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was not, the jury gave 

 Poughkeepsie Telegraph. 



exemplary damages. — 



THE WAY TO 



MAKE A HOUSE DROWN 

 HIMSELF. 



Osn of our most judicious farmers lost a valua- 

 ble pair of horses last week in the Connecticut 

 river. While working in the meadows, the horses 

 Were unloosed from the team and allowed to wan- 

 der about, each one with his head fastened to his 

 foot and then tied together. In this manner they 

 went to the river, it is supposed to drink, and go- 

 ing into the river but a few steps brought their 

 noses, which were tied closely to their feet, under 

 the water. This occasioned strangulation, and in 

 n short lime they were found drowned in less than 

 three feet of water ! — Northampton Courier. 



From the Aew-York Fanner. 



TO PREVENT HORSES FROM BREAKING 



BRIDLES. 



We have heard farmers speak favorably of the 

 following method of managing horses, recommend- 

 ed by the Farmer's llegister : 



While writing this letter, my attention was ar- 

 rested by a person calling to another to run and 

 prevent a horse from breaking bis bridle, that he 

 bad just been tied by. I will, therefore, state bow 

 I broke a valuable mare from that habit a few 

 years ago. I came home one day, and tied her, 

 and had scarcely reached my door before she 

 broke a new bridle into three parts, and ran off. 

 I ordered her to be brought back, and after some 

 reflection, I cut a piece of leather about four 

 inches long, and about as wide as the head-stall, 

 and drove two rows of small nails through; while 

 this was fixing, I ordered a small pad to be made, 

 about the size of the leather, and filled it with 

 wool ; I then pressed the points of the nails into 

 the pad, and put the leather under the head-stall, 

 and walked oft". She gave a sudden jerk to clear 

 herself from the bridle, which forced the nails 

 through the pad into her head, after which she 

 made one or two slight efforts, and stood still. 1 

 then took a horsewhip and gave her several cuts, 

 but she would not break away : she appeared more 

 afraid of the nails coming in contact with her 

 head than she was of the whip. After this, when 

 I tied her for two or three times, I slipped the pad 

 and leather under the head-stall, which effectually 

 broke her; and since, ! have broke another in the 

 same way. Both of these were young beginners; 

 but I imagine that old offenders can be broken in 

 the same way. This can be used to make a horse 

 lead into a place, or pass a fence or ditch, which 

 otherwise he would be unwilling to do. 



CHINESE MULBERRY-JIorus Multicaulig. 



This plant, independent of its great value for 

 the feeding of silk worms, is very much admired 

 as an ornamental tree. The large and silky ap- 

 pearance of its foliage affords a pleasant contrast 

 with that of most other trees. In the vicinity of 

 Boston, there are, we understand, quite a number 

 of considerable size. They are of very luxuriant 

 growth, and propagated with much ease and with 

 great multiplicity. As far as experiments have 

 been made they are equal, if not superior, to the 

 white mulberry, in the quantity and quality of the 

 cocoons ; and in abundance of foliage they are, 

 decidedly, preferable. They are now so cheap 

 that every farmer can afford to buy a few. — lb. 



BATBERRT BARK. 



The bark of the root of the Bayberry bush, 

 which grows so plentifully in the woods and waste 

 fields of this County, has become of late, quite 

 an article of traffic. We learn that it is used at 

 the manufactories for the purpose of dying. In 

 the town of Harwich, we are informed that a great 

 quantity of this bark, (perhaps 30 tons) has been 

 collected during the past season by the women and 

 children, who obtain at the stores three cents per 

 pound for it. It is sent to Taunton, Fall River 

 and other manufacturing places, where it is sold 

 for 12J cents, and in some instances, much higher. 

 It is also used for medicinal purposes. — This Bark 

 if easily obtained ; the bushes grow in a light soil, 

 the roots near the surface ; they are pulled up with 

 little strength and dried, and then the bark flies off 

 with a gentle pounding. We believe this is the 

 greatest benefit this county has ever received from 

 the ' American System.' — Barnstable Patriot. 



LOW TRAINING OP GRAPES. 



There appears to be very considerable concur- 

 rent testimony in favor of low training to prevent 

 mildew ; or rather, those grapes found growing 

 very near the ground are found to be less liable to 

 this malady. On the supposition that mildew is a 

 parasitic plant', and that moisture is favorable to 

 its germination and increase, the inquiry arises, 

 are these low grapes less moistened by dews and 

 rains than those that are higher ? In ordinary 

 seasons we think they are. They are protected 

 from dews, mists, and light rains, by the over- 

 incumbent leaves and branches. Although they 

 are not as early dried by the rays of the morning 

 sun, yet the moisture is more gradually evaporated, 

 and they receive more radiated heat from the 

 earth. After all, the vine culture, particularly the 

 exotic, is in its infancy in our country. — lb. 



