NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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P?o tliere will be a two fold intention answered ; 



•the land will be preserved from washing, while 



A large amount of hay and winter pasture may 



I be obtained ; while the crop of grass may not 



,je any less, in consequence of this gramineous 



i( icijuisitioB. For independent of the waste of 



Hoil prevented by the grass, the water from 



(iiasty showers which would otherwise escape 



Jbel'ore the soil could have time to absorb it, 



(M'ill be retained, to the groat benefit of the 



;,nlerraediale crop of grain. As winter grass is 



learly stationary in the summer, always making 



ts [irincipal growth in the spring and fall, so 



hat it will interfere but slightly, with those 



innual plants'which are the chief object ofculti- 



alion. 



When small grain is sown between the grass 



ows, the mixture of good hay with the straw, 



vill add considerably to its value, while the 



rass seed, if mature, will blow off with the 



hafl-. ABNER LANDRUM. 



Edgjield, South Carolina. 



AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE. 

 We are very happy to see, that Agricultural 

 ocieties not only continue to multiply, but that 

 enerally speaking, they seem to be constantly 

 nprovingin their shows of cattle and domestic 

 lanufactures. It gives us sensible pleasure to 

 erceive that the addresses, are every year ira- 

 roving in their business-like character. That 

 bile they evince on the part of the writers, 

 jltivation of mind and research, they serv<! to 

 jmmunicate very useful information, and what 

 more, a taste for reading among the class of 

 )cie(y in which this sort of information was not 

 jmidant, thirty years since. Farmers have a 

 lare of leisure for reading. It san scarcely be 

 jped however, that any but the most opulent 

 id intelligent among them will purchase an 

 jricultnral library. Yet almost all could af- 

 id to pay live dollars to enroll themselves in 

 e Massachusetts Agricultural Society, which 

 ill entitle thera to receive for life the Jour- 

 Is of this Society, which are published twice 

 year. Thus for a payment equal to one dol- 

 r |ier annum for five years, they become en- 

 k'll to receive a work devoted to their own 

 irsuits during their lives. Who is so poor as 

 it to be able to afford this? Whoso indifferent 

 tlie honor, and dignity of his own profession 

 not to be willing to pay one dollar a year for 

 I short a period as five years, to secure to him- 

 li and his children such a mass of Agricultu- 

 1 facts ? 



Grant, if you please, and it ought to be and is 

 anted, that there are many errors, many un- 

 unded theories, many extravagant statements 

 new experiments. Yet does this destroy 

 e motives for reading and thinking on such 

 bjects ? We think not — an erroneous and ab- 

 rd theory is tried and found to be so, and prov- 

 I by a sounder man to be absurd, but it elicits 

 produces investigation, and often a sound 

 eory and sound practice. The only terms of 

 Jmission to the Massachusetts Agricultural So- 

 ety, are a recommendation from some one 

 2rson of known good character that the per- 

 n applying is an upright, intelligent farmer — 

 id the payment of five dollars to the support 

 ■ the Journal, for which five times the value 

 returned, if the member lives to a reasona- 

 e age. — Mass. JIgricul. Repos. 



We rejoice to find by a late able address of 

 of the Agricultural Society of Maine, that they 

 are rekindling their zeal, and are fully sensible 

 of the importance of the stimulus and direction 

 j to .\gricultur!il elVort afl'orded by public socie- 

 I ties. It is impossible that Massachusetts should 

 I over be indifferent to the success of Maine. If 

 j the ties of consanguinity, of long political con- 

 [ nection could be forgollon — entirely forgotten: 

 i Yet there would still remain the great and al- 

 j most unchangeable natural ties of mutual inte- 

 rest. Massachusetts from various causes must 

 be for a century probably, one of the best cus- 

 tomers of Maine. — The prosperity of Maine 

 must be highly important to Massachusetts. 



W^e are pleased to see that they have kept 

 pace with us in the importation of new fruits, 

 and that the valuable varieties of pears sent by 

 Mr. Knight, to the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 Society have been at the same moment import 

 ed from another source into Maine. May we 

 always thus proceed hand in hand in the ad 

 vancement of all the arts which contribute to 

 the wealth or the enjoyment of our respective 

 States. — ibid. 



MANUFACTURES. 



We have received from a friend a statement 

 of the Cotton and Woolen Factories, in the 

 County of Worcester, with the number of per- 

 sons employed and supported by each. We had 

 before no conception of the extent of these 

 manufactures in the heart of our State. The 

 number of Cotton Factories is 21, employing 

 6050 persons. The number of Woolen Facto- 

 ries is 25, employing 1080 persons. Indepen- 

 dently of the above, the Smithfield Factory, 

 owned by A I my, Brown k. Slater, supports 1500 

 persons, and the Pawtucket Factopy, belonging 

 to the same concern, employs 1000. The Lud- 

 low Factory, in which Mr. Slater is concerned, 

 also supports 1000. The Messrs. Slaters give 

 employ to hundreds of Store-keepers, who send 

 their wagons (o take the yarn, colored and 

 white, which they give out into farmer's fami- 

 lies, forty miles distant, where it is wove into 

 checks, stripes, ginghams, bed-ticks, shirtings, 

 sheetings, &c. and they are paid in VV. I. goods, 

 cotton yarn, &c. 



