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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



MAY 26, 1841. 



ANr> HORl'ICULTURAL RKGISTER. 



Boston, Wednesday, May 26, 1841. 



MANURES. 

 " Many a mirklt makes a muckle." 



Scrape np ilie droppings from your cows in your ave- 

 nues and door yards. Get together the rotten chips and 

 bark from tlie wood yard. Collect the rich soil whieh 

 accumulates in the holes and corners iiround the house, 

 the barn, the hog pen and all out buildings. If tliese 

 materials are not wanted for imtnediato use, make them 

 into a compact heap. 



Have some expedient, also, for saving from the unfa- 

 Torable acti<m of rains and sun, what your cows drop in 

 the barnyard during the summer niglils. Covermg the 

 bottom of the yird with loam or muck, will preserve ihe 

 greater part of the liquid secretions ; but the solids will 

 lose much of their worth it not daily covered with the 

 foi! or muck. Where the barn is airy and has a cellar 

 under it, we recommend keeping the cows :n the barn 

 every night of the year. Tiiey suffer no di.'icomfort, 

 and we know of no other way in which so much and 

 so good manure can be obtained frcmi them. 



Also, have materials at the side of the hogyard con- 

 stantly, so that something may be, thrown in every two 

 or three days for the swine to work upon. Throw in 

 not (00 freely, however; there is a limit beyond which 

 it is not profitable to fill up the yard. For it is not true 

 that every thing whirh finds its way within the four 

 walls that confine the pigs, is immediately converted in- 

 to good manure. We believe that 2 or 2 1 2 cords is as 

 much as one hog will ordinarily manufacture well in the 

 space of 12 months. By occasionally pulling in lime, 

 ashes, or stable manure, the quantity may be rendered 

 somewhat mote than this. But while we caution fai- 

 mers against reducing the quality too muck, we earnest- 

 ly call upon them to be careful to furnidi the swine 

 with enough of the raw material. 



You have been so often told that manure — manure — 

 mauure is the one thing needful for successful farming, 

 that it seems almost an insult to say it agnin — and yet it 

 is so true and so important, that we do say it. We tell 

 you to collect and save and make manure — manure — 

 manure. We would write this word over the doors of 

 your hog pens, your barns, your privies ; near your ash 

 holes, sink holes and every other spot where the article 

 can be manufactured. We would send you to the ro.id 

 side, to the woods, to iho sides of stone walls, to peat 

 meadows and muck holes, fur collecting matters to be 

 converted into this essential article 



ing in o-u-g A, are pronounced uff.'^ " 1 stand correct- 

 ed,"' said the lawyer, and proceeded in his reading. 

 Coming ?hortiy to a sentence deiJcribing the operations 

 of farmers, he raised hiseye tothe courtand said, '■ they 

 p/i/^ the land, my lord." "And ice stand corrected,' 

 said the court. Messrs Gaylord <& Tucker, of the Alba- 

 ny Cultivator — yours be the sin of robbing posterity of 

 this anpcdoie. For brevity's sako we shall copy your 

 ejample, when wo do not forget it, and spell pl-ow. 



SUBSOIL PLOW. 

 On Thursday last, we spent the afternoon in holding 

 the plow. The work was on land which has been long 

 pastured. The surface mofsy, the swa; d tender, the 

 soil light. The sub:>oil partly a lo ise and fine gravel 

 ami partly a yellow loam. With two yoke of oxen we 

 plowed one half an acre with Howard's plow 10. 2, lo 

 the ilepth of 7 inches, and subsoiled with Howard's sub- 

 soil plow iibiiut 7 inches. We found that ]U inches of 

 suhsoiling, with which we commencod, would worry 

 the team. The stirring of the eaitli to the depth of 12 

 or 14 inches, we thought might be dfi improvement up- 

 on shallow plowing. And where it can be done as 

 cheaply as in this instance, the experiment is not cosily. 

 But our ca«e must not be taken as a (air instance of dis- 



ior these favorite abodes of the caterpillar, if undisturb- 

 ed, will send out swarms of breeders to furnish a nume- 

 rous progeny to people the neighborhood the next sea- 

 son. As a matter of taste too, we prefer the sight of 

 green leaves on even the worthless bush, to the huge 

 white house and its crawling inmates; and for appear- 

 ance's sake we would lay a ruthless ha'id upon the ris- 

 ing colony. 



CANKER WOKMS. 



A new fact in regard to Canker Worms — Mr Breck, 

 Monday morning, on his way into the city, saw a man 

 tarring the trees on Mr S. S. Lewis' place, Ruxbury, and 

 stJpt to inquire the cause. He was informed that the 

 worms, which had been hatched out upon the shrubbe- 

 ry and fences, were making their way up the trees. — 

 We have conversed with tlie man who applied the tar, 

 and he inf.irined us that very small worms, so small that 

 it is difficult to see them without putting a whit^ cloth 

 around the tree for them to pass over, aie going up in_ 

 vast numbers, and he applies the tar to catch •.!";:i. 



THE NEWEST BATHING AND WASHING AP- 

 PARATUS. 



