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JUIiT 30, 1830. 



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llOsTON. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20,1836. 



FARMERS' AND GARDENERS' WORK. 



On THE USE OF Lime FOR Presekving Health. — 

 Lime is an antidote to contagion, a preservative against 

 infection, and as a means of purifying sinks, vaults, &c. 

 ia one of the most useful of substances. By making pro- 

 per applications of this cheap, but powerful agent, togeth- 

 er with a due attention to cleanliness and ventilation, 

 the air in jails, hospitals, ships, &c. may be rendered 

 comparatively sweet and salubrious. A quantity of lime 

 while hot and quick scattered every day or two, into the 

 vaults of back houses, and other repositories of offensive 

 matter is indispensable as well to health as to cleanli- 

 ness 



We should think it a very serious matter if we were 

 forced to eat tainted provisions and drink filthy water; 

 and yet many people appear to be very well satisfied, 

 when, at every breath, tl)ey take a substance into tlieir 

 lungs, which is not only nauseous but poisonous. This 

 inconvenience, however, they submit to, when the rem- 

 edy is cheap, and almost always to be obtained when 

 and where the evil exists. 



The walls of cellars, dairy rooms, sitting rooms, and 

 indeed of all apartments, much occupied by liuman be- 

 inos should be well coated with nood caustic lime white 

 wash, at least once a year. The time of its application 

 may as well be just before the heat of summer becomes 

 oppressive. In London, says an English writer, a soci- 

 ety is organized for the ' Cure and Prevention of Conta- 

 gious Fevers in the Metropolis,' and they liave appropri- 

 ated a certain sum of money for purifying the tainted 

 habitations of the poor. Their method consists simply 

 in washing the walls of the room with hot lime which 

 renders the rooms to which the white wash is applied, 

 perfectly sweet and wholesome. In the villages of New 

 England, the practice of white washing the walls of 

 apartments ia common, in cities it is not so usual. The 

 walls of the apartments of our more opulent citizens 

 ere usually decorated with costly paper, or something 

 else, which answers as a loceptacle for foul air, and 

 which would be spoiled by white washing ; ar.d if they 

 prefer finery tohealth, they must enjoy their own whims, 

 and pay their owti Upctor.^' ,bil)s. 



Harvesting Rve. — The following rules for cutting 

 and curing Rye are from an old Albany paper. They 

 appear to us to be judicious, and may furnish hints to 

 «ome young farmers 



Bye ought to be cut as soon as possible after the milk 

 "is out of the berry or kernel ; then rake, bind in small 

 ■siieaves and shock in the following manner : Set up four, 

 iive, or six sheaves together according to their bulk; 

 tthen place on a cap sheaf. 



iln this position the shocks may stand till perfectly 

 6ry; then secur.j them iu a barrack or barn, but never 

 ;now them on h^y. Grain mowed on hay will receive 

 more or less must, which is deleterious to animals of 

 every kind. 



Rye cut and secured in this manner is worth nearly 

 double the price of that cut in the common way; the 

 straw will make better fodder than clover, unless the 

 clover be cut when very green, and peculiarly attended 

 to in curing ; the berry of rye will fill in a plump state 

 and the flour will afford as good bread as we can com- 

 jjionly obtain from wheat. 



I have known numbers of persons who were deceived 



when eating rye bread from rye thus managed, and sup^ 

 posed the bread made of vvheaten flour. 



Weeds. — If you have a stock of weeds on your prem- 

 ises it may be worth the trouble to convert them to some 

 useful purpose. We would not wish you in haying or 

 harvesting to devote more time to saving weeds than 

 may be compatible with correct economy. But it may 

 be the case that the pig weed, the purslane, &c. of your 

 garden will make food for store swine, and be worth 

 your attention- Some bury weeds in trenches between 

 rows of plants, and they make good articles in com- 

 posts. In thu latter case it may be well to sift a little 

 quick lime over your heaps of weeds, and then cover 

 them with a layer of the richest soil you can conveni- 

 ently obtain to receive the fertilizing gases, given oul by 

 fermentation. A good husbandman permits as few vege- 

 table and animal substances as possible to decay and pu- 

 trefy in the open air, but covers ihein with earth and 

 quick lime if he has it, thus preserving his health by the 

 same means by which he fertilizes his grouuds- 



WiNsHips- — Those who wish to smell the fresh coun- 

 try air, fragrant with the perfume of thousands of Dame 

 Flora's pets, will find Winships' Gardens a delightful 

 resort at this time- Beautiful roses, with long names, 

 the splendid Cactus and many others, elegant, rare, and 

 fragrant, are there in abundance. 



Sunday School Teacbeb- — We do not often meddle, 

 with any other culture than that of our good mother 

 Earth — but here is a work called the " Sunday School 

 Teacher and Childrens' Friend," which we can most 

 heartily recommend to parents and Teachers; it is de- 

 signed to improve the culture of that part which will 

 live when earth and its scenes arc merged in the holy 

 harvest of eternity. — It is published by Otis, Broaders 

 &. Co-, 54 pages 18 mo- at gl 50 per year. 



