Vol. Vn.— No. 47. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



373 



For a plough denoininated the Prairie Bogging 

 and Ditching Plough ; John Gordon, Copec, Co- 

 lumbia county, New Yoik. Assigned to Joua. J. 

 Coddington, New York, January 13. 



Tiiis plough, as its name indicates, is to be ap- 

 plied in bogs, or meadow gro-ind, only. The 

 Standard of iron is attached to the beam in the 

 usual way, and screwed on the inner face of the 

 tfind side as in the common plough. The land 

 dde is of cast iron, about 6 inches deep, 1 thick, 

 fflid 3 feet long from heel to toe, with a pin or 

 blade on the bottom edge of the land side, about 

 S inches Wide at the heel, and narrowing too 

 .point nearly opi)Osite the standard. This bind.- 

 jg to make a horizontal cut at the bottom of tl;3 

 'bog ; there is fastened to it by screws, a sharp- 

 ened steel blade, or cutter, of such size and form 

 as to make a horizontal cut in shaving the bog 

 from the soil, of about two feet. In front of this 

 (here is, attached to the beam, a vertical steel cut 

 ler, of about eighteen inches in length, six in 

 width, and one in thickness at the back ; this is 

 brought to a perfectly sharp edge ; it is curved 

 back so as to cut with the greater facility. Tlie 



human diseases, by praying, looking upon, or 

 touching the persons afflicted. The street where 

 she resided in the city of Nantes, in France, was 

 filled with persons seeking to be cured, and 

 wherever she went, the devotees beset her, and 

 sought to touch her garments. The people be- 

 lieved that the Virgin Mary had desceniled among 

 them, and all the villages in the neighboring de- 

 partments sent forth their sick to be healed. Two 

 pamphlets have been published on the subject by 

 two intelligent men of Nantes. They state that 

 many cures were instantaneously performed by 

 her — paralytics threw away their crutches, swell- 

 ings disappeared, rheumatic pains ceased, contort- 

 ed limbs were restored, &c. ; but they admit that 

 most of the cures have been of short duration, and 

 that in consequence, the people of Nantes have 

 eixleavored to turn into contempt the pretensions 

 of the fair Swedenborgian. 



There is nothing miraculous in these temporary 

 cures. They show the influence of the imagina- 

 tion — of the mind over the body. It is frequent- 

 ly demonstrated that an operation of the mind 

 can modify the action of the vessels, nerves, and 



directed to the office of the Register, hid been 

 lost. He says he cannot speak thug of the south 

 and southwest ; and that his losses have been 

 heavy, notwithstanding the late excellent Post 

 Master General was laboring to bring tbout 8. ref- 

 ormation in those quarters. The Register, he says, 

 is sent with more certainty to the moit distant 

 places east, than it is to the short distance of 60 

 miles south of the Potomac, excepi to 8ome.oftbe 

 principal Post Offices. — Berk. .American. 



Coal. — Professor Eaton, of the Rensselaoi 

 School, Troy, has just published a etatenient ;n 

 the American Journal of Science and the Arts, de- 

 tailing the particulars of his having found carbu- 

 retted hydrogen gas, along or near the whole lin» 

 of the canal from Utica to near Lockport, which 

 he says indicates the presence of mineral coaL— 

 On the Eastern continent, the largest beds of cosi 

 lie under the same kind of rock, which is bokib- 

 times 600 ft. thick, and generally gives off the samp 

 gas. He thinks these facts should induce the Le- 

 gislature to cause extensive borings to be mads 

 along the canal. — Long Island Star, 



mould board is not formed to turn the sod over, I muscles of the body m a mysterious naann"-— 

 but to slide it out of the furrow, to be afterwards The authenticated cases of cures perforrned by old 

 removed A draft bar passes through a mortise iwomen, seventh sons. Catholic saints, &c. are all 

 In the beam, standing alright angles with it, and to be referred to the influence of the imagination, 

 being about two feet in length. This is to afford The marvellous recoveries ascribed to quack med- 

 io the team a parallel draft on the land side of icines depend on the same cause ; the surprising 

 die beam " Thus in the manner of using, the jeftects are produced on those who have lull laith 

 team travels on the unploughed land, by means 'in the remedies. Quackery of all kinds, licensed 

 of the draft bar, the horizontal cutter enters light- and unlicensed, commonly finds an ample kind ot 



ly upon the surface, cutting the bogs, roots, public 

 stuiiips,&c. ; the vertical cutter separating the cleft Hamp. 

 nirf from the land, whilst the mould board forces it 

 from its bed, leaving the ground surface level, and 

 cc)m|)letely cleared for tillage. 



" What I particularly claim as my exclusive 

 right, is, the application of the draft bar to tlie 

 eaid plough ; and its general application in cutting 

 hogs, and ditching in prairies, and bog meadows." 



NEWSPAPERS. 



