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AND HORTICULTURAL Jxi:CilSrJt:K. 



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out any top dressing, is an expedient mode fur 

 farmers. 



Mr Silisbnry suggets several modes of cultiva- 

 tion wliicii afford matter for consideration. He 

 takes his croj) of spring grain, and afterwards turns 

 in the sliibble, &c., as bonefioial to the soil, and 

 sows hi.') grass seed, considering' this mode as pre- 

 ferable for his grass crop. Lntc sowing in the fall 

 he disapproves, thinking the frost injurious theieio. 

 He floods a portion of his ground where it is so sit 

 natcd that the waters are turbid and depose a sedi- 

 ment ; hf thinks this attended with brnelit. This 

 practice, however, is not to be commended, unless 

 a considerable sfdinient is left. 



In reclaiming and bringing into production 

 his low irrourid, he has done well. He has had 

 many disadvar.tages to encounter in making his 

 land productive. 



In relation to the fourth premium, the committee 

 report, that the same be eidarged, and divided as 

 follows : to Mr Reed $50 ; to Mr Converse $50. 



Mr Reed has merit in having brought his farm 

 to a good state of production ; has done much to 

 make smooth a rugged surface. But in the culture 

 and management of his fruit trees, he is entitled to 

 high praise. 



Mr Converse has, by a judicious culture, brought 

 into miprovcment much waste land by extirpating 

 buslies, &c. He makes beneficial use of plaster, 

 and his collection and application of vegetable sub- 

 stances for the compost heap, have been well. 

 His dairy appears to have been productive, and his 

 farm in a course of good improvement. 



'J"o the several applicants it may generally be 

 observed that they fail in not applying a sufficiency 

 of grass seed. 



In closing their report, the committee hope that 

 in the several statements, which will be published 

 herewitli, some evidences will be given of a pro- 

 gressive improvement in agriculture. 



All of which is respectfully submitted by order 

 of the committee. 



JOHN WELLES, Chairman. 



certain the best ? there is no necessity that an ex- five pounds of seed. The juice is obtained from 

 pcriment should be confined to one acre; let, then, 'the grated pumpkins in the same manner as from 



every observant farmer carefully note the process 

 of cultivating his annual crop and the attending 

 circumstances, and report them to the public — he 

 will thus furnish all the data necessary to satisfac- 

 tory comparisons ; and, if it musl be so, let us 

 know the reason why we must content ourselves 

 with from ten to twelve bushels of corn at harvest, 

 when over thirty have been obtained. \\ hat would 

 each man know of England and France, did he 

 trust to his individual observation ? Niiietynine 

 hundredths of our knnwledge is only the testimony 

 of our fellow-men. — Kentucky Farmer. 



TO MANAGE A REARING HORSE. 

 In preference to the dangerous experiment of 

 pulling a rearing horse backward, I recommend the 

 adoption of tlie following method. Whenever you 

 perceive the horse's inclination to rear, separate 

 your reins and prepare for him ; the iustant he is 

 about to rise, slacken one hand, and bend or twist 

 his head with the other, keeping your hands low. 

 The bending compels him to move a hind leg, and 

 of necessity brings his fore feet down. Instantly 



beet root. M. ilofTman obtained from an indiffer- 

 ent press, eightytwo pounds of juice, containing a 

 proportion of sugar of from 3" to 10" according to 

 Baunce. 'i"he juice is far preferable to that of 

 beet root, because it does not so soon lose its vir- 

 tue, but remains good twentyfour hours. It is 

 purified and cleaned by the same process as beet 

 sugar. The pumpkins should be cut up in pieces 

 before they are grated. 



This discovery may be of some importance to 

 the agriculture of this country. In the west, 

 where such immense crops of pumpkins may bo 

 produced, it will prove more profitable for cultiva- 

 tion than the sugar beet. — Magazine of Horticul- 

 ture. 



For tlie N. E. Farmer. 



RAISING CALVES. 



Mr Putnam — As various methods are recom- 

 mended for raising calves, permit me to recommend 

 the mode that 1 have found most successful. 



Take the calves oft' when two or three days old, 



twist him completely around two or three times, i or when the skin is dry; learn them to drink; 

 which will confuse him very much, and completely which they will readily do at that age ; feed them 

 throw him off his guard. The moment you have 



finished twisting him round, place his head in the 

 direction you wish him to proceed, apply the spur 



ith new milk about a fortnight, then with skimmed 

 milk, in which a little meal has been boiled ; by 

 degrees water may be added, and the meal increas- 

 sharply, and he will not fail to go forward. If the ! ed to a pint a day ; give them a handful of rowen 

 situation be convenient, press him into a gallop, j or clover hay once or twice a day. Follow this 

 and apply the spur or whip two or three times se- | method until June, when a good pasture and a 



verely. The horse perhaps will not be quite sat- 

 isfied with the first defeat, but may be disposed to 

 try again for the mastery. Should this be the case 

 you have only to twist, &c., as before, and you 

 will find in the second struggle he will be more 

 easily subdued than on the first occasion — in fact, 

 you will perceive him quail under the operation. 

