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by the well attested fact, that in the discovery 

 of a temple of Apollo at Utica, near Carthage, 

 cedar timber, which must have been two thou- 

 sand years old, was found in perfect preserva- 

 tion. Although cedar trees are not among the 

 natural growth of Great Britain, they are raised 

 in great quantities by cultivaiion. 



coMinrjricATioN. 

 PRESERVATION OF BRIDGES. 

 An effectual mtthodfor pretenting Bridges being twepl 

 away by cxlraoTdinary Freshels. 

 Let every wooden bridge, in an exposed situ- 

 ation, be loaded with what may judged a suffi- 

 cient weight of stones. It will be best to pro- 

 cure long rough stones, split out something like 

 a foot square. Let these be placed against the 

 side fences, where Ihey will prove useful in 

 guarding them from the encroachment of wheels. 

 It will be proper however, that much the larg- 

 est weight be placed on the side of the bridge 

 exposed to the sweeping force of the current. 

 J. Kenrick. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1824. 



EARLT POTATOES. It is quite an object with Far- 

 mers and Gardeners, especially those who reside near a 

 tity or other populous place, and calculate on increas- 

 ing their incomes by carrying a part of their produce 

 to market, to raise potatoes as early in the season as 

 practicable, without too great expense. They thus ob- 

 tain two or three times as much for the article as they 

 would, had it been brought forward a few weeks later, 

 and confer a benefit on the public, by supplying them 

 in the fore part of summer with an excellent vegeta- 

 ble. Besides, very early potatoes are less liable to be 

 destroyed by drought, insects, &c. and the land may 

 be cleared of them in season for a second crop of some 

 other useful product. 



In our paper, volume ii. No. 15, page 117, we gave 

 an account of a successful experiment of Ezekiel H. 

 Derby, Esq. by which he obtained new potatoes of a 

 large size, on the 30th of June, notwithstanding the tops 

 had been cut off by frost on the 3d of May preceding. 

 It is not necessary to repeat Mr. Derby's directions on 

 this subject, as our subscribers have, or should have, 

 the files of the present volume, and can turn to the 

 article to which we allude. The cultivator in making 

 any similar experiment wiil, of course, choose for his 

 seed potatoes as early a variety as he can procure. 



Jl'DGE duel's remarks RELATIVE TO SALT AS A 

 MANURE. 



The Editor some time since wrote to Hon. Jesse Bu- 

 el, of .\lbany, requesting his opinion as regards the use 

 of salt as a manure. Kis reply is as follows : 



" I have read so many contradictory opinions on the 

 use of salt as a manure, as to leave me very much in 

 doubt as to its value, and I have never had faith 

 enough in its utility to make an experiment, except up- 

 on my asparagus bed, and I cannot believe it is likely 

 to come into use on account of expense, even should 

 its utility be established. I have often put to my- 

 self the questions, 'If salt be bcneficialto soils, why 

 do we not see its beneficial effects within the influence 

 of the sea winds and fogs.' Are not these impregnated 

 wilh rnline particles ?' I have not been able to solve 

 those questions.'' 



^Ve think however, that salt may be in many cases a 

 useful application to soils, but for the reasons stated in 



the first page of this day's paper, we do not believe it 

 ought to be considered, strictly speaking, as a manure. 



A Meeting of the Hartford County Agricultural So- 

 ciety, was held in the city of Hartford, on the 17th 

 ult. We are compelled for want of room to defer no- 

 tice of their proceedings to our next. ^ 



FOREIGN. 



By a late arrival from Havre, Paris papers to the 15th 

 of January, containing London dates to the 12th, have 

 been received. The London Courier of the 12th states 

 that an expedition of more than 20 vessels, 8 of them of 

 the line, was fitting out at Brest. This assertion was 

 copied into the Paris papers, without remarks. It was 

 stated that the French Ministers had notified the British 

 Ambassador that their sole destination was Martinico 

 and Guadaloupe ; but the Courier intimates that they 

 are bound for the Gulph of Mexico. 



