1826.] 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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JEWS' SYSTEM OF FATTENING GEESE. 



A geiilleman nho has recently travelled in 

 Polaiul, intimates that the Jews in that country, 

 who are celebrated for their skill in woose-fat- 

 teninnj, fatten their geese in the folloiving' curi- 

 ous manner. Thev, he ;i=5erl.=, wrap their gee^e, 

 if the weather be mih!, in co.irse linen — if'colH, 

 in flannel, first culling olT a small bunch of 

 of feathers that staiul erect en their nimp, on 

 which, it is well known to English goose-feeiiers, 

 the goose, in the night timo, rests its bill, and 

 sucks aivay a considerable part of its fal. They 

 then hang them up in dark jilaces, jind in sepa- 

 rate cages, and slopping their ears vvilh small 

 peas, to prevent them from being disturbed by 

 noise, and placing by ihem plenty of water and 

 gravel, feed Ihem three times a-d.iy, with pellets 

 of malt, or barley-meal, by which Irealment 

 their geese become wonderfully fat in an in- 

 credible short space of lime. 



[The difhcully of fallening poullry in (own, 

 which has been brought to it either by land or 

 water, is much complained of, and its cause nol 

 well understood. A lady at Annapolis, l\]rs. 

 Carroll, whose hospitable table is remarkable 

 for the fatness and delicacy of the poullry to be 

 found upon if, finds no ditiiculty on this point. — 

 This department is managed by her venerable 

 saperintendanl, Mrs. Johnson, and as we have 

 nnderstood more after the usual fashion of feed- 

 ing pigs than poultry ; that is, they are fed 

 indiscriminately from the offal of the kitchen, on 

 greens, pot liquor, parings of bacon, and other 

 meats, potatoes, &.c. &c. This treatment, so 

 convenient and simple, we are told will nei'er 

 inil to give us, what is so much to be esteemed, 

 good fat plump poultry. — Ed. Am. Farm.] 



CHINESE METHOD OF REARING DUCKS. 

 In China the jearing of ducks is an object of 

 great moment. The major part of them are 

 hatched by artificial heat ; the eggs, being laid 

 in boxes of sand, are placed on a brick hearth, 

 to which is given a proper heat during the time 

 required for hatching. The ducklings are fed 

 wilh craw-fish and crabs, boiled and cut small, 

 and afterwards mixed with boiled rice ; and m 

 about a fortnight they are able to shift for them- 

 selves. The Chinese then provide them with 

 an old stepmother, who leads them where they 

 are to find provender, being first put on board a 

 sampane, or boat, which is destmed for their 

 habitation, and from which the whole fiock, 

 often, it is said, to the amount of three or four 

 hundred, go out to feed and return at command. 

 This method is used nine months out of the 

 twelve, for in the colder months it does not suc- 

 ceed. 



ascend into it and brconio so lip.^v by feasting 

 on the honey and beer, Ihat llipy .=lep() the 

 whola of the next day in their new liabitation, 

 consequently, may be removed to any place 

 that might be thought proper, leaving their 

 properly behind them, but saving their lives. 



GETTING WET. 



This accident is at all times less iVequenI in 

 towns than in the country, especi.illy since the 

 use of the umbrella has been introduced. 



When a person is wet he ought never to 

 stand, but to continue in motion till iie arrives 

 at a place where he may be suitably accom- 

 modated. Ho should strip of! his wet clothes, 

 lo be changed lor such as are dry, and have 

 those parts of his body which have been wet- 

 ted well nibbed with a dry cloth. The legs, 

 shoolders, and arms, are generally the parts 

 most exposed to wet; they should, therefore, 

 be particularly attended to. it is almost incredi- 

 ble how many diseases may be prevented by 

 adopting this course. Catarrhs, iiiHammations, 

 rheumatisms, diarrhoeas, lever, and consump- 

 tions, are the foremost among the train winch 

 frequently follow an accident of this kind. 



Mcil. Int. 



BUNKER nUAj MONHMENT. 



j We understand (hat (he nunkrr Hill Monu- 

 ment is lo be buill of beauliliil granite, from a 

 quarry in Quincy. It is lo he conveyed lo the 

 shore, a distance of lliree miics, on the iaihvaj, 



I about lo be creeled there, and lo be trarspnrl- 

 ed thence to Charleslown, by water. — Patriot. 



I The Legislature of Pennsylvania have marie anothf." 

 grant nf 1,50,000 liollars, (ov.'avHs Internal Improvenients 

 in opening Canals, anrl improving the Public Roads. — 

 What has ,Mas5achus( tls. or Maine done, for these pur- 

 poses ? V\ hy — the former has dene nothing; and the 

 lalter, very little else, for improving either Ihe nav- 

 galion of our rivers, or mendin'^ the khijs ol'tin people. 



MUSCLES. 

 Two barrels of muscle shells, picked up in 

 the Ohio river, have been brought to Fhiladel- 

 phia, lo be made into ornaincnlal buttons. We 

 have seen some of them, and they are very 

 beautiful. These shells, we believe, are also 

 used at Pittsburg, tor Ihe handles of some of 

 the elegant penknives made at that |)lace — Gaz. 



TRIANGULAR BELLS. 

 Mr Curtis, the patentee of (he invcnlion, is 

 now m this village, and will remain some days 

 to receive orders for his bells. The one ex- 

 hibited by him as a specimen of Ihe great im- 

 provemen(, weighs about 9 lbs. and will give a 

 sound as loud as a common academy bell. The 

 advantages of these bells are obvious, they are 

 very cheap, easily hung, and a slight frame will 

 support Ihem. ^100 would procure one large 

 enough for a common Meeting-House. 



