Yon may l)e assured llial from Ihp aliove ex- 

 perimv'iils 1 have ibuiul trees iDori^ (ipodiictive 

 of fruit, more dural)lf, and hkeivise in the end 

 to grow larger. Yours, AGRICOLA. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



■0 



From Ihc Tliomaston Register. 



DAIRYING. 



Mr Editor — I wa-i sn wr II pleased with the 

 id.-.i m' a dairy, or milk room, upon the plan of 

 «)iie ,»|iirt) ivas rereiiliy described to me, that 1 

 am induced to make it puhlic. The shelves are 

 so const rurted as to admit the imiiier.sions of a 

 milk [I "I m cold water, nearlv to the top resem- 

 Min? a hollow trono;h. Bv the ailvanlaa-e of lo- 

 cation, the water is constantly rnnnina; Tom a 

 spriii? into one end of the shelf and otl at the 

 other, and may easily he conducted fiom shelf 

 to shell throughout a whole room. The conse- 

 <]ueiice is the milk keeps perfectly sweet, in the 

 warmest season, until the cream is all risen, 

 which is in a short time, of course the hotter 

 will he sweet. Now are there not hundreds o( 

 places that would admit of the same improve- 

 ment with a trifling- expense — which would be 

 refunded four fold in one season. 



And, sir, I will add a litie from my own expe- 

 rience in churning. Be sure to put in sufTicient 

 of new milk to make your rreani very thin : viz. 

 put in equal or even double the qiinnlily of milk, 

 that yon do cream ; the consequence is, your 

 })ulter is brought with less than half the labour, 

 or time, and less liable to be white or striped, 

 as the mess will be at all times thin, moves ea- 

 sily, and if it spatters up, it immediately runs 

 down, so that the whole is equally moved, and 

 all changes at once to good butter. 



A Lover of Good Butter. 



RAIL ROADS. 

 Mr Strickland, who was sent out to Europe 

 tiy a society of Pennsylvania, writes from Edin- 

 burg, that goods are conveyed on rail roads with 

 more sal'ety, speed and economy, than on canals, 

 both in level and mouiilaino\is countries. When 

 a mountain is to be overcome, the loads are In 

 be drawn up on an inclined plane by means of a 

 sleacn engine placed on the summit. 



BEES WITHOUT STINGS. 

 A hive of bocs has lately been received in 

 England from New Holland. They are very 

 small and without slings. — Capt. Hall, in his 

 jouTnal written on the-coast of Mexico, describes 

 ;a kind of bees that have no sting. Their honey 

 is not contained in small hexagonal cells, but in 

 »vax bags nearly as large as an egg, which are 

 hung round the sides of the hive. The hives 

 are suspended by cords from the eav-es of the 

 Mexican cottages, and the hole for the bees to 

 •enter is on one side, half way between the ends. 



LEAD. 



We learn that the vein of lead er« in South- 

 ampton has been lately examined by Professoi 

 Eaton, snd several gentlemen iVom New York 

 and Philadelphia. It is said the indications ol 

 the vein in the western part of the town are so 

 favourable, that a -company is forming I'or the 

 purpose of opening it, at a place three or four 

 miles soulb-nestof the well known mine in that 

 to.wn^ Jiamj). Gaz. 



TO THE FARMERS OF WORCESTER 

 COUNTY. 



At a meeting of the Worcester .Agricultural 

 Society, on the 19tli ilay of May last, the County 

 was divided into eight Agricullnral Districts, 

 anfl a Committee of three meni'iers of the So- 

 ciety was appointed in each District, to visit 

 the Farms and Manufactories of any town with- 

 in their respective Districts, upon Ibf apjilica- 

 tion of ten or more Ireeholders of said town, 

 between the 25ih day of July and luili day 

 of September, a>jd to make minute impiiries re- 

 specting the general and particular concerns of 

 the Farms and Manufactories which they visit; 

 of their ex|)enses and net proliis — and to sug- 

 gest such improvements as they may think use- 

 ful ; and particularly to notice and encourage 

 Iliiusthold Industry and Economy — andio report 

 the result of the.r investigations to the next 

 meeting of the Society. — The respective Dis- 

 iricts and Committees are composed as follows : 



District J^'o. I. 

 Of Harvard, Bolton, Berlin, Northhoroiigh, Boylston, 

 West-Boylston, and Lancaster. — Comtnittfe, Joseph 

 Davis, of Nor'.hborough, CJtatnnan, Jacob Kither, and 

 Jacob Haekel. 



District JVo. II. 

 Lunenburg-, Fitchburg, Ashbiirnham, Westminster, 

 Leominster, Princeton, and Sterling — Committee, Fay- 

 son Williams, of Fitcbburg, C/iatrmon, Samuel Sawyer, 

 and Samuel Brooks. 



District M'o. 111. 

 Wlnchendon, Koyalston, Phillipston, Templeton, Ilub- 

 bartlston, Athol, and Gardiner. — Commiltee, Daiiiel 

 Henshaw, of Winchendon, Chairman, Josiah Howe, 

 and Justus LUinwood. 



