Vol. 6.— No. 2(>. 



INEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



2«7 



BRIGHTON MARKETS. 

 Extract of h letter from Boston, respecting the 

 snles at Brijihtiin on Mon.hiy of last week, Jan. 7. 

 •'Tlie tMurket, 1 fi'ur, will not bo as good this sea- 

 son as we expected Cattle comn in very plenti 

 fully; upwards of six hundred on Monday. About 

 one hundred remained unsold. Of those sold, the 

 best brought .v.^OO to .5,50— but the ^rreater part 

 went from 84,00 to 4,50." A letter, dated on 

 Thursday last, says, 'pork is about half a cent 

 lower than last week." The prices have bean de 

 dining at Brighton, for two or tiirec weeks, as 

 the following statement will show. Monday, D.°o. 

 24, best oxen, .*C,00, others 4,.50 lo 5,2.5. Mon- 

 day, Dec. 31, best oxen, .S5.75, others .$4,00 to 

 5,00. Monday, Jan. 7, best oxen, g!;3,50, others 

 $4,00 to 4,50. A few very good oxen sold at 

 prices between the "best" and the "others." — 

 Hampshire Gazette. 



Females in France. — I see women doing almost 

 every kind of work that is to be done upon a farm. 

 There are full as many women employed in the 

 fields as there are inen,and I think even more. They 

 manage and har\»'..t the flax, a good deal of which 

 is grown here. Tlio women appear to do all the 

 turnip hoeing that is required here ; hut turnips 

 do hot seem by any means a genera! crop ; for I 

 see but few of them upon the land. The dress of 

 the women that I see at work in the fields, is 

 coarser than that commonly worn by our laboers' 

 wives and daughters, but it exhibits very little of 

 that raggedness, which characterizes the dress of 

 so large a portion of those who earn their bread by 

 hard work in England Cobbttl's ride in France. 



med with food, but deprived of drink. Her feet 

 are nailed to a board, and she is gradually roasted 

 alive. 111 order to enlarge the liver. Pies are 

 made of these livers and sent to Paris, Vienna, 

 and oven to Petersburg, in the west of Scotland, 

 a gputleman constantly exhibits in his kitchen, a 

 shelf of geese, nailed to the wood by the wehs of 

 their feet, and quite close to the fire. — Hamp.Gaz. 



Steam Engine The groat ninety inch steam- 

 engine, on the consolidated mines in Cornwall, 

 cost at the foundery, two thousand pounds sterl- 

 ing ; the expense of putting it up, was four thou- 

 sand pounds — and the pit work, two thousand 

 more. In twenty-four hours it consumes about 

 one hundred and eiirhty bushels of coals, which 

 are delivered at one shilling a bushel. In return 

 for this calculable expense, this engine lifts si.xty- 

 four gallons of water per stroke, and it can work 

 twelve strokes in a minute. 



Siberian Parsley. 

 Just received at ilie athce of the New Eugland Farmer, afew 

 lbs. Siberian Parsley Seed. This plant is perfectly hardy, stand- 

 ing our sccerest minlers : and would probalily be the best sort lt> 

 sow with grass, as recommended iu ihe last New England 

 Fanner, as well as (or iulli»ation in gardens. The Seed wa* 

 originally procured from Knssia, a lew years since, bv a genilc- 

 man in this vicinity. ' Jan. 1. 



Dutck Bulbous Roots. 



Just received alllie office of liic New England Farmer, a fur- 

 ther supply of fine double and single Hyacinths. Tulips, Narcis- 

 sus, Tuberoses. Jacobean Lilies Tiger" Lilies, Ranunculus, &c. 



Also, a few PO 1' ATI ' ONIONS— wilh every variety of Gar- 

 den Si'eds, Flower ^'eeds, ^'c. 



Speechltj on the Tine, Pine Apple, &{c. 

