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ceived opinion. Lime should therefore be used 

 experimentally : at first in small quantities, to see 

 what effect it has, and increased afterwards as the 

 result indicates it should be. It is unnecessary as 

 an adjunct to putrescent manures, in the first in- 

 stance, whose softer parts will easily decompose 

 without ; but should it not be used as an alternate 

 manuring to succeeding crops, to dissolve the 

 coarse parts of vegetables, which will not easily 

 dissolve of themselves ? 



Beautiful Machinery. — To those who love 

 to contemplate the results of human ingenuity, as 

 manifested in complicated machinery, a visit to 

 the paper mills of Newton, a few miles from Bos- 

 ton, will afford the highest degree of satisfaction. 

 The rags by the operation of some simple yet 

 well devised combination of wheels, are reduced 

 very rapidly to a sort of paste. This is then 

 spread out by the movement of other machinery 

 unassisted by hands, into a thin broad sheet, which 

 goes onward over rollers, and down between cylin- 

 ders, heated by steam, &c. till it finally makes its 

 appearance at the extremity of a room about twen- 

 tyfive feet from where it flowed out of a vat of 

 cold water, in the form of a beautiful ribbon of 

 white dry paper, fit for immediate use. Millions 

 of yards might easily be manufactured into one 

 unbroken piece. For the convenience of the 

 printers however, the paper is cut into any require 

 ed size, by revolving shears. On the whole, after 

 having carefully examined this wonderful labor- 

 saving machinery, we have come to the conclusion 

 that it must be regarded as one of the most extra- 

 ordinary productions of the age. — Scientific Tracts. 



Fat Cattle. — The ancient town of Deerfield, 

 with its broad and fertile meadows, probably fur- 

 nishes more heavy cattle for market than almost 

 any other town in the valley of the Connecticut. 

 Three noble pairs, fatted by Mr David Barnard of 

 that place, were weighed in this town on Satur- 

 day. The heaviest weighed 4397 lbs. ; next 

 4295 ; and the lighest 4070, making an aggregate 

 of 12762 ]b?.— Greenfield Gazette. 



Leaves for Potatoes. — Leaves piled in a 

 pen with alternate thin strata of swamp mud, 

 when partially decomposed are found a superior 

 preparation for the Irish potato crop. Put 

 around the roots of fruit trees, this compost has 

 been found to produce a healthy and vigorous 

 growth. Its operation has been much increased 

 in its efficacy by the addition of lime to the mass. 

 The finest Irish potatoes that I have seen produced 

 in a southern clime were produced by this com- 

 post. — Southern Lyceum. 



BROOKS' PATEKT SILK SPINKIJVG MACHINE. 



Brooks's silk spinning and reeling machine, which 

 was invented by himself, is found to be a very 

 simple and easy operating machine, and yet one of 

 the most perfect that has been invented for the pur- 

 pose of reeling and twisting silk from the cocoons, 

 and manufacturing it into sewing silk. Ey the dif- 

 ferent arrangements of this machine, it will operate 

 upon a single or double thread, as may be required, 

 and prepare it for twisting or weaving. Experience 

 has fully proved that by uniting the filaments of silk 

 as they are drawn from the cocoons, wet in their 

 natural glutinous substance before they are dry, the 

 thread is more firm, smouth and stronger ; from the 

 simplicity of the maciiine, and the very easy way 

 in which it is used, brings it within the comprehen- 

 sion and capacity of any person to use it. Mr 

 Brooks has received a premium for this invention 

 from several societies, and of late, a premium and 

 medal from the Scolt's legacy, in Philadelphia. 



HINTS TO YOUNG FARMERS. 



Consider your calling the most elevated and 

 the most important : but never be above it, nor 

 be afraid of the frock and the apron. 



Put off no business which ought and can be 

 done today, until tomorrow. 



As soon as the spring opens and the frost is out 

 of the ground, put your fences in order. 



Plant no more ground than you can well ma- 

 nure and cultivate to advantage. 



Never hire a man to do a piece of work which 

 you can do yourself. 



Instead of spending a rainy day at the dram 

 shop, as many do to their ruin, repair whatever 

 wants mending — post your books. 



