1025.] 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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sideration of your Society, you are at liberty to 

 place this communication before them. 

 Yours &ic. 



N. HAMMOND. 



PERKINS'S STKAM ENGINE. 



A gentleman lately arrived from England, bas 

 furnirlied us with a description of a steam boat 

 constructed by Mr. Perkins, to exhibit the pow- 

 ers of his engine. lis form is long and narrow, 

 to accomodate it (o the Regent's canal,' where it 

 is kept and frequently worked for exhibition. — : 

 It is 71 feet in length, 7 I'eet in breadth, and- 

 carries 22 tons ; it has an iron paddle at the 

 stern, 7 feet in diameter, with wings 13 inches 

 ()road at the en<ls ; ihe generator contains 3 gal- 

 lons of water, and the furnace half a bushel of 

 coal ; the heat is usually raised in 15 minutes; 

 the piston hns 13 inches stroke, and the whole 

 engine ocnpies only one filth the space of one 

 of ^Vatt &, IJolton's, and weighs only one fifth as 

 much. ., 



Our informant saw the first experiment with' 

 the boat, early iu November, and states, thatal-i 

 though the tem|>eraiure was raised to only one 

 half its proper number of atmospheres, it moved 

 at the rate of 6 miles an hour. — A". Y. paper. 



From the A*. K. Farmcr^s Almanack, 



FEBRUARY. 



Keep on sledding wood till you have got a 

 pile just 99 times as big as the Sea Serpent. — 

 There are but few things more vexatious jlhan 

 to be obliged to tackle your team in the hurry 

 pf baying, or harvesting, in order to snake bojoe 

 a green tree top for fuel, which wont aflef nil. 

 burn much belter than an ice islaod. The cul- 

 tivator who suflTtTS summer to come about not 

 having a good store of dry wood under cover, 

 may rank with him whose pork barrel is as 

 empty as the head of a dandy. If you do not in- 

 tend that your wife, daughters, help., fee. should 

 be as cross as a litter of catamounts, and snap 

 at you like, a hemlock back-log, you will split 

 and pile away some elegant billets (not billet- 

 doux) for oven wood. Give your ewes with 

 lamb a few roots, to keep them in good heart ; 

 turnips, at this season, it is said, will injure the 

 lambs. Either keep your stock well, or knock 

 them on the head, sell their hides, and take a 

 cruise to the Ohio country, for the purpose of 

 peddling wooden nutmegs, and other yankee 

 notions. ^-i — 



SUGAR MAPLE. 



An improvement has lately been made in the 

 manner of lapping the sugar tree, which I hope 

 will be widely circulated, that it may supercede 

 the barbarous use made of Ihe axe in lapping 

 them ; and in my opinion, it is preferable to 

 boring them. 1 am informed it is used almost 

 exclusively in the stale of Kentucky. — It is this: 



About one of the small roots of the sugar tree 

 dig a hole large enough to set the vessel in, 

 which is designed to catch the sap : saw off the 

 end of the root, and it is accomplished. It is 

 asserted that the sap will run more freely this 

 way than by any olher way yet discovered. 



Among the advantages attending this manner 

 of tapping trees, the sap can be sheltered from 

 animals, and from leaves and dirt, by placing a 

 board over the bole. 1 hope fanners generally 

 will make a pro|ier apfdication of this important 

 iroproveracDt. — Am. Farmer. 



From lite ^merUo.n Farmer, 



Mr. John Gage, of Union, a few years ago, 

 grafted a pear upon an apple scion in l)is garden. 

 When it grffw up, so as to begin to bear, it bore 

 lor two years, very excellent pears. The third 

 and fourth years it was barren ; but during those 

 years, its leaves, which formerly were those of 

 a pear tree, changed, by degrees, to those of an 

 apple tree. The fifth year, and ever since, it 

 has borne excellent apples. This has been re- 

 lated to me by at least fifty of Ihe most respec- 

 table men on the spot, who personally knew it 

 to be true, so that I have no doubt of its correct- 

 ness. JOB JOHNSTON. 



FRUrr TREES, &c. 



To KEEP Bacon — Uartis and Shoulders, pure and 

 s'sseet, and free from skippers and rust — the re- 

 sult of experiment. 



Having lived in this country upwards of forty 

 years, 1 had tried many ways to preserve Bacon, 

 for having been raised in old Virginia, I am very 

 fond of good bacon and cabbage; hut I need not 

 here repeat the various experiments. Last 

 spring, 1 tried a method which proved effectual 

 ngninst hugs, t^ies, skippers, rust, and rancidity, 

 and now is the time fur olhcrs to satisfy them- 

 selves. It, was as follows: — 

 On taking my meal from \he. pickle, far I fill my 

 lubs (vilh strong brine, as soon as the meat is 

 salted, and sk'.mmed it clean of every particle 

 of filth, and put it away in Ihe tubs again — 

 When the meat was li'ell smoked, being afraid 

 to venture the whole of it, 1 packed away six 

 hams and two shoulders, in Ihe brine again and 

 kept them down with boards and weights. — 

 This brine was quite pure and sweet when I 

 went to salting this fall. The bacon wluch had 

 been thus well smoked, and put hack again in 

 brine and kept, chiefly, uulil Ibis fall, was so 

 good and pure as to attract the notice of all thai 

 ate of il — besides, the flavour being well pre- 

 served, there was no oviside rust lo pare off and 

 Ihrowaway. JEREMIAH KINDALL. 



