VOL. XIV. KO. 5a. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL 



411 



Wool anl Suff.p. — Sales of wool have hard- 

 ly coinmeiiceil hi this section. The buyers have 

 not yet come out to make their purchases. In 

 fact a good portion of tlie flocks were not sheared 

 previously to this week. The unusually cold 

 weather has delayeil the shearing. Those who 

 sheared early have lost some of their sheep, in 

 consequence of the enld. One gentleman in 

 \Villianisi)urgli, IMr Wait, out of a flock of an 

 hundred lias lost twenty, we are informed. .\ 

 "ew salts have been eft'ccted, as we have heard, 

 It about the same rates as last year ; perhaps a 

 ittle higher. It seems quite evident that the |>ri- 

 :es will be as high, and probably higher. We 

 ire informed that the fleeces do not come off, up- 

 m an average, (piite so heavy as last year. It is 

 laid that the sheep shed their fleeces more than 

 common lliis season, and it is attributed to th(; 

 act, that they were unusually diseased last win- 

 er. Manufacturers aver, that they shall not be 

 ;ble to purchase large quantities of wool on ac- 

 oimt of tlie scarcity of money; that they find it 

 lifficult to obtain money enough to purchase suf- 

 icient wool to supply the immediate demands of 

 lieir factories. The Vermont Chronicle, howev- 

 r, advises the farmers not to be frightened — that 

 loney will be paid as readily for wool, as last year, 

 nd at higher rates. — .Yorlhnmpion Gaz. 



Sweet Apples. — We have frequent inquiries, 

 s nursery men, for trees of sweet apples, to culti- 

 ate for hogs and otiier farm stock, as though none 

 ut sweet apples were fit for that purpose. This 

 pinion originates from a misapprehension of the 

 ualities of the apfile. In the first place the 

 utritive property of the apple consists prineipal- 

 ' in the saccharine matter which it contains, 

 his is determined by the specific gravity of its 

 lice — the heavier this, the more saccharine mat- 

 ;r it contains. Now the heaviest juice is found 

 1 acid as well as sweet apples. The acid is su- 

 eradded to the sweet. In the second place, sour 

 3ples are as grateful to the stomach, and so they 

 ■e to the stomach of our farm stock, as sweet ap- 

 !es are, and a mixture is at least desirable. Sweet 

 jples alone soon clog the stomach. A friend re- 

 ted to us a few days ago, that he last year turned 



s hogs into his orchard to eat the falling fruit; 



at the orchard being large the hogs were able 



consume only a part of the apples ; that he sev- 

 al times went into the orchard to ascertain which 

 ey preferred, the sweet or sour; that he uni- 

 rmly found that they selected from both, and 



at they rejected as many of the sweet as of the 

 air. Heuce sour apples are as nutritious, and 



palatable, to man and beast, as sweet apples, 

 id ought to be as extensively cultivated. — Cul- 

 vator. 



I MansfikldCoal Mines. — There arotwo mines 

 in Mansfield, near the junction of the Taunton 

 llaihoad with the Boston and Providence Rail- 

 road, on both of wideli works are now in progress, 

 which will soon test their productiveness. Coal 

 ofa very good quality has been taken from both. 

 One of them, belonging to the Mansfield Coal 

 Company has been exiilored to a depth of more 

 tluin twenty feet from the surface, the vein de- 

 scending at a rate of about one foot in four. On 

 the other mine on which the works have been 

 commenced by the IMassachusetts Mining Compa- 

 ny, a perpendicular shaft has been sunk, which 

 strikes a vein of coal at a depth of about twenty 

 feet. 



Twenty or thirty tons of coal have been al- 

 ready raised. On this mine a steam engine is em- 

 ployed, which is worked by coal from the mine, 

 and it operates well. We learn from a gentle- 

 man who has visited both mines, that the pros- 

 pects aie highly flattering. He has favored us 

 with specimens of coal from each of the mines. — 

 Bost. Adv. 



\ solid lump of gold, 259 pwts., estimated at 

 S241, was taken out of a Lead mine, near Dah- 

 lonega, Ga. The mines in that neighborhood are 

 said to be yielding a better profit than they have 

 done for years. 



' Great Calves ' enough can be found, both bip- 

 1 aud quadruped ; — but few, however, so young 

 . eight weeks, are so great as one now in the pos- 

 ssion of Mr McGee, of Colerain, this county. It is 



large as yearlings usually are. Weighs 260 lbs. 

 -a real mammoth. — Greenfield Gaz. 



Mammoth Dandelion. — A friend has left at 

 ir ofl]ce a dandelion, the weight of which is up- 

 ards of two pounds — and its diameter two feet 

 ur inches. It would make an ample mess of 

 eens for the Mayor and Aldermen. — Salem M- 

 rtiaer. 



Large Strawberries. — We were, a few days 

 since, presented with several mammoth strawber- 

 ries, from the garden of Mr. N. G. Carnes, of this 

 village, the largest of which measiu-ed three and 

 three-quarter inches in circumference. They 

 were perfectly ripe, and ofa flavor as delicious as 

 any we have ever tasted. — Poughheepsie Jour. 



