NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



August 15, 1828. 



tlieni in heaps a little liiglier up ujion the slioie ; 

 which will at once prevent their growing weaker, 

 and secure them from being carricfi away by the i 

 next spring tide. 



Many are so situated that they can drive their 

 carts on a sandy, liard beach, at low ^Vater, to the 

 rocks ; and Jill thoiii \vith weeds. Cau they be so ^ 

 stupid as to neglect doing it ? It is even worth 

 xvhile to go miles alter this manure with boats, 

 when it cannot be dene more easily. It has often 

 been observed that mannring with sea weeds is 

 an excellent antidote to insects. It is so, not only 

 in the ground, but also upou trees. I have an or- 

 chard which has been for many years much an- 

 noyed by caterpillars. Last spring, about the last 

 of May, I put a handful of rock weed into each 

 tree, just wlirre the limbs part from the trunk ; af- 

 ter which 1 think there was not another nest form- 

 ed in the w'jole orchard. April is a better time 

 to furnish the trees with this antidote to insects. 

 And the mouth of Marcli is perhaps better still. 



Putrefied sea weeds sho\i!il, I tliink, be used for 

 crops of cabbages, and turnips, and for any other 

 crops which are much exposed to be injured liy 

 insects. 



One disadvantage attending the business of 

 farming in this country, is, that our cold winters 

 put an entire stop to the fermentation, and putre- 

 faction of manures. This may be in some meas- 

 ure obviated by the use of rock weed, which is so 

 full of salt that it is not easily frozen : Or if froz- 

 en, it is soon tiiawed. I have been informed that 

 ,sorae have laid it under tlieir dimghills by the sides 

 of barns ; hi which situation it has not frozen ; but 

 by its fermentation has dissolved itself, and much 

 of the dung that lay upon it. There is undoubt- 

 edly a great advantage in such a jnactice. 



Another advantage of this kind of manure, 

 which mus; not be foi-gottcn, is, that it does not 

 encourage the growth of weeds so much as barn 

 dung. It is certain it has none of the .seeds of 

 weeds to propagate, as barn dung almost always 

 has. Cut some su|)pose that its salt is destructive 

 to many cf the seeds of the most tender kinds of 

 plants ; if it be so, it is only wlicn it is applied fresh 

 from the sea, at the time of sowing. But even 

 this is doubtlni. 



This manure is represented in the Complete 

 Farmer to be twice as valuable as dung, if cut 

 fi-om the rocks at low water mark ; tliat a dres- 

 sing of it will last three years ; and that fruit trees 

 which iiave been barren are rendered fruitful by 

 laying this manure about their roots. — Deane's 

 M E. Fanner. 



not usually show ; not one of the hurdles upon 

 which he raised his worms appeared infected with 

 the jaundice. It was at first supposed that the 

 cocoons of silk were injured by this process ; this 

 however is not the case, and his method of prac- 

 tice is now adopted generally in the department of 

 Vaucluse. 



DISEASE OF SILK WORMS, AND ITS 

 CURE. 



In the southern provinces of France, where silk 

 Worms are bi'cd, it is very common to find them 

 attacked by a disease called the jaundice, in con- 

 sequence of the color acquired by them : and very 

 careful examination is continually made for the 

 discovei'y of such worms as are attacked by it, 

 that they may be removed, lc.it the disease, being 

 contagious, sliould .spread to ethers. The Abbe 

 (Ryseeric, of Carpentras, had recour.se to a remedy 

 in these cases, which though apparently danger- 

 ous, has been warra!ited by the success of twenty 

 fears. He used to powder liis worms over with 

 quick lime, by means of a silk sieve ; he then gave 

 them mulberry leaves moistened with a few drops 

 of wine, and the insects instantly set about devor- 

 iHg the Icarr? with nn eagerness which they did 



THE CROPS. 



We have again had rain every day last week, 

 similar weather is certainly not in the recollection 

 of the oldest inhabitants. 



The grain crop in this District, nevertheless, if 

 the weather settles, of which there is no certain 

 indication, may prove an average. On low lands, 

 and those not in good heart, it can now only ripen 

 late, and it must be exposed to the frosts whicli 

 are always more fre(|uent in rainy seasons than in 

 dry. It has generally shot into ear. Where the 

 soil has not been too wet, the straw is abundant, 

 and will assi.st in making up the deficiency of hay 

 which it is now certain must be much below the av- 

 erage. If the present weather continue it will be 

 found very difficult to secure the greater part of 

 the crops ; and already the little that has been 

 mowed remains exposed, or has been secured in 

 an indifferent condition. The potato crop is back- 

 ward, and whatever may be the quantity, the qual- 

 ity must be indifferent. The turni]is have escap- 

 ed the ravages of the fiy, Avliich has in this neigh- 

 borhood at least, done very little injury, although 

 in the lower parts of the District, in some places, 

 it has almost totally destroyed the wheat. The 

 gardens have prettj- generally been productive ; 

 the crop of fruit will be an average one, I)ut the 

 period of maturity will be later than usual. — Que- 

 bec Gazette, of July 2S. 



