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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



THE BUBBLING SPRING. 

 If one bright 3pot there is on earth, 



More lovely than the rest, 

 One, which fond nature at her birth, 



With purest beauty blest; 

 It is the place where some cool fount 



Jts crystal waters fling ; 

 Where, in the mead, or on the mount, 

 'Mid rocks and flowers, that liide the fount, 



Gushes the bubbling spring. 



Tell me not of the sparkling bowl, 



Tiiat glows with red'niiig tire; 

 Oh tell me not of the joy of soul, 



Tiie wine-cup can inspire ! 

 A brighter glass — a purer joy — 



A healthier draught I sing ; 

 Nature's own cup without alloy — 

 Pleasure that reason can enjoy — 



Health from the bubbling spring. 



Then till the glass with water bright — 



The nectar nature gave ; 

 Let faithful hearts round this unite, 



A bleeding world to save : 

 For naught can soothe the woful wound, 



And heal the viper's sting — 

 Nay naught these fires of death hath drown'd, 

 But pure and healthful water, found 



Fresh in the bubbling spring. 



[SelecUd. 



FOREIGN EXTRACT. 



A proposition has been made to the Minister of 

 War by a M. Lnngchamp, lo try a new method 

 of fe(?ding horses, which he asserts will prodiiCH 

 a vast saving in the anmunl of forage necessary 

 for thi* army. This gentleman proposes to make 

 a sort of bread, three fourlhs potatoes and the rest 

 oatmeal, with which the horses are to be fed in 

 place of oats. The averajre quantity of oats for a 

 horse per day, M. Longcliamp estimates to be 10 

 lbs. cosling about 18 sous, fie proposes lo re- 

 place this food by 10 lbs. of the bread made with 

 oats and potatoes, the price of which will be only 

 5 sous, leaving a saving of 8 sous a day. As 

 there are t;0,000 horses in the army, a saving 

 would arise on the whole of the cavalry, of 11,- 

 680,000 fr. a year. M. Longchamp considers this 

 food to be more nutrilious than llie food generally 

 given to horses, for a great portion of the oats 

 taken by a horse is imperfectly masticated, and 

 therefore the nutritive qtialitiea are allowed to re- 

 main latent. Heat and moisture, he declares, are 

 necessary to bring forth fully the qualities ot the 

 fecnia of oats, and this can be procured most ef- 

 fectually by subjecting it to the heat of an oven, 

 after having been moistened and well mixed up. 

 Cakes of this kind have been long used in Hol- 

 land with profit, and M. Longchamp expresses 

 his surprise that potato flour has not been more 

 commonly and openly mixed with bread; bakers, 

 he says, being in the habit of using it. But this 

 is nol the only advantage to be gained by this 

 proposition. A hectare of oats (2 1-2 acres) is 

 worth about 92 fr., whilst one of potatoes produ- 

 ces 240 fr. M. Longchamp thinks that if one 

 third of the land at present under cultivalion for 

 oats were planted with j)0taloes, five times a 

 greater quantity of cattle could be bred in France. 

 By this means butchers' meat would become 

 cheaper, and be within the reach of the generality 

 ofthe inhabilants of the kingdom. 'J'he more 

 generous diet thus procured, would have a con- 

 siderable influence, IVl. Longchamp declares, on 

 the average height of the natives of France, which 

 the reciuitment of the army proves lo be each 

 year decreasing in stature. — Paris paper. 



Sound. — The diminution of the intensity of 

 sound, in a rarefied atmosphere, is a familiar phe- 

 nomenon to those who are accustomed to ascend 

 very high mountains. The deep silence of those 

 elevated regions has a physical cause, independent 

 of their habitual solitude. Saussure relates, that a 

 pistol fired upon the summit of Mont lilanc, pro- 

 duced no greater report than a little Indian cracker 

 would in a room. Hcrschel noticed the compara- 

 tively small extent to which the voice can be heard 

 at an altitude of upwards of J.'},000 feet on Monte 

 Rosa. The height, however, to which an atmos- 

 phere or medium capable of conveying sound, ex- 

 tends, far exceeds any aitainable on mountains. 

 The great meteor of 1783, produced a distinct rum- 

 bling sound, althounh its height above the earth's 

 surface, was full fifty miles at the time of its ex- 

 plosion. The sound produced by the explosion of 

 the meteor of 1719, at an elevation of at least G9 

 miles, was heard as the report of a very great can- 

 non or broadside ; shook the windows, doors and 

 houses, and threw a looking-glass out of its frame 

 and broke it. Scarcely less violent was the sound 

 caused by the bursting of the meteor of July 17, 

 1777, near Paris, the height of which at the mo- 

 ment of the explosion, is assigned by Le Roy at 

 about 25 miles. The report of a meteor, in 17.5(), 

 threw down several chimnies at Aix, in Provence, 

 and was taken for an earthquake. These instan- 

 ces, and others wliich might be adduced, are suffi- 

 cient to show that sound can be excited in, and 

 conveyed by, air of an almo.st inconceivable tenuity, 

 provided the exciting cause be sufficiently power- 

 ful. — Pierct's Treatise on Sound. 



