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VOLUME VI
By iff. MAC LEAK. ,
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Buck Head S. C. Dec. 23rd. 1840.
Dear Sir,?Yours of the 9th, last month
I have just received, and hasten to reply
to your inquiries, respecting the grass
which I have on my plantation. I do not
think that it would answer to sow ft in
any land, that you might wish to'put in
crop, as when once set, it can never be
j(L eradicated ; but for a permanent pasture,
it would be invaluable. You can pasture
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would afford prime pasturage for hogs in
the winter. It is not a Rye grass, bu
more of an Oat grass. I do not think it
would do for hay, as you would
hare cut it when it was too
full of juice, and therefore would evapor-!
ate too much. I do not speak from experience,
never having tried to make hay
with it. If however it would make good
hay, I am satisfied it could be cut twice j
in the year. \
The history of the grass is this,?my
Father, about 50 years ago, imported
some hemp seed from the Mediterranean,
in which it is supposed somo of the seed
of the grass was, it never having been
observed before ; in the field, where the
hemp was sown, a few heads were carefully
collected and sowed by my father ;
he thinks it a very fine grass. From the
small patch sown on the head of. Beaver
Creek, it has spread entirely along the I
whole course of the creek to Broad River.
And I have no doubt that in time it will
_ reach the Ocean.
If yon have any rich marshy low ground,
unfit for cultivation, you would find it of
great advantage to sow it in this grass, for
grazing purposes; hut as I have already
said, I would not advise it to be planted in
crop land, as the labor of cultivating it in
crop, is immense; I would freely give
$2000 to have it removed from my plantation.
You could make a tolerable crop
of corn (say two thirds) on land set with
it. It would not do in small grain of any
kind, as the seed of the grass and the grains
would ripen about the same time, and
you would have it scattered all ever y?ur
^ whole plantation in a short time. If however,
you wish to try it, I will have
seme^ of the seed gathered for you. I
am sure I can gather 50 bushels. I
would be glad to see you at any time, and
take pleasure in shewing it to you on my |
plantation; you would be surprised at the
luxuriance of it. - In July you might almost
tie it over your head, on horse back
on the river bottoms.
'Respectfully. *
Should it turn out to be a fact, as the
writer seems to fancy, this grass may possibly
prove in some degree inimical to the
usual practice of the exclusive cotton
romarlraKlo tonnrifv
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with which it retains possession of the soil;
yet, to the farmer whose object is mixed
hishandrv, or who produces a general ro.
tation of crops, this property would cease
to be an objection; and to the grazier
or stock grower, it would be a high
recommendation ; and on the whole, we
have little doubt that it would be a valuable
acquisition to our farms.
To our southern farmers, where the
various departments of husbandry are combined
on the same plantation, as is usually
the case with us, the temporeriness, which
from some cause, seems peculiar to nearly
all the cultivated grasses, in our latitude,
is a material objection, particularly for
permanent pastures, to which this, from
the foregoing description appears to be
exempt; thus furnishing with its luxuriant
foliage a durable and excellent pasturage
for other stock throughout the grazing
season, also through the winter by means
of its large tap roots, an excellent range
for hogs. The exception that our friend
takes in regard to its unfitness for hay, in
|? consequence of its succulency or juiciness,
causing too much evaporation, is, we
think, an objectin of little import, except
in difficult weather, and even then, by the
late modes of curing hay, that difficulty is
measurably removed.
This grass it appears, was introduced
into S. Carolina, from a country situated
in nearly our own parallel of latitude, with
a quantity of hemp-seed ; from wh:ch circumstance
we would reasonably infer
that the same climate was equally favorable
to both productions: and as probably
no eountry is capable of surpassing the
United States, in the production of hemp,
the idea would be naturally suggested,
that oor climate would be equally favorable
to the production of this grass.
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| We would be pleased to receive further
informatian on the subject from any one
acquainted with it, in regard to its properties,
its habits, the kind of soil most favorable
to its production &c.?Ed. Far.
I Ado,
i The following remarks are extracred
from an address by the late Gen. William
R. Davie, President of the Agricultural
! Society of South-Carolina, before that
body, at their anniversary meeting, at
Columbia, on the 8th of December, 1818.
