®hc .farmer's ittcmthlij btettor. 



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From Ihe St. Louis Union. 



Ammunition, &c, Manufactured nnd Issued 



from the St. Louis Arsenal. 



The following are a few of the principal arti- 

 cles of ordnance Btores manufactured and issued 

 to the army, at the St. Louis Arsenal, Mo., since 

 the commencement of (he war with Mexico, up 

 to December 31st, 1847 : 



Manufactured and issued to the Army. 

 Rounds of field ammunition, of every 

 description of shells, and rounds of 

 shot, .... 18,547 

 Rounds of Siege Artillery ammu- 

 nition, .... 1,000 



19,547 



Musket; and other cartridges, for small 



arms of every description, 8,443,935 

 Musket balls, pressed and cast, 11,409,397 

 Rifle halls, pressed and cast, 4,379,456 

 Charges of Carbine and Musket buck- 

 shot, 5,419,200 



Fusees for 8 and 10-inch shells, 25,281 



Fusees for 6, 12 and 24-pounder shells, 30.901 

 Fusees, various calibres, made ami ready 



for issue, - 

 Priming tubes, - 



Fight and 10-inch shell fabs, at St. Louis, 

 Boxes, for arms and ammunition, 

 Issued to the Army. 

 Muskets, rifles, carbines and pistols, im- 

 plements, equipments and accoutre- 

 ments, complete, - ' 

 Swords and sabres, do - do - 

 Field cannon, with carriages, harness, 



implements and equipments; complete, 

 Caissons, travelling forges, and battery 

 wagons, with harness, implements, 

 equipments, complete, 

 'Casting back no longer than the year 1812, the 

 impossibility then in any part of the old settled 

 States, to furnish the materials without a resort 

 to foreign countries for the ammunition and mu- 

 nitions of war, furnished in little more than one 

 year, from the resources of the West — mainly 

 from the wilderness part of Mr. Jefferson's Lou- 

 isiana purchase — how does the reflection force 

 itself upon us of what this great republic is des- 

 tined to become ! 



25,560 



45,310 



8,922 



12,158 



15,77<3 

 4,C12 



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The Capacity of the West.— From the Al- 

 leghanies to the Rocky mountains, from the fro- 

 zen lakes of the north to the tepid waters of the 

 Gulf of Mexico! Every soil, every climate, eve- 

 ry variety of surface. Of all the great products 

 of the world, coffee is the only one which does 

 not, or may not, grow there. Take the people of 

 Britain, Ireland, France, Holland, Germany, Italy 

 and Spain, and place the whole in the valley be- 

 yond the Appalachians, and it would continue to 

 ask for " more." Ohio alone, without sinking a 

 pit below the level of her valleys, could supply 

 coal equal to the amount dug from the mines of 

 England and Wales for twenty-five hundred 

 years; and Ohio is hut a pigmy, in the way of 

 bitumen, compared with Western Pennsylvania 

 nnd Virginia. Iron abounds from Tennessee to 

 Lake Erie, and forms the very mountains of Mis- 

 souri and Arkansas. Salt wells up from secret 

 store-houses in every north-western State. Lead 

 enough to shoot the human race extinct, is raised 

 from the great metallic dykes of Illinois and Wis- 

 consin. Copper and silver beckon all trusting 

 capitalists to the shores of Lake Superior. And 

 mark the water-courses, the chain of lakes, the 

 immense plains graded for railroads by Naluie's 

 own hand, the reservoirs of water waiting for 

 canals to use them. Already, the farmer far in 

 the interior woods of Ohio or Indiana may ship 

 his produce at his own door to reach Boston, 

 New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, or New Or- 

 leans, and every mile of its transit shall be by 

 canal, steam-boat, rail-ear. — North Amer. Review. 



Messrs. Rae and Deese, two officers of the 

 Hudson Bay Company, have fully settled the 

 question of a north-west passage, and also ol the 

 improbability of its ever being navigated. 



