N£W ENGLAND FARMER. 



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qiiarlers of Carvajnl's body, we took a fancy 



•o and look at it, and having come up, we 



d it was one of his thighs, the fat of which 



dropped to the ground. The tlesh was 



nish, and entirely corrupted. While we 



examining this mournful spectacle, a for- 



boy chanced to say, I could wager no one 



dares to touch it : another replied, he 



Id. At la>t the stoutest of all, whose name 



li'irtholiimew Monedero, imagining he was 



e; to perform an act of courage, plunged 



humb of his right hand inio this putrid 



which it easily penetrated. This bold 



n astonished every one to such a degree, 



we all run away from him, for fenr of in- 



on, calling o>it. Oh ! abominable ! Carvajal 



make yOu pay deir for this nshness. He 



, hosreveri instantly to the brook, which 



lose by the spot, washed his hand several 



, rubbing it over with cla^', and so return- 



ome. Next day he returned to school, 



e he shewed us his thumi), which was 



en prodigiously ; but towards evening the 



e hand had become inllamed up to the 



; and next day, which was Thursday, the 



bad swelled up to the elbow, so that he 



educed to the necessity of disclosing the 



to his father. Professional men were im- 



itely called in, who had the arm tightly 



iged above the swelling, and applied eve- 



medy which art and experience could sug- 



as a counter-poison. After all, notwilh- 



ng, it nearly cost the patient his life ; and 



covered not without suffering intolerable 



after having been for four months so en- 



jd as to be incapable of holding the pen." 



this anecdote it may be concluded how 



rous the putrid emanations from ourchurcji 



must be to the inhabitants of cities. Par- 



lurches, in which so many corpses are in- 



, become impregnated with an air so cor- 



d, especially in spring, when the ground 



s to grow warm, that I consider this as 



f the chief sources of the small pox, and 



• putrid fevers which are prevalent at that 



1. An unsavory smell then issues frori if 



1 makes the stomach rise. I have felt this 

 insnflerable degree in some of the princi- 

 lurches of Paris. This smell is extremely 

 snt from that produced by a crowd of liv- 

 •eople, lor we are atTected with no such 

 ion in the churches of convents, where 

 nly are interred."'' 



roR THE NEW ENGLlND FARillEK. 



. Editor — I have been always disgusted 



2 huge heaps of pomage (or pomace, as it 

 imonly called) which are Ibund adjacent to 

 der house, and as they contain much veg- 

 : matter mixed with the malic and acetous 

 I thought that if those acids could be neu- 

 id at a small expense, a ne-jo article might 

 led to our inayiurcs, and a disgusting object 

 ,'ed out of sight. I accordingly spread on 

 Dmage a quantity of leached ashes, to the 

 it of one quarter the bulk ; this was hea- 

 p and lay all summer to give the alkali a 

 e to work on the acid. In the fall I liaul- 

 out on to my grass land and in April spread 

 tty thick, say 14'or 15 ox cart loads to the 



The effect exceeded my most sanguine 

 ;tations, and the grass was doubled. It 

 g been suggested to me that the efiect was 



probably produced by the leached ashes, I 

 took as great, or greater (piantity, of leached 

 ashes and spread on the ground adjoining. Thf 

 effect was trivial in comparison to the other, 

 but some allowance must be tnade for its being 

 applied a month later. This is barely one ex- 

 periment — it might not succeed on a different 

 soil or under different circumstances. The land 

 on which I spread it had been exhausted by fre- 

 quent mowing. L'n/fi(c/ici/ ashes would (indoulit- 

 edly answer better than leached, and perhap-< 

 lime the best of all. The cxpefiment h easily 

 made. I wish others would try it and puldisli 

 the result. Yours, &c. N. AGKICOLA. 

 Minotf Maijie. Sept. 1823. 



j4ft Example xcorlhy of Imitation. 

 A Committee has been appointed by the S. 

 Carolina Agricultural Society, to consider what 

 beneficial effects would result to the agricultu- 

 ral interests of the State, by importing Foreign 

 Seeds, Plants, and Implements of Husbandry. 

 This Committee have submitted to the Society 

 I by w hjch they were chosen, several resolutions 

 ! from which we have made the following ex- 

 i tracts : 



" 1. That the sura of two hundred dollars be 

 annually appropriated to the purchase and im- 

 portation of foreign seeds and plants. 



" 2. That a Committee to consist of three 

 merhber«, be appointed ; to be denominated the 

 Importing Committee : whosO business it shall be 

 to import such seeds and plants as may be de- 

 signated by the Society, or, for want of such di- 

 rection, as they may deem calculated to im- 

 prove the Agricultural interests of the Slate : 

 and that, for this purpose, they shall correspond 

 with the Consuls of the United States, and such 

 other persons as they may think proper, m 

 countries not differing in a considerable degree 

 in climate and situation from our own, where 

 valuable articles are the product Of the soil. 

