288 WOOL-GROWING IN WESTERN NEW YORK LANDS.-ETC. may be subdivided into genera, founded on the prevailing earths, salts, metals, or carbon; the genera into species founded on their different mixtures; the species into varieties founded on color, texture, &c.; and sub-varieties founded on moisture, dryness, richness, lightness, &c. Plants are the most certain indicators of the nature of a soil; for while no practical cultivator would engage with land of which he knew only the results of a chemical analysis, or examined by the sight and touch a few bushels which were brought to him, yet every gardener or farmer, who knew the sorts of plants it produced naturally, would be at once able to decide as to its value for cultivation. For example, the garget and striped maple are generally found on a warm, loamy soil; the rush on a clayey soil; the mullein and sorrel on a dry, sandy soil; and the cranberry on a peaty soil. But these plants, however, are not to be absolutely depended upon, as they are sometimes found in soils directly opposite; as climate and natural irrigation have much more influence on these plants than mere soils. The remaining natural agents of vegetable culture, I shall treat of in another number; and shall here close the subject of earths and soils by stating that, according to the chemical analysis of Bergman, the soil best suited for the culture of most vegetables, contains four parts of clay, three of sand, two of calcareous earth, and one of magnesia. L. T. TALBOT. WOOL-GROWING IN WESTERN NEW YORK grain land may be decreased, or the flock increased. Twelve tons of hay for 100 sheep is an ample allowance for the winter. If fed on grain they will not eat so much. Ten tons of hay and 50 bushels of corn would winter a flock of 100 in the very best manner. I have allowed 20 acres of pasture, 10 of meadow, and 3 for grain, for every 100 sheep. Eight acres for meadow is sufficient, for there is little meadow land in that section that will not average at 13 tons to the acre, and two acres of grain is all that need be given. I have not therefore overstocked the farm. An active enterprising man could realize as much from his capital here as in any other section of the Union. In making the estimate, I have allowed 300 acres for wood land and waste, about the usual quantity on that number of acres. This could be diminished by at least 100 acres, and adding at least $300 per annum more to the income. I divide the cleared land; 420 pasture, 210 meadow, and 70 grain. If I AM glad to see so much interest manifested in the manure made by the sheep and horses is proour Western New York lands. They are not pro-perly returned to the land, both the meadow and perly appreciated. There is no better grazing land in any state, or situations more healthful or pleasant. All that "Western" says on the subject is true, as I know from my own experience. We have two small farms lying upon the high land, back of our main farm, and upon the Genesee slate, which underlies the most, indeed, nearly all of this section of the country. When it came into our possession, some twelve years ago, it had been worn out, as the owner supposed. We stocked down all that was under the plow, and have used it for a sheep-walk and meadow ever since. The land that with difficulty carried three sheep to the acre, will now carry six well, and serve better than it did three at first. There are thousands of acres which can be purchased at from $6 to $12 per acre -that 40 acres will carry 100 sheep well, both summer and winter, and after a few years the same can be done on 30 acres. I can pick out a great many farms with good buildings, and the land very fairly fenced and cultivated, that it is safe to calculate 300 sheep to every 100 acres of cleared land, which can be bought for $10 and $12 per acre. I am really glad you are closing that sheep controversy. Like Mr. Bingham, I rejoice in all real improvement of sheep. But let the public have some other proof.than the " guessing" of owners about heavy fleeces, and all that kind of "gammon." Mr. Bingham takes the true course, and I venture to say will have but few competitors.. Darien, July 4, 1846. T. C. PETERS. FEEDING LARGE DOGS IN TOWN.-I would advise horse's flesh, or bullock's liver, well boiled, to be given once a day, from 1 lb. to 1lbs., according to the size of the animal. Potatoes, or odd pieces of bread, soaked in the liquor that the mea has been previously boiled in, may be given for breakfast. The dog must have a constant supply of good water; he ought not to be fed more than twice a day. WALTHAMSTOW. LADIES' DEPARTMENT.-BOYS' DEPARTMENT. Ladies' Department. Boys' Department. 289 WHAT IS A PARAPETTICOAT? A CHAPTER ON GRASSES.