NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Published hy JOHN R. RtTSSELL, at tho cornrr of rcin;-rp°9 sn A LinMrill Strpotg, TlAston — THOMAS G. FF-SSF-NDEN, Editor. 



VOL. IV. r^TPAY, QCTOBEirtll, IB257 



No. 13. 



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EXPLANATION. 

 c The rpvolvino; bpafer, the mds of which strike 



'he grnin 1000 titrips in a min\ite. 

 b The piirallel rollers ihnt a-sist in conducting 



the straw IbrHaril to the healer. 

 c The circnlar or endless cloth, on which ia 



spread Ihe material lo he threshed, and '.viiich 



con(!ucts the straw to ihs iiiliers (6). 

 e The curved floor, consisting ol' slats on which 



the grain is beaten out. 



J" The wheel that drives the heater, and 

 whicJi tbe horse gear is attached. 



[We have procrred ihe above drawing of Mr 

 Popr.'s Thrtshin'.; Machine, on which he has 

 lately made s'ome mcrovements. We are happv 

 to learn ihat JI is getting into use among our 

 farmers, and th;ft it gives general satisf iclion. — 

 A more particular account of it may he lotind in 

 the New England Farmer, vol. iii. page 313.] 



ORZGINAI. COXaiMCUHZCATZOKS. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Lynn, Oct. 6, 1825. 



Mr. Fessenden. — If the following statement 

 of facts will add any thing to the many marvel- 

 lous wonders of the present season, and you 

 tbink it worth a place in Ihe columns of the 

 Farmer, it issuhtniiled lo your disposal : 



There are now (Oct. 6th,) in the garden be- 

 longing to the Kssex Dying Establishment, 

 some bush beans in blossom, from which have 

 been taken the first crop, perfectly ripe, and 

 designed for seed ; a second growth is also 

 hanging to the stocks of some of them. Two 

 Cabbage stumps, of the early losv Dutch, from 



which, the first heads iiave been plucked and 

 cor kfd long since ; on one, is presented sever 

 small hut perfectly sound heads ; and on the 

 other five, as sound and bard as the first heads 

 Ihat greiv on them. Two Cabbages of the 

 winter kind were set out as usual for seed, from 

 which the seed has all been gathered ; one has 

 lately blossomed again, and the other has fresh 

 sprouts and one perfect head, though small 

 But wha.t caps Ihe whole, is, a bean vine thai 

 has lately sprung up, blossomed, and now hang-^ 

 (ullof|iods, among some Lima beans which 

 were planted early in Ihe season. From cir- 

 cumstaiaces attending this strange produclion 

 1 feel r;onvinced that it sprung Irom some seed 

 of the Lima kind that ripened early and scat- 

 tered op the ground, and has undergone a com- 



plelo transformation. The leaves resemble 

 exactly Ihe leaves of (he Lima bean, and the 

 blossoms and pods hang in clusters the same ai 

 those of (he Lima, among which it is flourish- 

 ing, but (he pod.s arc entirely different in their 

 constr;jciion. Some of the beans are large 

 enough to shell ; but> indulging a hope that 

 (hoy roa\' ripen, I do not feel inclined to gatiiev 

 them. If any of your correspondents or read- 

 ers, would wish to satisfy themselves will) rei!- 

 pect to this str.-.nge phonomeimn, I st,(H;!d be 

 pleased to gratify any one with tny attendance. 

 It may be that 1 am riiistakcn as to any trans- 

 l'or'.n:ilinn taking place, and (lie opinion of 

 some person more extensively experienced in 

 these things would tend, either to corroborate 

 1T13' opinion, or rcfuic it. 



Yours, respeclfully, AARON IIALL. 



TO t::c F.nnoR of the new enulan!) farker. 



0RC1L\RDS, &:c. 



Worcester, Oct. 18, 1G25, 

 IMn. FKSSENnEN, — I noticed in a late Centinel, 

 a communication Irom '• Agricola," on the sub- 

 ject of "• Fruit Trees,'''' and began to (irepare 

 some remarks on the production. U[)on more 

 rcllection, presuming that Ihe puhlication 

 ivould not be extensively read by countnj far- 

 mers, and would do but little good or harm, I 

 abandiMied my design. But, sir, seeing you have 

 triins|danled it into ijnur jield, from whence our 

 larmers and lio'riiculnirists derive their ripe 

 choice fruit, 1 have thought it might be usclul 

 to pursue nv^ original design. 



For Iho purpose of bringing an orchard to a 

 hasty and [iroductive state of improvement, 

 Agricola observes thai almost any soil will an- 

 swer, " from the plains of the southern to Ihe 

 heaths of the northern parts of Massachusetts ; 

 indeeil of any of the New England States." So 

 hold and unqualified an ajserlion led me to doubt 

 whether the writer had maturely consid.ered 

 his subject. Does he really believe that he 

 can rear a hasty and produclivu orchard upon 

 a pitch pine plain, or a shrub oak copse 1 Every 

 ex[>erienced farmer would avoid both as radi- 

 cally unlit for an orchard. He knows that good 

 soil is as necessary for his trees as for his corn. 

 If the above doctrine be true, why is it that ap- 

 ple and other fruit-trees are Ihiifty and produc- 

 tive in rich and well cultivated soils and soon 

 appear stricken with death on poor and sterile 

 ground? in the latter case they die of famine, 

 produced and accelerated by Ihe diseases, which 

 equally attend it ? An occasional repast on Ihe 

 light diet which Agricola recommends may sus- 

 tain them for a while, but imless they are fur- 

 nished with a substantial every day food, they 

 will, at an early period become unsightly and 

 unproductive. The idea Ihat almost any soil will 

 Jo for an orchard is not a novel one. It was a- 

 dopted by our ancestors and with too many of 

 their other strange notions, has been transmit- 

 ted- by their descendants. The consecjuence ia 

 ihat we see orchards in a stale of decrepitude 

 and decay, which 6fly years would not have pro- 

 duced, had they been judiciously tended in a fa- 

 vourable soil. 



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