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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Extract from the Message of his Excellency Governot 

 MoRRit, to the Senate and House of Representatives 

 of New Hampshire, delivered at the commencement 

 of the present session. 



" It it a pleasing circumstance, that the ag- 

 liciiltural interest has been neither over- 

 looked nor neglected by out Legislature. — We 

 have sufficient reason to believe, that the mea- 

 sures adopted for the encouragement oF Agricul- 

 ture, have fully justi6ed the patriotic vievfs, 

 and answered the most sanguine expectations, 

 of those veho suggested them. The institution 

 of an agricultural board, with power to receive 

 and communicnte useful information and im- 

 provements, will always be considered an im- 

 portant era in the history of our State. The 

 organization of county societies and their con- 

 sequences, afford the most abundant proofs of 

 an unrivalled spirit of emulation and exertion. 

 The extensive interest which these measures 

 have created, and the extraordinary benefits 

 they have produced, may be inferred from the 

 respectable associations of scientitic and practi- 

 cal men, the numerous collections on our annu- 

 al shoivs, the improved quality, and increased 

 quantity of the commodities presented, and 

 crops produced, together with the avidity and 

 zeal with which competitors present their re- 

 spective claims for premiums. 



" As agriculture is the source of our subsist- 

 ence, the basis of our strength, and the founda- 

 tion of our prosperity, it is peculiarly gratify- 

 ing to observe the public attention awakened 

 to its importance, and associations generally 

 forming to cherish its interests. No one can 

 be indifferent to the advancement of that mode 

 of cultivation, which produces the greatest pos- 

 sible quantity, at the least comparative ex- 

 pense. It not the exclusive duly, it is certain- 

 ly the peculiar province of the State Govern- 

 ment to superintend and promote the interests 

 of the Farmer." 



A METHOD OF RAISING EARLY CUCUMBERS. 



By Richard V'achel, Esq. F. H. S. 



From the Transactions of the London Horticultural So- 

 cicly. 



My gardener, John Farrell, having succeed- 

 ed so well this season in raising early cucumbers, 

 by an easy melhoil, which 1 have not before 

 seen practised, I herewith send you an account 

 of his plan. 



Instead of a bed of dung, put together in the 

 Tisual manner, he formed a bed of faggots (sticks 

 of wood) four feel high, laid as even at the lop 

 as the wood would admit of, and round the fag- 

 gots he drove stakes to prevent them from slip- 

 ping; on the bed thus formed he placed some 

 straw and long litter, then fixed the frame. 

 Over the straw some old tan, which, had been 

 used in the pine pit was spread, in order to 

 prevent any steam rising through the bed, and 

 on the tan he placed the motiUI in which he 

 placed (be plants. The bed was surniunded by 

 linings of hot dung, nearly to the beij-hl of Ihe 

 lights, and these were removed as often as the 

 declining heat required. 



Under this method, cucumbers were cut on 

 the 22d of February, and I have been constant- 

 ly well supplied with them ever since. I con- 

 sider this plan much superior to the hollow 

 brick-work recommended by Macphail. 



The editor of the Troy Sentinel in speaking 

 of high pressure steam engines, says : "We ap- 

 plaud the zeal with which the New York 

 editors have come out, in solid column, against 

 these perilous machines. We should much 

 prefer going from Albany or Troy to New York, 

 in 21 hours with our head on, unimportant as it 

 may be to any body but our own, than in 14, 

 with it off, body and all." 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1824. 



We have omitted the Farmer''s Calender, and some 

 other articles intended for this week's paper to make 

 room for notices and advertisements which could not 

 well be deferred. 



BIR. BuRRAM.'s MACHINE. The " Premium Clover 

 Seed Machine''^ of Thomas D. Burrall, Esq. which is 

 described and recommended in our advertising depart- 

 ment of this day's paper appears to us to be a very 

 useful implement. We have seen only a model, but 

 that was sufficient to give us a most favorable idea of 

 the machine, in which we think simplicity, ingenuity, 

 and utility are blended in a manner, which fully justi- 

 fies the recommendations of the respectable cultivators, 

 who have given it the seal of their approbation. Clo- 

 ver is undoubtedly the first of grasses, and probably has 

 done more towards fertilizing our lands, and improving 

 American husbandry than any other plant. But the 

 difficulty of cleansing the seeds from the chaff or husks 

 and separatnig the light, and unsound from those which 

 were best fitted for vegetation has presented a very for- 

 midable obstacle to its cultivation. This difficulty, it 

 appears to us, is completely surmounted by Mr. Bur- 

 rail's machine ; and its inventor has rendered very es- 

 sential service to American agriculture. 



letters from Madrid of the 26th, speak of a levy o< 

 56,000 men in Spain, part of whom are to be employed 

 in attempting the re-conquest of the American posses- 

 sions, but as money is wanting, it is said that an appli- 

 cation will be made to the Phillipine Company, whicf 

 has money in its coffers." 



London, May 7. — Mr. Canning, last night, statei 

 that he had received the most satisfactory explana 

 tions from the French Government respecting the al 

 ledged naval force at Brazil. They had accountec 

 for every ship of war that had been sent out of thi 

 ports of France, and shewn their various destinations 

 Instead of eight, there were only two French men o 

 war at Rio Janeiro. Mr. Canning further observed 

 that, "although not the slightest ground existed fo 

 apprehension of any kind whatever, there was not ; 

 naval situation in the world on which the force of tbi 

 country did not completely out number that of an 

 other." 



