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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 14, 



From Hie Chrislian Register. 



BEE HIVES.. 

 Mr. Editor — As the common mode of taking 

 honey from bee hives destroys the industrious 

 gatherers, I have seen lately a nnmber of hives 

 constructed so as to take honey in its pure uncol- 

 ored stale, without injuring or disturbing the 

 bees, which I am glad to communicate to you. 

 Let the height, breadth, and depth, be of the 

 usual dimensions; let there be two cross bars 

 inside, as usual, but about 6 or 8 inches from 

 the floor of the hive ; about 10 or 1 1 inches from 

 the tJoor, let parallel bars or slats, about half an 

 inch wide, and half an inch apart, be fixed hor- 

 izontally across the hive, thus making two apart- 

 ments. On these, place 9 small boxes, open at 

 the bottom only. The bees will fill up the top 

 of the hive. They should be about three eighths 

 of an inch thick. They will hold one pound and 

 a half of honey. Over these a lid, as a top of 

 the hive, should be placed with a hinge. The 



GREAT MORTALITY. | other, and much of it? aromatic flavour ; and the 



Out of a population of 2099 inhabilnnts in the ; I'^^^ey tii^le which ch.iracterises the Seckle,.is 



townships of Albany and Greenwich, Pennsvlva- ' (""onfid to it by (he longer action ot the sun. 



nia, no less than 110 persons recently died ol j ).'. ^'P' "«" ^^^ P'l'T'^d the .^«i!ot;ji! .S( CnMan-ip; 



dysentery in the course of seven weeks. 



NEU ENGLAND FAUMEH. 



FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1825. 



Atmosphbric Phenomena. — On Saturday and 

 Sunday last the atmosphere exhibited a very un- 

 common appearance. A dense vapour possess- 

 ing, apparently, all the properties of smoke aris- 

 ing from the burning of wood or other combus- 

 tible materials filled the air and in some degree 



like Summer and Wmter Good Christians. 



Yours truly, C. B. 



TO THE V^'TOR OF THE NEW ENGLAND TARMER. 



ON FATTENING SWINE. 

 Mr Fr.-iSENDEN — I have lately discovered a- 

 mong a number of ancient books, a Treatise on 

 .Agriculture. The book contains six essays with 

 appendices. The title page and the beginning 

 ofthe first essay are worn out. 1 find by the peru- 

 penetrated the interior of buildings. Conjecture;"'"''''^? work, that the Rev Mr Elliot w.,s the 

 has as usual been busy in assigning causes for ^""^"^' !:"'"'>: "'\'^="^ '^'"'"S""'^ t^on- 

 this singular effect. Some think thnf fires in the I """^"'1 ' "I""« "i"' ,^S."'^%=' ""'■"'y •=''''->;: 

 woods of Maine accomodated us with this annoy, i'"^'" <:' "^^'J f'«<^P; "The foregomg essays," 

 ance. But unle.s the smoke proceeding fromlf-^^'^^ author,-" were first printed m iNew- 

 (hose fires, which happened weeks and months ! L""''°" '^".'^ iNew-'iork, between the years HH 



bees enter a, their door, ascend between ".lie ^go had been caretully ..ttled or a, ^- .>-.. | ^J,;^^: ,^;^':;jy:-:J^t;r 



horizontal bars into these several boxes, and fill ! I^^''' >< ""'' ' ' -"^ !'"'' , f T pTZT.r' I '"^h as "Behold 'the llusbnn.lman waiteth iol 



them first with honey, then the space below the n J redi.ced toils elementary substances-, ts car- j . 



- ' ■■ bon would have been deposited in the likeness ' . . . ' = 



f .., ., , ,. I . .1 . ; ,1- ' patience tor It, unti he receive the ear V and at- 



ot -oot ; Its watery particles, given to the winds. ,, , ' _ ,, , , ,-•, , ,- , 



,,, ,„ •' ' •.,,!• „i i„,,. j er rain. James V. 7. " Went by the he d o the 



would have been precipitated in rams and dew,' , , ,, , , , , . ,■■ , ■ , r 



„ L„i , • „ 1 ,,;„ I • ■,, „. . _ .,m.Fi,.„;i I sothtiil, and by the vineyard ol the man void ot 

 or held in solution by air ; its empvreiimatic oil, I ,,.•',,.- ,, ■., 



, 1- „ 1 111 ■.u„.. i,„„„ iinder-tandmsr : and lo It was a srrown over Willi 



and pyroligncous acid would have either been . , , , , , ,• ■ r 



also precipitated or so far .liluled with air as to ; "i";";^ '''"'' "^'''^f ^j"' covered the lace thereof, 

 :ive no ofience to the most delicate eyes or j ""''"^'^^ ^"'"^ "^''/h^reot wa= broken down. - 



I rrov. XXIV. 84. And throughout bis Essays are 



nO^CS. . ,. , ., i> "it • 



Some of our city philosophers contended that | ">f"y q'>"tations from the Book of Books, Here 

 Boston-folks manufactured the very smoke oil [""""'^ <'"'■"' ^is experiments in fattening swine. 

 For that whereas the ^^'e^se to give.it an insertion, i. wortuv ot it 



lours, fcc. R. bRl.'ilOL. 



bars, which is always enough to keep them well 

 thro' the winter. The small boxes may be tak- 

 en out at any time, rememberingto supply each 

 space with another similar. Bees thus managed, 

 swarm every spring, and of course increase rap- 

 idly. This plan has succeeded perfectly, and it 

 is not among the least advantages of it, that it 

 saves these diligent and f.iithful injects from the 

 lake which truly burns vvilh fire and brimstone. 



Wcsf Cambridge., 



W. 



