1825.] 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



83 



pounih — th:it is 1071 ponnds ; her hide 08 U)''- 

 her tallow IGOi lbs.— her lri(ie 99 \hs.^ 



Even Mr PoivgI admils ihal the improved 

 short-horns rn;iy dprive some iiilviinl:iije from a 

 cross with the Gallonny breed. In the case to 

 which he referred he .-iiiys the efToct " was ap- 

 parent in the greater quickness of the gait and 

 keenness of the eyes. "t 



I consider the es(raor<linary fi.illo'.vay heifer 

 just above described, and Mr Frincep's cow men- 

 tioned in my tburth letter, for fatness — like Mr 

 Cramp's Sussex cow in England, and Mr Oakes' 

 in Massachusetts, for butler, — as "prodigies;" 

 and not as samples of what may be generally e\- 

 pected t'rom those or any other breeds of cattle, 

 however improved. At the same time,, they 

 are encouraging examples to farmers, to select 

 and save lor breeders, siich bulU and cows as 

 shon:, and snch of their calves as promise to ex- 

 hibit the like desirable qualities for yielding 

 butler and fat beef; and 'o provide, in plen- 

 ty, the various articles of fond most conducive 

 to such important eliects. Vi ithoiit such pro- 

 vision, no breed can become or continue emi- 

 nent. T. i'lCKEUlISX;. 



From Ike Bosiuti .Vtii/ca/ hittll'gencer. 



OCTOBER. 



This is the last month of the season in which 

 we can expect to enjoy that nice balance of a- 

 greeable warmth and bracing coolness of autumn, 

 which is so grateful to our feelings after the ef- 

 feminating influence of a scorching summer. 



To invalids and valetudinarians who dress as 

 though they thmk that clothes were made for 

 Screens rather than to keep their boilies warm, 

 we have nothing to say to until they entirely 

 lay aside their cobweb b.abits of silk and gauze, 

 and make use of somethinij- more substantial Ic 

 shield themselves against the inclemency of ihe 

 ■ approaching season. Besides the scanty, light, 

 and flimsy attire of fashionable females of the 

 present day, as greatly favouring the class of dis- 

 eases from which they mostly suffer, may be 

 reckoned the waimthand closeness of the apart- 

 ments which are occu[)ied by the opulent, togeth- 

 er with the great and sudden changes of temper- 

 ature, to the lull efiects of which, from the light- 

 ness of their dress, they are imprudently and 

 needlessly exposed. In the winter, when per- 

 sons leave such apartments to go into the open 

 air,the change of temperatuie which they ex|)e- 

 rience, often amounts to twenty-live or thirty de- 

 grees. The passages to the lungs, in consequence 

 of being exposed to such a transition from hoi 

 to cold, are likely to fall into torpor, from the 

 stream of cold air that must pass through them 

 for the purpose of respiration; and when they 

 re-enter their apartments, heated to the merid- 

 ian temperature of the torrid zone, the blood 

 rushes with violence into the vessels previously 

 rendered torpid by ihe cold, and, upon the same 

 principle that one feels pain in his hands on com- 

 ing to the tire, alter being exposed to the cold. 



Ihey feel a sensation of uneasiness and iieat about 

 the throat: this local iullammation spreads, and 

 they expei'ience all the symptoms usually altend- 

 aut on a recent catarrh. 



ll is M"f our business to dictate tlie kind, or 

 fashion of the garments most suitable lo secure! 

 the thousanil avenues of a weak conslilulion a- 1 

 gainst Ihe attacks of disease ; hut we strongly \c- ! 

 commend to thn.se who are in good heallli, if 

 they would remain so, and to those who are fee- j 

 blc, if they ^vould not alter for the worse, toj 

 adapt Iheir clothing more to tlie season and their 

 own comfort, and less to Ihc folly of fishion, the 

 propagation of disease, and the ruin of Ihoir con- ; 

 Btilulion, than is generally customary with the 

 fashionable part of the community. 



Except warm clothes, nolliing is more con- 

 ducive to bodily health, activity and cheerful-; 

 ncss of the mind, than regular and seasonable j 

 exercise. Taken in a suitable degree and at i 

 proper times, it increases the power of digestion, i 

 quickens and renders clear Ihe action of the 

 mind, and preserves that just balance between 

 the mental and physical powers which is neces- 

 sary lo health, strenglh and happiness. While 

 ive thus enjoin upon all to cultivate habits of free 

 and regular exercise, we would caution those of 

 fragile or impaired constitutions against using it 

 so as to occasion a great degree of heat or fa- 

 tigue. To do good, it must be regular, dail\', 

 and persevcringly made use of, so as to keeji up 

 insensible perspiration. It is to the infcrruplion 

 of this process, rendered certain by Ihc flimsy 

 wardrobe in which Fashion requires those who 

 are devoted to her service always to appear, 

 that we trace ihe origin of those fatal diseases 

 which arc conslanlly making such cruel ravages 

 among those who coulribute most lo the life 

 and ornament of social and domestic intercourse. 

