ilas>ai!iitri/.—Jo\m Mosolcy, George riummer, Ja- 

 Dbard. 

 njamiu, Eli Wilder, Joel En- 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



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G. Talcott, David Hubbard. 

 '/ar/'ii!irf. — Samuel Bon 

 n, Isaac J. Newton. 

 w(/?it;./.— Martin Sheldon, Asahel Hathaway, jr. 

 umsbitry.—Joha Bester, William Mather, jr. Jeffery 



riulps. 

 ir(7/ifr.t/ifM.— Barzillai D. Buck, Jesse Good.'-ich, 

 ;tr Wells, Samnel Galpin. 



fVnulsor.— David W. Grant, RosfSr Phelps, diver 

 rail, Henry Halsey, Horace H. Sill. 

 l/udc/iM/cr.— Sidney Olcott, Horace Pitkin. 



the Executive Committee of the Hartford Coun- 

 tif .Igricultural Societij the Committee of Pmduce 

 rcsjicctfully report : — 



That, pursuant to due noflce, they net at 

 )rg;tn's Coffee House, in Hartford, o» the 

 th inst. and attended to the duties of their ap- 

 lintment ; and do award to Henry Ruidi, of 

 indsor, who raised, on half an acre of land, 

 5 last season, three hundred and three pcunds. 

 d twelve ounces of well dressed flax; and 

 le bushels, "three pecks, and seven quarts, of 

 •II cleaned seed, from the same. Six dtllars. 

 To .Tohn Watson, Jr. of East-Windsor, who 

 sed, the last season, on one hundred ani fifty- 

 :ee rods of land, forty-six bushels of 3arley 

 iighing fifty pounds, and twelve ounc<s per 

 shel, tea dollars. 



[Description of the soil, manure, and nanner 

 cultivation will be seen in the stateirents of 

 2 several applicants, accompanying Ihis re- 

 irt. 



Signed per order 



JOEL FOOTE, Chairmar 



of Committee of Produce. 

 Hartford, Feb. 17, 1824. 



■ the Chairman of the Committee of produce, 

 for the Hartford County Agriculturd Society : — 

 Sir — The following is a statement of the 

 ;atment of one half of an acre of land, and 

 i quantity of flax and seed produced from it in 

 5 season of 1823. 



For many years the land had been used for 

 ■jwing, and was a hard thatch swjrd. Two 

 (ars previous, it had been planted t) corn, and 

 itDured in the hole. On the first of May last, 

 <was well ploughed for this crop once only, 

 id harrowed. On the fourth, it vas sowed 

 Ith twenty four quarts of seed, an! that seed 

 vered with a bush. The flax was pulled a- 

 ut the 20th of July, and dew rotted in Octo- 

 ir. 



'The produce of good, clean, and well dres- 

 d Flax, was Three hundred and three pounds, 

 'elve ounces, and nine bushels, three pecks, 

 d seven quarts, of excellent, well cleaned 

 ed, all of which has been weighed and meas- 

 ed previous to the 26th day of January, 1824, 

 he above was raised in Windsor. 



HENRY RUICK. 

 Dated at Windsor, January 26, 1824. 



Joel Fooie, Esq. Chairman of Committee of 

 Produce, of the Hartford County Agricultural 

 Society : — 



Sir — The one acre of Connecticut River 

 eadow land, on which 1 raised forty-eight 

 ishels, and thirteen quarts of Barle}, the sea- 

 mpast, weighing SOJ lbs. to the bushel was to 



f~over in 1821. In 1822 it was manured with 

 lirty cart loads bam yard manure — ploughed, 

 id planted to corn, and produced eighty-two 

 jsheis. First April, 1823, it was ploughed — 



the 13th sowed three buihels Barley, and har- 

 rowed it in. The Barley was soaked in water, 

 and rolled in plaster. — Harvested the 1 1th July 

 — the Ian. I plougiied the next day, sowed with 

 Buckwheat, and produced twenty-two bushels. 

 The Survcyors's certificate, (with otlicrs) of tlie 

 morisnre of the land, and quantity and v.cight of 

 the Barley, are inclosed. 



I am, Sir, yours most respectfully'. 



JOHN WATSON, Jr. 

 East- Windsor, Feb. leth, 1824. 



ADVANTAGES OF SILK WAISTCOATS. 

