vol.. Kit. NO. 10. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



75 



A BARN WORTH LOOKING AT. 



Tlie SImkers at AllVfd, Me., as we lenrn from 

 tlie Farriior's Monllily Visitor, liave a barn I4.'i feet 

 111 li'iigtli by about 50 fi'et in widlli, and tlireo sto- 

 ries in lieiglit from the basement lo tlie pKites ; on 

 one end, say thirty feet beam, and at tlie other from 

 eiirhteen to twenty feet. The entrance to the barn 

 with loaded teatns of hay or grain is on the third 

 or upper story. As the bnilding stands on a side 

 liill reaching up and down lengthwise, the entrance 

 is of no very steep ascent on the upper end of the 

 barn. The load of hay is pitched down either up- 

 on the scartbliling over the cattle stalls, or where 

 there is no stall to the double depth of the bays be- 

 low. The quantity of h;iy or other barn material 

 that this building will contain after leaving ample 

 space for the cattle, is immense; and instead of 

 disposing of the hoy by lifting and pitching over 

 head, the greater portion is merely thrown over. — 

 The ample barn floor extending the whole length 

 of the building, is constructed on the principle of 

 a moderately inclined plane, so that the empty cart 

 or other vehicle, separated from the oxen or horses, 

 runs back itself to the entrance without backing 

 the whole together, as is ordinarily done in corn- 

 men barns where there cannot be a passage through. 

 This upper entrance and Hoorare at no time an in- 

 terference with the floor below fronting the cattle 

 stalls, from which they are supplied witli their dai- 

 ly food. On this story, as an unusual convenience 

 in a common barn, are apartments for keeping cows 

 expected soon to calve, and for keeping the nurs- 

 ing calves. In the basement, beneath the cattle 

 stalls, on the one side, the manure is dropped 

 down to be kept under cover, and on the other side 

 is a capacious cellar, in which root crops are kept 

 free from frost during the winter. In the rear of 

 the cattle-stall-side of the barn, is a large barn 

 yard, hollowed out from the centre to the sides, so 

 as to catch and retain the strength of every thing 

 running into it. Into this yard, which had been 

 cleared of every thing the past spring, a load of 

 black muck or mud from the swamp at no very 

 great distance, has been recently carted. The 

 cattle kept here, or hogs rnnning upon and working 

 it over in the course of the summer, convert every 

 material deposited in a yard thus constructed, into 

 an extra quantity of the very best manure. 



FRUIT TREES. 



The following extracts from a foreign work will 

 show the young people of our country how they 

 keep up a succession of fruit trees in Germany, 

 and perhaps it may stimulate some of them to imi- 

 tate so laudable an example. 



"In the duchy of Gotha, in Germany, there are 

 many villages which obtain a rent of many hundred 

 dollars a year for their fruit trees, which are plant- 

 ed on the road-side and on the commons. Every 

 new married couple is bound to plant two young 

 fruit trees. The rent arising from the trees thus 

 planted is applied to the uses of the parish or town. 



In order to preserve the plantations from injury 

 or depredation, the inhabitants of the parish are all 

 made answerable; each of whom is thus on the 

 watch over the other: and if any one is caught in 

 the act of committing any injury, all the damage 

 done in the same year, the authors of which can- 

 not be discovered, is attributed to him, and he is 

 compelled to atone for it. according to its extent, 

 either by fine or corporal punishment." 



"A gentleman at Colchester, England, makes it 



a rule whenever he builds a cottage, to plant a vino 

 against its walls, and two or three apple and pear 

 trees near to it, or in tlic garden, and thus he; con- 

 fers a greater benefit on his tenant, by givin;; him 

 an innocent source of gratititation to his children, 

 and an excitement to a little extra industry on his 

 own part, Uian if had let him a comfortless, mean 

 looking hovel, at hnlfthe rent." 



A few ornamental trees and shrubs, disposed 

 with good taste about a farm-liouse, add much to 

 the beauty and pleasantness of the scene; and 

 they never fail to make a favorable impression on 

 the mind of a visitor, of the character of the in- 

 mates of the mansion. A season should never be 

 suffered to pass by without some addition being 

 niade by the young people, to the ornaments of the 

 yard, garden or lane loading lo the houso. Some 

 families have displayed their industry, taste, and 

 good judgment in this respect so conspicuously as 

 to command the admiration of their neighborhood, 

 and to excite the curiosity of travellers to inquire 

 '' who lives there •■" — Fanners' Cabinet. 



From the Farmer's Cabinet. 



HEN'S e;ggs. 



I notice in the Farmers' Cabinet for 4th mo. last, 

 p. 275, an inquiry as to the trutli of the assertion, 

 that hen's eggs which are round produce female 

 chickens, and those which are long or pointed, pro- 

 duce males. 



