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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



DECEMBER 31, 1S34. 



From the Soitthtm Agricvltnrist. 

 RAISING DUCKS AND TURKIES. 



In the Agriculturist of last year, appeared two 

 articles, one on the best mode of raising ducks, 

 and the other on turkies. Two seasons have since 

 passed away, and the writer of this has been ena- 

 bled to test the efficacy of those directions, and, 

 in every instance that has come under his knowl- 

 edge, they have been attended witli perfect suc- 

 cess. The directions for raising ducks were to 

 feed them on animal food and keep tiiem dry. In- 

 dividuals, who have adopted this plan, have sent 

 to our markets from 500 to 700 ducks of the finest 

 kinds, and tliey have had no diseases among them, 

 and found no ditficulty in raising them. 



Two or three individuals who tried the experi- 

 ment of driving their turkies, when young, to a 

 ilistance from the house, where the greatest num- 

 ber of insects were to be found, and feeding and 

 bousing them in the manner directed in the Agri- 

 culturist, have stated tliat they have raised from 

 100 to 300 turkies, and have pronounced it to be 

 ii method which, of all others, they believed best 

 calculated to he attended with success. 



From Niks' Weekly Rf^ster. 

 PRODUCT OF "WOOLi. 



The Philadelphia Price Current estimates the 

 crop of wool in the United States at seventy-five 

 millions of pounds. We think this amount is much 

 overrated. The committee of the New- York Con- 

 vention of 1831, to whom this subject was refer- 

 red, estimated the crop of that year at fifty mil- 

 lions ; and we then thought from iimch personal 

 information on the subject, that the estimate was 

 sufficiently high — the number of sheep being put 

 down at 20 millions. Now at 2i i)f/imds each, 

 the number must be 30 millions, to yield 75 mil- 

 lions of pounds of wool. 



If the latter be correct, how great is the value 

 of the property vested in the growth of wool in 

 the United States. At the rates calculated by the 

 very intelligent committee just alluded to, the ag- 

 gregates would stand thus : 



30,000,000 sheep at $2 each, $60,000,000 



10,000,000 acres of land to 



feed them, at $10 * 100,000,000 



From the BaUimore Farmer S,- Gardener. 

 BNEE PI.A1VT. 

 I feel confident the Bene, plant would flourish 

 and thrive wherever the okra and tomato are now 

 raised, with this diflerence that the Bene thrives^ 

 and grows best on a poor sandy soil, not quite strong 

 enough for the okra. From the Bene seed the 

 purest oil in the world is expressed. It is ac- 

 knowledged by all foreign and domestic epicures, 

 to whom opportunities have been affi)rdcd to try it, 

 that it is superior to the finest olive oil, for all the 

 purposes to which that foreign oil is applied ; and 

 superior in another important particular, it never 

 becomes rancid — like Madeira, the older it is the 

 better. Mr. Milledge, a former Governor of Geor- 

 gia, sent a bottle of the Be7ie oil to Mr. Jefferson, 

 or some other high functionary of Government, 

 v\'ho uidiesitatingly pronounced it superior, in all 

 its qualities, to the olive. We only want a jjroper 

 machine in Georgia to express oil liom the dimin- 

 utive Bene seed, to supersede in the course of a 

 few years, the use of every other oil for domestic 

 purposes. A visit from, with the ' cute' observa- 

 tion of, a citizen " away down East," would soon 

 " find out the way," not only to enrich himself 

 with a patent, but to receive the thanks and plau- 

 dits of the whole South. 



the dose increased two drops a day until it produ- 

 ces stranguary, when the dose should be dimin- 

 ished a little and continued until the disease is re- 

 moved. We have been recently informed of the 

 good etTects of this mixture in a great number of 

 instances, and one very remarkable case has fallen 

 within our notice, in which the disease in its worst 

 form vanished before it in a few weeks, although 

 the patient had been long using without advantage, 

 the usual and other most powerful remedies for 

 this troublesome and painful malady. 



CURE FOR WEAK EYES. 



Take a small lump of white copperas, say about 

 the size of a pea ; put it in a small phial, holding 

 about two ounces of water ; carry this in the pock- 

 et, and occasionally taking out the cork, turn the 

 phial upon the finger's end, and thus bathe the 

 eyes. This will positively efl^ect a real cure in a 

 short time. 



The capital then vested in the 

 woollen manufactories was 

 estimated at 



$160,000,000 



t40,000,000 



Fixed capital, $200,000,000 



The committee supposed that the whole num- 

 ber of persons employed in 1831, in the growth 

 and mauufactiu-e of wool, the product of provis- 

 ions and other branches of business directly de- 

 pendant thereon, at 162,000; and that the value 

 of the manufacture being 40 millions, $24,750,000 

 of that sum passed into the hands of the agricul- 

 tural population, for materials and supplies, and 

 labor of all sorts, and profits earned by them. 



