Vol. G.— No. S5. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



struction in the bowels. The practice is adopted, 

 on the supposition, that, because spirits, when 

 swallowed, excite an universal warmth, and cause 

 a temporary increase of circulation in the extre- 

 mities, they must do the same when applied to the 

 extremities themselves. But the reverse happens. 

 Fluids, when evaporating, produce cold ; and the 

 lighter and more spirituous tiie fluid, the more 

 quickly it evaporates, and the greater the degree 

 of cold gencrate.l. This may be proved by a very 

 simple e.\periment. If one hand be welted with 

 spirit, and the other with water, and both be held 

 up to dry in the air, the hand wetted with spirit 

 will feel much colder than the other ; or if the 

 bulbs of two thermometers be so treated, the mer- 

 cury will be observed to fall much more rapidly 

 and extensively in one case than in the otner. 

 Whatever danger, therefore, arises from cold or 

 damp feet, it is generally enhanced by the prac-| 

 tice alluded to. I 



: — r ' 



Usefulness of the wren in deslroyina insects. — As 

 a devourer of pernicious insects, one of the most 

 useful birds is the house-wren. This little bird 

 seems peculiarly fond of the society of man, and 

 it must be confessed that it is often protected by 

 his interested care. It has long been a custom in 

 many parts of the country, to fix a small box at 

 the end of a long pole, in gardens about houses, 

 &c. as a place for it to build in. In these boxes 

 they build nests and hatch their young. When 

 the young are hatched, the parent birds feed them 

 with a variety of insects, particularly such as are 

 injurious in gardens. An intelligent gentleman 

 was at the trouble to observe the number of times 

 u pair of these birds came from their box, and re- 

 turned, with inaects for their young. He found 

 that they did this from forty to sixty times io an 

 hour ; and in one particular hour, the birds car- 

 lied food to their young seventy-one times. In 

 tills business they were engaged the greatest part 

 •jf the day, say twelve hours. Taking the med- 

 ium, therefore, of fifty times in an hour, it appear- 

 ed that a single pair of these birds took from the 

 cabbage, salad, beans, peas, and other vegetables 

 in the garden, at least six hundred insects in the 

 course of one day. This calculation proceeds on 

 the supposition, that tho two birds took only a 

 single insect each time. But it is highly proba- 

 ble they often took several at a time. 



To prevent burrowing of rats in houses. — Hats 

 may be elTectually prevented from burrowing un- 

 der the foundation of houses, by making an oft'set 

 of stone or brick, about two feet in breadth, and 

 eighteen inches below the surface ; and by carry- 

 ing up a perpendicular wall from the edge of this 

 offset, to within a few inches of the surface of the 

 ground. The adoption of the same plan inside, 

 will prevent the burrowing of these animiils in 

 cellars ; for rats always burrow close to a wall ; 

 and finding their perpendicular course impeded, 

 they take a horizontal direction as far as the off- 

 set continues, when they are again stopped by 

 the oi'tside wall. Thus baffled, they ascend and 

 go off. 



To preserve Pumps from freezing — Bore a small 

 liole throiiirh the body of the pump beneath the 

 surface of the LTonnd, and above the upper bucket; 

 the column of wafer above the upper bucket will 

 then slowly leak out, and may also be raised again 

 by a few strokes of the handle. In mild weather 

 the hole may be plugged. 



Dreadful accident. — At the execution of Levi 

 Kelly, at Cooperstown, N. Y. for murder, a great 

 concourse of people were assembled, about .iOOO 

 of whom were on a wooden platform, erected by 

 the keeper of the hotel for the accommodation of 

 spectators, and about an equal number were under 

 the platform. As the prisoner was brought out, 

 the crowd leaned forward to see him, :ind at this 

 moment the platform gave way, and fell with all 

 who were upon it, to the ground. In consequence 

 of being forced forward horizontally, it fell upon 

 a much smaller number of persons, than would 

 have been buried under it, had it fallen directly, 

 b'lt from five to ten persons were killed, and sev- 

 eral so severely wounded that it was thought that 

 they could not survive. In the midst of the con- 

 fusion caused by this accident the prisoner was 

 executed. 



On the benefit derived from frequenlli/ stirring 

 the earth about growing vegetables. — Plants are 

 very much benefited by having oxygen applied to 

 their roots, being found to consume more than 

 their own volume of that gas in twenty-four 

 hours ; and when applied by Mr. Hill, to the roots 

 of melons, hyacinths, &c. the first were found to 

 be improved in flavor, the second, in beauty and 

 in vigor. Every thing that promotes the presen- 

 tation of o.xygcn to the roots of plants, must be 

 beneficial. 



Account Books, Sfc. 



Jusl manufaclured a complclc assortment of Account Books 

 made of the best materials and in the most npproved modem 

 style adapleil to every capacity of business. Kclioot Books, Bi- 

 bles, i5('<-. ; Paper of all kinds; the greatest variety of Stuliona- 

 ry, i^-r. to bo (bund in tlie city, may be had at iniusual \m\ 

 prices, at No. 96 &. 98 Stale street, two doors east ol Merclmnts' 

 Row, by JOHN W.VRSH. 



J. M. is agent for P. Byrnes' Quill and Wafer Manufactory 

 New York. Also for Wni. Gordak's celebrated Medicine, and 

 will supply all orders for their avticles at their prices. 



Jan. 4.3m 



Early Pens, Tree Onion, Poppy Seed, ifc. 



