The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-06-18

Chrough their agency, that the people would
suffer it to be Frustrated, and the immense cap
ital employed in it, TO be sacrifcedo Certainly
not. In whatever light, therefore, we view it,
If tie present bill bears with any severity on
the south, they have no cause to complain of
the north, and we trust that they will soon
evnce little more calmness on the subject.
Ii New England has the adrotness to turn to
her own advantage system of legislation
which was intended for her injury, who shall
blame her for doing it,
CANADA THISTLE This noxious weed.
which is so offensive when it has become COM
mon, as to have received the name of the ours
cd thistle, is, as yet, but little known to most of
our readers. II is, however, introduced into
most if not all the towns of this county, and, if
prompt measures are not taken to eradicate it,
wherever it appears, it will soon become an
evil, compared with which, our taxes, and all
other public burthens, will sink into insignifi-
canoe. 1t is said to have been originally intro
duccd into Canada from France for the purpose
offeeding the ass, which, we believe, is the on
ly domestic animal that will feed upon it, From
Canada it has gradually spread to the south
In the northern parts of Vermont and New
York, the whole country is literally overrun
with it. Acres Of ground, together, often pre-
sent nothing to the view, but one uninterrupt-
ed bed of thistles, with scarcely trace of any
other vegetation. Where the ground gets so
full, the farmers are obliged to plough and till
their land frequently, and, for two or three years
after, the thistles will be less abundant +; but,
after while, they regain their supremacy
Are our farmers willing to see such an enemy
take quiet possession of their soil If SO, they
may soon see it effected; but, if they are not
let them look well to it in season. Various
means for graduating this thistle have been
proposed, of which that, recommended in the
last Spy, of moving them down in bloom, is
perhaps as good as any, if persevered in as oft
en- as they re-appear. Beating them down and
pouring brine copiously on the roots, it is said,
will also destroy them.
1t is very important that every farmer, who
has patch in his vicinity, should see that it is
rapidly and soon get beyond his control 1t
blossoms in the course of this month, so that
the time of cutting is at hand.
SALEM MILL DAMS. Some two or three
years since, the people of Salem started a pro-
ject for creating water power in that place on
the plan adopted by the Boston and Roxbury
Mill Dam Corporation. 1t is said that Salem
possesses peculiar natural advantages for such a
scheme, in the cheapness with which dam
may be constructed, and the abundant power il
will afford when completed. If such be the
fact, we are at loss to account for the indiffer
ence which the good people Of that place mani
fest toward it. 1t is one or two years since
most OF the stock was taken up, and yet We
hear of no efficient steps being taken to carry
on the work. A portion of The subscribers wisl
to withdraw, or to defeat the plan, which give.
rise to continual chickering's and contention. l
the people of that town are DESTROYS that it eve
should recover and retain the relative ranl
which it formerly held, it can only be done b,
the introduction of manufacturing establish
ments When we see the effect produced b,
the possession of water power, that it builds u,
towns in waste places, and gives life and activi
ty to population of thousands where Their
otherwise would not be hundred, what mich
not be expected of it in place like Salem
| where sufficient accommodations for a consider
able additional population are already provid
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navigation to any part of the world, by which
to transport their manufactures and the raw
material fsome of the people of that ancien
town, instead Of pouring out their wailing
over the tariff act, would bestr themselves t
take advantage of its provisions, it would saw
the publication Of many lugubrious paragraph
and confer lasting benefit on themselves an
on the town they inhabit.
CANKER Worms The abundant promise O
fruit, recently held forth, has been blasted il
some portions of the country, by the ravages o
the Canker Worm. In the northeastern par
of this County, and in Middesex, the orchard
have very generally suffered, more or less, an
many of them are stripped of every vestige o
vegetation. Tho careful farmer who is desir
Gus Of preserving his fruit, another year, vii
seasonably attend to the tarring Of his trees
but there is no hope of any effectuai check t.
the depredations of this insect till it is done b
late frost in the spring, so severe as to destro
both them and the fruit with them.
New BANK. A charter has been granted 70
a new Bank at Fitchburg, to be called the Nash
ua River Bank. This makes the tenth bankin,
institution Incorporated in this county, beside
/, the Savings Bank.