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[D. A. BUEHLER, EDITOR' ' AND PROPRIETOR
VOL XVI.-37.
POETRY.
BE KIND.
Be kind to thy father—for when thou wert young,
Who lured thee so fondly as he?
He taught thetirst accents that fell from thy tongue,
And joined in thine innocent glee!
Be kind to thy father, for now he is old,
His locks intermingled with grey,
His footsteps are feeble, once fearless and hold; •
Thy father is passing away.
•
Be kind to thy mother—for lo ! on her brow
Many traces of sorrow-arc seen,
0 well m:ty'st thou* cherish and comfort her now,
For loving and kind hath she been.
Remember thy.mother - for thee will she pray,
So long as God giveth her breath, ~_
With ac, cats of kindness, then cheer her lone way
E en to the dark valley of death. •
Be kind to thy brother—his heart will haye death
If the smile of thy love be withdrawn;
- The flowers of, feeling will lade at their birth,
If the dew of affection be gone;
Be kind to thy brother—wherever fon are,
The love of a bro her shall be
An ornament purer and richer by Jar,
Than pearls from the depth Of the sea. •
Be 'kind to thy sisternot many may know
The depth of true sisterly love: • •
The wealth of the ocean lies lathonas below
The surlace that sparkles abo% e.
Thy kindness shall bring to thee many sweet hour
And-blessings thy pathway to crown,
Affection shall weave Thee a garland of flowers,
More precious than wealth or renown.
A Child's first Impression of a Star.
lIY JOIN 3.I . IIARMIE, L9ll
She had been told that God Made all the stars
That twinkle np in heaven ;And now she stood
Watching . the coming of the twilight on,
As if it were a new, and perfect world,
' And this were its first eve. How beautiful
Must be the work of Nature to a child
In its first impressions! Laura stood
- By thedow xvindow, with the siLzen lash
.Of her soft eye upraised, and her sweet mouth
Half parted. with the new arid strange delight
Of beauty which she Could not comprehend,
And had not seen before. The purple fold
Of the low sun l et clouds, and the blue sky
That l'ook so still ad delecate above,
Filled her young heart with gladness, and the eve
Stole on with its deep shadows. Laura still
Stood, looking at the West with that half Emile,
As if a- pleasant thought were at - her - heart:
Presently, in the edge of the last tint
Of sunset, where the blue was melted in
To the faint gold-mellowness—a star •
IA
• Burst front her lips; and putting-up her hands
Her simple thoughts broke forth expressirel v
"Fatker,_dear father! God has made a star r',
MISCELLANEOUS.
. WESTERN ELOQUENCE.
• "TOM CORWIN,"
The following capital sketch of the oratory of
the Hon. Tuostas Conwts late Governor of Ohio,
and now-a United States Senator, is from an article
on IVestern,Eloquence, in the Biblical -Repository,
by the Rev. Joseph TutVe, forater'y of New Jersey.
The writer thinks that Gov. C. combines more of
the faults and cxcelleuc:es of I'Veitern Speaking
than any oth - or man, and therefore selects him as ti
• sample. He makes the following just remarks
on the ditlicelties and advantages with which Wes
tern Speakers have to contend:
"The heterogeneous character of Western
audiences opposes no ordinary barrier to
highest suacesss in eloquence, and resule
in two marked characteristics : excessive
caution in alluding to any thing calculated
to excite prejudice in a mixed multitude,.
and the use of appeals rounded - rnifi princi
ples so broad and incontrovertible as to'bc
universally admitted.
"Whether these arc favorable to the
growth of eloquence, let others decide ; and
yet facts stand dut proMinently, showing
that vast masses' of the men at the West
have been moved by such Means as when
a tempest rushes over the calm ocean, stir
ring its ldwest depth, and marshalling the
world of waters into contending waves."
s The remarkable oratory of Gov: Co 'twirl. is stri
kingly illustrated in the following incident: '
- "Perhaps nothing contributes more to
the eflects'6l the well-chosen wards than'
his face, which is altogether a "nonesuch."
