1826.] 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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medium, so in this case. And may not families 

 of trees be conip.ired to families of mankind? — 

 Some families tend to extinction, and are soon 

 lost. Oltiors increase and spread conlinKallv. 



We have the authority ol I'^orsylh and others, 

 that justify us in staling, that, ' old, canker- 

 ed, decayinij fruit trees may be restored to per- 

 fect health, by removin" the rotten, dead and 

 cankered wood, and defending: the wound from 

 the sun and air. And yel the same writers will 

 caution nursery men ag^amst ever taking scions 

 from such trees, on any occasion. This at lirsl 

 appears paradoxical, as we might be led to draw 

 this inierence — thai health might be more read- 

 ily restored on a living or disordered, than a 

 healthy stock, which is repugnant to common 

 sense. The fact, however apf>ears to be, that, 

 some such decaying trees of heallliy sorts of 

 fruits, furnish scions that will grow perfectly 

 well, and live to a good old age, if inserted on 

 healthy stocks; while unheajlliy sorts cannot be 

 ^iropagated or restored by any known process. 

 In selecting scions, hoivever, heallby bearing 

 trees are ever to be prefered by a 



NURSERY MAN. 



We are assured by a gentleman with whom we are 

 personally acquainted, and for wboin we entertain a 

 high re?pect, that the writer of the above is a practical 

 Orchardist, and owns a valuable Nursery of excellent 

 iruit. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FAPlMER. 



RINGBONE IN HORSES. 



Bridgewater, March 18, 1826. 

 Mr Ff.ssenden — If you, or any of your sub- 

 scribers, can prescribe a cure for a disorder in 

 horses' feet, known by the name of Rin>/.hone,.ii 

 would be of much utility to the |)ublic lo have 

 it published. A very valuable horse of mini' has 

 recently been attacked with this disorder in one 

 of his fore feel, which has rendered him ncativ 

 useless, in consequence of lameness. Any re- 

 marks on tills disorder, will be gratefully re- 

 ceived by A SUBSCRIBER. 



Remarks by thk Editor. — White's Treatise on 

 Veterinary Medicine, vol. iii. page 246, gives the fol- 

 lowing description of Ringbone and its remtdies : 



" The bony excrescences on the pastern, which con- 

 stitute ringbone, are not always productive of lame- 

 ness ; this happens only when they are so situated as to 

 interfere with the motion of the small pastern or coffin 

 joint. In the latter situation thfy occasion more con- 

 siderable lameness than in the former. I havt in seve- 

 ral instances known horses have ringbones on the hi 'd 

 pastern without suffering the slightest inconvenience 

 from thr-ni ; and the last I met with went through the 

 huntmg season without any appearance of lameness. 1 

 have found that the only chance we have of curing 

 ringboue or the lameness arising from it. is a free ap- 

 plication of the actual cautery, [searing with a liot iron] 

 and blistering immediately afterwards; and even this 

 will not succeed if thf .s.iification [becoming like hone] 

 has gone so far as to fix the ends of the bones or glue 

 them as it were together, so that the motion of the joint 

 is completely lost. It is necessary, therefore, when a 

 horse is observed to be lame from this disease, to have 

 recourse at once to firing : 1 would by no means advise 

 trusting to a blister alone ; for though it may, some- 

 times, at a very early period, succeed, there is ever 

 then a chance of the lameness returning. When blist- 



ering is employed, it should always be repeated two or 

 three times, washing off each blister about the third 

 day after its application, and keeping the part cool in 

 the interval, with CJoulard's lo'.ion.'^ [Vinegar saturat- 

 ed with white lead composes what i.s called Goulard's 

 Extract. Goulard's lotion is made by mi.xing one 

 ounce of said extraet with one quart of wati r. | 



NEW 



If we may judge from the accounts from all quarters, 

 the state of the mauufacturiiig districts in I.nglandmust 

 he very distressing. The greatest part of the labour- 

 ing classe*' :ire in a state ofstarvalion, and unless Ihfrc 

 is a speedy chtiiifj^e it iij nppr<hf;ndfd llii'ie will lit roM- 

 sidcrable riot and C'-nfnsion in many places. In Lan- 

 cashire and Yorksliirc it appears to be tl e worst. One 

 I family of iliirtoi-n ptrsions, were said to have lived for 

 1 three days upon ihf petlin^s of pofatots, t onsnilation 

 ^?^^"?""^?™'"^f^^'^"'??!'?"'"^''^''^'?f^"" j had been held by (he ministers, in reference to afi'ntd- 



