park, which contains about three thousand acres, Friend Boyle's figure and gait reminded one and in which we saw large herds of deer quietly constantly of Dr. Johnson, and as his bulky figfeeding, looked at the barracks capable of ac-ure in his peculiar costume, attended by my lesser commodating four thousand soldiers and two frame appareled in a gray travelling suit, with thousand horses, saw the equestrian statue of soft hat, and more whiskers than are common in King William of Orange, the Nelson monument, Ireland, and a big cane with a large chamois horn and an unfinished monument to Wellington, and head, passed through the streets, it was evident the pedestal of a statue to be erected to Tom that we produced a sensation; and once a goodMoore. natured Irishman accosted us with the suggestion But it is time to describe an Irish jaunting that we were not very well matched for a pair. car, the carriage in almost universal use in all However, we jogged on and soon reached GlasIreland. The carriage is upon two low wheels, neven, where we entered the cemetery, which is and is drawn by one horse. It has no top or the present burial-place for the city of Dublin. protection from sun or rain. It contains forty-two acres, and is laid out with

The seats are over the wheels, and the passen- great taste and planted well with trees and shrubgers sit back to back, facing outwards towards bery, and kept with great care. Altogether, the the sidewalks, or just the reverse of the position general impression one receives in passing over in an omnibus. Usually the seats carry two per- it, is more satisfactory to American taste, than sons on each side, but are frequently loaded with that made by any other burial-place I have seen six in all. The driver has a small seat in front, in Great Britain or Ireland. where he sits if his load is properly balanced, The conspicuous object in the cemetery is otherwise he occupies one side to make it even. O'Connell's monument, a shaft in the form of You sit leaning sideways on the cushion which the famous round towers which are found in many is at your back between the two seats, with your parts of Ireland, and which have occasioned feet on a foot-board projecting outward beyond much speculation as to their origin and use. I everything else, and one unused to the vehicle have seen several of them, some nearly entire, expects every moment to have his boots and their and they seem to be of one form, a round shaft, contents carried away by some car which rushes of stone, roughly put together with mortar, taby. Dublin is full of these cars. Nearly all the pering slightly towards the top, and running passengers are taken to and from the stations in some seventy or eighty feet high. The top is them, families go to church in them, or rather drawn to a point, in a conical shape, so as to cover on them, on the Sabbath, ladies with two or three the hollow space within. These towers are thought small children, or with market-baskets, vases of to have been built in very ancient times as places flowers, baskets of china, are seen rushing past of refuge in war, though many have supposed in all directions, looking all the time to a stran- they were connected with some religious purpose. ger as if, at the first corner, they would fly off at Such is the monument to Daniel O'Connell, the a tangent against the curb-stones. great Irish Repealer, a man still almost wor

But the Irish insist that they are the safest, shipped by Catholic Ireland. O'Connell's body most comfortable and most convenient carriages is not deposited at this monument, but reposes in existence, and that noboby ever lcst a foot, or in a tomb, at a short distance, in the same cemewas thrown off in turning. It is useless for a tery, except his heart, which at his own request, stranger to set up his opinion against such odds, was sent to be preserved at Rome, to show his but it did seem to me, that human ingenuity respect for the Pope and his religion. could hardly devise a vehicle for riding in, less Along the walks are a great many beech trees, safe or comfortable. However, I have taken upon which some amateur had practiced in perpleasant rides in the jaunting cars, and perhaps, forming a singular operation. They are trees of in time, should get up an attachment for them, six or eight inches diameter, with each a single but it must require a long practice before one top, and two, three or four trunks. Small trees can feel that he is in a very retired or even shel- are planted within a foot or two of each other tered position, on the top of such a vehicle. and then brought together at three of four feet Next morning early found friend Boyle and above the ground, and united by a sort of graftmyself on our way on foot to the Prospect Cem- ing, one top only being preserved, so that the etery and the Glasneven Model farm, a distance tree stands as it were on several legs. But my out and back of some seven or eight miles. letter is already too long, and the Glasneven Friend Boyle was in the costume of a Yorkshire Model farm is close by, and calls for attention farmer, with a low crowned hat, a broad skirted in another letter.

coat, small clothes and leather leggins tight from

the knees to the shoes, over which they fitted like old fashioned buskins.

