NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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For the New Englatid Farmer. 

 PRESERVING BIRDS. 



• Mr. Brown : — I wish to know the best method 

 of stuffing and preserving birds, for cabinets, &c. 



If you or some one of your subscribers would be 

 so kind as to give a description of the process, I 

 think it would be very acceptable to many of your 

 readers. 



Yours, respectfully, g. j. d. 



North Danvers, 1852. 



Remarks.— Our associate, Mr. French, is ac- 

 complisbed in this art, has a fine cabinet of most 

 of the birds common in New Hampshire, and we 

 have no doubt will cheerfully give all necessary 

 directions for stuffing and preserving birds. 



Kentucky Cultivator. — This is, we believe, the 

 first and only paper in Kentucky, devoted exclu- 

 sively to agricultural subjects. It is published at 

 Cyntbiana, by J. Atkinson, in quarto form, (a 

 mistake, by the way — it ought to be octavo) is 

 printed well, its columns well filkxl, and the young 

 shoot looks as though it might produce a vigorous 

 crop. You have a wide field, brother, now let us 

 see you make the hill-sides of old Kentucky smile 

 with beauty, and her vales be filled with fatness. 



filenames' department, SUts, Set. 



Longevity. — The New Bedford Mercury says 

 that there is a strip of land bordering on the sea 

 in South Dartmouth, known as "Smith's Neck," 

 which is about one mile in width by one and a half 

 miles in length. Tbe inhabitants on this strip of 

 land are mostly Quakers, who number 145, the 

 ages of twenty of whom average 86 years, and 

 make an aggregate of 1729 years. Twelve of this 

 number have attained to from 80 to 95 years, mak- 

 ing an aggregate of 1134 years, and eight others 

 (the comparatively middle aged) are now from 60 

 to 78 years of age. Tbis is an amount of longev- 

 ity not often paralleled. 



Butter. — We are pleased to inform our readers 

 that this necessary article is becoming much cheap- 

 er. For a few weeks past it has been selling at a 

 very high rate, but butter of the best quality can 

 now be had for from 20 to 23 cents. 



U^" The Louisville Journal has two or three col- 

 umns devoted to agricultural matters, which are 

 always of the best kind, and must prove of essen- 

 tial benefit to those of its numerous readers who 

 have any fancy for dirt, ditches and dunghills. 



THE CALORIC SHIP ERICSSON. 



It was stated a short time since, that a sliipwas 

 building in NewYork, to which a new motive pow- 

 er was to be applied, viz., caloric. A New York 

 letter in the Transcript gives some interesting par- 

 ticulars in regard to tbis new power, and the ship 

 which is to be propelled by it. The correspondent 

 says : 



"On Saturday I visited the engine manufactory 

 of Messrs. Hogg & Delamater, of this city, and 

 bad the privilege of inspecting Ericsson's caloric 

 engine of sixty horse power, while it was in oper- 

 ation. It consists of two pairs of cylinders, the 

 working pistons of which are 72 inches in diame- 

 ter. Its great peculiarities consist in its very large 

 cylinders and pistons, working with very low pres- 

 sure, and in the absence of boilers or heaters — 

 there being no other fires employed than those in 

 small grates under the bottoms of the working cyl- 

 inders. 



"During the eight months that this test-engine 

 has been in operation, not a cent has been expend- 

 ed for repairs or accidents. It is a beautiful and 

 imposing object, and conveys the idea of power and 

 symmetry much more impressively than the largest 

 steam engine that I have ever seen. 



'The leading principle of the caloric engine con- 

 sists in producing motive power by the employment 

 of the expansive force of atmospheric air instead of 

 that of steam, the force being produced by com- 

 pression of the air in one part of the machine, and 

 by its dilatation by the application of heat in an- 

 other part." 



The great advantages claimed for this improve- 

 ment, are the saving in fuel, and its entire safety. 

 A ship carrying the amount of coal that the Atlan- 

 tic steamers now take for a single trip could cross 

 and re-cross the Atlantic twice without taking in 

 coal. A slow radiating fire without flame is re- 

 quired, and this can be best supplied by our own 

 anthracite. An explosion cannot happen to the 

 caloric engine — the only result from neglect will 

 be the stoppage of the machinery. If these great 

 desiderata are really found , and can be -successful- 

 ly applied, the world may look for another revolu- 

 tion in ocean navigation equal to that produced by 

 the application of steam. 



The Ericsson is a beautiful model, 2200 tons 

 burthen, and will be ready for sea by October. 

 The machinery is described as of the most perfect 

 kind. The cylinders are 108 inches in diameter — 

 72 inches larger than those in the Collins steam- 

 ers. — Boston Journal. 



jgf" New potatoes from Bermuda, have been in 

 the market for a week past, and are selling at 

 $1,00 per peck. 



Whitewash. — Mix your wash ready to be ap- 

 plied to the walls, then mix a gill of good flour, in 

 a very little cold water, and pour on boiling water 

 till it thickens ; add it to the whitewash while hot, 

 and stir the whole well together. This wash will 

 not rub off, and retains its freshness for many 

 months. 



REMINGTON'S BRIDGE. 



Some few years ago the Remington bridge was 

 spoken of all over the country as a mechanical 

 wonder, and the model excited much attention in 

 London. One was built at Montgomery, Alaba- 

 ma, of which the Slate Register gives the follow- 

 ing account : — 



"Remington's bridge, after standing for months 

 in a very tottering condition, has now broken in 

 two about the middle, and fallen into the ravine. 

 Soon after its completion it was tilted to one side 

 by the wind and its own weight and never right- 

 ed — the slope being too great to allow the passage 

 of vehicles. It stood unused, a monument of hum- 