'i'hat swarthy face is a noble one, and there
is no passion or feeling in his heart but is
proclaimed by his countenance before words
can utter it. Pis a magic mirror, reflect
ing upon his auditors wrath, contemp, pa
triotism, pity, sarcasm, so strikingly,-that
all feel themsylves sympathisincr with him
in emotions not yet articulated. e Those
who were witnesses will never forget the
indescribable drollery of his' tones, gestures
and physiognomy, in 1840, at Columbus,
whilst answering the objections. of some
Inan-of 7 straw antagonist. Mr. C. had, the
day previous, addressed a Multitude of for-1
ty or fifty thousand, and was to address as
great a - multitude the succeeding-day. The
citizens of Franklin county way-laid him,'
and compelled him, although greatly ex- . 1
haustud, to speak. His strain of remark
was uncommonly brilliant, seeming to I
transcend his usual efforts. He supposed,
an honest inquirer and opponent to be pro- I
posing questions in, reference to the cry'
that "times are killing hard." "Why, my
dear sir," stays the opponent, "how can it
be possible that 'so much trouble and hard
times exist, and vet ilia men whom we
have elected to ollme,and in whom we have
unshaken confidence;never whispered a
word of all this ? Sir, you trinuthe mis-1
taken,•or our office-holders would speak
Mr. ' C.'s countenance was the very im
personation of the "serio-comico" gravity
whilst stating thkobjection. Tlien:bega .
, .
that droll working - of *his features,at the,
very sight of-which, beibTe heiTha . t.t said a
word, hundreds found iiimposible not to
latgh. outright. ..I.ollow-citizens,"'' skid
I;i2, 4,cii , ...er:.t0 't c yf:s. :at& 14).
I the holy Scriptures with The deepest rev
! erenee, and on occasions like the present
bitt seldom ; but that venerable patriarch,.
Job, has so completely unravelled the diffi
culty of my honest opponent that I must
trespass to quote his words: , “Doth , - - a
wild beast bray while he bath grass, or
„loweth the ox over his fodder ?" By this
time his form was bent down towards his
hearers, his fun-speaking eye was glancing
from one countenance to another, and his
whole -face radiant with, inimitable queer
ness. Who could resist, it? Sedate old
men held their sides to roar ; the younger
portion stamped and screamed With laugh
ter till the tears started.• Peals of laughter
'succeeded peal so rapidly and boisterously
as to preclude the o possibility of speaking
for sonic minutes. Had some old Roman
pantomine• witnessed the swarthy face of ,
"Tom, the Wagon-boy," as his constituents I
sometimes affectionately term him, effect-
in,g such prodigies, he would have died of
sheer envy .!"
A BEAUTIFUL TITOUGIIT
How few men seem to form a con
ception 'of the original dignity 01 :their
nature, or the exalted design .0f creation,
regarding themselves as only creatures of
time, endowed merely with animal pas
sions and intellectual faculties ; their pro
jects, aims, and exxectations, are circum
scribed by the narrow outlines of human
life. They forget that instability and de
cay are written as with a sunbeam. upon
all earthly objeets; that this world, with
all its pageantry, - pomp, and power. is
crumbling to dust ; that the present life is '
scarcely deservintr thought, except as it
forms
_an introduction to another, and that
he alone nets a prudent or rational part,
who formes his plans with a - direct refer
. ence to that future and endless 'state -9r be
ing. Sin haS so blinded the understand
ings, and perverted the will, and debased the
affections, that weinevei fail to invest some
temporal good with fancied perfection, and
idly imagine thai the attainment of it would.
satisfy the desire and fill the capacities of
our immortal spirit. Vain thought! how
little they know themselves. The soul is
not of earth, and they will striae in vain to
chain it to the dust. Though its native
strength has been impaired, and its purity
tarnished,-ats-12-lory- changek—it-elmno
always be a prisoner here. - Send it forth
as you will to range the whole material u
niverse ; and, like the dove dismissed from
the ark,
-it will return without finding a sin
gle place to restfor irlias no resting .
place but the bosom of GOD.
OUR NfEctrAmcs.—They are the palace
builderi of the world ; not a stick is hewn,
not a stone is shapened, in all the lordly
dwellings . M . the rich, that does not we its
fitness and beauty to the, mechanic's ;
'the towering spires that raise their giddy
heights among the clouds, depend upon
the mechanic's art and strength, for their
symmetry, beauty and proportions ; there,
is no article of comfort or pleasure, but
what bears the impress of their 'handl
eNalied is their callinz—how
sublime is their vocation ! Who dares to
sneer at such a fraternity of honorable men
—who dares to east odium upon sucli - a
patriotic race ? Their path is one of true
glory * and it is their own fault if it does
not lead them to the highest posts of hon
or and renown.
