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the pen, viz: 1 pock of salt, 1 pock of would advise forty feet for apple, and
lime, 2 lbs. of saltpetre, and 2 or 3 bush- place peach trees in the centre. Pears
els of ashes, in 60 gallans of water, and cherries may be planted twenty or
About ten days after putting on the thirty feet apart, To secure the life
above liquid, pour 60 gallons more of and health of the peach trees, shorten
w ater, and if you have a good supply
of ashes, add 2 or 3 bushels to the wa
ter. When it is found not to be wet
enough, more water must be added—
any kind of vegetable matter will an
swer, some sorts taking longer to de-
| compose than others.
And here I will add as a general re
them every spring, by cutting oft' at
least one half of the privious year’s
growth; while the trees are young it
makes them form good heads, and pre
vents their overgrowth, and premature
decay. If this is rigidly done, it will
doubtless prevent the yellow's, w Inch is
the disease, and not the worm that kills
the worm is present, they should be
taken out and ashes applied liberally.
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AGHICDIiTURS. ^
From the Laurensrilk Herald.
MANURING LANDS, NO. 1.
Mr. Editor:—In my last I intima
ted I might give you some other forms
of making compost manure. It is well
to have at hand a variety of resources,
so as to be able to choose the best. I
proceed now to execute my promise:
In the winter, especially, is the time for
the cotton planter to make compost,
and I hope, as I ride about, to see
them piling up on every farm. Every
one that rises, in consequence of the
suggestions thrown out in these num
ber*, I will consider as monuments !
(pyraminde) in approbotion of the wri
ter. If they are not so durable as the
Egyptian monuments, they will at least j
lie more useful to mankind. When a
farmer wishes to improve a distant
field, the trouble of hauling is a aerious
obstacle. In that case much hauling
may be avoided by adopting the fol- |
lowing plan:
Hahe three cornered rail pens, at sui
table distances, and fill them up with a
layer, first of mould gathered from the
woods and on Uie bi audios near tbe
fields, six inches deep, and then a layer
of stable manure two incites deep, and
so on alternately, until the pen is full.
A little ashes, or lime if it can bi had,
would add to its value. If rain enough
to wet the heap does not fall, it ought
to lie watered. This is pretty near
Lord Meadowbank’s celebrated coin-
posu I have tried it and found it a
good manure.
The following is from an able writer
in the Southern Cultivator, who signs
his name "Jethro,” (voL 8, page 3,'>.)
Dr. Philips considers him one of the
ablest writers of the day. It is for
making compost with cotton seed. The
whole article is well worth reading:
“ Compost as follows: a layer of soil
from the woods or lots, six inches upon
the ground, then a layor of cotton seed,
six inches, and so on alternately; dust
or cover the layer of mould with half an
inch or less of unleached ashes, then
the seed, and so on alternately. Lea
ched ashes will answer, but a greater
quantity is required. TTie ash neutra
lises the acidity of the mud or vegeta
ble matter. the compost heap is
niad«t cover over with earth, and let it
remain until planting time; then slice
the heap from ton to bottom, mixing
aH together. (AH compoRlheaps should
be cut down in the same way.) He
then directs it to be hauled immediate
ly and dropped in the hill or scattered
in the drill, and covered as soon ns pos- i mould ts tilled closely among t
slide to prevent the escape of its vola- and weU loitered; there will be little
need of tfiMWing down with the foot.
Make Your Own Candles.—Take
twelve ounces of alum for every ten
pounds of tallow, dissolve it in water
before the tallow is put in, and then
; melt the tallow in alum water; with
| frequent stirring and it will clarify and
! harden the tallow so as to .make a most
beautiful article for either summer or
w inter use, almost as good as sperm.
If the wick be dipped in spirit of tur
pentine, the candle will reflect a much
more brilliant light.
LITERARY GOSSIP.
Mr. S. G. Goodrich has been
mated Consul at Paris in place
Walsh, who has resigned. Mr.
nom-
of Mr.
