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if we chose to t!o it. We (ire now iimkitig seven 

 stationary engines foi- the interior, inid have on 

 hand several heavy orders for holis and nnis for 

 bridges on the line. This has Ix'en a very liiisy 

 year for me, and onr in;|iorts have heen very 

 heavy, anionnting to ovei- lialf u niilhon of dol- 

 lars. Tlie nnnilier of vessels we have received 

 this year is 85, und there are several more yet to 

 arrive. We have had at times this summer, 

 nearly 300O men employed, which, together wiih 

 (he foreign hnsiness, has given the mercantile de- 

 partment mneh to do, anci to prevent errors oc- 

 emring, 1 have l)eeii conslanlly on the alert. All 

 the hnsiness with the government lias to he 

 transacted hy writing." 



Mi'sic OF Nature m Norway. — Still as ev- 

 erything is to the eye, soinelimes li>r a hiiiidrcil 

 miles together along these deep sea valleys, there 

 is rarely silence. The car is kept awake hy a 

 thousund voices. In the summer, there are cata- 

 racts leaping from ledge to ledge of the rocks, 

 und there is the hleatiiig of the kids that hrowse 

 there, and the flap of the great eagle's «ings, as 

 it dashes ahroad from its eyrie, and the cries of 

 whole clouds of sea liirds which inhuhit the 

 isles ; and all these sounds are mingled and miil- 

 tiplicil hy the strong echoes, till ihey hecome a 

 dill as loud as that of a city. Even at nighl, 

 when the flueks are in the fold, and the liirds at 

 most, and the echoes themselves seem to he 

 asleep, there is oi'casionally a sweet mnsie heard, 

 too soft for even the listening ear to catch hy 

 day. Every hrealh of snmmer wind that steals 

 through the pine forests wakes this music as it 

 goes. The stiff spiny leaves of the fir and pine 

 vibrate with the breeze, like the strings of a mu- 

 sical instriiinent, so that every hrealh of the 

 night wind in a Norwegian forest wakens a myr- 

 iad of liny harps, and this gentle and mournful 

 music may be heard in gushes the whole night 

 through. Tliis music of course ceases when 

 each tree becomes laden with snow ; but yet 

 there is sound in the midst of the longest winter 

 night. There is the rumble of some avalanche, 

 as after a drifting storm a mass of snow, too 

 heavy to keep its place, slides and tumbles from 

 the mountain peak. There is also now and then 

 a loud crack oi the ice in the nearest glacier; 

 and, as many declare, there is a crackling to be 

 heard by those who listen when the northern 

 lights are shooting and blazing across the sky. 

 Nor is this all. Wherever there is a nook be- 

 tween the rocks on the shore, where a man may 

 build a house, and clear a field or two; wherever 

 there is a platform beside the cataract, wheiethe 

 sawyer mav plant his mill, and m:d<e a path for 

 it to join some road, there is a human habitation, 

 and the sounds that belong to it. Thence, in 

 winter nights come music and laughter, ami the 

 Iread of dancers, and the hum of many voices. 

 The Norwegians area social and hospitable peo- 

 ple; and they hold their guy meetings in defi- 

 ance of their arctic climate, through every .sea- 

 son of the year. — J\lis/i Marlineau. 



A WoRCKSTEE Orange. — A correspondent of 

 the Palladium gives an account of a spleiiditl 

 Seville orange tree in the conservatory of the 

 Hon. Isaac Davis. The tree is about six feet in 

 height, branching out into a beantiHil head. 

 Some of the fruit has dropped, but lliere are now 

 on it twenty-eight oranges, of which twenty-two 

 are ripe, and one measures 14J inches in circuni- 

 (erence. This last is the largest orange ever 

 seen, not to say grown, in the county. 



Sheep Sheds. — We have repeatedly urged 

 upon oiu' readers the propriety oi' erecting sheds 

 for the winter keep of their sheep, as well upon 

 the score of humanity as u|>on that of economy. 

 We have been long since convinced ihat ani- 

 mals can be subsisted upon nincli less fond when 

 protected hy cover from the cold and inclemencv 

 of the winter, by warm rpiarters, than ulicn ex- 

 posed in the open air. Casting theory aside, two 

 recent experiments made in England, demon- 

 strated the truth of onr | ositinn so ch;arly as not 

 to leave a loop to hang a douht upon. 



The first is an experiment made by Walhanke 

 Cliildes, Esq., member of parliament. He had 

 forty sheep of equal size and weight selected ; 

 twenty were fed in the open field, the other tv\( n- 

 ty in a rough shed, yet the latter, although they 

 .received one-fonrth less food thau tlio Ibiiiier, 



showed an increase of 20 stone more in ihe short 

 space of four months. 



