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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Feb. 33, 1833. 



checked the plant, than at any other previ oiis time. 

 This pumpkin is ditfjrent from any which Mr 

 Cook had ever before cultivated or seen. Its 

 shape was, generally, like that of a cheese-pump- 

 kin, but the ribs were much more broad and deep- 

 ly scoriated ; when growing, of a lighter or duller 

 green; and when ripe, of a nankin color, or rath- 

 er darker, heavy for their size, fine grain and 

 small cavity for seeds. The one which he was so 

 obliging as to send me, though of a medium size, 

 with reference to the crop, is as much as I can 

 well lift with one hand, by the stem. The flesh 

 through the ribs, is three and a half inches thick. 

 BriJgeport, CI. B. 



gives, is altogether wanting in that which is sea- for ],is niode of jircventing the ravages of the 

 soned with the other. bee moth. JOHN WELLES, CAatVman. 



And thus as Liverpool salt is the remote agent 



of so much loss, damage and misery in the United O" Models of Tliac'ier's, Barbour's, and Beard's 

 States, it is high time to cease both to buy and h<^«' B""^ Hive, may l.e seen at the Agricultural Ware- 



' . 5' . , , „ .1 H .„ „<• house, North Market Street, 

 consume it. In its stead, salt from the Bay ot 



Biscay, Portugal, Isle of May, or the Bahamas, AGRICULTURAL STATE CONVENTION. 

 may be employed with perfect safety. ^ convention of the delegates and other citizens 



Boston, Wednesday Evening, Feb. 33, 1833. 



INJURIOUS EFFECTS OF LIVERPOOL 

 SALT. 



An article was published in the J\"ew York Med- 

 ical Repository, vol. 1, p. 241, new series, (an able 

 work, formerly conducted by Dr Miller and Dr 

 Mitchell,) on the subject of 'the spoiliri!^ of beef, 

 pork, and butter, when cured by Liverpool salt, &c.' 

 In a letter from Dr Mitchell to Charles Caldwell, 

 M. D. from which the following is abridged and 

 extracted; the bad qualities of that substance are 

 foicibly represented. 



In the course of trade between America and 

 Great Britain, it has become the misfortune of the 

 United States to be visited with frequent cargoes 

 of salt from Liverpool. This article is prepared 

 on the western coast of England, where coal can 

 be bought at a low price, by boiling ocean-water, 

 saturated with the rock-salt of Norwich, in large 

 and shallow pans of iron. The salt which re- 

 mains, after the water has been evaporated by 

 force of fire, is called pan-salt, and is a medley of 

 saline substances. It is very diiferent in its qual- 

 ities from the pure muriate of soda. 



The loss of ])roperty and life consequent upon 

 the employment of this salt, is prodigious. Ex- 

 perience, year after year, has proved it to he inca- 

 pable of preserving our beef from corruption. 

 Often has this important article of food been found 

 to be tainted, the very autumn in which it has been 

 packed in barrels. Besides the sacrifice of prop- 

 erty, we find that the employment of Liverpool 

 .salt in the packing of beef and pork, leaves them 

 liable to corrupt ; and the consequences of this 

 corruption are pestilential exhalations, stirring up 

 yellow fcver3 and other malignant distempers in 

 the neighborhoods, cities and vessels, where the 



The fault of Liverpool salt, and of all other salt 

 obtained from sea water, by force of fire or by 

 boiling, is its admixture with foreign ingredients, 

 know n by the technical names of slack and bittern. 

 These usually adhere to the salt in considerable 

 quantities. They have no antiseptic virtues, but 

 nossess a directly contrary effect. Sea salt, form- 

 ed by natural evaporation and crystallization, has 

 very little mixture with these foul and foreign 

 ingredients. 



Oj- The Trustees of the MassachuselO Society for 

 promoting Agvicullure, intending to publish another No. 

 of the Repository which will contain Iheir full Ki-porlB, 

 have given below only the names and sums to notify the 

 successful compelilors. 



PREMIUMS AWARDED BI THE SEVERAL COMMITTEES 

 OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOU HKOMO- 

 TING AGRICULTURE. 



Tlie Committee on vegetable and grain crops award 



To Mr Payson Williams of Fitchburg, Twenty 

 dollars for the greatest crop of potatoes, being 584 

 bushels on an acre. 



To Mr Joseph Perkins of Newbury, Twenty 

 dollars for the greatest crop of onions, being G4(>J 

 bushels on an acre. 



To Mr John Wilson of Decrfield, Twenty 

 dollars for the greatest crop of winter rye, bein 

 344 bushels on an acre. 



To Mr Henry Sfrague of Princeton, for the 

 giratost crop of Indian corn, being 109 bushels on 

 an acre.the mode in which the quantity was 

 estimated differing from the mode required in 

 the offer of premiums — a gratuity of Tm dollars. 

 P. C. BROOKS, Chairman. 



from the several counties in this state, met yester- 

 day afternoon, in the Assembly Chamber, to take 

 into consideration the propriety of establishing a 

 State Agricultural Society. J. Le Ray De Chau- 

 MONT, of the County of Jeflerson, was appointed 

 Chairman, and Jesse Buel and Amos Brigos 

 Secretaries. One hundred and four delegates 

 were i)resent, representing the Counties of Albany, 

 Columbia, Clinton, Diiches.s, Essex, Jefferson, 

 Monroe, Montgomery, Oswego, Oonndaga, Rens- 

 selaer, Saratoga, Steuben, Schenectady and Yates. 

