NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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Competitors for Prcmivims of every descrip- 

 tion will be held to a rigid compliance with (lie 

 fores'oing Rules, as well as such other Rulos 

 and Regulations as shall be publisiied by the 

 respective committees of Premiums hereafter 

 to be appointed and the Committee of Arrange- 

 ments for the occasion. 



In cases where, for want of competition, the 

 claimants upon a literal construction of these 

 proposals might be entitled to premiums, the 

 Trustees shall be at liberty to reject the claim, 

 unless the animal, or manufactured article, is 

 of superior quality and value. 



No person will be allowed two premiums, as 

 for the Lest and next best of an animal or article 

 of the same description, it being the object of the 

 Trustees to encourage competition, by distribu- 

 ting premiums, as much a^ possible, among the 

 deserving; and no owner of any number of pre- 

 mium animals will be entitled to more than one 

 allowance for travel. 



From the premiums awarded there will be 

 discounted t'li-enty-fivc per cent, in the payment 

 to those persons who, at the time, are not Mem- 

 bers of the Society ; and no premium will be 

 awarded for animals to any person who, at the 

 time, is not the owner, nor for manufactured 

 articles, unless they ^vere manufactured within 

 the County — and no jnemium will be paid to 

 any person who is not an inhabitant of the 

 Countv. 



Premiums will be paid within 30 days after 

 they are awarded; but if not demanded uithin 

 four months, they will be considered relinquish- 

 ed, and the amount will be added to the funds of 

 the Society. 



Levi Lixcoi.n, ~| 



Bex.tamin Ad.\ms, I 



LOVETT Petfss, 



Nathaniel P. Dennv, 



Daniel Tes^iey, 

 Worcester, April 15, 1822. 



7th — Put a small handful of parings in each 



hill. 

 The quality of the land was equal, not rich, 

 no manure was applied, the rows all came up 

 \vell, and were all hoed and treated alike thro' 

 tiie summer. 



About the beginning of October 1 had them 

 taken up, and the produce was as follows ; 

 The Ist row yielded 17 lb. 7 oz. 



The hills stood three feet distant each way, 



whirli makes 4840 in an acre. Allowing a 



bushel of potatoes to weigh CO lbs. the products 



of the diflcrent rows would be nearly as follows : 



1st row, 350 bushels per acre. 



2d row, 450 5th row, 339 



3d row, 210 6th row, 222 



1 am not a medkal practitioner, and hope to 

 be excused for venturing to .submit this hint to 

 the scientific. A boy darting a random arrow 

 once made it pass through a small ring which 

 practised archers in vain attempted to shoot 

 through. Thus, 1, by a guess, may give a ben- 

 eficial idea, which superior judgments may im- 

 prove upon. H. 



O^NoTE. — Let the doctrine of animalculai 

 being in the air, receive due consideration. — 

 Iron, Magnesia and Salts, may be in the most 

 transparent water. Air is composed, we know, 

 of fixed portions of hydrogen, azote and oxygen, 

 hut flies, k.c. may exist in it. Animation may 

 be in the minutest objects ; the microscope dis- 

 closes the wonders of our Creator in the small- 

 est degree. 



4th row, 307 



Tth row, 202 



Committee 



of 

 Premiums- 



It is evident, from the above statement, that 

 largo potatoes are much better for seed than 

 small ones, and that it is better to cut them 

 than to plant them whole. 



About the same time I took a quantity of 

 middling larffe potatoes, and cut off the but and 

 top ends from each, and cut the middle pieces 

 into quarters, and planted a row with huts, 

 another row with tops, and the third with mid- 

 dles, and placed live pieces in each hill through- 

 out the whole. I did not weigh nor measure 

 the produce, but found that the middle pieces 

 produced much the largest crop. The produce 

 of the other two rows were about equal ; by 

 which it appears that to reject both ends and 

 plant the middles onlj', will produce much the 

 best crop. J. W. 



Rijegate, Ft. Sept. 2, 1 822. 



FOR THE SEW EXGLASD FARMER. 



From the National lutelligencer. 

 To Medical Gcmlcmen. 



I have been lately amusing myself with a 

 work published by Mr. J. L. Chabert, at New 

 Orleans, entitled '• Medical reflections on the 



POTATOES. 



