I. v.— No. 29. 



NEW ENGLAND 1 AKMEK. 



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and of great value for tlicir plea.sant fruit. 

 ey arc pleasiiisr memorials oftlic virtuca of 

 ivhom n;iturc teaclics us to respect. Tfthe 

 cs arc cut ilown. it will disfigure tlio situa- 

 id young trees can scarcely be expected to 

 their places during the present generation. 

 *;J^er, with his team, either late in tlio fall or 

 n the spring, might in half a day revive an 

 e, which would annually repay the whole 

 >f his labor during many years. Seldom 

 he farmer's labour be belter employed. The 

 ruit of the old tree would render his even- 

 lore pleasant at home, and have some influ- 

 to prevent the vices so often contracted in 

 esorts. The moral benefits resulting 

 ciiiciits in agriculture I consider as of in- 

 ible importance to society. 

 h this view the writer ofiers the above com- 

 alion for the pres*. A CITIZEN. 



I'KICIOS li\' PITTSBURG, I'KNN. , composition for preserving wood, when exposed 



The following have been given as the prices j to the injuries of the weather, is liighly i>rcferablc 



lately in Pittsburg, Penn. to the customary method of coating them with tar 



Flour, fine, 83,23— superfine $3,50— Wheat, 50 and ochre. [Family Receipt Hook.] 



cents, in demand — Rye, 25— Corn, 37 — Oats, 20 | Haii 'l\a. 



Whiskey, old, 2t), none in market— do. new, 23, | ^„ Rn^rlish writer recoiiimeii 



in demand. 



when there is 

 a scarcity of hay, to boil as much as a person can 



Salt is selling in Pittsburg at three dollars per i „^^^^ ;„ |,i^ |,an,l i,, three gallons of water (and so 

 barrel. In Indiana, at 75 cents per bushel. The ^^ proportion for any greater or smaller quantity,) 

 rise is attributed to the late purchase of the wells J ^^^ j,- j|,y ^^^ter is poured boiling hot on the liay" it 

 along the Kiskiminetas river, by a company from . ^ju ang^vpr nearly as well. Give it to tlie cattle 



\ irginia. L^d horses to drink when cold ; or if the cattle or 



//•on.— It is said th7t there are beds of Iron o.e ' horses are any way ill, and under cover, give it 



; '" I in the country woot of Lake Champlaia, sufficient \ 'hetn blood warm. The cattle and horses will not 



"■*""' to supply all nations with iron. It is expected , seem to like it at first, but if they are kept till 



that 'JOOO tons of bar iron will be sent from a sin- they are very thirsty they will drink freely of it 



gle establishment through the northern canal the 1 ^vor afterwards 



netit season. 



SINGUL.VR i)lSKASE. 

 the Argus, published at Frankfort, Ken. of 

 )th inst. we find it stated, thuL a few days be- 

 motion was made in the Senate of that 

 by Mr Carneal, the Senator fioin the coun- 

 f Booue and Campbell, who presented to the 

 e, a petition from some of his constituents, 

 Bg the Legislature to oflcr a reward for the 

 ery of the cause of a disease, which, for 

 years, in that section of country, has been 

 to man and beast. After giving sonic details 

 ilf, he called on Mr Gibson, the Senator from 

 ountics of G,:llatin, Grant and Pendleton, to 

 the Senate more full information. This gen- 

 tated, that the disease appeared first in 

 J early in the spring and late in the fall. It 

 supposed to originate from some herb eaten 

 em in tliose seasons. A beast apparently in 

 ct health, will be suddenly siczcd with a 

 Wing and wckness which will carry them ofi" 



few hours. Dogs, hogs or any other animals, 

 eat the flesh, are immediately taken with a 

 nt puking, after which they fall into a stupor, 



die in an hour and a half or two hours. Per- 

 drinking the milk of a cow that is infected, 



Itaken in the same manner, and immediately 

 He believed that within five miles of him 



I) worth of stock die annually, and that part of 



conntry had been almost stripped of cattle. — 

 ad also known as many as from 30 to 40 per- 

 who had lost their lives by this fata! poison. 



Yancey stated, that the same disease prevail- 

 the neighborhood of Goose Creek in Tcn- 



iee, where he had been, .-.nd it was said, even 

 buzzards which ate of the carcases of cattle 

 had died with it, immediately perished. The 



tion was referred to a select committee of 



ch Mr Carneal is chairman, for the purpose of 

 idering the subject and consulting the Medi- 



Paculty. 



The number of cattle at Brighton on Monday of 

 last week was about 600. Many of them were sold 

 at from 3,50 to ,f 4 per hundred ; a few went from 

 4,50 to ,95; and a very fine pair of oxen from Hat- 

 field brought $5,25. For several weeks past, a- 

 bout twice as many cattle have been driven to 

 Brighton, as were required to supply the market ; 

 great numbers have consequently been sold for 

 barreling. Prices will be low as long as this glut 

 continues. 



