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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



pruning is adopted, and the extremities of the 

 leading shoots are shoriened every spring. This 

 throws nearly all the vigor oT ihe tree into the 

 bearing branches, and produces a larger crop ol 

 Iruit annually. 



In some parts of England, large plantations of 

 filberts are made, for profit. Kent is the most 

 celebrated nut growing disirict, and the average 

 crop there is about eight hundred weight per acre, 

 although, in good soils and favorable seasons, 

 thirty hundred weight has been raised on an 

 acre of ground. The bushes are generally trained 

 with single stems, and the heads pruned in the 

 form of a hoop, kept about six leet high from the 

 ground. 



There does not appear to be the least obstacle 

 to the profiiable cultivation of the filbert on a 

 large scale, in this country, and our dry summers 

 would probably be found more favorable to the 

 production of large crops, than the moist ones of 

 England. A return of fruit is speedily received 

 after planting on good soils, and we would, with 

 confidence, recommend the trial of a filbert or- 

 chard, to enterprising cultivators. 



In gardens, a row of the finer sort of this Iruit 

 may be advantageously introduced, as a screen 

 or barrier, in portions where such a leature is 

 desirable, as the (bliage is large and dense, and 

 thus the double advantage of fruit, and privacy 

 Or protection will be realized. 



JVewburgh, JV. V. A. J. Downing. 



FOR THE BITK OF A SNAKE. 



The most simple and convenient remedy I have 

 fever heard of is alum. A piece the size of a 

 hickory nut, dissolved in water and drank, or 

 chewed and swallowed, is sufficient. I have 

 good authority lor saying that it has been tried 

 many limes on men and dogs, and that they have 

 invariably recovered. I know of some planters 

 whose hands are exposed to be bitten by rattle 

 snakes, who keep them always provided with it 

 in their pockets, and that they have several limes 

 Ibund use for it. — Macon AJessenger. 



dead in great quantities under it — as many as a 

 pint or quart might he swept up under it at a time 

 dead. My first impression was, that the bugs 

 died about the l.nden tree after depositing their 

 eggs and terminating their natural career, but 

 such is not the liict, and I now speak with confi- 

 dence, alter several years' observation and ex- 

 perience, when I say, the blossom of this tree 

 destroys them, and will extirpate, or nearly so, the 

 race from its immediate vicinity, on the ttirm on 

 which they grow. This fact seems to be out of 

 the ordinary course of nature, lor we are taught to 

 believe that all animals in a natural state are led 

 by the wise instinct of nature to avoid that whicli 

 will poison or destroy them. In rushing into the 

 enjovment of tiie delicious fragrance and honey 

 of this flower, they precipitate themselves on their 

 own destruction. 



I state the fact, for the information of florists 

 and fruiterers, and hope that those better skilled 

 in pliilosophy and natural history, may solve the 

 seeming heterodoxy of it. 



On visiting Mr. George Law's residence at the 

 west end of your town some days since, which 

 may well be styled the " multum in parvo''' of 

 good and pretty things, I could but ask the ques- 

 tion why our brother farmers should send to New 

 England for pigs, when they may find all the Eu- 

 ropean improved varieties in Mr. Law's posses- 

 sion, bred with great care and which may be 

 bought at prices much lower than the prices at 

 the north? Is a thing better in proportion to the 

 distance you go alter it, and the risk of its loss 

 you run in transporting it — or is an animal bred 

 in Europe and costing thirty guineas, with Ihe 

 cost of transportation added — better than the same 

 animal bred in this country Ironi the same parents 

 at a cost of twenty dollars? This is another 

 problem which 1 will thank you, Mr 

 solve. 



Poplar Grove, ISth June. 1841. 



THE ROSE-BUG. 



From the American Fanner. 

 This little insect wherever it is known at all is 

 known to be extremely destructive to some other 

 flowers as well as the rose, and is sometimes so 

 numerous as to destroy all the early cherries, the 

 hautboys, the grapes, and sometimes the more 

 delicate varieties of the peach. Many years ago 

 I have often lost all these fruits except some of 

 ihe varieties of the peach by these destructive 

 insects. Of late years they have done me little 

 or no injury, and they are nearly extirpated from 

 my premises — they are only to be seen at the 

 places of their destruction — these are Linden 

 trees token in blossom. When these trees first 

 begin to blossom about my yard and garden, at 

 one of them over a hard naked walk, I was sur- 

 prised to find the rose bug, which had been vastly 

 numerous and destructive lor many years before, 



Editor, to 

 T. E. 



USES OF IRON. 



From the Public Ledger. 



There is a handsome row of stores now under 

 construction at the corner of John and CliH' streets, 

 New York, in which large circular hollow pillars 

 of cast iron are substituted for the ordinary granite 

 fronts. The ornamental caps and string pieces 

 are also of iron. There is a peculiar gracefulness 

 and lightnessin theirappearance. Their durability 

 will not be questioned, and their cost does not 

 exceed one-third the price of granite. Care should 

 be taken not to put lead in contact with iron where 

 it is exposed to moisture. A galvanic action is 

 excited that is very destructive to the iron, which 

 is the more oxidizable metal. This curious phe- 

 nomenon may be observed in the iron railings 

 of the Philadelphia Library in South Fifth street, 

 and in the house next below. The iron is in 

 some cases entirely eaten away where it touch- 

 es the leaden filling. 1 observed last spring an 

 expensive zinc roof on Mrs. Chancellor's new 

 country seat, on Schoolhouse lane, which they 

 were stripping, because it had been ruined by 

 using iron nails to secure it to the raliere. 



Anthrax. 



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