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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June- 23, 182a 



But the moment the overflowing is stopped, the I SALTING CATTLE AND SHEEP. | seed with a drill-barrow. The crop was between 



advantage of one part over the other ceases. The Wc are informed by a practical farmer, that, in 1 13 and 1400 biishehs. Some of the roots weighed 

 difference in crops will be by no moans so great, i giving salt to his cattle and sheep he mixes it with ' between 1.5 and Ki lbs. each. The Lops, nearly 

 and the convenience derived from their being in j iinlcuchod wood ashes. The mixture is composed I equal in bulk to an ordinary crop of grass, were 

 common, either for mowing or pasture, will more | of one quart of fine salt to one half bushel of ashes. 1 fed to my cows in November and December, with 

 than balance any trifling superiority. I To this composition his cattle and sheep always ! great benefit to their mUk as well as flesh. The 



The most expeditious manner to form a company, | liave access. He thinks it increases the appetite, j roots Were pitted in the field." 



would be to estimate accurately the quantity of and preserves the health of the animals, 

 marsh owned by each individual, and let him take , LOCUST-TREE BORER 



the same proportion of stock as this bears to the i . i •• i. • . . n .i .. u i ' .„,i 



. f ,y . . ^ A horticulturist tells us that he has preserved 



whole. For its more convenient management, an , . , , ,„ • . .i u u- u u 1 



- . , , , , , , J I. his Locust Trees against the borer which has al- 



act of incorporation would no doubt be granted by i i . i ii, ".. c . ■ ti ■ * r ti „ 



. , '^ . , , .... ", ^.1 most annihilated that hue tree in this part ot the i , , , , ' ' , ^, • r .i '■' i . 



the Lesfislatnre, with such priviliges and restnc- 1 . , u » i.- .i i i i ■ ti : would be best to complete the sowing ot this plant 



" ,,' ' = . ,. 1 country, by hrst probino; the holes made in the ' = "^ 



tions as would ensure to every proprietor his un- i , u .i • . -.i. u a -i i 



■' ' '^ I tree by the insects with a small flexible wire, a 



Mr Cobbett says "the time of sowing ruta bagit 

 may be from the 25th of June to tlie iLith of July, 

 as circumstances may be." His directions were 

 written for Long Island, and calculated for that 

 climate. We suppose that in New England it 



disputed title, and the greatest possible benefit to 

 be derived from a judicious cultivation. 



A committee might then be appointed to man- 

 age the concerns of the Company, which would 

 save much labour and expense in gathering the 

 crops, or tending cattle to be fattened on the 

 meadows ; for one competent farmer, v.ith the as- j 

 sistance of the necessary labourers, could perform I 

 the wliole, with much greater economy, than it l 

 can be possibly done at present, and that portion 1 

 of population which can no where be more advan- j 

 tageously employed than at the homestead, would 

 be spared the trouble of gathering an inconsidera- i 



little hooked or curved at the end introduced into 

 tlie tree. Witli this he destroys or extracts as 

 many of the worms as possible. Ke then with a 

 small syringe, injects into their holes strong soap 

 suds, which puts a finishing hand to their destruc- 

 tion. 



CUT WORM. 

 A friend 

 succeeded 



by about the 8th or 9th of July. 



MIXING SOILS. 



It v.as a maxim of Kliyogg, a famous philosoph- 

 ical farmer of Switzerland, that " every species of 

 earth may be instrumtntnl to the improvement of 

 another of opposite^ qualities." 

 . Thistles, cut an inch above the ground, will not 



be so formidable at harvest as those cut at the 



informs us that an acquaintance of his |same time v, ith the hoe, and below the surface 



in destroying cut worms by watering ,!„ the former case, the jcmaining stub of thistle 



ground infested by tliem with brine in which hams ■ gets filled with water, which resting on the crown 

 had been preserved, diluted with a large proportion ; of tlie plant, injures it so far as to occasion a few 

 of water. In his first apidication he destroyed ■ feeble shoots only to rise; whilst in the latter. 



