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CHERAW GAZETTE r " and PEE DEE FARMER. VOLUME IV. CIIEKAW, SOUTU-CAROLINA, SATURDAY EVENING. JUNE 32. 1839. NUMBER XXXII. EDITOR A X 1) P ll O P R I E T O R . ~~T E II M if: It pail within throe months, . - 3 00 11 paiJ within three mouths after the close of the year, . 3 50 If paid within twelve mouths after the oloso of the year 4 00 If not pail within that time, . .5 00 A company of ten persons taking the paper at the same Post O.liae, shall be entitled to it at $05 provided the names be for .varied together, and uceo npaaiol by the money. ; No paper to tie discontinued but at tho option oftho editor till arrearages are paid. Advertisements not exceeding sixteen lines, f inserted for one dollar tho first time, and fifty cents, each subsequent insertion Persons sending in advertisements are requestOu -o specify the number of times they are to bo itjsa1 ted ; otherwise they will be continued till ordered out, and charged accordingly. HP The Postage must be paid on all comma, n cations. To Builders. A GOOD JOB. ?-i r* > t i _ & a. ...; 11 U.M tno ixvsi .uouuay in .august rtii win be lot to the best bidder tno contract for building a new Jail at liennettsvillc, M-ir.borough District, South Carolina. The plan aadspecihcetions may bo seen by applying to the sub. scriberand also such other information as con. tractors may require. tfA IIIAN B.THOMAS. Juno 10th, 133 J. 31 5t lET The Fayetteville Observer, Columbia Tel. csco')3 anJ Charleston Courier will give the above four insertions an J forward thoir accounts, j Bonncttsville, S. C. Maps. A sat of maps of the latest dates, mounted on rollers, aud handsomely varnished are for eulo at the Bio.'cstorc." The following is a list, viz: Mitchell's map of the World on Mcrcator's projection with an accompanying 8vo vol; Mitcholl's U. States, with 8vo vol; of Index &c. Finlcy's Europe; Do. Asia, Do. Africa; Do. S. America ; making six in all and will be sold j i re? I ANTiiON'S SEiiiLS, ! OF SCHOOL CLASSICKS. j PROFESSOR Anthon of Columbia Col. j lege, New York, is editing a series of: classical works for the use of schools and | Colleges to consist of perhaps thirty volumes.? The ripe scholarship of the Editor is an abundant pledge to all interested, that tho test adopted wi 1 be t.. purest, that the English Commentaries will be judicious and learned, and that all other suitable aids to a right understanding of tin original, will bo liberally furnished. j Tuis plodge is fully redeemed in the volumes j already publ shed, which are, Latin Lessons, a , new Greek Grammar, Greek Prosody, Sallust, j Ctesur. Ciceio, and Horace, all of which may J be examined or purchased at the "Hwtetore." j April o, 1339. CI tf Notice. THE Creditors of John G. McKenzie, who intend availiag tho:nselvc3 of tho benefit j under his assignment, are nt-reby notified to present their demands duly authenticated to his assignees, on or before the first day of August next, otherwise thov will be excluded. J. C. WADSVVORTH. f * . J. W.IILAKENEV. Asvo':?-'s. | June 1 ib-1839. 30 if. j \; New Books Again. TO Y tho arrival of tho Steamer Oseola a I J0J> supply of new books has been recei eU a < the JfooFsfore," among which arc the following j viz: In Theology a::d Religious Literatuie: Ency- I clopedia of Religious Knowledge, Luther on I Gelations, Cradcu's Concordance, Cudworth'o i Intellectual system, Hcrvey's Theron and Aspasio, Baxter's "Call" and "Saints' Rest"? \ Jay's works, 3vols. 8vo. Jay's Closet Meditations, Robert Hall's works, 3vols. 8vo. Bibles of various sizes an 1 ssylos of binding, Methodist Hymns, ((Jill Tuck.) In Miscellaneous Literature: The Humbugs 1 of New York, B/ron's works, Shakespeare's | works, Weemu' M.rioa, Weeuis' Franklir, Let- ! ter Writer, Downing's Songster, Dream Books, Conversation Cards, Fowler and Kirkham'e j Phrenology, Flora's Diet ion a.7, Flora's Inter- j prcter, Miss Leslies Seventy five Receipts, The ; Cook's own