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CHERAW GAZETTE A N D * ' ^V FEE DEE FARMER.- - * VOLUME IV. "" CIIEltAW. SOUTH-CAROLINA, MONDAY EVENING. JUNE 17. Ia3!>. " NUMBER^XXXt*" EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. T E fl M S: If paid vVithin three months, - - 3 00 It f??t<l Within three mouths alter the close of tho year, . 3 50 If paid within twelve months after the oloso of the year, 4 00 Tfrtit [faid-Within that time, . .5 00 . A Company of ten persons taking the paper at <Ue same Post OtSce, shall be entitled to it at $25 provided the names be forwarded together, and accompanied by the money. No paper to be discontinued but at the option oftho editor till arrearages arc paid. . Advertisements not exceeding sixteen lines, inserted* for one dollar the lirst time, and fifty cents, each subsequent insertion Persons sending in advertisements are request. Cc. ?o specify the number of times they are to be iuse ted; otherwise they will be coutinuedU1L ordered out, and charged accordingly. ; " all " tnri ho l'oslu^o uiust uo uu i*i4 wtuiuu* ni cations. To the Readers of the American Farmer. j Many years since, the undersigned established t' e old American Farmer. Without waiting for a single subscriber it was thrown before the public, i n the confidence that the greatest interest of the couutry needed and would give support to a journal honestly devoted to its benefit. That confidence was fu'ly justified by the result. The piper soon obtained a wido circulation, and becam j the vehicle for disseminating the discover, ies of scientific research, and the rosults of practical experience. Men of the most careful ob. ervalion and the highest order of talents, made it the medium for communicating their knowlege on every branch of agriculture and rural economy. No periodical that ever was published, could shew among its contributors a more honorable array of names illustrious for every thing that can confer enviable distinction. Practical Agriculture, therefore too much re- j girJed as an unintellcciual if not vulgar employ, f - L .L- I 1 I meat, soon tooh itsjusi raas at iuu ucau u> uuu. , orablepuisuits. A thirst fordessertations on its I various branches was quickly engendered, and I success in any one of them was estoemcd a high honor. Even the gallant Chauncoy was made Preeident of an Agricultural Society, and was proud to come in for the premium for thescro/itf best sow! To gratify tho appetite for agricultural read ing, which increased by what it led upon, other and more able periodicals sprung up and grew apace in various parts of the country, until at present they^are to be found pouring light and ftnowiedgeKand leading to practical improvements, in every state in the Union. Many of them are Conducted with an industry that never tiros, and with consummate ability, and at a price to excite wonder how they can live." Under these circumstances .he reader will naturally inquire, what motive could lead me to resume the conduct of tho American Farmer, lately in such competent and able hands? The answer is a plain one, and the only difficulty in giving it is to obviate tho appearance of egotism and obtiuding private ceacerns and views oa the public ear. i\.. *h-? (!?( T,m? T s'? ill be relieved bv the | LI W**w 441 OV VI vwuv A w pleasure of the President, of an important public trust, confided to me it may be, longer than may have comported with my deserts, but surrendered, thank God, without any charge against my honour or punctuality. The want of employment is of all things the most irksome, not to say dangerous ; it being said that an idle man's head is tho Devil's work-shop. Something mast be done, therefore, as well from necessity as ci.oicc, and whether under adverse or prosperous fortune, 1 no employment of the mind is so congenial to j mine, as when it is engaged in cnterpris s a id studios of general utility, embracing the interests and promoting the happiness of ail classes? and especially as those enterprises and pursuits may bo connected with Agriculture, and the sciences and internal improve i cuts which may be made accessary to the dignity an profit of that pre-eminent calling: anJ hcncc my renewed connection with the American Farmer, and Spirit of the Agricultural Journals of the day. Mr. Roberts, who i3 one of the best men and bc3t writers of his