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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Dof. ]. i.sat;. 



linen) 

 nipple 



so as to cover tiie breast, u-it!i a lioln forthe 

 [EJivarrtsvillc Sj)ectaio/i.] 



COAL. 



The following article from Poiil-on'a Philadel- 

 phia Gazette, will show the cheapness of a coal, 

 compared with a wood fire. [ BREWING. | 



Coal Firc.~~ln your paper of this rnoriiin!; yon ' The art of browing is exactly similar t3»the pro- 

 have an article from " Readinij," in which it is cess of making tea. Put a handful of malt into a 

 stated that " as long as good hickory woo.! can bo | teapot ; tlien fill it with water, the first time rith- 



From the American Farmer. 



LARGE BEET, 



.liiil a very dreadful and mortal disease ir.nongtj 



tiie Horses in Uoreesler eount'j, Maryland. 

 Dtar Sir, Synapuxent, JVov. 26, l.-aG-i*"' 



In these days, when farmers appear to be 

 some measure compensated by the si -e of th 

 vegefable productions, for the miserably slinti 

 price which all the yields of agriculture cominani 



purchased at $4 a cord, there will be no economy 'er under boiling heat. After it has stood some 



in using coal, until it can be purchased for 1 24 | 'inie, pour off the liquor, just as you would tea. and 



cents per bushel." I have for four years burnt j'^'^ "P tl'c pot again with boiling water: in a siin- 



two fires of Lehigh Coal, and two of Wood ; t!ie ' '1^'' manner pour off till the malt in the pot is taste- , . 



latter having the advantage, both in the exposure ' 'ess, which will be the case when all the virtue is | ,, _,!j'!''l='^'„ .f the^^Wlowing account o^f 



and sise of the rooms; the Coal fires have uni- " 



formly cost less than half the expense of the wood. 

 The Coal was purchased at seven dollars and thii 



e.xtracted. The liquor or malt-tea thus extracted, r'^^*''''''''''. "''"'""""'•'"'='■' ""•- '"^ "n^-ccepta 



must then be boiled with a few hops in it, and 

 when it becomes cool enough, that is, about blood 

 ty-three cents per ton ; the wood, being oak, at ;lieat, add a little yeast to ferment it, and the thing 

 an average of four dollars fifty cents per cord, 1 is (lone. This is the whole art and process of) 



bi; 



There is now, in the garden of my neigliboi_ 

 John F. Fassitt, Esq., a blood beet, which meail 

 ures, below the prominences which sent off ttji 

 leaves, and where the root is fair and smooth, prff 



with the additional expense of hauling nmj saw- i brewing ; ai,d to brew a larger quantity requires i '''":'•^ *'*'';'''' ^''®' '•o>'"d, and which weighs, freel 



■ ;, ,,.„,, 1,1 f I entirely from its top, and from all earth adhcrini 



A great waste is made in the use of coal by I just the same mode of proceeding ,.„ .„ ..^,,^ ^^ , 



throwing away the half burnt coal found in the make a tea breakfast for a regiment of soldiers Py ^'"eful washing, full twenty-six pounds! | 



grate iu the morning, or dropping in tlie course of A peck of malt and four ounces of hops will pro-T"^' ' ^'°"'' """'^''°"= f'""'"'^-" "''" ^''''^ ^^"'^ * 

 ' ' -' ''"" '«° -l""'^ "f '•le, better than any ca-i be I J'j'„"'^,?"f°J„^;^t.^^^^ 



purchased in London, and for which purpose a °" " " 

 tea-kettle and two pan mugs are .sufficient appara- 

 tus. [Meclmnicks' Magazine.] 



Ti, 



If proper care is takearin this respect, 

 ar^ 



the day 



two and a half tons of coal is arTlmplo supply for 

 one chimney throughout the winter. How would 

 the account stand with wood, if all the chunks and 

 remaining coals were thrown into tiie street. The 

 trouble of separating the coal from the ashes, 

 tempt servants to throw it all away together, un- 

 less they are attended to. 



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INSTINCT. 

 The following fact goes far towards proving 

 that instinct differs chiefly in degree from reason: 

 — ^Some time since, a pair of sparrov.'s which had 

 built in t!ie thatchroof of a house at Poole, were 

 observed to continue their regular visits to the 

 nest long after the time when the young birds 



throughout the year, and in the winter, a gentle 

 man who had all along observed them, determined 

 on investigating its cause. He therefore mounted 

 >v ladder,and found one of the young ones detained 

 a prisoner, by means of a piece of string or wors- 

 ted, which formed part of the nest, having become 

 a.-;cidentally twisted round its leg. Being thu 



capacitated from procuring its own sustenance, it j hojscs, are already affected 

 had been fed by the continued exertions of its 

 parents." [English paper.] 



SILK. 



An elderly farmer from Connecticut, told us the 

 other day, that he had about five hundred mulber- 

 ry trees then growing on his own farm — that he 



ON SOUNDS. 



