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By the assimilation of food, I moan i s conversion into a port of the living body Tow H effect**! by a seri*-r of process. as each of which is preparatory to that which follows it. Most of tliem have been nam d. ^ PtBftfiNSioH is the ac: by wh ch the food is taken into the mouth, At pasture tiegrass is seized by the lips, compressed into a little bundle, and placed 'net ween the front., teeth, which separate it Irom the ground,by incision, aided bv a sudden jerk of the head In stable feeding, the lips and tee h are us?.-d in nearly the same way. They s<-iz ? the food and place it within r?-acli of the tongue, hut they produce no change upon it. Tie; fronl-ieef.il have less to do in stable than in lv-ld fording, but in neithei case do they masticate the food. Prehensio i of fluid* is performed by su<*kmg. The lips are dipped in the water, and the cavity of the mouth is enlarged by depressing the tongus by bringing it into the channel?the space between the sides of the lower jaw. Prehension may be difii -ult or in crrupted by palsy or injury of the lips, soreness of ih longu , or loss of tho front teeth. Colts often experience difficulty in gr?zng whil?' changing the teeth. They lose flesh for u while, and, if il?ey Jose much, some rich fluid or soft boiled men? may bo given till the tnou h get well. Horse s that hav los j One Or t""? af tit* f/trwfeMith hjr fills. hticom.- j uofii for turning out, Those tint have los J a large portion of the tongue cannot einpy a pail. They can drink none unless th* nostrils be under water; but when only a s<n ill portion of the tongue h is been lost, th**y huve no difficulty. Ttwy can empty th?* pail. No horse can drink freely witn a b t. particularly a double-bit, in his mouth. 1> confines the tongue, and prevents close contact of the lips at the corners; as much air ?s water en e s the rrouth. Mastication, the actofgrimling the food, is performed ahogetlier by the back teeth. The food is placed between them by the tongue. Masication is the first change which the foo l undergoes. It is broken in. to small particles, easily penotr tnle by the juices id which the food is about to bo dissolved. In many old horses, and even in some young ones, mastication is imperfect, from irregularity or disease of iho teeth. Wnen the horse feeds slowly, holJs his head to one side, drops the food from his mouth holf-chewed, and passes a large quantity un a|;er?:d, his teeth should hi.* examined. One may be ro ten, broken or proj-cting into the cheek, or into the gum opposite. IttSALnrATtott.?The food suflfrs mas iration and insalivutiun at the same time. Whi^ Under the operation of the grinders It is moistened and diluted by a fluid which enters the mouth at many little apertures. This fluid is almost transparent; it istermod diva. Much ol it is furnished byHwolurg'* glands, which are situated at that part oi the throat where the head joints the neck. These two glands pour their secretions into the mouth by means of two tubes winch open D"ar the grinding*ie?th? Some have supposed that thai the only us? of this fluid is to diluie the food, and to fa" cditate mastication and deglution; o hers,thai it also, io a slight degree, annualizes the food. Hence it has been argued that the food should not be too soft, too easily eat> n, lest it be swallowed without insalivatton, and without the animaliza'ion which saliva ought *riwiiir>o It has hncn ur??"d. as nroof w r-'"? - - . that horses do not thrive quit*' so weli when fed entirely upon boiled lood. The illu>iiaion seems to bo well established. Horses do oot appear to possfwa lasting vigor and gram energy when f?d exclusively upon soft food; but whether this proves that insalivation o animahzation may be doubted. There i? no proof of a positive kind, whether it is 01 ia not. It would be easy to argue t.n eithei side, but it would be fruitless. Degoltbtion is the act of swallo.ving The food, after being ground and moistened ia rolled into a ball by