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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



PARSNIPS AND PEAS. 

 A friend of the. Editor gave us tlie following 

 practical hint, which (though we have once pub- 

 lished it, vol. i. jjagc :351)may be of service to sonic 

 of our recent svibscribors : " Parsnips may be rais- 

 ed to great advantage as a second crop to poas ; 

 the seed to be sowed when the peas are. The 



It was unknown to tho worltmen there, and thrown 

 away as useless under the name of t/ri/ hone. 



SEASONABLE HINT. 



To preserve the kinds of vegetables. — Many per- 

 sons experience great disadvantages from the 

 changing of their garden and other seeds into 

 writer of this has been in this practice for several j those ol a worse kind, or into tliose of quite a dif- 



vears, and has, generally, found the crop of pars- fcrent sort. In this way pumpkins and squashes, 

 nips thus raised quite as large, and frequently cabbages and turnips, gourds, and even cucum- 



larger, than those raised in beds by thrinselves. 

 The peas protect tliem from tho sun whfu small." 



WHOLESOME MEATS. 

 All meats, say writers on medical subjects, are 

 best when the animal is at maturity. Hence to 

 delicate persons, chickens, lamb, veal, pig arc not 

 near so wholesome or nutritive as beef, fowl.mut- 

 fon and pork. 



THE TIME TO EAT FRUIT. 

 Fruit, says Dr Willich, should be eaten before 

 dinner, or as a supper. A meal of fruit after a 

 meal of meat is more than the stomach can dis- 

 pense with ; especially with a meal of pies and 

 puddings intervening. Phy-iicians, however, are j both will be spoiled 

 not agreed on this point. 



SORE BACKS IN HORSES. 

 White lead, moistened with milk or sweet oil, 

 has been recommended as tho most effective appli- 

 cation in the above complaint. 

 SECURE YOUR MELONS AGAINST BUGS 

 AND FLIES. 

 A great variety of recipes has been given for 

 the above mentioned purpose, and many or mo 



bers and muskmellons liave injured one another, 

 and produced a mongrel unfit for use. 



Farmers and gardeners may preserve the purity 

 of their seeds, n:.; well as the flavor of their fruits, 

 by attending to a few rules, such as tlie follow- 

 ing : 



Never plant tlie gourds near your squashes or 

 yon will make tliom bitter. 



Never plant squashes with your pumpkins, or 

 you will make them warty, hard skinned andtastO'- 

 less. 



Never plant different kind.^ of seed cabbage near 

 one another, or you will have a mi.xtarc. 



Never plant seed turnips near seed cabbages, or 



May 2.5, 1307, 



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Moisture in Plants — The quantity of siift- 

 moisture or rather of pure water, which soi 

 plants raise from the earth is uncommonly gr'^ 

 Thia is beautifully exemplified in the organi/al: 

 of some creeping plants, in which tiic moisture 

 frequently convoyed to the distance of forty, 

 fifty, or a hundred yards, before it reaches 't 

 leaves of fruit, or perhaps '.he assimilating oi 

 of the vegetable. I have scon a plant of this 

 that liad been accidentally cut across, continui 

 pour out pure limpid and ta:!t;les3 water, in 

 a quantity as to fill a wine-glass, in :il out hal 

 hour. [Finlaysoirs Mi.ssion to Siai 



MEN RAISED BY MERIT. ^ 



Dr. Franklin, who from a Journeyman Prin. 

 became one of tho greatest men in the civilij ' ^' 

 world; and whose life, written by himsel. 

 beautiful illustration of what may be eftected ' 

 industry and application, IVatt, the improvel 

 the Steam Engine, and hereby the donor of onl 

 tho greatest gifts ever bestowed on the huoi jjf 

 race by man, was a mathematical instrument Dl i. 

 ker. in a very humble sphere. Ilis labours h(l(|„ 

 benefited mankind to the extent of thousand 



Never plant good red beets near the wliite seed { tnillions ; and his own family by upwards of 

 beets, or you will have neither red nor white. '"'"'°" sterling.* Sir Richard Arktcright, 



Never plant different kinds of seed radishes 

 near one anotlier. 



As a general rule, never plant near one aaotlier 

 any vegetables that resemble each other in many 

 respects. 



VALUE OF A RACE MARE. 

 Urged by curiosity, we were, on Tuesday last, 

 oFthemj no doubt are 'in some degree efficacious, j present at perhaps as^ extraordinary a ^sale^ of an 

 The best and s 

 to enclose the young plants 



covered with milinet or something of a similar 

 texture. The frames may be made according to 

 the following directions 



afest way, however, is, wo believe, animal as ever took place in the world. ft was 

 young plants with wooden frames, j the interest of the late Wi lli am Wy.nn, Sonr. Esq. 

