Vol. 6.— No. 3. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



2S 



ff'tstern Rail Road — The Commissioiiors ap- Agricullural Books. 



pointed to survey a route for a rail roud from Bos- Just receiTed for sale at the New England Farmer 

 ton to the Hudson river at or near Albany, con- 1 ""•^•^i ^°- ^^ North Market Street, the following 

 sibtin^ of Judge Alitchell, Col. Samuel M. McKay, |«g"cultural books in addition to those advertised July 

 and Col. James F. Baldwin, are to commence 



(a work printed in Scotland) vol. xviii. page 74.— 

 It consists of a boiler and wooden chest or bo.x 

 nlaced over or near it. The box may be ot nny 

 size and so placed as to be supplied and emptied 

 by wheel and hand barrows in the easiest manner 

 either by the end or top, or both being made to 

 open » If the box is made 8 feet by 5, and 3 

 deep, it will hold as many potatoes as will feed 50 



- .,'ft^r 'U iioiirs and these may be steamed in . , , . ■ ^ , 



cows 10.^^ ~\yl^^ 'the chest or box is placed by | "'end to the inhabitants of Boston to avail them- 1 American Gardener, &c 



i*! "ide of the boiler, care must be taken so to ^ selves of Dr Lieber's instructions to acquire the! Fresh Mulberry Seed. 



I tc the fire or arrange the apparatus that I art of swimming : and have appropriated $100 to i For sale at the Farmer office. No. 52 North Market 

 '\.-l from tlie boiler may not boil over into I Pay for such instruction. I Street, genuine White Mulberry Seed, raised in Mans- 



llieir tour of observation this week. 



Swmming School — The Trustees of the Hu 

 mane Society of this city have voted to recom- ' P'^tes from natu 



I'arkinson on Livestock — Lawrence's new Farmer's 



Calendar — llayward on Horticulture — Sinclair's Code 



of Agriculture — 'I'orrey's liolany — onecopy of Maddock 



on the culture of Flowers, with beautifully coloured 



Nicol's Villa Garden Directory. 



Ihe box This may be done by carrying the steam 

 nine up the out side of the box, and letting it en 

 ter n'-ar the top and then lead down and termili 



Counterfeit or.e hundred dollar bills of the bank 

 of the United States of the plate for the Branches 



,to beneath the false bottom. The boiling water | '^'^ ^^id to be i n circulation 

 i.v nowing up a pipe of some length, exposed to 

 the air will be so far cooled as to prevent its run- 

 ning into tlic box. 



Root Steamer. 



H'ool. 

 On Thursday, the 23d of August, at the lower divis- 

 ion of the hall over the new Market House, under the 

 direction of the JVtw-Engtand Hoacli/, will be sold, a 

 Tlie U. S. ship of the line. North Carolina, com- '^''"<= assortment of American Deece WOOL. Wool 



modore Rodgers, arrived in Norfolk, from the g[<;w"^ and others, who w.sh to benefU by this favour- 



^r ,. " , no 1 , „, . ""_""= able opportunity for disposing ol their Wool, are mform- 



Meoiterranean, on the 28th. ult. She has been ed, that we are prepared to receire it, any time previ- 



absent 28 months, and her officers and crew are ous to the nth of August, at which time the catalogue 



n good health. 



The navy of the United States, when all the 

 vessels authorised to be built are afloat, as nearly 

 every one of them may speedily be if required — 

 will consist of 12 ships of the lino, 20 frigates, 16 

 sloops of war, and seven other vessels, exclusive 

 of those on the lakes. To man these will require 

 more than 20,000 men, one half of whom must be 

 seamen. 



will be closed. COOLIDGE, POOR & HEAD, ^uc'rs. 

 Boston, July 27, itiBl. 



PRICES OF COUNTRY PRODUCE. 



Corrected every Thursday evening. 



A Cotton Manufactory is about to be put in op- 

 eration at Petersburg, Virg. by a company of gen- 



Rcined:! fur Poison.— A respectable cultivator , , , ... 



assures us that a decoction of Thoroughwort ^E« tlemen incorporaled at the last session of the Le 

 p atari urn perfoliatum) externally and internally ap- 

 plied, is an excellent remedy for poison, either by 



APPLES, best, 



aSHES, pot, ist sort, - 



pearl do. - - 



BEANS, white, - - - 



BEEF, mess, 200 lbs. new 



cargo, No 1, new, 



" No 2, new, 



doo-wood. This plant and its uses are well 

 de'scribed Iiy Dr Bigelow in his American Medical 

 Botamj, vol. i. page .^3. It has been long used in 

 New England for various medical purposes, but 

 we have never before heard of its application as 

 an antidote to poison. 



