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Ni:W ENGLAND FARMER, 



October 3, 1832, 



family must have been previously impaired. 

 These remarks concerning the action of the 

 mind of a person in health, npon the digestive or 

 assimilating powers of the stomach, apply with 

 augmented force when disease, or even a predis- 

 position to a prevailing complaint, is present. 

 Now a little imagination may render the simplest 

 article of food indiffeslihle, or maUe it actually 

 noxious. Every one knows, that suspicion or 

 fear has an instant effect on the stomach ; and 



hour, the wheel which was so encased with ice 

 as to be iinmovalile, was as clear of it as if it had 

 been the montli of July, and from that time no 

 further obstruction was experienced. This bene- 

 ficial ajiplication of the warm water of h red 

 wells was soon extended to all the manufactqrics 

 where such wells existed. 



But the engineer did not rest there. He on 

 ceived and executed the plan of warmingthe 

 manufactories themselves by the water, prio 



cicr another man was engaged in, General Wash- 

 iNUTOM could have bestowed a particular atten- 

 tion to the details of husbandry ; and have sujier- 

 iiitcnded and directed complex operations on seve- 

 ral farms, at the same time that he presided over 

 the destinies of a rising emi>iie, in a novel, ardu- 

 ous, and hazardous career of military and politi- 

 cal experiment. The following, copied from a 

 " Letter from Mr Jared Sparks, to the Hon. Judge 



:he 

 ct ate 



5ns 

 el. 

 O 



hen this suspicion is directed to the stomach it- its falling on the wheel. This was .lone by 

 self its influence is augmented in a geometrical simple process of causing the water to circi 

 ratio The digestive organs for a time are par- in open tubes (troughs) throughout several ro 

 alvzed and the^food is no longer subject to ani- 1 of a paper mill and thence to fall on the wlA, 

 mal laws, but is changed upon chemical princi- | A diflercnce of nearly ihirtyfive degrees, in v 

 pies The eflects of medicine, in like manner, j cold weather, was thus produced between le 

 are essentially counteracted, or materially assisted, interior and the exterior of the building, altboi ;h 

 accordiu'T to the state of the mind, and its direc- ] the doors were frequently opened by the mgi ss 

 tion to the stomach, and the supposed good or ill j and egress of the workmen, and it enabled le 



proprietor to dispense with the stoves, and I 

 naccs, without any inconvenience to the laboi rs 



to Story," will present new motives and fresh incen- 

 tives, to every cultivator to imitate the virtues, and 

 venerate the name of Washington. 



action of the remedy 



On the whole, after a pretty attentive consider- 

 ation of the subject, I am strongly inclined to be- 

 lieve that the popular treatises upon diet and reg- 

 imen, the habitual lecturing of students upon their 

 health, and the newspaper recommendations and 

 proscriptions of food and drink, have been the 

 cause often cases of dyspepsia, in the place of one 

 which they have prevented or removed. It is 

 said that no susceptible person can fix his atten- 

 tion upon his heart, for five minutes at a time, 

 without producing pain or distress, or vary- 

 ing the action of that vital organ- The 

 is probably the fact with the stomach 



ehher on account of heat or of dampness fr 

 the water, which was at first an object of appe 

 hcnsion. 



In oil mills this procedure is i)articulirly 



vantagcous, not only in keeping the wheels cli 



of ice, but in securing the requisite dampness 



AGRICULTtJRAI, PAPERS. 



There was no station in which Washington 

 took more delight, or the duties of which he dis- 

 charged with more zeal and acliviiy, than that of 

 a practical farmer. His achievements in this walk, 

 were prodigious. It may fairly be questioned 

 whether any other individual in the country, not 

 excepting the most imlustrious and enterprising, 

 who has been devoted to this pursuit alone, has 

 ever accomplished so much. — He was command- 

 er of an army, and at the head of a nation for a 

 few years only at a time, but a day never passed 

 in which his farm was out of his miiul. During 

 the whole war, he was planning improvements. 



)f I directing them, and often writing letters of minute 

 the grain without the danger of freezing, whih , instructions to his manager. While President of 

 in cold weather, demands much troublesome p ;- i the United States, it was his standing custom to 

 caution. / write weekly, and receive weekly relurns, in 



The ])rocess now described has the furtherld- i which he required great particularity and exact- 

 vantage, 1st. That the same water, which inthe I ness in specifying occurrences, and the einploy- 

 vvinler warms the apartments, in summer comrai- ment and progress of the laborers. I have be- 

 and peculiarly so when an epidemic is prevailing, ' nicates a most agreeable and refreshing coolneU, . fore mo a voUime of jiress copies of letters writ- 

 which has one of its prominent siats in the or-^i|iehcat never exceeding 55 degrees, though |t| ten in one^^ during the Presidency, to his man- 



"ans of digestion. A regular habit of using the 

 bounties of Providence with temperance and mod- 

 eration, is about all that can ever- be enforced up- 

 on the pulilie to advantage. AH popular direc- 

 tions besides the rules of common sense and com- 

 mon prudence, are liable to be misunderstood 

 and perverted, and be carried to extremes which 

 make them worse than useless— increasing the 

 very evils which they were benevolenlly, but in- 

 judiciously, designed to diminish. AMICUS. 



