NEW ENGLAND FARiMER. 



Ill 



xiiig a little fresh quick lime with it, at the lime ol 



ri moval, the disagreeable effluvia will be in a great 

 ■as lire destroyed ; and it might be employed in the 

 au way as any other manure to crops."* 

 If however quick lime cannot readily be obtained to 

 cilirate the conversion of dead animals into manure, 

 IS probable (though wc do not assert it as fact) that 

 viring the carcasses with a pretty thick coat of un- 

 uh. d ashes, and placing over all a quantity of earth 



t arthy substance, would hasten decomposition, and 

 riire the gases resulting from putrescence. Earth, 

 r.n. , however, will answer a valuable purpose, and 



lime the largest animal will be decomposed, if bu- 

 ■d in nothing but common soil ; and the latter will 

 rve as a store house, and preserve the products of 

 e former for the use of the crop to which it may be 

 If Vied. 



Not only the carcases of animals, but their excre- 

 ents and urine are rendered of little value by long 



putrefaction. The eairth possesses the property not 

 only of retaining the putrid steams which are formed 

 from the dung of decomposing bodies within itself, but 

 also of attracting the effluvia when floating in the air. 

 The salubrity of the country depends on this latter 

 quality ; as the practice of burying the dung under 

 the furrow is founded on the former. The stench pro- 

 ceeding from the dissolution of organized matter never 

 rises through the ground to assail the nostrils, although 

 it is sufficiently ofl"ensive from bodies, corrupting in air 

 or water. A strongly dunged fit Id, after being plougli- 

 ed, sown and harrowed, sends forth a healthful and 

 refreshing smell — a proof that all the putrid vapors, 

 which otherwise would annoy us, are absorlied and 

 retained for the nutrition of the crop. It is on this ac- 

 count that the poorest earth can be enriched in a very 

 high degree by mere exposure to the gases of putrefac- 

 tion. Put .a layer of common soil along the top of a 



fermenting dung-hill from 12 to 18 inches thick, and 

 cposure to the air. Indeed every moment of such allow it to remain there while the process is carrying 

 iposure robs them of some part of their fertility, as on with activity ; and afterwards separate it carefully 

 ell as contaminates the atmosphere. " He who is from the heap, and it will have been impregnated with 

 ithin the sphere of the sceut of a dung-hill, (says the the most fertilizing virtues. The composts, which of 

 jlebrated Arthur Young) smells that which his crop late have attracted so universal attention, and occu- 

 ould have eaten if he would have permitted it. In- 1 pied so large a space in all agricultural publications, 



originated in the discovery of this absorbing power of 



ead of manuring the land he manures the atmos 

 tiere ; and before his dung-hill is finished he has ma- 

 ured another parish, perhaps another county." As 

 w exhalations as possible ought to he suffered to rise 

 om the excrements of animals. Fresh manure should 

 e kept as carefully from the sun and rain as grass 

 hich has been cut lor hay. When cattle have been 

 irded over night it would be well to throw their evac- 

 ations into small heaps or beds, and cover them at 

 ;a3t with a sufficient quantity of earth to prevent fcr- 

 lentation, or absorb its products. This would cost 

 at little labor, and would be so neat and healthy as 

 ell as economical, that we are confident farmers will 

 dopt it. 



Mr. Young says, " The first object which I have at- 

 :nded to for many years, has been to spread a layer of 

 irth over the surface of the yard ; peat is the best for 

 lis purpose, with a portion of marie or chalk ; in the 

 ant of this turf, rich mould, the scourings of ditches 

 id some marie or chalk ; but not so much of either as 



I form so solid a bed as to prevent the penetration of 

 le fluids, which should enter sufficiently to give a 

 lack color to the whole. There is no necessity for 

 imoving this every time the dung is removed. As 

 lere are no advantages from fermentation in the mass 



II carried on to the land, no attention should be paid 

 ) prevent treading and pressing it. But as it is bene- 

 cial to have the whole as equal as possible, it is very 

 seful that the stable dung should be spread over the 

 arface, and not left to accumulate at the door. The 

 ame observation is applicable to the riddance of the 

 it bullock stalls and the hog sties." 



It is the fashion among our farmers, and was former- 

 r in vogue iu Great Britain, to turn over and mix barn 

 ■ard manure several times before it was carried to the 

 .eld. This practice however is exploded among the 

 ■est informed cultivators. Mr. A. Young says, " No 

 urning, or mixing, or stirring ; but if circumstances of 

 Phe richness, or quantity, or weather, have occasioned 

 00 much fermentation, or this is suspected, scatter 

 ■very now and then a quantity of the same earth over 

 'he surface with which the yard was bedded, but not 

 n layers. This may be so proportioned as to keep the 

 nass from too much fermentation." 



The author of "Letters of Agricola," says, "Earth 

 < a powerful absorber of all the gases which arise from 



the earth, and in the application of it to the most bene- 

 ficial of purposes. A skilful agriculturist would no 

 more think of allowing a violent fermentation to be 

 going on in his dung-hill unmix'ed with earth or other 

 matter, to fix and secure the gaseous elements, than 

 the distiller would suffer his apparatus to be set at 

 work without surmounting his still with the worm to 

 cool and condense the rarefied spirit, which ascends in 

 evaporation. In both, the most precious matter is that 

 which assumes the aeriform state ; and to behold it es- 

 caping with unconcerned indifference, is a demonstra- 

 tion of the most profound ignorance." 

 (to be continued.) 



' ^igricnUural Chemistry. 



The Hampshire, Fianklm and Hampden Agricultur- 

 al Society held their annual Cattle Show, Sec. at North 

 Hampton, on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. 

