Vol. 5 No. 51. 



NEW ENGLAND FARiVlKR. 



408 



Ic mi^ht liave added, that few I In a week, or thereabouts, the young pliiiils will ; Vauxhall and Southwark bridges were all built 



ak'rs irlve the seeds" to horsos, to make them Teaves, and bo out of danger of the fly. Or it may ; each side ot the r;ver, below as wel as above tins 

 sk and <^ive them a fine skin ; and where con- ! answer well to sprinkle the ground with r,n in- : point. The erection of another bridge below the 

 erable p'o.tions of f.clds arc planted with it, and ' fusion of elder, wormwood, or tobacco. But ,t .London bridge is out of the question. It would 

 fcln fite or six times a year as "reen food. ' must be done soon as the plants are up. crowd the navigation still further down, and m 



■"*" J " \ But if the youn-T plants cannot bo saved, as it I fact remove it from the business part of the city 



Packing nud Prcscnhig Seeds.— Mr Curator , sometimes lo happen, the ground may be j The tunnel will be about a mile below London 



iderson, of the Chelsea Botanic Garden, stys, i j^^^^^^^^.^^l^ ^^^^ ^^^^.^j ^_^^jj^ ^1^^, ^.^^^ ^fg^^j j^pi,,g ^ l„.i,lj,e, and is to answer all the purposes of a 

 received about a year ago, from the East 'n- > ^^^^ j.^^j^,^ ^^ compare w°ith the loss of a crop. bridge, witiiout interruption to the navigation. 



3s, 24 seeds of nuts of corypha talicra ; 1» of | [Doane's N. E. Farmer.] It is intended to accommodate a large proper- 



cm were carefully wrapped up in paper, not ins I tjg,, „f the travel that is now drawn to London 



which germinated ; and r3 of them were 1 2d- i i\Itlhod of making soup of bones as practised in | Bridge. And some conception can be formed of 

 din powdered eharcoal, every one of vtUch \ the hospital of Monlpelier. — The various means of j its importance, from the fact that from 00,000 to 

 ew freely. i extracting gelatine, hitherto published, require no |'J0,000 footmen and about 5000 carriages, of all 



■ j incoDsideiabIc attention and expense. The Man- 1 descriptions, pass the bridge daily. And when 



TURNIPS. 1 agers of the hospital of Montpeiier have succeed- the Tunnel shall be completed, it will present a 



Turnips love a light sandy or gravelly soil, ir a g^ in a more economical method, namely — j spectacle of no ordinary interest and grandeur.. 



ndy loam. It should be made soft and fine, 



The bones are broken with a hatchet into 'I'hc commercial wealth and naval power, of the 



I too rich, lest the turnips be rank and ill-tst- pje^gs^ froni an inch to an inch and an half long, British empire, riding 50 feet above a ceaseless 



.1 with which an earthen pot is made two-thirds full, current of her population passing from one sec- 

 Ground that has been newly cleared, yieldslhe ^Vater is tiien added, an earthen cover is adjust- ' tion of the metropolis to the other ! 

 rgest and sweetest turnips ; and on such a i)ot gj^ ^^^^ jj^g p^^ j^ placed in an oven immediately 



ere is the'least danger from insects. 



1 after the batch is withdrawn. After remaining I Bleaching Straic—The customary mode of 



Next to new land, swarded ground is to be cbs- : ^-^^^ Jiours, tlie not is found to contain very fat ' bleaching straw for ornamental use, has been to 

 I for a crop of turnips; and the way to prefire .jjjij gglji^ji^Q^jg ^'^^p_ -j-jji^ being poured off the ' stove it in a case with burning brimstoqe. Bnt 



is, to plough it pretty deep in the spring, nd ,^^^ j^ ^gj^ji^ jj]]pj ^^.j^l^ water, place4 again in a ' there is a readier method, if judiciously applied -. 

 Id it by turning in the stock for a good numicr ^^^^ ^j^^j^^ ^^^ affords, after an exposure of six j take a solution of muriatic acid, and saturate it 



nights. For there is scarcely any of our fiids hours, broth less rich than before, but still of i with potash until tlie effervescence subsides. Dip 

 ifficiently rich to produce turnips without ia- ^^^^ quality. In is filled a third time with water, I the straw in the solution. — /\gain, the oxygenated 

 iring : and folding hitherto appears to be fie^j^j being heated seven or eight hours, yields a ^ muriate of lime whicli may be had at any apothe- 

 ;st method of enriching the ground for this pir-i jy'gg), supply. These three portions are then mix- ' cary's shop, dissolved in water, will bleach straw 

 ise. It should be well harrowed as often as once I gj too-ether, and being properly seasoned with : without tha least diminution of its flexibility. 



week, while the folding is continued, to mil the>^.gt,ptables, the whole affords a very nutritious I 



icrements of the cattle with tlie soil. I j„a valuable article of diet. Six killogrammes of 1 ^^'S""* tmploi/ment.— There is a lace sclioo! 



