vol,. -WI. KO. 3. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL 



ID 



DiSKASE OF FiiuiT Trkes. — Mr Smsad : Hav- 

 ing (ilisfivuil witliiii the lii-st few (lay*, tlial tlie 

 ysixr.U trees in tlii»' viciiiily, are siili'iTiiic; fruni 

 what I call the yellow curl, poniiit me through 

 your paper ti> sugijeBt a remedy. 



This disease is eaiised liy an insect that depiis- 

 ites its larvte at the root of the tree. Mj; remedy 

 is, to remove the eartli I'rom around tlie roots, to 

 the de|itli of from six to twelve inches from the 

 surface, and pour aiound the roots a pail fidl or 

 so, of the lye of wood ashes, iheii to fill in rouiid 

 the tree with wood ashes. This will ])rove a sure 

 remedy, and the ashes around the tree will form 

 so dense and hard a hody, as to prevent the in- 

 sect from hurrowing aj;ain ; as wood ashes i:> a 

 good manure for fruit trees, it is well to remove 

 old ashes, and rep!ace them with new, every 

 spriit-; and fall. By followin;; this method, peach 

 trees may he kept (ree from insects, anil be pre- 

 served in hearing order. Wood ashes has a j,'ood 

 effect around the cherry an<l plumb. 



The cherry ami plumb are subject to a disease 

 (also occasioned by an insect) called the blight. 

 Tlio insect penetrates the branches, causing a gum 

 to exude, and maUing black, rough, wart like pro- 

 tuberances, which soiui causes the death of the 

 tree. The only remedy I know of, for this dis- 

 ease, is the (uunirig knife; cut off the branch 

 whereon it appears, as soon as discovere<l : should 

 it have progressed niin-h in the top of the tree, 

 cut the whole top oft' at ouce, if you wish to save 

 the tree ; new branches will shoot out, and you 

 will, in two or three years, have a vigorous bear- 

 ins tree again. Should the disease appear in the 

 body of the tree, remove every appearance of it 

 with the knife ; and if the tree is weakened there- 

 by, sup|)ort it by means of stakes, and the diffi- 

 culty is remedied. 



Against the attacks of the caterpillars, my meth- 

 orl is to cut the branch ofl', bearing the nest, and 

 destroy them by burning it, beinj careful that not 

 a worm is left to foriri a new colony. Firing in- 

 to a nest from a musket, smoking with brimstone, 

 and all the suggested remedies of this kind, but 

 increase the uvil, scattering the worms, and form- 

 in" a dozen nests from one. Smoking with brim- 

 stone, destroys tire branch, and not n7ore thaji 

 half the inmates of the nest, for sulphuric acid 

 gas is full as fatal to vegetable, as animal lifj. A 

 little care and wati-hfulness, will jirevent the in- 

 roatls of those insects, and the gardener will be 

 amply repai.l for the same, by the thriving condi- 

 tion if his trees, and the abundance of his fruit. 

 — Ohio JlrfTus. H. 



say on the subject, that we shall adopt it. — fVesl- 

 ern ^'lar. 



" Tlie more improved practice, is to dry it par- 

 tially in the swarlli, and finish by what is termed 

 the sweating process, or drying in small cocks, 

 the he.1t of a very .slight fci mentation assisting — 

 The labor of spn^iding is thus .saved, there is lit- 

 tle injury from exposure to ilew, and the thin 

 leaves and siu-culenf .■'talks become eipudly drieil 

 together. Wheie this plan has been tried, many 

 successive days of rainy weather have not pre- 

 vented the making of excellent hay ; and inderd, 

 while the outside of the cock is wet by the fal.ing 

 rain, the interior has been constantly drying by 

 the slight heat generated. Every farmer should 

 at least try this method ; and every one who tries 

 it fairly, adopts it. 



best land, yet liny have the best of all oiher good 

 things. , A. B. 



— .v. //. Sentinel. 



IlAYiMiKi.NG. — As the season is drawing near, 

 when this important branch of industry is about 

 to be commenced, it may not be improper to give 

 a fevv hints to our farmers concerning the most 

 approved method of making hay. 



The grass should not be cut uiuil the seeds are 

 approaching maturity, and the stalks begin to turn 

 a little brown, as at that time tlie grass is much 

 sweeter, contains more nourishment, and is more 

 easily cured. Great care should be taken not to 

 dry hay, and (larticularly clover, too much in the 

 gun, nor suflfer it to remain exposed to a fall of 

 dew, as a heavy dew is more injurious to hay 

 than a shower. The experienced Editor of the 

 Genesee Farmer, makes the following remaiks re- 

 specting the process of making hay, which we 

 consider so much better than any thing we can 



Mr. EniTOR : — 'n my travels during the past 

 winter and the present spring, 1 have observed 

 that many farmers suffer thcur cattle to remain in 

 the road for a large portion of the day, instead of 

 confining them in a ynrd. This is a slovenly 

 practice, and it is not oidy improper on acccmnt 

 of tlje annoyance it must give to persons who nuiy 

 have occasion to pass such farms with teai ns or 

 in sleighs, but it is a wickeil waste of manure, tlie 

 farmer's fountain of wealth. It is remarked by 

 an English writer, that "The attention paid to 

 manure in any country, indicates with certainty 

 the state of its agriculture. Whore no exerli(uis 

 are made, by artificial means, to increase; the 

 quantity heyoiul the ordinary- supply, there agrj- 

 culture is ever in a low and debased si ate." ' 



