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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jit what age trees should be transplanted. 

 When trees are raised in a nursery, (he nur- 

 sery man's object is to make the most of his 

 land. He sows his seeds in drills or in bed?, and 

 as soon as they begin to crowd, he disjioses ol 

 them. If they are suffered to stand to draw 

 each other up, they suffer material injury. 1 hey 

 should therefore be removed before that period. 

 Firs usually stand two years in the seed-bed, 

 and two years in the transplanted bed : a third 

 shoot is fatal. In forest trees, it is not so niate- 

 rial ; they will not crowd each other under three 

 or four years after transplanting ; and if they 

 are to be cut off at transplanting for underwood, 

 they will be the better for standing so long.— 

 Beeches, and such trees as will not bear a knife, 

 may be transplanted earlier. The grand point 

 is to give every tree as much strength .is possi- 

 ble in the nursery ; and not suffer it to be weak- 

 ened by standing too close before it is planted 

 out where it is to stand. It is usual in some 

 countries, particularly in Scotland, to plant out 

 Scotch firs at once from the seed bed ; but it 

 must be in a country where there are neither 

 hares nor rabbits. To be continued. 



smking of wells and ibe use of pumps; nor is 

 it improbable, that, in some situalions, a suf£- 

 cient supply may be obtained for hydraulic 

 povver. 



He intends boring until he causes a sufficient 

 quantity of water to ascend to the requisite 

 height to supply Mr. Bostwick's distillery, with- 

 out the use of pumps ; and from what he has 

 already accomplished, we have no doubt of his 

 realizing his expectation. We congratulate the 

 public on a discovery of such importance, and 

 hope some spirited individuals will enable him, 

 as soon as he shall have finished the job in 

 hand, to prosecute the investigation, while they 

 may add essentially to their own comfort and 

 convenience. 



From Ike American Farmer. 



BORING FOR WATER. 



or the many accounts which we have published on 

 the subject of boring for water, we do not recollect of 

 any one which is more conclusive as toils fi anbiUty 

 than the following. 



We have been requested to publish this statement 

 by a gentleman who was at New Brunswick during the 

 operation — and who was told that any information thai 

 Blight be desired would be cheerfully afforded, if alike 

 experiment should be made here. He will call upon 

 the citizens to obtain subscriptions for this purpose — 

 and we hope the laudableness of (he undertaking ren- 

 ders it unnecessary to bespeak their liberality thereon. 



[Alex. Herald. 



Albany, July 10, 1824. 



Sm, I send you a specimen of the celebrat- 

 ed White Flint Wheat, which flourishes in some 

 of the western counties of this Stale. A con- 

 siderable quantity of it has been brought to 

 this city for sale, by Mr. Elias Manchester, a 

 respectable farmer of Scipio, Cayuga county — 

 and I shall see that a bushel is reserved for you. 



This wheat has been mentioned in your pa- 

 per, and has been favourably noticed by the 

 Agricultural Society of the Valley of Virginia. 

 It was known in Cayuga county in 1815, and 

 was brought there' from New Jersey. Mr. 

 Watnus' wheat was not sent there until 1818 — 

 both may have proceeded tVom Spain, and may 

 probably have a common origin. 



The qualities rf this wheat, as represented 

 to me, are pre-eminently good, and I have no 

 doubt of the correctness of^ the following state- 

 ment. 



A less quantity of seed is necessary for sow- 

 as the original stalk spreads more. Il 



It does 



Fron Jackson^s Travels. 



EFFECTS OF OLIVE OIL. 

 In the kingdom of Tunis, the people usually 

 employed as Coolies, or porters, are in general 

 natives of Gereed, or the country of dates, about 

 300 miles from the sea-coast. Their dress is in 

 general a wide woollen coat, its natural colour, 

 with short wide sleeves over, wrapping round 

 the body, and tied round the waist with a baml : 

 they never wear a shirt, and seldom have either 

 trousers, shoes, or stockings ; they have always 

 a scarlet woollen cap on tlie head, i: sometimes 

 a coarse white turban. Those coolies who arc 

 emidoyed in the oil stores, seldom eat anything 

 but bread and oil. They smear themselves all 

 over with oil, and their coat is always well 

 ! soaked with it. Though the plague frequently 

 rases in Tunis, in the most frightful manner, 

 destroying many thousands of the inhabitants, 

 yet there was never known an instance of any 

 of those coolies, who work in the oil stores, 

 ever being in the least affected by it. 



In the summer it is customary for them to 

 sleep in the streets, upon the bare ground ; we 

 have frequently seen in the night, scorpions and 

 other venomous reptiles, running about them in 

 great numbers, yet we never heard of a single 

 instance where the coolies were ever injured 

 liv them; nor do the musquitoes, which are very 

 troublesome to other people in hot climates, 

 ever molest them, though Iheir face, hands and 

 arms from their elbows are exposed, as also 

 their legs and feet. Any other people being so 

 much exposed, would be nearly destroyed by 

 the musquetoes. 



