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ENGLAND FARM-EH. 



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THE BEFj worm. 



An insect (!ni<= called Unv licpn m:il(in9; very 

 d^slriiclive r«v3?os iimnnof (hr Does in Vri'winii", 

 nnd in oilier \)av\< of llic cnnntry, I'V drslroy 

 ing Ihcm in ('lo Hiv. ;inil (liii« ciillipo- nf]' (fip 

 fiip|)ly of HdDPV and Wax, sn conilorlnlilo and 

 almost npre=sary in rnr.il life. A I'ripnd, who 

 lakes n:''Pat interest in whaiever is cnnneofed 

 with Rural Econ'uni'. lias ("nrnished ns will) Ihe 

 follivin^ re.cipp (or ijrGvenlinjr the dpstrnctivc 

 incnrsion of this enemy nf (he bee. — A'n'. Intel. 



"Take two boards, nf an inch thickness each, 

 perforate (hr o'le in 12 or 2l5 places with a half 

 inch an2;er, place this board upon the other, 

 mark Ihe places opposite tn these holes whi^n 

 laid on the other hoard — then bore this marked 

 board one third thrnusrh, on the npper side in 

 the marVed places, u'llh n two inch an<jer, then 

 place the board conlaininar the small h(des on 

 Ihe top of the other, and jint the hive upon them. 

 — The miller, or bee H'orm, when he enters 

 the hive, seeks a place, or is inlerrt)pled by the 

 bees, tn drposii his eo-cra ; the cavity formed as 

 above .alTcrds a convenient place ; the boards 

 are to he removed two or three limes a week, 

 and the esrsrs brtished from Ihe holes. This 

 course will prevetil the rarie-os of ihe hee worm; 

 for it is prodiiccii from these egys." 



THE SHAKER'S CIDER. 



A recent lenrist. whose observations appear 

 in the New York Commercial Advertiser. ?ives 

 the follnwinsr. respectin? 'the mode of makiew 

 and preserving- cider as practised bv the Shakers 

 of Canlerbnry. in New-Hampshire: 



" Their tine cider sells in Boston for f,\0 the 

 barrel, a fact which has .several times "fone the 

 ronnds of Ihe newspapers. Vv'e made partirn- 

 larinqniries respectinir Iheir mode of mannfac- 

 tnrinsT this article, bnt conUI nol learn that tbf^' 

 had any pecniiar process. Their fruit is of ihe 

 ordinary kind, and the apples are ijathered as 

 tbev fall, and housed. Late in November Ihev 

 are orioimri in a mill, after the defective ones 

 have been carefully sijpnrated, and Ihe pnmice 

 is snffpred to remam in the vat over nisrht, and 

 until it assumes a red colour Ihrnu2:hnnt. It is 

 then pressed in the usual manner, and the cider 

 is put into casks perfectly clean and sweet — • 

 They prefer rum hofshead*, when it is poscible 

 to obtain them. In Derember, afer the fer- 

 mentation had subsided, they rack off the cider, 

 and add to each hooshead a gallon of brandy 

 dislilled from the lees. In March they atjain 

 rack into clean hos^shead^, and the bqunr re- 

 quires no further attention. They never drink 

 it until it is at least two years old. and it con- 

 tinues to improve by RSfe. That wh'ch we last- 

 ed was five years old." — Hartford Times. 



FIRES, 

 rpfip (season of fires has commenced. Those 

 who attend to their fire-places at night, should 

 be careful that no half-consumed sticks of wood 

 are left across the andirons or standinof in the 

 corners. They sbonid be laid flat on the hearth ; 

 and the ashes should be carefully heaped over 

 the coals. Brooms should not be used to sweep 

 v\) ashes at a late hour in the evening:, nor 

 should oven doors he closed. Let every one 

 remember that " one ounce of prevention is 

 worth a pound of cure." — Providence Microcosm 



woor,. 