We not.ce in the recent work of the tailors, a very 



patch, for the furrows were 40 rods long upon a plain, ; yronomical style. The vest collar being below the cra- 

 vat, and the collar of the coat below that of the vest, 

 the wearer has only to walk out in the rain with his 

 back to the storm, and his body and under clothvs will 

 find themselves in a current of water which will speedi- 

 ly d* the work of bathing and was'iing. The inquiry 

 suggests itself whether the same principle of economy 

 might not be adopted in shingling the dandy's neck and 

 shoulders. Should our house carpenters put the butts 

 of the shingles upwards, and thus afford passages for 

 rain water down within the walls, enough of it (provi- 

 ded the boarding was not too tight,) might run down 

 the ceiling to keep it well washed, and thus save tha 

 labor of scouring We see no reason why the principle 

 would not work as well on the house, as on one's neck 

 and shauldeia. 



and the plows were changed only 14 times in the half 

 day. Ordinarily, where it is a day's work to break up 

 an acre, it will take more than two days to break up 

 and subsoil the same. In a few "spota. where the subsoil 

 v\ as slightly rocky, the subsoil plough appeared to be 

 moved more easily by the team thaa any where else. 



The extent to which the earth was stirred by this 

 new imjilement, surpri.-ied us. The seven inch furrow 

 was scarcely three inches drep aficr this plow had been 

 passed under it 



We have strong faith that this instrument will come 

 into extensive use. It is true that no great reliance 

 should be placed upon theories until confirmed by ex- 

 periinent ; and we are not inclined lo devote much 

 space to the praise of this implement the present season ; 

 bul»houldour anticipations be fultilled we hope to be 

 permitted to urge its use another year. 



CATERPILLARS. 



Take care of these foul eonsumers of the orchard fi- 

 liaoe. Much injury to the trees is often done by them, 

 but it is the owner's fault if they harm hirn to any groat 

 extent A few hours labor will suffice for clearing the 

 orchard of them. When they are on limbs that can be 

 conveniently reached, it is well to tear off the nest and 

 Ircad upon it. When the nests are above the arm's 



Jj" We would remind those who wish to set ont 

 Fir trees, that this is the season for transplanting them, 

 and by leaving their orders at this office will have them 

 promptly executed, or by visiting the Nurseries of the 

 Messrs Winship', Brighton, can select the trees to suit 

 themselves. Their Garden is only four miles from the 

 city, and the ride to it, one of the most delightful in the 

 vicinity of Boston. C H. B. B. 



you now, as soon as the planting season is over, and 

 would have you collect as much as possible. It were 

 well to have years" supply always on hand in heaps. 

 Thus placed it would be constantly improving; and if 

 thrown over once or twice in a year, the fermentations 

 and decompositions it would undergo, would greatly en 

 hance its fertilizing properties, even before it was handed 

 over to the cattle and swine. Make manure : little by 

 little from day to day, will swell to a large pile in twelve 

 months. 



A correspondent wishes us to inquire " what kind of 

 \S would send reach, a light polo with a swab upon the end, answers I ,fgjg ^jn g,o„ best on poor land by the sua shore, expos- 



SPELLING. 



Which is right, Plou gh of Plo-'w ? Many of our ag- 

 ricultural papers have the prcsu. option to set venerable 

 nsage at defiance, and spell p-l-ow. Via have but one 

 objection : the change spoils a good anecdote. A bar- 

 rister reading a documeni in on Kngliah court, pronounc- 

 ed the word enough as though it were spell eno-w 



" ^j "#. " «"''' '1'^ court; " all words in English end- 



as a sufficient instrument for their destruction. The 

 work is more effectually done if the swab is dipped in 

 soap-suds, fish«i'I, or any liquid which will destroy tho 

 worm without injuiing the tree. But tlie hour of the 

 day at which this work is to be done, must be regarded. 

 Take only those times when the wh.de family arc in 

 the nest. This is tlie caST from early morning until 7 

 or 8 ociock. From that time until near 11 o'clock, 

 they are out upon the limbs and leaves taking their 

 iiiornini' meal. Their nop ai noon is usually from 11 

 o'clock until 2, P. M. At this tiine they are easily ta- 

 ken and effectually destroyed. In Ihe afternoon they 

 go out again lo feed, but toward evening they may again 

 be caii"ht. This work of deslruclion should he com- 

 merced early in tho season, while the leaves of the 

 trees are so small as not to screen them from sight, and 

 before they have perpetrated their ravages. And while 

 protecting the orchard, it is well to look at Ihe wild 

 cherry and all the wild scrub apple trees upon the farm. 



ed to strong w nds.'" We solicit a' reply from any one 

 who has any experience upon the subject. 



The Indian corn crop 'if southern Virginia was plant- 

 ed four or five weeks ago, and has been nearly destroyed \ 

 by cold and rain. Much of the seed has rotted without 

 coining up ; and what has como up is sickly and good 

 for nothing. I 



The Maryland farmers, despairing of their corn com- 

 ing to any thing, have sown uals in its stead. 



Coffee. The Pittsburg American says that they are 

 planting coffee upon some of the western prairies — with 

 what prospect of Miccess, we do not know. 



Mr Meller's exhibition of Geraniums at the Town 

 Hall, Roibury, will close today. His collection is raid 

 to be extensive and splendid. 



