NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Published by JOHN B. RUSSELL, at the corner of Congress and Lindall Streets, Boston THOMAS G. FF.SSENUEN, Editor. 



VOL.. IV. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 182(j. 



No. 33. 



PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR PROMOT- groun<lat the last linrrowing, with rape seed— 

 ING AGRICULTURE. on the 25lh Sept. when the c<Tn was cut off, the 



Staled MeeHns;, February 2\sl Adjourned Meeting, rape covered the whole surface; in many pla- 



Februar)/ 23d, 1826— Dr. Mease, lue President in\ce^ the planis were two feel high. A ?ix acre 

 the chn'ir. ^^-^^ furnished pasture for 200 ewes and lamhs, 



above two weeks ; 14 acres were left unlil the 



25th December, and afforded the ewes fine siic- 



1— A Keporl irom me v.omiiiiu«e u. ,„^. cnlent pasture, till the time Ihey commenced 



Society, appointed to receive applications and , 'ambrng, when they were put on hay, and at 



The foliowiog communications were read : 

 I._A Report from (he Committee of the 



award premiums, from the fund established by 

 John Scott. 



The following premiums have been awarded. 



1. To Samuel Goodwin, for an ingenious front 

 door lock — twenty dollars. 



2. To Dr. James S. Ewing, for a screw-cock 

 hydrant — a medal and twenty dollars. 



3. To Coleman Sellers, for a simple and ef- 

 fectual cupping instrument — a medal andtweflty 

 dollars. 



4. To Thomas Barnitt, for a press to force 

 cut the extra quantity of tar used in the manu- 

 facture of cordage — a med.Tl and twenty dollars. 



5. To Isaac Conard of Lampeter Township, 

 Lancaster County, Penn. for a s;niple and effectu- 

 al barrow to plant Indian corn — a medal and 

 twenty dollars. 



6. To George Harper, for two drills, one Tor 

 potatoes and one for seeds — ten dollars. 



7. To William Shotwell, New York, for an 

 easy weeder for garden walks — live dollars. 



8. To Robert Welford and James H. Deas. 

 for an improved plane, with friclionles.s meldlii' 

 rollers, for planing floors— a meiiai and Iweni' 

 dollars. 



9. To Daniel Neill, for a vertical printing 

 press — a medal and twenty dollars. 



10. To James Gardette, dentist, for three 

 great improvements in his profession, now in 

 general use in Europe and ihe United States; 

 and for a simple lever inslrumen; for tiie more 

 easy and expeditious extraction of teeth and 

 stumps of leelh — a medal and twenty doUais. 



11. To Jonathan Nicholls, of Providence. 

 Pihode Island, for a portable carriage spring seal 

 — a medal and twenty dollars. 



12. To John Meer, for a razor strap — a me 

 dal and twenty dollars. 



13. To Mrs. Frances Jones, for an improve- 

 ment in making patent lint — twenty dollars. 



' 14. To Benjamin Freymouth for a very in- 

 genious chamber alarm bell, which can be at- 

 tached to a watch — a medal and live dollars. 



15. To John C. Jenckes, of Providence, 

 Rhode Island, for an apparatus to enable person^ 

 with fractured limbs, to be moved in their posi 

 tions in bed, and to be raised up, without injury 

 to the limb — a medal and twenty dollars. 

 All the ibregoing inventions are in use. 



11.— A letter to the chairman from W. J. 

 Miller, Esq. of Philadelphia county, on the cul- 

 ture of Rape, dated, February 20, 1826. Mr. 

 Miller found that a crop of wheal, on grouniJ 

 which had previously borne a crop of rape, was 

 one of the best he ever had, and that the burthen 

 of grasses, viz: wheat, clover, timothy and 

 orchard, sown upon the wheat, and cut last season 

 was greater than any he had hitherto. On the 

 23d July, 1824, he sowed twenty acres ol corn 



noon a good feed was given them, of the yellow 

 Aberdeen turnip and Mangel Wurlzel, with 

 which he has succeeded better, than with tlie 

 Ruta Baga. 



Besides the value of rape for sheep, I\Ir. 

 Miller thinks that no green crop can be so 

 profitably employed either for soiling or pas- 

 turing milk cows. He says, Mr Curwen, ol 

 Cumberland, England, speaks in the highjRsl 

 terms of it in his report; increasing the quan- 

 tity of milk, without imparting any disagreeable 

 flavour to it. Ploughed in green, Mr M. sup|)os- 

 es, rape would be superior, as a manure, to any 

 plant used in that way. Mr Wm. Phillips, the 

 neighbour of Mr Miller, has six acres of Rape, 

 sown last September, for seed. It is now quite 

 green, notwithstanding the late severe frost. — 

 The value of the rape seed oil tor greasing wool, 

 and of the cake for fattening cattle, was men- 

 tioned in the report of the Society's meeting, 

 in January. — These important facts will doubt- 

 less be appreciated by oi:r farmers. 



