Litchfield enquirer., 1831-05-12

the spring, as soon as the sprouts on the cabbage stalks have grown to the length of a plant fit for setting, cUt them out with the slice of the stalk about two inches long i; and if the season permit, plant them tn a garden, and with the usual care they will produce good cabbages.
 INe Cr0vs in tkc Corn Field. The time of planting corn draws nigh. The trouble which crows, squirrels, and black birds of every description, give the farmer, by pul- ling up the corn, is manifest to the travel Ter, in the scare crows which painfully watch in many field, and in the extended lines, which, with the magic influence up- on winged robbers, defend others. Small and noisy windmilis, dead hawks and crows, suspended as warning to the living, and various o,hes expedients are also adopted by farmers to saveeahsir4 corn fields from tue plunderers. These cost labor. and are not perfectly efEectual when they are done. The mock man becomes, like King Log, on whom the frogs jumped for their amuse- ment the lines break, and leave door open to the adversaries the winds cease, and the clatter of the windmill also ceases. All security fails, and the crows still pluck up tho farmers corn.
 Now save all this trouble, and be sure of saving your corn. Buy sixpence worth of copperas, dissolve it in water, and steep your half bushel of seed corn in it over night. This corn, neither beast, nor ver- min, will disturb in the hill where you place it. The young blade will not tempt a crow to seize it with his bill, and draw up the kernel by the roots, for he scents the mischief, and flies away from the cop- peras without his breakfast. No savor of the yellow grain will tempt the squirrel, or the dung-hill fowl to scratch for it. The copperas has warning for them more ef- fectual than appetite. It hurts not the corn. Though it be in the copperas water three days it will not damage. Even pumpkin seeds mixed with the wet corn in the dish of the dropper, may also stand un- injured for days. We have planted that which has been thus soaked, and have gath cred the rich fruits with these hands. There is no mistake. We have fed on the increase of that seed which no bird, nor beast will venture to taste. The defence is sure the remedy is safe.-N. Y. Reg.
 C0liyns, in. {" Tea ninutes' Advice on the Use and Abuse of Salt as Manure" says that lump of sals hung up for milcll cows to lick occasionally, entirely removes the peculiar turnip taste from milk and but tor. My cows have eaten turnips, spring and fall, for ten years: yet in two or three instances only do I remember that this food imparted any had flavor to the milk and buttcr. never conjectured the req son, until the remark of Collyns met my view. My practice for years has been, to have salt troughs under my cattle sheds, daily accessible to my COWS and probably in the instances noticed, the salt troughs were from negligence empty. Salt is ben- efcial to cattle as condiment as well as to men. Why then is it not important that the former should have it with their daily food as we'll as the latter have never known animals to do themselves injury by using it to excess. The consumption oi
 salt is but very little increased by the prac-
 tice adopt, while the waste is diminished
 The books tell us that the free use of sal
 among cattle, is great preventative of dis
 ease, and powerful promoter of thrift
 Reason and experience seem to justify th' remark. J. BUEL.
 DGndcliOm. The learned editors of the Journal of Health, who so seduously attend to our bodies corporate, and tell us what we must eat, what we must drink, and wherewithal we ought to be clothed" have not mentioned the utility of this valuable early spring vegetable, and therefore wish to offer it to the notice of your readers.
 In the medical phraseology, it has long been deemed deObstruent, and the writer can speak experimentally of it's virtues as a corrector of the bile, as fine laxative. and of the benefit received from it in an affection of the liver. It is unnessary to theorize on its mode of action. The afflicted will rest satisfied with the change in their feel ings, which will be perceived after using
 the plant. It may be eaten as salad
 with the usual dressing, or the juice may be
 taken, in the dose of half wine glass full
 three times day-or the leaves may be kept in the pocket and frequently eaten in the course of the day. Dr. Zimmerman. when called to Frederick of Prussia in his last illness, recommended no medicine hut the dandelion for the drOpsy, under which the old tyrant labored.-U. 5. Gag.
 70 prevent sovs destroying their ofspr;ng.
 MT. Fessenden-The vexatiOus prOpen- sitv of many sows to devour their young offspring, immediately afier their birh, is