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NEW ENGLAND F A R iM E R 



SEPT. 37. IS!?. 



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IJOSTO-N, WtnNKSDAV. HKl'i'K.MUER '^7 ;837. 



HoKTiccLTURAi- Annivf.hsarv — Tlie niiiili Anni- 

 versary Kxhibiliuii iif the iM;ib!.acliusclts llnrticuUurul 

 Society wa* liulil at llii- Sucii-iy's new rooms No. 23, 

 Treinont linw , on Weiljiosdiiy, Thur-day, Friday and 

 Saturday, the 2l)ih, 21sl, L'2d and 23d inst This show 

 vary f.ir surpassud any lorniiT exhibition of the Society, 

 in every particiiliir, wlucli can constitute execllcnce in 

 a display of the kind. It seemed as if liie reahns and 

 resources uf't^nuona, Fhjr.i and some of the provinces 

 <)( Ceres, liad heen pui in requisition by llie Genius of 

 rmprovemeiit ; and compelled to pay iioinage, and be;- 

 came tributary to the .skill and industry of New Kn^- 

 land cultivators Some of tin; articles wliicli dt;coruted 

 the Hall, were new to onr country, and appeared to re 

 juice in ihe privih'iie of beinjr naturalized and ac<;lima- 

 ted in this land ol liberty. The superb Chrysantho- 

 niums, liuhlias, Passifloras, &c., looked as if ihey re- 

 joiced in their new settlements, and intended never 

 more to wasie their splendor on the despotic dominions 

 of Asia, Africa, or the savage wilds of Souih Ameri- 

 ca. 



On the 2O1I1, at 12 o'clock, an excellent Address was 

 delivered by William Lincoln, Esq of Woicesler — 

 Horticulture has bi;en made the subject of so many 

 able discoiitses, and het^n brought before tlie public in 

 BO many forms and vehicles, that we had quite despair- 

 ed of wilnessiM^ any noveliy on this useful but hack- 

 iiied topic. Mr Lincoln, however, succeeded in ren- 

 dcrinir his obsei vations at once interesting and amusing. 

 The Orator opened new avenues, and gave us new 

 points of view, where cninmon observers v/ould have 

 seen nothing but every day appearances, and uttered 

 notliing but common place matter. By tracing und ad- 

 vening lu the annals of the first settlers of New Kiig- 

 land, and presenting his riuditors with ficls not gener- 

 ally known, but liifllily deserving to be held in lasting 

 reHieinbiance,he awakened and enchained attention,aiid 

 impressed the ineinory with skelehesand reminiscences, 

 winch will not be- erased while the tablet has existence 

 The audience was one of the most intelligent and in- 

 ti Uectual we have ever had tlie honor 10 assembl.' witll, 

 and appeared to appreci.iie the feast of intellect, with 

 which they were favored. 



I'or furiher particulars respecfing this exhibition, we 

 would refer onr it ndeis to Reports of Commiltees, and 

 oilier oliicial docuim.nts, which we shall publisii us time 

 and space will iierinil. 



commanded the pleased atiention of an overnowing aii- 

 di(;nce, for more than an hour and a half. 'I'he Orator 

 evinced that lie was intimately acquainted wilh tlie ori- 

 gin and progress of the useful und ornamental arts; and 

 showefl thai he properly and accurately ajiprecia 

 ted the v.ilue of those triumphs of mind over m.ilter, 

 which give power lo knowledge, and civilized man a 

 superiority over the savage, whose home is the wil- 

 derness. Want of time and space, alone prevent our 

 expatiating on the excellencies of this eulogy on the 

 Arts, which we hope soon to see puldislH^d,and become 

 as common as its sentiments are valuable. 



.Ani.mal Magnetism. — This puzzling tn|>ic is com- 

 manding much altenlion, and seems replete with mys- 

 teries, which, in olden lime, would have been baptized 

 mi/«c?es of the first water. Mr Jenks of the iNaniucket 

 Inquirer, and Col. Stone, of the New York Commer- 

 cial, have become comerts lo the belief that there is 

 siuileLliing in ttiis wonder working [kiwi r. wliieli trans 

 ceiids llie laws of nature, us hitlierlo developed and ac- 

 credited. Col. Stone stales that " a young lady, who, 

 in her ordinary condition, is completely blind, was able, 

 while under the magnetic influence, to read the con- 

 tents of a note enclosed in seven envelopes, and sealed 

 wilh seven seals. Fnither disclosures relating lo this 

 ullraliuman science are promised liy Col. Stone. 



Fairofthk Mkckanic AssiiCiATioN — This Fair is 

 a great aff.iir, and promises Wonders t<i the arts and man- 

 ufactures of N. Lnglaiid. .Mready has it given a spring 

 and impetus to native industry and ingenuity, v\hich 

 would liave retpiired half a century to accomplish, in the 

 I<t:{ belilnd, instead of " go ahead " style in wliieh im- 

 provement usually *' like a wounded snake, drags its 

 slow length along." 



