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A©KD©!miLT!yilSE a
Fruit Trees —The new method of
raising fruit trees by planting the scions
in a great desideratum in the art of ob
taining good fruit. It has many advan
tages over grafting, because it is more
expeditious, and requires no stock or tree.
They may be planted where they are re
quired tostand, and the labour for one
day will be sufficient to plant out enough
for a large orchard. After the scions
are obtained, the method of prepairing
the plant is as follows: —Take the scion
as for grafting, and at any time after the
first of February, and until the buds begin
to grow considerably, and dip each end
of the shoot in melted pitch, wax, or tal
low, and bury it in the ground, the buds
uppermost, while the body lies in a hori
zontal position, and at the depth of two
or three inches. We are informed that
trees obtained in this way will bear in
three or four years from the time of plant
ing. We have no doubt of the practica
bility of this method of raising fruit.
A gentleman in this vicinity last sea
son planted about twenty scions of differ
ent kinds of pears, which appears to
flourish. The composition he used was
melted shoemaker’s wax.— Cultivator.
Plugging Tubes. —This operation is
a very efficient remedy for destroying
caterpillars, and other insects, preying
upon the limbs of fruit trees, &c.
It has often been desired to find such
a remedy. Our shade trees are covered
every year with disgusting and voracious
caterpillars. Ycat after year new,
troublesome, and costly means arc pro
posed, which are inefficient, while this
very easy and cheap way to poison and
destroy at once all the insects of any
tree is so little known, that our farmers
and gardeners appear to be acquainted
with it. It was discovered in France,
and I have verified it by the knowledge
of it everywhere. This simple operation
consists in boring a hole with a large
spike gimlet about one-third the diame
ter of the tree in depth. Fill the hole
nearly full with the flour of sulphur, and
plug it up by driving in a wooden peg.
This does not injure the tree in the least,
but the sulphur is decomposed, or car
ried into circulation by the sap, and is ex
haled by the leaves in a gaseous state,
while it poisons and kills all the cattcr
pillars and insects preying upon them.
Wash for Trees. —The best wash
for the bodies of young trees is lye made
of ashes or potash; one pound of potash
Will be enough for one gallon of water.
This should be applied with a brush or a
swab to the body of the tree in the month
of July; for this is the season in which
insects lay their eggs on the body and at
the roots of the trees.
This wash will entirely destroy all the
moss on the body, and all the lice and
eggs and young worms that come in con
tact with it. The wash is much prefer
red to lime wash, as it is a vegitable sub
stance; and it will not close the pores of
the wood as lime will. It has been long
tried by the best orchardist and has never
been known to injure the apple tree,
when made as above directed.— Maine
C ulti valor.
Remedy against Mildew of Grades.
Take a pint and a half of sulphur, and
a lump of the best unslacked lime of the
size of the first; put these in a vessel
of about seven gallons measurement;
let the sulphur be thrown in first, and the
lime over it; then pour in a pailful of
boiling water, stir it well, and let it stand
half an hour; then fill the vessel with
cold water, and after stirring well again,
allow the whole to settle. After it has
become settled dip out the clear liquid in
to a barrel, and fill the barrel with cold
water, and it is then fit for use. You
next proceed with a syringe holding
about a pint and a half, throwing the li
quid with it on the vines in every direc
tion, so as completely to cover the foli
age, fruit, and wood. This should be
1 particularly done when the fruit is just
forming and about onc-third the size of
a pea, and may bo continued twice or
thrice a week for two or three weeks.
The whole process for one or two hund
red grape vines need not exceed half an
hour.
To remove Caterpillars from
Fruit Trees. —Take a long reed or
pole, and tie a piece of sponge at the end.
Dip this in spirits of turpentine, and con
duct it to the nests. The spirits will
penetrate them, and effect the vermin to
such a degree that in ten minutes there
after they will be completely destroyed.
With one gill of this spirit we were ena
bled to cleanse five trees of these destruc
tive vermin. Our author says trees do
not receive the slightest injury by using
this remedy.
To kill Lice on Cabbage. —Last
year I had one quarter of an acre of cab
bages that were nearly covered with the
cabbage louse. I took off the outside
leaves, and burned them. Having a few
gallons of very strong tobacco liquor,
(left after sheep-shearing,) which 1 dilu
ted by adding soap suds from the wash, I
sprinkled the plants very thoroughly
from a watering pot. I believe it killed
every louse, for I did not discover one
afterward. —New England Farmer.
Measureing Corn. —Having previ
ously levelled the corn in the house, so
that it will be of equal depth throughout,
ascertain the length, depth, and breadth
of the bulk; multiply these dimensions
together, and their products by four; |
then cut offonc figure from the right of
last product: this will give so many
bushels, and decimal bushels of shelled
corn. If it be required to find the quan
tity of corn in the ears,substitute 8 for 4,
and cut oft'one figure as before.
