32 



ifrhe jTcmmv's ittonthln ilt^itox*. 



cy ro posterity. The affltfent shftuld not disre- 

 gai'H this inatif-i -, for the |. resent expense; grow- 

 ing fields, planted for limber, will he a better 

 legacy than money to posterity. 



Covering for Roofs— The Albany Evening 

 Journal says that immense quantities of straw 

 paste-board are manufactured in this country, 

 anil sent to England to be used, after preparation, 

 as a substitute for tiles and shingles. It is laid 

 on the roof, then saturated with tar and coated 

 with sand. This forms a perfect roofing, and is 

 more enduring than any other article used. — Me- 

 chanic and Farmer. 



By an easy chemical process straw is converted 

 into a pulp which is readily manufactured into 

 strong paper, valuable for many uses. We do 

 not doubt it may he made a highly incombustible 

 article, not easily penetrable by water, as a sub- 

 stitute for tiles and shingles. In our journey 

 through New Hampshire last summer, vie found 

 a Holderness paper-mill establishment uas doing 

 sufficient business to employ several teams in 

 transporting straw paper from that place to the 

 railroad at Franklin on its way to the Boston 

 market. That null had created such a demand 

 for straw as to raise the price at the village, forty 

 miles above us, on the "branch of the Squam 

 river near its mouth, connecting with the Merri- 

 mack, from four dollars to fifteen dollars the ton ! 

 Every particle of the rye, wheat, bailey and oat 

 straw now thrown away or wasted by the farm- 

 ers, may be made a most valuable material for 

 the manufacture of paper. 



t ern 



Steam Plough.— A French paper, La Se- 

 maine, announces the invention of a steam 

 plough, or rather the mode of digging by means 

 of steam, from which wonderful results are an- 

 ticipated. The inventor is a young medical man. 

 named Barat. The journal states that one of 

 two-horse power u is in operation at the resi- 

 dence of tin; maker, who was constructing an- 

 other double the power. Tin- mnchine proceeds 

 along the field, and digs the ground with tin- 

 greatest precision. Two beams furnished with 

 five mattocks each, act successively upon the 

 soil, loosening it to the depth of Vi or 15 inches, 

 and poundiiiL' it as small as compost. By using 

 only one of the beams, a tillage of the usual 

 depth can he effecte I. — Mechanic and Fanner. 



Who can doubt, after we have seen the various 

 uses to which the power of steam has been ap- 

 plied, that much of the work of man and cattle 

 ill the field is destined soon to be done at a much 

 cheaper and more rapid process by steam ? How 

 easily, by a simple process, might our fields be 

 ploughed to any depth ? how conveniently could 

 manure be carried over and evenly spread ? with 

 what facility might fields of grain he cut down 

 and gathered, or fields of hay mown down, gath- 

 red and loaded ? Is not Vankee invention equal 



> all the improvements, when the proper time 

 ill arrive ? 



Colony of 20,0U'J Blacks in Canada. — This 

 colony, settled in the tortile country between 

 lakes Huron and Erie, seems to be flourishing. 

 They have a Manual Labor School — the British 

 American Institute, at Dawn Mills, the head ol 

 navigation on the Sydenham river, 80 miles from 

 Detroit, wiih a tract ol 300 acres attached, and 7 

 buildings. Among the new secular enterprises 

 in progress is a large steam mill. — Mec. and Farm. 



The benevolent philanthropists ofGreat Britain 

 may as well forego their labor of hive in enticing 

 the slaves of the southern United States from 

 their musters. They will only lead their victims 

 into great personal suffering and ultimate de- 

 struction. The negro race, bondmen rtr free, can 

 never flouii.-h north of Mason and Dixon's line 

 in the United Stairs. In Canada, the whole ol 

 them set free, will starve out, freeze out, and be- 



come extinct. As well may the generous Britons, 

 interfering in their mawkish pretensions to hu- 

 manity, with American institutions existing by 

 the force of things, attempt to colonize the in- 

 habitable coasts of the Esquimaux with monkeys 

 from the torrid sun of Africa, as find a permanent 

 home in Canada for the colored race, who are 

 enslaved, to leave the comfortable roofs prepared 

 by their masters, for a better enjoyment of free- 

 dom at the north. 



The editor of the British American Cultivator, 

 at Toronto, says — " Hundreds of farmers in Can- 

 ada have tested deep ploughing upon suggestions 

 made by ourselves, and have reaped a golden 

 harvest, ranging from twenty to twenty-five per 

 cent, of an increase greater than they would 

 have done, had they simply ploughed the ordina- 

 ry depth." 



Production, Consumption and Trade. 



The immensity of foreign and domestic pro- 

 duce received at the single port of Boston, for 

 consumption and use mainly in New England — 

 the rapid increase of manufacture, consumption 

 and trade — may be calculated from the following 

 tables, which we have taken from the Boston 

 Daily Advorliser: 



The Importation of Sperm and Whale Oil into the 

 United States, for 1817, has been as follows: 



Ships and 

 At Barks. 



