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The Parnassian Field.
THE HARE ton MANY FRIENDS.
FRIENDSHIP, i&l.ve, is but a tam,
UnUjs tb one you ,int tbeflame.
The cbi!d, whom man, fathers Jbare,
Hatb jeldom known a father's care.
'Tis thus, on Frtadjbi, who depend.
In many, rarely finda Frien D.
A Here,wbo iuacivil way,
Compil'd wide ewer, thing, like Gay,
'Was kuwwu 6, all the beflial train,
Who haunt the quoad, or, grazelbe)ktin.
Her care was newer to offend,. 1
And ever, creature was her friend.:^:
Asfertb Jbe went at earl, dawn,
Totaftetbe dew-befpriukled lawn,,
J^' bears"!he banter's cries,
j&,from th deepmouib'd, thunderflies c
She Jiarts,faflaps,Jhe pants for breath;
Übe bears the near advance o/ deatb—
She doubles, to wflead tbe bond,;
And measures back her mag round ;
Till,fainting in the public won,,
Half dead with fear Jbe gasping lay:
What tranjport in her bojom grew,
Whenfrf the Horse appear'd in view !
* Let me, fays he,,our lack afeead.
And owe my jafei, to afriend. k \'
'You know my fat betray mjffght,
Tofriendjbip every burthen's light.
Tbe borje reply'd—poor bone_ujs.
It grieves my heart gofee thee thus,
die comforted, relief Is near, £
Far all,ourfriends are in the rer.
She next theflatel. Bull implor'd—
And thus reply'dtbi might, lords
Since ever, leaf alive can fell, |
That Ifincerely wife you well,
I may, without offence, pretend,
To take the freedom of afriend; L , ' 1
Lovecalls me bonce; afavorite era/
Expeas me near,on barley - mow;
And when a lady's in the case,
You know all other things give place.
To leave you thus might jeem urikind, it
But jee, the Goat is just behind. , > / :
The Goat remark'd berpalfe was high, o
Her languid bead, her heavy eye§ g , ,;
M, back. Jays be, may do,on harm;
Tbefaep is near, and wool, is warm.
The was feeble, and complain'd
Hisfidesa load oj wool fufain'd;
Said be was flow, confef bis fears:
For bounds eat Jbeep, as well as Hafys, <1-
She now the trotting Calf addfl,, ':
Tofansfrom death a friend difreft.
Shall I, fayshe, offender age,
Lnthis important care engage?.,
Older and abler pafijou b,;
How firong are tbofe! bow weak ml!
Should I pTijume to bet,on bence,
Tbifefriends of mine might take offence. , A'
Fxcufe me, then. You know m, heart,
But deare/lfriends, alas ! mu, part.
HowJhaU we all lament ! Adieu !
For, fee, the bounds are Ju, in view.
. " — — —*
THUS'tis with that dignified, social crea
ture, Man —ln Prosperity, we have many
• FRY I!NDS—But in Adversity, our friends are.
in the rear—the barley, mow is intitfog, and
gallantry takes rank of Friendship—the fear
of offending overpowers the ties pf fraternal
love—in mort, wbenone wants help, everyone
spheres to the old proverb, which fays„H,
that will noftlplimfciffjhall have help from ri{
body. —Thus the unfortunate are'left friend
tefs and alone to the merciless farj of the
^^^ and ^r,^ oftoankind. Hbw widely
this differs from the poet :. >,%
'' But all mankind's concern is—Charity."
— E===^
FARMERS I Give ear!
New YORK Acatcjniufac Society.
Maunsell's method of railing
POTATOES
>:: FROM THE SHOOTS.
