Vol. VI.— No. 0-2. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMEU. 



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r!l,MKl)IES FOR INDIGESTION. 



In iiiiliyrstion, two ol' the most iiroiiiiiiciit foat- 

 ,ires are flatuleney ami acidity ; aud the remedies 

 for these states are clearly indicated. They are 

 tlie alkalies uiid magnesia ; and the advantages 

 which the latter in the general way [lossesses over 

 the tbrmer, is this : that as containing an alkaUne 

 principle, the stomach acidity is neutralized by its 

 administration ; and a purgative suit being formed, 

 in some measure, by the combination, the double 

 pm-pose is thus effected of a corrective and an ap- 

 erient. A tea spoonful or two of magnesia, thrown 

 into a glass of water, and taken before going to 

 rest, will often anticipate as it were the acid form- 

 ation in the stomach, which would be otherwise 

 consequent upon a little irregularity of eating or 

 drinking ; and will destine the individual to a good, 

 who would jjass a restless uncomfortable night. — 

 When a more positive purgative is required, it will 

 be right to combine the sulphate of magnesia (ep- 

 som salts) with the carbonate (common magnesia.) 

 Two large tea spoonfids of the former, with one of 

 the latter, will constitute a good aperient ; and for 

 a gouty invalid, one tea spoonful of the fluid car- 

 bonate of ammonia (sal volatile) will be found use- 

 ful; or, if the habit be cold, two or three spoon- 

 fuls of tincture of rhubarb may be advantageously 

 tnixed with the salts and magnesia. 



Unwins on Indigestion. 



THE SEASON. 



Extract of a Letter, dated Kentville, June 29th, 



1828 The country is looking beautiful ; the crops 



generally promise well — the roots of the grass 

 were somewhat injmed by the frost last winter, 

 owing to the scarcit}' of snow, but as the season 

 has been so wet, but little inconvenience will be 

 experienced from this circumstance. Potatos are 

 full as forward as is necessary ; wheat and oats 

 b-id amply to j-eward the efforts of the fanner ; and 

 many fields of Indian corn are highly promising ; 

 green peas will be gathered here in a few days ; 

 and strawberries are already ripe on the high 

 lands Halifax Recorder. 



From ihe papers ol Mr Titus Smilh, published iu the Novascolian. 



THE RED RASPBERRY. 



" The manner in which nature cultivates the 

 common red raspberry, so abundant in this Prov- 

 ince, must convince any thinking person that this 

 plant could never have been produced by any co- 

 alition of Dr Darwin's Atoms. This piant, it is 

 well known, thrives only in a very light soil ; sueh 

 a soil it finds in perfection whenever our forests 

 are killed by fire ; the raspberry immediately 

 springs up, aud bears abundantly for two or three 

 years ; the effect of the burning and of the decay- 

 ing of the fibrous parts of roots being by that time 

 at an end, the soil becomes hard and cold, the 

 raspberry perishes, a young growth of firs, or 

 other trees spring up, and the ground is again 

 covered with a forest, which stands perhaps for 

 more than a century before it is destroyed by an- 

 other fire, and a proper soil again formed for the 

 raspberry, which would be seen there no more 

 were it not provided with a seed capable of re- 

 maining unhurt in the earth, without vegetating, 

 for the length of time that usually occurs between 

 two of these periods. In a grove of spruce, of 

 which many of die trees were two hundred years 

 old, and where, as the soil was very poor, the turf 

 was about a foot thick, I have found near the bot- 

 tom of the turf, the seeds of raspberries, about 



one to every square inch ; they were apparently 

 sound on the out.sido, but not more than one to a 

 hundred had the kernel sound. 

 SUMACH. 



" I have observed iu clearing fen or tvvelve 

 acres of land upon a beech hill, that plants of Su- 

 mach ajipeared in a circle about every fire-place 

 where wood or bushes had been burnt, about one 

 to the square foot ; none appeared elsewhere. 

 The largest trees on this hill were about two hun- 

 dred years old. The Sumach is never Ibuuii iu 

 an old grove of wood. 



THE CHERRY. 



" I have observed that a considerable part of 

 the cherry kernels wliicli grow after a fire, had 

 been deposited by mice in small heaps, in situa- 

 tions where they were partially secured from rain. 

 The mice appear also to be the principal agents 

 in supplying our best hardv/ood hills with rasp- 

 berry seeds, as these hills are rarely exposed to 

 fires, except after a hurricane, they probably have 

 often stood secure for a longer time than this seed 

 can keep sound ; but I have almost always found, 

 upon cutting the bellow branches off a large rot- 

 ten hearted bii-ch, a considerable quantity either 

 of seeds or shells of the seeds of the rasperry, if 

 there were any growing within a quarter of a 

 mile ; they are deposited there by a mouse with 

 a white belly, and very large ears, fringed with 

 white. 



