Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1840-02-29


They as so much to wex
The very natral sweetness
Oftheir seduciV SEX
It's VERY lawful time. Jim,
AS every Won must see,
Ven mortals try to stop our grog,
And ccIeStiaLs stop our tea STRAws.
FARMING IN VERMoNT-Gov. Hill states in
his Nisiier,' that Ezra Mech who resided on
the shore of Lake Champlain above Burlington.
and William Jarvis of Weathersfeld, opposite
Claremont on Connecticut River, are the two
largest farmers in the State of Vermont, The
first gentlemen has from FIVE TO eight hundred
acres of wheat in season and the latter his
hundreds of imported cattle, and his many hun
dred sheep on one Of the most beautiful alluyial
tracts upon the fertile valley ofthe Connecticut.
Judge Mech made his wealth it is said exclu-
slvely by farming. He commenced with the
first settlement in Vermont, and used, while
clearing his lands for crop, to 90 ahead,
by hunting furs up the Union and Quo rivers.
In seasons when he could not conveniently
work on his lands
William Jarvis is a native of Boston, ne resi-
ded several years in Lisbon as consul, and while
there, introduced the merino sheep into this
country, the expectation of which was prohibited
by Spain and Portugal Some time after his
return, he purchased the estates now composing
his ample domain and for the last twenty years
had steadily pursued the occupation of far
mer.
Near the latter, on the New Hampshire side
OF the river. resides his kinsman, Dr. Leonard
Jarvis, one of the most extensive farmers OF
that State.-He has for several years been en-
gagged in the wool growing, and at a single sale
has taken as much money for fine wool of his
own clip as would purchase the price of one of
the largest farms in the State.
CATTLE.-The form of animals attracted the
attention OF an eminent surgeon, Henry Cline
of London. The following is the substance oil
the doctrine he lays down. That the external
form is only the indication of the internal struc-
ture; that the lungs Of animals is the first ob.
ject to be attended to, for on their size and
soundness the health and strength of an animal
principally depend--that the external indication
of the size of the lungs, are the form and size
OF the chest, and its breadth in particular: thai
the head should be small, as by this the birth is
facilitated as it affords other advantages il
feeding, &c and it generally indicates that the
animal is of good breed that the length of thc
neck should be in proportion TO the size of the ami
NAL, that i; may collect its food with ease; ant
that the muscles and tend0ns should be large
by which an animal is enabled TO travel witt
greater facility. 1t was lomerly the practice Il
estimate the value of animals by the size o
;heir bones. A large bone was considered t.
he great merit a fine boned animal alway
implied great size. II is known now that thi
document was carried 100 far. The strength c
the animal does not depend on the bones, bu
on the muscles and when the bones are dis
proporionally large, ii indicates in Cline's c
pinion, an lnperfection in the organs of nutr
ilon. Blakeweu strongly insists on the advan
iage OF small bones, and the celebrated job
Hunter declared, that small bones were Away
attended with corpldence in all the various sui
jects he had an opportunity of examining.
small bone, however, being heavier and NOR
substantial, requires as much nourishment as
hollow one with large circumference.
ELoeUENcE-The following is an extra,
from speech delivered by member of the Il
diana Legislature, on bill 10 encourage.ihe XII
ling of wolves, which in sublimity has seIdoI
been surpassed.
"Mr Speaker The wolf is the most ferc
ciouS animals that prowls IN our western prai
ries or runs at large in the forests of Indiana
He creeps from his lurking place at the hou
Of midnight, when all nature is locked in tn
silent embraces Of Morpheus; and ere tie POI
tails Of the east are unbarred, or bright PhGbu
rises in all his golden majesty, whole litters @
pigs are destroyed"
I!e submits himself TO be seen lllro' micros