NEW EJTOI>Ai\S> FAHMER. 



PUBLISHED BY GEO. C. BARRETT, NO. 52, NORTH MARKET STREET, (at the Agricultural Warehouse.)—!'. G. FESSENDEN, EDITOR. 



VOL. XII. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1833. 



NO. 23. 



IMPROVED HORSE POWER AND CORN COB 

 MACHINES. 



This machine is constructed for propelling any 

 kind o( machinery — is of easy and simple con- 

 struction — very durable in its operation — in no 

 way liable to get out of order, and is capable of 

 being extended to any power required. Machines 

 of one and four horse power, calculated for any 

 common purposes, are easily operated, and occupy 

 but a very small space. Price 650 to $75. 



With this power almost any kind of tools or ma- 

 chinery can be worked to very great advantage and 

 saving of labor. (Threshing Machines, Hay Cut- 

 ters, Corn Shelters, Winnowing Machines, Cider 

 Mills, &c. can be attached to the same power, and 

 worked separate or together, as may be requ red.) 



Additional Drums, or Geering, fitted for any 

 purposes. 



Iron work for Horse Powers, furnished 

 complete. 



Machines of the above description may be seen 

 and purchased at No. 52 North Market Street, 

 Boston. 



From the Yirgiiiia Herald. 

 MOLASSES FOR PRESERVING FRUITS. 



As Economy is the order of the day, permit me 

 through the medium of your paper to communi- 

 cate to our ladies, a receipt for preparing molasses 

 for preserving fruit, &c. which renders it much 

 better suited for that purpose, than a syrup pre- 

 pared from the best loaf sugar, as it is not so liable 

 to candy, nor (if well prepared,) to ferment. 



Take 8 lbs. molasses, bright New Orleans, or 

 Sugar House. 

 8 lbs. pure water, 

 1 lb. coarsely powdered charcoal. 



Boil for 20 minutes, then strain through fine 

 flannel, double — put it again in the kettle with the 

 white of an egg, and boil gently, till it forms a 

 syrup of proper consistence, and strain again. I 

 should not trouble you with the above, but I am 

 satisfied that those who may make the experiment 

 will be so well pleased with it, as to recommend it 

 to their acquaintances generally. G. 



DOMESTIC YEAST. 



Persons who are in the habit of making do- 

 mestic bread, cake, &c. can easily manufacture 

 their own yeast by attending to the following di- 



rections: — Boil one pound of good flour and a 

 quarter of a pound of brown sugar, and a little 

 salt, in two gallons of water for one hour. When 

 milk warm, bottle it and cork it close, and it will 

 lie fit for use in twenty-four hours. One pint of 

 the yeast will make 18 pounds of bread. 



Repository of Arts. 



FATTENING HOGS ON APPLES. 



We purchased an excellent hog of Mr. Ebene- 

 zer Hunt of Cummington, a few days since, which 

 weighed 3S0 pounds. He sold another that weigh- 

 ed 343 pounds. He informed us that they were 

 common, lean hogs last summer, and that they 

 were fattened almost wholly on sweet apples. 

 They consumed not over two bushels of corn and 

 twelve bushels of potatoes each ; all the rest of 

 their food was apples; most of the apples were 

 boiled. — Hampshire Gaz. 



From the New York Farmer. 

 BURYING BEES. 



We make the following extract of a letter from 

 a lady to the Editor. Our correspondents will see 

 the propriety of furnishing us with information 

 that will bear the ordeal of experiment: 



"The other day I made a visit to Eliza, and 

 found her digging in the garden a grave for a cou- 

 ple of bee-hives. The honey had been taken from 

 them too late for them to make sufficient for the 

 winter. She had seen an article in the New-York 

 Farmer, stating that bees could be kept under 

 ground with little or no honey. She was, there- 

 fore, induced to try the experiment; and if it does 

 not succeed, she thinks she will prosecute you for 

 damages." 



TO DESTROY INSECTS. 



A writer in the Horticultural Register, gives the 

 following receipt, which he says, he has tried for 

 many years with complete success. 