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The interest on the national debt of England 

 amounts to one hundred and sixty millions of 

 dollars per annum. The deficiency of the crops 

 last year is estimated at »250,000,000. 



Recipes. 



UiHous Colic. — The following recipe we are 

 assured is a certain remedy for thai distressing 

 disease, as it has n iver been known to fail in a 

 single instance : "Take, say a fourth of a pound 

 of chewing tobacco, tear it well to pieces, ami 

 put it into a vessel and pour on to it a sufficiency 

 of boiling water to moisten and swell the leaves, 

 then lay it on a cloth and apply it to the seat of 

 the pain." Relief >vill be obtained in less than 

 fifteen minutes. — Maine Farmer. 



Our friend, Dr. Holmes, should be cautious 

 how he encourages the application of tobacco 

 juice to the bowels, or other parts of the human 

 system. We have used it to aid in the reduction 

 of a strangulated hernia, when the absorption of 

 the poison through the skin over the abdomen 

 produced bad symptoms. Medical books abound 

 in cases where persons have suffered severely by 

 the absorption of a decoction of "chewing to- 

 bacco." It is a powerful anodyne — allayer of 

 pain — but should be used with caution. — Genesee 

 Farmer. 



Note. — We think it very likely that our friend 

 Dr. Lee found the above "estray " in the Maine 

 Farmer, but we never put it there. We use to- 

 bacco in no way, shape or manner, except for 

 smoking licks on sheep and lice on cattle. We 

 edit the Maine Farmer, it is true, hut if we are 

 answerable for all the scraps and recipes thai 

 creep into it by way of "filling," may the Lord 

 have mercy on us. — Maine Farmer. 



To drive Rats— Mr. Charles Pierce, of Milon, 

 Mass., recommends potash for this purpose. 

 The rats troubled him very much, having eaten 

 through the chamber floor; they appeared in 

 great numbers, and were very impudent and 

 troublesome, so that he felt justified in resorting 

 to stratagem and severe treatment for their ex- 

 pulsion from bis premises. He pounded up pot- 

 ash and strewed around their holes, threw some 

 under the holes, and rubbed some on the sides 

 of the boards and under part, where they came 

 through. The next night he heard a squealing 

 among them, which he supposed was from the 

 caustic nature of the potash that had got among 

 their hair, or on their hare feet. They disap- 

 peared, and he has never been troubled with 

 them since that time, which was nearly a year ago. 



Greasing carriage-wheels. — The best composi- 

 tion that can be prepared to relieve carriage 

 wheels and machinery from friction, is composed 

 of hog's lard, wheat floor, and black lead (plum- 

 bago.) The lard is to he melted over a gentle 

 fire, and the other ingredients — equal in weight 

 — may he added, till the composition is brought 

 to a consistence of common paste, without rais- 

 ing the heat near boiling point. One trial of the 

 paste will satisfy any one of its superior quality. 



Starching Linen. — In starching linen, the effect 

 will be the same, 'whether the starch be hot or 

 cold, provided the irons used be properly heated. 

 It is sufficient to mix the .March with a little 

 water, to dip the linen in it, clapping it with the 

 hands, nnd then apply the hot iron while the 

 linen is still moist. By this means, the grains 

 of starch will burst from the action of the bent 

 of the iron, its membranes will expand as they 

 combine with a portion of the water that is pre- 

 ent, its soluble matter will be partly dissolved 

 i 



n the rest of the water, and the linen will be 

 starched and dried by one process. — American 

 Agriculturist. 



Oregon. — The Spectator of .May estimates the 

 crop of wheat in the eight counties of the terri 

 lory to have been 150,000 bushels for the year, 

 and a surplus of 10,000 barrels of flour for ex- 

 port. Oals are an abundant and sure crop ; to- 

 bacco doubtful ; hemp has been fairly tested, and 

 will be a great staple ; lumber mills do a great 

 business. There are few opportunities now for 

 export, but "give Oregon a fair chance, and her 

 sails will whiten the Pacific and Indian oceans." 