Uj' a valuable article on " Raising Chickens," was 

 received too late for the present, but shall appear in our 

 next number. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL. SOCIETY. 



We find it neces.sary to give only a brief notice of the 

 floral oxhibitions, 4'C. of our Society in the N. E. Far- 

 mer. Many of our customers and respected patrons com- 

 plain that long lists of flowers c^c. are entirely destitute 

 of interest to them : and of no more use than would be a 

 quotation from a Greek vocabulary, or Homer's Cata- 

 logue of Ships, which sailed to the siege of Troy. We 

 will therefore, merely mention in the Farmer, the names 

 of the contributors, and the kinds of articles, which they 

 respectively exhibited, and publish in the Horticultural 

 Register of next month the details, copied, verbatim from 

 the manuscripts, with which we have been favored by 

 the different Committees of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



Saturday, July 10, 1836. 



From the establishment of the Messrs Winship of 

 Brighton, a great number and variety of Flowers. By 

 Col. M. P. Wilder, of Dorchester ; fine flowers. By 

 John A. Kenrick, of Newton ; Koses of different sorts. 

 From Messrs Hovey of Cambridge, T. Lee, Esq. of 

 Prookline, M. S. Sweetser, of Cambridgeport, Samuel 

 Walker of Roxbury ; flowers of fine description and in 

 great profusion. 



Saturday, July 16, 1*36. 



Messrs Hovey, Wm. Kenrick, M. P. Wilder. E. A. 

 Story, from Winships' Establishment, and S. Walker of 

 Roxbury, contributed liberally choice specimens of flow- 

 ers, 



EXHIBITION OF FRUITS. 



By Thomas Mason of the Charlestown Vineyard. 

 Raspberries. — Red Franconia, White Antwerp, and 

 his new seedling Red Grape Raspberry, all very large 

 and beautiful. 



Apples. By Isaac P. Davis, of Dorchester. — Sweet 

 apples very beautiful and fine for keeping. 

 For tlie Committee, 



WILLIAM KENRICK. 



Revolutionary Battles — We believe the follow- 

 ing to lie a complete list of the principal battles fought 

 during the war of the revolution, with the exception ol 

 a few in the southern stales. — JVew Bedford Mer. 



Eattle of Concord, April 19, 1775 



Battle of Bunker Hill, June 15, 1775 

 Battle of Old Hampton, Va. where we took five 



decked vessels, some time in November, 1775 

 Battle of the Great Bridge, near Norfolk, Va. 



Dec. 18. 1775 



Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776 



Battle of Fort Washington, Nov. 17. 1776 



Battle of Fort Lee, Nov. 19, 1776 

 Battle of Trenton, when 1000 Hessians were 



captured, Dec 26, 1776 



Battle of Princeton, Jan. 2, 1777 



Battle of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777 



Battle of Brandy wine, Sept. 11, 1777 



Battle of Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777 



Burgoyne's army taken near Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777 



Battle of the Red Banks, Oct. 22, 1777 



Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778 



Battle of Stoney Point, July 16, 1779 



Battle of Camden, Aug. 10, 1780 



Battle of Cowpens, Jan. 17. 17S1 



Battle of Gilford, N. C. March 15, 1781 



Massacre at Groton, Ct., Sept. 6, 1781 



Battle of Eutaw Springs, Sept. 9, 1781 



Battle of King's Mountain, Oct. 7, 1781 



Cornwallis and his army taken, Oct. 19, 1781 



The New York Mechanics' Magazine informs us that 

 an important improvei»ent which has been for several 

 years in progress, is about being introduced to the notice 

 of the public. It is a composition or cement, the prin- 

 cipal ingredient of which is marble or limestone, which 

 when applied to the inner or outer walls of buildings, 

 presents the appearance o{ polished marble, of the various 

 hues which distinguish the beautiful material imitated. 



One week is said to be sufhcient to give the walls of a 

 building the appearance of Grecian, Italian, Egyptian 

 or other marble, and practical men who have examined 

 it, give this cement the decided preference over any 

 other cement, stucco, or other hard finish for walls, here 

 tofore known.— Mechanic and Farmer. 



Having seen it stated in the Courier that the use of 

 Super-carbonate of Soda was far preferable to Salseratus 

 in making bread, I would state for the information of 

 housekeepers that having seen the experiment tried, I 

 am satisfied that if any one will make a single trial of 

 the Soda, they will never wish to use the Saloeratus. 

 The Soda bread is lighter, more easily digested, and 

 herefore much healthier than that made with Salsera- 

 us. — Ameshury, Mass., Cou. 



Advantage of Shade Trees. —The Salem Gazette 

 says that a late fire in that city, green shade trees offer- 

 ed a greater protection against fire than wet blankets. 

 There are few places where so much attention has been 

 bestowed upon ornamental trees as in Salem, and we are 

 happy to find that security as well as comfort may be de- 

 rived from them. — Bangor Far. 



