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BOSTON, VVEDNKSDAY EVENING, NOV. 16, 1836. 



Mr Nelsok's Address. — We give in tiiis day's 

 New England Farmer, an excellent Address, delivered 

 before the Middlesex Agricultural Society, by Albert 

 H. Nelson, Esq. Much as has been before written and 

 said on the advantages, which practical Agriculture 

 derives from Science ami Book Knowledge, we have 

 seen nothing which more clearly, forcibly, and demon- 

 stratively inculcates the importance of the union of 

 these two principal sources of modern improvements in 

 busbhndry. It appears that the society before whom 

 this judicious and highly useful discourse was pro- 

 nounced, fully appreciates its value, as they have ordered 

 a thousand extri copies of the Now England Farmer to 

 be printed for the purpose of more widely disseminat 

 ing Mr Nelson's Address. We are much gratified by 

 this measure, and know of no proceeding by which the 

 whole community of cultivators, and of course every 

 individual, composing a pan of the great family of man, 

 would be more benefitted than giving extensive difi'usion 

 to such valuable productions. 



Scientific Lectores. — Boston at the present time, 

 abounds with literary and scientific societies, who assem- 

 ble, mostly on evenings, ladies as well as gentlemen, to 

 listen to lectures, scientific and literary. Want of 

 health and multifarious avocations, have prevented our 

 availing ourselves to the extent which we could have 

 wished, of these facilities for acquiring information. — 

 We have only been able to atteud the present season 

 the delivery of an Address spoken bef'>re the Boston 

 Lyceum, by the Hon. Alexander H. Everett, and one 

 of a course of lectures on Geology, by Dr C. T. Jack- 

 son. These wereto us, sources of delight as well as 

 profit. Mr Everett, after a pleasing, instructive and 

 eloquent exordium on the pleasures and advantages 

 resulting from the institution of associations similar to 

 that which he was addressing, descanted with perspicu- 

 ity and clearness on the principles of legitimate, rational 

 freedom, as secured by national, civil, municipal, and 

 constitutional law. He spoke of the defects appurte- 

 nant to the old confed ration of the Slates; told how 

 they were remedied by the Federal Constitution, and of 

 the happy effects consequent on the adoption of the 

 latter ; his address was interspersed with anecdotes of 

 the heroes and sages who were instrumental under 

 Providence in effecting the American Revolution ; and 

 the worthies, who immediately succeeding the revolu- 

 tionary patriots, adopted their counsels and measures. 

 The Orator spoke about an hour and a liulf without 

 notes, without hesitation, and with perfect connexion in 

 every part of his discourse. 



We have heard but one of Dr Jackson's course of 

 Lectures on Geology, which was delivered on the even- 

 ing of the llth ; his apparatus, drawings, collection of 

 epecimens, &c. were fine and ample, and nothing 

 was wanting to illustrate the compiiratively new but 

 exceedingly useful and interesting science which formed 

 the subject of his observations. The strata, positions, 

 and component parts of the rocks which compose the 

 more solid poitions of the globe were pointed out in a 

 lucid and masterly manner, as well as the multifarious 

 combinations, uses, &c. of tlie different minerals em- 

 pleyed in the arts and ministering to the real or antici- 

 pated wants of mankind. Dr Jackson made it evident 

 that iron was not only the great indespensable to useful 

 «rts and civilization, but without its employment as a 

 magnet America could not have been discovered, and 



witho'jt its edge tools, our forests could not have been 

 subdued, and the inhabitants of the Western Conti- 

 nent, of European descent could not have had exiatenc. 



Salem Lyceu.m. — On Friday evening last, the lec- 

 ture introductory to the course for the season, before 

 the Sulem lyceum, says the Register of that place, was 

 delivered at the Tabernacle by Hon. Daniel Webster. 

 The spacious church was crowded to overflowing on 

 this interesting occasion. Over thirteen hundred tickets 



(For ttie .\ew England Farmer.) 

 Mr. Editor, — I found, recently, upon the blank pa- 

 ges of an old treatise on gardening, the following method I ^^'^ ^^''" ^°''' ^"^ ^^^ course, and besides the lioldirs of 

 of preserving fruk. If it is either new or forgotten, and j "'"se, several hundred strangers and others vc ere adinit- 



deservlnga place in your Journal, will you insert it. — E. 

 method of preserving rnuiT. 

 Pitch upon the best and most perfect of the fruit you 

 would preserve, which is not in the least bruised, or the 

 skin any where scratched and broken, whilst still hano-- 

 ing on the tree. Do not touch nor gather it with your 

 hands, but tie a strong thread about the stalk, and hold- 

 ing it firmly in the hand, cut the stalk above with a 

 pair of scissors. The fruit being thus detached from 

 the tree without touching the branches or any thing 

 else, close the cut end with Spanish wax, to prevent 

 the air acting upon it. Then roll up a sheet of paper 

 in the form of a cone, with a little opening at the top. 

