NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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repay all the trouble and expense. An or- 

 i-a sot in niound th:it li;is once been plough- 

 will not tiounsh unless it be ploughed every 

 , or three venrs. Perhaps it is the better 

 ^ to keep it"in lillnge the whole time, as the 

 ^s will cerlainlv ijiow much fiister. and pro- 

 e more and belter fruit. Beauty and order 

 desirable in an orchard as well as in other 

 ,,o-,. How much more pleasing^ it is to see 

 land in regular order, the trees being set in 

 vs perl'ectiv straight each way, than to see 

 :m stand liere and there in a promiscuous 

 nner like tlie trees of a forest. 

 Much care should be taken during the tirst 

 ,rs of an orchard to give the trees a regular 

 1 proper shape. This must be done princi- 

 llv by pruning. Branches should not be per- 

 tfed'tocome out I'rom the body of the tree 

 a less distance than five or six feet from the 

 )und. Cattle, sheep nor hogs shonUl never 

 turned into a young orchard, as they will 

 atlv iniure the trees by rubbing against and 

 nvsing Ihcm. ^ A FARMER. 



lYorcuter, August, 1820. 



fully convinced of the utility of it. They loo, 

 have demonstrated, by fair experiment, that 

 more work can be perl'ormod without rum than 

 with it. If our farmers generally would adopt 

 this melhod, there can he but very little doubt 

 that they would be convinced that it is fiir pre- 

 ferable io the prevailing custom of the time. 



W. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Wr. Editor — It is well known that Intem- 

 •ance has become a great and growing evil 

 jur country, and it highly concerns every 

 ml of hum:inity and social happiness to make 

 ;rv exertion in his power to arrest its pro- 

 is'. Many of our citizens have ruined them- 

 es and their families and become a burden 

 ociety by a constant and too free use of ar- 

 t spirit. "Many others are pursuins: the same 

 irse, and will meet the same fate. The 

 iDkard does not become such all at once ; he 

 irst a temperate man, then drinks pretty 

 :ly, and before he is aware becomes a toper. 

 t is very easy to get into the way of using 

 ng drink, and every person ought to be cau- 

 s how he indulges in habits of this kind, lest 

 ventually be earned down with the current, 

 .has become a practice with most of our 

 lers to make a constant use of ardent spirit, 

 icularly during the season of getting hay 

 grain. Many seem to imagine that it is as j 

 jssary, at this time, as their daily food. 1 1 

 lerlv pursued this course, and considered it [ 

 eaily needful to drink rum three times in a I 

 as to take food at the stated seasons. But^ 

 ve learned iVom actual experience that this [ 

 •.tice is not only unnecessary, but altogether! 

 se than useless. For four years I have en- 

 ly dispensed with this habit. I feel much 

 Igor, and can endure the heat and labor of 

 day ijetter than tbrmerly. When 1 used to 

 my morning dram and go out to mowing, 

 t enlivened tor a little while, but soon my 

 igth began to fail, and before breakfast 

 : 1 became quite exhausted. The same 

 e produced the same effect at other times 

 lie day. Now my practice is to drink a 

 of milk and water in the morning before I 

 o mowing, and 1 stand it well an hour and 

 .1. If or two hours, then 1 can eat my hreak- 

 1" t« with a good appetite, and work till noon 

 lOut being much fatigued. After dinner 1 

 k till live o'clock, then I take supper in- 

 ;i of a glass of toddy, and can work the re- 

 ider of the day, and sleep well during the 

 it. 



I'wo of my neighbors, who occupy large 

 |i3j have adopted the same course, and are 



TO THK FARMKRS OF ESSKX. 

 The Trustees of (he Essex Agricultural _ Snciet;/ 

 offer the follozving Prcmimns. to be ■paid in the 

 avlumii cj 102't : 



For the management of a farm in its tillage, 

 mowing, orcharding and pasturage ; the quantity 

 of lamf appropriated to each— the means and 

 the manner of making, increasing, preserving 

 and applying manures— their quantities— the re- 

 s(.ective crops and products— the quantity and 

 management of the live stock— and the quantity 

 of labor employed, to be detailed. 



For the best, thirty dollars. 



For the 2d best, twentij five dollars. 

 For the 3d best, fji'cnty dollars. 



For the 4th best, //'ec" dollars. ^ 



In addition to the above, the Trustees of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Society have offered 

 a premium of thirty dollars, to be paid to the 

 successful claimant of the tirst premium for the 

 best management of a farm offered by any Coun- 

 ty Society : so that the first premium oftered 

 for the best management of a farm in this coun- 

 ty, is now sixty dollars. 



Persons intending to claim these premiums, 

 will take notice that all claims for them must be 

 entered with the Secretary of the Society on or 

 before the seventh day of May, 1021. 

