NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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others may be perfectly cured without that 

 trouble. It is advisable to perform this work 

 in the day time, lest the spirit contained in the 

 mixture take fire from the candle, while using; 

 it, and occasion serious damage. 



2. Dissolve 100 grains of corrosive sublimate 

 in a pint of brandy : use it with the feather of 

 a quill. 



3. Half an ounce of corrosive sublimate, pow- 

 dered and dissolved in a quart of spirits makes 

 an effectual wash for bedsteads infested by bugs. 

 They must be previously scrubbed with cold 

 water and well dried. 



In England, cast iron bedsteads are much in 

 use for hospitals, &.c. and are recommended as 

 aflordmg no harbor for vermin. 



THE BRF.EDINC OF CATTLE. 



Dr. Cooper, Editor of the last .■\nicrican edi- 

 tion of Dr. VVillich's Domestic Encyclo[)edia, 

 observes tliat — '> The whole art of breeding 

 animals and vegetables for particular purposes, 

 may be included in the direction, choose those 

 animals or vegetables to propagate from, that pos- 

 sess the qualities yoii wis/i to propagate in the 

 greatest perfection.'''' 



To destroy the bee miller. — This troublesome 

 insect is making great ravages among the bees 

 in this vicinity. .\ subscriber has requested us 

 to state that he had discovered an effectual me- 

 thod of destroying them, which is as follows ; 

 To a pint of sweetened water, (sweetened with 

 sugar or honey) add a half a gill of vinegar ; set 

 this in an open vessel on the top of the hive ; 

 and at night, when the miller comes to his work 

 of destruction, he will prefer this composition, 

 and diving into it, will immediately drown. — 

 This simple method, our intormnnt assures us, 

 is certain of success. At ail events it is worthy 

 of attention ; and wc would recommend to the 

 owners of bees to make a trial of it. — Lake 

 George paper. 



From the Old Colony Memorial. 

 Sir — The inquiry- which has been instituted 

 in the Memorial respecting the worms which 

 are making such devastation of the grass and 

 Indian corn, and the observations consequent 

 thereof, have drawn so much attention to the 

 subject, as to ascertain, that this is not '• a new 

 thing under the sun.'' In the annals of the Cot- 

 ton Family (o«e of the most respectable in the 

 Commonwealth) which have been continued 

 from the first settlement of the country, are not- 

 ed many extraordinary events and seasons (ex- 

 traneous of the concerns of the familv :) among 

 others it is there noted, that " 1745 was re- 

 markable for the destructive effects of the worms 

 which almost destroyed the grass." There is 

 also now living in tliis vicinity, a respectable 

 farmer, aged 87, who well remembers that when 

 a boy, he with others, amused themselves by 

 rolling up the sward, which was destroyed by 

 the worms, striving who could make the largest 

 roll — allowing this man to have been 10 years 

 old at that time, and it reduces it to 174,'), the 

 period noted in the annals ; and he further 

 states, the worms were of similar appearance 

 of those now present. — There arc also others 

 who state, that a year during the revolutionary 

 war they made great ravages both in the corn 

 and grass. From these facts perhaps it may be 

 ^ferred that their appearance is rather ;ienV/- 



ical than extraordinary, and if Ihe difTcreut times 

 of their appearance had been a// ob-^crved and 

 noted, with the precision they are in the annals 

 above alluded to, we might perhaps, ere now 

 have ascertained the period of their expected 

 return, and possibly some means of counteract- 

 ing or limiting their ravages. The greatest 

 advantage perhaps that may now be expected to 

 be derived from the attention excited to this 

 subject, i.s the obtaining more minute oI;serva- 

 tions of the times of their appearance — the time 

 of their continuance — and, if possible, the man- 

 ner of their reproduction, and whether their ap- 

 penrance is consequent of a season remarkable 

 for drought. Yours, P. 



A gentleman of this town (Plymouth) has con- 

 structed a drill for the purpose of sowing Rula- 

 Baga or other small seeds, which cmbrnccs (ho 

 two great points of cheap-iess and siinplicilv. It 

 may he constructed by any farmer of ordinnrv 

 mechanical ingenuity with his band-s.iw, hatchet, 

 and ktiile; it can l)e worked by a boy 12 years 

 of age, and does the work with neatness and 

 dispatch. — ibid. 



Campthor trees. — These frees grow in the Inl- 

 and of Sumatra. A letter from a traveller pub- 

 lished in an Edinburgh Journal, describes them 

 as being often 100 feet perfectly straight to the 

 first branch. The camphor is found in masses, 

 in cracks and hollows in the heart of the tree. 

 It is chiefly carried to China, v.here it bears a 

 price about 30 times that of the China camphor. 

 It is Ihe latter that is brought to Europe and 

 America. It is obtained by boiling. The Sum- 

 atra camphor tree also yields a powerful oil. 

 It flowers only once in four or live years. 



Hampshire Gazette. 



superior to the English ; so that this extensive 

 establishment may cmphalically be styled the 

 pride of America. — I'oslon Gazette. 



