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NEW ENGLAND FARM Ell. 



Feb. 2G, 1830- 



MISCELLANIES. 



of ihu seeds. One of llieiii grew to llic liti^-lil 

 of twenty feet. It is not certain wlietiier iKis 

 vnluaWIe plant i.s native in Georgia aii'l Florida, 

 liut Dr Coxc thinks his experiment proves ihol it 

 may be naturalized in latitudes fur more northern 

 llian that region. — Bos. Trav. 



Look to your Fruit Trets.—Wc are requested 

 to inform all persons who feel an interest ui pre- 

 serving their Iniit trees, that there is now to be 

 y»cn on all the trees, n small web or nest, more 

 than an inch in length, which contains a caterpdiar 

 —that these nests can now easily be removed and 

 destroyed, hut if left till spring, the trees will be 

 overrun with destructive caterpillar?. We hope 

 this brief hint will not he lost. — L. I. -^tar. 



Vermont Minernh.—U is said there is, in Ver- 

 mont, inexhaustible qinnries of Slate, as good as . . „ , 

 imported frotn Wales. Slates would be about to be introduced mto Kentucky 



Hrmp Seed. 

 Forjalc al Ihc Swil .Store ronnccicd wiih ilic New Engl 

 Karnier, bl, NuriU Markei StT>H;l, 



A frw bushels of pr.me llrrn[. fHfil, fur sewing, prowl 

 IK:y. (rai«r<l wliollv from ihc crlcbratfil Vergenuc-s w tcl, » 

 C..-1 i'S per liuNhif) li is a jmall lol ol uucoiiiiiionlj 

 , q.Mlilv, and farniiTS who arc turning Iht-ir altciilioM 

 lure o'f litis proritat.le ;)laiil. ran seeure excellcni terd, 

 per bushel, if applied for foon. 



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Legislature of Louisiana, Jan. 6. — The Act to 

 incorpinate the Lake Pmieharlraiii Rail Road came 

 before the Senate, atnl wiis uttiversiilly well re- 

 ceived. No doubt is entertained that the legisla- 

 ture will grant a charter. 



A System of Education as in Massachusetts is 



brought to Hoston on a Railway, but it is cheaper 

 now to get them from Wales. Tlt^re is also in 

 Vermont immense formations of pure Porcelain 

 Clay.— Bo». Pat. 



" Porcelain Clay" is found, but we arc not quite 

 sure as to the immensity of the formations. We 

 have also steatite, — some lead, — probably some 

 copper, — iron enough, — copperas enough for the 

 nation, from a single bed, and several more beds 

 that might hi; opened, — and probably alum might 

 be made to any desirable extent. Add to these, 

 limestone, marble, some manganese, &:c, and lastly, 

 that most valuable of all minerals, a dtep, nc.'i 

 loam Windsor, Vt. Chron. 



fVnt Stud Horse For Sale. 



A beautiful dark l.ny 'K"'. half lilood of the Engfish di 

 hor'*. firii-.-n anda li.ilf h.iinisl.ifb. Mroug and well ft 

 cijihl leors old ihc ci»uii.g *|.nng. is •.fftrtd for talc. II 

 sum (oal gcucr, fine figuri-.Lind in aiiy h,-irne»s. and i 

 fail lo gi\r»aiisfaclinD. Ilin Hork has proved exrelirn 

 have Mjjo at i'WJ, at lour inonihn old. Apply (post p 

 J B. Russell, Publisher of the New England Formei. 



Powder al 2t per lb. 

 . . , rr. 1 . 1 DUPONT'S POWDER, quality varrimted, for ; 



We arc informed that I^ottery lickets have 1 ^,^^,,_j,,,.^ Ammmniicn Store, (5 Hroad si, at rttoit. 

 been recently sold in Philadelphia, to the amount SHO F. CAPS, &c. ol the brti quality— thvty for casi 

 of some miliions of dollars, under iiretencc of a j Cledilschia trtacanthos Seed. 



grant by the state of Verinoiil. We take the ear- pcr sale ai the .Seed i^'iore eonnectcd with the New 1 

 best onportunitv to say, that no sueh grant exists, land Farmer. oi.Nonh Markeisireet, , .. , . 



and that the sale of [he tickets is a fraud upon 1^,_ A lew ^^ound^^^^^^^^^ 

 the public. — Vt. Sent. 



