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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Spinning Machines. — It is stated that Mr. Gil- 

 bert Brewster, of Norwich, Conn, has already 

 made of his improved machines for spinning 

 wool, to the amount of upwards of g2U0,00O, 

 and has orders for more machines to a very 

 large amount. He has made large machines at 

 the price of g2,700, and has made this declara- 

 tion, that if any person will take one of his 

 machines and put it into full operation for two 

 years, and gite him the savings made between 

 this machine, and the old or common modes of 

 spinning wool,he will give the machines without 

 any further charge. The English spinner, can- 

 not spin for less than 2 pence or 3 pence per 

 ib. Mr. Brewster's machines facilitate the spin- 

 ning so much as to have reduced the price to 

 one cent per lb. ! And not only the best merino 

 wool can be spun at this price, but even the 

 finest Saxon so much superior, even to merino, 

 and of which the finest and highest priced 

 cloths are made. — JV'. Y. paper. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



SATURDAY, MAY 



FARMER'S CALENDER. 



MANURE. If you have not cleared your barn 

 yard?, and other receptacles of manure of their 

 fertilizing contents you will please to set about 

 it. If you have more dung than you propose 

 to use immediately, do not suffer it to lie scorch- 

 ing and drenching in the sun and rain, unless 

 you mean to be poverty-stricken before you 

 think of it. If your cattle are yarded nights, 

 you will be so good as to get up half an hour 

 earlier than you commonly rise, and shovel 

 what manure they have left under your shed, 

 and then cover it with about as much mud, 

 loam, or something els^e which v»ill answer the 

 purpose, as there is of the dung. You will 

 thus in a little time obtain a compost as rich as 

 Croesus, and till your money-bag with hard dol- 

 lars, or your pocket-book with good bank bills. 

 The weeds which you cut up in your garden, 

 &c. you will either throw to your hogs, bury 

 in trenches between your rows of plants, 

 throw into heaps and cover with earth, or carry 

 them to your compost bed and cover them 

 there. 



FENCES. Take another look at your enclo- 

 sures and see that your fences are sound, tirm, 

 iiigh and close. If you do not, and should un- 

 happily wake up some morning and find your 

 cattle in the corn, your pigs in the peas, &.c. 

 you will please lo recollect that we told you so. 

 After planting and before weeding you will prn- 

 li;il)ly have time to make some excellent stone 

 wall. See that you make it where it is most 

 needed, and what you make should be well 

 m.ide. We do not much admire certain apolo- 

 gies tor fences, which we every now and then 

 come across, in the course of our agricultural 

 tours. A jagged, cobbling, hnlf-built wall, in 

 which the stones look as if they were huddled 

 together by chance, or an earthquake, not at all 

 disposed to be sociable, but each seems to say 

 to its neighbor, please lo keep your distance, is 

 an aliomination on any man's farm. We have 

 seen too many such rough monuments of lazi- 

 ness, which seem lo have been tossed together 

 for no other purpose but to afford the quadru- 

 peds of the place the means of taking practical 

 lessons in the art of jumping. 



PASTURES. Take a scrntinising squint at your 

 pastures, and divide your stock among them 

 according to the best rules in such case made 

 and provided. Do not, however, let your cat- 

 tle into your pasture ground too early in the 

 spring. You had better buy hay and keep them 

 in your barn yard, or cut and carr}' browse to 

 them or turn them into the woods to pick a liv- 

 ing as they can, than let them make minced pie 

 of your sward-ground, and nip off every spire ot 

 rass the moment it peeps from the surface of 

 the soil. In common seasons from the 20th of 

 May to the 1st of June is early enough to turn 

 your stock to grass. Your laboring cattle and 

 horses should be kept up still longer, or at 

 least till the last mentioned time. Dr. Deane 

 said that " cattle should not be let into any pasture 

 until the grass is so grown as to afford them a 

 good bite, so that they may fill themselves 

 without rambling all over the lot. The dryest 

 pastures should be used first, though in them 

 the grass is shortest that the potching of ground 

 in the wettest may be prevented. Milch kine, 

 working oxen and fatting beasts should have the 

 first feeding of an enclosure. Afterwards sheep 

 and horses. When the first lot is thus fed off, 

 it should be shut up, and the dung that has been 

 dropped should be beaten to pieces, and well 

 scattered, afterwards the second pasture should 

 be treated in the same manner, and the rest in 

 course, feeding the wettest pasture after the 

 dryest, that the soil may be less potched. 



" Something considerable is saved by letting 

 all sorts of grazing animals take their turns in 

 a pasture. By means of this, nearly all the her- 

 bage produced wii! be eaten ; much of which 

 would otherwise be lost. Horses will eat the 

 leavings of horned callle; and sheep will eat 

 some things that both the one and the other 

 leave." 



