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"7 fcxI)C, leInrp- Vour first inquiry I relates to the bwt mudo of using plnister i I r recommend it in all eases to l>o scattered mJ^rrowed in with the grain of all kinds i this I U WM absolutely necessary when tho land is ex nousted, as U aius and nourishes tlio sprout im> W^2?7,.i!LiS?ul?jnF"p' lt8,an?'?rnobt theirgrain in planter * my BJ8? if V ? one harul (0 the grain, Ig^oflior follows to scatter the plaister, at ? ?un? bV,l,cl to V,e nero * where theie ?5 t?i0r* ^ harrows it requires two hands, '85.tS1!? ,'*rrow n ?!"?*? person is sufficient ,*?1,0 wou,d flr#t 80w tho grain and then the plaist?r. On winter grain I would rejKiat anotlier bushel peracre,y5 February or tho first of March : tl,is i be necessary after the first year, or aWyoUr III nC!i? ,mc? .^?{?red, then only sow (dais* ter with tho gram. I would recommend har virSI'i Try k,mI, 0Wn? ?nd * <??re to have your lands harrowed tho first time, the way it was ploughed, riiis will lovel your ploughing, miv*.?V' y?U ,loY cr?M'wajs it turns it up a our furrows. It is not necessary to put fnJi ? "i ^uSi? proof, put in some grain sis inches deep, It pill come up after two or three fl!?m^l,?rXh,Xln^aLD,,/0U *??n* the main-root iroin which it took its growth gone, and new roots near the surface ofthe earth succeed?it only requires to be covered. Rye is the best cropto lmprove land .ml at tho same time to raise clover, clover seed ought to be sowed on on Ae rye in February, Ky* is th?mSSRs? Wetonilse oncxhausted land i its growth is ra? plrf in tho spring, secures tho clover from the torching sun. shades the earth, and acts so as Mrtlin replenish the land j it is the most certain crop, and an it makes more straw than SKfejl!.'/* fanner U to make tho.be8t ??a??ure I by proper manage. paJa'tSl11 ?cy. It U the best grain for work horses, and U valu able to fatten hogs j but upon this suggestion I * host of prejudices pgainst me?expe rience however, has taught me not to give way. roir example, say you hnro a pen of hogs with watof running through it, to which you give evc ,no ?f corn | in this pen you will lose all the manure, as it will be carried offbv c very rain $ vou have another pen upon dry land, well littered with long rye straw j after every rain the hogs will cut it up short and nmko their beds neat ?. if you have notstraw, leaves will be an excellent substitute i let the number of hoirs bo equal in both pens > to those in the ||maM j*n feed only half a barrel of corn and two bush elf of chopt rye; have two hogsheads near your pen, into which put every day the two bushels of Xhopt rye and have them filled up with water and stirred, let it stand tweuty.four hour* be fore used, give (his to the hogs instead of water t by having two hogsheads, by the time one is u scd the other will be fit | keep up the hogs in both nons the name time, and when killed you will find those in tho dry pen will weigh ten pet cent, heavier, and if 1 had my choice of the pork I should pieferit * besides tlto manure will be vahtoble 11 it- ensiling year. Vou can safely win ter your hin rp upon your rye fields without the least injury to it?and with the greatest advan tage to your sheep?I generally let my sheep run on my rye fields until the last of March. 1 have a field which contains twenty acres, which ten years ago would not produce more than ten bushels of corn per acre. I ploughed it up and sowed it with rye and one bushel of plaister per acre ; in February I sowed it with clover seed and one. bushel of planter) at harvest I cut IG bushels of rye per acre i the spring following I sowed it again with one bushel of plaister, and unwed that soason two tons of hav to the acre, nne, made 53 bushel* of clover see'd from the se cond croj>; the spring following I sowed it again, with planter a* before, and cut that year two and an half tons of hay?i then ploughed up the second crop and sowed it with wheat, which produced JI bushels per acre. I then ploughed up the wheat stublde and sowed with rye, which produced me W and an half bushels per acrej the spring following I (rave it a dressing of ma nure* ploughed it up and planted it in corn, first rolling tho seed in plaister, and when it got up about six inches high, I sowed it broadcast witli plaister at therato of one bushel per acre, oil' of. which I gathered .12.