ANECDOTE OF TOE TWIN SISTERS.—IrVe
know of a farmer io,ponnecticut who has
a pair of twin daughters of whom a capital
anecdote is told. They. both attended the
same school, and not long since one of
them was called up by the master to recite
a lesson iu Geography, which she had
learned very imperfectly, and in fact could
not go on at all. The teacher ; who was
getting quite out of patience, wassailed to
another part of the room, and just at that
moment the twin sister sprang to the floor
unobserved, and pushing the delinquent
scholar to her seat, took her place. The
master proceeded with the questions, which
were answered' with a degree of prompt
ness and accuracy which, at the chime,
drew forth. from him a few wen's of com
mendation. The joke was not discovered
by the teacher until some days after. - 0f
course it was too good and. successful to
occasion any offence.
AN 'OATH REFLECTED UPON.—Mr. Ro
maine hearing a man call upon God to
curse him offered him a half crown if he
Would repeat the oath,' The man started—
" What sir, do you think I would• curse my
soul for a halt' crown ?" Mr. Romaine
answered, "as you did it just now for noth r
ing, I could not but suppose that you would
for a reward." The poor fellow was
struck with the reproof, and Aaid,—.9lay.
God bless you sir, whoever you are. I
believe you have saved ,my soul. I hope
I shall never swear again."
."
Slander, says Laeon, cannot make the
subject of it either better or worse. It may
repreient us in a false light, or place a like
ness of us in a bad one. But we remain
the -same, . Not so with the slanderer—the
slander that lie utters makes hiin still Worse,
the slandered never.
Many take less eare'of their conscience
than of their reputation. The religious
Man fears, the man of honor scorns, to • do
an ill-action.
No man is born , nobler than another.
unless he is born miith better abilities and
a more utniable dispositiog. .
GETTYSBURG, PA„ FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1845.
A THRILLING SCENE. ' ( COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS.
.
Permit me to illuStrate my views of tem- We gladly lay before our reader; 'the following
pera te'drinking, by relating substantially a extract, which abounds with much goodadviec and
thrilling' scene which occurred in a town practical common sense. It has evidently been
and the composed
by a judicious and well balanced mind,
'in a neighboring State, while the people
nd
th t
i e
I couns r e e l a i l s most wholesome and salutary,
were gathered together to discuss the mer- i n % . vittii , ?nilit by many who prefer
its of the license question, and decide in- someth g m L e foreign
R'rid it !g 1 CC to home produc
formally, whether neighbors should any tion ! I t in w i ii j i e ri e c r l e i n ly repay an attentive
longer be permitted to destroy each other Perusal, and may perhaps be the means of opening
by vending Alcoholic poisons. : the eyi 5 ofsome who are not as long sighted as
the author of the article in question :
• No - olie arose to 'continue the discussion,
"No farmer or business man should re
and the' president of the meeting was about
jingoish the newspaper published in his
to put the question, when all at once there
arose front the corner of the room a mis-
clad and own county, for the purpose of taking some
,
other or larger, cheaper, or more popular
crable female. She was thinly -
her appearance indicated the utmost wretcpaper, pubfishedin any of the cities. The
h
newspaper published in.one's own county,
must close
l edness, and that her morta 1 career was al
always, as.a general rule, more valuable mustd. . After a moment of silt:lp
c ' e '' 'i tLn any other, if it le for nothing but the
•
and all. -eyes being fixed upon her e she
stretched her attenuated body to its utmost advertisements—aye, the advertisements,
height, then her long arms to their greatest the very key that opens the door to exCel,.
length, and raisingher voice to a shrill pitch lent bargains. his of no little consequence
for the farmer to know what is going on in
Yes !" she said, "look upon :me', and then
she called upon all . to look upon her.—
his county town, and throughout his county,-
"
hear me. All that the last speaker has ' which he can know in no other way ex
said -relative to temperate drinking, as be-'
ceps through the columns of a • newspa-
MT the father of all drunkenness, is true.— iper published therein—the settlements of.
estates—the sale of farms, stock, the mar-
Ali prac' ice ,all experience declares its truth.
kets,-!--proceedings in Court, and a hun- .
