vol,. XIV. KO. 15 



AND GARDENER'S. JOURNAL 



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CATTLE SHOW. 



"" Agreeably to previous imtico, our fanners niul 

 ',' leclumics assembled on Weiliiesdaj' '"St, to cx- 

 ''ibit tbeir stock of cattle, horses, sheep, swine, 



: laiuifaetiires, &c., to spend the day in general 

 ' jtiviviality, in the intereliangc of mutual good 

 ':eling, and the promotion of the interests of agri- 



* alture. The day was splendid, and every thing 

 '" onnected witli it, was conducted with perfect liar- 

 *' lony and propriety. Several citizens from the 



iljacent towns joined in the festival, which made 

 ™ie number of persons present large and highly 

 ■^spcctable. 



■ I pwar<ls of 250 yokes of oxen and steers were 

 ' ^hihited, which generally made as fine an ap- 

 carance as can be produced, if takeu promiscu- 

 usly, in any other town in Ulassachusetts. The 

 rawing match exhibited proofs that the oxen had 

 cen well trained and disciplined to the yoke and 



* le art of drawing. The most astonishing strength 

 ras exhibited in a yoke of oxen of Elarrison Ba- 

 on, which ascended our ' turnpike hill ' with two 



ts, loaded witii stone, the united weight of 

 ach was nincti/stx hundred. - 



The exhibition of manufactured articles evinced 

 luch skill in our enterprising mechanics. The 

 'ainlings, Needle-work, &c. which were princi- 

 ally wrought by the young ladies of our High 

 School, were very creditable to th ?ir industry and 

 efined taste, and entitle the husband-wanting por- 

 lon (which we believe were a majority of the 

 ompetitors?) to the best of men for pai-tners. 



Several other articles for exhibition which come 

 mder the head of ' small fry,' though large of the 

 ind, we have not time to enumerate. 



The dinner was excellent, and served up in a 

 tyle highly creditable to ' mine host,' Mr Hatha- 

 ray. Some very pithy sentiments and remarks 

 vere offered after dinner, and the several reports, 

 ve are told by a gentleman who was present, 

 eere got up in a much better style than those at 

 he late Worcester Fair. So much for Barre 

 battle Show. — Barre Gaz. 



WiSTER MANAGEMENT OF EEES. A Writer for 



Ljoudon's Magazine states, that, "In a severe win- 

 ler bees are for the most part asleep, and do not 

 iat much of their honey ; in a mild winter they 

 ire in motion, and eating, and have not an oppor- 

 (unity of renovating their stores from flowers. 

 Keeping these facts in view, the owner of the bees 

 lUt them to rest in the month of October, by 

 urying them in a peat stack ; and did not restore 

 Iheni till the willows were in blossom in the fol- 

 owlng April. The success was most complete, 

 ind the practice worthy of imitation in other dis- 

 ricts, by placing the hives in cold dark cellars, or 

 n ice-houses. 



Ur.CIPE FOR MAKING VINEGAR. YoU LaVC 



copied tVom the American Farmer into your pa- 

 l)er, vol. 4th, page 364, "short directions for ma- 

 king vinegar," which are as follows: 



" To 10 gallons of rain water add one gallon of 

 molasses and one of brandy — mix them well to- 

 gether, and place the cask in a garret or some dry 

 warm ])lace, and occasionally shaking it, in a few 

 months it will bo fit for use." 



Twelve gallons of the above mixture will cost as 

 follows, viz : 



1 gallon molasses .$0 50 



1 gallon brandy (adulterated whiskey) 1 50 



$2 00 

 I would propose a much cheaper way for fam- 

 ilies to be supplied with this indisi)ensable article, 

 viz : — 



Take one barrel of cider — pure juice of the 

 apple — divide it into two parts ; add one gallon 

 clean rain water to each part, place the casks and 

 treat them as above directed, and you will have 

 thirty gallons of vinegar, of superior flavor and 

 much more enduring body than that made of 

 whiskey and molasses, and at the same or a much 

 less price. The advantage of dividing the quan- 

 tity is that it will be sooner fit for use. — '^Obvious " 

 in Geneseee Fanner. 



Horticulture. — Aaron Mitchell, Esq. of this 

 own, has exhibited several peaches, which have 

 ^rown on trees set out by him only ten months 

 since, whose size and delicious flavor, it is said, 

 ire not surpassed by any which have grown on 

 the continent this season. We were shown a cu- 

 cumber from the garden of the same gentleman 

 which measured nineteen inches in length, sixteen 

 and one half inches in circumference, and weigh- 

 d eight pounds. — JVantucket Inpdre.r. 



A gentleman in Shrewsbury, N. J. will, it is 

 said, realize by his peach crop this year, from 10 

 to $12,000. 



Vermont sheep and wool. — The writer has 

 noticed a paragraph going the rounds of the pa- 

 pers, in which it is stated that there are in Ver- 

 mont twenty millions of sheep, producing wool of 

 the annual value of four millions of dollars. The 

 statement was so absurd, that their appeared no 

 necessity for contradicting it, but as it has been so 

 often repeated, it may be well to give the actual 

 facts. 



