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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



SEPT. 20. lS:f. 



jsti^-y/ mst^^^'^m' m^m^mi^m., 



BllSTOS. WKDNK.^DAY. aKPTESlBER 20 1931 



dial porl< may hii f.ilteni A in this wav, and itiakiii!; a 

 savins; of ont' iliird uf the fuod and lime consumed In 

 llie usual lllude. " 



PAllMER'S WORK. 



Fattfmng Swink. — Judge Peters of Pennsylvania, 

 forinerlv Presidcjil nf the Pliiladelpliia Agricuiujr;il So- 

 ciei}', stated tlial " snur foi)d is must gratclul and ali- 

 mentary to swine. One gallon of sour wash goes far- 

 iher lltan two <if sweet. I mean the wash aciilLdaied to 

 Ihi. decree necessary for distillation, not acetous " Mr 

 Arthur Younj; liUewise oliserves that " the most prolil- 

 able mode of converlinir corn [grain] of any kind, in'o 

 food for liogs, is to grind it into meal, and nil.t this with 

 walei in cisterns, in llie pioporlion of five hushels of 

 meal to one hundr-'d gallons of water; stirring it wi II 

 several lim 'S a d.-iv, for three weeks in "cold wealher, or 

 n fortnight in a warmer season, hy which it will have 

 fermented well, and become acid, till which, it is not 

 ready lo give. The mixture should always be stirred 

 immedialely before feeding, and two or three cisterns 

 should be kepi fermenting in succession, that no neces- 

 silv may occur of giving it unduly prepared." 



judge Peiers also observed that "dry rotten wood 

 kept constantly in styes, for fatting hogs, to eat at pleas- 

 ure, is a good tiling ; but 1 will take the liberty to men- 

 tion what I think a better. — We have blacksmiths in 

 this town, and my hogs eat up all the aslies or cinders 

 lliey make ; we haul it into the pens by cart-loads, and 

 the hogs will devour this at times, with more avidity 

 than their ordinary food." 



Charcoal, it has been said, will answer as good, or a 

 better purpose than either cinders or rotten wood. If 

 Hwine are sujiplied with a quantity of coals, (according 

 to the statemcnls of several persons who have tried the 

 experiment,) say two pieces a day to each, about the 

 Bize of a hen's egg, they will discoiilinue rooting, re- 

 main more quiet, .ind faiten faster than Ihuy will other- 

 wise. Charcoal will operate on the human frame as a 

 cathartic, and probably will have the same effect on the 

 animal of which we are treating. If so, it may super- 

 sede the necessity of using brimstone, antimony, and 

 other drugs, with which hogs are often dosed. At any 

 rate, it will cost but liltle lo give them ctmslant access 

 to coals, which may be sifted or raked from your fire- 

 place, and they will be induced by instinct, to consume 

 such quantities as will promote their health and expe- 

 dite their fattening. 



When yon first commence fattening swine, care should 

 he taken not to give them more than they will eat with 

 appetite. If they become gorged *;r cloyed, their thriv- 

 ing is retarded, and there is danger from staggers and 

 diseases consequent on repletion, or the gormandizing 

 propensities of those four-footed epicures. 



Tlie practice in Scotland, is to rear swine chiefly on 

 raw poiatfies, and to fitten them on these roots, boiled 

 or prepared by steam, wilh a mixture of oats, barley, or 

 bean and pease meal. Their troughs should be often 

 replenished wilh a small quantity of fond at a time, and 

 kept always clean, and seasoned occasionally with salt. 

 An English farmer fattened 8 pigs in the f illowing 

 niannei, which may be recommended in ease where a 

 roustaiu an<l regular attention cannot be given to feed- 

 ing the animals. He placed two Iroiighs in the stye : 

 one he filled wilh raw potatoes, the other with peas, 

 ai.d gave no water. Wiien the pigs were tliirsty liiey 

 ate the potatoes. In this \^ay, it is i)robahle, that the 

 animals could not only do without w.iter, tnit likewise 

 needed no biimstone, antimony, nor any oiher medical 

 substances, ftir raw potatoes are cotding and drastic ; — 

 and may serve at once for food and physic. Instead of 

 peas, probably dry Indian corn, or dry Indian meal might 

 be substituted. 



Kubbing andcurryirg the hides of fatting hogs, is not 

 only grateful to the animals, but conducive to their 

 health and ihriftincss. In every stye, a strong post 

 nhoiild be fixed for them to rub against. They should 

 have plenty cjf litter, which will not only be the means 

 of contributing to their cumfuit, but increasing the must 

 valuable manure. 