When a boy, I was in a situation to be able to 

 indulge my fondness for fowls, and often raised 

 chickens. Without ever having heard of the above 

 facts, I discovered that the eggs which approached 

 the nearest to roundness always produced females, 

 and those which were pointed at one end always 

 produced males. I acted accordingly, and always 

 succeeded in obtaining females or males, accord- 

 ing as I wished. 



After a lapse of a number of years, being in 

 Philadelphia market, I happened to mention the 

 fact to one who raised chickens for sale, and who 

 preferred the males, because they grew larger: the 

 information was received with some surprise ; but 

 I advised the person to try it, and afterwards was 

 informed of the entire success of the experiment, 

 all males being produced by selecting the longer 

 pointed eggs. 



I since find the fact was mentioned by a writer 

 over 2000 years ago. L H. 



FLOWERS. 



Flowers — of all created things the most inno- 

 cently simple, the most superbly complex! play- 

 things for childhood, ornaments of t!io grave, and 

 companions of the cold corpse ! Flowers, beloved 

 by the idiot, and studied by the tliinking man of 

 science! Flowers, that unceasingly expand to 

 heaven their grateful, and to man their cheerful 

 looks : partners of human joys ; soothers of human 

 sorrow; fit emblems of the victor's triumphs and 

 the young bride's blushes ! Welcome to the crowd- 

 ed hall, and graceful upon the solitary grave ! Flow- 

 ers are, in the volume of nature, what the expres- 

 sion "God is love'' is in the volume of revelation ! 

 What a desolate place would be a world without a 

 flower I it would be a face without a smile — a 

 feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars 

 of the earth ? and are not our stars the flowers of 

 heaven ? One cannot look closely at the struc- 

 ture of a flower without loving it: they are the 



emblems and manifestations of God's love to the 

 creation, and they are the means and ministrations 

 of man's love to his fi'l low. creator's, for they first 

 awaken in his mind a sense of the beautiful and 

 good. The very inulility of flowers is their excel- 

 lent and great beauty, for they lead us to thoughts 

 of generosity and moral beauty, detached from and 

 superior to all selfishness, so that they are sweet 

 lessons in nature's book of instruction, teaching 

 man that he liveth not by bread alone, but that 

 he hath another than animal life. — Zinn's Advo- 

 cate. 



Jin Orchard destroyed by Canker Worms. — The 

 orchard of Mr Jabez Giddings, of Rocky Hill, has 

 been overrun with worms for seven years — and is 

 now entirely killed ; so that lie lias determined to 

 cut it down. — Thus he has, by these insects, been 

 deprived of seven years' fruit, and finally of a fine 

 orchard, — which he is now under the necessity of 

 clearing off — all for the want of a little care and 

 labor. By spending an hour per day for six months 

 in the year, and $1 per annum for tar, an orchard 

 of 50 trees might be preserved. The expense of 

 this operation would not be more than .$20 per an- 

 num to any farmer, and most of them would per- 

 form it with their own hands, without being felt. 

 The result would be the preservation of the trees, 

 plenty of fruit for family use, and a surplus that 

 would bring at least $50 a year in the Hartford 

 market. The fruit used at home is a full compen- 

 sation for carrying the remainder to market. Ac- 

 cording to this calculation, the balance, in 7 years, 

 is $210 loss, besides interest. But an orchard that 

 produces an annual income of .$30, is as good as 

 $500 at interest — this being added, makes Mr G.'e 

 total loss from neglect, over and above all necessa- 

 ry expenses for preservation, not less than $750 — 

 or on an average of $107 per annum — more than 

 $2 a year for each tree suffered to be overrun by 

 Canker Worms. — Hartford Courant. 



Antidote against Mice. — Mr McDonald, of 

 Scalps, in the Hebrides, having some time ago suf- 

 fered considerably by mice, put at the bottom, near 

 the centre, and top of each of his stacks of grain, 

 as they were raised, three or four stalks of wild 

 mint with the leaves on, gathered near a brook in 

 a neighboring field, and never after had any of his 

 (Train consumed. He then tried the same experi- 

 ment with his cheese, and articles kept in store, 

 and with equal effect, by laying a few leaves, green 

 or dry, on the articles to be preserved. 



Poultry. — When, says M. Bosc, it is wished to 

 have eggs during the cold season, even in the dead 

 of winter, it is necessary to make the fowls roost 

 over an oven, in a stable, in a shed where many cat- 

 tle are kept, or to erect a stove in the fowl house 

 on purpose. By such methods, the farmers of Auge 

 have chickens fit for the table in the month of A- 

 pril — a period when they are only beginning to be 

 hatched in the farms around Paris, although further 

 to the south. It would be desirable that stoves in 

 fowl houses were more commonly known near 

 great towns, where luxury grudges no expense for 

 the convenience of having fresh eggs." 



By the growth of root crops and planting, Mr 

 Coke, the great English farmer, has increased the 

 rental of his estates from 25,000 to $'200,000 per 

 year. 