The number of sheep in Vermont does not 

 much exceed eleven hundred thousand ; the pro- 

 duce in wool is three pounds to the sheep, and 

 the average price of the wool is sixtyfive cents the 

 pound. The whole annual value is therefore a 

 little more than two millions of dollars. The pure 

 Saxony sheep, of which the number is not very 

 great, produce about two and a quarter pounds ; 

 the mixed Saxony and Merino about two and 

 three quarter pounds ; the Merino about three 

 pounds ; and the mixed Merino and native, about 

 three and a half pounds to the fleece. The aver- 

 age annual expense of keeping sheep in Vermont, 

 is rather less than one dollar the head. — Dai. Adv. 



Peas. — The Charleston Courier states that a 

 quantity of a new species of pea has been import- 

 ed from Cuba, by l)r ]l. 15. Strobel, of that city, 

 and plac(Ml in tli<^ |iuhlicatiou oflice of the South- 

 ern Agricultmist, fur gratuitous distribution, with 

 a view of introducing the culture into the United 

 States. It is a native of Ohi Spain, and is called 

 the Garvanza or Bra<i:anza. I'eas of this kind 

 yield in old Spain 300 busluds to the acre; they 

 sell ripe in Havana market for from .*! to $1 50 

 per bushel. They are excellent for soups, arc 

 larger than even the marrowfats, and are said to 

 he better cooked in the same way. — Middldown 

 Sentinel. 



American silk goods. — We were on Monday 

 shown by Charles Dyer, Escp of Providence, a 

 number of beautiful patterns of Silk Goods, man- 

 ufactured at his establishment in Cranston, II. 1. 

 Mr Dyer informed us that several im|)ortant im- 

 provements have been made recently in the looms 

 used for weaving Silk, and that it is calculated a.s 

 soon as a sufiicient quantity of cocoons can be ob- 

 tained, the weaving of silk will be prosecuted on 

 a more extensive scale than has been done liereto- 

 fore in this country. 



Several specimens of the above goods have been 

 left at the Commercial Insurance Oflice for in- 

 spection. — Prov. paper. 



Bituminous coal in Massachusetts. — The 

 Taunton Gazette states, on the authority of a let- 

 ter from Mansfield, that a bed of bituminous coal 

 has been discovered, on the land of Mr Alfred 

 Harden, in that town, about half a mile from the 

 Providence Rail Road. It was discovered, in 

 digging a well, ten feet below the surface of the 

 ground, the vein being more than six feet in 

 depth. It is added that a blacksmith in the neigh- 

 borhood has made trial of the coal, and pronoun- 

 ces its quality to be good. 



. We examined a few days since (says the New 

 York Commercial Advertiser) a machine for ma- 

 king pins by steam power, which was in operation 

 at the factory of R. Hoe & Co. The machine is 

 one of the most ingenious pieces of mechanism 

 we have ever seen ; it conijdetes sixty pins per 

 minute, and they look better and more perfect than 

 those manufactured in the usual way. 



Hydrostatic pressure. — It is well ascertain- 

 ed that a body immersed in water, experiences a 

 pressure proportionate to the depth. A striking 

 circumstance, illustrative of this principle, is men- 

 tioned by Scoresby, viz : that a boat dragged to 

 the bottom of the sea, by a harpooned whale, be- 

 came instantly so saturated with Avater in every 

 pore, that it appeared like one that had lain on the 

 bottom of the sea ever since the flood. The boat 

 was regained by the return of the whale to the 

 surface, and with difficulty was hauled into the 

 ship ; a fragment of it afterwards thrown into the 



water, sunk to the bottom like a stone Philad. 



Com. Herald. 



We have seen it estimated that if the oats with 

 which horses are fed were broken in a mill, that 

 three bushels would go as far as six. 



Among the curiosities in Apsley house is the 

 truckle bed in which the Duke of Wellington 

 sleeps. ' Why, it is so narrow,' exclaimed a 

 friend, ' there is not even room to turn in it ! ' 

 ' Turn in it ! ' cried his Grace, ' wlien once a man 

 begins to turn in his bed, it is time to turn out.' 



Col. Washington Cushing, of Hingham, has one 

 tree which produced this season eighteen bushels 

 of pears, which brought him $3 a bushel. Fifty 

 four dollars for the fruit of one tree, is pretty well 

 for Hingham. — Old Colony Press. 



In Missouri they have no parsnips. They fre- 

 quently plant them, but they strike so deep that 

 the rogues on the other side of the globe lay hold 

 of the roots and pull them through, so that the 

 labor and crop is lost to the rightful owners ! 



Paul Strong, of Northampton, picked from a 

 vine of spontaneous growth, 361 lbs. and 6 oz. of 

 ripe and unripe pumpkins : vine's length, 358 ft. 



