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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 6 



THE LAW IN REGARD TO DIVIDING FENCES. 



Judge Strong, in a recent case in our Common 

 Pleas, has decided that no one has a riijht, when 

 making a division fence, to run half of llie same 

 on the lot of the neighboring owner — but that it 

 must be wholly on the land of him who makes it. 

 The case which called forth this decision, was an 

 action of trespass for ciitting a ditch in a meadow 

 land, for the purpose of a fence. It appears that 

 the defendant in this case, cut some five feet wide 

 on each side of the line, which constituted the 

 boundary between him and the plaintiff; and the 

 Judge in his charge enforced upon the jury, that 

 by no existing statute was the making of a fence 

 on tlie Jot of an adjoining owner justified ; but 

 that those constructed half on one side and half 

 on the other, must be constructed by mutual con- 

 sent ; otherwise legal measures could be instituted 

 for damage, &c. The owners of real estate should 

 recollect this decision, as cases in which it would 

 be applicable, are not unfrequent in our courts of 

 justice. — Northampton Courier. 



From tlie Key West Enquirer. 

 FLORIDA ARROW ROOT. 



The day, we trust, is not flir distant when pre- 

 judices in favor of the productions of foreign coun- 

 tries will case to operate to the detriment of the 

 agriculturists and manufiicturers of our own. We 

 are sufficiently friendly to the policy and princijile 

 of tree trade, to allow every man to exercise the 

 most perfect freedom in the purchase of whatever 

 he may require, whether the necessaries or luxu- 

 ries of life, at whatever price he may think proper, 

 yet we cannot but lament the blindness or per- 

 verseness that lead any one to overlook an article 

 of home manufacture supplied at comparatively a 

 low price, for one of foreign production in no way 

 superior and truly considered "a dear article." 

 The arrow root which is the growth of South Flo- 

 rida, may be considered one of the home produc- 

 tions which are sacrificed to the undue preference 

 for those imported. Equally white, equally pure 

 with that of Jamaca, heretofore deemed the best, 

 and by many thought to be the most nutritious of 

 the two, there can be no reason for its not super- 

 seding the necessity of supplying market with any 

 of the articles from abroad. 



We have no price current at hand giving the 

 value of the imported article in first hands, but we 

 are well assured that it cannot be imported at less 

 than from two or three times the price of that 

 manufactured in this vicinity, which is from 6 to 8 

 cts. per lb. With an increase of demand, the aid 

 of machinery would be required, and diminution in 

 price might be anticipated ; at present a similar 

 mode of manufacture to that followed abroad is 

 pursued in Florida, though it is probable the Flori- 

 da manulacturcrs possess not all the facilities of 

 their competitors. 



We are not sufficiently versed in botany to pro- 

 nounce upon the similarity of the Florida root to 

 that of Jamaica or Bermuda, but there can be no 

 doubt of their belonging to the same fiimily of 

 plants. The quantity manufactured is sufficient 

 lor the present demand, and doubtless will increase, 

 as the root, is indigenous, and but two or three 

 planters beinnr at present engaged in the inanuliic- 

 ture, and that too, in connection with their other 

 agricultural pursuits. 



The low price at which the Florida arrow root 

 is sold, allows of its being applied to other purpo- 

 ses than tho.se to which, from its dearness, foreign 

 arrow root was usually restricted. For instance, 

 it is used here almost universally, in the place of 

 starch, and no one can visit Key West without 

 being posilively satisfied of the fitness of the sub- 

 stitute. It is so extremely valuable in the compo- 

 sition ofmany nicitiesof the table (a fact which we 

 have made known f()r the particular edification of 

 our fair readers,) and particularly in an imitation 

 Best Miing. It is used by the planters in some 

 places as a bread stuff, and was so used by the 

 aborigines, but do not ask it for so general a use 

 as to have it supersede the use of cither wheat or 

 rye. 



We shall rest satisfied if our notice secures for 

 the manufacturers as great a demand as the good- 

 ness of their arrow root deserves. 



From tlie Genesee Farnier. 

 THE CHINESE MULBERRY. 



( JMorus mnlticaulis.) 



Last year our Chinese Mulberry produced fruit, 

 and we have three plants growing from the seed. 

 One IS eighteen inches high, and all are in thriv- 

 ing condition. The leaves are as large as those 

 which grow on layers or cuttings of the same 

 size ; and prove very satisfactorily to us, that the 

 tale of such seeds producing the common white 

 mulberry is all a fiction. The explanation doubt- 

 less is, that the true seeds were not obtained. 



Whether these seedlings will be hardier than 

 trees from cuttings, or not, we do not know; but 

 hope they will be so ; and on this account we shall 

 value them higher than trees from cuttings of the 

 old kind. Untbrtunately, our tree was so much 

 injured last winter, that no fruit was obtained from 

 it this season. 



From the Albany Argus. 



THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE STATE OF 

 NEW YORK. 



It will be generally recollected that the legisla- 

 ture at the last season, made provision for a geo- 

 logical survey of this state, including an account 

 of its botanical and zoological productions. This 

 important measure was to be executed under the 

 direction of the governor, by competent persons to 

 be appointed by him. The outlines of apian for this 

 work, together with a specification of the objects 

 to be embraced in it, were submitted to the legis- 

 lature in an able and excellent report, made to 

 that body by Gen. Dix, as secretary of state. 

 This plan has, with some inconsiderable altera- 

 tions, been adopted by the governor. The state 

 is divided into four districts, and one principal geol- 

 ogist and an assistant assigned to each, instead of 

 two geologists, as suggested in the report made by 

 Gen. Dix. 



It was supposed that it would be necessary to 

 have a draughtsman for each district, but it is be- 

 lieved that a change in tliis res[)ect can be advan- 

 tageously made. The geologist and his assistant 

 will be able to execute all the ordinary drawings, 

 and the services of only one draughtsman will be 

 recjuired to execute the more difficult parts of this 



