Vol. 6.— No. 25. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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lakes it off tne head. He thus obtains all from 

 two rows in two successive circuits, when ho pur- 

 :jues the same course with all the rows in the 

 tield. The next morning he goes over again, col 



lecling what has (lowed during 

 making uew 



e night, and 



in his side long after he has swallowed the mustard. 

 Why should any man, who has a garden, buy this 

 poisonous stuff? The mustard-seed fp-ound in a 

 little mustard mill is what he ought to use. He 

 will have bran and all ; and his mustard will not 



_hes until the heads cease to i look yellow like the English composition ; hut, wo 

 vicid. "xhe fresh juice is then exposed to the sun | do not object to Rye-bread on account of its colour! 

 in shallow pans, and after the watery particles are j Ten pounds of seed will grow upon a perch of 

 evaporated, it is moistened with oil of poppy j ground ; and ten pounds of mustard is more than 

 seeds, so as to be made up into cakes, when it is I any man can want in a year. The plants do not 

 packed in chests, with alternate layers of poppy j occupy the ground more than fourteen weeks, and 

 ilower leaves. It is sometimes adulterated with ! may be followed by another crop of any plant, and 

 an extract from the stalks and the gum of the mi- even of mustard if you like. This iherefore, is a 

 mosa. There can be no doubt that it might be very useful plai.t, and ought to be cultivated by 

 profitably cultivaoed in the United States. 



every farmer, and every man who has a garden. 

 Cobbetl's American Gardener. 



CHAMBERS' MEDICINE. 

 Wc have read with great satisfaction the 



Re- Effects of riding in consumption. — The cure I 



ports of the Medical Society of the city of New i am going to mention, was of a gentleman who is 

 York, on nostrums or secret remedies." The first related to the doctor, and is now living at Dorset 



article noticed is Chambers' Remedy for intemper- 

 ance. Drs. Hammersly, Drake, ftlanly. Watts. 

 Ives, and Johnson, the highly respectable commit- 

 tee to whom tliis subject was referred, inform us, 

 that they employed Dr. G. Chilton, an able and 



hire, who was brou^'ht so low by consumption 

 that there seemed to be no possibility of a recov- 

 ery either by medicine or exercise ; but, it being 

 too late for the first to do any good, all that was 

 to be done was to be expected from the latter 



jxpericnced chemist, to analyse the medicine, and though the doctor did not think that even riding 

 that the results of his experiments show it to be would then do. However, the poor gentleman, 

 composed of Tartar Lniotic, Capsicum, Sulphur, seeing there was no other hopes left, was resolv- 

 Carbon, Cochineal and Gum. "If any douIrts,"say ed to attempt.to ride into the country ; but was so 

 the committee,'*' could rest upon this result to extremely far gone, that, at his setting out of 

 which the analysis leads, it could not fa.il to be i town he was forced to be held up on his horse by 

 removed by the collateral evidences which may j two porters; and when he got to Brentford or 

 be brought in confirmation, from its exhibition both ! Hounslow, the people of the Inn into which he 

 internally and externally — its effects upon the j put were unwilling to receive him, as thinking he 

 stomach and bowels are precisely those which ( would die there, and they should have the trouble 



ought to be expected from tartar emetic — and ex 

 ternally applied it will produce the pustular erup- 

 tion, which is peculiar to this metallic salt." This 

 medicine then owes any efficacy it may possess to 

 the tartar emetic which it contains — of its value, 

 therefore, as a remedy for intemperance — or the 

 danger resulting in some cases from its exhibition 

 wo need not here speak. Every professional man 

 will know how to estimate it Am.Journ. 



of a funeral. Notwithstanding, he persisted in 

 his riding by small journeys to Exeter ; and got 

 so much strength by the way, that though one 

 day his horse as he was drinking, laid down with 

 him in the water, and hcr*was forced to lide pnrt 

 of the day's journey in thai wet condition, yet he 

 sustained no harm by it, but came to tiio above 

 mentioned place considerably recovered ; when, 

 thinking he had then gained his point, he neglect- 1 fifteen dozen in an hour 



The town of Mansfield,m Connecticut has recent- 

 ly been several times noticed on account of its 

 manufactures of silk. The Connecticut Register 

 recently issued nt Hartford, estimates the quanti- 

 ty produced at more than 3000 lbs. annually, and 

 the value at $20,000, which probably is not be- 

 yond the fact : but which is certainly a very con- 

 siderable sum of money to be annually distributed 

 as one item of income, among a population of 3000 

 inhabiting a comparatively unproductive soil; 

 and that too without any expenditure for machin- 

 ery or outfit of any kind. The process is entirely 

 domestic, until the raw silk is adjusted into large 

 skeins reseinbling the condition in which it is im- 

 ported into England and other countries from the 

 East. The further process into " sewing silk" is 

 now to considerable extent performed by water 

 power, at a small factory in the town of Lisbon, 

 owned by an ingenious mechanic who invented 

 the machinery during our late war with England, 

 for the purpose of bringing into use the great 

 quantities of raw silk of commerce, which had 

 been captured by some of our privateers, and which 

 from the singular manner in which it is put up, 

 laid nosma'l tax upon New England ingenuity. — 

 We have seen lately a paragraph stating that a 

 Frenchman had established a Ribbon manufactory 

 in Windham, an adjoining town. The profitable- 

 ness of the culture of silk, may be estimated fronj 

 the fact which we happen to know, that mulberry 

 orchards of ten years' growth, and upon land oth- 

 erwise of very little worth, are valued at $200 an 

 acre. 



