Huntingdon Gazette

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THURSDAY EVENINGfAuGtrsT ^ 1810.
[No; 24^
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Stray Mare.
STRAYED or Stolen out of a pasture near the town of VVillianis- l>urij;, iVlu-re the subscriber lives, Some tim-.t in the month of May last,
A Sorrel Mare
nboiit 15 hands hiiih, 10 or 12 vears old—she lias a bald IKce, a white spot about the siz<: of a half cent on the riglit side of her rump, and stands in on her hind p-.isture joints ¦^—was shod all round when she ^vent away, and was heavy with Foal.——Whoever gives informa¬ tion where said Mare c;ui be had shall be handsomely
The proprietors will be thankful for advertisements of every kind and those who have lands for sale, would probaijly find it their interest to advertise in this paper.
Lancaster, June 30, 1810.
Fiihlick Sale.
IN piu'.siian':e of an order of the Orphan's Court of Miffliii county, \\ ill be exposed to pubiick sale on tlie premises on the second Monda}- of Aui2;ust next at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said da'.-, tivo adjoinini^ tracts of land siluale in Wayne town¬ ship in s.iid ecmniy, now or late in the  possession of   Archibald  M'-
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rewarded, and i ^.      ,      ....      ,     ,     c r,, if brought home, receive all reason    JS"^^^^' ad|onnng lands of  Ihomas abl« charges. Kncx,   Philip   Shoop,  and others,
AARON LAYTON.
' Aug, 1, 1810. 21-tf
EXTKACrS   OV
LAWS
Of the B-oroug/i of Huntingdon,
EXTRACT from a supplement to the act, entitled, " An act to provide for leveUingthe Streets and Footvva)s wiih- jo certi'in parts ofthe Borough of Hun xingdon"—Passed, 9di J'tll*s ?r-J08.
Sect. 3. Be it further enucteo. Sec. That after the pavements or footways are nvade and erected, in any of the streets, or in any of the parts thereof, if any person shall title or lead any horse over said pavements or footways, or drive any v/aggon, cart, or other car¬ riage over the same (except in pas.sing into alleys or lots) or in any other man¬ ner break down, injure or destroy the same, or if any persoj;! shaU suffer or permit any thing ihat may tend to ob- atruct the passage blong said pavements or footways, to be and remain upon the same opposite his or her houses or lots, 2 jMassachvsetts, or shall throw, cr suffer to be thrown up¬ on the same, any wood or other heavy- thing, he or she so oflendmg, upon con¬ viction thereof, sh-all forfeit and pay the sum of two doUars for every such of¬ fence.
Extract from a further supplement to ihe aforesaid act, passed 21st. July, 1810.
Sect. 2. Be it further enacted. Sec. That from ailid afier the passing of this act, tiie penalty prescribed in the third Section of the supplement to the original act, to which this is a supplement, pas¬ sed 9th July 1808, shall be discretion¬ ary with the Burgesses, not exceeding two doUars, nor less thap twenty-five cents, according to the nature of the of- fence; and that any person who shall fasten a horse or mare in such a situa¬ tion that they can move round on the pavements or footways, or shall feed or mUk any cow or cows thereon, shall be subject to the penalty in the abovcmen- tioned supplement, under the discretion hereby prescribed.
By orderofthe Burg-e.9ses £f? Cou7icil JOHN M'KENNAN,
'Tozvn Clerk.
July 24, 1810.
containing S'x liuiidrtd acres iiioic- or less-TT-Also one other tract of land s 'uate la the townshiji and county aforesaid, c>)iiiaining one huiKbtd and ten acres more or les.s, iio\v or Lte in possession of Isnac CorneUus adjoiiiini^ land:; of Jonathan Hamilion Jtisepli Corbctt, ar.d John Hamn-valt, -with the appiirtenances. To be sold as the estate late of Daniel Dun c;ui, deceased.—Attcidance ou the day of s'.ue, wiil be given hy
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Rural EcoiToaiy.
From the Uiiited .7inte^ Gazette. Mr. BuoNsox,
I not long since, obf^erved in your Gazette, some remarks ol judge Peters, upon the tendency of certain garden flowers to spread themselves in the liehr to the great annoyance of the husband¬ man and obstruction of agriculture. The^ effect, probalUy novel in this countiy, appears lol^e well known in Europe, or at least in France. In a letter from M. D'Alembert to the king of Prussia, who had recommended to the philosopher to^ strew, hi.s path with flowers, he says:— " I, who liave not the snme advantages, can only strew my path witb thistles ;or at best with blue bottles, siuh as infest corn fields, vvhirh could do fiUl as weU without them." 'I'he blue botde vvas, I think, oi.e ofthe pests mentioned hy Mr. Peters ; and this notice of it l)y the Frenchman, corroborates the propiie'iy of wariness to its excursions.    A. B.
To the Coruluci::r of the Farmers I^Iajj^a- zme.
O.N   PICKLING   SEED   -WHEAT.
