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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE. JAS. A. WRIGHT, AGENT. THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE. Terms —Three Dollars a year, in advance OB THE CULTIVATION OP THE PEA. It wold seem a little strange if anything new sbonld be fonnd, at this ate bour,on the cultivation of the pea; yet a9 some of the modes must neccs earily have been so md more success ful than the rest, it affords some pros pect and a hope to the observing farm er, that he may sum np some of the ways best calculated to save the farm ing community the trouble and loss of time of testing all the various modes generally in practice. The pea com poses a “genua" of plants generally possessing esculent qualities, admirably adapted to man’s use. It has its vari ous species—distinguished by the form of the seeds and the habit of the plant. The seeds are marked with a variety of colors, and these colors arc again subdivided into different sorts of the same color We have the white, the black, the red, the yellow and the speckled ; and it may be here remark color of a pea indicates its character a^! 1 constitution for use fulness. The white p“ a - we have found to be the ter.derest of a..' tlie family; they come up weaker, am! /though they are generally a forward pea, they grow off slowly, being weak ly, stand badly, and this color is not found by any means to be the most prolific bearers. The red pea is called the “Tory pea,” and wo havo thought among the most hardy, and in produc •tion to surpass either the cow or Ten nessee Crowder, both of yellow col.»r; these all ripen Lie, arc fad peas, and boar oxposuro to the wea.hcr Aettor than any of tbo other Tarietios of oth or colors. Tho black pea is a forward pea, capable of bearing two crops ■within tho growing toason; wo can not say much for it, as of the useful '.sorts; it has gone out of use in this part of the country. Tho speckled revn CUN*. «*« '•wild goose pen," is our choice; and wero we to select tho most suitablo pea for goneral and all uses, we would present the speckled pea. It is more tenacious of life, comes up stronger And grows c>ff stronger than any of the pea family. Havjng now spoken of the different kinds of peas, wo are next to make a selection and to speak particularly of tho mode of cultivation most profita ble to tho farmer. I have myself, for many years, quit the planting of peas between my corn rows—making it impossible to plow the corn well af terwards; this old plan was done in May, and at the second plowing. I now sow peas broadcast, at the third or last plowing of corn in Juno and (in new ground) in July. In substi tuting this mode of sowing peas in stead of planting them in hills be tween the corn-rows, I have had an oyo to the cheapest renovation of our worn oat lands with something more of vegetablo matter to turn under, than anything known to the farmer. And again, the pea vine, feeding, perhaps, more upon the atmosphere than the earth, returns to the earth, whon turned in, much more food for plants than is taken from it. It is next of some importance to select the sort of pea best suited to this new mode cultivation. It has been fonnd that none of the “fall poa” will ripen its crop, time enough to meet the winter, if not planted sooner than we lay by our corn crops generally, hence wo are to adopt instead of tho Tory or red pea and the yellow sorts, some of the early kinds and I havo for .several years selected the speckled pea. It produces two crops within the year, and my principal object in selecting it was to secure a good pea field for my stock in summer, by sow ing the first crop in separate fields in the spring, (the month of April) as as well as to renovate oar old lands by turning under the coat of vines, for the last two years, (by sowing sepa rate fields in the spring,) immediately after planting cotton. I have had a good pea field this year (40 acres) to move my hogs to from oats and rye fields. I also sowed 20 acres in April, the poorer part of a cotton field, from which I have picked 80 to 100 bush els for seed, &c., and thero was yet a balance of the first crop left for my hogs to be turned into. I have some thing more to urge farmers on to the cultivation 1 havo adopted, of sowing onr corn-fields instead of planting be tween tho rows, which plan is, in real ity fast growing into use; but more particularly, to adopt the plan of sow. ing separate fields in April, thus se curing pea fields in the summer for our stock, when our cribs generally want most help, as well as to aid our selves as farmers, by having a coat of vines to turn under, and thus to en rich our lands in a cheaper mode and less time than the same quality of manure can be supplied by any mode of hauling from the barnyard known to, or ever adopted in agricul lure. Tho above plan of cultivation of tbo poa family is one of the systems which will most tend to the enriching of out worn out lands, as well as to the feed ing of our stocks, and which at this lime is mostly needed. K. S. [So. Cultivator. LOCUST EATEBS. “His meat was locusts and wild honey'.’’ However repulsive the übc of insects as an article of food may seem to us, many varieties are eagerly ’ought alter by various Eustern na tions. Locusts havo been *>sed as food from tho earliest times. Herod otus speaks of a Lybian nation who dried their locusts in'the sun, and ate them with milk. Tho more common method, howover, was to pull off the legs and wings, and roast them in an iron dish. Then they woro thrown iuio a bag and caleu like parched corn, each one taking a handful when ho chose. It is said that they are brought into maikct on strings, in all tho cities of Arabia, and are also pack ed away in salt by the Bedouins, and carried with them as food on '.heir journeys. Tho Jews were permitted to cat locusts, as we find in Licvilicas xi. 22; ' ffceso yd fivuy amt, tho foSuef after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle af'lor his kind, and the grasshopper after j his kind." Both beetles and grasshoppers nro much used in Egypt for food. Hr. Livingstono speaks of tho locusts of South Africa as a groat blessing to tho country. They afford abundant food for the poor native, who without them, would bo deprived of all ani mal food. The great white ant, so noted for tho wonderful homo it builds, is in great favor as an article of food in tho countiics where it abounds. It is propared in various ways, but more frequently parched, or made into a cako wiih a paste of fl>ur. Dr. Livingstone once gave a chief who came to visit him, a piece of breud with preserved apricots fur bis lunch. As bo seemed to relish it, the Doctor ackod if his country produced any food equal to it '( “ Ab,” said the chief, “did you ever taste white ant ?” On his replying that he had not, ho said, “ Well, if you bad, you never could have desired to eat any thing better.” There is a large grub, or caterpillar, wbich feeds on the palm tree, which is considered a great delicacy in tbo East Indies. Captain Steadman, who ate of them, fried in butter, declares their flavour to be “ liko a combina tion of all the spices in India.” But whatever a small portion of the human race may think on the subject, edible insects will not be likely to come into general favour. As ono suggests, the first locust eaters were probably driven to the expedient be cause the locusts had left them no thing else to eat.— B. S. Timet. A clergyman in the West, meeting an emigrant travelling with bis fami ly, noticed on ono of the wagons a large jug with no bottom, and asked why he carried that with him. He replied that that was his Taj lor jog. On asking him to explain, he said; “ I had a son in Gen, Taylor’s army in Mexico, and the old general always told him to carry his whisky jug with a hole in the bottom; and ainco that time 1 have carried my jug as you see it, and I think it the very best’ inven tion I ever met with,” WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, GA~ A GOOD STORY. From Ohio comes the following cap ital teinporuneo story to.tho “Drawer” of Harper's Magazine: —“Judge Bay-, the temperanoa lecturer, in ouo of his off >rts hero, got off the following: “‘Allot those who in youth ac quire a habit of drinking whiskey, at forty years of age w ill bo total ab stainers or drunkards. No one can use whiskey- for years in moderation. If thero is a person in tho audience before me whose experience disputos this, let him make it known. 1 will account for it, or acknowledge that I am mistaken.’ ‘“A mil, large man arose, and fold ing his arms in a dignified manner across his broast, said : ‘“I offer myself as one whose expe rience contradicts your statement.’ “‘Are you a moderate drinker?’ said the Judge. “ ‘ I am.’ “‘How long have you drank in moderation ?’ “ 1 Forty years.’ “ ‘And wore never intoxicated ?’ “ * Never.’ Well,’ remarked the Judge, scan ning his subject closely, ‘yours is a singular case; y-ct I think it is ousily aceountid for. lam reminded by it of a little story : —A colored man, with a loaf of bread and a bottle of whis key, sat down to dine by the bank of a clear stream. Iri breaking the bread some of tho crumbs dropped into the water. Those wero eagorly sexed and c.ulen by tho fish. The circumstance suggested to the dark ey tho idea of dipping broad iuto ihe whiskey and feod it to' thonl, 110 tried it. It worked, well, gpmo of tho fish ato it, becamo floatod helpless on tbo su this way he easily caught a great number. But in tho stream was a largo fish unlike the rep/,. It ttrjjck freely of tho bread and whiskey, but With i,o perceptible effect. It was effort to take'i' Ho re solved to have it all hazards, that ho might learn its name and nature. Ho procured a net, and after much effort caught it, carried it to a colored neigh bor, and asked bis opinion in tho mat ter. Tho other surveyed tho wonder a moment, and then said :—“Sambo, l un’erstand dis case. Dat fish is a mul let head ; it ain’t got any bruins !" ‘ln other words,’ added the Judge, ‘ alco hol affects only the brain, and, of courso, those having none may drink without injury !’ “Tho storm of laughter which fol lowed drove tho moderate drinker suddenly from tho bouse.” The Bov. lialph Erskino, on a cer tain occasion,paid a visit to his vener able brother, Ebenezer. “ Oh, man !”eaid the latter, “but y-ou come in a gudo time. I have a diet of examination to day, and yc maun tuk’ it, as I have mutters o’ importance to settle at Perth.” “With all my- heart,” quoth llalph “N.io,” says Ebonezer, “ ye’ll find a ! my folks easy to examino butane, and him I reckon ye had bettor na rneddle wi’. He has an old-fashioned Scotch way o’ answering ane ques tion by putting another, and may be he’ll affront ye.” “Affront me!” quoth the indignant theologian. “Do ye think he can foil me wi, my- ain tools?’, “Aweel,” says his brother, “I‘se gie ye fair warning, ye had better na ca’ bim op.” The recusant was one Walter Simp son, the Vaulcou of the parish. Tho gifted Itulph determined to silence him at once with a leading unanswer able question. Accordingly after pot ting a variety of simple preliminary interrogatories to the minor clod hop pers, ho at once, with a loud voice,, ctied out: “ Walter Simson !” “ Here, sir,” says waiter. “Are ye wanting mo ?” “Attention, sir? Now, Walter, can you tell mo how long Adam stood in a state of innocence ?” “Ay, till he got a wife,” instantly cried the anvil hammerer. “ But cun you tell me how long he stood after?” “Sit down, Walter,” said the discom fited divine. - ONIONS. * > Scarcely garden can be found hav-' ing any-vl«oty of vegetables, but what the odiupi in some of its varieties, is not found-, 'We may also say t£ia vegetable^,yftr ffbmmoh "useg and has been used‘as a .common seasoning for meals and Suopsfbf all ages from tho earliest lipipaf even the remote ages ; used by a £rost many raw as well as cooked; it is held lobe very nutri tious, aufi the majority of mankind hold its Savor as quite a treat. Many a hungry man has been made to rt juice with his broad, ouion and water. Boally-, the onion is welcome to the tables oftbe rich and the poor. We love them ourself, yet have not eaten as much as one onion in thirty years, and perhaps never may, for our stom ach and the onion are not friends. This vegotublo requires rich land, and though onions may grow on the same larrd lor half a century, yet the land should be well manured yearly to ensure B ke&jgs. If the of a. light metkPFnaturo adld sand, vegeta ble manure and make Spade typ-soyo a stock !antl kept moist, Lo sutjf rows by . oft rows if feed are t(% f vory lightly, kcepthejjjPH l |\ T 1) about hi;, to about and ' cloudy- 'wqus/per, wheu earth is only moist, set them out; don’t plant deep, mtSfrely tho roots buried wo shorten them and tho top also. Havo rows 12 inches apart, merely lqr hoe. I? sets or billion onioii b«4>iant cd, pr,. a them gently- in tho earth under line; not too deep, 4 inches ajjart; rows 12 inches. It a full orojj ■As wanted, 4 iqcTie* is distance Ciio!Ul^ i k*'44' b y 9 “ iIMSe ample,,, If la: ,1 b. V* •■■>• Oijj.ttl) ?r-w ■ and is of) ir. ' l ' ’ »‘V . • . •iy S —We shorn 1 •■ v ’ ;g< - npon, ■ a-'eounivy im. m it!,d-'’'}iut in your seed '■ rt i onion setts, don’t wait umtil spring. We have onions now; Ist of Fe’by full G to 12 inches high.