Koi. V No. 3t:. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



285 



FIRE. 



wiil be in a fcv 



e destruction of property by conflagraUon m I water m the onRine, pretty often. VVIiatovcr without loekin-r the wheels a- anv^olaco 'IW 

 mted btutes probably amounts to an avera-e; burning, wood it is played on, ivitl be cxtinguisked are six galleries "cut throu-rh the solid rock the 

 or S31)0.()00 annually, reducmff many estima- ; as ,;• dipped in ^ea:ev-and wilt not hum afresh in most prod.g.ous of which « 40 rods long ''7 feel 



[U. S. Gaz.] , wide, and 30 font high, with three wide openings 



ndividuals in an liour or two, from a state oi' Ihc part e.i-tinguislifd." 

 ort to n.xtreme distress, and some to absolute 



To prevent or mitigate this mass of suf- i LIME NECESSARY FOR PEAS 



iry 



g, is highly desirable, and every thing calcu- 1 '' 's observed, that the common pea, whether 

 1 to produce this beneficent result, is surely | '•^ liite or gray, cannot be reared to perfection 



cut through its sides to admit light. Thirty men 

 were employed night and day, (being relieved 

 ev»ry 8 hours by as many others) for 18 months, in 

 effecting this gallery. On the lower side of the 



led to the most serious attention of the pub- , aay field which has not been either naturally or r«,w Zrri, »'' i i • i u side of the 



' o..t;fi„; 11. • .1 -.1 . roau, mere is a wall laid with stone and mortar 



t artihcially impregnated with some Mto//'co»s mat- „,;,i. „„„,„ .„„ r.„. ,■ , .... ^"" '"■'J^^^j 



with posts ten feet high erected at intervals to 



The quantity of 

 hutments of the 



simple ami une.xpensive plan of preventing - 'er. And hence it is supposed to happen, that iiioti„p.„i.,h thp rn-,,l f,.^„, .;, • ■ u , 



, ^ Ti- . ■ ■ . 1 I ■ , ■ ,, . oisiinguibH tne road troni the nreciDice. whon tlw 



spread of Fire was proposed in various news- I'cas are rarely cultivated universally as a field whole is covered with > <:Lipi^t., wucn inc 



rs throughout the United States, about twenty crop, unless in those parts of the country where masonry on this wall ndt^' 



sago, and from time to time rcpeatedlv re- either limo, marl, or chalk abounds, or upon stronn- hi-i.ln-oa ;„ ;„,,„„„ tu 



J L 1 ■ 1 ■. ■ 11,1 . ,.■'.' A. • ^ ^ ., . uiiuijeis IS immense. J ne ro; 



;d, by whicji It is probable that three-fourths ciays ; e.sxept, indeed, on the sea coast, vvhsrc i,ri,i,,„„ p„„r, , i . •■ 



.e destruction by fire that has since taken shell fish are often cMched in ^bun,Huce, and luXtrv^^^^^^^ '""' 



=, might have been prevented. Yet, strange v.licrc the fields are manured with Uieir shells in ' of XTI^k^T ,1 """"r'"' ^^^ occupants 

 •11, it has not been adopted, any where. : a state of mixture with dung. But it is remarka- ' n It and d!v in cnl 1 \? , , 



le plan is. to procure as many coarse and thick ble. that a soil that could scarcely have brought f '^ rplll Tl T r"\ " '■°°'", '"^ I 



IS. of suitable lengths, as woull suffice to cov- one pea to perfection, although richlv manured ZtoZTl^\Z 'f'"^'"'^''"' '^"''^^ ^'"^l 



le roofs of ten or a dozen houses; and, as with dung, from their running too much to haulm, 11^7^^ JLlL !"' ''°"T"'7 ""1 " T 



3 breaks out, spread them over the roofs of the and, afler blossoming, dying away without becom- ,To„ ' ' A,' .^ >^^^ Perform their devo- 



imjacent houses, keeping them constantiv >"g "pe, if it has once had lime applied -- - "' ' ""^ "'" "'° '"P '" ' '^""''^"' °^ monks.- 



, i •„ . , 1- ■ rr, - ,<, ^., Ki I I ,• "Pon 't. On the Italian side of the mountain, is the villaffe 



rated with wate- by means of engines. Two "s capable, when properly prepared in other res- nf t!;,„„i„„ „.;,i o.i i -- vnayc 



, , . , rt-. , «, * i7 1 ■ 1 ■.. 1 ^ ^' oimpion vvitn 4u nouses 



nes w^culd in such cases aftord more effectual pects, ot producing plentUnl crops of peas ever af- 



ection against tlie spread of tires, than six or 

 t playing on naked roofs. For, however 



terwards. It is further remarked by the same 



writer, on the result of an experiment, in whicli 



JUS the engines may be, and however great I ''le ridge of a field had been missed in liming, 



quantity of water they discharge, the roofs, in j produced no good wheat, while all the other parts 



minutes after they cease, become as combus- 

 as before they began. Whereas a single en- 

 plnying Moderately on roofs covered with 



IS, would afford protection to one house on 



I side of the one in flames, however violently 

 might ragi'. 



though this would bo highly beneficial every 



afforded a full crop, that lime, or some other cal 

 careous material is equally necessary for the pro 



and cottages, where 

 the poor remain in the summer to feed their goats, 

 are found in every part of the Alps, some oT them 

 at an amazing height. 



