VOL. ;riY \o. 48. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 



38 J 



sustenance to man and beast. It is so ordered by destroyer of man's enemies — when we shall have 



an all-wise Providence, that if man wantonly and 

 cruelly destroys the birds, judgment may come up- 

 on him, by having his crops destroyed by the very 

 insects upon which the birds would feed. I bo- 

 seech you, brother farmer boys, one and ail, the 

 next time you take your fowlinjr piece and go forth 

 in search of game, to remember that each bird you 

 kill increases the number of insects — that you ore 

 committing an outrage upon humanity and society 

 — and a sin in the sight of Him, 



" Who sees with equal eye, as God of nil, 

 A hero perish or a sparrow fail." 



Think of this as you are about to poise your piece 

 and pour its deadly contetits upon the unfortunate 

 victim, and if your linger does not refuse to do the 

 horrid deed, oral least if your conscience does not 

 upbraid you and agitate your nerves so as to suffer 

 the bird to escape "more scared than hurt," you 

 must have a heart as hard as the savage, vvho when 

 seeking for revenge, can bury his tomahawk in the 

 heads of innocent women and children, and quench 

 Jiis tliirst with the blood as it flows from their 

 wounds. A FARMER 150Y. 



Essex Co., May 20tk, 184 J. 



accomplished this, (and our prospects of success 

 grow brighter with the lapse of time,) shall we not 

 merit the title of public benefactors i We shall, — 

 and who shall say, that posterity, estimating aright 

 the signal service we have rendered them by our 

 disinterested and philanthropic exertions, may not 

 enrol odr naujcs among 



"The few, the immortal few, 

 That were ntii born lo die." ! ! 



-N.E. 



SKUNK, SKUNKED. 

 {tT^If it can be demonstrated that the skunk is 

 a . icful animal, we would move, as an act of jus- 

 tice, that a little more euphonious cognomen be ap- 

 plied to him than the one which heat present bears 

 in the nomenclature of quadrupeds. Can't Dr. 

 Holiiies, of the Maine Farmer, .suggest a name for 

 the creature which will be more expressive of his 

 character and less repulsive to the car than that of 

 skunk .=— N. E. F.'s Pr. Dev. 



Well, Mr N. E. F.'s Pr. Dev. Esq., if you think 

 a skunk " by any other name will smell as swfel," 

 suppose you call him miiski/erous puppy? or il that 

 cognomen is not sufficiently euphonious and ma^nilo. 

 quenl, suppose you call him UEaude Cologne ani- 

 mal') — Maine Farmer. 



(t/^WE thank you. Doctor, for your condescen- 

 sion in complying with our request. (" Nothin"-i3 

 beneath the attention of a great man.") But we 

 must frankly confess that neither of your titles suit 

 us. They are all-sufficiently " euphonious," '• mai'- 

 niloquent" and savory withal. But we wished for 

 a name which would indicate that the sktmk had 

 other claims to respectability and protection aside 

 from his aromatic peculiarity, lour titles. Doctor, 

 would not do the creature justice : — iiv shall there- 

 fore draw upon our own resources for one that in 

 a measure will. In all coming time then, let the 

 skunk be distinguished from other quadrupeds by 

 the name of Utilis et Fragrans — by wiiich we 

 mean to be understood, that he is not only an 

 odoriferous but a usfful animal. We think ouk 

 Latin more significant, appropriate and classical, 

 than either your French or Yankee titles — and if 

 after a "sober, second thought," you should come 

 to the same opinion. Doctor, will you condescend 

 to signify it ? 



[" Brother Holmes" — (excuse our familiarity, as 

 it is prompted by "a fellow feeling") — uien have 

 immortalized their names by the accomplishment 



of a toser good than we are striving to effect 



When you and we! and Gov. Hill, shall have 

 succeeded in " elev.ning" the skunk to his rightful 

 place among useful animals, by demonstrating 



Does 'nl your pulse beat quicker, Doctor r 

 F.'s Pr. Dev. " Es(i."] 



P. S. — That title — very flattering — thank you 

 — a man of very quick and just perception of merit, 

 WE take you for! "Esquire .'" ahem !— We shall 

 pall up OUR dickey up, hereafter. 



[Commuaicated.] 



ST. GEORGR CO.'S L'ETANG LIME. 



A number of individuals have associated them- 

 selves for the purpose of manufacturing lime, at St. 

 (Jeorge, New Urunswick, and have received the 

 sanction of the Provincial Assembly for that pur- 

 pose ; and as their article is as yet but little known, 

 in the States, it never having been brought here in 

 any considerable quantities, unil the last year, the 

 agent has thought it advisable to procure certifi- 

 cates from those who have used it during the past 

 year, for the purpose of satisfying those who are 

 unacquainted and who may wish to patronize. 



It is, therefore, with this view that the iollowing 

 certificates from those who are actuated by no mo- 

 tives of interest in the success of the company, are 

 hereto annexed : 



[Certificates from 

 want of room.] 



many individuals we omit for 



Roxhury Laboratory, Jan. 1, 1841. 