The cultivation of the grasses naturally
connects itself with this part of our general
plan of improvement, and I am happy
to be authorised to say. from the experience
of several years, that almost all the
cultivated grasses of foreign extraction
succeed well in the middle and uppei
ranges of the state, where, fortunately, all
the necessary varieties of soil and sitna|
tion may be found congenial to their cub
| ture. For the purpose of being fed green
to horses or cattle, I have no knowledge
of any grass superior to the Lucerne ; under
proper cultivation it may be cut eighl
or nine times in comihon seasons, commencing
in March,, and continuing till
the] hard frosts, in the latter end of autumn.
Being cut before it is in full
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bloom, it immediately springs up rrom
the stumps, and its uncommonly strong
and deep rpot preserves it from the com;
mon effects of drought. Its culture is
easy and simple; in France it is cultivated
broad-cast, with the advantage of irrigation.
In this mode I have not succeeded,
but it never fails in the drill on any good
soil. Lucerne was among the earliest ol
the cultivated grasses; in Italy it was one
of the fruits of Roman conquest; in Upper
Egypt it has been usCd time immemorial,
not only as the food of cattle but ol
man.
Red clover grows luxuriantly in the
range of country I have mentioned, or
suitable soils. This grass is properly the
native of a clay soil, but will succeed al
most on any, in proportion to the goodness
of the land. The extraordinary success
with which this grass has been cultivatei
in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia
for the purpose of food forstock of ever)
kind, and above all, as an improving crop
I gives it an unquestionable claim upon the
(attention of the planter and farmer.
There is no danger of wandering, in the
mazes of theory on this subject; the
practical results of thirty years' experi
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ence in tnoso states iarnisn an lniaiuuie
guide.
Among the nnrrow leafed grasses, the
dog's foot, as it is called with us, deserves
particular attention; it appears congenial
to our climate, and grows luxuriantly on
any rich soil, howevpr dry t|ie situation
may be. This grass mixes weH with the
red clover, supports it from falling when
luxuriant,'and cuts to advantage, at the
same time while it improves? the hay, anc
contributes to its preservation when housed
or stacked. The timothy and whitetop
or feather grass succeed generally or
wet meadows ; but timothy justly valued
as a hay for horses, seems peculiar to a
colder climate ; it grows luxuriantly, almost
spontaneously, on our mountains,
while in the lower range of the state, il
languishes,apd issoqu succeeded by the
wild or hative'grasses. j )+
The herds grabs' might be cultivated
with the greatest success in the soft boggy
lands in the lower parts of the state.
There are few trasses more valuable foi
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hay, while it gives strength and .consistence
to the surface of .the most spongy
hog, converting morasses, which are not
only useless in their present state, but
even a dangerous nuisance in a neighborhood,
into valuable and productive land.
Drought, the greater enemy of this branch
of agriculture, never effects the herd-grass
when cultivated upon this, which is its peculiar
soil. The inland swamp formerly
I cultivated in rice, and now generally aj
bandoned, would form excellent meadow
, and grazing farms, equal to any in Europe
or America, with the aid of this grass,
and the native grasses of the country ; 1
am confident, that these lands thrown into
this mode of culture, might be improved
tenfold in their value; the profits of the
grazier are certain and annuul, and secured
from those accidents of seasons, which
frequently blast the best founded expectations
of the Dlanter. I wish it to be un
derstood. that I consider the business of
the grazier as perfectly distinct from thai
of the breeder of cattle.
The white clover yields but little food,
and soon becomes dangenerous to horses
when pastured, and cannot be connected
advantageously like its relative with any
system of improvement. I cannot, how.
er close this short view of the grasses
without recommending to the attention of
the society the Sainfoin, a grass so highly
esteemed by the French farmers, that they
cannonized it under this singular appellation.
The English farmers speak of it in
terms of the highest approbation ; it is, they
say, the best hay hitherto known for horses;
many farmers keep them the whole winter
upon it with very little corn, and the horses
remain fat and in fine condition ;
even post horses thrive well upon it, and
next to corn nothing will keep them in
such order ; it may be mowed ten yean
successively, and may be afterwards pastured
with advantage for three years.
This is the language of the English farmers,
and it requires only a moment's reflection
to observe how extremely interes
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ting this grass would he to the planter,
subjected to such an immense expense in
the support of the horses and mules employed
in the culture of corn and cotton.
I do not know whether any experiment
has been made of its culture in this state;
the European farmers all agree,.that it is
among the first profitable grasses, and far
i exceeding any yet propagated on poor
land?it will succeed on almost any soil
which is mixed with rocks, or that has a
bottom of firm adhesive clay.
