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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Al'RIL 



ThroAV a handful of plaster into water. It will 

 take a>)oiit wvon liuudred parts of water to dis- 

 solve one part of tlie plaster. 



Having attended to the human patient, let us 

 consider it agriculturally, and inquire if it would 

 not be useful for horses that have the heaves. 

 Wo consider the two diseases analogous, if not 

 identical in eliaractcr. We also consider tliem to 

 originate in a peculiar condition of the stomach. 

 Same years ago we noticed tliat "hcavey horses," 

 as they are called, were enormous eaters, and we 

 have been assured by some men who have occasion- 

 al attacks of asthma, that previous to the recur- 

 rence of the attack their appetite increases, and 

 they eat much mure than at other times. AVe 

 have also known lieavey horses mucli relieved by 

 drinking water from a tube in which lime had 

 been thrown. 



Try the plaster of Paris water for them. 



Query. — Did you ever know an animal tliat 

 chewed the cud have t!ie heaves? Wq never did, 

 and hence we think that our position is correct, 

 viz: that these diseases originate in the stomach. 

 The lungs of the ox and those of the horse vary 

 but little in structure. Their stomachs vary very 

 much indeed. The ox chews Iiis food Dver a se- 

 cond time, and it is very perfectly "digested. The 

 horse chews his food but once, and it is not so 

 perfectly digested as that of the ox. The horse 

 has the heaves — the ox does not. W^e throw these 

 hints out for phthisicky folks to think of at their 

 leisure. — Maine Farmer. 



usual custom was two skeins in one day for each 

 to spin. Tliere was a festival in Providence, in 

 1700, where tiiore was a splendid ox roasted, called 

 th(! Federal Ox. I was there at the time, and saw 

 the ox while roasting. This may not be interest- 

 ing to thee, so I Avill omit saying moi'e on thia 

 suljiject. I herein sign my name, this eighth day 

 of the 4th month, 1853. Elinor Fry." 



Journal of the N. Y. State Ag. Society. 



AHCIEIsT SPINFIFG WHEEL. 



E. H. Pease, Esq., of this city, deposited in the 

 Agricultural Kooms, a Spinning Wlieel, in good 

 preservation, received from Mrs. Elinor Fry, of 

 East Greenwich, who gives the following interest- 

 ing account of it : 



"I will, with pleasure, give thee the history of 

 the curious spinning wheel, as for as I know. In 

 1754, the wheel came to my fother's house, in 

 East Greenwich, from Narraganset. Whether it 

 originated in England or Ireland, I cannot say, 

 but it had been in America near one hundred 

 years when it was brought here. In 1771, I, El- 

 inor Fry, spun on the said wheel one piece of 

 lawn h.andkerchiefs, 12 in number, as good as 

 those imported from England ; the ladies here 

 were cuuiIdus to excel, and were so patriotic, they 

 chose the fabric of our country, and toiled with 

 their own liands to spin lawn for their dresses, 

 proclaiming independence of Great Britain, for 

 some of us were so happy as to have farms of our 

 own to clothe us ; and our fathers encouraged us 

 to wear such as we made. The identical wheel 

 spoken of, Samuel Fi-y,'my fotlier, gave to me, and 

 I, Elinor Fr^^ presented it to Erastus II. Pease, to 

 hold or sell, as he pleases. 



In regard to the spinning party, it was done in 

 1789, to celel)rate the Federal Constitution and to 

 encourage manufacturing in the State of Rhode 

 Island. 21st of April, 1781), 48 patriotic ladies 

 assembled at the court house in East Greenwich, 

 with their own Avheels, their own flax, and for 

 their own use spun 178 skeins of linen yarn in one 

 day, from sun-rise to setting at night ; one lady 

 spun seven skeins and one knot, it being the most 

 spun l)y any one of the company ; there were sev- 

 eral that Bpun six skeins in the same time ; the 



OUR COUNTRY'S AREA. 



From a table [jrepared l)y Col. Abert, of the 

 Topographical Engineers, we find the total terri- 

 torial extent of the United States as follows : 



Square 

 Area of the Pacific Slope, or of the region watered hy 



rivers falling into the Pacific 



Area of the Mississippi Vallej', or the region watered 



by the Mississippi, Missouri aud their tributaries 1 



Area of the Atlantic Slope, proper 637,190 



Area of the Atlantic Slope, including only the 



waters falling into the gulf of Mexico west of the 



Mississippi 186,6i6 



Area of the Atlantic Slope, including only the 



waters falling into the Gulf of Mexico east of the 



Mississippi 146,860 



Total of the Atlantic Slope, or the region whose 



waters fall into the Atlantic 



Miles. 

 T78,266 

 237,311 



967,576 



Tot;il area of the United States and their territories 2,981,153 



No one can look over these figures without being 

 impressed with the exalted destiny that awaits our 

 country. Already our empire equals in extent 

 tlie Roman in its palmiest days, and all this im- 

 mense territory and soacoast is guarded by a stand- 

 ing army of only 12,000 men and 70 ships of 

 war. 



Tiie next census and measurement of the Rc- 

 puldic may include Cuba, tlie Sandwich Islands, 

 Sonora, Lower California, and perhaps tlie Cana- 

 das, giving a population of nearly Thirty-Nine 

 Millions, and a territory of Seven Millions of 

 square miles. The period between 1840 and 1850 

 added Texas, New Mexico and California to the 

 Union, comprising a million square miles. The 

 next ten will not fall behind its predecessor in the 

 accomplishment of "Manifest Destiny." 



For the New England Farmer. 



FEED OF STOCK. 

 Mr. Brown : — The criticisms in your last pa- 

 per, upon the comparative value of articles as food 

 for stock, are well calculated to restrain crude and 

 inconsiderate statements. I am not surprised at 

 all, that ]Mr. II>. should apprehend that the "plan- 

 ter's devil" had been poking fun at liim, when a 

 pound of carrots is estimated as only e<jual to i 

 of a pound of hay, or 1-12 of a pound of meal. 

 Conclusions like these must result from a partial 

 and imperfect view of the subject. Next to actu- 

 al experiments in feeding, — the price of these ar- 

 ticles in the market, may be taken as evidence of 

 their value. If, year after year, shrewd, practical 

 men are found growing carrots, and feeding them 

 to their animals the presumption is very strong, 

 that they liave value ni them. I would as soon 

 rely upon such results, as any chemical analysis. 

 That tlie general condition of animals is im- 

 proved by feeding on carrots, and that they are 

 a i>alatable feed, there can be no doubt. How 

 far they increase the quantity of milk, is a ques- 

 tion on which difierent opinions are entertained. 

 When the model farm, for Middlesex shall be es- 



