Vol. VII.— No. 43. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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rious, to have the hoof protected in with a bar 

 shoe. 



There are many cases where the disease does 

 not terminate in suppuration, and wljere it has 

 not been reciuisite to remove much of tlie crust. — 

 In such cases the symptoms generally yield to the 

 ordinary treatment of inflammation, botli general 

 and lociil. In all cases of laniencSi, however, it 

 is to be observed that rest in a loose |)lace is very 

 desirable, and in most, indispensably necessary. 



C. 



FLOUR. 



The American Farmer gives some hints res- 

 pecting the ipialilics of flour that are valuable. — 

 Wheat flonr consists principally of two substances, 

 starch (feculaj and gluten, the latter being some- 

 what similar to the fflue of animals. It is from 

 the gluten that the flour derives its highly nutritive 

 qualities, the starch aflbrding much less nourish- 

 ment. But all wheat does not contain the same 

 portion of gluten, and it is a matter of great inter- 

 est to tliC consumer to be able to test it in this res- 

 pect. This is done by a sure and simple mode. 

 take a little flour in the hand, and make dough of 

 It with cold wati'r ; if the dough after working it 

 a few minutes is tou^^h, and does not become soft 

 and flabby, it contains a proper quantity of gluten, 

 and is good flour. The tougher the dough the 

 better the flour. If the dough be of a dead, pnt- 

 tyish consistence, it contains little gluten, and of 

 course little nourishment in proportion to its 

 weight. There is fully ten per cent, diflference in 

 the value of flour arising from the diffiM-ence in tlie 

 proportions of the two constituent parts named. — 

 A barrel of the short flour, as the bakers term that 

 which is deficient, will not ])roduce more than 240 

 lbs. of bread, while the good or glutinous, wdl pro- 

 duce '265, the loaves being besides larger and re- 

 ally more nutritive. This difference in the quali- 

 ty, is attribiitcd to thu soil upon which the wheat 

 Is raised. In Baltimore, the flour denominated 

 " Howard street," is considered good ; that whii'ii 

 is called " wharf flour" is short or deficient in 

 gluten. Where the wheat of either is produced 

 and manufactured is not stated ; though it is said 

 that the grain whii-li produces Howard street 

 flour, \\ >uM, if sown in the Genessee country, pro- 

 duce s."rt flour. 



last of the mouth, by this time the earth, and the 

 air have become warm, and the herd of insects 

 plenty, so that when the cabbages first break 

 through the ground they are attacked by a swarm 

 of little insects, not larger than a cabbage seed, 

 which destroy many totally, and poison the others 

 so nuich that they grow very slow through the 

 season, and in fall are not so large as they other- 

 wise would be, while by my plan of sowing early, 

 the plants come forward so rapidly that they are 



suits of practical observation, may not be uninter- 

 esting to some of our readers. Potatoes should 

 never be planted whole, whatever may be their 

 size, as they all produce the same number of 

 shoots, almost invariably five, which is too great a 

 number to be together, in order to make a good 

 crop. As the whole potato, however large, or 

 however many eyes (or buds) it may have, never 

 produces more than five shoots, which are all from 

 the end adverse to the stem, care should be taken 



up and so large that they are out of the reach of ' that they are cut longitudinally, vvhicli, when 

 insects entirely, and will grow much faster than | halved or quartered is likely to divide the produc- 

 those planted later, and be larger in the fall. A | tive buds among the several parts. One third of 

 piece of groiuid five feet long, and three or four, the stem end should first be cut oft" which is with- 



wide, is sulhcient for a cabbage bed for my fami- 

 ly, and will produce some thou>ands of plants, the 

 transplanting of which I shall notice hereafter. 



ELLSWORTH. 



EARLY POTATOES. 



To all those who wish for early potatoes I re- 

 connnenil the following method. Take as many 

 potatoes as you wish to plant for early ones, put 

 them in a box or barrel, well mixed in with dry 

 loam and horse manure mixed together, then put 

 them into an ash hole or some warm place in the 

 sun covered from the rain, there let them remain 

 until the sprouts are froni an inch, to two inches 

 long, by which time the grouml will become warm 

 as well as the season — have your ground prepared, 

 made light, and well manured, then take your ))o- 

 latoes very carefully, cut or plant whole, as you 

 plea e, but do not injure the sprouts, and be care- 

 l"ul to cover with light earth, and as soon as they 

 are up an inch or two, hoe them carefully, an<l in 

 this way you may have potatoes by the 15tli or 

 20th of July, and if you get an early kind of pota- 



oiit a bud ; that will not produce a shoot, but is 

 valuable for the table or stock, and of service to 

 the planted part. It is, therefore, a saving that 

 ought never to be omitted. Thus prepared, the 

 potatoes should, if planted in rows, be from eight 

 to ten inches apart ; if in hills, three or four pieces 

 in each. Great care should be observed not to 

 have the trenches for planting deep. Hills, in 

 which they are seldom planted below the surface 

 of the earth, generally produce the finest potatoes. 



