VOI-. XIX. KO. 33. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 



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years ago pro- 



again, and roll it down smooth with a heavy roller. 

 Sho'iM the wild grass make its appearance, as it 

 sometimes will, aller five or six years, I turn it 

 over alter taking off the crop, give it a top dressing 

 of about 'iO loads of compost manure to the acre, 

 sow grass seed, harrow and roll it down as before. 

 I have one piece which has been reclaimed 12 

 years. It has not been manured since it was first 

 laid down. Tiie wild grass has not yet made its 

 appearance, but it still continues to bear as great a 

 crop as ever. 



This land has been reclaimed at odd jobs, when 

 my men and teams could not do other work to ad- 

 advantage — some of it in fmil weather, and much 

 of it in the wintor. Indeed I was obliged to do 

 much of it in the winter when the meadows were 

 frozen, on account of the mire. I verily believe 

 that the first two crops have, in every instance, re- 

 paid the whole cost and e.\pense of reclaiming. 



I have now from 20 to :ii) acres, which have thus 

 been reidaimed, (not including some 8 or 10 acres 

 ofswail hay, partially reclaimed, as stated in my 

 ans'verto question 11.) The success that I have 

 had may be |udged of by the value of the crops 

 produced. Kvery year since this land has been 

 reclaimed, whether wet or dry, it has produced on 

 an average not less tlian three tons of English hay 

 to an acre, which brings the highest market price. 

 In \6'i8, at the request of Mr Colman, the Agricul- 

 tural Commissioner, I weighed tlie tirst crop of hay 

 on one acre of this land, and it weighed 7tJl(i lbs. 

 About three acres of it during the present season, 

 I have no doubt produced five tons to the acre. It 

 was mowed twice, and tiie second crop was so 

 large that it was considerably lodged. One other 

 fact may be stated. .\ few years ago I built a 

 barn, .30 feet by 40, and some of my neighbors 

 laughed at me for it, and said " it is a good barn, 

 but what are you going to fill it with.'" That 

 barn, as Mr Allen has seen, together with, one 40 

 by 80 feet, which I have since built, as well as my 

 others, are now full, and I shall soon have to build 

 more, or else stop reclaiming peat meadows. This 

 land during the present season has produced from 

 75 to 80 tons of good English hay, and it certainly 

 affords no little satisfaction to be able to obtain 

 such crops from land which fifteen 

 duced nothing. 



13. I have planted about fi acres of corn during 

 the present season. On 3 1-2 acres, the soil being 

 very light, I spread from 30 to 2.5 loads of compost 

 manure to the acre and harrowed it in. This pro- 

 duced about 30 bushels to the acre. On the two 

 acres, which was better land, I put the same quan- 

 tity of manure per acre, part spread and part in the 

 hill. This produced at least 05 bushels of very 

 handsome corn to the acre. On one half acre 1 

 raised 40 bushels of the handsomest corn that I ev- 

 er saw. It was the l-frown corn, which is the ear- 

 liest and best corn that I have. The seed was not 

 prepared. 



14. I planted between •">■ and 4 acres of potatoes 

 in one field. I have o' hers around the cornfields, 

 but how many I am not able to tell. Thny were 

 all planteil in hills and manured in the hill. I'hey 

 were ploughed and hoed twice. I am not able to 

 toll the ([uaotity per acre, but I raised about 1500 

 bushels in all. The kinds were the Chenango, 

 Long Red, St. Helena, Rohan, and some White. 

 The Long Reds and Rohan^ were the most produc- 

 tive. 



1.5. The other vegetables that I planted were 



1-2 an acre of carrots, which produced 450 bushels. 

 1-4 ' ' sugar beets, ' ' ,320 ' 



1-10 ' ' mangel wurtzel, ' 165 ' 



I aero of ruta bagas, , 200 ' 



This same aero was planted with rnta bagas last 

 year and produced 1132 bushels, which shows the 

 utility of a rotation of crops, so far as this vegeta- 

 ble is concerned. 



In addition to the above, I have of turnips which 

 grew in the cornfields, 225 bushels, and 12 cart- 

 loads of pumpkin?, besides 22 bushels of oniors 

 and other garden vegetables. 



These vegetables are mostly fed out to the cat- 

 tle and s'vine. 



IG. I sowed three acres of barley, half an acre 

 of Tea wheat and one acre of (,ats in the spring 

 with grass seed. The quantity is not yet ascer- 

 tained, as the grain has not yet been threshed. 

 One and one third of an acre of buckwheat, which 

 produced .30 bushels. Two thirds of an acre of 

 Indian wheat, which produced 21 bushels. I used 

 no lime with any of it, e.\cept the Tea wheat. 



17. I have laid down 11-2 acres to grass, sowed 

 about the first of June without grain. 1 put half a 

 bushel of herds gras : seed and half a bushel of red 

 top to an acre. 



18. I make my manure from loam, per.t mud and 

 litter put into the hog styes and barn-yard. Part 

 of my hog styes are situated under my barn, so 

 that all the manure from the cattle and horses in 

 the large barn is dropped into them. When taken 

 from the styes it is mixed up with loam and peat 

 mud in heaps, where it remains until wanted for 

 use. 