 Just received , an<l for sale at the N. E. Farmer office, one 

 copy of a Treatise on the culture of the vine; with new hints 

 on tiie Formation of Vineyards in England ; with a Tieaiise on 

 ill.* Culture of the Pine Aiiple, and the iVlanageinent of the Hot 

 House. Third London Edition, by William Speechly, with 

 eleven ciigraviligs. 



In noticing the celebration of Christmas, the | New England 

 Augusta Courier has adiled the follovying squib 

 I to the number let off on the occasion iu that 

 city: — "We cannot help noticing the order and 

 I quiet which has liistinguished our city during the 

 j Christmas holydays, and the respectful ob?dieiice 

 j shown to all the onUnances of our worthy City 

 Council. It is thought not more than 1000 gallons 

 of egg nogg were drank, 5000 guns fired, and 

 50,000 crackers exploded." 



Early Peas, Tree Onion, Poppy Seed, vfc. 



For sale at the New iMiglaiid Farmer office, fresh Seed of the 



^ iige Poppy, Early Peas, Tree Onion, While Clover, Lima 



Squash, ^c. with the greatest variety of Seeds to be found in 



The Dundee Horticultural Society held their An- 

 nual Festival Meeting on tlie I'-ith of September, 

 when- a rich display of flowers, fruits, and vegeta- 

 bles were brought forward in competition, and 

 prizes awarded to upwards of twenty individuals 

 for nearly forty different articles, to Mrs. Thain 

 for the best white currant wine, Mrs. Ciithrie, for 

 the best black currant ditto, and Mrs. Turnbull 

 for the best wine from a combination of fruits. 



The Hall was opened to the public at half past 

 one, when an admiring throng, comprising the 

 rank and beauty of the town and neighborhood, 

 honored the Society by their presence. Sevcuty- 

 six gentlemen sat down to dinner, and afterwards 

 spent the evening in the most convivial and .ngrec- 

 able manner. — Dundee Courier, Sept. 14. 



Cruelly. — The American Quarterly Review has 

 a long article on Gastronomy, (or the science of 

 supplying the belly). Among the cruelties prac- 

 tised to suit the depraved appetites of epicures, 

 the following are noticed. The Germans and 

 others formerly whipped their pigs to death, toi 

 make the flesh more ten.^er — the Moors of Bar- 

 bary, who eat hedgehogs, rub the back of the an- 

 imal against the ground till it has done squeak- 

 ing, and then cut its throat — the Romans killed 

 their swine by thrusting a red hot iron through 

 the body, and they fattened fowls by shutting them 

 up in dark places, cramming them, and stitching 

 up their eyes. Epicures delight in the artifically 

 enlarged liver of the goose, and in Franco espe- 

 cially, the increased liver is in great request, and 

 the providing of them is n considerable branch of 

 business at Stra«burg, Mctz, &.c. These swelled 

 livers are obtained by a most barbarous practice. 

 The goose is placed before a great fire, and cram- 



Sheet Almanack. 

 Just published al the New England Farmer office, a Sheet 

 Almanack for i32S. 



PRICES OP COUNTRY PRODUCE. 



Corrected every Tkur.sday evening 



APPLES, best, 

 aSHES, pot, 1st sort, 



pearl do. 

 BEANS, white, 



Fancy JVamcs. — \ person named If'all was in- 

 ducea to call his first son after his neighbor, Stojie, j BEE?*', mess, 200 lbs. new, - 

 in consideration of a present of $.50 from the lat- <=argo. No 1, new, - - 



ter. Another named Pease called his son Green, mTTTFR inspect ' \o I new 

 as a token of respect for his physician who horc ' (;f.jj;_irgf;' ^^^ ^;ijj . . . . 

 that name. It ia aaid that Mr. Stone Wall, after! skimmed milk, - - 



he had been "set up" in business, was torn en- 1 FLAX 



tirelv down by a ruffian mimed Rum; and Green: FLAX SEED 



Peas'e, before ho had come to maturity, got into FI'OUR, Baltimore, Howard 

 hot water by similar means. — Gardiner Chronicle. 



