VOL. XIX. NO. 36. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 



277 



.'>. I spread my niamire for potatoes, and spread 

 for corn and put in the hill too. 



(I. My way of marjaginjj <,'reen sward is, to turn 

 it over and harrow it, and plant on' the furrow. I 

 think it "'ill produce the best thus managed. 



7. [ mow about 55 acres, and cut very near two 

 tons to the acre: I have JOO tons of ufood hay at 

 Jeast. 



8. I have no land that I How. 



'.•. I make as hiuch manure as I can; and manure 

 my upland once in a year with compost manure, 10 

 or 15 loads to the acre. 



10. I mow about 10 acres o^ lowish swaily land. 

 I cut about one- ton to the acre of a mi.\lure of 

 bine-joint, fowl meadow and fresh meadow grass. 



1 1. I have none. 



I'i. I have planted 5 acres: my ground was 

 sowed the last year soon after haying;, the stubble 

 was turned in; and it was ploughed once in the 

 spring: the seed was small eight rowed yellow 

 corn. Tlie kind of manure ; 10 loads of green 

 was spread and 10 loads of cmnpost was put in the 

 hill : the quantity of corn on the acre was GO or (35 

 bushels. 

 ,-( ., 13< I planted two acres- of potatoes; spread my 

 mantire ; planted them in rows, one way .3 feet 

 apart, and- 1. 1-2 foot the other way. I hoe my po- 

 tatoes twice. 1 had about 300 bushels to the acre, 

 Blues ajid Pink-eyes mixed together. 



14. I' planted a small piece with ruta baga and 

 a few of the sugar beet ; had about 100 bushels. 



15. I sowed 5 acres ot oats, 1 of wheat, 3 of 

 rye. I. ploughed my ground once and harrowed the 

 seed in ; I sowed 3 bushels of oats, 2 ol wheat, 1 

 6t rye tu the acre ; my wheat was the Bald wlieat ; 

 the soil loamy ; [ soaked the seed in brine and 

 rolled it in lime. 



16. I liave not laid down any. 



17. I draw loam into my yards fVom my fields, 

 that which gathers around the edges; and when I 

 build, wall, I dig a ditch to set my foundation in, 

 and draw the dirt into my yards. 



18. I keep 4 oxen, 24 co(vs, 16 head of young 

 stock and dry cows, 70 slieep and 2 horses. I 

 have one barn 110 feet long, one 50 feet, and a 

 small barn tor my sheep. I have no cellar. 



19. My cows are a part native and a part nii.x- 

 ture with the English. 



20. If I raise early calves, I take them otF nt 

 about a week old; and learn them to drink milk and 

 eat meal or oats; if late calves, I learn them to 

 drink whey and feed them about ton weeks. 



21. I did not make cny butter for sale ; f have 

 and shall make about ten thousand weight of cheese. 

 I make 30 pounds per day now, new milk. 



22. I keep 70 sheep, mixed Merino and' Saxony ; 

 I sheared 212 lb.-?, of wool from 70 last spring. I 

 house my sheep in stormy weather and feed out of 

 doors in pleasant weather to air tbe peiisi 1 do 

 not have my lambs come till May. I lose' but few. 



'£i. I keep 9 swine ; I have killed. 7 of them 



weight 2074 lbs.; have two old ones and one pig 

 which I mean to kill when they will weigh ten 

 hundred. My hogs are the common breeds;, i; feed 

 through the summer on whey with some meal ; I 

 fat with apples and potatoes boiled, put with, whey 

 and meal stirred in. 



24. I make 30 or 40 loads, by using loam. 



25. I wnrk myself, and one son 18 years old, one 

 12 years, and hire one man all the time; pay him 

 $100 by the year; and in haying I hire 3 or 4 

 men, whom I pay $1 per day. I have no help in 



doors beside my wife. I pay about .$300 per year 

 for labor. 



2(). About 120 ; some of them young ; as luany 

 as one half grafti.'d- 1 sell a good many winter 

 apples; make a few barrels of cider: boil apples 

 for my hogs. 



27. [ have 25 or 30— young Kuglish cherries, 

 plums, poaches and pears — all. young; some just 

 beginning to bear. 



28. 1 have a few grafted trees close to my hou.-ie, 

 that have been injured some by the canker worm. \ 

 once used tar. 



29. Do not use ardent spirit on my farm, and 

 have not for 13 years past. I have seen trouble 

 enougli with it. I was one of the first that put 

 that out of the way with us. 



Respectfully, 



IldsVVELL CD N VERSE. 

 .Ytw Bi-aintree, Oct. 2(;, 1840. 



Ki>r the N. E. FHrmcrr. 



POINTS OF A GOOD HORSE. 

 CoL. S. Jaques' remnrks at the Sixth .Ifrricullural 

 Mettina:, on tht prominent points to be observed in 

 the selection of a useful horse, more particularly 

 for a roadster. 



