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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Sept. 2G, 1828, 



more clumsy than a common wagon." 



The cut which in Mr Loudon's work, accom- 

 jianies this verbal liescriptiou, rcndeijs it httle if 

 any more intelhgible ; as the mode of connecting 

 tlie two carts into one wagon is not shown pre- 

 cisely, tliough the shafts of the hind cart ap|)ear 

 to he conducted under the body of that wliicli 

 j)recedes it, where they are doubtless fastened 

 with pins, or some other means. The " contriv- 

 ance to render them more safe and easy to the 

 liorse in going down a hill," appears to be a mode 

 of giving play to the shafts up and down, while 

 the bodies of each cart retain their horizontal po- 

 sition and do not bear on the horse attached to 

 the shaft. The side ladders resemble those com- 

 monly attached, in thie country, to hay carts. 



Any wheel-wright of tolerable ingenuity could 

 make one of these wagons, from the above des- 

 cription, ^yhich if not precisely like that above al- 

 luded to, would answer all its purposes. We 



as moisture is very unfriendly to the preservation really attacked with the grubs I know "" remedy 



of ice, an ice house should be constructed with a | 

 window at each end, which should be opened in 

 dry, but closed in damp weather. 



A large shelter or covering of rough plank or 

 boards, raised about two feet above the top of the 

 ice house, is the next and the greatest improve- 

 ment in the construction of ice houses, which 

 modern enterprise has been able to efiect. 



By attending to the above suggestions, a supply 

 of tills airreeable article in domestic economy may 

 be olitaincd with a greater certainty of success 

 th n by any method now practised. 



[A correspondent wishes to know how ice 

 houses may be constructed above ground, in low, 

 damp situations, where water lies too near the 

 surface to admit of making them below it, in the 

 usual way. To this we can only say, what ap- 

 pears obvious, that a pen of logs must be raised 



have, however, never seen nor heard of any thing I above ground, surrounded by some means, no 



of the ku)d in this country ; and from tlic circuni 

 stance of its being " more ciuinsy than a common 

 wagon," as well as more expensive, we do not be- 

 lieve any thing of the sort will soon be adopted in 

 the United States. 



From the North Carolina Keffisler. 



ICE HOUSE6. 



We are indebted to an intelligent friend for the 

 following remarks on the best method of collect- 

 ing and preserving ice : 



The great diflicully in obtaining a full sujjply of 

 this article in the cJimate of North Carolina, arises 

 from the short continuance of the ice in its mild 

 and changeable winters. 



It often happens that ice docs not form thick 

 enough to be worth collecting more than once 

 during the season, and remains only two or tliree 

 days before a change in the weather caj-ries it 

 suddenly off; within this short period, it is scarce- 

 ly possible to obtain a full supply, especially wliere 

 it is to be hauled a mile or two to the house in 

 which it is to be preserved.. 



To remove this difficulty, it has been ])roposed 

 to build a temporary ice-house near the pond from 

 which the ice is to be taken, into which the ice 

 may be thrown, to be carted ai'terwards to the ice 

 house as may be convenient. 



The following plan was tried the last winter by 

 a gentleman in a neighboring 

 with comiilete success : 



A pen of logs, about 18 feet square, was put 

 up on the margin of a pond, and this was raised 

 about 5 feet high. It was then covered with 

 planks, so as entirely to exclude the rain and sun- 

 shine. Into this pen the ice was thrown without 

 further preparation, except that a small ditch was 

 dug around the pen, to prevent the water from 

 rain running under the ice. The ice was after- 

 wards carted to the ice-house in all the month of 

 .January, selecting for that purpose clear, dry 

 weather, without regard to sunshine. Ten hands 

 filled this pen in less than two days, and this quan- 

 tity afforded an anijile supply for a Va.'ge family 

 during the succeeding summer. 



An ice»;l»buse is incomplete, if it be witluout a 

 drain to carry off the dissolved ice. Where this 

 cannot be conveniently obtained, a well six or 



matter what, v.ith earth, in such manner as to ex- 

 clude the effect of the heat of the sun. Suppose 

 a double house, with the intervening space so 

 wide as to be filled in with earth or tan-bark to 

 exclude the heat ? This would, perhaps, be easi- 

 er than to build up a mound of earth from a con- 

 siderable distance from the base of the house to 

 the top it. Both would be expensive ; but no 

 doubt the thing may be done, and the object is 

 worthy of much labor to accomplish it. 



The ice which was brought here from the north 

 last winter, is found to be much clearer, harder 

 and more durable than that which is usually col- 

 lected in this immediate vicinity. — Ed. Am. Far.] 



so elficacious or sovereign in the cure as/s/i brim, 

 which consists of the strongest kind of alum salt. 

 I have frequently tried it, and never knew it to 

 fail. I would therefore say to all who have hors- 

 es, preserve your Jlsh brine. It is prepared by 

 beating fine tiie sah in the fish brine ; take a dou- 

 ble handful, put it in a quart of warm water to 

 dissolve it quick, and drench the horse from a 

 quart bottle. 



