Vol. ().— No. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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older to the city, either boUled, or fit to be bot- 

 tled, as an article of merchandize.— [N. Y. States.] 



GOI.D MINES. 



We freqiienlly see in papers from abroad, the 

 most extravagant statements in relation to tlio 

 Gold Mines of this state. We have observed the 

 following nrliclc published in many of the North- 

 ern papers : 



" It is stated that the members of the company 

 formed to work the gold mines of North-Carolina, 

 !iave divided each $3000." 



From whence, or from whom, this statement was 

 derived, we arc not able to ascertain; but its wide 

 variance fr^ni the fiict, wonld induce lis to suspect 

 it first i.ict the public eye in prints remote from 

 the operations of the "company" alluded to. — 

 Three thousand dollars may have been "divided" 

 by "each" niembcr of the company, for aught we 

 know, for «e (fortunately for once) did not era- 

 bark iu the speculation ; but we arc well assured, 

 that if that much money has been " divided" by 

 the company, it has been in instalments rather 

 'ban in profits. — Carolina pa. 



Three live ostriches have recently been brought 

 to Boston from Cape de Verds. The Traveller 

 says the largest, only eight months old, in a nat- 

 ural posture, is nine feet high — the others are 

 younger and smaller but seem growing rapidly. 

 They swallow bones, broken stones, rind iron 

 nails, with avidity, and the gastric fluid of the 

 stomach, possesses the peculiar property of dis- 

 solving them in a little time. The plumage is at 

 present, rather disordered, as tliey have plucked 

 each other's feathers on tlie passage. The bird 

 has but two toes on the feet — the leg, large anil 

 u'hitc as a man's arm, is a great curiosity of it- 

 self. Its eye is large and vacant, and what is re- 

 markable, the ostrich appears entirely destitute 

 of attachments to its own species, or those who 

 have them in charge. The natives oftentimes 

 ride them — and though their wings are too small 

 lor flying, their speed over the deserts of their 

 own native country is far greater than the fleet- 

 est Arabian horse. 



Preservation of Grain, Sfcfrovi Mice — Mr Don- 

 ald, of Scalpa, in the Hebrides, having some years 

 ago suffered considerably by mice, put at the bot- 

 tom near the center, and the top of each stack or 

 mow, as it was raised, three or four stalks of ivild 

 mint with the leaves on, and never afterwards had 

 any of his grain consumed. He then tried the 

 same experiment with his cheese, and other arti- 

 cles kept in' the store and often injured by mice, 

 nnd with equal eft'ect, by laying a few leaves, 

 green or dry, on the article to be preserved — 

 From these results, it must be inferred, mice have 

 an antipathy to the smell of mint ; if so, it may be 

 ivorth experiment to scatter a few drops of oil of 

 peppermint in pantries and places where tliey fre- 

 quent, as the effect will probably be the same. 

 Miner''s Journal. 



Red .Int In answer to the enquiry in the- 



American Daily Advertisei of yesterday as to the 

 jneans of destroying or driving away the small 

 Red Ant, a gentleman called at this oflnce to men- 

 uon that if a small piece of camphor be laid in any 

 place infested by them, they will, in a short time, 

 entirely disappear. — Philadelphia pa. 



Jin efficacious plan for Salting and Smoking 

 Meal. — The following method, which requires 

 on\y fortij-eight hours, may be adopted for salting 

 and smoking meat. A quantity of sa/i-pe(cc equal 

 to the common salt that would be required for the 

 meat in the usual way, must be dissolved in wa- 

 ter. Into this, the meat to be smoked, nmst be 

 put, and kept over a slow fire, till all the water is 

 evaporated. It must then be hung up in a thick 

 smoke for tioenty four hours, when it will be found 

 equ.al in flavor to the best Hamburgii smoked j 

 meat that has been kept several weeks in salt, as 

 red throughout, and equatli/ firm. This method ] 

 has been resorted to in Ge many and other parts, 

 and has been found by far preferable to any other 

 plan. 



Monlgoljier. — Montgolfier, besides being the in- 

 ventor of aerostatic balloons, was the first who 

 manufactured vellum paper in France. The ac- 

 cident which led him to the formation of balloons 

 was curious enough ; one day, in his paper manu- 

 factory, he was boiling some wafers in a coffee- 

 pot, which happened to be covered with a piece of 

 paper in the form of a sphere, and this paper be- 

 coming full of steam, swelled and detached itself 

 from the pot. Montgolfier was surprised, and re- 

 peating the experiment, the paper again ascended; 

 this led him to calculate the effect of a rarified 

 nir which should be lighter than the atmospheric 

 air. — and hence the invention of aerostation. 



about six months it will be fit to drink, when it 

 should be bottled and tied down, or wired, if it is 

 intended to be kept more than one year. 