Book, Pope's Homer, Sir W. Scott's ! works "vols. 8vo. In School Literature: Smart'3 Horace, S;nith'3 j Arithmetic, Do. Graammer, Comstoek's Phi- j losophy, Cramers Piano Instruction, Violin | Preceptor, Parley's Geograpliy, Cooper's Virgil, | Tacitus, Adam's Roman Antiquities, Smalt's j French Grainrner, Boyer's French Dictionary, Talcs in French, Bolmar's Colliqual Phra- | sos. HUMBUGS OF NEW VORK, being a , remonstrance against popular delusion ! whether in science philosophy or religion by j David Meredith Reese M. D. A few copies of I this pungent satire and j owerful remanstrance arc for sale at "the Bookstore." Roberts' Silk Manual i Pric: p:r single copy, 37 1-3 cts.?to dealears who take 100 copies or more, a deduction of 33 1-3 per cent, discount will be made ; to those who take a less number, 20 per ct. will be allowed. Address E. P. Roberts &S. Sands, Farmer & Gardner, office, Baltimore, MJ. : Jugs& Jars. 4 Large and general assortment Jugs and Jars, just received and for sale by JOHN MALLOY & Co. November 28th, 1833. 2 Molasses. hds New Orleans Molasses for salo JL & very cheap by the Hhd or Retail. D. MALLOY. Mrach 12th, 1839. Final iVotice. ALL persons indebted to Shadrach Mitchell deceased are again earnestly {requested o come forward and settle the demands agai nst them, those who do not avail themselves of this notice will find their notes and accounts in the hands of an officer for collection. All those having claims against said Mitchell must bring them unto me properly attested within the time prescribed by law or they will not receive a dividend ol his Estate. D. S. HARLEE. April !5tli 1839. 23 !f I Porter and Cider. LONDON POUTER, Newark Cider, Lime Juice, Lemon Syrup and Cordials, for sale DUNLAP ^ MARSHALL. April 26, 1839. 24 No'ice. THE Subscriber having taken on the 26th ult. the entire stock of goods of Messrs. John Evans &. Cj on his own individual account will continue to keep on hand, one door ! south of A. Blua, a large supply of Groceries, | Dry Goo s, H irdware and Cutlerry, ail of which 1 will be sold low for cash ?>r count! v produce. it. t. Powell, i May 3, 1339. 25 tl j Guns 1 Dozen Single and Double Barrel Gur.s, received and for sale by JOHN MALLOY Jt Co. November 28th. 183S. 2 if Law Notice. Alexandergraiiam and j. w. Biake. , ney, have entered into copartneishi > to 1 practice Law under the name of Graiiam Sc I Clukoney. Ofn e on Maiket Street. A. GRAIIAM. J. W. BLAKENEY. J Cheraw Feb. 13.1839. 13 tf |( Notice. 11 TIIIE undersigned having bought tho entire j < , stock of goods from Messrs. J. & W. Leak, ! ? ' would tako this method of informing their friends I j and acquaintances that they have taken the house i | occupied by the Messrs Leaks, where they are { offering a well selected assortment of Dry Goods, | Hardware, and Groceries, a 1 of which they are | disposed to sell low for cash or on a short timo to | punctual customers. . H. M. & W. H. TOMLINSON. Cheraw March 1S3'J. if New Goods. i I DMALLOY has just received a largo sup ply of Groceries, Hardware, and Diy I | Goods which will bo sold very cheap. ' Dun tap fy Marshall. , HAVE received a part of their now Fall a nc' j Winter goods, and expect theremaindci their fancy goods on Monday. They have on . hand a good stock of Salt, Sugar, Coffee &c. Slv Oc ober 21th, 1838. 49? 1 \ r: : ? < Durham Boots. c A few dozen just received and for sale very s cheap, neatness and durabi ny consid- ( ered. This article has been sufficiently tried , in this market and proved to be among the best . ever offeied lor sale. D. JOHNSON. Cheraw, May 24, 1839. 