Vol. IV. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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very little expeftse. For sucli lands, too, other Never plant seed turnips near seed cabbage, or 



manures should be amassed from all quarters ; and j |,p[]j ^.jji jj^ spoiled. 



perliaps no farm is to be found but contains within | j^^^^j. pi.,nt good red beets near tiio white seed 



itself ample sources of manure of some kind or oth- , i^ppf^ ^^ yg,, ^^.jn j,^^,^ jie;;/,,,^ red nor ichite. 



er. Mud from brtoks or pond holes and ditches, ^^^^^ p,^j,t different kinds of seed radishes near 



mi.\ed with ashes, would answer well. In Young's 

 .innals it is stated that ashes mixed with mud \ 

 will form manure superior to ashes alone, — and 

 four times better than mud alone. I could dwell 

 longer on tliis fruitful subject, but for want of i 

 time, must refer to a work now in the press, enti- I 

 lied. Compendium of Agriculture, or the Farmer''s I 

 Guide. : 



one another 



As a general rule, never plant near one another 

 any vegetables that resemble each other in many 

 respects. 



crop of potatoes, about two thousand pounds of 

 potash, worth from seventy to eighty dollars a ton. 

 The growtli of tlio potatoes is not injured, it is 

 said, by cutting off the tops .six or eight inches 

 from the ground, but rather benefitted. Would 

 it not be well to ascertain, by an actual experiment 



on a small scale, whether these things be true ? 



Corn cobs, likewise, as is well known to many, 

 contain an uncommonly large quantity of vegeta- 

 ble alkali : could it not be extracted from these, 

 also, advantageously. — Mass. Yeoman. 



FARMINGTON CANAL. 

 We are happy in being able to congratulate the 



MAMMOTH OX. 



A few days since, on a farm in Greenland, be- 

 longing to M. C. Peirce, Esq. of Portsmouth, we 

 •'There arc spots of land near the shore in tliis I measured an ox, seven years old, of extraordinary 

 State, where the soil, once productive, for want of size. His girth, just back of the fore legs, was ! friends of internal improvement, on the prospect 

 proper management has been swept away by tlic ^ nine feet one inch and a quarter. His length, from j of the speedy completion of the splendid enter- 

 winds. Shall I hazard the im|)Utation of singulari- his nose to his shoulder blade, was four feet, mi- 1 prize of uniting by a navigable canal, the waters 

 ty, by suggesting the propriety of collecting small ^ nus rump, eiglit feet and two inches, making his j of tlie Connecticut at Northampton, with the haj- 

 stoncs and shells from tlie beach, and spreading : length exactly twelve feet. His '.roadth across the 

 tl^em over those sandy fields bordering on the Bay, , back from one hip joint to the other, is four feet 

 to prevent the surface from being blown about, nine inches. He weighed,in Jan. last, three thous- 

 and to promote vegetation.* On the margins of and and thirty eig!:t lbs. and is now, two hundred 

 such fields next the sea, it may be well to introduce pounds at least heavier. 



the sea lime-gra.ts (Ebjmus arenarius) a perennial, 1 He had no remarkable keeping for the two first 

 with long creeping roots, — " particularly valuable, years of his life, but the owner finding how rapidly 

 as forming a natural barrier, in the loose bloiving he grew on common fare, has kept him nearly un- 

 sand of many sea shores ; but of no avail in a clay dcr the full force of feed since. The animal is 

 soil." Cows and horses it is said, will eat it.t On ' well shaped and sprightly, and altho' they Cidl him 

 blowing sands, or wcnk and poor soils, Mr Young of common breed, he descended no doubt from a 

 thinks CVn'cor^ superior to any other plant. It stock of cattle imported by Governor Wentworth 

 yields abund;intly, — is suitable for soiling and af- about sixty years ago. A few of the race we have 

 fords excellent pasturage for sheep. seen near Wolfsborough, in New-Hampshire, 



(_To be cancl-udtdiiext u-etk.) j where Wentworth liad a large farm. The bless- 



I ings derived from a good agriculturalist are often 



ON THE SEEDS OP VEGETABLES. remembered when the politician's deeds are for- 



Many persons experience great disadvantages j gotten. [Boston Gaz.] 



from the cliHUging of their garden and other seeds 

 into those of a worse kind, or in!o those of quite a : 

 different sort. In this way pumpkins and squashes, | 

 cabbages and turnips, gourds and squashes, and 

 even cucumbers and musk melons have injured one : 

 another, and produced a mongrel unfit for use. 



The cause is well known to Botanists. It is 

 owing to the pollen or dust of the 



ENGLISH CLIMATE. 



Mr Carter who was in London in November last, 



! says " neither sun, moon, nor stars are visible 



' ! through the dense cloud of smoke ; at this season 



': there .are not more than 4 or 5 hours of imperfect 



day-light ; lamps are lighted in the shops by about 



3 o'clock in the afternoon ; rains are iixessant." 