day, has been, more for amusement than profit, for some years past conducting this paper, llo has become engaged in pursuits which will bo equally useful, and it may be hoped, for his own good sake, more profitable. The printer and proprietor,?Mr. Sands.?finding me laying on my oars, has applied to me to take the work in hand, and as it will bring with it Mr. Roberts' good will, I have consented to do it, pour passer le temps, and for the love of tho thing ! It is with better grace, therefore, that I can solicit the patronage of my friends and the public, for it will be bestowed not on me, but on a worthier, man and a cause, which is the cause of the country. I have recommended the proprietor to enlarge the paper, ar.d to give it somewhat more the an. I - 1 II 1 pearancc and character 01 a nuscviiaui-vuf, u.?u news-paper, without abridging the agricultural ^ matter. Under my advico and management it will be dedicated most especially to the dissemination of information on Agriculture generally? and especiallj on the branches?Silk, the culture of the Beet, with a view t j the manufacture of sugar, and of the Vine for the sake of the grape and wine. I shall also take measures that it contain the best information at home and from abro id, as to the prices of cotton and tobacco, and statistics of the trade in these commodities. All improvements in Agricultural Implements, and in the breed and rearing of Domestic Animals, will have their full <hare of attention.? Whon these subjects have been taken care of, thoslato and progress of our Internal Improve, monts will bo noticed, and essays on the general principles of Political Economy will be admitted ?but party politics, in which all distinguishing and fundamental principles have boon too much lost sight of, will becarofully eschewed. One thing of real utility may be promised to every patron of the American Farmer?a real bona fide, not a stereotype, price current of the principal commodities which farmers and plantors have to buy and sol!, though this is adosider. atuin already supplied, on a scale much more ex. tensive than we can or should think it necessary ito do it, by our worthy f iond Lyford, whose in. dofatigablo industry in that line ought to bo sup. ported by all farmers as well as merchants. J. S. SKINNER. ET"The American Farmer, and Spirit of the Agricultural Journals of the day, will be pub. 1,eh<vt flvorii ,? at oer annum il ft paid ia advance, or $3* if not paid within sia months, which will be strictly enforced?or 81( in advance for five subscribers. Fublicatior H office, North st. opposite the Franklin Bank ^ft O"Postmasters are requested to act as agents.? Letters on business of the office, to be address^ to S. Sands, publisher Agricultural Agency. J. S. Skinner, late Postmaster of Baltimore, and now again Editor of the American Farmer, and his sou T. B. Skinner, offer their services to the Agricultural community, as Agents for the sale or purchase of Real Estate, Domestic Aniinals of improved breeds, Garden and Field Seeds, and Seed grain of the best kinds and quality? Agricultural Implements, Fruit Trees, and Mo. rus Muhiciulis Trees?Silk-worm Eggs, Machinery, and all things connected with tlie Silk Culture. They will use their anxious endeavours to tho end that those who employ them shall not be i:n. posed on by spurious or ill made animals, seed grain, trees, machinery or implements. A moderetc commission will be charged. All letters addressed, post paid, to either of the subscribers will be attended to, and answered with promptj nessand punctuality. ! J. S. SKINNER, ? ? x. B. SKIN Vi:R <, From the Farmer's Register. Cjlutbia, Man h 20, 1939. The Twn, ca Okra Cotton.?I have a new species of coiton, of which I will ' some day try and give you an accoun:. I j j know too linleto venture to give any thing : lor the public; bull will give you u very s.'iort account of what I Jo know. A Mr. Terry, of Autauga county, Ala., burna.some years ago, bought some Peti(Julf seed. A sin Je sialic was observed in afield, without limbs, anJ having great numbers of bolls adhering immedaey to th" stalk, or in clusters on very sho t limbs. The cotton had all been picked out, except j a single lock wi.h nine seeds. From these j seeds the variety has been propagated.? i I he seed sold in 1337, at 50 cents a piece, j Last fa!! I bought at $160 a