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recommended by Judge 111 KL, (in the New Engl^.d I 



for Dee. II. page 161.) who hassc\eral Ihousao'l plants 



ing. as the best |ilam that ran be cultivated iu this cuum 



"iges; of very rapiil growth, long and abundaia ih 



Mighty Effects of Steam.— U was mentioned by 

 Professor Rcnwick, in one of his lectures, that, 

 during the great European struggle, England ein- 



(^uackery. — In Philadelphia a black man, " Cse 

 sar Gimsoun, stoani doctor," has been required to | of iJard'andsiron 



give .S2000 iKtil to take his trial for murder, in | j^,^^^ Currant Wine. 



causing the death of a black child, 8 years old, j po, sajc al the Agricultural Warehouse, 5: 



Jan. 



North Ml 



whom he placed over a tub of boiling water, ] street, . , „, , ,r- v 



kept constantly hot by heated bri.ks 'l-ownin ' ^A.ewdox«,[.ou^^^ 



The child screamed under the torture, and died i gp„, a„j jetprgcni properties in va'rious complaints, a 

 soon after.- -Her body was shockingly scalded. i licubrly the Sore Throai will be found in ihe New I 



•" 2_ I Farmer, vol. V. page ai7, wriitcn b> Samiel «. r<i 



; ., .1 Esq. and the latcDoel. JoiiS G. torrif. Price 73 < • 



(.'licvalicr Grestncr has made a rail way ot bonle,— also, a few bottles of old White Uuich Curmni \ 

 ployed abotit 400,000 persons in and about steam c^fty ,„ilcs from the Danube to the Elbe. He has| price 50 cents per bottle. U J»n 



forwarded a iilaii of this, and a treatise on rail 

 ways, to the Philadelphia Society for internal im 

 provements. 



Sugar Beit, (fc. 

 For sale at the Seed Store connccled with Ibe New F.. 

 Farmer, 5-i. North .Markit-sireel, 



100 pounds prime Froiiih Sugar Heel Seed, raised fv 



^, , n„ . ■ ■ r .u • for this estahlislimeni.l.v Jims Pbi.vcf.. Esq olRoxl.ur 



The word 7Z/6cri is a corruption from the on- ] ^^j „rjg-,„3||j. received by him from Paris. Tiieix^' 

 nal English name of this nut,/uH beard, which of this root for cows, in improviup iheir milk, and U.r :i 



engines, and that these engines turned out finished 

 work, equal in quantity to what the labor of two 

 hundred millions of human beings could have ef- 

 fected* that is, equal to the sum of the intliistry 

 of all the active population of the whole globe. 



It was through the mighty agency and miracu- . ^.. ,^ - i „,i, r linlu nf siock is well known- 



. .»^^l ... •■ »/"• iii.i' oxpn siipfn ciiid oUitT khi'is oj iiocK lb "Cii Known— 



lous effects of the steam engine that England was was aiiphetl to the large and fringed husk, to dis- ^ g^^ ^^^^\^^ ,^^ ,^l,,^ „,,,„ ,|,„,,,. ,.„„ a„d,e„der. I. 

 enabled to sustain herself triumphantly in that linguisli it from the closer covering of the com- laier and better in the spring than M*Dgel Wurtiel. Al 



long and terrible struggle against the power of Na- 1 ,„„„ l.azel. Cve^^t.^W m-"s.l''c.roVh'^f Eun.K- -d" 



'" ' ■' '' "'■" I rican growih. comprising the gna'.est viririy tu I 



Hops. — The duty being ascertained to amoMiit ; [<ew England. Coumrv dealfi>. supplied mi the i 

 to the sum of £39,860 lbs. a planter has sent I terms either with well" assorted l«xes for rcta.l 

 ..,,.,.. 11- Tsi , I pound or bushel. 



Iiirtli the fi)llowin;r calculation: — Iliercarc, he I •^j^,, 09 if 



poleon— and that she found the means of stirring 

 up and subsidizing other nations, until, in the lan- 

 guage of the lectuiei-, " the greatest captain the 

 world ever saw, discomfited and overthrown, 

 was obliged to how before the genius of Watt. 



NEW imUNSWICK FLOUR. 