Sir,
A FEW COPIES, OF
Graydon's Jtistice
For Sale at this Office. -'
ALSO, M'HARRY'S PRACTICAL DjtSTILLER. July 12, 1810*
The vitUlty of pickling wheat meant to be used for seed, and the benefit de¬ li vcd from that preparatory process, have been long and gencr?.1ly acknow¬ ledged by the great body of practical a- griculturalists in this island. At dlUer- ent times, individuals, chiefly of that class tharacterized as philosophical and chvmical agriculturalists, have appeared no doubt, and in some instances to deny the utility of pickling; because they conld not comprehend how, and in v/bat wav, that process prevented the crop from being smutted. To be sure it i;i a diHlcult matter to explain the mode and manner in which pickle ope¬ rates upon the seed plant, as, at the best the opeiation can only be gnesSed at; and should these gentlemen remain sceptical till that secret i.s revealed, I ap¬ prehend they will long continue unbe- iievtrs. Were they to be satisfied with facis gathered in the school of experi¬ ence, and, in sOme insUinces, purchased at a high price, llu-ir doubts, however, might soon be removed. One fact vvith a practical agriculturalist has more weight than a hundred reasons It is by the effects that follows the use of lime and duog that the virtue of these articles can be stffliciently ascertained ; and it is bv the effect of pickling, and the unh;»p- py consequences which daily follow the neglect of it, that we are enabled to as- \ certain the utility of that proces.s, fully as well as if the curtain of nature were withdrawn, and the modes operandi cxim plelely disclosed.
wheat upon my farm. Tlie result stfv ed to open my eyes, though you may I satisfied that I paid deddv f^r the opd ration. I then imitated the practice, those whom I had formerly considd as le.ss enlightened, and can with, con! dence maintain, that, since I re^ularljj used stale urine as a pickle, and satur^c the wet grain with hot lime), 1 ha^i^ rarely ever found a sniutted head wheat in any ©ne of my fields. This ayq tern I have sedulouslj followed for 23 ye.trs, and in that period have sew^t wheat to an extent not much excee^.ei by any farmer in the island.
Having slated what happened in mj own case, I shall briefly detaU what curred upon a. farm  in my neighbour^ hood, which I had occasion to find ouj when employed upon the premibes as i arbiter. The outgoing tenant, who unil bably was one of   Dr. Dickson's dis " pies, had ibwn the wiiole of lii^ ,.whe^ fields with dry seed.   The farm was. i tervvards set to another  tenant,  <vho procure immediate entry, agre-.d to pi' for labour, manure, &c. &c   and  the mount of these articles was   left   to seulcd by arbiters mutually chosen, fell to my lot to be one of these arbiter —and the business was soou despatchf ed. Before harvest, it was  discovered that every field was less or more smiittc^ —•and though the   old   tenant, sijictlj speaking w as not liable on that accoUnl it vvas judged proper   to   examine  ll fields, and ascertain   the extent   of ihl damage.    This the arbiters did in   thi only way in which il could be ascertait ed. They employed a careful  person walk across every field,  and    to   cut handful eve) y six ridges,   which, vvhej brought out, was examined by them, the nutnberof Sound and diseased hcac were carefiUly marked. Ihe rcbult wa that upon no field the nnmber of si ted heads was less than ten in the   hul dred ; upon some of them forty &  lift —and in one not fewer   than   rjcvtiitj Taking an average ol the whole, the loa exceeded one third of the crop, layif no stress upon the injury done  by   tt smut to the grain  that   was   otherwi i sound.    This is a correct   state of tl unfortunate business j and having giv it, permit rae to offer one or two ' pa ing observations.
In the first place,- when the loss smut is so great why w iU a single  agj cultorist be so fool-hardy as  to  run¬ ny risk, seeing it may be  completely voided by pickling the grain that   is i ed for Seed r 1 by no  means  questit that sound grain will not   be  procure from unpickled ^eed, under certain cumstances.    Wheat does   not srnut a single season, no more   than potutoi procreated from   sound   seed  becor curled when   planted   a   second  tin Wheat completely pickled in one y(
T   „ i.*4 .    „ I    ..u 1   r        ' probablv vvi I not be smutted   m tn
I am le?a to make these remarks from ' • -^, . -e.^
year, ai east to no more than aaTt"*
perusing an css-ay in Dr. Dickson's A- I gricultural Magazine for November last, which contains a harmless attack upon one of your correspondents, with some small wit against those who sup¬ port the pickling sys|j,em. Dr. Dickson I consider as a sensible man, and pos¬ sessing a larger stock of prudence than to make a direct attack upon your work; though, on the other hand, he does not seem iQ feel any objection, when gallop¬ ing past your door, to fire a pistol through your window.
In my eirly years, when farming was not more familiar to me than it is to Dr. Dickson or his correspondent, I had contracted opinions something very near akin to those eij^ertained by these gen¬ tlemen, and, like them, was in the habit of laughing at the folly of my neighbors who took the trouble of pickling their wheat. I used to charticterize pickling as a braqi^ of the quack system, and with great Confidence ihqujred at those who diflfered with me, how a drop of u- rine or water mixed with salt could be capable of preventing wheat from being smutted. Fully satisfied with the cor¬ rectness of my principles, I acted ac¬ cordingly, and persisted in their recti¬ tude, ,tiU I had   uot a   .sound field   of
siderable degree ; but, persist wifl ing the same seed in a dry state, and consequences are certain and tatah  1 why ran the smaUest risk ? PickUag i be completely executed at sixpence acre ; and does this trifling expence ing no stress upon  the   disgrace)  b any affinity to the loss which arises fr a smutted  crop ? Certainly  not. premium is but a trifjff'lt'hen  com with the immensity of the benefit.
In the second place I am at a  losi whatUght  an   agricultural publics should be considered, wherein the U8< and necessary process, I am speakin, is treated with  disreg.ard,   nay, with contempt.     The only favour excuses that can be urged are,  that authour is ignorant  of the   practice( husbandry ; that he is not competen judgeof the merits of the   most us< practice which   husbandmen  execu and that he is rather to be sympathi with than blamed.,for of-cupying  a don difficult to be fiUed by any  one acquainted with practical htisbandry. admit the force of these  excuses ; ai knowing that you would   not wiUiu, allow me to extend my remarks upoi hostile publication to a greater leng;t
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