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Pasture for Swine ——A lot well seeded to i. clover has been recommended as highly ey useful for pasturing swine. The quantity

of land should be so proportioned to the number of swine that they may keep the rass from going to seed. This will pre- vent waste, and short fine grass will be eaten with more eagerness by the animals than that which is long and course. It was the opinion of Dr. Deane that one acre of rich land in clover, would support twenty or more swine large and small through the summer, and bring them well forward in their growth. The hogs should be well ringed, or it is said by English writers, that shaving off the gristle of the noses of young pigs with a sharp knife, will answer the pur- ose of preventing them from rooting, and be better for the animals than ringing,

To obtain early Vegetables.—It has been recommended to scoop out as many turnips as you wish to obtain hills of vegetables, say of cucumbers, melons, summer squash- es,&c. fill these with good garden mould, saw in each three or four seeds and plunge them into a hot bed. The advantage of the scooped turnip as a seed bed over pots or vases is that there is no difficulty in separating the mass of earth and the plants from the pots which contained them, but without injury you may transplant the vege- tables together .with the turnips and find in the decay of the latter nutriment for the plantwithin it. It is said to be best in making use of hollow turnips as aforesaid to make a hole quite through the bottom of the root, so that the radieles of the young plant may penetrate their inclosure with facility.

eieparagus.—-It has formerlybeen thought necessary to make a very laborious and ex- pensive process of the cultivation of aspa- ragus, but it has more recently been as- certained that the old modes of growing that valuable esculent may be dispensed with, and asparagus raised with about as much facility as potatoes. The Hon John Welles thus describes his method, which we believe might be adopted, generally, to great advantage.

“ A piece of ground was taken of'a deep rich soil, after a common corn crop was taken off, theland was ploughed and ma- nured in the usual course. Holes were then dug twelve to fourteen inches in depth. and about the same distance apart, and two or three shovels full of compost ma- nure were mixed with a part of the earth. The roots f a year’s growth were inserted at about sux inches in depth. This bed has flourished, and has been thought as pro- dictive as any whatever. I at the same

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time, with a view to a more full and fair course of experiments, took a piece of land in another place of opposite cha- racter being of thin light soil, and adopted a like course and the result has been equal- ly favourable. The only difference to be noted, was that the latter was more early infoming forward from the nature of the so: .

“ However rare it may he that there is any over cultivation or preparation of the soil for any vegetable production, it would seem here to be the case. The old forms appear to have been kept up, and to have discouraged a more general diffusion of this valuable plant.”

“ Dr.Deane, in his husbandry. has some- what simplified the matter, but not suffi- ciently. His proposed method of placing the roots at six, eight, and nine inches apart is quite too near. The duration of ten or twelve years is quite a mistaken One: it lasts with us double that period.”

Mr. Armstrong in his second volume of the “ .Memoirs of the New York Board Of .flgriculture, says,” It has been asserted, and with sufficient confidence, that a pickle of salt and Water of the ordinary strength forpreserving meat may be very usefully applied to asparagus beds in the spring. The effects ascribed to it are its stimula- ting powcr over the crop, and its tendency to destroy the seeds of weeds and insects lying near the surface. Experiments on this subject should be multiplied, and wrth pickles differing in strength and quality. In the last edition of Deane’s New En— gland Farmer, it is observed that "' to a bed fifty feet by six, a bushel of salt may be applied with good effect before they start in the spring ”

Asparagus is reputed to he a very heal- thy vegetable. Loudon says, in Paris itis much resorted to by the sedentary ope— rative classes when, they are troubled with symptoms of gravel or stone. lVil- lich’s Domestic Encyclopedia observes, “As- paragus is allowed to promote appetite; and affords a delicious article of nourishment to the invalid and valetudinarian, who is not troubled with flatulency.

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Ma. \VHI'I‘ 1,—l am one of those who look with pleasure on the gradual improve- ment of society throughout the cirilized world; and nothing can be a surer indi- cation of it, than the exploding of old, and useless, nay, pernicious sysleins, though graced with the hoary sanctity of ages, nor can shew with greater force, the ignorance and slot/t of a people, than the superstitions reverence shewn to these systems: they may have been good and salutary in the infant state of society, but surely they

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can never fit the man. It forcibly reminds me of the peasant who, to preserve the equilibrium of his bag of grain, on his horses back, put a stoae of equal weight with the grain in one end, and so main- tained his balance! nor could newj‘ashioned refinement induce him to discontinue the custom of his forefathers .’

I have been led to make these remarks by considering the manner in which Pub- lic Offices are dealt out in this Colony: it is not unusual to see the situations of .Mcmber of Parliament, Justice qf the Peace, Collector of Excise, Road Commissioner, and what not, filled by one person!!! It is actually now the case. This must proceed from some one of the following causes:— Want of persons of sufficient intelligence to fill the separate departments mentioned, or if intelligent, not sufficiently trustwor- thy, or if wanting neither of these requi- sites, they want sufficient venality to be- come the tools of certain influential indi- viduals, they are of course unqualified! The time was, when the honest COBLER officia- ted as a Magistrate, Chaplain, &c., and oc- casionally the Miller, or Sailor as Legisla- tor! without the cumbersome appendage of learning, could perform their several parts very well to suit those happy times of artless simplicity! but in our days it is monstrous ; I would as soon have a Merry Andrew pre- scibe nostrums for me, as have a sailor, a pedlar, a boat-builder, or any other me- chanic, frame laws for me; more especially when authorised to administer those laws to me afterwards.

It' the mischievous tendency of mixing up heterogenous Offices together need proof, the following I think is sufficient: A John M‘lntosh, let by contract the Cow River and Naufrage bridges for Mr. Coop- er, without any authority from Govern- ment:—-Angus M‘Cormick and five others performed the c0ntract for Ur. Jardine:— Mr. Cooper gives Mr. M‘Into-sh a certifi— cate for the whole sum which was paid; Dr. Jardme also gave Mr. M‘ Cornuck a. certificate for [8, which was paid likewise—- I would like to know from the parties con- cerned, has the Public chest paid the debt twice, or has Mr. Cooper refunded the ex- tra sum?

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, __ ' ‘flLUB ROOM, flln‘il30. , 'Ijlie’Cloh met pursuant to Adjournment. “The l'resid n' .~ai:l. if it is the intention of honorable Members to submit any motions or resolutions for the Consideration of this club, be trusted they would now hringthcm for- ward; he Would beg to remind them, they were now working by the jib as the amount of their pay was finally fixed.

Mr. Pinder moved secon led by Mr. Pepper, hat the Clerk be directedgo order the late

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