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Fruit Trees — Sa Im as^u ndi. 



Vol. IV. 



The effect of the mechanical powers is to 

 enable us, while our original power remains 

 the same, and the rate of its motion the 

 same, to exert a greater power with a slow- 

 er motion, or a lesser power with a quicker 

 motion. But, in all such cases, the power 

 produced multiplied by the speed with which 

 it moves will be found to give the same pro- 

 duct. 



Thus one thousand pounds falling ten feet 

 in a minute, may be made to raise ten thou- 

 sand pounds one foot in a minute, or one 

 hundred pounds one hundred feet in a min- 

 ute, the same power being required in each 

 case ; but no man can make it do more, for 

 if he did, he would create something out of 

 nothing, which is contrary to a law of na- 

 ture. 



For this reason all attempts to make a me- 

 chanical perpetual motion have failed, and 

 forever must fail ; as such a machine would 

 be equivalent to making a weight raise an- 

 other equal to itself to the same height in 

 the same time, and enough more to overcome 

 the unavoidable friction of the machine, 

 which friction, however small, is certain, 

 sooner or later, to stop the motion, unless an 

 additional power is applied sufficient to over- 

 come the friction. 



Therefore, every man who is trying to 

 make a perpetual motion, or any machine 

 which he expects to do more tlian the power 

 applied to work it, is wasting his time and 

 money in that which will be certain to end 

 in disappointment. R. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Friiit Trees. 



Spring will soon be round again, and that 

 is the time for planting fruit frees. Every 

 one desires to have plenty of good fruit, 

 and yet how few resort to the proper means 

 of obtaining it. Many rely on their more 

 provident and industrious neighbours and 

 friends for a supply of it. How many 

 friendly and npiffhboitrly visits are paid dur- 

 ing the period that fruit is in season, that 

 would have been deferred or entirely omitted, 

 had there not been some excellent fruit in pros- 

 pect. Strawberries, grapes, plums, peaches, 

 apples, cherries, and pears, particularly if 

 they be of a very superior quality, all afford 

 most substantial reasons for visiting neigh- 

 bour A., B. and C. 



If there be no fruit, no visit need be ex- 

 pected for that season ; but if it is very abun- 

 dant and very good, look out for much com- 

 pany, for your friends will all remcml)er 

 you ; there is no danger of being forgotten 

 while it remains in senson. 



A very provident, carefiil, industrious per- 

 sonage who was celebrated tor always having 



something very nice and good on hand during 

 the season of fruits, and who had been rather 

 intruded upon beyond the point of proper en- 

 durance, once observed that " those who never 

 planted a fruit tree ought to make their visits 

 few and far between until they had amended 

 their practice and begun to reciprocate." 



Now those who profess to have repented 

 of their procrastination and neglect in the 

 matter of setting out fruit trees, had better 

 begin to demonstrate the sincerity of their re- 

 pentance by some external and visible sign 

 of amendment, and the approaching spring 

 will furnish a fine opportunity of exhibiting 

 their sincerity to their neighbours and friends. 



Determine at once the number and kinds 

 of trees you will set out, the spot where you 

 will plant them, ascertain where you can ob- 

 tain them, and make every necessary pre- 

 paratory arrangement before the time of 

 planting comes round, and let no ordinary 

 circumstance prevent the performance of so 

 important a duty to yourself, your family, 

 and to posterity as that of planting a well 

 selected assortment of the best fruit trees. 



K. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Salmagundi. 



Those wlio are sparing of grass seed, must be saving 

 of their liay. 



Winter is the proper season for thinking 

 and contriving about tlje operations for spring- 

 and summer; true it is that many think and 

 contrive but little, and the consequence is 

 that they are brought up all standing. 



Fifty or sixty years ago, farmers depended 

 upon the spontaneous growth of the native 

 grasses, and did not trouble their heads about 

 hunting up clover, timothy, orchard grass, or 

 herd grass seeds. The result was, they had 

 but little pasture and less hay ; they could 

 keep but little stock, and made but little ma- 

 nure ; their funds became more and more ex- 

 hausted every year as their land become 

 poorer, and by-and-by starvation and ruin be- 

 gan to stare them in the lace, and frightened 

 some of the more intelligent of our ancestors 

 into better ways of working things. 



Attention was turned to the artificial 

 grasses ; clover and other grass seeds were 

 procured and sown, and what is more, they 

 grew and flourished, and produced more than 

 ten-fold the quantity of herbage which the 

 same soil under the previous management 

 was wont to produce. This enabled the 

 fiinncr to keep more stock, to make more 

 manure, to em'ich his land, and to raise more 

 and better crops of grain; and all this tended 

 to put more money in the purse than waa 

 ever known before the introduction of artifi- 

 cial grasses. The result was, larger and 