The second experiment was made by Lord 

 Dnbie; one hundred sheep kept in the open 

 fields consume d Iwenly-lour pounds ot Ssvedish 

 turnips daily, ivacli, while a second hundred, pro- 

 tected by a covered she<l, only consumed twenty 

 daily, each. 



The reason of this ditlerence in the quantity 

 of Ibod is obvious — the excess goes to keep up 

 Ihe animal heat, instead of being appropriated t(< 

 the increase of flesh, muscles and iiil. — Jhn, Far. 



To preserve Peach Trees. — Louis S. Gil- 

 lianis of St. Mary's county, IMaryland, writes as 

 follows to the Farmer's Cabinet : 



In the Cahinet of August 15, is a lelter thai 

 was read at a late meeting of the Farmer's CInli 

 in New York, concerning the mischief done to 

 peach trees by insects, and Ihe way to prevent 

 their ravages. 1 have now peach trees liill of 

 (iuit in my garden, that were recovered by the 

 fiee use of quicklime around the root, after hal- 

 ing laid them bare for some distance around the 

 tree. 



A friend inforiris tnc that he has saved a fine 

 nectarine tree, by pouring strong tobacco juice, 

 boiling hot, around the root.x, laid bare, and sand 

 put around the tree instead of the earth tli.itwas 

 taken out. I'hese trees never bore until they 

 were treated in this way; the leaves were yellow 

 and 'ap;,arenlly bill of msects, and finally all 

 droppetl off. 



Speedy Cure for a Foundered Horse. — As 

 soon as you find your horse is foundered bleed 

 him in the neck in proportion to the greatness of 

 the founder. In extreme cases you may bleed 

 him so long as h<! can stand up. Then draw his 

 head up as is cnmmoii in drenching, ami with a 

 spoon put far liack on his tongue strong salt, un- 

 til you get him to swallow one pint. I5e curelul 

 not to let him drink ton much. Then annoinl 

 round the edges of his hoofs with spirits of tur- 

 pentine, and your hor.se will be well in one 

 hour. 



A founder pervades every part of the system 

 of a horse. The phlegn:s arrest it liom the 

 blood, the salt arrests it liom his stomach and 

 howels; and the spirit of turpentine arrests it 

 from the teet and limbs. 



I once rode a hired horse 99 miles in two 

 days, returning him at night the second day ; and 

 his owner would not have known that he had 

 been foundered if I had not told him, and his 

 founder was one of the deepest kind. 



1 once, in a travel of 700 miles, foundered my 

 horse three times, and I do not think my journey 

 was retarded more than one day by the misfor- 

 tune, having in all cases observed and practiced 

 the above prescription. I have known a foun- 

 dered horse turned in at night on green feed ; in 

 the morning he would be well, having b(?en 

 purged by the green feed. .All founders must be 

 attended to immediately. — S. W. Farmer. 



Calves without Houns. — A writer in the Al- 

 bany Cnhivator says: — "Ji'aise calves withoul 

 horns. They are not liable to injure one anoth- 

 er. When the calf is fiom two to tour weeks 

 old, tie his legs, and cut of} the hair on and a- 

 rouiid the horn; havingan iron, an iiicli or more 

 in diameter, sipiare at the end, heat it to a red 

 heat and sear the lum|i down even with the sur- 

 face of the head; put on a plaster, to keep the 

 air from it; and no more is necessary to be done. 

 The calves do not suffer the least inconvenience 

 from it. If the lump is not seered down close, 

 there will sometimes grow a loose nub of a horn.'' 



A Good Test. — We heard a slory the other 

 day which is too good to he lost. Farmer Dick- 

 ens IVir so we will call him, one of the neighbor- 

 ing Yoik coc/Uly farmers, alike noteil liir his 

 shrewdness ami pretly girls, was visited hy Joe 

 Jenkins, under pretence of trading oxen, while 

 his real object was to secure one of Farmer Dic- 

 kens' daugliter,-:. Finding no way to ai-complish 

 this object, wiihont a direct appeal lo the old 

 man, he ventured to pop the queslion, and re- 

 ceived in return a most decided negative. Joe 

 was not shrewd enough to manage /us girls. Joe, 

 nolhing daniued, pushed the trade in oxen, and 

 ill spite of the taniii r's shrevvdness, succeeded 

 iu a bargain by which the old man found himself 



essentially " shaved." At the appearance of Joe 

 at fiirmer Dickens', all was changed, and the old 

 man at once declared that he might go ahead liir 

 if he was shrewd eiiougii to cheat him, he could 

 risk him with the gals. Joe went ahead, took 

 possession of his desired ohject, and thus fiir has 

 shown that the old man was not in error as lo 

 his conclusion. 