G. is
mark, the more mixed our manures the i so many of our peach trees. Where
better—this is the general belief among
the farmers in England. To say noth
ing of chemical aftinities, it is found
they do not “ fire ” so much in dry wea
ther—I have not found these mixed
manures to fire my cotton in dry wea
ther more than w here 1 have no manu
res—besides furnishing a greater varie-
j ty of food to plants, they are supposed
i to correct one another.
The reader will have noticed perhajis
that there is one kind of manure not
noticed above, hog manure. This has
been omitted, not because I regard it
of no importance, but because, as yet, 1
do not know any good plan, suited to
our habits, for preserving it Every one
must see that witli good management a
large amount might be made from this
source. But having tried uo plan that
pleases me, I offer none—hut Mr. Edi
tor, I w ill do this—I w ill be one of a
club of 5 or 10 who will give silver cup
worth $10 for the best essay on mak
ing hog compost, to be published in
your columns—a committee of three
In-ing appointed by the club to award
the premium if they think the essay
merits it, and to withhold it if it does
not merit it—the plan should have a
due regard to the health and thrift of
the hog. Such a one, giving us all his
manure without hurting his health,
would be worth a dozen silver cups.
And now Mr. Editor to conclude—
if is said of Lord Clive, Governor of
British India, when on trial before Par
liament for extortion, in making his de-
i fence, after showing *1*®* ***•». •■-hole of
me treasury of India lay at his feet and
at his disposal, that he exclaimed,
“good God, Mr. Chairman, a* ilue mo
ment I stand amazed at my own mode
ration !” Does not the farmer of Lau
rens district, when he surveys his im-
meuse resources for improveing his
lands, like Lord Clive, stand amazed at
his own moderation in using them!
Franklin.
now. By the way, that same John
Moore, and the anecdotes you told of
him, gave me the idea of a bagabond
character, Direh Schuyler, in my
Knickerbocker history of New York
which I was then writing.
“You tell me the old school honse is
tom down and a new one built in its
piace. I am sorry for it. I should
have liked to see the old school house
once more, where, after my morning
literary task was over, I used to come
and wait for you occasionally until
school was dismissed, and you used to
promise to keep back the punishment
of some little tough broad bottomed ganization, to have cravings for alcohol-
Dutch boy until 1 should come for my
amusement—hut never kept you pro-
: mise. I don’t think I should look with
a friendly eye on the new school house
| however nice it might be.
“Since I saw you in New-York I
have had severe attacks of bilious in
termittent fever, which shook me ter
rible ; but they cleared out my system
i and I have ever since been in my usual
excellent health, able to inouut niy
horse and gallop about the country al
most as briskly as when I was a yonng-
! ster. Wishing you the enjoyment of
! the same inestimable blessing, and beg-
> ging you to remember ma to your
daughter who penned your letter, and
to your son whom out of old kindness
Pat, soon found which were the ones
Pat wanted out
‘'Phis Is the first one,’ says Pat, ‘ an
that is the second one, Plaze pull the
second one out first’
‘Very well,' replied the doctor, ’any
way to get them out’ And he pulled.
Before he had time to fix the instru
ment for the other tooth,—the first one
—Pat had got out of the chair, and was
edging towards the door.
‘I guess, doctor, I won’t have the
first tooth pulled till it aches, an ye
for nothing.
Pat mizzled, and the doctor pocketed
the joke instead of the fee.
The Man who Fiddled Himself
into Congress.—Major Cochran, who
is now, or was quite recently, living in
Oswego, New York, and who was a
member of the house of Representatives
drou of drunken |mrciits is solely to be during the administration of the elder
attributed to the trample every day set Adams, used to say that he fiddled him-
before them. While we willingly yield *eU' hdo Congress. A short time pre-
that w icked examples have a dreadful ' ious to his election, a vessel was to he
tendency u|H*n the young, we cannot launched in Seneca Lake, at Geneva,
see why it is that the drunkard cannot and it being an unusual event, people
this constitutional ailment to came from afar to see it. The young
differing altogether from the patient’s
ordinary sleep, and recognized by him
as the cuhninntihg point of his disorder.
