VOI~ XII. NO. 17. 



AND HORTICULTURAL 



JOURNAL. 



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SUSPENSION RAILWAY. 



The Boston Transcript, in noticing the proposed 

 improvements in East Boston, that is we suppose 

 ill the Islands in Boston harbor, has the subjoined 

 account of a suspension railway: 



" We were particularly interested with the nov- 

 elty of a Suspension Railway, located across the 

 marshes, for the purpose of testing, as we are in- 

 formed, this truly American invention, and to cor- 

 rect, by actual demonstration, the many miscon- 

 ceptions relative to this very economical and 

 highly important mode of transporting passengers 

 and merchandize. Great curiosity was evinced to 

 see how a car, intended to convey twenty or thirty 

 passengers on two wheels only, one before the 

 other, could run upon a single rail, which it did 

 with perfect steadiness, and without the possibility 

 of accident of any kind. There seemed to be but 

 one opinion on the subject, and all were strongly 

 impressed with the usefulness and importance of 

 the invention. A locomotive engine was running 

 upon the railway all the afternoon, but being in 

 an unfinished state, it was not attached to the car. 

 We sincerely wish success to the several pro- 

 jects contemplated on this island, and that the 

 growtli and prosperity of this new city may equal 

 the hopes and industry of its enterprising own- 

 ers. 



From the Farmer's Register. 

 SKIPPERS IBI BACON. 



Mr. Editor — There is a very great disposition 

 in mankind, and in womankind too, to do things 

 in, any other way than the most direct. With 

 many, a simple method of accomplishing an object 

 has no charms ; something of mummery and mys- 

 tification is absolutely necessary to recommend a 

 scheme to their favorable notice. 



We see often in newspapers, and every year in 

 almanacs, sage recipes for blockading smoke hous- 

 es against the inroads of those destructive little 

 animals called skippers ; — and how much red pep- 

 per, trash tobacco, pennyroyal, &c. have been 

 vaiuly wasted for this purpose in Virginia, nobody 

 can calculate. 



For the benefit of your readers, I give you my 

 method of prevention. It has two recommenda- 

 tions — simplicity and efficiency. 



Smoke the meat every day, until it is smoked 

 enough ; and on the very day that the smoking is 

 discontinued, pack it in hogsheads, barrels, or 

 boxes : they need not be air-tight, but it is neces- 

 sary to have no holes or cracks in them large 

 enough to admit the small fly, that is the mother 

 of skippers. A lady to whom I communicated 

 this plan in conversation, for the sake of conven- 

 ience, used bags to keep her bacon in. Skippers 

 were found iu but one of them; and iu that there 

 was a hole. 



This system has succeeded perfectly with me 

 for several years. So far as I know it is original ; 

 but I cannot suppose that any thing so simple and 

 so reasonable was never tried by others. 



D. 



The Cap Sheaf! — The curious may see and 

 examine for themselves, at Mr. Hatch's bar, in this 

 town, an English Turnip, which grew in the gar- 

 den of Mr. Isaac Gibson, of Rindge, weighing 

 eighteen pouxds, and measuring 3 feet 8 inches 

 in circumference. — Keene Sentinel. . 



BRIGHTON CATTLE SHOW, &c. 



THE COMMITTEE ON INVENTIONS, 



Consisting of E. Hersy Derby and Daniel Tread- 

 well, Esqrs. — Report as follows: 



That Messrs. Newell & Willis offered from 

 their valuable Agricultural Establishment a great 

 variety of articles, a part of them for Premium 

 and a part for Exhibition only. For premium, 

 one of Scot Keith & Co.'s cast iron Pumps, for 

 which a premium of $5 is awarded. One of Wil- 

 lis' improved Straw Cutters, for the improvement 

 of which one of $5 is awarded. A self operating 

 < Iheiese Press, from the Shaker Village at Canter- 

 bury, N. H. one of $10 is awarded. Also, Flagg's 

 portable horse power Threshing Machine and Gra- 

 ter Cider Mill united: This Machine was accom- 

 panied with several Certificates recommending it 

 highly; the Committee were much pleased with 

 its operation, but as some parts of it were a little 

 out of order, and there not being ample time to 

 test it in every particular, it was concluded not to 

 award a premium at present. In every instance 

 where a premium was awarded, satisfactory cer- 

 tificates were produced stating the superiority of 

 the article offered. 



Among their articles offered for Exhibition on- 

 ly, were several of Howard's improved cast iron 

 Ploughs, two Cultivaters, a very superior portable 

 Garden Engine, a hand Straw Cutter, and several 

 Chains for tying up cattle, all of which did credit 

 to their establishment. 



Adam Brooks of Scituate offered for Premium 

 a Silk Spinner and Twister, with several Certifi- 

 cates, recommending it very highly, a variety of 

 samples of its work were exhibited, the operation 

 of winding off the Silk from the Cocoons, the 

 spinning and doubling and twisting of the Sewing 

 Silk was performed in the presence of the Com- 

 mittee. This machine operates well, and in the 

 infant state of the Silk Manufacture in this coun- 

 try, the Committee recommend the encouragement 

 of it, by a premium of $20. 



