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Vol.V No. 48. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMEU 



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I of land neir the towus were enclosed, but 

 I greater part wag open. When Naomi glean- 

 lafler the reapers, " her hap was to light en a 

 ft oflht field (that is, of the common field) bc- 

 jging ucto Boaz." — Hittnp. Gat. 



MILLET. 



'his species cf cereal grass has been introduced 



9 several towns in this county, and a greater 



intity of land will be sown with it the present 



.son than in any former one Many farmers who 



/e cultivated it, think it a valuable plant. 



*ti Hr Loudon gives an engraving and description 



I plant, which is evidently of the same genus, 



ot of the same species, with our broom-corn. — 



colls it the great or Indian millet. It is ana- 



! of India, whence it has been introduced into 



abia, Egypt, Asia Minor, China, Spain, Italy, 



lonce, &c. It is cultivated chiefly for the seed, 



lich the Aiabs grind and make into cakes, »nd 



ij Italians into bread. In Tuscany it is used for 



ding poultry, swine, horses, &c. In some parts 



Italy they make brushes and brooms of the 



ilks, and in France the paiinicles are sold at 



jseilles and other places for making " cham- 



besoms," (Mr Loudon's name for brooms,) and 



ithes brushes. In China this millet attains the 



iwht of 16 feet ; in some countries only 6 or 8. 



Loudon remarks that the climate of Englmd 



3 not admit of cultivating Indian millet (broom- 



b) or maize (Indian corn.) The former will 



e 5 or 6 feet in that country, but will not ripen 



seeds, or even flower. 



here are several kinds of the common millet, 

 ich are cultivated in India, Italy, Germany, &c. 

 [Hampshire Gaz.] 



LIFE PRESERVER 

 'We notice in the New York papers an accoont 

 a new life preserver, constructed by Dr. John 

 ,. Comstock, of Hartford, of which trial has been 

 icently made in the New York harbor. A man, 

 rnished with one of the machines, was thrown 

 rerboard from the steam boat Macdonough, and 

 imained in the water half an hour, lying upon 

 ,e surface, and swimming or floating nt his pleas- 

 re. The apparatus is said to be vory simple, 

 insisting of merely a canvass bag, about five feet 

 DDg and when filled, of about as many inches in 

 jia'ineter. A brass cock, with a screw stopper, is 

 iserted in the centre of the bag, and all that it 

 B requisite for a person to do, in case of danger, 

 to fasten the basj round his waist, and blow 

 hrough the cock until it is filled with air. The 

 anvas is double, and rendered water and air 

 ight by a solution of India rubber spread like a 

 lue between the cloth, to which it adheres. It 

 s said that the same solution applied to ladies' 

 arunella shoes, or to cloth dresses, will render 

 hem water tight, without injuring the texture or 



pliability of the material to which it is applied 



The discovery of the life-preserver, its success 

 aving been sufliciently tested ought to rank high 

 among the inventions of modern times. 



[Nat. Journal.] 



Hearse Racing — A most indecent practice pre- 

 vails in New York, among those engaged at fune- 

 rals, to conduct carriages and hearses, in racing 

 through the principal streets on their return ! A 

 short time since a coachman began a race with a 

 hearseman, and proceeded some way down the 

 Bowery, before the gentleman inside the coach 

 could sucseed in stopping it. 



PORCELAIN CLAY. 



England they are sorted into three kinds accord- 



A beautiful white clay has been discovered in ing to the quality, and then made into packs. 



Vermont, which will probably be suited to the ""' 

 manufacture of porcelain. It has not been ascer- 

 tained how it proves in experiment, but thoro can 

 be no doubt that it is porcelain clay, even though 

 it should require modifying in the manufactory. — 

 It is stated to be very white, and as fine as flour, 

 nielfs readily under the blow pipe, forms a paste 

 with water, and when used like liine for a wash 

 or paint, adheres strongly to wood, and gives it a 

 fine white color. There are several varieties of 



The produce varies from 150,000 to 250,000 heads 

 of the first and second sorts on an acre. The crop 

 often fails. Parkinson observes that by burning 

 the straw and refuse stuifaflcr the crop is gather 

 od, the teasel will be fJund not to impoverish, hut 

 to improve the land. To save seed, leave a few 

 of the best heads, and when ripe, the seed may bo 

 separated by flails. Hamp. Gaz. 



We are happy to learn that Prussia has foUow- 

 clay used in porcelain ware in the European man- 1 ^'^ ^''^ example of Great Britain and the United 

 ufactories, and it will be an easy matter to asccr- ' States, and signed a commercial treaty with the 

 tain whether this will require any material modi- 1 "ew Mexican Republic. Thus, one by one, the 

 fication for use. A gentleman from Nantucket ''"'^^ which formed the ponderous chain of the 



lately showed us a specimen of porcelain clay 

 found there in great abundance, very fine and 

 white. — A*. Y. Times. 



Holy Alliance give way under their own rust. 

 London Times- 



Fine draught of Fish. — " With every fish we 



draw out of the sea we draw up a piece of silver." 