I All drinking '
of Alcoholic ,poison as a bey-,
dred other matters, all of which inter-
erage in health, is excess. Look upon me•
cst him. We venture to say there is not
You all know me, or once did. You all
a than who may not every year save much
(know that I was once the mistress of the
more tharohe price of subscription to his
best farm in this town. You all know, 1
county newspaper fret - if-its advertising col.
too, I once had one of the best—the. most. :
umns alone ; and on this ground alone we
devoted husbands. You all know Iliad :
five nolde-hearted industrious boys. Where I exhort all toTatronize their own newspa
/ pers. This should be done also for weight- :
are they now ? Doctor, where are they
the
reaSons,- of wch we me : I
I now ? You all know.. You all know "they th
lie ton row, side by side, in yonder church- l mammoth one
weekly hi
sheets of t the r e
the na cities I
being furnished at a pric. with which no
I yard ; all—every one of- theta— filling the
country printer can _compete, (for one
drunkard's - grave ! They were all taught
reason, because made up generally of to believe that temperate drinking
was once used.and paid for in the daily mat
safe,pa-
theyexcess alone ought to be avoided; and :terp) aro encroaching largely upon the,
they ndver acknowledged excess, . They j
j country papers, thus discouraginginaprove
quoted you, and yew, and you," pointing
meth and enterprise, and gradually bring-
With her shred of a finger in the priest, dea-,
in g the whole country under the influence,
con and doctor, "for authority'.
They 1
and in some sense the,control of the leadihg
thought themselves safe under Such teach-
i cliques'. in the cities. : Thus atone is giv- j
ors. But I saw the gradual change coming
over -my family and prospects, with dis- -en to the morals, the politics ankthe•hab- j
its of the coitittry—and we hesitate not to
may and horror; I felt we yere•- all to be 1
overwhelmed in one common ruin, I tried
: sarthat the preponderence of this i nfluence
to break the spell—the delusive „spell—
'is bad: The people of the country get full,
in which the idea of the' benefits of tem-i enough of this' influence through their
Aerate drinking had- involvd my •sons ;i' own papers--and if they would not see the l
complete-supreinady_olihexities-aver,tlie
-beggetlF-1--prayeti;-but-the—ciilds were great:7 -,
IY against me. The priest said the 11 :. bisbh 1 moral and politiCal destiny of the country
let them support the country newspapers.
that was destroying my husband and boys, I
was a creature of God; the deacon who Take the city papefsif you can afford 'ii,
sits under the pulpit there, and took
and as many of them as you please; bat
Mu'
fast see to it that you have your own home
farm to pay the rum bills,sold, them the :f ir
poison ; and the physician 'said that a little i paper- as a regular visitor-to your fireside.
was good, and excess ought to. lie avoided. '
i Support them first and liberally, and they
•Nly poor husband and my dear boys ' tell will hardly fail to support your interest.
into the snare, and they could •ItOt escape,
(there
.were no Washingtonians then) and
one after another was conveyed'm the dis
honored grave of the drunkard. • Now look
at me again—you probably see me for the
last time—my sand has almost run. I
dragged my exhausted frame from my pres
ent abode—your poor bous6--to warn you
ull—to warn you deacon !—to warn you,
false teacher of God's word"—and with
her arms high flung, and her tall form
stretched to its utmost, and her voice rais
ed to an unearthly pitch,
_she exclaiMed, "I
shall soon stand before the judgement seat
of God; I shUll meet you there, ye false
guides, and, be a swift witness against you
all."
The miserable female vanished—a dead
silence pervaded th6ossembly—the priest,
deacon and Aysiciah hung their heads—
the president of the meeting put the ques
tions, shall we have any more licenseS to
sell alcoholic poisons, to be sold as a bev
erage? No:! People of the United States,
friends of humanity every where, what
would have been your verdict, had you all
been there also ?
This picture may.be thought to be over
drawn, but could the history of families be
told in this city, in all of our towns and vil-
ages, or in our hamlets, tens of thousands
. _
of cases equally striking might be record
ed liere.—albany sfrgus.
PATRICK'S COLT.—When my 'grand
father resided at Goffstown and..Derryfield,
then settled by the Irish, he hired a wild
sort of an Irishman to work on his farm.—
One clay, soon after his arrival, he told him
to take a bridle and go out in the field and
catch the black Colt. "Don't come home
without him," said the old gentleman.—
'Patrick started and was gone some time,
but at last returned minus the bridle, with
his face and hands badly scratched, as
though he had received rough treatment.