29?3t j Notice. PARTICULAR attention will bo given to 1 all kinds of Repairing, Fainting and Trim- j ming in the Carriage line; tho best of well sea- , 6oned timbers, and all other materials necessary t to do good work kept. All those that favor mo with their custom may expoct their work done ( neatly and with despatch, aud in any fashion and style to suit them, and on the most rcasona. j b e terms for payment on delivery of tho work. : j N. B ?Good workmen and good work shall be done, and all pains taken to accommodate my customers. Barour.hcs, Buggies, Wagons, Gigs, J and Sulkeys of any fashion will bo made to order i and warranted good materials and workmanship. . I will bo found ati'l on Market street opposite to ' Mr. Gr ham's Law Office. I. WINN. 1 Cheraw, S. C. May 17th, 1639. 27?3in ' Administrators Notice. * THE Crc litors of Hiram Try on deceased ara : f requcstod to call and receive on their debts ' j 25 per cent. The next and last dividend, will, j < it is hoped, be made in a few months. Some of j " tho debts are not yet collected and a little j f property is unsold. i4 ALEX. GRAHAM. Admr. i I Cheraw, Feb. 12,1839. ! t 13 tf ji t ^ I A 1 I , ly'neraw ^ciiuuiiiy. r THE trustees take great pleasure iu announc- s ing that both departments of this ins itution ? are in operation. The Malo department undor the superintendence of Mr. E. Hall; the Female, under that of Mr. J. Setvers. The course of * instruction in the Male department will be that s required to enter the South Carolina Collogo. t The course in the Femalo department will be to { make thorough scholars. The scholastic year began 1st October, and , ends 1st July. The year is again devided into two 1 sosions. Tho first begins 1st October and ends t 15th February. The second begins 16 February j and ends 1st July. Terms of Tuition per session are, For spelling, reading and writing ?12 ( The abovo with arithmetic, English J Grammar and Geography 16 j | The above with the classes, higher j branches of Mathematics, Logic, Rhetoric &c. 20 " | Five dollars each will bo added to tho above ' for painting and drawing, or tho modern lan- < guages. J All payments aro in advance. The pupi! will ? be required to pay for what remains of the session at tho time he or sheenters ; nor will deduction 1 or drawback be made for less of time. J JAS. VV. BLAKENEY, j Sec'y. and T reas. < Jn.fi.qn. tf , 1 li From the New England Farmer. j ^ PREMIUM FARM REPORTS. |t We publish below the report of William i I Buckminister, Esq. of Framingbam. Mr. ' Buckminister received a premium of fifty J dollars from the Massachusetts Society.? i He was honored likewise, with a premium t on his farm this year, of fifteen dollars, I | from the Middlesex Agricultural Society.? i He received likewise, a premium of fifty I dollars the last year from the Massachusetts Society. This is carrying a large swarth. < ' - m / i * n i _ A ' ionic iTusiees of the Massacnuscus sign- j cultural Society. < Gentlemen :?i have made as correct l a statement as possible, of the proceeds of < my furm this season, ond of my method of! i cu'tiration * ; j mrv aaMBBaaa ? i 1. My answer to your first inquiry is? my farm consis s of one hundred and fitty ucrcs, exclusive of wood land. 2. It has a variety of soil. Its general character is a light loam rather inclining to sand than clay,?some gravel in different parts; some of the low meadows have a peat bottom ; no clay. 3. J have always found that by mixing soils of diff rent qualttes, I made a more permanent improvement than by putting on manure of any kind. I put light sandy loam on to wet and heavy loam ; peat is useful to both. The greatest objection is the expense of carting. When the mixture can be effected by the plough, as it often can, the sub^soi. olten differing in quality from the surface soil, it is done at a very cheap rate. 4. Mine is a stock farm, and I till but little. I have in tillage this year, seven acres, including nursery. On a Jot intended for corn or potatoes, I put about 20 loads or 5 , cords of manure to the acre generally. i 5. I use both long and compost manure, i 0. 