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he Altorney General next claimed llie at-jcient, Mr. Bromley should add flax to his es- 

 ion of the meeting, and (or a lew moments tahlishment ; and betwixt the two he would 

 ed their patience. The qnestion before ! find enough for his manuiacture. He (the At- 



n was the disposal of the £-00 remaming- 



e present funds above the exigences and 



ts of the .Society. He was clear that they 



ht to be kept untouched, and no more ex- 



[jed of them than the prolits and interest. 



institution has already laid out a great 



for the importations of implements of hus- 



Iry, which had served as models to all our 



hanics in the t'abrication of similar articles. 



reat improvement that had taken place 



account, both to advance the general pro 

 ly and save our capital at the same time. 



improvement of the peninsula and the 

 r lands around the capital had been spoken 

 > favorable terms, and this measure cer- 

 had his warmest concurrence. The 

 etary himself had set an excellent exam|)le 

 lis head ; and nothing had so much aston- 

 1 him when he lately visited his farm, 

 ,e excellent crops of wheat, clover, pota- 

 and other vegetables growing on a piece 

 ind, which had once been a ragged and 

 Kirn soil; and which be had often travers- 

 1 its rude state while shooting plovers. Had 

 cen in England or Ireland and there acci- 

 illy have t'allen in with an inhabitant of 

 fax, who told him of the actual tnsprove- 



now accomplished at Willowpark, he (the 

 rney General) must have great faith in the 

 city of the teller, before he could have 

 n his assent to the credibility of the story. 

 are, therefore, much indebted to the Sec- 

 •y of the Society for showing the capabili- 

 ' improving the peninsula — yet he was not 

 Dg to devote the £200 to this object, be- 

 i he thought that the ordinary funds of the 

 jty were sufficient to accomplish it and 

 > the spirit of enterprize alive, 

 either would he turn these surplus funds to 

 erection of oatmills. These had found 

 way already into many parts of the pro- 



, and particularly to the eastward. From 



tornoy General) himself would engage to sen 

 liini a considerable quantity of flax fit for spin- 

 ning, and allow him a liberal coni[)cns,ilion for 

 his labor. He was truly glad to see that a 

 spirit of manufacturing domestic articles had 

 been lately awakened, and lhat.it was spreading 

 fast throughout the province. Orderly and do- 

 mestic habits, often the ofl'-ip ring of necessity, 

 uould soon assimilate themselves toour manners, 

 and become tixed and stationary in our country. 

 lachinery throughout the province must! They required from us no t'urther nurturing, 

 obviously traced to this source ; and he than to prohibit the exportation of the raw mu- 



of no other application of the money terial as tlax anil wool. 



could have been productive of better ef- He now turned to the depressed condition of 



But although we had thus done good to | our grazing system, which ought to he revived 



riculture of the province, we had lost i liv all means in our power. Tliis country was 



ey by the transaction and diminished our i well adapted for raising beef, pork, butter and 



tal. It should be our future policy, on cheese, il proper methods were employed and 



a more enlightened system of rural economy 

 adopted. But our lands, and those too, of the 

 very first quality, were appropriated to the 

 scythe and not to the sickle. — Our countrymen 

 were graziers and not farmers, and this errone- 

 ous method of management had been continued 

 and propagated for a great number of years. — 

 accordmg to all the most rational views which 

 have been taken of the management of land, 

 grazing and husbandry should reciprocally sup- 

 port each other and go on hand in hand. It 

 was the plough that ought to support the cat- 

 tle ; and the straw of white crops with tur- 

 nips and other roots should be their main de- 

 pendence. But notwithstanding these perni- 

 cious habits, we must help the farmers out of 

 their difficulties the best way we can. This 

 Society had its foundation in liberality, and was 

 instituted for the professed purpose of removing 

 the pressure which weighed down the agricul- 

 tural body. This was an era in our history of 

 which we would be long proud — but the spirit 

 in which the Society begun ought still to inform 

 and animate all its future measures. — Oar agri- 

 culture labors now under the cheap prices of 

 beef and pork — And to this, and this alone we 

 could direct whatever impulse could be commu- 

 nicated to our agriculture by the present dispo- 

 sable £200. His plan would be to employ the 

 money in an experiment, under the direction of 

 the Society to export to the different parts of 

 1 the West Indies a quantity of well cured salt 

 ce he saw them proceeding forward — [provisions. He would propose a judicious com 

 ping round by the back of Partridge Isl- mittee to be appointed with full powers to 