MOTHS IN CARPETS.-An experienced housekeeper writes:-"Camphor will not stop the rav

ages of the moths after they have commenced every year as soon as the crop was cut, would run eating. Then they pay no regard to the presence out in one hundred years. It might be necessary, of camphor, cedar or tobacco; in fact, I rather

think they enjoy the latter, if anything else than occasionally, to leave the crop until some of the humanity can. Nor will the dreaded and incon- seed had fallen, or to scatter seed upon it with venient taking up and beating always insure suc- the top-dressing if the crop were always taken cess, for I tried it faithfully, and, while nailing it off before the seed had ripened.

down, found several of the worms 'alive and kick- It is a heavy bill of cost to re-seed our mowing ing,' that had remained under the pile unharmed. lands as often as we do, and we hope this note I conquered them wholly in this way: I took a

TOADS.

coarse crash towel and wrung it out of clean of our correspondent will call out the views of water, and spread it smoothly on the carpet, then others on the subject. ironed it dry with a good hot iron, repeating the operation on all suspected places, and those least used. It does not injure the pile or color of the carpet in the least, as it is not necessary to press, heat and steam being the agents; and they do the work effectually on worms and eggs. Then the camphor will doubtless prevent future depredations of the miller."-Dollar Newspaper.

For the New England Farmer. SURFACE APPLICATION OF MANURE.

Never destroy the toad. We are assured that "nothing is made in vain," and a very slight knowledge of natural history will show us that of all reptiles, perhaps with the exception of the even the toad-the most universally deprecated viper-may be of some use. In the first place we discover that toads feed on all kinds of grubs and worms; consequently they serve to protect the vegetable kingdom from the ravages of its most insidious and destructive foes. The pestifWhere the purpose is to secure good crops of erous canker-worm is a favorite food with him, grass, I am inclined to believe this can be most and he devours indiscriminately, and in large succesfully done, by applying the dressing at a numbers, for his dilating powers, and capacity of proper time, directly upon the surface. My faith deglutition almost rival those of the anaconda. in this belief was strongly confirmed yesterday Craving only the protection of a turf or chip, he by a view of the grounds of an intelligent gentle- labors incessantly for man's benefit, and demands man who had dressed them in this manner only for his invaluable services no guerdon as a refor a series of years; and I never saw better as- ward. The antipathy cherished by some towards surance of fine crops. I queried, whether it would the toad, is the consequence of perverted views, not have been better to have turned over the and should be corrected. In itself it is a source sod, and mingled the manure with the sod, to of misery to those by whom it is indulged, and save it from evaporation. In reply, he said, the cause of cruelty to the innocent and unoffendwhat do you want better than the present pros- ing. Hence it is a disgrace to our nature, which, pect of a crop? There will grow as much as can illuminated by the divine scintillations of science, conveniently be cured upon the land, and the exshould see beyond the blinding mists of prejupense of fertilizing has not been one-third as dice, and recognize the wisdom and goodness of much, as to have plowed the ground; more than Providence even in its most abject creations.this, the appearance of the field is smoother and Cowper, the poet of nature, discourses admirably more complete, than it could be made after re- upon this subject.-Germantown Telegraph. peated plowings. I was thrown into a quandary by the argument. If any of our cultivators, of long experience, who have been accustomed to turn anew their fields, once in ten years or oftener, can tell why they do it, I should be glad to hear from them. As at present advised, I believe the best crops of grass grown in this vicinity, are near his dwelling a collection of brown thrushes, "A gentleman observed in a thicket of bushes brought about by judicious top-dressings. I who for several days had attracted his attention know this to be true, where kelp and other like by their loud cries and strange movements. At articles can be obtained from the sea-shore, to last curiosity was so much excited, that he despread upon the land. I know of fields of twen-termined to see if he could ascertain the cause of ty acres or more, that can be relied on for two the excitement among them. On examining the tons to the acre, at the first cutting, and one at bushes he found a female thrush, whose wing the second, the sod of which has not been started was caught in a limb in such a way that she for the last twenty years; these are the fields for could not escape. Near by was her nest, conthe use of the horse-power mower. What kind, Mr. Editor, do you recommend to be purchased? Now is the time to prepare for the work. June 5, 1858.

ESSEX.

ABOUT THE BIRDS.