the tongue, and placet at the back of the mouth where i compress sing apparatus forces it into the gullet. Tie gullet, exerting a contractile power, force; the ball into the stomach Deglutition mat become d.ffiruli, or it may be partially sus pendt d by soreness of the throat. Wliei the throat is much inflamed, the horse mat be anxious to eat, yet unable to swallow When great pain attends the eflort he for. I bears further trial; he chews the food anc U then throws it out of his mouth, being able perhops, to swallow only the juice. In b si severe cases, he m.ik' s a peculiar tno'ior of the head every time he swallows; and ir drinking, he drinks very slowly, and part o the water returns by the nostrils. In this stale the horse should bo put under medica ft ARM] .1 ,v n c H CHEKAl treairnent. ot Maceration.?Many of the articles up. wi on which horses feed are hard and dry? je< They require ;o bo softened before they can be dissolved, or before they will part with so t ?eir nutritive m t ?r. One end of the horse's ns somuch seems designed for rnacerat- br ing these substances. It is lined hv a mem* co bf.ims void of sensibility* All the f(H?d is w< first lodged in this macerating corner, from trt which, when sufficien ly softened, it passes sj j into the ?ih*r extremity. Refractory mat? wi ters are either detained or returned till they thi arc ready to undergone the digestive pro. gr 'ess. oh Digestion consists in the extraction of foi the nutritious from the inert portion of the ov food. 11 is not u simple process, nor is it gr all conducted id the same placet it begins er in the stomach and terminates in the bow. fit els, probably at a considerable d'stance te* from the point at which the residue is eVa. so cuutedi The stomao i of the horse is very small. There must be srime reason why wl it is so, but not)'.' has ever been discovered, un It cannot retain the food very long; the lo< horse is almost constantly eating. At grass p i he eats ns much i i an hour, perhaps in half- is iii-hour, as would fully di.s'end the stomach, ad yet lie continue* to eat for several hours in do succession. The change, therefore, which |?j lite Ibod undergo'1* in t'<e stomach must he it i rapidly performed. Tee nature of this is change is not precis"!? known. It is sup. try posed thai the gastric juice?that is, a juice foi or secretion furnished hy the stomucb? wc seizes the nutr live niu'ter ol'thn food, and gr combines with it to form a whim milk-like an ! 11 ud termed ch'ne. Tfiis. accompanied by in lie food, from which it has been extracted, inters the intestines, au<J tlx*r? u not her gr< lunge of composition takes place. Juices w| from ilie liver, from peculiar glands, and of roin tiie intestine itself, are added, and the tlx whole comb,tie to form a compound fluid sa termed chyle. Tins adheres to the inner ih< surface of the bowels, from which it is re. if i moved by an infinite number of tubes, lar whose mouths are inconceivably minute, to rei the eye invisible. These little tulies or fru pipes are termed I actuals or absorbents t wi t my converge ami run towards ibe spine,' an where ibeir contents ure received by a tube the which empties into the left jugular vein. Accompanied by the blood, the chyle pro- on 8 to the lungs, passes through them. on ?*?* I hwvwn i-1 >*?4 fxpf sanguification, this chyle, tlx? product, of ?li. wo gcstion, is as much the constituent of the li wfi ving anim d as any other part of him. 