New Bedford, 



Fairhaven, 



Nantucket, 



VVestport, 



Province tnwn, 



Mattapoiselt, 



Kail Kiver, 



F.dgartown, 



Boston, 



Holmes 1 Hole, 



Sippifean, 



Bariwuible, 



Providence, 



Bristol, 



Warren, 



Newport. 



New London, 



Mystic, 



Slonington, 



Bridgport, 



Sagharbor, 



(ireeiiport, 



New York, 



Cold Spring, 



Baltimore, 



7G 

 14 

 15 





 3 

 4 

 1 

 i 

 

 4 

 

 3 



7 

 9 

 1 

 26 

 4 

 3 

 1 

 



Brigs. 

 9 

 

 

 2 

 4 

 3 

 1 

 1 



3 

 1 

 1 

 I 





 1 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



1 



Schs. 

 

 

 2 

 

 6 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 



(J 





 2 

 

 

 

 

 



u 





 



Bbls. Bbls. 

 Sperm. Whale. 

 56,606 99,931 



12,853 



23,763 



1.583 



2.082 



1,468 



200 



2,520 



3,960 



631 



470 



250 



610 



-100 



1 ,420 



1,708 



5,016 



877 



695 



400 



3,606 



320 



170 



200 







13,464 

 1,719 

 

 IS 

 551 

 30 

 4,400 

 1 ,870 

 2,90 

 100 

 30 

 8,950 

 

 5,080 

 1,135 

 70 ,bl lo- 

 ll. 950 

 19.150 

 1 ,400 

 53.029 

 7,230 



4,800 



2,900 



400 



214 23 11 121.410 320,645 



fn 1816, 15§ 30 11 95,217 207,493 



1815, 207 19 6 157.919 272 730 



181 1, — — 139 594 262.047 



1818. 104 23 13 166 985 200,727 



Whalebone. — The importation into the United Slates 

 has been — 



In 1847 - 3450,124 pounds. 



1840 - 2,276 939 do 



18)5 ^ 3 167 142 do 



1344 .... ;; 582.445 do 



The importation of Saltpetre from Calcutta into the 



United Stales has been as follows : 



Al Boston. Other places 



1847 63,458 bags. 13,170 bays. 



18 IG 58 665 do 2,915 do 



1815 41,411 do 9,063 do 



1814 37 557 do 2.418 do 



1813 20 510 do 1 ,429 do 



The importation of Molasses in 1817, al Button, lias 

 been — 



Hhds. Tierces. Barrels. 



Foreign 62,364 4 851 1488 



Coastwise 15 911 123 1387 



4 474 2,875 



3 14 1 2.861 



3,725 13,433 



Turpentine. 



37,375 

 !8 003 



837 



It will be seen by the above, that the amount of Flour 

 received by the Western Railroad, exceeds the whole 

 quantity brought in by water. 



The importation oI'Grain into Roslon in 1S57, was as 



Total bushels. 

 In 1816 

 1815 



184-1. 

 1848 



2.601,421. 520,218 



2 374.484 4I4.117 



2 871.106 543 683 



1,909 663 608 2 12 



1,540,306 468,032 



50,371 03,629 



17,160 96,711 



24,184 65,580 



30,352 105,025 



25,953 40.750 



The importation of Cotton into Boston in 1847, was 

 as follows : 



From New Orleans 

 Mobile 

 Charleston 

 Savannah 

 Florida 

 Texas 

 New York 

 North Carolina 

 Virginia 

 Other places 



Total bales. 



In 1846 



1845 



1841 



1313 



84,944 

 84 12) 

 25.8S5 

 28 569 

 19.020 

 644 

 4,178 

 13 



g 



134, 



197,824 



191.764 

 187 619 

 1 75 629 

 151,523 



The 



lows : 



arrivals of Coal at Boston in 1847, were as ful- 



From Liverpool 

 Glasgow 

 Hull 

 Cork 

 St. Johns 

 Pictoll 

 Sidney 

 Yai innuth 

 Halifax 

 Shelburn 

 Anchat 

 Newcastle 



Tons. 



2,759 



527 



150 



75 



550 



Total- 



■ 1847 

 18)6 

 1815 

 1341 



leu 



From Philadelphia' 



Bond. an 

 New York 

 l: iltnnore 

 Kichmond 

 Other ports 



Total — 1847 

 1846 

 1815 

 181) 



1813 



4.061 



5 277 

 13,629 

 17,552 



6,050 

 Tons. 

 241.649 



7.959 

 '360 



7,831 



394 



Chaldrons 



2,353 

 33,055 



12,1.11, 

 40 



306 

 16 

 50 



488 



48', 914 

 21,880 

 27,674 

 19,067 

 17,800 

 Bushels. 



',,i 'i ; 

 185,7 M 



171.1.28 



117.461 



127,52 



127.525 

 149,100 

 281.175 

 170.850 

 150.813 