The National Intelligencer gives the following beautiful instance of the kindness towards each other by birds:

taining several half-grown birds. On retiring a little distance, a company of thrushes approached with worms and other insects in their mouths, which they would give first to the mother, and then to her young, she in the meantime cheering REMARKS. The practice is rapidly gaining them in their labor of love with a song of gratiground of keeping moist lands in grass, and of tude. After watching the interesting sight until top-dressing them once in three years at least, curiosity was satisfied, the gentleman relieved and oftener where manure can be had. It is the poor bird, when she flew to her nest with a grateful song to her deliverer, and her charitable hardly probable that an acre of naturally good neighbors dispersed to their usual abodes, singland, at the same time moist, slightly top-dressed ing as they went a song of praise."

EXTRACTS AND REPLIES.

MANURES FOR COMPOSTING.

a portion of the limbs, and remove the earth low enough to cut off smoothly all the fibrous or sucker roots; then rub them all over with undiluted

I noticed that one of your correspondents re- oil soap. I have examined all my trees, which commended hauling earth, leaves, &c., into the were well stocked with borers two years ago, barn-cellar and weekly pouring the manure of and there is not now the appearance of one. One cattle, &c., mixed with water, on the mass for the of my neighbors who told me last year that compurpose of absorbing the liquid portion, and also mon bar soap was equally good, recently informed increasing the quantity of manure. me he had lost by this insect three of his best

B. F. MANN.

Marion, June 4, 1858.

GUENON'S ESCUTCHEON.

Now if moisture is necessary to produce fer- trees. mentation in the heap, would it not be better to The trees are not injured by this mode of treatkeep the solid and liquid parts of the manure ment. My orchard is vigorous and healthy, and separate, until a short time before applying it? bore a handsome quantity last year; this year it Also to keep the solid part in as compact a state has finely blossomed. I only wish the insect as possible, by compression of some sort? Would which mars the fruit could be as easily extermiit not save a portion of the gases that arise dur-nated as the borer. NATHAN BRIGGS. ing decomposition? Could it not then be used in making up compost heaps, and become more valuable than if used in the way spoken of above? What is your opinion, Mr. Editor? I remember to have seen a publication explanLowell, May, 1858. atory of this infallible guide to the true characREMARKS.-When the farmer has a plentiful ter of milch cows. I doubted then, and have supply of good meadow muck, and his soils need continued to doubt ever since, because I could vegetable matter, we think there is no way of trace no connection between the hair and the milking properties of the animal. I should as composting equal to covering the droppings soon think of graduating the ability of a man, every morning with a coat of such muck, to the mental or physical, by the hair upon his lip, or extent of the droppings themselves. Follow this the productive power of a farm by a profespractice for a few weeks or months, keeping out sor's certificate of the quality of the soil, the only all dry and coarse herbage, and you will find a knowledge of which he had obtained by analyzheap as rich in all the elements of fertility, as The public is so flooded with humbugs of this ing a few ounces, without ever seeing the farm. anything that can well be devised. It will be character, that it behoves them to be on their black, saponaceous or soapy to handle, easy to guard.

shovel and remove to the field and to be applied I remember to have heard an eminent lecturer there, and we think is the easiest, cheapest, and say, a few years since, that he then had on hand more than one hundred parcels of soil waiting to most profitable way of preserving manures, and be analyzed. Whether he ever found time, unproduces the best present and most permanent der his multiplied avocations and perigrinations, results on the crops. to attend to these applications, and furnish the promised certificates, I have no means of determining. June, 1858.

RAKES AND MILK.

If large quantities of coarse materials are to be converted into manure, we are inclined to think a good barn-yard is a good place to do it, if it is not the best. It should be dishing, shaded by I notice you have an inquiry from "N.," of trees somewhat, so provided with a coating of Fitchburg, "Which is the best Rake?" In your loam, muck, and dried herbage of some kind, as remarks I notice you prefer the Delano. Now to absorb all the droppings of the stock as they the rake that scarifies the ground the least, or are yielded. It is necessary that cattle stay in that takes up the least quantity of drift, and the yard a portion of the time, summer and win- raises the least amount of dust, or dry soil in ter, and there will always be an accumulation, sions were in favor of the old rotary rake; but I particular, should be preferred, and my impresmore or less, of their offal,- -so that something may be in error. This matter of raking is to be must be done to preserve what falls there, even done quickly by the farmer, now-a-days, but if the yard is not intended as a place.

