NEW ENGLAND FARiMER. 



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irved that he had ultimately destroyed then, 

 ^ having In the part of the garret where the/ 

 i;re a lew plants of tobacco when first cut ii 

 e fall ; and that from his own experience, 

 cl the observation of others, he believed this 

 )uld generally prove an eilectual remedj 

 ainst them. 



My own observation justifies me in the belief 

 it ihey have but little disposition to emigrate, 

 d if this be the fact, it will show the impot- 

 ice of not moving grain in which they are, to 

 rier part of buildings; and suggests many easy 

 lys of destroying or greatly diminishing them. 



From the American Farmer. 



\gricijLtur.\l prospects— reversed. 



Whecitlaad, May 19, 1825. 

 Dr.iR Sir — In No. 7, of the American Farmer 

 ibserve an extract from my letter to you of 

 p 23d ult. and a corresponding one from ano- 

 er correspondent, giving the most favorable 

 presentation of the state of our crops in this 

 :lion of the country; as I conceive it to be 



importance that the community should be 

 |)t correctly informed as to our " agricultural 

 ospect?,"' and as these prospects are most wo- 

 Iv and fatally changed since the date of the 

 ove communication, I deem it to he my duty 

 apprise jou of the melancholy fact, to guard 

 ainst the evils that might arise from errone- 

 - impressions on this interesting ."ubject. In 

 nsequence of the general failure of crops for 

 ; three preceding harvests, together with the 

 iuced prices of the staples of the country, 

 ■ body of our farmers had become awfully 

 iharrassc'I in their pecuniary circumstances, 

 I they laudably determined to make an ex- 



irdinary effort last fall to relieve themselves 

 ni (heir difficulties by putting in much larger 

 ips of small grain than usual. The rye hav- 

 r been previously committed to the earth, the 



iling of wheat commenced early in the month 

 ^eptember; and many of the largest crops 

 •re put in, and finished by the first of Oclo- 

 r. During the ploughing season not a drop 

 rain fell, and that operation was consequently 

 rformed in the best possible manner. At the 

 ter end of September the rains set in — the 

 leat was brought up finely, and being liber- 

 y nourished by a continuation of the most 

 nial seasons, vegetation advanced with a ra- 

 lity and vigor never before experienced, and 

 r fields by the month of December were as 

 rdant, and the growth as luxuriant, as gener- 

 y in the month of April. The winter was 

 t considered to be unfavorable. Vegetation 

 iitinued to advance with unprecedented ra- 

 dity during the early spring — and our fair 

 .ttering prospects received no check, until a 

 w days after the first of May, when the wheat 

 as discovered to be at a stand ; this was at first 

 tributed to the May-weed which sprung up in 

 ir fields a thousand fold thicker than was ever 

 lown ; but as this weed is very short lived, 

 id had heretofore been regarded as harmless, 

 ! apprehensions were entertained that as soon 



ils ephemeral growth was over, our crops 

 ould revive and flourish without farther inter- 

 iption. Delusive hope ! From that time the 

 ops were perceived to decline daily and rap- 

 ly, and the farmer soon became assured that 

 is hopes were blasted by the ravages of an 

 ^.i lemy whose powers of desolation are unbound- 



ed, and against whose assault he possesses no| 

 means of resistance. The havoc committed by 

 the Hcssuni Fly is without example, and sur- 

 passes all description. Our fields are literally 

 laid waste, and cattle are turned on many of 

 them, which three or four weeks ago promised 

 an ample remuneration to the industrious far- 

 mer for his anxious and toilsome eare. His late 

 hopes, so bright and so buoyant, are converted 

 suddetilv into black despair. I have already 

 said that our people are generally in debt. — 

 This misfortime exists to an alarming and awful 

 extent. What they will now do under this new 

 and severe calamity I cannot tell. It is known 

 only to Him who in his inscrutable wisdom dis- 

 penses it ! — Our clover has wholly failed lor 

 the two last seasons, and its place occupied with 

 innumerable weeds of the most pernicious kind. 

 The rje crops are remarkably good. 



I have given you, my dear sir, a gloom}', but 

 a faithful picture — rest assured it is not exag- 

 ger;tted. 



With sincere regard and esteem, 

 Yours truly, 



H. S. TURNER. 



N. B. Great complaints, as usual, of the grub 

 or cut-worm, in the early planted corn. Even 

 mine has been severely attacked under circum- 

 stances that have resisted its effect uniformly 

 for many successive years. 



The following is copied from an English 

 publication, but whether it will answer the 

 purpose pretended, we cannot say. A trial 

 might be made at a trifling expense. 

