NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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LONG WOOLLF.D SFIEEP. 

 Four fine nve Sheep, of the long woolled breeil. 

 milar to the Bakcwell, Dishley, or Lcicaster 

 reeil, have lately been imported from the 

 Netherlands, by Capt. David Low, of Roslon, 

 id are now owned by Col. Jaqucs^, of Charles- 

 iwn. Sheep of this kind are highly valued in 

 urope for their heavy carcasses for mutton, 

 id the length and excellent qualities of their 

 eeces, which are absolutely indispensable for 

 le production of worsted manufactures. They 

 re of the same sort with those imported by 

 ic Hon. Thomas H. Perkins, for which that 

 entleman received a premium at the last Cat- 

 e Show at Brighton. 



HESSIAN FLY. 



The remedy for the Hessian Fly, suggested 



Y our correspondent B, page 347, of this day's 



iper, deserves attention, and repeated experi- 



tnt. It has been tried in the Southern States, 



jt we believe without success. A writer in 



le American Farmer, vol. ii, p. 127, says, "1 



n of opinion that the f\y deposits in the cen- 



Lil blade in a few days or hours after the wheat 



mies up, and is surely moored in its fast hold 



;lore the wheat would bear grazing ; and that 



ey continue to deposit as long as they live 1 



i\ e no doubt. In our section of the country. 



heat, if attacked by the t]y, evidently declines 



' the time the blades make 'heir appearance. 



this idea be correct, grazing can have no 



her than a destructive tendency. I am not 



quainted with any stock, except sheep or 



ifes, that can bite a blade of wheat at that 



rly stage of its growth below the egg of the 



: nor do I believe that grazing would in the 



irt insure any benefit, if every blade in the 



Id could be swallowed, with all the eggs on 



em, unless the stock were so fortunate as to" 



-;e into their mouths at the same time, all the 



es at work." 



Dr. Isaac Chapman, in a communication read 

 fore the Agricultural Society of Buck's Coun- 

 . Penn. says that there are two generations 

 these flies. The tirst lay their eggs the lat- 

 r part of April and beginning oi May ; and 

 e second generation lay their eggs the latter 

 rt of August, and in September to the 20th. 

 the wheat, by being cropped, or bitten close 

 autumn, should escape the fly during that 

 ason, it might, notwithstanding, sufier in the 

 ring, unless the cropping was continued till 

 i fly disappeared. And it is to be feared that 

 much cropping would weaken the plants to 

 ch a degree that the remedy would prove as 

 d as the disease. Still, if experiments in 

 aine have ])roved the utility of grazing wheat 



If) od as a security against the fly, the practice 

 ould be continued ; for fact should prevai' 

 •er theory. We have alw.iys understood that 

 e best remedies against the fly are rich and 



fiS ell manured soil, and top dressings of soot, 

 hes, plaster, &,c. which, by giving a rapid 

 owth to the wheat, soon put it out of the way 

 the insect. 



Id; 



Parsnips may be raised to great advantage as a sec 



d crop to peas ; the seed to be sowed when the peas 



The writer of this has been in this practice for 



IlllByeral years, and has generally found the dtop of pars- 



fjj 38 thus raised quite as large, and frequently larger, 

 BUI those raised in beds by themselves. The peas 

 Meet th?m fram the «ua when 3tanil.—C»mmvn''d 



MASS.\CHUSETTS LEGISLATURE. 



The Legislature of this Commonwealth assembled at 

 thi' State House in this city on Wednesday. The Hon. 

 Nathaniel Silsbee, of Salem, was elected I'residint of 

 the Senate, and William C. Jarvis, Esq. of I'ittsfield, 

 i^liiaki r of the House of Representatives. The Gov- 

 ernor and Lieut. Governor, together with the Council 

 and the two branches of the Legislature, were escorted 

 in procession to the Old South by the Independent Ca- 

 dets, under Lieut. Col. Otis, where the annual Election 

 Sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Thayer, of Lan- 

 caster. After the exercises at the Meeting House were 

 concluded, the procession returned to the State House, 

 and the two branches adjourned. On Thursday the 

 votes for Governor and Lieut. Governor were counted, 

 and were for the Hon. Wm. Eustis 34,402; Hon. H. 

 G. Otis 30,171 ; scattering 754. The votes for Lieut. 

 Governor were about the same with those for Gover- 

 nor, and the Hon. Levi Lincoln was elected by about 

 the same majority. Beth Houses adjourned at an early 

 hour, in consequence of the death of the Hon. John 

 Phillips, a Senator from Suffolk. t 



FOREIGN. 

 It is almost as difficult to extract truth from the mass 

 of matter with which we are presented in our imported 

 and manufactured journals, as it would be to obtain 

 sunbeams from cucumbers, according to the recipe of 

 Swift. The French despatches represent that the pro- 

 gress of the invaders is scarcely interrupted hy a shew 

 of opposition ; but by what we can learn from other 

 souices, we are led to conclude that the French meet 

 with very serious losses in their progress. In the first 

 attack of the French on the fortress of St. Sebastian, 

 the soldiers are said to have distinguished themselves 

 to such a degree, that the Duke d'Angoulenie distri- 

 buted crosses of honor to them with his own hands. 

