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NEW ENGLArSD FARMER, 



Auff. 10, IS31. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG. 10, 1S31. 



POISONOUS CHEESE. 

 We liave received complaints fVoiii several 

 quarters, of distressing and dangerous illness caus- 

 ed by eating cheese, which in sogw vv:iy or other 

 has hecome very deleterious, "^mong others a 

 "eiitleinan in Boston, lately wrote to us that ' six of 

 my family were yesterday vomited and remain 

 quite weak by eating a small particle of cheese, 

 which was brought to the city by a Mr — , of 



Mr — on Thursday had a little of it which 



sickened his father, himself and son very seriously.' 

 The writer then mentions several others who were 

 made very sick with it, and continues' for myself, 

 I never knew such a powerful vomit fur some 



hours, which has made me very weak. This 



is said to have sold poisoned cheese a number of 



Cenieterv Committee' : — , M 



liihl's ' Frugal Housewife' has reached the 



on 'The Garden and Cemetery Committee' :— xurs v.nu., = • r .uya, .uu=... .. ,„„ .cu. .-^ ..^^ 

 Hon. Joseph Storv, Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn, \)v\st.vmlk edition. Five thousand copies o^t th,s val- 

 J Bi'-elow Hon.'E Everett, George W. Brim- uahle work were sold the first year of its pubhca- 

 n;er,°George Bond,' Hon. Charles Wells, B. A. tion. Her 'Girl's Own Book' has been highly 



nier, 



Gould, ami G. W. Pratt, Esqrs. 



The Hon. Joseph Story, Rev. Dr Charles Lovv-,eneum. 



and deservedly recommended in the London Alh- 



el. Charles P. Curlis, George W. Brimmer, J. T. 

 Buckingham, Dr L. B. Adams, and G. W. Pratt, 

 Esqrs. were chosen a Committee to consider and 

 report at a future Meeting of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety, whether it is expedient to have any, and if 

 any, what, religious ceremonies for the purpose of 

 consecrating the said Cemetery. 



The Bleeting was tlien adjourned to the same 

 time and place'witli the ne.\t annual Meeting of tlv3 

 Mass. Horticultural Society. 



Charles P. Curtis, Sec. of the Subscribers. 



MIDDLESEX AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 The Public are reminded that the Committee 

 ;•,;:: but';";;!;;;; e;;;;;! d^notknow-'-We l on Farms. Frmt and For^t T..es^ wiU attend to 

 onl names as they can be of no use, and the \':'::;;:':'l'i:,'i: l""''^' '^^ " '^^" "'''^'"'' 

 vender of the article might have been innocent of 



ap|)hcation must be seasonably made either to the 

 Secretarv of the Society in Concord, or to one of 



any intentional crime or misdemeanor. It is said 

 that in the same dairy, where the cheeses are all 

 manufactured by the same person, and in which 

 the same means and materials are used, some uf the 

 cheeses will exhibit the properties of a violent 

 emetic and cathartic, and others will he perfectly 

 palatable and wholesome. 



We have, almost every year since the com- 

 mencement of the New England Fanner, publish- 

 ed notices of poisonous cheese, and its effects. 

 The injurious jiroperties of such cheese have been 

 attributed to many causes, but nothing certain on 

 the subject, as far as we can learn has been estab- 

 lished. Some conjecture that lead in some of its 

 combinations is used for coaling or coloring the 

 cheeses which have been found to be deleterious. 

 But any such use of lead, however compounded or 

 modified ought to subject the person so offending 

 to a punishment, similar to what justice would de- 

 cree against a malefactor who has poisoned a pub- 

 lic well or fouutaiu. Others sup|)ose that the use 

 * of copper and brass vessels in a dairy may have an 

 injurious effect on the milk of which the cheese is 

 made &c, &c. 



The most probable theory, however, is that 

 which attributes the evil in question to the cows 

 having eaten in their pastures of the plant, called 

 Lobelia injlala (Indian Tobacco.) A niedical gen- 

 tleman, wrote an article which was published in the 

 J^Tew England Farmer, vol. ix. p. 51, in which were 

 exhibited facts tending to prove (he truth of this 

 supposition. An eminent physician in Boston, 

 who has frequently, in the course of his practice, 

 taken notice oftho effects of this emetic-cheese, 

 attributes them to Lobelia. Besides, we find no 

 notice in any European work on Agriculture, of 



cheese ever exhibiting properties similar to cheese 



of the above description ; and we believe that I"- Lommon interest at the time and place above nieii- 

 dian Tobacco, the supposed cause of the ^bove Lj^j^gj^ We are happy to perceive that this use- 

 mentioned bad (Qualities in cheese, is entirely un- j-^^ institution continues to receive the attenti 



the following 



rntsfces.— Francis Tiittle, .^cton. Amos Wel- 

 lington, Ashhj. Joseph Blanchard, Boxboro' ; John 

 Me'rriam, Berf/orf/. Wm. Winn, Burlington. Is- 

 rael Porter, Cambridge. Cyrus Ileald, Carlisle. 

 Kendall Bailey, CharUstown. Nathaniel Howard, 

 Chelmsford. Cyrus Hubbard, CoHCorrf. Joseph B. 

 Varnuni, Dracut. Jonathan Bennett, Dunstable. 

