NOTICES. 



in three days, in the whole ; but the shortest arm was cleared the soonest, 

 by twelve or fourteen hours. Two of the eels came out dead ; — but those 

 living- were, evidently, slimy and debilitated by their laborious passage. Mil- 

 ler, (who gave this information,) said, that if the dead eels had, at first, re- 

 mained in the tube, he should not have been uneasy. — The living eels had 

 worked a sufficient passage for the water ; which ultimately would have 

 brought away the putrefied remains of those dead. Sandy sediment, with 

 shavings or borings, and viscous vegetable matter, issued, plenteously, from 

 the pipes. 



Syringes (as they are called,)— that is — ^poles, like sponges for cannon, 

 with wool, tow, or straw, lashed or otherwise attached to one end, are often 

 used to assist in clearing such conducting pipes. By pumping, or working 

 the syringes, they agitate and operate on the water and air in the tubes ; and 

 thus the foreign matter is expelled or floated out. R. P. 



August 5th, 1814. 



It is said, that in Ireland, (and probably in other parts of Europe,) it is nat 

 imcommon to turn Eels into French, or other covered hollow drains ; for the 

 purpose of clearing the passages for the water, when, in boggy or wet 

 grounds, they are obstructed by mud or silt. R. Petebs. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE POTATOE OR TURNIP SLICER. 



This useful agricultural implement was invented in France, and is descri- 

 bed in an excellent work on sheep, by Mr. Tessier, C Instructions sur les Be- 

 tes a Laine, Paris, 1810,) a faithful translation of which has been made ia 

 New York, and is also for sale by Kimber and Conrad, Philadelphia. In that 

 work, which no sheep farmer should be without, a cut, differing from the 

 plate here annexed, and a full description of the parts, are given, from which, 

 and the two draughts, there will be no difficulty in the construction of a slicer, 

 — A wooden cylinder, having ten iron blades, nearly its whole length, is so 

 fixed, that the edge of one projects over the back of the one before it. — The 

 knives are each 1 1-4 inches wide, and set at the height of one line, (12th of 

 an inch,) one from the other : as the cylinder revolves, two of the knives 

 open, and permit the sliced roots to fall out ; and in its progress they close- 

 again. 



00= The Society resolved, at their annual meeting in January last, to con 

 tinue the premiums heretofore offered. 



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