AGRICULTURAL PhiL AD£ S I R, PERMIT ir.e through you to lay before the Agricultural So ciety, the relult of the following little experiment, io lai as I have as yet been able :o afccrtain it. Laic 10 ihc idwuth of Apnl last, I had a picce of ground in the vicinity of the borough of Lam. after, prepared to be sown with oats, which I supposed would iiave taken fix teen buftiels of feed. The evcuing before it was to be sown, I had eight bushels 3 put into a trough, and covered with water. The next morning the water was drawn off, and the oats laid >11 a heap to dram, for a lhort time, fay half an hour ; then Plailter of Paris in powder was thrown on, by small quantities at a time, and mixed with the Oats, till they acquired a lufficient decree of dryntfs to bJ sown evenly ; in this process one bushel of the Plaillcr was conl fumed ; the feed thus prepared, and dry feed from the fame 01W heap were sown on alternate lands throughout the ficldf The whole came up together, and in due time, and no difference, was visible for seven or eight days. From that time forward the diftinttion became very evident ; the Oais on the lands sown , with the prepared feed were much more luxuriant and of a deeper green, until they began to ripen—On the second inflant they were cut, being then perfe&ly ripe, while those 011 the lands sown with the unprepared feed were yet green, the heads much smaller, and proinifing in everv refpc& a worse crop. On the eighth I left home. They were then unfit to cur, and appeared as if they would not be ripe for five or fix days after— To the facts above stated, many of my neighbors are witness. I mean to have the Oats, produced from the prepared and un prepared feeds, threshed separately, to ascertain with precision the difference in the quantity and quality of the produce, which lhall be communicated to the society, as soon as conveniently may be. I have the honor to be, SIR, To Samuel Powel, Esq. Prrftdent ojthe Agricultural Sucicty. S I R, IN August last, if I recollect right, I troubled you to commu nicate to the Agricultural Society the result of an experiment I niaoe, the preceding April, by preparing feed Oats with Plaifter of Paris, so far as the fame could then be ascertained : Having since determined the difference of the produce from the prepared and unprepared feeds, I beg leave to lay it before the society— The produce of the eight bushels of prepared feed was one hun dred and twenty-two bushels and about a peck ; of the like quan tity of unprepared feed ninety-fix bushels, the former yielding an iucreaie of fifteen and a quarter for one, or thirty and a half bush els to the acre ; the latter only twelve for one or twenty-four bush els to the acie. The produce of the prepaied feed weighed thirty three and a half pounds the bushel, that of the unprepared only thirty-two and a quarter pounds—so that for about five shillings, the ex pence of a bushel of Plaifter of Paris, I gained tweuty-fix bushels of Oats, and by allowing for the increased weight, one and a quarter lb. on one hundrca and twenty-two bushels, I may fairly add tour and a half bushels more, making in the whole thirty and a half bushels. I am, Sir, with much refpeft, Your obedient humble fcrvant, To Samvel Powei., Esq. Prefiiient of the Agricultural Society. Pubhihed by Order of the Society, April 12, 1791. Samlel Powei Griffitts, Sec'ry. FROM THE MARY LAND JOURNAL, &c. IT is the duty of every individual, by every mean in his power, to promote the ufeful arts in his country. Considerable ad vances having been made in procuring Sugar, from the Sugar-Ma ple on the Wcftern Frontiers, it is thought, a method invented bv Joseph El licott, near this place, (the boiling water in wood) may be singularly ufctul, both for cheapness and expedition, to the sugar-boilers. There have been many attempts made to boil water, by means of flues pafling through the body of water con fined in a wooden vessel, but the one alluded to is the fir ft that has iucceeded. The only difficulty seems to be in the formation of the worm or flue : The common method has been, to make tbar end of the tlue that takes the fire in from the oven, larger than the one that delivers the smoke : When the flue is made in this man ner, change the ends, and it will be found to answer—the small end to take in the fire, and the large end to deliver the smoke— by this mean one or two thousand gallons of water may be boiled, at a (rifling cxpence, in one vessel. This will be found an ufeful hint to the Mannfatturcrs of Steam, Baltimore, April 21,1791 NEW-YORK, April 26. Ext rail of a letter jrom London, March 2 " I had the pleasure of addressing you so long ago as the 6th Ocftober, with an extradt of Mr. Rhoderer's speech in the National Aflembly of France, containing the propositions of which he was dire»fted by the committee of afleflment, (of which he was the reporter) to make to that Afl'cm blyfor the new regulations of the tobacco trade. Since then this subject has often occupied the public attention of that aflembly ; the farmers general and their friends were anxious to pre serve the monopoly, and used all the powerful intered they