To Carver Washburn of Bridgewater, for his 

 improved Cast Iron Wheel Hubs with composition 

 boxes, together with their axletrees, which were 

 highly finished, and accompanied with very satis- 

 factory certificates a premium of $5. 



To Nathaniel S. Bennett of Framingham, for 

 Wrought Iron Bows, for tying up Cattle, certified 

 as an improvement, a Premium of $2. 



Messrs. Prouty & Mears, Plough dealers, No. 

 12, Commercial Street, Boston, offered from their 

 Store a variety of articles for exhibition only. A- 

 mong which, were a great number of Ploughs, 

 several cast iron Wheel Hubs, patent bored Pipe 

 Boxes, an improved cast iron lock Tug Pin, and 

 a pair of cast and wrought iron improved rolling 

 galling irons for the sides of Wagons. The su- 

 periority of the cast iron Wheel Hubs over the 

 wooden ones was particularly pointed out in the 

 statement furnished by them. The whole of these 

 articles do them great credit. 



P. Washburn & Co. of Middleboro', offered for 

 exhibition a large lot of shovels, of different pat- 

 terns, made as their Manufactory under the direc- 

 tion of Mr. George Ames. All of them were 

 highly finished and excellent tools. 



J. C. Hewin offered 4 pitchforks of a superior 

 quality. 



Cassander Gilman and Elias Hall of Raynbam, 

 and Joseph Silvester, each of them offered a cast 



iron Plough, all three of which were well finished 

 implements. 



Several small articles were offered, but as tliey 

 could not be said to appertain particularly to Agri- 

 culture, it was thought inexpedient to mention 

 them. E. Hersy Derby. 



Daniel Treadwell. 



Brighton, 16th Oct. 1833. 



MASS. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



EXHIBITION OP FRUITS AT THE MASS. 

 HORT. SOC. ROOMS. 



Saturday, Nov: 2d, 1S33. 



Pears. By Mr. B. V. French, Chaumontelle, a 

 superior old French pear, but now extremely lia- 

 ble to blight. 



By Mr. Richards, Crassanne, another superior 

 old French variety, but like the preceding ex- 

 tremely subject to blight. Neither of these varie- 

 ties can be recommended for profitable cultivation 

 near Boston. 



By Mr. Downer, Crassanne ; also, the Beurre 

 Die), very large and fine, a new Flemish winter 

 pear, of first rate quality, the skin is rough and 

 thick, a valuable quality in a keeping pear, re- 

 puted a great bearer. 



By Messrs. Bloodgood & Co. of Long Island, 

 Bleecker's Meadow, very sweet. 



By Mr. Samuel Hastings of Boston, St. Michael, 

 very fair and fine. 



By Mr. Vose, Napoleon Pears, very fine and 

 delicious. 



By Mr. Alexander Young of Boston, large bak- 

 ing Winter Pears — the same kind exhibited by him 

 on some former occasions — an old French fruit of 

 extraordinary size, some of them have weighed 29 

 ounces. 



By Mr. Manning, a roundish Pear, name un- 

 known — a fruit of middle size, of a golden russet 

 color, melting and sweet. 



Apples. Of Apples as of Pears, some very fine 

 specimens were exhibited this day. 



By Mr. Mackay of Weston, Mackay Sweeting, 

 a large, round and very sweet apple, fine for fla- 

 vor and for keeping ; also, native apples, the first 

 fruits — one a fine good sized apple, of a conical 

 form and pleasant flavor; Baldwin, Greening and 

 Russetts, all very handsome specimens. 



By Mr. Richards, Lady Apple, a small apple 

 admired chiefly on account of its great beauty. 



By Mr. B. V. French, Nonsuch, Black apple ; 

 also, Red Everlasting, a beautiful red apple of 

 good flavor. 



By Mr. Downer, a large apple, unknown, round- 

 ish, pale straw color and red, now nearly ripe and 

 fine flavored; Ramshorn apple; also, Bruxelles Pip- 

 pin, n large and beautiful fruit of excellent quality. 



From an unknown source, an apple, half pip- 

 pin half russetted. 



Peaches. By Mr. Richards, Heath Clingstone, 

 very fine. 



Quinces. By Mr. Joseph Head of Boston, a 

 specimen of the Orange Quiuce, very large and 

 beautiful. 



By Mr. B. V. French, specimens of very fair 

 Quinces. 



By Mr. Vose, Portugal Quinces of very fair ap- 

 pearance. Also, Orange Quinces, equally extra- 

 ordinary for their size and great beauty. 



Grapes. By Mr. Balch, Malvoisie, much re- 

 sembling the Lombardy if not identical. 



By Mr. Joshua Child of Boston, Grizzly Tokay, 