bushel. Tne | cotton examined by me exhibited a distinct; variety. It had rarely any limbs longer i than one joint, sometimes two ; tf?e bolls were two, three, and as much as seven in j a cluster. I had one limb about four inches ! long, with seven good bolls opened on it.? j The stems of all of the bolls shooting from i one place, at the top of the short limb. The ( cotton was exceedingly fine, being, 1 think,! two to four cents a pound better; being in . color and staple the finest and softest shoit i staple I have ever seen. It opens earlier. \ <rt. n I I f 1 .U.. on.k 1 l lie neiu i examined w?a (iiciiiiuu ;u- ?.um < April. .A very .nielligent gentleman, living i in the neighborhood, told mo he planted ! similar land on the 1st April, and ihar the I new cotton was open two weeks earlier ;Iun j hs. It grows in good land qu:*e tall say] six or eigt feet; and in this, I fear, will be ! tiie grnatest objection to it, as it may fall j when heavily Printed towards the top; bu: j perhaps tins may be avoided by topping, i Its advantage to an Alabama pl.n tor, if ii t succeeds in rich prar'e lands, will be its car- > ly opening by which the worm will be avoi- j ded, a terrible enemy, which has eaten up j full one-third of my crops lor five years.? The appearance of the stalk is nure like ukra than any oilier?the leaf being a colon leaf. Il the 1 humbug"succeeds I val- I ue it more than multicaulis, arid will give j you an account at some day. In the mean . time, I remain, verv truly, Yours, ' F. II. ELMORE, j Greexe, (Ala.) Ap 1 11,1S39. j Though Virginia is a cotion growing ; state, and you consequently cannot led the j same immediate interest in our southern staple, that you do in many other produc- I lions cftl.e soil better suited to your climate, still, from the position you occupy before : the agricultural public, and the interest you naturally le i in all things connected with the subjec t of agriculture, I flatter myself, a few sci d> of a variety of cotton recently brought into notice, which I take the liberty of forwarding you, will^ot prove unacceptable. It is styled, "twin" or "Aldrige" cotton taking its first appellation from the pccu liarhianner in which the branches or.ginale from the stalk, I think, (for I have never seen it growing;) its second from the name : of the gentleman who brought it before the public. Whence or how it originated, seems to boa mutter cfdoubt. Some say that it accidentally, as it were, sprung up in a cotton field of Mr. Al Jridge, the s-ed of I which he carefully preserve-?others that it was brought from Louisiana?Ate. &e. All this is conjectural, and though evincing a pardonable curiosity, has but little to do with the intrinsic advantages of the article. Yet these have not been so fairly tested, as positively to be determined. Those o'hpned ior it, however, are i:s being better ao** to s:and the effects of drought, not casting the squares however severe this may he ; and fiom the ex retne shortness ot its branches, it will bear much closer planting ; which, connected with the fiuitlulness of each individual p ant, render it a much more prolific variety than otheis. It is not contended, that the staple is of a very superior qualtity. 'Tis said to grow with great rapidity. From its re -eat origin, small beginning, and the price of the seed .fifty cents a piece, on'y, ns culti ation has been quite limited ; and urther experience is required to decide its late. Whether it will eventually prove, that it has been brought into no ice, as the price would seem to indicate, for tie purposes of speed tt on, like many other articL-s, wi.l ere long be determined. Yet, it is a s.ngular variety, and I wish I could send you iiu m of the seed, that you might give 1 it a mure ex ended test in Virginia ; but 1 P spare you more than half of a small parce! i which a friend has just given me. Then ) s no peculiarity attending its cultivation ; i and your climate, no doubt, is sufficient!) favorable to promise success to your cxpt-r J iment?or, if it fail, it will be so' limited ai not to create nny very serious shor.k The two foregoing extracts from private j letters, seem to refer 10 the same new variety of cotton ; and as each correspondent enclosed a few of the seeds, we shall be en ab ed to rear and compare the plan s. D emj mg the information as noi only curious anJ ! interesting, but us promising much value to the agricultural interests of the iOJ h, we wrote immedia e!y to ask leave of the first ! correspondent to publish his preliminary | statement, in advance of the more full fu ure j information ho had promised. This he ' ! kindly accorded, and therefore we are aui thorized to give, what is always sodeiira. i hie, the writer's signature to his statement , lime did not permit a like application to the ; other and more remo e correspondent ; or j cave would also have been asked of liimto i, I r\nkl!tlt H'knt kn ?