Divining Rods. — It is stated in an extract pub- 

 lished in the Palladium, that a piece of gold, 

 silver, or any other metal, suspended to the end 

 of a very slender switch, when carried over a 

 mine of the same metal, will be so attracted as 

 to bend the end of the stick. The writer tried 

 an experiment with a pair of curious scales. 

 He put a shilling piece of silver into one scale! 

 and made the beam perfectly level bv weights 

 in the other; a block of silver, 6 inches square 

 and two inches thick, was then introduced un- 

 der the scale that had the shilling ; that end 

 of the beam dropped a quarter of an inch, and 

 stood there until the block was removed and 

 then immediately returned tn a level; this was 

 repeated several times with the same efl'oct. 



iliid. 



The Cotton Manufiiclory, at Walfham, is own- 

 ed by gentlemen of Boston, and is unqucslionably 

 the most extensive of any one in Ihe I nitcd 

 States. — We have heard it .stated that the ca[)i- 

 tal is six hundred thousand dollars. About 500 

 workmen are emplyod, (but few boys or girls,) 

 nearly allofwjiom are Americans. The week- 

 ly expenses are about L'OOO dollars, which a- 

 mount to u\n\;\r(\^ oC one hundred thousand dollars 

 in a year. There are maimfacturod thirty-live 

 thousand yards of clolii in a week, or in a'year, 

 one million eight hundred and t-s:cHty thousand 

 yards ! which cloth, for shirting and shectina:, is 

 daily gaining credit in every section of the Un- 

 ion. The machinery, too, is in many respects 



From the A'fU' York Commercial ^Idrerliecr, 



" But who i-i «he, 



Ilcr dark hair stroamhig on her lirow, her eye 

 Wild, and her breast deep-h(avinj? .?he oft gazM 

 .A.t distance lor the white sail, nor wept, nor spoke, 

 And now is gone." 



.\ coroner's inquest was held at West Point on 



Thursday, on the body of a woman named 



M'Ginn, who wa^ found dead among the rocks at 

 Ihe foot of the high clilT ^vhich overhangs the 

 favorite retreat or grotto of Kosciusko, where 

 that cflicer was wont to regale himself and 

 friends with wine, after dinner, while stalioi'.ed 

 there during the revoluticn. Tiie verdict acci- 

 dental dpath. 



The r-rcumstances that have marked the life 

 ef this humble woman, and her now unhappy 

 husbanit, have been in some respects romantic ; 

 and her coiidnct since her inar.'iage, has afford- 

 ed one of the strongest examples of constant and 

 ardent aliection. And what is most remarkable 

 is, that it was the intensity of Ler alTection that 

 caused her untimely death. It appears that they 

 were acquainted in Ireland, but as no peculiar 

 attachment existed between them, they emi- 

 grated to this country separateh' and at ditlerent 

 times. By accident they met, either at West 

 Point or near Ihe Foundery on the opposite side 

 of the river, a few years since; soon after, il 

 was agreed that they would be married when- 

 ever Patrick should have raised a certain sum 

 of money. Patrick then went away and labored 

 hard and lived prudently, un'il he had accom- 

 idished that object, when he returned and was 

 rewarded for his toil by the heart of the object 

 of his alTection. Their lot was cast in the hum- 

 ble v.alks of life, it is true, but never did a 

 couple live more contented and happy than they. 

 And whenever Patrick has been called away on 

 business, if detained longer than v,as anticipated, 

 she knew neither rest nor slumber until his re- 

 turn. It is but a short time since Patrick went 

 to Newburgli in a boat, ^vhcre he wa« detained 

 all night, and such was the faithful wife, that she 

 sat upon a cliff that overhangs the river, or 

 walked upon the edge of the rugged steep, un- 

 til Ihe boat came safe to the shore in the morn- 

 ing. And often has she counted the solitary 

 hours, as they passed tediously cu, in the same 

 manner, while no sounds broke upon the dull 

 hours of niglit, save the howling of the rude 

 winds above, and Ihe dashing of the surge a- 

 gainst the rocks below, mingled occasionally 

 with the stern voice of the weather-beaten sen- 

 tinel, as he slowly paced his solitary round or 

 perchance the gloomy screech of the lone bird 

 of night. On the inorning of (he fatal day, 

 Patrick went in an open boat to the mills at 

 pjiittermilk Falls, about two miles below, and 

 she had prepared to visit soirie friends on the 

 opposite side of the river, but would not go 

 until his return. He was absent longer than 

 was expected, and she repaired to the wonted 

 place of watching, and seated herself upon a 

 craig which shelved over the deep and dark 

 abyss beneath. Night came on, and the faith- 

 ful creature probably overcome by fatigue and 

 anxiety, dropped asleep, fell, and was dashed 

 in pieces. In the morning her shawl was found 

 upon the rock, and her lifeless body among the 

 fallen fragments, 1 70 feet below ! 