 Various i)ropositions were submitted ; when the 

 convention adjourned until to-day. 



Albany, J^.Y. Argus, of 15th inst. 



Salem Lyceum. — During the present week, the 

 lecture before this institution was delivered by 

 the Rev. Mr Colinau. The subject was Eloquence, 

 which was happily and forcibly illustrated by the 

 speaker. Mr Colman being about to leave us as 

 a citizen, very properly took the occasion to ad- 

 dress to his fellow townsmen present there, a few 

 parting and pertinent words. We, and we believe 

 in conunon with all, sincerely regret the occasion 

 that takes from us, one who has bound himself to 

 us by some of the most useful and most endearing 

 qualities of human nature. — Salem Observer. 



The Committee on Farms, 



Report a gratuity to the Rev. Morrill Allen 



Preserved Apples. — Mr Alexander Walsh, of 

 Lansinburgh, has presented the Editor of the N. 

 Y. Farmer some apples, the growth of 1830 — the 

 russet grown by MrWulsh, preserved in bran and in 

 sand. Tho.se in the latter were in the finest state. 

 Also a moderate sized red and white apple, raised 

 by a farmer east of Lansingburgh, and preserved 

 in sand by Mr F. Fordham, of the same place. 

 This was as fair, and in as sound a condition as 

 though the growth of last season. 



of Pend>roke, of Fifty dollars, for the example he Hail Roads in France.-The Messagcr des Cliambres 

 ■ <• 1 111- 1 1 • J' 11 »_ Ti „.,' says, ' VVc are much occupied at Paris wuli rail-roads. — 



has set ol sk.lllul and judicious husbandry. Tliey ■ g^ Z,^^ „,^ ^^^^ f,.^^ ^,J^ ^^ p„„,„i,^^ „,^ ^„„,^^^, ^^ 



also report a gratuity to Jonathan Allen, Esq 

 of Pittsfield, of TViirly dollars, for the care he has 

 taken to introduce upon his farm, vegetable pro- 

 ducts and choice fruits, and especially his attention 

 in the cultivation of potatoes. Mention is also 

 made of the great merit of Peter Thacher, Esq. 

 of Attleborough, in subduing and bringing to a 



bodies of those slaughtered animals are deposited, state of good cultivation a farm, which a few 

 The butter of New York market lias also been years since consisted of rough, exhausted and 

 rendered worse, if not absolutely spoiled, by the \ profitless land. WjM. PRESCOIT, Chairman. 

 same kind of salt. Beguiled by its fine and sho^vy 



which has just been granted to Messrs Henry, Maflel, 

 and De Rushby, the companies have projected the mak- 

 ing rail roads from Paris to Lyons, and from Sirasburgh 

 to Paris. It is said that Sir Henry Parnell has proposed 

 a railway from Calais to Pariy. Should a similar commu- 

 nication be established between London and Dover, from 

 sixteen to seventeen hours would then suffice for the 

 journey from Paris to London. 



The best oak woorl could be bought at three dollars per 

 cord ill Ballimop: on Friday last. So much for the rail- 

 road. » 



exterior, the citizens have used it extensively in 

 our counties famous for grazing and dairies. In 

 many cases it has supplanted the old fashioned 

 coarse or sun-made salt. Wherever the substitu- 

 tion has been made, it has been with a pernicious 

 effect. The butter so salted, does not keep so 

 well, loses its agreeable flavor, and acquires rather 

 a disagreeable scent. The difference between 

 butter put up with this salt, and with natural 

 crystallized salt, is so great that our wholesale 

 and retail grocers can distinguish it at once, by 

 the smell, on piercing or opening a firkin. The 

 sweet flavor and nice odor, which pure sea salt 



The Committee on Inventions, Experiments, Trees, 



i,-c. report, though none of the claimants are 



strictly entitled to a premium, 



To James Thacher, Esq. M. D. of Plymouth, 

 a gratuity of Ten dollars, for the communication 

 of his interesting researches, with a view of pre- 

 venting the ravages of the liee moth. 



To the Rev. M. Barbour of Byfield, Mass. a 

 gratuity of Ten dollars, (who has deposited at the 

 Agricultural Warehouse his ingenious apparatus,) 

 ' for the more easy and effectual acquisition of the 

 labor of the bees without their extermination.' 



To Correspondents. — " Rusticus" in reply to " A 

 Practical Horticulturist" was received too late for inser- 

 tion this week — an article from Doct. Green on Bols in 

 Horses, will soon appear — many other communications 

 are in the printer's hands. 



Hj" We would inform our facetious legal friend, who 

 displays much acumen without acerbity, 'forthat where- 

 as ' we lately republished the following .sentence from 

 a useful and much read volume, ' It is cheaper to buy 

 a large mackerel for nine-pence than two for four- pence- 

 half-penny,' (the words ' small ones ' after two, being 

 omitted in the original,) that the error complained of is 

 a small one. And should lie meet us with a 'demurrer,* 

 and not permit us to ' amend the declaration,' we will 

 ' plead to the jurisdiction of the Court ;' and prove that 

 his action was brought coram non Judice, of course PltT 



To the same gentleman a gratuity of Ten dollarsi | will be ' nonsuited and taxed with costs.' 



