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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



the crib: which, at that time, was worth fifty- 

 six, or sixty cents per bushel ; and from four 

 hundred and fifty, to five hundred bushels 

 of potatoes, worth about sixteen cents per bush- 

 el. After the corn mas harvested the hills were 

 harrowed with a two horse draa; — In the spring 

 I ploug'hed it just deep enough to turn up the 

 old sod which had become a fine vegelable 

 mould fi^r a spring crop and after harrowing the 

 furrows down, sowed it with barley, washed in 

 strong brine and rolled in plaster about two and 

 a half bushels of seed per acre, harrowed it, 

 and before cross harrowing it was seeded with 

 four pounds of the large red clover seed and 

 three quarts of timothy. After the barley was 

 out of the ground one or two inches, it was 

 sowed broad cast with plaster, five or six pecks, 

 per acre, and rolled down to pulverise (he 

 lumps and smooth the surface for mowing. The 

 expense of this crop was not to exceed ten dol- 

 lars per acre. In this way the land was cleans- 

 ed, enriched, and prepared for a further rota- 

 tion of crops. 



" The second rotation. — The sod was turned 

 over (he last of August or first of Sept., manured 

 and rolled down as in the first instance. About 

 the fifteenth of September, I sowed it with red 

 chaff bearded wheat one and a half bushels per 

 acre and harrowed it in. The seed was pre- 

 pared by washing it clean in a strong brine 

 made with salt, and immediately rolled in lime 

 and 1 let it lie moist twenty-four hours to prevent 

 smut and insect. In the fore part of May, five or 

 six pecks of plaster were sowed broad cast to 

 the acre. The expense of this crop including 

 manure was about fourteen dollars per acre — 

 the produce from 35 to 40 bushels per acre 

 worth jpl, 25 per bushel. 



" Late in the fall or early in the spring I turned 

 tip the old sod — harrowed and planted it to corn. 

 Tilled as before mentioned except the barnyard 

 manure — the expense about ^14 per acre — liad 

 from 00 to a 100 bushels per acre worth 44 cts. 

 per bushel. 



" In the fall or enrly in the spring I harrowed 

 down the hills and in the spring prepared and 

 sowed it with some spring crop suitable to stock 

 down — sowed and rolled as before stated, pro- 

 duce from 50 to GO bushels it barley — from 25 to 

 .35 if s(>ring wheat, and from 70 to 80 if oats — 

 — from 5 to 600 lbs. of flax per acre ; and after- 

 wards tor two or three years, from 3 1-2 to 4 tons 

 of hay, or pasture in that |)roportion per acre. 

 Some seasons, instead of sowing wheat on the sod 

 in the fall, I have turned it over in the spring, 

 rolled and harrowed it. and sowed it with 3 bu- 

 shels of small or 3 1-2 bushels of large while 

 peas to the acre. After they had been washed 

 in strong brine and rolled in plaster they were 

 ploughed in on the top of the sod — when out 

 of the ground one or two inches, plastered 5 or 6 

 pecks to (he acre, and had f'rom 30 to 40 bushels 

 per acre — then in the fall, (iirned back (he sod 

 and manured it, sowed it with wheat as before 

 stated, and have had from 40 to 45 bushels per 

 acre. The third season have taken a crop of 

 from 80 (o 100 bushels of corn per acre. And (he 

 fourth stocked it down with barley. This I have 

 found a good course when my ground was in 

 hear{ so tha( it would answer to (ake from it four 

 crops of grain before slocking wi(h grass. Wi(h 

 this mode of husbandry, as will appear from fol- 

 lowing ou( the above ca!cula(ions, my land has 

 afTorded me a handsome profit." 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, (824. 



NEWLY INVENTED STEAM APPARATUS. We have 



seen some ingenious machinery for heating steam to a 

 high temperature, invented by Mr. Joseph Uixon, of 

 Lynn, Mass. which promises to prove of much utility. 

 We shall attempt to give some idea of this invention, 

 although without a diagram it will be perhaps impossi- 

 ble to give a clear explanation of its principles. 



The Reservoir of water which supplies the Eoiler or 

 Generator is placed about 16 feet perpendicular height 

 above the Generator, and the latter is supplied by a 

 pipe, which descends from the former. A small dis- 

 tance above the Generator is placed a Cock with an In- 

 dex and plate, to regulate the admission of water. 

 The Generator is an iron tube, set perpendicularly in a 

 brick furnace, made very strong, and strongly closed at 

 top, except the aperture, which idmits the tube from 

 the Reservoir. Near the top of the Generator is a small 

 tube, entering into the Boiler, and winding several 

 times round to its bottom, and then rising perpendicular- 

 ly at a small distance from the same, and communicat- 

 ing with an iron vessel of a globular form. In this last 

 mentioned vessel, steam pipes, furnished with cocks are 

 inserted, which conduct the steam into steam-receivers 

 in the apartments, or into the liquids, &c. v^hich it is 

 wished to heat. Water is drawn into the Reservoir by 

 the agency of steam which is made to enter it, and by 

 expelling the air, and then being gradually condensed, 

 creates a vacuum, and water is forced by the pressure 

 of the atmosphere, from a barrel or other vessel, placed 

 on a level with the boiler, &c. into the Reservoir. 

 ■ The advantages which the inventor expects to derive 

 from his machinery consist, 1. In an easy and conveni- 

 ent mode of heating steam to a high temperature, by its 

 being exposed, after its formation, under a degree of 

 pressure, which prevents its escape, to be further heat- 

 ed in the spiral tube before mentioned. 2. If steam of a 

 high temperature is made use of for heating apartments, 

 the vessels, which receive it may be a smaller size tha» 

 in the mode practised in England. 3.By introducing into 

 liquids, steam of a high temperature, they may be e»a- 

 poraltd ; but if steam, of merely a boiling heal, is intro- 

 duced into water, its condensation produces more water 

 than its caloric expels, and thus the quantity of water, 

 which it is wished to evaporate is increased instead of 

 being diminished. 