" About many of the lakes near Halifax, where 

 the land is but little above the level of the water, 

 there is a remarkable Dyke or Mound along the 

 edge of the lake ; it is usually from four to ten 

 feet thick at the base, and rises from two to four 

 feet higher than the land back of it ; it is princi- 

 pally composed of stones, and covered with moss 

 and trees ; somewhat smiilar banks on the sea 

 shore would lead to the conjecture that it was the 

 effect of a hurricane, but upon observing the 

 smallness of the lakes, and the size of the stones, 

 it would seem to require a force of wind almost 

 beyond conception. A sample of this may be 

 seen at the south end of Lake Loon, on the Pres 



Water may also be purified thus : Have ready 

 a strong solution of alum ; into a gallon of water, 

 put five grains of pearl or potash, and stir it, then 

 put iu about three tea spoonfuls of the solution of 

 alum ; it will be beautifully transparent in about 

 four hours, and perfectly wholesome. 



For present use filter your water through clean 

 blotting paper in a conmion glass or tin funnel. 

 Domes. Ency. 



THORN HEDGES. 



I observed in the American Farmer, vol. x. No. 

 15, the following inquiries which I will endeavor 

 to reply to : 



" What is the best kind of thorn for hedges, their 

 cost per rod, where can they be purchased, and 

 what is the best season to plant them?" 



I am most in favor of the kind called Washing- 

 ton or Virginia thorn. Ten years ago, having 

 heard a favorable account of this kind of thorn, 1 

 planted a hedge about forty rods long, which is 

 now a complete fence against cattle and hogs, 

 without any wooden fence, and is a great orna- 

 ment to the estate, and with a little attention, will 

 be everlasting. 



From the effect of this experiment, Sinclair & 

 Moore, Pratt-street wharf, Baltimore, are raising 

 largely of the quicks of this kind of thorn — and 

 have them two years old, very thrifty, and well 

 grown. Price five dollars ])er thousand — lower, 

 if many thousand are taken. The quantity nece:?- 

 sary per rod may be calculated, allowing them lIx 

 inches apart in the hedge. The best season for 

 planting is late in the fall, or early in the winter, 

 especially on mellow soils ; but early in the spring 

 is also a good time, and best on stiff wet land. 

 The quicks can be also purchased of J. Peiree, 

 near Georgetown, District of Columbia. — Ameri- 

 can Farmer. 



Drinking cold water Several deaths have been 



occasioned, at and near Baltimore, by drinking 

 cold water during the hottest part of the day ; the 

 consulting physician of the Health Department of 

 _ _ that city has communicated to the Boaril an inter- 



ton Road, about three miles from the Ferry, where < ^^""« P^f"^'" °" ^^^ subject. The writer, (Doctor 

 such a Dyke extends, according to the best of my Jameson) adopts the suggestions of Dr. Rush, and 



recollection, for about half a mile." 



recommends his mode of treatment in cases of 

 danger. It is mentioned that sudden death sel- 

 dom ensues from this cause when the therniome- 

 ter is below 85 ; and that other liquids, such as 



FILTERING MACHINES. 



These machines are now so common that they 

 can be had in every town. But it may be worth j beer, punch, or toddy are sometimes equally fatal 

 while to state, that a common five gallon keg may ( when taken while the body is extremely warm, 

 be converted into a good one, thus : Char it in- j The symptoms are thus described: "In a few 

 side ; make a false bottom three inches from the ) niinutes after the person has swallowed the water, 

 true one ; bore it full of holes ; fix your cock be- j I'e is affected by dimness of sight— he staggers in 

 tween the two bottoms ; on the false bottom lay a attempting to walk, and unless supported, fails to 

 piece of flannel ; on that, a layer of well washed j the ground — he breathes with difliculty, and a 

 sand, which should bo fine and quite clean ; let i rattling is heard in his throat — his extremities be- 

 this fill half the tub ; on this a layer of pow- come cold, and he dies in four or five minutes." 

 dered charcoal, with a piece of flannel to separate The only certain remedy, says Dr. Rush, is laud- 

 it from the sand ; on the charcoal, about a third anum ; — from a tea spoonful to nearly a table 

 of the space from the top, a leaden cover with an j spoonful, administered immediately ; and where 



aperture ; in the aperture put a piece of sponge ; 

 close the lead cover all round the edge with ce- 

 ment, so that no water can pass but through the 

 sponge ; it will then percolate, first, through the 

 sponge — second, through charcoal — third, through 

 sand, and is drawn out clear by the cock between 

 the false and true bottoms. The cement may be 

 mortar, or melted wax and sifted brick-dust 



this is not accessible, a glass of whiskey or brandy 

 may be given. 



With due precaution, however, the alarming 

 eflfects resulting from an immediate draught of 

 cold water may be avoided. Let the drinker first 

 rinse his mouth, and cool his throat by degrees, 

 suffering only a small quantity to pass down at 

 once ; or immerse his hands and face. It is the 



Water kept in well charred casks, will seldom sudden opposition of the internal temperature to 

 putrify. On board the English men-of-war, it is that on the surface, in these instances, that occa- 



kept in sheet iron vessels. 



I sious spasms, obstruction, and death. — Bos. Bull. 