HOW TO KEEP OFF BORERS.

what is the effect upon his stock? Dusty hay will give your cattle the heaves, wear out their teeth and disease their stomachs. Bottom drift, dirt and dust, are anything but nutriment, but I find in your June number over the signature sure promoters of disease. For choice farm stock, of "Essex," this remark, viz.: "So fast is improve- I would give odds for hay that is gathered by the ment at the present day, that it takes as much ancient hand rake. care to unlearn what is erroneously stated, as to find out by actual trial what is correct."

Our "swill milk" developments are unpleasant matters of contemplation. Only think of it-milk This is the fact, and one completely successful strained through a diseased cow! But the public experiment is worth dozens of theories. I have stomach is by nature and practice a most endurwritten you an article or two on the destruction able, unyielding machine. "But by a more genial of the fruit-tree borer, and my experiments are atmosphere than yours, our average of life is completely successful. I will repeat it. In this equal to that of your better regulated city. It month, clean the trees by rubbing with the cor- would seem from your report that Massachusetts ner of a chisel, lightly the whole trunk, including milk would be much improved if the cows were

shingled and the pump handles were cut off. Has it rained any of late?

New York, May, 1858.

H. POOR.

REMARKS.-The Delano or Independent Tooth Rake operates much like the Revolving Rake; it gathers very little that ought not to be gathered.

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A SAVINGS BANK.

CEMENT WATER PIPES.

A correspondent inquires in regard to cement pipes. Several years since, I laid a pipe procured of the Water and Gas Pipe Co., of Jersey City, New Jersey, and it has proved to be an exof it a year or two since, in the columns of your cellent aqueduct. I gave a particular description paper, if I remember correctly. I think no pipe is so durable, and none so pure as this, unless it I should like to speak of my savings bank, and be block tin. At the outlet I attach a block tin ask you to make any suggestions as to improve- pipe to the cement pipe in the bottom of the ment in its management. It is not an incorpora- ditch. Stop cocks should be used at every ted institution, has no officers but a president, branch in the bottom of the ditch and protected and his or her assistants, no salary to be paid, by a cement box. The pipe is made in pieces receives deposits at all hours, and of any quality from 6 to 10 feet long, of tin or sheet iron, and which will contribute to the general fund; never then lined on the inside with cement. When it refuses to discount at any time, both principal is laid, it is laid in cement, and a sheet iron sleeve and interest; the interest per centum varies in 4 inches wide is put over the joints, and the space proportion to the amount of deposits. between the joints filled in with cement and then Now, you may ask, is it a paying institution? the sleeve is well covered with the same material. Yes, if well managed, for the president is of such If made with good cement and laid below the a make, that he only requires his keeping for his frost, I don't see how it can ever fail. The Comservices, and throws in his carcass in 9 or 12 pany send men to lay the pipes, and warrant the work. It is well to have a stop-cock near the spring to shut off the water for repairs.

months to boot.

SPONGE.

DAVID LYMAN.

Middlefield, Conn., June 10, 1858.

WEATHER IN VERMONT-WOOL.

The deposits consist of various kinds of materials. 1. Good loam, sufficient to absorb all liquids. 2. The droppings of my cows, with the loam upon which they stand and void their liquid and solid manure, both summer and winter. And finally, every weed, straw, litter and all refuse We had rain almost every day from the 10th vegetables not eaten by the cows or pigs. Now of May up to the 25th; then dry, up to the 5th of how shall I make it better, or more profitable? this month: since last date, it has rained each Prospect Hill, 1858. day to this date, and is raining now. We have REMARKS.-A capital bank, that—its tenden- had quite a full blossom for fruit; grass looks cies are exactly opposite to those of banks general- quite well for a good crop of hay. I think our ly. Banks with salaried officers have a tendency plowing was mostly done near three weeks earlier than in 1857. We have not had very warm to fasten mortgages on the farm, while such as weather, as yet, nor have we had it very cool,yours are calculated to lift them off. If farmers on the whole, crops bid fair to give us another would have nothing to do, with money banks, and blessing at harvest time. I think there was not more with compost banks, their grass would be more than one-fifth of maple sugar made this thicker and higher, their corn stouter and sound-eason, as compared with last year, in this part of our State. Our heaviest shearing flocks of er, milch cows better, oxen stronger, their orch- sheep have been shorn, and the wool sold in the ards and potato fields more prolific, and their dirt and oil, at 25 cts. per pound, which, I think, is families happier.