The London Morning Chronicle says the great 

 body of the people in England and Scotland nev- 

 er read any newspapers ; from their price, and 

 the poverty of the people, the newspapers are ac- 

 cessible only to the higher, and middle classes. — 

 The same may probably be said of the people of 

 every country in Europe. A gentleman who had 

 been in France, informed us that in some villages 

 of 5 or 6000 inhabitants, not more than two or 

 three newspapers were taken. The following 

 tribute to the people of the United States appears 

 in the Constitutionnel, a paper published in 

 Paris. 



" There Is not a hamlet so obscure that the 

 tight of the i)eriodical press does not penetrate it. 

 A foreigner is surprised to hear common farmers 

 debate, with a perfect knowledge of men and 

 thing?, not only upon the affairs of their own 

 country, but even upon the pohtical events of 

 which Europe is the theatre. There is more 

 good eeuse, more sound ideas upon civilization, in 

 n log house in the United States, than in our 

 most brilliant saloons, and even our academics." 



Harap. Gaz. 



credulity 



Gaz. 



to levy contributions upon — 



Ji Vermont teamster, it is said, transports a load 

 of five tons from Boston to Vermont with a single 

 pair of horses. The wheels of his wagon are 8 

 or 9 feet in diameter ; there are no axles under 

 the body of the wagon, but strong beams pass 

 across above the load, and from each end of these, 

 two timbers descend, one on each side of the 

 wheel, to which the short axles that pass through 

 the hubs are fastened. The body of the vehicle 

 is suspended from the upper cross beams, and the 

 weight of the load comes nearer the ground than 

 in other wagons. — Ibid. 



Cobhett says that he and his family of 12 po 

 sons, (including laborers) have lived at his farm 

 house more than a year without wine, spirits, sugar, 

 tea, coffee, or any sort of grocery — wiAout an3«- 

 thing not produced from the land in England ; 

 and he offers to bet £100 that there is not imde» 

 any six roofs, any twelve persons with so much 

 blooming health, " so many square inches of red 

 upon the cheeks," as in his family of twelve per- 

 sons. No doctor or apothecary has set his fooJ 

 within the doors of his farm house ; there ha 

 been no illness in the family. He concludes aa 



follows : " If people will not restrain themselves 



from those indulgences which cause sickness, 

 sick they will be, and sick they ought to be." 



A gentleman who resides at Kingsclere, Hamp- 

 shire, England, recently had in his stock, a cow 

 which produced 21 calves, 300 hhds. of milk, and 

 4 tons of butter, the value of which might be fair- 

 ly estimated at £500. When killed, the fat of 

 this wonderful cow weighed more than the laan 

 and bones altogether. 



MIR.4CLES ! 

 A French lady of the name of Saint Amour, 

 lately embraced the doctrines of Swedenboi;^, and 

 professed to have the miraculous gift of curing all 



MULBERRY TREES. 



At a meeting of the Trustees of the Worces- 

 ter County Agricultural Society, specially con- 

 vened, April 23, 1829, it was voted, that in com- 

 pliance with the injunctions of the Legislature, in 

 their late Act, continuing and extending the liber- 

 ality of the government to the encouragement of 

 Agriculture and Manufactures, the following i>re- 

 mium be proposed : To the proprietor of the best 

 Ndrsery of Mulberry Trees, within the coun- 

 ty, in number and quality, on the first Jfednesday 

 of May, 1832, to he determined upon inspection 

 and comparison, by a committee to be appointed 

 by the Trustees for that purpose, upon the appli- 

 cation of those who shall claim to be competitors, 

 twenty days next preceding the said first Wednes- 

 day of May, $60,00. 



Attest, W. D. WHEELER, Rec. Sec'y. 



Post Office Department. — Niles, in a late number 

 of the Register, states that such is the attention 

 and fidelity in the management of the Post Offices, 

 east and north of the Susquehannah, that general- 

 ly not more than one letter out of five hundred. 



Recipe for Ice Cream. — Three quarters of a 

 pound of loaf sugar, one quart of cream, the 

 whites of three eggs well beat up — mix together 

 and simmer it on the fire until it nearly boils, then 

 take it oft' and strain it, and when cold put it into 

 the mould and churn it until it freezes. Scrape 

 it from the sides of the mould occasionally, during 

 the freezing process, and beat it up well with tbs 

 ice cream stick. Flavor it with lemon, rose, veiv 



elli, strawberries, chocolate, &c., as you like it 



New iniik is nearly as good as cream, and skink- 

 med milk will do ; but for the latter add the 

 whites of two or three additional eggs. 



Cows should always be treated with great gen- 

 tleness, antl soothed l>y mild usage, especially 

 when young and ticklish, or ivhcu the uddersfare 

 tender, in which case they ought to be fomented 

 with warm water before milking, and touched 

 with gentlene.'is ; othcrv.'ise the cow will be in 

 danger of contracting bad habits, become stub- 

 born and unruly, and retaining her milk ever af- 

 ter. A cow never gives down her milk pleasant 

 ly to the person she dreads or dislikes. 