Remedy for Burns — The greiise of the skunk, 

 or American pole cat, we are informed, by the 

 person, who communicated the above, is an effica- 

 cious application to burns. 



Harrisburg Convention. — Delegates to this con- 

 vention from 13 states assembled at Harrisburg 

 on the 30th ult. Hon. Joseph Ritmer, of Penn. 



as chosen President, Jesse Biiel, Esq. of New 



gislature of that state. The necessary funds have ! ^V.T,™.^' inspect No. 1. new, 

 been subscribed, and the site of the Factory pur- i 'skimT.^d milk ' -' - 



chased on the Appomatox river. This is the_/!rit flxX '. .. 



establishment of the kind in Virginia, and we have I FLAX SEED 



no doubt it will be rapidly followed by others. FLOUR, Baltimore, Howard St 



Manufactories are to be desired so long as they I Genesee, - - - 

 enable the public at large to buy cheao. They („„,,,, ^y<-'i '"^-'' 

 . .■ , ■, , " . , ■^ GRAIN, R}'e - - . . - 

 become a national evil as soon as they raise Ihe i Coru - - - . 

 price to consigners. In these two sentences, is | Barley - . - . 

 contained the great principle which should regu- Oats - - . - - 

 late the establishing and maintaining Manufacto- i HOGS' LARD, 1st sort, new, - 

 figg i HOPS, No J, Inspection - - 

 I LIME, 



The skeleton of a mammoth has been found 0'l-i 1-inseed. Phil, and Northern 

 near Scheoley's mountain in'New .Tersev, by the P^-AISTER PARIS retads at 



workmen who were excavating the Morris Canal. 



PORK, Bone Middlings, niw 

 navy, mess, do. 



It was about three feet below the surface, and in ! Car"-o No 1 do. - 



a remarkable state of preservation. One of the SEEDS, Herd's Grass, - 



York and Frisby Tilghman, Esq. of Maryland, | tusks weighs 140 pounds, and the grinders look i Clover 



Vice 'presidents; and Redwood Fisher, Esq. of i remarkably fresh, though they have probably been VVOOL, Merino, full blood,wash 



rw . . IT t:, |. Vllll-ici/l Q flimif.an.1 ttnnrr. [ OO OO UnWa.UeU 



do 3-4 washed 



Philadelphia, and William Halstead Jr. Esq. of ^ buried a thousand years. 

 New Jersey, Secretaries. On the 31st and the 

 two following days Committees were appointed 

 and resolutions formed, which had a tendency to 

 promote the greit objeots of the meeting. 



Stuart's full length portrait of Washington has 

 been sold to a Russian gentleman for $1000. 



M. Andre Parmcntier, p'opriptor of the Horti- 

 cultural Botanic Garden of Brooklyn, N. Y. has 

 been presented with a diploma of corresponding 

 merab(>r of the Linnean Society of Paris and mem- 

 ber of the Linnaean Branch of New York, tbrouirh 

 the hands of Dr Felix Pascalis, President of the 

 Linna:an Branch of France in America. 



Catalogues of Prince's Linnaean Botanic Gar- 

 den, with large additions are now published — 

 They will be forwarded to any person, by drop- 

 ping a line to Wm. Prince, Flushing, N. Y. post 

 paid. 



The trial of Strang for the murder of Mr. Whip- 

 ple is concluded, and the prisoner found guilty. 



The trial of Mrs. Whipple as an accessary com- 

 menced on Monday of last week, "nd determined 

 on Friday in a verdict of acquittal. Mrs. Whipple 

 was defended by Messrs. Tabor, Williams & Van 

 Vechten. 



Yellow Locust Seed, — Turnip Seed, fyc. 

 For sale at the New England Farmer office, a few 

 lbs. Yellow Locust Seed, suptrior scarlet short top Rad- 

 ish, White Mulberry, 13 varieties of Turnip, Girkio 

 ir pickling Cucumber, Sic. with a new assortment of 

 crnami-ntal flower seeds. 



do 1-2 & 4 do 



Native - - - do 



Pulled, Lamb's, 1st sort 



2d sort 



do Spinning, 1st sort 



PROVISIOJ^ MARKET. 

 BEEl'', best pieces - - - - 

 PORK, fresh, best pieces, - . 



'' whole hogs, - - - 



VEAL, 



MI'TTON, 



POULTRY, -..-.- 

 BUTTER, keg & tub, - 



lump, best, - . - 



EGGS, 



MEAL, Rye, retail, - - - - 

 Indian, do. - . - - 

 POTATOES, (new) - - 

 CIDER, (according to quality) 