^ Prefdent of the Unite# States,having for
^arded to the Prefix of this Society, atre^
4 Aft Iwety fablifad in Ireland on ten improv'd
method of raifog P,tyß@ a^toifg riqarf
ed that after ptrufal, it might be returned to
, bin again ; Simeon De Witt,Efq,was direa.
ed to prepare an abfraß of thejams, and make
report 'thereof to the Society ; which abjiraa
and reportyas follows, viz. ;, T
, IN compliance with the order of the
I Society; I toe made an extr&
from the pamphlet entitled," Letters
^.to the Might Honorable the Dnbf^
from the Shoore "by the Re^W^
their iboote, ft not pucicularly poi#|
ed Got, fa we ft left tojaJßt from ;
the great variety of experiments which
are minutely described in it, none of.
#hieh teem to have failed of fuccefi,
and in feme every fyp( planted had
been productive.§
By the Ihoots are mtant thole fibre,
;or branches, which immediately fr@W
from the xyei of the potatoes after
they have begun to vegetate; without
being put into the earth.
The following are the methods
which have been generally used in
" planting them :
iff. Drills of about fix inches deep
and two feet apart from each other
are made in ground previously pre
pared inthe ufuil way. Potatoe (hoots
are then cufyinto lengths of about five
or fix inches each, and planted io the
drills fix inches asunder, with their
thicket ends, or those which have
been next to the potatoe, downward!
—They are then covered with earth
abckit one inch under.
Or 2d. A furrow is made witty
plough, some dung Spread in it—che
furrow is elofed back with the plough
' and the (boots planted iq,it as you
would do cabbages with fitting flicks.
Or gd; The (hoots are laid down
; in any direaion in the furrow at pro
per diftancea from each other and co
vered with the ploughs.
Which of those method! of plant-;
'ing, is the best, upon the whole, does
I tfot seem to be clearly decided by (he
experiment!.
when the stocks appear above
ground, keep earthing them upat least
eighteen inches high, leaving always
about 2 or three inches above ground
—for fays the author, 66 the higher
you earth them up the greater win be
the produce ; for the potatoes from
'the (boots, if proper!, attended co,
will not spread in the ground, bot sf
cend to the farface, „ yog ma,fee
them when dug. out growing to tty,
flock as onions tied to ^^fe." I
The superior advantages of raising
potatoes from the jtfftfyftfyjof
the potatoes ihemlelvei, are the fob
lowing:.
iff. The feed Qot4|Ux, which in
Ireland are reckoned to be one sixth
of the whole crop, are a clear faring.
r nffilte feme (pace of ground will
produce twice or three timet the quw
city.
3d. The growth is more vigorous.
The produce earlier and of a better
4th. The labor ^f, cutting the feed
potatoes into what are called feta or
tylhimi, agodaved. w°\i* '\^ Gk^ 1
s?h. It is probable they will not be
:fo apt co de^nfte Min the old way
of raising them. £?
In proof of those advafltagesfflld
ifr order to throw more light upon
Ithis fybjefyUfajl novi mike feme
mifceliapqffiffi &omtfte
M@ilraß* l ^«, gmaarmro.
We s NgUFeft «Rifitefy letters
l d ^% 4%sg 30 £the!famr
^purpofe, to cite all which WouM)<;itei
ry us into xh^paaptofy -intended to
I be avoided ^A , i>^
}Cfftifitaek§frite^M^
rm. s^W^ crick, &c.
^ The Rev. Doctor Mfoll hav
qaefted cor attendee to fee thefer^ob
of hit Wperfmebts we actoidingty
went on Dec, g7t4,ty?,bis gaMro^
fee them defe. ? 'toour very grear
^orpnze, on digging two drills of 28
let k%;&%nd them the larghff
I^''^''4& ^i^ft'^ve& f^ih, anti of dlffeF
‘fern M@sfate fee the labors dig :
I the fame length*bf a beifyfWffifc
so in rhe uloal macffl, and weigh
ed the produce of rich, and found
I EMfonfelft Q of color, fes
ithe Soon co weigh twice as much as
those contained in the bed, though 3/
dri'is are supposed to contain the
ground in a bed ; and we do verily
believe,hat Dr.Mwnfeli's Culture of
potatoes, is the gre^eft difeovery that
hat been in a gricolrorf this century
past, and tbit tip iWted the culture
hem the (boots to a perfed and cer
pin tyfleto, & that it will (from ws4tfo
appeared to us) be a Gvirg to the na
tion of £.7sd,<>oo%nd 250,000 acres
annually. + [
66 BEN. FRENDE, M a „r,
“JOHN IUTHEL, ? % p
'' RICHARD HARTE. "H
“ PHILIP RUSSELI!"I :
0' At a'Weiihg^ of the ComtoJofc
Council of thecity of Limetick, held
the roth ¥&y of Feb. 17'94, in the
Common Council tbimb'er of laid
<eit,.?' F \" ^V' & ,
66 Richard Harte, 'Efqf # having
(hewn to the Mayor sod Common
Council the produced one finffi $-
latte (hoot, agreaßle to the Rev.D.