We have received this morning letters from Corfi 

 and a file of the Greek Chronicle, published at Miss< 

 longhi, to the 27th February. We are glad in one < 

 our numbers to see the fullest confirmation of ther< 

 covery oS Lord Byrob. 



Piracy still continues on the coast of Cuba. Tb 

 schooner Florian, of Warren, and schooner Alpha wei 

 captured off Matanzas the 10th ult. by launclies.- 

 While the pirates were unloading the Florian, the A 

 pha escaped into Matanzas, from whence the Sea Gu 

 sailed in pursuit of the launches, recaptured the Floi 

 an, and took a lighter with three men. How thei 

 acts of robbery can be perpetrated at noon-day in sigl 

 of land, and only four miles from Matanzas, without ii 

 plicating the vigilance or power of the Spanish Go; 

 ernmcnt, both of which have felt with sufficient ener| 

 and promptitude at Havana, is difficult to conceive.- 

 Connivance is more than suspected from the authoi- 

 ties on shore. 



NEW SYSTEM OF SHOEING HORSES. A Valuable 

 work on this subject has been published in Boston, 

 which ought to be in possession of every person who 

 owns the noble animal of which it treats. It is entitled 

 " JVew System of Shoeing Horses, abridged from the 

 works of Joseph Goodwin, Veterinary Surgeon to His 

 Mitjesty, George IV. and Member of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons. Containing a Comparison beticeen the 

 English and the French Methods, and Observations on 

 the Diseases of the Feet, connected with Shoeing. To 

 which are added Observations on Bleeding and the 

 Pulse ; a concise View of the Jlnatomy of the Foot, 

 A'otes, Remarks, &c. Ornamented with Cuts. Wells & 

 Lilly, 12 mo. p. p. 140. 



We have heretofore expressed our high opinion of this 

 Treatise (see N. E. Farmer, vol. i. pages 142, 199.) and 

 shall only add that the Author is eminent for his scien- 

 tific acquisitions, and that his opportunities for informa- 

 tion relating to the subjects of his Essay, have been 

 such as no person in the United States, and very few 

 pcifons in any country have ever enjoyed. 



This work may be had at the Agricultural Establish- 

 ment, No. 20, Merchants' Row, and at any of the prin- 

 cipal Bookstores in Boston. 



FOREIGN. 



By the ship Lucilla, Capt. Chandler, arrived al Bos- 

 ton on the 10th inst. London dates to the 16lh of May 

 have been received. 



An attack on Algiers was in contemplation by , the 

 British, but not by an united force of ships. If the 

 Dcy should remain obstinate, the attacks will be made 



DOMESTIC. 

 Caterpillars. — A letter written in Hartford count 

 N. C. to the editors of the Norfolk Bearon, says t ; 

 wheat crops have been much injured by the caterp' 

 lars — probably one half destroyed — " After goi:* 

 through my wheat and <athig every thing which th- 

 could eat, including many of the beads, in despite 

 the united exertions of all my hands, for ten da; 

 ditching and ploughing deep furrows, and brushing a 

 killing them, they ate about forty acres of my cot 

 which was nearly knee high." 



Transatlantic Shepherds — A Shepherd, from t i 

 mountains of Thuringia, in Germany, accompanied | 

 a Shepherdess, anrl Shepherds' Dogs, have arrived 

 Charleston, S. C. and gone to the plantation of C 

 Breithaupt, in Edgefield District, who is about esl 

 blishing a considerable sheep walk, for which (he pi 

 wood range is said to be peculiarly well calculated. 

 [JV. Y. Statesman, 



Rumor, "with her thousand tongues," is busy 

 proclaiming the existence of a " Silver Mine" in tl 

 neighborhood. Land on which the ore is found, b« 

 been entered within a few days, to the amount of IT 

 acres. We shall certainly be among those who rejoi 

 at the discovery, if it be ascertained (hat this minec 

 be worked with profit. In the mean time we may i 

 fleet that "all is not gold that glistens," so it nlj> 

 be said with equal truth that all ore does not conim 

 Silver, though some shining substance may be eatracti 

 from it by means of fire. Whatever the result may \ 

 it is certain that Uncle Sam has pocketed some $201 

 by the sudden sale of land that is really execrable! 

 the ordinary purposes of agriculture. — St. Louis pap» 



Canal Revenue. — The collector of tolls at the moui 

 of the canal at Albany, received and paid into tl 

 State Treasury from the 5(h of Kay to the 1st of Jul 

 inst. short 4 weeks, $17,738,71 



Fatal Accident.— Ki Newton, L. Falls. Mr. Thom 

 T. Reed, of Middleton, Mass. in attempting to pa- 



on the Town and Fortifications by the employment of »>'" 'he V\ h.^l House of Joseph Foster's Paper Ml 



bonih and mortar vessel 



the roof bring: very much decayed, nnforlnnately ft 



imn ann moriar vessels. ■ i , , • . i i j t ^^ . j J* 



The London Courier of the 10th of May says, " that j "trough .nto a wheel, under a full gale ; passed un* 



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