TIIK Pnrf?TDENT'S MESSAGE is a vfry able, lu- 



'.Vool in laro'p qvaMili^'s, is now brought from minous and sa'as^aclPry documciil, wcrlby of Oie di- 

 the west, for .sale in the eastern cilies. It bears ti„guish«t scIioTh. and .talesman from vv-hora it orWna- 

 Ihe cost 01 iraosporlalinn better than most other, ted. We had partly prepared an abstract ofi.s co«- 

 rnv commodities that can he produced beyond [ tP,u,, when we found it already ably done in tbc Ne,v 

 the monolains-and. ,1 Ihe same attention were I York Merca„lik. Ad,e,-tl-.c-v. W. therefore avail our- 



paid by Ihe farmers In the rearinsf of sheep 

 which tliey give to the cultivation of grain, 

 over and above what the wants of their neigh- 

 borhoods require, there would ho a great dif- 

 ference indeed, in the amount of Cueir profits, 

 and Iheir counlry, ton, would be the heller for 

 it. 



selves of that article 



as (ollows : 

 ^ We learn from lh(; Message, ihat no irateiial varia- 

 tion has occurred in our relations with Foieign govern- 

 ments since tlic last lesslDn of ConTess ; 



That Ministers on the j-art of the U. Stales wiW be 

 sent to the Congr ss of Panama ; 



That onr claims on France lor injul'i^5 " of Ihe ir.ost 

 rf. , ,1 1 ■ r ,1 1 -11 I P^S'f'vated and outrae'eous character," have bem ur<'- 



Iwenly thousand pieces of flannel will be erwUhout effect, ,>o1,„swer having yet Wn'ceivrci 

 made at ihe Ameshury mills, Massachuselts, in I on the subject from tl.at gov. rnmcnt ; 

 tbp [iresent year. The impoil of this article | That the govemmdit o'tColoinhia.'has made salis- 

 h IS nearly ceased, and with a I'liller supply iA'\ Action for oi.r claims upon litr— and that the Treaty 

 wool, will soon wholly stop. The home made , ™'.l'' """ '^fP"hlic has been ratified. 



eoods are better and cheaper than the imported. 

 The whole daily consurnjition of wool at Ames- 

 bury is 4,000 lbs. 



riiat the receipts into llio Treasury this year will 

 exceed those of the last year nearly five millions of dol- 

 lars, and will amount to about twenty-two millions, in- 

 dependtnt of the loan. The amount of duties on mer- 

 chandize for the year, is expicted to exceed ^C4,000, 

 GRR-iT O^K OCO, being more than the whole expenditure of the 



ytar. 

 To the many instances of the prodigious size which [ The public debt has been reduced nearly eight mil- 

 attain, recorr.ed m Evelyn's Pylva, a_nd other . Honsof dollars, and on the 1st of January nesf it wiil 



nsk 



works, may be added ano'her from the New Forest 

 In r^angley Wnod.htii^ngii.g lo the Bishop of Salisbury, 

 an Oak was felled in the yi-ar IT.'^T, v.'hich hatl 300 

 rings of annual grnwth, and whose trunk was thirty six 

 feet in circonifcrence jast ahove Ihe ground : it did not, 

 however exceed twenty feel in bright, but was full six 

 feet ill diameter at t-ip, and pf ifeclly sound, lis mas- 

 sive hranches, consisting piipcipally of knees and crooks 

 lit for naval pur)H)ses, extended near'y forty feet earh 

 way. This tree was felled in an unusual mannm' for 

 the preser\'ation of its crooks, which were cut off one 

 by one whilst the tree was standing, anrl were lowrr 

 ed by tackling, to prevent Iheir being injured. The 

 two Targest arms were sawn otf at such distances from 

 Ihe Irnnk as to form the mo=t capital first-rn/e knees. 

 Sealfolds were then erecle d ; i-nd two pit saws heing 

 braced together Ihe body was' first cut across ball 



.Ihropgh at the bottom, and then sawn down the mid- _ „„^. ^ 



'die. hrtween the two stumps of arms that had heen bfl; I „ot one in this hcnii phcre, ■»liileiu""Ku''rope' there 



a' t'le end of one stood a perpendicular bnugh. Larger one hundred and thirty-three 



tJian most timher trees ; to prevent this being injured 



a br d of snmt* hundreds of fygsrots was piaced to break 



its fall. This half was sn we-i^hly. that it crushed a 



new timber caitiige to peces the instant it came upon 



it. The K!ng''s carriage' was t'len sent purpose ly from 



Porlsmovdh, lo assi«l in convFying it In the doek-yard: 



