Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-10-19

ION the contrary, if il is hung up in a
mass, close, and compact, and kept SO
during the process of curing, the mass
will remain moist Tor two or three weeks.
The leaves in The first place assume "a
yellow color, the blue part of the color
ing matter, (fcr green although one Of
the pris,natic coiors is well known to
be compound Of blue and yellow, } will
in the meantime escape and by a new
combination probably of oxygen with
the tannln principle, the leaf be-
comes brown. The essential oil is the
least volatile; nevertheless if suffered
10 ROMAN in bulk beyond certain point
of fermentation, decomposition Will
take place and the essential oil escape. |
had q few stalks thus injured by suffer-
ing i, 10 lie in bulk from O'Clock in
the afternoon, until | O'Clock in the
forenoon OF the next day.
In all vegetables there appears to be
gummy substance subject to fermen,a-
ZION in bulk, after the vegetable is dried
under the ordinary heat oil our atmos-
phere in a separate state, such is the
case after hay is put into the barn. And
| even -four, when sent from this country
10 New Orleans, and from thence to
! England in certain seasons, owing to
this fermentation, will be cenented Into
a solid mass. This, l am told, is pre-
vented by. kiln drying the wheat, the fer
mentation is produced at the time OF
drying, such | presume would be the
case with tobacco, which is cured by
| | have had some ci.-ars made of the
tobacco, from leaves partially dried,
Which have all the indications or the ia
,n;I, r,o,, ,h;ch H. ,,,a,, 4 iso,lad
nothing of the nauseating taste of the
Icom,non cioar. he ashes also being re.
| marha5iy wbie. and remaining until
Ithe cigar is hall smoked, in FACT ill il
falls Inv lis own gravity and he increase.
of leverage, BY the remoteness of the
| extreme point of the ashes from The RI
gar, The leafs also remarkably sweet.
| | send YOU an Ordinary one from a stalk
BROUGHT this flav from The tobacco house.
where NV bows are nuttino it in bun,
il was brought in on accom-, of rs an
bearing more fully cured than some
oilers.
ava well assured that whatever NAV.
| be nv fate in making this eyner;nenf. a,
least my cigars will be well pulled
Very respectfully,
Your obedien, servant.
A w FOSTER
IL. S. SKINNER. ESQ. ,A
ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE MOON.
Remarks of Mr.. Pickering, published original.
~ in the Massachusetts Agricultural hepo-
STORY.
I" Having noticed The folly OF regard
ing the Moon in relation to the time oi
sowing peas, add, that the idea of It's
influence in any other operations 10 nus
barry, ouoh hi to be alike discarded. I; is
misc hievous suhposition kept alive by
tradition, and countenanced and suppnrt-
cd by the idle remarks and representa-
tons il aimanacks. The figure of a
maa marked with the signs, and the
prognosticatIons of the weather, ought to
be expnnged; and every well disposed
almanack maker would Danish them ii
he knew the injuries they occasion, by
mlsealing the farmer in any branch Of
rural economy. l once heard some
tarmers--sp eaklng OF spreading manure
on grass laod in The sprlng--say very
gravciy, that il should not be done 4ohen
the ho,.as IT the moon acre turned M
yards, for then The manure iustead of
sinking iato The ground, zoould rise zuith
The, grass and do no good. Onthe con