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THE BRITISH AMERICAN.

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Jgriwuunpglf Agriculturists are sometimes too hasty in adopting new and foreign ways, so on the other hand old farmer Jogtrot is a most

revoking fellow. Thus have 1 known one of these wiseacres steadily adhere to the deter- nination of never putting a sc the to his mea- ows till the first day of 01 July ; another ever reaps his corn until the harvest moon as attained a certain age, no matter whether he corn was shaking in the wind or not. It as in consequence of this principle, that an ctof Parliament was obliged to be enacted to ioder the Irish from making. their plOughing‘ attle draw by the tail ; and even in improved ngland, though certainly the instances are ' so barbarous or mischievous, Goodman teady still sends out his teem of six monstrous orses, to plough a little sandy soil, three inch- : deep, thus wasting three times as much one labour as he need, at an unwarrantable xpense, what the Scotchman will do much etter with a single pair of cattle.

In nothing is this adherence to old and bad astoms so evident, as in the neglect of farmers neither changing or steeping their seed corn specially wheat. it is a well entertained ct, that Irish wheat, as it is the worst sample, it bears the worst price in the English Mar- et. Perhaps the dampness and coldness of ur climate in common years is a great cause {deficiency in the quality of our bread corn; ut certainly the fault is attributed to the want {attention in the change ofseed—in the keep- g of seed unminglcd and unadulterated from e seeds of weeds and’ from smut. l have on in some of the southern counties, of [re- nd, especially Tipperary and Limerick, heat that was grown on the sharp limestone ils that border on the Shannon, and the corn itself was a beautiful and plump sample, but was so mixed with smut and ribbery, as the eds ofthe Darnel or Loliam, are there called, at it was almost unsaleable. I remember ce calling on a tenant for his rent—which had nojust excuse for with-holding, as the ason was plentiful, and a fair market price rgrain :—“Well Tim, why don’t you come in th your rent? You know I must do what is pleasant if you do not settle, and that soon.”

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"Ed, “ Why then plase your honour, it is I that ‘he willing to pay the rent, and why should’nt let but Master agra there’s no price.”

“ How, no price ” exclaimed I, “ I got the M day at Greyford mills, IL 183. a barrel.”

“(1. “ Oh the theivia’ rogue;” rejoined Tim Flan- m. ry, “ and amn’t 1 after coming from the same lip, ler, and by all the books in Father Kenne- md s house, all he’d offer was two-and-twenty.” in, ‘f Come, Tim, let me see your sample ?” So 8,, mg to the threshing floor, he produces a ,lk, ndful of wheat, which contained as many K to am of ribbery and balls of mut, as of sound rn. “Why, im, how could you expect to

ta good price for such trash as this?”

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5., then, how can the likes of me help it?‘ f", _Ve’ntI put it through the wind in the hil ion, '98; the_wit‘e has our best quilt all as one as wk llt, sunning it and picking it ; ’tis a bad sam- op, , plase yer honour, but what can a body do,

er doing his endeavour ?” ‘Tim, now for once he an honest man. and the truth. Did you ever in all your life

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|tthe. “8'6 your seed, or did you ever steep your he“. at before sowing.

the Tmthi slr, I never did. It’s not for the likes 3 '0 e to be going after these new fangled the ’ i m,V/f'ather, and he that went before him, ,0" Wellwithout any such doings; this is the ito Irish red wheat, that is nathral to the

s and may be I’d have no crap at-all-at-all, c Ito be making such veutures."

“ Indeed !-—don‘t you see that my land isjust the same as yours ; utI manage a little better — keep the ground a little clearer—change my seed often—and always steep it to get rid of smut; and here is asample of my red wheat, and observe that there ll neither smut ball or ribbery mixed with it, and is therefore worth 163, per barrel more than yours, beCause its tail is not so black as yours is.’

Icannot say that l was successful with Tim Flannery; perhaps I may be more so with the reader, if he have occasion to sow wheat ; and the practice, as adopted successfully in Flan ders, in the eradicating of smut, and which has also, to the fullest extent succeeded in Ireland, is this: To dissolve a pound of Roman vitriol or blue stone, or sulphate of copper, in twenty gallons of water, in a vessel containing about forty gallons, steep as much wheat in it as will allow two or three inches of the solution to flow over the corn; then leave it, (skimming off the smut balls and light corn) for one hour) and then raise it and rinse itin common water, and dry it in the usual way with slacked lime. in this way a large quantity of seed wheat can successively be steeped, and it is only neces- sary occasionally, until our whole seed is pick- led, to add some more blue stone, dissolved inthe same proportion of water, to make up for waste, With these observations 1 shall conclude my agricultural hints for the present.

