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NEW ENOLAND FARMER^ 



FHIUAY, NOVEMBER 25, IH'Jb. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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and with common farmers it may be of some 



conseqiirnce 1" nriiike a part ol llicir gardens in 



I aiiliimn, when they havo genciMlly more leisure 



[ihaiiin the spring. Miller's (Jardtncr's J")ic- 



|tion:iry ?iiys, to cultivate parsnips tor the farm- 



... , 11 . , 1 i er " sow the seal in ciutiiinn soon iiflcr il is rive ; 



-\onui! do ivell to take ' , ... ,, . n „^ , '.u 



, , , . i liy which means the seed will come early the 



rARXMCSR'S CAI.EKZ>AK. 



F.4Lr> Pl.OlC.TM.Vr!. 



suits. We have heard but one opinion eypress- 

 cd with regard to llic utility of sucli an cFfab- 

 lishment. The lollowiii"- *vill show tiut the 

 work has been commencrd ; and it vcinaiiis for 

 those who have means and liberality to decide 

 whether it shall be sncccsslnlly prosecuted. 

 At a meeting of the friends of the proposed 



advantage ot the Indian s.immer i.y pimigning |oi|(„ving spring and get strong before the weeds; Massachusetts Agricultural College, to he locnt 

 most if not all your land this fall,^ which }'0"!,,,j|| ° ' =- = > .- 1 __ . ...»_._ a i _ 



The. advanta- ' 



propose to till the next season, 

 ges of I'all ploughing are, 1st. It saves time and 

 labour in the following spring' when farmers are 

 generally pressed by their avocations, and their 

 cattle are comparatively faint and weak. 2. 

 Land which is ploughed in autumn will be more 

 e.xposed to the action of frost than that which is 

 suffered to remain unploughed, ;ind frost wi" 



grow so as to injure them. The young i ed in the neighborhood of Boston, at the Athe- 



plants never mitlerially suffer through the se-lneum in Bo.ston, Nov. 8, 1825, the Rer. 



I verily of the season. The same writer says i Charles Lowell D. D. was chosen Chairman, 



that garden carrots are propagated at two or i and the Rev. Warren Faj', Secretary. 



I three different seasons. The lirst season for Alter some discu>?ion it was deemed espedi- 



sowing the seed is soon after Christmas." ent, that some person be appointed to receive 



Rerhaps potatoes planted pretty deep in the 'the moneys, which might he procured as l''unds 



fall, and covered with leaves and straw or long | for the proposed .\gricultural ('ollege, and who 



.. , . manure, with rather a thick layer of soil above I should act as Treasurer. Isaac Warren, Esq. 



pulveiize the sod more ^ »«;.''';'';"y"^;^" .C''" ''j^ I ihe manure might come forward early and llou- was chosen permanent Treasurer. 



accomplished hy any artiliLial methnd,- 

 Ploughing lands late in the fall is of service by 

 exposing insects, and their eggs and larvE to 

 be destroyed by frost. If however the land is 

 very light and sandy it may he as well not to 

 plough it till spring, as it will he more solid and 

 tenacious if permitted to remain without being 

 stirred previous to the setting in of winter. 



Much has been said on the depth of plough- 

 ing, but ive believe that no general rules not 

 liable to many exceptions can be given on this 

 subject. The depth should he governed in some 

 measure by the staple ol' the soil. Where the 

 soil is deep, deep ploughing is to be preferred. 

 t?ut where the soil is very ihin it may be ne- 

 cessary to commence its cultivation with shoa" 



rish well in the spring. 



HAMS. 



Perhaps there is no .«uliject of equal interest 

 among farmers, en whirh there is such a con- 

 iti'ariety of opinion, as on that of curing hums. — 

 I .\lniost ever}' farmer, who is tond of good ham, 

 I or wishes to procure a good price for it, has opin- 

 ions, forms or receipts peculiar to himself, and 

 after all, the article is scliiom procured in the 

 country much superior in taste or flavour to 

 that of common salt pork. 



The plan whicii 1 pursue is eSlremely sim- 

 ple, and, 1 have no hesitation in saying, produ- 



Voted, that a Committee of six be appointed 

 to solicit donations and subscriptions in aid of 

 the aforesaid college. 



Voted, that Lewis Tappan, Esq. Francis J. Oli- 

 ver, Esq., Jonathan Phillips, Esq., Doct. Benja- 

 min ShurtletT, Benjamin Guild, Esq. and Hall J, 

 Kelly, Esq. be this committee. 



\'uted, that the Treasurer be authorized to 

 call another meeting, whenever it may be deem- 

 ed necessary. 



Voted, that this meeting be dissolved. 



WARREN FAY, Secretary, 



MOllTALlTY OF INFANTS. 

