TOl,. XIX. NO. 89. 



Ax\D HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



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•constitution and unthrifty, and difficult to raise, 

 and even if raised, never perhaps acquire the size 

 and weiglit tliat Jitters of the same sow do after- 

 wards.'. 



And, in addition to this, I would say, 1 have 



raised more than twenty calves from young cows 



their first calves — and have never failed in obtain, 

 ing them fine, strong and healthy; nay, if I were 

 to double the number, 1 slipuld not be beyond the 

 truth. Can any of your readers account for a phe- 

 nomenon that is so generally accredited, as to have 

 grown into a proverb — "the calf of a young cow, 

 the pig of an old sow." 



Large Crops (if Corn. — The nuiubers stated be- 

 low, indicate his quantity of corn per acre raised 

 upon live acres by each of the gentlemen to whoso 

 names they are appended. 7~'hc corn and land up- 

 on which it grew were measured in the presence 

 of competent men of undoubted correctne.-s. Some 

 differenoe existing as to the manner of measuring 

 the acre producing one of the highest quantities, 

 they are both put down at the minimum computa- 

 tion. 



Walter C. Young, 

 Josepii Bryan, 

 Moses Hunter, 

 L. Singleton, 

 Isaac Hrackley, 

 James Shelby, 



[Kentucky Farmer. 

 The editors of the Kentucky Farmer will confer 

 a favor by informing us how these crops were cul- 

 tivated and measured ; what the variety of corn ; 

 and whether at the west they measure on the cob. 

 Until these things are known, we must be allowed 

 to doubt whether 192 1-2 bushels, Yankee meas- 

 ure, havs been grown on an acre. — Ed. 



192 1-2 



198 1-2 



127 



113 



108 



110 



From the AILaay CuUivalor. 



THE TREE CORN AND ROMANS.^ 



Mi'ssrs Gaylord ^- Tijc^cr— From the extent of 

 the correspondence to which my article on the beet 

 root and Tree corn has introduced me, published in 

 your paper a while since, I am disposed to believe 

 that a knowledge of the result of my experience 

 with these articles will be acceptable to some of 

 yotir readers. I have, therefore, furwarded it, to 

 be disjjosed of as you please. 



Ill tlie spring, I prepared an excellent piece nf 

 ground, of unifonii quality, and planted it in three 

 equal proportions, with Tree corn. Red Blaze, and 

 Dulton. The season h.is been ;■ long one, and 

 very favorable to the g.rowth of corn. The whole 

 came forward and apparently prospered well. I 

 have now completed my harvest, and here follows 

 the result. The Button gave me >eventy bushels 

 of the fine.< corn I ever saw, per acre ; the Red 

 Blaze gave fifty, and tlie Tree corn twentyfive 

 ibushels. Last year the Tree corn gave me 10(3 

 bushels, more tiian 50 of it soniid and good, to the 

 acre, with stalks more tiian 10 f«?t high, and very 

 '.hick and stocky, with n(imero«i8 ears upon each. 

 This year, the etalks are between 7 and 8 feet 

 ligh, slender, with ooe enr, and eosnetimes a very 

 iinall one besides, on each stalk. This result to 

 ne was very unexpected. I plame/l from the 

 inest corn to be selected, and calculited on an 

 nirrovement, instead of so fatal a deterioration. 

 411 my neiorhbais Bufiered precisely wit* myself. 



Perhaps no corn ever planted iu tins latitude, if 

 suffered to get ripe, will reward to husbandman so 

 hountilully as the Dutton. For the last two years, 

 I have observed it with much care, and find it 

 about twelve days behind the i ed blaze, or white 

 flint, in ripening, but vastly .superior in product. 



In my catalogue of humbugs this year, I place 

 the Rohan potato at the top. As this thing has 

 taken so extensively, it is important that its true 

 character slirmld be promptly understood : and i 

 will contribute my mite of cxpi.'rience to this ob- 

 ject. My Tree corn dwindled into insignificance 

 in a hurry, but the Rohan potato has beat it out- 

 right in this contest. In 1S:», I raised from seed 

 had at Albany, at the rate of 800 bushels per acre; 

 the potatoes of course very large, 'ibis year, 1 

 planted from my last year's product, one acre; and 

 have now estimated my crop at less than 30 bush- 

 els — the potatoes small and few. The ground was 

 good, the season favorable, and the crop well culti- 

 vated. I selected a small spot in my garden, as 

 rich as I dare make it, and planted early with some 

 of the best of my seed ; it was nursed with the ut- 

 most care, and although the growth of vines was 

 not great, yet the yield was scarcely greater than 

 the amount of seed planted. But this is not all ; 

 the quality of the potatoes is abominable: no 

 man would cat them in his right senses ; and 

 they are undoubtedly as poor for stock as the table. 

 I have extended my inquiries as far as I have been 

 able to do, and find myself as well off with my Ro- 

 hans as my neighbors. If the quality of the pota- 

 toes were worthy of the expense, seed perhaps 

 might be brought from the south, and the product 

 kept up. But as we have so great a variety of 

 better potatoes, I think in this latitude, the Rohan 

 potato will rank with many other exploded hum- 

 bugs. Respectfully yours, 



SAMUEL GUTHRIE. 

