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NEW KNGLANI) FAIIMEU, 



Mny 22, 1829. 



loves, and she is boiiiiil to act for their youil, and 

 not for her own gralilication. Il^r hnshand's 

 good is the end to which she should aim, liis ap- 

 probation is her lewanl. Scdf gratification in 

 dress, or indiilgcni-e in appetite, or more coni|iany 

 than his purse well can entertain, are ccpially per- 

 nicious. The first adds vanity to e.\iri.va£rance, 

 the second fastens a doctor's hill to a long butch- 

 er's account, and the latter brings intemperance, 

 the worst of all evils in its train. 



JVEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, 3IAY 22, 1829. 



LITHOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY. 



We liave been very iinich gratified by some 

 specimens with which we have lately been favor- 

 ed, of Geography illustrated by Lithography, or 

 the An of Printing on Stone. A map of Natick, 

 Mass., on a scale of 2 inches to a mile, beautifully 

 executed, by Pendleto,\, Boston, is a superior 

 sample of an useful and ornamental art, employed 

 to illustrate an important science. The lines are 

 clear and distinct, the buildings, roads, woods, 

 waters, &c. arc pointed out with a neatness and 

 precision, which are rarely if ever attained incoji- 

 .per plate engraving ; and copies of the kind can 

 be afforded, we are told, at an expense which is 

 very trifling, compared to maps, execnteil in the 

 old style. If maps of every town in Missachu- 

 setts were formed in this manner, they would sup- 

 ply the materials tor State Maj)?, and add articles 

 of great value to the archives of useful knowl- 

 edge. 



Self knowledge has been highly and justly re- 

 commended in many adages in various languages. 

 And next to knowing ivhat loe are, is the impor- 

 tance of knowing ichtre we are. We should have 

 correct ideas of our relative location, compared to 

 that of other inhabitants of om- planet, and partic- 

 ularly to those of our vicinity, or the world is to 

 us as it were a wilderness, a sort of chaos, " with- 

 out form and void." If geograjdjy on a large 

 scale, a knowledge of distant countries is an im- 

 portant branch of education, surely the topoiri. 

 phy of our own residence and its vicinity, is of 

 still greater importance. Yet many of our youth 

 who are receiving an education, and acquiring a 

 stock of what should be useful knowledge, know 

 more of Greece, or Rome, London, or Paris, or 

 perhaps California, than of that part of the land 

 they live in, which is not in sight of their own 

 Iwellings, or on their road to market, or the meet- 

 inghouse. 



FORTHK NEW iNfiLANO rARniF.R. 



SOWING GRASS SEEDS. 



Mr Ff.ssendf..\— In the perusal of vour last 

 number of the New England Farmer, I observed 

 a very well and nbly written article upon the sub- 

 ject of sowing grass seeds in the full of the year, 

 in preference to the spring. As I am young m 

 the business of agriculture, I beg your induljence, 

 aiid ho])e that I shall not weary your iiaiienciv 

 with the few remarks and inquiries, which I take 

 the liberty of sending you, ii.r a more full and par- 

 ticular explanation in relation to this very imjior- 

 tant operation in agriculture. 



Your correspondent in VvVstcn, observes, in the 

 close of his cnrnmunicatici), that " general rules 

 are subject to many exc<,ptions, and particidarly 

 80 in agriculture." I, therefore, wish some furilie'r 



information through the medium of the Farmer, 

 from your respected correspondents. It ajipears 

 to be soinewiiat a new mode in the practice of 

 hir-bandry, in the New England States, or so fir 

 as I have information. In this conunnnity the 

 general practice is, to sow the grass seeds in the 

 spring, with oats, or rye, aiul the like. But if 

 there be a better way, we camiot too soon con- 

 vince our incredidous neighbors of the fact, that it 

 may become a general practice among the farm- 

 ers, to sow their gratis seeds in the fall, whcti there 

 is more loisme time, than in the spring, when the 

 farmer has as much or more than can be well at- 

 tended to. I read, some time since, that grass 

 seeds might be sown in the fall to the benefit of 

 the farmer ; and that he might realize a crop of 

 grass the next season, and that he might be inore 

 sine of realizing a greater crop than when robbed 

 of a greater part of its nutriment, by being sown 

 with spring grain, which is always triumphant ; 

 and the interference of the roots among the ten- 

 der grass, atid the straw, which in a great meas- 

 ure will deprive the grass of the benefits of the 

 atmosphere : anil that he might be saved muclj 

 trouble and vexation by sowing his grass seeds 

 alone, which otherwise he would be subject to ex- 

 perience. 