\*-v vtnuttnla r, ^ J j fusion ?M?ut uw UUOI^IJUU tv uo , a.#i? . i j therefore, in titkijjgthe lbc$ly, tiip-aauoe of' I the correspondent is withheld. The higii ( I authority which we attach to ihe opinions of ( j both of these gentlemen, offers to us a much , | better assurance of the superior value ef this j ! new kind of cotton, than tlieenormous price J ; of'its seed. Still, it would seem, there is . ! no mode so effectually to introduce a new j thing, whether it be of most valuable kind, or I the most palpable humbug and cheat, as to i ask for it a price of the most unheard of en- !? ormity. If, according to the here ofore lib- j v eral and universal procedure of southern i c agricultuns s, the first holders of this variety e of cotton, fiud olfered to give away, seeds, k or to sell them at merely a full remunerating price, few persons would have cart-d to plant fi them. But h> pursuing the contrary course, c and asking 50 cents a seed, the anxiety to a obtain them has probably been increased in a the ratio of the advance of price. All this! ft is well, if confined to real improvements;] ii and if such cannot be introduced by opera- si ting by means of reason and sound precept, si it is certainly desirable that it should be e done b} operating on the credulity ar.d folly r< of the recipients. But, unfortunately, it w has come to be considered that the high a price asked for new seeds, &c., is alone j n sufficient evidence of their intrinsic value ;: t; and hence dupes are continually niado by j the vilest and grossest impositions that can ! c] be imagined. Thus Grant Thorburn's i a 44 Chinese corn,'' at 25 cents, and latterly ! 81 the ear, has been sold usreaddy as is its ; C( alleged superior qualities were supported by \ a the most indisputable evidence, instead of tJ by none whatever, except the price. j., But let us not quarrel with the workings of folly, if they lead to wise and profitable a results ; and we may bear even tin dupes should be made, (us they prefer this mode of instruction.) by the sellers of Chinese tj corn and multicauiis seed, in consideration lf. that the same k nd of folly will introduce , and establish the culture of the Rohan po- u tatoe, (recently selling at 25 cents the pound,) ' the okra cotton, (if it should be what it is ' supposed.) the inorus multicauiis, and what j will be of incalculable value and importance . o the country, the great industry of the s Ik culture. For our countrymen closed n ilieir ears to all iko arguments in favor of P entering upon this culture, until the plants ! ** to feed on rose to three cents the bud ; and j now, thousands are about to feed worms, induced at lirsi solely by the high price o: the inorus multicauiis; and we entertain no doubt that tins inos, valuable culture will ? now be sn.ed.lv and surely established.? II ED. F. R. l u t< AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION. f, At a meeting of ihc Monticello Planters Society held 4th May last, the following Resolutions were passed. t! i Rpsr>fvr?d. That be in? an association of c planters, organized with the view of pro- n moting the great interests of agriculture, we v should use all fair and honorable means to i attain so desirable an object , and the sng- r gestion therefore of the lYe Dee Agricultur- v a! Society recommending a Convention of c planters, from all parts of the State, to assemble at Columbia in Novemoer, next, ( during the first week ol the next Session t meets cur warm approbation. t 2. Resolved, That our con'inued efFort to t procure,State legislation, in favor of ag;L ( culture, having proved unsuccessful, we yet expect such final legislative action as will contribute to the honor and well being of ev?