In moist rich soils, th3 native grasses
of our country make excellent meadow,
with proper attention to eradicate the
weeds and drain the boggy parts; the
scythe improves the quality of the grass,
and where the soil is rich or properly mai
nured, it will yield an abundant crop.
' It may be observed where the meadows
t still remain, which were made by the first
settlers, the native grasses have general
ly succeeded to the timothy, without ope-]
1 rating any injury to the farmer.
5 I have dwelt on this subject because an
opinion had prevailed, that few or none
t of the foreign cultivated grasses would I
thrive in our climate, and from the irnperiI
ous consideration, that this branch ofi
agriculture must form the basis of that
I system of improvement, which can alone
1 prove effectual to restore our exhausted
i lands. M An assured and plentiful supply
of wholesome food for .stock during the
! winter, enables them to multiply their
I numbers, while in their turn they contri
buteto the-fertility of the soil, and the
j support and comfort of man."
F For the S. C. Temperance Advocate,
t TURNIPS.
Mr. Editor,?Not having failed to raise
. Turnips from the summer or fall sowing,
f for thirty years, I have been astonished to
hear of so many failures, amongst plan;
,ters, in a thing so easily made certain
i With many, I suppose the cause is mere
? neglect or laziness. Such are not to be
. pittied, and it is fruitless labour to instruct
j them. But as there are many others
3 who labour earndstly and fail for want ol
I experience, I may confer a particular fa,
voirr upon such, by giving them the result
r of my experience. My plan,ha? been not on,
ly to make sure a crop of Turnips; but to
* make the lot of ground rich. For these
- two objects, in July I lcncc in the lot
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rur uiu j v??? y ?j
! for every 10 cows to be penned. Covet
the lot with litter. In the winter plough
' it up deeply. Pen the shucks and straw
intended for winter food lor nie cows upj
on the lot and feed them there through
I the winter. In March, plough up the
( lot again, and in May give it a third
, ploughing, and July a fourth. By this
> plan of fallowing, th,? insects and weeds
t or grass are not only destroyed, hut a
: moisture retained, so that a drought will
I not prevent a stand of turnips, scarcely
ever. And to make it still more certain
you can divide the lot so as to make j
1 3 sowings, thus having 3 chances to one
. for a orop. And the first sowing will j
1 show its failure in time to sow again.
Of all the reot crops for cows, I think
| turnips the most valuable, both as relates!
J to the quantity produced from the ground
tand.therq cpnymuedce io using. In our
[ j lltftiaie there iitto necessity for housing
- j them, or to raise them, only as used.?
j And if foiled with a l'ttlc chopped corn
j or peas, there is no better food for milch
i cows. I heard some persons talk of
! giving a turnip flavor to milk and butter
: where cows are fed upon turnips. Ifthis
; be the fact my taste is insensible of it. Neither
can anyjofmy family discover such
flavor when our milk-cows are fed upon
turnips. We however generally boil them
1 with kitchen slop and mix a litttle chopped
grain with them. . J. D.
Bots in Hcrses.
Sir,?At page 177 of the Cabinet for
. the last year, I see slacked lime recommended
for the botta in hordes, in portions
of a table spoonful three times a week ;
! but in eases of violent attack this remedy
would be too slow in its operations.
A neighbor callecf on me with a horse
very much affected in this way, and requested
me to give him a teacup full of
black pepper and a pint of whiskey,
1 which he administered, but without effect,
although he promised that the horse would
' be relieved in a few minutes; he therefore
determined to give him more pepper
' and whiskey, but I remonstrated against
1 it, and strongly recommended a pint of
1 molasses whicb he at length consented to
try ; this relieved the horse instantly, and
" in a few minutes he hitched him to his
! wagon and drove off".
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In another case, a friend had given his
horse, while in the most excrutiating
pain from this disorder, a gill of turpen'
tine, and afterwards black pepper and I
whiskey declining to try the molasses, as
he considered it too simple a remedy; the
; horse at lenghth appearing in the last extremity,
he consented to administer the
molasses; the effect was almost instan.
taneous, and in ten minutes the horse
was feeding. Now I cannot otherwise
account for the sudden effectual relief
1 obtained from the use of molasses in this
disorder, than by supposing that so soon
as the molasses enters the stomach of the
horse, the botts quit their hold and feed
on it, and this gives the horse instant re.
lief, and effect a permanent cure. Would
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could be fallen upon to destroy them ; at i
length he was told by a friend- that the \
Jasmine blossom would effectually take 2
them all away. Accordingly a large t
quantity of vines and blossoms were pro- 8
cured and thrown in the corn house, sla- j
bles, &c. and in less than two weeks there,
was mot a rat or mouse to be heard on the
place These blossoms have quite a plea )
nnd agreeable smell, but are very poi- j
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some of your readers try the remedy, and
repart through the pages of the Cabinet
the result, stating also their epininions regarding
this view of the case.