Toprevtnt Dogs from Sucking Eggs Take of 



emetic tartar from four to eight grains, according 

 to the age and strength of your dcig, break the 

 end of an egg, put in the tartar and mix it — ii 

 your dog is disposed to suck eggs, he will readily 

 eat it. Confine him from cold water — the next 

 day repeat the dose, which continue to do on eacli 

 succeeding day until he refuses it, whicli will proba- 

 bly be the third or fourth day. After this, I have 

 never known them guilty of the like offence — in- 

 stead of being tiie destroyer of our good wives' 

 poultry, the same dog becomes their faithful pro- 

 tector. 



Skill of the Athenian Masons. — If there be one 

 thing more capable than another of giving us a 

 correct idea of the rare skill acquired by the Ath- 

 enian workmen wlio were employed in construct- 

 ing those buildings, which still constitute the 

 glory bf that industrious city, it is the perfection 

 with which the drums, forming the parts of the 

 l.irgest columns, were fluted on the conical sur- 

 faces, and with which these different truncated 

 ctnes were so adapted to each other, that the 

 grooves of fluting, when put together, were in 

 complete unbroken continuity, from the capital to 

 the base of the column. 



Fruits of the American System. — Mr Ezra 

 Childs, an enterprising farmer of Bath, N. H. 

 sheared from his flock of 182 merinos, 481 lbs. 

 wcol ; from which he manufactured 16 pieces, 435 

 yards of fine cloth. He is now on his way to mar- 

 ket with these fruits of his industry. The cloth 

 was dressed by Messrs. Wetherell & Hunt of 

 Bath, and is of excellent quality. Instances of 

 this kind are not rare, and they afford the best 

 practical commentary upon the wisdom of meas- 

 ures, which shall serve to protect this branch of 

 national economy. — .V. H. Journal. 



The number of bricks made and used in Spring- 

 field, the last year, was 47,000,000; and during 

 the last four or five years, the average import of 

 lime has been 300 tons, a great proportion of 

 which is from Berkshire county, and would, of 

 cour>!e, be conveyed on a railway. 



129,000 bushels of salt were inspected at Salina, 

 ■during the month of July. 



To make Champagne from, Grapes. — Gather the 

 grapes when they are just turning, or about half 

 ripe ; pound them in a tub, and to every quart of 

 bernes so pounded, put two quarts of water — let 

 it stand in a wash-tub for fourteen days, when it 

 is to be drawn off — and to every gallon of liquor 

 put three pounds of lump sugar : when dissolved, 

 cask it, and after working, bung it down. In 



A dreadful earthquake had occurred at Toha. 

 hecan. South America, on the 12lh of July. In 

 describing it a writer says, " the whole orb as it 

 were confounded, seemed ready to sink in chaos.'' 

 Most of the private buildings were rent open and 

 the covent and parish church suffered greatly. 



The Vine. — A very neatly written and useful 

 little vvork, by Mr Loubat, called "The Vine Dres- 

 ser's Guide,'' has been published in the English and 

 French languages, in order to point out the soils 

 and explain the culture of this important and val- 

 uable plant. 



The experience of Mr Loubat in this branch of 

 horticulture, if we may so call it, amply qualifies 

 him for the task of an instructor, and he performs 

 that task in a very sensible and amiable manner, 

 in the little work before iis. — JV Y. Enquirer. 



(1^ A valuable and handsome octavo volume, 

 entitled " Hints for American Husbandmen," 

 has just been issued by order of the Directors of 

 the Peii:)sylvania Agricultural Society. It con- 

 sists chiefly of communications, of a practical na- 

 ture, to that society ; and its worth is enhanced 



by some very neat and appropriate engravino-s. 



We scarcely need to mention, that a considerable 

 and estimable portion of its contents is from the 

 pen of John IIaue Powel, Esq. of our city ; who, 

 wo presume, has edited the work, and to whom 

 American agriculture, in the most comprehensive 

 sense, is so largely indebted. His intelligence, 

 zeal and success in the various departments ol 

 husbandry, must secure for him the regard and 

 gratitude, not only of actual farmers, but of all 

 patriotic citizens who understand the public use 

 fulness of agricultural pursuits. The main topics 

 treated of in ♦his volume are. Neat Cattle; Sheep; 

 Crops and Manures ; Substitutes for Hay ; Grass 

 Lands; Art of Breediug; and Root Crops. We 

 have marked a few of the papers, for the purpose 

 of copying them hereafter into our first page, ii 

 we should find the opportunity of so doing ; they 

 would be interesting to all general readers. The 

 whole will, no doubt, be ere long in the hands of 

 most of the American country gentlemen. Some 

 of the original communications are from England j 

 others from different States of our Union. 



jYat. Gar. 



Mr Thomas B. Robertson, late Governor of 

 Louisiana, has been invited to be again a candi- 

 date for that office. He declined the invitation, 

 saying " my ambition in that respect is satisfied, 

 and experience has sufficiently taught me, that I 

 can render in that situation no service at all com- 

 mensurate with the important duties it imposes." 