1,1 .» <■ 1. 1 -1 r 1. 1 I some ot Ins vegetables, as wall as the worms, in , stron" and luxuriant stools slioot forth 



ble quantity of hay, several miles from home ; to! 5 . , , . ■,.,■,,• .="""='"'" "'-^^"^•'"'^ ''^""'» ="'1^1- luiui. 



1 I.- 1 * 11 J .1 •■ .1 J i. ii ' consequence of using the brine without (filuting it wtiitp A;\7Tr'V'r> 



do which at all, due attention nuist be paid to the 1 a; ■ .1 r ,■ . • . 1 .. • 1 i- Willi h VV LLD. 



J- ,v J- 1 1 ■.■ .11 , , I sufncienttv. In succeeding trials fie attained liis pi., ,»„, „p ft ...;, ,„„ i,.,,,^ i,o„,. f„i.5 ,„;i] 1 . 



sig-ns oA Me iiH!C5, lest an unpropitious tide should I ,. ■' , , , '' ., . . . | l-'laster or I'aris, we have been told, will destrov 



„„ ■ ., I 1 i »i c.i oliject, and destroyed the worms without injuring 1 „.i;,, „_„i 



consign the whole to tlic waves of tlie ocean. Li ,, , • , ,, , 1 ■ ''.White weed. 



,,.,,, J XL 1, ■ . .3 'he vegetables. It is probable that a solution of 



It IS to be hoped a sutncient number interested 1. • ^ ■ ,, 1, 1 . ■ -kt^ .i.„ r n • e 4.1. -v 1 1- t 



^ salt in water niio-ht arenerallv destroy worms in We copy the foUowmg from the 1 ranklm Jour- 



[l"'Ot, ot>._ J ^ -J o 



gardens, &c. but experiments are wanting on the ' ual, (a valuable work published under the patron- 



in the success of the plan, will call a meeting 

 the numerous proprietors, a majority of whom would 

 no doubt be gratified to take measures, which if 

 properly pursued would do more for the improve- 

 ment of Westport and Dartmouth, than any enter- 

 prise which has been projected within their jurisdic- 

 tion for the last fifty years. . , F. 



N. B. — It would well repay the douhters as to 

 the benefit of dyking, should they visit the little 

 part of reclaimed marsh, north of this village, men- 

 tioned in my former paper. At a time ' when all 

 farmers are lamenting the prospects of the season, 

 and fearing their crops will be mostly cut oft', the 

 meadow alluded to, has a very fine appearance and 

 promises, though not so great a crop as last year, 

 still an abundant one. [New Bedford Mercury.] 



subject ; and especially to ascertain what propor- 

 tion of salt in the water may prove fata! to the in- 

 sects without injuring plants. 



APPLE-TREE BORER. 



A friend has sugfjested the idea of stopping 

 the holes, made by borers in apple trees with lime 



age of the Franklin Institute of the State of Penn- 

 sylvania) for April 1826. 



MOREY'S NEW VAPOUR ENGINE. 

 "Samuel Morey, Esq. a gentleman whose name 

 is familiar to those who have devoted their atten- 

 tion to mechanical science, has obtained a patent 



mortar for the purpose of destroving those insects. ',.-,„ ,.„„„ .„ ■ u- u' ■ *i. • • ;• 



IT ,,.,.,- '^ ' iiu'i , UT 1 tor a vapour engine, which, in the opinion ol com 



lie thinks this process would be less troublesome. 



potent judges promises to answer well in practice. 



and quite as effectual as driving plugs into their rp;,„ ,..„„,„■,■„„.,- , , 1 . ^ • 



, , ' , , .-. .V. ■ , , 1 ne vacuum m the cylinder is produced by finnir 



fioles. as recommended nno-n ,l(ii in the current , ■ ,. , . . -^ , = 



holes, as recommended page 3f)'i in the current 

 volume of the New England Farmer. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 18.2G. 



USEFUL HINTS. 