ONIONS, &c. 



The Barnstable Patriot, speaking of the quantity 

 of Onions raised in that place, observes : — " We 

 have heretofore said something about the quantity 

 of Onions raised in this town the present year. 

 We now say from pretty good authority, that the 

 whole number of bunches raised will not vary but 

 a trifle from one hundred and thirty-Jive thousand." 



"If you have Tears prepare to shed them 

 now." — We have been shown an onion 15^ inches 

 in circumference, 5 1-3 inches in diameter, and 

 weighing 1 lb. 10 oz. which was raised in a gar- 

 den at Garrison Hill in this town. A Pumpkin 

 weighing 50 lbs. also grew in the same garden. If 

 this was not "exactly" a large pumpkin, it is 

 "pretty considerable" of an article for Thanksgiv- 

 ing. — Dover Inquirer. 



More Tears. — Mr. John Whitcomb, of this 

 town, brought into our village last week, three 

 bushels of Onions, grown in his garden, — one 

 bushel counted 65 only — the other two eighty 

 each, they were measured without being culled the 

 larger from the smaller, — many of them weighed 

 20 oz. each. In Onions and Wheat, (the latter 

 raised by Esq. Williams, 55| bushels to the acre,) 

 Fitchburg challenges a rival. — Fitchburg Gazette. 



£10 17s. in sawing, and the whole was conceived 

 to weigh ninety-nine tons. It was felled in 1674. 

 — Horticultural Register. 



USEFUL TO FARMERS. 



The following table shows the number of plants 

 contained in an acre, planted at the several dis- 

 tances specified in the columns marked " feet 

 apart." For example, an acre will contain 10,890 

 corn hills two feet apart ; 2,151 four and a half 

 apart, &c. These numbers are obtained by di- 

 viding 43,560, the number of square feet to an 

 acie, by the square of the number of feet the 

 plants are distant from each other ; thus — the 

 square of 2 is 4, and 43,560 divided by 4 gives 

 10,890, as above. If the plants be set in an ob- 

 long form, as five feet by six apart, multiply the 

 two distances together, and divide 43,560 by their 

 product, for the answer. AVhen setting out trees, 

 farmers generally name the distance in yards. In 

 this case, divide 4840, the square yards in an acre, 

 by the square of distances apart, if they be equal, 

 or by their product if they be unequal, and the 

 quotient will be the, number of trees in an acre. 

 For example : at 7 yards apart, an acre contains 

 98 trees ; for the square of 7 is 49, and 4S40 di- 

 vided by 49 gives 89, the nearest whole number. 

 If the distances be 7 and 10, their product is 70, 

 and 4840 divided by 70 gives 60 trees: 



APPLE AND CABBAGE SEED. 



It is said, that if the largest pip in an apple be 

 sown, the fruit will be similar to that of the parent 

 tree, without grafting; and that the cabbage seed 

 gathered from the middle flower stem produces 

 plants which will be fit for use a fortnight earlier 

 than those from the seed of the lateral flower 

 stems. — Hortkidtural Register. 



A WTCH ELM, 



Ik Sir Wm. Baggott's Park, in the county of 



Staffordshire, as Sir Henry Capell told ine, em- 

 ployed two men five days to fell it. It lay forty 

 yards in length, the stool was five yards two feet 

 across, fourteen loads of wood brake in the fall, 

 forty-eight loads in the top, eighty pair of naves 

 were made of it, besides eight thousand six hun- 

 dred and sixty feet of boards and planks. It cost 



YANKEE INGENUITY. 



Some weeks ago, we spoke of a Yankee corn- 

 grinder lately invented which increased the corn 

 in quantity as well as in nutritive power ; — a state- 

 ment, which aroused the criticism and amusement 

 of our friends, among whom was the editor of the 

 Transcript, — but it is true nevertheless, — as many 

 witnesses are ready to vouch. Now we have an- 

 other Yankee invention to speak of. We saw on 

 Saturday at a chaise manufactory in this town a 

 piece of a board, or rather a slice of bass wood, 

 which was sawed off by a saw lately invented by 

 Mr. Job White, an ingenious mechanic in Belfast, 

 which machine, as we are informed, is so con- 

 structed as to saw circularly, or in other language 

 unrolls a log in one piece, as a piece of cloth. 

 This saw works horizontally — and the board is 

 rolled off on a cylinder. Its chief utility, we sup- 

 pose to be in the ability to make a wide board out 

 of a small log. The Pannels, &c. are thus sold 

 much cheaper. The boards, we presume, oan be 

 of any thickness. — Portland Adv. 