 I The Committee of examination will view 

 each of the farms that may be entered for pro- 

 I miuni, in the fourth week in June, and the tir-it 

 week in September ; commencing this service 

 i on Monday each week. They will require each 

 ' claimant to furnish them with a statement of the | 

 S produce of his farm in 1823, as particular as 

 may be practicable; and also an accurate state- 

 '■ ment of the produce of his farm in 1821. These 

 i written statements of produce, mode of cultiva- 

 j tion, &.C. together with satisfactory evidence of 

 their correctness, must be handed to the Secre- 

 tary of the Society, on or bet'ore the 20th of 

 November, 1824, at which time they will be ex- 

 amined and the premiums will be awarded. 



For further information respecting premiums 

 otTered and subjects for premiums, the Trustees 

 refer lo their pamphlet publislied in January, 

 1823 ; and they would remark generally, that 

 all the premiums there offered, for wh.ch no 

 particular time of pavment is mentioned, will be 

 paid in 1824, if claims sulRciently meritorious 

 shall be presented. 



Published by order of the Trustees. 



J. VY. PROCTOR, Sec'y. 

 September 2d, 1823. 



I the white Oxyde of Tin, commonly called Flour 

 of Putty. An ounce of it may be had at the 

 driiggisVs for a small sum ; and it is believed to 

 be the best substance for scythes that lias yel 



1 been discovered. 



It is frequently made from the dross of a mix- 

 ture of block tin and lead, and may generally 

 be had of the pt-wterers. It has been used in 

 some parts of the country, 40 or 50 years, for 

 similar purposes ; but the fact is not generally 

 known. 



BLEACHING UNE>f. 

 We understand that a very great improve- 

 ment in the method of bleaching linen and yarn 

 has lately been made by Mr. Crookshank, of 

 Dublin. As far as we have been able to ascer- 

 tain its chief merit consists in the disengaging 

 the chlorine from the osy-muriate of lime— by 

 which ingenious process it is enabled to act 

 witji Its lull force on the cloth and yarn. Inde- 

 pendently of a considerable saving in the quan- 

 tity of the bleaching liquor, by which the pos- 

 sibility of injuring the linen is prevented, this 

 proce.ss combines some other very important 

 advantages. It has already been tried on a 

 considerable scale, and has met with the fullest 

 approbation of a gentleman of chemical celeb- 

 rity. We are informed that Mr. Crookshank 

 has submitted his discovery to the Linen Board, 

 and proposed to exhibit its advantages by a 

 course of experiments. — Dublin paper. 



From the Maine Intelligencer. 

 METEORIC STONE. 

 Mr. Dorr — As some account of a Meteoric 

 Stone wh.ch lately fell in Nobleboro", may be 

 interesting to many of your readers, I send you 

 the follttsving, as related by, Mr. Asa Dinsmore, 

 a very intelligent farmer by whom it was found. 

 As he was at work in his field, between 4 and 

 6 o'clock, P. M. on the 7th of August, his atten- 

 tion was arrested by an unusual noise in the sky 

 directly over his head, like the firing of many 

 o-uns in repeated succesion, and as loud as the 

 report of a musket at the distance of 20 rods. 

 This noise continued four or five minutes, the 

 succession of the reports growing more rapid un- 

 til the whole sounded like the roll of a drum. 

 About five minutes after this sound had ceas- ' 

 ed, he heard something like the noise produced 

 by' the wind among the trees, and looking up to 

 discover the cause", saw what he thought a cloud 

 in quick motion, and at that instant heard some- 

 thing strike the ground near him. He proceed- 

 ed lo the spot, and found that about six rods 

 from where he had been standing a stone had 

 entered the earth to the depth of six inches, 

 when striking another stone it broke in pieces. 

 He thinks the stone would have weighed as 

 much as four pounds. The stone is of an ashy 

 gray color, covered with a coat of black resem- 

 bling oxide of iron. Its granular texture resem- 

 bles coarse sand-stone. 



The following information (says the N. Haven 

 Herald) may not be uninierestiug to the farmer. 



It is customary, in many places, to use a thin 

 piece of board with a short handle— the blade 

 covered with sand, or some other substance, for 

 the purpose of sharpening scythes in the tield. 

 It is commonly called a riHe. Take your ritle, 

 if you have oiip, and scrape off the sand— grease 

 it well, and then rub on it a small quantity ol 



Receipts to cure Warts.— T:^ke the inner rind 

 of a lemon, steep it four-and-twenty hours in 

 distilled vinegar, and apply it to the warts. It 

 must not be let't on the part above three hours 

 ,t a time, and is to be applied afresh every day. 

 Or divide a red onion, and rub the warts well 

 with it, or anoint them with the milky juice ot 

 the herb mercury several times, and they will 

 gradually waste away. 



