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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 97, 189(1. 



From the Satein Gazette. 



fumed and cracked. Il was then drawn off into 



Messrs. Editors — The writer in tlie New- 

 England Farmer, whose statement of the intro- 

 duction of Count Rumford's cooking apparatus in- 

 to this country you have copied into your paper 

 of the 13th inst. is mistaken in giving the credit 

 of its introduction to Gen. E. H. Derby of London- 

 derry, and if Gen. D. were alive he would contra- 

 dict it, and place the credit where il is due — to 

 his brother E/ekiel Hersey Derby, Esq. of South 

 Salem, who first introduced it. As this appara- 

 tus has become e.xtensive and useful in this coun- 

 try, a particular account of its introduction may 

 be-acceptable to your readers. 



In the year 18(10, Mr Ezekiel H. Derby express- 1 

 ed a wish to Dr. Priuce, to have a set of Count 

 Rumford's cooking apparatus put up in his new 

 kitchen, wliich he was adding to his house in 

 South Salem, and asked him to write to Count 

 Rumford, to procure him a complete set. It was 

 sent from London in August, 1801, with a letter 

 to Dr. Prince, accompanied with drawings des- 

 criptive of the apparatus, &c. The following is 

 an Extract, wliich I have seen : — 



" Rev. Sir — I have received your letter of the 

 4th January, and have great pleasure in affording 

 you all the assistance in my power in procuring 

 such articles from this country as will be wanted, 

 to make Mr Derby's kitchen a complete model of 

 those improvements I have recommended, and 

 which I trust will be found useful in my native 

 country." 



Dr. P. with Mr Derby planned the arrangements 

 of the apparatus on the kitchen hearth, Dr P. at- 

 tended and directed the masons in setting it up. 

 Finding it on experiment to answer all the pur- 

 poses described by Count R. Dr. P. brouglit Mr. 

 Joseph Howe of Boston, an ingenious and enter- 

 prising workman to inspect it. He undertook to 

 make "others like it. Several sets were made, and 

 set up in Salom, Dr. P. superintending the mason 

 work, until the masons iiad learnt the method of 

 constructing the fire places. He has told me, he 

 regretted that some of the workm.on had deviate 



cend below the floor to return the heat, and con- , • , , , 



semientlv to make less fuel necessary. Some barrels, and halt a barrel put into a hogshead ; a 

 ters have been set up in Boston where the flue | piece of canvass U inch wide and a foot long, dip- 



nt -trai^'ht up into the chimney over the roast- ped in sulphur, was then burnt in the cask, and 



er, by which the heat went off, when the fire was 

 low, whereas the descending flue retains the heat 

 longer round the roaster, which was Count R.'s 

 design in making it descend. Attention ^should bo 

 piid'to these circumstances to make Count R.'s , 

 plan succeed best. 



(JJ^We have shown the above article to the au- 

 thor of the piece alluded to (which was first pub- 

 lished in our paper. No. 11, page 82, of the cur- 

 rent volume) and he states that he was in an er- 

 ror in attributing the introduction of Count Rum- 

 ford's cooking apparaf.i3 to the late Gen. Derby, of 

 Londonderry instead of his brother E. H. Derby, 

 Esq. of South Salem. Likewise that he fully ac- 

 quiesces Jn the facts above stilted, and is obliged 

 to the writer for correcting his mistake. — Editor 

 A''. E. Farmer. 



REPORTS OF THE 



RHODE ISLAND AGRICULT'RAL SOCIETY. 



AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. 



The committee on agricultural products, consist- 

 ing of Samuel King, Charles Collins, Caleb Earle, 

 Christopher Rhoiles, Samuel Greene, and S. Hunt, 

 Jr. in discharge of that part of their duty which 

 the season permits, respectfully report that they 

 have awarded the premiums otlered by the Society 

 as follows : 

 1 box of niittcr, made by John ?(ialton of Warwick 



first premium of S'' 



1 do do made by Wci. Smitli of Johnston, second pre- 

 mium of C 

 1 do do made by J. Touitcllot of Gloucester, third 

 premium of 'i 

 The committee were much gratified with the 

 quality, neatness and excellent order in which all 



the cask bun:red up. Tlie Cider was racked off in 

 April, and bottled on the /th of this month. ( 



The second premium of $8 on Ciiler is awarded 

 to Isaac Field, of Seituate. '1 he apples were i 

 ground into a trough sufficient to make three bar- • 

 rels, and racked back and forth, that the air might ' 

 give a colour to the pumace. It was then pressed ■ 

 in the usual way, and the liquor placed in casks, 

 whence, after sutScient fermentation, it was rack- 

 ed off 



A premium of $5 was awarded to Mr James' 

 Harris, of Cranston, on a specimen of Wine made 

 from the cultivated white grap.? of the country. — 

 Tlie manufacture of this species of Wine is con- 

 sidered worthy of a further experiment. 



A number of ears of Corn of very large size, 

 and of fine quality, a specimen of tliC Sugar Beet, 

 and of Greening Apples of great size, were ofl'er- 

 ed for examination. We hope tlie practice will be 

 continued. The exhibition of articles of novelty ' 

 and of superior quality, bring them under a gene- 

 ral observation, which may lead to their propaga- 

 tion. At any rate there is some encouragement 

 afforded by the evidence of the powers of our soil 

 and of good culture. SAML'EL KING. 



Pawtuxel, Oct. 0, 1826. 



