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The following extract is from a distinguished Farmer resident in the state of New 'York to the Editor of the New England Farmer,

“ The best and largest kernelled wheat I had

’tbis season was sown in January. This has in- variably been the case with the Black Sea wheat in this section of the country. Wheat that will bear late sowing escapes three impor- tant accidents: it will not be thrown' out of the

round by frost, nor killed by deep snows, and no insect can findla home in the stalk or root during the winter, so thatif the springis favourabl there is nothingto prevent its coming forw with a strong and rapid growth. We us have, as you do on the sea-board, thre days in January in which the frost 1 top ofthe ground; I .then Wheat, and prefer it to a c

ing wheat.”

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Sir,

Having seen—in your last number an extract on the “ Curing of Pork and Bacon” of which Iby no means approve. I beg to offer a few remarks on this subject, derived from a long acquaintance with the method pursued in Ire. land, where the provision trade has attained such deserved celebrity.

As the eXport ofl’ork may'soon form a vain-

' , able article ol'ourcommerco, l regret that the

Legislature has not made some enactment-3 't'd‘

ulate the contents and brands of each bar- re. This would much increase its intrinsic value, as the purchaser would feel satisfied of what he bought, and having the additional security of the Exporters name joined with

, -;§,—‘,the acknowledged goo lness of our production,

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in your sheet,

should gives us a standing in the market not

easily supereeded. " -' Leaving this, however, to the sagacity.or

knowlfidge ofo_ur Legislature, [will merely rc-

late t e plan followed in lreland, in putting up

' pork for the foreign market.

:i The carcase being allowed to become per-

] w fectly'cold,is.divided into four pound pieces,

b. " .olyfinely powderedsalt-petre to 28le of salt,

and eacb‘placed under its particular brand according tocustom. then it is well rubbed the dry salter, who uses from 4 to 6 ounces

this is considered su’licientfor eoslbs oi'pork It is then closely packed in barrels which are filled with pickle made by dissolving as much

salt in boiling Water as will float a fresh egg or.

a raw potatoe, when cool it is poured over the meat so packed, and to each barrel is added about two or three drachms (or a large tea- aspeon full) of muriatic acid. (The spoon should be silver.) it is then branded by the exporter, with itsown name and number, according to quality, andhis pwn name also. This is well known and so generally relied on, that any re- marks of miqe are unnessary—and should you Sir, think those I have made worthy of a place they are much at your service. e mean time lam ‘ Your obedient servt.

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mECONO‘MICAL VIE rnoo OF RAISING EARLY POTATOES.

month of Febru try and the first part . let the potatoes intended for family somewhat deeper than usual.— I ) rings by spreading them'on the eellar floor. or an other place where they win “Clue or _r ' up, About the- 80th of

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a hot or forcing bed in the or-i fresh stable manure. Spread

inch or two of sand, or lay your potatoe parings ose‘ to each other, so that I be covered, and ‘ rings with light earth two inches deep. W rthe bed frequently, and protect it from th rost by covering with mats ort straw when nee sary,and letit be exposed tothe sun and airinjnoderate weather. When the plants are t'lireeinches high transplant them into rills two and a half feet apart, and ten rem each other in the drill, and you will otatoes earlier and of a larger size than ny other way. The time of preparing the hot bed_and of setting out the plants will vary according to the time ,when the last frosts are expected, and according to the care taken to protect the plants after they are set out.

The writer ofthe above has made the expe- riment three years in succession with uniform- ly pleasing results The potatoes where what are called in Pennsylvania, Mercer or.Nesha- nock: any other early kind may answer as well. The same kind of potatoes were planted at the time the parings were» placed in..the forcing bed, in the ordinAry way by cust'szg amt whole, and those from the parings wer earlier and larger than those raised in the common way. From experience he is satisfied that it is use- lessif not injurious to plant more of the old potatoe than is sulficient to cause the bud to germinate.

The greater part of’the potatoe usually plan- ted may thus be saved and used for the cattle It is nevertheless thought important to select the largest and most perfectly formed pota- toes for need. because they will afford parings suitable for planting, and will probablv im- prove the stock, which will degenerate if small and deformed ones are used ferseed. -

Princeton, (.N'. J.)

March prepa~ dinary way over the manu ‘ light earth; the with the skin the whole cover the

THE PLEASURES OF A GARl)E:‘J..

