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NEW ENGLAND FARIMER. 



Nov. 24. ireu. 



ever read of, is tlie one cited by Smellio, in his 

 Philosophy of Natural History ; v.hich was grow- 

 ing at Cowthrope, near Wetherby ; upon the es- 

 tate belonginj; to the Right Hon. Lady Stourton. 

 " The dimensions are almost incredible. Within 



LARCl:: TREES. 



Chardin, the traveller, tells us, that in the king's 

 garden at Shiras in Persia, he observed a tree 

 whose trunk was 'eight yards in circumference. — 



From the great age' of this tree, it was treated - xnt,- muienaiuuH are aiinos 



witii peculiar veneration by tho inhabitants. They ,3 feet of the surface it measured 16 yards, and 

 pray under its shade, juid hang chaplels & pieces [close by the ground, 20 yards. Its height in its 

 of llieir cloths upon its boughs. The sick or their : present ruinous state, (]77f)) is about 85 feet, and 

 friends resort here, to burn incense, to fix lighted j its principal limb extends 16 yanis from the boll." 

 candles to the trunk, and to perform other super- " When compared to this, fsays Dr Hunter) all 

 stitious ceremoiiies, in the hopes of their health, i other trees are but children of the forest." 

 Throughout Persia there are many trees thus su- j The following account of the celebrated horse 

 persatiously reverenced by the people. chesnut of Mount ^tna, is from Brydone's Trav- 



The Charier Oak in Connecticut. " From the els : " leaving the Catania road on the left, they 

 best intormafonthnt we can obtain," says a Hart- I began to ascend the mountain, in order to visit 

 ford paper, "this tree is no le.s than four hun-jthe celebrated tree, known by the name of the 

 dree, years old : itiswer,t,/.eishtfeet,nc,rcumfe-Chesnui Tree of an hundred Horse, which for 

 rence near the ground, and at the height of seven ) ,ome centuries has been regar<!ed as one of the 

 feet It IS 1. feet in circumference ; the height of j greatest wonders of ^tna. 

 the tree as near as can be ascertained, is about 70 ,. a*,, i <• .u £ . 



feet, some of its branches extend nearly 20 feet " ""'' .?^ ^^^,^'^^ '"'«"'!'' ^^"^ "■'''^^"' '"^- 



In May, J82(i, there was an Elm blown down in '^ ^^ "'°'' T ' ''f y/'-"^'"\;'\'\'' beginning 

 Wells, (Maine) which "measured tu'enty-seve>,feet ' f ''^ second region ot ^tn., called La Regione 

 and four Inches in circumference, making the di- '^^'^^"'^' i'y t'>e "atives, because it is composed of 

 amcler something over nine feet ; and v^as fortv ''"^ ^^^^ ^""est that e.xtends all round the moun- 

 feet from the foot to a crotch ; frou. thence it was 'f "' ^'- '"""'"^ ''^^'°" "^ '^^'"'' '^^'=^"'^^ ^°^ 



20 feet to the first limb runnino- to the hei-ht of ^"°"'/'f '" °': "'"^ miles, and forms a zone or gir- 

 sixty feet from the bottom before it had any limb ' ?,-, ^''° ,'''''-'h'est verdure, all round tlie moun- 



when it expanded to an immense size. The exact : '"'"• ^ *"'"* """""'• 



height of the tree conld not be accurately obtain- ! " ^^^' '^'^ P^^''^ ^'"'y Passed through some 

 ed, as the top was much broken, but wascomput- M'^autiful woods of cork and evergreen oak, grow- 

 eA to he vpivards of one hundred feet." | '"&' o"t of tlie lava ; and proceeding about five 



" An elm standing near the house of Mr Joshua '""'"^'^ farther they came to the chesnut tree al- 

 Avery in Stratham, Ms. and reared since his recol- ' •'^^dy mentioned, which, in the old maps of Sicily, 

 lection; at four feet from the ground, measures 18 ^'^^'^Y^ makes a conspicuous figure. Mr Brydone 

