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NEW ENGLAND FARi^IER. 



[Nov. 4, 



iK[xscx:i.i.Ai«rzEs. 



Light and Motion. — It is known by experiment 

 that every rapid stroke, every siuKlen motion, 



Id 



England fifty years ago. — In the last 50 years .impressGiJ on u mass of nir which cannot vie 

 the people of Great Britain have advanced full with stifficient quickness, excites in it a degrf 

 eight millioDS. In 25 years, the number of in- - ■■ • • 



hajbi^d houses in England and Wales alone have 

 ad^nced one-half. Fifty years ago, the very 

 existence of canals was a matter of incredulity. 

 Fifteen millions of public wealth have now been 

 profitably absorbed by those mighty ducts ; and 

 at least half as much more is at this hour des- 

 tined to their formation.— Fifty years ago, there 

 was hardly a steam engine in the kingdom. 

 There cannot now be less than 12,000 ; a crea- 

 tion of power equal to at least a quarter of a 

 million of horses; an energy which, in a single 

 day, would have raised up the great Pyramid 

 of Egypt. Fifty years ago, our annual exports 

 of manufactured cotton did not amount to a 

 quarter of a million in value. It has now swol- 

 len to nearly 30 millions. In the same period, 

 our exported woollens in defiance of Saxon, 

 Prussian, Spanish, and American competition, 

 have advanced more than two millions. Fifty 

 years ago, our imports of raw silks were only 

 300,000 pounds in weight. They are now near 

 ly three millions. Fifty years ago, our export 

 of iron was hardly 12,000 tons. It is now about 

 ten times as much. Fifty years ago, our ex- 

 ports of linen were about four millions of yards: 

 they are now nearly 40 millions. Fifty years 

 ngo, the whole value of our exported produce, 

 both native and foreign, was just 15 millions 

 of money; the value of British produce export- 

 ed, alone, is more than fifty millions. A hundred 

 and fifty years ago, says old Tucker, there were 



of light. 



Sleep of Plants. — The common chick-weed 

 with while blossoms, affords a striking instance 

 of what is called the sleep of plants : tor every 

 night the leaves approach in pairs so as to in- 

 clude within their u|>per surface the tender ru- 

 diments of the new shoots, while the uppermost 

 pair but one at tlie end ot the stalk are furnish 



Large Turnip. — Mr. Raymond Chandler on 

 Thursday last, oxhibiicd to us a turnip, raised 

 in Royalton, in this stale, which weighed 11 

 pounds, and measured in circumference 2 feet 3 

 inclies.-i-jBea'oti's Falls Intelligencer. 



Dr. Joiinson, ns executor to the will of his 

 friend Thrale, sold his brewery to the Barclays, 

 ihe present owners. This brewery now covers 

 eight acres of ground, and there were manufac- 

 tured in it, in 1Q17, 3W,000 barrels of beer. 

 About 200 men are employed within the estab- 



^^. ^ _ ^ ii^hment, and it is supposed that the number of 



ed'whh ronger leai"st:ilk3 than the others, so 1 persons dependent upon it without, in the sale 

 they close on the terminating pair, and protect ; ^md transportations of the liquor, is three or four 



thousand. Dr. Johnson, in treating about the 

 sale, remarked, in his characteristic manner, 



the end of the branch. 



American Leghorn— The most beautiful spe- "Gentlemen, it is not merely these boilers and 

 cimen of American female ingenuity and indus-' H^ese vats that I am selling you, but the polen- 

 try which has come under our observation, we i "'ili'y "' .acquiring wealth beyond the dreams 

 examined yesterday at the Exchange. It is a j o' avarice. 



hat, the materials of which grew in the town of [ 



Danvers, (Mass.) and were prepared and form- ! Medical jl/ni.— Sir Waller Scntt observes, " It 

 ed by a very young lady of that place. Thesis remarkable that although very many, perhaps 



colour, texture and workmanship of this hat 

 will not suQer on a comparison with the finest 

 from Leghorn — and it furnishes also the pleas- 



the greatest number of successful medical men 

 have assumed a despotic authority over patient* 

 alter iheir cliaracter was estaldished, few or none 



ing assurance that a liberal encouragement heve risen to eminent practice, who used the 

 towards the industry and enlerprize of our own i same want of ceremony in the commencement 

 country women is alone necessarv to save the J "•' their practice Hasly impatience of listening 

 country thousands of dollars whicirare now an- '» petty complaints, and a want of sympathy 

 nually required for Ihe payment of the imported I "i'h those who labour under no real indisposi- 

 article.— JSo^ro/t Trazdkr'. ''""i are great obstacles to success." 



Recklessness. — The Rev. Dr Lawson of Scot 

 only two or three ves'sels in Scotland, above 200 | '^""^ never permitted any powder to he put on 



tons ; our whole tonnage is now more than a 

 quarter of a million, employing 2u,000 souls. 

