VII.—No. 8. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



61 



if, in continuation of it, your name and that of this 

 Horticultural Society be iulUed to it, by fostenng 

 and encouraging the culture of the mulberry, so 

 necessary to the introduction of tlie domestic sta- 

 ple of siik. To eflect it, it must be general, and 

 not be left to private speculation or monopoK.— 

 The growth of silk is not involved in any secret 

 or iiij-stery. Aged women and children can be 

 adequate to all its cares and tasks, under the dic- 

 raies of domestic economy. Thus it has been 

 flourishing and e:<tablished among great nations. 

 One only which could not assimilate it to the as- 

 perity of its climate, has nevertheless established 

 a great empire by the means of manufacturing 

 this precious produce, and has become the rival 

 of other nations. 1 give, Mr. President— 



The continuation of the labours of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of New- York— And as they have 

 promoted domestic comfort and happiness, they 

 will also secure commercial industry and economy. 



Frrm Lhe Middlelown (Cona.) Seulinel. 



ASHES. j 



Leached ashes are much used, in some parts of 

 the United States, as a manure. Great quantities 

 are annually taken from the city of Philadelphia to 

 Long Island, for the purpose. They cost here 40 

 cents per one horse can load, and commonly bring 

 one dollar fifty cents, when delivered. From a 

 paper in the first volume of the JVew York Agric. 

 Society Trans, by Mons. E L'Hommedieu, it ap- 

 pears, that ashes are found to succeed best on dry 

 loamy lands, or loam mixed with sand. It is con- 

 sidered as the cheapest manure that can be pro- 

 cured. Ten loiuis of this manure, on poor land, 

 will produce ordinarily twenty-five bushels of 

 wheat, which exceeds, by five dollars, the expense 

 of the manure ; and the five dollars pays for the 

 expense of labor in raising the crop. The land is 

 then left in a state for yielding a crop of hay of be- 

 tween two and two and a half tons per acre,which 

 it will continue to do for a great number of yearn. 

 No manure continues so long in the ground as ash- 



MOHAWK BRL\R. j 



The correspondent who favored us with the 

 following notice of a valuable remedy for sores, 

 (either iuflamed or not) accompanied it with two 

 syjecimens of the vines — the larger kind which 

 loses its leaves in the fall, and the smaller which 

 retains them, in all their verdure, until the month 

 of March. They run on trees, bushes, &c. and 

 as the leaves bear some resemblance, they would, 

 at a short distance, be mistaken for gtape vines. 

 The stem or vine has great numbers of thorns on 

 them, three-eighths of an inch in length. If, as 

 onr correspondent states, it possesses such invalu- 

 able healing properties — of which lie has had ac- 

 lual experience — it should surely become more 

 generally known and appreciated. It is common 

 in that part of onr town called "Upper-houses." 

 The leaves only are to be used, and in their na- 

 tural state, without any preparation whatever. — 

 They are cultivated, in some parts of our town, 

 as ornaments around the house. Any gentleman 

 who wishes to see a specimen of the vine and 

 leaves, can do so by calling at our office. 



Mr. Starr,— The following simple remedy, if 

 duly attended to, would, in thousands of cases, 

 save much expense to many persons, and relieve 

 the patient from much pain: Apply the leaf of 

 the Mohawk briar, or as it is sometimes called the 

 Walkley briar, or Green Briar, as a dressing to 

 ;iny sore, however inflamed and painful, it very 

 soon gives relief, removing the inflammation more 

 effectually than any poultice I ever new applied, 

 the leaves to be changed as occasion requires. — 

 The leaves being smooth as glass, never stick so 

 as to pain or trouble. They are beyond doubt 

 the best dressing to follow blistering that can be 

 applied. 



The briar grows like the grajje vine in clusters, 

 running on bushes and trees, and bears a dark 

 colored berry, on which partridges are fiind of 

 feeding in winter. A smaller species grows move 

 thin and scattering, and are equally valuable, hold- 

 ing the leaf green until March. They are found 

 in swampy lands, inclining to sandy plains. Any 

 person who may make a thorough trial of them, 

 will value them highly. 



There are in the State of Connecticut, about 

 400 Ministers and 300 Lawyers. The whole 

 number of Clergymen in New-England at the 

 commencement of the Revolutionary War, was 

 about seven hundred. 



[In New York state, the back country farmers 

 pay all the expense of clearing their land by the 

 ashes of the wood burnt on it. One bushel of 

 field ashes of oak, is worth l^ cents. Of hickory 

 18 cents. One bushel of house (hearth ashes,) of 

 oak is worth 18 cents ; of hickory 25 cents at this 

 day, (1819.) 

 about 41bs. of potash, of hickory 



It is surprising all new planters <lo not pursue 

 the same economical plan. The ashes are mixed 

 with one fourth of good lime, and leached. The 

 ley is evaporated into potash in large cast iron 

 boilers.— T. C.]— Domestic Encyclopedia. 



A BEAUTIFUL, NEW AND USEFUL 

 INVENTION. 