 -3et in circumference, ;;nd 100 feet from the • ^"y'' '^^ ^"^ rather disappointed, as it appeared 



'^3et in circumference, ;;nd 100 feet from the 

 xtremity of the branches on the one side, to the 

 -xtremity of fhemon the other. It was planted 80 

 years ago ; and to use Capt. Avery's expression, 

 was then " smaller than his thumb." 



rather a cluster of five trees growing together, 



than a single root; however he was assured that 



they were all once united in the same stem, and 



_. _. that in the days of old, it was regarded as the 



Mr Nelson, tlie botanist, who accompanied Cap- ''°^"'y of the forest, and visited from all quarters. 



in Bligh to the South Sea, for the purpose of ^t "i^"sured no less than 204 feet in circumference; 

 ■' " - - . _ jjjjjj -^f^ j^g jj. jg pretended, it was formerly one 



trunk, it must, indeed, have been a vronderful phe- 

 nomenon, in the vegetable kingdom. There are j 

 many other trees in this vicinity, of extraordinary 

 magnitude. Our author measured one which rose ! 

 in a solid trun^ to a considerable height, that was' 

 not less than 76 feet in circumference at 2 feet 

 from the ground." 



The Lexington (Ky.) Public Advertiser says, 

 that " there now stands on the bank of tlie Ohio 



tain ijuyu lu [lie coutn Kea, tor t/ie purpose ui 

 conveying the Bread- Fruit Tree to the West In- 

 dies, when on Van Dieman's Land, found a tree in 

 a thriving state, of the enormous size of 33A feet 

 in girtii, and at a proportionable height." 



In Cook's first \oyage. Sir .Toseph Banks and Dr 

 Solander, (I think it was in New Zealand) measu- 

 red a tree that was 98 feet high from the ground 

 to the first branch, quite straight, ) 9 feet in cir- 

 cumierence, and they found still larger trees as 

 they advanced into the wood." 



^ ».^.>...v,^u ,1,,,^, i„,j uuou. Luai ■• mere now stands on ttie bank of tlie Ohio 



On Capt. Cook's third voyage, they saw Indian '''^■<"'. i" the state of Indiana, opposite the moutli 



canoes on the north-west coast of America : " the of Salt river, a Sycamore tree, which has stabled 



largest of which carry 20 persons or more, and fourteen head of horses at one time, with ample 



are formed of one tree. Many of them are 40 feet room. It takes 75 long paces to go round its 



long 7 broad, and about .-5 deep." trunk, and you may with perfect ease turn a four- 



VVe are told in the narrative of Gov. Phillips, in t^en foot pole in the inside of its cavity." 



''tiilTnes arrlT"t ^'^' ''? T ^°''''"" ''^'""'^ ' '" ^"^"'^ '"'^ Clark's Expedition, they saw pine 

 Jhl7 t f^ at a magnitude unusual in any trees, at the mouth of Columbia river, of 12 feet 



other part of tne world : some of them are 160, or : d.ameter and 200 feet high. 



MpT.t ,;, Tn fa- ""'^ ^. °'' ^" ^'"'' '" •"^"'- I The ^bove trees have all grown within the tom- 

 ri^eto feetZl r^^^^ ='°"'^^' =""'' ^'"'^ the' e.xception of that in 



The El n in I'^U ', u^"'^ ■ I ^''^' Britain, between the latitudes of 30 and 42=. 



IheLlmin Haffield, (Mass.) is said to be the 

 largest tree in New England. " It measures in RACE AGAINST A COACH 



7irtZZ r-T ,V ''"' '■•"" '''' ^'°""' ' ' ^ ^'■"°-' "f '"« '--« °*' E.'wards, was matched 

 at the height of o feet the smallest place in the to run, on Saturday morning, Nov. SeZlenmll 

 trunk, the circumlerence s 24 fppt « i^.i,„„ ;„ !„„„ ,;„„ ...._ .V. r.^., "^ \- '^, (^^f'een mile 



PATENT CORN SHELLER. 



