NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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Roads. —The Quarterly Review says " it is a pre- 

 railcDg opinion in laigland, that a d, a>l fiat road tires a 

 h"orsc°niucTi more than ocra-ioual inequalities; lh( 

 change in the speed, and also in the position ol the mus- 

 cles, is supposed to be advantageous to the animal." 

 Another English writer says the curved form of roads 

 ia found iaaJequatt! to ohtain the end proposed, and 

 that roads are now laid flat, carriages driving indill'er 

 ently over every part. Phe same writer says a weight 

 suspended on springs may be drawn over a road aboun 

 ding in small obstacles, much easier th;.n the same 

 weight can be drawn in a vehicle without springs, and 

 reco°ramends the application of springs to the heaviest 

 ■wagons. 



Lectures. — VVe are informed that the Cumminglon 

 Society of husbandmen and manufacturers have employ- 

 ed Ur Ebenezer Emmons, of Chester, to give a course i 

 of lectures on geology, mineralogy, and chemistry, so j 

 far as they are connected with agriculture. Ur E. com- 

 menced his lectures on the Ib'th inst. and will give two | 

 on Wednesday and two on 'i'huisday of each week un- 

 til concludtd. A course of hctures of this kind must 

 be eminently useful, and we cannot but applaud (he | 

 zeal manisfe'sted by our Curamington brethren to pro- 

 mote the cause of agriculture and manufactures — to' 

 connect science with practice. 



Tunnels. — The English are connecting the rivers 

 Thames and Medway by neans of a canal and lunn?!. 

 The tunnel is rut through a bill for a distance of up 

 ■wards of two miles, and is 22 feet wide, 24 feet high 

 from the surface of tlie water to the top of the arch, 

 -with a towing path 5 feet wide. 1 his is said to be the 

 largest tunnel in the world, but not the longest. On 

 the" canal that unites the Tba^nes and Severn, there is 

 a tunnel more than two and a half miles in length, Ifj 

 feet in width, and 250 feet below the highest part of the 

 hill. 



Hog:.— On the QQi\ ult. Mr ■\^'m. Dickinson, of Hat. 

 field, liiUed a hog a little short of one year and five 

 months old, which weighed— after hanging 18 hours— 

 624 pounds. 



Seventy tracts of land, consisting of from 5 to 10,000 

 acres, were sold at Huntingdon, Carroll co. Tennessee, 

 for taxes, at 43 cents per liundrtd acres! 



The ladies of Otsego co. N.Y. have formed an estab- 

 lishment at that place for the manufacture and sale of 

 American Leghorn?. 



The Boat Building business is carried on extensively 

 in the flourishing interior towns of Wjlfctham & Cum- 

 berland. Upwards of 500 boats from those two towns 

 are annually sold in Boston. 



Al Alexandria (V?..) on the 15th inst. the stage full 



Presidential Election. — The votes for President and 

 \'icc President have been received from 13 States, and 

 are as follows : 



President ; — Adams CI — Jackson 41 — Crawford 31 

 —Clay 4. 



I^'icc Pre.tidenI ; — Calhoun 119 — Macon 24 — Jack- 

 son 10 — Stanford 7. 



VVe intend to give a full table of the votes next week. 



The Persian war has actually been renewed, which 

 the Turks were wholly unprepared for. This unlocked 

 for occurrence, ronnt cted with the revolts in Syria, has 

 so multiplied the difficulties of the Ottomans, that the 

 ovcrtlirow of the throiu- of the Sultau is looked to as 

 an event at no great distance. 



Letters from Spain give the most frightful picture of 

 the state of that country. At Valencia and f lordova 

 there had been serious disturhanct s, and it is even 

 said (hat many Fri nch soldiers had been arrested and 

 Imprisoned i>y the royalist volunteer^. A new Spanish 

 loan has been contracted for at Paris, amounting to 

 two hundred millions of francs. 



It appears from tbe Liverpool Price Current, that 

 bftween the Cth and the I5lh of October, both days 

 inclusive, there were sold 13050 bags of cotton, ira 

 ported from the United States. 



It is computed that no more than one family of 2000 

 in London, make their own bread. 



The total amount of foreign loans raised in England 

 since 1 1'22, exclusive of the rtcentheavy loan to Mex- 

 ico, is 47,815,000 pounds sterling. 



The distemper prevails to a great extent among hor- 

 ses in England. Many of the turf horses are at this 

 time afflicted with it, and Sir Thomas Stanley's Ces 

 trian Colt, which won at the late races at Litchfield 

 and Shrewsbury, died. 



Major Henry has discovered a passage through (he 

 Rocky mountains, by which loaded wagons can reach 

 the waters of the Columbia River. The route lies south 

 of the one explored by Lewis and Clarke, and is inhab- 

 ited by Indians friendly to us. 



A newspaper entitled Le Conserrateur Imperiale., 

 printed at St. Petershurgb, the capital of Russia, has 

 been received at Boston. It is in French, and is said 

 to be the first ever seen from that part of the world. 



Jl Convenient .Article. — An engraver in New-York 

 has invented a pencH which sharpens it-self, and is se- 

 cured from being broken while in the pocket. When 

 the had is put into the case, there is no further trouble, 

 till it is eniirely used up. 



An elephant in a state of petrefaction, has been 

 found in excavating the earth near the walls of the 



have been one of those belonging to Hannibal's ar- 

 my ; geologists consider it an antedeluvian. The 

 bones of an ox were found at the same time, and the 

 excavations are continued ■with the hope of finding 

 something more. 



