Litchfield enquirer., 1840-07-30
HAVING.


 " as three o'clock P. M. is kept much sweet l CT than that which is carted at sunset-the nrSt will become more dry, as long as the heat IS retained in tive have been surpri- l Sed at the difference between two loads of | wheat, the one carted at three and the other at sunset-both equally well cured in the field, but on pitching it over for threshing the first was perfectly dry while the straw of the latter was damp and musty. Neither hay nor grain should be carted after the dew has fallen copiously. It is safer to pack them both and take another day.
 We have uniformly found it best, after the experience of more than forty years, to dry our hay in Me Sun. We are extremely sorry to be obliged to differ from such high autho- rites as we have seen on this point /; but when occasion calls we think it a duty to publish boldly our own convictions, whether they agree or not with the fancies of others. We are always mortified when we sec in any of our farming papers, fanciful modes of farm ing recommended, because they impede the progress fimprovement-they serve to ere | ate a general prejudice ln the minds of many Of our yeomanry against what they have de- non!''aa:-:e.. book farming" is not without 1 foundation.
 Ifany farmer wishes to try the new mode of drying hay, we hope he will try it on a small scale at first, and for the main body of 1 his hay let him endure the old fashion for one ] year more of curing in the sun. Those who dry it in heaps we would inform him, gene
 rally pitch about half hundred together in the fore part of the same day on which it is
 moved this is turned over towards evening; then again next day once or twice, and, uhen the Wealher IS fair, the book says let it remain out four or five days. When the weather is
 not likely to prove fair some make large
 heaps of the small ones; some let the small ones stand and take their chance until fair weather comes again.
 | OUR MODE OF MAKING HAY.
 We have seen various methods tried, but we have never found any that are better than the following: Now the grass in the fore- noon or towards evening--let it be wellspread l to the sun-rake it together in the afternoon, 1 and put it in cocks if the weather is not Ifo- 1 msing--or when the harvest is great and the hay is not dry enough to be raked, it should be turned green side up before the dew has copiousiy fallen-on the next day this should all be spread out to the sun, and two days of good weather will generally fit the hay for the barn. When the burthen is quite heavy, or when the grass is very green, we give it more than two days sunning-bnt frequent stirring makes vast difference in the time necessary to cure hay-the oftener 1 it is moved the sooner it will become dry. An experienced hand will judge intuitive- ly, almost, when his hay is fit for the scatiold some wiring handful to see if any mois- | ture IS left in it-but as general rule Eng 1 fish hay must have two days summing unless we cut it SO late that it has become half dry l while standing. live suspect our hay is not { quite dry enough, but do not wish to risk it out any longer, we may often save it by throwing it on a scaffold or a bay and not suffer it 10 be trodden down for few days and one peck of salt on ton often saves us the labor of another days opening and tend ing. | live have but little hay, and wish it cured | in tbe best manner, we arc careful to put II | in cocks while warm and before the dew falls -on the next day we find it has been drying since we packed it up, and, on opening, 1t presonts u Tiue appearance-but when we have large quantities on hand we cannot al-
 ways be so particular-we suffer it 10 lie in 1 winrOW when the weather is good, aud thus save the labor of packing and opening again. Boston Cnttiuator. VAN BUREN AND GEN. HARRISON.
 The Petersburg lntclligencer, in reviewing the public services of the two candidates for the Presidency, says:
 We have been led into these reflections by a remark made by Gen. Waddy Thompson, in his speech ut Hanover, on Saturday. Af- ter drawing a comparison between the lives | and services of Harrison and Van Buren, Con. T. said-"I have it from the best au- thority that, on the night of the battle of Tip pecanoe, when Gen. Harrison was standing ankle deep in blood, and when his camp was illuminated by one continued flash of the h. dian rifle, Martin Van Buren, pcrfumed like q mifincr, was leading off minuet at Il ball 1 in Albany. What a contrast is here present. ed If a volume had been written on the subject, It could not more completely have depicted the characters of the two men. We fancy now that we can see the two individu- ais in their different positions. There is Gen. Harrison cheering, urging on and ral- lying his men, driving hack the savagcs from one position, and gallantly attacking them in another; and here is lntle Van, reeking soith cologne and stif rith permatum, as Q4,pressirely odOrater0uS as ever was a civet cat, his dapper body arrayed in all the habiliments of a petil maitre, his whiskers curled ( in the last ago. n.y. and his smirking little face distorted by one everlasting grimace, leading off his part 1 ner with the practised ease and grace of French Dancing Master. Who can dwell on this picture without being sickened and disgusted, that such a thing as Martin Van Buren should ever have been Chief MagiS- trate of this great nation!
 The Duel.-The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Monitor ot the 10th inst says: An affair of honor took place on Monday morning last, 9th inst. m PIckens county, near the Mississippi line, between Ex-Governor Runnclls and Volney E. Howard. Esq. both of Jackson, Miss. One shot was exchanged by the parties. when Mir. Howard received the ball of his antagonist just below the right lobe, which came out