'in It is nat necessary to trace the food far- ins her. Its nutritive matter having been ex- stc 'raced, and animalixed by combination ov with anim?I juices, (lie product is removed bei as the mass travels through (lis intestines, cu Ra tlm time it has arrived a' the point of e. ha vacuation, the Too 1 h?s lost all or most of the nutritive mutter, and the residue is ejec- cb ted as (iv less. tie The nutritive mutter is carried from the ou intes in< s to the blood-vessels, where it is bo mingled with tkeir coments. To follow it rei luriher would bo to truce the conversion of fo? the blood into (he solids nnd fluids of which tsh lie body is composed, in tin work such m -in enquiry is not needed. co be From the Yankee Farmer. flo TIME OF PRUNING. ha tot As to the time of pruning, 'here are dif. u? f?T?iit opinions. Many years ago farmers used to prune tin ir apple trees in March tre as that wus considered u good lime; and it pfl was a convenient time as farmers were iess busy than at most other seasons of tho 0g year?and sometimes a hard trust on a W{ Jttfp snow otf-red an advantage in this |||( business. Some pruned when the trees it(j were in bloom, as they ihoughf, that cutung a few limbs from a ifee would cause the >n fruit to set well on the remaining bnmches. foj Of late years we find that most all wri- nu n-rs, on tiie subject, nn 1 among theni the 1(J first hor;i? ul uris s in the country recom- er mend to prune in the first of the summer, or by mid summer, as the tree is th?'n ,u growing and ihe wounds will soon heal j,,, I | over. No'withstanding the many high n,< ? Mufuorities for this practice, we must d?fF-r fn > from it, uut I some better reasons are given ge , in t's favor, or experiments show that it is correct. cu Tiwuitrh it is desirable that a wound co "?r - should heal over soon, yet ii is of much wl less importance than it is for the tr?? to re- fjr main in a healthy state where the wound is ?i > mad**. L-1 a branch of considerable size jt i be cut from a tree whiles it is growing mid |J(] ; full of sap and it will heal over soon* but be ; on examination, wh? n the wound is nearly un i healed over, the wounded part will be soft j,,r and decaying. Hut let a branch of a suni- t)(l r lur size locut from September to Decern-^ ber and tlioug'i the wound will be longer in 8fj . healing, tin-wounded part will be found dry, w| , solid and well seasoned, and die wood tr, J around it in a healthy state. of This is according to our experience und t0 . obscrvu.iori, and it appears to us to be rea. * soiiaole that the best nme for pruning is the m f most fivorable for cutting timber that is to fu . he exposed as it grew with the nark on.? ct i Let small trees be cut for fencing ill the ca f fitII, and the summer and remain in the tfj . same state, and it will he found tnnt those si, . cut in the spring or summer will first de- at j cay?and we think the same causes will sr , be likely to produce a wounded tree when fn i pruneJ while it is full of sap; or while the tir i sap and vegetative powers are in action. pi I We have had considerable acquaintance is t with several gentlemen who have paid par. s ticul ?r attention to fruit trees, and have q I been very exact in their ?xperimenpj and 0, BBS' ERA ff J wervations, and Uieir opinions comcide < th what we have advanced on this sub. I :t. i We have already observed that it is not important to have a wound heal up soon ' to have it sound. We have cut large a riches from apple trees in the fall, on tic* unt of some injury; sometimes n branch >uN be one fourth of one third of a large . je, and though the wounds were five or i years in healing over, the wounded part j is hard and drv, and the streets around , 3 wounds w*re In a healthy state and they , ew Well and produced much fruit. Some , i trees, that were deprived of branches . ir or five inches in diameter, did not heal ( or*- as the trees Were old, a prodigious j owth Would have been necessary to cov- j the WOutids, but stdl flourished end bore ( lit plentifully, apparently but little nfTec* j J by the severe prunhur, as the wood was , IInrt Unil ihn frPPC hcaltllV. "" ""? " J B<*ides the disadvantage in prunning ten the tree is growing on account of the iheulihy state of the wounds, there is a ts in the groWih of the tree. For the sap sses up in the wood and in the leaves it elaborated into a suitable substance to J to the growth of the tree, an I it passes wo ward in the bark and is added in n rer upon the outside of the wood, between ind the bark, which layer in its soft state called sliver in some sections of