Vol. VII.— No. 49. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



389 



Froui ihe Journal ofihe Times. 



FINE STOCK. 



We have been highly gratified with a view of 

 the heautil'iil pair of" North Devonsliire cattle re- 

 cently purchased and brought into Bennington, Vt, 

 by Messrs .1. N. Ui.xsdill, and S. D. WALEBincE, 

 from the pure stock iinpiirted from Mr George 

 Tollett,of lieiitU'y Hall, near New Castle, Staft'ord- 

 shire, and Mr Coke, Norfolk, England, by the 

 late Hon. Uufns King, Minister to England. 



We understand Mr Hinsdill has made a choice 

 selection from Mr King's stock at Jamaica, Long^ 

 Island, and we heartily hope that the breed of 

 cattle in our State may soon experience that very 

 great improvement which this blood of animals 

 are qualified to make. We congratulate these 

 young gentlemen in their enterprise, and improve- 

 ments in many kinds of choice foreign stock of 

 different animals, which they have within a few- 

 years hitroduced into our vicinity. Tlie Devon 

 cattle are of a beautiful tnahogany red color, very 



docile, fine small l)one and limh, great travellers | geet, but has suflered less than some other kinds ; 

 in the yoke, and of a most beautiful form. The i probably, because it grows more rapidly, and be 



the bottom, so as to leave the stock bare, and just 

 above the second, third, or fom-th joint, you will 

 find the insect, very much like a flax seed in its 

 ajipearance ; which, if suffered to remain, will re- 

 tard the growth of the plant, and cause it to 

 bend at the place, and finally to fall down fruit- 

 less. 



We know no remedy for the evil at this season 

 of the year ; but in the season of sowing, some- 

 thing may be done, by choice of seed. The 

 " Hessian proof," raised in tliis region some twen- 

 ty years ago, was indeed proof against the fly, 

 yielded a tolerable crop ; but of inferior quality. 

 A kind of spring wheat, we think it is, of which a 

 as raised last year in Lyme, and 



by the rain, or the waterings, form an excellent 

 manure, which hastens the vegetation, and deter- 

 mines the reproduction of flowers. 4. Two wa- 

 terings per week will suffice in ordinary weather, 

 and tliey should be made with the rose of the wa- 

 tering pot, so that the hoofs may he filled ; but, 

 if the atmosphere is dry, it will be necessary to 

 water the |)lants every evening ; and in the latter 

 case it will be necessary, from time to time, to di- 

 rect the stream of water on the head of the tree.— 

 Salem Gazette. 



Exlraetion of Potash from Potato Tops. — The 

 " Register of Arts" for March, details the process, 

 adopted in France, for extracting potash from po- 



small quantity waL .„.„^ „. j-— — -^ — , , ,. • • , 



Piertnont, N." II., and which came originally fro.n tato tops the u,,per part of which contain so 

 a few heads, gathered thoughtlessly by a traveller considerable a pornon,t^s^ to render^t^ 

 Si)ain, is said to be " Hessian proof." 



"Plje i of it a very jirofitable operation. The potato tops 



same has been said of the " White Flint" wheat 



1 are to be cut off at four or five inches from the 



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I . I ,. ..„„,io„^, „_a ,in,,ht ground, with a very sharp knife, the moment that 



concerning which some ot cur readers are (iouot- o' " ' •'...'. . '. . . . 



less able to inform the iiublic. The " Virginia 



wheat," is not absolutely " proof" against the in- 



size good, but not extremely large. We are sup- 

 plied with some accurate references in regard to 

 their weight, in the Memoirs of the New York 

 State Board of Agriculture, vol. iii., in which is 

 stated, that "the North Devon Bull Holkam, im- 

 ported from Hon. Mr Coke, we ighed, when six 

 years old, 1700 lbs. Also, one of his calves when 

 two years and nine months old, after having been 

 fed but two months, weighed 1012 lbs. including 

 100 lbs. tallow. Alsoj.one other, fed 3 months, 

 and killed when 3 years and 9 months old, weigh- 

 ed 1289 III---., inclnding 150 lbs. tallow. Also, one 

 other, fed 3 months, and killed when 3 years and 

 2 months old, weighed 1334 lbs. including 124 

 lbs. tallow. 



All of the above mentioned animals were sired 

 by Holkam, in this country. Mr Coke, in one of 

 his letters says : — " I venture to give it as my 

 opinion that we have no cattle to be compared to 

 them in the United Kingdom for imrity of blood, 

 for aptitude to fvet\, for hardiness, for richness of 

 their milk, and for work." Doct. Mease, a I'liila- 

 delphian Agriculturist, says : — " They are good 

 milkers, and make excellent beef, and the best 

 working oxen of any breed, walking as fiist as a 

 horse. Ten North Devon cows of Mr Conyers, 

 produced on an average, five dozen Ihs. of butter 

 per week during the summer. His 30 cows av- 

 eraged an annual income of £13 14s. [or $60,52] 

 per head. Robert Bakewell, of England, de- 

 clared that " they could not be iinprove<l by any 

 alien cross, being the speediest working oxen in 

 England, and would trot well in harness." Mr 

 Featherstonhaugh, says: — "The Devon stock is 

 very beautiful ; I have always admired them, as I 

 think every one must do. The Devon stock are 

 so active that nothing gets over the ground like 

 them, and might for all farming purposes be a 

 substitute for horses." 