We have in our possession, and shall be glad 

 to exhibit, a beautiful and rubber proof travelling • 

 trunk, made of a new material, which is thus de- 

 scribed in the specification of ti<e patentee : 



"This cloth is made of hemp and wire, which 

 is spun together, wove and twilled in the same 

 wav that all other cloths are. The hemp is twist- 

 ed tight round the wires, and they are woven to- 

 I'ether in the same manner in which the common 

 haogin" is made. It may, however, be wove 

 tiglit or open, to suit the purposes for which it 

 may be required, and after tliis operation it should, 

 in all cases, he painted on both sides ; this serves 

 to prevent tlie hemp from rotting, and the wire 

 from rusting. You may, if you please, put many 

 coats of paint upon it, (suited to the object,) 

 which will make the surface solid, smooth and el- 

 egant. This cloth may he used for many |)urpos- 

 es, not only for boots of stages, but for carpeting, 

 sacking bottoms of bedsteads, fancy chairs, sofas, 

 pannels, (or in fiict bodies,) or roofs of carriages, 

 baskets, water buckets, for travelling trunks, or 

 the security of the mails." 



There would really seem to he no end to the 

 durability of wh.atever is constructed of these 

 matt rials, and we know not why they may not be 



ted, as well as 



.1 lie 11, „=i,o=, ,nol,U applied to all the objects enumera 



Abushelof podoakasle^yiehlS|^l^ ^^^^^^^^ ^,^^^ trunk, while it is eom- 



"^"'''' ^ j pletely impenetrable, is lighter than the ordinary 



1 trunk. Wa really think that editors of papers 

 would benefit the public by the notice of this in- 

 vention, whilst they would assuredly serve a very 

 worthy citizen, by contributing to bring his valua- 

 ble invention into immediate use.—./iinencan 

 Fanner. 



From the Newbiiryporl Herald. 

 ESSEX AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



NEW INSECT. 

 The ground pinr, which abounds in many of 



The EsstJX Agricultural Society will hold their : tj,e West India Islands, and was formerly suppos- 

 annual exhibition on Thursday the 25th of Sept. | ed to be a fossil, has been proved by the research- 

 inst. near the lower meeting house in V/est New- 

 bury, to commence at 9 o'clock, A. M. This So- 

 ciety h.-is been liberal in bestowing premiums on 

 the various objects exhibited, and it is hoped the 



es of the Rev. I,. Guilding, to the nidus of a living- 

 insect. This new insect which is supposed a par- 

 asite on the great ant of the West hidies, is re- 

 ruarkcble, as not being ])rovided with a mouth, its 



next show will sill pass any which has preceded it. ! fnou being con'.eyed through a tube in each of 



the four claws. T!io animal also has tlie power 



It is very desirable that more comjietitors should 

 present themselves for premiums for the best but- 

 ter and cheese, than appeared the last year ; these 

 premiums are $20 for the best, and $10 for the 

 next best. These liberal premiums ought surely 

 to induce the farmers to avail themselves of this 

 offer by exhibiting such quantity of each article 

 as is required by the jirinted directions. 



At the last show there were but three parcels 

 of cheese presented, each was of good quality, and 

 it was rather difficult to determine which was the 

 best, yet two of the competitors received the very 

 liberal premiums of 20 and 10 dollars. 



Of butter there were but three small lots exhib- 

 ited, the owners not having entered it for premi- 

 um. 



Among the cumcrous good farmers of the 

 county of Essex, and yiarticularly of the New- 

 burys, it cannot be doubted that it would be very 

 easy to comply with the wishes of the society and 

 send premium or exhibition parcels of butter, that 

 would equal any that is made in cur country, and 

 if they inclined to .sell, would find liberal purchas- 

 ers that would give as good a price as the saimr 

 article would command in the Boston market. 



A FARMER 



of throwing out long filame'nts from its body in 

 drv weather, supposed to be with the view of at- 

 tracting inoisfure for its preservation. An inter- 

 esting paper was recently read, describing this in- 

 sect, by Mr Guilding, before the Linnaian Society. 



JS/'cw , JgriridluralJournal. — Blackwood, the well 

 known publisher of Biai kwood's Mag-a/ine, has 

 recently issued a Prospectus of a Quarterly Jour- 

 nal of Agricnllure, which will not only be enrich' 

 ed by the Prize Essays and Transactions of the 

 Hi/':'.'!!id Society of Scotland, but receive the 

 coiitriliutions of the ablest Agriculturists in the 

 Kingiloni. 



,'? goorl day's vyork. — Mr. Joseph Osborne, of 

 Centre township, on Tuesday last walked three 

 iniies from home, mowed three and a half acres 

 of meadow, and returned home again in the 

 evening. There were upivards of tv^-o and a half 

 tons of hay on each acre, a great part of which 

 was badly lodged, and some lying flat on the 

 groimd. The meadow was clean moweif and 

 cut clo.^e. All this was done without the use 

 of a drop of spirituous liquors. Who can beat 

 this ? — Indiana, (Penn.) IVldg, 