 And, as your Committee have observed, with 

 pleasure and with pride, that the officers of our 

 Navy, not confining their patriotic exertions, to 

 elevating the glory of our couniry and protect- 

 ing its commerce and its coasts, have, with in- 

 telligent zeal added to its Agricultural prosperi- 

 ty, hy the introduction of various valuable ani- 

 mals and plants; it is recommended, that the 

 importing Committee, should, through the 

 proper channel, communicate to the Naval De- 

 partment, the views of the Society ; ri'spectful- 

 ly soliciting their aid in carrying them into ef- 

 fect. It is likewise recommended that the Com- 

 mittee shall select from the publications con- 

 taining them, or obtain elsewhere, the best 

 mode of packing and preserving tlie Seed, a copy 

 whereof shall accompany the orders foi* their 

 importation ; directing, in general, that they 

 shall be forwarded so as to arrive in this coun- 

 try, and be sown, within a twelvemonth from 

 the time when they were gathered ; but where 

 this cannot be effected, advising the most etli- 

 cient mode to be adopted ibr their preservation, 

 particubu'ly in guarding them against the influ- 

 ence of the atmosphere. 



"• It is also important, that, with the Seeds or 

 Plants which they may obtain, the Committee 

 should endeavor to procure accounts of the 

 mode of culture and soil best adapted to them, 

 and information of the time they occupy in com- 



ing to maturity. And, as we cannot rely on an 

 exemption of more than eight months from frost, 

 it is deemed advisable that no annuals liable to 

 be injured thereby, should be imported, provi- 

 ded it re(|uircs more than that period to arrive 

 at maturity. 



" 3. That the seed, when imported, shall bo 

 distributed gratis to the members of the Society, 

 and portions of it presented to our sister Socie- 

 ties in the State, and to any other iiuliviilual to 

 ivhose skill and intelligence the Society mav 

 wish to intrust them ; requesting, in all cases, 

 that the result of their trial shall be communica- 

 ted to the Society." 



Thfc Commitlee consists of the following gen- 

 tlemen: Thomas Pinckney, John D. Legarde, 

 Elias Horry, Nathaniel Heyward, and Charles 

 E. Rovvand. 



From the American FarnitT. 

 Domestic Economy.- — Every housewile ought to 

 be informed, that a very useful and economical 

 utensil has been lately introduced liere froiii 

 Philadelphia, which may be called a conserving 

 furnace^ by means of which great saving is at- 

 tained in the cost of fuel, and the person using 

 it, instead of stooping frequently bel'ore a large 

 wood lire, places it on a table in her kitchen or 

 breakfast room, and ivith a cent's worth of char- 

 coal prepares a large dish of fruit. These fur- 

 naces are of different sizes and of the shape of 

 the common copper skillfft. To have an idea 

 of its construction, the lair reader may imagine 

 a stone milk |ian, werewith we suppose them to 

 be familiar — with sides nearly straight, and with 

 two bottoms. »o to say, with an hollow space be- 

 tween them, of about two inches — the upper 

 liottom on which the charcoal is placed, is per- 

 Ibrated with s.iveral holes, the size of a jiista- 

 reen ; or rather the holes are left in the clay, 

 when the furnace is baked to the consistence of 

 rough stone. There is then a little aperture, 

 or door, left through the outside of the furnace, 

 to admit the air between the tivo bottoms, by 

 means of which the charcoal is made to burn ; 

 should the fire become loo brisk, and the stew- 

 ing' of the fruit proceed too rapidly, this aper- 

 ture below is closed, which immediately checks 

 it. We are told by ladies who have used them, 

 that the idea of this furnace must have been 

 conceived, hke the Frenchman's new fashioned 

 hoe, in "a moment of enthusiasm," and that it 

 is in short regarded, in their department, as one 

 of the grandest inventions of modern days. It 

 is easy to see that it saves the jicrson from dis- 

 tressing ex|:osure to heat, and is far more clean- 

 ly and economical, than the old way of conserv- 

 ing fruits. 



The Durham Chronicle states the complete 

 success of an ingenjous plan of constructing boil- 

 ers for riielting lat, kitchen stuff, &c. so as whol- 

 ly to remove that offensive elHiJvia so much 

 complained of by those in the neighborhood of 

 tallow-chandlers' melting-houses. The tube or 

 chimney is constructed in such a way as to make 

 the foul vapour of the boiler pass through the 

 fire, where it is wholly consumed. The fire, 

 which IS equally applied to the boiler all round 

 the exterior, is si.ppiied with atmosjiheric air 

 from above, the ash|at being completely closed. 

 There is also a ccnisiderable sating of fuel and 

 of time in the process. 



