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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 



SIBERIAH CRAB APPLE. 



In a few remarks we made in a recent number of 

 e Farmer, we recommended the cultivation of 

 this beautiful little fruit, both for ornament and 

 use. Our excellent correspondent, S. P. Fowler, 

 of Danvers-port, brought us last fall a specimen of 

 the yellow crab apple, which was so beautiful that 

 we had a drawing made of a part of the branch, and 

 present it above. 



The tree is vigorous and strong, and of a rather 

 small size, very ornamental when in blossom, from 

 the profusion cf its white flowers. The fruit grows 

 in rich clusters, resembling, in the red variety, at a 

 little distance, large and handsome cherries. The 

 red crab apple is more common than the golden, 

 but is not quite as large, and is not so highly es- 

 teemed for preserves. The size and appearance of 

 the fruit are well represented in our engraving, 

 and we will only repeat our advice, that, at the 

 proper season, everybody who owns room enough 

 for one to grow in, should set out a crab apple 

 tree. 



Sheep Pocket Picking. — The Urbana Citizen 

 tells the following story, which we must believe, 

 and yet it is very hard of deglutition : — "A man 

 went into a field to work, and hung his coat on the 

 fence. A pet sheep in his fiock abstracted his wal- 

 'el from his pocket, broke the leather string around 

 it, and eat up fourteen dollars in bank notes, and a 



couple of promissory notes. On returning to his 

 coat, and finding his wallet on the ground and its 

 valuables gone, the squire immediately suspected 

 the pet sheep, arrested and dispatched him, (though 

 a great favorite in the family,) and in his paunch 

 actually found the bank bills in a tolerable state of 

 preservation. The bills M-ere all of a small denom- 

 ination, the largest being a three, and yet, strange 

 to tell, but two of the ones were so badly injured 

 as to be unfit for use. This, we believe, is the first 

 instance we ever heard of a sheep stealing money, 

 and it forfeited its life for its temerity." 



Difference between a Watch and a Clock. 

 — A watch difiiers from a clock in its having a vi- 

 brating W'heel instead of a vibrating pendulum; 

 and, as in a clock, gravity is always pulling the pen- 

 dulum down to the bottom of its arc, which is its 

 natural place of rest, but does not fix it there, be- 

 cause the momentum acquired during its fall from 

 one side carries it up to an equal height on the oth- 

 er — so in a watch a spring, generally spiral, sur- 

 rounding the axis of the balance-wheel, is always 

 pulling this toward a middle position of rest, but 

 does not fix it there, because the momentum ac- 

 quired during its approach to the middle position 

 trom either side carries it just as far past^ on the 

 other side, and the spring has to begin its work 

 again. The balance-wheel at each vibration allows 

 one tooth of the adjoining wheel to pass, as the 

 pendulum does in a clock; and the record of the 

 beats is preserved by the wheel which follows. A 



