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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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THINGS IN GENlillAL. 



J^Ri-igalion of Conjieclkul Rivtr. — A convention o( 

 two hundred and fillccn delejfatcs, fiom a large num- 

 ber of towns in New Hampshire and Vermont, ami 

 from this State and Connecticut, met at Windsor in 

 Vermont, on Wedneseay the 16th nil. and adopteil a 

 variety of measures, with a view to the adoption ol a 

 regular system of operation for the improvement of the 

 navigation of Connecticut river. One ol the ohjects in 

 view is to endeavour to combine the inlensts of all the 

 canals and improvements through the vallfy of the 

 Connecticut, and to invest the property of all in a sin- 

 gle corporation or corporations, to be established under 

 the authority of the several states, upon such principles 

 as shall secure the greater benefit to the public, and a 

 fair remuneration to those concerned. A committef 

 was appointfd to aid such corporation or corporations as 

 may he organized, in procuring such rights and proper- 

 ty as may he udvantageously combined in the propos 

 ed system of improvement. Another committee was ap- 

 pointed to digest a plan of operations, and to apply to 

 the legislatures for charters, and grants of the necessa- 

 ry power and privileges. A memorial to congress was 

 also voted, praying lor aid in a system of improved 

 navigation through the valley of the Connecticut, to 

 lake .Vlemphremagog. Sundry resolutions were adopt- 

 ed, stating the views of the convention, and other com 

 niittees, besides those above mentioned, were appoint- 

 ed, for the purpose of carrying those views into execu- 

 tion. 



The Practical Arts and Sciences. — Theodore Sedg- 

 ick, Esq. of Stockbridge, Hon. Leonard M. Parker, of 

 Charlestown and .1. Savage, Esq. o! Boston, are appoint- 

 ed by the two Houses, Commissioners to prt-pare and 

 digest a System of Education for the labouring classes 

 in the Practical Arts and Sci.-nces. This is an objf-ct 

 truly valuable, and may produce to the community 

 most important benefits. 



At an Adams dinner given at Trenton, N. J. the cen- 

 tre of the table was graced with a putnpkinjrie, meas- 

 uring four feet by two ! 



JVuU! Orleans Sugar — A New Orleans Price Current 

 of the 15th ult. states that it is utterly impracticable to 

 ascertain the quantity of Sugar brought to that market, 

 owing to the numerous arrivals of hogsheads by water 

 and land, delivered at various places in the city, a 

 great portion of which is afterwards put into barrels for 

 city consumption and the adjacent country ; as also the 

 impossibility of obtaining the amount shipped m steam 

 boats from the plantations for the consumption of Mis- 

 sissippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, Kentuc- 

 ky, Missouri. Sic. It is however, understood that there 

 are somewhat over 140 sugar estates in Louisiana, 

 which are expected to realize this season from 29 to 

 30,000 hhds. sugar, and about 14,000 hhds. molasses. 



Rapid Setllement of the West. — If the settlement of 

 the West continues to increase during the next fifty 

 years in the ratio it has for the last ten, the shores of the 

 Pacific will then be variegated with our cities, the bays 

 and rivers -whitened with our canvass, and the fields 

 will teem with the yellow sheaf. The longest voyage 

 an American ship will then be able to make, will be 

 from one port of the U. States to another, and both on 

 the same continent. — Bait. Pat. 



The Burlington, Vermont, paper states, that means 

 have been provided in that place, and a contract made 

 for erecting two wings of a college building, each 75 

 feet long and three stoiies high. 



In one of our late French papers we find an account 

 of the destruction of almost a whole family near Bor- 

 deaux by a repast of mushrooms of the poisonous spe- 

 cies. A mother, forty-five years of age, her son of nine 

 years ; two daughters, one of eighteen, the other of 

 twenty-two ; and the father, all died of the elfects of 

 the poison, in the course of a few days, and in extreme 

 suffering. Only a single member of the family recover- 

 ed. What a lessen of caution ! 



The session of Mexican Congress closed on the 24lh 

 of December. The first constitutional Congress was 

 to be immediately thereafter installed. Considerable 

 excitement seems to exist upon the subject of Congress 

 having declared Mexico a federal city. 



Bur)nt.'t War. — Late accounts received at Paris 

 fro -1 the Fast Indies, ani)--unce that the war wilh the 

 DurmeKe and English had taken a serious turn, the for- 

 mer having advanced -within a few leagues of Calcutta, 

 which had been deserted by the rich inhabitants in con- 

 sequence of lieing seriously threatened by the enemy, 

 there sef ms to be some truth in this intelligence, ns we 

 observe that a new levy of 4000 troops has been order- 

 ed in England, for the purpose of reinforcing the East 

 Indian army. 



