Vol.V No.-:il. 



NEW ENGLAIND FAR^fEK. 



tii'i 



STEAM POWIill IN KNd'LAND. tlicy liavo nppcaicil cMictly nt tuolvc, an.', ul lljis 



There aro now in Kiigluiul lo.lHH) steam engines time only hiive we succeeded in tukin-j tliem alive, 

 work, some of almost imrcdible power ; in which is easily done by intercepting their pro- 

 oruwall there is one of (iOO horse power. Tak- frress with a spado, broiid knife blade, &c. and 

 it for granted, that on an average these en- throwing thein on tlie surfaci.\ Tlieso animals 'lo 

 nes are each of 25 horse power, this would be not appear to be well suited for livinj in the 

 [ual to 375,01)0 horses. According to Mr Watt's open air, especially if it bo somewhat cool ; for, 

 Iculation, 5i nien are equal to the power of a alter being a few minutes exposed, we have al- 

 rse ; we have thus, therefore, a power, through v.ays obsi"rved|^ein lo shiver, as if from the change 

 L' medium of steam engines, equal to near two of temperature. 



illi. ns of men. Each horse,for his keepin.j- yearly That an nnimal of this kind should be domesti- 

 qiiires the product of two acres of land, and ihiis cated with facility, would seem hardly possible, 

 lO.tllU) acres arc at the<iispo^al of tlie inliabitanta yet our friend Titian Pcalc tunnd a very fine one 

 Great Britain, more than if the suue work,* which he caught while we were together e.\amin- 

 ch is now done by steam, had to be performed ing their modes of L'urrowing. This shrew mole 

 horses. j is kept in a box containing some loofee earth and 



"house KFEPI\G ; dried grass for his bed; he eats considerable 



... ' . ' ^ c l'i I- quantities of fresh meat, either cooked or raw. 



In America, a great part oi the e.vpense of , • , ,. , , . ■ l, ,• , , , 



Irinks freely, and is remarkably lively and ])lay- 



ful, following the hand of the feeder by the scent 



— burrowing for a short distance in the loose earth 



and, atler making a small circle, returning for 



ir , • . r r . .1 more food. When engaged in eatin<i he emnlovs 



cw days ago, in a party of fourteen gentlemen, , • « ., .. • ° , ° i^c..ip.uj,= 



■ , c ■, ill „ ■ » , ft '"s flexible snout m a singular manner to thrust 



a private family. I had occasion to know after- ,,« <• j ■ l- .l j ?,■ 



,' , . 'i • .u 1 •. 1 J 1 » ' '''*^ '°od in his mouth doubling it under so as to 



ird, what passed in the kitchen, and what passes ,.„ •* ,• .i i i i -..t, , , , 



,' , '^ , •.,, „ I „ ,1 . (■ », force It directly backwards. When he has ob- 



iHe-kooping, in the families of persons in good 

 •cumstances, arises from a want of system in the 

 inaofeniont of servants ; and a very inji:dicio:i 

 niditv of controline them. For instance, I dineJ 



almost every kitchen, where the master of the , ■ , . ■ „ ^ , •,,,,. ■ , . 



, , , vi 1 'n; 1 •» I a i tamed one piece of meat, he Will not relinquish it 



13 opulent, and liberal, liie kitchen after r ... , /■ J , J ■ 



^ ,, ,. ■ t J I 11 even lor the sake ol earthworms or other favourite 



iiner was full ot negro intruders, and every del- 



icy being consumed, tlic remains of t!ie dinner 



;rc given away by the negroes within to the ne- 



oes who were invited for the purpose. 



in England, in such a family, the house-keeper, 



the cook, would tlilak it a regular part of their 



tv, to set bv on a dresser, every di-h th:it came 



food; he is also fond of burying himself when he 

 has received any thing in order to eat it undistur- 

 bed — Godman's Amtrican JVatural History. 



Caution. — On Saturday night the 4t!i ult, Mr 



Armes, from the vicinity of Athens, Tennessce.was 



killed, five miles west of Kno.vville on the Kings- 



11 the first table, untouched by the sei vants, till ! ton road.by lightning. He was on his way to Jef- 



had selected what dishes were proper ss a lib- ! ferson county, with a friend. During the storm 



al supply for the servants' table, and w'hat were jthey had fallen asleep by the road side, leaving 



er lo be set by, for the next day's dinner. — jthcirguns standing ayainst a tree, from which the 



ery morning, it is the reg-ular duty of the cook 

 house-keeper, to come after breakfast to the 

 stress of the family, and report the dishes set 

 from the dinner of yesterday : and receive or- 

 rs for the provision of the day. Unless this be 

 ne, and unless the master keeps a firm, and un- 

 enting hand over the male servants, he can nev- 

 safely calculate the expenses of the family. It 

 astonishing, how niucli trouble is taken, bow 

 ich expense incurred, how much uneasiness and 

 itation is to be borne, how many friendly enter- 

 nments are reluctantly to be dispensed with, for 

 nt of the regular system above-mentioned, 

 lich eve>v husband ought to insist upon, fol'ow- 

 bv his wife. There is no uneasiness, like tiiose 

 lich are the consequence of"economy neglected, 

 here there is no cook or housekeeper, the mis- 

 ss of the family ought to see that the plenty of 

 r own table is used but not abused, by the waste 

 the servants in the kitchen : and in particular, 

 insist upon seeing the dishes jeiiiaiuing ol' the 

 v preceding, placed before her eyes every morn- 

 , for hashes, stews, ragouts, fricasees, &c. 