pofleiied to accomplifli it. On the other hand, the commerce of France, and the warmest friends of the revolution, struggled for the freedom of the trade; at lad, this party has carried it, and within these fourteen days the National Aflembly have palled, after long de bates, the annexed five articles of a decree upon that subject. There remains it is said, only one more article to discuss, which regards the fabri cation and sale in the kingdom. Not knowing whether my partners at Havre may have had an opportunity of communicating this intelligence to you, 1 take the earliest op portunity of doing it, it being an event of much importance to the general commerce of tobacco. —The whole ol the effects it may produce are yet lobeieen ; hitherto some few purchases have been made here for France, of which your cor respondents here will doubtleis give you more „PHIA, Aui#u>f 17; 1790' Your obedient, Humble fcrvanf, EDWARD HAND. Lancaster, March 14, IJ9I tDWARD HAND. PUBLICOLA particular advices. In Fiance there is little to bacco on hand, and for twelve months fcarccly any has been fold, excepting in Dunkirk and at Bayonne, and fume at Bourdeaux and I\antz,for the iiayomie market. ihe two firlt are fiee pons where private manufactories of that arti cle have hitherto exilted. The general consumption of the country has been principally supplied by iinugglers tor eigh teen months pair ; but I hope from rhe fooling the trade is now upon, and the consequent re dutftion there will be in the price, that that mode of lopply uiuft in a great measure cease." Articles aunexed agreed to. id. From the publication of the present de cree it shall be free to every person in the King dom to cultivate, manufacture and fell tobacco, fubjec'l to the modification which lhall be eltab liflied relative to the manufacture and sale. 2d. The importation of foreign manufactured tobacco, (liall continue to be prohibited. 3- Ic {hall be free to import into the ports which fliall be named, foreign tobacco in leaf, fubje(ft to a duty of 2J livres per quintal. All French ships importing tobacco diredt from A merica, shall only be fubjedt to three fourths of this duty. 4th. Foreign tobacco in leaf may be deposited jn its ports of entry for one year, in warehouses appropriated for that purpose, and exported without payment of any duty. sth. A National company fliall manufacture and fell tobacco for the benefit of the public treasury, and (hall pay the fame duiy as indivi- duals MASSACHUSETTS- SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY THE MANAGERS of the STATE-LOTTERY aflure the Public, that the second Class of the SEMI-ANNUAL LOT TERY will positively commence drawing on the day appointed, viz. On ThurfJay the 13th of October next, or Jooner, if the Tickets shall be disposed of. As the Managers have in their fcveral monthly Lotteries commenced drawing at the hour assigned, so they arc determined to be equally as punctual in this. SCHEME. NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE. 25.000 Tickets, at Five Dollars each, are 125,000 Dollars, to he paid in the following Prizes, fubje£t to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent, for the use of the Commonwealth. Prizes. Dollars. Dollars. 1 of 10000 is 10000 2 3000 arc 6000 3 2000 6000 6 1000 6oo; 10 500 5000 30 200 0000 80 100 Boco 90 50 4500 100 40 4000 120 30 3600 161 10 3220 200 jo 2000 7585 # 60680 8388 Prizes. 16612 Blanks, Tickets. £T TICKETS in the at ove Class may be had of the several Ma nacerj, tnho will pay the prizes on demand; of the Treasurer ot the Commonwealth; ot James White, at his Book-ftorc, Franklin's Head, Court-ilreet—and at other places, as usual. BENJAMIN AUSTIN, itm."] DAVID COBB, | SAMUEI. COOPER. GEORGE R. MINOT, JOHN KNEELAND, J Bojlon, April 14, 1791. Funds of the United States. ALL kindsof i he Public Delt of the Union, bought, fold, or ex changed ; Foreign and inland Bills of Exchange, negociated ; Merchandize of all foils Bought and Sold on CommiJJion, and all other Bufincfs in the line of a Broker, tranfa&ed by WILLIAM CLELAND, At the Office, next door tothe CuJlom-lloufe, Stale-Street, BOSTON, Pintard and Bleecker, PURCHASE and SELL all kinds of Certificates & Public Securities, On COMMISSION, at public and private fdle, on the following terms : ON the fpecic amount of all sales or purchases at auction, one eighth per cent. On ditto of all sales or purchases at private sale, oil all sums below 5000 nominal dollars, one-ha/J per cent.; and on all sums above 5000 nominal dollars, ohe-jourtk per cent. For receiving interefl at the Loan-Office, me per cent. For making translers at ditto, one dollar each transfer. 03" Such persons throughout the United States, as may be pleaicd to favor the fubferibers with their orderj, may rely on iheir being executed with punctuality, fidelity and difpateli, as consi derable experience in the public llueks, together with extenflve comieflions in the city of New-York and different parts of the continent, enable them to condufl their operations with peculiar advantages. PINTARD & BLEECKER, New-York, No. 57, King-Street. (g7 law 6m) March 1,5, 1791 Gallaudet andEwiNG, No. 54., South Second Street, HAVE imported in the Lady Walterjiorf, from London, Man chijler and Adriana Irom Liverpool, and the Birmingham Packcthom BiiHol, a GENERAL ASSORTMENT of ° SEASONABLE GOODS, which they will fell on rtsfonahle teritis.