NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Ibund in the ^^ Complete G-ra:iir," an rxcelUnt F.ngp- 

 }ish work of high authority, from which the following 

 •is extiarttil 



" Steamed food may he jivon to milch cows with 

 great a;ivantajo. I'or this important fact in rural cco- 

 MOjiiy, we are indebted to the ingenions and perse\ er-, 

 iug cxptrinuiits of J- C. Curwcn, Esq. M. 1'. whose at- 

 tention to the comforts of Iiis tenants, and judicious 

 r.eal for the improveinents of ajricullure are too well 

 known to reiuire an)- eulogy, in prosecution of a sys 

 teui wliich he had lon^ practised of givini^ cook(-d lood 

 to animals, Mr. C turned his attemion to the cheapest 

 mode of sujiplyinj milch cows wilh it ; and in a com- 

 munication to the society for the eacoura^eicent of 

 arts, &c. (which •«'hs honored with their lesser gold 

 medal) he states his belief that -he has at Irnglh hcen 

 completely successful. He uses a steam boiler of 100 

 gallons contents,* on each side of which are fixed iJiree 

 ijoxes, containing 11 stonet each of chull', (tlie husks 

 of wheat, rye, &;c.) which, by being s(c-,imotl gain more 

 than one third of their original weigiil. The steam is 

 fonveyed by various stop cocks into the lower part of 

 the boxes ; and thus two or three boxt s may be steam- 

 ed at the same time ; the quantity of fuel required is 

 about 2 lbs. for each stone of chaff. 



'• In giving the steamed chaff to the cattle, 2 lbs. of 

 oil cake are mixej with one stone of chaff; and the 

 milch cons are fed with it morning and evening, hav- 

 ing an allowance of one stone at each time. On b( ing 

 taken from the steamer the food is put into wooden 

 "boxes, which are mounted on wheels to be drawn to 

 ■Ihe place where it is intended to be used ; and the 

 <;hail' requires to stand some time before it is fit for use. 



" The average of milk on a slockof thirty-six milch 

 cows, was nearly 13 wine quarts, for 3'20 days. The 

 cows were never suffered to he turned out'; aad to 

 prevent their being lame, their hoofs were properly 

 Vared, and they stooil with their fore feet on clay. 

 One great advantage attending this method was. tliat 



most if not all the milch cows were in such a condition 

 that, with a few weeks feeding after they were dry, 

 they became fit for the shambles, wilh very little loss 

 irom the first cost. As a substitute for chaff and oil 

 cake, Mr. C. recommends cut hay ; which, v.-hon 

 -teamed, would make a much supenor fond, and he 

 ■ntertains no doubt would greatly augment the miik, 

 4S well as benefit the health of the animals. Mr. Cur- 

 iven gives cooked food from October to June, nearly 

 ■ight months out of twelve, and his plan of treatment 

 las been adopted by several farmers in different parts 

 >f the kingdom wiili great success." 



The practice of cooking food for cattle is by no 

 neans a novelty in New England. A simple apparatus 

 or that purpose has been for some time in use among 

 armers of our acquaintance. The following is a brief 

 lesciiption of it. A kettle, holding twelve gallons or 

 note, is sell in a furnace of brick or stone, and over 

 his a hogshead with one head taken out and the other 

 ■ored full of holes. This is set so close that the steam 

 f the kettle, when boiling, can only rise througii the 

 .oles, and thence ascend among tlie articles to he boil- 

 d in the hogshead and pass off at the top. lu this 

 •ay a hogshead of potatoes will be nearly as soon boil- 

 d as a s.-nall part of them could be if placed in the 

 ettle underneath. 



As the kettle is so closed as to prevent any steam 

 om passing off, but through the bottom of the hogs- 

 ead, a pipe or tube is set in such a manner that with 

 le aid of a funnel water may be poured into the kettle 



often as is necessary. After poured in, the tube is 

 opped with a plug for that purpose. 4: 



•.4n engraring of if is given in the SOtk volume or 

 e Societi/^s Ti-ansactions. 

 1 14 Ills, a stone. 