*ry class ot our f?tiowcitizens, and to accomplish this purpose, much might be done by aid of Conventions, where public opinion would boconcen raieu and properly di. 1 rected. 3. Resolved,That the Committee cons i- 1 tuted in March lust, io re-pen ion the Leg- ' islatuie, and for that and > her pur >oses, be ] hereby appointed delegates to represent and J tins Society in said Convention, and that are | j t ey be empowered to do all such acts in | improving and energizing every branch of j husbandry as in their judgement may be ncI cessary and proper. On ?no ion of William J. A'ston, Esq. , the third resolution was amended, so as to authorize the President to nominate a subcommittee who will suggest to tli smre i ig the names of seven otiier del-gates to be ap pointed in aJJition to those embraced in mat resolution. Tne vote being taken on the resolutions, as amended, they w- rc un. animously adopted ; and Chancellor Harper, Win. J. Alston, Jno. H. Means, Win. K. | i Davies, G o. Lighter, Burrol B. Cook, j T.iomas Lyles, Jr., Rev. Win. Homes,' I John M. Robertson, and David Elkii I, were | ! appointed the delegates -o ret>n sunt this So- ( ; i ctety m said Convention, f j The following resolu ion was then intro-1 . I iluced ; and on motion, adopted by the So-1 5! ciety. Resolved, That the delegates of t*vs as bmmb - nr pacaaan?a??a? sseiatibn to the Convention, to be held a Columoia in November next, be requirei iu ihe mean time to accumulate all the fact* relative to the growing crops of the district und such other agricultural statistics us m be connected therewith : and that the iSec. rotary be directed to urge the sirne on the delegates of other districts to be represented in satd Convention. JAMES ALSTON, President pro. B. P. Davis, Roc. Sec'ry. t throat disease. Tiie fob owing article respecting a rem. eJy tor u disease which has become quite prevalent in this country, will be read vvidi in to res', it came under our notice yesicrJcy, iu the Nashville Whig, the editor ol tviiicn journal says, iu republishing it, 44 The remedy and accompanying rem rks of Dr. Jouper, we are assured by one of our most Jlperinced physicians, are worthy of atten ion, end, in his opinion, of the u mo Iconr;d nje.. The disease is somewhat sicniiar n its effects on the system 10 consumption, nid, if not properly treated, quite us fatal n its result.?Bait. Amsr. t> t. 'I.*- tir .1 \,nru:uc jjrunciiucs.?- ?v e euuc ivc me innczed remarks ot Dr. Coopt r, o.' sufficient veight to recommend to the consideration if tuose who labor under tins d.reful disuse. They are taken from the New York Commercial Advertiser :? The lute lamented death of Dr. Rush, lorn that form of consumption known us ironic bronchitis, painfully renindsmeol duty the subscriber owes to his profession, nd to society, of making known a simple arm of treatment that has never (ailed him i cur.ng tins form of consunip ion, so deductive to the clerical and h.er-iry prolesions. This treatment is of nearly equal I ffi. ac) in catuihal phthisis, and is a va'uable ! imedy for cousump.ion in al its forms, 'hen in its chronic stages, and free from j ny inflammatory symptoms. This treatlent is based 0:1 the pathology of eonsump- ! on, as the generic name (or disease. Utidtr the name of consumption ore inluded ihat variety of diseases of the lungs trended with expectoration of purulent mat?r from the breathing surface of the lungs, onnccied with naciation, he. tc fever, nd its concomitants, nigh; sweat collquave diarhacd, &c. All the forms of con- J j 111 ption act on the general health from i ne common cause?the presence of matter ciuiii upon aba. rbing surfaces, aud thus ro lucing those symp oms known as liect c :v? r. It is the presence and violence 01 lis symptom of consumption that pros at^s tne patien , until it more or leas eud> i death. It is tne consequence of thi> ectic fever, and not the immediate diseasf the lungs causing it, that forms the sourc* , 1 fatality Irom cousumpton. The treatment I now with reluctant diffi ence submit, I have successfully used for lore than twelve years, and during tha. erioi of medical practice I am not awar< f having lost more than four or five paen is, from all the various forms of con. amotion, aud these were mostly passed to iat stage of disease where the structure o. ie lungs hud become so extensively d sea i d, as 10 preclude the use of more tlian pal tiive treatment. Cases of chronic bronchi s