ct iVoiu mciliciil gentlemen or others wlio pos- 

 ;.-s it. 



\Vc suspect that spirits of turpentine, In proper 

 >sp.-i, would answer every purpose of tlie said ap- 

 es, knots, or berries ; but the former may not 

 « ays be so easily procured, and requires per- 

 ps more care in administering. 



Vul. v.— \o. «. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



bio fact, that tin; 

 scaped uninjuied, ; 



59 



ISO from which ihcy rolrcatedi dant.ut the Hall, 

 nd was thi! only place wliere ' I'cr annum, during 



From I'lc American Farmer 



ORCHARD GRASa 

 I have cultivated ori;hard ^rass for 



tlioy could have been safe. At the last accounts, 

 the bodies of Mr and JMrs VV. and one of liis ser- 

 vants had been found. " The magnitude of the 

 rocks thrown down and whirled about, and the 

 whole desolation is horrible beyond dcscripliou." 

 [Greenfield I'ost.] 



TO KEEP APPLES FOR WINTER USE. 

 Put them in casks or bins, in layers, well cover- 

 ed with dry sand; each layer being covered. Th 



The torms are only two dollars 

 pleasure, or .'52.'> for life We 



liairtly need add, that the funds thu.s subscribed 

 are to enable the Society to award generous Pre- 

 nuums to Ingenuity, Jlechaiiic Skill, and patriotic 

 Enterprise. [Ccntinel.] 



From Memoirs of the N. Y. BoardTrAgriculture, 



ON WINTERING SHEEP. 



.Ii:ssE BuKi., Es<i.— Agreeably to your request, 



I herewith transmit a brief statement of facts and 



observations, in relation to the keeping of sheep ; 



and sliould you deem them of sufficient impor- 



...c. s.a«, ..a» .e.er ucen so .uny,, ,1 , ,„ . . = t»"«e, you are at liberty to make them public, for 



or mvview as during the present sea 17""^ '?,^ '''"''' '""!" ^""''' '^ preserves the ''^ benefit of others engaged in that important 



verul vears, and have observed and heard of T''^" '='"':;'" f'""'" t''^ air, from moisture, and 

 U.V of 'its valuable properties, yet its superiority l'""' ''■°''.' ' . P'-';^'^'"^ their perishing by their 

 .r'overv other grass, has never been so f,i,, °i^ " I'^^P-yatio'i /heir moisture being absorbed 



1. About the "iOth June, I cut a crop of seed j 



flavour of the apples, and prevents their wiltino-. ! branch of agriculture. 



m a field of orchard grass, and in mowing my j f^'^'^""' ''^^''>'^'" ^"^P' '" ^'''=^ "^^""^-^ sound"and 

 lotliy on the 2Ist July, (which was adjoining the ' 



hard grass in a part of the same field,) ray peo- 



wore tempted by the fine swarth which the 



hard grass atforJed, to mow a part of the same 



und from which I had saved seed about a month 



And although I had before witnessed the 

 pi<liry of its growtli, yet I was neverthe- 

 5 astouis'ieJ in walking over the field to-day to 

 1 the grass very nearly knee high where it had 

 n chisely mown otihj three weeks before, and 

 on the timothy adjoining it would hardly fur- 

 1 a bite for a sheep. Indeed, I have no doubt 

 that I shall, in the course of a few weeks, cut 

 icavy a crop of hay from this same ground as 

 ive ever secured. 



'he great advantage of a grass which recovers 

 oon from the scythe and the tooth, are so ob- 

 is as to render it unnecessary to enlarge on the 

 ject ; indeed my object in making this com- 

 licationis barely to state the naked fact. 



esii, till midsummer ; and liow much longer they 

 would have kept is not known. Any kind of sand 

 will answer, but it must be perfectly dry. 



BOSTON FAIR. 



[Patronized hj the JVcw England Sociely, the 

 Legislature, and the City.] 

 The PUBLIC SALES of this important Institu- 

 tion commenced on Tuesday, the 12th inst. in the 

 spacious Hall of tlie New Market House, with 

 great spirit, and under very favourable auspices. 

 The company was e.Ktremely numerous, composed, 

 besides our own citizens of many respectable and 

 intelligent Dealers from other towns and States, 

 and many from southern cities. The sales were 

 brisk, and the articles, we were informed, com- 

 manded fair prices ; but sufficiently low, we trust, 

 to remunerate our Visiters for their trouble and 

 expense. Some judgment may be formed of the 

 e.xtent of the numbers vvlio proposed to make pur 



lar information, to the pages of your useful 

 nal, in which ample justice has been done this 

 Juable grass by several of your correspondents 

 1 have had longer experience and closer obser- 

 on of it than myself. 

 I am, with respect, your obed't serv't, D. 



those who maybe desirous of more' par- |°'"'^^^' ^'■°°V^''^ f'^'^'- ">at "^ix hundred of the Cata- 

 logues were delivered out on Monday, whicli being 

 found too few to supply the demand, a second 

 edition was provided. 