It will not be proper, when you have turned 

 your cattle to grass to overlook or neglect them. 

 You should see every animal every day, if 

 you rise an hour before the sun for that pur- 

 pose. 



If you turn hogs into a pasture they should 

 have rings in their noses, or as some say, you 

 will do as well to pare olf the gristle of the nose, 

 to prevent their rooting. It is, we believe, a 

 good notion to have a stye to feed them in, with 

 ' a door or aperture opening into a clover pasture 

 iif suitable dimensions, which should contain a 

 brook or pool, for their Majesties to wallow in. 

 While the clover is fresh they will need scarcely 

 any other food, but now and then a little brim- 

 stone and cream of tartar to give them an appe- 

 tite. The hogs should not be accommodated 

 with too large a pasture, lest the grass should 

 l)econie so old and tough that they will not e,1t 

 it. Short and sweet grass is necessary for this 

 sfiecies of ejjicnres. 



We have it from good authority that sheep 

 require no water in their pastures, calves none, 

 and horses very little except they are worked. 

 The consequence of such a privation we are 

 tnld is that the animals feed at night, and lie 

 ?till in the day time. Cows, however, should 

 have water, and that of a good quality. Mud- 

 dy, stagnant water, such as is made use of in 

 order to manufacture mosquetoes and fever and 

 ague in some of our western States, has a ve- 

 ry bad elTect on cows, reducing the quantity of 

 their milk, and injuring its quality. 



YAMKEE INGENUITY. We are much amused, an- 

 highly gratified by our frequent visits to the Agricultu 

 ral Establishment, No. 20, Merchants' Row, Boston 

 The inventive faculties of our countrymen are there in 

 dicated by a display of machines of almost as man) 

 forms as there were kinds of animals in Noah's Ark 

 Although they have not yet exactly, exhibited Mr.God 

 win's plough, which would 



"Stt itself to work 



And plough an acre in a jerk," 

 they have ploughs, of excellent construction, whicl 

 come very near and perhaps some of them are but lit 

 tie inferior to Mr. Jefferson's best of all possible ploughs 

 described in Wells & Lilly's edition of Dr. Deane'i 

 New Kngland Farmer, under the article " Plough,''^ 

 and very well known to scientiiic agriculturists iu £Iu 

 rope as well as in America. 



But the more immediate object of this article ist 

 Call the attention of the agricultural part of the com 

 munity to two machines which we think are of sings 

 lar utility. 



1. An instrument for cutting up hassocks or smal 

 protuberances, in swamps and wet meadows, invcntC' 

 by Col. Samuel Putnam, of Danvers, Mass. This coi 

 sists of a wooden frame of an angular form, somewhs 

 like a common harrow, with an iron or steel appeu 

 dage beneath it, of semi-eliptical form, bent inward 

 with sharp edges. The machine is drawn by oxen,( 

 horses, and the metallic part embraces the hassocks, j| 

 other protuberances, and cuts tliem off as smoothly} 

 a barber could excind the criniferous excrescences of 

 face without a wrinkle. 



2. A new kind of churn, in which the dasher, or Ihi 

 part which stirs the milk or cream, is put in motion 1 

 an horizontal lever, to which the dasher is attached 1 

 cast iron geeriug of the most simple, and effective d 

 scription. 



We know that our description, will give but J, 

 inadequate idea of the above mentioned machinn 

 but we have not room at present for a more perfect a 

 count ; and those who would wish for further inform 

 tion may call and inspect the machines at the establis 

 menl abovementioiled. 



SWEET CORN. By the kindness of " A Subscriber 

 we liave rrceived two parcels of Su-ett Corn for dist 

 buting gratis, among those who would wish to obla 

 small quantities for seed. There are two kinds of cor 

 one of which ripens somewhat earlier than the othe 

 We should he happy to present any of our friends, e 

 gaged in agriculture or horticulture, who will call 

 send to the Farmer office, with a handful of each, i 

 the parcels are distributed. 



vAMPVRE OF THE OCEAN. A curious monstef! 

 ycleped is now exhibiting at No. 13, Brattle-street, B^ 

 ton. It was an inixabitant of the deep, caught iu Q 

 Atlantic Ocean, near the entrance of the Delawat 

 and suppo.sed to have weighed when first captured 

 tvvecn four and five tons. l^r. Mitchell, who exai 

 ed and dissected it, when first taken, pronounces 

 be " a fish considerably different from any seen befi 

 and unlike all the descriptions that f could find in 

 books." A particular description of this man 

 sler may be Ibund in handbills which will be prei 

 ed to visiters at the place of exhibition. 



" There therefore needs no more be said here, 



We unto tliem refer the reader." 



ER R ATA. Our subscribers will perceive that pai 

 the pages of this day's paper, are, by mistake, numb«' 

 ed wrong ; they may, if they please, correct them wi 

 a pen. 



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