Vol. G._No. 20. 



NEW ENGLAND FAllMER. 



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The r/ne.— About 150 acres are planted with 

 irrapc vines, in York County, Pennsylvania, liie 

 average produce is equal to 15 barrels of wine 

 from the acre. 



irool. Three towns in Maine, containing- nbaul 



,">,0l)0 inhabitants, anJ from 75 to 100 square miles 

 of torritory, wintered, last season, ll.:>31 sheep, 

 producinjT 3 lbs. of wool each, and having 6.:70 

 lambs this season. Some of those sheep are of 

 the fine wooUed breed. From various details it 

 is believed that tlic sheep last winter, in Maiie, 

 amounted to between 800,000 and 1,GOO,000, and 

 that the present stock is 1,300,000. 



Mr Davis, in his speech in the House of Rep- 

 resentatives, on the 31st January last, estiinatad 

 that the amount of wool worked up was3'i,flO0.0l)0 

 lbs. and' that 3,200,000 yards of broad, and 32,00),- 

 000 of mrrow cloths were annually produced, and 

 about 100,000 persons are directly or indirscily 

 employed in this business. We rather from his 

 opinion also, that more than 100 milliou.s of capi 

 tal were vested in the growth and manufacture of 

 wool ; and he put down the sharp at fifteen mill- 

 ions. 



The island of " Rhode Island," 14 miles lor^ 

 and less than 3 wide, has more than 30.000 sheep 

 upon it. There are ab(5Tit 200,000 in Berkshi-e 

 county, Mass. Many in the western part of Vir- 

 ginia ; one trentleman in Ohio county has mo-e 

 3,000; he sold his crop of wool to Mr Rapp, at 

 Economy, for $2,400. There arp in the State 

 of N. York about four millions of sheep, between 

 two and three millions in Pennsylvania, a million 

 in Vermont, &c. 



the crevices be filled with putty ; if a shingle or a 

 clapboard is loose, let it be nailed on ; and if one 

 is missincr,let its place he supplied by another. But 

 above all, if you have broken windows, mend them. 

 No person who ever buys ardent spirits, except for 

 medicine, has the shadow of an apology for permit- 

 ting his family to suff«-r with broken windows. The 

 price of a single dram will buy a pane of ijlass, and 

 half the time usually spent in procuring it, would 

 be sufficient for set'ing the glass in a window. 



(From ihe Massachuseus Spy.) 



FUEL. 

 The price of fuel in the country is becoming ko 

 disproportiunc'd to the value of other commodities, 

 as to reu .er it a tax, onerous to every class in tlie 

 fomtnunity. It therefore becomes important to 

 inquire into the causes of the enhanced value, and 

 Ihe means by which it can be rendered least burthen- 

 some. In the use of fuel, the evidences of waste 

 and improvidence are more palpable, aiin more u- 

 niversal,th,'in in any otherbranch of domestic econ- 

 omy. Hundreds and thousands of trees valuable 

 for timber and fuel, arc suffered to go to decay, 

 and rot down, while the owner, nl the same lime, 

 is cutting young, vigorous, and growing trees, be- 

 cause they happen to be a little more handily 

 come at. But the greatest waste of fuel is iu the 

 attempt to keep rooms warm, which are so open 

 as to afiord but poor protection against the iuclem- 

 eucy of the weather. The difference between a 

 titrht room, or an open one is too often overlooked. 

 VVhat people become familiar with, by habit is 

 little thought of. How many there are, who live 

 from season to season, for years together, in cold 

 and uncomfortable apartments, which might be 

 made tight and warm at less e.vpenco of inonpy 

 and labor, than would be required to cut the fuel 

 which would thus be saved in a single season ! — 

 We hazard little in saying, that more tliau one 

 third part of the fuel, now consumed, niifjht be 

 saved by paying more attention to cscludi.ig the 

 cold atmosphere from without. 



The early approach of winter admonishes us to 

 attend to tiiese things. Examine your rooms, and 

 if the plastering is broken, let it he mended ; if 

 the wood work has shrunk from the p)aateFing,lel 



Directions to p'event sickness. — 1. As soon as 

 you feel too unwell to attend to your ordinary bus- 

 iness, lay it aside at once, and dismiss all care 

 and anxiety about it ; as rest and relaxation both 

 of body and mind, are of the greatest conse- 

 quence. 



2. Observe a rigid abstinence as to diet, by eat 

 ing no food, but that of the simplest and lighest 

 kind ; and no more than the appetite craves, which 

 will not be much. 



3. Avoid all kinds of spirit, wine, ale, and even 

 cider. Dismiss care, but never attempt to drown 

 it with stimulating liquors, unless you would in-i 

 crease the violence of your symptoms seven fold. 

 It is surprising that so many should imbibe the 

 absurd notion, that rum, wine, &c. are necessary ] 

 in all manner of complaints. j 



4. Take no quack medicines, or any else, with 

 the nature of which you are not well acquainted. 