were in every instance cu-ed by it, evei. dien the purulent e.pectoratton amounted 3 pints daily, with ilie hec tic fever, diarr aaei, cold sweats, and en..re physicial pros ration. The treatment is the adiriaistraion ol he sulphate of copper in nauseating doses, ombmed with gum amoniac. given so as to lauscatc, but not ordinarily to produce fu; onuting. The usual dose for tins purpos s about half a grain, and five grains of the espcc ive ingredients, in a tcaspoonful o: vater?;o be taken ailirs: twice, and in the :onvalescent s'agesoncc a day. In cases of chronic bronchitis a garg'e >f the sulphite of copper alone is superuuled. In tliis latter form of consumption his treatment almost invariably suspend? he hectic symptoms in 11 few days, and th hscase rapidly advances to its final cure. In cases of the more proper foi ms of con ;u np'ion the treatment must be intermitted Yequen'ly, and again returned to ; and whenever soreness of the chest, or other ymptoms of inflammatory ac ioa the :reatment should be suspended?a - i is in lie chronic state alone that the re nedy is indicated or useful?that sta c in which the condition of the gefv-al sv-tem, assympa. I e teal y invo v? d, bt omes the general m ? e r -m n -u; symptom ; and the success of the treatm>'n depen is chiefly 0:1 the br^nkini: up of tli s symphathetic action of the diseased lung on the more healthy tone ol the stomach, and increasing its digestive powers, and likewise, causing, during nausea ting action, a more active and healthy cir. culation of blood through die lungs. Iti curative powers arc more immediately at 'ributnble to these effects of its action. Du t icory apart, th? t .unenl is presented baset on more than t? n years* experience of it curative advantages, in the proper treat men ofm tcopurulent and purulent expectoration H lvirr* left .1 nrofessiou tliat more ncarl ? & " I . than any o her approaches the pure du ie of hurnaniiy* but which h'S nearly cease in this country to be honorable or profi a hie, I have lit lo motive in expos 112 myse to that certain ridicule that fol.ows the ar nuncia ion that consumption may becurec but the assurance of practical experienci end the desire of making public a mear I of saving life in one ofits most frequent an m. r ti MULTIPLYING SWARMS OP BEES. | All who have read the Georgics of Vir. 1 gil, will reco.lect il e story which the old poet ' relates, of mauuficiuruig swarms of hees by beating a heif rtodeath, and leaving her carcase to bree J bees. This mode will do ' much better in poetic theory than in sober practice. By studying nature, and fo.low. ing or applying the laws which arc unfolded to us by careful reseaich, many th ngs can be accomplished which were beibro considered among the impossibilities. Th s is proved by the researches ot Mr. Weeks, of Salisbury, Vermont, into the natural h'story i of bees, lie has become so fumdtiar with their manners and cus oins, that he thinks nothing of taking a few spare ones from any hive, shutting them up by themselves, and alter comp iling them to raise to them selves a queen, sets them to rhising up a swarm of their own. At first we were n little inclined to doubt this ; but af.er read.ng Ins treatise, which is full of practical in ! I . i . ? strucuon in me ousiness, ana rnving some correspondence with him, we have come to the conclusion that it must be so. The following extract from a letter re. j ceived from him, duied March 25m, will be I interesting. 10 our readers; j "I am indebted to a gentleman who had ' travelled in Italy, for my tirst thoughts of I compelling bees (o make queans. 1 devised J means instan ly to try the experiment, and : succceeded. i tried again and ag tin, and in various ways and under various circum stances, and never faded in u single instance. I have had them robbed, but never ui.tii afier the young queen had made herescapt from the cell wheteshe was raised. Tnai ilie birth of the queen is hastened so that she hatches s< vera! days sooner man her sisters, (Larvae) there can b no doub\? The fact is obvious ,o every close observer. Now whether it is tne difference in food, or change of position, from a horizon a! to a perpendicular one, vv Inch changes her ua ture to u que?