the counr. After awhile it becomes hard and ms u layer of wood, and the zones of >o I at the end of a stick show whut the ywth of the tree has been in each year, d the number of grains designate its age years. No.v if branches are cut from trees in a , awing state, nil the sap that is in them, | lich would return and add to the growth , the tree, is lost. Had they been cut off in i 3 full previous, this loss would have been ' ved and the sap would have passed into ' 3 other branches more plentifully. For J a part of the limbs of a tree be cut off, a g-r quantity of sap will ascend inio the t nainder of the top and the produc ion of , lit on that part and he growth of the tree c II ascend into the remninder of the top d the production of fruit on that part and ' i growth of the tree will be increased. c By cutting off uli the top of n fruit tree in * ", two or three yeurs, and inserting sci. , s, a new top of the desired shape is soon j uuuL almost_M large us the old on** 4 >ul>t Ii?m. Wmm ioIc top of a small tree, having five or ?ix f l ies about half an inch in diameter ana r erted scions, scarfing off one aide of the icks so that the wound would soon heal er, and in a few months would have en supposed that the top had never been t off as another of good form and size d already been formed. We once observed a tree, five or six ines in diameter, with a large top that sudnlv died, every branch, and suckers came t of the tree between the branches; as it re excellent fruit, the dead branches were moved and the suckers pruned so as to m a good top; their growth was astonung; in only a few years a large new top is formed; bearing plentifully, and it uld hardly be perceived that there had en any change in the top. It was in a urishmg condition last year, though it d been twenty-five years since the new > was formed, and other trees of the same e around it were decaying. We name these facts to show that if ies were pruned in the fall, instead of uniug at the time of iheir growth, the sap, lich would otherwise be lost by cutting F the branches in spring or summer, >uld go into the other branches, and prome ilieir arowth and that of the tree, and I Id to the crop of fruit. 1 Though we prefer the full for pruning* ( d consider it important to select that tiinu J r cutting of large branches, yet in the an- j ul pruning winch most trees nee J, and so little us will be necessary when prop' t ly attended to, a conveient time may be < lected, us the very small wounds will not I iterlally eff ct the tfee< and the few small j lbs cut off will have but little etf:ci on 1 t; growth of the tree or the amount of | nt? It is beMer to prune trees at any { awn of the year than to neglect it* 801110 persons in giving difecilons foriho hivution of fruit trees, do an injury to the mmuiuty by assigning n point of lime ut lich every thing must he dune, as many , id that they cannot attend to every thing the time numed, and so they m gleet it.? is well to show the time to bo preferrod, ( it at the same time the cultivutor should . 1 in formed that other seusons will answer, 1 id thai, in many Cases, th ngs would lie I tier be perfb ined out of die best season an 10 be neglected. ' . * it .1 lu an article or transplanting! last tan, we owed that there were several months in ( hich Iru.t frees might With propriety be , insplunted; but Some recommend a point | time, and that being neglected, there is a i ?al neglect of the whole business. 