5 Vol. V No. l.'i. 



'; Tt) KINDLE A COAL FIHE. ; 



' Let tlio stove ov grate l)e empty or nearly so : 

 ^ t in a few blocks of dry wooil, or a liuiidful or 

 * of charcoal,!!! the bottom, set lire to these and 

 ' ler them over with lM!nps of coal, about the si.-.e 

 "' a walnnt ; shut the stove door or put up the 

 ' )\vcr : and in five minutes the whole will be ig- 

 ' ed, when the stove or the grate is to be filled 

 with coal. If the grale is of a proper si.^e, and 

 3 draft properly regulated, a supply of coai eve- 

 twelve hours, will keep the fire gointj from one 

 ir's end to the other. No person need, uiilfss 

 chooses, let his fire go out more than once a 

 ar. 



We will take this opportunity of correcting an 

 ror, which seems to be very ce!ierally entertain- 

 , that our coal requires a very powerful draft to 

 ep it in a state of ignition. After it is once ig- 

 ;ed, nearly the reverse is the fact. It requires a 

 ick draft at first until the fire is lighted, that is 

 you are in haste to have the room warm, but not 

 eiu ise, and then the drart necessary to ignite a 

 lod fire is amply suiBoieut for one made of anth- 

 cite coal. There ought to be some mode of 

 ickening the draft in evei-y convenience for us- 

 11 T stone coal; for the facility of speedily kindling 

 d increasing the fire. But when the fire is once 

 nited, no more draft ought to be applied to it 

 an w ill just keep the coal in lively combustion, 

 lere are but few chimneys which have^^not more 

 aft than is necessary. One other matter ought 

 be observed ; the bottom of the grate should 

 t be more than four or five inches from the 

 or. [Miners' Jour.] 



Jse of Sulphur and Sulphuric Acid to promote 



VegetafioTt. 

 The following article is extracted from Memoirs 



tlie Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agri- ! 

 Iture vol. ii. page 20'-), and was vvritten by the j 

 Dn. PcicHARD Peters, formerly President of 

 id Society. 



" I have on garden plants, long and freely used 

 iir of sulphur ( on melon vines particularly) to 

 stioy and expel the grubs and flies. I have per- 

 ived them to thrive, but attr!buted their vigour 



being freed from annoyances. I have also used 

 Iphur wiiter on fruit trees ; to banish or destroy 

 hides. I plaster most plants ; and therefore 

 ve supposed that the gypsum alone had benefit- 

 d them. A small infusion of oil of vitriol (sul- 

 luric acid) in a large proportion of water, pro- 

 otes vegetation inj and banisiies insects from 

 irden plants. It would be well to make some 



periments with the sulphur alone, or combined 

 1 a variety of plants, on those of the trefoil tribe 

 he different sorts of clover] especially. I do not 

 •e whv the sulphur, in substance should not pro- 

 ice efforts similar to those of its derivative, sul- 

 mric acid. But plaster is, with us, cheaper and 

 , greater plenty." 



The late oenevole!it and much esteemed John 

 >liv(r, o( Baltimore, who died about three years] 

 nee, bequeathed the sum of $'211,000, for the 

 ratiiitous education of the children of Irish par- 

 r.ts. The institution has been in operation about 

 ,vo years .-md a half, and we learn from the Ga- 

 etle, of that city, that 184 boys and V20 girls, 

 received the benefits of a common English 

 ducation.— .V. Y. Gaz. 



NEW EMGLAND FAKMEil. 



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IMI'OllTANT HINTS O.N SHKEP KEIiDINO AS MAN Lf F ACTUR K ll'S MEETING. 



AFFECTING woor.. At a numerous meeting of Wunufncturers of 



A superabundance of food at one time, and a j ^^'"o"''''"^' ''^'<' at the Exchange ("oftco House, 

 scarcity of it at another, were what the native in- 



stincts of this animal taugJit tliem to avoid ; and 

 thus the same economy may be brought home to 

 our observation every day ; for in proportion as 

 this obtains, the constitution of tlie sheep is aflcct- 

 ed, and a material injury accrues in the growth of 

 its wool. Sudden transitions, also, from heat to 

 cold, alternately, promote and obstruct perspira- 

 tion, and materially retard the regular growth of 



Oct. %\ the Hon. Be/aleol Taft of Uxl.ridge was 

 called to the chair, and J. li. Krown was appoint- 

 ed secretary. 