" Nothing which Napoleon has executed, (says 

 professor Griscom) will be regarded with more un 

 mingled satisfaction, or furnish a more strikincr 



ri„.,.;^„ „»• At'..' r " 1 /-■ , -ind durable monument of his public spirit, than 



tTZ^ rT T^" as for those of the the Simplon road. It must ever command the 



r, „!.?i.- i'!. ^„?1''.' "!""'''^'°" "'"' "^f "''?'.'' ; Pl^'^dits of Europe." [Hamp. Gaz.] 



vihcre this sort of manure has been employed, is 

 thinner in tiie skin, more plump, and yields better, 

 seems also to favor the same conclusion. Impreg- 



re, it is peculiarly important in places where! nations of this sort appear likewise, it is supposed 



;r it scarce, as is the case in various towns 

 cities ef the United States, 

 le cost of a single engine, would probably 

 hase cloths enough for any city, however 

 e. 



he idea was suggested by the eft'ect, about 

 nty years since, of the use of common blankets, 

 Jtesciving a large pile of buildings in Phila- 

 ■hia, which were in imminent dr.nger of dcs- 

 Ition. Its utility was further confirmed by a 

 ilar result in Newburyport, during a tremcn- 

 tiB conflagration auout 17. 18, or 19 years ago. 

 ee or four houses protected by blankets, at 

 corner of a street, escaped almost wholly un- 

 red, while the houses on each side, for a consid- 

 jle distance, were involved in oiie indiscrimin- 

 destruction. Numerous instances have since 

 time occurred, in different places, of equally 

 •aordinary preservations by the use of blankets. 

 1 it need not be urjed, that cloths in sufficient 



INDIAN RUBBER. 

 The milky sap of which Indian Rubber is made- 

 has been carried from Mexico to England, where 



particularly favourable for the production of bar- it has been united to various fabricks which have 



ley crops, much more so, especially if in large been thereby rendered perfectly water-tight. By 



proportions, than for those of oats. j placing a layer of it between two layers of cotton. 



I^ickson's Farmer's Com panion, i silk, linen, leather, woollen, &c. the adhesion is 



\ HINT TO MOTFER*^ so perfect that it seems but one web. Several 



All young animals naturally delight to be ;„' ''°'d; °''=^'i'^° or'inen cemented by this substance 



the open air, and in perpetual motion; but we P^^Juce a material answering many of the purpose 



„•,■.-„„„, ,■ 1 ,■ I- .1 • ■ . .• J. I 01 leather, and surpassing It in value. — Ibid. 



signify our disapprobation of this intention of na- | 



ture by confining our infant.? mostly in houses, 



. , , , , - The Season.— A North Carolina paper of 9th 



and swathing them, when born, as tightly as pos- inst. states that the martins, the harbin-xers of 

 sible. This natural instinct appears very strong, spring, have arrived. They have returned sooner 

 when wesee a child released from its confinement than usual, which (says the editor) announces a 

 mthe short interval betwi.xt pulling off its day great fruit year. A New York paper says the rob- 

 clothes, and swathing it again before it is put to ins begin to sing on Long Island on the llth inst 

 sleep. The evident tokens of delight which the several days earlier than usual— an indication that 

 little creature shows in recovering the free use of the spring is fully commenced. The meadow 

 Us hmbs, and the strong reluctance it discovers to lark has been observed practisino- his note near 

 be again remitted to its bondage, one should think Hartford, and » a black triangle o"f wild .reese," 



„ , - would strike conviction of the cruelty and absurd- savs the Hartford Mirror, "have sounded their 



ntity, and of lengths to extend from eaves to "-y °^ ""^ pr.actice into the most stupid of man- i bugle in the sky, and gone to the northward with 



es, would be in comparatively more efficient 

 n blankets, for reasons too obvious to require 

 ail. 



he cloths ought to be deposited in the hou.se 

 ropriated to the fire-engines, for the convenience 

 ransportation to the scene of conflagration, 

 he solution of pearl ash, in the water cast by 

 engines, would speedily arrest the destructive 



eer of the flames. 



Dobson's Encyclopedia Vol. VII, page 247, 



itains the following simple but efficacious direc- 



as for extinguishing fires. 

 Dissolve a quantity of pearl ashes in a copper 



h water, and as soon a 



kind Dr. Gregory. 



the tidings of spring." The steam boats have com- 

 menced their trips between New York and Hart- 

 ford. The Hudson is open to Poughkeepsie, and 



Simplon road. — The Simplon road, which sur 

 mounts one of the snowy summits of the Alps, and ! Ii!" .. "''"'"""''"" *° "i"=" ..u x uuguaccpoic, auu 

 „„„„ • ,- f . E, i"; """ the steam boats are running between that place 



opens a communication between France and Italy, \ ^^^ ^^.^ Yq^Ij. ^yi q^^^ 



was projected by Napoleon, and constructed by his 

 order. It is a stupendous work aad excites the 

 admiration of every traveller. 



of the road is (5000 feet (upwards of a mile) above 

 tiie level of the sea. It is 40 miles in extent, and 

 passes on the extreme declivity of ridges, over aw- 

 ful chasms and foaming torrents, and throuo-h 

 prodigious masses of rock. The road is so con- 

 dissolves wiiidi I ^^"^""^'^'^ ^"^^^ "^^ s'°P^ "° where exceeds two and 



Mr Editor — The following is a recipe for ink 

 fhe highest part ! which has been used by a gentleman in this city 



for forty years past, who says it retains its colour 

 perfectly well. Boston, .March 28, J827. 



Into a quart of soft water put 5 ounces best A 

 leppo galls, broken into small pieces — Let this 

 stand exposed to the air (but secure against thf 

 dust) for 5 days. 