-No. 2. WE are astonished at the numerous inquiries THE following definition of a true grass is copied that have reached us about this article. Its name from a lecture delivered before the class of the reveals its nature. It is a hybrid between a para- Chester County Cabinet of Natural Sciences, by sol and a petticoat. This is not banter, but fact. Dr. Darlington, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, an And why should there not be such a thing? excellent botanist and practical farmer; brief and What is there in rerum natura to prevent an inge-simple as it is, it will be found to contain the most nious person from applying those two needful arti- striking characteristics of the tribe:-" Whenever cles of shelter and dress to gardening purposes? we meet with a plant having a cylindrical, jointed They will fade, and wear thin, in the custody of the stem; with the joints solid, and the intervening most economical gentlewoman, and to find a use portions hollow-or, in a few instances, filled with for them afterwards is an adaptation of means to a pith-like substance the leaves alternate, one end which cannot be too highly commended. originating at each joint, embracing the stem with Let us give a receipt for making a parapetticoat. its base, and forming a sheath, which is slit on one First find a good-sized parasol, or small umbrella, side, down to its origin-and the flowers protected covered with cotton, and not rubbed into holes.by those peculiar envelopes known by the name of Then select a cast-off petticoat, not a crinoline, chaff, we may take it for granted we have before us which Mrs. Malaprop calls a Kremlin, nor yet a a genuine grass." To the same lecture I am inflannel, but some other form of the vestment; it debted for many of the facts here stated, but as I need not be very full; indeed, it will be the better quote from memory, I dare not make another for being scanty; sow up the opening, and it is answerable for my inadvertencies. ready for attachment to the parasol. For this purpose the latter instrument must be opened, and kept so; then the upper end of the petticoat is to be sowed to the edge of the parasol, and a staff six feet or more long is to be secured to its handle. Thus the parapetticoat is constructed. Botanists enumerate upwards of three hundred species of grasses indigenous to the United Statesyet all the cultivated kinds, and their almost innumerable varieties, are believed to be introduced. The uses of this interesting tribe are almost too well known and too various, to require enumeraBut what a word! cries Sir Erasmus Verbal. tion-some few I will point out, and the boys may What a barbarous compound of Greek and Saxon! do the rest. Those considered of most value to the The thing may be well enough, but its name is un-agriculturist in the Middle and Western States, as endurable. Pray call it a parachiton, or a para- affording the best hay and pasture-though if I do chitonisk. We can have no objection to the not place them in their proper order of excellence, change, if the world prefers it; and we agree with the same young observers must set me right-are, Sir Erasmus, that it will be as well to adopt it when" Meadow grass" (Poa pratensis); "blue grass" parasol is called parahelion, and parapluie a paraombrion-but not till then. (Poa compressa); " Timothy" (Phleum pratense); "red top" (Agrostis vulgaris); fescue grass" And what is the parapetticoat for? For, (Festuca pratensis); "orchard grass" (Dactylis Madam! for a most important purpose. It is an glomerata); "ray grass" (Lolium perenne); and instrument of execution; it is the shirt of Nessus;"sweet-scented vernal grass," (Anthoxanthum odoit is the robe of Atropos. It is to enable the gardener to dispatch his mortal enemies. It is to relieve his rose bushes from that foe which he assails in vain with snuff, gas water, and smelling salts. It is to kill green flies. The instrument is used thus. In the first place, the petticoat is drawn up till it rests upon the outside of the parasol. The staff of the latter is then introduced perpendicularly into the centre of a rose bush, and secured in its place by being pushed into the ground. The petticoat being then drawn down, the bush is completely covered in by the garment. The gardener then blows his tobacco smoke beneath it; in a few minutes the rose bush is enveloped in a cloud which has no outlet; the green-fly seeks in vain to escape from the fatal atmosphere which enters every fold and lurkingplace; he clings in vain to his beloved rose-buds; his grasp relaxes; he falls; he dies, and with him Unnumber'd corses strew the fatal plain. Five minutes suffice for the execution. The veil may then be raised; the instrument removed, and the operation repeated upon a new horde of delinquents.