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b(JUiS..ShLLER'S JVIARKS. 

 An acquaintance with tiie booitsellci's marks 

 ur signs expressed oil tiio title piijics of their boolis, 

 IS ot'soine use; becu'isc many books, especially in 

 the century before the last, have no other desij/f- 

 nation, either of printer, bookseller, or even city. 

 The anchor is t'he nnrk of Ruphelcngfius at Ley- 

 den; and the same with a dolphin twisted round 

 itj of the JMunutii at Vonice and Rome ; the Arion 

 denotes a book printed by Oporinns at Basil; the 

 caduceus, or pegasus, by theWeche iusesat Paris 

 and F^ancfort ; the cranes, by Cramoisy : the com- 

 pass, by Plantin at Antwerp ; the fountain, by 

 Vascosan at Paris; the sphere in a balance, by 

 .larson or Blaew, at Amsterdam ; the lily, by the 

 Juntas at Venice, Florence, Lyons, and Rome; 

 the mulberry-tree, by Mnrcl at Paris; the olive - 

 !roe, by the' Stephenses at Paris and Geneva, and 

 the Elzevirs at Amsterdam and Leyden ; the bird 

 between twoserpents, bytlie Frobcniuses at Basil; 

 the truth, by the Coniraelins at lloidulberg and 

 Paris; the Saturn, by Colinsus; the printing- 

 press, by Badius Ascensius, &c. 



NEW ENGLAND I ARMEK. 



53 



Great Increase. — In a piece of clover, belong- 

 ing to Silas Hale, of Longmeadow, tlicre sprann- 

 this season, from three kernels of rye accidentally 

 scattoroil tlicre, from one kernel, !)1 stalks; from 

 another, !»(); from another 76. After being some- 

 what pillaged by birds, the one of 7(5 stalks was 



the culture of hoed crops, says " earth up potatocE 

 but by no means turnips, as that operation only 

 prevents them from attaining a full size." 



TO MAKi: STARCH. 



To make starch from wheat, the grain is steep 



carefully "shelled and counted, and amounted to ; °'!,;".^,°!'^7"'"_'j'^'^''''^°™«^, ^°''' ""^ yields a 

 1931 kernels; making an aggregate of (J510. 



t ^ 



Pcaihes.- 



milky juice by pressure ; it is then put in sacks of 



linen, and pressed in a vat filled with water ; as 



as any milky juice e.xudes, the pressure is 



clear, and 



111 our market good peaches are .so 

 ling at 18 cents the half peck ; wliile a Philadel- ■ continued ; the fluid gradually becomi 

 pliia paper of yesterday says, that fruit of this i ^^ ^^h''« powder subsides which is stare 

 kind, of a " large size and e.vquisite flavour,' 

 brought, on Saturday only 35 cents a bushel. 



JVeiw York paper. 



CROPS. 



William Porter, of lladley lately harvested 4^ 

 acres of winter wheat, whicii has • yielded at the 

 rate of 20^^ bushels per acre,or 120 bustiels in all. 

 The stalks were about ti feet high on an average. 



Linus and Doius Graves, of Hadley, had 40 

 acres of rye in one field, which was so stout and 

 thick that the reaping of one fourth of an acre 

 was considered a day's work. It is estimated that 

 the average produce will be about 35 bushels to 

 the acre. 



The broom corn in Hadley, Hatfield, &.c. is not 

 so promising as in past seasons — Hnmp. Gaz. 



IIAnVESTING BEANS. 



Beans arc often sufiered to remain too long in 

 the field for the purpose of ripening. They be- 

 come bleached and their palatable and nutritious 



Measures are about to be adopted by the cit. 

 zona of Pittsburgh to establish a company fgr the ! T'-i'it'es e.Uracted by tlie sun, air, dews and rains 

 purpose of lighting the city with gas. The cheap- | '^ "°' gathered as soon as the greater part of the 

 ness and excellence of the coal at that place ren- j P"''^ ^'^'•''^ obtained their full size, and the seeds 



der the success of the undertaking certain 7\'mf«. '"'"^ fully formed. They should be pulled while 



I the vines are still green, and placed in such a sit- 



Gradual reform. — When Lord Muskerry sailed nation on fences, the borders of the field on which 

 to Newfoundland, George Rooke went 'with him 'hey grew, or in a field adjoining, that they may 

 a volunteer ; George was greatly addicted to ly- dry without becoming heated or mouldy. If on 

 ing ; and my lord being very sensible of it, and tlneshing beans some should be found not fully 

 very familiar with Geoi-ge, said to him otie day, dried, they should bo spread on a clean floor till 

 " I v;ondpr you will not leave off this abominable fit for the bin. 

 custom of lying. George." " I can't help it," said 



the other. " Pugh !" says my lord, " it may bo 

 done by decrees ; suppose you were to begin with 

 utterin? one truth a day/" 



NEW ENGLAND FARMERr" 



Rashness. — A few days since, we are informed, 

 two young men of Troy, entered a meadow in the 

 vicinity of that place, took acouple of scythes from 

 where persons had just been at work and com- 

 menced mowing in competition with each other. 