Not he alone, remarks acelebrate‘l moral- ist, is to be esteemed a benefactor to man. kind, who makes a useful discovery: but he also, who can point out and recoznmend an innocent pleasure, friendly alike to morals and to health. 01' this kind our emotions ari- sing from the observation of nature. and they are highly agreeable to every taste uncor- rupted by vicious inlulgence.

Rural seenes, ofalmrist every kind, are de- lightful to the mind ofman. The verdant plain, the flowery mead, the m tendering stream, the playful lamb, the warbling of birds, are allc'apable ofexciting emotions gently agree- able. But the misfortune is, that the greater number ofus are hurried on in the career of life, with too great rapility, to be able to give attention to thft which solicits no passion. The darkest habitation in the dirtiest street of the city, where money can be earned, has greater charms with many, than all the freshness and lu'turiance of an Italian landscape. Yet the patron of refined pleasure, the elegant Epi~ curus, fixed the seat ofhis enjoyment in a gar- den. He thought a tranquil spot, furnished with the united sweets of art and nature, the best adapted to delicate repose: anl even the severe philosophers of antiquity, were ,wont to discourse in the shade ofa spreading tree, in some cultivated plantation.

It is obvious on intuition, that nature often intended solely to please her eye in her vege- table productions. She decorates the floweret that springs beneath our feet," in all the per- fectien of external beauty. She has clothed

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rious hues. Even the lehesof'the tree? an dergo pleasing vicissitudes. The fresh ye, dure they, exhibit in the Spring, the v3. rious “shades they assume in Summer, the ,1, low and russet tinge of Autumnand the na ed new of Winter, afford a constant' pleasure .

a mind enamoured with the picturesque. pm: the snow drop to the moss-rose; the flow”,

arden dis la s an infinite variet of End color. p’l‘lie taste of the llorisyt basalts: ridiculed as trifling; yet surely without rea son.‘ Did nature bring forth the tulip and thé lily, the rose and the honey-suckle, to be ac. glected by the haughty pretender to superior reason P To omit a single social duty for the cultivation of a polyanthus, were ridiCulous as well as criminal; but to pass 'by the beau’. ties lavished before us, without observin them, is no less ingratitude than stupidity. A bad heart finds little amusement but in a communication with the active world, where scope is given for the indulgence of malignam passions: but an amiable‘disposition is com. monly known by a taste for the beauties of the animal and vegetable creation.

Among the employments suitable to old age Cicero has enumerated lhe.care of a garden.' It requires no great exertion ofmind or body; and. its satisfactions are of that kind which please without agitation. lts beneficial influ. once on health, is an additional reason for an attention to it. at an age when intir 'lies abound. in almost every description 6 the seats of the blessed, ideas of a garden seems to have predominated. The Word Paradise it- self is synonymous with garden. The fieldsol' Elysium, that sweet regibn of poesy, are adorn- ed by the ancient writers with al that imagi- nation can conceive to be in this way delight- ful. Poets have always been charmed with the beauties ofa garden. Some of the most pleasing passages of Milton, are those in which he represents the happy pair engaged in cul- tivating their blissful abode. l’ope also was distinguished for his love and taste for garden. ing; according to \Varton, the enchanting art of modern gardening, for which Great Britain is deservedly celebrated, chiefly owes its origin and its improvements to the two last named poets, Hilton and Pope. Lucan is re- presented by Juvcnal as reposing in his garden. Virgil’s Gvaorgics prove him to have been cap- tivated with rural scenes, though, to the sur- prise ofhis readers, he has not assigned a book to the subject of a garden. Shenstone made gardening his study: but with all his taste and fouluess for it, he was not happy in it. 'I‘hc captivating scenes, which he created at the Leasowcs, afforded him, it is said, little pleasure in the absence of spectators. The truth is, he made the embellish'nent of his ground, which should have been the a- musement of his life, the business of it; and involved himself in such troubles, by the ex- pense it occasioned, as necessarily excluded tranquil enjoyment.

It is the lot of few to possess land so exten- sive and well adapted as his, to constitute an ornamental farm. Still fe'wer are capable of supporting the expense of preserving it in good condition. But let not the rich suppss they have appropri Mai to themselves the pleasures ofagarde'i. The possessor of an acre, aye. even of a few ro ls ofgrouni, may receive a real pleasure from observing the progress of vege- ' tation, eVen in a culinary plant. A vcrv limit“

tract propcnl f‘ettenzled to, will furnish arn' Pie and plefi‘employment for an, indivi- dual during 15 hours not necessarily “19'

voted to the calls of business or of duty. The operations of grafting, of inoculating, and l

the garden with a constant succession of va-

transplanting are curious experiments in net '