NE^V ENGLAND FARMER. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1828. 



EGG PLANT. 



Mr P. B. Hovey, of Cambridge, has left at the 

 New England Farmer office, some of the fruit of 

 the Purple Egg Plant, which measures sixteen 

 inches in circumfei-ence ; raised from seed sold at 

 this place. 



ON cows GOING DRY TOO SOON. 



If at any time a good milch cow should go dry 

 belbie her milk is gone, get a young calf, and put 

 it to her, in order to preserve her milk against an- 

 other year ; for it is well known, if a cow goes 

 dry one year, nature will lose its power of acting 

 in future. — Bath Papers, vol. 2, p. 294. 



We invite the attention of the pubhc to the able 

 and interesting document, relating to the state of 

 the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, given in this 

 day's paper ; which will, it is confidently antici- 

 l>ated, not only elicit the attention of the public at 

 large, but call into action that liberality for whicli 

 the citizens of Boston, and those who inhabit its 

 vicinity, have ever been so honorably distinguish- 

 ed. Contributions to such an object will be emin- 

 ently beneficial to the contributors ; and be the 

 most direct method of enabling our countrymen 

 to avail themselves of those vegetable treasures, 

 with which Nature has enriched, and Art may 

 embellish the '■^happy land we live in." 



TO PREVENT cows FROM CONTRACTING BAD 

 HABITS WHEN YOUNG. 



Cows should always be treated with great gen- 

 tleness, and soothed by mild usage, especially 

 when young and ticklish, or when the paps are 

 tender, in which case the udder ought to he fo- 

 mented with warm water before milking, and 

 touched with the greatest gentleness, otherwise 

 the cow will be in danger of contracting bad hab- 

 its, becoming stubborn and unruly, and retaining 



her milk ever after. A cow never gives down 

 I 

 I her milk pleasantly to the person she dreads or 



! dislikes. The udder and i-ips should always be 



I washed with clean water before milking ; but care 



J should be taken that none of that water be adinit- 



|ted into the milking pail. 



MILCH cows SHOULD BE WELL KEPT. 



The keeping of cows in such manner as to make 

 them give the greatest quantity of milk, and with 

 the greatest clear profit, is an essential point of 

 economy. Give a cow half a bushel of turnips, 

 carrots, or other good roots per day, during the 

 six winter months, besides her hay ; and if her 

 summer feed be such as it shoukl be, she will give 

 nearly double the quantity of milk .she would af- 

 ford if only kept during winter in the usual man- 

 ner, and the milk will be richer and of better 

 quality. 



The carrots, or other roots, at nineteen cents 

 per bushel, amount to about eighteen dollars. 

 The addition of milk, allowing it to be only three 

 quarts a day for three hundred days, at three cents 

 per quart, amounts to twenty-seven dollars. It 

 should be remembered, too, that when cows arc 

 thus fed with roots, they consume less hay, and 

 are less liable to several diseases, which are usu- 

 ally the effects of poor keeping. — Farm(r''s ,4s- 

 sistaht. 



Thomaston. — This is the greatest mart for lime 

 ill the United States. The rook from which the 

 lime is made, appears to be dJfTused over this 

 town and Camden, the town adjoinuig. It is sup- 

 posed 150,000 barrels are made in these two pla- 

 ces in a year, but it is now so low in price, that it 

 is scarcely worth the trouble of making and trans- 

 porting it. 



Bees. — E. Britton, Esq. of Little Falls, has now- 

 more than three hundred swarms of bees ; two 

 hundred of them young swarms, and all doing 

 well. It is doubtful whether there are many in- 

 dividuals who can produce the like number. 



The Greeks ascribe the invention of hours to 

 Anaximander, who jirobably received it from the 

 Chaldeans. It has recently been ascertained that 

 the division of the day into hours was known to 

 and adopted by the Hindoos from their earliest 

 ages. 



The Morning Herald, in its report of the first 

 day's meeting at Ascot, states that, when the rain 

 fell during the day, seven acres of umbrellas 

 spread their protecting influence over the mass of 

 spectators. 



4,081,017 yards of domestic cotton goods were 

 cleared from United States ports for ports in the 

 Pacific, to the southard of California, in twenty- 

 eight vessels, in nine months ending in Jan, last. 



We regret to learn that in some parts of the 

 country the wheat is coming into ear very iinfa- 

 vourablv. 