it was flvawn by twelve horses, occasionally aided by 



eight others. Ihe shortest way to the sea side ; and was 



by sea conveyed to Pnrtsmoiilh. This tree was in the 



first place sold for 401. ; il was next purchased liy a 



Mr Whit", of .Aiivilb . for loni. nnd he is snnposed to 



have clea'ed by i* a+ I' asf IC't. more ; as the contents, 



in which were tbir-'v-t".i'n loads, at half a crown per 



foot, (no nnnsiial price for naval rror ks ") amonnfed lo 



9001. The faggots were m^re than sufficient to defray 



incidental expenses. — D^autil■s of England, &c. 



be less than 81 millions ; 



That the Post ("ifBce receipts have exceeded the ex- 

 penditures by $4.5,lili0, although the mail is now car- 

 ried 1,500,000 miles annuilly. 



The President reminds Congress that they possess 

 Ihe power to pass Bankrupt laws, and to organize the 

 .Militia. 



He recommends a liberal policy in r ur intercourse 

 with foreign nations, and that pfrmissicn be given to 

 vessels of any nation to bring the produce of any other 

 ecnntry, at equal duties. 



The President also recommends — 



A revision of Ihe pension law ; 



A j;erniancnl Naval peace establishment, snd a Na- 

 val Academy ; 



Internal improvements by Roads and Canals; 



A standaid of weights and measures; 



The establishment of an Ohservatniy — there being 



are 



A revision of Ihe jueliciary system ; 



An additional Fxccutivi' Department ; 



That the remains of Washington be removed to the 

 Capitol, and a monument erected over them ; 



The establishment of a military post at the mouth of 

 the River of the West, and a survey of the North \\ est 

 Coa't. 



These are the prominent sol jf c's adverted to in the 

 message, the whole of which will he found interesting 

 and important. 



THF FI.YI^:G WF.FVIb- 

 We are informed by a friend, that an easy and ef 

 feclual preventive to Ihe ravao-es made en wbe-at and 

 other o-rain bv the Fbnvf: IJ'eevI. will be found in 

 st'^ewinp- over, and mixing tbrou?'h the threshed grain 

 slacked lime — that a neck of 'ime wi'l an wer for a 

 thousand bushels. Those hai'ing their sfrain in slack- 

 would do well to thresh il out im nedia^ely. and resort 

 to this simple method of preventing its entire de^lrnc 

 lion. The 2*rain can easily be cleansed from the lime 



"medy is practise-', as we are in- 



by screening-. Tb'' 



formed, in iVie Southern stales where the weevil ha= 



been for some years very deslrnctive to gram. 



Ohio Paper. 



In Virginia, by returns from P8 ronnfles and towns, 

 received between the 30th September .lfi2J, and 30lh 

 September 18"?.5,it appi-avs that ITS^G indigent children 

 have been sent to school in those counties and towns 

 within the year. 



Mr. Monroe, late President of the U. States, is spoken 

 of in the Virginia papers, as a candidate for the office 

 ot Governor of that state, and the Petersburg Intelligen- 

 cer adds — "Shoulrl it be ascertained that he will ac- 

 cept the chair, there can be no doubt as to the vote in 

 joint ballot of the two houses." 



Jiew Academy. — The American classical and milita- 

 ry lyceum, at Mount Airy, Germantown, eight miles 

 from Philadelphia, is now ope"ed lor the reception of 

 sludents. It is under Ihe superinlendance cf B. Con- 

 stant, and col. Ji. L. Hmitnfnrf^ forme-rly of "V'^'esl Point, 

 and is to be modelled after that famous institution. 



Claims on France. — We find it intimated in the 

 New York American Ihat Ihe Fresch Government have 

 recently come to the conrlusion absolutely lo reject 

 the claims of our merchants .tor indemnification. 



It is said in a Liverpool paper, "that the settlement 

 of the Jews, on the Banks of the Niagara, is not a 

 solitary instance of collecting the scatt- red tribes. — 

 There is now a Jew of some eminence, in London, 

 beating up for recruits for the establishment of a simi- 

 lar coteny ni i^/orirfc." 