-Gardener's Chronicle. ratum), which gives a delightful perfume to the hay. Some others are occasionally cultivated; but, I believe, not to any great extent or advantage. The sugar-cane (Saccharum officinarum) is a true grass, which, in its structure and habit, bears a striking resemblance to Indian corn; but unlike it, the chief value consists in the rich juice with which the stems abound-and if any boy should be so ignorant as not to know that it furnishes sugar and molasses, he should be made to learn the lesson before he is again allowed anything better than sour apple pie, or dry bread for his luncheon. A species of seed, which in Brazil forms impenetrable thickets, grows to the height of thirty or forty feet, with hollow stems six inches in diame ter, which are filled with a cool, pure liquid, capable of quenching the most burning thirst. Of this the hunters are so well aware, that, when in need of refreshment, they, with their machitis, or large two-edged chopping knife, cut off the young shoots just below a joint, and drink the delicious beverage so bountifully supplied by nature. A very coarse paper is manufactured in this country, from oat straw, which is found to resist the effects of damp better than other kinds of cheap paper. In the native country of the "Bamboo," ness to them, and protection from outrage and opBambusa arundinacea, the stately culms, or stems, pression. A portion of the humane spirit of those furnish spars for sail boats, as well as stout walk-precepts has pervaded all countries, and descended ing-canes, much valued by pedestrians; and of in a particular manner to the nations of the East. some of its congeners are made the pretty "rattans" One of the tales of a philosopher of India, elucidates and "supple jacks-and fishing rods," such as good this fact in a striking manner. A traveller who was old Izaak Walton never dreamed of. permitted to visit the place of punishment of criminals, saw there every part of the body of a man of high rank in flames, except one of his feet. Upon asking the reason why that part of his body, alone, was exempt from the rage of the fire, he was told, that the only kind action that man had performed during his whole life, was to liberate a lamb which had been entangled, by one of its feet, by means of a brier, in crossing a field, and that, as a reward for that act, his foot was exempted from punishment. Excellent mattrasses are made from the soft inner husks of Indian corn, properly dried and hetchelled. Nothing affords a warmer thatch for outhouses than rye straw; and in Great Britain the cottages of the laboring classes are universally roofed with it; and what could our neat housewives do without the aid of the fine branching panicles of the broom corn? (Sorghum saccharatum.) The creeping suckers and tangled roots of several species of otherwise useless grass, are extensively useful both in Europe and America, in fixing the shifting sands of large tracts of sea coast, and preventing the ravages of the winds and tides-for this purpose the Arundo arenaria and Cynodon dactylon are most valuable. But I should weary my young friends, as well as myself, were I to save them the pleasant labor of finding out all the ways in which grass contributes to our comfort and luxury-mats, bags, ropes, ladies' bonnets, boys' hats, and a hundred other useful and ornamental articles. Even the melancholy sounding whistle, which every schoolboy can make of a green rye straw not knowing or dreaming perhaps, that he is doing what men did thousands of years ago, when they first invented the musical instrument, since called "Pan's pipes," which after various modifications became the soul-entrancing flute ! We are also bound to study the diseases of domestic animals, and the remedies that are proper to cure them, by a principle of gratitude. They live only for our benefit. They require in exchange for their labor and all the other advantages we derive from them, nothing from us but food, shelter, and these often of the cheapest and coarsest kind, so that there is constantly due to them an immense balance of debt from us. This motive to take care of their health and lives will appear more striking when we consider the specific benefits we receive from each of them. The horse is not only an important appendage, but a necessary part of the cement of civilized society. He plows our fields, he draws home our harvests and fruits to our barns and cellars. He conveys them from distant parts of the country, oftentimes over rough and difficuit roads, to our sea-ports and market towns. He receives, in exchange for them, the products of foreign climes, and transports them to the interior and reStraw, kept dry, appears almost incorruptible, mote parts of our country. He administers to our which is owing to the abundance of silex which health and to our pleasures under the saddle, and pervades the cuticle or skin, for they have no bark in the harness. In short, he adds to the increase that it is so filled can easily be proved by burn- of our commerce, national wealth, and happiness. ing a straw upon a piece of glass, when the vege-To the horned cattle and sheep, we are indebted for table portion will be consumed, and the complete skeleton left in the silex. I dare not mention among the useful productions the much abused whiskey distilled from rye, nor the rum and ratafia from the sugar-cane. many of the blessings and comforts of life. The strength and patience of the ox in the plow and in It would be an agreeable and useful employment the team, have added to the wealth of the farmer in for the boys, to collect and preserve a specimen of every age and country. The cow has still greater each kind of true grass, and arrange them according demands upon our gratitude. Her milk, in its simto their natural affinities, in