A very general and free interchange of opinion 

 was communicated by gentlemen froiu different 

 parts of the State, on the Woollen Manufacture in 

 this country. Its unparalleled depression, and the 

 causes Uiat have produced this depression, were 

 dwelt upon at considerable length by the Hon. Mr 



the wool ; for on examining the fleece of a sheep i Tufts, of Dudle>, Col. Shepherd, of Northampton, 

 that has been exposed to the change of a close en- 1 Mr Wolcott, of Southbridge, and by Mr Abbot 

 closure at one period, and turned out upon an open Lawrence and Mr J. Clapp, of Boston. The 

 down or heath at another period of the same sea- Chairman and the Secretary also addressed the 

 son, or to changes from high feeding at one time ' meeting. The sentiment in favour of memorializ- 

 of the year, and to great abstinence and hunrrcr at' '"2 Congress was general, and a vote, that it was 

 the other, these circumstances will all alternately \ expedient to adopt a memorial at this meeting for 

 appear in the growth of the wool, which will be ! i" increase of duties on Woollen Goods, to be foi^ 

 found composed of in-egular shoots, and equally | warded to Congress at their next session, wd^ 

 destitute of uniform fineness and strength. It is j unsimmOus. Jf 



therefore from a regular temperature of climate, f'oferf, That Messrs J. B. Brown, J. M. Robbing, 

 which the regular changes of situation affords to I "'"'^ James Wolcott, be a Committee to prepare 



the flocks of Spain throughout the year, that the 

 great superiority of the Spanisli over other "luro- 

 pean wool is chiefly to be ascribed. [Vancouver's 

 Survey of Hampshire, p. 499.] 



The Sheffield manufacturers have produced an 

 alloy which tliey have named ' Peruvian Steel,' 

 which is reckoned superior to the best Indian 

 wootz, of which the far famed Damascus blades 

 are manufactured. The experiments of Messrs. 

 Stodart and Farrady have greatly contributed to 

 its invention. 



Fifteen hundred skeins of elegant sewing silk, 

 were to be exhibited at the Bristol fair in Taun- 

 ton, 28th ult. manufactured in the family of Ja- 

 bel Ingraham, Esq. of Srekonk, and dyed with a 

 variety of beautiful colors. 



Cotton seed gas is again talked of. If it is the 

 good thing it is said to be, why is not the experi- 

 ment made on such a scale as will establish the 

 importance of it, and give value to that which is 

 now wasted. 



Solvent for Putti/. — To move panes of old glass 

 from sashes, spread with a small brush, a little ni- 

 tric,or muriatic acid over the putty and it will soon 

 become'soft, and can be removed without injury. 



such a paper and report the same to this meeting. 

 In the course of the evening the committee re- 

 ported a, memorial which was unanimously adopt- 

 ed, and the committee were instructed to forward 

 it to Congress. 



Voted, That Messrs J. B. Brown, J. M. Robbins, 

 and Lewis Tappan, be a committee to correspond 

 with manufacturers in other States, and to solicit 

 the aid and co-operation of all persons who feel an 

 interest in the success of this important branch of 

 our national industry. 



Voted, That the thanks of this meeting, be pre- 

 sented to the Hon. Mr Taft for his services as 

 moderator of the meeting. 



J. B. BROWN, Secretary. 



The Merrimaek County Cattle Show and Exhi- 

 bition was fully attended in Concord, N. H. James 

 Patterson of Dunbarton had the premium of $10 

 awarded him for the best cultivated farm. This 

 gentleman, we understand, who has 5 or 6 hands 

 in his employ, used less than ojic gallon of rum on 

 his farm during tlie past year, and has publicly 

 expressed his determination to use none nt all the 

 ensuing. This is a great improvement in manag- 

 ing a farm. 



Thirty pumpkins, weighing 348 lbs. were pro- 

 duced this seiison from one seed in the garden of 

 Capt. Samuel Warren of Marlboro' in this state. 



A correspondent informs us that a physician in 

 the west has cured a patient who was dying of 

 the lock-jaw, by causing his legs to be immersed 

 to the knees in fro?h w-rm ley. [Bait. Am.] 



A gentleman lately arrived from a West India 

 island, which he left in very weak health, found, 

 on landing here, that his/rtVni/^ had Ainrf<^ ship- 

 ped a cask of rum for \ns preservation, believing 

 he would die on his pnssaoe- The gentleman, 

 however, recovered, and hopes to turn the rum to 

 a better account. 



Tlivgwarms. — A salve made of hard soap (called 

 y some, rosin soap) and ginger, rubbed on ring- 

 rorms wUl cure them. 



Mr Sparrov.-, surgeon at Brixton, met his death 

 lately by sligiiily puncturing one of his fingers 

 while dissecting a body. 



Not Sea Serpents, nor falling Mountains to ex- 

 cite terror and alarm — but one old fasioned Yan- 

 kee Yellow Pumpkin, I selected from among many 

 others of nearly the same dimensions, of this year's 

 growth, on my farm. Weight 52 lbs. circumfer- 

 ence 53 inches. Weighed and measured in the 

 the presence of four wjtnessess, on the 7th inst. 

 by me. WM. FOOT. 



Durham Oct. 11, 1821. Middletown (Con.) pa. 



We have many reports from Greece and Tur- 

 key. Bui there is no confidence in the first read- 

 ing, as we cannot tell for sometime, whether we 

 have been attending to the truth or falsehood. 



Maryland has just emancipated the Jews in that 

 State, and two have immediately been chosen 

 among the Representatives of Baltimore. 



Some of the valuable trunks lately lost on Lake 

 riiamplain have floated on shore — So much bet- 

 ter is paper money than specie. 



Thanksgivings. — In Connecticut,Nov. 23; Mass- 

 achusetts and Maine, Nov. 30 ; New York, Dec, 7. 



