NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Published by JOHN B. RUSSELL, attlie corner of Coiij:res3 and Lindall Streets, Boston THOMAS G. FESSF.NUEN, LniTon. 



VOL. IV. 



BOSTON, FlllDAY, FKBHUAIIV 3, 1826. 



No. 2'd. 



ORXGZXIAI. COmmUHICATlONS. 



S.lFIORn\S STIi.lfF CUTTER. 



Bill Rs tlif use of cjltirig 



eiov\n iiuicli nioie 



incfiireil to jidci (o h 



al'.ove staled; «liirh liuve rctiderrd it, as il is 



liioughl, as perl'ecl as llie niiliirc of its o|jer.i 



(ions U'ill admit ; and Itiis M'iiiinut ciihaiirjii^r 



I he price lie^ond v\hat any one vvlio biis dccm- 



sion for sach an imjileme.it can well alTord lo 



[lay. 



I'lie price of llie largfpst of Safkord's Siraw- 

 ,4C'«.iers, Hit!) the latest improvornents, is l»feiil4!- 

 "live dollars; the next size eighteen, anil llie 

 sm^illcsl fbiirletn dollars, 'i'liey may l^e had o' 

 Davi'^ & Jones, Mill Pond street, Bustou ; Wil- 

 liam Mannug, Esq. Salem, i\ia«s. and Joseph 

 Barkett, Esi^. Concord, IVLiss. The}' may also 



Thu aTRAw CuTTEn, of ivhich ihp ahove is a 



roiu view, is a Maciiine which is well worlh 



he attention of every cullivalor. It hns been 

 lalely improved, and llie amendments in its con- 

 slruction consist in-ils being lar-cr and heller 

 calculated lor large eslaldifhrnenls ; and will eul 

 a greaier variety .d lengths, lo nil, from one 

 half inch lo lour inches. It may he worked 

 with propnrlional ainaiiiage hy one, I wo or Ihre^ 

 persons; and may he used lo great advanlage- 

 even by three boys. 



• Sioce (he aiccnsl self evident f.icl has Deen 

 brought to light, Ihat long or unrolled manure is 

 worth much more than the same materials would 

 be alter having gone through a process of de- 

 composition— and as most of those materialscan- 

 not be applied to advantage in their long state, 

 it is very important that liiey be cut sulH.-ienlly 

 short to admit of their being evenly si)read on 

 the ground, without their clogging the plough. 



And since with one of these machines two men, ! will be forwarded accordingly. 

 or one man and two boys, can cut a ton in three ' ?= ° 



hours, it is prepared in this way with far less 

 expense than it possibly can be by any difl'erenf 

 process. 



The advantages resulting from cutting straw, 

 hay, corn stalks. Sic. for food for cattle are now 

 so fully appreciated, and the practice is so gen- 

 erally adopted, that it is not necessary in this 

 place to enlarge on the subject. Even where 

 straw is intended for litter, it is much superior 

 for thai purpose after it has passed through a 

 cutting machine ; and il will then answer much 

 better as an absorbent of the liquid parls of the 

 manure than it would in its original state. The 

 best of recommendations of this machine have 

 |been obtained from practical cultivators, and 

 stable keepers, residing in ditferent parts of thi 

 country. 



It will be recollected that about three year:, 

 igo, Mr ,Sa6f(ird obtained at Bright.in for his 

 jilraw Cutter, the tirst Premium on inventions, 

 IS it was then brought forward. The next year 



t was exhibited with some improvements; and 

 ivas considered as a very pertect machine, hy 

 jtU who examined it or witnessed iu operation. 



I 1.5 days after, have sown wheal or r_\e, and have 

 I found my crops very niuch benefited llinrehy. 

 "J'hc last season we look Iroiii a poor, birchen 

 soil about 23 -bushels of gocd white X'irgiiiia 

 wheat per acre, with no other manure (ban the 

 ploughing in of buckwheat as above." 



The above presents an excellent practical comiDent 

 on Mr PoMEROV's " Essay on llie .Advantages of ma- 

 1 nuring with green Crops,'" wliieb n.ay be f und in the 

 ; JS'ew England Farmer, vol. i. page 9. — Kditob. 