The ground should be cross ploughed is soon tones extracted from coarse meat, produce twen- ' o'' "i^^^^fa^'^'X established at Newport, Rhode- 



thesoil is sufficiently rotten, and reduced by tv-.ono killogrammes of broth, which is a sufficient Island, which gives profitable employment in this 

 arrowing to a fine tilth, before it is sowed.— tity for dealing out to four hundred and forty I "^w branch to 500 young ladies, and the various 



/here a good stock is kept, as much as an acre ^fjhe hospital poor I articles of their ingenious and tasty needle will 



■ " • ' xiiere is no process which requires less skill j !"=ar comparison with any thing of the kind ever 



d IS more economical, for it saves even the ex- 1 '°'P°f,^^"- „ , ,. . . 



J. j. , [Who can reflect upon the preceding statement 



and not be delighted with its effect, whereby_^i'c 



ay be sufficiently folded. 



The time for sowing the seed is about the niid- 

 le of July. IJoing it on a set day is ridiculous : 

 ir a time should be chosen when the ground has 

 le right degree of moisture to make the seed 



Thames Tunnel. — After copying the account of Aunrfrecf young ladies are enabled to earn are 

 Egetate ; an°d if this should happen a week earli- lie bursting in of the tunnel under the river spectable livelihood, and preserve themselves 

 r, or a fortnight later than the usual time, it need Thames, at London, the Editor of the Greenfield ; against those temptations which beset worthy fe- 

 ot be regretted ; but the opportunity ought to be Cazette, adds the following information. i males unblessed with wealth ? There is more in 



mbraced. i | This stupendous undertaking is not likely to fail ! this little item, than in any of the largest speeches 



I have sown them in drills the first week in Au- 1 jn consequence of the late disaster. 



ust, and had a good crop. One great advantage 

 f sowing so late is, that the turnips will escape 

 osects. And if the crop should not happen to be 

 uite so large as if the sowing had been earlier, 

 he roots will not fail of being better for the table. 



One pound of seed is the common allowance for 

 .n acre of land. But to guard against the fly, the 

 uantity may be a little increased. And it is re- 

 oramended by judicious writers, that it be a mix- 

 ure of equal parts of new and old seeds, that the 

 jlants coming up at different times, the one sort 

 )r the other may chance to escape the insects. — 

 iVHh this view, Mr Tull constructed his turnip 

 Irill to lodge the seeds at different depths, which 

 t seems had the desired effect. 



The seed sown broadcast must be harrowed in 

 with a short tiued harrow, and then rolled with a 

 (rooden roller, to break the clods, and level the 

 urfaoe. 



The final success of it was at first doubted. — 

 One former attempt has, we believe, been made 

 |o construct a tunnel under the Thames, and 

 Ibandoned. The present work has been in pro- 

 gress some few years, and was completed nearly 

 two thirds of the distance across the bed of the 

 river, when the water burst in. It has been re- 

 garded by some in this country, as rather an af- 

 fair of curiosity and wonder, considering the mag- 

 nitude and boldness of the undertaking, than a 

 work of public utility. But it is of great impor- 

 tance to the city of London, and the population of 

 the south of England. 



There are six bridges across the Thames in 

 London, viz. London Bridge, which was begun in 

 1176 and finished in 1209, Westminster Bridge, 

 begun in 1739, and completed in 1750, Blackfriars 

 commenced in 1760 and finished 1768. Waterloo, 



ever delivered in congress against the expediency 

 of encouraging domestic industry.] JViles' Reg- 



We have seen a sample of wool taken from a 

 four year old Merino buck, owned by Mr Charles 

 L. Smith, Esq. of Newhaven. Sixteen pounds of 

 wool was sheared from this sheep a few days 

 since, of three years' growth, measuring in length 

 11 inches, and of a very fine and superior quality. 

 Keene Sentinel. 



A company is incorporated in Rhode Island for 

 establishing a steam boat from Newport to Narra- 

 ganset, and cutting a canal across the island of 

 Canonicut. 



The Meetinghouse in Athol \v>^s destroyed by 

 fire on the evening of the 7th inst. su;:po-''d Ijy 

 design. The communion plate and mi-'i. '■ the 

 books were saved. 



