Vol. 6.— No. 23. 



NEW ENGLAND 1 AUMEK. 



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TRAPS FOR IIAY-STEALERS. 



Have the grower's name printed or written on 

 a great number of little slips of paper, distribute 

 these in the hayrick as it is building, so as there 

 may be at least one slip to each truss, which will 

 not require above one hundred slips to an acre, 

 but to make quite sure, say two hundred. Tlien 

 when you suspect your man has given away a truss, 

 ur any particular truss or quantity to be stolen 

 from your cart or rick, have the truss pulled to 

 pieces, &c. This practice has been adopted in 

 Shropshire, and a thief detected and convicted in 

 consequence. The ingenious inventor is Jlrs 

 Richards, of the parish of Clun. 



LACKAWANA COAL MINES. 



These Mines, with a body of land attached 

 tlicrcto, we are told, sold for one hundred andfor- 

 ti) thousand dollars! One hundred thousand of 

 which were paid by Stock of the Hudson and Del 

 :iware Canal — and forty thousand in cash. 



Carbondale is the name given to the Coal Mines, 

 formerly belonging to Maurice and JHii. Wurtz, 

 Esqs. now o^vned by the Delaware Hudson Canal 

 Company. It is situated on the Lackawana river, 

 Blikely township, Luzerne cgunty, 32 miles from 

 Wi'kesbarre, 8 miles from Dundaff, the late seat 

 ofthe Northern Bank of Pennsylvania, and 16 

 miles from the Dysburry Fork ofthe Lackawa.xen, 

 to which place a turnpike road is now completed, 

 and a rail road in contemplation. At this place, 

 »lie canal np the Lackavva.xcn will terminate for 

 '.he present. The Mines are handsomely opened, 

 the coal appears to be of an e.xcellent quality, and 

 about five and twenty operatives are employed in 

 uncovering and raising this valuable article ; and 

 in creeling Saw Mills, and other improvements, 

 about the same number of workmen are employed. 

 The Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. Iiave issued 

 bills in the nature of bank bills — which have a 

 currency superior to that ofthe Norllicrn Bank in 

 its best days and we are pleased to say that the 

 operations of the Coal Mines, and on the canal 

 now constructing on the Lackawa.xen, afford a 

 market for the surplus produce of the agricultu- 

 rists in the counties of Luzerne and Susquehan- 

 iiah ; and assure the landlord and the cultivator, 

 that the land and its pioducls will rise its value. — 

 Village Record. 



Ecery family to make their own sweet oil This 



may easily be done by grinding or beating the 

 seeds of the white poppy into a paste, then boil it 

 in water, and skim off the oil as it rises ; one 

 bushel of seed weighs fifty pounds, and produces 

 two gallons of oil. Ofthe oil sold as sweet olive 

 til, one half is oil of poppies. The poppies will 

 grow in any garden — it is the large headed white 

 poppy, sold by apothecaries. Large fields are 

 sown with poppies in France and Flanders, for 



the purpose of e.^pressing oil from their seed 



(Vide lOih and 11th vols, of Bath Society Papers, 

 where a premium of twelve guineas is offered for 

 the greatest number of acres sovin in 1808 and 

 1309.) VVhetJ the seeds are taken out, the poppy 

 head, when dried is boiled to an extract, which is 

 sold at two shillings sterling per ounce, and is to 

 be preferred to opium. Large fortunes may be 

 acquired by the cultivation of poppies. — Engltsh 

 Tleceijtt Book. 



To preserve oranges, lemons, and other fruit — 

 Take small sand and make it perfectly dry ; after 

 11 is cold put a quantity of it into a close clean 



vessel ; then take your oranges, and set a laying 

 of them in the same, the stalk end downwards, so 

 tiiat they do not touch each other, and strew 



Chinese mode of fattening Jish. — The Chinese 

 are celebrated fur tlieir commercial ncumen, in- 

 defatigable industry — and natural adroitness in 



some of the sand, as much es will cover thcin two making the most of every gift of nature bestowed, 

 inches deep ; then sot your vessel in a cold place, i on their fertile country. Useful as well as oruamcn 

 and you will find your fruit in high preservation ' tal vegetables engross their cart; and animal.-- 

 at the end of several Uionlhs. which are the most profilably reiired, und whicl. 



I yield the gicatesl quantity of rich and savoury 



Tricks of iVutiercM.— In many of the Londonlfood^are preferred by them for supplying their 



fr'.it shops, yellow grapes hdve their bloom restor- 

 ed by bcinj fumigated with sulphur ; and some 

 fruiterers of little repute are in the habit of sup- 

 plying a bloom to plums, by dusting tliein with the 

 powder of the common blue used by laundresses. 

 The last operation is, in general, so clumsily per- 

 formed, that it may be easily detected. 



Slorch, in bis Description of St I etersburg, men- 

 tions some ofthe tricks that are perforjned on cu- 



arders and stews. Wlien a pond is conslructw! 

 and filled with water, the owner goes to market 

 and buys as many young store fish as his pond 

 can conveniently hold ; this he can easily do, as 

 almost all their fish are brought to market p.live. 

