iNEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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: luch useful matter in so sliorl a compass. AVe think it 

 [■jhould be a subject of congratulation with every friend 

 ■ • hi 5 country, that an eminent statesman and rcvolu- 

 y patriot should be induced to exert his influence, 

 : mi'iuy his time, and devote his talents to promote the 

 li iterests of agpriculturc, the most noble of the sciences, 

 3 well as the most useful of the arts. 



The Editor has received a letter from Mr. Kcurick, 

 f Newton, accompanied with a very acceptable pre- 

 >nt of a bottle of his Currant V\'ine, or " Columbian 

 froiselle." Mr. Kenrick states that this wine is sold 

 y the keg at $1,08, and by the barrel at $1, per gall. 

 ;d at $5 per dozen, white at $6,50. We do not pro- 

 is any connoisseurship with regard to wine, and can 

 ily say that the sample sent us was very agreeable, 

 ot only to our palate, but to the palates of some 

 iends, whom we employed as tasters on the occasion, 

 'c therefore cTieerfully recommend it as a pleasant, 

 ilatable, and we doubt not wholesome beverage. 

 Mr. Keurick further remarks, that, " the facts col- 

 cted by Col, Pickering, in regard to the best time for 

 Uing Timber, ! consider of very great importance. 

 r. Cooper told him that white oak, as well as hicko- 

 felled in barking time, would not be bored by 

 orms. I wish that some of your correspondents, who 

 ^e nigh the salt water, wotiM undertake to make ex- 

 rimeuts on yellow and white pines, hickory, chcs- 

 :t, and every sort of oak used in shipping. Samples 

 ould be felled and sunk in water now ; and similar 

 mples should be felled in barking time, and placed 

 side them. If 1 am not mistaken, nearly all the 

 sts in West Boston bridge were soon ruined so com- 

 !te!y by worms, as to require replacing. 1 believe 

 ;y were originally white pine. 



■' I am about entering on a course of experiments to 

 :ertain the cause, in a satisfactory manner, why tht 

 rms, both on dry land, and under water, prey upon 

 iory and other wood felled in the winter season, 

 t not when felled in barking time. If I succeed 1 

 I give you the result ; and if you have a trusty 

 ■nd that will make the experiment under water, we 

 .11 be able to give the public information of the high- 

 importance to every section of our country." 

 The Editor would be greatly obliged to any friend 

 would make the experiment suggested hy Mr. 

 nrick, and would give his personal assistance so far 

 his indispensable avocations would permit. 



FARMER SUMMARY OF NEWS. 



IJONGRESS appears to be pretty diligent in ways of 

 11 doing, and will make, it is hoped, a good job of 

 :ir legislative proceedings ihe present session. The 

 it Office committee, on motion of Mr. Holmes, has 

 ;d instructed to report on the expediency of trans- 

 iting the principal Eastern mail in steam boats. — 

 eytppear to be instituting a jA.oir/) /oo/t out relative 

 uioncv matters, and do not intend that that the ^arb 

 latriotism shall be us -d as a cloak for peculation. 

 eyhavc, likewise, a bill on the carpet to provide for 

 admission of persons as revolutionary pensioners, 

 osc applications have bten rejected in consequence 

 he largeness of their property, but have since become 

 >T. T'litir business, however, chiefly consists of de- 

 ls of important but not general interest. 



MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE will, we be- 

 'e, close its session on Tuesday next. The bill 

 itive to Ltiprisonment for Debt has been negatived, 

 e bill concerning the Boston House of Industry, has 

 ■n completed. A bill ha; passed to regulate the ,fo- 

 at large of sheep, rams and he ernats at certain sea- 

 s of the year. A bill further to regulate the practice 

 hysic and Surgery has passed to be enacted. The 

 imposing a duty on auction sales has passed. The 

 respecting religious freedom has been postponed in- 

 imtely. A bill passed to be enacted, authorising 

 racers of the poor to act as guardians. 



roilElG.N'. — The latest news from Havre conies 

 down to the 15th December. The appearance of the 

 political horizon in Europe is less ominous of war than 

 at the preceding accounts. Spain, it is said, is to bo 

 left to her own management, and France has ordered 

 her troops, destined for that country, to rest upon their 

 arms for the present. The Constitutionalists in Spain 

 continue to be successful. The Greeks are likewise 

 Iriiunphant. Chourschid Pacha had a fresh d( feat on 

 the 'Ud, 23d and 24th of October— had lost 70U men, 

 and retreated to Larissa. 



DOMESTIC— According to a statistical tabl(>, the 

 distance between Washington City, and the new Colo- 

 ny contemplated at the mouth of Columbia river, is 

 almost the distance between Washington and London. 



Mrs. Rebecca Long, of Concord, N. H. and one of 

 her daughters, were, not long since, poisoned by some 

 white lead having been accidentally mixed in a quan- 

 tity of sugar. Their sulTerings were prolonged and 

 very excruciating. [An English medical writer, whose 

 name is not now recollected, states, that " when min- 

 eral poisons, technically called oxides, are taken inter- 

 nally, one table spoonful of powdered charcoal is a 

 conii)lete antidote, mixed with either honey, butter or 

 treacle, taken immediately ; within two hours admin- 

 ister either an emetic or cathartic ; in this way the ef- 

 fect of the poison is prevented." We do not, however, 

 presume to vouch for the ffficacy of this remedy, but 

 submit it for th-^ consideration of medical men.] 



The Albany Daily Advertiser of the 2Sth ult. states 

 that the Albany stage was overturned in the Highlands 

 on Friday, and one of the passengers, a gentleman 

 from Vermont, had his collar bone broken, and several 

 others were more or less injured. The accident was 

 caused by the driver's attempting to pass an opposition 

 line. 



