'■l^v|V._No. 34. 



iNEW EAGLAI^D FARMER. 



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id not name to you anutlier distinguished therefore, wlio can spate liulf an hour a day, miuI euro whs npi'lioil, mid in i,,;,t ^i,i,rt luue so vio^ 

 C, your townsmun, one who was born who hopes to live a single year longer, complain lent was tlie advance of tlic poisoji, boiiijj near a 



spot wliero we an' now assembled, and that he lias no time. blood vessel, i hat its tongue was much swollen 



own bound apprentice to a printer. For -^ i and green matter was vomite I by tlie child ; but 



ai8 he wrougat diligently in that calling ; TRANSPLANTING. the oftect of the antidote >v,is ne.irly as instanta- 



ntly and with such skill, that there were '" performing this operation, on all plants of neons as the poison, i^cvcral of my neirrhbours in 



could hold competition with liim. ile ""oO'lcn texture, the essential point is to set the the vicinity of Newport, near Hhiirsvill'o in this 

 It to steal hours from sleep to jrive to study; |'oots in the ground in a situation similar to that county, can attest the above facts, 

 fruits of tliat study enabled him, many '" "'licb they were placed, before they werctak- 

 \erwards, to sustain the reputation of the f"" o"!- ; "ot only the same depth, but, us Mr 

 nd liberty of his country in more than one Forsiiih says, with the same side to the south which 

 Europe. ^^''is the south side before : But as they cannot be 



men all attained wealth and distinclion for K"' 0"t of the j;rround, nor set aL,''ain Into it, with ' 

 vcs, and be(|uealhed a noble e.xample, an t'lCir lull length of roots, these must be cut off to , 

 fame, to us and to poslcrity. What raised a l^n^rtli proportionate to tlieir size. Where they 

 id Ronnie and Franklin from tlic humble ^f*^ ^'f O' small, let them be cut at the lengfth of. 



.Iames M'CoaMTCK. 



NEW EN G L A JN D^F A R M ER, 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, MARCH K!, 1827. 



INCISIONS IN FliniT TKKES. 



London states, that incisions are sometimes ne- 

 n in which they were born? Wjiat but S'"^ or eight inclies, and where they are pretty cessary to the health of the tree, in the same man- 

 ivation of their powers by the very kind lartre, double that length, or more : Let them be ner perhaps as bleeding is necessary for the 

 ledge which it is the object of our insti- carefully taken up, without breaking the roots, liealth of the animal. T!ie trunk of the plum and 

 3 offer to all ? cutting off those that get broken, and cutting Ihera cherry iree seldom e.xpund freely till a lonTiludi- 



.% however, it may be objected, are re- rii' offat their proper length ; and let the hole, in- nal incision has been inaile in the bark- and 

 Ic instances — exceptions from gcnera.1 to which they are to be set, be sufficiently large hence this operation is often practised bv garden- 

 es — men who would have raised them- to receive the roots without cramping them : Then ers. If the inci-ion affects the epidermis [out side 

 o distinction from any situation. shake in the earth gently about them, so as that bark] only, it heals up witliout Icavino- a scar • if 



hat is tiie effect of knowledge on great ''""h o"e shall retain its proper position. As it is it penetrates into the wood, the wound in the 

 of men, when it is to he estimated in mil- difficult to give the fibrous^oots their proper place, i wood itself never heals np completely, but new 

 Do we find that the manufactures of tlios& '•• '= generally best to cut most of these off. In [wood and bark are formed above it as before. ' 



e=, in which the education of the people has fmit-trees, all the downright roots should be cut jiint 



omo piogrcss, fall short in quantity or ex- off. 



e, of those produced by the same number If the roots have been some time out of ground, i 



s exerted with less intelligence*.- Hear it-is advisable to soak them in water for eight or 



wer of a man, whose national prejudices ten hours before they are set in. In a cold or i 



avc been all on the otiier side, but who stiff soil, they should be set shallower'thnn in a 



ed truth to the gratification of the pride of warm mellow one. After they are properly bedded 



ntrymen. " We are compelled to coniess," i" tl''' ground, a stake should be driven in near to 



)upin, " that fourteen millions of lOnglish each one. leaning towards them, and to these they 



:otch have more industry an I pruducea should each be tied, to keep them steady; and \ 



number of articles to convev to distant some mulch should belaid round the roots of each. 



Should be cut foi drying, (says Phillips) just 

 when it is in flower, nm\ on a fine <lay ; for if cut 

 in damp weather, tht leaves will turn black. It 

 should be tied in email bunches, and dried in a 

 shady place out of the wind, but to retain its nat- 

 ural virtues more effectually, it has been found 

 better to place the miat in a screen, and to dry it 

 quickly before a fire, so that it may be powdered 

 and immediately put into glass bottles and kept 



.1, .u- . r -u- ' 1 i„ , „ 1 »■ .u 11 I ■ 1 £• 1 . \v/e\l stopped. Parsley, thvme, sage, and other 



es, th.in thirty or forty millions .^mong the In transplanting the. smaller kmda of plants, a i „,.„ . • ,, • <• n »• ' , , 



■ ,, , f , ■ , Z, . »• -. 1. 1 . , • • , heros, retain their ful fragrance when thus ore 



pared, and are by this mode secured from dust, 

 and always ready to tlie hand of the cook. 