Ontida Observer. 



HUMANITY TO BEES. 



• A shoemaker, who resides in the East of Sus- 

 sex, lias, for three following seasons, it is cred- 

 ibly asserted, taken the honey from his bees, 

 without destroying them, by the following sim- 

 ple means. The hive that contains both bees 

 and honey he places bottom upwards, on a form, 

 with a round hole cut in it of sufficient dimen- 

 sions to receive the crown of the hive, and to 

 keep it in an erect position in its inverted slate. 

 Over this hive he places another, well smeared 

 with strong beer and honey mixed together, and 

 filled about half full with sweel flowers, sweet 

 and aromatic shrubs, herbs, &.c. — then placing 

 it, rim lo rim, over the iaverled hive, the bees 



Distance to •dnhich Sand and niinutely divided 

 Matter may be carried by Wind. — On (he morn- 

 ing of the 19lh of January last, Mr Forbes, on 

 board of (he Clyde, Eas( Indiaman, bound to 

 London, in la(. 10 deg. 40 min. W. and about 

 600 miles from the coas( of Africa, was surpris- 

 ed (o find (he sails covered wilh a brownish sand, 

 (he particles of which, being examined by a 

 microscope, appeared extremely minute. At 

 2 P. M. (he same day, some of Ihe sails being 

 unbent, clouds of dust escaped from (hem on 

 (heir flapping agains( (he masls. During the 

 nigh(, (he wind had blown fresh N. E. by E. and 

 (he neares( land (o windward was (ha( part of 

 (he African coast lying between Cape de Verd 

 and the river Gamlia. May not (he seeds of 

 many plants, found in remo(e and newly formed 

 islands have been (hus conveyed ? 



Jail lo he let. — Ours has been tenantless this winter, 

 and is now only c^cupied by rats who take Ihe liberty 

 of Ihe yard and pay the .Sheriff no fees. They care 

 nothing for the Bankrupt Law, or 50 Rod square limits 

 — "Oh that we were all rats." — Barnstable Gae. 



GTongrcsst'ou.il Uvoctfltnos. 



SSNATS. MARCH 17— .4 bill providing for 

 the gr.idnal repeal of the doty on imj^orted sail was re- 

 porti*d and read tn-ire. 



MARCH 20— Mr Holmes submitted a resolution 

 which was agreed to, calling for infnrmatlon an the 

 amount of xompenpajion allowed to members of the 

 Legislallve C"onnci) of Florida. 



MARCH 21 — The Committee on the .Indiciary was 

 iustnicted to inquire into the expediency of proviiling 

 a Law Library for the use of the Supreme Court. — Mr 

 Findlay from Ihe Committee ori Agriculture reportiS 

 that said Committee be discharged from further atten- 

 tion to the subject of prohibiting the importation of 

 spiilts. 



MARCH 22— The Gankrupt bill was read a second 

 time, and made the nrder of the d:;y for Friday week. 



MARCH 23— A bill to abolish imprisonment for debt 

 was reported and passed to a second reading. 



H O 17 S S. MARCH 17- A bill was reported lo 

 provide for the employment of an additional force for 

 (he protection of commerce wilh Brazils and Buenos 

 Ayres. — A till to appropriate $2,5,0(0 for purchasing 

 'urniture for Ihe Pr(sident''s house, ^51165 for the im- 

 provement of the square of the above house, & lr0,CC0 

 for conlmiiiij» Ihe work on the Capilol, was reported. 

 The House resolved itself into a cominiltee on the suh- 

 jpc( of the Massachusetts Claims, and postponed the 

 consideration of the subject lo the Friday succeeding. 

 — 7'hree messages were received from the President, 

 commnnieating documents from Georgia relative to the 

 boundary line betv/een that ^tate and Florida and the 

 other two messages relative to the Panama mission. 



MARCH 18 — -Mr Everett reported resolutions to au- 

 thorize the clerk of the House to subscribe for 2.5 copies 

 of Strickland's Report to the Pennsylvania Society for 

 Internal Improvement, aud for a like number of the 

 Congressional Register of Gales & Seatnn, for the use 

 of the .Members and the Library. A bill for the eslab- 

 li-hment of an Observatory in the District of Columbi.-;. 

 was read twice. — The Secretary of War was instructed 

 to report to the House the number and present organiz- 

 ation of the corps of Topographical Fngineers. 



MARCH 20— On motion of Mr Allen, the Commitlee 

 on Militia was instructed to consider the expediency of 

 making provision by law for the instruction of the Offi- 

 cers of the Militia in field tactics and camp and garri- . 

 son duty, 



MARCH 23— A bill for the relief of James Monroe 

 was read twice and committed. It authorizes and re- 

 quires the Treasury Department to pay to James Mon- 

 roe the sum of $15,533.35, wilh interest from December 

 3. 1816. 



FRUri' TRF,ES.— Gen'lemen who wish to 

 be furnished with fbuit trees, &c. (he 

 present season, by fending their list of varie- 

 ties to the subscriber, can be supplied from 



his own .Nursery, or from Mr. Prince, Flushing, Long 



Islnnd, for whom he is appointed Agent. 



Worcester, March M. 1856. O. FISKE. 



Dr. HULL'S Patent I russes, (of which an account 

 may be found in the N. E. Farmer of Feb. 4,) conslant- • 

 ly for sale by E. WIGHT, Druggist and Apothecary — 

 Milk-street. 