books made of straw ple state, furnishes subsistence to a great part of paper, loosely stitched together. Each specimen mankind. Its products in cream, butter, and cheese, should have a label of writing paper, with the sci-form the most agreeable parts of the aliment, and entific and common names, neatly written, the place even the luxuries of our tables. Her flesh affords and mode of growth, cultivated, naturalized or us food. Her skin protects our feet and legs from indigenous, time of flowering and of ripening the seeds, with the several uses it can be made to answer in rural economy, to man or to animals. Eutawah. E. L. the inclemencies of the weather in the form of boots and shoes. The sheep affords us, by her wool, a great portion of our clothing during every year of our lives, and likewise furnishes us with a wholesome aliment in the form of mutton and lamb. The hog is said, like the miser, to do good only when he BOYS, BE KIND TO DOMESTIC ANIMALS. dies. But this is so far from being true, that he is ONE of the patriots and heroes of the War of In- dishonored by the comparison. He fattens upon dependence, who died suddenly, some years ago, the offals of our kitchens, and is also made to perin his barn-yard, said, with his last breath, to his form the office of scavenger in cleaning our streets. servant, near by, "Take care of these creatures." At his death he bequeaths us his flesh for food, his By the same kind direction we are bound to study hair for brushes, and his fat for culinary purthe means of preserving the health and administer- poses, and is useful in the arts. Other benefits are ing to the wants of domestic animals, by all those derived from the ass, the goat, the cat, the dog, and precepts in "Holy Writ," which recommend kind-other animals. *W.. FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. By the arrival of the steamer Caledonia, we are in receipt of our foreign journals up to August 4th. MARKETS. Ashes, a very limited inquiry. Cotton an active demand without any change of prices. Stock on hand in Liverpool on the 1st of August, S00,000 bales against 1,058,000 same period last year. Flour and Meal dull, but in consequence of the loss in the potato crop, it is thought the latter article will advance. Beef large sales. Pork dull. Lard improving. Cheese of a superior quality much asked for. Naval Stores in request. Rice a slight advance. Tallow improving. Tobacco steady. Wool firm with a fair demand. A small quantity had been received from Oregon. It was in fine order, and sold well. The stock on hand of all kinds is light. Money quite easy at 31 to 4 per cent. The Weather had been somewhat unfavorable to the in-coming crops, and considerable injury had been experienced; not enough, nowever, to affect prices. The harvest in France has been injured about the same as in Great Britain. The Apple Crop is greatly injured throughout Europe. This will make American apples in greater de mand than ever. The Potato Disease is ravaging Ireland again, and is more or less prevalent throughout Europe. 291 the seeds are begining to change from a green to a pale brown color, and the stock to become yellow, for about two-thirds of its height from the ground. When any of the crop is lying, and suffering from wet, it should be pulled as soon as possible, and kept by itself. So long as the ground is undrained, and imperfectly levelled before sowing, the flax will be found of different lengths. In such case, pull each length separately, and steep in separate pools or keep it separate in the same pool. If the ground has been thoroughdrained, and laid out evenly, the flax will be all of the same length. It is most essential to take time and care to keep the flax even, like a brush, at the root ends. This increases the value to the spinner, and of course to the grower, who will be amply repaid, by an additional price for his extra trouble. Let the handfuls of pulled flax be laid across each other diagonally, to be ready for the rippling-Ibid. To make Rhubarb Wine.-To every pound of green rhubarb stalks, when bruised, put a quart of cold spring water; let it stand three days, stirring it twice in a day, then press, and strain it through a sieve, and to every gallon of the liquor, put 2 or 3 lbs. of good loaf sugar; barrel it, and to every 5 gallons add a bottle of white brandy; hang a piece of isinglass in the vessel, suspended by a string, and stop it up close; in six months if the sweetness be sufficiently off, bottle it for use, otherwise let it stand in the cask a longer time.-Ib. Seed Wheat.-Whatever difference of opinion may exist as regards the wisdom of the recent alterations Preserving Rhubarb.