1 never put manure in the hills. It is one of the worst modes of practice. It i jeopardizes the crop the present year, and I operates unequally on the succeeding. !t | is an invitation to worms, and lessens the I labor of die crows. It gives you more I stalks than corn?more vines than potatoes i ?and more labor is required in spreading i if. I plough in the coarse manure and harrow in the fine. t 7. I plough the green sward just before i planting?first having spread on long ma- < nuro ; never sutler the manure to dry after t spreading. Put a handful of ashes on the \ hill of corn; a spoonful of plaster on pota- i toes. t 8. I mow. this j'ear, about 45 acres of t tiplund including na interval that can bo ; j ploughed; and we judge that we have cut t 10 tons of m< rcamablo hay on the same. t 9. I irrigate none but low meadows? < think the practice of watering high lar.d in- t ures the quality of-the hay. e 10. By making dams across tho brook, t [ flow most of my meadows occasionally, i ind improve the grass both in quantity and quality. No matter how wet these mead- $ jws are kept, if the water is not suftf red :o < itagnatc aud heat. These low meadows i ire spoiled for meadows by ditching. If I ,ve drain them we must introduce the Eng. ( ish grasses. I 11. I mow 25 acres of coarse meadow | :rass, very suitable for young stock, worth | ia!f the price of English. 12. I have reclaimed much low peat j and, within a dozen years, and continue the i jractice. I began by paring and burning < he surface. This mode has some advan. t ages. In a dry summer, an acre may be ; prepared for seed at an expense of $23.? j The ashes furnish an abundance of manure * or two or three years, and I have thus ob~ I aincd one and a half tons of hay to the acre s without other manure. But as many seasons * irove wet, and stop our whole progress for | he year, I have abandoned this mode, and i iref< r o cart on loam or sand, or ernvel. i n preference. When banks of this kind ire near the margin of the meadow, a man j vith one yoke of oxen will cover over one ? icro in six days?812. Ten loads of com. < >os! must then bo hauled on?$10. This < s the lowest estimate. A lew years ago, ? i sold about tour acres of such land at $200 t >er acre. Before it underwent this pro- j . ess, the same land never yielded a dollar j xt acre. I have reclaimed one acre oflow ( and, which is not a peat bottom, at very lit. | lo When I Durchased it. twelve years i igo, it had never borne any crop, it was 11 oo wet to grow bushes. I drained if, and j t wve gathered ten good crops from it in 11 tuccession without any manure. Two of 1 hese were corn?one, potatoes ; the other \ rrops were grass, and we have often cut J wo of these in a season. Last summer 1 < told the standing grass on this acre, for two t ons, without weighing,?the purchaser paid, i vithin a fraction, twenty dollars for it. Since ( hat, in August, we cut one load for a horse, ( >f rowen, on the same, and now the cattle < ire tak'ng from it a ?hird crop. The soil 1 s a black light mould three to four feet deep j ?so light puffy that we were obliged to i jarry on 20 loads of loam from the road, i iide, before the seed would vegetate, j iinco that, we have applied three or four oads of leeched ashes to the surface. This ( tcrc has been kept thus productive, by | [ nercly ploughing in the rowen, or second > :rop once in three or four years, and sow- I ng grass-seed on the furrow in September, j Fnus I kill the sour grasses without going s hrough the unprofitable process of planting r md sowing wet lands. i In reclaiming meadows that are tolerably ?veaonthe surface, I first drain them? j hen cart on loam, &c., enough to cover up ( ho grasses completely, not having mowed \ fie grass?this long grass helps to fill up t lie cavities, and much less loam is required t :o cover it. We lose the grass, but it is , soon turned to manure, and we are not so , iikely to hear from it again as if we had cut | it close. It is my rule'to convert one or two < acres annually into English. By tho time ( the coarse grass makes its second appear., 1 ince, the sward below becomes so rotten < that a common plough will turn it up. < 13. I planted but one acre of this season; ' expect from it 60 bushels; spread on u.e | < manure and ploughed it in?put ashes in i! [he hills. I now plant my rows one-fifth of! i of a rod opart, and ihe hills two feet dia[ant in the rows. I can thus obtain more 1 coin, as I have a machine for planting it. < the labor of planting seven thousand hills * in in acre rather than four thousand, is not < increase d. Without it, I wa3 twenty hours frc n doing the sum" labor. 