Farmers' Cabinet.
If the distress of the horse was really
caused by bots. the manner in which the
molasses releived him was doubtless that
it
suggested by the correspondent of the
Cabinet. But the cure cannot properly
be said to have been permanent. So long
as the bots remain in the stomach of the
horse there is danger of their renewing
the attack on it. Has calomel ever been
tried as a. remedy for bots ? It is often
an effectual remedy for worms in children.
The juice of elder leaves, combined with
a bottle of castor oil might be worth tryinn.
The larve cfmost flies have an invincible
repugnance to the elder leaves ;
and so have the flies themselves.
Ed. Fab. Gaz.
From the Farmers Advocate.
Savk your ashcs.
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1 aK? leecueu hsiius <mu uiup a uauufal
on the corn when planting ; dry ashes
is better but after the soap is made, the
contents of the ley.hopper should be
saved for corn planting. Dry ashes
should be sowed two or three bushels on
an acre of wheat, two or three tirpes. In
the Sprihg, either in heavy dews or misting
rain.
The manure of ashes or lime used as a
top dresser, is not near all the beriefit;
there are several kinds of. insects materially
interrupted in their ravages,* on the
green growing grain. If you have not a
roof and a floor for keeping ashes,?
please to make them, and preserve all dry
that does not get used for ley.
Sandy ground will show a greater difference
in produce from their use, than
sterile clay, so far as I have tried.
Manure should all oe taken to the
field from the barn-yard, then plough up
one, two or ten acres that cannot be manured,
according to circumstances?sow J
some with corn broad cast?and some
with oats, when the corn tassels, and
the oats heads, turn them in with a
plough; this course will greatly assist
the scil.
Times are generally too busy when
shocks are taken off the ground, or I
would say?turn in the stubble, moderately
deep, there will come a growth to
turn in for manure, before the coming of
frost?or an an excellent pasture for milk
cows. A SUBSCRIBER.
11th 2nd mo. 1841. 1
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From the Maine Farmer.
I r-DnvnRrFiiBns AND NOTICE OP
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A NURSERY.
In looking over the Maine Farmer, Vol.
8th, No 48th, I find an Editorial article,
headed, why not raise more apples"
The subject 1 think is worthy the attention
of every farmer, as I believe that enough
has been stated, and upon good authority
to satisfy the minds of nearly all,
I that apples may be raised so as to be n^uch
cheaper food for cattlo and hogs thaitrlfltatoes.
But are not farmers growing
to remiss in paying proper attention to
their orchards^ and in setting out ypung
ones to take the place of old and decaying
ones? and there are many of this class
in Maine, which in my opinion have suffered
premature decay on acconnt of mismanagement
in pruning^ as well as from
other causes. Heavy pruning, I believe
at all times to be very injurious. It is
said that experience is the best school
master, and I think I have some in this
respect, for I have nearly ruined one
small orchard by pruning heavy, and not
so heavy as I have seen many others.
But as far as my observation has extended,
I think it is almost as sure a way to
spoil an orchard to cut off large limbs,
and sometimes a number as I have seen,
from the same tree, with an axe or a
coarse saw and apply nothing to the
wood toshield it from the air, as it would
be to cut it up by the roots.
As many of our orchards are past cure
would it not be worth taking some pains
to rear up more trees before the old ones
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nrc ennreiy done, aiiu & ucii^to mvn.
are but few farmers but migfit with tri.
fling expense set out a sufficient supply
of choice fruit trees, to furnish fruit for
family use, and then I would not recommend
the poorest kinds for stock.
I believe it is allowed that most kinds
of fruit trees do best set in single rows, as
along road fences and fields, in which
situations they are generally most productive,
and much more convenient than
to fence out some acres of our best land
for that purpose.
From tbe Winyah Observer.