-In addition to "preserving it in the laws respecting grain, there can be none as to with sugar like raspberries," rhubarb can be very suc the necessity of adapting ourselves to our present cir- cessfully and agreeably preserved-in bottles as green cumstances, and endeavoring to make the best of gooseberries are-peel the stalks and cut them into them. It is a known fact that in high latitudes the pieces as for a tart, and then treat them as if they growth of plants is very rapid. The burst of spring, were gooseberries. Rhubarb bottled thus gives us exthe splendor of summer, and the maturity and inci- cellent tarts and pies at Christmas. It can also be pient decay of autumn follow each other with a swift-dried as angelica, and makes a very agreeable dried ness scarcely credible. The grain sown to-day, is, in preserve. Have any of your correspondents ever tried a very few weeks, ready for the sickle; and the high-dried strawberries? They are very good, and the abuner the latitude where it can be made to grow, the dant crop of this year will give material to experiment shorter is the period it requires for its growth and on.-Ib. ripening. Grain which has been grown in the extreme north, when used as seed in a southern country, gives its first produce more speedily, ripening in a much shorter time, although at a second sowing it loses this quality. The fact has been recognized, and is acted upon pretty extensively in this country, it being commonly recommended to obtain seed from colder situations than those in which it is intended to be sown. In Sweden, grain is annually brought for seed from Torneo (in the north of the gulf of Bothnia, and almost within the arctic circle), and sown in lands so much exposed that the sowing time is thrown so late that corn, excepting from seed thus obtained, has no time to ripen. Districts formerly on this account ut--Ibid. terly barren, are thus rendered fruitful. Is it not then worthy of the consideration of some of our enterpris- and there the new potatoes have been found, when ing agriculturists, especially of those who occupy high cold districts, whether they might not profitably import their seed corn from the northern European nations, and thus, perhaps, obtain a harvest in September, where now it is commonly thrown into October or November? With this resource it might be found that wheat could be grown more extensively and more profitably than it is to the west of Sir Robert Peel's line drawn from Southampton to Inverness.-ing small tubers; a second generation in the year." Gard. Chron. Bones dissolved in Caustic Ley.-I have seen much in your paper of bones being dissolved in sulphuric acid as a manure. Are you aware that bones may be dissolved in the alkaline ley of the soap-boiler, and will form a paste of the consistence of butter, which may be reduced to any thinness of fluid required for application as a liquid manure? Am I wrong in believing that, as the solvent power consists solely of soda-ash and lime, it would be a more powerful manure than the bones with acid? There was a patent some years ago for making soap in this manner; whether the patent is in force now I do not know, but that can easily be discovered if thought worth while. Singular Fact in the Potato.-We learn that here dug up, to be sprouting from every eye. We have seen nothing of the sort ourselves; and we venture to ask our correspondents if they have remarked the circumstance. It will be a new phase in the potato constitution should this habit prove to be general. The expression of our informant is, "the potatoes before they are half grown are all growing again, throwing out roots and fibres from the eyes, and form We would also make another inquiry. The only To Pull Flax.-The time when flax should be universal fact, relating to the potato disease of last pulled is a point of much nicety to determine. The year, was, that it did not appear at all, or in a very fibre is in the best state, before the seed is quite ripe. inconsiderable degree, in genuine peat or "moss" If pulled too soon, although the fibre is fine, the great land, which appeared to have some power of keeping waste in scutching and hackling renders it unprofit-off the decay. What we now are desirous of knowing able; and, if pulled too late, the additional yield does not compensate for the coarseness of the fibre. It may be stated that the best time for pulling is, when is, Whether the experience of our readers teils them, that the same rule holds good this year? We should be greatly obliged by information on this point.-Ibid. 292 Editor's Table. EDITOR'S TABLE. Clavers, though far from imitation. In truth they are as original as the scenery and people they describe. In after generations they will be studied as a true index of the character of our own in the wild region where the scenes are laid. We have the pleasure of the acquaintance of the fair authoress, and can tell our readers that she is a clever woman both in the NUMBER OF COTTON SPINDLES.-According to the latest accounts, the estimate of the spindles now at work in the principal cotton manufacturing counSpindles. 17,500,000 In Great Britain and Ireland, tries is SALE OF DURHAM CATTLE.-We desire to call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Mr. Paoli Lathrop, offering his herd of Durham Cattle for sale. We have often inspected it, and can therefore say from our own observation that it is a very superi-English and Yankee acceptation of the term. or herd. 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