The Political Constitution of Spain has been abolish- 

 ed, together with all the Provincial and Municipal As- 

 semblies, and all the offices which were created under 

 the Constitution: The Constitutional Militia have like- 

 wise been disbanded. The illness of the Marquis Yru- 

 jo delayed the organization of the new Government. 

 Robberies and murders are said to be frequent in the 

 interior of Spain. 



A strong British expedition was preparing at Malta, 

 to demand the restoration of a number of Greeks, forci- 

 bly taken from a British vessel by a Tunis cruiser. 



Nothing new from the Greeks. The Turks were pre- 

 paring for a fourth campaign. 



About the last of November between ten and twenty 

 persons were tried at Naples for belonging to a secret 

 society. Of these three were sentenced to be hanged, 

 and to pay a fine of 1500 ducats each ; four to twenty 

 years imprisonment in irons, 300 ducats fine, and ten 

 years security for good behaviour, after the expiration 

 of their sentences. 



At the last date from Demarara, martial law contin- 

 ued in force, and the infliction of punishment, |pon the 

 criminals in the recent conspiracy had not terminated. 

 Numbers were daily flogged, pursuant to their sentences. 

 Some received nnc thousand lashes. 



A Blind Traveller. — Mr. James Hoffman, a man who 

 has been blind since he was twelve years of age, arriv- 

 ed at Irkutz, in Siberia, on the 16tA. He set out from 

 England without any companions, and accomplished 

 the almost, for him, inconceivable task of travelling to 

 Siberia quite alone. What is more extraordinary is, 

 that he speaks hardly any other language than English. 

 He takes a guide from one town to another, and writes 

 down every thing that he can learn, with a machine 

 invented in England, and adopted in many schools. 



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DOMESTIC. 

 A letter from one of the Missionaries among the 

 Osage Indians says: — "you have probably before this 

 been informed of the murder of five or six white m(n 

 by the Osages, who were hunting on their war-ground. 

 I hope that our friends will not be alarmed for our safe- 

 ty on this account. This act has been publicly disavow- 

 ed by the natives. They never manifested more affec- 

 tion to us or more loyalty towards our government in 

 their professions." 



Erlrncting Poison from the Stomach.— \ British Sur- 

 geon claims a valuable invention for extracting poison 

 from the stomach by means of a pump, which elicits the 

 contents of that organ without pain or danger to the 

 person operated on. A writer in the N. Y. Statesman, 

 with the signature " Surgico .Medical," says that Dr. 

 Physick, nearly, if not quite ten years since, first sug- 

 gested this operation, and Dr. Dorsey was the first who 

 washed out the stomach, by attaching a catheter to 

 the point of a syringe, in the case of a young man, 

 who took laudanum for the purpose of committing sui- 

 cide. Mr. Jukes (the supposed English inventor) is 

 aid to have known this two years only. 1 have my- 

 self, for more than five years, kept an instrument by 

 me for the above mentioned purpose." 



Laudable.— The Connecticut Mirror of the 1st inst. 

 informs that Mr. Samuel S. Stebbins, cf Simsbury, pro- 



poses to establish an Agricultural School similar to tl 

 of Mr. Fellenberg, at Hofwyll, in Switzerland. " T 

 object of the contemplated institution is to give t 

 pupils a competent knowledge of such sciences as a 

 taught in our highest schools as practically as possibl 

 For instance, in surveying — the compass, the chain ai 

 other tools of science are to be used. A farm i 

 attached to the institution, agriculture is to be taug 

 03 an art as well as a science, that our farmers rat 

 have no more reason to find fault with book-farmin 

 The scholars are to be boarded on the spot, and th( 

 industry, their frugality, and their morals will also 

 practically attended to." 