A COW THAT HOLDS BACK HER MILK.

Will you, or some of your numerous subscribers tell me through your columns what will stop a cow from holding up her milk? I have a threeyear old heifer from whom at times it is impossible to get more than one-third of her milk; she has all the marks of a first-rate cow, gives rich milk, is an easy milker, and perfectly gentle. W. B. WILLIAMS.

fully equal to 40 cts. if cleansed, as the sheep have been housed and fed grain, and most of them oiled since the clipping of 1857. Farmers in this vicinity expect to get from 34 to 40 cents per pound for our cleansed wool.

W. F. GOODRICH.

Middlebury, Vt., June 8, 1858.

TO DESTROY VERMIN AND BORERS.

Apply spirits turpentine. You will need to wet the branch or limb both above and below the nest, then wet the nest well with the turpenat tine, and life will soon be extinct. It is sure. For borers put it round the tree near to the ground. It will not injure the tree in the least. It will destroy the egg as well as the worm. Lempster, N. H., June 10, 1858. L. SMITH.

Chittenden, Vt., June, 1858. REMARKS.-Treat her gently always, and milking time especially so, giving her a mess of meal, oats, or grass. Such are the remedies we have heard offered-we know of no other.

WHAT WILL KILL HOUSELEEK?

A friend of mine wishes to know what will kill the high houseleek, as he has a piece of land that is almost overrun with it?

Charlton, June, 1858.
REMARKS.-Who can tell?

E. W. KING.

SEED OF THE WHITE PINE.

Friend KENRICK, of South Orleans, may obtain seed of the white pine by applying to B. F. CUTTER, Esq., seedsman, florist and gardener, Lowell, Mass. Please have a pair of those whales harnessed by the time we get along that way!

mer.

A, is the rock just raised above grouud. F. kind of sweet well-made hay, cut it with a knife, the windlass. G, the connecting wheels between and with your hands press it well around the the windlass and crank-shaft H. H, the crank-hams in the bag; tie the bags with good strings, put on a card of the year to show their age, and shaft, with drum, secured to or detached from hang them up in the garret or some dry room, the shaft at pleasure. B B, the hoisting rope, and they will hang five years, and will be better wound on the drum or crank-shaft H, and runs for boiling than on the day you hung them up. under a roller and through a shreeve near the this method costs but little, as the bags will last end of the tongue, to which a horse is attached forty years. No flies or bugs will trouble the hams if the hay is well pressed around them; the to hoist the rock. The small crank and shaft sweating of the hams will be taken up by the hay under crank-shaft H, is to wind up the rope when and the hay will impart a fine flavor to the hams. the rock is hoisted high enough and the horse is The hams should be treated in this manner bedetached. The proprietors of this machine and fore the warm weather sets in.-Southern Farpatent right claim, that it is one of the greatest labor-saving improvements of the age. It will| take rocks out of the earth of five tons weight| or less, without digging to relieve them, with It is well known to our readers that Professor great ease and rapidity, and move them into the Holmes, of the College of Charleston, has been line for a wall, if desired, and place smaller ones for many years engaged in exploring the fossil on top until the wall is five feet high. The ma- beds of Ashley river. A large number of interchine may be operated by men or by horse-power. esting relics have been collected, and the savans The united power of two men will lift a rock of of Europe and America have expressed their five tons weight from the ground in ten minutes, great satisfaction at the results of these explorations. Professor Agassiz in a lecture some time or it may be done by a horse in one minute. since, just after a visit to the Ashley with ProThe proprietor has many certificates from prac-fessor H., said, "it was the greatest depository tical men showing the efficacy of his machine. of fossil remains he had ever seen." Professor For further particulars address Thomas Ellis, Tuomey called it "the great shark sepulchre of Rochester, Mass.

THE HORSE NOT ORIGINALLY IMPORT-
ED FROM THE EAST.

America," and now Professor Leidy, the distinguished American anatomist, has prepared a valuable paper on the remains of the horse and TO PRESERVE HAM THROUGH THE SUMMER. other animals, found fossil on the Ashley, which --Make a number of cotton bags, a little larger had been placed in his hands for examination by than your hams: after the hams are well smoked, Profesor Holmes; and it will appear, from the piace them in the bags; then get the very best short extract we make, that the investigation now