Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-02-06


calculated to give to the undertaken both confdenc'
and success.
IhE FARMERs' LIBRARY and Monthly Journal Of Ag
.HeuHare, No. 2. VOL H. January, ls47. Edited b,
JOHN .. SKINNER. Greelegd McEkath. New York "
Preixed stands an excellent portrait Of the great
est beauty OF last falls Agricultural Convention a
Auburn, Mrs Matilda, the reigning belle of Here
Iord cows; creature worthy of the attentions o.
Jove himself, when he shall next turn bull She
IS, at present, not under the of Argus erewhle
Juno's cow-keeper, when that goddess patronized
the dairy and MIXED 10 but has mortal owners
who call themselves Corning and Satham, and pro.
badly make more cheese and butter than ever Sa-
tnrnan Juno dreamt of in the days when she play
ed the milk-maden, or sold chickens and eggs in
the market place Of her favorite town, Argos
The gods, by the by, must clearly have been the
first encouragers of husbandry and institutors OF
agricultural societies. Jupiter loved bees and goats
having from his infancy, in spite Of its laxative
qualities, affected the diet of milk and honey. His
wet-nurse, the goat Amathea, he afterwards, at his
accession, promoted to the skies, in order that she
might supply him with the basis of Ambrosia-a
thing neither solid nor fluid, but meat and drink at
once; SO that it was probably (honey being used
instead of sugar. nobler original of egg-nog.
Juno, we have seen, delighted in horned cattle She
also kept poultry yard being the first to breed
pea-hens. Neptune is celebrated in the Greek
stud-books for being the author Of horses and,
being too pursy to ride his own matches, invented
chariot-racing and shone as the first of Jehus and
of whips. Minerva introduced the culture of
olives, and 1--WE must necessarily suppose) that Of
all sorts Of salad-greens for what should SO wise
deity want with oil but to put it into learned
herbivorous composition Of lettuce, endiye, or wa
er-cress, with all sorts Of biting condiments Then
hose q IL r
making bread. Her daughter Proserpine, it APP
pears patronzed pomegranates as certain old
maiden ladies, called the Hesperdes did the orange
Hercules broke into their greenhouse one day, and
carried off some slips-not theirs, we
mean, but of their trees-to Greece, Bacchus,
Pan, Vertumnus, Pomona, Flora, and most Of the
heather deities seem, in one way or another, to
have encouraged rural economy. The very Fates
were good housewives, and spun deal OF linen
yarn: so that, of course, they probably grew flax.
But hold we have quite slid into mythology while
talking Of cattle.
Pan, we believe jocund, rubicund, hearty,
hospitable, Woodworking god who set up fancy
|arm, somewhere in Arcady-led the way to all
agricultural improvements in Greece: SO that, if
he had only settled down in town at last and pub
shed farmers monthly journal, he, Pan, allow
ing Tor much subsequent progress, would have been
Quite the Skinner of his day; and so here we are,
once more, back at the Farmers Library, and an
account of the contents of its present number.
First it embodes, from page 2s9 to 336, the
continued reprint of Stephens Book OF the Farm
This part of the text treats of the whole art of
poughing and furrowing in ridges, &c.; the subject
being abundanty illustrated by wood cuts: it then
passes to the business of drains, their disposition
and structure, the instruments employed, &c. Here
again engravlngs make the subject perfectly clear
Then follows the " Monthly Journal" It's first
article with an excellent steel portrait) is me-
NOR OF that great benefactor of the South-that
real " Northern man with Southern principles"
ELI WHITNEY, the inventor Of the saw-gin-a ma
chine than which very few have ever yet exercised
a more important influence over human industry
and commerce.
TO this succeed articles on barley on the use Of
trap-rock as manure memorial in behalf Of the
plough, 4 hreaklasi-table-taik between the editor
and practical farmer series of letters on sheep
husbandry in the South; queries about the grow
ing OF nadder results of planting in South Caro-
Ina and in Mississippi compared Newcastle Ag-
-lcultura Society; kiln-dred corn meal cultiva-
ion of the orange concluded; pickle for beef: 10
correspondents Scotch premium to the best sheep
'hearer; agriculture, part of public education
with notices of two Of the distinguished public
characters of our day-namely; Mrs. Matilda the
Hereford COW and Mr.. Grinnell's fine colt Cham
hon. 1t seems that Mrs. Matilda sat to Mr.. Van
Iandt for her likeness. If that artist, however,
pon The strength of the performance, imagines
limself the Sir Thomas Lawrence OF cows he is
really mistaken; for the true Sir Thomas-we
night say the Sir Joshua Reynolds-s Wash
ngton one.