ENGLAND FARM 1^14. !i','fr'"' '''■':','"' ^'"i "'- "-"i' y'""" '<"°«'?- ;ih<= 



„__^ . j Globe says, ' lii vvUalevei- \v;iy the assistance is to he 



FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1826. | afforded, the lellcfrs we have this morning received, 

 I will show ttiat there is no time to be lost." 



" ^'o Farmer."-The article on the first page of this j Canada.— Th^ Governor of Lower Canada has in- 

 day's paper with this signature, will well reward the formed the Legislature he cannot accept the annual 

 careful perusal of practical farmers. If the author of i ^Pl"'"!"''"''™ I»«''. ""'«ss made in roulorniily to in- 

 ,, . ■ •■ i, 1- J „ „ 11 J r -V, ! siruclions (rom l.ngl-.iiid. A call of the House has been 



that communication has discovered a method ol van-' , ' , . . . . . , 



ngreed to, and the probability is it will keep lis old 

 quishiiig the BORLll, which we see no reason to doubt, „;,„„„,, .,„j that there will be uo appropriations.— 

 insli ad of being "• No Farmer," ht is iu fact a CAri- Affairs in Canada appear to be a|iproachiMg a crisis. 



TAL Cultivator. 



The Glasgow Free Press says — "New-York, which 

 contains 106,000 inbaliilanls 'ends ttn meinbers to the 

 American Parliament" 1 



JtJr Dnvenpurfs Calahguc of truth. — In the New 

 England Farmer of the 10th ult. we published a " Cat- 

 alogue of Fruits," fuinibhed by " Nath. Davenport," 

 of Milton, which has been stated to be incorrect, as re- 

 spects the time when some of the fruits are fit lor use. 

 The " Chaumonlelle " peai, according to .Mr Daven- 

 port is fit for use in " July," but others say this pear is 

 fit for eating in November, December and January ; in I eral towns^ 

 other words is a iftn/er and r!0( a iUJiimer fruit. Mr D's ?erinus disturbances have taken place at Macc'fs- 

 defence is that there are two sorls of pears, which art \ '■"''l. otcasbned by the distress tu whii h a large por- 



I, J f<i „ „ , II ,u -11 1 .1 ! lion of the manulactiiring classes in that town had bic n 



railed Chaumontttte ; the one ripe in July, and the i , , , . . - "r-nr ... , , .u 



'^ ■" 1 reduced. A mob ol o or 6000 operatives paraded the 



By a return presented 'n the House of Commons, it 

 appears that the tolal number of acres under hop cul- 

 tivation ill (i. Rrilain last year was 46,718. 



Great distress exists in many 'of the manufacturing 

 districts, in some of ^^ hich the laboring classes were 

 absolutely in a slate of starvation. Pl.icards, on which 

 was inscribed '■'bUiud or breud,'''' were pasted up in sev- 



other in November aod December, and that in his cat- 



streets, and committnd many acts of violence. Thty 



alogue he had reference to the former kind. The cat- , were finally dispersed by military aid. 

 alogue of James Bloodgood &Co. Flushing Long Island, j The Public Ledger says— "it is an undeniable fact, 

 contains two sorts of Chaumonlelle pears, and states , that the severe embarrassments with which we arc 

 that they are ripe as mentioned above. The kind ' struggling at this moment, are unknown in France." 

 which is ripe in Nov. and Dec. is likewise called} Sir W'altel Scott has become embarrassed, by the 

 " Winter Beurre," in Mr Bloodgood'slist. Here is oite . f''"''* "' aji ext*"?-** book-selling establishment at 



., .... jr.. r r ■ . . ' I'.dinliurL^h. 



among the multitude of instances of confusion arising j , ,»«„,, 



. , , ^ . , , . ' A whale, worth SoOO, has been caught on the coast 



from the want of a more correct, definite and descrip- ^f j^ Carolina 



tive nomenclature of fruits. 