At present I have two patients who ap-
|>oar to inherit a tendency to unhealthy
action of the brain from mothers addict
ed to drinking; and another, an idiot
whose father was a drunkard.” Dr.
Howe, in his report to the legislature
of Massachusetts, on idiocy, says, the
parents of the 300 idiots in the hospital,
are “known to be habitual drunkards.”
.Such parents, it is affirmed, give a weak
and lax constitution to their children,
who are pre-disposed by their very or
y prone to
ic stimulus; and Dr. Carpenter says
such children are “especially
intemperate habits.”
And yet many are disposed to look
upon this doctrine as an absurdity, and
say that the intem|ierance of the chil-
well qualified by tastes and experience iln ^ companionship you have named al
ter me, “I remainin ever, my old
for the post.
A characteristic letter of Washington
Irving has got into the papers through
the Kinderhook Sentinel, written to
his friend Jesse Menvin of that town
the original “Ichabor Crane” of the
“Sleepy Hollow” legend. It might lie
printed as a pleasant gossiping note to
Mr. Putnam’s next edition of the Sketch
Book:—
Sunny Side, Feb. 12. 1851.—“You
must excuse me my good friend Mer-
win, for suffering your letter to remain
so long unanswered- You can have
no idea how many letters I have to an
swer, besides fagging w ith my pen at
my own literary tasks, so that it is im
for me to avoid be ins lief
hand In my corresjKinder
letter was indeed most w elcome—cal-
linjf up m it did the recollection of plea
sant scenesand pleasant days passed to
gether in times long since at Judge
N an Ness’s, in Kinderhook. Your
mention of the death of good old Do
minie Van Ness, recalls the apostolic
zeal with which he took our little sinful
community in hand when he put up for
a day or two at the Judge’s; and the
wholesome castigation he gave us all
Sunday beginning with the two
me,
1 friend*
dially
Washington Irving
Jesse Merwdn Esq.”
[Literary
“Yours very trnly and cor-
World
one
y _
country belles who came fluttering into : makes the following statement: “The j they whispered to the young rose and
TRANSPLANTING FRUIT TREES.
It matters little ns to the time, (after
the first frosts in the fall, and before* the
Iwds open in the spring,) if the work is
well done. Having obtained the trees,
keep their roots moist until proper holes ing with the Judge himself,
can be prepared; dig them not less than stronghold of his ow n mansion,
eighteen inches deep and four feet
square, place the soil and subsoil sepa
rate, using only the top soil, to which,
if not good, add well rotted manure or
leaf mould sufficient to make it of good
tilth. Fill the hole until the tree will
stand no deeper than formerly; after
this, place the roots in their natural po
sition, and pack the fine mould close
From the Spirit of the Age.
TEMPERANCE UEDERITARY.
Of the may astounding truths concer
ning the effects of alcohol upon the
human system, which have been brought
to light by medical skill and observa
tion, there is not one, ;>erhaps which
has been received with so little credu
lity as the doctrine that drunkenness
is hereditary—that it is imparted from
bind- i parents to children. By most persons,
I our ; the idea is regardotl as ‘the offspring of
over-enthusiastic minds, rather than a
W'ell attested truth, corroborated by
the evidence of the most celebrated
physicians, both of the old and new
w orld. Nyr is the doctrine a novel one,
but comes to us sanctioned by the ex
perience of antiquity. Thus Plutarch
says—“ One drunkard begets another”
—and Aristotle remarks that “ drunk
en women bring forth children like un
to themselves.” And Dr. Browne, a
distinguished physician of a later day,
impart
Ids offspring ns well as any other. Chil
dren partake of the tempers, disposi
tions and ways of their parents in oth
er particulars, and why not in this? The
best of medical writers of the present
day, term intemperance a disease !—
and cannot a disease lie communicated?
