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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 14, 1 82o. 



BYFIELD FARM. 

 The following interesting account of the celebrat- 



well cultivated, after mentioning the owner's name, 

 would be superfluous. The committee appointed 

 ■ " ■ ■ and who re- 



The following interesting accoumoi uie^c,."--- "\,^p' 4.,rirultural Society 

 ed Byfield farm, owned and cultivated by Gorham by E.ex AgncuUural.^S ^^^y 



Parsons, Esq. is taken from the New York Chris 

 tiqn Inquirer : j 



At the first Falls »n the river Parker, is a large . 

 manufactory, at which you have a view of the | 

 Mansion House and buildings, and as you pass on- j 

 ward the fences on both sides the street, attract 

 the admiration of all ; they are of granite seven ! 

 feet high and three wide at top, faced on both sides, 

 and at proper distances are gates hung to granite 

 posts, which'are hammered. On the right is the 

 Mansion House,(in front of which is a yard, half cir- 

 cle, filled with trees and shrubbery,) built 3 stories 

 high, in a plain neat style, connected with which 

 is the Farm House, and under that, probably the 

 best dairy cellar in the county. Near the house, 

 is a biiilding containing a number of rooms : one 

 for an office, one for seeds, and in one, boilers are 

 aet in brick to prepare the vegetables for the stock; 

 the vegetables being contained in a fine cellar 

 under the building ; on this building is a belfry, 

 and a bell which calls the workmen to meals from 

 the most distant parts of the farm, and back of this 

 is a poultry yard, with houses for their accommoda- 

 tion. There are also two large barns, coach houses, 



ported a short time since, in speaking of I ather- 

 land Farm, say, " It is well managed, and aftords 

 many illustrations of successful experiments.'" 



GRASS BONNETS. 



Many successful attempts have been made in the 



northern States to manufacture bonnets from spear 



i o-rass, in imitation of Leghorns. We have seen a 



'few specimens of this fabric heretofore, and could 



not but feel, at tlie time, the greatest pleasure and 



not a little pride when viewing those testimonials 



of the enterprise and skill of the fair daughters of 



New England. It is to be hoped that increased 



attention will be given to the manufacture of an 



The .Agricultural Society of Pennsylvania has 

 ofiered medals for the encouragement of manufac- 

 turing grass bonnets the present year ; and al- 

 though we are not aware that any thing of the 

 kind has been done in Massachusetts, yet we hope 

 that our high spirited and ingenious yankee girls, 

 will not sufter themselves to be outdone by their 

 sisters of Pennsylvania, and that they need not 

 the encouragement of Societies, or the olfer of a 

 glittering bauble to ensure their efforts for the 

 promotion of their own interest and the prosperity 

 of our country. [Mass. Yeoman.] 



DISEASE OF FRUIT-TREES. 

 During the present season, a singular, and it 

 is to be feared a very deleterious disease has made 



attention win ne given .u .... i its appearance among the fruit-trees in this town 



article which, trifling as it may appear, takes from ' particularly the pear and apple-trees. Many ot 

 the United States nearly half a million of dollars , the small branches are attacked by it, and in a few 

 annually. We are inclined to think that no branch days become sear. 



of female industry would be better rewarded than 

 the manufacture of these fashionable and becoming 



We have e.xamined several trees, and think, 

 from the appearances, that the disease commences 



articles of dress. The raw material is abundant, | near the insertion of the smaller branches with 

 and the cost merely nominal ; hence the whole i the larger, and proceeds towards the extremities. 



price of the product will go to compensate for the 

 labour bestowed upon it. And how, it may be ask- 

 ed, can a female earn ton, fifteen or twenty dollars 



tion. There are also two large barns, coach houses, ^ ^^'^^^^, ^^ I, making one of these bonnets, which 

 sheds, piggery, &c. the whole neatly clapboarded , J' ^ ^^^ ^ ^^, market, and at even high- 



and painted. The cattle and implements of hus 

 bandry are, as would be expected, of the first 

 order, and therefore need no description. South 

 of the house, the ground descends very much, — 

 'tis there that n.-iture and art are combined,and we 

 see a garden that for situation and early produc- 

 tions is decidedly first in this part of the country. 

 "Tell me not, 

 Ye who in love with wealth, your days cnnsume, 

 Pent up in city stench, and smoke and filth, 

 O tell me not of aught magnificent, 

 Or fair as this, in all your public w.Tlks." 



".Search all your gjardens round. 

 Ye shall not find, e'en at your boasted Vaux, 

 A haunt so neat, so elegant as this." 



will always find a ready market, and at even high- 

 er prices than the above sums, if nicely wrought ? 

 We make these remarks with a view to call tlie 

 attention of our fair readers to a subject of interest 

 to them, as the season, if not present, will shortly 

 arrive for cutting and securing the raw materuils. 

 This grass may be prepared and bleached in a 

 manner similar to that prepared for straw, which is 

 well known. We would, however, suggest tlie use 

 of chlorine, instead of the sulphureous acid gas, 

 the fumes of burning brimstone, for the purpose of 

 bleaching straw, &c. 



