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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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(^■w in liummcr, and by their nnniial deposit or tliici;. It succeeded in keeping up healthy di 

 [nin enrich the ground. The ameliorating ; gestion, and a renulnr state of houels ; the cliild, 

 on the most barren soil, the clothing oil instead of being Ccvorish, flatulent and fretful, as 



;nd almost desert knolls with luxuriant I licr preceding cliildren had been, continued cool [ states, that he has discovered all the dynasties of 

 |e by the cultivation of Locust groves, is j and cheorful, free from any symptom of indigcs- j I^g'yp'o *r<"n Minos to tlic times of thiV Romans ; 

 ificd in almost every spot where they grow, tinn and cutting his teeth without any constitu- , tint ho can show that Osiris was a real person ^ 



Dctyphering of Iluroi^h/phic.': — •' Hrofessor 



Scymirth of Leipzig, who Jia.s been employed in 

 dccyphcring the Lgyptian Antiquities at Rome, 



n, 



I few trees have been planted, little care 

 rod for their propagation. Sliootsai'C con- 

 tly sent up from the roots, or young trees 

 )ni the seeds, and in a few years arrive to 

 ty. The winds of the northern winters, it 

 e confessed, often impair their symmetry of 

 y breaking the branches, and the value of 

 nber is injured by worms ; but loss from 

 ;t cause can be prevented by proper prun- 

 d the destruction of the gnawing enemy 

 d by reasonable care But although our 

 is not the most propitious for the growth 

 tree, it is sufficiently favourable to allow of 

 lining good si7e with soundness. 

 price at whic.'i the timber hns been pur 

 by Government for building vessels of war, 

 :d at 7.5 cents the cubic foot, a^d a supply 



iional disturbance. — She ha;t continued this prac- 1 that he has found the picture of a .lew in bonds, 

 tico with two more of her cliildren with the same J '^»d oilier allusions to the state of Silavory to which 

 effects. We have known this simple uddition to ; the Jews were reduced. Ho adds, that he has 

 the food of children prove very efficacious in inci-lfonnd the old and new testaments in the Sefitic, 

 pient cases of rickets, and of irritable bowels, at- | ""d the Pcptateuch in the Momphitic dialect ; the 

 tended with looseness, &c. ; but if the child be acts of the councils cf Nicoa in the Coptic Ian- 

 disposed to costiveness, on account of its astrin- yn'ffc ; Coptic glossaries and grammars in the 



ent quality, a little magnesia should bo occasion- 

 ally added to it. 



From the Middletown Sentinel. 



TO CURE THE CRAMP. 



Many remedies have been prescribed to cure 

 this painful complaint ; A foot-board was recom- 

 mended by a Middletown paper last winter, and is 

 sometimes of great service. I knew a Doctor 

 ^en""proc'uVed' with difficulty. The profit h^'Iio "sed one more than forty years ago, and he 

 would result from the cultivation of the c=>"ed it his best remedy for the cramp. But the 

 for the market, would be very great. The Domestic Encyclopedia, and my own experience, 



t possesses is increased from the circum- 



that it may be made the means for the im- 

 jent of barren soils, and that the waste 



mav be covered not only with groves but 

 isuriant vegetation beneath tliem 



[Worcester ^gis.] 



The seed of the Yellow Locust Tree may 

 ained at the office of the New England 



MACHINERY. 



.ragraph in the last number of Niles's Re- 

 slates that an elegant broad cloth power 

 of New-York manufacture, was shipped 

 onth for England for one of the Leeds fac- 

 Some machines made by Mr Gilbert Brcws- 

 hich had been sent, by order, to Prussia, 

 en so much approved of, that he has re- 

 fresh orders for the supply of a number of 

 n machines and other machines for the manu- 

 3 of cotton and wool. " These (remarks 

 jgister) are new things and pleasant." 



VALUABLE BLOOD HORSE, 

 .le ship Samuel Robertson, Captain Choate, 

 jrenock, arrived on Tuesday, was imported 

 lebrated blood horse Commodore, for C. A. 

 •mson, Esq. of Geneva, N.Y. The Morning 

 icle observes that " Commodore is a blood 

 G hands higli, rising 7 years old, with great 

 md fine symmetry- He was sired by Caleb 

 in out of Mary Brown, by Guilford (son of 

 Iyer, by the celebrated English Eclipse.) 

 rand-dam, Mr Golding's famous racer Vi.\en, 

 t-S-o's out of Cypher by Squirrel, &c. 

 gives us pleasure to see our farmers and 

 men taking so much pains to improve the 

 of the noble animal the horse, by importinn- 

 !st English blood. 