M%nfelf\ ntydiftbvt,& mode of
culture, conftroirg 68 potitces, with
the flock from said (hoot ftvenfot
in lengths Ben. Frende, F.fq # late
Mayor, with several other gentlemen,
having seen the furprifiog produce
from the (hoots in Dec. Itoltathe
Rev. Dr. Maunfell's potatoe gticten ;
Henry D. Efteff, Esq. our present
Mayor having been witnefr Wthe
produce on thelcond of December
1^ from che lhobti in Dr. Miotifeli'j
garden."
" Resolved, That life; Hankie
Common Council be given to the
Rev, Dr. Mutiafetf for his'very irige
nioas and ufeful difc'oyqy, for his id-i
defatigable pains in reducing the cul
ture from tie (hoots to a perfect sys
tem, and for his liberal torntildaica
tion of the feme to the public.'
" Resolved, that Dr. M^fell, de
serves every compliment the public
can pay him."
" Refoirtd; that a copy of these
resolutions be Sealed with the City
Seal, and that our Town Clerk do
Wait on Dr. Maunfell with the fame."
Signed b, order,
EDWARD PARKER, Tre# Clerk.
;:tf .Q : f
Obfavation of the Author.
«,TW &to+eottie facings of this
mode of culmrein still plainer terms
witheufigotog imfractions, Or too
eomplicaied #cak;ulation, and (hew
the taytogronan acre; supposing the ;
aukurefrotettefata property i^ 1
tended m. ^lri the#ft instance, the
tillerwiH fasteffltabi rent of the icre;
(an half deme odder shoots producing
tqualto an entire acre from fculfaines)
;which dr 61. the acre is a fiviog of sl.
I Secondly, he will save half the quan #
tity of mansre, which I suppose worth
al > Thirdly, he will save the entire
^^^ 8 "T "9*;
• ffl%^> ^^ ff^^
,done, 21. los. And fourthly, half
the labor of cultivating theacfe, which
ifahtypreil. 10s. Sothrt by
fubflitutinte tpe ^^ of the
fallen, there will be a faring to the
,tiller of about 91. on an acre. Thil
lit but'r moderate Calculation, when
,mpared fflt6 the produced mention
ed' in some of the letters received* from
gentlemen who tried the experiment
left feafoh." % ~ ,
"3guW^Q^e of preparing
pmtoe&for sowing re by fusing chef
go as maty piectf as i( has
<H^&i^& 4^l
bfa and art let to lie for
itt® wktad'itf cruft ap
te part that % rut, for the
ffith^Ujhe fm%&
larns were fate dore,nfoon at cur,
the Quilt and worms would loon in^
jure them, ahd the erdp would be.
greatly fcffeued § bu| the failure in
my opiuton does nos proceed from its. #
being oewly fowo, for it it obrioui tp
every pe fori tdnvflfarfirf the fowirg
of potatoes, that the &'qf Iculhin
long before it is ce< kom the perstae
and even the potroe kfelf appears
lagged and jhtivttd' up, owing co
ebe'dftfehc 'ffioQQ proceeding ' from
it, and even ihefo+when sown do notJ
grp»; ofe^tikd at least cefifhrt, be
cause the ouebgrrbil been ukgl; fiom
them by the efferent (hoois pg&d
ing from it, and if there be any the <
rery ihftfhokftf vegeretion, beCaufe
ffiftf» bit,4 it fe nqt
raengthaq bring forth.
