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•NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



SKPT. no l-ilT. 



eacli nil) of stones 50 haricls of flour per day, ami 

 would require to supiily tlitiii, 25,000 liiislii-ls )!' 

 V, lieiit for each 24 lioiirs. ISesides iliose at Kuilios- 

 Icr, tlicre are cMeiisive flour mills ut I,e Roy, 

 Avon, l$atavia, Medina, Lockport, Niagara Falls, 

 Iila(l< Rock, Ciinandai'.'iia, IN^in Yan, Lyons, 

 ftlendon, Waterloo. Sinc-ca Falls, Aulinrn, &c., — 

 comprising, as a low estimate, 500 rnns of slones 

 for flomiiifc piirpose.s. Ailowiiir; lliat each of 

 these, inrlnding Roehester, can, when (nlly em- 

 l)love(l, make even 20 harrels of flonr per day, it 

 wonld recpiire 50,000 Inisliels of wheatclaily to 

 supply iheni, and would take tliem colleciivily 

 more than 12 months to manufacture the sur])hi6 

 wheat of this year into flour. 



A correspondent of the New York Express, 

 says that liy documents appended to the census 

 returns for 1835, there were 2051 grist mills in 

 that State, and the value of the flour inannfac- 

 tured at thern in that year was upwards of $20,- 

 OOC.OOO — this must have given upwards of ihiee 

 niilliou harrels. — JVewburyport Ilerall. 



Corn Stalks. — It is observed by a writer in 

 the Vermont Farmer, and correctly too, we think, 

 that the stocks and shocks of an acre of good 

 corn, well managed, will go as far in keeping neat 

 cattle, as hay cut from the same acre of ground. 

 What we mean by being well managed, is that 

 the crop l)e cut to the ground, ami immediately 

 stocked, as soon as the grain is glazeil — that the 

 corn may he picked off as soon as it is snflicient- 

 ly dried, and the forage bound, jind well stacked 

 or housed — and that, when given out, is to be cut 

 and fed to tlio Block from mangers. Jf, when fed, 

 it can be steamed or wet with a weak pickle, and 

 sprinkled with a matter of ship stuff or bran, all 

 the belter. 'I'lie defects in managing this forage 

 crop are, that either the corn is topped, and the 

 toi>s left in the field in stocks, or the entire stand 

 till they are nearly spoilt by the weather — that 

 they are hadly housed, and fed in the yard with- 

 out cutting. The consequence is that much of 

 their mitrilious matter is dissipated — that much 

 is often destroyed, and that of what remains cat- 

 able, the cattle are only able to consume the leaves, 

 tops and husks, the main stock being lost, for 

 want of being cut, so that the cattle can masticate 

 it. Our cows and oxen were k( pt last winter al- 

 most svholly upon cut corn stalks, and they were 

 in as good condition in spring as when fed entire- 

 ly on hay. — Cull. 



RaISTNG and PRESERVrNG PUMPKI.NS. — A wor- 



tliy and intelligent subscriber to the Cabinet, resi- 

 ding in I'illgrove, Salem county. Now Jersey, has 

 sent us a communi(;ation as to the best method of 

 jireserving pumpUin.s. He slates that for the last 

 few years he has had no dilTiculty in preserving 

 pumpkins from six to nine months. His iilan is to 

 gaihertheni when they are fully ripe (by all means 

 beli)rc the frost falls) and then keep them in a 

 warm diy place, lie states that in October, 1835, 

 he had a pumpkin of the ordinary kind, raised in 

 Jersey, about one foot in diameter.called the cheese 

 pumpkin, brought in from the field ; it was placed 

 in the corner of a cupboard, and there left until 

 March last u period of about twenty months, du- 

 ring which time it remained in a state of perfect 

 preservation. This, he thinks, is owing to three 

 circumstances. 1. The pumpkin being fully ripe 

 and uninjured by frost when brought in ; 2, a fire 

 kept in the room duiing the winter; and 3, the air 



being allowed a free passage during the war'" 

 weather. The subscriber is of opmion that a 

 great profit uuiy be realized by cultivating this 

 article as loud for swine and cattle. 



yarmtr's Cabinet. 



((''roni the (partner's Register.) 



A PREVENTIVE OP THE BLIGHT IIV PEAR 

 TREES. 



Prince Edward, 1S37. 



The preventive is the simplest imaginable — it is 

 not to prune the tree, or break up the ground un- 

 derneath them ; hut, on the contrary, to let the 

 ground be trampled. The facts, from which I 

 come to the above conclusion, are the f(dlowing : 



1st, There were in my grandfather's yard, two 

 pear trees, which have been bearing pears from 

 my earliest recollection, say 4t' years. 1 am now 

 the occupant of his hmises and yard. These two 

 trees are now as healthy as they ever have been. 

 The yard has alwaysbften trauipled by calves and 

 horses. 



2d. There was n row of four trees in n lot ad- 

 joining the yard, which was occasionally cultiva- 

 ted. These trees have blighted, more or less, 

 whenever the lot has been cultivated. 'I'wo of 

 them have died with the blight ; the other two 

 have been several times very much injured by it, 

 but since I have ceased to cultivate the lot, tliey 

 have been flourishing trees. 