1 In pruning trees it is important to coitience in season and give the tree a good rm, and then it will not be necessary to it of large branches. All dead und detyiiig branches should be removed, and if e top of it fruit tree is very th ck? a part iould be removep so as to let in the sun td air. Tins may be done by cutting off nail limbs. Pruning should be practised L*quently and moderately, instead of letig trees grow at random for years nnd en cut off a large part of the branches, as very injudiciously practiced by some. We invite discussion on this subject.? ur columns are open, and we wish for rcry one, whoso experience, observation, j C* JL! ID V E RJ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEI Df ojHiuons will uh usolu? io the i o.iiuiiJiii~ ty, to g'vo us their views on this us well u* in other subircts. From the Essex Agricultural Society's Tran s actions for 1839. On Reclaimed Meadows. The comminee on reclaimed meadow ind s*arnp Ian J respeci folly report ; That applications for premium* Inve jeen m ide by Daniel Putnam of D invars, ind Win. Oshorn of Lynn.?The committee have viewed the promis"s of ilio cluiriants and exammed tli<* satements which ite h rff^innexed, and recommwid the So iety's first premium of $20. be awarded to Vfr. Oshorn; and the s?? oud premium ol HO. be awarded o Mr Putnam. Mr. Osb >rn has given a detailed account of all his ex jotiso and income. Tiiis is it should be ; ?o that our brother farmer may see, how profitable it is. an I those who h ive mead pws, m iy go and do likewise. Tiie Cumniitee have great pleasure in remarking, bat they have reason to believe, that there s an increasing intention paid to the cultivaion of that part of out land, which lias renamed so long uncultivated, and, compar t, ivelv, vvoribless ; but which lias proved by xperi. nee, to be in point of fertility, surpassed by none even, the f rtilo prairies of he West. It has been ascer ained, by ex perionce, that nearly all kinds of grains and vegetables that our climate affords, can be 'aised on meadow land to good advantage. Four and a half tuns of English hay lias been ;ut on an acre in one year. One individual iays, 400 bushels of potatoes is his usual crop. Rye, oats and corn, have also been raised in ike proportion. It is an old saving, that it is i good shot to kill two birds with one stone; put in this case, more can be done. In reino>ingtlie srumps and logs wi h wlvcli many neadows are incumbered, the fuel will more :han pay the expense of itching, to be carted nto the hog pen, cow yard, or compost heap, hen to be applied to upland, as it makes a va uable manure. Two crops will usually more .ban pay the expense of cultivating them, and hen the land, instead of being comparatively worthless in most cases will be worth at least >ne hundred dollars per acre. In regard to the best manner of managing ueadow Ian different persons have different ipinions; as it is natural for a person to be partial to his own way if he has tolerable suc~ less. Grain or routs may be cultivated profiably on mead tws that can be well drained. Jut there are meadows that cannot be drained to much as would be de irable or that are oc~ or grata. There are meadows within the knowledge of the committee, that have produ:ed good crops of English hay without any oth;r dressing than sand; others have used gravel Vith equal success. Good crops of corn and )otatoes have also been raised without manure, land or gravel being put in the hill. How nuch better to cultivate laud when suitable iressing can be procured from the gravel knoll >r sand bank, Ihan to neglect such land, and laul manure some miles after paying an extravagant price lor it, to be applied to upland, tnd perhaps not raise an equal crop. AIhough good crops have been raised without nanure as above stated, yet it is thought that i little compost manure may be profitably apdied. Notwithstanding ail that has beeu iaid, there are those th a are so opposed to the lew me hod of farming, as they call i% or so enacious of the honor of their venerable fathfrs, that they will not turn to the right hand lor to the left, froin the path in which they rod. But I would ask whether farmers ought lot to keep p^ce with the improvements ofthe lay, and if they would be as good husbands as hose that have passed off the stage before hem, wi<e:l?er they ought n:t' to improve just 10 far as the light of science developes itsell I Again, some say that they cann >t aff >rd to nake improvements, but it will do for Mr. >r B., that has money. In conversion with an ndividual that had been