ADVANTAGES OF BORED WELLS IN 

 COMMUNICATING HEAT. 



The temperature of the water which rises from 

 considerable depths in the earth, being almost 

 constantly, winter and summer, at about ^A° 

 Fah. the ap|)lication of this temperature to eco- 

 nomical purposes was suggested by M. de Bruck- 

 niann of Wirtemberg, and it has met with com- 

 plete success. Bored wells, from which the wa- 

 ter rises to the surface by some internal force, and 

 flows in a constant stream, are now common or 

 at least numerous, in the north of Europe. This 

 able engineer had bored a nuraher of these wells 

 for the supply of various establishments for spin- 

 ning, paper making, bleaching, &c, in which the 

 water flowing from them is useil as a rnoti* e power. 

 In the winter of 1830, he was consulted in re- 

 lation to the best means of keeping the wheels 

 clear of ice, in one of the manufiictories of Heib- 

 sonn, when the congelation was so great as to 

 oblige thcin to use the axe in clearing the wheel. 

 Recourse has been had to currents of hot air, and 

 cylinders filled with ignited cljarcoal, but with 

 imperfect success. Dr Bruckmann introduced 

 the current from a bored well into a cylinder, 

 pierced full of holes, from which the water fell 



may outside be as high as seventysix degre^J agcr and ^ifrseers. Some of them extend to 

 2d. That the circulation of water in manufacto-jgLverul pngcs, and they average more than one a 

 ries purifies the air, and promotes the health otl*/cek. They arc written in his own hand, with 

 llin workmen, so that in rooms full of people, tlii'jits usually fair and regular character, and bear 

 atmosphere is found to be perfectly free, though jevuy mark of having been as much studied in 

 the windows may be kept shut. 3d. That in casi i ex|i( ssion and style as any of his compositions, 

 of fire, a current of water within a building must ; In some cases, and probably in most, they were 

 be of the greatest consequence. j wr tin and copied out by himself, befiirc the press 



So successful have been these inventions of M. 

 de Bruckmann, that the King of Wirtemberg has i 

 appointed him to the station of Ko_\al Archiu'cl, j of i 

 and Knight of the order of merit, and ilecrced to , cu i 



him a large gold medal. ) he re his death. It is a pamphlet of 24 folio 



The water of bored wells has been applied in ' pa^s, written in a close hand, containing inslruc- 

 France to the warming of conservatories of plant.s, lids to his manager for ihe cnllivation of three 

 and a large fish pond at Montmorency has been , falis on the estate of Mount Vernon, tlu^ follow- 

 supplied in the same manner with cool v/alcr, , in| year. Each far.n was divided into lots which 

 whiih in the summer season prevents the loss for- jw(e numbered. In the pamphlet very full in- 

 merly sustained by the jierishing of the fish from ! stictions are given how lo cultivate evcrij lot in 

 the excess of heat. In consequence of these val- th three farms during the next year, stating the 

 liable applications, the committee ofthe "Socielie cr)s, with remarks on the soil, the products of 

 d'Encouragement," propose the decree of tlieir j fomer years, and thcMesiills of former experiments, 

 gold medal to M. de Bruckmann.— BwH de la Soc. ) Wshington died, you will recollect, in ihe middle 



ressions were taken. 

 eh was his habit for years, ami<lsl the burden 

 s |)ublic cares. There is also before me a 

 IIS asricnllliral dociiineiit, dated four days 



iTEncour. Aout. 



From Pouls 



Daily Advertiser. 



THE F.^RMER OF MOUNT VERNON. 



Every person, not profoundly ignorant of his 

 couniry's annal.s,and who is at all conversant with 

 the characters ofthe leaders in the revolution which 

 gave existence to these United States, must have 

 been in the habit of contemplating General VVash- 

 i.NGTo.N as an eminent agriculturist, as well as the 

 man ^^Jirst in war, first in peace, and Jirst in the 



hearts of his countrymen." But few, however, 

 could have supposed it possible that in the midst ite crops of each lot, with remarks on the corn- 

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of December, and this pamphlet, drawn up evi- 

 dqily with much reflection, was already prepar- 

 eijto bo handed to the manager, at the begin- 

 nik of the year, prefaced by a letler of general 

 dipctions, on the iinjior ance of method and foj-e 

 tnught in farming operatioius, and this, notwith- 

 sjnding he was himself to be on the i)laiitation, 



1 exercise a daily su|)ervision. 



These instances are mentioned only as exam- 

 (es; they indicate the habit, and it is unnecessary 



add more. For a time, he kept an agricultural 

 )lirnal, and was engaged in experiments on a ro- 

 tion of crops, noting down for a series of years. 



in a shower upon the wheel, and in less than an of public avocations of more importance thau 



rative success of different rotations. He was at 



