irol. v.— No. ir. 



NEW ENGLAND PAU]\IEll. 



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I winter and spriiio-. To prevent tliis, a t'arnu'r of 

 ; long experience lias (buml lialf a gill of Indian corn 

 given every day to each sliecp to be extremely 

 iiscrul. It strengthens the sheep, by which means 

 , tlie quantity of wool is increased, as well as rctain- 

 ; od, till the time of shearing, to the great eniolu- 

 I ment of tlie farmer. 



REVOLVING TIMBD:K PLANE. 

 ; si:'iscriber ha^ invented and put in opcra- 

 macliinc, lor the purpose of Straightening, 

 .in'T, and Smoothin;' Timber of any length 

 i/e, uenerally made u.-^e of in building ma- 

 rv in factories, and such as is made use of by 

 Miters, \Vheehvright,s, Cabinet-makers, &c. 

 riuTtobe made Straight, Square and Smooth. 

 ;ubscribcv has had an impression for several 

 , that tools might be affixed to wheels that 

 1 produce straight and smooth sides to square 

 T with facility ; alter fixing on a plan, and 

 a machine in 0|ieration on a small scale, 

 , answered my expectations, I was induced 

 ild one full size, and apply for a patent. The 

 ■of this macliine, will be obvious to every 

 ho is acquainted with the hard labour and 



FISH-BAIT. 



Bonus, W'ith proper management, make one of 

 the finest of all bails for fish. The metho 1 of pre- 

 • I)aring them for this purpose is this : Take a new 

 earthen pot glaiod on the inside ; boil some heans 

 j in it, suppose a quarter of a peck. They must be 

 I boiled in river water, an 1 should be previou.-^ly 

 care ncccss;.rv in tnjins: out timber in the com- steeped in some warm water for six or seven hours. 

 monway; it is well' known that Timber cannot be When they are about half boiled, put in throe or 

 put together well without first being made Straight, '°"'' ounces of lioney, and two or three grains of 

 True and Square, this is done by the operation of: '""'^k. Let them boil a little on, then take them 

 his machine is one eighth part of the time required oft' the fire, and use them in this manner: Seek 

 in the common way. The above engravino-, is a I ""' a clean place where there are no weeds, that 

 representation of a machine to bo driven by "hand, | "le Ash may see and take the beans at the bottom 

 but they will be more profitably used by water.— ' °f 'he water. Throw in some beans at five and 

 A revolving timber j>lane is now in oper.ition at ! s'^ '" ^'e mornmg and in the evening, for some 

 the machine shop of Mr John Goulding in Dedham, l^'^y^- This will draw them together, and tney 

 one was exhibited at the Hail of the New-England | may be taken in a casting net in great numbers. 

 Society in Boston, on the "^oth ult. 



For further information, references may bo had 

 to Mr J. R. Newell of Boston, Mr Adam Smith of 

 Ro\bury, Mr John Goulding of Dedham, or VVm. 

 Cobb, Esq. or of the subscriber at Warwick, Mass. 

 Ir'aru-ick, Oct. i4, iS'-iti. DA.MEL N. SMITH. 



Memoirs of the .V. Y. Board cf .Igricidlure. 



:'HE USE OP LIME IN AGRICULTURE. 

 JuEi,, Esq. — In answer to your queries about 

 I have to inform you that until within the 

 ivo or three years, ii was but little use-d as a 

 re in this neighborhood ; it is now more 

 and on all soils ; some farmers put on first, 

 thirty to forty bushels per acre, and in two 

 ■ee j-ears afterwards, about the same quanti- 

 le general opinion is here, that it operates on 

 ind clover the soonest. It is put ou the land 

 ferent ways here ; but generally the land is 

 iloughed, and the lime hauled out of the kiln 

 it has slacked, and put on in about one 

 1 in a heap; and as soon as it is slacked 

 d immediately, and harrowed twice over and 

 ploughed in ; and in dry weather it often 

 !ns that we have to haul water to slack it. — 

 ■s have the ground all ready for seeding, and 

 the lime and put it on the same way, nnd soon 

 :ked, spread it and harrow it twice over, and 

 ;ow the seed and harrow it twice over again, 

 mixes it very well and keeps it near the 

 je of the ground ; this method I think best ; 

 the above methods are here used. I have had 

 1 mv lands this season between seventeen end 

 en thousand bushels of \'ime, and have put it 

 both the above ways, and have not put on 

 ban sixty or seventy bushels per acre, nor 

 than one hundred. I have no hesitaion in 

 a that I have experienced 50 per cent, benefit 

 li-n. and "-rass ; in our wheat crops I cannot 

 well judge the benefit, not having liuied my 

 mure than two years past, but have not the 

 doubt but I shall be amply repaid for all the 

 nd trouble of the lime. Our lands here are 

 .■ all lime-stone land and of a good quality, 

 ill bear more lime than land of a poorer 

 . v but it is the general opinion that the 

 •St soils agree best w ith lime, and receive the 



I mo.it benefit from it ; and no doubt it is the case. 