 Through this aperture pass the thread, lied to the stalk 

 of the fruit, so that it ni.iy be suspended in tlie cone ; 

 then close this aperture with soft green wax — fold in 

 the apeiture at the bottom, close und secure it in like 

 manner, so that the air may be effectually excluded. 

 The little cone inclosing the fruit, may then be hung 

 up by the thread upon a nail in a dry temperate place, 

 whether hot or cold, su that it may not touch any thing, 

 and by these means, fruit rnay be preserved two or 

 three years. Apples, Pears, Plums, Chenies, and all 

 such like, may be thus preserved. 



Corn — Farmers, hereabouts, have generally harves- 

 ted their corn, and we are sorry to say that their antici- 

 pations of a slim crop have been fully realized. We 

 understand that many in the hill towns have not even 

 a remnant of a crop, while others whose farms are fa- 

 vorably situated to escape frosts, have gathered but lit- 

 tle more than half their usual quantity. In the Con- 

 necticut valley, corn will not average more than half a 

 crop, and that of a poor qualily, not much of it fit for 

 seed. Broom-corn is equally poor — but housewives 

 can, if necessary, resort to palm leaf or birch brush to 

 keep their floors clean, while our farmers with good 

 crops of h.-iy, oats, and miscellaneous fodder on hand, 



will contrive to winter their stook without difficulty 



but then the hasty pudding — what shall we find for a 

 substitute .' — Greenfield Gazette. 



Potato Bread —The best of bread may be made 

 by mixing one third potato with two thirds flour. Our 

 fair readers, at least those of the ' working mens' sort, 

 will understand us when we advise them to select the 

 dry or mealy vaiieties of potato. Boil them or steam 

 them, leaving them as dry as practicable ; peel them ; 

 rub them through a coarse wire sieve, and work this 

 product into the flour in the same manner that 'short- 

 ening ' is usually mixed in. 



The best of all pence are ihe pennies we save. And 

 this little contrivance brings flour down to the old price. 

 Brnitlehoro Democrat 



The GREAT Bear. — We are informed that Captain 

 John Noyes, of Greenwood, recently shot in that town 

 a bear, the hind quarters of which weighed when dres- 

 sed, 401 pounds— whole weight 47.5. He sold one half 

 of it for nine cents per pound, which was carried to 



Boston, and there disposed of at a handsome profit. 



Large numbers of these animals have been killed this 

 fall in the back towns in this county. — Oxford Demo- 

 crat. I 



ted. Mr W. occupied the breathless attention of this 

 vast assemblage for an hour and a half, in a discourse on 

 the progress and consequences of popular knowledge. 

 It was profound, clear, philosophical — there was no 

 effort at display, but the lecture abounded throughout 

 in plain, practical, and conclusive arguments and illus- 

 trations, to show that the condition of the world is 

 rendered better and happier by the improvements made 

 through the discoveries and inventions of science and 

 art, and the universal diffusion of knowledge. No one 

 who heard this masterly discussion of some or the most 

 important to[ ics in the science of Political Economy, 

 could fail to receive new light, and the most useful 

 insiruction. After the lecture, a great number of the 

 citizens had the pleasure of an introduction to Mr W. 

 at the Mansion House. 



Such is the scarcity of coal at Quebec, that the daily 

 line of steamboats to Montreal is euspeiided. The cold 

 is so excessive that the ice made on the canal at Mon- 

 treal, Oct. 28, and large quantities of potatoes have 

 been frozen. 



I .uther E. Stevens, of Claremont, owns a cow which 

 weighs 1690 pounds! Isaac Hubbard of the same 

 place has a steer, not quite five years old, which weighs 

 2800 ! 



The Baltimore weekly report of this market, states 

 that the imports of foreign wheat into that city during 

 the present month have been 43,408 bushels, and that 

 the whole import since the first of the year has been 

 163,.508 bushels. 



A WHOLE Hog. — The Providence Courier slates 

 that a farmer from Killingly, Ct brought to that market 

 a fev» days since, a hog fifteen months old, that weighed 

 five hundred and si.\ty pounds, which he sold to a citi- 

 zen of that place, for thirleon cents a pound. For this 

 fine porker, our friend from Killingly received the 

 handsome sum of $72 80. 



(CrA very respectable woman, about twenly five years 

 of age with a young child three or four years old, is de- 

 tained in Ellsworth, Maine, by sickness. She came 

 there insane, and gives no account of her place of resi- 

 dence or her name. The Selecimen have made the best 

 provision for her in their power, and hope this notice 

 may meet the eyes of her friends. 



Dr Channing soys — " 1 call that mind free which 

 protects itself against the usurpations of society, which 

 does not cower to human opinions, which feels itself 

 accountable to a higher law than fashion, which res- 

 pects itself too much to be the slave of the many or 

 the few." 



The Star Gazers are reminded that the earth will pass 

 that part of her orbit in which she encountered the fall- 

 ing Stars at several periods, about this time. 



Mr Cochran, the inventor of the non recoiling rifle 

 gun, has sold the patent right for this country, for the 

 sum of 300,000 dollars. 



Why are love affairs in a cointry village, like a pair 

 of bellows.' Ans. Because they -'get wind." 