 A hundred and fifty years ago, says Chalmers, 

 the whole Navy of Britain did not amount to 

 100,000 tons; ft is now at least three millions 

 of tons, employing about 200,000 souls.— £rfj(i- 

 hurgh Obscr-ccr. 



his wig ; but on one occasion, it was jiowdered 

 by his family without his knowledge on a Sab- 

 bath morninir. When he began to grow warm 



FKUIT TREES, kc. 



and animated in his sermon, the powder falling ihe mcit approved sorts 

 about his neck and face, produced a sensation 

 which made him rub and brush himself frequent- 



"AMF.S BF.OODGOOD & CO. have for 



sale at their nursery, at Fliiihing-, en 

 Lou«^ Island^ near New York, 



Fruit and Forest Trees,Flowering Shrubs & Plantts of 



The proprietors of this Nursery attend personally to 

 the inoculation and engrafting of nH Iheir Fruit Trees, 

 and piirchasL-rs may rely with confidence, thai the 



ly with his handkerchief, until at length he dis- j Trees they order will prove genuine. 



covered the cause ; when, taking off his wig lie- 

 fore the whole congregation, he dulibcraloly 

 siruck it several times against the side of the 

 pulpit, until he dusted the powilerout; he then 

 replaced it upon his head, and proceeded with caton t.. him. 

 his discourse. 



Orders left with Mr Zebedee Cook, jr. No, 44 Slate 

 Street, Bostnn, will be transmitted to us, and receiv- 

 our prompt and parlirular attention. Catalogues will 

 be delivrreil, and any information iniparted respecting; 

 the condition, &c. &.C. that may be required, on appli. 



Sept. 30- 



FOR HALF, — a Farm situated in the pleasant and 

 flourishing vill ge of Dixmont, through which the 



Sea Pondi: — A writer in the (Quarterly Jour- ' 

 aal of Science suggests a plan for constructing ' 

 Sea Ponds, for the purpose of preserving and I 

 breeding a sufficient stock of various species of! 

 fish for the public markets. It has been found j 



l!?''!^!!!^'''^'' '^'"/''V'"''.*'""'''® '"; ""'! ■'''" '"■';'"' Matrimony.— Thomns Basterd, Esq. fellow of mail stage pass« twice a week from Augusta to Baa- 

 in pond> o. enclosed waters ; nnd with regard to; ^^^^ College, loG8, wrote the following epi- g°r, and is only from 16 to 20 miles distant to fourports 



gram on his three wives : °" ""•' Pj™''^'^"' "^7- " \«^ j^ convenient farm-house, 



° 2 large barns, sheep folds, sheds, and out houses all in 



good repair ; will summer and winter 100 sheep and 

 from l.'i to 20 head of neat cattle ; with a good set of 

 farming tools ef the most approved kinds, wl^irh may be 

 had with the premises if required. — For further partic- 

 ulars, inquire of BENJAMIN DUT.MAX, on the premi- 

 se;. 7t. Di.xmont (Me.) Oct. 13, 182,=1. 



many it also appears that it is indiiTerent wheth- 

 er the water be salt or fresh, or brackish, or al- 

 ternately fresh and salt. This plan ivonid bring 

 ihe fish within our power, to be taken alive when 

 wanted, and fr'im lieing better fed, in greater 

 perfection and more uniformly gi>od. There are 

 several sea ponds in Scotland where li-h are 

 thus kept— one in Orkney— one in the Frith of 

 Forth — and one in Galloway. This has recently 

 been put to the test in Guernsey, by Mr Arnold. 

 In a pond of about 4 acres only, many species of 

 sea fish are now thriving ; all those who have 

 had sufficient time Iiave propagated; and all have 

 impt-oved in quality, and many in a remarkable 

 manner. 



Artificial Cold.— The greatest arlilicial cold 



Though marriage by most folks is reclcoued a curse, 

 Three wives did I marry, for better for worse ; 

 The first for her person ; the ne\t for her purse — 

 Tlie tliird for a v.'armingpan, doctress and nurse. 



The above reminds us of a clergyman whose 

 first wife was immensely rich, his second was 

 exijuisitely beautiful; and liis third, whom iie 

 married in his old age, to nurse and comfort him 

 in the decline of life, proved to have a most un- 

 governable temper. He observed to one of his 

 friends, that he had had three wives, tlie ivorld, 

 the flesh, and the devil. 



Visionaries. — Wieland, in his .\gatbodemon, 

 conjectures, that in the infancy of llic human 

 race, men did, as children do now, confound 



iv„, 1," .^.1 , ^, ~- i.ii-c, iiiuu uiu, as ciiiiurcn uo now, coniounu 



that h,.s yet been produced was efifecled by Iho UuMr past dreams with real occurrences, that 



mixture of uiluled sulphuric acid with sno 



which sunk Fahrenheit's Ihermi^ 



91, 



len they bad been dreaming of a dear friend. 



Improved Breed of S~jsine. 



FOR SMjF, at the farm of S.VV.romeroy in Brighton 

 several young boars and sows of an age suilaiile to 

 produce pigs in the spring. This breed is Ihe result of 

 careful crossing for a course of years, with the improv- 

 ed Lmxcashire (by some called Ihe Wellington) on the 

 Bakewell, Byfield, and Bedford breeds — uniting 

 great length of body, small bone, easy keeping 

 and a disposition to fatten at an early age. Specimens 

 of the breed can be shown that when 18 mouths old, 

 were estimated to weigh GOO lbs. dressed. 



Brighton, Oct. 28. 



PARPO.NS k CO. City Furniture warehouse, 

 • Union Plrert, near the Union Stone, keep con- 



ch sunk lahrenheit'slhermometer lo minus jlhoy would think that they had been with him, | ='»""? °" ''^"f" for sale, a gener-al .assortment of furni- 

 or 1..3 degrees below the freezing point. „nd that thus has arisen the belief ia ghosts. t"ro, chair.., looking glasses feathers ol all kinds, fire 



'^ ' sets, bruslies, bellows, *;c. 4wC. 