 The young man in the rear, gaining upon his com- 

 petitor, told him to hasten or he would be in dan- 

 ger of his scythe ; and still advancing, incautious- 

 ly inflicted a dangerous wound upon his compan- 

 ion a short distance above the anckle joint. He 

 fell and lay inanimate for some time. Medical 

 aid was immediately procured, and the wound was 

 dressed ; but owing to the deepness of the cut, 

 and mortification having subsequently taken place 

 it became necessary to amputate the log above the 

 knee. Hopes are now entertained of his recovery. 

 The name of the sufferer our informant believes 



to be Decker, about seventeen years of age, 



apprentice to Mr Nathan Howard, tin manufactur- 

 er of Troy. — Alban-ij Jlrgus. 



J^'ew Mexico Road.^The Missouri Intelligen- 

 cer of July 20, says, Mr Sibley, one of the United 

 States commissioners for making out the road 

 from this state to New Me.xico, arrived at Fort 

 Osage on the 8th inst. having completed the road 

 without any interruption or accident, e.xcept the 

 occurrence of a stroke of lightning, which fell on 

 his camp on the 6th inst. on his return, and dam- 

 aged his compass so as to oblige liim to leave un- 

 finished an unimportant part of a survey he was 

 then making. 



A late English price current notices the arrival 

 of a vessel from Palermo which brought, among 

 other articles, two bales of /lumare hair. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 7, 1827. 



RLMEDY FOR TICKS AND OTHER \ EF.MIN WHICH 



INFEST SHEEP, NEAT CATTLE A>D OTHER 



A.MMAIS. 



GATHER FERN OR BR'.KES. 



i Brakes v.'ill afford much food for swine, if thrown 

 into their pens, and what the animals do not con- 

 sume will be very useful for manure. Mr Law 

 rence, an English writer, says," All the fern upon 



j the farm should be annually cut and stacked for 



' use, and if an addition can be made from the 

 vvastes within a reasonable distance, it is an ob- 

 ject not to be neglected, since farmers do not usu- 



i ally complain of having too large a bulk of manure 

 to bestow on their land. I cart from tliree miles, 



The following is prescribed in an English pub- and for cutting pay five shillings a wagon load." 

 lication for the above mentioned purposes. Apply 

 an ointment made of an equal quantity of brim- 

 stone, gun-powder and common grease. j 



Fern, cut while the sap is in it, and left to 

 rot on the ground, is a very great improver of 

 land; for if burnt, when so cut, its ashes will yield 

 double the quantity of salts that any other vegeta- 

 bles can do. In several places in the north parts 

 of Europe, the inhabitants mow it green, and burn- 

 ing it to ashes, make those aslies up into ball?, 

 with a little water, which they dry in the sun, and 

 make use of them to wash their linen with; look- 

 ing upon it to be nearly as good as soap for that 



soap, take twenty-eight pounds of clean grease, purpose." Diet, of Arts. 



and three pounds of rnsiii ; melt them together 



with two pails full of the ley/r.s/ drawn from the to take off spots from cloth of any colour 

 leach. W^hen it has boiled half an hour pour it Take half a pound of crude honey, the yolk of 

 into the barrel and fill it up with lie as fast as it a new laid egg, and the bulk of a nut of sal am- 

 can be drawn, stirring well as the ley is ndded. If moniac, mix them together, and put some on the 

 a sufficient number of leach tubs are uscl. four spots- Having left it there a while, wash the 

 barrels can be made with ease in half a day — and place with clean water, and the spot will disap- 

 if the ashes are good, with entire success. pear. 



RECEIPT for making SOAP. ' 



After having well covered the bottom of the 

 leach vv'ith sticks and straw, put first a bushel of 

 ashes, then two quarts of lime, upon which pour 

 boiling water to slack the lime ; continue to fill 

 the leach in this manner. For each barrel of 



ANOTHER. 



TO TAKE IRON MOULDS FROM LINEN. 



To 12 gallons of ley, strength just sufficient to j Put boiling water into a bowl, and spread the 

 bear an egg, add 16 pounds of melted grease, ' stained parts of your linen over it, so as to be 

 which by being placed in the hot sun, and occa- well penetrated with the steam of the water. — 

 sionally stirred, will in a few days produce a soap Then rub the places with sorrel juice and salt till 



they are perfectly soaked. Such linen washed af- 

 terwards in the lye of wood ashes, will be found 

 to return entirely free from the iron mould spots 



of the first quality. 



HOEING TURNIPS. 



A second hoeing should be given to tu^'PS ' ^"i,'ad"b"efore! 

 when the leaves are grown to the height of eight 

 or nine inches, in order to destroy weeds, loosen 

 the earth, and finally to regulate the plan-ts; a 



third, if found necessary may be given at any sub- 1 of the Society of Arts in London, 

 sequent period. Loudon in giving directions for | The usual mode at present practised for endea 



GATHERING AND PRESERVING POTATOES. 



The following is extracted from the Transactions 



