Vol. G. — No. 11. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



sold to country traders, and chiefly to those in the 

 manufacturing villages. 



Another bouse has paid, since the first of April, 

 one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for Ameri- 

 can wool, purchased of the farmers and wool- 

 CTrowers in the New-England States and New- 

 York, and sold out again to the manufacturers of 

 New-England. 



The Boston and Canton Factory Company im- 

 ported, during five months preceding the first of 

 May last, one million pounds of Smyrna wool ; all 

 of which is used in its own factory, in the manu- 

 facture of what is called negro cloths. 



Is it possible that our manufacturing establish- 

 ments can be detrimental to commerce and agri- 

 culture, when a single establishment imports wool 

 enouo-h in five months to freight three or four 

 ships, (to say nothing of other articles necessarily 

 used in the manufacture of the wool,) when a sin- 

 trie dealer in American wool pays, in the same 

 time, to the farmers, 150,000 dollars, and another 

 individual receives from another portion of farm- 

 ers, and sells off to the country merchants, flour 

 enough to make its first owners rich, if not inde- 

 pendent? — Boston Courier. 



GREAT CROP OF RUTA BAGA IN VIR- 

 GINIA. 



Baltimore, 9th Mo. 4, 1837. 

 Fkiend J. S. Skinner, — John Darby, a re- 

 spectable citizen of Richmond county, Va. has 

 written me on the 20th ult. informing that he, the 

 last season, had reared 750 bushels of the ruta 

 baga or Swedish turnip, upon one acre of land — 

 and from the well known veracity of the said 

 Darby, there is no doubt of the fact, which is very 

 encouraging indeed — and I think that many of 

 the failures in the culturo nf this crop are Owinff 

 to neglect at some stage or other in their growth, 

 for most kinds of vegetables require rich soil, and 

 frequent cultivation, to insure a profitable return. 

 Thy friend, ROBT. SINCLAIR. 



MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 



Good Peaches have boon sold in New London 

 market this season at 12 cents the bushel. In 

 Boston we pay our farmers much bettor. 



In felling a huge Hemlock Tree in Hope, N. Y. 

 it was discovered that it had been wounded, by 

 some sharp instrument when it was only si.\ inch- 

 es in diameter. On counting the marks of annu- 

 al growtli, it was estimated to bo 218 years since 

 tlie wound was inflicted. 



Great Crop. — 40 acres of rye, belonging to Do- 

 rus and Linus Green, of Hadley, yield at the rate 

 of forty bushels to the acre, making th 



The Stockbridge Star states that for the last 

 two years, while the population of Berkshire has 

 been constantly increasing, criminal cases in the 

 Courts of tliat county have been constantly de- 

 clining, and that at tlio present September Term 

 of the Supreme .Judicial Court, out of a population 

 j of about 40,000 persons, not one has been present- 

 ) d by the Grand Jury for any offence whatever. 

 I Fishing. — On Thursday a fisherman, and two 

 I lads, caught 1200 large Mackerel in two hours in 

 Boston bay. 



Spontaneous Comhustion. — A few days ^ince in 



wh If- '■'"""ving a quantity of dry coal from a large lot 

 in a second story in a building, on one of the 



crop IGOO bushels, all from one field Hampshire , . , , , 



Qii-^iff. wharves ui town, the laborers discovered a portion 



' ' of it to be on fire. So large a body indeed was 



C»rf.,-.-Theed.toroftheWorcesterSpystatesi ted that it had charred scver.il planks ana 

 that cider is so plenty ,n that vicinity, that it is j^i^t^ ;„ t,,^ flo„. rphe singularity of this in- 

 dohvered, abundantly, at the distillery for sixty .t^^.g ^^^es it deserving of record.-JVeu-iu.T,- 

 ccnts per barrel. |^„^^ jj^^^i^ 



JVot very Profitable.— In the upper part of South } ^he New York Daily Advertiser, in speaking 

 Carolina, near Greenville, gold has been discover- I ^f jhe mania of steam-heat passengers, to make 

 cd, the land purchased, and a regular set of work- 1 t^e trip between that city and Albanv a few min- 

 mcn employed in procuring the ere. The metal < „<,, quicker than any others have done, thus ex- 



ihhfr!!!.!"''* N*!! Tr^'% '°""'^ f 'Tm " ^°°'^" I en'Plifies the passion which some men have to hur- 

 mnro n„ n ^ ov o o„ „» oo^ , ..„..r, ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^j^ gentleman in New England convey 



thing more than a dollar" a day for each man 



t^uery — could not a man clear as much by dig- 



ed a just idea of the character of those who were 



ging potatoes ! The most profitable kind of money go fond of travelling at such a wonderous rate, 



digging, after all, will be found in digging the 

 surface of the ground in tillage. 



The London Steam Washing Company have 

 broken up. Their premises which cost £40,000, 

 have been sold for £5,950. 



The St. Catherine's Dock Company, London, 

 are said already to have pulled down upwards of; enough to cure one drunkard. 

 1,000 houses, and to have paid to the owners and 

 occupiers of property, which they have taken pos- 

 session of, nearly £700,000. 



when he said he believed " his son John, if he was 

 riding on a streak of lightning, u'ould whip up.'" 

 A Good Chance for Editors. — The proprietors 

 of Chambers' medicine for the cure of drunken- 

 ness, give notice to Editors who will insert their 

 advertisement, that they shall be furnished with 



TO EXPEL VVITCHCR-VFT. 