 DESTRUCTION OF FLIES. 



Most of the fly waters, and other prepara- 

 tions sold for the destruction of flies, are vari- 

 ously disguised poisons, dangerous and even 

 fatal to the human species ; such as solutions of 

 mercury, arsenic, &;c. mixed with honey or 

 syrup. The following preparation, however, 

 without endangering the lives of children, or 

 other incautious persons, is not less fatal to flies 

 than even a solution of arsenic. Dissolve two 

 drachms of the extract of quassia in half a pint 

 of boiling water; and adding a little sugar or 

 syrup, pour the mixture on plates. To this 

 enticing food the flies are extremely partial, 

 and it never fails to destroy them. 



approaches the nature and flavor of wholesome 

 animal flesh. Walnut liquor will by no means 

 answer this purpose. 



Best method of making common Sirup oj Sugar 

 for general use. 

 Dissolve one pound and three quarters of 

 powdered double refined sugar in a pint of wa- 

 ter, by means of what is called the water bath, 

 or balneum mariae ; that is, by setting the ves- 

 sel which contains it in a saucepan, kettle, or 

 copper of water, over the fire, till the sugar be 

 thoroughly dissolved, and the sirup properly 

 formed. This, besides other advantages, pre- 

 vents the danger of the sugar's boiling over, 

 which is much to be apprehended in the com- 

 mon mode of boiling sirup in large quantities. 

 After it has stood a few hours, take off the 

 scum, and pour the sirup into a stone jar or 

 bottle for use. 



To make Broth u-ithotit Meat. 



Boil a small quantity of mushroom catsup in 



very thin gruel with a few leaves of strewed 



parsley, and a little salt. The mushroom more 



than any other vegetable substance, perhaps, 



From Nilci' Weekly Rtgijter. 

 Something Strange. — The two following arti- 

 cles are from late British papers. We give 

 them as we found them, frankly confessing that 

 we cannot understand what seems so gravely 

 asserted — yet it seems probable that some great 

 improvement in the art of printing is about to 

 be brought into use. 



From a London papi-r of March 2. 



Dr. Church is now at Birmingham, preparing 

 his new printing press. The compositor has 

 only to set down at this curious piece of me- 

 chanism, as he would at a piano-forte, and as 

 he strikes the keys, the types all fall from the 

 case into their proper places, with a velocity 

 that keeps pace with the most rapid speaker. 

 The form having been worked off, the type 

 moves into the melting pot, iVom whiuh it is 

 returned, re-cast in its original state, without 

 any diminution of the material, and thence dis- 

 tributed into the case quite new. One of these 

 presses, placed at the bar of the House of Com- 

 mons, would always insure a correct report of 

 the debate. Dr. Church, the inventor, is a na- 

 tive of Boston, in New England." 



To the editor of the New Globe. 



Sir — Permit me to correct an article which 

 appeared in your paper of Monday, under the 

 head of " extraordinary inventions," relating to 

 Dr. Church's printing apparatus, which, as it 

 there stands, conveys a wrong impression res- 

 pecting it. The printing press that has been 

 constructed, having flat surface?, and though 

 rapid in giving off the finest impressions, is in 

 no way connected in ils operations with either 

 the composing or type founding machines. — 

 Neither has Dr. Church asserted or even anti- 

 cipated being able, by his composing machine, 

 " to keep pace with the most rapid speaker," 

 as is there stated ; but he has been enabled, on 

 a single machine, to set up more types, and 

 with more correctness, than four compositors 

 could do in the same time. 



It is correctly stated, that little or no loss of 

 metal lakes place in casting the types, as the 

 atmosphere is excluded from the metal when 

 in a fluid slate, and the only connexion there is 

 between the composing and type founding ma- 

 chine is this — the type founding machine depo- 

 sites the types in the case, in the order they 

 are required by the composing machine, to 

 which the case is afterwards taken, when re- 

 quired for use. 



It is also true that the /orm, after being used, 

 i-^ returned to the melting pot, and the types 

 re-produced anew ; as this mode of distributing 

 is much more rapid than the present method, 

 and besides insuring a perfect distribution, also 

 insures a new and perfect arrangement of the 

 types in the order required for the composing 

 machine, as well as producing a perfect letter. 

 From the machinery he has already censtruct- 

 ed, and the experiments made in the various 

 branches of the printing apparatus, the most 

 complete success may, with confidence, be an- 

 ticipated. 



Dr. Church is now at Birmingham construct- 

 ing his machinery. Veritas. 



London, March 18, 1823. 



