VOL.. X\\. NO. 19. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 



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A BRILLIANT STUCCO WHITEWASH. 



Many have probably often heard of the brilliant 

 and lastinjr whitewash upon the east end of tlie 

 President's house at Washiiig:ton. Tlie following- 

 ia a correct recipe for making it: 



Take clean lumps of well burnt lime, (say five 

 or six quarts,) slack the same with hot water in a 

 tub, (covered, to keep in the steam,) pass it in the 

 fluid form through a fine seive ; add one fourth of 

 a pound of whiting or burnt alum, pulverized ; one 

 pound of good sugar ; three pints of rice fiour, 

 made into a thin and well boiled paste, and one 

 pound of clean glue, dissidved by first soaking it 

 well, and then putting it into a small kettle, which 

 should again be put into a larger one filled with 

 water, and placed over a slow fire. Add five gal- 

 lons of hot water to the whole mixture. 



This wash is applied, where particular neatness 

 is required, with a painter's brush. It must be put 

 on while warm, if upon the outside of the building 

 — if within doors, cold. It will retain its brillian- 

 cy many years. There is nothing of the kind that 

 will compare with it. About one pint of the mix- 

 ture will cover a square yard upon the outside of a 

 house, if properly applied. If a larger quantity 

 than five gallons is wanted, the same proportions 

 must be observed in preparing. Coloring matter 

 may be added, to give it any required shade. 



Will some one try it, and con)municate the re- 

 sult .-' — Genesee Far. 



Greatest Crop of Com yet noticed. — We are 

 I pretty confident that the islands of the Winnipiseo- 

 gee Lake in New Hampshire, will bear away the 

 palm of the largest crops of corn the present year. 

 , Capt. Pillsbury, upon the Derby farm, which em- 

 braces the Cow island, has this year several acres 

 planted with the Golden Siou.\', being of the same 

 kind with the Dntton or Phinney corn. The eorn 

 was planted in hills at the distance of two feet one 

 [ way by three feet the other. Aa the best method 

 ! of ascertaining the quantity of corn upon an acre, 

 1 Capt. Pillsbury has adopted the more certain me- 

 thod of measuring by weight The whole weight 

 of a measured acre of the Golden Sioux corn, upon 

 Mr Derby's farm, was 9216 pounds: this,at 70 lbs. 

 to the bushel, would measure 1316-10 bushels to 

 the acre. 



Of the species of Black oats, as high as 04 bush- 

 els to the acre without manure, were raised on the 

 fields which pro<lufeed the great crop of last year. 

 This is an extraordinary crop for the present year. 

 The averag-e crop of wheat — larger than we 

 have heard in the State the present season — was 



(34 bushels to the acre upon the Derby fartn. 

 For the foregoing information we are indebted 

 to Doctor Jackson, the Stale Geologist, who has 

 visited the farms upon the Lake islands. Doctor 

 J. says, there is nothing in tl)e soil of these islands 

 differing from that of the highland townships in the 

 vicinity. — Farmer's Month. Visitor. 



.Vfu> method of dest) oyinsc the Black Grub, or Cut 

 fForm. — The destruction of crops by the cut worm 

 ie incalculable in most parts of the United States, 

 and countless remedies, have been oflered, but not 

 onestrikes us more forcibly I hen the following, taken 

 from a number of the Genesee Farmer. The 

 secret consists in turning up the ground with the 

 plough during the winter, .-)o as to freeze the eggs. 

 A correspondent of .lodge Tucker says, " one of my 



neighbors wishing to try the experiment, broke up 

 one of his fields, adjoining the field of nnother 

 neighbor — the two fields being separated only by 

 a worm fence — during the warm spells in winter, 

 when the ground ploughed during the day would 

 freeze at night. The spring following he again 

 broke up the ground an<l planted it in corn, but not 

 a cut worm was to be seen the whole season ; 

 while his neighbor, who ridiculed the idea of break- 

 ing up ground in the winter to prevent the cut 

 worm from destroying the corn, broke up in the 

 spring and planted it in corn; but what was his 

 surprise when he saw his field filled with cut worms 

 and his corn almost destroyed, while the adjoining 

 field of his neighbor remained unmolosttd." The 

 writer says, many similar experiments have been 

 made, and with universal good succe.'=s. — The .Ig- 

 ricultiirntist. 



New England Girls. — Rev. Mr. Morrison of 

 New Bedford, in his Petersburg!! I'entennial ser- 

 mon, says : — ' Early in our history, the hand card, 

 the little wheel and the loom with the hand shuttle, 

 were almost the only instruments of manufacture 

 in the place. The grandmother of Gov. Miller 

 paid for four hundred acres of land in fine linen, 

 made entirely (except getting out the flax) by her 

 own hands. The Farmer's Monthly Visiter re- 

 marks on the above incident as follows : ' Here is 

 an example for the ladies of New England that 

 would be worth following, .effected female deli- 

 cacy or refinement have surely nursed a race in- 

 ferior to the first mothers of our land. We know 

 not how or why the linen hand wheel has been 

 thrown aside. It ought to be restored. 