Mr. Editor?I send you the following,
which will be of considerable interest to
all farmers. In the spring cf 1825, Mr.
of District in this State, was
very much pestered with rats. They collected
in such numbers about bis barn
and stables, as to give, at a distance, tbe
sound of a parcel of pigs in the shocks,
<fcc. They destroyed nearly twenty bush,
els of corn and peas before any stratagem
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tonous. This is fact, for It came under '
the observation of OBSEkVER. (
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TO KILL BED BUGS. 5
Mr. Jonas Bacon of Unionville states i
to us-that gun-camphor and bar-soap will ,
effectually destroy that midnight robber, ,
the bed.bug?he mixes one ounce of the (
camphor, well pulverised, with two ounces ,
of the soap?this mixture is easily applied
to the crevices where the hugs harbor.
From the Frankfort Commonwealth. \
SOMETHING ABOUT AN OWL.
A man ought not to lie hooted at, if he
does tell a story about an owl, provided
the anecdote tends tp the promotion of
the great interests of agriculture. And
we. may as w6ll promise here, that we do
not mean to talk about one of those little
screeching things that sits on the eves of
houses during the livedong night, watch- I
ing for mice, and uttering the most
piercing lamentations all the while. No
indeed: we are alluding to one of those
j whapping big fellows who sometimes
raises a war-hoop right over your head as
you are riding through the dark voods,
and makes you feel for a moment, as if
your scalp was gone. Speak of your hair
standing on end, at tales of ghosts, and
all that sort of stuff! Those ore mere
fije-side affairs and don't last much longer
than you are toasting your shins.
But if you wish to know something of a
! shock that will drive through your bones
into the marrow, just go by yourself
through a beech flat of a dark night, with
your inind running upon Indians/robbers, r
and other such sweet fancies until you
feel as if you had'nt half an inch of breath
any how?then let one of those night
eagles . thunder?whoo hoo, whoo-hoo,
whoo hopagh into your lugs, and you'll
Kink that vou've become an eternal fix
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in the shades. It does to laugh at
when you get home, but for the moment
it is capitally horrific. There are many
people who never saw one of those big
owls, or heard one either, and we will
therefore for their benefit, sav he is a
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large hird with a huge head, a profusion
of rusty feathers, a round grey eye that
seems to look everlastingly ahead and
right through every thing that is before
it, has very formidable talons, and, in a
word, is the king of all things that fly in
the dark. He iscarniverous in his appetites,
and walks into young ribbits, pat.
ridges, and that kind of fry, with remarkable
unction. He does not make friends
of many living things, which probably
arises from his habits of midnight assassination,
and skulking when the rest of
the world is not in motion. He moves
like. a shadow, not making the least
noise in his flight, and he is, upon the
.fyhole,-a most excellent pattern for a cut I
throat.'^ Yet with all his advantages of
size, position and profession, he is not
suffered to be the sole maraudej upon the
great common of the poultry yard, for he
has an e*nemy of a most determined and
implacable character. The enemy is not
as might be seppo3ed, armed with weaponsof
war equal to himself, nor with the
same awful voice, nor even with thesime
fierceness of the eye, yet he makes up
with combination vigilance what be
wants in strength, and just let an owl
show himself in the light of the sun, and j
forthwith a lesion of Crows will be upon j
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him such a clatter about his ears that he I
will find the very day hideous, and igno- I
minously fly before the black regiments
that are charging upon him. And this
brings us to our story.
A farmer living in this county, has been
so exceedingly annoyed with crows that!
he was willing to hunt them by militia
companies?to offer rewards for their
heads, to poison them or kill them off by
a legislative tax. Year by year he was
molested by those depredators, who would
tear up his corn by the acre, pick out the j
ei'esof his Iambs, fly off with his chick. |
~ J ens,
and annoy him in every conceivable
way. It was in vain .that he took up
his gun upon his shoulder and went in
pursuit, no caution that he could devise
could bring him in shooting distande.?
The rascals would caw at him, and caw
at him, and snigger to see how he "lard- .
ed the earth" as he walked along of a hot
day, vainly following on their provoking
banters. Neither he nor his man of straw
in the field, was the least terror to the
evil doers, and they plundered with perfeet
impunity. Our Franklin Farmer
meditated long and deeply upon the manner
in which he should redress his wrongs
| and like a true philosopher, he sal himj
self diligently to the study of the nature
of crows. He soon found out all their ,
system of sentinels, their notes of alarm, j
their sounds of enamragement, &c., but
from these he could gain no knowledge j ]
that would avail him.