The “disease,” says Dr. Carpenter,
“does not consist in the mere act or
habit of beafcniing intoxicated, hut in
irresistible impulse which drives the
unhappy being to do that which he
knows to Ik* pernicious and wrong
and
ysms,
gust
folks gathered there determined to haw
a dance at night A fiddle was pro
cured, hut a fiddler w as wanting. Ma
jor Cochran, then quite a young man
was an amateur jierformer, and hisser.
vices w'ere demanded on the occasion-
He gratified the joyous company, and
at the supper-table one of the gentle
men i.‘marked, in commendation of his
talents, that he was “fit for Congress.”
The hint was favorably received by
the company, the matter was “ talked
up,” and he was nominated and elec-
which in the intervals of his parox- ted to Congress for the distret then com-
s, he views with loathing and dis- ' prising the whole State of New York
west of Schenectady. The incident is
With these facts staring them in the j related in Lossing’s Field Book of the
face, how can heads of families tamjier Revolution,
with that which is sowing the seeds of
disgrace, disease and death in the life
blood of their own childemf Verily,
they who do so, in the face of light
and knowledge, must have a terrible
account to give for the misery and ruin
tlu»y may untail npnn the world. Pa
rents! we beseech you, if you have no
regard for yourselves, spare, oh, spare
the innocent unborn w ho are to come
after you, and entail not upon them the
drunkard’s disease.
CHARITY
Night kissed the young rose, and it
bent softly to sleep. Stars shone, and
pure dew drops hung upon its bosom,
and watched its sweet slumliers. Mor
ning came with its dancing breezes and
the school house during the sermon,
decked out in their city finery, and end-
in the
........... ............... How
soundly he gave it to us, how he peel
ed off every rag of selfrighteousness
with which we tried to cover ourselves
aud laid the rod on the bare backs of
our consciences! The good; plain-
spoken, honest old man ! How 1 hon
ored him for his sinipie, straightfor
ward eamestnss ; his homely sincerity !
He certainly handled us with out mit-
aniong them; then pniceed to fill in the ! tens; but I trust we are .ill the better
earth until the hole is nearly full, then for it How different he was from the
pour in a tiallon or two of water to brisk, dap|K*r, self-surti'-ient little apos-
sottle the earth still closer about the tie who cantered up to the Judge’s door
roots; and finally fill up until a mound a day or two after: who was so full of table to disease of the substance of the
is raised three or four inches around himself that he had no thought to lies- brain.
drunkard not only injures aud enfee
bles his own system, but entails mental
disease upon his family. His daugh
ters are nervous and hysterical; Ids
sons are weak, wayward, eccentric,
and sink insane under the pressure of
excitement, of some unforseen exigency,
or of the ordinary calls of duty. This
heritage mav he the result of a ruined
and diseased constitution, but is much
more likely to proceed from that long-
continued nervous excitement in which
pleasure was sought in the alternate
exaltation of sentiment and oblivion,
which exhasted and wore out the men
tal powers, and ultimately produced
it awoke joyous and smiling. Lightly it
danced to and fro iu all loveliness of
health aud youthful innocence. Then
! entno the ardent sun-god, sweeping from
the East, and he smote the young rose
wilh his scorching rays, aud it fainted.
Deserted and almost heartbroken, it
droo|K*d to the dust in its loneliuess
: and despair. Now the gentle breeze,
w inch had been gamboling over the sea
pushed on the home bound hark sweep-
i ing over hill and dale—by the neat
cottage and still brook, turning the old
mill, fanning the brow of desease, aud
frisking the curls of innocent childhood,
came tripping along on her ernui4p of
3 tripping j
imbecility and paralysis, both attribu- mercy and life; aud when she saw the
young rose she hastened to kiss it, aud
re-
the tree, so that when the earth settles,
~ ~mm I
♦here may be ’Urt HHow left. If the
mould is filled closely among the roots,
tile atoms.