About 200 fat wethers from Hampshire county, 

 were sold in the vicinity of Boston a few days 

 since for about $1,80 each. Another flock of 

 about 200 from the western part of Hampshire 

 county passed through Nortiiampton last week on 

 ihtir return from Brighton. The owner could not 

 get a higher oft'er for them than fft],4'3. They 

 were in good order, but not quite fat enough for 

 the butcher. 



Two merchants in Blandford purchased the last 

 season about 70 tons of cheese, at from 6 to 7 

 cents per pound ; and great quantities were dis- 

 posed of in other places. There is probably no 

 town in the old county of Hampshire that produces 

 more cheese than Blandford. — Hamp. Gaz. 



[prepared for the new ENGLAND FARMER.] 



Farmers, and otiiers, in Sweden and other cold 

 countries, who have cattle and hfirses, when they 

 are in want of fodder, constantly pursue this meth- 

 od, and find the good effects of it ; and there is no 

 doubt but this method would have the same good 

 cfiect oB sheep in severe weather, when the sheep 

 are housed, or the land covered with snow, espec- 

 ially if they were given a small quantity of salt. 



This method was followed with a cow which 

 wns kept in a large city, for the sake of the chil- 

 dren, where no green food could easily be got in 

 winter, e.xcept the refuse of the vegetables used 

 in the family. Boiling water was poured into a 

 tub half filled with hay, and the tub was covered 

 till cold. But the cow eat the hay as well as the 

 tea, seemed to be fond of both, and it was thought 

 that the milk was more plentiful. It was in fact 

 a succedaneum for green food. 



Instructions fur mahing Domestic Soap. 



Fix your ley tub thus. Make a false bottom 

 4 inches from the true bottom, of any white wood: 

 bore it full of auger holes ; lay across it sticks of 

 white poplar.and on these 4 inches of clean straw; 

 on the straw inches of good fresh lime, trodden 

 down; on the lime 18 inches of ashes ; on these 

 about 4 inches more of lime ; fill up with water ; 

 pour water on the top till it is drawn out by a 

 spigot between the true and false bottom,tasteless; 

 pour it into a boiler ; evaporate till a pint weighs 



Composition fur preserving }l'enfher-boarding. Pal- 1 16J oz 



ing, and all other Works liahle to be injured Melt your fat in a good deal of water containing 



I If the Weather. a little pot or pearlash (about Jib to a cwt. of 



Well burnt lime" will soon become slacked by fat) scum it; let it cool.take it off in a cake. Melt 



exposure-in the open air, or even if confined in a it in the boiler for making soap ; add gradually of 



CATS. 



he first couple of cats which were carried to 

 yaba sold for a pound of gold. There was a 



ue of rats in the settlement, and they were 

 chased as a speculation, which proved an ex- 

 lent one. Their first kittens produced thirty 

 ivas each ; the next generation were worth 



nty ; and the price gradually fell as the inhabi- 

 ts were stocked with these beautiful and use- 

 creatures. 



lontenegro presented to the elder Almagro the 

 teat which was brought to South America, 



was rewarded for it with six hundred pesos. 

 [Southey's Brazil.] 



ituation not remarkably dry, so as to crumble of 

 itself into powder. This is called air-slacked lime, 

 in contradistinction to that which is slacked in the 

 usual way by being mixed with water. For the 

 purpose of making the present composition to pro- 

 serve all sorts of wood-work exposed to the vicis- 

 situdes of the .weather, take three parts of this air 

 slacked lime, two of wood-ashes, and one of fine 

 sand : pass them through a fine sieve, and add as 

 much linseed oil to the composition as will bring 

 it to a proper consistence for working with a 

 painter's brush. As particular care mu.'?t be taken 

 to mix it properly, it should be ground on a stone 

 slab with a proper muller, in the same manner as 

 painters grind their white lead, &c. but where 

 these conveniences are not at hand, the ingredi- 

 ents may be mixed in a large pan, and well beat 

 up with a wooden spatula. Two coats of this com- 

 position being necessary, the first may be rather 



your ley about 14 gallons to 100 lbs. of tallow,boil 

 for 6 hours : if the soap is greasy, add more ley,if 

 it taste too strong of the ley, add a little tallow 

 cut it with salt and water, about one lb. of salt to 

 14 lbs of tallow ; boil for two hours more, stirring 

 it well; let it cool, or just while it is fluid, pour in- 

 to a wooden trough, and when cool cut it out in 

 cakes." [Willich's Domestic Encyclopedia.] 



Fattening Fowls with Potatoes. 



There is great profit in feeding geese, turkeys, 

 and fowls of every sort, with potatoes and meal 

 mixed ; tliey will fatten in nearly one half the 

 time that they will with any kind of corn, or even 

 meal by itself. The potatoes must be bruised/iic, 

 while they are hot, and the meal added, when the 

 mess is given to them. [Trans, of Soc. of .^rts.] 

 Potatoes for fattening Hogs .'seasoned with Alum. 



Mr Somerville says that the fattening of hogs 



thin; but the second should be as thick as it can ■ by potatoes is much hastened, by mixing a small 

 conveniently be worked. This most excellent i quantity of any astringent substance among the 