111. A letter from Dr. Hatfielil Smith, of N". J. 

 with a sample of cottnn which he procured at 

 rtrica in Peru. The trees from which he took 

 (lie cotton, were of great sixe. The dimen- 

 sions of one, were rather more than seven inch- 

 es in diameter, and upwards of fouitocn feet in 

 height. It was covered with flowers and pods, 

 m.varioiis states of maturity. The trees grew 

 within a quarter of a mile of the sea shore. — 

 Those which grew further up the valley were 

 not so b' ilthy. The seeds are black, and part 

 Irom the wool easily. The staple of the cot- 

 ton, is about the length of the green seed or 

 uplaud cotton of the United Stales, but coarser. 



The salutary effects of the proximity of the 

 sea on the Arica cotton plant, will not surprise 

 the planters of the Southern United Stal?s, who 

 know Ihe connexion between Ihe fine qualiiy ol 

 the silky black seed or Sea Island cotton, and a 

 salt atmosphere. Their exfierience coincides 

 with that of the planters ofDemerara, (Boling- 

 broke''s Voyage) and vilh the reports from Af- 

 rica, (3d Report of African Institution) and yei 

 Koster says, that in Ihe Brazils "the opinion is 

 very general that Ihe cotton plant will not tlirive 

 in the neighbourhood of the coast," and asks, 

 "might not the Sea Island seed be sent for, and 

 a trial of i( be made?" He is ignorant of the 

 fact, that (he Sea Island cotton seed was origi- 

 nally received from Pernambucc, as stated m a 

 former report of a meeting of this Society. 



The Publishing Committee announced the 

 publication of Ihe tilth volume of Ihe Society's 

 Memoirs, by Mr Small. — National Gazette. 



The cotton and woolen manufactures of the 

 United States are already estimated at 12,000,000 

 dollars per annum. 



ORZeXITAZ. COIVIZaUNICATXONS. 



TO THE f;DITOR OF THE NEW ENGLAND F-A-RKEf.. 



THE VINE. 

 County o/A'orfolk, March 1, 1826. 



Mr Fessznden — I observe in the Daily Adver- 

 tiser of this day, that Vines of various sorts of 

 Cirapes are offered for sale at the Hurticullura! 

 Nursery in Brooklyn, (Long Island) — said to be 

 of rare sorts, and many of Ihem quite new in 

 this counti v. The advertisement slates that 

 " several lovers of the V^ine" had proposed to Ihe 

 gardener to offer se(s, (by which we suppose he 

 moans Gullings nr layers.) for subscription — and 

 he says that " all the soptspcmed will ripen per- 

 fectly in unij situHiLjn,.^^|Hfer in town or coun- 

 try." 



The sorts mentioned .nre generally known to 

 me, but there are seme »vhose names are new : 

 such as iVWo-y C basse las, ./Vii;^/: Chassolas, Black 

 Chasselas, and /JetZ Chasselas. It is also new to 

 me that the Muscat Grajies will ripen in every 

 situation in Ihe open air. I have tried Muscats 

 of various kinds in very warm siluations out of 

 doors, for ten vears past, but have nol been able 

 to bring them to maturity without tiie aid ot 

 glass. All the Clias'elas will ripen out of doors; 

 that is to say, the three sorts with which I am 

 acquainted, viz. the Golden Chasselas, which 

 ia the earliest ; the Fonlainbleau, which resem- 

 bles it, in this, as well as its oiher excellent 

 properties and the Common Chasselas, which 

 is til.-! Cvi..-<mor. table fruit of Fr^'nce. This last 

 is the most prolific and certain, although net so 

 early as the others. 



If the person who makes this adverliTment 

 is not mistaken in his facts (as 1 think he is) Ihe 

 selection is a good one ; but I should prel'er 

 wailing unlil I had tested the fact of Muscat 

 grapes coming to maturity in the open ground, 

 before I made much of a plantation of this varie- 

 ty ; for it's a heiirt breaking thing to tear a vine 

 out of the ground alter it has got into a bearing 

 state, even if ihe fruit don't ripen perfectly, as 

 I very well know by experience ; and I think it 

 much more for the interest of Ihe cultivator lo 

 plant surh fruits only as he can be sure of: — it 

 is cruel, Mr Editor, alter waiting three or four 

 years to get your plant into a bearing state, lo 

 be reduced lo the alternative of suffering Ihe 

 fruit to perish on the vines, or to root up the 

 bantling that you have been nursing, and dress- 

 ing, and training for years, under the fond hope 

 that it would eventually pay you tenfold for all 

 the labour and pains you have bestowed upon 

 ,1 !_Yet 1 apprehend that all those w ho buy 

 vines of the Muscat variety to plant in Ihe open 

 ground in Ibis climate, will find themselves in 

 this predicament. A Lover of the Vine. 



TO THE editor OF THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



FRUIT TREES. 



Milton, March 8, 1C26. 

 Mr Fessenden — I observed in the last iium- 

 ber of the New England Farmer, a wish for a 

 catalogue of the best fruit of the diflferent kinds 