CHILDREN'S FOOD. 



have taught me a better remedy, viz. Tic some 

 thing rouud the limb, between the pain and the 

 body, about as tight as a Doctor does to draw 

 blood, and thef pain will soon stop. 



Temperance in eating, drinking, exercise, &c. 

 are also very important in preventing a return of 

 that complaint, 



Arabic language; iind Mexican manuscripts in 

 j hieroglyphics, from which ho infers, that the Mexi- 

 j cans and the Egyptians had intercourse with each 

 I other from the remotest antiquity, and that they 

 I had the same system of mythology. 



The celebrated physician, Duinoulin, being sur- 

 rounded at bis last moments by several of the 

 most distinguished doctors of Paris, who vied 

 with each other in expressions of regret at his 

 situation — " Gentlemen," said he, suddenly, "do 

 not so much regret mc : I leave behind me three 

 great physicians." On their pressing him to 

 name them, each being sure that liis own name 

 would be among the number, he Iriefly added — 

 " Water, exercise and diet," to the no small dis- 

 comfiture of his disappointed brethren. 



Rye-heads were seen in the neighbourhood of 

 York, Pa. as early as the 8th of April. Vegcta- 

 I have sometimes been troubled with it, after I tion, notwithstanding the variable weather it has 

 very laborious exercise, and have used strips of had to encounter, is singularly forward and luxu- 



cloth which were cut for bandages, and have 

 sometimes kept them under my pillow. I have 

 not, however, had the cramp for several months, 

 until lately, when, after a very laborious day's 

 work, (trimming apple tree.-;,) the weather being 

 very warm, I was much afilicted with the cramp 

 at night. The bandages having been removed, I 

 tried other remedies, such as jumping on the floor, 

 rubbing tlie contracted muscle?, &c. without suc- 

 cess. I then obtained my bandages "gain, when, 

 by tying them tight first, the pain ceased. In 

 about half an hour I loosened them a little and 

 then went to sleep, keeping them on all night. — 

 Medicine I consider but a poor remedy for this 

 distressing complaint. A FARMER. 



riant. The counLry around York never appeared 

 more beaUiiftil than it does now. 



New Potatoes were on the tables at York, Pen. 

 on the 1st inst. We might nottliink this cxtraor 

 dinaiy if we knew how they were raised. 



The Minor's . Journal states that the Mauch 

 Chunk railway is nearly completed. It is stated 

 that over some parts of the roiul, the cars pass 

 equal to a mile a minute. This, if true, is c,u!ck 

 travellin'T. 



SILK. 



Joshua Clarke,Esq. of South Kingstown, R.I. has 

 made extensive preparations for the cultivation of 

 the silk worm, and has planted, this spring, up- 

 wards of 6000 mulberry trees, on which the silk 

 worm subsists, and will, the next season, plant a 

 larger number. The cultivation of the silk worm 

 has been carried on with considerable success, in 

 Vermont. Massachusetts, and in some other of the 

 New-England and Middle States. 



Two or three of our country gentlemen, resid- 

 ing in different parts of the State, have been for 

 somd years engaged in the business, in a small 

 way, and have met with success. [Providence pa.l j 



Refinnncnt. — It is proposed in London to con- 

 duct the smoke of their fires under gronjid, to e 

 rospectrnl distance from the city, before they let 

 it taint the air. But the saucy wind may afterwards 

 blow it over the houses — and place .i cloud be- 

 tween the sun nntl nobility. 



Jean Baptiste Monarque has been executed near 



ady of Yorkshire observes, in a letter dated ' Quebec for the robbery of a parsonage house. A 



h 2d, that in con.sequence of losing her first younger brother was pardoned at the gallows, but 



children, one during teething, and two of remained to see the execution, and then wander- 



amation in the bowels, she gave her 4th child ed through the streets in a state of distraction 



e lime water in every article of food, ad- , Two blunders were made, which rendered the ex- 

 a dese.Tt, and some times only a tea spoon- , ecution more painful than usual, 

 'lime water to every article, whether liquid ' 



The N. y. Chronicle lately gave a melancholy 

 picture of the prevalence of dissipation ainono- 

 some of IliP youth of that cily — and of the im- 

 pending wrctfhedness to tlicin and their parents 

 and other connexions. 



Mr Editor Carter, author of the interesting let- 

 ters from Europe, which have been, for some time 

 in course of publication, has returned to New 

 York. 



A man has been put to trial at Dublin for a mur- 

 der committed in 1798. 



The amount of domestic articles manufactured 

 in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the year 1S2G, was equal to 

 $], 700,000. 



The hills westward of Brattleborough were late- 

 ly covered with snow. 



We are sorry to hear, from some of the upper 

 counties of Virginia, that the Fly is making 

 dreadful ravages upon the Wheat. Some fields, 

 we are informed, are entirely destroyed. 