} barrels of corn, (equal to. 30 bushels p^r acre)?the next spring I sowed it' >vitb sprint; barley, (oats would equally prosper) which yielded 38 bushels per acre, which I sola ; in Georgetown at I; dollar 3D cents per bushel ) ?'ter cutting the barley I ployghfed down the Stubble arid sowed it with wheat at titrate of one atajan half bushels per acre, and ope bushel of jdaistor. This crop yielded me .13 and An half Wwlw per acrej I then ploughed* itowq my stubbles and sowed down in rye, which I cut last ?UMttier and is now In tho straw, and from which I think I shall get at t?*st 30 bushels per acre \ I "owed it tsit February with clover seed srid in tend moving it the ensuing season. I Have tosde owing to tho scarcity and high, pried Of y for the last two years I may way Vhavo me, and I do not believe I fcunered for the (his itatementto prove that {ho iqfctysure ii&Je of improving IKd i*by ? rtpv .rwlaM w cropping. You wilVobibrve Idid not sow this field every year with pfaistcrj nor ls*lt aecessa* ry i lands once well plaiatcred do1 not' need it, as Its virt*e>'will not be lost In lets than seven, years) owl plalster, fo used none, and I do want of lt? Corn cropping ought to be avot as much as possible upon exhausted lands, u?)| they become soddy, then they may be ten with advantage, tioth to the soil and cultlvat Plough up the sod completely in April,hi It well the same way that It is ploughed, furrow it quite shallow, barely to make a r to plant your corn, be sure not to dist]| bottom of your sot1, when the corn getat six inches, harrow it well and plough qi low { your corn will uot look so n first, until the.roots penetrate the. then grow rapidly and will not m drought i as tno soojpeft down will moisture, all the wbHtgiven porn she fore harvest and in no case should com 1 lowed with winter grain ? if you can give your! corn greund a dressing of manure, 1 would sowj it with oats, then plough up the oats and sow wheat, plough down the stubblo, then sow rye, then clover seed, let thectover remain two years, which would bo making four crops in six yean. If yoju have not manure to dress your corn ground, fallow it tho next year for wheat, plough down the stubble, sow rye, then clover seed \ be sure never to plough your stuhble but once, leav ing all covered vou possibly can, harrow in ail your grain aa I nave before observed ; when you plough down clover for wheat be sure to do it a? neatly as possible, the seed turned undor will lie the first year without snrouting?thin ought to be done between the middle of August and Septem ber | after harvest plough down your* wheat stubble, sow rye, and the clover seed turned un der the year before by being brought to tho sur face, will cotne up so thick as to need little seed if any at all. In abort when the ground in well I set with clover you'll scarcely ever be compel led to sow more teed | my plan has been to raiso a crop of wheat and rtjjfe then let it lie one year in clover, ^hen wheat and . rye again t that is to make two crops every two years on< the same land, except when I put corn and manure, then to lie in clover more than one or two year*, best mode of saving manure when ft isi i and can only bo Applied to the corn hill, keep it in a close heap, to become well rottsn | i but if you can save enough t? give the ground a top-dressing, 1 would prefer hauling it out in the raw ?*?t<u andu* *? rr.** ? where. It is to act t in Mils way your land will re ceive tiro whole benefit j if it is le/t in the barn yard every rain will wash away tho best of th| substance. I have for some years given my fields * top* dressing in the poorest glares, whenever t&o grounds were sufficiently frozen to go on them without injury. ' Manure may be called the farmers gold mine, and ought to lie saved in every shape & manner. To increase the ouantity, your triable* should l>e kept woll littered with strawj to have stables for your stock is equally important to preserve them during the winter and to accumulate manure t with such protection food will keep them in good order* A farmer should always proportion his stock to Ms means for substituting them, and ne ver overstock himself-" as one horse well fed will do more work than two badly fed} one cow well fed will give more milk titan tv/o badly fed. and one good sheep more wool than two bail ones?In fine, nothing which a farmer keeps up* on his farm* from his horse to his dojr, should suffer for food?to make his farm profitable he should innko a littlo of every thing to sell ) he should not fix hit mind upon ono object of profit alone-?Corn or hay I would attempt to make for sale upon exhousted lauds $ nftcr they are res tored you may add the sale of corn