improving a part of a irnall meadow, lie said, iff could afford to hire > ,.r ;? lelp I would reclaim ma remaioucr ?n n. IVliile in conversation, he acknowledged that >ne crop of hay had actually paid all the ex>enae of cultivation. Now if a man under hese circumstances cannot afford to hire help, [ know not who can. It i9 not tne intention to convey the i lea hat ail meadows in all seasons w II produce 11-2 tons of hay, or 4(H) bushels of potatoes to ;ho acre, for it cannot be expected.?But it is :he intenton to convey the idea that meadow arid will produce m<?.e net profit than any oth?r; aa it requires I?'s? manure, and ib less lia. i)le to be affected wirh drought, or wet, if it i9 property drained. For the Committee, Joseph flow, Chairman. December 31, 1839. William Osborn's Statement. To the Commitfee of the Es-ex A S on Reclaimed Meadows: Gentleman?Enclosed you will find a copy of my statement of 1838 and I now hand you a s'fement in addition to that, for -839, ant will on y remark in advance, that you may perhaps think the yield of potatoes and the quan> Lily of manure small for the land cultivated ; but in adJition to the manure, I burnt a con riderable quantity of brake and other root! found on the meadow, and used the ashes Th< crop- fpotatoes would have been larger if 1 liar nol used lime instead of manure on a largi part of the meadow where m gathering I fount a large decrease in the yield ; another caust of decrease was in planting the St. Helena potatoes instead ofChenangoes, which I hive reason to think, from a few that wero mixed if I had planted all ofthit kind, I should havt had at least one-third more. Crop for 1839, per Account, $332 5" Income for 1839. Three hundred bushels St. Helena potatoes at 45c $135; 57 do. Rohnns. at $2.114; 2 ton9 hay, $12 24; 41 bushels of Carro's, 25 cents, 10.25; 74 do. Sugar Beefs, 30c. 24.40; Squashes and Pumpkins, $2;40 bush. Mangel Wurlzeln, 10:10do. Ruta Bagi. at 25c. 2.50; wood for family one year, and for boiler for hogs, 50? 370 25 $7028' ZET1 '.IZER. VIBERlg, 1840. , Expenses. i Expenses of 1838V per account, ?216 67 -181 ?741 4 days work, f ?rcn help, 5?.45?Extra labor hired, 28.45?4 cords Manure, 16?Seed Potatoes, 15?1 bushel Rohan Potatoes, 8?J pound Sugar Beet seed, 50c.?Jo. do. Carrot seed, 37?14 do. Mangel Wurt. zel seed. 19?4 casks of Lime, at 40c. 1.60?35 bush. Ashes, at 6l-2c, 1.95?Jlauling d ?, trom Lynn, 50?Ru'a Biga and Squash seed, 25?use of horse and car, ?20? 337 I Balance in favor of meadow, ?314 1 . with of course an increased value of the Jan which is by good judges, considered in its pr< sent state, worth ?100 per acre, which in ad< tion to th ? crops tukee off, would g ve a n profit of 8614 89. Reap ctful'y. yours, Lynn, Dec. 1339. William OsBoax. Daniel Putnams. Statement. Gentleman?The meadow which some your number examined last summer, is supp< sed to measure something more than an ac and a half. In 1924, and in tho previous yea it yielded annua ly auout one ton of rneado hay, fit only for litter. In 1939, a em; pieco was turned over with the hoe and plat ted with potatoes. O her parts were taken succeeding years until the whole has been tu ned and planted. The potatoes have bet manured in the hill, and the yie d has bet 259 to 200 beshels per acre. Corn, bean pumpkins, squashes, ruta bagas, -in. I c.arro have been tried in small patches, and aii hat done well. The pa9t season, the crops were as follows English Hay, (Clover and Timothp,) on tw thirds of an acre, I ton, 915? Winter Rye, 1-2 an acre, 14 quarts seed, yield 121 2 bushels, at $1.25,15621.4?Black Sea Wheat, 1 4 acre, 7 qts. seed, yield 4 bushels, at 9'.75,7? Chenango Potatoes 30 polos, pie.'d 40 bushels, at 40 cents, 18.40?Sugar Beets; 20 poles, yield 1(16 bushel*, at 20 cents, 21 20?Second crop on Rye and Wheat stubbles, 25 cwt. at 50 era. 12.50, 8?9 121 The wheaf lodged badly, and wa9 cut whi very gTeen?the yield was less than if it In ripened well. Drills were opened with the h for the sugar beets, and a gr tvelly wash