"Why, Patrick, what is the matter—what
in the name of wonder ails you ?" "An' ,
faith, isti't it me, yer honor, that never'll
catch the ould black colt again ? bad luck
to him ! Au' didn't he all but scratch me
eyes out o' me head ? An' faith, as. three
as me - "koulls me own, I had' to climb up
a,,three afther the coult !" "Climb - a tree
afier him? Nonsense! Where is thebeast?"
"An' it's tied to the three, he is, to be shure,
yer honotir." - We all followed Patrick to,
the spot to eta solution of
__the difficulty,
and on reaching the field we found, to our
no small amusement,,that he had been cha
sing a , young black bear, which he had suc
ceeded-an catching, after a great deal .of
rough usage on both sides, and actually tied
it with • the bridle to an old tree. -- Bruin
was 14t for_a" long while,zridiras ever.af
ter latown i as "Patrick's colt."
Mancheger4mericari.
lie only is a grea,t man who.can neglect
the applause of the multitude, and. enjoy- When theyouitg laugh at the old, they
hiinStif indliigidently Of in favor. • laugh at themselves beforehand.
"FEARLESS AND FREE."
AN Eurron RonnED.L•The rogues in Boston
are actually growing Mulish in their audacity.
One of them actually picked an'editor's , pocket!
The Boston Journal thus tells the story
"There are rogues abroad. For the first
time -in our life we had our' pOCket picked
last week. The deed was done while we
were in the midst of a throng, waiting' for
the ()inning of the post office, at 8 o'clock,
A. M., and the scoundrel had the . good for
tune to abstract a couple' of old exchange
papers, and art`iintinislied editorial on the
occupation of the Oregon tt.aritory !
'Good fortune,' we say, because an editor's
pocket is generglly a good illustration of a
vacuum.' •
PILING UP Joxes.—Speaking of wags,
what . is more waggish than a dog's tail
when he is pleased ? Speaking of
we always like those that end well: Hogg's
for instance., Speaking of hogs—we saw
one of these animals the other day lying
in the gutter, and in the opposite one a
well dressed man; the first had a ring in
his nose, the latter had one on. his finger.
The man was drunk, the hog, was sober.
"A hog is" known by the company he
keeps," thought we ; and so thought Mr.
Porker, and off he went. Speaking of go
ing off, puts us in mind of a Fun we once
owned. It went off one night, and we
hav'nt seen it since.
rONDON . MILIC.-It was stated in eVi
&lice before the London Police Court, that
; more milk is drunk in London in a fortnight
i than all the cows in England would give
in a month, and that it is the practice of the
venders of London Milk to add nine quarts
of water to every six ,they receive from
the dairy. Some of our Philadelphia
' milkmen must have served an apprentice
ship in the London dairies.
WOMAN I- 8 - -CHARITY.—An Irish school
master,"while poor himself, had given'gra
tuitous instructions to poor scholars ; but
when his worldly goods increased, he be
gan to think that he could not afford to give
his services for nothing. "Oh, James,
don't say the like,o'•that," said the gentle
.licarted wife,,"dou't ! A poor scholar nev
er comes into the house that I don't feel as
if he brought fresh' air with him from Heav
en. . I never miss the: bit I give them; my
heall warms at•the soft and homely sound
of their bear feet upon the floor, and the
doe r alviays opens of itself to receive thent.'l
TILE ROOM - OF FREDERICK TUE GREAT.
—ln`the palace of San Souci, Frederick
the Great's room is preserved as he left it,
with his uniform, clothes, books, pens and
paper, all unmoved-:while theclock, which,
by a strailLe coincidence, stopped at the
moment of points the hand
to twenty minutes past two.
INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS:
1. Dissolve nitrate of bismuth in water,
and use the solution as an ink. The wri
ting will be invisible until dipped inwater.
2. A diluted solution oflunar caustic al
so makes an invisible ink, but the.cl&rac
tcrs 1.44-shine like silver by holding them
over a saucer containing sulphate of annno
nia.
3. If. you write with a solution of the
acetate of cobalt the' writing will not be per
ceptible until the paper is warmed, when it
will come out a beautiful blue. • 4-,
HOW TO GET A TIGIIT RING OFF A FlN
GER.—'Thread a needle flat in the eye with
t strong thread ; pass the end of the needle
with care under the ring, and pull through
a few inches towards the hand ; wrap the
long end of the thread tightly round the fin
ger, regularly', all clown to the nail, to •re
duce its size. Then . lay hold *Attie short
end of the, thread and unwind it. The
thread pressing against the ring will gradu
ally remove it from the finger. This nev
er-failing method will remove the tightest
ring Ivithout difficulty, however much
swollen the finger may be. .