The following mixture for fattening swino, has been 

 recommended, and we believe would prove useful: 



Wasti potatoes clean, boil and mash while hot, mix in 

 lit the same lime, oats and pea meal. Put the mixture 

 into a large tub, which must stand till it becomes a lit- 

 tle »our,bot not very acid, nor in the least putrid. — 

 Keep a quantity uf this on hand, fermenting, and give 

 it lo yuur hogs as often as they will eat. It is asserted 



iFortheNew Kii^I:oid F.'iinii'r.) 



APPLE POMACE 



Mi< Fk^senpen : — As the si'ason lor making cider is 



approaching, will you or some of your correspondents 



give us the best method of curing the pomace.' For 



what animals dues pomace make the best feed ? 



A Farmer. 



Htj I he Editor — A writer for the IMiddletown Senti- 

 nel, whose coinmnnication was re published in the N. 

 E. Farmer, vol.viii. p. 357, gives the following direc- 

 tions relative to the use id' this article : 



" Farmers shoulil save idl their pomace and feed it to 

 their slock ; it is even good lor Cows wliich give milk, 

 by feeding them with it sparingly a few times at first 

 I tried it 45 years ago, by keeping one cow with pom- 

 ace principally for three monlhs.aiid two others on good 

 pasture, rowen or hay ; and the pomace cow did as well 

 as either. If cows eat their fill of apples or pomace, it 

 will at first make them stagger, and they will give much 

 less milk ; or if a cow gel.s to a heap of threshed grain 

 it is still worse; but we do not throw the grain into 

 heaps, and let it rot on that accounl." 



A writer for the IVlaine Farmer, wilh ihe signature 

 "A N." whose communication was re published in the 

 N. E. Farmer, vol. xii. p. 170, in treating of pomace, di- 

 rects as follows : 



" Let it be taken from the press and immediately 

 spread thin on the barn floor, or any outbuili ing, and 

 fed out to stock in the early part of the foddering sea- 

 son, in small quantities daily, and I have no doubt but 

 a common cart-load is equal in worth to 500 pounds of 

 bay ; then as it passes the cattle it is certainly good ma- 

 nure. • » » 



" Hereafter, I hope to see no more of it cast into such 

 heaps to spoil, and even into the high-way and ditches; 

 but fed out to slock as above suggested — all kinds of 

 slock arc fond of it. Some have intimated that if not 

 ground fine, it is as good as apples, if not pressed har- 

 der than people generally have pressed it the present 

 year, bushel lor bushel Care should be taken that it 

 does not heal, for that spoils it for stock. ' 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICl'LTCRAl. SOCIETY. 



EXHmnioN or fruits. 



Saturday, Sept. 9, 1837. 



[]j= The following is the report w hich was omitted 

 last week. 



PKARS. 



By Mr Vose, President of llie Society, — Williams' 

 Bonchretien, or Bartletl, very large, fine, and beauti- 

 ful. 



By John Breed, Esq of Belle Island, — two specimens 

 of Pears, names unknown. On' of these specimens 

 was a very beautiful fruit, of a scarlet color, faintly 

 stiiped. 



By Mr Downer, — Washington, Gushing and St Gliis- 

 lain Pears, all, and ihe last particularly, of superior fla- 

 vor. 



By Mr Uichards, — the Julienne. 



By Mr Manning,— A fruit of middle size and pear- 

 shaped, of a clear, yellow russet color, and veiy sweet ; 

 Ihe tree an abundant bearer. A new variety with us, 

 the name lost, — somewhat resembling in its exterior the 

 old Grise Bonne. Sucre d'Hoyciswerda,a fruit of only 

 middling quality. August Muscat. Rostieza, a small 

 fruit, flavor fine. Orange Tiilipee, a very old fruit, id" 

 second quality, but very productive. Francreal d'Ele, 

 very fine and productive. 



By Kobert Treat Paine, Esq., Secretary of the Socie- 

 ty, —three specimens, names unknown. 



By M' Mackay,from his farm in Weston, — Williams' 

 Bonchretien or Bartletl Pears. 



APPLES. 



By Mr Mackay, — Porter, Williams' Favorite, both 

 fine dessert fruits. Another kind, without a name, and 

 the Pcarinain. Also, Hawthorndean, very beautiful, 

 productive and valuable, but chiefly as a cooking fruit. 



By Mr Downer, — Porter Apples. 



By Mr Richards, — Benoni Apples, fine and beautiful 



a native fruit, which oriirinated in We-ton; a fruit as 

 early as.ihe Sojisavine, very fair; in si/e,form and color 

 reseiobliiig the Porter; pli asaril, but too ripe lo judge 

 of its quality. The tree has borne large crops fi>i ten 

 years Also, Warren Sweetnii;. a red fruit, l>tought 

 trom Scotland, by I\lr John Warren, in 1031. 



Pl.UMS. 