X The. "Complete Grazier" contains a drawing ttv4 , 

 script, on of this simple apparatus, which it calls ,. 

 ot-^tcamer ; ojirf observes that if i-as introduced inli' 

 "gland from America. It states that Ike top of Ih' 

 sk, vhich in America '■'■is usually left open, mr'h: 

 oreadmntageousli/ be covered wilh a thick coarse cloth ■ 

 ( whuh )s much bitter, after Ihe vess-l is filled vilh I!'' 

 uhed roots, it is closeli/.clai/ed all round, and the head 



Grain of all kinds may be steam boiled by this ap- 

 paratus, to great advantage, for feeding or fatteuir.g 

 cattle ; Irut in that case, it is requisite to have the bot- 

 tom of the hogshead covered with a cloth, to prevent 

 th" grain from running down throiigli the holes. 



llxperiments have been made in Pennsylvania, by 

 which it appears that Indian corn and potatoes will 

 fatten swine one third faster when boiled or steamed 

 then when given to them without any preparation. 



An .\ddress delivered to the Maryland Agricultural 

 Society, liy their President, Mr. Robert Smith, and pub- 

 lished in the American Farmer, No. 11, Vol. 4, contains 

 the following observations on this subject : 



" Economy in the feeding of stock is an object of (he 

 highest importance, interesting alike to the public and 

 to the indi\'idual. The great waste of hay, straw, 

 corn fodder, chatf and other offal, apparent on every 

 estate, undtU" the prevailing practice of our country, 

 has suggested to me the expediency of having at my 

 dairy farm a steaming apparatus. Tliis 1 have recent- 

 ly establiihed on a plan so simple and so cheap, that 

 any person in any part of our country may have a simi- 

 lar one, greater or smaller, according to the extent of 

 his farm and the proposed number cif his stock. It 

 consists of an iron boiler and two wooden boxes. The 

 boiler contains 100 gallons. One of the boxes is ei"-ht 

 f-et, the other five feet long ; both three feet wide and 

 three feet dc>ep. The boiler is globular, and was made 

 by screwing together the biims of two salt pans. The re 

 is also attached to it a hogshead for any extra cooking. 

 " Tlie boiler is fixed in brick work, calculated to 

 afford the greatest degi'ec of heat, with the smallest 

 wtiste of fuel. -Without pretending to give directions 

 as to the particular construction of such a furnace, 1 

 would merely remark, what the physiologists have told 

 us, namely, that heat being produced by the combined 

 operation of the fuel and of the air feeding the fire, that 

 portion only of the air, which passes in contact with 

 the btirning fuel, contributes to the production of lieat, 

 and that, therefore if the fire place should be larger 

 than the he.ap of burning fuel, a certain portion of air 

 wiil insinuate itself without ioing through the fire, and 

 of course, not being decomposed will contribute noth- 

 ing to the heat. 



"To (he water in the boiler is given all the heat 

 necessary to generate the required steam. The steam 

 is conveyed into the boxes by copper pipes attached to 

 the upper part of the boiler, "and is introduced between 

 the bottom of each box, and a false bottom, consisting 

 of several sheets of copper perfor.ited with holes. Into 

 this chamber, fom- inches high, formed by (he two bo{- 

 toms, the -steam is conveyed, and passing (hrough (b.e 

 holes of (he false bottom, diffuses itself throughout the 

 whole contents of the box, and (bus effectually cooks 

 the great mass of food (herein contained. AVhen suffi- 

 ciently boiled, the steam, by means of a common stop 

 cock, is turned into the other box. At one end of each 

 box, and near the bottom, is a spigot and faucet, by 

 means of which are drawn off the condensed steam and 

 i'quid matter, vrliich had oozed out of. and been ex- 

 tracted from the cooked matciials. This decoction is 

 of a deep chocolate color and highly flavored. It may 

 be given to (he calves, or it may be returned to and 

 mixed with tlie steamed food. It, however, may not 

 be amiss to remark, that when a liquid feed is propos- 

 ed the false bottom is not used. 



" In the corner of the steam house next to the pumn 

 there is a hogshead of water in which is inserted a 

 leaden tube, the other end of wbicli is immersed in the 

 water of (he boiler and nearly (o (he bottom of if. The 

 admission of the requisite supply of water from this 

 reservoir into the boiler is regulated by a stop cock. 

 And the cold water being specifically heavier than the 

 warm, will necessarily take its place at the bottom, 

 whilst the hot water v.ill remain at tlie top. This 

 simple plan is preferred to the self-supplying valve, 

 which is apt to get out of order. At the top of the 

 toiler there is a safety valve for the escape of all re- 

 dundant steam, the electric force of v/hich would oth- 

 "rwise endanger the wSole establishment.'" 