We regard this as certain, that the growth and 

 manufacture of wool in the United States has a 

 greater value than the growth of cotton. 



* ll is supposed thai one acre of preliy good land is neces- 

 sary for Ihc feeding of three sheep throughout ihc year — and 

 especially in the niirlhcrn Slates, including New-York, whfre 

 ihey most abound. The present number in Uie State jnst named 

 is, probably, near 0,000,000. It was SJ millions m 1825. 



t And certainly has not increased since — and the persons di- 

 rectly employed by ihcni at S0,000. 



From the Poughkecpsie Eagle. 

 COAI.. 

 The question is often asked, " which is the best 

 coal, Lehigh, Peach Orchard, or Lackawana?" 

 The answer to the question depends upon the man- 

 ner and jmrposes for which it is used. For heat- 

 ing only, by the Nott or cylinder stoves, Lehigh is, 

 beyond all question, the best coal. Broken small, 

 it will ignite about as quick as any other ; will af- 

 ford a more intense heat, and last longer. After 

 it is well ignited, it should not \)e disturbed. Left 

 to itself, in a stove with a good draft, it burns to 

 ashes, and of which it makes but little in compar- 

 ison with Lackawana or Peach Orchard, and which 

 if taken up carefully, will not make near as much 

 dust as the former, and but trifling, if any, more 

 than the latter. Broken quite small, it is a fine ar- 

 tide for cook stoves with a good draft, and espec- 

 ially when used in the rotary stove. No anthra- 

 cite coal will burn well without a good draft. — 

 Although Lehigh docs not make so much blaze at 

 first as the other coals, yet as the heat it aflibrds is 

 so much greater and purer, it serves for cooking 

 purposes equally well. These observations are 

 made as the result of actual experiment. Owners 

 of furnaces who have used the different coals in 

 their works and given them a fair trial, acknowl- 

 edge that with Lehigh they can get more ami purer 

 iron than with any other. Add to all thi.?, this 

 beautiful coal, at $6 50 per ton, is allowed by all 

 who have tested it, to be the cheapest. A saving 

 will be made in the use of all kinds of anthracite 

 coal by covering it with a layer of pea coal after 

 it becomes well ignited. 



From the Boston Medical anil Surgical Journal. 

 CHRONIC RHEUMATISM. 

 We are not reaily to add to the number of the 

 remedies which have been prescribed for this pain- 

 ful disease, without a certainty that such adilition 

 will be valuable in practice. This certainty we 

 are convinced will attend the remedy it is the ob- 

 ject of this article to bring before the profession. 

 It is a mixture of equal parts of the balsam of sul- 

 phur and spirit of turpentine. Six drops of this 

 j mixture may be given morning and evening, and 



APPLE TREES BEARING ALTERNATE 

 YEARS. 



Those who have had any thing to do with or- 

 chards, or who have paid any attention to apple 

 trees, know very well that some trees will not bear 

 a full crop every year. The cause of this is pro- 

 bably the exhaustion of the trees during the bear- 

 ing year. In those years the tree hangs very full 

 indeed — all its powers are put forth to bring forth 

 and ripen such a heavy crop ; and this expense of 

 sap or other matter, so exhausts the system that it 

 requires a year of rest to bring up its energies. 

 This may or may not be the true cause ; at any 

 rate the fact is well known ; and many who have 

 good varieties of apples have regretted that they 

 coi;ld not change this state of things in regard to 

 particular trees, and have a crop every year. Mr. 

 D. Longfellow, of Winthrop, well known as a 

 successful orchardist, inforins us that he has suc- 

 ceeded in changing this habit in a variety of June- 

 atings which he had in his orchard, which bore 

 alternately. His manner of doing it, is this : 



Having other trees which also bore alternately, 

 hut not in the same year with the Juneatings, he 

 was convinced that engrafting the two others, the 

 habit of one would counteract that of the other, 

 and a ' nullification' of them be produced. Ac- 

 cordingly, on a bearing year of the Juneatings, he 

 took scions from them, and engrafted them into 

 stocks which would that year be barren. The re- 

 sult in the cases which he has tried, justifies the 

 conclusion which he had drawn, and he has June- 

 atings every year. 



Whether it is necessary that the scion to be en- 

 grafted should be taken from its parent on thei 

 fruitful year or not, we cannot say, or whether 

 this system will be attended with similar result ini 

 all trees which hear in this way, or have barrew 

 and fruitful years, we are not able to say. It is,' 

 however, a subject worth attending to; and we 

 should be happy to learn any facts from those who 

 have had experience in these things. — Maine Far- 

 mer. 



USE OF A PHYSICIAN. 



I used to wonder, says a witty letter writer, why 

 people should be so fond of the company of theil 

 physician, till I recollected that be is the only pen 

 son with whom one dares to talk continually 01 

 one's self without interruption or contradiction! 

 or censure ; I suppose that delightful immimitj 

 doubles their fees! 