 F^ow long will the votaries of this healthdeslroy- 

 ing s^'stom remain passive under the absurd and 

 arbilrary laws of fashion? Must the delicate 

 fabric of Ihe female constitution be eternally 

 sacrificed upon this altar of folly and tyrant cus- 

 tom ? Eoth humanily and aflcction declare \vilh 

 sorrow that the names are alrca<ly too numer- 

 ous of those who have fallen victims to the dead- 

 ly influence of that insidious class of diseases, 

 which preys with the most unsparing voracity 

 upon tiie fairest and dearest part of nature's 

 work. 



The purify of air may he also restored by wet- 

 ting a cloth in water mixed ivilh quick lime, 

 hanging it it in a room u'itil it becomes dry, and 

 renewing tiie operation as long as it appears 

 needful. 



OLD ENDICOT TREE. 

 There is a pear-tree, in Salem, nor? living 

 and bearing fruit, though in a decayed state, 

 which ivas brought from Eugkind and planted by 

 Gov. Endicot, nearly 200 years ago. A writer 

 in the Salem Register says he has eaten a peai* 

 from this tree, of this year's growth, and a scion 

 from the tree is in bearing, and produced las: 

 year four bushels. 



LARGE BEET. 

 We look from our garden yesterday, (says Ihe 

 Ontario Messenger, of Ihe 14lh inst.) a blood 

 beet, Ihe weight of wljich, after having been di- 

 vested of the stalk and earlh about its roots, v\'a9 

 17 pounds, and measureil 2 feet G inches in cir- 

 cumference. We intend lo preserve this beet 

 for seed, and if successful with it, shall send our 

 friend Judge Buel. of Albanv, some of the seed. 



riemedij ^Igainst ihe Biic rf Serpents. — The shrub 

 gvaco, a sort of climber, or jiliant willow, found 

 in the warm and temperate regions of Santa Fe, 

 about 45 deg. N. lal., not only possesses tlie prop- 

 erly of neutralizing the venom of the rattle- 

 snake, and other serpents, whose bites prove 

 filal in the course of a i'ew minutes, hut may be 

 used as a prophylatic, and with such eflicacy, 

 that some doses of the juice of the pounded 

 leaves, properly administered, will be a com- 

 plete antidote against the bite of these reptiles. 



* Ttie weijlit of tlie tripe seems very extraordinary. 

 Is every tlomestic animal tliat is a powcrlul digester, 

 and latteus uncommonly well, furnislied with a very 

 thick, muscular tripe, which, constituting a part of its 

 digestive faculties, enables it to extract more nourish- 

 ment from the same food, than other animals uot equal- 

 ly furnislieJ ' 



f Mr I'uwel's Reply No. C. 



To correct the vitiated atmosphere in Bed C'katn- 

 bers. — Small closets and concealed beds are ex- 

 tremely injurious especially to young persons 

 and invalids. When persons are iVom necessity 

 obliged lo sleep in them, it would be advisable 

 every morning, immediately after rising, lo dis- 

 ))!ace all Ihe bed clothes — and if Ihe sky be se- 

 rene, to open the door and windows. The va- 

 rious methods which luxury has invented lo 

 make houses close and warm, conlribtite not a 

 little to render them xmwholesome. No house 

 can be wholesome unless the air has a free [las- 

 sage through it. For which reason houses ought 

 daily lo be ventilated by opening opposite win- 

 dows, and admitting a current of fresh air into 

 every room. Beds, instead of being made upas 

 soon as people rise out of them, ought lo be turn- 

 ed down, and exposed (o the fresh air from open- 

 ed windows through Ihe day. This will expel 

 any noxious vapour, and cannot fail to protnote 

 the health of the inhabitants. 



Hora to extract a pin head or any foreign sub- 

 stance out of the Ear. Let a very large syringe 

 be used as an air pump. This never failed willi 

 the jierson advising it. -^'"o- pop^r. 



A spoonful of Mustard Seed has been recom- 

 mended lo be added to an ounce of Coffee, to 

 improve the latter. 



The Celebrated Doddington. — Doddington was 

 very lethargic. Falling asleep one day, after 

 dinner, with Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham, 

 and several others, one of the party reproached 

 him with his drowsiness. He denied having been 

 asleep, and lo prove he had not, offered to re- 

 peat all Lord Cobham had been saying. Cohham 

 challenged him to do so. Doddington repeated 

 a story, and Cobham owned he had been telling 

 if. " Well " said Doddington, "and yet I did 

 not hear a word of it ; but 1 went to sleep because 

 I knc-j^ thai about this time of day you xcoidd tell 

 that story-'''' 



It is affirmed in the English papers, that (he 

 Slave Trade is still carried on, in its most odi- 

 ous form, at the Mauritius. Since 1816, upwards 

 of seventy thousand slaves are said to have been 

 introduced. 



The 19lh of July was, in France, the hottest 

 day experienced there in tlie course of Ihe last 

 twenty-five years. 



Upwards of six millions of the U. S. Six Per 

 Cent. Stock of 1812 was redeemed on Saturday 

 last. 



