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Vol. IV. 395 NEW ENGLAND FARM It. CARDING OF WOOL. Merino wool, either partly or full blooded, has a gum adhering to it near the root, or next to the skin of the animal.

This gum must be cleared off before the cards will afford good rolls. Recipe. Mix one pail of stale chamberlye with 4 pails full of soft water, heat-this mixture as hot as you can bear your hand in turn it into a cistern or tub sufficient to hold fifty pounds of wool stir the wool thoroughly with a stick till tho gum is disengaged, then put the wool into a basket and rinse it clean with water. Too much oil or grease often renders it impossible for the carder to make good rolls, To eight THE WEATHER. It was two weeks, yesterday, since the rain3 began to descend upon the parched and thirsty earth, and it has rained, more or less, nearly every day since.

The weather is warm, and the effec which has been produced upon vegetation is moa wonderful. The grass which lately looked so miserably appears now yielding, if not cut too hastily, nearly a middling crop. Corn and the small grains look well, and we may reasonably anticipate, with proper economy, a supply for all the wants both of man and beast. Mass. Spy.

SAGACITY OF A DOG. On Saturday last, a boy of Mr John Hawkes, Jr. about 8 years of age, while playing in a gondola near Chase's mills, fell overboard. His dog, a water spaniel, immediately without being told, jumped in and dragged him on shore no person being near, the boy must have been drowned had it not been for the dog. Lynn Mirror.

pounds of wool use one pound of grease, free from salt or other impurities or to ten pounds of wool, OHIO. It is estimated that the annual harvest of grain of all descriptions in Ohio is more than 50 millions of bushels. It is calculated that 125 miles of the Ohio canals will be completed early in the summer of 1827. The extent of both canals is 370 miles. One will extend from Cleaveland on Lake Erie to the Ohio river the other from Cincinnati to Dayton on the Great Miami.

Ham.Gaz. one pound of pure spermaceti oil. Memoranda from Lewis and Clark's expedition. In the Missouri below where Soldier's River enters it, there is a bend in the river of twelve miles, though from the same points, the distance is only three hundred and seventy-five yards. Below Fort Charles there is a bend of eighteen miles and three quarters by land 974 yards.

The distance across the great bend of the Missouri is 2000 yards the circuit by water is thirty miles. The animals along the Missouri are elk, buffaloes, and deer in immense herds. Antelopes and beaver are in great numbers. An antelope measured five feet three inches from the hoof to the shoulder. A white bear weighed three hnudred pounds, a brown bear between five and six hundred pounds, and measured eight feet seven inches from the nose to the extremity of the hind feet.

The bag of a pelican which they shot held five gallons. Just below Cedar Island on a bill to the south, is the backbone of a fish forty-five feet long, in a perfect state of petrifaction. At the mouth of the Columbia river, there were pine trees of eight or ten feet in diameter and one hundred feet high others of twelve feet diameter and two hundred feet high. Nat. Journal.

ly particularly under favourable circumstances, increasing one, two, and sometimes even three hundred per cent, annually. Our hills and valleys are enamelled with flowers, on which they can feed during six months of the year and our orchards, our wood-lands, and even our cultivated fields, afford many products from which they may gather their delicious harvest, and abundantly store the mellifluent hive. It is said that our summers are not sufficiently long to allow the bees, with all their industry, to lay in a sufficient stock of food for the long winter. This is not the fact for if properly treated, they require, at most but a mere trifle, or none at all. It is a wellknown truth that the bee, as many other insects, is rendered torpid by a certain degree of cold, and will continue in this state for a long time without injury and while the powers of animation are thus suspended, no food can be, nor is it necessary that it should be, taken by the insect.

If, then, after the season of making honey is past, say in November, the hives be placed in a situation sufficiently cold to stupify -the bees, and they be kept thus until the opening of Spring, not an ounce I of honey would be consumed during the whole Winter, for their support. But it may be asked, how can this be done in our variable climate By having a proper vtult or cellar constructed in the vicinity, or under the bee-house, fitted with suitable shelves, or niches, where to place the hives, and in which a quantity of ice has been previously deposited. Thus a uniform temperature may be preserved, not so cold as to kill or injure the bees, nor yet so warm as to quicken their dormant vital powers. Somethhg similar to this is said to have been tried with full success and indeed there seems be no goad reason for distrusting the feasibleness of the plan. There are certainly many inducements at present, for our farmers to give more attention to this subject than has been of late.

Among these a principal one is the trifling care, and still less expense that is required to give them an abundarc supply of a luscious and useful article of domestic consumption, and even an important commodity for commerce. Worcester Yeoman. MAPLE TREE. The beauty of our domestic maple ha3 long been acknowledged, having obtained a conspicuous place in the ornamental finish of our fancy articles of furniture. It is known to be susceptible of as fine a polish as any wood and we are glad to be informed wa hope from good authority that it is even in New York superseding, by the decree of fashion, and of course by the common consent of taste, the use of mahogany.

It is said that the maple is now beginning to be generally adopted in the manufacture of our tables and chairs, and also in finishing the interior of our most costly buildings. We know nothing more beautiful than some of the specimens of the curled maple, which we have seen worked up in ladies' work stands and it will be a fit subject of congratulation, when we may be allowed, without disobedience to good teste, to go to our forests, in preference to those of St.Domingo, for the materials of beauty and comfort. National Journal. Justice Abbot, lately in the Court of King's Bench, England, decided, and laid it down as law, that a tenant has no right to remove the trees and shrubs he had planted on the premises he TREES. The largest tree in England seems to be on the estate of Lady Stourton in Yorkshire, which, in 1716, was nearly 85 feet in height, 48 feet in cir-c umference, at a yard from the surface, and 78 ft.

in circumftreft'ee; when measured close to the ground. Virginia. The Agricultural Society of Albe marle have announce a second Agricultural Cattle Show and exhibition, in Charlottesville or its vicinity, on tho 26th and 27th of October next, and offer a variety of premiums, the aggregate amount of which exceeds $300. We are informed by the Nantucket Inquirer that in the year 1820 there were more than five hundred persons in the town of Nantucket bearing the name of Coffin, all probably the decendants of Tristram Coffin, who settled in this country about, the year 1644. It is stated in a late London paper, that 3500 guineas were lately refused for Lord Lowther'a celebrated horse Monarch.

Wholesome Advice. The editor of the Hamilton (Ohio) Advertiser says, after noticing the injury done to a building by the lightning, the first thing after a man has built himself a house, should be to procure a security against lightning." But as fires are less often caused by touch etherial," than by carelessness, accident or design, we take the liberty of recommending in addition to the lightning rod, a good sound policy of insurance. In the building way this is certainly one of the best policies," the rod may act as a preventive to one kind of evil, but the insurance is a happy and effective remedy for all. Hay has recently been sold in Philadelphia at the rate of forty dollars per ton. CANAL MEDALS.

The corporation of New-York have caused a number of medals to be struck to commemorate the completion of the Western Canal, and transmitted to Messrs. Adams, Carroll, and Jefferson, the three surviving signers of the Declaration of Independence. Each of those gentlemen have sent a letter of acknowledgement to the Corpora tion. Application is to be made to the New-York Legislature at the next session, for leave to build a McAdamized turnpike road from Albany to Troy. The following fact, copied from the Hampshire Gazette, is a confirmation of Mr Pierce's method of preparing seed corn, first published in the New England Farmer Mr Ralph Owen, of Belchertown, in May last, planted 3 or 4 acres with corn which had been soaked in copperas water the seed came ud and not a plant was destroyed by worms.

An adjoining field, planted with corn which had not been steeped, was very much injured.".