In reference to the excellent quality of the 

 L'Etang Lime, I am prepared to state, that it is 

 far superior to any American lime I have seen. 



It has been analyzed in my laboratory, and used 

 largely in the manufacture of chemical products 

 here, and fo\ind to be of uncommon purity. For 

 bleaching cotton goods, it would be economical to 

 use it al a double price, over any lime sent to the 

 Boston market. In soapniaking, tanning, and in- 

 deed all chemical operations requiring the use of 

 lime, it is preferred to any other kind. 



I have used it for mortar in building and repair- 

 ing furnaces, where the strength of the cement is 

 very soon known, and have never found so good 

 lime for this use. The cement formed by mixing 

 this lime with fully one half more than the usual 

 quantity of sand, is very hard, close grained and 

 strong after exposure, where ordinary mortar soon 

 crumbles. Respectfully, 



A. A. HAYES, 



JigintfuT Roxbury Coloring and Chemical Co. 



The following 

 Geologist : 



is from Dr. Charles T. Jackson, 



Boston, Jan. I, JS4}. 

 Mr Davis — Sir — I have been well acquainted 

 with the qualities of the L'Etang lime for four years, 

 having visited and examined the quarries, and used 

 the lime in my laboratory. A specimen of the 

 rock taken from the quarry was analyzed by me in 

 18'i6. It contained 98 per cent of carbonate of 

 that instead of being the enemy of man he is the | lime, and trifling proportions of carbon, oxide of iron 



and clay. A few weeks since, at your request, I 

 examined a lot of the quick lime in your warehouse, 

 and took fair average specimens for analysis. I 



found the lime to be of a very superior quality 



well burnt, compact and white. On slaking seve- 

 ral lumps of it, I found it good, to my entire satis- 

 faction, since it formed a very bulky and very 

 white and fine hydrate, or water-slaked lime I 

 have analyzed fair average pieces of this lime, and 

 find it to be remarkably pure, there being but sir 

 tenths of a grain of silex and alumina, (or clay,) and 

 one tenth of a grain of oxide of iron in one hundred 

 grains of the quick lime. It contains, then, 99.3 

 per cent, of lime. There is no magnesia in any of 

 the specimens that I have examined. This free- 

 dom from magnesia renders your lime preferable 

 for chemical and agricultural use. It is an excel- 

 lent article for the manufacture of bleaching pow- 

 ders or chloride of lime, the purest kinds being re- 

 quired for this purpose. 



The following experiments were made to test 

 its qualities for mortar: 



1000 grains of the lime being exactly slaked 

 with water, and dried at 212° F., increased in 

 weight to 1410 grains, or 41 per cent, in weight 

 from the solidification of water that combined with 

 the lime in forming the hydrate.. 



One measure of the powdered:quick lime, on be- 

 ing slaked, increased in bulk to four measures. 



One measure of the powdered lime was slaked 

 and made into a paste with water; four measures 

 of pure white sand were then mixed with it, and 

 the whole was worked into mortar, made into a 

 cake, and allowed to harden. It was fimnd that it 

 would bear even a larger proportion of sand with 

 advantage to the mortar. The ordinary limes of 

 England will not bear more than three measures of 

 sand. 



In using the L'Etang lime, I should advise the 

 workman to slake the lime thoroughly before mix- 

 ing it with the sand, and tlie mortar »vill be much 

 better if they even make it into a thin paste, like 

 cream, before the sand is mixed with it. * * 

 Its great strength and purity strongly recommend 

 it to masons for their nicest work, in building and 

 plastering, — and since you furnish the lime at a 

 very low price, it may even be used by the farmer 

 in making his composte, or for spreading upon the 

 soils which may require it. 



Respectfully, yourob't serv't, 



CHARLES T. JACKSON. 



The L'Etang lime contains 99 3-10 per cent, 

 of pure lime in each 100 lbs. of the quick lime. 



About 300 lbs. in a cask : 2 1-10 only of impu- 

 rities. 



The Maine lime averages about 60 per cent, of 

 pure lime, and 4(1 per cent, impurities. 



Purchasers are re(iuested to see that the Compa- 

 ny's mark is on each cask. 



DAVID DAVIS, 

 Agent, Stale street, Boston. 



[The correctness of this statement we do not 

 call in question ; but in justice to the makers and 

 venders of many of the Maine limes, we must add, 

 on the authority of Dr. ('. T. Jackson's " First Re- 

 port on the Geology of Maine," that J. Ulmer's 

 quarry, grey, and E. Ulmer's quarry, bluish and 

 white, 'I'homnston ; also. Pierce quarry, compact 

 with grey stripes, Hope ; and Jordan's quarry, 

 Brunswick, gave as much carbonate of lime as the 

 L'Etang. iMany of the quarries in Maine, howev- 

 er, fell far below this Eu. N. E. F.j 