JAMF..S BI.OODGOOD&CO. 

 have for sale at their Nur* 

 bery at flushing, on Long Island, 



"^■S^^f^S^^^fst.. i'e-AT Ntw York, 



Kniit and Forest Trees, Flowerinj Shrubs and 

 I'huits, of the most approved sorts. 



The I'roprietors of thi.« iSursery atteiut personally to, 

 thu inoculation and engrafting of aU thfir Fiwt Trees, 

 and purchasers may rely with confidence, that the 

 Trees they order will prove genuine. 



Orders left with Mr. Zkbkdke Cook, Jr. Ko. 4'1, 

 .State Stret-t, Boston, will be transmitted to us, and 

 receive our prompt and particular attention. Cata- 

 logues will be delivered, and any information ini 

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

 required, on application lo him. 



Persons who intend to procure a supply of trees the 

 ensuing spring, arc invited to call on Ihe agent at an 

 early period, as their orders will be executed more to 

 their satisfaction than if deferred until the healthiest 

 trees have been selec ted. Feb. 4. 



FOR sale at this Office. Ruta Baga, Mangel Wurt- 

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

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

 from superiour roots, from seed not two years since from 

 Sweden. T*:^'- '1- 



PRICES OF COUNTRY PRODUCE, &c. 



Union of Ihe „itlantic and Pacific— There is the 

 fairest prospect of the execution of this most useful 

 canal. During the last summer, tin- iVary Livingston 

 sailed from New-York with a company, who went in 

 her, for the purpose of examining the river St. Juan 

 and the lake Nicaragua, and also of taking the level 

 and exploring the route between the two oceans. 

 The Mexican government has given its sanstion, and 

 has warmly adopted the project ; and the Mary 

 Livingston has sailed from Alvarado for St. Juan, to 

 commence the survey. The execution is committed 

 to Mr. Edmund Blunt, a gentleman of an enter- 

 prising and resolute character, and of scientific ac- 

 quirements ; and it may be rationally hoped from 

 the surveys which he has already made on our own 

 coast, that this important one will not suffer in his 

 hands. 



An Englishman has counted fourteen hundred sorts 

 of wines made in France. 



The subterranean passage which is now forming un- 

 der the Thames, will cost only 460.000 francs, a sum 

 hardly sufficient to build a single arch to some of the 

 bridges. 



Many extraordinary cures of chronic diseases have 

 been lately efiVcted by friction. We have been infor- 

 med that some p^hysicians in London have several 

 " Rubbers" in Ihfir employ, whom they order to pa- 

 tients, as they do Bleeders, when they consider them 

 needed. 



Gen. Penjaniin Pierce of Hillsborough, N. H. lately 

 assembled at a dinner party, "il of bis revolutionary 

 compeers, VZ of whom were at the battle of Bunker hill. 



APPLES, best, 



ASHES, pot, 1st sort, - - - 

 pearl do. - - - - 



BEANS, white, 



BP:F.F, mtss, 200 lbs. new, - 



cargo. No 1, new, - - 



" No 2, new, - - 



CUTTERt inspect. No. 1. new, 



CHEESE, new milk, - - - - 



skimed milk, - - - 



FLAX - - 



FLAX SEED 



FLOLP^, Baltimore, Howard St 



Genessee, . - - 



Rye, best, ... 



GRAIN,Rye - - - - - 



Corn - - ... 



, Barley - . - - 



Gals - - . - - 



HOGS' LARD, 1st sort, new, - 



HOPS, No ], Inspection - - 



LIME, 



OIL, Linseed, Phil, and Northern 

 PLAISIT.R PARIS retails at 

 PORK, Bone Middlings, new, 

 navy, mess, do. 

 Cargo, No 1, do. - - 

 SEEDS, Herd'sGrass, 1823, - 

 Clover . - - - - 

 WOOL, Merino, full blood,was.h 

 do do unwashed 



do 3-4 washed 



do 1-2 do 



Native - - - do 



Pulled, Lamb's, 1st sort 

 do Spinning, 1st sort 



PROVISION MARKET. 

 BEE!'', best pieces - - - - 

 PORK, fresh, best pieces, - . 



" -whole hogs, - - - 



VEAL, 



MUTTON, " - 



POULTRY, 



BUTTER, keg & ttib, 



lump, best, - ■ - 

 EGGS, ..-----■ 

 MEAL, Rye, retad, - - - - 

 Indian, do. - . - ■ 

 POTATOES, . . . - 



CIDER, liquor, . - - - 



HAY, according to quality, - 