 James Draper, East Sudbiirt,. Abner Wheeler, 

 Framingham. John H. Loring, Groton. Elihu 

 CmIcv, Holliston. ArhaThayer, Hopkinton. Jon- 

 as Munroo, Lcringion. Charles A. Wheeler, 

 Lincoln. Timothy Prescott, Littleton. Samuel A. 

 Coburn, Lowell. "Eli Rice, Marlboro'. Nathan 

 Aihuus, .Mcdford. Job Brooks, .V«/ict. Wni. But- 

 trick, Pi;;);)erc//. Edmund Parker, Heorfing. Cal- 

 vin Sanger, Sherburne. James 15. Brown, Stow. 

 Burrage Yale, South Reading. Thomas Whitney, 

 jr. Shhley. Josiali H. Adam.=, Sudbury. William 

 Brown, Tewkslnmj. Joseph Butterficld, Tyngs- 

 boro'. Nahum Hardy, Waltham. Zaccheus Reed, 

 Westford. Ahijah Thompson, »'oiurji. John Par- 

 ker, Billcrica. William Cotting, West Cambridge. 

 The Trustees in the several towns are request- 

 ed to notify the Secretary of all applications made 

 to them fur premiums on Farms. 



John Stacy, Secretary. 

 Concord, Aug. C , 1831. 



The Middlesex Cattle Show and Plough- 

 ing Match, will be holden at Concord, Mass. 

 Oct. 5, 1831. From the appearance and contents 

 of the handbill announcing this e.xhibhion, and 

 our knowledge of the enlightened zeal and ability 

 of the President and Officers of ' The Society of 



CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA. 



We omitted, last week,* one ingredient of the 

 Powder to be given prejiaratory to the Lobelia, viz, 

 1 grain of Sal Nitre. We now republish entire, 

 the treatment of the disease by Dr Sanborn, which 

 he adopted, io!(/i success. — Ports. Jour. 



The principal remedy was a strong decoction of 

 Lobelia, given in frequent doses till it operated as 

 an emetic, and continued, but less frequently, after- 

 ward. 



When first called to the patient, he administer- 

 ed, immediately, while the lobelia was preparing, 

 a powder, composed, for an adult, of 1 grain of 

 camphor, 1 of opium, 1 of sal nitre, and 2 of 

 digitalis, finely pulverized, and given in molasses. 

 Half that quantity he would give to the smallest 

 child. 



In a case in which the disease was considerably 

 advanced, he gave the powder once in thirty min- 

 utes, three times, and afterward, once in four 

 hours. 



•See N. E. FnrlT 



, vol. X. p. 2. 



Uiddlesei Husbatidmen and 'Mamfactures,'' we pg,.fgpt cure in the course of one afternoon, 

 have reason to anticipate a show of more than fi.je,,,) gmted that he had seen this simple anti( 



known to the eastern continent. 



RURAL CEMETERF. 



At a meeting of the subscribers for lots in the 

 Cemetery of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety at Mount Auburn, held August 3, 1831, at 

 the Society's Rooms, pursuant to public notice, 

 Zeeedee " Cook, Jun, Esq. was chosen Chair- 

 man. 



The following gentlemen were chosen to serve 



and patronage of those to whose interest it is so 

 sulistantially subservient ; and hope that their la- 

 bors will receive an adequate reward in the ap- 

 probation of an enlightened community. 



Hudson and Mohawk rail road. — We understand, 

 says the Albany Argus, that the locomotive, 

 engine performed a trip to Schenectady and return- 

 ed ; and that the return jiassage, was made in one 

 hour and five minutes. 



Unprecedented Mowing. — Elijah M. Fox, at Suf- 

 field, Ct. mowed four measured acres of grass on 

 the ^Sth day of July, ult. He began at sun-riso 

 and finished at one hour and twenty minutes belbro 

 sun-set, fresh and in good spirits. There were not 

 less than six tons of hay. Fences were on three 

 sides of the lot, and a heavy fall of rain during the 

 forenoon, added much to the labor. One acre of 

 it, a swale, in which the grass was very heavy and 

 badly lodged, would have been a good day's work 

 for a vigorous mower. There are two or three 



tances in which an e(/u«isHr/"«cc has been mowed 

 over hut for (luantity and quality of labor, this is 

 acknowledged by all to be the greatest feat ever 

 accomplished in this part of the country. — Mbany 

 Argus. 



DrsENTERT. — To a common tiinihlcr full of cold 

 water add a table spoonful of wheat flour : stir it 

 well together, and drink the whole at a dose. 

 This should be repeated once in an hour or two, 

 until a cure is affected. 



While on a visit to the eastern part of the state 

 (luting last autumn, I experienced a violent attack 

 of the dysentery, which, notwithstanding the use 

 of various medicines common in such cases, in- 

 creased to an alarming degree. After three or 

 fi)ur days' intense suffering, an old acquaintance 

 prescribed the above remedy, which cfl^ected a 

 - ■■ My 



ote 

 used in a variety of cases, and that he had never 

 known it fail to effect a speedy cure. A remedy 

 so simple and efficacious should be known to every 

 one.— jV. H. Paper. 



Silk. — The Canadian Courant is endeavoring to 

 stir up the jicople of that province to the raising 

 of silk. The editor has no doubt that the climate 

 is ' well calculated' for that purpose. 



The contractors on the Ohio and Baltimore Rail 

 Road advertise for 1700 laborers at one dollar per 

 day. 