*n, is more thau 1 can tell.? But one tnmg is certain : then nature mus be changed, it chaugeJ at all, before the\ h;ivp obtained t/iHir retire irma/Ht. fnr ; 1 I | clirysales, wuh wh.? li 1 have any know i edge, become perfect?entire?uefore th? v ! reach this p. nod 01 their existence. Il l | am no. ims ukeii, ail imturalis.s agree to tlifollowing fact, wmcli is lb s : The pecutio jog which cons.i.ut''s a male or female in die ifisect tribe, is produced while in the larvae shitenot b_> design, however, 1:1 many, asm the honey ben tribe." * * * * In regard to the multiplication of swarms, lie observes "'I h bees may bo increased to any extent w thout swarming, there is not a doubt i Compelling tne bees to make extra queens is the foundation of the whole business.? And this may bo done i.i a y country fa. vorablo to the raising of bees. "Tne most northern latitudes are not uj fivorablo to mere se colonies of bees vvi h ut swarming, as in a more mild china e, and where me seasons are longer. I hav tried th;s experiment several tunes, am) have not yet laded. I have ivided th-m n J received a swarm from one of tne d V-Sions the same season. I have irausf . ied and divided n the sunn season win. perfect success, and thus far 1 have n<> a.led in a single trial, when the expert n< n was ma le in accordance nth the rules s>e icrtnin my manual. Bees may be lucre-is o any extent wubout swai m n^, wh re h se 'Sous are favorable to tea objec.. i mis latitude the so.i-o is arc too short t maLe very rapid advances. "Arnficial heat is not as favorable to the recdmg of the bees, nor to their health and lives, as natural heat. I have set them to breeding in January, bu: 1 lound that the neat produced by the fire, though rnodera.e, in the course ot two weeks caused deaili in many oi the oid bees, and a Ciili destro\ed J .ie arvoc, and 1 was compelled to reimquis ? | the w.mer enterprise, a* unprofi able busi ness. I am inclined to tmnk that a room m.iy be so constructed and so warmed by he. > ted air, tout swarms may be tbi warden .11 h spring io go*; t advantage." We trust that Mr. W^eks vvill pardon the .iaerty we bare taken, in publis iing so much of a private letter; but tne information is so n ivel and interesting, that we deemed it a duty to lay i; belbre our readers.? Maine Firmer. From the Cultivator. t EXPERIMENTS WITH LEACHED ASHES. East'IJariford, Conn. Feb 1839. Fri nJ Buel?\s your niot'o is for the "improvement of tho soil and die mind," ermit mc through the medium of your widely circulated an i valuable journal, to give publicity to a discovery in the prepnration ofleachfd ashes, or soap boiler's waste, so as to make them equally valuable, and pernaps more so, to the farmers of our i vast interior, as to the cul.ivavatois on s Long-Island, where they are bought up at i an expense ol 35 o od cents a bushel, and ' i considered a profitable investment at that. - ? nnnitnllu in The vast quaiiiinws ^ ,u?nfc Uw..uu.v ....? y country, (where they are considered of litis |y value, and ofnone on clayey land,) and d shipped to Long-Island, induced me tc - think that the saline matter in the soil anc If atmosphere, was more the cause of theii i- wonderful effect upon vegetation, than anj 1. inherent quality in it. To give theory th< teat of experience, I mixed ashes with com i* mon salt, but the salt was too coarse an< id too long in disolving to combine chemically V ' --the ncy ".vjf to sow thc?i!t p.nd 9shc afterwards : th sdid bettr; my next to wet t e dry unleached ashes with a strong brine, and after standing a sufficient urn.- to spread readily with a shove), applied them as a top dressing to turnips and potatoes. * In this last experiment the success met my highest expectations; the potato crop was quad* rupled.and the difference in the turnip yield stiii greater ; but the soil as in the applies* tion of all high stimulants, should have moderate dressing of some kind of manure, and it will be found in excellent order for grass or grain afterwards. It may be observed of crops manured and drrsscd in this manner, that the leaves "ppear of a bright pea top-^-whilst the tuber of the poiato, and the bulb of the lum p, showed the wiiole stren th of the plunf to have centered there. To carry the una* logy still further, 1 have given the land a libera! dressing of plaster after the ashes so prepared, but not the least benefit to the crop could be perceived, any more than if it had been used within a mile of the oceau ?of course it was