“4tis wobl -known to such persons *
as have pri'd unfattectibn to the cul
ture of pocatbuin the common mode
of tilling, that they are apt to degen
ewe. FEU t^toe experienced in
some potatbeCTf'a fare" o ' 4 Ua W> '
hot m,e o,pwenfa I p^egery at
tendon to the sowing, but when they
were fir :o dig, I found them vastly
inferior to ^^ Ihid taWty'yrith the
genft^an.'Ws%^ me ^ith the *
lee,. . MX*, dw^ JA ^ vr^ .¥c. ^ ^ .4
"dphtyfe&1 mzy use
the expreffioc) did not proceed from\
a difference in foil or tillage, both be
fog fq^aity gpdd, and equally^ attend*
ed to, but from the weakness of the
potatoes, theK (iteAgth havipg been
exhausted by fucciffive lhop«before
Ihad received them. ^^
^ Fete potatoes preserve their originality,
because the^WUtift themfelfa besa # e the,
are sown ; -topreferve them irithUr best state
they should be sown as soon as they begin to f1
vegetate : If this be nofaffrided to; the po-|
tatoe till^geMitedroffity and instead cflargb A
potatoes and a good crop, which the coun-1
tryman slitters tiimfelf thatpth minute arid <|
good tillage ttrofb produc&fe ffll
potatoes fmatf atd oftetf tihtes'fcakewbffil
digging."
" The fhocß tri soring when cirefufy tie ,
ken off arid laid in final! heaps, indfrghtly ^
covered with earth, like asparagus planet—l
are in a state of vegetation till you dan withq
convenience plant them ; but it is best to
plant them immediately after they are fepa-1
rated from the potatoe.”
. "Every kind of potafote should & sown fe> I
parately, if the, be not, but lown with dis-•
ferent kinds, the, from contact participate of ('I
the quality of each other, and produce but a t I
spurious kind of a potatoe."
'' Good covering is the very life of potatoc I. I
tillage ; this is an observation founded on ex-I
perierice, though little attended ®, and the I
reason tehy pofatoe tillage is generally ^fo \ |
poor, is because they think a light covering. I
of an inch or two fufficient, Wiihat ever - I
considering that thesotatoes ascend to the ;|
farface, andahe more coverin^thf^graef
produce. 3 TMfrXhaareffifel®
(boots planted in drills, for,lie potatoes have ^ I
lafeended tki ffir throw ea<^P^.ll
ducing an addition^ laser,- an+ttewbole
drill appearing as any centinusd heap of potatoes:
iThe fefegoing &ta& eonfekte thefobflarra
of wtiat I deemed the mbffHffie&l parts 4
the pamphlet, f bro't within riSift)all acorn- °
pass asd cedtawithout d<Hhgtym^^in
juftie^tothe Subject. I hope! rate atcom- ',
plilhed th^ intantton of the order of the So- '
Iciety) Arid slitter myfelfttat it ffi at teaft ,|
3 occafion experiments WB&rffc^Hh"<mr A-'
nierican foil, in order tb afcertqin whether .I
the to,tk^dkpectations, entertained in
Ireland with respect to thWtffflty^
cover,, can be realized on this fide of the at- ^ |
lanrie. ^DEWITT. |
Whereupon it was resolved. That the laid■
abstract be publifned for the informationof |
our fellow citizens ; and that it be recom-]
mended to them to make experiments ten the I
culture of potatoes according to ,his new
mode, and forward the refultstheitof to this ✓ 1
Society. -By order, ^L^:. f -we
^SAMUEL L: MCTCHEL, Set.? .
1 -fete Chamber, March 9, 179i-1
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