Dr. T. Cooper. 



lightning was communi .ated. 



Stantly krlleO,aiUl Uic curvlv 



ed, but not materially hurt. 



Mr Armes was in- 

 /■,\a severely alinck- 



State of Education in the Middle .iges. — In the 

 year ]:340, there were thirty thousand students in 

 in the university at Oxford. In the same century, 

 ten thousand persons voted in a question agitated 

 in the University at Paris ; and as graduates alone 

 were admitted to that privilege, the number of 



students must have been very great JVole '28 to 



Dr Robertson's History, ch. v. 



day. Wc tbresiicd 85 bushels of wheat in 2 days, 

 and the labor at the wheel was very easy, wc pre- 

 ferring to turn the machine rather than to feed it, 

 iind we do not hesitate to declare that wc had 

 much rather thrush with this machine than by any 

 other method we aro acquainted with. 



BENJ. PORTER. 

 HU(ai RIEI.EY. < 

 OWEN RIEKEV. 

 Signed in presence of J 

 GoaHAM Pauso.ns. ) 



liriishton, JVov. 29, 132(1. 

 .Middlesex, ss. — Brighton, Dec. I,i826, then the 

 above named Benjamin Porter, Hugh Rielly and 

 Owen Rielly, personally appeared and made oath 

 that the above certificrite by them subscribed is 

 true. Before me, EDWARD SPARHAWK, 

 Jusliee of the Peace. 



See, likewisG,the report of the Committee on In- 

 ventions of the Massachusetts Agricultural Socie- 

 ty, New England Farmer, vol. v. page 110. 



The Machine that has performed the above labor 

 is now to be seen at the Agricultural Establish- 

 ment of J. R. Newell & Co. to whom purchasers 

 may apply for any further information. 



The cultivation of the olive and the vine is re- 

 commended by the South Carolina Agricultural 

 Society, instead of cotton. Few can change from 

 cotton to rice ; and the home consumption of the 

 United states includes more than two millions of 

 gallons of foreign wine, as much brandy, and about 

 four millions of pounds of raisins. 



It is said, says the National Journal, that water- 

 cement lirae has been found on the banks of the 

 Potomac ; that it is equal in quality to the best 

 Roman cement that has yet been discovered, and 

 at a price not exceeding ten cents per bushel. In 

 the construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Ca- 

 nal, this discovery would be productive of the 

 greatest advantage. 



Charles Glidden, Esq- of Northfield, (N. H.) 

 raised, the past season, on sis acres, in one piece 

 of ground, 540 bushels of corn — averaging 90 

 bushels to tho acre. [N. H. Journal] 



neTvYn G landIfarmer. 



The National Intelligencer published a Memoir 

 by Mr Monroe on the subject of his claims on the 

 government of the United .States, setting forth the 

 causes which led to expenditures, while in a di- 

 plomatic capacity in Europe, his accounts for which 

 were not allowed by the government ; and re- 

 viewing briefly the several situations in which he 

 has been placed, with what was required of liiui 

 by the attendant circumstances. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, DEC. 15, 1826. 



POPE'S THRESHING MACHINE. 

 We are happy to learn that this machine, hav- 

 ing received several improvements, is receiving 

 that attention it deserves,from intelligent farmers. 

 The following certificate shows the amount of la- 



, A bill has been brought into the House of Rep- 

 resentatives of Georgia to make the estates of all 

 attornies at laiv liable to pay, before any other 

 debts, all sums of money placed in their hands for 

 collection. 



[ In the Legislature of New Jersey, the joint com- 

 mittee on the memorial of the Delaware and Rari- 



\tan Canal Co. have presented a report annulling: 

 the charter and returning the bonus of $100,000. 



MOLES. 

 Shrew moles arc the most active in the morn-, 

 :, at mid-elav. r.nd in the evening ; aftr-r rains !'«'"' it is capable of performing : 

 y are particularly busy in repairing their dam- We the undersigned have used Pope's Improved 

 ed galleries ; and in long continued wet weath- 1 Hand Thrashing Machine, and have thrashed w'ith 

 we find that they seek the high grounds for lit this season in Brighton, about 110 bushels of 

 :urity. The precision with which they daily J wheat and 60 of rye, which it cleaned from the 

 me to the surl^ce at twelve o'clock is very re- 'straw in the most thorough manner, at the rate of 

 rkable, and is well known in the country. In 5 bush, wheat i>er hour, of a kin 1 th;it cither of us 

 ,ny instances, when we have watched them, ; could not with the flail thrash over 5 bushels per 



There is now living in the town of Western, N. 

 Y. a farmer who measures seven feet four inches 

 and three quarters in height. 



The amount of tolls on the Erie and Champlain 

 canals, received the present year, is esliniate<l at 

 ,«700,000. 



There are said to be ffty cotton manufactories 

 in the county of Bristol, in Mass. 