A conserve made of mint is grateful, and the 

 distilled waters, both simple an'1 spiritous, are 

 much esteemed. The juice of spearmint drank in 

 p. Lewis observes, 



of the continent." And whnt is the reason ? w'et time is to be chosen, and the evening is better 

 e people of the continent less quick to learn.' thafi any other time. As miicii of the earth 

 hey less capacity than the islanders ? Dupin should be left round the roots, as possible, in tak- 

 es the difference, — and it is not easy to get ing them out of the ground ; and if tl>ey are raised 

 authority on this point, — to the skill which with a little instrument called a Gardener's trowel, 

 from knowledge — to the union of philoso- by which a bunch of earth can be raised with them, ■• ft i st tl I' 



ith art. they will be the better for it. The holes "where j ...i^Ti, ^K!L!„°if^ "^i "'^'^ . u r.i- 



,■ .L .1 .■ 1 r 1 r, 1 .1 » 1 iji M , , , what has belore been observed bv Pi-.iv, that mnt 



ntmg then the practical usefulness of knowl- thev are set should be well watered, and the water , .i ^ i .• r •,, ■ /''•""•''"'""• 



., , ■ ' , , ... . ^l'.ii • 1 1 11 1, L prevents the coagulation of milk, and hence IS ro- 



the nieclianic, there are some who will be should previously bo well w^armed by the sun. i Iir>m„„^r,,lori ;„ n,Tii- ,i;..t, \hr i _ i /■ 



to say, that however desirous they may be For the times of transplanting different plants, 



aining it, they have no time. — they have arid the distances they are to be set apart, ate the 



too old to begin their education, and they different articles . which are the subjects of this 



not, and cannot obtain, the previous knowl- operation. [Farmer's Assistant.] 



which they suppose some of the instruction 



d to them requires. 



Lhe first place w ith regard to time : there ' 



inly is no one who cannot find one hour in a ' 



to attend a lecture on ao interesting subject 



From the Indiana JVhis 



CURE FOR TIIF. BITE OF A SNAKE. 



As the public in the western country are much 



a he may have in his thoughts all the rest of interested in knowing wliatever may be a good 



week. If he do only this, he will find him- remedy for the poison injected into the human 



I great gainer at the end of the year. But flesh by the bite of a snake, I tliink it my duty to 



is not enough, — to derive the greatest advant- state a fact within my own knowledge. About 



from his lecture he must also read. And for the year ISI.'i or 18IC, one of my children was bit- 

 purpose, no one, v\ho has a thirst for inforraa- , ten by a copperhead, on the inside of botli ankles, 

 will find it difiicult to find half or an hour i nearly at the same instant. I instantly produced 



y day. In that short time a great deal may be ' pulverised charcoil and mixed it with as much 



:. Half an hour a day for a year amounts to i hogslard as made it adhere. I then made a plaster 



lOurs a day for more than a month. This is j of it, and applied it to the wounds, renewing the lor stony 'concretion, that'w^as t.aken out" of aTu 



1 very short time to give to study ; and this plaster every twenty or thirty minutes, for ten or 1 man body. 



twelve hours, at the same time giving the child j Both water and rectified spirits extract the vir- 

 fresh milk to drink. This remedy had the desired tnes of this root by infusion and imbibe the whole 

 effect, and very little pain was endured after the i taste and pungency of the plant 

 first application. Not more than five minutes e- Boerhavc, who was so justly c. 



commended in milk di^'ts. Wiren dry, and diges- 

 ted in rectified spirits of wine, it gives out a tinc- 

 ture v.'hich appears by day light of a fine dark 

 green, but by candle light of a bright red colour : 

 a small quantity is green by day light or candle 

 light ; a large quantity seems impervious to day- 

 light, but when held between the eye and the 

 candle, or between the eye and the sun it appears 

 red. If put into a flat bottle it appears green 

 sidewise ; but when viewed edgewise red. 



HORSE RADISH. 



Phillips, in his Historj^ of Vegetables, has the 

 following: Sydenham, who has been called the 

 father of physic among the moderns, recommends 

 horse radish in dropsies, particularly those which 

 follow intermittent fevers. It is also extolled ir, 

 cases of the stone. Thomas Barthelin affirms 

 that the juice of horse-radish dissolved a calculus, 



on of time, frugally used, would enable a ine- 

 lic, with the aid of the lectures, to gain what 

 ivoiild always after consider an invaluable 

 vledge of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, or 



was so justly celebrated through 



St any other branch ofBcience. Let no one, 1 lapsed from the time the child was bitten until the | Europe as professor of physic and botany, says'it 