 It rarely happens that a rearing horse, after having 

 been treated in the way prescribed, will resort to 

 the trick a third time. But on going into other 

 hands, and having another rider, he will be very 

 likely to have recourse to rearing. — Jlmerican Far. 



PUMPKIN SUGAFi. 

 We find a notice in the Gardner's Magazine, 



of 



NEGLECT OF AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS. 

 Can any farmer designate to us a single branch 

 of the mechanical arts which manifests so little im- 

 provement, as in too many branches of agriculture ? 

 We do not deny that very great advances have i a method of manufacturing sugar from pumpkins, 

 been made, and wonders have been achieved in ' for which a patent has been procured by M. L. 

 gome departments, but we are not, as we should be, Hofl^man of Hungary. M. Hoffman, together with 

 in the front rank in the march of improvement ; M. Devay, has established a small manufactory of 

 and one very obvious reason for this is, the noto- the article in Zamdor, in which they have already 

 rious disinclination of farmers to avail themselves { obtained forty hunJred of sugar from pumpkins, 

 of the aid of the great lever of modern science — la small part of which they have also refined. 

 Ihe Press. The very fact of one item of knowl- ! One hundred weight of pumpkins yields as much 

 edge having reached the press whence in one day ' sugar as one hundred weight of beet roots, but 

 it may be more widely disseminated than it could the space of a hectare, namely, two acres, one 

 be orally in a year, is, prima facie, the reason why 

 it should not be rejected as "theory" and "book 



plenty of water wil 



be all that Ihey will require. 

 J.G. 



Choking — Important to Farmer! — The following 



method of relieving neat cattle when choked by a 

 turnip or potato, has been tried and found success- 

 ful in every instance : Pour into the throat of the 

 animal from a junk bottle, a pint or so of lamp or 

 any kind of oil, at tho same time rubbing the throat 

 briskly with the hand. Immediate relief will fol- 

 low. 



Writing on the Green Lawn in Living Letters. 

 — Bone dust possesses highly nutritions qualities 

 for rows of beans, peas, and of grass, wheat, barley, 

 &c., owing to its quality for absorbing humidity, 

 and its calcareous character. Some of the lawns 

 on estates in Yorkshire, have the names of their 

 owners written on them in a growth of more luxu- 

 riant grass, which is effected by drilling bone dust 

 into the tracks of the letters. 



farming;" for let those imagine, if they can, what 

 would have been the present cimdition of the world 

 had the spread of all human knowledge been re- 

 stricted to oral communication! the extent of this 

 biofo' 'd prejudice is scarcely credible; and admit- 

 ting :it the complaints against "theory" are just, 

 why are those who make them, so loth to give us 

 their " practice ?" Now, in any neighborhood, five 

 out often farmers do not cultivate corn in the same 

 manner, and the quantity produced, varies as much 

 as the manner. Then why not use the readiest 

 means of comparing their different modes, and as- 



rood, and thirtylive perches, yields three or four 

 times as large a quantity of pumpkins, (accord- 

 ing to their weight, as the beet root : the 

 space occupied by Indian corn growing between 

 the rows not being included, eight hundred weight 

 of sugar could be raised on sixteen hundred square 

 toises. M. Hoffman has obtained from between 

 twentysix and twentyseven hundred weight of 

 pumpkins, one hundred weight of sugar, and as 

 much syrup. In making the sugar, the pumpkins 

 are cut in pieces, and then, with the rind, are rub- 

 bed on a grating, the same as is used for beet root, 

 and the seeds, which produce an excellent oil, are 

 kept separate. One pound of oil is obtained from 



Poverty. — It is no honor to be rich, and no dis- 

 grance to be poor; therefore it is exceedingly fool- 

 ish to strive after the appearance of wealth, if we 

 are poor, and to be ashamed of the poverty which 

 circumstances have brought upon us. This folly 

 is a source of continual misery, and is seldom pro- 

 ductive of any good. 



He who borrows from a friend generally has to 

 pay a dollar's worth of acknowledgements and 

 friendly acts for every cent he lends you. 



Cultivate your head and your heart as well aa 

 your fields. 



There is nothing makes a man suspect much 

 more, than to know little. — Bacon. 



