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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



in a hill, being one hour's work for a man. — 

 The crop was half as ranch again as in ihe 

 same nuinher of hills adjoining. The wafer 

 was applied to the sod just after plmting the 

 Bets, which I suppose to he the best time ot do- 

 in" it, as there can be no danger of burning the 

 voung shoots, and «s the salt will be mixed with 

 rain and the moisture of the earth, before shoots 

 are produced. 



<■• In the jear 1737, alternate rows were wa- 

 t red in the same manner with sea-water. The 

 result of this experiment was uncertain ; be- 

 cause by ploughing off and on between the 

 rows, the earth of the watered and uinvatered 

 rows was blended together. But altogether a 

 good crop was obtained. 



'* The same year a piece of flax was, in the 

 month of June, very short and yellow on one 

 side of the piece ; but of a good color on the 

 other and much taller. This induced the own- 

 er to water the poor side from the sea. In ten 

 days it was equal in length and color with that 

 on the other side, though very little rain fell in 

 the time. At pulling, the watered side was 

 fvidently better grown than the other. This 

 was a sufficient demonstration of the advantage 

 of se«-water, when the land lies adjoining to 

 the sea shore, so that the labor of applying it is 

 inconsiderable. The above experiments were 

 made in a claj'ey soil. 



" In a sandy soil, the same year, watering 

 Ihe ground where French turnips were just 

 sown, had an excellent etTect. Though it was 

 a spot where the turnips had been destroyed by 

 insects several years successively, they gener- 

 ally escaped this year. Not more than one 

 pailful was applied to a drill row two rods in 

 length, wetting the ground over the seeds soon 

 after sowing. 



" Salt water applied to tender plants, most 

 commonly proves too strong for thero, if appli- 

 ed when the ground is dry. But if it be wet, 

 the strength of the water is abated by mixing 

 with the juices of the soil, before it is taken up 

 by the roots, and thus it is rendered innocent 

 and safe, as 1 have found b\' experience. The 

 seeds bear the application of the sea water bet- 

 ter than the young plants do." 



The Farmer's Assistant gives the following 

 directions relative to the use and application of 

 sea water as a manure. " Sea water might be 

 carried from the sea some distance on the land, 

 to advantage, in the following manner: Take a 

 one horse cart, and suspend a tight box, rightly 

 shaped, under the axle-tree, the box having a 

 valve in the under side ; drive the cart into the 

 water, and the valve opens and lets that fluid 

 into the box ; and, when the cart is driven out, 

 the valve closes and holds the water. 



" When the cart is driven out to the ground 

 on which the water is to be spread, this opera- 

 tion may be performed in the manner we shall 

 next describe: A tube is to be provided, sav 

 twelve feet in length, with small holes bored 

 into it at the distance of six inches apart, and 

 the ends of the tube closed ; attach this to the 

 under side of the box, crossways, at either end, 

 so as to be out of the way of ti)e wheels of the 

 cart. 



" When you come to where the water is to 

 be spread, it is to he let out of the bos into the 

 tube, by an aperture tor that purpose ; and as 

 the cart moves along, the water runs out of 

 each of the small holes in the tube, and thus 



sprinkles over a piece of ground of twelve feet 

 wide, till the whole is exhausted. 



'• With the next load, begin where the water 

 ceased running before, and thus continue the 

 watered strip across the field. Then take ano- 

 ther strip of twelve feet wide adjoining that 

 already watered, and thus proceed till the 

 whole has been gone over. 



" In this way a man would carry out, say 

 forty cart loads a day, at Ihe distance of half a 

 mile,, or half that number if a mile ; as but little 

 time need be spent in loading or unloading. — 

 About ten loads of a hundred gallons each would 

 probably be sufficient for an acre at one time.'* 



There can be no doubt but the application 

 of sea-water would prove fatal to cock-chaffers 

 or grubs, cut-worms, fcc. Liquid manure ot 

 any kind may be expeditiously applied m the 

 way above mentioned. The water from drain- 

 ings of dunghills, or that which is collected 

 from reservoirs of liquid manure, or from stag- 

 nant pools, &c. might well be applied in this 

 way, and answer useful purposes. 



