NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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ri . -e are important tacts and place the sub- 



■ 1 ililTereDt light from that in which it is 



!ly viewed. A bushel otajrain or a pound 



ti- will purchase, according to this state- 



nt, more rum, tea, or cloth now than in 1811 



the lime when the highest price was given 



the ("armor's produce. 



3ur wealth ought to be estimated by the 

 ans we possess for happiness; and if an arti- 

 will procure as much now as formerly, tho' 

 aight not amount to so many dollars and cents, 

 bows that a Hollar is worth more now than 

 vas then, but it does not show that the times 

 harder. In estimating the prosperity ofbu- 

 ss now, it is improper to lake into consider- 

 )n the embarrassments of those who purchas- 

 real estate on credit at a much higher rate 

 1 its present value ; this is one of the mis- 

 ^unes arising from erroneous calculation. But 

 a farmer purchase a farm at its present low 

 •,e, and whether he buy for cash or credit, 

 lan live as independently from the income of 

 farm as formerly. My Uncle often commi- 

 .les those who have to pass that formidable 

 intain — old debts — but the number of such is 

 4iparatire1y small. 



rom considerations like these I am led to 

 1 hide that, though Hard Times may occasion- 

 1 knock at the door of some farmers, his visits 

 1'. aot occasioned by the low price of his pro- 

 a . but by some other cause. ICHABOD. 

 ■cton, Feb. 6, 1824. 



. r. Leslie's River Glass. — We had intended 



) otice this simple, but ingenious invention, 



1 ir last. It is a tube, that may be varied 



nfftli as occasion shall require, about an 



oad at the top, where the eye is api'licd, 



ilarly enlarging to the bottom, which 



proportion to the other end, of about 10 



uiameter. Each end is glazed. The 



is to examine the bottoms of rivers, &c. 



Q great reason why one cannot look through 



SI- to the bottom, is the reflection and re- 



( on of the rays of light upon arriving at 



e uiface. This glass overcomes that diffi- 



I , by extending the eye, as it were, into the 

 1, r medium, and making use of the light 



II is in the water, where the rays pursue 

 Hues, as well as in the rarer medium of 



For use in the night, it is fitted with 



-uspended near the bottom in a shorter 



jier, which goes on over the top of the 



}' and descends till the bottom of the 



I ler is as low as the bottom of the tube, 



re it is secured. In the space between 



liuier and tube, lamps are suspended; 



nth of the cylinder, as well as tube, 



;lazed. To let of!" the smoke of the 



lud supply them with air, two small pipes 



[ from the top, and the second from the 



of the cylinder, lead up the side of the 



The lamps throw a strong light around, 



bottom of the river is easily examined. 



1 rrectness of the principle on which the 



J of this instrument depends, has been fully 



H by every swimmer, who has opened hi:; 



finder water, and thus discovered, what, 



■m hi;- oyes were above the water he could 



A scerri. Tiio uses of such an instrument 



i eariily occur. Among other iuteiesJing 



the speedy recovery of drowned bodies is 



» and it would doubtless he the means of 



siving many lives. Lost property, too may be 

 found, and the impediments to excavation dis- 

 covered, and their removal facilitated. The 

 name of the inventor of this River (ilass is 

 William Leslie, of Lansinburgh, originally from 

 Massachusetts. For a short time past he has 

 been employed in this city. He is well known 

 in this vicinity for his mechanical ingenuity. 

 [Troi/ Scyitincl. 



A very novel but interesting operation was 

 last week exhibited in the Anatomical Theatre 

 at Saint Thomas's Hospital. Mr. Jukes, a sur- 

 geon, who invented the apparatus for extracting 

 poison from the stomach nearly two years ago, 

 satisfactorily proved by experiments upon him- 

 self the efficacy of the practise, now attended, 

 at the request of Sir Astley Cooper, to repeat 

 the experiment of emptying the stomach by me- 

 chanical means Mr. Jukes chose to be himself 

 the subject of the experiment and was so san- 

 guine of the success of the operation, that he 

 would have swallowed a large quantity of lau- 

 danum, had not the entreaties of his friends in- 

 duced him to substitute a solution of licorice 

 instead. Having swallowed a portion of this 

 solution, and drinking two pints of water, Mr. 

 Jukes introduced a long flexible tube into his 

 mouth and passed it down into the stomach. 

