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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Aug. 



Trumbull Bull, Esq., in Harvard, Mass., who 

 has frequently sold several hundred dollars worth 

 of tliis and other varieties in a season. His let- 

 ter below tells its own story. 



Mr. Brown : — Dear Sir, — The peach given you 

 yesterday in the cars, is known at my place as 

 the Mammoth Peach, measuring about 9| inches 

 in circumference, and its weight, when picked, 10 

 ounces, with the little stem and leaves. 



The skin is usually of a yellowish cast, with a 

 bright red cheek. 



It is quite yellow-meated, very juicy, and in 

 flavor not unlike the Crawford. Freestone ; ri- 

 pens from loth to 30th of September. 



Hoping we shall have an abundance of peaches 

 another season, I remain, 



Yours in haste. Trumbull Bull. 



Harvard, Sept. 26, 1860. 



DANGERS OP CHECKING PERSPI- 

 RATION. 



A medical journal publishes a severe caution 

 against allowing perspiration to be suddenly 

 checked. All who are condemned to "eat their 

 bread in the sweat of their brows" should give 

 heed to this advice. As one illustration of the 

 evils resulting from the practice which it con- 

 demns, the following case, divested of technical- 

 ities, may be cited : A Boston merchant having 

 worked pretty hard on board one of his ships on 

 a windy day, found himself exhausted and per- 

 spiring freely. He sat down to rest. The cool 

 wind from the sea was delightful, and engaging 

 in conversation, time passed faster than he was 

 aware. In attempting to rise, he could not do so 

 without assistance. He was taken home and put 

 to bed, where he remained two years, and for a 

 long time could only hobble about on a crutch. 

 Such exposures frequently result in inflammation 

 of the lungs, pneumonia, ending in death in less 

 than a week, or tedious rheumatic affections. 

 Multitudes of lives would be saved every year if 

 parents would explain to their children the dan- 

 ger which attends cooling off too quickly after ex- 

 ercise, and the importance of not standing still 

 after work or play, or remaining exposed to a 

 wind, or sitting at an open window or door, or 

 pulling off any garment, even the hat or bonnet, 

 while in a heat. It should be remembered that a 

 cold never comes without a cause, and that in 

 four times out of five, it is the result of leaving 

 off exercise too suddenly, or of remaining still in 

 the wind, or entering, while heated, a cooler at- 

 mosphere than that in which the exercise has 

 been taken. 



Windmills. — Will you, or 8ome of the cor- 

 respondents of the Cultivator, inform me through 

 its valuable pages, what the power of a windmill 

 would be, whose diameter is eight feet, and hav- 

 ing eight vanes, from twelve to sixteen inches 

 wide. Would it be too heavy if the wheel weighed 

 one hundred pounds ? Where is Elgar's self- 

 regulating wincjmill made ? r. 



Our correspondent may easily make his own 

 calculations, by first ascertaining the surface of 

 all the vanes in square feet, and then allowing 

 one-tenth of a pound on the square foot for a 



light breeze, two to three-tenths for a gentle wind, 

 one pound for a brisk wind, two to three pounds 

 when very brisk, and four to six pounds for a 

 high wind. The windmill mentioned would be 

 much too large and heavy for anything but a self- 

 regulator — unless constantly watched, it would 

 he soon broken to pieces. We do not know where 

 Elgar's is made. — Country Gentleman. 



OBSERVATIONS ON STORMS. 



1. The Atlantic ocean is the source of nearly 

 all the rains which visit this part of the country. 

 The moisture collected from the great lakes is 

 small in quantity, travels but a short distance, 

 and usually falls to the Northward of this paral- 

 lel. The Gulf of Mexico sheds its vapors on the 

 great Western valley. From the Northern ocean 

 and the rivers flowing into it, hardly any mois- 

 ture is evaporated. 



2. The heated air ascending from the surface of 

 the Atlantic, especially from the Gulf Stream, is 

 wafted over the land, by winds which usually 

 blow at a right angle to the general coast line 

 During nearly the whole of last week such a 

 breeze blew from the Southeast. It was hot, 

 damp, and felt oppressive on account of the quan- 

 tity of moisture it contained. 



3. No rain storms are experienced, or even 

 heavy showers, after the wind has been blowing 

 steadily from the Northwest, this being a dry 

 current, and absorbing instead of giving out 

 moisture. 



4. After hot days, during the summer season, 

 the sea breeze usually sets in toward evening. 

 On reaching the mountains this current comes in 

 contact with a cooler one, from the opposite di- 

 rection, when there is apt to be a thunder show- 

 er, followed by the ordinary Northwester. The 

 storm occurs along the line of collision between 

 those opposing currents, and of course travels in 

 the direction of the ocean. 



5. When a Southeaster has prevailed for a time 

 at any season, it is reasonable to expect a corres- 

 ponding heavy rain, as the clouds have a great 

 quantity of moisture to deposit. At the same 

 time the coolness which succeeds will usually be 

 in about the same ratio, the wet surface of the 

 ground absorbing much of the caloric in the low- 

 er atmosphere. 



6. The Northeast storm is probably in every 

 case caused by one of those circular storms, 

 termed "Cyclones," whose centre is some dis- 

 tance to the eastward. In such a case the storm 

 travels from Southwest to Northeast, or in the 

 contrary direction to that in which we feel the 

 breeze blowing. If accurate observations were 

 made as to the changes in the wind, the centre of 

 the tempest might be calculated with tolerable ac- 

 curacy. In proportion to the length of time, and 

 the strength and coldness of current, the storm 

 will probably be more or less severe. A corres- 

 pondent, who has long made this subject a study, 

 remarks that the Northeasters are seldom expe- 

 rienced west of the Alleghanies. 



7. It is remarkable that on this side of those 

 mountains, storms scarcely ever blow from any 

 of the cardinal points of the compass. Any ex- 

 ceptions are believed to be only cases when the 

 wind is turning, or rather when persons are en- 



