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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 10 



property receives, [ have thought it a folly to talk 

 or write aboul improvement. For, sir, who will 

 or can he such a fool as to take property that is 

 sacredly and exclusively his own, and spread it 

 upon real estate that he holds in ii se; arable com- 

 mon-right with. every gentleman and scoundrel in 

 the state. I say inseparable — because the law ol 

 enclosing is an absolute mockery; von cannol es- 

 cape from this internal hot.chpot in this way. Let 

 me show you this melancholy fact bv demonstra- 

 tion. Let us ass ime thai A has 100 acres of land 

 enclosed with good and lawful fence; he is i ;ace- 

 ful and prudent: he obtains a warrant to have his 

 fence viewed. All is given — and believing him- 

 self safe and secure, he goes lo work, e: 

 SI, 000 upon it in manure, lime, and grnssseeds — 

 nature responds and sings tin- joy: ii is the admi- 

 ration of every one who sees it: the owner in the 

 pride of prosperity, lias said in his heart • 

 mine" — this is the reward for "mind and industry." 

 Another day, and he is told the nudes and hogs of 

 a careless neighbor have broken in upon him and 

 spoiled and destroyed his crop. Indignant, he or- 

 ders their destruction — but his wile, or a friend 

 whispers "that is no; lawful, yon can only kill up- 

 on the third offence; 1 ' he therefore waits for two 

 other October nights of waste and destruction; 

 it is done — mules, hogs, and alJ lay in promiscu- 

 ous destruction and death. The owner, careless as 

 he is, watches his right of common, and comes 

 with two or three convenient friends, equally anx- 

 ious about the right of common. They view the 

 fence and readily conclude that it is not lawful. 

 Suit is ordered for damages, and A is tried by a 

 judge, a jury, and witnesses, all interested and 

 anxious about the right of common, or as it is call- 

 ed in the more artful classes "the right of spoil.' 1 

 The fate of poor A, though destructive and dis- 

 couraging, brought "healing in its wings;' 1 h 

 out and went to the "far west." No man can, or 

 will upon any rub's of prudence, improve real es- 

 tate when lie is told from the very house-top, that 

 it must be, common to all; no sir — all, all is lost to 

 poor Virginia. 1 have passed through the. lime- 

 stone valley, the mountain and the plain, and all is 

 lost — wealth, industry, and enterprize are all upon 

 the wing. It is a melancholy thing thus to see 

 the pride and bone of a land leaving it, never to 

 return, and yet more-melancholy to think thai you 

 cannot go with them. I hold it undeniable, sir, 

 that no people can be counted strictly civilized, 

 who hesitate in the protection of property; and he 

 who believes men will be honest unless bound by 

 the law, must be in callow-feather — a mere gos- 

 ling. It is the province of fools to hope ibr hnps- 

 less things, and thus spend their lives. I return 

 you many thanks for your very able labors in the 

 cause of our country, and hope that your reward 

 is ample. 



Respectfully, 



JEEEMIAH. 



P. S. Some forty years and more since, Gen. 

 Washington enclosed his entire estate at Mount 

 Vernon. He was not sustained by the spirit of 

 the law, or society, and was obliged to go back to 

 barbarian hotchpot He was denounced for the 

 attempt as a military tyrant ! 



j. 



From the Liverpool Journal. 



kyan's method to prevent dry rot.* 



The new steam boat launched on Wednesday, 

 for the city of Dublin Company, is entirely built 

 of wood prepared by Mr.' Kyan's process, far 

 which he has taken out a patent. The prepara- 

 tion consists in letting the wood lie for some time 

 in a solution of corrosivcsublimate, which impreg- 

 nates it, and it is said prevents the dry rot. We 

 stated, some months ago, that an extensive course 

 of experiments, at Woolwich, had completely es- 

 tablished I he fact that Kyan's process does totally 

 i revent dry rot in timber. We have since met 

 with the report from the House of Commons on 

 the subject, and as the matter is of the utmost im- 

 I ortance to the shipping interest, as well as to 

 house builders, we have made the following ab- 

 siract. 



The commissioners unpointed by the Admiralty 

 io inquire into Mv. Kyan's process, are John 

 Hayes, Dr. Birk bee, Messrs. T. F. Daniel, A. 

 Copland Hutchinson, and 13. Rotch, Jr. They 

 report as to the general efficiency of the process, 

 that timber, canvas, and cordage, thus prepared, 

 had been tested by comparative trials, lasting lor 

 years in a variety of ways, at Woolwich, :>iar- 

 gate, London, Sheerness, and in no instance had 

 the dry rot. attacked them, while unprepared tim- 

 ber, &c, had invariably decayed under the same 

 experiments. That the process renders the ordi- 

 nary length of time tor seasoning timber unneces- 

 sary. That the solution diminishes in bulk by ab- 

 sorption, but the remainder is of the same strength 

 as at firs!. That the additional expense of build- 

 ing the Samuel Enderbey, a ship of 420 tons, en- 

 f the prepared timber, £240; and that the 

 Admiralty are to pay 15s. a I >ad extra Ibr such as 

 may be used in the construction of the Linnet. 

 That the process was not in the least umvholej 

 some, and that the crews of the two ships, wholly 

 built, of the prepared timber, were reported "ail 

 well" from the South Seas and Indian Ocean. 

 That the bilge water in a ship built, of the pre- 

 pared timber, was pumped out "perfectly sweet." 



No doubt can now be reasonably entertained as 

 to theefficacy of the process. That it will be ge- 

 nerally adopted we are confident, and the saving 

 will be immense. It. is not solely by ship builders 

 that the prepared timber is used. Sir 11. Smirke 

 (well known as an eminent architect in London) 

 has introduced it into most of his buildings, and 

 was one of the witnesses in its iavor before the 

 committee. Certainly all public buildings should 

 have the advantage of the process. The state of 

 the timber at ihe Lunatic Asylum in Liverpool is 

 abundant evidence of the injury done to wood by 

 dry rot. 



It is supposed that government will purchase 

 the remaining time of the period from Mr. Kyan, 

 and throw it. open for gratuitous adoption. Cer- 

 tainly there can be no public objection to this. Dr. 

 Carmichael Smith got £5000 for his disinfecting 

 process; and this discovery for preventing dry rot 

 in timber, is of fur greater importance to the pub- 

 lic at large. 



* A full account of the effects of this valuable dis- 

 covery was published in a former No. of the Farmers' 

 Register, 



