Vol. IV. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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again appeared, and increa.s id to the 2d of June, 

 when seven pints of blood were taken, on whicli 

 all the symptoms disappeared, and did not occur 

 afterwards ; neither was it expected from the same 

 crop of insects, for in the months of .Iiine and July 

 they leave the horse, and seek an asylum in the 

 earth. 



Were the preventive means (which are certain) 

 universally pursued, this race of insects would be- 

 come e.xtinct ; and, in fact, by a partial observance 

 in this vicinity, they are far less numerous than 

 formerly, and it is now rather a rare occurrence to 

 hear of the disease. 



The root of the cucumber extends many feet in h''''f'fi ''">''• They get into the nofitrils, ears and 

 all directions : the i'ruits require, in order to be pl'^ath of the horse, an.! pio luce an iniiannnation, 

 of a good quality, a large quantity of juices from "'''i^'li takes ofl' the horse in a few hours. 



the vine ; and consequently where too many plants 

 are suffered to remain, tlie earth cannot yield the 

 requisite supply, and instead of continuing vigor- 

 ous and productive through the season, becomes 

 feeble and barren. 

 Another common error in the culture of thi 



[N. Y. Gav.] 



COXGRIl.SSIONAL. 



Senate, May I'J. A hill to regulate the svni- 

 nioning of Grand Juries in the District Courts of 



QUERIES. 



Mr Pessejjden. — A friend from Connecticut 

 has sent me the following enquiries. Can any of 

 your correspondents furnish the information that 

 he requests ? 



" I am extremely annoyed by ground moles. — 

 They are increasing yearly in this place. Iwish 

 to know by what course they may be destroyed, or 

 the evil remedied ? 



" An agricultural friend is much annoyed by an 

 army of rats in his barn. What can be done to 

 get rid of them ? I have read that rats and mice 

 will immediately quit barns, granaries, &c. in 

 which is placed the field-plant, called Dog's Ton- 

 gue, bruised with a hammer. What is the botani- 

 cal name of the " Dog's Tongue ;'" Does it grow 

 in your quarter, and has it ever been tried .' I can- 

 not find it here." QUERIST. 



vegetable is sufiering the vines to rest upon the ! ""^ United. States, passed to a third reading 

 ground. If instead of this, people would take the Mcy 15. The Senate refused 10 to 14 to con 

 trouble of sticking them, or, while the plants arc ' ^ider the bill repealing in part the duty on salt.— 

 small, laying between the hills brushwood, their I -^ J"'"' resolution directing a .system of Cavalry 



labour would be richly compensated. 



[Worcester Yeoman.] 



GEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION. 



On Thursday last, Professor Fjaton with a party 

 of students from the Renselaor ?chool, urrived in 

 this village in tlie Packet Boat '• Marquis La Fa- 

 yette." The expediiion started from Troy, and it 



I was the intention of the stn.lents to make a geo- 



I logical tour to Lake Erie on the line of the Canal, 

 during the vacation of t!ie school. The Boat was 

 provided with srientific apparatus, and lectures we 

 wore informed, were pronounced daily to the stu- 

 dents, by the able Professor, accompanied with {thereon, with an amendaient to strike out the sum 

 practical illustrations of his subject. It is agreoa- i allowed in the bill, and to insert S-'2i-t,513 in ful 

 ble to witness an expedition like this, where in- | of all demands against the United States, whicl 

 struction is so elegantly united v.ith amusement, i was adopted 25 to 14. 



CUCUMBERS. 



Although this is rather an article of luxury than 

 absolute necessity, yet it is one so easily cb 

 tnined by evei'y person, and consequentlj' of so 

 general use, a i'ew observations on its culture may 

 not be unacceptable to onr agriccdtural friends. 



It can hardly have escaped the notice of the 

 most unobserving Ih.at during tlic fore part of the 

 season many of the blossoms on cucumber vines 

 are what are usually dcnominated/a^sc ito(M,which 

 never produce fruit. We have seen it^tated by a 

 writer on Gardening, that to prevent the appear- 

 ance of these, and greatly to increase the produc- 

 tiveness of the vines, when the plants have but 

 two rough leaves, a stage to which they arrive 

 within a few days after they first come up, the 

 bud or top of the vine should be carefully cut off 

 with a small knife or pair of scissors above these 

 rough leaves, but not too close to them. This 

 causes the plant to put forth runners sooner than 

 it would otherwise do, in greater numbers, and 

 nearer the root of the plant ; and thus it becomes 

 more productive and at an earlier period thnn those 

 plants on which this operation is not performed. 