Having heard many different opinions res- 

 pecting the best method of preparing seed po-i malady vulgarly called Yellow Fever;" to which 

 tatoes for planting, some saying that it is best j he gives the new denomination of Spasmodico 

 to plant large ones whole, others that small | £y,^„ene. or spasmodic burning fever. It ' 

 ones are equally as good, while others say they j fuH of information respecting the symptoms of 

 will produce most to cut them in pieces, with ; this terrible disorder, and of acute remarks on 

 one eye in each piece, or only eyes cut out of j the suggestioas of all prior observers. Mr. 

 large potatoes they say will do well, and lastly | Chabert states, that by numerous dissections, he 

 some affirm that the parings taken olT when j has found that the liver is not affected. The 

 preparing them (or the pot will produce a good j bleeding of the nose and inflammations of the 



throat, Lc. are the first diagnostics, and after 

 that a delusive case succeeds, and then the 

 black vomit. 



Q»erf. — Whether animalculas inhaled do not 

 first cause the spasms by inflammation, and whe- 

 ther mortification does not ensue ? Persons not 

 acclimated are the greatest sufferers. I have 

 seen Eiu;opeans, arriving' in Asia, when stung 

 by musquetoes, suffer inflammation in an extra- 

 ordinary manner. May not the same effect be 

 produced by inhaling insects, imperceptible to 

 the naked eye, by the nose and throat ? That 

 putrid matter will produce insects, has been 

 proved by various experiments ; and I have 

 read, in your valuable widely circulated paper, 

 that magnifying glasses have been constructed 

 to discover insects in the lungs of those who 

 have died of consumption. , 



crop. 



About the beginning of May, 1821, 1 prepar- 

 ed a small piece of land, on which 1 planted 

 seven rows with four hills in each row, as fol- 

 lows : — 



1st Row — One potatoe weighing about 7 oz. 



in each hill. 

 2d — One of the same size, cut in four pieces, 



in each hill. 

 '>d — Three whole potatoes, weighing each 



2 oz. in each hill. 

 4th — Six of the same size cut into quarters, 

 and six quarters placed in eacii hill. 

 -Some middling large potatoes cut into 

 pieces, with one eye in each piece, and 

 five pieces put in each hill. 

 -Cut 24 eyes out of large potatoes, and 

 put six in a hill. 



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OM CATCHING COLD. 



As there were few men more attentive lo 

 tracing the cause of natural effects, or more 

 ready and ingenious in accounting for them than 

 Dr. Franklin, his opinions on any such subjects 

 are therel'ore deserving our special attention. 

 Thus, on the subject of catcliing cold, he al- 

 leged, that instead of a cold being contracted 

 by the body's being exposed to some external 

 cause which may stop the insensible perspira- 

 tion, such as cold air blowing partially on some, 

 part of the body, its continuing during some 

 time wet, &.c. a feast, or some excess in eating 

 or drinking will be generally found to have 

 preceded. In confirmation of this opinion, he 

 observed, that those who led temperate lives 

 seldom caught cold, even though their constitu- 

 tions and habits of body might seem little able 

 to withstand the effects of such causes. 



I was a witness of what 1 thought a singular 

 instance of the truth of this opinion. Upon my 

 mentioning it to a gentleman, who eats no ani- 

 mal food, and drinks no fermented liquor or 

 s])irits, he said he would give it a fair trial. 

 He accordingly, early en the first dewy summer 

 morning, walked among long grass till his feet 

 and legs were perfectly wet, and continued out 

 of doors from 6 till 8, and when he came in to 

 breakfast could not be prevailed upon to have 

 dry shoes and stockings till he returned to dress 

 at noon. No cold ensued, though wet feet are 

 reckoned among the most frequent causes of 

 taking cold. He afterwards thanked me much 

 for freeing him from many restraints founded, 

 as he now experienced, on prejudice. 



Dr. Franklin remarked, that those who eat 

 no suppers, especially after plentiful dinners, 

 were much less liable lo catch cold, for they 

 thereby avoided adding a quantify of indigested 

 juice with what are, in some degree, in a di- 

 gested state. They who make their supper 

 their principal meal do not suffer by it, because 

 the stomach being pretty empty, an improper 

 mixture of juices does not enter the lacteals. 



SPO.YT.iA'EOUS COMBUSTIO.r. 

 On Friday afternoon the barn of Mr. George Shute, 

 of -Maiden, containing ten tons of hay, all his farming 

 utensils, and a chaise, was consumed by fire. Mr. S. 

 with anothtr man, was at work in a field near the 

 barn, when the fire burst out ; but nothing could be 

 done lo save it. Tliis is another instance of spontane-i 

 ous combustion, proceeding probably from the too greea 

 or damp state of the hay, as it is almost certain there- 

 had been no fire conveyed to the barn, by any dire; 

 or accidental means. 