1J 14. I plant less than an acre of potatoes ur [his season?consider thera an exhausting by :rop on light loams, and can always obtain 3i better grass after corn than after tliem. I ur jprcad on th? manure and plough it in?hill th then a little at the first hoeing, but not aL fo :erwards?use the cultivator for these and T for corn?do not hill up tho corn except lie with tho mould thrown up by the cultivator, lo This instrument performs nearly tho whole ur labor of tilling corn, when that is planted or perfectly straight, as tho machine does it. is Our potatoes are unusually small. Mine h; will not yield 65 bushels to the acre, and 1 bj sco many fields that were manured in the th hill yielding much less. I plant the long ar red and the Chenango?some bluo noses, te 15. I have now growing one acre and a te I?ir ...in hflrrn on^ hnlf ?r? ?frn r?t F'.ntrlish Iw UUil iUiU- WU^U| tiuv* ! ?*?? ? ?? MVIV turnips, planted to give to cattle?expect to gather 800 bushels from an acrecan tli raise four bushels of these at less expense than one of potatoes. I planted one acre si with eighteen thousand hills in fifty-five m minutes, with a new machine drawn by one th horse. It marked out and planted, most as perfectly, two rows at a time. I bad no help but a boy to riJe the horse. Here was m forty eight hours work performed in one, VV ind only one pound and a quarter of seed ascd. fr< 16. I liavo raised this season 200 bush, th J!s winter rye, sown last fall on newly $1 :leared land;?seed was harrowed in? round not ploughed?one bushel of seed ra ;o the acre. This was raised from Jess at ihan ten acres. Have raised one acre and i half of good spring wheal?not yet thresh -/ fu id?estimate 30 bushels. Last year the j gr :rop was Indian com. In the spring the Y tound was first burrowed thoroughly and m he cultivator was run over the corn-stubbs c!i hen the ground was nicely ploughed, once mly, for I did not wish, after burying up all th he rubbish, to uncover it again. We cov. m Tod the wheat with an iron-tooth-harrow? th hen sowed the grass-seed and covered with w< i bush. it I have a newlv invented machine that be sows grain and all kinds of grass-seed very up iven. It is a box placed on ? pair of small m wheels, and the harrow is hitched to the at lind side of it, so that the team sows the ra Train or the grass-seed very nicely, and sti tarrows it in at one operation. This may ti( bo seen at David Prouty, & Co.'s store, fn Boston. 13 Wo sowed one and a half bushels to the if *cre of the tea wheat?first having washed v? :horoughly and liincd it wi:I? two or three parts to the bushel?slacked lime after lit he wheat was up, fifteen bushels of wood ei ishes were spread on an acre. These or $ave th j wheat a fine s'art, and kept the or surface moist through the summer, and or iept all the grass alive, that was sown in wi spring through the drought of August. The th soil is a gravelly loam. A bushel ofslacked so ime was sown on one part of the field, but th ive could not perceive that the kernel was le better here than elsewhere. at 17. In addition to this seeding with lii Trass, I have sowed grass seed, viz : closer, honey-suckle, h? rds grass and red top, tit my ten acres of rye, for pasturage. The tw :lover and Dutch honey-suckle were not se town till last spring?some of it on the ha snow?it promises well. In September last lit [ ploughed about an acre of low interval, hut had never been ploughed, and rolled it m Jown close, then sowed grass^seed. It lay ;oo low to bo planted, and therefore it was pc