, turn a furrow on ei.her side and over the potatoes, then roll ir, order to compress the earth. Don't he alarmed about its being to() early, the setts will not come up until nature teach es them they ran do so with impunity from the bout. As soon as you see the pota 10 ,. s be g in to come up, run your harrow across the rows, so as to level the earth and give the plants a'chatice I f growing • through the fresh stifled surface. This Kill secure a 101 l stand of (duos. inches high, run a small plough through them, turning a furrow front them, :Ind • returning it by time return of the teams -- • In a week from dims, run the cultivator • through the rows so as to loosen sod verize the stile; and as soon as this is done, let your ploughman turn a small furrow towards the plants, taking care to 111111 W his slice so as to leave a Hat surface ' at top to act as a receiver of the rain. Thi s plo.ighing completed, set careful hands in with a hoe to pick out any weeds • which may not have been covered by the plough. in two weeks from dos, subject your patch to the same process, and, un less the season should be very wet, you in.y• look upon the crop as laid Should weeds, however, show their thank less heads, the hue and cultivator must do the rest. PARSNIPS, CARROTS ArSO BEETS inten ded kw early use, may be sown as soon as die ground can be got ready in a dry con- TRANSLATING FRUIT TIMES- • Plant your }'aunt; It tilts trees out forthwith. ORNAMENTAL TREES MUtit now be plan ted. Tools. PM/I:CM—Soon these implements will be wanted. II you have wrought iron shares, have them sharpened now, while you can conveniently spare the hot se and yourself to go to the blacksmiths and while he is not pressed with work. If you use the cast iron, see that the points are in good order; always have one spare point lot. each, plough ou hand. HARPOW.—This instrument is not used enough. All sward boil sh mid he har rowed lenthwise and furrow then cross wise. Thus the land works easier through the season, and the crops are better. Let the teeth of the harrow be sharpened. Ilinze.u.—Mlny Neuters are yet with out tht. instrument of husbandry. Some with whom we converse, greatly misun• tkrstand its action upon the land. It is supposed by them that the only ett.ct is to consolidate or harden the soil. But no tither instrument Hors more than this to pulverize or make fine, especially where the soil is lumpy. Let the roller precede ihe hat row, and then the land harrows up ver3 mellow. It is well, also, to let it follow the harrow and slightly compress the surface ul light lands where grain is sown; and it is serviceable to grass lands ti, mil them early in the spring. Thus you replace the earth around the grass roots which the frost has thrown away.— You press down the bunches and the small stones which obstruct the scythe. Collars, traces chains, yokes, bows. carts, hoes, shovels, manure folks, and numerous tither articles, should be louked up and put in order l•ot• use. A man's success in farming depends upon the manner in which he does his [IVuoLE No. 376: wo k. Thorough tillage is the most pro• litable. Hut this cannot well be accom plished wilhout good tools. The benefits of a good plough are not confined exclu• sively to easy draft; but they extend to the crop. Where the earth to the depth of six or eight inches, is all well taken up and turned over, the roots of the plants will work better than where a fourth, a sixth, or an eight of the soil is left unmo ved by the plough. We believe that the economy of getting good tools is not fully understood by _a vast number of those who till the soil. When the greater amount of work can he performed and the better quality of the work are bolt taken into account, it may be shown that the money required for the purchase of good implements will be profitably invested.--N. E. Farmer. From the Louisville Journal, Cultivation of Corn. PREPARING THE Gaouisn, Szc.—The first essential step is to break up the soil thoroughly and deep. To etlect this, let the plough pass twice through the same Furrow in such a manner as to throw the surface to the bottom ot the furrow and to bring up some live inches of the under soil, to the new ploughed surface. In land with sonic depth ot soil and which has not been treated in this manner, very nearly and perhaps quite the original ler. tility of the soil will at once be restored, and perhaps a better crop be produced than ever grew on the same land before. This was the result in the case of Mr. P. Chamberlain, of this neighborhood. He last year ploughed in this manner a ten acre field, the worst worn spot on his farm, and without any manure; the produce of this field was more than 800 bushels of Corn—:.bout 82 bushels to the acre. lie planted this field in rows four (get apart with two stalks every 20 or 24 inches.— Be trot afraid of bringing up clay to the surface. Depth of loose sod is intlipensi ble to fertility, and a loose soil of 10 in ch,s deep, may, by . the plan of double furrows, be created in a very short time lai l g aiV - TNAHOliwn l iw d erie 411-,4t* improves with great rapidity. Mr. Lewis maunders, a distinguished - farmer of this State, informed us that this was his regu lar system, and he never departs from it in the case of sod, tvlnch he always turns under to the depth of ten inches. PLANTING—A great diversity of opin ion exists as to the number of stalks to be left on a given surface. Our fact is clearly established, that no very heavy crop was ever produced where tire corn did not stand unusually thick, and it is in' general true that the yield, or the ease of i a very heavy crop, is in the direct pro ' portion of the number of stalks. This we took occasion to demonstrate, early last , year, by the citation of instances. 'Tice heaviest crop of which w e have any au thentic evidence was that of Warner Young, of Jessamine county, Kentucky, being a little over 195 bushels to the acre in a field of five acres, the field being laid out in squares of three feet, with four stalks left in a frill. The next largest crop we now remember was that of Geo. W. Williams, of Bourbon county, Ky., being about lOU bushels to the acre, drills two feet apart. one stalk every loot ii, the drill. These crops were produced in a year (1840, we believe) of extraordinary crops ; and the advocates of thin wanting, deny that Mr. Young's plan is the best fur the average of years, and crud eird• that about half the number of stalks left by Innt will produce the heaviest yield in a set ies of years. Mr. Young assured us last winter that his crop, in the dryest years, was 100 bushels to the acre, but last year, in which very little ruin fell in his neigh borhood in the corn growing season, his crop, we learn, was very short- much shorter than his neighbors, who planted thinner. No one denies that thick plan ted corn will produce less than thinner corn, in a very dr . % season, but it is very clear to us, hour our own experience as well as careful examination of the expe rience of others, that corn is generally planted too thin. The experience of this immediate neighborhood last year is very strong on this point. In that year there w a s an unusual quantity of rain in June, iti,d the first of July found the corn in a state of great luxuriance; bat after the first of July; for 89 days, not a drop of rain fell—alter the first of August there were occasional moderate rains, but the season was regarded as quite unfavorable, and the crops were generally indifferent --by no means above an average. Yet Mr. P. Chamberlin, of this neighborhood, produced 112 bushels to the acre, the corn ',tante.' in drills 24 feet apart, one stalk every 20 inches. We have already stated that he produced over 800 bushels the saute ) ear on a ten acre field—corn plan ted in drills four feet apart, two stalks every , 20 or 24 inches. On the whole, we feel authorised to recommend planting at least as thick as in the last case; or, if the squares arc preferred, that the ploughing
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