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While, however, he was one day
vatching a large flock, pis attention was
irrested by an unusnal commotion among
he hlack'scoundrels, and fordiwith they
ill darted in one directioo. *He beheld
n his surprise' a simultaneous attack
ipon a large owl who had imprudently k
ventured forth into the light, qpd such
mother battle he never did see until at
ast the owl was fairly vanquished by the
:rows, and made rather a precipitate reTeat.
Our farmer was too interested a
spectator of the combat not to reflect
much upon its character and result, and
ill at orice it occurred to him that, if by*
my means he could get possession of an
r)wl he could make him decoy the crows
within a reasonable distance. Luckily
for him, he was soon enabled by a successful
slut, to break t|ie wing of one of the
Lt rest of the tribe, and he lost no time in
toputting
his scheme in operation.
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Accordingly, at early dawn he sallied
forth with dire intent, and surcharged
with the-spirit of extermination and venom.
He selected a tree near to bis fence
hut conspicuous in the field. A lad was
sent up the tree put the owl upon his perch
and the farmer enscqned himself in the
corner of one of the panels.. Scarcely Were
these completed before a distant and
well known caw, broke upon his ear, and
anon the air was darkened with a flight
of crows, all making like the Cuirassiers
upon the Scotch Grays, a furious onslaugh
upon the* wounded enemy. aHa, Ha,
cried the tarnier; I've got you at last!"
and bang went his gun, and down tumbled
a couple of crows. But the fire of
the gun had no effect upon the rest.
They still continued in furious rage, to
fly at the owl, and ever and anon the farmer
would fire away and at every crack
he brought 'em. Faith, but it was a goodly
sight to see how soon the owl got into
the hang of the game. For, at each dieary
pause, while the farmer was reloading
?the sagacious captive would ruffle his
feathers and snap his bills together,
and manifest to his enemies the most aggravating
and insulting behaviour. This
would esasperate them: beyond bounds,
and at him they would come again?bang
would go the gun. and at every crack the
owl fairly chuckled with delight, giving
one of those knowing winks, which was
ss much as to say udont wa ntofe 'em.*
The slaughter was continued until tbe
farmer desisted, from mere weariness. He
then went home like a conquoror with his
heaps of slain, and gave his new ally a
stupendous feast on the bodies of his
slaughtered foes. Every day was this
manceurve repented, and with the same
success, until nearly every crow about the
the plantation had been killed. Tbe
fame of this attair soon spread to tne sur?
rounding plantations and every neighbor
borrowed the owl and put him to the same
successful and profitable purpose. As
it ay be supposed, good care was taken of
the owl, and for two seasons he was- the
greatest benefactor of the neighborhood,
and had been the death of as many of his
foes as Ghen Gia-Khan or Napoleon,
Unluckily on one occasion he sallied forth
alone from his confinement, and not being
able to fly, he attempted to swim across
the Elk horn. This was a hew and on*
- - - - k -.
tried element to him, and like other re*
nowned warriors and statesmen be was
lost in venturing upon an experiment.
That ha was put. to a great public use,
there is no doubt, and if ever a bill is
again introduced into the Legislature
" Providing for the killing of crows," it
would be but an act of justice to put in t
section directing a monument to be erec*
ted to Joe. Davis's Owl.
Whoever doubts the truth of the story
has only to try the experiment with an owl,
and hp will soon find that there is no joke
in the matter.
RIGHT OF VOTING.
AS EXERCISED IN THE SEVERAL STATES.
In New Hampshire, every male inhabitant
21 years of age* three months in the
state?Students, Paupers, &c. excepted.
In Massachusetts, every male citizen,
Paupers, and persons under guardianship,
excepted, one year in the State, and six
in the Town where he offers to
vote, having paid a tax within two years,
unless exempted therefrom by law.
In Rhode Island, no Constitution?By
Charter of Charles II. all freemen vote.
In Connecticut, every white male citizen,
having a legal residence of six
months, with a freehold of seven dollars
per annum, and every white male enrolled
in the militia one year, or being exempted
from military duty by law, having paid
a State tax wirhin the year, and of good
moral character.
In Vermont, every man of quiet and
peaceable behaviour, one year in the
State.
In New Jersey, all Inhabitants with 12
months residence, worth a clear estate of
502 Proclamation money.
In Pennsylvania, every freeman who
has resided two years in the State, and
paid a tax, and the sons of such, between
twenty-one and twenty-two, without the
payment of tax.
In Maryland, all free white males 21
years of age, having resided one year in
the State, and six months in the comty*
In North Carolina, afl freemen with a
freehold of 50 acres, and a residence ?f
Senators; and all