Example. —ln a bulk of corn in the
ears, measuring 12 feet long, 11 feet
broad, and G feet deep, there will be 31(1
bushels and 8-10ths of a bushel of shelled
corn ; or 03*3 bushels of ears, as follows:
T 2 12
11 11
132 132
0 0
792 792
4 • 8
Shell corn, 316.8 633.6 cars.
'File decimal 4 is used when the object
is to find the quantity in shelled corn,
because that decimal is half of the deci
mal, and it requires two bushels of cars
to make one ot shelled corn. • In using
these rules, a half bushel should be added
for every hundred, that amount of error
resulting from the substitution of the dec
imals.
Blind Staggers. —This disease ap
pears to be a compression upon the brain,
caused by a collection of wind and mat
ter in the forehead. The writer witness
ed a cure effected in the following man
ner:—A hole was board with a nail
gimlet through the skull, on the curl of
hair central between the eyes. In vari
ous instances he has heard of its being
applied with uniform success. This
remedy was discovered by an attempt to
kill, and thus relieve a horse from the
distress of this disease. His skull was
fractured by the stroke of an axe. The
morning following the horse was found
feeding apparently well. The remedy
may be applied by any person, as the
horse very soon becomes helpless after
the attack, and immediate relief is af
forded by letting out the matter, &c.
Those who are too timid to try the
above remedy, may resort to one less
severe; and as the writer has understood,
from a credible source, equally succes3-
iul. Make a vertical incision in the skin
between the eyes; separate it from the
skull, so as to inaks a sufficient cavity to
contain a gill of salt. A cure very soon
will be effected.
Tiie Striped Bug. —Every person
who cultivates cucumbers and melons
must be acquainted with the yellow strip
ed bug. By sprinkling quick lime on
the vines will entirely destroy them:
The aggregate value of the agri
cultural product of the state of Illinois,
according to the last census, is $22,398,-
185.
A Good Retort. —An Athenian who
was lame in one foot, on joining the ar
my, being laughed at by the soldiery on
account of his lameness, said, “ / cm
hear to fight , not to run!'’
AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1813.
MO®eilLL^Nife)iy)i 0
Female lleeoism. —While these events I
(the Revolution) were in progress, the
arm of female enthusiasm arrested the
course of Marat, one of the tyrants.
Charlotte Corday, a native of Ron n, at
the age of live and twenty, was actuated
by a heroism and devotion above her sox.
Ciftcd with a beautiful form and serene
temper, she deemed the occupations and
ordinary ambition of wohien beneath her
serious regard ; possessed of more than
masculine courage, she had lost nothing
of female delicacy. One only passion,
the love of liberty, concentrated the ar
dent aspirations of her mind. Her en
thusiasm was awakened to the highest
degree by the arrival of the prescribed
Girondists at Rouen; fcy the romantic
visions of her youth seemed blighted by
the bloody aspirations of the ruling fac
tion at Paris.
Marat, the instigator of all the attroci
tics, she imagined to be their leader. If
he could be removed, no obstacle appear
ed to remain to the reign of justice and
equality, or the commencement of the
happiness ot France. In the heroic spirit
of female devotion, she resolved to sacri
fice her life to attain this inestimable
object. Having taken her resolution,
she regained all her wont'd cheerfulness
of manner, which the public calamities
had much impaired. Received by the
appearance of joy which she exhibited,
her relations allowed her to set otf on
some trifling commissions to Paris. In
i the public conveyance she was chiefly
distinguished by the amiable playfulness
of her demeanor, uninterrupted even by
„ the savage conversationof some Jacobins
who" were present.
The first day of her arrival at Paris
was employed in executing her commis
sions. On the second she purchased a
knife at the I’alais Royal to plunge into
the bosom of the tyrant. On the third
day, she with difficulty obtained an en
trance to Marat. She found him in the
bath, when she eagerly inquired after the
prescribed deputies at Caen. Being told
their names, “They shall soon meet with
the punishment they deserve, ’’ said Ma
rat. “ Yours is at hand,” exclaimed she,
and stabbed him to the heart, lie utter
ed a loud shriek and expired.