SET OUT TREES.—Don't netlect to set
out one or more trees the first opportunity
you find. Posterity will thank you for
the benefaction, and embalm yolir memory
wilt ! blessings when other more costly and
magnificent mementoes, reared.with oste.n.F
tatious vanity, perhaps, and a vie* to the ,
eulogy of posterity; shall havOassed
away, ..
Let the green tree wave by the cottige door,
The rose in the garden bloom—
With them shall t'he planter's memory soar
When he rests in the quiet toomb.
It is a remarkable. coincidence that the
proportions of the vast steamship Great
;Britain, thoiight - to ,tie the best approved
.moderin the world, are almost 'precisely
the. same as NoA'sArk. Her dimensions
are, length 322 feet", width of beam 51,
depth 32 1-2; those of the Ark, length
300 cubits, breadth-50, depth 30. So No
ah not only built the largest iressel - that'
ever floated, but he- adopted
.proportions
which the experience of four thousand
years_lias_approyed_as_ihe_best._l'l4bo
taught him ?—London
As lofty trees not only call down re
freshing showers; but also attract the light
ning which destroys them, so mortals, who
aspire to rise above the common level,
must expect to gather tempests about their
heads.
TrrE E. P 9 p.amaxmiL
ST MRS. lITOOURNEY.
Saw ye the Farmer at his plough,
•As you were riding by—
Or wearied 'neath his noon-day toil,
• When summer suns were high?
And thought . ye that his lot was hard 1.
And did ye thank your God
That you and yours were not condemned
Thus like a slave to plod?
_Come, seehirttidt his harvest-home,
When garden'. field and tree,
COnspire with flowing stores to fill ..
His barn and gnmery.
His healthful children gaily sport
Amid the new mown' hay,
Or proudly aid with vigorous arm
His task, as best they may. . "
The dog partatas his master's j..y,
And guards the loaded wain :
The Feathery people clap their wings,
And lead their youngling train.
Perchance the hoary gra.ndsire's eye
The glowing scene surveys,
And breathes a blessing on his race,
Or guides their evening praiFe.
The Harvest-Giver is theiffriend i
The maker of the Mil
And Earth, the mother, gives them bread,
And cheerstheir patient toil.
Come, join them round their wint'ry hearth,
'1 heir heart-felt pleasures sec— -
And you can better judge how blest
The Farmer's life may be.
AGRICULTURAL.
Don't Exisc your Stock.
Liebig, the distinguished German Chem
ist, asserts thatpour clothing is to be con
sidered nearly hi the light of an equivalent
for a certain amount of food." In all situ
ations. where the body is kept warm and
comfortable by the protection of suitable
garments, the demand for food, in order to
sustain the natural functions of the sys
tems, will be less than where the protec
tion is scanty, or but ill adapteck4o subserve
' the purpose for which it is designed.—
Now this observation applies with no less
force to the inanaggiient of domestic ani
mals than to the management of - ourselves
and our children. A cow, forced to stand
exposed to the weather in inclement sea
sons, to repose on the cold ground, or in a
barn or hovel where the piercing night
blasts have free access, necessarily requires
a far larger amount of food than one care
fully sheltered and provided with a com
fortable stall and bed. The difference in
the amount of . food tensumed by animals
treated in the different styles above indica
ted, has been demonstrated by actual= and
repeated experiments, to harem 25 to 100
per cent. in favor of the latter.! __But this
is not all. 'Exposure torpifies and cum*
dates the system, parilyieti the functions of
the stomach, and opera, a door for%tits
troduction of many a. fearful disease... An
animal ha , hually expeqed_to cold. uivallf I
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TERMI4-.-7 . W6 DOLLARS APOrtillq
I WHOLE. IsTe.';*o4.., ‘..;
falls away. If a cow, "she al ritiki ,bete
milk ;"' if an ox, he will experience alout
of vivacity, and become stupicr:and ine:rt„
and but feebly prepared to ans*ei theitixi
often exorbitant drafts made uppn ' hia nuts-
cular powers under the yoke. "A. :nerd.;
ful man is merciful to his beast."
