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11 littering is three loads of 15> or iS.OOOlbu. powder, it broaks inu. « .rreat muubr.r of pl.-cps,— , A^w'sJ^rTlVhl'Zl'rhe'sidneu /Ve,""w'7. 



aw to each grown beaat where,,, if it i. ...ite liile,!, it ,„orcly .cparales i,,- "V./.-v MnUtor or,I.:ly la.,, .ives the following ac- 



(Bonlley s Husbandry.) to two or three pieces whi.;h aie thrown to a great count of that setlie.iieiit :— 



[t wonld be more economical, however, to cut distance. i On reo-ir.iin.r thn .or,, :. „ n i • u ., 



^ ■,, . .. ,,■.•• ,. ; *^'" '^'^o''r'""5r "le very ainiill space which the cs- 



irnw with a straw-cnlter, even when it is in- II tlic Irnnic of a t,-oe is ch„r-o.l with gnnpow. plorod part of Anstral.tsia is- cotitained in as cm 



dforhtter. But it cut .ind ini.xed, or giv dor for the purpose of splitting it, 3„d the waddiiifr pared with the wliole contiuct, we cannot but 



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value than straw.and cut and distribute is loft between them, tlio elfects of the powder ! est e.Uent of the explored part docs not oxreed 

 straw for foddfv.lfpossible feed your cattle un- ;:rc then such as to tear the tree asunder. six hundred miles north and south, and four hun- 



r,and provide then, at least u siied to lodge ^ ,, .. ., dred milws P'i=t an,l ,. o.» 7„j„„, r r 



, ., ■., .11 I-.. : On tie prooeiiu of beiliiis' in Pease ureu mneo ejst anU west. Indeed we have but a 



nd they will require not only less litter ; ^' J J o„ui ,g in incase. very imperfect itnowledge of the country 200 miles 



ess food than if fed and lodged in an openi ^" i«''"'^ ■'.»''' />«"««, some samples, without ref- [distant. Wc ' •■ '•"': 'ouniry ^,nj milns 



'■ Many fanners," eays the Domestic Knoy- ^ rence to variety, fall or moulder down fully into j ly 



siiould not bo suprised if it eventual- 



,,,( •■ Many larmers, says me uomesuc r.noy- -•-— '" ■"';,-■' ' *"" l" "»"■■"" ""» n luiiy into , ly turns out tiiat we have settled on the worst snot 

 „j >dia, '■ feed in their yards in racks, and .up- P»lp, ^vhilc others continue to maintain their form. i„ t|,e island. Hunter's River without anvlouWh 

 , . that tliey gain every possible advantage from The for.ner are called boilers. This property of i, , f,„e .etUement : the whole counry "^017,' 

 "uactiee, by the saving of dung dropped, '^o.-ig depends on the soi ; stiff' land, or sandy as if it wanted mowing-lagl flock" L'^d 

 led and watered by the cattle ; and ihotigh/"'' tint has been tnarled uniformly, produces arc fast accumulatin-rf and Lany settler" are n 

 racticeis certainly preferable to wasteful' P<'»- hat will not melt in the boiler.no matter vesting considerable property in b, ii no fpn.i "" 



prai 



ing, or to feeding in racks (or from stacks 



fields, yet it ought to be recollected that 



inure \vill be much inferior to that made and 



rved under cover. For there are objections 



inst the practice of yard feeding, viz. Danger 



what the vai-iety may be. — [Loudon.] 



IMPOaTANT DISCOVERY. 

 By some recent expcrimenls, made by M. Eer- 

 trand it appears that charcoal possesses tlie pow 



a V icious beast injuring another, the irritation "^^"^ counteracting the fatul effects of the mineral 



Ing from their contentions for food,and worry- P'"^''"^ °" the animal body. He enumerares sey- 



y flies, all of which are avoided by feeding ®™ e.\penments to prove this fact, the third of 



' which was made on himself " At half past seven 



in tlie morning," he states, " I swallowed, fiistin-r, 



five grains of arsenick powder, in half a glass of 



)il a o,uantity of mealy potatoes, and mash strong n'.ixture of charcoal; at a quarter before 



without pealing ; then take as many, and eight I perceived a painful sensation of heat in 



third more of raw potatoes, and obtain the the stomach, with great thirst. I then drank 



[alls under cover.' 



To make. Patent Paste. 



c property in building, fencing 

 and clearing. All are rising into that desirable 



condition of having bread enough and to spare. 



In a few years they will constitute a powerful 

 squireality, truly enviable, if they preserve the 

 free, open, and generous character of an English 

 country gentleman— The following are the aver- 

 age prices of articles at Sidney : — Wheat 8s. 3d. 

 Maize 3a. Barley 4s. per bushel. Butter 2s. Cheese 

 Is. per lb. Eggs Is. 6d per dozen. Fowls 3s. 

 Ducks 43.ed. Geese 1'2e. Turkies lis per couple. 

 Potatoes 19s. per cwt. Bread (Id. per ioaf. 