fro the road side, mixed with wood ashes, was p into them. The dressing for 18 poles cost dollars. Gn the remaining two poles the wai was mixed with bone; cost nearly two dollai The beets on the bone appeared to bo but very littia Izmr than tha other. ditched?the muck obtained paid tor the lahc Each crop is boheved to have paid for its e; penae as well as similar crops on the uplan It cost eight or nine dollars per acre to tui the meadow at first, and them was an expem of about five dollars in deepening the outlets tlif waters. Danverit Dx. 23,1839. Daxiel Putna* The following are the contents of tl Southern C ibinet, o( Agriculture, floriiou ture, Rural itnd domestic Economy, tl Arts S -ifn'-i's. L l?r.itiir**, Sp irting It lellig-nee, do lor August. Report ol tu Special Coimniitee of tl St. JoofiV Colleton, Agricultural Societ on PrufeasorSiiepurd's Aualysisol'iheSji ol EiJisto Island. Formation and Modification of Soils b C. Dwarf Fruit Trees.?Summer Gfaflinj by R. C. H irrmtinsjof Corn, by T. Ojr mo le of m iking Hay. A proposition to Rice Planters, by [ F. VV. A. Spout menus Formation of Su p''a?o? Lime?Action of Mineral Sails on Vug* table*, by W. L? M inageinent of Pig?, by Z. Stmdish. Plantation Giplonn.?Cabbages, Ru Bag.i. by the ft iitoC? Coll' C 'ons and Recollections.?Propi gilion of Double Sucks, Culture 01 tbe Ti I p. PI.oiling Tulips in Pots, Cu lure of i? Pelargonium, (G raii'iim,) Preserving P l.irgoniti.n* turuugh the P inter, Anoilr oiuiliod of Preserving P.-Iagoniums. TALES, SKETCHES, &C. A Sketch of the Island of Madeira in ll 1 year 1936, by G. T. - , ol'S?uti C iroliuu. Francis OMerby?A Tale, by a pl:i gentleman. R * J loon Adven'ure nt Niglr. Revolutionary Scenes.?A Survivor Bunker Hill. A Vis i to Niagara, ' 1 be Delphic Oracle. nVItlCUUTKMAL. XIK.K19. Chernia'rv applied to Agriculture?W1 tf?r Food I'orCow*?Soaking Corn to f < Morses?Hoeing Ruta B?g??To Promo 3 ih?* Pub-ry of Apple and Pear Trees; The Lilac?-Egyptian Cotton?Suit injui I ous to Turkey a i j Miscellaneous Item*. Good Nature?Effocts of the Natch [ Tornado?Insurance in Prussia?Subu ranean Village?Advice to Young Lali 1 ?Taciturnity of Genius?A K"n ucl Rifle?An Old Story of a Confessor? r Quaker's Letter to Ins Watchmaker? lustration of Early Rising?Mind y?? business?A good thing?Vuluable R eipe. From the [Tenn?.sse] Agriculturist. Chicory. Messrs. Editors :?The celebrated A thor Young, during nn agricultural lour France, saw tnis plant there cultivated a 'm used for soiling both cattle and horses; 2 highly dij he esteem it, that he carri > 4 rE NHMBKU 44. . ' > smite luck who nun .o hnglaiM, sue d#\ 39 dared if lie did nothing moiv than inroduce the use ot* chicory among the farmers, he Im l Cully discharged his duty to hit king and country. Toe late General A. Jones, of North Carolina, from the high encomiums passed on ii in the works of Mr. Young, was induced to import some of the teed.?* It was sown in dolis-?the product wnt im 1 il i_i_ r . - .. _ mens", ?nu an kuius oi siock fat it voraciously, but it was faun I to bo indigenous in Carolina; there was difficulty in ihc col* lection of the need; he abandoned the cul i. j3 vaiion, hut always spoke highly of its yield M and its qualifies for soiling. It seems to 39 be of the Ic.tuce family; grows from 5 to 7 d, feet high, and atny la; found in large quanti* B~ ' ties along hedge ur turn rows in cultivated I* J rT fields, which fie st'.ck is k"pt off, but when cows or hors-'S can ger it, they invariably eat it n'o the ground. If cultivated, it will yield hIjou' sixty ttiousand weight of gn?eti of: food to the acre, is succelent and rich, stalk, i-1 blade and all. ure consumed by ih?m. re Tlmre is much growing in the fields a* M round Nashville, and it will afford me pleas* ^ ure to s o ' it to any gentleman, and conj. vince hy actual experiment how fond stock in are of it. ir. A. J. Davib. ?n n From the Farmer's Cabinet, !8f s HEN S EGGS. i re I notice in the Farm rs' Cabinet lor 4th mo. la a p. 27"), an enquiry as to the