For sale at the New England Farmer oftice, fresh Seed oflhc 



l^arge Poppy, Early Peas, Tree Onion, While Clover, Lima 



Squash. &e. with the greatest variety of Seeds to be found in 



New England. 



Seeds for l.ountry Dialers. 

 Traders in the countiy, who may wish to keep an assortment 

 of Garden ^Veds Ibr sale, are informed tliey can be furnished 

 at the New England Farmer oflSee, No. 52 North Market street, ' 

 Boston, with bo.\es containing a complete assortment of the 

 seeds mostly used in a kilchen garden, on as favorable terms as 

 they can be purchased in this counlr}', neatly done up in smai! 

 papers, at 6 and 12 ets each — warranted to be of the growth of 

 18^7, and of the purest qualitij. ORNA:\rENTAL Flower 

 Seeds will be added on the same terms, when ordered, as well 

 as Peas, Beaxs, Early White Sweet Corn, &c. of dif- 

 ferent sorts. 



Lucerne Seed. 

 A few hundred pounds of fresh Lucerne seed, by the pound 

 or hundred weigh!, for sale at the N. E. Farmer office. 



PRICES OP COUNTRY^ PRODUCK 



Corrected every Thursday evening. 



Tho Niagara Sentinel gives the dimensions, &c. 

 of a lad of 18, named Darius Whitman, now on a 

 visit at Lockport — viz. 6 feet 3 inches high, 4 feet 

 8 inches round the waist, and 298 pounds weight! 

 He is said to be comparatively lank, having lately 

 had an attack of the ague, which pulled him down 

 considerably. 



Great Income The beautiful domain of Moor 



Park in Hertfordshire, has just been purchased by 

 the Earl of Grosvenor. What with his enormous 

 estates in London and Westminster, in Chester, 

 Cheshire, Flintshire and Denbighshire — at Shafts- 

 bury, Hindon, Stockbridge, and numerous other 

 places, the noble Earl may, perhaps, be consider- 

 ed the richest land owner in Great Britain. His 

 income is estimated at from 270,000^ to .300,000/. 

 per annum, whicli sum, immense as it is, is exceed- 

 ed by that of tho Marquis of Stafford, in a great 

 measure derived from canal property. One only 

 of Earl Grosvenor's mining concerns in Wales is 

 let by him to a company for 20,000/. per annum ; 

 and within the last "25 years he has laid out more 

 than -700,000/. at his family estate at Easton, near 

 Chester. — Eng. Chronicle. 



biisli 

 bbl. 



Transfusion of blood. — An English newspaper 

 mentions a successful case of transfusion of blood 

 from a healthy to a diseased patient. The latter 

 was in a decline, and was one time in such a state 

 of extreme exhaustion (from the loss of vital fluid,) 

 that her friends felt confident that she was dead. 

 A surgeon was sent for, who performed the very 

 interesting opnr ition of transfusion of blood from 

 a healthy subject into the veins of tho exhausted 

 patient, so successfully, that she had so far recov- 

 ed as to walk out of doors Hartford Mercury. 



Asparagus, at $4 a bunch of 100 heads, is adver- 

 tised for sale by G. Thorburn & Son, New-York. 



Died in Easton, on the 3d inst. Lieutenant Jesse Howard, 

 aged eighty-eight years. Mr Howard was distinguished for his 

 active and patriotic exertions in those times wbicb " tried men's 

 souls." 



APPLES, best, 



aSHES, pot, 1st sort, - - - 

 peurl do. - - - - 



BEANS, white, ....-- 



BEEF, mess, 200 lbs. new, - 



cargo, No 1, uew, - - 



" No 2, new, - - 



BUTTER, inspect. No. I. new, 



CHEESE, new milk, - - - - 

 ekimraed milk, - - 



FLAX 



FLAX SEED 



FLOUR, Baltimore, Howard St 

 Genesee, . - - 



Rye, best, - - - 



GRAIN, Rye 



Corn - - - - 



Barley - . - - 

 Oats - - . - - 



HOGS' LARD, 1st sort, new, - 



HOPS, No 1, Inspection - - 



LIME, 



OIL, Linseed, Phil, and Northern 



PLAISTER PARIS retails at 



PORK, Bone Middlings, new, 

 navy, mess, do. 

 Cargo, No 1, do. - - 



SEEDS, Herd's Grass, - 



Clover . . . - 



WOOL, Merino, fullblood,wash 

 do do unwashed 



do 3-4 washed 



do 1-2 & i do 



Native - - - do 



Pulled, Lamb's, 1st sort 

 2d sort 

 do Spinning, Ist soi 



PROFISIOJV jyMRKET. 

 BKEl', best pieces - - - 

 PORK, fresh, best pieces, - 



" whole hogs, - - 



VEAL, 



MT'TTON, - - 



POULTRY, - - - - . 

 Bl'TTER, keg & tub, - 



lump, best, - . 



EGGS, I 



VIEAL, Rye, retail, - . - . bu^l- 



Indian, do. . . - - I 

 POTATOES, (new) - - 

 Cl©BR, (according to qualiM) 'bbl 



bush 

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90 



6 00 



6 00 



3 00 



70 



67 



60 



38 



fi 



70 



77 



2 75 



TO 



2 OO 

 97 50 



112 OO 



1 50 



10 00 



9 00 



7 50 



16 



10 



4 



1 12 

 6 12 

 6 25 



3 25 



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6f. 

 67 

 40 

 W 

 10 



1 00 

 7S 



3 no 



18 00 

 15 00 

 14 00 



2 75 

 10 