There are several considerable Machine 

 shops in the town of Worcester, which occupy 

 all the water power upon the small stream 

 Blackstone, (passing near the Coal Mine) and 

 employ about 1 50 persons ; and there are in the 

 county more than fifty Machine shops which go 

 by water, and employ more than 500 workmen. 

 The whole town of Leicester is employed in 

 Machinery and Card making. Fifteen hundred 

 women and children earn a good living at this 

 business. — Sal. Reg. =^= 



Effects of Fear. — In the time of the American 

 revolutionary war, while the army was encamp- 

 ed at West Point, a party of soldiers discovered 

 an eagle's nest, half way down a jjrecipice, ad- 

 jacent to the fort. To get at the nest, a soldier 

 was let down by a rope, fastened round his mid- 

 dle. When he had descended near to the nest, 

 the eagle came upon him with hideous screams, 

 aiming at his head : he had no way of defend- 

 ing himself, but by taking out his knife with 

 which he kept her off by striking at her. In 

 one of the passes he made at her, he had the 

 misfortune to strike the rope, and cut one of the 

 strands entirely off; the other strand began to 



be untwisted, while his companions drew him 

 up as soon as possible : in this situation lie ex- 

 pected the rope evrry moment to part, when 

 he must have fallen from the tremendous height 

 among the rocks ; but he was drawn up (o the 

 top of the rock, when tho remaining slrnnd of 

 the rope was nearly reduced to a wisp of tow. 

 In the course of 21 hours, the hair of his head, 

 from a coal black, was turned as the whitest 

 wool ! He was 25 years of age.— /ios. Med. Int. 



To make Tran.ymrent Soaj). 

 Suet is the basis of all the soaps of the toi- 

 lette, known by the name of Windsor soap, be- 

 cause olive-oil forms a paste too difficult to melt 

 again, and contains an odour too sr.oug to be 

 mixed with essences. The suet soap dissolved 

 hot in alcohol retakes its solid state by cooling. 

 To this facts is due the discovery of transpa- 

 rent soap, which, if well prepared, has the ap- 

 pearance of fine white candied sugar it may 

 also be colored, and the vegetable hues for 

 this purpose, are preferable to mineral ; any 

 person may make this soap, by putting in a thin 

 glass phial, the half of a cake of Windsor soap- 

 shavings; fill it with one half of alcohol, and 

 put it near the fire until the soap is dissolved; 

 this mixture placed into a mould to cool, pro- 

 duces the transparent soap. — American Farmer. 



TJie J oUcwing Reciept for bolts vas furnished 

 vs by IV. D. Taylor, Esq ofToylorsville. 

 Half pint of elder juice, extracted from the 

 leaves; half pint of linseed or any other oil; 

 half pint of water, with a small piece of alum, 

 making a quart drench, which will ensure relief 

 in fifteen minutes. — ibid. 



Steam Boat Disaster. — The Baltimore papers 

 received yesterday announce a distressing acci- 

 dent having occurred to the steam-boat Eagle, 

 Capt. Weems, in her first trip from Annapolis to 

 that city. In the evening, when oS North 

 Point, her boiler burst, killed one passenger, 

 name unknown, and scalded four others, among 

 whom was H. M. Murray, Esq. an attorney at 

 law of Baltimore ; the latter but slightly. The 

 Captain and all the crew were more or less in- 

 jured ; and only three of the passengers escap- 

 ed unhurt. A son of the Captain was blown 

 through the cabin skylight, and yet without se- 

 rious injury. The Eagle was set on fire, but it 

 was soon extinguished. The Constitution steam 

 boat, Capt. Robinson, spoke the Eagle in her 

 distress, was immediately put about, afforded 

 every relief, and towed the disabled boat into 

 Baltimore. The hull of the boat was not es- 

 sentially injured, but the machinery considera- 

 bly. Four of the passengers have returned 

 public thanks to Capt. Robinson for his kindness 

 and prompt attention. 



The Eagle had cast iron heads in her boiler. 

 Capt. R. is of opinion that if no vessel had gone 

 to the relief of the Eagle, she would have 

 burned to the water's edge, and every soul on 

 board must have perished. The wind was 

 blowing hard at the time, and the Eagle was a 

 complete wreck below deck. A soldier was 

 killed in the forward cabin. 



A Beaver Hat has been manufactured by Mr. 

 J. Hurley of New-York, and intended as a pre- 

 ent to Gen. La Fayette. It is said to be one of 

 the finest specimens ever seen in this or any 

 other country. 