I pri'fera lighli.sh head, neatly set to the neck; 

 the neck rising promptly and strong from the 

 shoulders and withers ; neck somewhat crowning 

 or curving at the top, tapering to the head, with a 

 strong crest. Shoulders well laid in, spreading 

 well back, something like a shoulder of mutton.— 

 Chest deep, and a little projecting. Withers ris- 

 ing moderately high, and inclining well into the 

 back. If the withers are low and flat on the top, 

 the horse will be inclined to plunge to the ground, 

 and when fatigued will stumble or fall. N-oither 

 must the withers rise too high, as he will then ap- 

 pear as though on stilts : both extremes are serious 

 impedimenis to fine and safe action. Ribs should 

 be well rounded out. Back straight and short, 

 well coppled, that is, the hips well thrown fnrward, 

 forming a strong loin, and giving a long hever from 

 the-point ofthe hip to the hock joint ol the hind 

 leg. The horso should be a good length from 



pointof shoulder to the extreme point of buttock 



Dock strong, and well covered with hair. Close 

 and snug in. mediately under the dock. The mus- 

 cles on the inner part of the thighs should be full 

 and well shut togethi.r. If there is a large cavity 

 under the dock, the horse will be'inclim?d to scour, 

 and probably only, a door-yard horfee. 



The head, neck and body frirnis a lever, resting 

 on the fore legs as a fulcrum^ the head being at the 

 end of the lewer. If the neck be very long and 

 the head heavy, or if the neck be quite short, and 

 the head sliort and light, either of these extremes 

 very much afFecus the regular clips and action. The 

 whole machine should be of good proportion. 



The fore arm is- a very important lever> as- re- 

 gards the safety as a roadster.. The legs should 

 be clean and. free from blemish, and whrm in mo. 

 tion move true, and free from cutting or wabbling. 

 The feetshoultl be round and steep; heels broad 

 coronet, and posterns of medium, length. Shank 

 or canon short, broad and fat, showing; the tendons 

 or sinews. The knee large and well dropped 

 down ; the arm above the knee long, and the mus- 

 cles large and full. The top ofthe shoulder, whore 

 matched to the withers, should not be so heavy 

 loaded with muscle as to impede their action. No 



objections to have the fore feet move pretty close, 



but not so as to cut. 



Much depends on the form of the hind leg and 

 the power of that lever, as regards strength and 

 speed. The shank, hock and thigh should be broad 

 and Hat, something like that of an ox ; and if so, 

 when in motion will operate like a plank sprun<r 

 edgewise, and then lot fly. If the hind legs when 

 at good speed open and spread a little, no objection, 

 providing there is a good free action in the hock 

 joint. 



PEAT MEADOWS— AN INQUIRY. 

 Can any one inform us whether the ki7tds of trcca 

 which have grown upon a meadoiv in antecedent 

 agest have any effect upon the quality ofthe muck 

 as a manure, or upon the productiveness of the 

 land when brought into a state of cnltivalion .' We 

 have heard the ooinion expressed, that where hard 

 wood grew, the quality is better than where the 

 growth was pine. If this- be true, it^ is of impor- 

 tance in these days, when the public eye is turned 

 to these low lands in search of manufs-and produc- 

 tive soils. We supposethe resinous matter of the 

 pine must be decomposed or greatly changed be- 

 fore the material in which it abounds can bo fertili- 

 zing; but whether, when this change has taken 

 place, the decomposed pine is not as good as the 

 rotted oak, maple or alder, we have no grounds on 

 which to offer a conjecture. One pine swamp on 

 whicli we have labored is good ; that is the ex- 

 tent of our knowledge.-^ Ed. 



From the Altjany Culiivalor. 



MANAGEMENT OF SALT MARSHES. 

 Messrs Gat/lonl &r Twker — Mr Fairbanks in- 

 quires' through your paper, what kinds of grass 

 seeds ate best' adajited to salt marshes. {■ have 

 made some few experiments with salt marsh, with- 

 out attempting to keep olf the salt wat-er, (I mean 

 the heads of creeks that are frequently overflowed 

 by salt v/ater,) by scattering the s'fteds-of herds 

 grass, (known to some persons as r-t-'-top,-) over 

 the mnrsh, and leaVe them to vegetate as they mii'ht. 

 I have also sown wheat upon the muiliand turf 

 thrown out of a ditch, cut through the samt'kiud of 

 marsh, andit has flourished and produced well, and 

 so did the herds grass; and I have no doubt that 

 good crops of hay and wheat might he raised upon 

 reclaimed salt marshes^ if they were ditched and 

 the tide kept off. I think tiie best way to prepare 

 such marshes would be, to burn ofl^ the grass, cut 

 narrow and deep ditches, and spread the mud over 

 intervals, for the purpose of making a bed for the 

 seed, although they could not be long cultivated in 

 wheat, as-by destroying the grass roots, (turf,) the 

 marsh would settle too much and perhaps become 

 miry, but they would not become so if kept in grass. 

 .Marsh mud and turf, when dried and pulverized 

 make excellent manure for every kind of crops 

 raised in this part of the country. No doubt it 

 would vastly improve by lime. Herds grass seed 

 can hardly be sown too thick; about two bushels 

 to the acre is the usual quantity, but three would 

 be better : it may be scattered upon the ground 

 and covered by dragging a rough bush over it; or 

 if the ground be not prepared, by permitting cattle 

 to trample it in. Yours, respectfully, 



HENRY WHITING. 



Never do good to obtain praise. This is sellino- 

 virtue at a price. 



