116 



^l)e JTarmcr's ittinitl)lii Visitor. 



was in the warm air to be condensed. It may 

 be well for tlie better understanding ot tlie tbeo- 

 ry, to state in the first place, tl.at as all bod.es e- 

 ceive heat more or less easily, so tliey part wiUi 

 it or radiate it more or less easily, borne bodies 

 will part with or radiate the heat which «l'ey l'- ve 

 received, as fast again as other bodies. Hence 

 they become cooled before the others. Wa m 

 air will hold more moisture than cold an. H'e'e 

 fore the body which radiates heat '.-'f «''''/^- 

 comes cool first, ai.d cools the p-nticles of an 

 which surround it, which deposits the inoistuie 

 or dew upon it first. Grass parts with its caloiic 

 or heat much faster than sand or gravel, hence it 

 has more dew upon it. 



The following experiments may not be unin- 

 teresting to some of our readers. After a long 

 period of drought, when the air was very still 

 Ld the sky serene, Dr. Wells -^l^f'^'P '^ 

 Bky, 28 minutes before sunset.previously weighea 

 parcels of wool and swandown, upon a smooth, 

 rnprinte.1, and perfectly dry fir table, 5 ee long, 

 3 broad, and 3 feet in height, which had been 

 placed an hour before in the sunshine, in a huge 

 level grass field. 



The wool, 12 minutes after sundown, was 

 found to be 14 deg. colder than the air, and to 

 have acquired no weight. The swandown, he 

 quantity of which was much smaller than hat 

 of the wool, was at the same time 13 deg. colder 

 than the air. In 20 minutes more, the swandown 

 was m deg. colder than the surronndmg air. 

 At the same time, the grass was la deg. colder 

 than the air four feet above the ground. 1- rom 

 such experiments, he established the proposuion 

 that bodies must become colder than the sur- 

 rounding air l)efbre they become dewed. 



lie also explained the reason why there was 

 no dew in cloudy nights. It is because the clouds 

 act as reflectors and throw the heat back again , 

 in the same manner as the bright tin top ol a tin 

 baker throws down or reflecis the heat down 

 upon the bread. A blanket or umbrella put over 

 any body would prevent the dew settling on that 

 body for some time, although it was falling air 



around it. , , , . 



On this principle, vines and other things aie 

 protected from frosts, by putting a blanket or 

 covering over them at night. 



Frost is dew frozen. By putting the covering 

 over the body, it reflects heat back, and prevents 

 for some time the de>v being deposited upon 

 what it covers. 



He is rendered somewhat brawny by the sun, 

 and his hands particularly wear the appearance 

 of lalKjr ; but while earnestly engaged in his va- 

 rious improvements, inhaling the fiesli breeze, 

 he becomes robust and healthy, an<l I will ven- 

 ture to engaae that more real enjoyment falls to 

 his lot than while coinroling an miiiieiise mon- 

 eyed institution in Wall street. 



Receipe for Sweet and other Corn Pcd- 

 PiNG —To four dozen ears of corn, (corn to be 

 scored, and then scraped from the ear,) add three 

 egas, two spoonfulls melted butter, one lea-s|>oon 

 full of salt, two large spoonfulls of sugar, one 

 quart of milk, and biike by a steady fire, in tin 

 or earthen pans, two hours and a half, so thai 

 the top shall bake brown ; then with sweet butter 

 vou can have a most sumptuous repast. It is a 

 Nantucket dish, and in corn season is as much 

 the ruling dish as are buckwheat cakes in their 

 time. Try it. — Genesee Farmer. 



Meteorological Observations at Concord, 



Taken just before sttfi-rise and 3 o^cluck P. M. 

 BY A. CHANDLER. 



1845. 



Wmi. 



Q S 



Clouds. 





Character of Cloiids^ etc. 



T. 



1|48;29.G5 

 ml .63 



W. 2 53 

 T. 3 63 



Harvesting Wheat. 



A correspondent of the Journal of Commerce, 



55 S. E. 



59 E. 



58|S. E. 



(i4 N. E. 



84 



lie 

 .,„63 

 .53'71 

 .OOlCB 

 .63^70 N.N.w 







N. w. a 



_ 



N. W. 1 

 N. VV. 2 

 N. W. 3 

 .(i3'|72 N.N.W.2 

 ,6b'73 n.m.w.3 

 .78] 07 

 .74175 

 .00:70 

 .50 80 

 .49W7 

 .36 88 

 .39 77 

 .47177 

 .41 70 

 .38 78 

 .43 74 

 .44 1 80 



— 10 drizzling riiin. 



— 10 drizzling rain. 



— lo'showery. 



— 10 1 showery. 



— 10 raining hard. 



— 10 raining hard. 



— clear. 



— 5 cumuli-stratus. 



Amount (if 

 rain2.75 iu. 