In Tunis, when any person is stung by a 

 scorpion, or bit by any other venomous reptile, 

 they immediately scarify the part with a knife, 

 and rub in olive oil as quick as possible, which 

 arrests the progress of the venom. If oil is not 



particularly from the sling of a scorpion. '1 hose 

 in the kingdom of Tunis are (he most venomous 

 in the world. 



From the American Farmer. 



New Brunswick, N. J. Arc. 2. 

 Highly Important D^scovery.-Le.iT^i»hro.^,r^^g,.^s v.. original ^'-^'^ y;;;-/ 



an inlenious and enterprising mechanic of this i ye^s vvhiter, more and ^-^''^^ """;.•-■:" applied in a few minutes, death is inevitable, 

 citv. Ling impressed with the belief, that, by! not require so much so,l as other w^^^^^^^^^^ ' .. 



boring int^ the earth a sufficient depth, a stream takes a greater growth ; although like all olh- 

 of w.rter might be caused (o flow therefrom, I ercerealia, it flourishes m proportion to the 

 any where in this region of country, sometime richness of the soil 



• 1 . ■ A , , iu ^ r."„,.;moni ■ bo It produces five bushels per acre more th.in 



since determined to try the experiment, he "i i-i" i" i e;„^„ iic 



commenced the operation of boring at the dis- any other wheat, c«,.eris !-"•;"«, J''"^^'; 

 lillery of J. H. Bnstwick, Esq. about a mile ^''^Pt'on in Cayuga, ,t has never been known 

 northwest of New Brunswick, \vherc he has to suffer mil ew, and it .s not so much exped 

 perforated through various stn.ta of red shell, to winter killing as other ^^^^^''"S^^f. 

 'slate, silex, and granite, to the depth of about ' But ,1s most . .stingu.shed good q, a li y is , 

 160 feet, and has brought up a stream of pure , I'cng invulnerable to the Hes.ian I ly. Th. 

 water, which now discharges about ],60o'gal- i« ascribed to the stalk, which is much srn 1 c 

 ' in the channel, and as thick again as the stalks 



of wheat in general. 



Our most experienced millers and merchants 

 ;ieak of Ibis wheat as superior to any other. 

 1 send you a small specimen of Salt made at 

 Salina, in ibis State. 



Ions in 24 hours, and kec[is increasing as his au 

 gar descends deeper. He commenced in the 

 bottom of a well of about 13 feet in depth, the 

 water of which was quite hard, but the water 

 he had brought up from this great depth, i^ 

 said to be as soft as rain water, and several de- 

 grees colder than any of our ordinary s[irings 

 or wells. This is a discovery of immense val- 

 ue, as it will enable any one who can afford the 

 expense, to have a stream of water issuing at 

 his door, in his barnyard or in his fields, of the 

 finest and most delicious flavour, and will, it is 

 believed, in a great measure, supersede the 



may not be amiss, however, to observe that some writ- 

 ers of eminence do nnt agree with him, as ri specis thi- 

 e\pedit-ncy t\{ Irnnsphititini; oaks. Mr Miller «ays "oak? 

 are best produced from the acorns in Ihr jilacci where 

 Ike tries are lo remain ; liccauss:- those which are trans- 

 planlrd will not grow to so large a size, nor remain 

 tround so long." 



Messrs. Editors,— \ saw a communication in 

 your paper, about two or 3 weeks ago, respect- 

 ing the littlle insect called Mulh, and the little 

 red and black Ant. To prevent Moths eating up 

 your clothes, whenever you put them up, al- 

 ways be lareful and put a plenty of tobacco in 

 (beni, and the Moth will never touch them. — 

 To prevent the little red and black Ants 

 IVom getting into honey and sivoel-meat pots — 

 when your pots are put upon the shelves, al- 

 ways be careful and sprinkle the shelves with 

 Mack ground pepper, and they will not go near 

 thera. — J^, Y- Advertiser. 



NEW AND VALUABLE DISCOVERY. 



The Harmony Society, on the Wabash Riv- 

 er, in the Stale of Indiana, has during a num- 

 l)er of years manufactured Oil of pumpkin 

 seeds with good success, but lately they have 

 discovered that well dried peach kernels also 

 contain an oily substance ; and ujion the first 

 trial, they have pressed out of seven pecks of 

 such kernels, five gallons of excellent oil, 

 which is very little inferior to sweet oil, and 

 may be used with advantage for many different 

 useful purposes. 



And since peaches prosper and grow almost 

 every vvherc in the United States, it might be 

 a matter of importance lo every economical 

 husbandman to gather the peach stones, which 

 have for a long time been considered useless, 

 and get them opened and the kernels saved, 

 during the long winter evenings, or in wet 

 weather, whereby he could find himself well 

 recompensed (or all his expended trouble. 



In Harmony, the above labour is |)erformed 

 by small schoolboys for their pastime between 

 the school hours. F. U. 