.Mr. Howes'' Address, published in this day's paper, 

 will be perused with profit, and we presume with plea- 

 sure, by our agricultural readers. It exhibits conden- 

 sation of thought, together with perspicuity of expres- 

 sion, not often united. We regret the necessity of post- 

 poning a part of it to our next ; which became indis- 

 pensable in consequence of some other articles, which 

 could not well be divided, engro.ising a larger portion 

 of our columns than was anticipated. 



Portugal is distressed for money, and desponding at 

 the loss of her South American Colonies. A forced Loan 

 is in contemplation, and every imported article addi- 

 tionally taxed. A very serious conspiracy has been 

 discovered at Lisbon just on the point of breaking out. 

 Three Ministers had been dismissed, the King has or- 

 dered the Queen to be arrested, and many people of dis- 

 tinction were on trial. The people are in open rebel- 

 lion. 



An article dated Nuremberg, mentions that an im- 

 portant note had been delivered by SirC. Bagot, Eng- 

 lish Ambassador at Petersburgh, to Count Jiesselrode, 

 demanding explanation, as to the policy which Russia 

 intended to adopt respecting South America. 



Intelligence has been received in England of a dread- 

 ful inundation at a new settlement at the Cape of Good 

 Hope. — — 



Calcutta papers to the tenth of September have been 

 received at New York. The cholera morbus was rag- 

 ing with great violence in many parts of India. Inun- 

 dations in the Upper Provinces had done very great 

 damage, particularly to Indigo. Tirboot, considered 

 one of the safest Indigo Districts in the countrj', has 

 been completely ruined. 



FOREIGN. 

 London papers to the 6th Jan. have been received 

 at New York, but their contents are not very interest- 

 ing. The accounts from Paris are to the 3d. The 

 Etoile contains some strictures on the President's Mes- 

 sage. It observes that " Mr. Monroe has taken in his 

 Message the tone of a powerful monarch, whose armies 

 and fleets are ready to go forth on the first signal. He 

 does more ; he prescribes to (he Potentates ef Europe 

 the conduct they are to pursue in certain circumstan- 

 ces, if they do not wish to incur his displeasure. Such 

 is the prohibition which he issues against their ever 

 thinking of any new colonization in the two Americas.^* 

 The Editor concludes by saying that "the opinions of 

 Mr. Monroe are as yet merely the opinions of a private 

 iudividual." 



DOMESTIC. 



The night ofthe 11th inst. was signalized by a vio- 

 lent storm, which did immense damage in various parts 

 ofthe country. Nearly all the bridges on Connecticut 

 river were wholly or partially destroyed. Among the 

 number were the Bridge between Northampton and 

 Hadley, of which almost 300 feet were swept away. — 

 The Bridge at Montague, opposite Greenfield, was near- 

 all swept away. The Bridges between Norwich andi 

 Hanover, Hartland and Lebanon, Windsor and Corn- 

 ish, Springfield and Charlestown, Walpolc and West- 

 minster, Wfstmoreland and Chesterfield, were either 

 wholly or in part swept away. The Bridge near Brat- 

 tleborough, over the east branch of Connecticut river, 

 about 100 rods from that over the main stream, was en- 

 tirely swept away. The Bridge over the main stream re- 

 ceived but little damage. Five Bridges on Williams 

 river ; several on the Ashuelot, three on Cold river, 

 in Acworth, were likewise destroyed. The dam on the 

 Connecticut, says the Greenfield paper, at the mouth 

 of Miller's river, and the Locks at that place are al- 

 most whollv destroyed ; the Great Dam connected 

 with tfie Locks, below, which was rebuilt the last sea- 

 son, is materially injured. The Great Dam at South 

 Hadley Falls is principally carried off. 



In the neighborhood of Boston the tempest was very 

 violent, but owing to the direction of the wind, and 

 the tide being out, when it was highest, but little dam- 

 age was done to the shijiping. A board twenty-foul" 

 feet long was taken by the wind from a pile on Spear's 

 wharf, and carried through the clapboards and board" 

 ing ofthe second story of a building occupied by Mr, 

 Charles Appleton, sail maker, on Fort Hill Whari, and 

 broke a joist of five by three inches of the floor of tb^ 

 third story, by which its force was destroyed. — The pile, 

 is about 150 feet from the loft. Another board from the 

 same pile was blown over the loft and lodged in the 

 porch of the house of Mr. John Sargent, Branch Pilots 

 in Gibb's lane. — 



The Greenfield Herald states that the damage by the 

 late freshet, on the Connecticut river, cannot be esti- 

 mated at less than 100,000 dollars. 



At Haverhill, during the late gale, the alarm w.i? so 

 great that the mhabitants fled for refuge from their own 

 dwellings to the meetinghouse; where, being collect-- 

 ed, the terror was increased by several windows btingi 

 blown in. 



Republiean J^omination. — His Excellency Wjr.i.iAiiC 

 FrsTis, for Governor; Hon. Marcus Morton, for 

 Lieut. Governor. [Boston Patriot. 



" .^Jfair of Honor." — A duel was recently fought,' 

 at the South, between two slaves — '• All for loir." 

 The parties were without seconds, and, for the w ant of 

 pistols, were armed with muskets. Upon the first fire 

 one was killed on (he spot, and the otheT wounded, it 

 was supposed mortally. This was doing the business 

 pretty etfectually. The slaves seem determined to 

 pluck up th(-drowning honor of duellist?. 



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