A FRIEND TO IMPROVEMENT. 



comes rather too old for the insect, at the season 

 when its greatest ravages commence. 



Farmers will do themselves and each other a 

 favor by communicating what they inow on this 

 subject. 



From the Gardener's Magazine. 



Mildeto Curable. — In vol. iv. p. 281, there is an 

 extract from Dr Greville's Flora Edinensis, con- 

 cerning mildew, of which it is stated, that, " As 

 its production is probably the result of a peculiar 

 stale of the atmosphere, there is little chance of 

 any means being discovered for its prevention." 

 This should not be allowed to pass unnoticed in 

 the Gardener's Maga-/.ine, liecause it is well known 

 to every one acquainted with practical gardening, 

 that soap suds, applied in time, will prevent the 

 attack, and, after the attack, will speedily banish 

 the pest. M. 



ROSES TWICE A YEAR. 



The following directions for obtaining roses of 

 all kinds twice in the year, are taken from the 

 Bulletin Uuiversel, and are said to be furnished by 

 Mr Doretti Richardot. 



1. Immediately after the first flowering, the 

 shrub is to be deprived of every leaf, and those 

 branches which have borne roses, so that only 

 two or three buds shall remain. The cutting of 

 the weaker branches may be in a less degree. — 

 If the weather be dry when the leaves are ren>ov- 

 ed, it will be necessary to thoroughly water the 

 stem, for several days, with the rose of the water- 

 ing ])ot : in this way the sap will not be arrested. 

 2. Then the brush is to be used, and the rose 

 tree well cleansed by it, so that all mouldiness 

 shall ilitpppear ; this operation is very easy after 

 an abundant rain. 3. The earth about the rose 

 tree is to be disturbed, and then twenty-four sock 



the flower begins to fall, that being the period of 

 their greatest vigor. Fresh sprouts spring, which 

 not only answer all the purposes of conducting the 

 roots to maturity, but tend to increase their size, 

 as the sprouts require less nourishment than the 

 old tops. From the results obtained in France, it 

 is estimated that the quantity of land under the 

 annual cuhivation with potatoes, in the United 

 Kingdom, which exceeds 500,000 acres, might be 

 made to yield nearly as many tons of potash ; an 

 amount nearly fifty times that of our aimual im- 

 portations from America ! 



Potato Pudding. — Few people are aware hoT* 

 delicious a pudding can be made from the farina 

 of the potato, or potato starch. The following are 

 the ingredients : — To one quart of boiled milk, 

 add, gradually, as in making hasty-pudding, a 

 quarter of a pound of potato flour well pulverised 

 — a quarter of a pound of sugar, and a little but- 

 ter—when cold, add tlnee eggs, and bake it half 

 an hour. 



Rev. Enoch Burt, of Manchester, Con. has con- 

 structed and put into actual operation, a loom for 

 weaving plaids, by water or steam. The shuttles 

 containing the diflerent colors shift regularly as 

 the figure requires, without iiiterruj>ting the mo- 

 tion of the loom. 



From the Vermont Chronicle. 



HESSIAN FLY. 

 This destructive insect is said to be doing un 

 usual injury to our wheat fields. Probably, most of 

 our farmers are acquainted with its appearance at 

 this season of the year. If not, pluck up some of 

 the sickly shoots, strip off the leaves, beginning at 



English Sheep. — Mr Pickering, passenger in the 

 Mary 1 lowland, from Liverpool, has brought out 

 two rams, and two ewes, of the Lincolnshire long 

 wool breed of sheep, one of which was shorn on 

 the passage, and yielded the extraordinary fleece 

 of nineteen pounds. He has also three lams, six 

 ewes, and six lambs, of the Leicester Cowling 

 fleeces, bred by Samuel Wiley, Esq., at Granby, 

 near York. Mr P. is to take them to Albion, State 

 of Illinois. — Mer. 



A correspondent of the' Taunton Advocate re- 

 commends to those persons who are unwilling to 

 have a flock of hens in their gardens, the follow- 

 ng iilan to destroy insects : — make a small coop 



ets of calves' feet are to be placed in the earth i fo,- each hen that has chickens, so that the brood 



round the stem, and about four inches distant from 

 it. The hoofs of young calves are the best, and 

 give a vivid color and agreeable perfume to the 

 roses. These are to be placed with the points 

 downwards, so that the cups shall be nearly level 

 with the surface of the earth, and the jdant well 

 surrounded. This operation is to he repeated in 

 the November following. These hoofs, dissolved 



can run in and out ; ]ilace it near your squash or 

 encumber beds, and the chickens of three or four 

 weeks old will make fine havoc among the rose 

 bua-s ; but to those younger than three weeks, it is 

 death to eat them. — JVew Bedford Courier. 



A new scientific expedition is fitting out at 

 Toulon to circumnavigate the globe. 