Perhaps there is no substance now known, that 

 possesses the property of destroying vegetable col- 



. " ours in so high a degree, and with such facility as 



You descend about ten stairs to the first pl.it, [ chlorine. On this account it is extensively used in 

 and after crossing that, is another four feet lower, teaching. For the purpose of whitening straw, 

 and another below that: the garden is divided i ^^ tj,g following simple process may be pursued : 

 lengthwise by two sloping banks, each mounted fake three ounces of fine salt, and one ounce of 

 with a grape vine ; the whole of which is surround- : ]^\^p]i oxide of manganese, finely powdered, and 

 ed with a granite wall, faced on both sides, en- 1 ^j^ t^em in a well-glazed earthen vessel — a coin- 

 closing also a fine spring of water. Passing from ', ^^^^ bowl, for instance, or drinking glass ; then, 

 the manufactory along the banks of the river, tlie having mixed two ounces of oil of vitriol with two 

 prospect is very fine, where you pass a fine ice- \ ounces of water, pour it upon the salt and manga- 

 house and are soon in sight of several acres of ^ggg^ -phe chlorin'e will immediately begin to es- 

 beautiful intervale, which a few years since was a ^^pg ;„ ji,e form of a green or yellowish vapour, 

 sunken morass ; this was reclaimed by building a j fj^g yggggj containing the ingredients should be 

 substantial wall at a suitable distance from tlie j immediately placed under a tight cask in which 

 channel of the river, and earth was removed in i ^),e straw, &c. has been previously suspended, in 

 boats from a hill on the opposite side, and filled in. : j|,g g^^ie manner as when sulphur is used. A much 

 From the crops taken since from that land, without i jggg quantity of the above ingredients, but in the 

 adding manure, I should suppose it paid ample ^^jj^g pj-oportions, would yield a sufficient quantity 

 interest of the expense incurred ; at any rate, it ! gf ^^g k, be used at one time. The gas will be 



art.lc. m....!. frt fho tlnonar^T and la nlurnva RlirA t.O :J1.. ^^^n^n^nA if o olirrKt A( 



In some branches the pith appeared to have been 

 destroyed by an insect ; in others, the internal 

 parts of the wood, as well as the surface of the 

 bark, appeared in a certain degree healthy, while 

 the cortical layers, or inner parts of the bark, and 

 the cambium, or newly-formed parts of the wood, 

 were in a state of decomposition. The ends of the 

 branches, in this stage of the disease, appeared, 

 •many of them, to be alive and vigorous. 



We are at a loss to conjecture the cause of this 

 disease. Some have supposed that it is an insect 

 that enters the bark and eats its way quite around 

 the limb ; but, as no appearances were to be seen 

 to authorize such a suspicion, we are more inclined 

 to think that the sap, being acted upon, through the 

 very thin bark which covers the smaller branches, 

 by the powerful heat of the sun, becomes viscous, 

 and the vesicular organs not being so perfect at 

 the junction of the branches as in other parts, the 

 circulation is impeded,and putrescence commences 

 at or near this point, and gradually extends to the 

 extremity. 



We hope some person will discover the true 

 cause, and point out a remedy for this new pest of 

 our orchards. 



We understand that a similar disease made its 

 appearance in Northampton and it.s vicinity, some 

 time ago, and that some measures were adopted 

 that remedied the evil — what they were we know 

 not. [Ibid.] 



adds much to the scenery, and is always sure to 

 produce well in all seasons. 



When we behold the smiling valley, spread 

 In gay luxuriance far before us, sheep 



And oxen grazing 



As nearer to his farm you make approach, 

 He polish'd nature with a finer hand. 

 Yet on her beauties durst not art encroach ; 

 'Tis art's alone the beauties to txpanil." 

 After surveying a farm like this, those that have 

 a taste for agriculture will feel highly gratified 

 that among those, composing the highest rank in 

 •ociety are men who arc actively engaged in that 

 good, cause. To say that Fatherland Farm was 



more rapidly generated if a slight degree of heat 

 be applied to the vessel containing the salt, &c. 

 which may be done by placing it on a heated stone, 

 or over a few burning coals. Particular care 

 should be taken not to inhale the chlorine, as it is 

 extremely suffocating and injurious to the lungs, 

 but perhaps not much more so than the fumes of 

 burning sulphur. 



It is believed that if the experiment be fairly 

 tried, it will prove perfectly satisfactory and suc- 

 cessful. The oil of vitriol, and black o.^side of man- 

 ganese, are very cheap, and may be found at al- 

 most every druggist's shop. 



GREEN FRUIT. 

 It may not be amiss to remind parents, and all 

 those who have the immediate oversight of child- 

 ren, that unripe fruit already begins to appear in 

 our markets. It is possible that more children's 

 lives are destroyed, in the summer, by this cause 

 of disease, than almost all others put together. — 

 Apples which are shaken from tlie trees by violent 

 winds, or fall prematurely by decay, are immediate- 

 ly gathered, and brought to market ; the display 

 of them is too tempting to children to be withstood; 

 and of course, they are purchased, and eaten. — 

 Nothing is more pernicious, and yet nothing is 

 more common, than to see children and young 

 persons eating this kind of fruit. We should 

 think that parents would lay a more strict injunc- 

 tion against this indulgence upon their children — 

 They must, unless they can make up their minds 

 to risk their health and their lives. [N. Y. Adv.] 