——(pT On hand for •ale, a lew hogiheads of OLD JAMES'i RIVER TOBACCO I'hiUdelkhia, April 9, 1791. 100 cplm 4 CLASS 11, To be disposed of, BY PRIVATE SALE, A COLLECTION OK Scarce and Valuable BOOKS, In the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, and It\ li Languages— being part of a private Library, * Among which arc the following : FOLIO. Euripides, Hom«r, Demosthenes, Xenophon, p; at Lucian, Plutarch, Paufanias, Procopius, Eufebius, Xiccoh * rus, Ciccro, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Tacitus, Seneca, Pliny &r Quarto. Pindar, Arittotle, Texeace, Ov;d, C*far, Suetonius. Juvenal, Manilius, &c. Oclavo infra. Septuagint, Aristophanes, Longinu , Thco phrailus, Kpictetus, Hefiod, Orpheus, M. Antoninus, Phalar liberates, Polyaenus, Lucretius, Catullus, Tibullus, Propertiui' Paterculus, Fiorus, Lucan, Statius, Aufonius, Vida Bi/ chanan, Boethius, Poetas minores Latiru, Callipeedia Sctad I Valla, &c. A Catalogue is left at the Book-Store of Mejfrs Rice and Co Market-Street, wherejurther particulars may be learned. NOTIFICATION Colonel Thomas Procter, Lieutenant of the City and Liber ties of Philadelphia, being necefiarily absent from the city, his Excellency the Gov e r nor hath thought proper to authouL me to discharge the Duties of that Office until his return NOTICE is therefore giver., to the MILITIA of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, theNorthem Liberties of fold City, the Townships of Moyamenfingand Paff\ unk, that they are to meet and exercise under then refpeftive Officers on the fol lowing Days, viz. First Battalion on the 2d Day of May next, Second Battalion on the 3d of do. Third Battalion on the 4th of do. Fourth Battalion on the sth of do. Fifth Battalion on the6 r .h of do. Sixth Battalion on the 9th of do. Seventh Battalion on the 10th of do. ELEAZER OSWALD, Lientenant, pro tem. of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, April 6, 1791. FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION, MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS, Partly original, and partly already publijhcd. Written by Mathew Carey. I. ' I , HE Work (hall contain 200 pages; be printed on the X finelt writing paper ; and be elegantly bound, tdie rolled and lettered. 11. Pricc to subscribers two thirds of a dollar, to be paid on the delivery of the book. 111. The work (hall be put to the press as Toon as 250 copiw are fubferibed for. IV. Tne subscribers names shall be prefixed, ff3TSUBSCRIPTIONS are received by Carey, Stlwart, and Co. and all the other Bookfeilers in Philadelphia; also, by the different gentlemen throughout the United States, whofupply fub feribers with the AmericanMufeum. Philadelphia, Feb. 23, 1791. Th e seat of the late governor LIVINC S T 0 N, fuuate about a mile from Elizabeth-Town, on the public road to Morris Town. The farm contains between 90 and too acres of land, or 20 acres of which are wood land ; there is also apper taining to the said farm about 19 acres of fait meadow. Particular attention having been paid to the cultivation of fruit ; there is on the farm a very large collection of various kinds of the choicefl fruit trees, See. in lull bearing; the house is large, convenient, well built and in very good repair. Enquire of the Printer, for further particulars, New-York, Jan. 1791 12^000 Manuel Noah, BROKER, N0.91, Race-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, BUYS and SELLS Continental & State Certificates, Pennsylvania and Jerfcy Paper Money, And al! kinds of SECURITIES of the United States, or of any In the City of New-B runfwick, A Commodious TWO STORY HOUSE, almost -*• new, pleasantly litaated on.the banks of the Rantau, to gether with a large Lot in the rear, and a very good Wharf im mediately in front of the House. Said House is thirty-four feet square has tour rooms on each floor, with entries between the fame, and a good (tone cellar under the whole. Any peifoil inclining to purchase may have pofTef&on the firft day of May next, and know the price and terms of payment which will be made eai'y by applying to Lewis Forman, infaidcity,or the fubferiberin Borden Town. J. VAN EMBURGH. N. B. If not (old, to be rented from ill day of May next. Matthew M'Connell, In Chesnut-Str eet, No. 66, BUYS and SELLS all kinds of THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNION ; has frequently occasion to NEGOCIATE INLAND BILLS OF EXCHANGE—and will receive Ortlers for making SUBSCRIPTIONS to the BANK of the UNITED STATES. Philadelphia, March 30, 1791 IMPERIAL HYSON, SOUCHONG, and BOHEA REFINED SUGARS, COFFEE, and SPICES, Of the firft quality—by retail, No 19, Third Street, between Chefnut and Market Streets. 6Q- A few New-York LOTTERY TICKETS come to hand, for sale. PROPOSALS A COLLECTION OF CONDITIONS. TO BE SOLD, particular Staie. FOR SALE, TEAS, 8o 3™ (gfitf)
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