19. I keep 7 yoke of oxen, 13 cows, 4 young 

 cattle, 1 horses, and no sheep. I winter -33 head 

 of cattle, but in the summer part of thorn are sent 

 into the country to pastnrn. 



I have 4 barns ; one 30 feet square, one 30 by 

 40 feet, one 30 by 70 feet, and one 40 by 80 feet, 

 with a cellar under the whole of it. In this cellar 

 are part of my pig styes and manure, which of 

 course is covered. 



20. My cows are mostly native, though some 

 are a mixed breed. 



21. I am not in the habit of raising calves. 



22. I have made fiOO lbs. of butter. From the 

 first of November to the first of June I sell my 

 milk. I make no cheese. 



2.3. I keep no sheep. 



24. I keep from .50 to 75 swine. I raise pigs 

 to sell. I fatten about one ton of pork. My 

 swine are nearly all a cross of the Berkshire and 

 Mackey. I have one breeding sow of this breed, 

 7 years old, which has raised 111 pigs in II litters 

 and is now just ready to pig again. One full 

 blooded Mackey 4 years old, which has raised 8 

 litters of from 8 to 10 at a litter. My swine were 

 originally obtained from E. Phinney, Esf|., of Lex- 

 ington. I am now about erecting a piggery with 

 boilers set, &c. 



2.5. During the summer months, I feed my swine 

 upon weeds, which are freely thrown in'othe pens, 

 slop from the kitchen, skimmed milk (particularly 

 for the pigs) boiled potatoes, apples, pumpkins, car- 

 rots and Indian meal, all boiled together, I use the 

 same kind of food to fatten them, with the excep- 

 tion that it is thicker and contains a greater pro- 

 portion of meal. I occasionally, particularly when 

 I wish to have them root and work over the ma- 

 nure in their pens, throw them a few ears of corn. 



26. From all my hog styes I take not less than 

 700 cartloads of manure per year, part of which of 



course comes from the cattle and horses. The 

 quantity of manure made on the place during the 

 past year, was not loss than 1200 cartloads. 



27. I employ sometimes only two and sometimes 

 eight hands on my farm. I have paid during the 

 past year §750 for labor, but it was not all confin- 

 ed to farming — .$200 should be deducted for other 

 work; 



28. I have 150 young engrafted apple trees and 

 50 old ones nnrtly engrafted, mostly with winter 

 fruit. Some of my apples I boil up for the hogs. 



2t). I have 10 pear trees, G quince, C cherry, 6 

 crab apple, 8 plum, 10 peach and lOdO young trees 

 of various sorts in a nursery. 



30. My trees for .several years have not been 

 troubled by canker worms and not at all by borers. 



31 1 do not now, nor do I intend to hereafter, 

 although I did last summer till ths latter part of 

 August. 



The above statement is as accurate as I can 

 make it, and I think it nearly correct. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



Oct. 2r,, 1840. ABEL MOORE. 



[The statements of Messrs Paoli Lathrop, of S. 

 Hadley, Wm. Salisbury, of Groton, Rosweil Con- 

 verse, of New Braintree, Zaccheus Read, of West- 

 ford, and Fitch Winchester, of Southboro', will be 

 published as fast as we can find space for them.] 



For the New England Farmer. 



Mr Putnam — The following is from the Dela- 

 ware Farmer, printed nearly forty years ago, and 

 I wish to inquire whether any of your readers have 

 tried either method, and if so, with what success. 



J. G. 



"Pkach- Trees—A gentleman in Pennsylvania 

 took the following method to preserve peach trees 

 from being injured by worms, caterpillars, &,c. He 

 cleared away the gum that issues out of tiie tree 

 affected by the worm, strewed; a little brimstone 

 round the root and covered it with a fine mould 

 that it might not blow away, yet so that the sun 

 might operate through it, and cause the brimstone 

 to fumigate^ which destroyed the worms. One 

 pound of brjmstone is sufficient for near two hun- 

 dred trees. 



"The writer has l.ilely heard that an accident 

 has discovered a remedy against the Peach De- 

 striyer. A poor woman who had' eultivated some 

 handsome peach trees in her little garden, which 

 she rented, being forced to go out by her landlord ; 

 designing to deprive him of her fruit trees, she 

 took a kettle of boiling water, and poured the con- 

 tents at the root of each, with a view to kill the 

 trees by scalding, but instead of scalding the trees, 

 she scalded the worms, and made the trees thrive." 



Geolosrical Survey of JVetv Hampshire. — Dr. 

 Jackson's survey of this State, now in progress, 

 promises to do much in developing the agricultural 

 and mineral resources of the Granite State. Iron, 

 copper, and tin ores have been discovered, in quan- 

 tities to admit of being profitably worked. The 

 last is comparatively a new metal in this country, 

 only a few crystals having hitherto been found. 

 The ores found by Dr. Jackson are at the eastern 

 base of the White mountains, are abundant, and 

 yield from .30 to .50 per cent, of pure tin. Few 

 metals of greater utility could have been discovered. 

 —^Ib. Cult. 