FOR TIIK NEW ENGLAf-'U FARMER. 



j PLANTIN© SCIONS OF FRUIT TREES. 



j Our readers ci'iy. perhaps, recollect that ve pub- 

 Wished an arlicle, in the current volunic of the jVeii' 

 ; England Farmer, page 125, taken from the Owego pa- 

 per N.V. that Dr Page of Oswego village, planted about 

 i twenty scions of clifTeient kinds o( pears, two of ivhich 

 ( are now in blossom at the surface of the ground, i;c-^ 

 j That a writer v\\\\ the signature '^ Hurliculluie^" in 

 ; a coinniunicalioc, published, p:'ge 132 of the same 

 oi'iilar Mr .SaRbrd has been '< ^'^''"U'^i expressed his doubts whether fruit-tctes could 

 rnacliine the impiovements ''<-' n'^de to flourish by idanting cultiiigs, as it was said 



had been successfully accomplished by Lr l';<ge. foon 

 after ri ceiving'the toinmunicalion firm " Unrlicullitri:" 

 we wrote to Ur Page, i'nd Ihat gentleman has betn 

 good enough io favor us with the folloviing. in an^Mer 

 to our iijquirits on the subject o!" his experiment. 



all kinds of fodder h 



Oa-^nro, Tin-'n Co. A". Y. Jon. 2], 1826. 

 ■liEAB .'^ - veFy-respecfful C-rimrcuui- 



califSn^oriiie •-,111 liii. fealAe f.-; hand o/tpr ccn- 

 siderahle delay, in consequence of its having 

 been misdirected to Oswpgo instead nf Owigo ; 

 the reason of not making a more [iiompt ans- 

 wer lo your enquiry has arisen from a desire 



be obtained in ilarlford. Con. hy inquiring oil '" S'^c you more direct and positive informa- 

 Ward Woodbhidue, Esct. of that city ; or of the j ''"" "I""' ''i*^ sul>ject. A gentleman of my ac- 

 Inventor Noah Safford, Springfield, VermnnI; 



lo whom orders may be sent, and Ihe machine.^ 



TO TKE EDITOR OF TUK KEW ESGt.A.M) 1 ARIIIF.R. 



BUTTER. 

 Mr. Eiiitoh, — I found by experiment that the 

 uncertainly of fetching butter in the winter mav 



quainlaiice, residing within tvv.-'iitv miles ot me, 

 has succeeded in raising pear Irees, in the man- 

 ner alluded io in your leller,as I am urn/ crcililUy 

 informed, and since my altemp' (ailed, I wrote 

 to him immediately after receiving yours lo ob- 

 tain the facts relating to the suliject, hut have 

 nol yet received an answer. 



Some lime in the latter part of hist March I 

 collected scions of several kinds of Pears, and 



he easily remedied hy preparing the cream carelessly Hung them into my cellar for the 

 properly. Incorjiorale a little pure vinegar I pu''pose of ingrafting them into the stalks of my 

 with the tirst quart of cream, thai it may sour;iyoung Apple-trees of which I had a great jden- 



collecl the qiianlity to he churned ; ifi; be nol 

 ^our, add a little more vinegar, and warm it till 

 it is sour, then heat it scalding hot. Lei it then 

 stand two days, and we are sure of having gooti 

 butter in the winter. DAIRY-WOMAN. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[Extract of a leller from Zebina Stebbihs. .E.^^. of 

 Springjield lo S. \V. Po-tiero\, Esq. of Bnghlon.] 



PLOUGHING LN GREEN CROP.S. 

 " I have been in the habit, for three year> 

 past, of ploughing my land deep, about the 20th 

 of June, and sowing half a bushel of buckwheat 

 lo the acre ; and about the 20lh of August turn- 

 ed the crop completely in ; and in about 14 or 



ly ; but haling heard of the method of rearing 

 Iruit-trees hy planting the scions, aliout the mid- 

 dle of April I cut the twigs into lengths of about 

 5 inches each, and securing as many oi the buds 

 as convenient, say 2, 3 or 4, upon each twig, I 

 planted Ihcm in the ground, at Ihe depth of 

 about 3 inches, with the body of the scions in a 

 horizontal [lositiun, directing the most fair and 

 promising buds upward, the cut ends of the sci- 

 ons having been dipped in melted shoemakers' 

 wax immediately before planting. On Ihe 14th 

 or 15lh of May 1 discovered iwo or three of my 

 scions handsomely in blossom, just al the surface 

 of the ground, which Cirrumslarire occa'-iuned 

 Ihe communication in ibe Owego Gazelle of the 

 17lh of last May. I'wo or three leaves also 



