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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Dec. 17, 1830. 



season. After it comes into bearing, it increases fected. In answering tlie foregoinj,' inquiries, you 

 annually in fertility and the quantity of its produce 1 may confer a favor upon more of your patrons 



but it attains considerable size before it produces 

 freely. 



I received the original tree of this variety in 

 1802, from a person then resident in Baltimore, 

 who was very curious in fruits, and who had a 

 number of French varieties of pears. It was on 

 a quince stock and soon bore fruit, which was lar- 

 ger, handsomer, and more melting than any I have 

 since had on pear stocks. 



Red Cheek, Pr. Cat. 

 English red cheek. Pr. Cat. 25 ed. 



This pear is cultivated at Rhode Island under 

 the name given above as a synonyme, whence it 

 was brouglit to Long Island. It is a bell shaped 

 fruit, of a beautiful yellow color, with a red cheek ; 

 it is not quite as large as the St Michael or Vir- 

 galieu, — is considered a very good fruit when not 

 over ripe, and the tree bears well; it ripens at the 

 latter pait of August. 



A tree imported from France, but whose name 

 is unknown, has produced fruit precisely like the 

 foregoing, and it is therefore most probable that 

 the variety is of French origin. 



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Worcester County, Dec. 



ONE. 



1830. 



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BOSTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1830. 



LARGE HOGS. 



Jlr Alanson Sessions, of Cumberland, R. I. 

 on Tuesday last, sold to Messrs C. H. and 11. 

 Brackett, of the Boston Merchants' Hall Market, 

 two hogs, one of which weighed 675 lbs. the other 

 645. The largest had not been able to get up 

 alone for two months before he was Ijilled. 



Large Cabbages. — Messrs Fenno and Patson, 

 of Chelsea, Mass. have raised two Drumhead 

 Cabbages this season, whicli weighed 25 lbs. each, 

 after being divested of their stumps and outside 

 leaves. 



Qimrlerly Review. — Lillv & Wait, Court Street, 

 Boston, have just re-published the 86tli No. of 

 this vahiablo Journal, which contains elaborate 

 articles on the Decline of Science in England ; 

 on Credit Currency ; on the Life of Bishop Hcber ; 

 on the Principles of Geology ; Southey's new 

 edition of Bunyan'.s Pilgrim's Progiess ; on the 

 Affairs of Greece ; on an edition of the New 

 Testament into the Negro-English language, by 

 the Wissionaries of the United Brethren ; on the 

 late affairs of France. Published quarterly, at 

 $5,00 ])er annum. 



FOR THE NEW KNGLAND FARMER. 



GLANDERS IN HORSES. 

 Mr Fessenden — If consistent with the object 

 of your useful paper, will you have the goodness 

 to answer the following questions : 



1. What are certain signs that a horse has the 

 disorder called the glanders ? 



2. Is there any certain cure for this disorder ? 



3. If there be, by what means can it be effect- 

 ed ? 



I am acquainted with some things said to be 

 useful, and have employed them, but with very 

 little success, /know of no cure; if there be 

 one, I very much wish to know how it can be ef- 



Remarks by the Editor. — An obliging friend in 

 this vicinity, who has the care of many horses, 

 iias furnished us with the following reply to the 

 above. 



Glanders, commonly called the Horse Distem- 

 per, is always accompanied with a discharge of 

 matter from the nostrils, and a swelling of the 

 glands under the throat. When the bones become 

 rotten in that part, it is generally incurable — and 

 this may be known by the bad smell which it 

 produces in such cases; for the most part it is 

 sure death ; not one in ahunilred recovers. 



The treatment recommended iu Gibson's Far- 

 riery for this disease, while in its first and second 

 stages, is, to make use of purges, diaphoretics, 

 and roweling in the hinder parts. We imagine 

 that roweling in the breast will answer the same 

 purpose. To clear '.he nostrils, Gibson recom- 

 mends passing the fumes of burnt brimstone or 

 burnt leather into the nose of the horse, and after 

 the matter has been discharged, to syringe his nos- 

 trils with brandy or red wine. Afterwards, he 

 says, a small quantity of Unguentum Egyptianum, 

 dissolved in oil of turpentine, may be injected 

 through a large pipe, for the purpose of cleansing 

 the ulcerated parts. A particular account of this 

 disease will be found iu N. E. Farmer, v. 8, p. 412. 



State of New York. — We gather from Mr 

 Butler's Anniversary Discourse before the Albany 

 Institute, the following interesting facts respecting 

 the State of New York. 



In 1790, the population was 340,000. It is now 

 about 2 millions I Being an increase in 40 years 

 of one million, six hundred and sixty thousand ! 

 There are in the state 8 million acres of improved 

 land. The number of counties, separately organ- 

 ized is 55. There are 757 towns, 93 incorporated 

 villages and 5 incorporated cities, one of which 

 contains more than two hundred thousand inhabi- 

 tants. The canal navigation constructed and owned 

 by the state, is 484 miles, and 81 by an incorporat- 

 ed company. From salt springs in the state, 

 nearly a million and a half bushels of salt are made 

 yearly. There are 1406 post offices — 70 ' steam 

 boats — 211 newspapers, 14 of them daily — 214 

 incorporated manufacturing companies, and sever- 

 al hundred not incorporated — 44 banks, an<l 53 

 insurance comjianics now iu ojjperation — 350 

 turnpike and bridge companies — 5 savings banks 

 and a militia of nearly 200,000.— TV. E. C. Herald. 