Qolievc it to be an ostablislied ojjinion that 

 .sound is conveyed througli the air in undulations 

 similar to those produced by the falling of a stone 

 into water, with this e.\ception, that in water the 

 uiidulalions move on a plain surface, whereas in 

 the air they move in a .spherical form. Concluding, 

 then, that in the daytime innumerable undulations 

 take place, the passage of one undulation must 

 be considerably retarded by the undulations of 

 other sounds. In the night time, when tho great- 

 er portion of noises have ceased, sound is convey- 

 ed to a far greater distance ; partly owing to the 

 undulations being less^etarded by other undula- 

 tions ; in part, because the atmosphere is colder, 

 which is much more favourable to the transmission 

 of sounds ; and partly, because there is a greater 

 degree of moisture in the nir, which moisture acts 

 as a very good conductor. Franklin states, that 

 at a distance of two miles he heard the sonnd pro- 

 duced by striking two stones under water. 



____^ . [xMec. Mag.] 



AGUE' IN THE BREAST- 



To Married Ladies — A lady who has often ex- 

 perienced the nssuaging effects of the following 

 salve, and has fro(|ucntly contributed to the relief 

 of her sufl'ering neighbors by its application, wish- 

 es to extend the benefits of it as far, if possible, 

 03 the agonies of a swelled or gathered breast may 

 be felt ; and for that purpose requests us to insert 

 the rccijie in the Spectator. We take pleasure in 

 giving our aid to the accomplishment of her be- 

 nevolent purpose ; and add our testimony (from 

 experience in [one of] our own families) to the 

 jreat value of the composition. We have repeat- 

 edly known it cure, and to prevent, the distressing 

 complaint— and never knew it to fail. Scrape French chalk, or fine clay, put it on th 



.1 plaster for a Broken Breast — Take half a grease spot, and hold it near the fire, or put 

 pound of mutton t.allow, four ounces of beeswax, warm iron upon it. The grease will melt and the 

 and rosin siiflicient so as not to make it too hard ; jclay absorb it, in consequence of the great affinity 

 melt them together ; add a gill of good spirits ; let of clay for oleagenous substances. After the 

 It Simmer over a gentle fire until the spirits are grease is absorbed, brush off the clay : the colour 

 evaporated. Spre.^d it on soa leather (or strong ! "ill not be in the least affected by the process. 



learn tliat there are better lands and more skillful 

 gardeners than we can boast. 



I have not time, or I would plague you w i;h an 

 account of a distemper which I fear will destroy 

 all our horses. Briefly, their tongues are so dread- 

 fully ulcerated, that the power to manage their 

 food, is entirely lost. The appetite is good, the 

 respiration natural, tho head free from disease, 

 and indeed with the c::cpption of costiveness, liiori 

 is no symptom of disease independently of the 

 tongue. Of this member, the whole papillary suf^ 



take flight. This unusual circumstance continued ^'^'^'^ °" ^^^ °'^^^'^ ''^'f' ^'^~ sloughed to the (IpptJ 



of more than J of an inch, within three days frotj' 

 tho beginning of the attack. If in your power di? 

 rectly, or through your intelligent corresponlontSj 

 to give me coui;-el in this matter, I shall be par- 

 ticularly obliged. You can conceive of the impor. 

 mnce of this disease, when I tell you that'our carl 

 ria^e and riding horses, and three of the worS 



In haste to embrace the mail, I am verv trnlyj 

 yours, JOHN S. SPENCE. 



J. S. Skinxer, Esq. 



Dear. Sir,- 



ICE HOUSES. 



Baltimore, .Vol'. J~, 1S2<). 

 -Observing in your useful 



• J, ...>,., v...... j;,u.v.„g u.i „,s uw.i iciiu — uiiii. lu- I 1JE.\R SIR, — Observing in your useful paper 



fed one hundre I thousand worms, which produced j the 3d instant, an application from R. C. Shorti 

 about fifty pounds of silk annually. The whole Esq. of Georgia, on the construction of ice ho-isi 

 business, of feeding the worms, &c. is performed and having had some experience in that way, 

 by his daughters. But very little labor is requir- 1 take the liberty of sending you my observatioi 

 ed,and he thinks that in the course of a few years, on that subject 

 after his trees come to maturity, — he shall, by ' 



creasing the number of his worms in proportion to 

 the quantity of feed supplied, produce yearly about 

 three hundred pounds of the raw material. Thus 

 giving his girls an opportunity of adding to the 

 common stock of domestic comfort, and of proviil- 

 ing a livelihood for themselves. We wish him 

 success ; and the heart of every friend to tho in- 

 creasing prosperity of our domestic manufactures, 

 will throb a generous response. [Masonic Mir.] 



To extract Grease Spots from Silks and coloured 

 Muslins. 



I have found that the larger the house the betif 

 ter on account of the quantity of ice k may coni' 

 tain ; that the situation (if practicable,) should be 

 in a high, dry, airy place, with a north aspect, and: 

 in a sandy or gravelly soil, to absorb and carry offi 

 the water and drippings from the ice. In prepaf'* 

 ing for the construction of the house, a pit should' 

 be dug 30 to •■i2 feet square, and 20 feet deep, s(f 

 as to admit of a log pen of 18 to 20 feet in the/ 

 clear, with a layer of logs placed in the bottom to'. 

 keep the ice 18 or 20 inches from the ground ; the. 

 log work to be raised about two feet above the'i 

 surface of the ground, and left open for air, an^, 

 the roof to be covered with straw of considerabletjj 

 thickness, to resist the rays of the sun and carry*; « 

 off the rain. The ice should bo put in, in large' 

 thick cakes, without pounding or breaking and 

 stowed as close as the cakes will admit of, observ- 

 ing to place straw between the ice and sides of 

 the pen, from bottom to top, and to cover the top 



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