3d. 1 grafted, in the year 1821, about twenty 

 pear trees. Tliey remained in the nursery until 

 1824; they were then planted in a lot adjoining 

 my yard, which lot was cultivated three years in 

 succession in tobacco. Most of the trees, during 

 those tliree years, blighted more or less, — some 

 blighted within a foot of the ground. I then 

 levelled the ground on which they were planted, 

 and moved my fence so as to enclose them in the 

 yard. Such as had been nearly destroyed by 

 blight, I enclosed by a pen of rails, in order to 

 kecj) off the calves which graze the yard, until 

 the trees had grown sufficiently high not to be in- 

 jured by them. These twenty trees are now all 

 healthy, and there has been no appearance of 

 blight, since I cultivated the lot, except in one 

 tree that was enclosed by one of my servants in 

 a garden in which he cultivated vegetables. That 

 tree was blighted and died. 



1 would recommend that pear trees he planted 

 in n rich soil (1 would prefer the site of an old 

 dwelling) — that they be ploughed and worked a 

 few years, even at the risk of hligliting ; and after 

 that, that they be neither prune<I nor ploughed. 

 If they require manure, let it ha npjdied to the 

 surface. Ashes I think an excellent manure. Let 

 the pear orchard be grazed by small cattle, until 

 the trees are of sufficient size to admit of being 

 grazed by larger, without injury. 1 think it would 

 be |)ro])er to keep down coarse weeds, briars, 

 sprouts, &c. I am well convinced that there are 

 some hardy native pear trees that may be pruned 

 and ploughed without being subject to bliglit; but 

 I feel confident that most of the finest kinds of 

 pear.s, would thrive best under the treatment 1 

 have described. I know, too, that there is a dif- 

 ference in soils, and that the same mode of treat- 

 ment may not suit nil situations. But those who 

 have not succeeded in raising pear trees, might 

 try Hiy method. My opinion is, that the blight is 

 produced by the excessive flow of sap, and that 

 pruning and fallowing produce that effect. If, 

 however, 1 had pear trees growing on hard poor 



land, I would fallow and manure ; preferring ra- 

 ther to risk the blight, than let the tree d e of pov- 

 erty. But, when I had suflicienlly manmed, I 

 would then cease fallowing. 



He.nry N. Watkins. 



Thrff. Chickk.ns fro.m onk Egg. — Mr Joseph 

 A. Wilkins, of Long Island, who raised fowls tor 

 the New York mtirket, has maile us a present of 

 a fne, well-grown yoniiL' rooster and two pullets, 

 tdl of which he assured us, were the produce of a 

 single egg. He remarkeil to us, that double eggs 

 or such as produce two chickens apiece — were 

 very comtnon on bis faiiti, where the hens are 

 well {Kt\, and 'live,' to use his own expression, 

 'like fighting cocks.' But a triple etg, he saiil 

 he baa never .seen before. It was a fiimons old 

 biddy of his that, early in the spring, produced 

 the ( ne that yielded the three chickens. It was 

 the first egg she had laid for three months ; ami 

 was nearly three times the length of a cottnnr>n 



eg?- 



The chickens had no sooner burst the shell, 

 than they were mat ked by tying a red string round 

 each of their legs, to distinguish them from the 

 other twelve chickens of the same brood. These 

 strings they have continued to wear up to thin 

 time ; so that there is no manner of doubt but 

 what the identical three fine birds constituting our 

 present, are the identical three that can e out of 

 the triple egg above mentioned. 



The two pullets are of a betuitiful milk white 

 color, with yellow legs and neat single combs. — 

 The rooster is of various colors, glossy neck and 

 tail feathers, brown legs, and a proud double 

 comb. 



Mr Wilkin.s is seriously of opinion that, by pro- 

 per training and feeding, he can cause any, or all 

 of his hens to lay double, triple, and even quad- 

 ruple eggs. But, however that may be, we very 

 much question if even the editors of the Commer- 

 cial Advertiser, the New Haven Herald or the IJ. 

 S. Gazette, in the mtiltituile of rarities that fell to 

 their share, can boast a present of more peculiar 

 rarity, than the one with which we have been 

 honored by the worthy ami enterprising producer, 

 Mr Wilkins. Long life to his galinary, say we. 

 May he live a thousand years, and every year give 

 us occasion to acknowledge the receipt of a sitiii- 

 lar favor. — JV. Y. Transcript. 



Great Calf. — Mr Thomas Lancaster brought 

 into this town the meat of a calf recently, which 

 weighed one hundred and tiinety-seven pounds. 

 The calf wiis only a few days over three montbit 

 old, and was raised by Asaph R. Banks of V^'iii- 

 throp. The two hind quarters weighed one hun- 

 dred pounds, and were purchased by John Bar- 

 ker, Esq., of the Mansion House, at nine cents h 

 pound, the proceeds of the whole amounting to 

 eighteen dollars. If any body out of Kennebec, 

 or in it, can produce better veal than this, why — 

 let them bring it on. — Kennebec Jour. 



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A Big Lamb. — A baby sheep was slaughtered! 

 in South Hadley last week, by Mr Asaph Judd,* 

 only four and a half months old, which weighed ^ 

 fifty-two pounds! It was owned by Philip Smith. 

 — JVorthantp. Cou. 



Short Loaves. — The poor in Detroit have ' 

 been feasted at the expense of dishonest baker* 

 in that city. 