At the last meeting of the Agricultural Society, 

 a large number of the members sat down to din- 

 ner at Swett's Hotel : all the animal food anil ve- 

 getables were the produce of the county. .Atlcr 

 dinner, two Loaves were produced, one of litem 

 made from wheat raised in the parish of Si -An- 

 drews, and manufactured into Hour at Cliamcook, 



the other, from excellent American .Siiperfmo flour. I |il;iii'. — Kiig. paper 

 They were cut in two parts and .^ent rounil the 

 table, that the opinion of the gentlemen present 

 might b(! taken, lui which was Provincial and 

 which was foreign bread ; the result was, that 

 about the same number fixed on one loaf us on 

 tho other, ihtm proving that the difTereiicc in the 

 ilitality was not discernible. — .S7 Andrtias, JV. li. 

 Herald. 



says, .'50,000 acres on plant in the kingdom ; the 

 quantity giowi!, calculating by the duty, will ave- 

 rage 1 cwr. 2 qrs. per acre, which at the present 

 price, would bring £600,000. That rent, poor 

 rate, tithes, poles, duty, manure and cultivation, at 

 a moderate calculiition, vi/, £30 upon each aero, 

 amounting to £1,500,000, caiisin 

 planters of at least £600,000 on the year's grow tl 

 The s.imc writer predict 

 acres will in conseiiuence, be allowed to go out of 



Seeds for Hot Beds. 



For sale al ihe Seed Store connccled w iih the New I 

 Fwmer office, No. Si. North Mnrkei-slieei, a fine col.' 

 seeds, both of Aiuorican and European growth. I> 1 

 ing in hii beds, aiiioni,' which are the Early Frame .1,1 

 Lull" (ireen Turkey Ciicumbfr, and v'l"r varieties — 

 Curled Silesia and liarlv 'rennishall Head t.'HKr.— lii..- 

 loss to the|Cj»/i/("i.v,- (from llollandj-Creen Citron, P.nea, ; 

 other .Wi7<ini— the Init l.arlv Short top Scnrlel ami 1 

 , rooted «j./i.>Am— Early Y-rli, Early Uulch. Early \ 

 hat from 10 to 12,000 Earlv Sugar-loaf, and Early Itaitersea Ca/^JA•.J.— Al>. 

 ly Tiirnip' llloo.l P.eel, nnd Early Horn Carrol, (a pc. , 

 drlicale sort for the tabic)— and every other Tandy ol K 

 Garden \cgeiablo Sceils. eultiialed in the tailed Sini. >, 

 Jan. 29. 'f 



Jalap. — Professor J. R. Coxc gives an nccoiint 

 iif llie successful cultivation of medicinal Jalap 

 in Philadelpliia. The pliiiits were procured from 

 Xiihtpa, Mexico, in 1827, and have tlotirishcd 

 luxuriantly ever since ; attaining, apparently, com- 

 plete iiialurity, with the exception of the ripening 



rite Italian physicians have ascertained that 

 lite gout may be cured byforti/eight doses of tcarm 

 wilier, each eight ounces. Would not a much less 

 quantity of coM water answer the same purpose ? 

 — Patriot. 



It is thought that in 5 or 6 days 50,000 troops 

 might be trans|iorted to the seaboard from the 

 west, on the ISallimore and Ohio Rail Roiul. — 

 Working bees may thus make themselves a match 

 for Wasps and Hornets. 



Published every Friday, at S^ P«r annum, pnynl 

 end of Ihe year— but those who pay within sixiv diiy ■ 

 lime of subscribing, are entitled to it dedjclion ol fifiv 



(fj* No paper will be .sent to distance without pnv 



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Primed for J. II. Russki.l. by I. R. Pitts— !■> 

 all descri|iii"ns of Printing enu be executed In meet il r 

 of cuslonier.4. Orders for printing reeeiveil by J, II. Ki : 

 at Ihe .Agricultural Warehouse No. .'>!i Norlb Mnikrt 



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Nrv IVrjl— fi 'I'lioi iiCRK A: SOH.C7 l.iherlv-slrcei 

 Philiidflphui- \t. }i C I.ANI>liLTII.8SChesliiut.ilrcrl. 

 liiiliiitwn—Ct. II. Smith, Office of Ihe American Fariiic 

 yl//«.iw— Hin. Jrssr \h'H.. 



A Rail Road is projected from Lexington, Ky. AW,m,^. :V K \V«J'hivck&So«.s, Prop. Un. Bot «J 

 I ri- II* 1 /farlrerrt— tiooitw i.s \ Sons.. 



10 some point on the Ohio River 



, Halifax, N. .S.— P. J. lliii.LAxn. Esq. Reeortler 0|]i< 