I Some are of the opinion that lime-stone land is 

 not much benefited by lime, particularly for wheat 

 crops, though that is not my opinion ; and should I 



The Hartford Times says — a cabbage of the 

 drum head kind was raised in the garden of W. 

 Woodbridge, Esq. of Manchester, which measur- 

 ed 13 ;f feet in circumference, and when dressed 

 for the table weighed 31 pounds. The seed was 

 obtained from the (Quakers of Enfield, Conn. 



SALT. 

 Mr Russell, in his Tour in Germany, says if the 



exnerience of Austria and Silesia be correct,wood 

 n mai is not my opimuii ; iuiu hiiuuiu i r , ,. ,i ■ . j -.i u 



few years, I shall be better able to 1 »■'"""' l*"" "'^'^n '^""^ ™P'"^SnatGd with salt - 



Learned societies have recommended that the 

 wood to be used in roofing should previously be 

 saturated with salt, in which state, they say, it 



judge, as 1 have foi those last two years been 

 liming my land on a tolerably large scale ; and 

 have not the least doubt but I shall be fully re 



compensed for it, both in my wheat crops and ^^i" ''''^i^t fi^", ««^ffe'^t^"'l'y '^^ either slates or 

 other grain ; in corn we have already experienced '^1^^ "■'" ^o- M|: ^-/ays the wood, which supports 







the profit. 



I remain, dear sir, 

 Very respectfully, 



Vour humble servant, 



CYRUS JACOBS. 

 Spring Grove Forge, JVov. 8, 18-24. 



FODDER. 



Nearly double the fodder is every year, and by 

 almost every farmer, expended tlian would be suf- 

 ficient, was it properly and economically prepared 

 and fed. 



It is ascertained that buy goes much farther by 

 being cut into chaff" before it is foddered out. Ma- 

 ny scientific and observing men have ascertained 

 by actual measurement that a saving of nearly one 

 half, and some say more is effected by this means. 



But if it be not true that Hay is doubled in val- 

 ue by cutting, it cannot be denied that in applying 

 this economy properly to the coarser kind of fod- 

 der such as straw, cornstalks, oats in the sheaf, 

 &c. a saving of one half, at least, may be made. 



HINTS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP. 

 It has been often remarked, that the American 

 sheep yield much less wool than tiie sheep of Brit- ,, ^ _ , rM<,t Tnt 1 

 ain, France, and Spain. This is owing to the I'^^t effect. [Nat. Int.] 



the vaulted roofs of the salt mines of Wieliczka 

 I in Poland, is now as hard as a rock ; and he 

 Was assured that the dead bodies of animals and 

 men, which remain in the salt caverns, do not 

 putrify, but become as dry and hard as mummies. 

 [Hamp. Gaz.]. 



LEAD MINES. 

 The Missouri Republican says, the United 

 States Lead Mines are no.v becoming a source of 

 considerable revenue. The number of diggers 

 and smelters, at the upper mines, have greatly in- 

 creased, and are still increasing, and the quantity 

 of lead made this year will exceed in a four-fold 

 ratio that of former years. The same paper states 

 that the only impediment to the profitable working 

 of these Mines is occasioned by the Rapids in the 

 Mississippi, near the mouths of the Des Moines 

 and Rock Rivers, in both of which it is practica- 

 ble to clear out a boat channel, at the expense of 

 not more than two years' rent of the Upper Mines. 

 Nothing appears to us more reasonable than the 

 suggestion that out of the proceeds of these rents, 

 this improvement of the great high way of the 

 Mississippi should be made. Congress will, no 

 doubt, lend a favourable ear to an application to 



length of our winters, and the quantity of snow on ' a correspondent informs us that Mr Hiram, 

 the ground, prevenljng their picking up as much Jernigan, of Edgartown, planted pne pntatoe last 

 nourishment as the sheep in Europe Hence, they , spring, which has yielded more than three bushel^, 

 drop their wool frora mere weakness, during the | [N. Bedford Mercury.] 



