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garden teem with plums, aprioots, and peaches, of every kind and color? Was the curcu 

 lio made expressly for the vexation of later days, or is it that the feathered toll-gatherers 

 are gone too: and to use your own language, oh conscript fathers! " the supply exceeds 

 the demand" of every bug that caters for itself in our thriftless orchards. 



I should not dare to raise my feeble voice in this behalf through any other medium 

 than the Horticulturist; but I know my audience here are the forest trees, as it were, of 

 the land. Sturdy, sensible, culturers of the soil. Educated, intelligent possessors of gar- 

 dens and green-houses. Electoi'S, if not members, of the legislative bodies. And I am 

 supported by the wide sympathies of every poraological convention and fruit-grower in the 

 land. Strong in this triple shield, I ask you, assembling citizens of this free and fertile 

 country, to have regard in your laws to the birds. Do not let them be slaughtered for the 

 wanton pleasure of school-boys, or the improvement in shooting of the older, but scarce 

 wiser men. Throw around their wind-swung cradle, the sheltering film of legal pains 

 and penalties. Guard their untried wings with lines and prosecutions, to the disturbing 

 and destroying hand. Let them fixirly grow up, at the least. Somewhat encourage the 

 song and appetite that give j'ou pleasure, and the insects an end. If it please j'ou to per- 

 mit their shooting after a certain date, yet let them arrive to some strength and flight. A 

 hand of greater power and tenderness than is apparent to j'ou, has given them means of 

 escape; a pure air and wide sky open before them; and if the leaden message overtake 

 even their rapid pinions, they shall not fall unnoted or uncared for. It is not life, or food, 

 or any other alms, the}^ ask from human compassion; but merely such protection to their 

 existence as is most for human benefit. My dear sirs! care for the birds a little, and they 

 shall care for you! Your fruit shall ripen in August suns. Your plantations shall echo 

 to songs that Avill be vocal gratitude to your conscience. And all lovers of the woods and 

 fields will bless you in their heart for the little comrades of their pleasure. Last and least, 

 you will have, though it be of faint and scorned value, the sweetest perfume of thanks 

 that lies folded away in the heart of a Wild Flowee. 



In the Bushes, March 10, 1851. 



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Dear Sir — In jour Dec. No. you mention that Dr. Arnott's chimney valve is the 

 best cheap ventilating apparatus. I wish to describe a cheaper and more simple one, in- 

 vented by my friend Peter Taylor, Esq., of this place, and which has succeeded admi- 

 rably wherever it has been tried. It can be attached to any stove 

 pipe for less than a dollar, and will ventilate rooms heated by a 

 stove, the pipe from which goes into a chimney in an adjoining 

 room, and to which Arnott's inveution could not be applied. 



It is simply an elbow of sheet iron, of, say three inches in 

 diameter, attached to the upper part of the stove pipe, with the 

 mouth uppermost near the ceiling ; the short leg of the elbow and 

 the long leg of the stove pipe and chimney, forming an air sy- 

 phon through which the heated air from the upper part of the 

 room rushes with great rapidity and of course cold air replaces 

 it from without the room. It can be regulated by having a 

 damper on it, so as to cool the room in a very short time, from 

 excessive heat, to any temperature yoti may choose. Tlicre is no 

 danger of smoke escaping b}' the ventilator; in fiict the air rushes 

 in with such velocity as to drive a toy wind-mill placed in the 

 mouth of it. James Dougall. 



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Rosebank, near Amherstburgh, Canada West, Jan. 7, 1851. 