and hay to a small extent. A fanner should be certain to have bin work done in a proper manner, his ploughing finished and grain sowed in due time and season. When a farmer gets his lands in proper cultivation he ought to make 1000 hiwh ets of grain to the hana, taking into calculation every kind he raises i in harvest and hay mak ing he will be compelled to hire, hands to save the crop,?During the last seven years I have worked five hand* the. year round, and my crop" i including every kind of grain) have averaged It* thousand bushel* i this may be doubted; the reader may judge as ho pleases, but 1 am bound to state tne truth?our landholders who have most in their power trust too much to other*} they should trust to their own judgment, and sec that their plans are properly executed. The best ploughs for land clear of stone are made by Che -1 noweth of Baltimore, if the land is stoney and rough I would recommend Ogte'n. On lands | that havonot been clovere,. I would now one gal lon of clover seed per acre, which ought to be be on rye in February?ono and half bushels of wheat, the last week* in Hcptcmbor or the first week in October?one bushel of rye the second or third week In September?two bushel* of bar lley or oat* as snort as the spring will admit. 1 havo been thu* full in giving my opinion t you can adopt a* you may Think advWeahlo \ should any flung I have sain provr of .id vantage 1 *hall feel myself well rewarded. To make ttufb.rihnt will keep meet far yors. j Take good cream and churn it thoronxhl>/% then 1 wash out all thft'butterfniik with brine that ha? been nitrified with scalding a nl tkimniing: put the butter Into clean oak or a*h tub*, and keep it covered with a tvrj/ fttohg^ hviw* v.hirh i? made by putting more ail? into uaiT ll> ?:? bail ing water will di9ielv*. In tin tiff' ol t into butter, there it always more or Ltinty (Jf with the salt, ami the salt leavtt.-th* butter porous, lets in the tfce cause #f its turning rancid. Milk not be takei^.wUh cream that U to stand lime, as it U one csuse of the butter tasting bitter. * When an/ milk settles at the bottom of ? vessel of cream, it may be well to stir it from the bottom every day, to let ill the air, which may prevehHts turning bitter.' Clream should beehurned jUlfllf Is turned Jo pure batter. It f importance tliat all the buttermilk is work c"t, it lias as much tendency to spoil butter, od has meat. Pine kegs are not suitable tter. (ri*Ireland they churn the wholo of milk together* In summer they do not let ,nd over the second day at most* The Irish jr made in summer, is equal to that made in l?n. " lb prtvtnt Corn being destroyed by Crows or othir Birds.?Mr. Dean's method was to steep some corn in a strong infusion of Indian Poke or Tobacco,and sprinkle it over t^e ground before he coop is up. Wltito threads stretched over a hid of corn, will prevent crows atlxhting'upon it But he doubts whether that will deter or prevent any dth'er birds) but this will, to take care on every hill when covered with a hoe, to step one foot just a man's weight, not to stamp on it, to make the ground too hard, for then it will not come up. Black birds, and other small birds are then unable to pull it up. They will try, and And they caunot pull the kernel up, but only break the stalk off a little, and then leave the Held without doing any injury. I have known the above practised for fifty years with good ef fect. But where that mode in planting is not a doptcd, I have seen a field of corn soon all des troyed black-birds, and the owner wondering how it hap|?ened. 1 should recommend to every person to be more careful about his planting In* dian Corn t and also, whoever takes the paper in which this is, to keep it safely as a treasure, and practise accordingly.?JV. II. Sentinr.l. POLITICAL. fkoriialmm and dkmocracy. We hope that we shall not be said to mingle In the asperities of either party, when wo specu late on the nrotable consequences resulting from both. In tfils paper, we are proud to say, thst so far as regards the points in contention be tween our fellow citizens, we have no political opinion whatever* Without further preface, we will venture a prediction, that tho two contend ing parties, under the names which now divide them, will never utiito. The terms federalism and democracy excite such bitter feelings*?the " Mm nra^&foLa.??