“ Nothing, he says, in all the store
house of nature can surpass this com
post for all agricultural parpoaes—it
stimulates germination and strengthens
the growth of plants—to the husband
man, it is infinitely superior to all the
guanos or new-fangled manures that
ever taxed his credulity—estimate the
value of your cotton seed as one to four
•f the com crop, dec. Treasure your
seed as so many atoms of gold.”
The following is said to be pretty
nearly identical with Bomer’a(a patent)
•manure—At was furnished same years
•go by a friend in Fairfield, one of the
largest and most successful planters in
ithat thriving district—with this, he in-
I formed me, he manured neariy his
whole com crop, dropping a pint on
or near the grains of com in the drill
before covering. From this manage
ment his last crop had made him on an
average a load per acre—much of his
land was hiUy, stony, and not very rich.
I Proceed as follows:
Into a square pen eight rails high,
not alternate wagon loads of leaves and
litter from the woods, the more rotten
the better; and well rotted manure
from the staldes and yards, until the
pen it full—pour 60 gallons of a liquid
made of tbe following ingredients, over
Place a Make some five feet long, over them
(.which is best done as the tree is set,) bustling, sd
to which tie the tree, remembering to
cross the band that the tree may not
tow on our religions delinquencies; who
did nothing but boast of his public trials
of skill in argument with rival preachers
of other denomination, and how he had
driven them oil'the field, and crowed
You must remember the
onfident little man, with a
the handle of his riding
ich I presume he blew the
rub against the stake; remove any litter
that may inddtw uiice ,to harbor near
and knaw the bark during winter
When the frost is out in the spring,
mulch the trees well, by placing as
much litter as one can carry around
each tree, which secured by spreading
some soil thinly over it. This is very
necessary to guard against our fre-
C ent droughts. Trim your trees till
»re remains not more than one third
of last season's growth, and after
pruning, we would advise to give but
little, and the first season none, that
the side shoots may strengthen the
stock. Keep the ground cultivated
between the trees with summer crops,
and permit no grass to grow near them.
Persons doubing the necessity of our
method of transplanting have only to
give it a fair trial in the contrast with
any other, and we feel assured they
will find it m the end much tbe cheap
est. Lange holes we consider indispen
sable to secure a quick retain for the
outlay. Thirtv-three feet is consider
ed a suitable distance to plant apple
trees, but when there is much room we
lion.
*. ped:
. f .Vn.
s hlih
How far the monomania of inebriety
is itself a disease, and may be more the
development, tbe consummation, than
the commencement of a hereditary
fondly bathed its forehead in cool
freshing showers, and the young rose
revived, and looked up and smiled in
gratitude to the breeze, but she hurried
quiekly away; her generous task was
tendency to derangement, this is not |K*rfcirmcd, yet not w itliout reward; for
tin tram
whip with
trumpet ii
“Do you remember our fishing ex-
ition in company w ith Congressman
an Allen, to the little lake a few
lies from Kinderhook; aud John
Moore the vagabond admiral of the
lake, who sat crouched in a heap in the
middle of his canoe in the centre of the
lake, with fishing rods stretching out in
every direction like the long legs of a
spider t And do you remember our
piratical prank, when we made up for
our bad luck in fishing by plundering
his canoe of its fish when we found it
adrift! And do you remember how
John Moore came splashing along the
marsh on the opposite border of tbe
lake roaring at us, and how we finished
our frolic by driving off and leaving the
Congressman to John Moore’s mercy
tickling ourselves with the idea of his
being scalped at least!
“Ah, well-a-day, friend Merwin,
these irere the days of eur youth and
folly) ^trust we have grown wiser
and hSer since then; we certainly
have grown older. I don’t think we
could rob John Moore’s fishing eanee
the place to point out; but there is eve
ry reason to believe that it not only
acts upon, and renders more deleterious,
whatever latent may exist, hut vitiates
or impairs the sources of health for
several generations. That the effects
of drunkenness are highly inimical to
a permanent, heafthy state of the brain,
is often proved at a great distance of
time from the course of intemperance,
and long after the adoption of regular
habits. Sometime since I was called
upon to treat a remarkably fine boy
about sixteen years old, among whose
relations no ease of derangement could
be pointed out, and for whose sudden
malady no cause could be assigned, ex-
cept a single glass of spirits. His fath
er, however, had been a confirmed
drunkard, was subject to fits of deliri
um aud depression, following inebriety,
and died of delirium tremens.