 The power of electricity over the body, is 

 well known in fact, we can never enjoy health 

 nor comfort without a proper portion of it in 

 the system. When this (lortion is deficient, we 

 feel languid and heavj', and very foolishly pro- 

 nounce a libel on the blood which is quite inno- 

 cent while we never suspect the damp atmos- 

 phere of robbing us of our electricity, — Yet so it 

 is. — In dry weather, whether it be warm, cold, 

 or frosty, we feel light and spirited, because dry 

 air, is a slow conductor of electricity, and leaves 

 us to enjoy its luxuries. In moist or rainy weath- 

 er we feel oppressed and drowsy, because all 

 moisture greedily absorbs our electricity, which 

 is the buoyant cardial of the body. To remedy 

 this inconvenience, we have only to discover a 

 good non-conductor of electricity to prevent its 

 escape from the body ; and this we have in silk, 

 which is so excellent a non-conductor that the 

 thunderbolt or the forked lightning itself, could 

 not pass through the thinest silk handkerchief 

 provided always, that it be quite dry. Those 

 therefore who are apt to become lowspirited 

 and listless in damp weather, will find silk waist- 

 coats, drawers, and stocking, the mosts powerful 

 of all cordials. Flannel is also good, but noth- 

 ing so powerful as silk. Wash leather is like- 

 wise a non-conductor of electricity, and may be 

 used by those who prefer it. But silk is by far 

 the best ; and those who dislike to wear flannel 

 next to the skin, will find equal benefit by sub- 

 stituting cotton shirts, drawers, and stoot- 

 ings, with silk ones over them ; or where 

 more heat is required, flannel ones be- 

 tween the cotton and the silk, for the silk should 

 be always outermost. We like to give reasons 

 for our advice and our readers may depend 

 on the philosophy of these recommendations ; 

 we can answer for their being practically cor- 

 rect. Silk, indeed should be used in every pos- 

 sible way by the weak — in the linings of sleeves, 

 in the stiffeners of neckcloths, and even in the 

 entire backs of surtouts, cloaks, mantles, and in 

 the coverlets of beds, &c. and where health is 

 in question, it will in the end be found to be the 

 most economical stuff that can be used, as it 

 will save many an apothecary's bill. When it 

 can be a principal means of preventing consump- 

 tion, rheumatism, gout, inflammations, melan- 

 choly, madness, and even suicide itself, no ex- 

 pense ought to be spared. — Freeman'^s Journal. 



LAMBS. 



The first care of them is to see whether they 

 can come at the teat ; and if not, to clip away the 

 wool of the ewes which hinders them, as also all 

 tags of wool on the udders of the ewes, which the 

 lambs are liable to take hold of instead of the 

 teats. 



If a ewe refuse to let her lamb suck, she and 

 ber lamb should be shut up together in a close 



place, till she grow fond of him. For this pur- 

 pose, some say that surprising a sheep with a 

 dog will be eflectual. 



Care should betaken to feed the ewes plenti- 

 fully after yeaning, and with some juicy kind of 

 food, so that the Inmbs may not fail of having 

 plenty of milk. The rams may be gelded at 

 any time from one to three weeks old, if Ihey 

 appear to be well and strong. 



They should not be weaned till they are six 

 weeks, or two months old. At this age they 

 should be taken from the ewes, and have 

 the best of pasture during the first fortnight; 

 by the end of which time they will be so natu- 

 ralized to living wholly upon grass, that they 

 may be turned into a poorer pasture. 



The worst wooled lambs, and coloured one?, 

 and those that are very small, should be destined 

 to the knife, and not weaned. So great is the 

 need of increasing the manufacture of woollen 

 in this country, that 1 must earnestly recom- 

 mend it to the farmers, not to kill, or sell for 

 killing, any lamb, till it is near half a year old, 

 or till the wool become to such fulness of growth, 

 as to be valuable for spinning. To kill them 

 earlier is so wasteful a practice as to be inexcus- 

 able. 



Those ewe lambs which are kept for stock, 

 should not come at the rams; For if they have 

 lambs at a year old, it stints them in their 

 growth ; and they have so little milk, that their 

 lambs commonly die for want of nourishment. 

 Orif they chance to live, they will he apt to be 

 always small. This practice is one reason why 

 our breed of sheep in this country is so poor. 



The largest lambs should be sheared at the 

 time of the new moon in July. Their fleeces 

 will yield as much the next year, and the wool 

 will be better, and as cold storms rarely hap- 

 pen at that time of the year, the lambs will do 

 better without their fleeces than with them. 

 Deane^s A''. E. Farmer. 



IRON CARRIAGE WHEELS. 



C. Hoxie, of the city of Hudson, has been en- 

 gaged a number of years in making an improve- 

 ment in carriage wheels ; which consists in the 

 rims and spokes being made of wrought iron. 

 These wheels are so put together, that it is im- 

 possible for a spoke to get loose ; of course they 

 are strong and very durable, the weight about 

 the same as those made of wood, and the centre 

 part of 50 of those wheels may be completed in 

 15 minutes. 



The inventor being desirous of having them 

 o-enerally introduced, invites the attention of 

 furnace companies, manufacturers of iron, and 

 such as may feel disposed to purchase a privi- 

 lege for making those wheels. There can be 

 no doubt but such an establishment would be lu- 

 crative to the owners, and beneficial to the pub- 

 lic, as also an article of extensive exportation 

 It is believed that but a inw years will roll 

 away, before wooden wheels, for carnages of 

 every description, will be rolled out of exist- 

 ence. All stages ought to be furnished with 

 iron wheels, having the rims plated with steel, 

 especially in the winter, on account of the safe- 

 ty of passengers. — JVorlhern Whig. 



Oil Gas.— -'^t a meeting of the new Gas Com- 

 nanv at Edinburgh, on Thursday se'nnight. 

 Sir Walter Scott said, that be had now had three 

 months' experience of oil-gas light m bis 