*i fsrtMiMi in-. nut charges and recriminations, that they always become tlie watch-words of party rancour. Whichever portion of our fellow citi zens is right or wrong, it doe* not become us to determine t but it is abundantly sufficient for our t purpose, tlmt the liuett are drawn deep, delible. A fire-brand and an icicle \ seed time and hi irvosti summer and wiutcr, might he expcctMjfrharmonixe, as well as our two par ties, under the names which they bear} wo ven ture to say, thai tin* thing is morally im|>ossiblc. It ha* been, on varioi^.Md pressing occanions, attempted i but the'aMUel has always invaria bly pi ove<l the reverie brill our sanguine antici pations of harmotiy and confidence. This is a compendious picture of the state of tho Union at tlie present momentt divisions fatal, deep-root ed, irreconcileablet divisions, corrupt and poison the very fountains of social intercourse. Men who entertain tho sanio opinion on the greet points of national policy, are divided, insepara bly divided, when they assume their respective political names | men who would go heartily to gether for the solvation and prosperity of their country, who are governed by high and honora ble feelings, tarn from friends to persecuting e nemies, by the mere maple of a name. Hucn is the plain state of this nation ; it presents the no vel spectacle of two parties perfectly agreeing in the great outlines ofpolicy, and yet entertaining *uch deep-rooted animosity, that they cannot be brought to act With cordiality, on any political question whatever. If one declares 111 favor of a navy, the other does the same : is one in favor of commerce, the other is the same i does one party desire the strengthening our frontiers and sea-j>ort towns?does it wIhIi a rcnpectabln mili tary force, to be in estate of readiness for war, the other does the same. One would suppose, that if two parties agreed in these grand aud es sential points, it would be difficult to conceive what subject they would have to altercate about. And yet they do differ as decidedly, and with as much acrimony now, as they have ever done at any other poriod. The question now arises,; what uill bo tho consequence of this bitter acri monious spirit, of theso united and divided par-i tie* t united in actions, and divided in names ? We think that tho answer is plain, and is almost anticipated already, that theu partiet nw*t, tin ihr fnmc other name, b* amalgamated. We nave used the word party in the common acceptation of the term ? hut to speak with truth ami since rity, with the exception of the itame, thertt ft no parti/ t for both the. fraeraliutt and democrat* now make but one.: the namn it the only thing that prevent a themfimm uniting altogether. Tho old commercial hostility of the norlli against the ?mutlu U rapidly Huh?itlirig t for commerce is e? \ idently retreating to a southern horizon. Dur ing the operation of the embargo. tho great mer chants ot New-Kngland invested their capital in manufactures. Tlioy have gorio too far in such project* to recede, and they mu*t either stand or lull with the manufacturing interests. Com merce, being in a manner exiled from tho waters of Kew-Kiittiand, Im* already, though a foreign, er, become natrfft'ixed in the south. This will jj'.ve to that portion of the United States a iteady and predominating character for commerce, or in otW words, it will radically change the poli tic* of the south. Parties, indued, there always wilt be, and it is desirable that there always should be such ; but the parties in our country Will, we believe, hcwaCter Do known by differ ent namcn than thoy now arc. Wo cannot ex pect, perhaps for centuries to como, that Kuropo will witness tho burning of such a tremendous* political volcano, aa she has lately dune. It can not, therefore, be expected, that the whole civi lised world will participato so deeply in the t vent of future commotions on that continent.? Wo shall, on this iddn of tho Atlantic, rend with an eoay curiosity, the contest of the several com batanta for crowi. . and sceptres. Our political contest* will be, wo thiuk, exclusively .flnwrT can j there will be tlto opposition of tljo com mercial, agricultural, anu manufacturing inter ests ) these collisions it will be the duty of tho government to reconcile, and to reduce to con sistency and order. Such u state of things will make our feeling* more, exclusively American than they have hitherto been. Looking upon Europe as a matter of subordinate concern, wo shall nave no very violent foreign attachments or antipathies. Ah wo cannot rationally anticipate, that any other power will arise in that quarter to nut the existence of the whole civilized world in jeopardy, we may rationally