 These few simple directions will be proper in the' 

 commencement of nineteen twentieths of the di- | 

 seases in this country, if taken as they rise ; and I 

 if followed, will throw off a large portion of them ' 

 and mitigate the rest, so that their courses will 

 be milder and their terminations more favorable. 

 Many diseases are rendered intractable, and many 

 lives lost, by improper management during the 

 first twenty-four hours of an illness, and before 

 any medical assistance is deemed necessary. — 

 Nothino- i.q more incorrect or injurious, than the 

 theory wiiich advises sick persons to eat and 

 drink as much as they can, in order to strengthen 

 them. Weakness, to be sure, usually attends the 

 attack of disease ; but this weakness is not from 

 exhaustion, or to be relieved by food or wine. 



5. If after a fair trial of what is above recom- 

 mended you are still unsuccessful in throwing 

 off the disease, and find that you must be sick in 

 good earnest, send for a physician who is worthy 

 of your confidence, and follow his directions iia- 

 plicitly. — Christian Adv. and Jour. 



Woman. — No description has been oftener at- 

 tempted than that of a lovely and amiable woman; 

 hut description never yet conveyed an adequate 

 idea of the excellence it wouh' portray. It is not 

 a bright eye. or fair skin, or dimpled cheek, or 

 graceful air, that men most admire. It is that 

 indescribable charm of purity, benignity, and sin- 

 cerity, which is as it were, breathed over her 

 blushing countenance, and embodied forth in her 

 delicate form, that appeals directly to the heart — 

 whispering to her admirer, that there is the being 

 on whose fidelity he may securely rely ; to whose 

 tenderness he in:.y always appeal — one who will 

 love him through life, and weep over him in 

 death, and forever be to his wild spirit, like 

 the rainbow to the dark cloud — the harbinger of 

 peace. 



A cabbage weighing thirty-four pounds, was 

 produced in Salem, the present season, in the 

 garden of Col. Horatio Perry. 



Lime will in all cases be njost economically 

 burned by fuel which produces little or no smoki . 

 because the necessary mixture of the fuel with 

 the broken limestone renders it impossible to bring 

 it in contact with a rod heat which may ignilc 

 the smoke. Dry fuel must also in all cases be 

 more advantageous than moist fuel, because in 

 the latter case a certain quantity of heat is losi 

 in expelling the mois'ure in the form of vapour oi 

 smoke. 



Receipt for de trnying Rats. — Among the var- 

 ious ; cisons and oii.er means of destroying these 

 obno.\ious animals, I have always found the fol- 

 lowing to be a most effective, but simple and 

 harmless plan of ridding my premises of thesr- 

 vermin : — "Take a few fresh corks, grind them 

 down into small particles, fry them in the com- 

 mon way, with a little butter or fat ; place it. 

 while warm, at the places where the rats are 

 plenty, and if possible, when they may eat th(- 

 dose undisturbed by any noise ; leave no water 

 within their reach, and in a few days, not a ves 

 ti^e of the creatures is to be seen." 



The Mayor uf the city of Darien, Georgia, is- 

 sued his Proclamation for the observance in that 

 city of the 15th Nov. as a day of solemn Thanks- 

 giving and Prayer, for the health e.xperienced in 

 that city through the past season. The custom 

 originated in New England, and wo are pleased 

 to see that it has travelled so far south. 



Dark Day. — Monday, the 12th day of Noveiiv 

 ber, is noticed in the Chilicothc (Ohio) paper, as 

 having been so dark just before noon, tliut it w;.'^ 

 found difficult to read near the window ; and can- 

 dles were lighted at two or three o'clock in the 

 afleinoon. 



Ifhas been ,ai. ulated iliat the manufacture (.'■ 

 wool, (including the various mechanics and labor- 

 ers emph)y;'d,) in • the New England States sul. 

 sist about twenty thousand families, or 130,000 

 persons, and that these will consume the surplus 

 products of forty tliousand families of agricultur- 

 alists ; together about 3ti0,000 individuals. 



The people of Vermont arc at present much 

 interested in a ,iroject for connecting lake Cham- 

 plain with Connecticut river, by means of a Rail- 

 Road. It is thought that the subject will Li; 

 brought up before the Legislature. 



Economy. — The Trustees of the Lyceum in 

 Gardiner, (Maine,) have made such arrangements, 

 that all the scho'ara of that institution, (who are so 

 disposed) may pay the whole of their expenses, by 

 their own exertions in vacations. 



DAMP WALLS. 



A iiall,of whicii the walls were constantly damn, 

 though every moans were employed to keep them 

 dry, was intended to be pulled down, when M. 

 Schmitthals recommended as a last resource, tlial, 

 the walls should be washed with sulphuric acid. 

 It was done, and the deliquescent salts being de- 

 composed by the acid, the walls dried, and the hall 

 was afterwards fiee from dampness. — Bui. dis Sci. 



The late Dr. Beddoes ascertained that butch- 

 ers, who live more on animal food than other men, 

 are rarely, if ever, liable to the disease of the 

 lungs, termed pulmonary consumption. 



