Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03

closed and the repeal dead forever
"THE PLoUGH, THE Loom, AND THE ANVIL
for July, has been for some weeks on our table.
Time seems to quicken instead of relaxing the ex-
ertions Of the Editor who contends that no general
and great improvement can be effected in great
branches of national industry without suitable le-
gislation; having, as we have, to contend against
the cheap labor of nations who have every year
less and lees to give exchange for the and
have to give them The Editor has had an accession Of
lit subscribers in the last sixty days from Halifax Cali
orna, and from eighteen intervening Statesthe greatest
number from New York, and the highest from the Old
Dominion, which in keeping with other signs that she be-
gins give way in her freerade doctrines He says he
for free trade with the people of Europe but he would first
attract them by the strong tie Of senterest here
where they would be farmer planter customers
getting good wages, and able much and there
fore, freely exchanging with mutual advantage Among
great variety Of practical articles in the number be,re u.s.
there contributed by the Hon. G. E. CLARKE, NJ. c.
from New York, which to leave nothing unsaid
the popular subject Of Plank Roads, materials, cost, and
method of constructing them. We would endeayor to find
room for information much in demand just now it
not illustrated bya diagram to make it fully understood.
The following shorter article shows what may be done by
taordnary thrift ard good management Dairy Husbady
while the which is turned by the editor Of "The
Plough the Loom, and the Anvil evinces his determination
to make the cuvators of soil how Indispensable in
every way them policy which shall force the
ac,uer to take his place by the side of the producer
It will be useful well acceptable country readers
A BUrrER MAKER.-Mrs Marinda Hines, who has been
subscriber to Greenfield paper, without giving the propie
tor any trouble about collecting pay, shows herself in the fol-
lowing extract, most notable dairy women
81 have five cows, and have sold the past 800
pounds Of butter besides milk cream and butter for family
use Our family will average eight. raised calves
last spring. and late Of them got Of my neighbors
have aed 75O pounds Of pork, mostly on sour milk Now,
let US leave Of the for family use and set the credit
OF the other four, say 1900 divided by four makes 326
pounds each cow the butter sold averaging l6a cents
325 pounds at 6l makes S52 62 to each The
seven calves worth S3Osay 20 four and 500
OF the pork Sc will be $50, and the S25 for the calves
makes S55 divided by FOUR leaves Sl3 rs to each this
added $50 81 will make S67 81 to each COW, $3.50 Os
aggregate
"My cows are about middlng size, and Of the native
breed They have good pasture in summer and good hay
IN winter and that is all except in winter, sometimes give
old brindle few small apples and potato parngs, and the
like make her hold her milk until Of the others
come in. When any thing in the butter line in your
paper that beats the above will try again.
AT this rate, Virginia farmer keeping twenty cows,
many of them do get milk and butter for their families,
might make from their butter alone, without any dmnuion
of their staple crops $40 year-that he could reckon
Is! per pound for butter, $3.50 for calf and six
cents pound for pork and who doubt that he might
do if instead of following through bambles and brers,
political bewethers who keep up the everlasting song OF
free trade, sell where you get most, and buy where
you buy cheapest" the moment he would the inn
porance of working up the natural Of the State
Then (he arm,rs) would think for themselves and insist
steady encouragement Of American industry, such as would
bring oppressed laborers from abroad consumers into all
parts Of the Commonwealth there delve her own coal to
dig her iron from the mine, her own WOOL to
work up her leather and TIMBER and eat her own -four
and beef and pork, and potatoes and cabbages and milk
and apples and butter and rye, and her own blackber
es For where people work. and well paid for it, at
the loom and the anvil the workbench and in the mine
and the forge, euery thing will command oney-,here it
that learn feel that time is money. In Rhode Island
around ninety odd manufactures there sixty villages In
Virginia In proportion Of area, materials water power cos
iron, timber capacity for producing WOOL aud other natural re-
sources there ought to be least manufactures and one
hundrd consuming producers Of agricultural products
where there il Rhode Island aud cou be- were il no,
that we are and hare bee without knosirgh it, sub
servient the England who while she sings
to all the word the cuckoo song Of free trade is staggering
under debt of fsOo 900 $4,000 OO0) sterling, to
force all the world go to her, the workshop Of the
world, to get that which, if let alone they would make for
themselves Ah We wise people, and should take care
a. Mr. Bulver ssys "to offend British public oeiuon
Ed. L. r. and A.