Delaware advertiser and farmer's journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1831, 1831-10-20

like it.
The gathering leaves is another source
OF manure of immense value. Every far
mer can manure more or less land by this
means every year. Animal manure, too,
is too much neglected, too often allowed
to waste its precious substance wherever
it may by chance be dropped. There are
always persons enough on every farm TO
collect and convey to an appropriate place
every particle Of cattle or horse dung that
may be dropped, and this should no more
be neglected than the gathering of corn
when it is ripe. Children and infirm per-
sons are competent to this duty and should
be kept at it. II is not enough however,
to gather this manure-it must be proper
ly taken care of after it is gathered. It
should be protected from the ram, and be
put in such place as will prevent the Ii
quid that may drain from it from being
wasted, for this is its most valuable part.
There are many other sources of manure,
and we shall occasionally call attention to
them; but our purpose is now more parti-
cuarly to discuss the question Of the prac-
ticability of manuring at all,
We do not pretend that cultivators of
the present immense tracts can manure all
the land they now cultivate; but we con-
tend that they can, and that it is to their
interest, to manure some part oft. What
ever manure may be at hand should be
applied to such portion of land only as it
will manure well. To scatter one hun
dred loads of manure over hundred acre
field would be throwing it away. Let it
be applied to FIVE acres or even to two a.
ores if the land be very poor; and the next
year let another small piece receive the
same Treatments; and thus gradually bring
into high state of cultivation a portion Of
the farm. This would enable the farmer
tojudge of the expediency of concentrat-
ing his means upon a.smaller piece of
ground. For ifhe can make five hundred
bushels of corn on ten acres of well cult
waited land, it is clear that it will be more
profitable to him than to make the same
quantity on fifty acres; and that he can
do 50 is not u matter of doubt. If farm
ers generally were to give away three
fourths of their land, and put all their pres
ent force upon the remainder, they would
make money by the proceeding. The evil
then, to which is to be attributed the pres
ent poverty of the agricultural interest, is
not the inability to manure, nor the scare
ity of manure, but the attempt to cult
vate too much land; which. as we have
seen, is a violation of principle in agri-
culture, on the strict observance Of which
the prosperity of the farmer entirely de-
ponds.
United States Senate.-The following is
believed to be the State of parties in the
next Senate OF the United States. There
are two vacancies. one in Kentucky, and
one in Louisiana, both of which will doubt
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Holmes and sprague of Main.
Bell ofNew Hampshire.
Webster and Silsbee OF Massachusetts.
Robins and Knight Of Rhode Island.
Foot and Tomlinson OF Connecticut.
Seymour and Preutiss of Vermont.
Frelinghuysen of New Jersey.
Clayton and Naudain OF Delaware.
Chambers of Maryland.
Johnson OF Louisiana.
Hendricks and Hannah of Indiana.
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Tazewell and Tyler of Virglui1.
Hayne and Miller of South Carolina.
Poindcxtrr OF Mississippi.
King OF Alabama.
Jaeksoa-1e.
Hill OF New IIamshire.
Dudley and NJ trcy of New York.
Dlckerson Of New Jersey.
Smith of Maryland
Bernard and Wilkins of Pennsylvania.
Mansum OF North Carolina.
Forsyth and Troup of Georgia
Bibb of Kentucky.
Grundy and White of Tennessee.
Ellis Of Mississippi.
Kane Of Illinois.
Benton of Missouri.
Dou6tful--4.
Brown Of North Carolina.
Robinson Of Illinois.
Moore of Alabama.
Buokner of Missouri.
1t will be observed, that it will require
combination of the jackson, Calhoun and
Doubtful men, to sustain the measures of the
present Administration. Such an even is
now about as probable, as a union of the
friends Of MIR. Clay with the Administrator
.9ke;r Caz.
1.-THE auther of "A year IN Spain gives
the subjoned description of the superior
brother of hermitage in Cordova. The
latter part of it may be valuable to our fair
readers, as containing recipe Tor an infal-
lible cosmetic.1
On entering the cottage of the Hcrmano
Mayor, he came TO the door to receive me
signed the cross over me and pressed INV
hand in token OF a welcome reception, Like
other hermets, the Hermano Mayor wore
large garment ofcourSe cloth oirja,t ,..,,,..J