Three million pairs of boots and shoes per 

 annum are manufactured in Lynn, Mass., by 

 7,GG0 persons, male and female. \\ hole popula- 

 tion, 11.000. 



We never knew a scolding person that was 

 able to govern a family. What makes people 

 scold ? Because they cannot govern themselves. 

 How, then, can they govern others? 



Timber uuti Wood Land ■ 

 The following observations of the Newhury- 



port Herald, should be carefully studied by all 

 our readers, as there is much truth and force of 

 reasoning contained in them : 



Sufficient attention is not paid to the preserva- 

 tion of the forests of the United States, and it is 

 highly probable that the next generation will 

 suddenly find timber very scarce anil high. The 

 waste of timber is very great in all the wooded 

 regions, and the demand promises before many 

 years to exceed the supply. In England for cen- 

 turies past, some of the largest fortunes have 

 been deiived from timber plantations, and the 

 surest fortune which a man could leave to his 

 children, has been by preparing an extensive 

 timber plantation, which, though returning him 

 nothing during his lite, has been in many in- 

 stances a mine of wealth to his children. Many 

 of the distinguished nobility of that country have 

 practised thai system for many successive gene- 

 rations. And lo great advantage. We believe 

 many of our citizens could in no way more sure- 

 ly leave a valuable inheritance to their children, 

 than by purchasing some of the cheap lands in 

 the country, accessible to railways and rivers, 

 and making thereon a plantation ol' timber trees 

 which would be attended with but trifling ex- 

 pense. 



The waste of pine in lbs forests of Maine, the 

 scarcity and high price of hard wood timber in . 

 many parts of the country is well known. In 

 other parts of the country less bountifully sup- 

 plied, the destruction is also going on. Great 

 Britain is cutting off' all the forests in Canada 

 and New Brunswick; most of our Western 

 States are thinly wooded, and even Western 

 New York now depends upon Canada for a sup- 

 ply of building lumber. In the peninsula of 

 Michigan, the best pine region in t lie whole 

 West, the Buffalo papers inform us that the waste 

 is almost incredible. 



A dozen or more saw-mills nre there erected 

 in the midst of the government lands, and are 

 there unmolested, using up the government tim- 

 ber astonishingly last. They saw nothing but 

 the best logs, leaving all others which maybe 

 felled out to rot on the ground, and they work 

 night and day in order to make' as much as pos- 

 sible before any demand is made upon them by 

 the government for the stumpage. In addition 

 to all oilier uses, the demand for fuel for the 

 steamers of the West, is making sad havoc with 

 the forests along the rivers. A careful calcula- 

 tion of a skilful engineer has made this demand 

 equal to 10,220,000 cords per annum. — Scientific 

 American. 



Southward from the Chesapeake near to the 

 coast through Virginia, the Carolines, ever the 

 Florida peninsula, by Alabama, lower Missis- 

 sippi and along the lakes between Mobile and 

 New Orleans, are confined pine forests. The 

 pine producing the staple for the trade of North 

 Carolina, turpentine ami tar, is richer iu that ma- 

 terial than the pines of the north : hitherto the 

 southern pines hail not been much used fop tim- 

 ber. The white pine further north has been 

 brought down the rivers to he carried soulli. 

 Lately, however, the course is changing: pine 

 lumber, sawed lo patterns for the various uses, is 

 manufactured and brought from south to north. 



Where we' have seen it, it has seemed lo be more 

 durable for exterior exposure than the northern 

 pine: it has that peculiar fatness which renders 

 u less destructible from often repealed wet nnd 

 drying. 



We have no fears that the wood of our coun- 

 try will become soon exhausted: nature, in re- 

 spect to ihe growth of trees, is constantly repair- 

 ing and restoring what man destroys. The 

 scarcity of ihe best limber lor beams — the impos- 

 sibility to find those stately forest trees which 

 were marked with the broad l{ of the King of 

 England previous to the revolution, because re- 

 quired by ihe British government for ship build- 

 ing, makes it morally certain that ihe pluming 

 and culture of forests will lie a most valued lega- 