 The following items of information we have de- 



an explosive mixture of atmospheric air and va- 



pO'.tr from common proof spirits, mixed with a small 



RUTA B.\.G.\. jrvortion of spirits of turpentine. A working model 



As the crops of hay this season are and will be , has been set in motion, and kept at work without 



j very liglit,it should seem incumbent ort the cultiva- elevating the temperature of the fluid from which 



I tor to use every eflTort to furnish winter-food Vor, the vapour is produced to a higher degree than 



his cattle. Besides sowing Indian corn and in jljct i that of blood heat. Should no unforeseen dit?c 1- 



j it may be well to to try for a crop of Ruta ilaga. | tics present themselves in its operation on a large 



Jesse Buel, Esq. of Albany, has for several years, I scale, it will bo the greatest improvement which 



raised fine crops of this root af^er gathering crops has been made for many years, particularly in its 



of grass from the same fields. The manner of cul- ! application to locomotive engines; as the weight 



rived from several ao-ricuUurists with whom we , ''^""''"S '"'"' ^'"'^ •^''"P '^ thus stated by Mr Buel in of the materiak required to keep it in action for a 



have lately had the pleasure of conversing. ] H'^ 3d vol. page 82, of the Memoirs of the New 



„„ 1 \ork Board of Agriculture. 



TAR FOR SHEEP. I „ t^, , • . 



« n „ 11 1 a I f I 1 " 1 he second experiment was upon a lav, partly 



A gentleman, who keeps a large flock of sheep, I „, , ■ , . u^, >i .u_,, ^,,.1, j. 



,, . 1 ■ .1 c ■ 1 - ' i ot lucern.too thin to be worth preservina', and iiart- 



says that during the season of grazing he gives'. - . ' _ ' 5,,uii. j.n^ 



his sheep tar, at the rate of a gill a day to every 



ly of clover. The first was cut twice for grciui 



. . 1 _. II . .1 . • . I 11 [food, and the latter once for hay. The trrouiul 



twenty sheep. He putsthe tar introuffhs,sprinkles I, . , , , , , ^"^ fe'"'^"" 



1-.., ,• u -. 1,1 u .. having been manured, w;is ploug-ied and harrow- 



a httle line salt over it, and the sheep consume it I , " , ., ,,■„,- " , '""'""'-'"' 



-.1 rpi ■ ,„ .u r I'^d, and the seed drilled in, at the distance of 



with eagerness. 1 his preserves them from worms (, „ , , , „„ , 



:.. .1.. i^._.i .-„ .i.„; 1 i.-_i.i. __i:_|three feet, between the rows, the 28th June. — 



in the head, promotes their general health, and is 

 thought to bn a specific against the rot. 



BOTTS IN HORSES. 

 A traveller tells us that the stage drivers on 

 routes leading from Albany to the western parts 

 ■of the state of New York, in giving water to their 

 horses on the road, mix a little wood ashes with 

 their drink, which they say effectually preserves 

 tJiem against botts. 



The crop was cleaned, tliinned, and hoed in the 

 usual way ; and the product was between five and 

 six hundred bushels, or about sixteen tons, on the 

 acre. 



" Encouraged by this success, I this year put in 

 two and a half acres. Being short of pasture, I 

 fed ofl" the clover in June, instead of cutting it for 



considerable length of time, will be so small 

 not to be worth mentioning. 



" A gentleman has gone to England, for the. 

 purpose of obtaining a patent in that country." 



A Model of the above mentioned Machine, may 

 be seen at the shop of J. H. Carter, Coppersmithj 

 No. 12 Marshall street. Boston. Mr Carter, we 

 understand, is willing for a reasonable compensa- 

 tion, to undertake the construction of one of those 

 engines, to be applied in the manufacture of soda 

 water, or any other purpose requiring a moderate 

 degree of power, to save manual labour or t!ie la- 

 bour of animals. It appears to us that Mr Morey's 

 invention promises to be one of the most important 

 which the present aire has produced. VV^e wish 

 very much to see it in operation on a scale of 



hay; manured, ploughed and harrowed the ground, suflicicnt magnitude to furnish an accurate test of 

 A man was employed half a day in putting*! the ' its utility. 