Sea Sand, Sf-.» Mm, &c. may be put into corn 

 and potatoe hills in some situations to good 

 advantage. Mr. Wm. Moody, of Saco, Maine, 

 in a letter to the Hon. Josiah Quincy, publish- 

 ed in the Masf^achusetts Agricultural Repository 

 vol. iv, p. 353, says, " 1 am persuaded, from 

 experience, that sea sand, put under corn or 

 potatoes with manure, or spread on the land, 

 will go far, if not wholly, to the total destruc- 

 tion of those destructive worms [wire worms, 

 which are small red worms about an inch long, 

 the bigness of a large needle] on which noth- 

 ing else seems to have any effect. It has a ben- 

 eficial effect spread on land before ploughing, 

 or even after land is planted with corn or pota- 

 toes, not only to destroy the wire worm and 

 other insects, but to increase the crop. With 

 my neighbors a load of sea sand is considered 

 preferable to a load of their best manure, to 

 mix in with their common barn manure, or to 

 spread on their gardens and low l3at land." 



Fastening for Doors and Window Shutters. 

 We have understood that a person in East 

 Bradford, (Mass.) has invented a contrivance, 

 which is very simple in its nature and elTectual 

 in its operation, to fasten window shutters and 

 outward doors, both back and when closed. — 

 This implement becomes fast of its own accord, 

 and will be t'ound to conduce much to the ease 

 and comfort of those who may be inclined to 

 adopt it. The expense hardly exceeds that of 

 a common hasp. It is not a patented machine, 

 and has already been put in operation in sev- 

 eral buildings, and perfectly answers the pur- 

 poses for which it was intended. 



THE GREAT RACE. 

 Perhaps nothing has ever occurred in the 

 United States which has given so violent a fillip 

 to public curiosity, and set expectation so de- 

 cidedly on tip-toe, as the wonderful horse race 

 lately enacted at Jamaica, on Long Island, be- 

 tween the super-superb N. York horse ycleped 

 Eclipse, and the extra-eminent Virginia courser 

 known by the appellation of Henry. The race 

 ground was crowded with spectators, some say 

 not less than from 4U to 50,000, some of whom, 

 if tame does not tell tibs, came no less than five 



buadred miles to be witnesses of the contest 

 between the glory of the North, and the pride 

 of the South ! Mr. Niles, editor of the Weekly 

 Register, says, that " the cost of travelling and 

 other expenses of the strangers, may be fairly 

 estimated to have been a million of dollars— 

 and the value of the time and money of all, 

 wasted or expended, caonot be supposed at less 

 tha:» two millions. The amount of the bets can 

 only be guessed at — it is very possible that they 

 exceeded a million ; for the " sporting world,'' 

 frou the extreme East to the extreme West, 

 and the extreme North to the extreme South 

 of the United States, was engaged in this affair! 

 Few have gained much by it--bul many have 

 lost what should have went to the payment of 

 their just debts, and are ruined." 



According to the best authenticated accounts 

 of this most memorable matter, Henry beat 

 Edipse the first heat by about half a length. 

 The second heat Henry took the lead the first 

 ani second mile, but in the third Eclipse passed 

 him and came out several length* ahead. In 

 the third and decisive trial. Eclipse led between 

 two and three lengths. In the third mile Henry 

 came up within about half a length of his rival, 

 but in the fourth and last mile Eclipse main- 

 tained his ascendancy, and came out a length 

 and an half ahead, thus winning forty thousand 

 dollars, the principal bet, besides nobody knows 

 how many bye-bets, and about as much renown 

 (more or less) as the Duke of Wellington won 

 at Waterloo. 



The following is slated to be the time of 

 running ; 



First heat 7 minutes, 40 seconds. 



Second do. 7 do. 49 do. 



Third do. 8 do. 24 do. 

 This is said to be the greatest speed on re- 

 cord for a long lime. Goldsmith says, (Animat- 

 ed Nature, vol. i, p. 432,) " An ordinary racer 

 is known to go at the rate of a mile in two mi- 

 nutes ; [probably for a single mile] and we had 

 an instance in the admirable Childers of still 

 greater rapidity. He has been frequently known 

 to move at the rate of 82i feet in a second, or 

 almost a mile in a minute ; he has run also 

 round the course of New Market, which is very 

 little less than four miles, in 6 minutes, 40 eec. 

 But what is very surprising, few horses have 

 been since found that ever could equal him ; 

 and those of bis breed have been remarkably 

 deficient." 



ARTILLERY ELECTION. 

 On Monday last the Ancient and Honorable 

 Artillery Company, commanded by Brig. Gen. 

 Lyman, celebrated its 185th anniversary. At 

 noon the company escorted his Excellency the 

 Governor, and numerous officers of the State 

 Government, and that of the United States, to 

 the Church in Chauncey Place, where an elo- 

 quent and appropriate Discourse was pronoun- 

 ced by Rev. Dr. Gardiner. After the religiom 



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