 in the celebrated Race Marc Ariel, which ex- 

 pires with tho Spring of 1629, offered to the high- 

 est bidder at New Market Course — and actually 

 "Take a strip of fine- board (about three-fourths I sold, (the more use of said Mare for two years, 

 of an inch in thickness is most suitable) eight or | when she is to be delivered to her owner in fee,) 

 ten feet in length, and four or live inches in width, ; for the incredible sum of two thousand four hun- 

 plough one edge of it with a carpenter's ^\oag\\'dred dollars ! An excellent comment this on the 

 or match -plane— then mark oft" an equal number of ^ scarcity of money and hard times ! But as a jus- 

 side and end pieces. Before sawing the side pieces j tification, it is whispered that bidders had in view 

 run a brad awl through where you want to drive j the great purse(3500 dollavii,) to be run for on 

 your nails, as it is not so likely to split, as after it '■ Thursday next, over the Tree Hill Course near 

 is sawed. They should be of this particular size, I Richmond, for which Ariel is expected to be a 



because one yard of milinet will just cover nine 

 boxes ; or a third of a yard will make three covers. 

 After having nailed your boxes and divided your 

 milinet, have some thin strips or tongues as the 

 carpenters call them. Press these with the edges 

 of the covers into the grooves, which fastens them 



competitor. — JV. Y. paper. 



FEATHER BEDS. 



The want of feathers is altogetlier artificial, 



arising from a disregard of the physical and moral 



well being of infants and children ; and he who 



has the good fortune never to have been accus 



much cheaper and more expeditiously than small j j^.^^^j ^^ ^ fp^j,,^^ ^^^5^ ^^i„ ^^^^.^^ j^ j^^^,^,^ ^^l^^ 



nails." 



CALAAHNE. 

 The mineral treasures of our country appear to 

 be interminable. Scarcely a day passes without 

 the discovery of some new and valuable locality of 

 those resources which make a country svbstantiulli/ 

 independent of others. 



Dr G. Troost and Mr C. Leseur of the New 

 Harmony society in Indiana, (the same gentlemen 

 whose discovery of Cobiilt we lately mentioned,) 

 have made a Riost important discovery, in a tour 

 they took to the Missouri lead mines lately. They 

 found at Mr Valle's diggings in Jefferson county, 

 Missouri, and at other places in the neighborhood, 

 great plenty of Calamine, the ore of Zinc, usually 

 employed to make brass, and to furnish Spelter. 



or desire one, nor in sickness, except in cases of 

 great morbid irritation, or excessive sensibility, or 

 some disease in which the pressure of a firm or 

 elastic substance might occasion pain. But wlien 

 a rational regard to the preservation of health 

 shall pervade the community, feathers a ill no more 

 be used without necessity, or medical advice, than 

 ardent spirits will be swallowed without the same 

 necessity or advice. The physician has frequent 

 occasion to see persons who are heated, sweated, 

 and enfeebled by sleeping on feathers, as if from 

 a fit of sickness, enervated, dispirited, rela.xed and 

 miserable. — Medical Intelligencer. 



Cucumbers raised in the open air, have been sold 

 at Deerfield, Oneida county, N. Y. 



great improver of t!io Cotton Mill, was a comi 

 Barber. Tho great Dr. Hutton was a Coal Poi 

 Huddarl, an eminent mathematician and macliinj 

 and known from his improvements in the manufij 

 tare of cordage, was a Shoemaker. BrindleyyS 

 man brought forward by the dukr^ of Bridgewat* 

 from the humble condition of a common labour* 

 unable to read or write, became the greatest Oj- 

 Engineer of his day, for the construction of cam 

 Braman was n common joiner, and established hii 

 self as a machinist in London, where he becar 

 celebrated for his various inventions, among whi 

 his Hydrostatic Press and his Locks stnnd pre-e 

 inent. Leslii, who fills a professor's chair in t 

 University of Edinburgh, was a common Skcpliert 

 Boy. Sineaton, who built the Lighthouse on Be 

 rock, (which is dry only once or twice for a fe 

 hours in tho year,) a work of great difficulty ni 

 merit, was a tin-plate worker. 



The last number of the Quarterly Review, ju 

 published by Wells & Lilly, Court street, contaii 

 articles on the following subjects, viz : — Mal-ai 

 ministration of the Spanish Colonies — Millmap 

 Anne Boleyn — Travels in Southern Russia an 

 Georgia — English Synonymes — Sandwich Islmi 

 ers — Church in India ; Bishop lieber — The Bui 

 mesa War — Historical Romance — Law of Libel 

 State of the Press. 



Early Potatoes. — Yesterday morning, April 3C 

 we are told potatoes of this Spring's growth wen 

 in market in this city. They were raised on Ar 

 hour Hill, by an industrious widow woman, wIk 

 has long attended tho market and furnished excel 

 lent vegetables to our fellow citizens. — Albany pa 



* It is-calculated that Watt's improvement of the 

 steam engine is at present an annual saving of la- 

 bour to Great Britain, of 25 millions sterling! and 

 that, with a population of 14 millions, she is equal 

 in resources, with the assistance of the steam en- 

 gine, to a population of 117 millions ! This will 

 explain the power and the rank which G. Britain 

 holds among the nations of Europe, being in re- 

 sources actually superior to all that could unite- 

 against her. 