We confess our inability to do any thing like 

 justice to the display of Domestic Manufactures 

 on this occasion. The Hall of the Market House 

 is 530 feet by 50, and was filled in all parts, scarce- 

 ly giving sufficient room for the purchasers, with 

 products, and mostly with sample packages. We 

 took the pains to count the items of two of the 

 many Catalogues in circulation — from which the 

 sales were made in regular course, without re- 

 serve, and in strict compliance with the regulations 

 established. 



The public universally anticipate invaluable 

 benefits to Country and Town from the new In- 

 stitution ; — the Patrons and Agents of which are 

 richly entitled to the public gratitude for their 

 spirit and enterprizo. — The Legislature also is en- 

 titled to thanks for its well-timed liberality in ex- 

 empting the articles sold from the auction tax ; 

 and the City, we hope, claim some share in the 

 offering for having provided a Hall of Exhibition 

 which we are assure.d will not greatly suffisr when 

 compared with the Halls of London, or the Louvre 

 in Paris. 



We see by an advertisment of the Secretary of 

 the New-England Society that subscription papers 

 for the signatures of such as are disposed to be- 



7ii7e Mountains. — The Haverhill, N. H. Intel- 

 ncer of the Gth inst. gives an account of a most 

 lendous and destructive slide, or avalanche of 

 White Mountains, on the 28th August. The 

 h had been undermined by the heavy rains of 

 ■ral days preceding. The slide was near the 

 h or gap in the mountain, and has made the 

 h road, it is feared, utterly impassable. Mr 

 ley, those who read the extract from the editor 

 le Galaxy's visit to the White Mountains, will 

 ember, kept a comfoitable tavern near the 

 ■h. There was a slide near his house two or 

 ■e months before, which so much alarmed the 

 ily, that they were making preparations to 

 idon their dwelling. By this last avalanclie. 

 meadows of Mr W. containing 30 or 40 acres 

 covered with stones and earth, and probably 

 eil. The family of Mr W. who had just retir- 

 bed, alarmed by the roaring of tlie avftlanclia 

 from the house with the greatest precipitatiorl 

 ek safety in the " Camp," a building which 



Willey had erected as a place of refuge sinco 



slide of the 23d June. The whole family, con-, come Members of an Institution, by whose labori- 

 ng of Mr W. his wife, five children and two, ous exertions and public spirit, this Commence- 

 ants, were overtaken by the sliding mass o|i,| ment of Periodical Sales, (which we trust is the 

 es and earth, and every soul perished. Thetil'eginning of anew era of prosperity) has been 

 imp " too was destroyed, and it is a remarlia-luiade, are lodged with Mr Appx-eton, Superinten- 



t will be recollected, that in the summer of 

 1822, the drought was severe in many parts of out 

 country. In the county of Cayuga, where I re- 

 side, and in the counties adjacent, it was greater 

 than in any former year, since the settlement of 

 the county. Our meadows were so much parched, 

 that we did not secure more than one-third of the' 

 hay we do in ordinary seasons. At this time, my 

 flock consisted of about .500 sheep, including about 

 120 lambs ; and as I had a very scanty supply of 

 hay, I was obliged to resort to some expedient to 

 winter my flock upon less than the usual quantity 

 of it. 



About the fitYeenth of December, I commenced 

 feeding them, it which time I had only about nine 

 tons of fine tipiothy and clover hay. I divided my 

 sheep into flo:ks of about 100, and commenced 

 giving them, say half a gill of corn per day, in the 

 ear, dividing it so as to give half of it in the morn- 

 ing, and the residue in the evening, except that to 

 the lambs I gave nearly the same quantity of oats 

 in the sheaf. I fed in this way, until about -the 

 first of January following, when the quantity of 

 grain was a little increased ; so that, between the 

 15lh of December and the 15th of April following, 

 I actually fed to my 380 sheep, 1-15 bushels of 

 corn, and to the 120 lambs, 40 bushels of oats, 

 which would be something less than a gill of corn 

 and oats per head, per day, to both sheep and 

 Iambs, during the winter. The flock had little 

 more than enough of hay to form a cud, except 

 that in extreme cold weather, I directed them to 

 be full fed on hay. 



In this imnner 500 sheep were wintered, with 

 the loss of only three lambs ; and at the opening 

 of the spriig, they were in better health and con- 

 dition thar any flock I ever wintered in any form- 

 er season since I have been engaged in rearing 

 sheep and growing wool. 



I estimate the expense of keeping my flock of 

 .500 sheep through the winter, as follows : 

 Nine tons J f hay, at $7,00 

 145 busheh of corn, at $0,53 - 

 40 do. 1 oats, at $0,19 - 

 Salt with tie hay, &c. 

 Attendancil of shepherd, - - . 



[ $171,55 



I have aiopted the same course with my sheep, 

 this wintff, and from letters recently received 

 from my in, who has the charge of the flock, I 

 entertain J confident expectation of the same re- 

 sult. JEDEDIAH MORGAN. 

 CayugajMareh 18, 1824. 



The London Times states that the custom house 

 duties ari falling off at the rate of £600,000 per 

 quarter. 