 The exhibitions (says the Gazette) were more inter- 

 esting than on any preceding anniversary, and attract- 

 ed a greater concourse of people. An appropriate and 

 excellent Address was delivered by Mr. Mii.i.s, of 

 Southwick. A more particular account of this exhibi- 

 tion will be given next week. 



Grand Agricultural Speculation, — It is stated as a 

 fact in the Poughkeepsie Journal, that A. S. Pell, Esq. 

 of Hyde Park, N. Y. has growing on his farm upwards 

 of sijti/ thousand Apple trees, nearly fit to set out. He 

 intends to transplant the trees on about seven hundred 

 acres of rich land in Ulster county, and to raise the 

 fruit, which is chiefly of the kind called the Newton 

 Pippen, for exportation. 



At the Brighton (Mass.) exhibition, a Stjaw Hat was 

 shown, manufactured in Vermont, and thought to he 

 finer than any ever imported. It was sold for eighty 

 rtollars. The fair manufacturer was more fortunate 

 than a Miss Nancy Bradley, of Ballstown, (N. Y.) who 

 exliibited at the Saratoga Fair, a Straw Hat, on which 

 she had spent three months. The Saratoga bonnet was 

 ■ qual in quality to No. 58 of Leghorn hats, which sell 

 from $60 to $70 ; but Miss B. only received 13 dollars 

 in premiums from the Agricultural Societies, and 25 

 dollars from the purchase of her bonnet. — Phil. Union. 



The National Intelligencer intimates that a piratical 

 establishment has lately been founded in Porto Rico, 

 and states that among the persons embarked in it are 

 several respectable American citizens, and youths of 

 good family, who are thus setting not only the laws of 

 their own country, but the law of nations at defiance. 

 '" We have some curious particulars," says the Intel- 

 ligencer, " of this expedition, which for the present 

 we reserve." 



We have notliing new respecting the Greeks and 

 Turks, which can be depended on. There is rtason to 

 believe that the former are gaining ground, and to hope 

 that they will at length be emancipated from Turkish 

 thraldom. 



It is said that the Congress of Sovereigns will not in- 

 terfere in the affairs of Spain. The calling together of 

 an Extraordinary Cortes in Spain has been dtcided on. 

 General Elio has been condemned to death and exe- 

 cuted for having formed a conspiracy against the con- 

 stitutional government. 



In France, several editors of newspapers have been 

 convicted of giving false and seditious narratives of the 

 trials of conspirators at Rochelle. Some have been 

 punished by fine and imprisonment. 



Health o/JVew York. — On Saturday last, the Board 

 of Health in New York published a note, congratulat- 

 ing their fellow citizens that there was no new case, 

 nor a death of yellow fever to be reported on that day. 

 They recommend to their fellow citizens that previous 

 to occupying their houses they be well ventilated, 

 cleansed, white-washed, &c. That quick lime be 

 strewed in the cellars, yards and privies, fires lighted 

 in the apartments, and acid fumigations made use of. 



In JVew Orleans Yellow Fever reigns in frightful ma- 

 lignity. A letter to the Editor of a Baltimore paper 

 dated Sept. 26, states that " of a population liable t() 

 take it, not exceeding 700, exclusive of negroes, the 

 daily deaths have averaged 20," and the day before 

 the date of the letter the deaths were 31. 



As a proof of the utter desolation which prevailed in 

 the infected district, the N. Y. Statesman mentions 

 that beans have been plucked from vines growing ia 

 Liberty-street, and water-melons from two to three 

 inches long, from vines which grew in Greenwich- 

 street ! They are the product of seed thrown out by 

 the inhabitants before they were driven thence by pes- 

 tilence, and which took root iu the scanty soil between 

 the paving stones. 



Mr. S. Rogers of New- York, has equalled the British 

 Manufacturer in weaving a shirt whole and perfect. 



nanksgiring Day. — This religious festival is to 'be 

 celebrated in this State, Maine and Vermont, en Thurs- 

 day the 5th of December next. In New-Hampshire 

 and Connecticut, on Thursday the 28th of November. 



It is said there will not be more than 5000 hds. sugar 

 made in Louisiana the present season. 10 or 12000 

 bales old cotton remained. 



BROWN'S 



FAMILY 



FOR 

 CI 



PATENT VERTICAL 



SPINNER. 



SALE, at the Agricultural Warehouse, in 

 hambers No. 20, Merchant's Row, (opposite 

 the East end of the Old Market) — a number of 



Brown's Patent Family Wool Spinners, 

 which are found on trial to be one of the most useful 

 domestic implements that have ever been invented for 

 that purpose, being of so simple and easy construction 

 that a girl of the age of 15 can well do the work of six 

 persons in spinning, and so compact in its form as not 

 to require so much space as a common family spinning 

 wheel. The advantage of this machine over and above 

 the common mode of family spinning, is at once tested 

 in a few minutes operation with the machine ; it at 

 once discovers its immense saving of labor, its accuracy 

 in spinning a good thread, and the quantity it will 

 spin. It requires no further examination to judge of 

 its utility than to see it operate. It is afforded at so 

 low a price as to bring it in common use to every prac- 

 tical farmer, and is well calculated for the employment 

 of the inmates of our common town's poor houses. — 

 .\ny numbc r of Machines can be furnished at the short- 

 est notice, and warranted. Oct. 26. 



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NATHANIEL BE ARBORN...EA-G RAVER, 



AS removed to Market Street, No. 33, over Mr. 

 Bailey's Store, West corner building of the stone 

 steps passage way. 



Ct:5= Orders for Engraving and Printing Address or 

 Visiting Cards ; and engravings on Wood, Brass, or 

 other metals solicited. Door Plates of any style and 

 price, of Brass, Silver or Silver-plated. Nov. 2. 



