Extract from a correspondent at Raleigh, N. C., Jes of 48 large and small, which weighed about 6 and $8. Mr. Rolle is a young planter, this August 8th. 7 lbs. each, twice the standard of Connecticut being the first crop raised under his superinten"Our corn crops are uncommonly promising, onions, at eight cents per bunch. They are dance, and was of excellent quality. We believe but the great quantity of cotton under cultiva-raised on Long Island, and are of a Spanish seed this is_the tion will make provisions scarce and dear." highest price obtained this seaor growth not heretofore seen in the market-son for Eastern Shore Tobacco, and is a just reand exhibit, I think, an improvement on that va-ward for good and judicious management. luable esculent, equal to Cobbett's amelioration of the ruta baga. COARSE SALT. HORTI. FROM THE BOSTON GAZETTE. PRICES CURRENT.-CORRECTED WEEKLY. We yesterday received from Col. Wheeler, of Salina, as a sample, a small box of Salt, made at his works at Salina by the process of slow evaporation, by means of heated tubes passing through MANURE FROM SWINE-HOW TO IN- White Wheat, $1 20 a 1 25—very first qualivats of salt water. This, we are told is altoCREASE THE QUANTITY. ty, white Wheat, well cleaned, would probably gether a new invention in the history of making The dung of swine is very rich and fat manure, bring $1 30-Red, do. $1 15 a 1 20-Corn, 68 a salt, and for which Col. W. has, or is about to and so cold as to ferment very slowly. It is so 70-Rye, 50 a 55 cts.-Oats, 35 a 40 cts.-Flour procure a patent from the United States. The rich and oily as to be double in value to neats from the wagons, $6 37 a 6 50-Wharf, do. $6 process is a simple one, and may be described as dung. It will render the most dry and hungry 25, 90 days Shad, from $6 50 to 8 50-Herfollows:-There are two cisterns, or vats, made soils exceedingly fruitful in a wettish season, as I rings, $3 25 to 3 75-Beef, Northern mess per of plank, the upper cistern 50 feet long by 20 feet have found by experience. It resists the ill effects bbl. $10 to 10 25-Baltimore, prime do. $9 to wide, the under one 50 by 25. The salt water is of drought and does most service in a hot country. $9 75-Hams, 10 to 12 cents-middlings, 6 to pumped into the upper cistern, and there brought By its steady and gradual supply of a rich nour-8 cents-Cotton, West India, per lb. accord to a salting state, so as to crystalize all the sul-ishment it is particularly adapted for the growing ing to quality, 15 to 25 cents-New Orleans phate or carbonate of lime, and settle the same. of hops, pumpkins, running beans, and every plant prime, 16 to 18 cents-Georgia, upland, do. 14 The Water is then drawn into the lower cistern, which has long vines. Nothing can equal it for to 16 cents-Cheese, N. England, 12 to 15 cents, where it is heated by means of fire operating on the growing of potatoes; it has produced me more scarce-Coal, Virginia, per bushel, 25 to 30 the tubes, which are of cast iron, to about 100 deg. than a peck in a hill, on the poorest hungry sands; cts.-English do., 40 cts.-Flax per lb. 10 to 10 Far. till it forms chrystals, some larger, others or rather, I might say, straw only a little impreg-cents-Hops, fresh, per lb. 10 to 12 cents-Hogs' smaller, but all of a cubical form. One small fire nated with the dung of hogs has done it. This is lard, per lb. 9 to 10 cents-Hides, E. Shore, per warms both cisterns, by operating on the tubes. so strong a manure, that it answers well when lb. 8 to 10 cents-Leather, soal, per lb. 24 to 25 The water in the upper cistern is sometimes as mixed with a large proportion of earth, weeds, cts.-Upper do., whole hide, $3 to $4 25hot as 150 deg. Far. straw or other bibulous substances. It is almost Salt, St. Ubes, per bushel, 50 cts.-Cadiz, do, We are unable to say with what facility salt incredible how great a quantity of good manure 42 cts.-Liverpool, blown, 40 cts.-Ground do. may be manufactured on this plan; but we are in- may be obtained, by supplying a hog stye with 50-Turks' Island, 60-Wool, Merino, full blood, formed it can be made with much less expense rubbish to mix with the dung. I have heard of per lb. 35 to 40 cts.-Do. mixed, 28 to 30 cts.than by the usual mode. The sample sent us is forty loads of manure being made in the year by Common country do., 20 to 20 cts. very superior, and resembling, in some respects, means of one hog stye, and I have no doubt of its the St. Ubes salt.-Onondaga N. Y. Register. THE SEASON. being practicable. HORSE SHOEING. AMERICAN ISINGLASS. VIRGINIA TOBACCO-5 hhds. Richmond, sold the last week, at $7 75. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. We hear of one farmer in New York raising. Putting shoes on horses while the shoe is hot, 3000 bushels of wheat this season, his acres aver-is denounced in a late English paper as a very aging forty bushels each; and we have been told bad practice, and is the occasion of a great deal I wish to sell two valuable tracts of land, lying of other instances of unusual ingathering of ear-of lameness, by rendering the feet tender. The in York county. One containing 800 acres, borly harvests. Throughout New England the shoes should be entirely cool. dering on York river; this land is well suited to fields are loaded with excellent Indian corn; unthe culture of all grain crops and tobacco. On commonly fine crops of rye, barley, and oats, the shores the river continually throws up large have been well housed. Potatoes, and all the A manufactory of this useful article has been quantities of Kelp, which has been found an exother vegetable tribes, promise abundance in size established at Cape Ann by Mr. Wm. Hall, late cellent manure. There is within a hundred yards and superiority in quality; and the orchards in of this city. The material for manufacture is ob- of the buildings, an excellent summer fishery, and almost every direction are literally breaking tained from fish taken from our coast. The oysters are taken in abundance throughout the down with the loads of rich fruit with which specimens of isinglass manufactured at Cape winter; most buildings necessary to a farm, are they are burdened.-Boston Gaz. Ann have been used by the brewers and confec-erected on the land; a large quantity of marl is tioners in our city, who consider it fully equal if found on this farm; a large peach and apple ornot superior to the imported.-Pat. chard now bearing fruit. This farm may be conveniently divided (if required) into two neat farms of 400 acres each; with a portion of meadow, and a sufficiency of wood land to each. The soil on the river is a shelly loam. THE CROPS. THE FARMER. BALTIMORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1822. We have the pleasure to state, says the Virginia Roanoke Sentinel of the 17th inst. that the crops in this section of the country, are superior to what they have been for many years: every The other farm I will sell, contains 450 acres. person we meet with says, he has the largest and This land adjoins, in part, the town of York, and finest Tobacco he ever saw. Corn is already enextends to York river; to this tract belongs a gaged at one dollar per barrel, and it is the genThe Editor of the American Farmer fish are taken thro' the spring, summer and auvaluable shad and herring fishery; a variety of eral opinion it may be bought at any time before it is cribbed at $1 25. We have understood of fine Fruit, from his friend and correspondent, This farm is level, and well watered; a meathankfully acknowledges the receipt of a basket tumn months; and oysters through the winter: that one or two neighbourhoods in this county, JOHN WILLIS, Esq. of Oxford, Caroline county, dow of thirty acres is attached; houses for ne have suffered by the drought; but even those neighbourhoods will make amply sufficient for Md.-It being much superior to the fruit gener-groes, barns, and corn houses are erected; it We have heard ally brought to this market, particuarly the has also a good apple orchard: On this tract the support of their families. that the counties of Franklin, Patrick and Henry, Pears, of which there were several varieties, he two extensive pits of shell marl are found, which have been as much favoured as this. We con- presented the same to Mr. REUBENS PEALE, the are believed to be sufficient to manure the whole sider the crop safe, saving hail storms, gusts, worthy and enterprizing proprietor of the Balti- tract. freshets, &c. From the N. Y. Statesman. MAMMOTH VEGETABLES. more Museum, who exhibited it last week. We selected the place, where we supposed those These lands will be offered for sale at public who felt an interest in such matters would have auction, on the 3d Monday of September next, a good opportunity to view it, and we understand being York court day, when the terms will be a large concourse of people, who attended this made known, and accommodating to purchasers. Mr. Editor, I saw a match for your green place of fashionable resort, expressed high and THOMAS GRIFFIN. gages the other day, in a bunch of ONIONS, and general satisfaction. Yorktown, Va. August 9. they not produced in Wethersfield, or any other part of New England. This bunch or rope contained 64 onions, red and white alternately, and Mr. FIDDEMON ROLLE, of St. Michales', Talweighed 23 lbs. I bought several ordinary bunch-bot county, sold his crop of Tobacco last week for MARYLAND TOBACCO. PUBLISHED BY J. S. SKINNER. Girth. length Weight. Girth. length Weight. 4 9 2 10 214 5 0 3 4 9 398 0 161 3 6 220 2 11 505 220 224 4 1 389 4 11 3 514 3 8 227 230 3 4 5 3 5 182 9 179 3 5 2 10 185 3 36 258 7 311 428 8 318 325 190 444 270 196 2 3 447 8 1 277 202 3 456 283 4 4 -465 290 354 358 5 223 4 0 368 1555 2 6 493 228 493 375 382 239 3 9 368 4 10 3 10 4 10 3 0 251 012345 234 518 239 246 253 4 260 267 434 2 10 3 192 416 279 203 5 2 3 7 $19 3 123456789 441 1234 610 546 5 2 554 561 573 441 451 2 220 3 10 462 9 333 456 307 476 231 4 3 11 483 350 237 319 490 242 500 4 248 365 5 0 44 508 517 381 188 4 4. 