Reginal Scott in his book on Witchcraft, gives 

 the following charm to find the witch who has be- 

 witched cattle: 



"Put a pair of breeches upon the cow's head, 

 and beat her out of the pasture with a good cudgel 

 upon a Fridaie, and she will run right to the 

 witches dore, and strike thereat with her horns." 

 It is a curious circumstance that there should be 

 annually delivered in Huntingdon, England, a lec- 

 ture upon the subject of Witchcraft. A fund for 

 this purpose was left by Sir Samuel Cromwell, in 

 1593, whose wife was bewitched by some persons, 

 who were afterwards executed, and their property 

 escheated to Sir Samuel, as Lord of the Manor. 

 He gave the amount to the mayor and aldermen 

 of Huntingdon, on condition that an annual lec- 

 ture on this subject, should be preached on Lady 

 day, by a Doctor or Batchelorof Divinity, of Cam- 

 bridge University. — '-Salem Observer. 



Although the late equinoctial impeded naviga- 

 tion for a few days, we have not heard of any oth- 



Tk„ i\T„,ti,««., T • k. ii,- • -1 er injury from it on the New England coast. The 



Ine JNortnern Liights are something simi ar m-, u ■» c ^i u u j • .i ■ .-.,■„•.. 



., • °., ,. ,, ,. , ■ „ a , Josses by It to the peach orchards m this vicinitj 



their appearance, to the light which will reflect on | ^^^^ y^/^^ ^^_.^ h^n^v ' 



the wall of a room, if a bason of water is placed in i 



have been very heavy. To the owners of several 



of them the loss is said to have exceeded 1000 



dollars each. 



Example to Servants. — A gentleman in the vi- 



, ... .1 , , , , . , cinity of Canterbury had a servant who lived with 



much on war, that they have dug holes in the . • o^ 

 .1 ■, T. nim oo ' 



sunshine in the middle of the floor, and the water 

 is agitated. 

 The Winnebago Indians are said to calculate so 



ground to hide their women and children. Poor 

 fellows! By going to war they will dig the graves 

 of the whole tribe! 

 Thirst — Labouring people should be informed, 



that they might preserve their health by abstain- mu /-c i ^. j i, ■ i i i i: • ^ • 



; „ r J ■ I 7 • tu i. . i: .1. , , -nl The Colombian dollar is singularly deficient in 



ing from drink during the heat of the day: and if I , j , j ■!,»■. . j . i i* 



thL ,l,inl, — ;.„.!„ °f.„„f» ,u.„ ;„ ll „..„„ I standard and weight, its current and actual valOe 



being only 75 cents; while the current value of 



years, at the end of which period, he re- 

 ceived £350 wages. He was never known to be 

 intoxicated, and the key of the wine and beet 

 cellar was left rusted in the lock for eleven years. 

 [English paper.] 



they drink copiously of water or whey in the even- 



ing, thirst will not assail them in their working ; ., , ,, r i,» ■ /-.»,« r, ou 



u mi_- , , , ,& the dollar of Mexico, Central America, Peru, Chi- 



hours. 1 his remark was made and recommended ,- j t r>i » j .u o r ■ e i^m 



, en £.,L lA,.- li, and La Plata, and the Brazilian piece of 960 



by an officer of high rank in Africa. , , ,, ^ ,, . ,„„ '^ . , ,, 



" reas, (dollars re-stamped) is 100 cents, and the 



The chair placed in the Speaker's desk in the actual value of nearly all of them a fraction more 

 Pennsylvania capitol, was brought to Philadel- 1 than Ihtit.— Savannah Georsia'^. 



phia from England, by William Penn, and was oc 

 cupied by John Hancock, as President of the con- 

 tinental Congress. 



The Independent Courier, published at Ells- 

 worth, Maine, states that a paper manufacter, n 

 wheelwright, a cabinet and chair maker, a tinman 

 and a barber, are wanted in that flourishing vil- 



Among the farmers of Norway, who very much 

 resemble what English farmers once were, the 

 family plate of butter seems to be the state dish : law e. 



of the house ; in any one of which, if the smallest j ^^ understand the late rains have damaged the 

 qhantity be wanted, a mass is brought forth, jji^.^^tone Canal, now in the course of excava- 



menSd'^b'o?nrt'uvl73 !;f'l',M'''^w^^ *° '^^ '^""""^ °^ ^^ °' ^0'°°° ''°""^' ^M able and experienced officers, with every necessa 



hano of cX^drakse? off vifh ZtrMl ,nd i '""^ ^"^'^ *""" "^ ^=^'" '" ^'""^ P'^-^^^ ^°' -""^^ "-y <=°">f-^ '"^ convenience, is at this time in rea- 

 Sr Svte's'rhlVa'stlrei ifutmfnr^^^ P'^" '"^ embankments ^„ess. The expedition will sail next spring.-. 



5troy so novel though perishable an edifice. i "^ '"^'^"^ ^''^^- | *'''^'" ^'S^'^''' 



Arctic Expedition. — Mr. J. N. Reynolds has pub- 

 lished a statement in the Baltimore papers, by 

 which it appears that final arrangements have at 

 length been made for the construction of a vessel 

 especially suited to the rugged service of a polar 

 expedition. The expenses of the voyage, Mr. R. 

 says, are now brought within narrow limits — the 

 whole amount necessary to furnish the expedition 

 in instruments, armament, provisions, clothing, 

 and pay for a well chosen crew of seamen, and 