From the Ilopton Cultivator. 

 Stall Feeding Cuttle. 



Messrs. Editors — There is no w.iy in which 

 plain farmers can receive so much iiifoi nialion, 

 as in fiequent inlercourse with one anoiher, by 

 comparing notes as to crops, ilii' quantity of ma- 

 nure apjilied to an acre lo firing .-iliout certain re- 

 sults; also the best mode of li.cdiug catlle in 

 winler, the kind of fiiod that will fatten most 

 rapidly, and u great many little things only to he 

 earned from practical fiirmers themselves. This 

 at least is the opinion of some of the best farmers 

 of this village; and as they think ihey learn some- 

 thing from one another at home, they would he 

 glad to hear from the fiirmers from the neighbor- 

 ing lowns; and to iui'ile them to let themselves 

 be heard from, we give below the weight of eigiit 

 pair of cattle, weighed on the 2Gili December, 

 and we propose giving their si eight again in one 

 nioiuh from thai dale, viz: yCilh Janujiry, showing 

 the gain in that lime. And if Ihis calls out an 

 exhibit of weight from others, we may be tempt- 

 ed lo discuss the subject of stall ft'cdiiig as we 

 underslaud it. And if other fiirmers make great- 

 er weight iu ihe same lime, we should lie glad lo 

 hear their plan of feeding, and thus bring almMi 

 what we suggested in ihe eommencement of this 

 article — the getting of informalion fiom one an- 

 other. The weight of the callle above mention- 

 ed are as ibilows, and if it dois not interest fiir- 

 mers, the drovers will find out where good catlle 

 can be picked up, especially if they are willing to 

 pav good firices. 



Horace While, 1st pair, 4,910 lbs. 



Willard While, 3,950 



Samuel Averv, 3,900 



Wm. Foster," 3,900 



" " 3,750 



Norman Foster, 3,550 



Wm. McNall, 3.400 



Simeon Spencer, 3,270 



'I'hese were not selecti d, but taken piomiscu- 

 ously, and being nearest the place of weighing; 

 many other fine pairs owing lo its being too icy 

 to bring them out, were not weighed. This vil- 

 lage of Oakland is eight miles fiom Hartford, on 

 the old Boston turnpike road, and feeds and turns 

 out as many fine cnllle as any other plac'e of its 

 size. The celehraled ox Great Western, was bred 

 aiirl fed here, by Willard White, Esq., who al- 

 most always has semething nice in his yards. 



OAKLAND. 

 January 1, 1847. 



Luck. — Kev. H. W. Beecher says in one of liis 

 lectures: "I may here, as well .is anywhere, im- 

 part the secret of good and bad iuck. There aie 

 men, who, supposiiii; Providence to have an im- 

 placable spite against them, b''mo::n in the (lov- 

 erly ofa wretched old age Ihe misfortunes oftheir 

 lives. Luck forever ran against ihem and for 

 others. One, with a good profession, lost bis 

 luck in the river, where he idled away his time 

 a-fishing, when he should have been in hisoffice. 

 Another, with a good trade, per|ietually burnt up 

 Ills luck by his hot temper, which provoked his 

 employers to leave him. Another, with a lucra- 

 tive business, lost his hick by amazing diligence 

 at everything hut his business. Anoiher, who 

 was honest and constant at his work, erred by 

 perpetual misjudgmenis ; he lacki^d discretion. 

 Ilundreds lose their luck hy endorsing: by san- 

 guine speculations ; hy irusling fraudulent men ; 

 and by dishonest gains. A man never has good 

 luck who liasa b.-id wife. 1 never knew an cirly 

 rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his 

 earnings, and striclly honest, who comi'lained of 

 bad luck. A good character, gomi liabits, and 

 iron indnstrv are impregnable to ihe assaults of 

 all the ill luck that fiiols ever dieamid of. But 

 when I see a latterdemalioii, creeping out of a 

 grocery late in t!.<; afternoon, wilh his hands stuck 

 in his pockets, the i iin of his hal Inrni'd up, and 

 the crown knocked in. I know lie f as leu! I :'d 

 luck — for the worst of all luck is to be a sluggard, 

 a knave, era tippler." " 



