128 



POTATOES. 



creased, she never pitched even her tron- 

 som in, but rode h'ke a duck for twenty- 

 four hours during the gale. There were 

 twenty-two sail, mostly fine ships, in the 

 roads at the time ; all of which went 

 on shore, but the one I belonged to, and 

 two small craft that had grass cables. So 

 much for elasticity." — U. S. Gazelle. 



CONSEQUEXCE OF THE PUNCTURE OF A 

 NEEDLE. 



A case is reporled in the last number of 

 the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 

 of the amputation of a foot of a lady, (ren- 

 dered necessary to save the life of the pa- 

 tient,) who trod upon a cambric needle 

 which entered half its length into the heel ; 

 althouffh the needle was extracted entire 

 and she was able to keep about her house- 

 hold work for two days before the pain 

 arising from the puncture compelled her 

 to send for Medical assistance — U. S. 

 Gazelle. 



STRETCHING IN SHEEP. 



This disease is discovered by the sheep 

 stretching itself apparently to the extent 

 of its power every few seconds. The 

 causes are supposed to be too great a de- 

 gree of dryness in the food and too much 

 moisture from rains applied to the spine 

 and other parts of the back, combined 

 with the loss of heat naturally arising 

 from cold wet rains lodging upon the 

 back in large quantities, and retained 

 there for a considerable time by the wool. 

 The remedy recommended by some per- 

 sons engaged in raising sheep, is, to give 

 the animal a little spring water with com- 

 mon salt dissolved in it; and to cover the 

 back of such sheep as are exposed to cold 



rains with a piece of oil (or other water- 

 proof) cloth, the whole length of the spine, 

 and to the width of three or four inches 

 upon each side of it. Cheap cotton cloth 

 (muslin) properly prepared by dipping it 

 in boiled or drying oil, and suffering it to 

 become dry, is said to answer for this pur- 

 pose ; the cloth thus prepared is to be cut 

 into strips sufficiently long to cover the 

 spine (or back bone) and six or eiffht in- 

 ches in width; this may be confined to the 

 wool, with the middle directly over the 

 spine by any glutinous substance that will 

 not injure the wool nor destroy the cloth. 



»/??z easy me/hod to produce new 

 varieties of Vegetables — Potato. — Se- 

 lect as many balls or apples from the 

 earliest potato tops as may be reo^uired; 

 put them in a dry place, in a cellar, and 

 at the usual time of planting in the 

 spring, these balls or apples may be 

 planted in the garden in good soil, about 

 three-fourths of an inch deep, these will 

 probably produce several kinds, and of 

 different degrees of value. The best 

 kinds may be selected for planting the 

 succeeding year, and which may be con- 

 tinued until a better variety is produced 

 to supply the place of it. A small quan- 

 tity of balls or apples, planted in this 

 way each year, would be the most cer- 

 tain method of insuring a constant supply 

 of new varieties in place of those which 

 decrease in value from age. Other vege- 

 tables, of every kind, including fruit 

 trees, are worthy of attention, as subject 

 also to depreciation from age. A succes- 

 sion of the best of each kind might be 

 kept up by planting a few seeds of each 

 annually and cultivating only the best. 



CONTENTS OF. NO. 8. VOL. I. 



Gurney's Oxy-Oii Lamp, 113 



Fuel, 114 



Acetous Ether in Deafness, 118 



Silver separated from other Substances by Elec- 

 tro-Magnetism, 118 



Limits of Speed on Railways, 118 



Useful Hints, 118 



Clarke on the Mulberry Tree and Silk Worm, . 118 



The Syrian Sheep, 119 



A new Alloy, 119 



Cherries, &c .119 



Cement, 119 



Fruit Trees, 119 



Food for Plants 120 



OF OBSERVER AND RECORD. 



Food, 120 



Definition of Terms. Letter F., 121 



Sir H. Davy's Agricultural Chemistry, . . . 122 



Fly (Hessian or Wheat) 126 



Easy Method of Detecting the Counterfeit Coin 



now in Circulation, 126 



Swiftness of Birds, 127 



Transportation of Goods by Rail Roads, 



M'Adamized Roads, and Canals, .... 127 



Superiority of Elastic Cables, 127 



Consequence of the Puncture of a Needle, . . 128 



Stretching in Sheep, 128 



An easy Method to produce Varieties of Vege- 

 tables — Patatoe, 128 