labor lost. The object of this communication, Mr. Editor, h not for the.pnrpose of telling what I have done, or what I can do, to eorich and beautify this footstool of the Almighty, or ( am but one amongst millions, and tke least in ten thousand ; but to draw the attention of my brother farmers of our vast and limitless intoiior to the preparation ind use of an article hitherto considered ? drag and a nuisance. It is very desirable that some enterprising farmers of each county in the western part of yours, and of other states, where leached ashes are in abundance and useless* to try the experiment of wetting theni when dry, wi:h strong brine, no matter bow old or stale, (if the price ol salt is oo high,) and communicate the result in the Cultivator. The lands found best adapted to this k nd of manure on Long island, are the (>oorer description of sandy aud gravelly >oil, and this agrees perfectly with my short xpr reuce here ; so far then, naiuro is true to her own laws, and no doubt every farmer in our wonderfully active climate and productive soil, <vill find the same striking ana. Oiiv verified by experience. The season s approaching for tiie proper time of trial ?let it be upon corn, potatoes grass, upon spungy, wet land, or newly stocked down, urnips and wheal in autumn, and should it c )me up to the writer's expectations, I shall t ank my past life not wholly-spent in vain, Yn. IPS rpcrvoftfiillv. WV4??# J J DANIEL feASTON. fcEMARKS Tl.e exp ri nenra detailed in the above cornmumoa: o i ore worthy the attention of h ta?m?r and tie rhemist. Two facts ha 1 ig been known, the causes of which .v % . ever SO "8 ti factory explained. O.r 0? lit'se fa<*:s is, that leached ashes are loan to operate as b< o ficiully upon Long. Isla <d land*, as urlenC ?ed ashes, or more so?leaving it to be marred, that it was not he potash which the ashes contained that induced fertility. Tl.e other fact is, that leached ashes operate more surely and bene, finally w.min tne influence of the marine atmosph -re, than they do m the initTior or ?thus inducing the belief, to adopt the age of our corre ponden', jImi h v s\- matter in lie soil and atinosp i.e/v, vnw more tne cause of their wond< rod e tl c upon vegetation, than any 'nAirfn/quuhiyT' which they posses. Tne expert men s of vlr. Eistou go to w i riant hs co ml us ion-. Hut how tney exert his agency* is a que*, t on worth investigating ; and we commend t >e matter to the nouce of some of oat cuemicul correspondents.?CoiuL CULTIVATION?CUB loUS FACTS. [From the Genesaee Farmer ] T e ii.s ory of sum - ot our commons* igricu t.n al pro ltic s, furnishes a useful i* sson r?-s eciiug trie b?tficie| iff- n careful culivation Th tiusbao .n ? ? 1 read, in the case o: the pot.?to p : . not merely tne fffc tspro iuc-.t a in tne introduction ol u-m. p?m. vas improvements resulting no , uliu e i'ue speech of Col. Knapp, in neliv the pre lums awarded by the Aineri<'??; i . stitute to individuals residing in N? w>?rn embraced many curious facts, wtuefi wi.i probably be read with profit by intelligent t inners. We auote a few oaruvrauhs. _ -i r 1 Every thing in this country, (said he,) uas been Drought Toward by protection. In this bleak clime, but few of the sustaining Iruits of the earth were here indigenous* or in a perfect state Even the Indian corn so often cons dered as native here, was with difS *ulty acclimated. It was brought from the South, and by degrees was coaxed to ripen in a northern latitude. The aborigines who cultivated it, taught the pilgrims how to raise it; they plucked the earliest ears with the husk and braided several of them together, for the next year's seed, and their care was rcwurded by an earlier and sure crop. *' Ttic pumpkin brought from Spuo, was fiibt pi n < d in Rowley, Massachusetts, and it was sev ral years before they came tot hard, knotry shell, which marks the true 11 yanke** pumpkin such as are seleted for the golden pies of their glorious thanksgiving I festival. > 44 Our wheat was with difficulty accliin**, I ted.?That brought from the mother counr try had grown from spriog to &U, bat the f season was not long enough hero to ensure J a crop ; it was then sown iu the fufl, grew under ihc snows in ^iater and catching tho i warrnestgrowtb of spring, yielded us ia;1 crcassbymid.suminer. s " Asparagus, ?vMnh is r.?,s; the delighf of