The origin of this splendid and useful exhibition, ac- 

 cording to the Boston Pearl, w.is as follows; 



" In the course of an Address delivered last \ear, by 

 James L. Homer, Lsi], of this city, the orator took oc- 

 casion to ask why the Meidianic Association, whose or- 

 gan ho was, cuiiid noi, like other cities mit of N. F.iiii- 

 laiiil, have a Fail. 'I'liis suggestion has been followed 

 Ihiflvear; an ■, for several months, mechanics, anisis, 

 and the piMiple giuieraliy. have been invited to exhibit 

 the productions of their several capacities Qiiincy 

 [lall has been united by a tiridge to Fane lil Hall, in or- 

 der to furnish a suflieienily cafiacious are.a for tfie exhi- 

 bition. Both of them are ornauenled in a tasteful man- 

 ner, wilh paintings, evergreens, A;c ; and the; plalforins 

 have been carpeted and otherwise embellished in sm-li 

 a manner as to present a tlisplay , such as our eye never 

 biifiee rested upon Articles to an exfenl and \arieiy. 

 scarcely to have been expected, have been sent in from 

 every part of New I^ngland." &c 



We intend, in future numbers, to give such notices 

 and descriptions of this Iti perlory oi Arts, ns may ap- 

 pear to us best calculated to convey useful information 

 to our readers, and to promote the patriotic intentions 

 ul tlie fuui.deia and palions <if the institution. 



On the evening ol Ine 20tli inst. his Excellency flov. 

 Everett gave an Ailiiress lo the Mechanic Association 

 at llie Odeoii. This was an excellent perfurinuiice, and 



Fanfuil Hai.l Vegetable Market — JVediirsday, 

 Sejjt 27, 1837. — There is no vari.ation in the prices of 

 vegetables this week, from our last quotations. 



Squashes, 2 to 3 cents per lb.; Cabbages 5l) to 75 cents 

 per dozen ; Potatoes 411 cents a bushel ; Sweet Potatoes 

 $2,011 per bushel ; Onions $1,00 to SI, 2d per bushel ; 

 Cucumbers for Pick.es, 17 per hiindied. 



Pi^uiT. — Apples two dollars a barrel ; (Porter apples 

 $2,50 ;) Pears 50 cents a peck ; Peaches $1 to $1,50 a 

 peck; Plums V2 1-2 to 2.") cents a qu.irt ; Greenhouse 

 Grapes 75 cents lo $1,00 per lb ; Cranberries $1,50 a 

 bushel. 



All CouQUEiiiiiG Steam — Our friend and neighbor, 

 Mr Niles, former eciilor of the Baltimore Register, and 

 t'aiher of the present editor, afier ri'adiiig the sulijoined 

 paragraph fnmi the New York Express, a day or two 

 ago, expressed himself in nearly the following words: 

 "" ! do not rec<ille(;t the year, but reiuember the time 

 very widl, when a steam boat td" Fitch and Ramsay's 

 invention, I believe, visited this place, (Wilmington,) 

 and a conversation occurretl on llie subject of sieani 

 power, in which Oliver Evans, (vvlio was certainly a 

 fi-eat man) spoke freely, and in my presence, being then 

 a bov, declared peieinptorily — as his manner was -that 

 the child was then born who would travel from Pliila- 

 delphia to Boston, in olio day, by steam power. We 

 now see the jouiney from VVa-hinglfln to Boston, has 

 been pertormed in less than a day— the greatest speed 

 beiner on the Wilmington and Susquehanna Rail road, 

 aboul 38 miles an hour, and some parts of it at a rate 

 equal to ()0 miles .in hour 1 I then thought Oliver 

 Eyans a visionary; but lime has shown that he was 

 riuht, and ouglit to have been revered rather than lo be 

 laushed al for the prescience with which he looked in- 

 to f ilurity — the moral to be derived from it is not to 

 rid, cole v\'hat we cannot always comprehend." — Dela- 

 ware Slate Juuinul. 



The Greatest Speku on Recorm.. — The greatest 

 despatch ever known in this, or any otiier country, 

 pridiably, is in the transmission of the President's Mes- 

 sai'c to Boston. From Washington to Bostnn, the dis- 

 tance is not f.ir from 500 miles — and the whole was run 

 in less than 21 hours. The Message was taktiii from 

 New York about a quarter before ]2 al night, by the 

 splendid new steamer Wasp, Capt. Vaiiderbilt, to New 

 Haven — lie nee by express riders to Worcester, where 

 a Railroad engine was in waiting to start for Boston. — 

 The Wasp niet with an aceiileiit to her machinery, af 

 ter getting into the Sound, which detained her about an 

 hour. The firsl 12 miles from New York was accom- 

 plished in the short space of 30 ininut<;s. She is no 

 doubt the swiltesl boat on our waters. 



acres, which divided, will give the folloviing for one [ 

 acre : 



One acre of ground fenced by niulbeiry 



hedges, and set out wilh trees, $'250,00 



Interest and additional expense during 



live yearsj 187,50 



$137,r.O 

 The acre will then produce — 

 From 5 to 10 years, 10 per cent. 