 Mr. Scott, a surgeon, who had formerly perform- 

 ed a similar operation upon this gentleman, im- 

 mediately fixed a large copper syringe to the 

 extremity of the tube, and in the space of two 

 minutes completely pumped up the whole of 

 the liquid that had been drank into awash-hand 

 basm held by an assistant. Sir Astley Cooper 

 expressed the highest satisfaction in witnessing 

 Ihe speedy and successful effect of the opera- 

 tion, and the Theatre, which was excessively 

 crowded by professional spectators, rung loudly 

 with shouts of approbation. This public de- 

 monstration of the practicability of emptying the 

 stomach by mechanical means though the first 

 made upon the human species, satisfactorily as- 

 sures the medical profession of the easy appli- 

 cation of the apparatus to cases of poisoning, 

 and it is to be hoped, that by the timely use of 

 this invaluable instrument, our public records 

 of accidental and suicidal deaths from poison 

 will happily now be but few. — Lundon paper. 



the societies of encouragement and of eliMnentii- 

 ry instruction, as well as the writing academy, 

 have expressed their approbation of Ibis new 

 process. Mothers may teach their children to 

 write, in Ihe absence of (he master, or even dis- 

 pense with his attendance by the adoption of 

 the horn. — Silliman^s Journal of Science. 



Wild Gcese.—When wild geese are tamed, 

 thoy will join with a flock of domestic geese, 

 but at the usual time of migration, are very apt 

 to join any flock which ap()roachos near them 

 in (heir passage. — Williarn's Hist. Vt. p- 136. 



A number of years since, a farmer in Mas- 

 sachusetts shot at a flock of wild geese that 

 wac passing over to the south, and broke the 

 wing of one of them. He kept and domesticat- 

 ed thegoose, until it was apparently as tamo m 

 any one from oijr common flocks. The ensu- 

 ing spring he neglected to clip her wings, and 

 she flew away in a flock that was passing to (he 

 nordi, and he conceived her lost. The next au- 

 tumn, however, when a very large flock wa« 

 returning to the south, eleven detached them- 

 selves and alighted in the farmer's yard. They 

 proved to be one old and fen young ones. The 

 old one was the same that left him in the spring. 

 [Hartford Mercury. 



Art of Writing. — M. Le Roi has contrived a 

 new and very simple method for teaching the 

 art of writing. A thin and perfectly transpar- 

 ent plate of horn, of the usual size of a leaf of 

 paper, has the polish removed from one of its 

 sides. When laid upon the copy, the hand of 

 a child easily traces the letters upon the 

 uni)olished side, which neither absorbs the 

 ink nor allows it to spread. When the whole 

 plate is written over, the ink is washed off with 

 water, and is ready for a new exercise. Thus 

 the same horn which is not liable to break, may 

 serve indefinitely, and by this means produce 

 a great economy of paper — a consideration not 

 to be neglected. Several analogous methods 

 have been adopted both in England and France. 

 Oiled paper, glass, a machine ("or guiding (he 

 pupil's liand, &,c. have b^en used, but it is evi- 

 dent that the method ot M. Le Roi has none of 

 their imperfections. Tb'' Mmister of the inte- 

 rioH, who has witnessed t^e success obtained by 

 this inventioa, has rewarded the author; and 



Vegetable Milk. — In addition to the vegetabTft 

 bread, vegetable butter, and cabbage tree, which 

 have been brought to light by recent travellers, 

 we now learn by the Gazette de Santa ot the 

 2,5th July last, that M. de Humboldt has discov- 

 ered in that region a tree which abundantly 

 affords a milky juice, similar in its properties 

 to the milk of animals, and employed for the 

 same purposes. This liquid, which was drank 

 by Humboldt, is stated to be derived from the 

 palo de lech, or de vaca, a tree which grows, a- 

 bundantly in the mountains above Periquito to 

 the north-east of Maracay, a village to the west 

 of Caraccas. The milk possesses the same 

 physical qualities as that of the cow, with this 

 only difference, that it is a little viscous: it has 

 the same taste also as cow's milk. — Eve. Post. 



Cure for the Foot Rot in Sheep. — Pare the 

 hoofs of the sheep thus affected, letting no 

 hollow remain which may collect the dirt ; if 

 matter is formed be particularly careful to let it 

 out. After which take some stale urine and 

 wash their feet with it quite clean, and wipe 

 them with a sponge. Put then the sheep into a 

 house or shed, the floor of which has been pre- 

 viously covered about two inches thick with 

 quick lime reduced to powder by means of 

 a small quantity of water, the newer the lime 

 the better. Let the sheep stand upon it for six 

 or seven hours and the cure will be effected. 

 [London Magazine. 



We once heard ofa traveller who told a sto- 

 ry of an immense pie, — so large, indeed, that 

 after ihe crus{ and meat were eaten, a dozen 

 couples danced in the dish, and one of them 

 lost a buckle in the gravy. Now we cannot 

 boast that Sheffield, has .ever produced such a 

 pie, but one was exhibited aud eaten at Mr 

 Turner's on Christmas Eve, of the following 

 size — one yard and a half long, two feet wide, 

 one foot deep, ten feet round. It was baked 

 by Mr. ZJar/oai, quite perfect; the crust consist- 

 ing of six stone of rye meal. — Sheffield Inq. 