Dublin Penny Journal.

The Scottish Thistle—This ancient emblem of Scottish puguacity with its motto .Ncmo me impunc laecssil, is represented of varaious spe- cious in royal bearings, coins, and coats of ar- mour, so that there is some difficulty iu saying which is the genuine original thistle. The origin of the national badge itself is thus hand- ed down by tradition: When the Danes invad- ed Scotland, it was deemed unwarlike to attack an enemy in the pitch darkness of night, in- stead ofa pitched battle b day; but on one occasion the invaders reserved to avail them- selves of this stratagem, and in order to pre- vent their tramp from being heard, they marched barefooted. They had thus neared the Scottish force unobserved, when a Dane unluckin stepped with his naked foot upon a superbly pric kled thistle, and instinctively uttereda cry of pain, which discovered the assault to the Scots, who ran to their arms, and defeat- ed the foe with a terrible slaughter. The thistle was immediately adopted as the insignia of Scotland.

Literary Gazelle.

M I S C E L L A N Y.

“ What a piece of work is man! How noble in rea. son! how infinite his faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action. how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god !"

Shakspear.

St. Paul. “ Homo sum,- humem' nihil a me alienumputo."

“ I am a man; and being human. I respect humanity. Terence.

“ Hablo coma hombre." I speak as man.

-—-“ A creature so glorious in mind, and in frame." Sheridan

MAN.

To trace the system, in its various parts,— (That “ little kingdom, man,” that microcosm,) And all its wonderous, multitudinous Constitutes properties—and varieties,— lnspires devout and reverent homage,

To the Great First Cause—most adorable- “ Parent Supreme of universal Nature.”

.Man is a living miracle!—

Witness the innumerous components—- Combining: and consolidations,

In the whole aggregate identity,

And the firm, beauteoos, admirable Superstructure ofa living being !

“ A combination and a form, indeed,” Of mnltifarious anatomy :—

Subject to full and fair anlaysis,

By mortal ken: (As, in all beings’ sure mortality 3

When the great Chymist, Death, decomposing This “tenement ofclay”—shall loose the band a, Ligaments, loops, rivets, pivots, swivels,

And elastic springs and clasps, imbodied, lnwrought, imbricated, and enamel’d

ln man’s immaterialin ,- all which,

In the one grand chain ofinvolution,

00 now sustain “ the active principle”—

“ Vital essence,” and mysterious spirit;

In this “time’s state” the cradle of its hopes, Cherish‘d and honor’d. as wisdom’: noblest work, In the frame and fabric of humanity ;—

Its sequel—glorious consummation- Felicity—immorlal Life.)

Most astonishing design and wisdom;

What immensity of fibrous cordage—

Complex, intervolved, and interlacing

Over lashings, tension, tenacity,

Pliancy, compactness and endurance!

Thebone, flesh, cartilage, joints, muscles,nerv es, The sincws, tendons, arteries, and veins,— ' Limbs, lobes, and auricles, and superfices; With all their myriads of sensitive,

Lifeful, delicate. intwining tendrils ;—- Laminated in the fairest eoloriugs,

And all the essential decorations

Of univalves, ivory, and volutings,

ln silken drapery—golden lustre

And elegant lunriance ! Exact symmetry and adaptation,

Just proportion, convolution, action, Complicate, adhesive, full. free, graceful, All harmony! and in corresponding

Figure, form, shape. size —-each answering each On either side—in truest equipoise;

And all with flexile. porous, polish’d coatings Ofsuch differing, varying textures,

In wisdom, strength, and beauty—overlaid!

And still the great design kept good.---that man Should “ bear the image of his Creator,” PerfectionJ—No addition can be made,

‘lor dimunition, but makes the being,

in his integral nature—form—stature— Jimensions, constitution, incomplete !

What skill; what richness and variety ;

\ pcdimenl of perfect workmanship !

'.ook in his Face,—contcmplate all his powerss l‘raits, features, senses, and intelligence ; I‘hese prove him Human—a noble fabric

Of Wisdom, infinitely Great and Good!