The exports of Boots and Shoes has increased 

 beyond the expectations of the most sanguine. 

 Those who are best acquainted with it, estimate 

 the amount which will be exported from this 

 State this year, at $20,000,000, of which Lynn 

 alone does one tenth part. — The export last year 

 was $10,500,000, not reckoning towns which 

 made less than $100,000 worth. — JVewburyport 

 Herald. 



A writer in the National Intelligencer describes 

 the advantages of Todd's newly invented engine 

 fov purifying and dressing feathers, says : 



"We saw him (Mr T.) take a feather bed that 

 had become heavy and matted by use, empty 

 the feathers into his machine, aud let the steam 

 into them a few minutes until the feathers became 

 moist and hot, and sufiiciently so to cleanse and 

 juirify them from the smell of perspiration, &c. 

 and to destroy the moths, &c. ; then turn the 

 steam out of the feathers, and pass it through 

 them in a large tin pipe, which soon dried them 

 entirely. The machine was all the time kept in 

 motion which was so constructed as to leave them 

 light, buoyant and elastic; and give them the ap- 

 pearance of new feathers. — By the above process 

 we are of opinion that feathers that are impreg- 

 nated with fevers, and even the Cholera, may be 

 completely restored." 



The luxury of a pure bed is one which no 

 one ought to forego, and which no mancr wo- 

 man of good sense will omit to see.ure. — Mr 

 Todd's invention, therefore, deserves universal 

 patronage. 



An A,-.ierican Oil Well. — About ten years 

 ago on boring for salt water, 200 feet through 

 solid rock, near Bnrksville, Kentucky, a fountain 

 of pure oil wa.s struck which was thrown up in a 

 stream of 12 feet above the surface of the earth, 

 emilting for several days 75 gallons a minute. The 

 well being on a margin of a creek emptying into 

 Cumberland River the oil took that course, cover- 

 ed its surface, and was .set fire to by way of expe- 

 riment, presenting the ap|:earan<e of a rivur in a 

 l)la;-.e. The flames climbed the hils, and .scorched 

 the highest tree.=. The oil is very iiiflamniable and 

 penetrating and possesses so much gas that it 

 breaks bottles in which it is confined. — The color 

 is green biit becomes brown on exposure to the 

 a'r. It is extremely volatile am} pungent, of a 

 pitchy taste. There has been two flows in six 

 years — the last was on July 4, 1835, from whieh 

 twenty barrels of oil were obtained during the 

 time it continued. The oil is leadily separable 

 from the salt water, with which it is pumped u[ , 

 by its rising on the top of it — a rumbling noise 

 precedes the eruption. It is called American Oil, 

 and is in high repute iii Kentucky and Ohio. Some 

 say it is medicinal. 



[Remarks. — It is probable petroleum or mineral 

 oil one of those exudations from coal formations 

 frequently found in our country and in others 

 The gas may prohalily by carburetted hydrogen 

 often found in conjunction with it, and forming 

 an inflammable gas, whieh is used at Frcdoniaon 

 Lake Erie in this state as a natural light house. 

 The terebinthinate pungent smell conies from the 

 debris of the pine forests and timber, infused into 

 and incorporated with the coal formations. — jV. 

 Y. Star.] 



Causes OF Consumption. — A late number of 

 the" Moral Reformer concludes an excellent arti- 

 cle on the causes of consumption, with the follow- 

 ing receijit for taking the disease : — 



Receipt. — If an individual is horn with a fee- 

 ble constitution,, it is an easy method to obtain the 

 consumption by the age of 30, if he will attend to 

 the following rules: — Let the person while lery 

 young be kept always in hot rooms. Let him fre- 

 quent ball rooms, theatre's, &c., and go out of them 

 in the middle of the night, thinly clad and with- 

 out any additional clothing. Let nmeh time be 

 spent in confinement, either at home or at school 

 rooms on bad seats aud bad air. Let the mind 

 be tasked early. Let him at six or eight years of 

 age become a prodigy I'or knowledge. Instead of 

 simple water for drink and milk and good vegeta- 

 bles for food give him as soon as you can get it 

 down his throat, tea, coffee and other exciting 

 drinks, and the most stimulating and high season- 

 ed food. — Take c;ire to excite his mind if you can, 

 by emulation, ambition and other kindred motives 

 — and his body and mind both by unholy pas- 

 sions and lead him to destroy his vital force by vi- 

 cious and unnatural indulgences. — Take care to 

 have him sleep both in winter. iiid summer on hot 

 feather beds ; aid if these are not quite sufficient 

 to destroy him take effective or poisonous medi- 

 cines for every trifling ailment. 



Beat this who can. — A Pawtucket girl, not ten 

 years of age, lately jilanted two acres of land with 

 [lotatoes in one day. What a wife for a farmer! 

 Woonsocket Pat. 



What a farmer for a wife, we should say. 