GREEN'S PATENT STRAW CUTTER. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. at the New England A^ricul- 

 tural Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 51 and,'i2 North Mar- 

 kct Street, have for sale, Green's Patent Straw, Hay and 

 Stalk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principle not befote 

 applied to any implement for this purpose. The mo.st prom- 

 inent effects of this apphcation, and some ofthe consequent 

 peculiarities ofthe machine are: 



1. So great a reduction ofthe quantum of power requisite 

 to use it, that the strength of a half grown boy is sufficienl 

 to work it efficiently. 



2. With even this moderate power, it easilycutstwobush- 

 els a minute, which is full twice as fast as has been claimed 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or steam 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in whichtlny 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any other 

 straw cutter. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, made and put 

 together very strongly. It is therefore not so liable as the 

 complicated machines in general use lo get out of order, 



TYK VP CHAINS. 



Just received hy 500 Chains for tyeing up Cattle. 



These chains, introduced by E. H. Derby, Esq. of Salenn, 

 and Col. Jachoes, for the purpose of securing cattle to the 

 stall, are found to he the safest and most convenient mod* 

 of fastening cows and oxen to the stanchion. 



For sale hy JOSEPH BRECK & CO., No. 62 North 

 Market si. 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



400 pair Trace Chains, suitable for Ploughing. 

 200 ■' Truck and leailiiig Chains. 

 200 " Urnft Chains. For sale by J. BRECK & CO., 

 No. 62 North Market st. 



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GRINDSTONES ON FRICTION ROLLKRS. 



Grindstones of diffen^nl sizes, hung on friction rollcra 

 TJiovert Willi a foot ireader, is lound to be a great iinpn 

 in'?iit on the old mode of hanging grindstones. Siones h 

 HI this manner are hecommg daily more in use, and when 

 used, give universal satisfaction. The rollers can he atu 

 ed to stones hung in the common way. For sale bj 

 BRECK & Co., No. 51 ]North Market street. 



CAM BRIDGEPORT NURSERY, 



Columbia Street, 



SAMUEL POND, 



NURSERYMAN, Cambridgeport, Mass., lias for Si 

 choice assortment of 



Fruit Trees, Shrubs, and Vines. 

 Among ihem are the best varieties of Apple, Pear, P)*! 

 Cherry, Peach, Apricot, Grape Vines, Aspara^'us, Illiut 



Also — Pear, Apple, Plum and Cherry Mocks coustEi 

 on hand. 



Currents, Gooseberries, Raspberries, ^-c 



Trees of an extra size always on hand, and will be dil 

 ered to any part of the city free of expense. 



Orders Ijy Mail, or otherwise, promptly attended to. 



Oct. 19. 8w 



AGRICIUL.TURA1. IMPIiEMEKTS, &c. 



The Proprietors of the New England Agricultural V 

 house and Seed Store No. 61 and 52 North Markets 

 would inform their customers and the public general!) 

 they have on hand the most extensive assortment of 

 cultuial and Horticultural Tools lo he found in the U 

 States. Part of winch are the following : 



1000 Howard's Patent Cast 



Iron Ploughs. 

 300 Common do. do. 

 200 Cultivators. 

 100 Greene's Straw Cutters. 

 50 Willis' do. do. 

 100 Common do. do. 

 100 Willis' Patent Corn 



Shellers. 

 50 Common do do. 

 2u0 Willis' Seed Sowers. 

 60 " Vegetable Cutters 

 50 Common do. do. 



200 Hand Corn Mills. 

 200 Grain Cradles. 

 100 Oi Vokcs. 

 ISOoDoz- Scythe Stones. 

 3000 " Austin's Rifles. 

 March 17. 



500 

 300 

 200 

 500 

 200 

 200 

 300 



100 doz- Cast Steel Sh( 

 150 " Common di 

 too " Spades. 



Gross Scythes. 



Patent Snailhsi 



Common do. 



Hay Rakes. 



Garden do. 



Manure Forks. 



Hay do. 

 500 Pair Trace Chains. 

 100 " Truck do. 

 100 Draft do. 

 500 Tie up do. 



50 doz. Halter do. 

 1000 yards Fence do. 

 25 Grind Stones on roU 



MUCK MANUAL. 



For sale by JOSEPH BRECK & CO., The Muck 

 ual for Farmers, by Dr S. L. Danaj price SI. 

 Boston, April 13. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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