Tvrkey. — A letter from Parisofthe 6th says, "The 

 correspondent in this city of a respectable Greek house 

 at Marseilles, ha^ received advices from his principals 

 that the Pacha of Eirypt and Sultan have entered into 

 a contract by which the former is to furnish 18000 

 troops for the ensuing campaign against the Greeks. — 

 The Pacha of Egypt has obtained from the Sultan not 

 only the grant of all that he may conquer in Greece, 

 but also has succeeded in getting- one ofhis nearest re- 

 lations appointed to the highest office in Turkey next 

 to the sovereign, after the death or retirement of the 

 present possessor." 



Longevily. — On the 13th inst. died in this city, an 

 old negro woman Patience jo/ta^ Nancy Lawrence, sup- 

 posi d to be aged about 140 years. The precise age of 

 this extraordinary creature could never be ascertained 

 exactly, hut from the fact of her acting as nurse to the 

 great grandmother (when a child )of her present owner 

 who died many years since at an abaanced age. She 

 likewise stated that at the time Port Royal was sunk 

 by the great earthquake in 1692, she was then a breast- 

 ed girl. She possessed to the last the use of all her fac- 

 ulties except locomotion, of which she had been depriv- 

 ed many years. — Jamaica paper. 



Erratum. — In the advertisement upon " 77te Giym- 

 nasimn.," in our two last numbers, the word discoveries 

 should have been discourses. 



AGRICULTTJRAI. ESTABLISHMENT. 



Ko. ]0U Slate Street, up stairs, sign of the Golden Plough 



JR. NEWELL, Proprietor, offers for sale an exten- 

 • sive assortment of Garden and Agricultural Im- 

 plements, viz. 



HOWARD'S Improved Cast and Wrought Iron Pat- 

 ent Ploughs, with cutters and rollers, and an extra 

 wheel between the mould-board and land side, which 

 facilitatis the run of the plough, and is considered a 

 great improvement. 



TICE & NIXON'S Improved Patent Cast Iron do. 

 wilh a general assortment of common ploughs. 

 - HOWARD'S Improved Cultivator, an instrument of 

 the first utility for the purpose intended, operating as a 

 Harrow and Scarifier. 



EEATSON'S Scarifiers and Cultivators. 



BENNETT'S Broad Cast Machine. 



WILLIS' Improved Patent Horizontal and Perpen- 

 dicular Straw Cutters ; Safford's, do. with a great va- 

 riety of other Hand Cutting Machines. 



JAQUITH'S New Invented Corn Sheller, operating 

 wilh a perpendicular cylinder and horizontal wheel, 

 and is a most perfect machine for the purpose. 



GOODYEAR'S Patent Steel Spring Hay and Ma- 

 nure Forks. 



BISBEE'S Improved, Warranted, Cast Steel Hoes 



ME.ARS' Improved Patent Ox Yokes, for which a 

 premium was given at the last Cattle Show at Brighton. 



WILLIS' Patent \\ indow Blind Springs, which were 

 highly recommended by the Committee on Agricultur- 

 al Implements, and have proved far superiour to any 

 invention of the kind- 

 Garden Hoes, Rakes, Scythes &c. March 4. 



CASH will be paid at this Office, for any number 

 of copies of the New England Farmer, Vol. jii. 

 No. 31. (last week's.) 



^1 '••».£ 



FRUIT TREES, &c. 



Fruit 



JAMES BLOOBGOOD & CO. 

 have for sale at their Nur- 

 sery at Flushing, on Long Island, 

 near New York, 

 Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs and 

 Plants, of the most approved sorts. 



The Proprietors of this Nursery attend personally to 

 the inoculation and engrailing of aW thctr fiuit Trees, 

 and purchasers may rely with confidence, that the 

 Trees they order will prove genuine. 



Orders left wilh Mr. Zeukdke 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, &c. &c. that may be 

 required, on application to him. 



Persons who intend to procure a supply of trees the 

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

 car/y^eriorf, as their orders will be executed more to 

 their satisfaction than if deferred until the healthiest 

 rees have been selected. Feb. 4. 



FOR sale at this Office. Rnta 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. 

 BEANS, white, 

 BEEF, mess, 200 lbs. new, 

 cargo. No 1, new 

 No 2, new, 

 BUTTER, inspect. No. 1. new, 

 CHEESE, new milk, 



kimed mil.k, 

 FLAX 



FLAX SEED 



FLOUR, Baltiaiore, 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 1, do. - - 

 SEEDS, Herd's Grass, . 



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. 

 BEEI', 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 quality, 