F. 18 



A correspouuciii V.I i...- -« ,. „ • a 



writing from Geneva, N. V., describes a farming S- 

 operation thus : , . , • .■ i " 



" In the course of my travels in this section, 1 

 found myself at the residence of Mr. John Dela- 

 field, late of the city of New York. He las a 

 splendid farm of about 400 acres, heautilully sit- 

 uited in full view of the lake and the city of Ge- 

 neva He raises this year 100 acres of wheat, 

 which is fine, and will probably turn out 2500 

 bushels. He was in the mid.st ol harvest, and 

 had already gathered about GO acres, and what is 

 still more wonderful, this has been done without 

 the aid of cither cradle or sickle. He has a ma- 

 chine, sent him from Maryland, /vhicli is the 

 most ex|ieditious reaper 1 ever saw. It is driven 

 by two horses,— one boy to drive, and a man to 

 lend the machine. Both of them ride. The 

 horses are put upon a (piick w.-ilk which sets a 

 number of cutters in motion, and the wheat tails 

 back upon the platlbrm in handsome order, as 

 fast as the machine prouresse.*; and when a 

 (luaiitity accumulates sufficient for a sheaf, the 

 man in altemlance shoves it it ofl' with his rake. 

 ll tails smooth and even upon the mound, and 

 another is iinmediatoly formed ; and so it pro- 

 ceeds without any trouble or ililhcully, until the 

 100 acre field is" finished. There were eight 

 binders accompanying the niaehme, and it Ire- 

 frequently had to he stopped lo allow them time 

 to get out of the way. It will cut 20 acres in 

 a day. I have never seen any thing in the nia- 1 

 chine line work more comphlely. It certainly 

 will prove of the greatest iililiiy to farmers, hoi h 

 for expedition and cheapness; it can now be ob- 

 tained for about IjilOO. It would amply repay 

 some of the seilentary men in Wall slreet to take 

 a voyage by railroad to (Jeiieva, and see the in- 

 dependent and business-like manner in which 

 Mr. Delafield comlncls his agricultural concerns. 



19(50 



W.3.W. 1 jw. 8. w 10 light shower at 2 o'clock. 



0] — oldense tog. 



S. 21 W. 3|citro cumulus. 



.70 09 

 .77 76 

 .79,08 

 .CO 81 

 .50^74 

 .46 1 88 

 .30 79 

 .26 



— 0, light fog, 



— 4 cirri. 



— 8 cirro stratus. 

 S.W. lOUll sorts — showerat4o'clk 



— clear and fine. 

 N. W. 2 cirro-slratus. 



— 4 cirro-stratus. 

 N. W. 6 cirro and cirroslratus. 



0' — Ofot.' and haze. 



SI. 3 S.W. 9|Ciiiiiiil"-slrii!U3. 

 S. 2 S. W. 7|cirio-slral 



,00 



70 

 M.2B 54 



78 

 T. 29 51 



|76 

 W.30 64i 



l8fl 

 T. 31160 



1 76 



S.W. 2 

 _ 



N. W. 2 

 _ 



N.N.w. 3 



,. N. VV. 1 

 j-0 N. W. 2 

 62 



N. W. 4 ciunuloslratus. 

 N.W. 10 cirro-stratus. ■ 

 N. W. 4 cuinulo-slratus. 

 N. W. 8 cirro-stratus. 

 N.N.wlO showery. 

 iN.W. 2 stratus. 

 N.W. 5 cuuiulo-stratus. 

 — line. 



•0 w.s.w. IN. W. 6 cumuli. 

 _ _ dense fo] 



— clear. 



_ — 10 



.34,73 

 .50177 



.- cirro-stratus. 

 N. E. 9 cirro and cumulo strains. 

 .\'. W. 2 cirro-stratus. 

 'n.n.w.O cirro-stratus. 



— I cirro-stratus. 

 N. W. 5 cirri. 



10 stratus. 

 S. E. 9 cuniulo stratus. 



S. 10 stratus. 



W. slcumiilo-str.ltus. 



Rained on the lu^l. second and third days 2,75 inches-four- 

 teenth dav there wa.s a light ,.prinkling-seve.iteentl, a hm. 

 shower at 4 o'clock, P. M., (two tenlhs ol an inch)-tHe IJ- 

 seci.nd, a lillht shower in the night, (one-tenth of an iniM)- 

 thirtieUi, light rain, (ahout one-tenth of an inch.) 



I-'roin the Farmer's Lihrary. 

 Ou the Preservation of Ileulth. 



THE OOOD Kt-KKCT OF KRLliOENl ll.iTHINO. 