, ^ , . ■ 1 , .1 I 1111 »u ! — A correspondent of the Christian Spectator in a 



plant being carried by the wind an<l lodged on the , ,.,;,,.., t ^ •. i 



^ x^. ,, 1 . mi • • a u letter dated Birniingham, January .^, says, " it has 



Sowers, of ti:e other plant. This mnuence has . , , . - ., • ., 



, , ,, » II.- rained almost mrcssantly since the commencement 



teen observed by every farmer also, in planting, ,^ , ,, ■.,■,.,.,•,, 



J .J. .,• , i-T 1- ■ .1 c 1 1 ot October: I have not seen ice thicker than the sixth 



tliilerent kinds of Indian corn, in the same field : i ,- ■ , , ^ • ,i ^i /- , 



1 », . -1 ii- » 1 • I pari ot an inch : the grass retains all the freshness 



here the change is more easily cnected, since I ' . , , ■=, , , /. ,• 



., ■ .■ c,\ ■ -D t 1- i of .pring, and the cattle and sheep are iceding in 



there are varieties of the same species. But larm- 1 , '^ ^ „. , i , , 



11 .1 ■. i.: the pastures, the (lavs are extremely short ; peo- 



ers and gardeners may preserve the purity of > , f , , . ," . ^.,, , -" ,,, , ,' , 



., . J 1, ., ■ a r<i ■ / ■• 1 pie do not get to their business till about 1(1 ooclock, 



their seeds as well as the flavor of their fruits, by '^ , , ?„ r. ■ , . ,• ■ 



.. ,■ , ^ , 1 .1 c 11 ■ and at hall past 3, it becomes necessary to light 



attending to a few rules, such as tae following: i „ '^ , • ,. i , ,, , , , , 



nT , . , , I candles : we are benio-hted. ocniijarffrtand clrench- 



Ne^er plant gourds near your squashes, or you 



will make them bitter. 



bor at New Haven. The projectors of this great 

 undertaking, after liaving been, like the illustrious 

 individual under whose auspices the Erie Canal 

 was commenced and completed, ridiculed and 

 abused as visionary enthusiasts, have now the sat- 

 isfaction of seeing the whole line of their canal 

 under contract, from Now Haven to Massachu- 

 setts. All the contrncts have been taken at sums 

 greatly within the estimates of the Engineers. — 

 Many of the sections are already completed, and 

 it is expected that tlie waters will ho let into near- 

 ly thirty miles of the canal, during the present 

 season ^.Vcm Haven pa. 



Never plant squashes with your pumpkins or 

 you will make t-hem icartij.hard skinned, and tasle- 

 less. 



Never plant different kinds of seed cabbage near 

 one another, or you will have a mixture. 



* Aut lapidem bi'juliim, aut squalentes inftide conch- 

 as, f ir^il. — Or dig iu spungy stones, or rough (fou') 

 !bel!s. 



T The very existence of Fo"and is thought to depend 

 on (his and some other plants, wliich bhid its dykes so 

 firmly together, as to enable llu'm to resist the action 

 ot the sea ; and t»y their spreading interlacing roots 

 prevent the sands from travelling with the winds, and 

 encroaching on the arable land. T he creeping re^/- 

 harrow {Ononis, rtpens,') and ihc itn^ic-sted br(W?}t. 

 which grow In the loose sand* of the shore of Spain, 

 serve a similar purpose : the latter plant, according to 

 Osbeclc, '' turns the most barren place'info a fine odor- 

 iferous garden, by its. flowers, which last a long while." 



ed with rain. I know not how the faculties of the 

 English people ripen as they do, amirlst fogs, mists, 

 and darkness." [Hamp. Gaz.] 



POTASH. 



It is said that potato tops contain a large quanti- 

 ty of vegetable alkali, and the following process 

 of extracting it has been published. The tops are 

 cut off about six inches from the ground, just after 

 the balls, or apples, begin to be formed. These 

 tops are dried in the sun, and then burned in a pit 

 dug in the ground two or three feet deep, and 

 three or four square. The ashes are then collect- 

 ed and boiled in water until all the potash is ex- 

 tracted. This ley is then evaporated to dryness, 

 and the residuum heated to redness in an oven, or 

 furnace, fitted for the purpose, in which state it is 

 kept for some time, and then suffered to cool, 

 when the potash is fit for use. It is stated that an 

 acre of ground will yield, besides the ordinary 



GREAT FRESHET. 



The New-York papers of Saturday evening, 

 coiitain an acccuiit of a destructive freshet on 

 the Missouri under date of June 1st. Nearly all 

 the houses, boats and property of the fur establish- 

 ments on the river, were washed away. At the 

 Mandan village the water rose 17 feet perpendicu- 

 larly in two hours. Sixty or seventy of a band of 

 Sioux Indians, encamped below the Arrikaras, 

 were drowned. Some in attempting to swim were 

 crushed to death among the drifting ice and tim- 

 ber. Others hung to the branches of trees until 

 they were benumbed by cold and fell into the tor- 

 rent. The rise is attributed to the melting of the 

 .snow and ice at the head of Yellowstone and Cha- 

 yenne rivers. The ice, at the commencement of 

 the freshet, had not been broken up in the Missouri, 

 and wns forced down the current. Great quanti- 

 ties of Buffalo robes were lost by the traders. 



[Providence Journal.] ' 



ENGLISH LADIES. 

 An American gentleman in Liverpool writes to 

 his friend in New York, — " The females of Liver- 

 pool are of low stature, have fair complexions and 

 beautiful faces ; but in their persons are not to be 

 compared with our American ladies. They have 

 very large feet, are broad across the chest, and 

 do not display much taste in their dress." 



At the Maryland Agricultural Exhibition, the 

 Brazilian Minister's Premium for the greatest 

 quantity of pick-lock wool, shorn from a ram on 

 the ground, was awarded to W. R. Dickerson, of 

 Ohio, who had brought sheep to compete for this 

 premium. 



EATING TOO MUCH. 



Children, like grown persons, are rendered more 

 liable to disease and mortality by the single cir- 

 cumstance of eating too much, than by any twenty 

 others in the annals of Death ; and the vounger 