If relief is not obtained in a half hour or three 

 quarters, drench again with the same quantity. — 

 If fish brine is not at hand, fresh aluin salt pre- 

 pared in the same way, but using more, will an- 

 swer the same good effects. The brine is suppos- 

 ed to act upon the pores of the body of the grub, 

 and to strike into them, by which they are made 

 to contract or draw up their bodies, and thereby 

 let go their hold upon the coats of the stomach, 

 or maw of the horse. Your " Inquirer" is refer- 

 red to the first numbers of a series of essays- 

 written by me, and published in the Farmer, for 

 the best mode of rearing colts, and treating of 

 marcs ; also to Mr. Brodnaxe's remarks, jirefaced 

 by me, and pubhshed in the Farmer a few months 

 ago. Author of " Annals of the Turf." 



From llie American Farmer. 



CURE FOR THE GRUBS, OR BOTTS, IN 

 HORSES. 



In ansiver to " Inquiries about Diseases of Horses. 



Mr. Skinner — An inquirer in your paper of 

 August l-5tli. No. 22, is desirous to find out a 

 reuiedy for the grubs in horses. He shall have 

 the result of my experience, with great pleasure, 

 regardins that truly dreadful disease of the noble 

 and useful animal, the horse. I consider the free 

 use of salt as a sovereign remedy for the grubs, 



EDWARDS' PATENT ROTART MACHINE. 



Mr. Fox's merchant flour tnill, situated on a 

 high bank, east end of Fifth-street, Cincinnati, 

 IS "three stories liigh, large, strong, and handsome- 

 ly built, and the machinery in complete operation 

 for merchant work. It has an overshot water 

 wheel thirty feet in diameter, and two run of burrs 

 four feet in diameter. The water that propels the 

 water wheel is produced by two rotary pumps or 

 suction machines, on a new principle, invented by 

 John Edwards, of this city, who has a patent for 

 the same. The water is raised by a small steam 

 engine, which throws a sufiiciency to run the two 

 run of burrs, with all the gearing and machinery 

 of the mill. It is allowed by good judges, that 

 this mill makes as good flour as is made in the 

 western country. It is considered a great acqui- 

 sition to this city, and this new patent bids feir to 

 be of great utility to the United States, as it will 

 answer for all sorts of machinery, as well as for a 

 milk The water, after acting on the water wheel. 



I learned this from that industrious and useful i returns continually, without any., loss except tbr 



state, and attended | salting their horse; 

 never lost a horse 



class of citizens, the Dutch, or Germans. I had 

 long known that they were in the habit of freely 

 their 



and the result was, that they 

 ith grubs ; the use of salt not 

 only kept them free from disease, but essentially 

 contributed to keep them in fine oiBiidition, sleek 

 and fat, as is well known to a 



evaporation, which is but small, and can be kepi 

 up by a small spring or well. This mill has been 



principally sujjported by the rain from the spouts 

 round the mill, which is conducted to the forebay 

 or cisterns. It is aUowed by judges, that the en- 

 gine now in use throws water eno«gh, besides the 

 who have observ-jtwo pair of burrs now in use, to rfin another pair; 

 cd th" valu'ibio"work horses used by that class of; and that there is power suflicient still left to run 

 our citizens \ another pump'of the same size. As many pumps- 



I hive for many yeai-s been constantly in the ; as she can rim will be so many jiair of burrs. It. 

 habit of salting my blood stock of horses with my lis now open to view, and the <^«mmunity^can visit 

 own hands, three and four times a week, and fre- 

 day. To ef.^ ct this the more con- 



- Cincinnati 



the mill and judge for themselves.- 



Republican. 



JI bailed soup.—F\jt a pound of any kind of 



quentlv every 



vcniently, I alw.ays keep a small bag of s.ilt con- 



veriicnt to them; and whenever I see them, ^j^p'^j "pmi„ gUces— two onions, two carrots, eacU- 

 which is rarely less than once a day, I throw a ^^^ .'^ slices— two ounces of rice, a pint of split- 

 handful of salt to each head. The result ot 'Ijis ' ^^^^^ ^^. ^i^^ie ones previously soaked— i>epppr, 

 attention, in the free use of salt, has been very . ^"^^^ '^_^j^^ .^^^^ ^^ earthern jug or pan, and poiu- 

 gralilMui; ; for my stock of blood horses, mares, i ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ vvater. Cover it very close, and, 

 and Jolts, hos always been remarkably ''^allhy, ^^^^^^^^^ ^^,.j,^ j,^^ ^^.^^^^ 

 dispo5^:d to thrive kindly, and I have never lost , _- 



to receive the water which, drains from the ice ; 

 but the first plan is much to be preferred. And 



Two medicine pedlars went to Nantucket with 



eight feet deep mav be dug on one si.le oft.tlie pit o^.e by disease of any kind. ^ _ „„,V,i„„ ,!,» 



' - " ■• ', ' ^ gij^ ^],^ valuable use of salt does not stop m ^ j^j ^f boluses. They could sell nothing— me 



When a^^horse is ■ people were so healthy. 



the prevention of the grubs. 