 (Tb be C07ilinued.') 



LATEST FROM EUROPE. 



'i he ship Triton, C'apl. Busscy, arrived r,t this port 

 on the ]2lh inst. in 30 ilays from Liverpool, and brc't 

 London papers to the 9th and Liverpool paper; to tUe 

 11th ult. 



Turkey and Russia have of late made no menacing 

 movements, nor assumed new attitudes either of a hos- 

 tile or pacific nature. The Turks, however, accordiri' 

 to the last advices, continued to exercise the most a(rf- 

 cious crueltii-s on the miserable Greeks — stretching' 

 (heir ferocity to the utmost limits of their power. In 

 the mean time the great Potentates of Europe appear 

 to be gazing quietly on (hose scenes of suffering, and 

 scarcely exhibit a symjiiom of sympathy for the suffer- 

 ers ; thus giving fresh proof of the correctness of the 

 assertion of the moral poet, who says, " there is no 

 flesh in man's obdurate heart." " Pity 'tis" that they 

 have no pity, and well would it be, if changing places 

 with the sufferers, (hose heartless monarchs could " bi- 

 what they behold," till the actual endurance of calam- 

 ity should teach them to put a stop to its infliction. 



Spain continues in a state of confusion, and " civil 

 dudgeon" adds dome stic calamity to foreign menaces. 

 The king prorogued the Cortes on the 30;h June, en 

 which occasion he made a clever and gracious speech, 

 according with the spirit of the constitution. This, 

 however, did not prevent tunuiUs from talcing place in 

 ^Madrid. Some shouted i<ir an absolute, scjiie .for a 

 constitution.al king, and others evinced a disposition to 

 submit to no king. In the mean time France threatens 

 the Spanish frontiers with about 60,000 men in arm|, 

 ready to take advantage of those domesticdisturbKnces. 



The distresses in Ireland continue undiminished, and 

 it is said the funds of charity are exhausted. In Lon- 

 don it has been proposed tliat every family should go 

 without a dinner one day, and contribute the saving to 

 the relief of the Irish sufferers. " War," says one of the 

 Irish papers, " with all its horrors, is mercy, is para- 

 r!ise, to the condition of Clare, Kerry, Cork, Galway, 

 Mayo and .Sligo." 



The Yellow Fever has made its appearance in New 

 York, and several persons have falkn victims to that 

 dreadful disorder. 



fastened down to eonfne the /team ; and, if necessary. 

 .1 short wooden plu- nui'/ be inserted fir the purpose of 

 admitting air, and wliich. may be removed at ■pleasure.^'' 



M.-IKRL-IGES. 



In Utica, N. Y. Mr. Franklin Shenill, of Itbica, to 

 Miss Mary Ann Edwards, daughter of Thomas Edwards, 

 Esq. of this city. 



In tills city, Mr. John W. Gammage, (0 Miss Han- 

 nah Sawj'er.— Mr. Joseph R. Taft, to Mrs. Mary Man^ 



DF..^THS. 



In South Boston. Mr. Joseph Kill, of N. Hampshire, 

 supposed' to have fallen overboard in a fit. 



In tiiis city, Mrs. Fear Scudder, wife of Mr. Charles 

 Scudder. r.3— Mr. James Furneaux, 42— Mrs. Lucv 

 Watts, widow of Mr. Prince W. 61 — Widow Jan<- 

 Hammond, To — Mr. Caleb Clark, 28— Sydney C. W il- 

 liams. son of Robert W. Esq. 14 — Mrs. Lvdia lAIaria 

 Grcele, v.ife of Mr. S.amuel G. 31— Mr. John Sullivan, 

 'V2. — Droiraed, Master Samuel S. son cf .Mr. Samuel 

 Norwood, 13. 



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T6, COURT STREET. 



THE Proprietors of this extensive establishment have 

 tlie pleasure to announce to their patrons and the 

 public, that, besides their usual continual additions of 

 curiosities from all parts of (he World, they have just 

 added another entire .Museum, making now one 

 Grand ConsoHdaiion, of -i Museums iinitcd in one. 



The late addidons alcne are superior in cxlent and . 

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