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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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ricuUural Societies in Massachusetts, copies 

 New England Farmer. 



A Coinmittee was appointed to report on the expedi- 

 ency of enlargiug tlie library of the Legislature. 



Feb. 7. The Senate, after attending to the Message 

 announcing the death of his Kxceilency the Governor, 

 immediately adjourned. 



P'eb. 8. The Committee on the subject of trials be- 

 fore Justices, made a report, which was acsepted, that 

 no alterations are necessary. 



The Rev. W'm. B. Sprague, of West Springfield, was 

 chosen to deliver the next Election Sermon. 



HOUSE.— Feb. 2. A bill in addition to the several 

 acts now in force for the regulation of Mills, was read 

 a second time. 



A bill making further provision with regard to the 

 support of the poor, was reported as taken into a new 

 draft, and laid on the table. 



A number of other bills passed to be engrossed. 



Feb. 3. A bill making further provision for the re- 

 demption of mortgages, camedowa, passed for concur- 

 rence. 



The bill to prevent fraud in the sale of fire wood, 4c. 

 ■was laid on the table. 



A bill in addition to an act prescribing the mode of 

 taking depositions, aud administering oaths and affirma- 

 tions, came down, passed for concurrence. 



A number of bills passed to be enacted, which we 

 have not room to recapitulate. 



Feb. 4. A bill in addition to an act to prevent fraud 

 in fire wood, &c. was n''gatived. 



Ordered, That the Committee who shall prepare the 

 Tax Act for the present political year, be directed to 

 make provision therein that sheep, salt works for the 



of the dcd ; the strength ofthe liquor evaporates through the 

 vacancy between the bung hole and neck ofthe bot- 

 tle ; the liquor likewise : the cask aud hoops are injur- 

 ed by the weather — the staves are opened by the sun 

 and air, and the hoops burst. I will venture to say, 

 that ofthe vinegar made so, a third is lost. 



To make good vinegar, fill your casks with cider, in- 

 to which no water is put, bung them up with a long 

 bung, with a rag wrapped around it to make it tight — 

 a long bung that you may pull it out without much 

 trouble : set your casks in a garret, when the weather 

 is warm, where there is nothing between them and the 

 sun but the shingles — let your casks be raised so that 

 you can examine them easily when you please, which 

 ought to be once a fortnight, for even here the casks 

 are subject to leak, the hoops to fly, and the liquor to 

 evaporate ; and keep them always full ; — it is well to 

 have three, one ef the best out of which you may draw 

 into bottles ; the second to fill the first with ; the third 

 waste cider to fill up the second with. ' 



I tried this : twenty years ago a gentleman told me 

 to ])ut a peck of bran in, or six or eight sheets of coarse 

 writing paper ; I put the bran into one, the paper into 

 the other ; both answt fed well. My vinegar is so strong 

 that my family put water to it to make pickles. — 

 When once jou have a course of casks, you may keep 

 it up always by using from the first and filling up. I 

 am confident, with care, six or eight barrels might be 

 made so every summer with the three barrels, only be 

 careful not to use watered cider. 



About ten years ago my house was burnt, I lost ray 

 vinegar casks ; the next summer I succeeded again in 

 in same manner. — .dm. Fanner. 



manufacture of sail, machinery in cotton, woolen, aa/i»J''^stin 



A convention between the United States and Russia 

 was ratified by the .Senate on the 5th ult. By this con- 

 vention the claims ofthe two nations on the north-west 

 coast of America, are amicably adjusted. 



Lyctiim of Kalural Hislorj/.—Tbe first part of the 

 first volume of the Annals of the Lyceum of Jfatural 

 History of New-York, has been completed, and the 

 first number ofthe second part is in press. The labors 

 of this society are becoming daily more and more inte- 



linen manufactories, shall be taxed in like manner as 

 other property ; and that the property ofthe President, 

 Professors, Tutors, Librarian and Students of Harvard 

 and Williams Colleges, Ministers, Preceptors and 

 School Masters shall be taxed as in other cases. 



Feb. ,5. A Committee was appointed to make such 

 provision in the Tax Act, as to remove the questionj 

 arising under the present act in relation to the qualifica- 

 tions of voters. 



A resolve passed providing that the Members of the 

 House shall be paid out of the public treasury, and the 

 towns represented not held liable for the reimburse- 

 ment of the same. 



Messrs Russell, Waters, and Brown were appointed a 

 Committee to consider the expediency of appropriating 

 a moderate sum of money to be disbursed as premiums 

 for the best samples of productions in the Mechanic 

 Arts, made by citizens of this Commonwealth, to be 

 awarded at a public exhibition contemplated to be 

 made in July next, under such regulations as the Le- 

 gislature may prescribe. 



On Mciking Ice-Houses — and Vinegar. — Line your 

 house with stone, because it is almost as cheap as wood 

 and will last an age. Let your house be dug circular, 

 ■wider at top than bottom, say sixteen feet at top, thir- 

 teen at bottom ; a circwlar wall will not cave in, and 

 as it settles will bind the v?all firmer — a dry wall will 

 do. Ice will recede or melt in the summer from stone, 

 brick, or wood ; but when it does, then thrust down 

 ' loose straw between the ice and the wall, and it will 

 melt no more there, provided it is well done : loo: 



Great Storm. — We have been favoured with a letter 

 from Thomas Parker, Esq. at Amsterdam, to Hon. Mr. 