District JVo. IV. 

 Petersham, Dana, Hardwick, Barre, New-Braintree' 

 Oakham, and Rutland. — Committee, Samuel F.astman, 

 of Hard wick, C/iairwin, James Allen, and Levi Bart- 

 lelt. 



District Ao. V. 

 Southborough, Westborough, Shre-wsbury, Worcester, 

 Holden, Paxlon, and Leicester. — Committee, Gardinei- 

 Burbank, of Worcester, Chairman, Nathan Howe, and 

 Jonas Ball. 



District A'"o. Vi. 

 Uxbridge, Upton, IVIendon, Milford, Northbrido-e, and 

 Grafton. — Committee, Bezalcel Taft,jr. ofUxbridge, 

 Chairman, Adolphus Spring, and Seth Davenport. 



District Ao. VII. 

 Western, Sturbridge, Brookfield, North-Brookfield, 

 Charlton, Spencer, and Seuthbridge. — Committee, 

 James Draper, jr, of Spencer, Chairman, John Spurr, 

 and Skelton Felton. 



District Ao. VIII. 

 Dudley, Oxford, Ward, Douglas, Sutton, and Millbury. 

 — Committee, Jonas L. Sibley, of Sutton, C/iairman, 

 Rufus Barton, and Zebulon Carey. 



The Agriculturists and ManufactnreTS of this 

 County, whether belonging to the Society or 

 not, and who are willing to aid the Socipty in 

 their endeavours to promote the best inte-resis 

 of the community at large, by the encourage-, 

 raent of Industry and Economy bolU in doors and 

 fMt. are requested 1o make application forthwith 

 to the Chairmen of the Committees, in thejrr*- 

 spective Districts, that they may proceed up<vn 

 the business of th«ix appoinlment without fur- 

 ther A&iay. Jugjut, 1825o 



THE ARRACHACA OF SOUTH AMERICA-. 

 We observe by the Norfolk papers of Wednes- 

 day last, the distinguished botaiiisl, Baron de 

 Schack has arrived there from Trinidad, with 

 the intention ot <lirecling his course to the north, 

 for the purpose of introducing to our horticultu- 

 rists, a knowle<lgc of the properties of the Arra- 

 chaca. and the manner of cultivating this excel- 

 lent vegetable. Those who are well acquaint- 

 ed with its qualities describe it as one of the 

 most useful of all vegetables in South America, 

 its root yielding a food which is prepared in the 

 kitchens in the same manner as potatoes. It is 

 extremely gratetul to the palate ; so tender that 

 it requires little corking, and so easy of diges- 

 tion, that it is the common practice where it is 

 cultivated, to give it to convalescents, and per- 

 sons with weak stomachs, being considered of « 

 much less flatulent nature than potatoes.— Starch, 

 and a variety of pastry work are made of its fe- 

 cula; and reduced to a pulp, it enters the com- 

 position of certain fermented liquors, supposed^ 

 to be very proper for restoring the lost tone of 

 the stomach. 



I Tiie Arrachaca, though a native of Santa Fe, 

 land other places in South America, thrives best 

 in temperate climates. Its cultivation requires 

 i a deep black mould, and it is propagated by cut- 

 ting the roots to pieces each having a separate 

 eye or shoot, and planting these in separate 

 iioles. 



At the end of three or four months, the roots 

 are of sufficient size and quantity to be used for 

 culinary purposes, and if allowed to remain in 

 the ground for six months, they increase to a 

 great bulk, without their taste being any way 

 altered. We understand the Arrachax^a has nn- 

 dergone such experiments in Scotland as to sat- 

 isfy botanists there, that it is much superior, in 

 every respect, to the potato, which it is expect- 

 ed in a great measure to supersede. The po- 

 tato was originally introduced into Europe from 

 a warm climate, and has since become natural- 

 ized to the soil. In many parts of the United 

 States, there can he no doubt the Arrachaca 

 might be cultivated with as much ease as the 

 potato ; and considering the great superi-cnty 

 which It is said to possess over that root, we 

 hope that Baron de Schack will be encouraged 

 in his endeavours to introduce it into this coun- 

 try. [A". Y. E. Post, 



Frem the American Farmer. 



WHITE FLINT AND LAWLER WHEAT. 



Bailimore i n 



Having lately observed in the American Farm- 

 er an assertion or su(>position that the above 

 kinds are one and the same wheat, and haying 

 raised the Lawler for several years, and the 

 white fl nl the last season, it has afforded me aa 

 opportunity of judging correctly ; and 1 am of 

 opinion, that no two kinds of wheat differ more 

 IB appearance than the above. The white flint 

 produces more stalks from eiich grain, and each 

 stalk is much larger and stronger; the blades 

 are very broad and stand up, but the blades of 

 the Lawler are long and slender. t;:id hang down 



generally of a paler green than other wheat, 



and the bottom blades die very early; but the 

 former is a v«ry dark green to the bottom until 

 the wheat is of a consi.l*?rable height, and npenfc 

 as early as the red chaffed bearded, whilst th»» 



