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     OWN good effects of which be- 
     
    
   
   
    
            
     
    
   
   
    
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     th come early more observable, and on... 
     
     I ovoubtedly have asalutary influence upon 
     
     m the community—A". E. Farmer. 
     
    
   
   
    
      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 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     THE BRITISH AMERICAN 
     
    
   
   
    
     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. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     dame use I 'ea'rxo z s. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     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 
     
    
   
   
    
     should give way to better, as a people ad- ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     vance in knowledge:—-the boys cloth}i 
     
    
   
   
    
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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? 
     
    

    
     fl KIJV'G’S COU.\’TY QUER [S T. 
     
    

    
     Elude—bush, fipril 2‘2. 
     
    
   
   
    
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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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