526 193 207 213 217 223 3 0 211 C1234 0 4 10 536 4 11 546 403 554 8 564 417 5 5 277 6 ગગક 284 43 4 11 590 5 0 298 456 5 448 4 305 5 3 3 2 10 171 679 465 323 475 465 3 7 8 8 339 487 252 3 8 325 496 258 346 5 504 354 4 10 361 4 11 4 351 4 2 385 3 6 5 524 3 7 199 33 3 8 3 8 679 4 10 550 393 4 11 301 3 9 227 412 560 382 570 9 391 5 3 0 S 9 1 217 580 416 5 424 5 431 4.37 3 4 447 4 2 3 435 349 455 3 3 255 444 462 260 3 0 363 470 3 2 4 199 3 10 279 4 6 378 479 4 588 599 608 617 627 469 479 489 3 10 500 209 4 0 4 872 4 9 510 497 5 518 5 9 1183 6 9 1480 6 10 1498 1555 2 1571 6 11 1519 1540 66 HORTICULTURE. 1684 1704 POMARIUM BRITANNICUM, employed by the Romans to dye the hair of the head black. If they be boiled in water, says Pliny, they are as good and wholesome to be eaten as other pot-herbs. Sir J. E. Smith has remarked, that this tree is, as it were, a whole magazine of physic to rustic practitioners. The bark, leaves, flowers and berries, are used with advantage in medicine. The leaves are said to be purgative and emetic, and are applied externally for the piles and inflammations; an ointment is made also with them as well as the flowers: the latter are used inwardly as a carminative. Infusions made from the flowers while fresh, are gentle, laxative, and aperient; when dry they are found to promote the cuticular secretion, and to be particularly serviceable in erysipelatous and eruptive disorders. Sydenham directs three handfuls of the inner bark to be boiled in a quart of milk and water, till only a pint remains, of which one half is to be taken at night and the other in the morning; and this repeated every day for those afflicted with the dropsy. Boerhaave recommends the expressed juice of the middle bark, given from a drachm to half an ounce, as the best of hydragogues when the viscera are sound. Elder-flower water, the oil of elder, and elder syrup, are also used as medicines. The berries are esteemed cordial, and useful in hysteric disorders; and are often put into gargarisms for sore mouths and throats. The fungous excrescences, which are often found growing on the trunk of the elder-tree, bearing the resemblance of an ear, black in the inside and of a whitish colour on the outside, (called auriculæ Judæorum) are accounted good for inflammations and swellings of the tonsils, sore throats, and quinsies. The wine made from elder-berries is too well known by families in the country to require any encomiums: it is the only wine the cottager can procure, and, when well made, is a most excellent and wholesome drink, taken warm before going to bed. It causes gentle perspiration, and is a mild opiate; and may be taken safely, and with advantage, by those of costive habits. If a rich syrup be made from ripe elder-berries and a few bitter almonds, when added to brandy it has all the flavour of the very best cherry-brandy. The white elder-berries, when ripe, make wine, much resembling rich grape-wine. The buds and the young tender shoots are greatly admired as a pickle. The leaves of the elder-tree are often put into the subterraneous paths of moles, to drive those An Historical and Botanical account of Fruits, noxious little animals from the garden. If fruitknown in Great Britain, by Henry Philips. -Second Edition. (Continued from page 181.) trees, flowering shrubs, corn, or other vegetables, be whipped with the green leaves of the elder branches, insects will not attach to them. An infusion of these leaves in water is good to sprinkle over rose buds, and other flowers, subject to blights and the devastations of caterpilThe common elder-tree is a native of Eng- The wood of old elder-trees is so hard, and tand, and is found also in most parts of Europe, takes so good a polish, that it is often used as a as it will grow on any soil, and in situations substitute for the box-tree. From its toughness, where few other trees would live. it is used for tops for fishing rods, needles for In Botany, a Genus of the Pentandria Trignia Class. lars. The elder thrives near wet ditches, and is of-weaving nets, butchers' skewers, &c. I find it ten seen growing on the ruins of old walls, or was used by the Romans to make pipes and from the hollow of decayed trees: so hardy is trumpets, as Pliny says, "the shepherds were this valuable and neglected tree, that it is found thoroughly persuaded that the elder-tree, growboth in sheltered swamps and on the bleak tops ing in a by-place out of the way, and where the of church towers. crowing of cocks from any town cannot be heard, The elder does not appear to have been used makes more shrill pipes and louder trumpets 31590 medicinally by the ancients, but the berries were than any other." |