 What the effect produced by such treatment is, 

 we cannot say from personal experience, but a 

 friend has informed us that he made the experi- 

 ment last year, and that its success far exceeded 

 expectation. The plants treated in this manner 

 produce fruit several days earlier, and in greater 

 abundance during the whole season than others 

 which were planted at the same time and in the 



same hills with them, which were not topped 



It is a common error, not only in relation to cu- 

 cumbers but also as to almost all other vegetables 

 of this class, that too great a number are suffered 

 to grow on a given quantity of ground. For in- 

 stance, it is not unusual to find, on a square rod, ' 

 from one hundred to one hundred and fifty jdants, 

 which is at least too great a number by one half. I 



Tactics was ordered to a tliird reading. 



May 17. The President, by Message, romnuini- 

 cated eighteen Treaties, ratified during the prc-- 

 ent session of Congress with different tribes of In- 

 dians. 



May 1.8. Mr Randolph and Mr Holmes intro- 

 duced some re-ioh'tions making pro\ isicn for tie 

 better accommodation of the Senate, preserving 

 order in that body, &c. whicli cai'sed some alter- 

 cation between several of the Members, but these 

 at length subsided, without anything more t!ian 

 words. — The bill from the House for the relief of 

 President Munroe v. as reported by the Committee 



and where the heart is not less gratified, because 

 the mind is improved. 



After witnessing whatever of interest this neigh- 

 bourhood could afford, the party proceeded on their 

 expedition westward. [Syracuse Gazette.] 



A RECEIPT FOR AIAKING BEER. 

 Boil 10 ounces Hops in .3^ pails of water one 

 hour, or until the leaves settle at the the bottom of 

 the kettle. Then strain it into a 20 gallon cask 

 in which must first be put quarts and one pint of 

 good thick molasses. Fill it up with cold water. 

 Add one pint brewer's yeast. Roll it over and 

 shake it well. Let it remain in the cellar 24 hours 

 witii the bung out, after which it must be bunged 

 tight, and in one week it will be fit for use. If 

 bottled it will very much improve. 



House, May 13. The House took up the bill 

 for allowing to James Munroe out of the Treasury 

 the sum of .^15,5.3-3. 3.5 with interest from the 

 third day of December 18J0. This hill, after de- 

 bate, passed to a third reading, the allowance of in- 

 terest having been previou.sly struck out. 



May 13. The Speaker laid before the House a 

 ' communication from the Secretary of War ; cover- 

 ing ?. rc[>3irt of .*Jie Board of Internal Improvements 

 'respecting the probable cost of roads from Vt'ash- 

 ington City to New Orleans. 



May 1,5. A resolution was agreed to, nuthori-'- 

 ing the Speaker to engage with Gilbert Stuart to 

 paint a Portrait of Gen. Washington. The .Tudi- 

 ciary bill, after several motions and discussions 

 was ordered to lie on the table, and the next day 

 postponed indefinitely. 

 SLIGHT BUILDING •'"''.'/ '•'• The House went into Committee on 



It is mentioned to us as a fact, says the N. Y. ! *'^'' following resolution oftVred by Mr Bradley of 

 Mercantile Advertiser, that a gentleman who has ' Vermont. Resolved, &c. That Professor James 

 occupied, since the 1st of May, one of a block of, ^^nwick of New York, be employed under the di- 

 new three story brick houses, which rent at a hi.di ' '■«''*'°" "*" »•'« President of the United States, to 

 price, in attempting to drive a nail into his wall ' "''^P^^'* "'*" experiments heretofore made ; and also 

 to hang his hat upon, actually drove a brick into '}° ""^'^'^ '""f**'®^ experiments tor the purpose of as- 

 his neio-hbor's parlour ' J certainiug the true lencth of the penduliun vibrat- 



; ing sixty times in a minute, at the city of New 



HALF BREED CARAMANIAN LAMB. ! York, and also at the city of Washington, and to 

 We saw on Saturday (says the N.Y. Statesman) ■ compare the length thereof with such measures 

 arfine looking lamb, three and a half months 'old, now in possession of this Government as will best 

 raised on Mr Shotwell's farm, New Jersey, and shov.' the proportion between the lengths of such 

 derived from a native American ewe, crossed by pendulums and the standard yard recently adopted 

 the Caramanian sheep imported from Asia Minor- by the British Government, and to make report of 

 last year by Mr Shotwell, [of which a full descrip- the results to Congress at their next session ; and 

 tion was published in the current volume of the that there be appropriated for that purpose, a sum 

 New England Farmer, page 11.] The lamb was not exceeding seven hundred dollars, to be paid 

 covered with flax-covered wool from three to four o"t of any money in the treasury not otherwise 

 inches in length. i appropriated. This resolution has since passed 



■ — ■ — the House. 



A strange fatality existed among the horses in i May 18. Mr Everett offered a resolution, that 

 Shelby county, Tennessee, about the middle of j the Secretary of State be directed to submit to the 

 last month. About forty horses had died within ' House at the next session a schedule of the claims 

 twenty four hours, supposed to be occasioned by I of American citizens on certain foreign govern- 

 the Bu.ffalo gnat, a small fiy, wliich continues about 'ments. 