 Placed in the etcws, they are regularly fed morn- 

 ing and evening, or as often as the feeder finds it 

 necessary ; tlicir feed is chiefly boiled rice — to 

 which is added the bluoJ of any animals they may 



linary vegetables and fruits in that city, but they i;ii|_ v^.^sh from their slewing pots and dishes, <5ic. 



are in general too gross, and involve too much indeed,— any animal oCal or vegetable matter 



manipulation, for being practised in Britain. For vvhich the fi::h will rat. It is said, they also use 



example, after asparagus has been used at the ta- ' gome oleaceous medicament in the food, to make 



hies of the great, the returned ends of the shoots Hje fish more voracious, in o.-der to accelerate 



are sold by the cook to ilinerating greengrocers, Uieir fattening. Fish so fed and treated, advance 



who carve a new terminating bud, colour it, and in size rapidly, though not to any great weight; 



add a bloom, in imitation of nature, make up the 

 ends so prepared in bundles, with a few fresh 

 stalks outside, and sell the whole as genuine as- 

 paragus. 



CURE FOR A COLD. 



The following receipt to cure a cold is said tu 

 be so efficacious, that we republish ii at the re- 

 quest of a correspondent who has tested its vir- 

 tues. — Am. Fanner. 



Take a large tea spoon full of flax-seed, with 

 two penny worth of atic liquorice, and a quarter 

 of a pound of sun raisins. Put it into two quart 



as the perch never arrive at much more than a 

 pound at-oidupois ; but from the length of three 

 or four inches, when first put in, they grow to 

 eight or nine in a few months, and are then mar- 

 ketable. Drafis from the pond are then occasion 

 ally made ; the largest are first taken off, and 

 conveyed in large shallow tubs of water to mar- 

 ket ; if sold, well : if not, they are brought back 

 and replaced ill the stew, until they can be dis- 

 posed cf. 



PROFITABLE DAIRYING. 



The following proceeds from twenty five Cows, 

 of soft water, and let it simmer over a slow fire, ' the last season, we have from the owner, Mr JoD- 

 till it is reduced to one ; then add to it a quarter I athan Dyer, of Clarendon. Such enterprise is 



of a pound of brown sugar candy, pounded, a t;i 

 hie spoon full of white wine vinegar, or lemon 

 juice. Note — The vinegar is best to be added 

 only to that quantity you are going immediately 

 to take ; for if it be put into the whole, it is lia- 

 ble in a little time to grow flat. Drink a half 

 pint at going to bed, and take a little when the 

 cough is troublesome. This receipt generally 



worthy of iaiitation. 



C017 lbs. Cheese worth 6^ cents S7.'5 10 



4.->0 lbs. " " 4" 18 00 



1000 lbs. Butter, " 12J 127 5U 



Proceeds from the sale of Calve.-, 50 00 



$580 60 



Mv Dyer further assures us that tlio whey and 

 cures the worst of colds in two or three days, and | butter-milk amply paid for making and all contin- 

 if taken in time, may be said to be almost an in- 1 gent expenses. 'The cows had no e.<tra keeping, 

 fallible remedy. It is a a sovereign balsamic cor- but were doubtless well attended to. 



dial for the lungs, without the opening qualities, j . 



which engender fresh cold.s on going out. It has j Antidote against poison.— A correspondent of 

 been known to cure colds, that have almost been | il,e London Literary Gazette, alludes to the 



settled into consumpliona, in less than three 

 weeks. 



Salubrity ofthe London air. — It was a saying of 

 Mr. Cline, many years ago, that, "London was 

 the healthiest place in the world." In no place 

 are there so many human beings congregated to- 

 gether enjoying so high a degree of general good 

 health. It has been stated, and we believe, cor- 

 rectly, that the happy exemption, which the iu 

 habitants of London, for the most part, enjoy, 

 from the diseases common to other capitals, is 

 owing to the sulphurous naptha emitted from the 

 coal, serving the salutary purpose of checking the 

 progress of febrile affection. To prove that the 

 air is saturated with the naptha, we shall not be 

 able to recognize the presence of a wasp, an in- 

 sect to whicl. sulphur id obnor.iois, within the 

 sphere of its actior>. 



merous cases of death from accidental poisonings, 

 and particularly to the melancholy fate of the 

 Royal Acadeniican, Mr. Owen, adds, "I may ven- 

 ture to affirm, there is scarce even a cottage in 

 this country that docs not contain an invaluable, 

 certain and immediate remedy for such events, 

 which is nothing more than a desert spoonful! of 

 mustard, mixed in a tumbler or glass of warm 

 water, and drank immediately ; — it acts as an in- 

 stantaneous emetic; is always ready, aud, is used 

 in safety iu any case where one is required. By 

 a mistake, where a gentleman took a full ounce 

 of poison instead cf salts, the castors were fortun- 

 ately at hand, and no doubt an invaluable life was 

 preserved to his family by giving the mustard di- 

 rectly. By making this simple antidote knowp, 

 you may be the means of saving' many a fellow 

 being frou) an untimely end." 