 Bannister, of this town, giving the particulars of the 

 dreadful devastation, by the flood at St Petersburg. — 

 It adds, " that 5C00 people were drowned in the city, 

 besi'ics a number of prisoners that could not be releas- 

 ed. A village nr^ar the city, called Kmilianacka, was 

 totally destroyed, and COOO people drowned. The mi- 

 litia, tor eight miles round, were employed in picking 

 up and burying the dead — 500 oxen were drowned in 

 the slaughter-houses. The loss of sugar was to the a- 

 mount of from four to five millions of dollars." 



[J^ewburypart Herald. 



Death of Governor Kustis. — On the morning of the 

 6th inst. at 7 o'clock. His Excellency William Ecs- 

 Tis, Governor of this Commonwealth, departed this 

 life at his winter residr-nce in this city, in the seventy- 

 third year of his age, after a short but severe illness of 

 about a week's duration. 



PREMIU.M White Currant Wine.— \\ hite Currant 

 Wine, which obtained the first premium at Brigh- 

 ton the present season, for sale at No. 166, Washington 

 Street, at 125 cents per Gallon. 



Feb. n. CALLENUER.& SEAVER.^S. 



I^ARM FOR SALE, in Cambridge — tor sale, a farm 

 about 4 miles from the city, consisting of 35 acres 

 of as gnod land a? any in the county of ^^.i<ldlesex. It 

 is under good improvem' nt. and in:iy be made at small 

 expense to cut from GO to 70 (nns of Lnghsh hay ; has 

 from 3, to 400 Fruit Trees, 10 acifs of Meadow land, 

 about a quarter of a mile from the farm. On said farm 

 are 2 dwelling houses, barn, corn-barn, chaise-house, 

 pigery, &c. Said larn is on the main road to Lexing- 



waste straw is better than bundles, and wheat than rye '"" ^"'' Vo"'=°"!; f^ ""' ">■ /«■•: "^'ff^.I-a-s da.ly. 1 ht 

 Mraw. Keep the top of your ice always well covered I '^'™' ";-'"' ^"^ '""'"S "'''"^"'^ "'" ""^ ="''lf,^ I ''="- 

 alter warm weather be-ins. i"^'"- ^ ^"'^" >''■*''' "' '■^'' P"'-<^hase money will be re- 



As to nnegar, of what use is the bottle in the bung- q"''-«dv«°'' *he ■'"i'lue may lie 5 or 10 years 



hole unless set in the suu .' which I suppose is inten-Lj°'l"';7*^ f ''='"'' '^'^°i^'''''^^^^ "i^'^ '''?'^«'^5^- 



^» I change Street, or at this office. %A.\ Jan. 28 



FRUIT TREES, &c. 



JAMES BLOODGOOD & CO. 

 have for sale at their Nur- 

 sery at I'lushing, on Long Island, 

 near ^Jew York, 



Fruit and Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs and 

 Plants, ofthe most approved sorts. 



'I'he Proprietors of this Nursery attend personally to 

 the inoculation and engrafting o( all their Ftnit 'J'rers, 

 and purchasers may rely with confidence, that the 

 Trees they order will prove genuine. 



Orders left with Mr. Zedkdj'.e Cook, Jr. No. 44, 

 State Street, Boston, 'will be transmitted to us, and 

 receive our prompt and particular attention. Cata- 

 logues will be delivered, and any information im 

 parted respecting the condition, fcc. &c. that may be 

 required, on apjjlication to him. 



Persons who intend to procure a supply of trees the 

 ensuing spring, are invited to call on the agent at an 

 rar/^pen'orf, as their orders will be executed more to 

 their satisfaction than if deferred until the healthiest 

 trees have been selected. Feb. 4. 



FOR sale at this Oflice, Ruta Baga, Mangel Wurt- 

 zel, and Sugar Beet seeds, raised this season, by 

 John Prince, Esq. Roxbury. The Ruta Baga seed is 

 from superiour roots, from seed not two years since from 

 Sweden. Feb. 11. 



PRICES OF COUNTRY PRODUCE, &c. 



APPLES, best, 



ASHES, pot, 1st sort, - - - 

 pearl do. - - - - 



BEAN&, white, 



BEEF, mess, 200 lbs. new, - 

 cargo. No 1, new, - - 



" No 2, new, - - 

 BUTTER, inspect. No. 1. new, 

 CHEEoEjntw milk, - - - - 



skimed milk, - - - 



FLAX 



FLAX SEED 



FLOUR, Baltimore, Howard St 



Genessee, _ - - 



Rye, best, . - - 

 GRAIN,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 I, do. - - 

 SEEDS, Herd'sGrass, 1823, - 

 Clover - . . . - 

 WOOL, Merino, full blood,wash 



do do unwashed 



do 3-4 washed 



do 1-2 do 



Native - - - do 



Pulled, Lamb's, 1st sort 



do Spinning, 1st sort 



PROVISION 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, .... 



CIDER, liquor, .... 



HAY, according to q'uality, - 