lever ploughed, and it has never yielded the tr< falue of one.fourth of a ton of good hay to tr< hu acre. I put on eight loads of manure, Tii\edwithas many more of sandy loam, ca [f this does as well as the adjoining acre, th< vhich was seeded in the same way last year, tu [ shall mow two tons from it. I have also ab - . ;oedeU down aoout an aero 01 common neadow land, first draining it and then cart an og on loam on to the standing grass, and sti completely covering it up~ten loads of compost w is then applied and the seed f] >own. Between thirteen and fourteen acres H lave been thus seeded this season. % H ilauting but little of corn or potatoes, I lave manuie for my grass lands, so that by nereiy turning them over in September, md covering up a green crop, I am enibled to keep all the mowing land in good irder, turning it over as fast as it becomes lound out; and every time I thus turn it, vhether I apply manure or not, I make the and richer, because I take no grain from t, but help it to a green dressing under the f ;od. I raise giain in sufficient quantity for " i ry lamuy anu nogs, oui cuuau, auu.a ?u aise grain for the market. 17. To incieese tho manure and pre. 3C lerve it, I put the best soil 1 can procure 7C rom the roadsid# into the hog. pen and into Si he cow-yards, and under the sheds and he barns where the cattle lie. Soil is hrown into a hog.stye twice a week?also jnder the privy, wich is set high; by this 14 means, all disagreeable effluvia (rom these places is neutralized, and a large quantity 3( jf manure saved from evaporation. Still, Ci my cheapest mode of making manure is, o turn sod with a plough when it has a coat Pi jf grass on it?if it has none, give it a coat af buckwheat, which will grow on F rery poor land. I sometimes tuin in two :rops of buckwheat in a season. When his is well done, it is equal to 20 loads of stable dunir to the acre. j D 17. I keep one yoke of oxen, two horses, our cows, and young cattle enough to :onsume my coarse hay. I have wintered 10 head, and sold four hundred dollars worth hay tho son*) I usually keep I .-J ' MM?MM?? >m 53 to 40 head, througk the year, ma lave threo barns, anJ each has u cellar net ider the whole area. One is 70 feet r 40?one is 40 by 30, and the other is t feet square. The young cattle go loose ider the&e barns and the sheds attached to cas em, all winter, and are much more com- low rtablo than when tied up by the head.? the hey can always choose a dry place to eve ! in, and they eat coarse hay better when net ose. They are watered in the yards and e never suffered to roam in winter. Not 1 le pint of the liquid manure is lost, for it n abuorbrd in the loam and in the refuse hm ?y. My cows also lio loose under a barn of 1 f themselves. They lio much cleanet cat rough the winter than in stalls; their bags wh a c'.ti-An. and the milk is as sweet in win. sto r as in summer. One-half the labor of or nding is thus saved,and the cattle winter en jiter. 20. I purchase most of my cattle from . ie Vermont droves?a mixed breed. . 21. When I raise calves, I suffer then to '? ^ ick the first part of the milk ft-r three J onths, and miik the Ia>t pai l tor bj:tcr ; " 1 ey are then no: so likely to be poi-btilied cr i when taken immediately from Uw cow. 22. Mine is not a dairy farm. Most of jea y pasturago is too distant to drive cows. | fe make our own butter. The profits of my farm arise principally ~ am the sale of cuttle and hay. We reckon ?a e value of the milk from four cows, at 35?each $140. ^ 23. I wintered 4 breeding sows, and ised from them 28 pigs?sold most of them eight, weeks old. mi 24. 