The Season. — It will be sot down as memorable 

 hereafter, that in the year 1828, at the middle of 

 January, there was no frost in the ground at New- 

 York ; that the weeds, grasses, herbs, flowers, and 

 esculent vegetables are growing, and buds swell- 

 ing, in the gardens; and that the steam and sail 

 boats are parsing between this city and Albany, 

 without seeing ice in the river, or Scarcely a 

 vestige of snow on the mountains. There is time 

 enough for severe weather yet; but so far, the 

 weather has been without a parallel for many 

 years. — A'. Y. Statciman. 



03^ An able and useful article on the subject of Economy in 

 Buildings, Iroin " J. M. G." has been received, and will be pub- 

 lished in our ne,\t. 



O^ A gentleman at New Bedford, to whom this coiinlr\ is 

 much indebtetl lor the seeds of rare vegetables and plants intro- 

 duced al his expense from Europe, is desirous of obtaining a 

 few roots of the Cypripedium, peculiar to America, to be sent lo 

 St. Petersburg. Russia : likewise a plant or seed of the Baptisioe 

 versicolor, and the seeds oJ any new herbaceous plants peculiar 

 to America. Any gentleman who may haveeither in then- gar- 

 dens or collections, will confer a favor by sending them to the 

 care of Mr Russell, publisher of llie New England Farmer. 



Seeds for ( ountry Dealers., 

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

 of Garden Seeds for sale, are informed they can be furnished 

 at the New England Farmer office, No. .'j2 North Market street, 

 Boston, with bo.xes containing a complete assortment of the 

 seeds mostly used in a kitchen garden, ,11 as favorable terms as 

 they can he purchased in this country, neatly done up in small 

 papers, al (j and 12 els each — warranted 10 be of the growth of 

 J'iil, and of the purest qualitij. Orn^'Mental Fi.owEr. 

 SEr.DS will be added on the same terms, "vhen ordered, as well 

 as Peas. Ceass, E.^RLY Wbjte>Swi-.ft Cohn, &c. of dif- 

 fercnl sorts. 



jbbl 

 ton. 



bush 

 bbl. 



fP.llJH 



1 75 



95 00 



1U8 00 



1 25 



9 75 



8 5U 



12 

 7 



2 00 



97 50 



112 00 



1 50 



10 00 



9 00 



7 50 



16 



10 



Ihush 



lb. 

 cask 



FLOUR, Baltimore 



Genesee, - . - 



live, best, - - - 



GRAIN, Rye 



Con - - - . 



Barley - - - - 



Oats - - . - - 



HOGS' LARD, 1st sort, new, - 



HOPS, No ], Inspection - - 



LIME, 



OIL, Linseed, Phil, and Northernlgal. 

 PLAISTER PARIS retails at ton. 

 PORK, Bone Middlings,new, clear'hbl. 

 navy, mess, do. 

 Cargo, No 1, do. - -- 

 SEEDS, Herd's Grass, - - |Ihi8| 



Clover . - - - lb. 



V/OOL, Merino, full blood,wash | 



do do uinvashed] 



do 3-4 washed! 



do 1-2 & 4 do I 



Native - - - do i 



Pulled, Lamb's, 1st sort | 



2d sort j 



do 



Spinning, Ist sort 



FE.OVISIOK MJIRKET. 

 BFEJ', best pieces - - . - 

 PORK, fresh, best f icces, - . 



" whole hogs, - - - 



VEAL, 



MUTTON, - - 



POULTRY, ----.- 

 BUTTER, keg &. tub, - 



lump, best, - . - 



EGGS, 



MEAL, Rye, retail, - - - . 

 Indian, do. .... 

 POTATOES, (new) - - 

 CIDEB, (accord-ing fo ci."'t'iiT) 



f i 



Vbl 