I then mentioned the subject to one of my 

 neighbors, who had long been engaged in agricul- 

 ture. He told mo that was a new notion, and that 

 it would not do to follow every current that runs ; 

 that it was something he had never heard or 

 dreamt of, in the course of his long life, and that 

 he was confident it would not do, because it ap- 

 peared to him an unreasonable practice. I, there- 

 fore, of course paid no more attention to the sub- 

 ject. But from the sentiments set forth by your 

 correspondent in Weston, I perceive several ad- 

 vantages from this mode of husbandry above tlte 

 one now generally practised in this communi- 

 ty- 



I have a small field which contains about thir- 

 teen-sixteenths of an acre, from which I raised, 

 the last season, 20 bushels of Indian corn, 75 

 bushels of potatoes, and between 30 and 40 bush- 

 els of apples. The land is very low, and was not 

 planted till the eighth day of Ju.ie, on the account 

 of its being so wet and muddy. From those who 

 are conversant in the fall sowing of grass seeds, 1 

 would solicit some further remarks, whether it 

 would be as profitable to sow such low land as 

 above mentioned, in the fall, or whether I should 

 experience a total loss of my labor if I should un- 

 dertake to have my grass seed sown on it in that 

 season of the year ." The subject, in this [lart of 

 the commonwealth being a new thing, the people 

 will without doubt be very incredidons in regard 

 to adopting it. The crop that I intend to take ofi' 

 this season, I shall not be able to harvest before 

 the last of September, or first of Oriubcr : will it 

 then be jn-ofitable to have the field sown to grass 

 so late in the season of the year? 



In sowing grass seeds in the spring of the year, 

 along with other grain, it is true, both undoubt- 

 edly would in some measure he injured by each 

 other, but whether^they would he of so niu<:h 

 damage to each other as the expciise of getting in 

 the grass seecis after the spring grain is harvest- 

 ed, is, I thiid:, a matter worth investigating. 



GRAFTING. 



It is now about the season of the year for en- 

 grafting young fruit trees— lh< se who watit to 

 avail themselves of the opportuiijiy v/ould do well 



to pay |)arlicular attention in selecting their scions. 

 The scions fur engrafting ought to be cut from 

 healthy bearing trees ; and cut from the top. I 

 say from the top, because I do not mean sprouts 

 nor suckers from the body. I have known scions 

 blossom the same season that they were set, and 

 buds I have known also, to blossom the next 

 spring after inocidation. Two years after buds 

 were set I have known the stocks to bear as good 

 fruit as the original tree. Whereas scions or 

 buds that have been taken from sprouts, or suck- 

 ers, have not borne fruit for several years. In 

 grafting, or inocidation, therefore, particular at- 

 tention should be paid in salecting scions. 

 Yours very respectfullv, 

 Jttlcborough, Jlpril 12, 1829. J."w. C. 



(CJ^ The above, notwithstanding its being dated 

 so far back as the 12th of April, was not received 

 till the 13lh inst, too late for our last jiaper.— 



Editor. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SO^ 

 CIETY. 



The Standing Committee of the Massachusetts 

 Hoiticultiiral Society, on the Culture and Produets 

 of the Kitchen Garden, consisting of Jacob Tidd, 

 Samuf.l Ward, Aaron D. Williams, and John 

 B. Russell, have attended to that duty, i-nd sub- 

 mit the following list of premiums. None but 

 members of the Society are entitled to these pre- 

 miums. 

 Asparagus, 50 in a bunch, earliest and best 



in open ground, $2 



CccL'MEERS, best pair, on or before the 4th 



of July, in ojien ground, 2 



Cabbages, Early, the best 4 heads, 2 



Carrots, twelve roots, the earliest and 



best, 2 



Beets, twelve roots of the earliest and best, 



by 4th of July, 2 



Potatoes, Early, one peck, the best, by the 



1st of July, 2 



Potatoes, for winter, not less than '30 bush- 

 els, having regard to their productiveness, 

 as Vi'cU as quality, 4 



Cf.lery, six plants, earliest and best, * 2 



Beans, Large Lima, 2 qts, shelled, 2 



Beans, the earliest and best, 2 quarts, 1 



do do do dwarf shell, 2 



quarts, | 



Lettdce, four heads, the finest and heaviest 



the season, 1 



Cauliflowers, 4 heads, do do 2 



Uroccoli, 4 beads, do do 2 



SquASUES, V/inter Crook Neck, the largest 



and best pair, 1 



Peas, one peck, the earliest and best by the 



1st Blonday of June, 2 



Savoy Cabbages, si.x heads, best in the 



season, - 2 



Melons, Vi'ater, the largest and best 



l)air, 1 



Melons,. BIusk, the finest pair in the 

 j season, 1 



Indian Corn, for boiling, 12 ears, having re- 

 gard to the si7.e of the ears, their earliness, 

 and the quality of the corn, 1 



Future meetings of the Committee, will b» 

 properly noticed, as to time and place of meetin", 

 ((jr the government of those who wish to ofldr 

 any of the above articles for premiums. 



Per order of J. TIDD, Chirman. 



