Vol. IV. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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Cape Cod, we are exempt from the evil. My own 



peach trees, and those in the vicinity, abound with 



blossoms, and never looked more promising for a 

 supply of fruit. Your humble serv't 



Brewster, May 11, 1826. .T. SIMPKINS. 



EVERY MAN HIS OWN MILLER. 



IMPORTANT INVENTION. 

 The above plate is a view of a Family Mill, (in- 

 vented by Mr David Flagg of Gardiner, Me.) in 

 which are made meal and flour of the first quality, 

 wliich is or may be at. pleasure bolted by the same 

 operation. The power necessary to turn it is small, 

 — requiring only one man or a boy at the crank, 

 to grind two bushels in an hour. We think its 

 utility in parts of the country newly settled, and in 

 situations where water power is precarious, is very 

 x)bviou3. We understand Mr Plagg has already 

 sold the right for using and vending the same, for 

 New York and the states south. A single mill can 

 'be constructed for the moderate price of thirty-five 

 dollars. We expect our enterprising friend Mr 

 Newell will soon have them for sale at the Ag- 

 ricultural Establishment in this city. 



[Prom our late English journals.] 



TO EXTRACT GREASE SPOTS FROM 

 LINEN. 



The following method is not generally known, 

 and is certainly the most simple and (we speak 

 from experience) the best we ever met with: — 

 Take magnesia in the lump — wet it, and rub the 

 grease spots well with it ; in a little time brush it 

 off, when no stain or appearance of grease will be 

 -left. — Housekeeper's Magazine. 



SAl^UBRIOUS ■QUALITIES OF THE 

 STRAWBERRY. 



Every friend to the fair will be glad to diffuse 

 Ihe knowiedg« of a pleasant dentifrice, and infal- 



lible sweetener of the breath. Tiie common straw- 

 berry in a ripe state, whep rubbed upon the teeth 

 and gums, has these most agreeable influences, 

 and becomes more efficacious if eaten freely. The 

 celebrated Linnaeus cured himself of gout by per- 

 severing in a regimen of strawberries. 



Jlckermanti's Repository. 



TO REMOVE WARTS. 

 Cut an apple, ripe, but of an acid quality ; rub it 

 over the wart for a few minutes, and in a few days 

 the wart generally drops oflT. If the first applica- 

 tion does not succeed, repeat it in a week, from 

 time to time, till it removes the excrescence ; but 

 this is very seldom requisite. — Ibid. 



ON SHUTTING DOORS BY WEIGHTS. 



I have often been surprised at the ailly way in 

 which doors are shut by a pully. You hear a 

 great noise every time the door is opened. Instead 

 of fixing the cord to the outer edge of the door, it 

 ought to be always placed a foot from the hinges ; 

 it would then open with no noise and little friction. 



POISONOUS CHEESE. 

 We have recently seen an account of a whole 

 family in Washington being sick, and their lives 

 endangered, by eating poisonous cheese, and the 

 paper gravely affirms, that it was probably render- 

 ed so by some ingredient used in coloring it. A 

 late Salem Gazette mentions that several persons 

 in that town, also, have been made sick by eating 

 poisonous cheese, but it also states, expressly, that 

 it contained ne colouring. It ia unquestionably 



true, that the ihatter used for colourintr cheese is 

 perfectly haruilesa nnd innocent. We have treat- 

 ed of this subjuct before, and we do it again, tliat 

 an unfounded prejudice, calculated to do mischief, 

 may be removed, .^"o long as the poisonous quali- 

 ty in some cheese is attributed by general consent 

 to the colouring, no attempts will be made to as- 

 certain the true cause, and guard against the evil. 

 Various opinions arc held as to the cause, some 

 attributing it to something eaten by tlie co\ys, and 

 others to a chemical change which takes place in 

 some particular stage of the making or curing of 

 the cheese. That the latter opinion is correct, is 

 strengthened by the experience of those most ex- 

 tensively engaged in diarying. It is found that 

 from the same cows, kept on the same feed, where 

 the cheese is usually good, there will occasional- 

 ly be a poisonous one. 



We recommend tlii.^ subject to the notice of 

 those who are in a situation to investigate it more 

 tlioroughly than it lias been heretofore, and hope 

 that it may engage the attention of our Agricultu- 

 ral Societies. Indeed, we have wondered that l. 

 premium has not, before this, been offered for a 

 discovery of some mode to remedy an evil which, 

 has become so common. In the meantime we shall 

 be happy to receive and publish any communica 

 tio^s which may throw more light on the subjec!- 



[VVorcester Spy.] 



For m.any years past, it has been common to 

 hear from different parts of the country, of the del- 

 eterious effects by eating cheese. At first, the 

 poisonous qualities supposed to be infused by the 

 ingredients used in colouring cheese ; but subse- 

 quent casualties and observations have altogether 

 expl^'.ed that inference. As in the instance men- 

 tioned by the Salem Gazette, the bad qualities of 

 the cheese could not have been derived from col- 

 ouring, it is supposed some chemical change has 

 boon *tR*ct>3J 'i4 the cheese. Thi.5 is a subject 

 worthy the attention of the curious and skilful,and 

 he who shall detect the latest poison, will deserve 

 much of his fellow creatures. [New Bedford Ad- 

 vertizer.l 



BEARING OF FRUIT TREES. 

 It has been considered highly desirable to ascer- 

 tain some mode by which good fruit trees might 

 be reared sooner than by the usual mode of plant- 

 ing the seed. It has recently been said that this 

 object h;is been effected by planting scions, with 

 the end were they were cut off", covered with wax; 

 but several experiments leave it at least doubtful 

 whether this mode can be pursued with any reas- 

 onable degree of success. In many instances, 

 wliere suitable pains has been taken, it has failed 

 entirely, and we know of no well authenticated in- 

 stance where, after tliree or four years' trial, it 

 has been completely successful. We therefore 

 offer another plan, which, so far as it has been 

 tried has justified every reasonable expectation, 

 and which, we believe, will, before many years, be 

 generally adopted. It subsists simply in cutting a 

 piece of root from a tree, and engrafting a scion into 

 it, after which it should be well secured and dress- 

 ed with the composition usually made use of in graft- 

 ing. The place where the scion is united with 

 the root should be put an inch or two below the 

 surface. We have known an in.stance, in an ex- 

 periment of this kind, where the scion flowered 

 the year it was engrafted. In this way from a 

 single tree, a great number may be' procured, 

 which will arrive at a bearing state several years 

 sooner than when raised from seed. [Wor. Spy.] 