— Southern Jlural ist. Mixed stock in pasture. — l noti ced, some time ago, a good deal writ ton about keepinga mixed stock on pastures. As I havo been a keeper of stock from early youth until now, 1 venture to givo my opinion. And first, I have lound sheep to do well amongst cattle, but cattlo do badly amongst sheep. To prove it, let the farmers take tho fodder loft by the cattle even when part of it has been trodden under thoir feet, and if ths sheep are not very fully fed, they will so# the Bheep eat it up very greedily; then let him take what his sheep leaves, and offer it to his cattle, and he will find that they wont taste it, if they can get anything elso; or let him turn his milk cows in a sheep pasture, and ho will find them fail in milk,—Cattle do well where horses pasture. In proof of this, every- farmer must have soon that cattle will eat tho litter of horses, oven if fully fed, but horses wont eat what cattle leave, unless compelled to do so. But horses and gheon will do well in some pastures, especially tho horses. To prove this, let the farmer turn out the sheep from their yards, turn in his horses, and they will eat np all the sheep lias left, even the lit ter around tho racks.— John Johnston. Deep vs. Shallow Plowing. —A committee of the Illinois Slate Agri cultural Society, in making their “re ports on farms,” visited by them, say-8: “In making our examination through the Slate, we took very particular pains to inquire diligently into the different modes of cultivation, and to observe the results; and in every in stance, we found where they were get ting big crops they wore plowing deep; and whore the system of shallow plowing was pursued thoy had light crops. Another thing connected with deep culture was, that the oxtremes of wet or dry weather had far less ef fect than whon thoy plowod shallow. Again, with every man that plowed deep, wo found that the hard times did not seem to affect him, and we came to the conclusion that the hard times lay within four inches of the surface, and all who plow eight to ten inches soon root them out. BRYANT, THE POET. It sSjust fifty y ears ago since Bry-i ant published his “ Thahatopis” in! the North American Review , aiTd yet that“ good gray hoad which all men know” still lingers with us, honored and revered. One easily guesses the secret of bis long and useful life by watchijig his habits in these latter days in hts own borne at Cedarmere. He rises at six in tho tgorning, and exercises with dumb-bells for an hour. Ho congratulates himself onTlis slen der build, and say» r Lughingly,”How much better it wov! . be to carry a heavy load for half an hour and then be relieved of the burden, than to carry it with one forever at one step.” He is simple to abstemiousnoss in bis diet. While bis breakfast table is am ply supplied with variety for his guests, ho contents himself with a dish of boiled hominy and milk. Ho uses uciikor tea nor coffee, though they aro always offered to others. Ho writes chiefly in the morning, and devotes the afternoon to out-door ex ereises, and social en joyment; for he is fortunately irSsh enough to bo froofrOtn excessive labor. His attachment, to his home at Cedar mere is very stfong, and he interests himself in tho concerns o( his neigh bors with a hearty friendliness. May ■no kindly lace,-with its flowing, sil very board and hair, linger long under those beloved trees which rise above Codarmero. —Christian Times and Wit lll'S. Bread Making.—l have been raa - king such good bread fately, that I concluded not to hide nxy light under ,i bushel, so I will let -cm into t ! >. ae- . oret. ’ fi>Viw« , ■ oti'iary'tiAvo-; 1. noil j " ' x ' ”■ '<• a*''o’ low fM „V*;.! iPM of- dntyr, and'",', ,'v .«• potato '#^'t : ipiiii Jeattt" until Rl|- smooth and wlrTte, and cool enough add a cake of yeast well u. ,o ' 3O * vec * id a little water with a lump of whf'-o sugar in it. Stir it in well; cover up and s’t in a warm piaco until morning, when it *° ho very light, and thon add a litli® warm water and enough Boor and salt as usual. 1 uso all the sponge at one baking. Well, the bread will get very light; thon grease your pans and form the loaves, and when light bake them. Whon the bread is done, I simply turn it upside down until cool, and then wrap it up, it will bo very soft, and I think you will like it. While on the subjoct, perhaps another re cipe would be acceptable during the high prices : Sift so much corn meal as you think sufficient, add a little salt, and pour boiling water on it, beat until smooth, grease a hot griddlo, and put on tho cakes with a spoon; do not havo the batter stiff or too thin. When dono, split and butter; wo liko them very much for a chango. Yel low meal would probably boas good for those who liko it. —Qermantoxon Telegraph. Giving as A Duty. —A writer in tho New York Evangelist record tho following incident: A few Sabbath evenings sinco a young gentleman in a Deformed Dutch congregation on Fifth Avcnuo went home from church with his pastor, and after telling him how bo had been prospered during the past year, said to him in substance : “1 have considerable of the Lord’s money in my possession ; to what use shall I put it ?’’ Ilis pastor told him that their Board of loreign Missions was 859,000 in debt, and recommended him to give 85,000 to that Board, lie did so at once, and went home. The next morning before breakfast tho gentle man came back, much troubled in spirit, and said : “I did not give enough last night.” He sat down quickly and wrote his check for 859,000 dollars, and thus swopt off a burdensome debt of their missionary board by one stroke of his pen? “Now,” said he,“l feel hotter." And tbo noxt meeting of that Hoard was a jubilee. Let us ask, are there no Warren Ackermans in our chur ches? VOL n.-Nft 3. MODE OF MANAGING A BESTIVE MOEsN. A groom, mounted on a high-met tied hu,nter, entered .the High street of Goldstream, and whejy opposite Sir John Msjoribankrs monument the horse began to plunge and Fear to a fearful extent, swerving teethe right and then to the left, but go for ward ho would not nor could all tho exertions of the groom overcome hte obstinacy. The street was filled with people exacting to see the animal destrtjty hitsSfelf on the spikes of the iron railing round the monument, when Mr. McDougal, saddler, walked up to the groom and Baid : “I think, my man, you are not taking the pro per method to make the horse go; al low me, if you please, to show you a* trick worth knowing.” “Weil," said the groom, “if you can make him go, it’s more than I can when Mr. Mo- Dortgal took a bit of whipcord, which he tied with a firm knot on the end of the animal ear, which he bent gently down, fastening the end of the stripg f6 tho cheek bucklo of the bridle, which done hi patted the horse’s nsek once or twioo, and said, “Now let me, see you go quietly home like a good horse,” and*astontshing to relate, he moved off gontly as if nothing had happened. Mr. MoDongal says he has s'een in London horses whieh no manner of force could make go, while this mild treatment was always suc cessful. Aroma of cOmxsH&Ma berries of coffee, once roasted, lose every hour somewhat of their aroma, in conse quence of the influence of the oxygen of the air, whiob, owing to the porous ness of tfae.roasted berries, can easily penotrate. This pernicious change i n av avoided, tjystr owi ngi over fe-jhjhiaiegpa'the as -1 llsPßliHi SUE diately, and by well shaking or turn ing the ronster quickly, spreads over all the berries, add gives each one a fine glaze, impervious to the atmos phere. They then have a shining ap* pearance, as though oovored with var n.'sfa, and they in consequence loss their smell entirely, whic hhowever, return in a high degree as they are ground. Alter this operation, they are to be shaken out rapidly from the roaster and spread on a cold plate of iron, so that they may cool as soon as possible. If tho hot berries are al lowed to remain heaped together they begin to sweat, and whon tho quanti ty is largo the heating process by the influence of air increases to such a degree that at last they take fire spon taneously. The roasted and glazed berrios should be kept in a dry place, because the covering of sugar attracts moist uro. —Baron Liebig. Manuring. —Some farmers put off the application of their stable and yard mauure to wheat, until winter or spring. Whon this is done they are usually but poor compensation for their labor. Winter wheat has two periods of growth : the first in antumn, and tho second during the following spring and summer. Tho vigor of the crop, in its second period, generally depends very much on the healthful devoloperoont of these parts of the roots which are natural to the first or autumn period. If, then, manure !b incorporated with the soil at the time of sowing, the impulse given to the wheat plants in autumn is almost cortain to continue until the crop is matured—unloss some physical cause comes in to prevent it,‘such as drouth or the depredation of insects. But when manure is spread upon feeble wheat in winter or spring it comes too late. The basis of a good crop is not there. As well might you expect to make a great ox from a stinted calf, us to make a good crop from saoh a case as this. •W I I No Mange in Black Hoes. — A writer in the Southern Planter, descri bing the different varietiesoiswine says bo never knew black bogs to h*ve mango, while white ones are very subject to it, and sometimes die of if.