 The Spaniards having observed them from their fort, 

 ordered forward a 24 pounder, but they were so slow 

 in mounting it that the Duke had ti.Tie to leave the 

 ground. \\ hen fired olT the bail passed thro' a house 

 ^d struck a platoon precisely on the spot where the 

 i)uke had been distributing his decorations, and killed 

 and wounded fifteen' men. 



Porlahle Army Mill. — Baron Cagniard de Latoiir, 

 who has already made seme interesting discoveries in 

 physics and mechanics, has exhibited to the King of 

 France a Portable Army Mill, which, though it weighs 

 no more than eight pounds, and hardly requires a mo- 

 ment to put it in motion, will grind in the course of 

 the day, grain enough to feed about a hundred men. 



JVeM Hampshire Cdehration. — On Wednesday, the 

 21st inst. the second Centennial Anniversary of the 

 first settlement of Now Hampshire was celebrated in a 

 splendid style at Portsmouth. Prayers were offered by 

 the Rev. President Tyler, of Dartmouth University. 

 An Oration by Nathaniel A. Haven, Jr. Esq. was de- 

 livered ; and a Poem, by O. W. B. Peabody, Esq. — 

 These performances, we are told, were elegant, chaste, 

 classical, and replete with information. An elegant 

 and convivial entertainment was given at Wildes' tav- 

 ern ; and in the evening was the most splendid ball 

 ever witnessed in that place. Judge Story, of this 

 town, Hon. Mr. Webster, of Boston, and many other 

 eminent characters, both of New Hampshire and other 

 states, were present at this celebration, which calls up 

 the memory of our heroic and worthy ancestors. 



Salem Gas. 



The donations to benevolent societies in our country 

 the last year, were between two and three hundred 

 thousand dollars. Of this sura $59,000 were received 

 by the American Board for Foreign Missions ; and 17 

 thousand by the American Education Society. 



Mineral Spring. — We learn that, a mineral spring 

 has lately come into notice, which is situated in Brad- 

 ford, East Parish, Mass. about a mile from the Merri- 

 mac Academy. The waters of this spring are evidently 

 impregnated with iron and sulphur, and have given 

 considerable relief in cutaneous eruptions and bowel 

 complaints. 



Astonishing Atcumulalion. — In England, a pound 

 of crude iron costs a half penny; it is converted into 

 steel, that steel is made iito watch spring?, every one 

 of which is sold for a hall guiu( a, and w< ighs only the 

 tenth of a grain ; after dethicliiig for waste, tliere arc 

 in a pound 7000 grains — it tlierelbrc affords steel fur 

 70,000 watch springs, the value of wliirh, at half a 

 guinea each, is thirty-five thousand guineas. 



CO'Qf the numhcrs nf the JV. E. Farmer alreu- 

 (hj pubtished, only forty sets remain on hand., and 

 they are daily called for. Those, therefore., who 

 wish for the first volume complete, mvst apphj 

 immediately. May 24. 



PRICES OF COUNTRY PRODUCE, &c. 



[Revised and corrected every Friday.] 



ASHES, pot, 1st qual. . . . 



pearl do 



BEANS, white, 



BEEF, mess, 200 cwt. . . . 



cargo. No 1, . . . . 



" No2, . . . . 



BUTTER, inspect. 1st qua!. . 



" 2d qual. . 



small kegs, family, 



CHEESE, new milk .... 



FLAX 



FLAX SEED 



FLOUR, Baltimore, superfine, 

 Genessee .... 

 Rye, best .... 



GRAIN, Rye 



Corn 



Barley 



Oats 



HOGS' LARD, Ist sort . . 



HOPS, No 1, 



LIME, 



OIL, Linseed, American . . 



PLAISTEB PARIS , . . . 



PORK, Savy Mess .... 



Bone Middlings . . . 



Cargo, No 1, ... 



Cargo, No 2, ... 



SEEDS, Herd's Grass . . • 



Clover 



WOOL, Merino, full blood,washed 

 do do unwashed 



do 3-4 washed 



do 1-2 do 



Native .... do 

 Pulled, Lamb's, 1st sort 

 do Spinning, 1st sort 



PROriSIOK MARKET. 

 BEEF, best pieces .... 



PORK, fresh 



VEAL, 



MUTTON, 



POULTRY, 



BUTTER, keg & tub ... 

 lump, best . . 



EGGS, 



MEAL, Rye, 



Indian, 



POTATOES, 



CIDER, liquor, 



HAY, best, 



TO 



D. C. 



160 OO 



160 00 



1 10 



9 75 



8 75 



7 00 



14 



11 



IS 



9 



9 



90 



7 87 



7 87 



5 50 



75 



70 



70 



42 



12 



1 50 

 00 



3 25 

 12 50 

 14 50 

 12 50 

 11 50 



2 25 

 9 



65 

 50 

 55 

 45 

 40 

 CO 

 55 



9 

 9 

 7 

 7 



12 

 16 

 20 

 13 

 80 



45 

 2 2i 



22 00 



TERMS OF THE FARMER. 



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