Charlotte Corday remained motionless
in the apartment, and wa* seized and
conducted to prison. On the day of her
trial she interrupted the prosecutors who
were beginning to prove the death of the
deceased. “ Those formalities are un
necessary. 1 killed Marat.”—“What
tempted you to commit the murder?” |
“ His own crimes.” “ What do you i
mean by his crimes.” “The misfor
tunes which he has inflicted on France
since the revolution, and which he was!
prepairing to increase.” “Who are!
your associates ?” “I have none. I a
lone conceived the idea.” “ What did
you propose to yourself by putting Marat j
to death?” “To stop the anarchy of
France. I have slain one man to save a
, hundred thousand; a wretch to preserve |
the innocent; a savage monster to give
repose to my country. I was a republi-:
can before the Revolution ; and I have ]
never failed in energy.” “ What do vou
understand by. energy ?” asked the Prc- j
sident. The sentiment which animates j
those who, disdaining the consideration
of their own safety, sacrifice themselves j
for the sake of their country.” Upon !
hearing her sentence, she gave a joyful
exclamation ; and, with a radiant coun
tenance, handed to the President two let
ters—one addressed to Barbaroux, the
other to her father.— [Allison's History
of Europe.
Chapter for Young Men. —-When
business is dull, and leaves at your dis- j
posal many unoccupied hours, what dis-1
position do you make of them? I have!
known and now know, many young men, |
who, if they devoted to any scientific, or!
literary, or professional pursuit, the time
they spend in games of chance, and loun- '
ging in bed, and in idle company, might !
rise to any eminence. You have all read j
of the sexton’s son, who became a fine!
astronomer by spending a short time
every evening in gazing on the stars after
ringing the bell for nine o’clock. Sir
William Phipps, who at the age of forty
five had attained the order of knighthood. I
and the office of High Sheriff of New!
England, and Governor of Massachusetts,:
learned to read and to write after his
eighteenth year, of a ship-carpenter in
Boston. William Gifford, the great edi
tor o( the Quarterly, was an apprentice
to a shoemaker, and spent his leisure*
M -M
hours in study. And because he had
neither pen lior paper, slate nor pencil,
: Je wrought out his problems on smooth
I leather, with a blunted awl. David Rit
fenhousc, the American astronomer, when
a plough-boy, was observed to have cov
ered his plough, and the fences with
figures and calculations. James Fergu
son, the great Scotch astronomer, learned
to read by himself, and mastered the ele
ments of astronomy whilst a shepherd’s
boy in the field, by night. And perhaps I
it is not too much to say that if the hours
wasted in idle company, in vain conver
sation, at the tavern, were only spent in
the pursuit of useful knowledge, the dull
est apprentice in any of your shops,
might become an intelligent member of
society, and a lit person for most of our
civil offices. By such a course, the
rough covering of many a youth might
be laid aside; and their ideas, instead of
being confined to local subjects and
professional technicalities, might range
throughout the wide fields of creation ;
and other stars from the young men of
our towns and cities, might be added to
the list of worthies that arc gilding our
country with a bright yet mellow light.
[Phil. Sat. Courier.
Economy. —We always praise econo
my in individuals; let us commend it
equally to the community. True econo
my demands that the young be trained
up in such a manner, that instead of
becoming a source of expense to soeiety,
they may contribute their share to its
support. If children are brought up in
idleness, or in habits of dissipation or
vice, the community is compelled to bear
the expense, which, of course, will always
far exceed what it Would have cost to
place them among the right influences
when young.
But this sort of economy, like economy
in private life, must be mainly a volun
-1 try work. No governmental arrange
ments can accomplish it. Whoever sees
a child in the midst of unfavorable or
corrupting influences, should use his en
deavors to provide for that child a homo
of different character. If its parents are
living, and are vicious, they will still bo
willing, generally, that the child should
be placed where it will be taught better
lessons than at home. This, indeed, is
not universally true, nor do we approve
of children exchanging the parental roof
! for that of a stranger, except, under pecu
liar circumstances of want and vicious
example at home. It is needless to add,
that the utmost care should be used to
provide the best of places for those, chil
dren whose parents are deceased. Thus
the community is secure against the
] danger of having to sustain, in after
| years, those children as paupers or as
! criminals; and thus a weight of example
which would otherwise rest in the scale
j of public morals, on the side of vice, in
fluencing the destiny of generations un
born, as well as of the present times, will
| be secured to the side of virtue, and as
■ general virtue is public wealth, the result |
j will tell as well upon the public purse as
S the public heart and conscience.
[Social Monitor.
■* *
Cousining. —A country gentleman
i lately arrived at Boston, and immediately
repaired to the house of a relative, a lady
who had married a merchant of that
city. 'Fhe parties were glad to see him,
and invited him to make their house his
home, (as he declared his intention of re- \
maining but a day or two.) The husband j
of the lady, anxious to show attention to
a relative and friend of his wife, took the |
gentleman’s horse to a livery stable in j
Hanover street. Finally, the visit be
came a visitation; and the merchant,
after an elapse of eleven days, found, be
side lodging and boarding the gentleman,
! a pretty considerable bill had run at the
livery stable. Accordingly, he went (o
the man that kep the stable, and told him,
when the gentleman took the horse he
would pay the bill.