 " 10 to 15 " 47 

 " 15 lo 20 " 112 

 averaging nearly 45 per cent for the first 20 years, i.nd 

 contiiiue at 112 per cent, afterwards. The culture of 

 silk is becoming so profitable that it would seem advan- 

 tageous for farmers generally, to give it their attention. 

 — ^V. Bcilford Gaz 



Pepper's patent pre.miuhi Stave Cutting Machine, 

 Made by Zololes Lombard We had never seen this machine 

 operate till one day this week, at Mr. Lombard's shop, al- 

 though it was patented about two years ago, and drew a pre- 

 mitini at the American Institute last year, Mr Lombard has 

 matle several, which are now in use in ditferent parts of llie 

 country. The machine we saw is for barrel staves, or 60 

 sallon casks. The machine requires about a four horse 

 power, of steam or water — the saw is an entire cylinder, of 

 the shape antl dimensions of the cask to be made, having 

 the appearance of an iron barrel. 'I'he block from which tde 

 stave is cut, is brousht to the action of the saw by a car- 

 riage connected with ihe machine. The saw runs tHe whole 

 lengrli of the slave, and may be set to cut the slave of any 

 desired thickness. Each stave is four inches wide. Another 

 machine wilh two circular saws, bevels smooth both edges of 

 the stave at once. Tile barrel is then set up in truss hoops, 

 placed in a third machine, the grooves cut lor the head, me 

 ends of the slaves levelled, and the outer surface planed, if 

 necessary, Wilh these niachines. Mr. Lombard says a man 

 can saw out from the timber, bevel, put up and groove, at 

 ihe rale of two barrels an hour through the day. — Sjj:u:g 

 field KepubUcan. 



iMPnoVEMEXT IN MAKING BeET SuGAR. — Thc coni iiicn- 



lal journals announce that a new process has been dicoveiid 

 at Strashursh, by means of which a while crystalizcd siitar 

 is produced in twelve hours from beet root, and which docs 

 not require any further refining. This invention is the more 

 curious and important, as neither any acids or cbtmiia) 

 a;;ency is eiiiplojed in this reinarkoble operation, and ihe 

 use of"^ animal charcoal hitherto so necessary, is entirely dis- 

 pensed with. It has also the advantage of saving Iwemy- 

 five per cent, in the consumption of fuel. The new prnees^ 

 is applicable in all ihe present maniifactorics of sugar, with 

 the exception of those upon the principle of desiccation of 

 the beet root. The inventor is M. Edward Stolle, who, 

 though not more than twenty-four years of age, is already 

 highly (lislinguished for iho beneficial results that have at- 

 tended his chemical labors. 



The processes of making and refining beet sugar, have 

 heen astonishingly siinplitied since Chaplal published bis 

 elaborate directions, and which ha-l hilnerlo been the slantl- 

 ard work on the subject: and these latest and best processes 

 will undoubtedly be obtained and acted upon by those agents 

 of the Ainericau companies, now in Fr.nnce and Germany, 

 and inlrsdiiced at once into the embryo sugar works of ihli 

 country. — Gcnnessee Parmer. 



Save yocr own seeds.— Farmers are Bealoctful in 

 this respect and rely too much 011 the seed box of the mer- 

 chant, or a supply from a seed store, when they might in 

 most cases produce all they require at home, ijeffin wi' h 

 the earliest thai ripen, and save those of good quality 0/ all 

 the kinds you generally need. It takes but little time, and 

 amounts to a handsome sum in saving expense. The dif- 

 ferent varieties of turnip ripen their seed early, and the *"fd 

 should be saved soon. If you have more than you m ed, 

 distribute your ruia baaa among your neighbors; it may 

 confer a areat heiietii on them, for there are some that would 

 plant that will not be at the trouble to procure seed, and he 

 who has raised roots once will generally do so again — (o/i- 

 nessce Farmer. 



Death from Bee Stings. — The Norwalk (Conn.) (la- 

 zetle says 'h'al a few days since, an old gi ullenian in Hun- 

 liury— Mr. Eliakim Peck—who was ridiiia in a one hersc 

 wagon, by some menus or other, accidentally broughi lus 

 vvaaon in contact wilh a bee hive, which was thrown Irein 

 thcAorm upon which it stood to ihe ground. The bees in- 

 stantly attaclied the horse and bis driver, and stung lli* 

 former so dreadfully that he died within an hour in thu 

 most excrucnuing agony. The old gentleman still lives, 

 but It is not expected that he will recover- 



Profits if the Mulberry. — A gentleman in New 

 York, who has devoted much lime and attention to the 

 planting of mulberry trees, gives a slalemenl fur two 



Mr. James E. Buckman of this town has shown us t 

 slock Ol' common corn from his garden, which nieasure, 3 

 feel inches in length.— i/umps/iirc Oazeile- 