1 keep them in summer on tho re- be sc of the dairy?give them viry little bei ain??had the breed oiiginully from New jg, brk?car.not afford to raise or to buy c0 uch frain for pork; ruta.baga roots are be leaper than potatoes to feed them with. Cyj 25. The b?'st article to be thrown into e'hog-pen to increase and to preserve the fifo, anure, is loam. We should not throw 0qem peat muck ; they will not fatten so li0l ?!!, and tney become very filthy in rooting over. Straw and refuse hay is better to gg, (put under cattle than hogs. Hogs mix mc > manure very indus'riously, and turn it jbe any times. They prepare it for immedi- mo e effect in the field ; but it is much over- it v ted : it looks richer than it is: it has been irred so much, it is ripe for immediate ac- trie m , but it lasts not so long as manure me am neat cattle or from horses; its strength j0f gone the first season.?Horse manure, wa kept from heating too much, is more ap iluable. tio, or: M|? mn.tn r\C f'*.no'r*rt MAIiiPPC V0TV mjr muuc ui iutiiiiug *v/?ji4ii?-? ?vi^ tie labor: one man can perform the whole, ;rept the haying. I hired this summer, fi ic man for 7 months, at 816 per month ; le-sixth of this time he had lost taking je day each week to himself. For thrte eeks in hay time 1 hired on the average, ree additional hands,?nine weeks. My in in, a lad of eighteen, has assisted two tj0, irds of his time ; and I have done but lit. ?on the farm myself, except in hay time, >out one month, when 1 labored half the 10 me. In hay time I gave one dollar a day on tw e average. One steady man and a boy Hi i-clvo years old, would do my work lor the of ven months after April first, except the he lying. In winter I hire none, and have Di tie to do but to tend my stock. ty 27. I have five hundred apple trees, and wo ost of them are grafted. the 28. I have forty pear trees, thirty, five chi tach trees, twenty bearing English cherry for jes, three black mulberry trees, three plum bei 3os, five quince trees, and two Siberians, ty* 29. Borers have not troubled us much : ^ nker worms are not pl -nty tins year. To j() em, I dig about the trees, or plough, or Wa rn in hogs late in the full, and sow corn a t out the roots. scr 30. We use no ardent spirits. Cider par id water sweetened with molasses, is our iuc rongest drink. Mi Principal amount of produce this year: tha ay for sale, 25 tons 8400 giv avc so d 10 beefcattle for 367 sec ave still to turn this fall, 8 ces more, valued at 8240: but isti I deduct therefrom tho int original cost of the cattle, 3:13 $116; this leaves to be full added 134 the And I keep the stock ces good in number. the Sixty bushels corn $60 ; on< 200 '0. rye $2*0, 310 coi hree acres buckwheat, 43 of: bushels, at $1, . 43 1000 busluls ruifci-baga ths for stock, not counted. wr I bushels of whea' at 10* 6d. 53 tht I bush* is potatoes, 26 mi dd hogs and pigs to the vo amount of $31 1-2 81 lec Two on band to keep stock mi good. tio l5bbls.goodm Tchantable apples at 7s, 169 sel ) bbls. cider at 7s. 6d. 37 wli ish for cattlo taken in to at pasture 26 for roduce of 4 cows at $35 hci each 140 k>v rom trees sold from the sh< nursery 48 \vc f?YJ 81,835 to i educt half value of pota~ p? toes that will be given to foi stock or hogs 14 he; da 81,821 wt] Tbrr : ? a? accurate a ctatemert as I can nil Jte. I cannot say it is perfect,?it is arty so. \VM. BUCKMINISTER. riie best thing for stopping a leak in a ;k is whiting beaten up with common yel. t soap; if this mixing well rubbed tnn? leak, it will be found to s'op it after ry thing else has failed.?Farmers' Cabi? Sure Method of Fuiting out the Fire of Chimney.?The simplest method is to /n always in the house a certain quantity four of sulphur ; and in case of fire ching in the flue, take a handful of it, ich throw on the tire iu the beurth, then p the fire-place with cither a wet shetj blanket ; in a few sec nds tho fire will bo tirely out.?FraiHihu Farmer. To make co >ying ink, odd to common ; u sufficient quantity of sugar to mak* glutinous when dry ; then put a pieee of mp, thin, unsized paper on it, and press A-iilft a warm stncoihing ircr, which will * py tue writing. If a person is bjnt on quarreling with you. ive him to do the whole of it himself, and wiii soon become weary of his unencoured occupation. Even the most malicious Ti will,soon cease to