The boy recovered. His case pre
sented many jioints of interest His
head increased raudly, and the two
hemispheres were of unequal size. The
disease was intermittent, the patient,
passing a week in incoherent madness,
and the succeeding week in perfect
tranquility aud consciousness. These
states ware separated or connected
by short profound sleep or lethargy,
site soon perceived that a delicious fra
grance had been poured on her wings
by the grateful rose: and the kind breeze
wafglad in heart, and went away sing-
through the trees. Tims true
ini
rommiwiiproi
Charity, like the breeze, gathers fra
grance from the drooping flowers it re
freshes, and unconsciously reaps a re
ward in the performance of its offices
of kindness, which steals on the heart
like rich perfume, to bless and to cheer-
SCENE IN A DENTIST’S OFFICE.
A male represeutative frem the Em
erald Isle enters, hat in hand, with—
•The top o’ the morning to ye, sir,
an’ 1 got a bad tooth, an’ Uie devil a bit
o’ comfort can I get short iv a botlle o’
brandy; an I’ve got one o’ Father
Matthy’s medals to kape me from all
such evil spirite sure, what ’ll you pe
axiu to pull me a tooth, sir!’
‘Halfa dollar,’ says file doctor.
‘Well,’ says, Pat’ WhatJI y# pull
two forf
‘Oh,’ replied th« doctor,’ I won’t
charge you anything for pulling the
second one.’
Pat seated himself, turned up his mug
and the doctor took a peep at his giin-
ders, and with a littk* assjMancr worn
GEMS (IF T1IUGIT.
Gr.tves are but the prints of the foot
steps of the angel of eternal life.
There is no grief without some bene
ficent provision to soften its intense
ness.
There is hut a breath of air and a
beat of the heart lH*twixt this world and
the next.
Never court the favor of the rich, by
flattering either their vanity or their
vices.
W hen you think how good your pa
rents are, just think how much better
must that being be who made them.
Speak with calmness and deliberation
on all occasions, eapeciully in circum
stances which tend to irritate.
Frequently review your conduct and
note your feelings.
There is only one objection to people
who 'mean well,’ and that is, that they
can never spare time to carry out their
meaning.
How is it possible for the Sons of
Temperance to live in accordance with
their motto of lore and miily, while
there are so many divisions among
them ?
Sarah (Abraham’s Sarah) is the only
woman, it is said, whose age, at the
time of her death, is mentioned in the
Holy Scriptures. Now-a-davs, the
great difficulty is to And out a woman’s
age in her life-time.
A husband recently tried soft soap to
smooth the harshness of his wife’s
tongue. It took off a little of the harsh
ness, but made it run faster.
There is a young lady in this city
who thinks it “excessively vulgar” to
speak of the tale in a new spajK-r. She
calls them “ imaginary fictions.”
“I say, Jim, what mechanical work
did you first do asked one darkey of
another, “ Why, why, cut teeth, oh
course,” replied the other, instantly.
The seed of love can never grow hut
under the warm aud genial influence of
kind feelings and affectionate manners.
The apparent motion of the earth is
from the rising to the setting sun, when
her real motion is from the setting sun
towards the rising. So is it with man
he fancies himself journeying from lil**
to death while in fact he is traveling
from death unto life.
If there be a situation wherein wo-
man may be deemed to appropriate an
gelic attributes, it Is when she ministers
as only woman can, to the wants and
invalid! M
the woaknsss of the invalid! Whose
hand like hers can smooth his pillow !
whose voice so effectually ailencea the
querulousneaa of his temper, or soothes
the anguish of bis disease t Proffered
by her, tbe viand hath an added zest,
and even the nauseous medicament is
diverted of its los