Litchfield enquirer., 1829-10-08
APPLES.

APPLES.
Extract from letter By Noah Webster, Esq.
cit is the practice of some persons to
pick apples in October, and first spread
them on the floor If an upper room. This
practice is said 70 rendeF a7ples more du-
ruble by drying them. But ! can affirm
this to be a mistake. Apples. after re.
naming SO long On the trees, as safety
from the frost will admit, should be taken
directly from the trees to close casks, and
kept as dry and as cool as possible. II
suffered to lie on The floor for weeks, they
lose their favor without acquiring any
additional durability. The best mode Of
preserving apples for spring use, have
found to be, the putting them in dry sand,
and as soon as PICKED. For this purpose
dry sand in the heat Of the summer, and
late in October put down the apples in
layers. with covering of sand upon each
layer. The singular advantages of this
mode of treatment are these l. The
sand keeps the apples from the air, which
is essential to, their preservation. 2. The
sand checks the evaporation of the apples,
thus preserving their full favor--at the
same time, any moisture yielded by the APP
Piles, land some there will be) is absorbed
by the sand, so that the apples are kept
dry, and all mustiness is prevented. My
pippins in May and June are fresh as when
first picked: even the ends of the stem
look as just separated from the twig.
The language of the Brute Creation.-
It has been much disputed whether the
Brutes have any language whereby they
can express their minds to each other, or
whether all the noise they make consists
only of cries inarticulate, and unintelligi-
bic even to themselves. We are, howev-
81, too little acquainted with the intellectual
of these creatures to be able to
determine this point. Certain it is that
passions, when excited. are very generally
productive ofsome peculiar cry but wheth-
er this be designed as an expression Of the
passions to others, or only mechanical
motion of the muscles of the larynx, occa-
stoned by the passions, is what we have
not means of knowing. We may indeed,
from analogy, conclude with great reason,
that some of the cries of beasts are real
expressions of their sentiments but
whether one beast is capable of forming a
design, and communicating that design
by any kind of language to others, is what
we submit to the judgment Of the reader.
after giving the following Instance, which
among others is brought as proof of it,
Father Bourgeant "A sparrow finding
a nest that a martin had just built standing
very conveniently for him, possessed him
self of it. The martin seeing the usurper
in her house called strongly for help to ex-
pei him. A thousand martins came in full
speed and attacked the sparrow but the
latter being covered on every side, and
presenting only his large beak at the en-
trance of the nest, was invulnerable, and
made the boldest Of them repent their te-
merity. After quarter of an hours COM
bat, all the martins disappeared. The
sparrow seemed to think he had got the
better, and the spectators judged that the
martins had abandoned the undertaking.
Not in the least. In few seconds they
to the charge, and each Of them
having procured little of that tempered
earth with which they build their nests,
they all at once fell upon the sparrow,
and enclosed him in the nest to perish
there, since they could not drive him
HENCE" Can it be imagined that the
martins could have been able to hatch and
concert this design, all of them together,
without sFeaking to each other, or without
some medium equivalent to language