Vol. VII.— No. 38. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



4. How is the seed best gathered and secured; 

 and what must be the appearance of the crop at 

 the time necessary to harvest ? 



Respectfully yours, J. N. H. 



Bennington, Ft. 



Remarks by the Editor. — Perhaps the following 

 from the Farmer^s Assistant may be of service to 

 our correspondent. 



" Mustard requires a soil sufficiently strong for 



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many of the recipes for killing botts in 

 horses. Having from my youth been fond of a 

 good horse, I have paid much attention to the an- 

 imal ; and have long since been fully convinced 

 that It was folly to wage open war W'th botts in 

 a horse's stomach ; believing that there has noth- 

 ing yet been discovered that will kill ihem in the 

 stomach without killing the horse. I should al- 

 most as soon think of setting fire to my barn to 

 kill the rats and mice. Many things, which you 

 turnips. Let the ground be well prepared by j have heretofore published, I think good, such as 

 ploughings and harrowings early in the spring, | bleeding to prevent inflammation. Yet, I think, 

 and sow of well ripened seed at the rate of two the most sure way is to keep the horse free from' 

 quarts to the acre. When the i)lants are a fevi the nits. 



inches high, thin them so as to stand about ten j Some years since I had a very valuable mare 

 inches apart, and destroy the weeds with the j that was attacked with botts, and to appearance, 

 ''°'^- ^'^''y fe'" gone. I set the following trap for them, 



"When the lower seeds are rjpe, the middle which more than answered my expectations. I 

 seeds green, and (he tops of the plants in blossom, j took of bees' wa.\, mutton tallow, and loaf sugar, 

 cut them with a sickle, bind them in moderate j each 8 ounces, put it into one quart of warm niilfc' 

 sized sheaves, and put these in small stacks, for a and warmed until all was melted. Then put it 

 ic-^w days. In this situation the green seed will j into a bottle, and gave it just before the wax, &c. 

 soon ripen. Carry the sheaves to the barn, hav- " ... 



iug a large cloth under them, to prevent wasting, 

 and in a few days they will be fit for threshing. 



" The ground for raising this plant should be 

 previously well cleared of weeds." 



There are two species of mustard, Sinapis alba, 

 or White mustard, anfl Sinapis nigra, or Black 

 mustard. The cidture of both sorts is, we believe, 

 similar ; but have no experimental knowledge on 

 the cultivation of either. The White Mustard is 

 celebrated for its medicinal properties, being at 

 once a tonic and an aperient ; cleansing the stom- 

 ach and bowels, and at the same time bracing the 

 system. We should be happy to jjublish any in- 

 formation with which we may be favored by pat- 

 riotic cultivators relative to this subject. 



terminating the nuisance; for a knowledge of 

 the properties, habits and propagation of the in- 

 sect is indispensably necessary to lead to some 

 method of preventing their depredations, or of 

 effecting their destruction. 



Yours &c. 

 Plymouth, April 2, 1829. 



P. 



began to harden. About two hours after gave 

 physic. The effect was that the botts were dis- 

 charged in large numbers, each piece of wax hav- 

 ing from one to six or eight sticking to it, some 

 by the head, but most by their legs or hooks. 



Yours, Z. 



NEW TABLE PEAR. 

 We acknowledge the receipt of a package of 

 scions from Lovett Peters, Esq. of Westboro' 

 Ms. who gives the following account of their char- 

 acter, in a note to the publisher of the New Eng- 

 land Farmer. " This is considered a native fruit, 

 and is called the Lyscom apple, from the person 

 who raised it— is very large, striped, flesh white, 

 spicy taste, fit for the table in October, and I think 

 second to none for excellence." The scions have 

 all been gratuitously distributed. 



FOR THE HEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



WEB WORM ON FRUIT TREES. 



Mr Fesse.vden — Your repeated exhortations 

 to the orchardist to attend to the clearing their 

 fruit trees from that disgusting and destroying in- 

 sect the caterpillar, I believe have not been with- 

 out effect ; but there is another insect, jierhaps of 

 the same genus, and equally noxious, which among 

 the various commimications on the arboreous in- 

 sfects, I do not recollect to have seen described, or 

 noticed by any one. It is here (without reference 

 to entomological science,) designated as the IVeb 

 iBorm. It is about the size, and in some measure 



in appearance, but 



f GRAPES. 