the mode of cutting up the carcasses; but cer- 

 tainly he could depend upon his skill in curing 

 them. He was much disappointed in not re- 

 ceiving from Alount Uniacke two pieces ofbeef 

 which he had sent for and which he meant to 

 present to day to the Society. They had been 

 cured since Oct. 1822, and had lain in the pickle 

 since that time ; and yet both the fat and tha 

 tilire were excellent and juicy — The committre 

 might therelbre command his services, and he 

 would cheerfully spend three or four weeks in 

 giving them all the help in his power. He, 

 therefore, most earnestly proposed that a ven- 

 t<ire of this kind should be undertaken ; anil 

 when he had obtained the account of sales from 

 the West Indies, the success of the experiment 

 would hold out a sufficient stimulus to our mer- 

 chants to engage actively in this trade. Three 

 persons should be chosen, into whose hands 

 the £200 should be paid under certain regula 

 lions ; and they ought to be instructed to buy 

 beef and pork, cure it in a proper manner, 

 ship it to the West Indies, and lay the pro- 

 ceeds of the adventure before this Societ}'. 



Mr. Bromley, in reply, staled that he had in- 

 troduced tlax into his manufactory and spun a 

 good deal of it into yarn. He had lately re- 

 ceived five hundred weight from his Lordship 

 the Earl of Dalhousie in a present, which he was 

 working up as fast as possible; but women who 

 were engaged in spinning it, notwithstanding all 

 the murmurs of the hardness of the times had 

 the confidence to ask of him 2s. a day for their 

 lalior. He thought, therefore, that our domes- 

 tic manufactures should not be neglected in 

 the ajiplication of the disposable sum. 



—and he would not be surprized though 

 would dash in upon Annapolis and take 

 jssion of Digby. The enemies of meal 

 now just say or do what they please — but 

 as plain to all sensible men, that it could 

 r be banished out of the province, because 

 id taken firm root in it. 

 ith respect to domestic manufactures re- 

 pended by Mr. Bromley, he felt every 

 nation to praise the gentleman for his ef- 

 and thought that he could not sufficiently 

 aud him. It was not, however, within 

 power of this society either to recompense 

 imulate his labors. He must look to the 

 slature for effectual aid. A law should be 

 prohibiting the exportation of a single 

 id Oi' wool; for there was not enough rais- 

 1 the province to answer the ends of in- 

 d consumption. But if wool was insuffi- 



manage this business. — An experienced hand 

 must first be procured to divide the carcass 

 into proper pieces ; for all the butchers in Hal- 

 ifax could not cut up a pig as it ought to be 

 done, with their whole united skill. Both pork 

 and beef should be so separated as to furnish 

 two or three qualities ; and the prices at which 

 these are to ba bought should be fixed and 

 known beforehand. — If the farmer could sell to 

 others to more advantage than to the commit- 

 tee, let him do it, and only have recourse to 

 their fixed prices when he cannot better pro- 

 mote his interest — Every article that comes 

 from the country — hides, tallow, beef, pork, 

 butter, cheese, should be capable of being dis- 

 posed of at a certain known rate, so that the 

 farmer would not need as now to hawk them 

 about town till his patience was exhausted. He 

 would not attempt to instruct the committee in 



From the Massachusetts Sjiy. 



Our Coal Mine. — Since the allusion which 

 we made, some time since, to the Coal Mine in 

 this town, we have frequently been inquired of, 

 respecting it. We have delayed making any 

 further statements, in hopes that such experi- 

 ments would be made, as would enanle us to 

 give a full description of its kind and qualities. 

 As yet, this has been but partially accomplish- 

 ed. The bed is apparently of considerable 

 depth and of great extent, shewing itself in va- 

 rious places. At the place where it is now 

 open, it appears above the surface of the earth, 

 and may be procured in vast quantities, at an 

 expense almost nominal. It is of the species 

 called Anthracite, by mineralogists, and is the 

 same kind as the Liverpool glance coal, the 

 Rhode Island coal, and the Schuylkill and Le- 

 high coal. It is valuable in furnaces, forges, 

 and for most manufacturing and domestic pur- 

 poses. We have burned some of it, and find 

 it to ignite readily, and to produce great heat. 

 It has been burned with the Rhode Island and 

 with the Lehigh coal, and found to ignite easi- 

 er, and to burn longer, after taken from the 

 fire, than either of them, but the specimens 

 which we have seen, we think, leave a great- 

 er residuum than the Lehigh. As the bed is ex- 

 cavated deeper, it will probably be more pure. 



This coal has been considerably used at the 

 Brewery in this town, and is found to answer 

 better than other coal for that purpose. 



Hydrophobia. — The following mode of curing 

 hydrophobia, is certainly novel, and may super- 

 sede scuUtap. — " An extraordinary surgical op- 