tru'li 0. < f the awrtum. that hen's eggs whi?h ?ru round pro luce female chickens, and ihosn whicli are long or pointed, pro luce males. When a hoy, I was in a situ dion to bar able to indulge my fondness for lb wis, and otlen rais'il chickens;?wi hout ever having neard ol ilio ahove facts, I discovered ttiat the which approached the n-arest to roundness always produced f-mah-s. and those which were pointed at one end always pmdjeed males?I acted accordingly, and always succeeded in ob siniug fcmalos of mul is, according as I wished, I If? ^ A her a lapse of a number of years, bs* e ing in Pniladelp in m irke , I happened Us in, mention the (act to one who raised chick* ut en? lor sale, and who preferred tb? mal**# 2 because they grew larger?the information was received with some surprise; but 1 ad. a vised the person to tr^, rjifl , ?-;Tnrtir- nil males beivg produced by ,r. 'Selecting ttie ion# or pointed egg*. <" I since find the fact was mentioned by a d. writer over 2003 years ugo. LAL rn se ' of The Many headed Wheal.?The many* Ilea led ubtjti is an indigenous plant of [ CMiforira, fl heads of which was procured by M ijor Spenng, from a man in the Osago uiit ori of Indians, who had been tradi. g on j t ? Pj? fic Ocean. The six heads prudneed six hundred grams; which wer* plan1ed by Mr. Alphou* Biker, of Inhavil.e, C.. t tie production ol which Wis tin t ious~ aid he.i <'s. The ground on winch the w eat grew was measured by nn accurate 1^ survo)or?t'te heads counted?and one he id .slvlled ou'f and the gram weighed; a ca!cu!at on was then made, the r' t't of ^ which was, tliat the *l??;rt produced at the Mte of two hundred and thirty bushels to he acre. It was planted about the last of January, and cut on tie* 20 It June. The Ian I on which it grew is poor and imdy, ? and was unassisted by manure.? Wtlks Co. (Geo.) Nftos. ? , Extract nf a L'lter, dated n MOBILE, SEPT. 3.?Recent accounts from the c. untry are vry discouraging. Is Montgomery count)', down to Baldwin oppoc* ta ite Mobile, in fart all on the east side of tho Alabama river, the worm and the rot has b on i. destructive to outrun. Many planters will i not make more th in the third of a crop, and haue countermanded their orders for bagging and rope acco dingly. Thi looks like face. On the west side of the Alabama, and on both L I side of the Tombeckhc r ver.*, there are * me comp ainta, but nor so bad. Marengo cou ity is most favored From the continued rains in June, July and August, the crop of cotton susv taioeJ great injury by the weed overgrowing [|. and bearing but little fruit. I now beleve that the growing crop will fall sliort of the last, in Alabama, 150.0(H) bales. The country " is very sickly. Cotb n 6 a 9-12c. S. mo far bales of new cotton have been received, tie quality only middling, staple weak, value 8 4 of cents." Watermelon Extraordinary.?Eiisha Ston *, of Staffird county, exlnMt d in Fredericksburg on Snurday iixt, n Watermelon raised by liim<? If, weighing scventy.one n' pounds wh?*n pulled from the vi i?. the diB' mansion round the iniddh'3 fc#" 6-12 inches, , lte and roun I ill lengthwise po&i 0, 4 i et 7 T inches, riPreserving winter Appebs* Messrs Guylord fy Tucker?Last April ^ ' I -I ' c... ,...! lifluill l>u mail., m . II i <1 ill* iri| irt|*;ii ti*r iiicu' ' ^ a present ofn large dish of fine flivorel tv iipp'i s. and it being out of season to have ^ a pi I 3 in such n go<?d state of preservation, I inqi i ed his mod * of kn< p ng tliein. He ur informed me that in the fill I) * made n liox six feet long and two few deep, which he sunk into the ground to a level with the sur| face, hen lie filled the hox wnh sound apples, and covered it with bonrds in the fonir of n roof, but leaving an opening at both ends. The roof he also covered wjth straw r. and earth, to the usutl thickness of an spin |l,orP'dnto hole.?In tlvs condition he nfj leaves it nil the npplur are frozen, but at so soon ns a llmw com'**, ho m >k it perfectly led a,:|' a^d in a days the fsost i? altogether