The specimens of this fruit which were cxhdiited to- 

 day, were of a variety and quality superior to thai of any 

 remembered on any firmer occasion. 



By Mr French, from his place in Braintree, — Smiths' 

 large Orleans, very fine ; another kind without a name. 



By Mr A. D. Williams, of Ro.\biiry, — a line, large, 

 round fruit, of good flavor, pale red next ihe sun, and 

 resembling in appearance, the Damns d llalie. 



By Mr Vose, — Corses Nota Briia. 



By Jo.seph S. Cabot, Esq of Salem, — fine specimens 

 of Smiths* Orleans, anil of Green Gage. 



By Mr Manning, — Reine Claude, or Green Gage. 

 Bingham, a good fiuit ami bears well, iled Damask, 

 must be the wrong fruit, Bolriier's Washington, fruit 

 very large, but wilh Mr M the tree docs not bear so full. 

 Large Red Thoulonse, Long Blue French, productive 

 and good. Imperial Violet, nanu; siijqiosed lobe wrong, 

 as this proves a poor bearer. Cooper's Plum, fine and 

 very productive. Dana Plum, a native of Ipswich. — 

 Elfrey, very productive, and esteemed at Philadelphia 

 as a very profitable fruil. Also, Prince's Imperial Gage, 

 the most productive of all. 



By Mr Pond, from his garden in Cambridge port, — 

 White Gage, Bingham, Smiths' Orleans, and Duane's 

 Purple, all beautiful specimens of finest kinds. Tha 

 two last are particularly large fruits. 



By Mr Johnson, from his garden in Charlestown, — 

 Van Zandt's Plum, a fine, large, oblong fiuii, pale red 

 next the sun and excellent. Washington, superb spec- 

 imens, some of them measuring over seven inches in 

 circunif-rence. Also, a branch of the same. Though 

 the tree is not a full bearer, yet the weight of the pro- 

 duction is great, from its snpciior size. Also, Whi:© 

 Gage, from his celeluated tree, very fine and large. — 

 'Pile White Gage, so far as we have seen, proves to be 

 identically the same, both in the tree and fruit, with the 

 Princes Imperial Gage. A branch of fruit was exhibi- 

 ted from an unknown source, cut from a tree at Nahant, 

 imported two years since from France. Specimens of 

 an oblong, very large Black Pium, of good flavor, from 

 the Fair-weather nl.ice in Cambridge, supposed to be 

 the Grande Padre horn Sjiain. 



PEACHES. 



Specimens of the Early Anne were exhibited from a 

 source unknown. 



For the Cominitfre. 



WW. KEiNRlCK, Chairman. 



Fankijii. Hai.l Vegetable Market. — Wcdnisdinj, 

 Sejit 20, 1837.— Siring Beans 20 cts, a peck, Shell beans 

 8 to 10 cents a quart ; Broad Windsor Beans 20 cents 

 do ; Cucumbers 13 1-4 cts. a dozen ; do. for Pickies, 17 

 cents pcrliundred ; Peppers 4 to 5 cents per lb ; Green 

 Corn 10 ceirts a dozen ; Tomatoes 50 lo 75 cents per 

 bushel ; Fruit of E-g Plants 25 cents per dozen ; Caul- 

 iflowers 1'2 1-2 to 15 cents a head ; Brocoli 12 1-2 to 25 

 cents each ; Beets, Carrots, Turnips, &c , 3 to 6 cents a 

 bunch; Red and Yellow Onion .$1,00 per bushel; — 

 While Onions .'Jl,25 do.; Potatoes 4lt cents a bushel ; — 

 Sweet Potatoes $2 00 pur bushel ; Winter and Valpa- 

 raso Squash, 2 lo 3 cents per lb.; Cabbages 50 to 75 

 cents per dozen ; Celery to 12 cts. a hunch. 



Fruit. — Apples two dollars a barrel; Pears fifty 

 cents a peck ; Peaches from ^il lof 1,50 a peck ; Berries 

 10 to 12 1.2 cents a quart ; Barberries $1,50 per bush- 

 el ; Plums 17 to 25 cents a quart; Grapes 75 cents to 

 $1,00 per lb. ; Melons 12 1-2 to 75 cents apiece; Cran- 

 berries haveappearcd at lire low price of $1,50 a bushel, 

 which indicates a plentiful crop. 



By Mr Jonathan Warren, of Weston, — Zerico apples, I general use than it is. 



A Delicate Vegetable. — Mr N. H Calder of stall i 

 No. 100, Boston Market, presented the Editor of the N.J 

 E. Farmer with a fine head of Broccoli (Brassica olerfl: 

 cea.) There are several varieties of this esculent, whiol 

 are all different sorts of late heading Cauliflower. Thir 

 delicious plant ought to be mure cultivated, and in moA 