AN IMMENSE CROP
Mesiirs.- Worth and Painter, the.
mittee'on Crops, appointed by the
ter and Delaware hitictiltursl Society,
have made the fallowing report.
have this 6y viewed the cornfield of Pas-
chat Morriii on Allcrton , Fartn near. West
Chester, that we have calculated the field
to contain over ten acres, and that the av
erage yield on the whole field is a hundred
and one bushels and three pecks to 1*,,,
acre.
"The corn was planted in hills four and
a half by four feet apart, each way; four
grains generally to a hill. The corn was
cut up, and put into shocks, containing six
hills each way. Several of these shocks
were taken down from different parts of
the field, being an average in size as, for as
we are able to perceive, and upon being
husked, yielded nearly three bushels and a
peck of ears each, An average one was
i shelled in our presence; and yielded one
bushel and a half and a pint of shelled corn.
•“Each shock having occupied 648 square
feet of ground, which being. diPided into
- the number of square feet in an acre, will
give the number ofshocks in an acre ; this
iultiplied by the amount in each shock,
Will give the result as above stated.
"A portion of this field yielded. 7 half
bushels of ears to the shock,which will
give an amount of over 110 ntshels to the
acre."
FEEDING Pot:a.m.—Professor Gimp.
ry, of Aberdeen, in a'letter to . a friend, ob.
serves: "As'l suppose you keep poultrY,
I may tell you that it hM beeri ascertained
that if you mix with their food a sufficient
quantity of egg-shell or chalk; which they .
eat greedily, they will lay, cceteris parent',
twice or thrice as many eggs as before. A
well fed fowl is disposed to lay a vast mutt
ber.ef eggs, but cannot do. so without-the
materials for the shells, however nourish
ing in other respects her food may_ be ;
tice - d;ra -- frivil fed - OliTo - od - Inia - water free
from any carbonate of' lime, aid not;water,
any in the soil, or in the shape of mortar,
which they often cat on the walls, would
lay no eggs at all, withthe beat Will in the -
world."
Pr:tire:rm.—This fall let every farmei
gather as many of his best matured pump
kins as will suffice to supply his stock with
a mess daily tbrough the winter, and de ,
posito them carefully in *close and - secure
repertory, according to , the followriag suc
cinct and definite rules : Ist,,lay a stratum
of butts of straw from the' threshing floor,
one foot thick ; on thil stratum depoSite
ariother of pumpkins, and cover them *ith
another layer of straw, "and -fie on to the
end of your heap. In this way penqikine
may be 'preserved. most of: year . ; 'an
glyeet and fresh as when taken from the
field. Try it, friends; and'noiliaire every
thing to be discovered , by" accident, is is •
the, case with experiments generally.
• EMassaOusetts Ploughman',
DURHAM CATTLE.-4t is an erroneous
opinion that this breed of cattle requires
more nutritious food than the common
breed. They require, like all other ani
mals, good feeding to keep, -them in high
'
condition but they will keep in better con
dition on the meanest food, than the infe
rior breed. Aletter the N. Y. Agricultu
ralist states that a„ herd of Durhanukwailtept
last. winter on - prairie grass, MO horth, on
lake Michigan, under an indifferent shelter.
In the beginning of the winter they, were
fed on prairie grass, and towards the close,
the hay, having, been ,mthausted, they were
kept on the tops of elm and maple trees,
and they continued - in good order.
We saw last summer, at Mr.' hentice's,
near Albany, a superb - Durham ba,, fat
and sleek, that we were assured had been
for 'months fed ori nodiing init hay, and=
straw, and a number of_cow's of the same
breed that had been fed on nothing„
straw, with the view of reducing them, but
willch were then quite - fat-much fatter
than the common breed are usually fo und
.
on the richest pastures. .
PRErARING SEED.--A gentleman near
Washington had, this
.season; : his seod
wheat—the product ,of a e.rop injured br a
species of smut—passed throughrs - very
strong brine, from , which the tfseb, was
skimmed off as it rose on heignig. She
3wheat-was then dried on a plat& floor and
stirredin air-slacked lime d'then sowed.
Prior to this, his seeds bud !torn a
portion of the unpreparedseisfpn,i!part of
the land, and at the harv 4 Mt the crop from
the latter had, been desiroyed,:br*.sniOts
while the crop from the prepared seed was
peifeetly good and Abundant. - T4ifis,llo*/
the im ortant adituitivi 4 pflii. brine and
lime, Ad thefmay,proyft...je t de:mmtet •
importance to
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