 A memoir was recently read before the 



i CCS hams equal to any thing of the kii'.d which 

 ploughing. If the plough turns up too mue'h ' "'■'y'^ ^''^^'^'.'^''' ""' ""'"\"" ,"^'' c<=lebr,.- ' French Academy of Medicine, on the mortality 

 at a time^f the barren soil immediately beneath I "'^ ^'""^ *" \''>','",''- England, or the still of infants. L'r Villerme had already made some 

 the upper siratum.ihe succeeding crop will be 1 '""l.^ '".'"'^"' °' Calabria._ _ curious researches on this suhject, in which he 



of little value. But the owner of such soil 

 should endeavour to render it deeper hy di^e 

 degrees according to the mnnurn he may be 

 able to bestow upon it. A shallow soil is not 



only deficient by its I'urnishing but little pnshtre 

 i'or the roots of plants, hut it is liable to he so 

 much scorched by droughts as to he inrapahle 

 of producing any profitable vegetation. It then 

 your soil is thin plough it with a shoal furrow, 

 and sow if with rye. The nest season plough 

 a little deeper and add manure, &,c. 



Land should generally be broken up from the 

 sward with a deeper furrow than may be re- 

 quired in subsequent culture. Harrowing and 

 ■shallow ploughing will then answer through a 

 course of crops. If the soil is light and porous 

 the furrow slice should he turned over as flat as 

 possible. It it be a stiff loam or mixed with 

 clay it may be well to lap the furrow slices a lit- 

 tle one upon tht other, so as lo have the air and 

 frost pervade ihe hollows or interstices between 

 and under the furrow slices. 



Fall sowiafr Garden Vegetables. — Although we 

 h;ne heretofore given a pretty long article on 

 this subject in the New England Farmer, vol.3 

 page 118, it may not be amiss to put our read- 

 ers in mind of it at this time. Those vegeta- 

 bles which will hear a considerable degree of 

 frost may generally, v.e believe with safety be 

 sown in autumn. And even the more tender 

 sorts, provided they are "^own so late that they 

 will not vegetate fill sjiring may, perhaps, suc- 

 ceed with tall sowing, and come forward some- 

 what earlier in the s[)r il;, ihan they would if 

 their sowing was omitted 'II the usual time. — 

 With market-gardeners it is an object of consid- 

 erable importance to produce early vegetables; 



The hams, as soon as they are sejiarated from compared the mortality of children in the u[)per 

 the body of the animal, are to lie closely pack- 'classes, with that in the lower classes of society. 

 ed in a clean, tight, common sizeil fiarrel ; and. The present memoir is formed on a similar plan, 

 to a full barrel, add a pickle, made by dissol- j There are born at Paris about 22,000 annually s 

 ving eight quarts of clean Liverpool salt and i of these alioul two-thirds are sent out to nurse 

 four ounces of saltfietre, in a suflkient quantity in the country ; of these two-thirds, the mortali- 

 of rain or brook water to cover the whole. In (y, during the first year, is three out of live, while 

 this situation they are to remain until removed' ,)f the "QUO to 8000 nursed in Paris, more than 

 to the smoke-house, \\hich should be from eight { 4000 die within the year. In the very popu- 

 to tivelve weeks. j lous quarters of Paris where the streets are nar- 



The smoking process is to be conducted al- i row, ami the inhabitants wretched, the mortalily 

 together with the wood of the sugar maple or; is about nine in ten, in the first year. In the 

 hickory; the former is preferred: and when i country, when good air, cleanliness, and com- 

 sufficieully smoked, those that are intended tbr| fort are united, as in Normandy, the mortality 

 immediate use, may be hung up in a dark garret, during the first year is only one in eight. The 

 or, if the weather be too cool, in the cellar, as - academy, considering the importance of these 

 freezing, ])arlicularly if often repeated, is very i facts, decided on communicating them to the So- 

 injuriou'.. Those that are intended for summer ciete Rlaternelle, and all the societies, whose 

 use, are to be well whitewashed with lime, and j object it is to aid the unfortunate. Hitherto 



when dry, wrapped in paper and packed away 

 in neiv dry house ashes, and then set in a cool 

 dry place in the cellar. Particular care is re- 

 quisite to prevent its being heated too much 

 while in Ihe smoke-house, us this is very de- 

 slructive to its fine flavour. 

 Memoirs of the JS'ew- York Board of Agriaulivre. 



For. THE NliW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE. 



Boston, J^ov. 8, 1825. 

 It is not necessary for us to recommend to the 

 attention of the Patriot and the Philanthropist 

 Ihe subject of founding and endowing a semina- 

 ry for the appropriate education of youth who 

 are destined to agricultural and mechaDicul pur- 



these societies have invariably recommended 

 mothers nursing their children ; but it is evident 

 that bad air, and other concomitant circumstan- 

 ces, more than counterbalance those advantages : 

 it is more charitable to aid them to send their 

 children to nurse in the country. — Med. Intel. 



Number of Grains of Corn in a LusJ el. 

 An English farmer has given Ihe following as 



the result of an experiment to ascertain the 



weight and number of a Winchester bushel of 



Ihe undermentioned sorts of grain. 



Wheat in lbs. A'o. in Grains. 



Wheat 62 550,000 



Barley 52 520,000 



Oats 32 1,260,000 



Early Peas 64 110,000 



Horse Beans H ' 37.000 