« „,„_,,• • »!,■ • 1 u L J — Franklin. On Monday last, Mr A. Holbrook, 



A short time ago, in this neighborhood, a young c- „ i u ., , . , r. .l r-, i r. . r 



_, _c. _ _<• _ . ■..■', = of Fanueil-Hall market, left the City wharf at f» 



o'clock, A. M. in a new lap-streak boat, and re- 



FRIGHTENING CHILDREN. 



girl of seven years of age, whose imagination had 



been filled with those frightful nursery tales that , j . c d m i • ., v . n m- 



• J k ■ . . J .L - turned at 5, P. M. having taken, between Pulling 



Point and Nahant, 700 fine Bass, at two hauls ol 



are conjured up by ignorant servants and others, 



to frighten children into their obedience, was ^"""' I""" 



thrust into a dark closet for some tale she had j 



carried to her parents. The poor thing continued ! Useful Improvement. — The model »f a Machine 

 to scream with the most violent apprshension : , to plane and joint all sorts of lumber, is now in 

 and when the door was opened to take her from J this town, and can be seen at any time at Mr Dob- 

 her abode of terror, she was lying on the ground , bin's coppersmith shop. Mechanics who have 

 in strong convulsions. The conflict was too pow- I seen and examined it, pronounce it a valuable im- 

 erful for her tender reason, and she now exists i provement. The machine can be worked either 

 one of the most miserable objects of human sym- : by horse or water power and can easily be attach- 

 pathy. Her parents and friends see their hopes ! ed to a saw mill. — Fayeileville, (J\r. C.) Journal. 

 blasted — their interesting little favorite is now an 

 idiot — Glasgow Chronicle. 



Cut Worm A correspondent informs us, that 



after repeated trials he has satisfied himself, thai 

 TEASEL. bugs, cut-worms, &c. which are so destructive to 



Some of the farmers of Williamsburgh have i gardens, can be removed or destroyed " by sprink- 

 undertaken the culture of teasel, or fuller's this- 1 ling vegetables with the flour of sulphur." 

 tie, and it is estimated that this plant now occu- Plymouth pa. 



pies about 90 acres in that town. It is gratify- 



ing to see the attention of farmers turned to new ' The Paper-makers in Connecticut are forming 

 articles of agriculture which promise to reward =1 State Society of their Fraternity, for improvc- 

 tbeir labors, especially at the present time, when ™^"'s '" *eir manufactures, and to provide a 

 foreign markets for our products are becoming f"""*^ for relief of the wives and families of pool' 

 more and more limited, when measures for exten- deceased Members. 



ding our domestic markets are violently opposed „ ., 7^, '■ '7~- ~7 . , 



I., f, „ , . J 1 . !• .1, .u 1 Frml. — There is a fair prospect ot an abund 



by the statesmen and planters of the south, and ,.r,-. , ^ r\ c 



... ,, . 1 r .-I r ..L \ ance of Fruit the present season. One farmer re- 



when the vast and fertile regions of the west are , , .,.,_. ■_ lit i ui u 



nonrin. ,I,<.;r nrn^n.finno inf. tl,„ .Ifio^ „P ,^„ ^"ked yesterday that he should, probably, have 



pouring their productions into the cities of the 

 northern states. 



200 bushels of Peaches ; but complained that our 



mi, . 1 • w . J • ri 1 J n present Market Accommodations were so limited 



The teasel is cultivated in England, Prance,,'; . ,, , . o. n d i; j- 



TT ,, „j r' « r ii. r • • ' that he could not get a Stall — PalladiuK. 



Holland, Germany, &c. for the purpose of raising 



the nap upon woollen cloths. The following re- 

 marks upon its culture are abstracted from Mr. 



Loudon's Enclyclopedia : — The teasel grows 

 strongest on deep, loamy clays, not over rich. — 

 The soil should be ploughed deep, and well pul- 

 verised. In England it is frequently sown broad 

 cast but it is better to sow it in rows with inter- 

 vals of 18 to 24 inches between them ; the plants 

 in the rows may be 6 inches apart. The ground 

 should be kept clean and mellow by ploughing 

 and hoeing. The heads are cut at three different 

 times as they become ripe, by means of a knife 

 with a short blade. A pair of strong gloves is 

 necessary in this operation. The heads attached 

 to a few inches of the stem are tied in handfulls, 

 and put in dry sheds, whence they are taken out 

 and exposed to the sun daily till they become per- 

 fectly dry. No rain should fall upoa them. In 



Franklin Monument. — On Friday 15th inst. was 

 laid in Boston, by the President of the Mechanic 

 Association, the first stone of the Franklin Menu 

 ment. This monument is erected by the citizens 

 of Boston, in the granary burying ground, to the 

 memory of Benjamin Franklin, over the tomb iu 

 which repose the remains of both his parents. — 

 The monument is a pyramid, twenty-five fee!^ 

 high, and formed of blocks of granite of about 

 six tons weight each, taken from the Bunker Hill 

 Monument quarry. 



A writer in the Boston Courier mentions that 

 flour, to the value of nearly a million and a half, 

 was imported into New-England in 1826. In 1821, 

 the domestic manufactured articles exported a- 

 mounted in value to $2,754,000, and in 1826, to 

 $6,000,000. 