 SackeU's Harbor, A", Y. Oct. 24, 1840. 



long as his products must seek a distant market, 

 for many of these articles will not bear the ex- 

 pense of transportation. It is said the improved 

 farming of England was encouraged by the intro- 

 duction of the culture of turnips from the continent 

 more than by any one thing. — The manufacturers 

 bought the wool and the meat of the animals thai 

 fed on the turnips. This is one of the hundred 

 ways in which this thing works in a circle. The 

 greater the variety of employments, the cheaper 

 each sells his products, and yet the n:ore 

 each enjoys. — Farmer's Cabinet. 



profit 



Reciprocal interest of the Farmer and Mechanic. 

 -There are many things which the farmer ought 

 to raise, in order to prevent his land from grow- 

 ing worse, which will not bear to he carried to a 

 foreign market. The whole attention of the far- 

 mer is turned to such things as he can sell. It 

 is, therefore, the interest- of the farmers, that 

 there should be a great many people around them 

 who are not farmers, and who will buy and con- 

 sume those things for which there is no foreign 

 demand. 'J'he home market, besides taking many 

 things the foreigner does not want, is also more 

 steady than any foreign market. It>is thenivery 

 important to have the consumers among us ; and it 

 is for this reason we ask mechanios and man- 

 ufacturers tO" join us and sJiow what they can do. 1 

 Farmers, already car> boy from their neighbors, and 

 pay in truck, many articles f!ir which formerly they 

 must have sent to e-ilies, and to foreign countries. 

 Many here rei^oUect when a man was not thouirht 

 to be genteelly dressed without an imported hat"^on 

 his head, and then it wats said the imported hat was 

 the cheaper according to its quality. Perhaps it 

 might then have been so in money, (though not 

 now,) but we should consider how many hats were 

 paid for with potatoes and cabbages Never one. 

 The principle then is plain. The land will never 

 be cultivated in the best manner till it .shall be the 

 interest of the farmer to raise all those things 

 which help to keep his land from growing worse. 

 The farmer can neyer be encouraged to do this so 



Harvest Thovghls. — The following beautiful 

 quotation is from one of J'.ishop lleber's Parish 

 Sermons : — " When we witness the many dangers 

 which threaten the springing of the rising corn: 

 when we reckon up, in our thoughts, the opposite 

 dangers of drought or of moisture, of parching heat 

 or of pinching or untimely cold ; the blights, which 

 may taint the ear; the worm which may consume 

 the rout; and all the other alarms which the hus- 

 bandman feels or fears; we cannot but be aware 

 that something more than the industry of man is 

 required to make him happy or prosperous, and that 

 It is with good reason, that in our daily jirayers, we 

 ask our "daily bread" of (iod ; since no day in the 

 year can be found in wliich His blessing is not 

 needed, either to preserve the seed, or to prosper 

 the tender stalk, or to fill the ear, or to rebuke the 

 mildew or the storm, by which the maturer i:rop is 

 endangered. And, even when the food of many 

 days is waving before our eyes, we cannot choose, 

 but feel an axious joy, a solemn, and in some de- 

 gree a mournful thankfulness, when we compare 

 our own unworthy lives with the unbounded 

 mercy of God; when we recollect how little 

 and how seldom we have thought of Him, who 

 careth for us continually ; and when «e trem- 

 ble, lest, even now, our sins should interrupt the 

 stream of His mercy, and that the improper use 

 which we too often make of plenty, should, even 

 yet, turn our abundance into hunger." 



Cure for the Bile of a Rattlesnake.— The editor 

 of the Cheraw, S. C. Gazette, says aqua ammonia 

 (water of ammonia) fresh and pure, in doses of a 

 teaspoonful at intervals of from 15 minutes to an 

 hour, in water, is an infallible remedy for the bite 

 of any snake. This is the dose for an adult, and 

 the medicine is not to be relied upon if the bottle 

 in which it is kept has been frequently opened. 



In an early number of the American Journal of 

 tho Medical Sciences, is a paper containing a his- 

 tory of numerous cases successfully treated by am- 

 tnonia. — Alb. Cult 



Cabbage Worms. — .\ writer in the Southern Cul- 

 tivator, says he " had a square of very fine cabba- 

 ges in his garden, upon which the worms had com- 

 menced making great ravages. Pennyroyal was 

 gathereol and scattered over the cabbage-heads 



plentifully, and the work of tlestruction ceased." 



The writer did not know whether the discovery was 

 a new one, but it seems to have been a very easy 

 and effectual one, aini well worth a trial. Alb. Cult. 



Salt may be safely mixed wtth food given to 

 geese or goslings, but is fatal to turkeys of chick- 

 ens. A friend of ours lost 5(1 chickens by their 

 eating a mixture of salt and meal intended for his 

 horse lb. 