Cleaveland Bay Horse. — Among the advertisements in 

 this day's paper will be found one of the horse Sir 

 Isaac, sent as a present by Sir Isaac Coffin to the Mass. 



Quinebaug Ca??a/.— Notice is given in the Norwich 

 Courier, that a rUition will be presented to the Legis- 

 lature of Connecticut at the next session for an ai t 

 of incorporation for a canal from the tide waters at ' 

 Norwich, along the banks or near the Quinebaug 



Agr.Society. An account of the lineage arrd qualities of R-iver. to some part of the County of Worcester, in t 



this breed of horses was published in the American 



Farmer vol. ii. page 239 in a letter to R. Patterson, 



Esq. of Baltimore, written by Geo. Toilet, Esq. an 



eminent breeder and farmer of Staffordshire, England; 



of which the following is a copy. 



he 

 trttc of -Massachusetts, with a view if the Legisl'nture 

 of Massachusetts should favour the priject, to continue 

 the same to Boston." 



The same paper mentions that the commissioners 

 have engaged Col. Baldwin to take a review of the 

 rout, and make the estimates so as to be able to com- 

 plete his report by the 1st of May. — Bosl. Dai. ^de, 



" The breed of Cleveland Bays, of which your colt is i —- _ —:-- — — 



ofthfi pure blood, was the native sort of improved, NEW GARLIEN SEEDS.— Just opening, a^id for 

 English horses before the introduction of the Arabians; pale by GEORGE MURDOCK, No. 14 Market square, 

 and Barbs. Yorkshire has always been celebrated for , a complete assortment of imported and 

 its horses, and Cleveland is the northern distiirt of; AMERICAN GARDEN SEEDS 



that country. By crossing these mares wilh Race Hors- j of the last year's growth; consisting of all kinds of 

 es, the Yorkshire breeders have supplied for many early Pe.is and Beans; F,arl\ and Late Cauliilower ; 

 years the metropolis wilh higli priced Coach Horses, ; Early Dutch, York and Battersea Cabbage ; large 

 and the Sportsmen with Hunters, to carry high weights. ~ -.-_-. 



The cross with \h^. blood Horse is admirable, as it com 

 bines strength and power with fleetness. But by cross- 

 ing too much with the racintr-blood, we have lost so 

 much in size and strength that it is difficult to get a 

 horse to Cii ry weight, that has sufficient activity. To 

 bring back these qualities, the Cleveland Stallion is 

 particularly adapted. They are, of themselves, good 

 carriage Hor.ses. I have a pair of my own breeding 



winter and green Savoy do ; Early Cabbage Lettuce ; 

 green curled do ; large Cape do; Sweet Maijoruni ; 

 Thyme ; Summer -Savory and Sage ; a variety of mel- 

 ons ; Early Salmon and Turnip Radish ; red, while and 

 silver skin Onion ; Beet ; Carrot ; Parsley ; green cur- 

 led Endive, &c with every other SEEDS, suitable 

 for a kitchen garden. 



Likewhr. 10 bushels of the celebrated 40 day Peas; 

 10 do superior Dwarf Marrowfat Peas ; 50 lbs. Sugar 



for which I would not take 300 guineas. For Cavalrv I Eeel ; 100 lbs Mangelwurtze). English and American 



they are capital, combining the weight of the heavy 

 with the force and impetus of the light. For the 

 Plough, their quick step is of great advantage. Their 

 colour ranges throngh Ihe various shades of Bay ; but 

 I have never bred them of any other colour. When 1 

 purcViascd them s^-ven years ago Ihe bretd was becom- 

 ing very scarce, but I hopt it will be restored." 



Rutabaga and White Clover ; GROCERIES a^ usual. 

 6t Mairh 10. 



THE subscriber has for sale at his nursery in Sa- 

 lem — the English Mountain Ash and the Common Ash, 

 both of them of good size and very fine trees — also a 

 great many seedling English Oaks. 



Salem, April 7. E. HERSY DERBY. 