J\rat. Mel. 



From the Vermotl VVatcliniau. 



Ma Printer — I am an old man, and one of 

 the first settlers of Washington county. I began 

 my farm and live on it now ; and as it is coiumon 

 for people to tell their experience, I will tell you 

 some of mine in farming. I cleared my land : 

 had my first crop of grain, and laid it down to 

 mowing or pasturing as my neigldjors did until R 

 due proportion of my land was cleared. I then 



ploughed large fields when the stumps were most 

 ro"es'have"them"by"the' 4t1.'r "This 'tne't'hod'l have j ly rotten and decayed, and planted and^sowedjj 

 [iractised for several years, and the result has been 



as above named, 

 sprout. 

 Jlpril 20. 



My potatoes are already in 

 ELLSWORTH. 



From die Ellsworth Courier. 



EARLY CABBAGES. 



The plan I recommend to my fellow men to 

 raise Cabbages, is the one I learnt a few years 

 since frcjtn a valuable friend who is the best fi-.ir- 

 dener in our vicinity. Let each man take as large 

 a piece of grotmd as is sufiicient for a cabbage 

 bed for his family, have it situated to the sou h 

 Bide of some fence, wall, or building ; dig otf all 

 the top of the ground to the depth of about eight 

 or ten inches, ami fill up the place with coarse 

 manure to within two inches of the top of the 

 ground, then put about four inches of good rich 

 soil on top, make it smooth and sow the seed in 

 rows, iiorih and south, about five inches apart ; 

 keep the ground light and they will come on very 

 fast. In about a week the manure underneath be- 

 gins to fertnent and steams up in such a manner 

 aa to drive the pUmts forward the next to a hot 

 bed of any \<\on I have seen. The reason why 

 tills plan is blotter than the cotiimon mode of siiw- 

 i/ig late, is ihis ; in the first place cabliages sown 

 (IjQUt the middle of Blay and later, sometimes the 



without luanuring, except some small part, and 

 that very sparingly. My crops were light, and 

 when 1 laid my fields down to mowing again, mj 

 grass was small, and'I found that that mode of 

 farming would soon spoil my farm. I then ado[it- 

 WALDO AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. ed a difterent course. I calculated that thirty or 

 We observe with pleasure that exertions have ' thirty-five loads of good manure would dress an 

 been made, and are still making, for the formation acre of ground, so that it would produce a good 

 rf an Agricultural Society liir the benefit of this crop of corn or potatoes, and the next year a good 

 county. The uses and benefits of such a society crop of wheat, with which it should be laid down 

 to a tract of country so new and so uncultivated to grass, and that it woulil not require to be 

 as ours, cannot be too highly apjirecialed. We ploughed up again from six to ten years. I have 

 'hoi>e that a mere hint upon this suliject will serve found this mode to answer the purpose : my crops 

 to awaken the energies, of the nniiiy intelligent i have been good — I have hoed less than formerly, 

 fiirmeis of our county, to a just sense of the ini- and had more corn and potatoes — I have mowed 

 poitance of scientific, as weli as practical ciilliva- j less and had more hay. I have followed this 

 tion ; and judging from the character and ener- ; course of farming for fifteen years. I plough 

 gies of the gentlemen already engnged in the af-' grass ground every year, and sow with oats upon 

 fiiir, no doubt remains of their succeeding in their the furrow, what I mean to plant the next year, 

 object. Those gentleirien who vvcre incorporated. After my oats are t.aken ofl^, I plough it and cart 

 bv our late Legislature, as a Society, met on the on my fall manure, that I mean for iilantmg 

 27lh ult., at the Court Hou.-e, f.ir ijie purpose of ground, and my spring manure in the spring ; 

 organizing. Ebenezer Everett. Es(i. of Moiitville, spread it very even, and plough it in. It is better 

 was chosen President, and James White, Esq. <d' to plough the ground the second time and mix the 

 this town. Secretary. The iiieetin- then adjourn- | matime well with it. In the fall after the corn 

 eil to meet at some fiiture time, of which due no- and potatoes are taken oft', I plough the ground 

 tice will be given, for the i)urpose of a.lopting well, and fit it for a wheat crop the next season, 

 rules, and regulation.*, choosing other necessary at which time I lay it down to grass. 



ofticers, anil that other gentlemen of the county 

 may have an opportunity of becoming members. — 

 Belfast Republican Journal. 



POTATOES. 



As the season for planting potatoes is approach- 

 in;;, and as there is a variety of opi-iions on that 

 subject, the following remarks, wiiicli are the re- 



A PLOUGH-JOGGER. 



THE VINE. 



Whether to advocate an extensive introduction 

 of the vine into our country or not, upon the score 

 of national improvement, and ultimate advantage, 

 we are inclined to believe, will admit of moi* 

 doubt, than any question concerning the prgdiice 