HOUSEHOLD M ANU F.'CTIUES. 



Tim Co#fmittee on Household Manufactures 

 consisting of Albert C. Greene, Stephen T. Nor- 

 than, Josiaii Whitaker, Wm. Anthony, John T. 

 Creade, S. N. Richmond and Tully Dorrance made 

 the following Report : 



Tliough the improvements in machinery and the 

 application of steara or water power to nearly all 

 the manufactures of domestic life, have left but lit- 



the specimens of Butter appeared this year. — j ,]g f^^ ^^^g actual labour of hands,yct your commit- 

 There was no one offered which would not be res- ^g^ ^,jg._y ^^.■^^]^ interest and approbation the efforts 

 pectiible in the market of Philadelphia. The com- | ^^j- fgj^j^ipg j^ ^j^^y to a high degree of perfection 

 mittee feel much pleasure in using their discre- , ,j^.,„y ^f ^i^ggg jji^.^^ fjji,j.ipg ^.j^^gp jg^.fyj.g j^ j^^ 

 tionary power, and awarding premiums of .93 each jgijcate to admit of other application in their for- 



to one firkin of Butter made by E. Slocum, ff i ,,^^^i(,„ fj^^n the pliant fingers of females guided 

 from-the plan laid down by Count R. tor the tire ^orth ^lv^vidence ; to one box Butter made by Job ;,, t,,g ^^111 and taste of their owners. In the 

 places, which were contrived to keep the fire iin- j 3.^;,^^^ ^^ p^^jer ; to one box Butter made by Al- ; ,„^.^,,„ fabrics, too, for domestic purposes, there 

 der and around the apparatus as long as possih e ; ,^^ j,,,;^^ ^j. seituate ; to one tub Butter made by ^ ^^^ .j^j^ „f igi,,,^^ ;„ p,.„y ^^.^i, regulated fam- 

 which retained the heat and saved luel ; by the j^aac Field, of Seituate ; and to one tub Butter ,,•„ ^^ich the industry of females, properlv di- 

 .,.......-., „..„,.,.„„..„„„ i„„f "" '""°'"^"'- made by PhebeT.iylor, of Warwick. '' ' "^ ' 



alteration, much heat was lost. He gave an in- 

 stance of the retention of heat, and utility of fol- 

 lowing Count R.'s plans in his own apparatus, 

 which was the first set up in Salem after Mr Der- 

 by's. His boiler for washing holds seven pails of 

 water, set up with winding flues, under and a- 

 round the boiler as Count R. directs. One day in 

 winter, when the copper was nearly full, the damp- 

 ers were closed, and the fire put out at 3 o'clock, 

 P. M. on account of the increasing cold of the at- 

 mosphere rendering it uncomfortable to hang out 

 the clothes, at that late hour. The clothes remain 

 ed in the boiler till 9 o'clock the next morning 



The Committee hare awarded. 

 For a lot of Cheese made by Wm. Smith of Johnston 



first premium of nS 



For do do msde by E- Slocum of North Providence 



second premium of G 



For do do made l)y James A. Fennerof Foster, first 



preoiinm of 



The remaining specimens offered were without 



rected, may effect much by the production of ne- 

 cessary articles of use, at, to them, cheaper rates, 

 even than like products of improved labour saving 

 machinery. It is gratifying to perceive that in 



5 I both the above departments, the ladies of Riiode 

 Island have given abundant evidence that tliough 



-1 the progress of improvement has rendered it a 

 waste of time for them to attempt to emulate the 



iloubt intended for good Cheese, and are of a fair pains-taking industry of their worthy great-grand- 

 quality ; and to encourage a continuance of eftbrts , mothers, in the slow progress of tlie hand manu- 

 inthis important br-.r,ch, the committee award a facture of nearly every article designed for domes- 

 premium of .$2 to each of the followin? lots, viz : ; tic use, from the embroidery of u holder to the 



The thermometer fell durin<r the night to three I to No. G made by W. N. Rhodes, of North Provi- : coarse cotton for the girls the linsey-woolsey for 



degrees below zero? and things froze in the kitch- 

 en, and yet when the woman (fifteen hours after 

 the fire was extinguished^ put her hand into the 

 water to take out the clothes, she suddenly with- 

 drew it, supposing she had scalded herself, so 

 much of the heat had been retained, although the 

 mass of the clothes and water was not large. 



The masons have too much neglected the wind- 

 ing flues, under the copper boiler, and the descend- 

 ing flue of the Roaster, which should always des- 



dence ; to No. 0, made by Robert Crandall, of the boys, and the bed clothes and linen for llie 

 Exeter; to No. 10, made by G. Mathewson, of ; "hole family ; to be carefully preserved and hand- 

 East Greenwich ; to No. 20,'niade by Isaac Field j ed through succeeding generations, and without a 

 of Seituate. ; due proportion of which, (tiie work of her own 



Two applications were m-de for premiums on iliands) the bride was considered as bringing but a 

 Cider in bottles, recently drawn from casks, and j mean dowry to her husband, still they inherit e- , 

 made in the Fall of 1825. nongli of that industry (and have added to it an in- 



The first premium of $10 is awarded to James crease of taste and skill) to know how to (ievote 

 Harris, of Cranston. This '"ider wa« pressed ae (hours that might otlierwise be wasted in, at best, 

 usual, and placed in an open cask till the scum I elegant idleness, to the economical and profitable 