RICHARDSON & LORD, have just published, a 

 newand valuable Reading Book, designed for the 

 use of Schools, entitled the ..Agricultural Reader — By 

 DANiEf. Adams, M. D. author of the Scholars' Arith- 

 metic, School Geography, fcc. 



of passengers, was precipitated down a precipice of 20 I city o( Lyons, (France.)- Some amateurs of ancient 

 to 25 feet, and was dashed to pieces ; all the passengers history have attempted to show that the animal may 

 Tvere more or less injured, but none dangerously. 



Becsicax. — A correspondent of a New York paper 

 states, that fraud is often practised by venders of Bees- 

 ■wax, composed of tallcftv, Indian meal, izc. 



The Agricultural Society of Maryland has offered 

 premiums for essays on the use of the mule, the use of 

 oxen, and on the culture of the vine, and for the great- 

 est weight of clean flax. 



Quantities of Ames's Springfield paper have been ad- 

 vantageously sljipped to Canton and Calcutta. 



Two pieces of premium broadcloth from Mr Taylor's 

 Factory, Dutchess County, were sold at N'ew York last 

 ■week for $14,50 per yard. Thus is domestic industry 

 liberally encouraged. It is our manufacturers which 

 prevent specie from being scarce in the country. 



Last week an old woman named Legge, was bop- 

 ■ picking in Mr Leer's garden, near Peters field, with her 

 three daughters, whose united ages amounted to 335 

 years, viz. the mother 105, the eldest daughter o5, sec- 

 ond 80, and the youngest 65. It happened that the old 

 ■^•oman felt herself obliged to chastise the child of 65 

 for idleness, remarking that she {eared that she would 

 turn out unsteady through life. It is not the least re- 

 markable circumstance that the old woman has seen 

 even jeueratioas.^iiuer/iooi paper. 



For sale at this office, a few pounds of Mangel Wurt- 

 sel and Ruta Baga Seed, raised by John Prince, 

 Esq. Roxbury. 



A''cw Establishment. 



THE subscriber respectfully informs the public, that 

 he has taken the factory of Capt. A. Stearns, in 

 West Cambridge, where he intends carrying on the 

 Clothier^i Business, generally : — Also, Ladies' and 

 Gentlemen's garments of every description coloured 

 and cleansed, and furnitures glazed ; Crapes and Silks 

 of various colours dyed and finished in the best man- 

 ner, at shoirt notice, and as cheap as at any other place. 

 Wool Carding. — At the same place Merino and 

 Commoa Wool carded by Capt. Steams. 



CYRUS FARRAR. 



FRUIT TREES, &c. 



'l¥fJir. 



AMES BLOODGOon & CO. 



have for sale at their Nursery 

 at Flushing, on Long Island, near 

 Sr^ New York, 

 Fruit and Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs & Plants, 

 of the most approved sorts. 



The Proprietors of this Nursery attend personally to 

 the inoculation and engrafting o{ all their Fruit Trees, 

 and purchasers may rely with confidence, that the 

 Trees the)' order will prove genuine. 



Orders left with Mr Zebf.uee Cook, jr. No. 44 State 

 Street, Boston, will be transmitted to us, and receive 

 our prompt and particular attention. Catalogues will 

 be delivered, and any information imparted respectipg 

 the condition, &c. Sic. that may be required, on appli- 

 cation to him. Sept. 4. 



NATHANIEL DEARBORN has removed from No. 

 33, to 64, Market-street, up stairs — where he res- 

 pectfully solicits a continuance of public favor. Cards 

 of every dcicriijtion engraved and printed — Door Plates 

 and Stencil Plates furnished — Engravings on Wood — 

 eals, &c. executed to order. October 22. 



PRICES OF COUNTRY PRODCCE, &ic. 



(Revised and corrected every t'riday.] 



APPLES, best, 



ASHES, pot, 1st sort, - - - 

 pearl do. - - - - 



BEANS, white, 



BEEF, mess, 200 lbs. new, - 



cargo. No 1, new, - - 



"• No 2, new, - - 



BUTTER, inspect. No. 1. new, 



CHEESE, new milk, - - - - 

 skimed milk, - - . 



FLAX 



FLAX SEED - 



FLOUR, Baltimore, Howard St 

 Genessee, - - - 



Rye, best, . - - 



GRAL\,Rye 



Corn - - - . - 

 Barley - - . - 

 Oats - - . - - 



HOGS' LARD, 1st sort, new, - 



HOPS, No 1, Inspection - - 



LIME, 



OIL, Linseed, Phil, and Northern 



PLAISTER PARIS retails at 



PORK, Bone Middlings, new, 

 navy, mess, do. 

 Cargo, No 1, do. - - 



SEEDS, Herd'sGrass, 1823, - 

 Clover ----- 



WOOL, Merino, full blood,wash 



do do unwashed 



do 3-4 washed 



do 1-2 do 



Native - - - do 



Fulled, Lamb's, 1st sort 

 do Spinning, 1st sort 



PROVISIOJ^ MARKET. 

 BEEF, best pieces - - - - 

 PORK, fresh, best pieces, - . 



" ■whole hogs, - - - 



VEAL, 



MUTTON, 



POULTRY, 



BUTTER, keg & tub, 



lump, best, - . - 



EGGS, 



MEAL, Rye, retail, - . - - 

 Indian, do. - . - - 

 POTATOES, new, - - - - 

 CIDER, liquor, new - - - - 

 HAY, according to quality, - 