With the mercury at 00 degrees of Fahren- 

 heil, what can he more natural, than to spend a 

 lew thoughts on the means of counteracliii'j; the 

 ill effects of such excessive heat ? And how can ihis 

 he belter done than by liequent ahliilions ol the 

 whole body, so that cvuiy pore may be kept open, 

 and free passage given to mailer which the .-iys- 

 leni rejects and would fiiinlliiow idf by perspi- 

 ration. We wrile in the fill! pirsiiasion that balh- 

 iii.r is too generally negjccli d ill the couiiiry — 

 eillierfrom want ol thoiight upon its importance, 

 orwunt of convenience for its enjoyitient ; but 



with a litile trouble such convenience might he 



provided, wherever there is a good pump, or y 



better where theie is a copious spring ol walei 



The facilities should not only he afforded iml 



those who have charge of lamilies should make 



it a point to see that they are availed of liy everj 



member under his control. Ask the laboring 



man, him who labors with mind or body,and wlic 



is accustomed to being daily,or very Ireqnently re 



freshed with the shower or plunging balh, wlia 



would induce hiiiito fmego il? Rising in the morn 



ing exhausted and languid from the effects of op 



pressive heat, he comes out from his liath invig 



orated and capable of thinking so much closei 



an.l working with so much more alertness an. 



satislaclion, that he would much sooner rehn 



quishoiie meal a day than g-irc vp hxs bath.- 



He only who habitually ei.jo\s it can estiniate th 



privaiion when no means are to he had for tli 



indulgence. ,. , , . .■ . ... 



Those who have most studied the art ol ]n^ 



serving health dwell upon cteayihness ofpersou,- 



next in importance to be considered alter air or 



"riie happiness and success of every farmer d 

 pends so much on the health of all his househol 

 Ihat under the most fervid heat that has been it 

 here for tlie last ten years we do not see that v 

 could better devote the space it occupies than 

 giving to his lierusal and reflection the follow ii 

 paper, which seems lo contain about all Ihatne 

 be saiil on the subject of it : 



" This is not a mere matter of decency. H 

 one of the positive commands arising from t 

 iconstilnted 'order of things. »«>'•"""'; 'im-l'l 

 that every thing that lives, vegetable or a ima 

 wasting while life continues; and that all whi 

 Tsent forth through the millions of openuigs 

 the skin, has run its round, and is lileless . a 

 Ihat ttioi-e than half of all the food taken con 

 forth in this manner. If perspiration, sensible a 

 insensible, he permitted to rest on the s k i , • 

 stop the way of that which is coming, Naiur. 

 ofliinded, and will show that she is so. ^. 

 neglect is one of the causes "' '""^f ^'•- .„|, 

 n.a was probably well known to Eastern n itt. 

 .iuce it was part of their religions .Inly to clen 

 the skin. These nations were 'Si'o™'" °/ 

 modern comfort of wearing a garment nex 

 the skin which can be iiequently changed 

 absence of this comfort was one of the cause 

 those dreadful diseases of which we '•'•'I., 

 which are unknown among Christian nai on Tl 

 There are classes of laborers and niechar|,' 

 whose health would be preserved and their 

 prolonged, if they knew how much tlepende r. 

 periodical cleansing. I' "'^y '•^. *^"'^ ! ;;; , 1^ 

 is a connexion between cleanhne.ss and m H 

 feelimi. Perhaps it may be going too far to 

 ha those who habitually disregard cleanl.n , 

 ,„., prefer to he dirty, have •"> ■'"""I l"^^^/ ' 

 hut it may he truly said, that those w lio aie , 

 allv sensitive are the more so from respecting 

 vii^Uie. There is a close aftimty '---'V;'' 

 dei.ravityand physical degradation. The e 

 poor are alwas shockingly hlthy : the de... 

 ■icharn visited by wor.se penalties: the 

 ave clean garments ; but what can wa.h a 

 he impuritres which vice has -a"; '.' l-/ 

 themselves ? It is not for one's sell '"'>''•" 

 ably can, an.l do obtain their respect. C ear 

 cosily garments may fall very short of do nSJ 

 i," the seen that they area cuyeriug tor he 



ect of this important law. Il there he 

 object to the hunmiieye,it IS a clean,, leai- 



heallhlv, inno.-ent, nea.ly-clad, '; H I - 

 There are finv children who may no , i ey 

 he neativ dresse.1, for this .h.es not .je % 

 that of' which the dress is made. 1 1- >^* 

 •ewer who may not have a. •.■ar skin, and 



ook, if thev are properly ^'^' '^"'^ ^'Z'". 

 Thcie are none who may n..t hay;..' 



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„„•. 'Theie are none Who may '"" "» ;, j ' 

 "kin- H.r we speak to those who are ohl . I 

 o i, d. 'e Ibr .hl-niselv..s. An.l let it be ..dJI] 

 ;;:&hice,n.m,, that, in obey mg ...;.£ 



lo lie ;"i;"an:.h..y are pei^-rming amoral, I... 

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P,,rnc;r.|.hs from the Albany CuUivatm. -I 

 F.NF Pr.KDLINO STBAWKEBRIES.-Whl 



ili,,, ..,irlViend.lohi,.I.TIiomas,atMa<-ed 

 ;;.':posed«visit.oPalmyr«,forthepnrpo^ 