On Friday ni;;ht, the new stables. &c. of Abi- 

 jah H. Hatch, of Fishkill, keeper of the. stage 

 fi or flower from them, by rrating them into . other glass of the charcoal. At half past nine the [house atjhat place, and one of the proprietors "of 

 scl of water, and reserving only the finer par- oppressive pain ceased in the stomach, and was the line of stages, were destroyed by fire,'tO'rether 



!. The mashed potatoes are to be diluted, followed by an uneasy sensation in the viscera j «'ith seventeen fine horses, about 500 dollars°worth 



"upland passed through a seive. They are Being very thirsty, I drank several cups of aa in- of hay, and several harnesses, &c. Only two of 

 to be put into a boilei, and when nearly boil- fusion of orange flowers, and at 11, was compitce- '" 

 the starch ];roduced from the grated potatoes i ly well. At noon I dined as usual, witliout incon- 

 be added, and the n hole boiled together about venience, and could perceive no further deran-'e- 



nty nunutcs, during which time it must be nient in the digestive functions." Tiie same ex- 



fully stirred : it is then good paste, and is to , periment was made with corrosive sublimate of 



lut into a wide vessel to cool. — (English pa.) I mercury, with the same result. As we have hith- ' 



19 horses in the stable were saved. Eleven that 

 were hilled were the property of Mr U. stated to 

 be worth .SIOOO. One of the drivers made every 

 exertion to save the horses. He rushed into the 

 stable and cut loose the four horses belonging to 

 his team, but could not induce them to leave the 



To Increase theforee of gunpowder. 



erto been unacquainted with any article capable of | stable. He led then, to the door, but they would 



:;ther till the white colour of the lime dis 



„ . ., e ^ ■ A ■ 1 rendering the mineral poisons inert, the eommuni- 



T Baine says three ounces of pulverized quick ^.itif,,, „r M Hortmr,,! „«• .i w i ■ ■ 



/ / ' . cation 01 JVl. iiertrand of the result of liis exner - 



being added to one pound of gunpowder, its mepts is of vast importance, 

 e is augmented one third; shake the whole 1 fTr' Wo v,.,t,n ti,„„„i » .i • i - 



I UUr we have thought this paragraph from a 



,„ ,. , o u 1- .• ,'''■ i ''''6 London paper worth copying, for tlie discove- 



[Engush Publication.] | ^y j, interesting, and countenanced by the well 



I. D. GrifSth, Esq. in the gth vol. of the Ttohs- : known chemical cfl'ect of charcoal on metallic ox- 



'0115 of the Hath and IVtst of EnglandSocicly yde, in common experiments. It is not any no.t- 



;es that quick lime, mixed with gunpowder, in ious quality in the simple metal that renders the 



proportion of o:ie pound of the former, well metallic oxydcs deleterious, it is the chemical 



sd and pulverized, to two p.iunds of the latter action of their oxygen, on the animal fibre. From 



sedan explosion, with a force equal to f/tree i the very strong affinity between charcoal and oxy- 



inrfs of gunpowder ; lience, according to him, ' gen, tne former has long been used for restoring 



rly one third of the expense of powder in blast- several oxyds to the metallic, state. The oxygen 



rocki may he sa-ed. thus combined with charcoal, is more stronuly at- 



■Ihodof !, creasing the effects of gunpowder, and "'f^ ?'>''' '^''" "' ''"^ by .he metal, an"!] this 



<l80 .■'hewing ilie necessity of certain precautions '■•"'''!"''' "hen applied to the animal fi'ure com- 



\n hading Fire-^rms. I P»"t"''=ly inert.— iJo^Mn Spectator. I 



not come out. He then mounted one, and tried to 

 j ride him out — but :,ll to no pnrposo, and his favour- 

 [ite horses were left, when the faithful driver could 

 stand it no longer. (N. Y. paper.) 



(Ij^ It has been published repeatedly, that a 

 hor,5e may easily be led from a building on fire by 

 placing a blanket, great coat or something of the 

 kind, over his head, to prevent the light of the 

 fire from dazzling his eyes. (Ed. N. E. Farmer.) 



The City of Cadiz is older than Rome, London, 

 Paris or Vienna ; older than Madrid and Naples, 

 Stockholm and St. Petersburg, and Constantino- 

 ple ; slie is as old as Jerusalem. She is, afler 

 Tyre and Sidon, the oldest mercantile city in the 

 world. — When the pyramids in Egypt were built, 

 Cadiz,too,was built. When Troy was de3toyed,this 

 Neptune city was raised from the ocean. Gades, 

 the now Cadiz, was an old colony of the Phceni- 



ff'elland Canal. — We learn by the papers, that '^'""s, who used this favourable situation to build 



t is a w cU known fact, which cannot he too of 



li published., that a musket, fowling piece, &c. is | the Hou.=.e of Assembly of Upper Canq'da has pas- [ the town,on account of the trade of the west coast 

 [ry apt to burst it the wadding is not r. mmed down j sed a bill authorizing the Colonial Government to ' of E^rope and Africa, which was done about 700 



se to the powder. Hence it is obvious that in purchase stock of this admirable work to tiie a- 'years before Christ. 



ding a screw barrel pistol, care should be taken mount of J'-'OO.OOO This, with the grant la=t year ^ tv u- — '^ : 7~, 



[iit the cavity for the powder be entirely filled I of $100,000, and the £15,000 from the mother'-- '' ^'"^™^^ '^'"'''' arrived on Sunday 



th It, 30 as to leave no space between the pow- j country, will, we trust, put the Directors in doss I , Bremen had on board upwards of seventeen 



\^"^ ,^h<^ ^»' I ession of ample funds, and hasten the completion ^ "'T'l ," n ""^ 7'" ""1 ^-"'"u""' ''',"''' "'" 



Jf -I bomb or shell is only half filled with cun- ' of the enfernrise r a ik „. i ' understand will pay a fair profit in this market. 



[N. Y. Merc. Adv.] 