butt against a ditie*. rding object, and will usually find bis rn head more injured thou the object of t blind animesity. ^ ^ 'Jp-: Coffee of Cold Water.?A v ry simply -' ichine, bo which pneumatic pressure may applied to the fittration of all liquids, has en constructed in London. A t?u cyliar, divided by a strainer into two parts, ntuins in the upper division the liquor to filtered. To Che lower division of the tinder a small air-pump is attached, by iici) the air is exhausted, and the liquor 7 Lire J quickly through and may be drawu as required. On exhibiting the inveiv n.) says a London paper,) to some acien* c gentlemen, one of them immediately ob* ved that it was admirably adapted for iking coffee upon which the inventor took r hint, and constructed a very simple coffee chine. He first tried to make coffee with vith boiling water, and it produced very jd coffee as clear as brandy. He theo jd it with cold water, and to his astonish ? mt, found that the coffee so produced was initel) superior to that made with boiling ter. the flavor being much finer- Tho parattus was tied at the Royal loatitu* n, and gave universal satisfaction.? [Portland Advertiser, ie Changes in the Bsitish IJinistkv, Longexphnut ions of these changes, wero tde in Parliament by the individuals im, diately concerned, and of course reported the Newspapers. From these explanadm we make the following extracts. Sir Robert Peel, after a prolix imroduc. n, proceeded as follows I waited on her Majesty, by desire, at o o'clock on Wednesday, the 8th of May. Br Majesty had previously seen the Duke Wellington, and had invited him to assist r in the formation of a government.. The ike of Wellington hud informed her M*je*. that the chief difficulty of a government old he in the House of Commons, and, r fore partly on other considerations, but k fly on that, advised her Majesty to seod one wiio would have the advantage of ng heard in the Commons as her Maj<-s? s minister, and at the same time be sug* sted my oame; ! waited on her Majesty consequence, und wus asked whether I s willing to assist her Majesty in forming lew administration. Her Majesty ob. ved to me, at the same time, that she bad ted with her late advisers with great re r? oriil roif viit /Honr kpHF fpnftt Y f 1A lUUWU uil'-l yiavuif i ?V?U 11 a? W??? W njsterial benches.) Her Majesty added, t her late ministers had in all respects, > n tier entire satisfaction, but that in c< n [uence of their resignation, it became ?;e wary to takeseps to form a new adminration. It is unnecessaiy for mo :o go 0 a detail of ail that was said, but I must r that no one could have expressed more ly, more naturally, or more becomingly, 1 nigh sense she entertained of the servi. ; of her late ministers, and her regret at fir loss, nor, at the same time, could any a have expressed principles mow strictly [istitutionaJ with respect to the formation a new government, (Hear.) I did not hesiiate to state to her Majesty it I was not insensible to the difficulties th which 1 contend in fbe performance of * task she had been pleased to confide, to ?, but that, having been a party to the te of the House of Commons which had I to the necessity of forming a new ad? nistration, I felt it a paramount obliga, n on m? to render Iter Majesty every as. tance in tny power, as much us if I my. - - ? a t. _ f had been the cause ot tne aitncumes 10. iich site had been placed. I, therefore, her Majesty's command, undertook to in an administration, and 1 proposed to r Majesty that i should return on the fbl* viug dav, hoping,-bat, in the interim.'I >uld be able to arrange such a list nsuld secure the administration of the chief cutive offices of the state, and to show her Majesty and to the country that I was spared promptly and energetically to parm the duty 1 had undertaken. (H^or* ar.) I conferred, in the course of the y, (oil Wednesday,) with those witf> iom 1 had tho more immediate ppporte* !y c.fgn doing, nni I requested thoy s