Mr Samuel Lane, of this town, has invented ^pt 

 corn-sheller, which promises to be a machine u. ; 

 general utility. It has been used with approb^i 

 tion by several of our farmers in this vicinity, au( 

 applications for them are daily increasing. Thij 

 is a good test of its utility ; and from its" clicaX 

 ness, simplicity of construction and the ease wi3i 

 which it is worked, it appears to be worthy of cor 

 siflci-ation. The machine consists of a cylin. o 

 filled with iron teeth, which moves in a bed-i; c 

 armed iu the same way and pressed against li h 

 faori-ontal springs. The cylinder is piU in i.iolin 

 by a common hand-crank, and it is done wit!] s 

 mucli e:ise, that a boy ten years oUI may turn i'.^ 

 With this machine it is said that two men will .-'-j-l 

 fifteen bushels of corn in an hour, and that it i 

 left more free from hulls and shelled cleaner tha» 

 in the usual mode. The price without the paten 

 is oiily six dollars. The great number of patents 

 applicable to almost every variety of human era 

 ployuient and the innumerable failures, whic 

 have been experienced in them renders the pnlj 

 lie averse to eu.barkinr in experiments wit] 

 the;..i. It must be confessed, that a large majority 

 of the inventions, which have been patented with 

 in twen.y five years, and we are told they amounl 

 to four thous.".nd, have been calculated for purpos, 

 es of mere speculation, or if not designed for thii 

 they have served no oiher end. But notwithstand 

 ing the great number of failures, which have hapj 

 pened and separate from absolute imposition 

 which are inevitable in experiments of all kinds 

 the number of useful machines, which are noi' 

 actually employed will more than counterbalanc 

 the evil which has been suffered, and make th 

 patent law. on the whole, beneficial to the co 

 munity. Many instances might be mentioned o 

 the areat saving of labor by them, and they ar< 

 only not more noticed because they are so com 

 I nion. It was justly thought a wise observation i 

 the sage, who said that he ought to be reoarde 

 as a great benefactor to mankind, who can" mak 

 two blades of grass grow where only one gre\ 

 before; but it is not a less important service t 

 render it easy for a man to perform with the sarni 

 labor double the work, which had before been re 

 quired for its accomplishment. 



[Hailowell (Me) Gazette.] 



trunk, the circumlerence is 24 feet 6 inches 



There is a rut in the tree 4 feet from the around, 



which tradition says, was made by the fndians 



tor the highest rise of Connecticut river." ' 



The largest tree in Great Britain, that I have 



in less time than the Bath Regulator coach. The 

 coach performed the eighteen miles, chan^in.T 

 twice, in two hours and eight minutes. The pe- 

 destrian did his task with great ease, in five min- 

 utes less than two hours. [An. of Sporting.) 



PATENT SQUARE AUGER. 

 A machine bearing the above name has been 

 exhibited to us, which consists of an aun-er soc„n 

 structod as to bore 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 sides, or as many 

 as may be required. ^ 



This machine is similar in form to a screw au ^ 

 per, only there is a cylinder called the tube with ' 

 as many squares on the outside, as you wi^h to i 

 make in the hole you bore. This tube is to be round 

 on the inside and square at the lower end—round 

 on the upper end for one-fourth of an inch down 

 from the top of the tube ; tins tube is slipped into 

 the aforesaid auger, .-.nd good wa.shers and screws 

 or keys to force the tube d.own as the auger turns 

 This tube is to be made o( difl^ercnt shapes, some' 

 times cut only one side like a D, sometimes to be 

 sharp all round. The Auger has a strono- screw 

 to draw It down, and square as it goes down this 

 tube IS to have a slit on one side or on two si es 

 to vent the chips. IBalt. P.it ^ ' 



Sweet potloi^^^ere exhibited at thp^lnte Bristol 

 County Cattle Show, raised in Taunjon, bv Rus-eli 

 Wood. . -• 



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