This town has been also somewhat known for 

 its manufacture of Combs of various sorts, com- 

 menced at a very early period, and carried on to 

 be sure at first by the slow process of sawing but 

 one tooth after another, but now by the use of ma- 

 chinery, invented in this country, and with one 

 half the material; the teeth of two combs being 

 cut out at heads and points from each other, pur- 

 sued with such expedition that a man is able to go 

 through this process very neatly, at the rate of 



If the above report be correct it follows (says I ed to ride any more for some time. But after- Here it would also be wrong to omit to mention 



a correspondent) that any of our Medical men can ; ware 

 furnish a remedy equally efiacious as this celebrat- 

 ed remedy, for five cents, instead of five dollars 

 the price which is paid for this. — A'. H. Register 



MUSTARD. 



There is a white seeded sort and a brown seeded. 

 The tchite mustard is used ia salads along with 

 the Cress or Pepper- Grass, and is sown and culti- 

 vated in the same way. The black is that which 



finding himself relapsing, he remembered I that Mansfield is entitled to the credit of having 

 the caution which Dr. Sydenham had given him, i produced the invention of the Screw Auger, and 

 at his setting out, that if he should be so happy as ! this not so many years ago, but that some of our 

 to begin to recover, he should not leave off riding carpenters can well remember when the " Pod- 

 too soon ; for he would infallibly relapse and die. Auger" (an instrument now or soon to be almost 



if he did not carry on that measure long enou 

 so he betook himself to his horse again, and rode 

 till'he obtained a perfect recovery. 



On hardening articles made of steel wire, wilh- 



•able-mustard is made of. — It is sown in rov.-s, two out bending them — This valuable process was em 

 feet apart, early in the spring. The plants ought ; ployed by the late Mr. Rehe, of Shoe-lane, a most 



to be thinned to four or five inches apart. Good 

 tillage between the rows. The seed vvill be ripe 

 in July, and the stalks shonld be cut off, and, when 

 quite ilry, the seed threshed out, and put by for 



ingenious mechanic, in the following manner 



"The articles having previously been carefully 

 heited to the proper degree, instead of cooling 

 them in water, Mr. Rehe threw them upon the flat 



use. — Why should any man that has a garden bay sui-face of a fixed block of cast iron, and instantly 

 mustard ? Why should he want the English to rolled them round, by sliiling another flat plate of 

 send him out, in a bottle, and sell him for a quar- ; iron over them : and thus, by tbi^ revolving mo- 

 ter of a dollar, less and worse must;;rd than he'tion, he kept them perfectly striight. in the act of 



can raise in his garden for a penny ? The Eng 

 lish mustard is, in general, a thina fabri( atcd, and 

 is as false as the glazed and pasted good-, sent out 

 by the fraudulent fabricators of Manchester. It 

 is a composition of baked bones reduced to powder, 

 some wheat flour, some coloring, and a drug of 

 some kind that gives the pungent taste. Who- 

 ever uses that mustard freely will find a burning 



being cooled and hardened, between the metnl 

 plate and the block. 



Sitfi-ar.-;— Under the domination of Buonaparte, 

 France consumed only nboi.t fourteen millions of 

 pounds of sugar annually The present annua! 

 consumption exceeds 80 millions of pounds. — Lit. 

 Gazette. 



forgotten,) was their only dependence. The man- 

 ufacture of this very useful instrument has also 

 been a source of consiiicrable profit. To all these 

 might be added'buttons, and several other artices» 

 composing in the whole an extent of profitable 

 business, which is fast transforming this town 

 from one of the least productive (and perhaps from 

 this very cause) to one of the most 'wealthy in 

 that enterprising State. 



Good humour is the clear blue sky of the souT, 

 in which every star of talent will shine more 

 clearly, and the sun of genius encounter no va- 

 pors in bis passage. It is the most exquisite beau- 

 ty of a fine face — a redeeming grace in a homely 

 one. It is like the green in the landsciipe. har- 

 asonizinn- with every color, mellowing the jloriea 

 of the bright, and softening the hue of the dark ; 

 or like a fliite, in a full concert of instruments, a 

 sound, not at first discovered by the ear, yet fill- 

 ing up the breaks in the concord with its deep 

 melody. 