Artificial Spring — Boring for Water — We feel 

 assured that this paragraph vvill he read by more 

 persons with interest than any other in the pa- 

 per. Four persons fiom this county have been 

 to New-Brunswick, New-.Iersey, to see the so 

 much talked of artificial springs. With one of 

 them we have conversed. He says that three 

 springs, brought from n great depth to the sur- 

 face, and which were dis^charging themselves 



which they complainecl. 



specific gravity of the atmosphere at that lime j 

 happening to be a trifle less than that of the j 

 smoke of our culinary fires, fcc. the said smoke I 

 Ijaving, with much ado made its way out ot the' 

 tops of the chimney? tumbled into [lie streets and i 

 back yards, and delachments from the main body 

 of llie fuliginous mass made their way through 



" I find by experience (he best time in fatten 

 swine, is to begin at the 1st of .\ugust, if you have 

 old corn : Hogs will fal slowly in very cold 

 weather ; they will eat much and fatten but lit- 

 tle : If you make a very warm house, they heat 

 in bed, and catch cold when they come out into 



.1 _i ■ ii ■ ,11 , I - " I r I - - .^ I T iiitf coin irrow very sou : uiis opens nie i'mils. — 



through pipes, were flowing on the low grounds. Ipnmt that the «molcp nervaded the roiintrv as /->■ .i. .■ " . , j .!_ . 1 j- i 



'TU,;- ^;„i t 1 - . I 1° 1 ■ .\ learni m.u iiie .mosd peiv.ii Lu uie couniiy .is Give them the corn to eal and the water lo drink 



This might be accounted lor by supposing the 

 fountain lo lie in Ihe hill back — hut on the top 

 of the hill Ihey wore then shown a spring ob- 

 tained by boring 250 feet. It flows in a con- 

 stant stream, yielding from the pipe two gallons 



crevices and key-holes, (like so many warlocks i |||g ^.^^ .^j^. 



and witches) into our very bed-rooms". This hy-j ,, -j-^ ^^^.^ ^^^^^ g,^ ;, -^ „..,,pr „^ g^^;,, ,j„ 



pothesis appeared pretly plausible, till it "-is - the corn grow very soft ; this opens the part.«.— 



well as the city, and nobody whose faculties ;„ ^,,1^.^ ,i,p corn is steeped. The hard, dry 

 were not obfuscated thereby, could suppose that ^.^j^n, „ great deal of it, passelh through them 

 a "blue blanket" of such dimensions was man- 1 „n,i,^e.,ted ; this is the harde.sl part ofthe corn, 

 uiactured in Boston. Ihe cause of the smoke ; 3^,, ^^^^^ „.h,ch principally makes the ilour— 

 IS therefore still a matter of obscurity; and when ; ^here is a tradition, thai" if you feed one hog 



a minute. The water is sweet, soft, pure, and our philosophers have found it out, we will let;^i,h corn, the dung of the fi'rst hog will fal a" 

 l"'"'f'.'i' ,"'e';pring_ house, kilchen, barn-yaid, j j^he worM know all about it, with all convenient ^ „,„her l.ng, and h^s dung a third. Although I 



"' •'■'■" j i,eiJQvg ([,g story to be fabulous, yet it serves lo 



"•*8**"" 'show that Ihe sense of mankind is, that in the 



Uingham, Oct. 12, 1825. manner wc feed swine, there is a great deal of 



loss. 



by pipes laid to each, and leaves a superabund- 1 expedition, 

 ance lo spare. — There is no water ,«o high as 

 where the spring comes to Ihe surface, forsome 

 miles, which |irecludes Ihe probability, if not 

 the possibility, that the fountain is on higher 



Mr Fr.ssENDKN— On the 21lh of March 1825, 



ground, and forces the conviction strongly, if nol "^3' man engrafted five or six stocks of the Seckle 



conclusively, thai arlilicial springs may be rais- 

 ed in all situations. We hope lo be able to pre- 

 sent a more particular account of their vi>^il, 

 when we see Ihe gentlemen together. — I'iUage 

 ilecorJ. 



SKELETON. 

 A human skeleton ivas recently dug from the 

 cellar at the corner of Central and Kilby streets, 

 by some labourers at work there. We under- 

 stand, that from appearances, it was buried lour 

 o'r five years since, about two feet uniler ground. 



penr, on a llirifly SI Germain, pulling two scions 

 into each stock. One graft, it seems, had a blos- 

 som hud on its top ; this taking well, soon bloom- 

 ed, the fruit formed, and on Ihe 21th of Septem- 

 ber I plucked from this graft the finest Se.ckle 

 pear 1 ever remember to have seen. The 2rrafl 

 ilid not grow the eighth of an inch in length, nor 

 much in circumference; the fruit requiring all 

 the nourishment the stem could draw. The twin 

 graft erew two feet, throwing out two or three 

 <inall blanches. 



The Scckle is a delicious fruit, and a great 

 bearer, — but all which 1 have eaten directly re 



" I took the hint of sleeping corn from the ad- 

 vantage 1 once found by some corn I bought that 

 had been ship-wrecked, and laid in the water 

 till it was gro»vn soft. Such is the difi'erence in 

 corn and in swine that it is impossible to fix it 

 absolutely and know certainly how much there 

 is saved by this method. It is heller than grind- 

 ing besides what we save in Ihe toll, and the 

 lime and charge of carriage, lor It is found by 

 experience that even bran, wlion steeped in wa- 

 ter a long time is much Ihe heller. 



" 1 asked an honest judicious neighbor of min^ 

 who had leisure to try this method of steeping 

 corn longer and with more exactness than 1 had 



minded mo of the St Catherine. It has much of j 'lone, lloia much he thought he saved by ii ? He 

 that golden iiue on one side aud deep red oiithe 'si'"' at '<-'ast one bushel in seven ; he believed 