What, then, nmst be the indications, when a 

 stock of cattle, with colts and sheep too, in some 

 instances, are suffered to block up the public 

 highways ? Here, it is manifest, no p ains. are ta- 

 ken to increase the quantity of maiiure, but a great 

 loss is incurred thrcmgli wanton neglect. It re- 

 quires no prophet to tell what the static of" such a 

 farm already is, or will become in a v.;ry few 

 years. It is, or will be, running the ow.ner into 

 debt, and instead of abumlant crops, iriay be seen 

 briars and thistles. He will talk of th e difficulty 

 of obtaining a livelihood from a farm in N^.. Eng- 

 land, and of emigrating to the West. But if he 

 goes to the West, the same negligent habits will 

 keep him poor, vvlialever may be the fertility of 

 the soil. 



It is a fact which many are slow to .learn^ that 

 worn out and exhausted lands, may, by jiroper 

 management, be recovered and rendered produc- 

 tive. But some will say, we have no capital, and 

 therefore we can niake no improvements. It does 

 not require capital to make improvements. If the 

 farmer will save a few shillings and take an agri- 

 cultural paper, he will obtain a knowle<lge of the 

 means of improvement, and this with orilijiary at- 

 tention and industry, will con.stitute a better cap- 

 ital than money. 



It is said that there are farmers in this country 

 who take no paper, j)o!itical, religious or agricul- 

 tural. I hope the number is small. Newspapers 

 do not cost much the present day, and the kimwl- 

 edge that may be gained from any respectable jia- 

 per, will help a man to earn- its cost many times 

 over in the course of a single year. If New Eng- 

 land Farmers mean to " go ahead," they must 

 read and think more, be more ready to adopt im- 

 provements, talk less and dream less about the 

 far West, and consider, that if they have not the 



CuRF. FOR THF. HYDROPHOBIA. — A pliysiciap of 

 Paris having bien bitten by a little dog, ha<l felt 

 the horrors which foretell an 1 usually precede the 

 invasion of an atlack, he resolved to put an end 

 lo his life through fear of doing mischief to oth- 

 ers, and chose for the instrument of bis d-alli a 

 vapor bath, hoping that in it he should suffocate 

 in the soonest possible manner. Some fiiends en- 

 lered the bathing room the very moment when he 

 had become insensible, and satisfied of his fatal 

 reso'iution, they took him out, wrapped bin> up 

 in coverlets, and to3k bin) to his bed where he 

 sweat excessively, and experienced afterwards 

 great weakness, but f nally was restored to health. 

 It was himself who cried up this remedy, of which 

 several physicians have since made trial, and 

 from which they have uniformly obtained the 

 most favorable results. 



A peasant in one of the provinces of France, 

 was m his turn bitteti by a witul dog ami had al- 

 ready expeiii'ticed several paroxisms of this <lis- 

 ease. In acrordanee with a barbarous prejudice, 

 wliich slill exists in some ot the departwieiits of 

 France, they imagine there is no possible cure for 

 this disease and they determined to put an end to 

 it by the frightful means of suflocation— in order 

 to execute their design they put the wife of the 

 patient out ol the chamber, and kept her by force 

 in an adjoining room. ' They placed the wretched 

 man between two mattresses and useil all imagi- 

 nable efforts to obtain success in the frightfur 

 tragedy which they were enacting. The wife of 

 the sick man, unable to expel from her mind the 

 idea of this ilreadful scene, called up v, ithin her- 

 self extraonlinary strength repulsed all those who 

 opposed her way, succeeded iR entering t,'„j j.j,gjjj_ 

 her of the dying man, .drove Out '.he maltrets as- 

 sassins and loiiiid her vu'etchsd ' husband in a 

 swoon covered with sweat, as if he had been 

 plunged in a bath— -the consequences of those 

 Hide eflbrts he had made ffi throw ofT ^he eaor- 

 mous weight which was suffocating liim. She 

 t(x)k him, wrapped him up in some coverlets, 

 placed him in his bed, where he perspired still 

 more lieely. After a few days he regained his 

 strength and vras radically cured. 



The fact being in support of the first mentioned 

 circumstance, the French physicians were ordy 

 the more eager to continue their experiments, 

 and this kind of treatment has always beiui favor- 

 able to those atta.rked with hydrophobia, espe- 

 cially when it has been uSed at the fust symptoms 

 of its approach. — frenchpaper. 



Maine Silk. — Ha[)pening on Saturday to go 

 into the Silk Dying establishment of Phiiiney & 

 Packard we were shown a quantity of sewing-silk 

 madf by Nathaniel Norcross of Livermore, which 

 had been sent there to be colored. We were told 

 that it was of superior quality. There was about 

 a pound and a half of it, which at SlO per pound, 

 amounted to $15. Mr Norcross we understand 

 expects to make a much larger quantity this yeaf. 

 — Kennebec Jour. 



Apoplexy. — Tight Booh. — A physician of N. 

 York says, that during the past week, he has at- 

 tended four cases of apoplexy, caused by wearing 



tight boots. 