“ Very good,” said the stable keeper,
|“ I understand you.” Accordingly, in a
! short time the country gentleman went
to the stable, and ordered his horse to be
: got ready. The bill was of course pre
sented.
“Oh,” this the gentleman, “Mr. so
and-so, my relation, will pay this.”!
“ Very good, sir,” said the stable keeper,
1 “ please to get an order from Mr. ,
it will be the same as money.” The
horse was put up again, and down went |
the country gentleman to the Long
Wharf, where the merchant kept.—
| “ Well,” said he, “I am going now.” 1
“ Are \<>u,” said the merchant, “ well, i
'good bye.” “Well, about my horse
[No. 2.
the man says the bill must be paid for his
keeping.” “ Well, I suppose that is all
right, sir.” “Yes; but you know I’m
your wife’s cousin.” “Yes,” said the
merchant, “ I know that you are, but
your horse is not!”
Influence of Solar Eclipses on An
i.'ials. —M. Arago, in his account to the
Academy of Sciences of the solar eclip
ses of the Bth of July last, stated that he
had often heard accounts of birds dying
from the mere influence of an eclipse of
the sun, but could scarcely credit the
statement, as they could only die from
fear; and the discharge of a gun ought
to frighten them much more, and yet it
is certain that it docs not kill them, un
less they are actually hit. One of M.
Arago’s friends made the following ex
periment : —lie placed five linnets in a
cage ; they were lively and active, and
fed up to the moment of the eclipse;
when the eclipse had terminated, three of
them were dead.
A dog was kept fasting from morning;
immediately before the eclipse, he was
ottered food and fell on it greedily; but
when the dusk commenced, he suddenly
ceased eating.
The horned cattle in the field seemed
affected with a kind of vague terror; du
ring the eclipse they lay down in a cir
cle, their heads being arranged towards
the circumference, as if to face a com
mon danger.
The darkness influenced even the
smallest animals. M. Eraisse observed
a number of mice, which were running
briskly, become suddenly still when the
eclipse begun.
To Prevent II vdrotiiouia. —The
saliva of the mad dog, has the property,
when inserted under the skin, of commu
nicating hydrophobia to other animals,
and to man. M. Coster has been able,
by the use of Chlorine, to decompose this
deidly poison, and render it harmless,
preventing the approach of hydrophobia
in animals bitten by dogs decidedly rabid.
There can be no doubt of the accuracy
of the experiment on which this state
ment is predicated.
From this the most important practi
cal results follow:
Make a strong wash by dissolving two
table spoonfuls of the chloruret of lime
■ in half a pint of water, and instantly and
repeatedly bathe the part bitten. The
poison will in this way be decomposed.
It lias proved successful when applied
within six hours after the animal has
been bitten.
From what we now know of the pow
ers of Chlorine, it is not too much to
hope for, that it may prove an antidote
to every case of poison, provided it be
applied in season, and before the system
is.fatally affected.
It appears highly probable that hydro
gen, from its being the lightest and most
subtle of all known ponderable bodies,
may enter into the composition of such
active agents as poison. Fontana ex
amined the poison of the viper of other
animals, but we know not whether, as in
prussic acid, hydrogen is the active prin
ciple. In the present No. it appears that
Chlorine destroyed the effect of prussic
acid, the most active poison known,even
after it had gone far towards producing
death. It is therefore credible, that it
may destroy other poisons, having a sim
ilar constitution; and we can readily
understand the modus operandi in such
cases ; for Chlorine takes hydrogen from
every combination, and of course destroys
the peculiar character of the compound.
Prussic acid itself consists of nothing but
the ordinary elements of animal matter,
such as are daily used for food ; but in
the acid they arc combined in a peculiar
manner, and the withdrawing of hydro
gen from it, at once subverts the combi
nation, and renders it harmless.
The practical use which we would
make of the facts which we know, and of
the theoretical views which we entertain
is, that Chloride of Lime should be kept
in every family ready for instant use in
the multiplied cases in which it is appli
cable.—[Silliman’s Journal .
A Windfall. —A poor widow woman
in llaltimore, with three children, who
: had been discarded by her two brothers,
has come to the inheritance of a largo
part of their property, valued at about
half a million of dollars, both of them
having recently died without issue, and
1 without having made a will.
“Don’t lean on me for support, said a
rich rascal to a poor relative.
“It would be a lean support if I did.'
was the poor fellow’s reply