A composition for painting Wood, SfC. — A respect- 

 able correspondent sent us the following recipe for 

 a paint, which he says is durable and appears well 



1 quart of salt, dissolved in a gallon of hot u;-- 

 ter. 



1 lb. of coarse brown sugar in a quart of hot wa- 

 r. 



5 lbs. spruce yellow. 



2 lbs. lime. 



.Vonel Exhibition. — A gentleman from New England 

 is pi'cpaiing to exhibit in Philadelpliia, miniature models 

 of llie machinery used in CoUon and woollen nianulacto- 

 ries,exhibiiing all the operations from the sticking of the 

 card* to the weaving of the cloth. The machinery is 

 put in operation by dogs, trained for the purpose. 



Rare Sport. — One young fool was shot iu the breast, 

 by another tool, near Camden, New Jersey, on the 26lh 

 of October. They were firing ateach other according to 

 the laws of honor. 



A most remarkable case has occurred lately iu Penn- 

 sylvania A negro woman died suddenly : after she 

 was put in the coffin, the sexlon observed the sheet lo 

 move immediately above her hand. He thought iruicli 

 of it, and finally hit upon the idea that some slupifying 

 poison might have been given her, and that she would 

 come to after some hours or days. He l;new that her 

 husband was enamored of the sister of the deceased. — 

 He inquired of the apothecaries and (ound that the hus- 

 band had bought arsenic. The wife was disinterred, and 

 arsenic found in her. The husband is sentenced to 

 death. 



Count de SurviUiers, (Joseph Bonaparte) h.\s sent to 

 the editor of the New York Courrler des EtatsUnis, the 

 sum ot one hundred dollars for the Spanish emi^'rants in 

 tliat citv and the same sum for tue funds of the French 

 benevolent Society. 



[The ('ount is engaged in a. lawsuit to resist the run- 

 ning of a rail road through his fine garden and grounds. 

 When a canal in China is required to go through the 

 Emperor's gardens, he goes out at the head of the dig- 

 gers, and lifting the first shovel full of his ground he says: 

 This 1 do that all may learn to prefer public good to 

 private pleasure.] 



Turns in Trade. — A line of steamboats is about to be 

 eslablislied from Wells river, Vermont, to Hartford, Con. 

 ami even to N. York city. If the project succeeds, the 

 effect will be to divert the whole trade of Giaflon and 

 Coos counties to the New York and Hartloid markets. 

 Look to it, Bostonians ! — Gaz. 



The Board of Internal Improvement of North Carolinai 

 have re])orted in favor of an immediate appropriation oH 



f.50(),000 to public works. 



It is stated that there are now seven millions of spe- 

 cie in the banks of New York. This is owing to tht. 

 domeslic trade — to manufactures and internal improve- 

 ments. 



Germantown, Pcnn. Dec. 1 — The Season. — A gen- 

 tleman left at this office, on Saturday morning last, a ful 

 grown Catharine Pear, of the second growth, which wai 

 taken from a tree of Mr Peter Betchel, Sr. of Moun< 

 Airy. 



On the 17th ult. there was for the first time this seat 

 son, a heavy fall of snow at Quebec. The mountaioif 

 between St Joachim and St Paul's Bay, were coverenl 

 wiili snow on the 1st ult. and at the same time there wai 

 a fall of snow on the Catskill mountains and the borden 

 of Lake Champlain. A few flakes fell at Boston abou 

 the same time. 



The Porlland and Louisville Canal, was to receive i(J|§'f' 

 water on Monday the 30th ult. and to be immediate! 

 open for boats. 



Domestic Goods. — The ship Emerald from Salem ft 

 Calcutta carried out 213 bales. 



British navy employs no fewer than 52 Admirals; 61 



Vice Admirals; 66 Rear Admirals ; 32 Superannuate! '■' 



Rear Admirals ; 20 Retired Captains ; 809 Post CaptaiM ¥ 



844 Commanders; 98 Superannuated Commanders; , "" 



Poor Knights of Windsor ; no less than 3691 LieutenanJ I". 



540 masters; 353 Surgeons, and 668 Pursers, besidesij ^^ 



numerable midshipmen. J f" 



There is a large fish supposed to be 20 feet long in Fl j jj 

 Pond, North Dennis, Barnstable county. ■' ^j 



The late remarkably high tide? did much damage'! ""i 

 the hay stacks and salt works in that county. 



Mr Rush has wiitten a very excellent letter illustrM 



ing and defending the American System. It was in ^ fO{ 



ply to a letter of the owners of the Philadelphia a !!)« 



Pi-oviJeucc packets, who informed him that their freigj 'nh 



had increased in the last sixteen years 1200 per cent. ■ *;; 



Steamboats. — It is slated in Silliman's Journal tb| 

 1500 persons have been killed in the U. S. by Stein 

 boat explosions. 



Commitments in Suffolk Jail for debt in 1830. — 1 

 have been abnut 1000, mostly for debts under 20 



Thief caught bi) Wliiskey. — A negro broke Inl 

 store in Macon, Ga. and after tilling a trunk or two ' _ 

 goods, could not muster resolution enough to leave th 

 store without taking a sample of the whiskey. Ti 

 sample proved loo powerful and the thief was caught 



A Directory Is about to be published in Lowell. 



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