' So ought the farmers of New England to keep 

 up the fashion of growing flax. This article, on a 

 well prepared ground, may be made a source of 

 profit. Where the climate is loo severe for the 

 growth of the mulberry, let the experiment of rais- 

 ing flax be revived. Family manufacture of linen 

 will best indicate the talent of both male and fe- 

 male. He must be a good farmer who knows how 

 to raise a good crop of fla,x — to save and secnre 

 the valuable seed — to dew rot or water rot it, and 

 finally to break and to clean the flax fit for the 

 hatchel. And the young lady, who, under the 

 guidance of a faithful mother, has hatcheled and 

 spun the beautiful fibre upon the hand wheel, wove 

 and whitened her damask linen table cloths, her 

 twenty pair of sheets, with double sets of pillow 

 cases, her white fringed window curtains, etc., will 

 better recommend herself to a good husband, than 

 she who has had thousands expended in teaching 

 her the use of the piano forte, which, if she ever 

 had a taste to play, nvust be thrown away in a day 

 or a month after marriage.' 



LARGE AND SMALL FARMS. 



We have before alluded to the mania which 

 seems to be cherished by farmers in this country 

 for large farms — for cultivating many acres of land. 

 The subject is well handled in the following article 

 from the Farmer's Cabinet : 



" I wish my brother farmers would think very 

 seriously on the advantages to be derived from the 

 system of cultivating no more land than can be 

 well manured. The desire of more land has been 

 the ruin of thousands, who would at this time have 

 been well off", iC their friends had deprived them of 

 one half the acres which they at one time posses- 

 sed ; while the extra labor and anxiety consequent 

 upon a business so spread abroad, are all that many 



have gained, and all they had a right to expect to 

 obtain. And it would appear to be a fatality to 

 which persons of this sort are subject, for they 

 would .surely be able to see the nose in the middle 

 of the face — for one is not more plain than the oth- 

 er. If ten acres of land can be made to yield as 

 much as one hundred, merely by concentrating upon 

 the means of improvement, the labor and care ne- 

 cessary for the cultivation ol one hundred acres, 

 the result must be profit of mind, body and sub- 

 stance, absolutely astonishing ! Now only for a 

 moment calculate the ditfcronce in labor, in hauling 

 the manure over one hundred acres instead often, 

 and after that the spreading of it abroad ! Then 

 comes ten times tiie ploughing, harrowing, sowing 

 with ten times the quantity of seed, hoe-harrowing, 

 mowing or reaping, and binding and raking over 

 one hundred acres instead of ten, and extra carry- 

 crops ; and after all this, (en timis the rent to pay — 

 I declare it appears to be n species of insanity, this 

 dosire for more land. 



I have lately seen a farm where all these evils 

 are embodied — of excellent natural fertility, fields 

 large and lying on an easy declivity, with every 

 facility for permanent improvement, marl of the 

 richest quality in the middle of the estate, and within 

 three feet of the surface. Now, if the owner of 

 this fine farm of about two hundred acres, would 

 confine his labors to ten acres of land adjoining his 

 house, and give all the rest to the stock upon the 

 farm, only mowing the weeds to prevent them seed- 

 ing his and his neighbors' land, I believe he would 

 then make a profit while at present he must 

 make a loss. 



I was told recently of a farmer who cultivated 

 one acre of land adjoining a field of thirty acres — 

 both were planted with rye ; and at harvest a bet 

 was made that the yield of the" one acre was equal 

 to that of the thirty acres ; this was, however, lost, 

 for the crop of thirty acres measured exactly three 

 quarters of a bushel more than the 07ie acre — these 

 fields I have seen ; and I have also seen another 

 field, where the owner offered to dispose of the 

 crop of rye for a dollar an acre, but could get no 

 purchaser at that price. 



Now, is it not much better to double the crop 

 than to double the number of acres ? But I have 

 land lying before me, which would yield five hun- 

 dred per cent more than it now does, by extra 

 management. An Old Farmer. 



The Cotton Crop. — The Mississippian of the 25th 

 ult. says : " The developements so far go to show 

 that the crop of cotton in Mississippi will be un- 

 usually short ; say at least a third lees than for sev- 

 eral years past. In the Spring, the State was visi- 

 ted by a number of severe freshets and hail storms, 

 which destroyed many fields, and subsequently the 

 growing crop was much injured by the rust, and of 

 late the crop has been inlested in a most destruc- 

 tive manner by the army worm. The price of the 

 staple, however, is looking up, and it may be ex- 

 pected that the shortness of the crop will not be 

 materially felt." 



Our farmers are improving the fine weather to 

 bring in their produce. The chief article thus far 

 is onions, of which several loads arrive daily. The 

 crop this year has been a fair average one per 

 acre, though the quantity raised ia perhaps double 

 that of any preceding year. The usual product is 

 about three hundred bushels per acre. — Peoria 

 Register. 