Lar':f. Hogs. — William Yale, Esq. of Meriden, Con. 

 fatted and killed on the 6th .Ian. five hogs, weight as 

 follows : 462, 476, 484, 4f!6, 542— in all 2450. 



Firkins of butter have been sold at Montreal, which, 

 after penetrating two inches below the surface wen 

 found to contain a mixture, fit only for the soap boiler. 



A gang of counterfeiters of Spanish milled dollars 

 ha? been discovered in Lower Canada, in the neia:h- 

 borhood of Montreal, and two of them apprehended. 

 The dollars, it is said, were extremely well imitated. 

 A gang of robbers, which had carried on its depreda- 

 tions for some time in the nci;;;-hborbood of INIontreal 

 has likewise been detected and committed to prison. 



Ftres. — A new grist mill with two run of stones, be- 

 longing to Mr. Robert T. Shaw, of Lansing, N. Y. was 

 destroyed by fire on the 9th ult. in consequence of the 

 carelessness of the miller. — The Congregational Church 

 in the village of Great Barrington, (.Mass.) was discov- 

 ered to be on fire on the 13th ult. The fire had ob- 

 tained a formidable ascendancy, when the building, 

 and probably the whole village was preserved from 

 destruction by the intrepidity of Mr. Gilbert Ford, who 

 mounted the roof at the hazard of his life, and poured 

 water on the spot where the flames issued most copi- 

 ously. The fire is supposed to have been communi- 

 cated from a small wooden box, containing ashes, into 

 which some of the female part of (he congregation had 

 probably emptied the contents of their stove-pans the 

 day previous. — On the 20th ult. a barn, containing 

 200 bushels of wheat, a quantity of oats, and hay sufl^- 

 cient to winter a large stock of cattle, was consumed 

 in Addison county, Vermont. The fire was communi- 

 cated by Sylvester Hanks, son of the sutTerer, who, 

 having deliberately set fire to the building, was the 

 first to give information. He was asrested and sent to 

 Midrilebury jail. — A grist mill belonging to Gen. Ste- 

 phen Van Ransellaer, at Albany, was lately consumed 

 by fire. Damages estimated at' $25,000. — On Friday, 

 of last week, several Valuable stores, in Norfolk, Va. 

 were destroyed by fire, and a Mr. Talbot, in whose 

 store the fire originated, perished in the flames, and 

 several other persons were seriously injured. 



The following appointments have been made by the 

 President, and confirmed by the Senate, viz : General 

 .lackson. minister to Mexico ; Cwsar .A. Rodney, min- 

 ister to Buenos Ayres ; Richard C. Anderson, minister 

 to Colombia ; and Heman Allf n, minister to Chili. 



A young married lady was late ly killed in Westmore- 

 land County, Va. while riding in a gi?, by the falling: 

 of a tree upon the carriage. Two of her children and 

 a servant maid were in the gig, and were providential- 

 ly unhurt. 



DIF.D — In Cambridgeport, on Wednesday evening 

 last, SriU'HK.v I'YNciro.v, Esq. Repres( ntative in the 

 Legislature of this State, from Erimfleld. 



In Albany, Moses 1. Cantinc, Esq. senior editor of 

 the Argus. • 



In New York, Mr. .Toseph Tyler, aged 73, the oldest 

 member of the Dramatic Corps in (he U. States. 



FOR sale at the Agricultural Establishment, No. 20, 

 Merchant's Row, a general assortment of the most 



APPROVED FARMING TOOLS— viz. 



Harrison's Corn Shellers ; Straw Cutters ; double and 

 single mould board Ploughs, of various kinds — Pee!- 

 son's Cultivators — Bennett's Broad Cast Machine for 

 small seed ; extra cast steel broad and narrow Hoes — 

 Foster's best English Shovels — Ames' back strapp'd do. 

 Cam's English cast steel warranted Scythes and Hay 

 Knives ; Bruslx Scythes — Stevens' Patent steel spring 

 Hay and Manure Forks — Brown's Vertical Wool Spin- 

 ner, itc. Sec. Boston, Jan. 25. 



PRICES OF COUNTRY PRODUCE, &c. 



[Revised and corrected every Friday.] 



ASHES, pot, 1st qua! 



pearl do 

 BEANS, white, 

 BEEF, mess, 200 cwt. 

 cargo. No. 

 No, 

 BUTTER, inspect. 1st qiial. 

 2d qual. 

 small kegs, family, 

 CHEESE, new milk 

 TLAX 



FLAX SEED 



FLOUR, Baltimore, Euperline, 

 Genessee .... 

 Rye, best .... 



GRAIN, Rye 



Corn 



Barley 



Oats 



HOGS' LARD, 1st sort . . 



HOPS, No. 1, 



LIME, 



OIL, Linseed, American . . 



PLAISTER PARIS .... 



PORK, Navy Mess .... 



Bone Middlings , 



Cargo, No. 1, . . . 



Cargo, No. 2, . . . 



SEEDS, Herd's Grass . . • 



Clover 



WOOL, Merino, full bIood,washed 

 do. do. unwashed 



do. 3-4 do. 



do. 1-2 do. 



Native .... do. 

 Pulled, Lamb's, 1st sort 

 do. Spinning, 1st sort 



PROVISIoy M.iRKET. 

 BEEF, best pieces .... 



PORK, fresh 



VEAL, 



.MUTTON 



POULTRY 



BUTTER, keg & tub ... 

 lump, best 



EGG.S, 



MEAL, Rye, 



fndian, 



POTATOES, 



CIDER, liquor, 



HAY, best 