' Mr Fessedden — Mr Downer in his communi- 

 cation respecting grapes, has not noticed the 



White Muscadine, the best of all the foreign table : ''esembles the Canker worm 



grapes, in our climate. I imported it from a Nur- ""^t in its habits or origin. It does not make its 

 seryman at Havre, several years since, and it has appearance until about August, when the fruit is 

 borne fine fruit, without care or protection during about half grown, and then resorts indiscriminate- 

 winter, and is not subject to blight or mildew, like 'y *o the apj)le, pear, quince, plum, and cherry. — 

 the common Sweetwater. I have a plant from J^t is found on the very extremities of the branches, 

 Vilmorin & Co. of Paris, marked " Barsuraube," where it is with difficulty approached ; and there 

 and one from the justly celebrated garden of Blr , it forms a v/eb or nest, at first quite small, which 

 Prince, marked "August Sweetwater." No. 3 extends over the branch to which it attaches it- 

 of his last catalogue which appears to be the same j selfj as a cover or defence, as is found requisite to 

 as the White Muscadine, and by persons having extend its quarters for food ; for unlike the cater 



small gardens, shoidd from the excellence of the 

 fruit and certainty of bearing be preferred to every 

 other foreign grape. It is, I believe, identical witl) 

 the variety mentioned in the Gardener's Magazine, 

 as having produced fruit in the open ground, in 

 the climate of Denmark. For a description of 

 this grape, I refer to the lately published Treatise 

 of W. Prince, who can furnish plants to any gen- 

 tleman disposed to try the cultivation. 

 Salem, April 6, 1829. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



BOTTS IN HORSES. 



Ma Editor — Among the many good and use- 

 ful things that are discovered and by you publish- 

 ed, it would be strange if there were not some 

 hardly worth ])ublisliing, and some worse thiiu 

 nothing. Among the last, I think may be uuni- 



pillar it never leaves its nest in quest of forage. — 

 If left undisturbed, it does not often extend its 

 depredations more than two or three feet, within 

 which it devours the foliage, and what I believe 

 is peculiar to them, the branch on which they 

 depredate seldom vegetates again. Whether this 

 is owing to something poisonous in themselves, or 

 to the season when they strip the branch of its 

 leaves, I am ignorant. I think I recollect but one 

 instance, of seeing any branch, on which they had 

 built their nest, vegetating again ; and that threw 

 out some feeble leaves, but has never blossomed 

 or bore fruit. 



Tlie object of this communication is not to in- 

 quire what is to be done, for it is obvious it only 

 ■remains to amputate the limb and l)urn it. But if 

 any of your correspondents know, or can discover 

 the Procreator of this worm, so that we can attack 

 it hi embryo, he may facilitate our means of ex- 



BURNS. 



In looking over the Alleghany Democrat, of th© 

 29th December, I discovered a small paragraph on 

 burns, stating that the immediate application of 

 the simple article of wheat flour to the ])art affect- 

 ed was discovered by Dr Michael Ward, of Man- 

 Chester, England, to be a speedy and efiectual 

 cure. I bore it in mind, that the first opportunity 



offered I would test the virtue of the remedy. 



On last evening, my little daughter, about 11 

 years old, was unfortunately badly scalded on one 

 leg and foot, by the oversetting of a small vessel 

 of scalding water. I immediately ai)plicd a hand- 

 ful of wheat flour, to the scalded part, and wrap- 

 ped it up with a cloth ; the child was in great 

 agony ind pain ; in about 20 minutes she began 

 to be a little eased of pain ; I then removed the 

 first aiiplication of flour, and as directed by Dr 

 Ward, covered the affected part twice more, at in- 

 tervals of about 15 minutes, by sjirinkling on by 

 a flour drudger. The pain was entirely removed 

 in half an hour ; the patient slept sound all night, 

 and, as she expressed herself, she did not recol- 

 lect she was burned, until she went to rise in the 

 morning. My reasons for stating these facts are, 

 that I wish every family to know this speedy and 

 effectual cure, as in every house the remedy is at 

 hand, and much misery may be prevented by its 

 use. — Pittsburg Gaz. 



The last number of the North American Re- 

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 The New Theory of the Earth — College Educa- 

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 Course of Time — Civilization and Conversion of 

 the Indians — Pohtical Economy — llistoiy of the 

 Louisiana Treaty — Pelham — Webster's Dictiona- 

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 — Clerical Manners and Habits — Massachusetts 

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 and G. & C. Carvill, New York, — at $5 per an- 

 num. 



Extraordinary Growth. — An elm tree nearly op- 

 posite the house of Hemau Day, Esq. in West 

 Springfield, was (ilanted by him on the 8th of 

 January, 1775, — 54 years ago. At the time of 

 transiilantiiig, it was a sapling carried in the hand. 

 The trimk is now 18 feet hi diameter, to the 

 height of 12 feet above the surface of the ground, 

 where it divides into branches, which overhang a 

 circle of more than 300 feet in circumference, 

 covering 7,500 square feet of surface — Con. Mir.. 