anticipate the hap piest results. We will ask any can man. if this is not a time devoutly to be wished for r Is it not a time auspicious to the best inteiest* of our dear and beloved country, that the terms fede ralism and democracy snould sleep together in one common grave, when it is evident, that so far as regards the point in contention, the par ties, if they can be called such, differ in nothing else. Is the mere triumph of a name at an eleo* tion an object of sufficient magnitude to set one half of our fellow citizens in battle array aguinst the other half ? Thoso who can contend for tho reverse of all this, must say .that discord ought to be eternal, and that she must be allowed to quar rel abunt names, when she is evidently unable to quarrel about any thing else. We hope that wc arc now clcarly nml distinct ly understood, that there is not, in fact, at tho irescnt moment, but one party in the United States } that there is no general plan, no broad outline of natinnul policy, in which all do not heartily unite i that so far from there being any partiality on this point, the question is, whicu lortion of our fellow citizens snail go the furthest n the support of those projects in which wo all heartily agree. We hold further, that it is be neath tho dignity of a great, rising, and power ful people, to suffer nothing but our names to divide us?f* call a rose (says Shakespeare) by was there a time so favorable for a politics fun ion as the present) for as regards the grand andL majestic points of our national policy, there i% nothing now remaining for us to quarrel about. There will, undoubtedly, if such a union take* dace; if our dintinctive political names are a >andoned, be much to be palliated, much to b? overlooked, much to be forgiven, and much to be? totally forgotten, there will bi* sacrifices worthy of a patriot. Politicians, of aU men IWlnflp should learn to preserve a curb upon their pass!* oiis. The honest politician pursues his own plans with an enlightened zeal, forma lib politi cal friendships, and incurs often, not only poli tical, but even private resentments, not because they art desirable ; but because thty it* inevi table. .He doea thia to procweapmc great, sub ineiit benefit win country, and " r heflnds Atefuge-?lie hear & but and^rt'Mi las names ; it is su(R And more than sufficient for hiui, that hi* conntry ia happy. If polities urn adopted from any other motive i if men, whether in tlie. cabi net, orotttofit, are governed by diflerent prin ciples froih these; if they profess to feel thnt pa triotism which they do not, we can only sav, that they (ire so utterly beneath our contempt, that we feel for tliein no other emotions than those of pity for their degradation.?*AW. Beg. HARMONY, The following paragraph, from the Boston Pa triot, a leading democratic print, is copicd with pleasure, as ominous of a returning spirit of con ciliation between the two parties in that hitherto divided state s-J' The Legislature of Massachu setis, now in session, will have the apointment of two ftenators of the United States, in the pla ces of Oen. Varnum, whose term expires ia March next, and of Mr. Gore, who has recently resigned Ida seat. It is understood to be in con templation to make a generous effort to bury par ty feelings and party distinctions, by the ap pointment of ono Senator from each of the ; '?fi cal parties in the 8tate. A federalist, who -hall represent the commercial part of the community, and a republican, who shall represent the tnan ufacturing part, will give a fair representation of the two great conflicting intercuts of the Ktsile, as well as the two |>olitical parties which mi e f|unlly divide the Commonwealth. Ah the fede ralists daily acknowledge that at present then* exists 11^ ji round for rontiniiim; the bickering* of party, it is presumed such an oveituro will cordially meet the wishes of the minority. W?? congratulate the public on the return onee. more, of mutual forbearance and conciliation." "*?' l.inr.tlTV OK TUP. I'RRSS. 'In the British House of Commons, April 11, Mr. Brougham said?u seeing the Attornev Ooneral in his place, ho wisheal to inform hint that the trill; which it was his intention to movo for leave to brlnjc in, for lite, better Meiilriiiff th* Liberty of the Pre**, would be directed more Particularly to three perponcst to^llowj.; truth in all civd and criminal cases mi?| ' in evidence} though not received 1n fVRO, Clerk, to restrain the practice of ex*ofAcio ^ ^tn I and, to prohibit special juries ia tru