The New York Commercial Advertiser confirms arf 

 port which has been circulated but not generally belie 

 ed relative to two very large ships now building at Qu 

 bee. And a London paper of recent date asserts " thi 

 a gentleman of Port Glasgow has devised a method i 

 importing timber, which, if successful, will tend to e 

 feet very materially its price. The plan is to lay 

 keel 300 feet in lenjrth, as for a ship of estraordinar 

 dimensions; upon this base a iuperstructure of soli 

 logs is to be reared and the external surface caulke liWi 

 and pitched over. Having prepared the lower part i 

 the keel it is then to be launched ; the building is the 

 to be proceeded in a float, forming a solid mass of tiirii 

 ber, with the exception of a space for the machiner 

 of two very powerful steam-engines, by which it is it 

 tended to propel this huge raft. In this way it is cal 

 culated that a single importation may extend to 15,00f 

 tons ; a quantity of timber which would require thirt' 

 vessels of 500 tons burden to carry. This scheme, i 

 is said, has been submitted to the Committee at Lloyds 

 and received their approbation ; and it is added, than 

 the under writers have entered so far into the views <>■ m 

 the projector, as to take the risk of the experimenta* 

 cargo, now in preparation for the voyage from one Oi 

 our ports in Canada, at the ordinary rate of premium." 



J^arigation of Connecticut River. — A number of cit- 

 izens of Hartford, Conn, have associated and taken 

 measures to improve the navigation of Connecticut 

 River. They have chosen a Committee, consisting ol 

 David Porter and Eliphalet Averill to enquire into tht 

 obstructions of said navigation, who have reported thai (JlJi 

 the decline of business on said river proceeds from san« 

 and gravel bars, the construction of the boats, thj 

 falls at Enfield and Brattleborough, and the high rate^ 

 of tolls paid at the Locks. They state certain metli-i 

 ods for removing those impediments, and at the conclu. 

 sion of their report observe that " the magnitude o{ 

 the subject astonishes even its projectors, and of itf 

 practicability there remains no reasonable doubt." 



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i?neron^re.— The Salt Wells on Calf Killer river,, 

 in Tennessee, lately took fire. In boring for salt water/ 

 the miners struck a vein of sulphureous gas, which es- )' 

 caped throngh a rock in the bed of the River, and be- I 

 ing ignited at the surface, rose in aflame to the height 

 of 40 feet, presenting the singular spectacle of a n'l'- 

 er on tire. jl 



Kriract of a letter from Cincmnali, Ohio, Jan. 27.—*' 

 I was astonished on reaching this place to find how eX'+ 

 trcmely cheap the markets are here. We have whii 

 key at " three fips" per gallon ; part:idges at two centi, 

 each ; chickens at 5 ; ducks at 6 1-4 ; geese 20 to 25 ;' 

 turkeys from 19 to 44; some of the latter price weigl 

 20 pounds ; butter 10 to 12 cents ; beef2to4. Wooi 

 is now selling at from 75 to 87 1-2 cents per cord 

 The weather resembles that of spring, and we havefl 

 scarcely felt the winter yet." 



Fire.— On the 8th ult. the Woollen Factory, belonf-i 

 ing to Buck and Baily, at Fort Royal, Vir. with all its] 

 machinery, and a large quantity of cloth, was destroy-) 

 ed by fire. The loss is estimated at five thousand doI-5 

 lars. The second night after the Factory, the dwelllna 

 house of Mrs. Buck, at the same place was burnt down^ 



Fatal Sleigh Ride. — A man named Boss has been' 

 committed to jail in Sullivan County, N. Y. charged ' 

 with the murder of a young man by the name of C'.uk- 

 lin. It appears that a parly had been out in asliiil!, 

 and that Ross, who was driving, had become intoxii nl- 

 ed, and driven out of the road, when Conklin remon- 

 strated with him, and attempted to seize the rein?. — 

 This so exa5p::ratcd Ross, that he threatened to kill 