 To destroy insects on trees. 



2 oz. mix vomica, 

 2 oz. soft soap, 

 1 lb. tobacco, 

 & pt. spirits of turpentine, 

 8 gallons of water. 

 Boil them, all together, down to six gallons and 

 use it milk warm ; the trees are to be carefully 

 dressed with it, by dabbing in on with a sponge. 



RAT-IFICATION. 



A lady, who was a notable housekeeper here, 

 many years since, found the eggs, in her well 

 stored larder, diminishing almost daily. She did 

 not like to suspect her domestics of nullification, — 

 but still the eggs went — and went. She secreted 

 herself in a room and watched. A company of 

 rats came. A large full furred rat, the principal 

 thief, grasped an egg with all four of his legs, and 

 rolled over on his back. 



Two others his accomplices, laid hold of his 

 tail with their teeth, and tugged their load man- 

 fully to a sly rat hole hard by, where it is fair to 

 infer that all hands feasted on the "spoils of vic- 

 tory." — Ports. Journal. 



ELEPHANTS FOR PLOUGHING. 



Elephants are now used in Ceylon for plough- 

 ing the rice fields, and in preparing new ground 

 for the cultivation of coffee, pepper, &c. An ele- 

 phant will perform the work in one day which 

 twenty bullocks were in the habit of performing 

 before. In a country like Ceylon, which is very 

 thinly inhabited, by this system of employing Ele- 

 phants, much time is saved, and a great deal of 

 agricultural work performed. An Elephant may 

 be purchased in Ceylon at any time for 10 or £15. 



From Goodsell's Genesee Fanner. 

 NUTRITIVE MATTER. 



The following is taken from Sir H. Davy's Ta- 

 ble of Nutritive Blatter afforded by different vege- 

 tables, and may be found useful to farmers, in 

 making calculations as to the worth of different 

 crops, for feeding stock, &c. Indian corn, not 

 being the produce of the Island of Great Britain, 

 was not analyzed by him, but we give the results 

 from other chemists r 



1000 parts each gave the following: — 

 Winter Wheat, 955 Rye, .- - 792 



Spring Wheat, 940 Barley meal, - 920 



Indian Corn, S00 Oat meal, - 670 



Potatoes, - 250 Turnips, - 42 



Now if we make a Table from the above calcu- 

 lations, giving to each the produce of an acre (as 

 near as may be) we shall see at once the relative 

 value of each compared with the other, as contri- 

 buting to the support of animal life: 



A'utritivc Matter. 

 Potatoes, '2,500 lbs. would give 3,125 lbs. 



Indian corn, 2,400 " " 1,920 



W. Wheat, 1,200 " " 1,146 



Rye, 900 " » 722 



Barley, 1,200 " " 943 



Oats, 960 " " 552 



Turnips, 7,500 " " 315 



Thus it appears, that one acre of Potatoes is 

 equal to about two acres of Indian Corn, three of 

 Wheat, four of Rye, or Barley, six of Oats, or ten 

 of Turnips. Should the above table be found in- 

 correct, we will thank any of our farming friends 

 to forward a more accurate one, and we will give 

 it a place in our columns. 



GOOD HOUSE-KEEPERS. 



If there be any thing among the temporals to 

 make life pleasant, it is in the walls of a well or- 

 dered house, where all is adjusted to please — 

 not by its finery or costliness, but by its fitness, 

 its air of neatness and content, which invite all 

 who enter to taste its comforts. The woman 

 who does not make this a grand item in all her 

 routine of duties, has not yet learned the true 

 dignity of her station — has not yet acquired the 

 alpha of that long alphabet which is set before 

 her ; and she who despises this noble attainment 

 despises her best worldly good, and indirectly des- 

 pises her family, her neighbors, and the word of 

 God. " She looketh well to the ways of her 

 household," was spoken by the wisest man that 

 ever lived, and will be told a memorial of all those 

 who have been eminent for this noble character.— 

 Gen. of Tern. 



