VOL. XII. NO. 36. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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a well directed industry can supply himself and 

 family with the necessaries, comforts, and some of 

 the luxuries of life, and by a sale of the surplus 

 furnish all those comforts and luxuries of foreign 

 countries which can add any thing to the enjoy- 

 ments of life. 



It should he enough, even if your agriculture 

 labored under considerable disadvantage compared 

 with that of other countries, that you, here, enjoy 

 a temperate and healthful climate, a free govern- 

 ment, political, benevolent, moral and K.ligious in- 

 stitutions, decidedly superior to that of any other 

 country. It should be enough to satisfy the New- 

 England farmer of the happiness of his lot that 

 the climate ill which he lives, the soil he culti- 

 vates, and the plants which nature has adapted to 

 that soil, are all calculated to promote health of 

 body, and vigor of mind: and if he will be true-to 

 himself, and improve the advantages, within his 

 power, be has greater means of real happiness, 

 greater means of a comfortable subsistence, great- 

 er means of improving bis mind and social condi- 

 tion, than tire cultivator of the soil in any other 

 part of the world. Agriculture, which, strictly 

 speaking, is merely the cultivation of the earth, 

 may be carried on by different nations and differ- 

 ent individuals in a very different manner. It may 

 bo carried on in such a manner as merely to af- 

 ford a miserable subsistence to the cultivator of 

 the soil, and leaving large portions of the earth's 

 surface to the dominion of the primeval swamps 

 and forests: or it may be carried on in such a man- 

 ner as to extend over the entire cultivable portion 

 of the land, and so as to leave a large and abundant 

 surplus of produce beyond the subsistence of the 

 laborer for comfort and luxury ; to furnish the 

 raw materials of numerous and valuable manufac- 

 tures: and to provide the means of a rich and 

 flourishing commerce. When I speak, then, of 

 the importance of agriculture I speak of it not as 

 site] h the cultivation of the earth ; but I speak of 

 agriculture improved, enlarged, systematically and 

 successfully pursued. An agriculture which 

 Spreads over the greater part of the surface of the 

 country: occupying, and usefully occupying most 

 of the laud capable of profitable tillage : an agri- 

 culture which not only subsists, and comfortably 

 subsists the laborer, but .also furnishes to himself 

 and family numerous comforts and luxuries, the 

 materials of manufactures and commerce. And 

 also indirectly, by a sale of the surplus products, 

 the means of education, and of moral and religious 

 improvement. (To be continued. 



weather. The quantity of meal used should vary 

 according to circumstances. \Y. If. S. 



Winchester, Conn. Dec. 30, 1833. 



PUMPKIN. 



George C. BarBETT, Esq. 



Bear Sir: — I send you a hard shelled Pumpkin, 

 weighing forty-two pounds and a quarter. Its 

 formation is very uncommon, and may he a subject 

 of interest to gentlemen who visit your very use- 

 ful establishment. It is of the kind most common 

 in this county, and most highly esteemed. If the 

 seed be planted in the interior of the country, the 

 pumpkins soon degenerate, and become soft shelled. 

 Yours, &c. L. T. 



Edgartown, Jan. 1, 1834. 



MASS. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 APPLES FOR. SWINE. 



Farmers seem very generally to think that 

 sour apples are useless as food for cattle or swine. 

 But this opinion is very incorrect. Sour apples 

 were not made in vain. When mellow they 

 make excellent food for bogs, and probably for all 

 other stock. Let farmers who doubt this decide 

 it by experiments. For myself I have no doubt. 



To feed apples to hogs make them into pomace 

 by cutting them with a shovel, or by mashing 

 them. Then put in some meal or bran, and let 

 them stand till they get into the saccharine fer- 

 mentation, then as you feed put in your sour milk 

 or whey. Hogs fed with this food will fatten very 

 fast, and do not seem to cloy as on richer food. 



Fermentation takes place very soon in warm 



Horticultural Hall, Jan. 4, 1S34. 

 EXHIBITION OP FRUITS. 



Appi.es. By Mr. A. Painter of Cummington, 

 Ms. Roxbury Russets, the growth of 1832, in good 

 condition, preserved in sand. Another specimen 

 of the same fruit, preserved in the open air. Also 

 Winter Sweet, a round fruit of a russetty color, and 

 good size, of a sweet and pleasant flavor — another 

 kind of winter sweet, a round fruit of medium 

 size, a native of a russetty color, mixed with rus- 

 setty red, of good flavor — Another kind, name 

 unknown, striped with red on a yellow ground, 

 below medium size; its flavor pleasant, and re- 

 sembling the Wine Sap. 



By Mr. Nathaniel Davenport of Milton, Seaver 

 Siceefing, sometimes called Winter or Grafton 

 Sweeting, a fine, fair fruit, well known — it keeps 

 till April. 



By Mr. Downer, an apple, name unknown, 

 rather large, roundish, or conically formed, of a 

 white color, with a blush next the sun, of a rich, 

 agreeable, spicy and peculiar flavor. Also another 

 variety, without name, very large, flattened, of a 

 red color, striped ; of a rich, pleasant, subacid, 

 and excellent flavor. This fruit was sent from 

 Genesee, N. Y., 137 filled a barrel. 



Pears. By Mr. Payne, a variety without name, 

 of a rich and agreeable flavor. 



American Citron, by Mr. L. Ellis of Franklin. 

 A preserve of the Citron Water Melon, and resem- 

 bling in taste and substance, and equal in quality 

 to the imported citron. 



Per order of the Committee, 



William Ke.nrick. 



From the New 1 or/: Farmer. 

 CAPE FLORIDA NURSERY. 



I am told that the St. Helena will suddenly start 

 to-morrow, at 9 A. M. 1 fear these dilatory Mex- 

 icans will not have the hive of stingless bees ready. 

 I want also to send you, if possible three young 

 plants, viz : a true pulque Agave, a true He.neqn.cn 

 Agave, and a true Pita plant, Brotnelia or Fur- 

 crosa, which you should have the greatest possible 

 care taken of, as they give a death-blow to the ve- 

 racity and intelligence of Humboldt. Should they 

 go, exhibit them likewise at the American Insti- 

 tute, if they arrive in time. As I can keep my 

 nursery under way, provided J. Duboso of Cape 

 Florida is persevering, through Sagra, at Havana ; 

 and as my fellow trustees in the T. P. Company 

 seem to bold back for the law giving the township 



of land, I shall remain here till I have news of its 

 passage. Perhaps I will have time to-night to 

 write a short address to the Horticultural Society, 

 which I wish you to present and explain. If they 

 and their brethren throughout the Union would do 

 any thing in their own way, to forward the enter- 

 prise, it would soon be completed. 



II. Perrine. 

 Sept. 10, midnight, 1833. 



From Goodsell's Genesee Farmer. 

 FOREIGN GRAPE VINES. 



Mr. Goodsell — Sir: — I have some fifty grape 

 Vines of different, foreign varieties. 



They are now loaded with their third crop of 

 fruit, all of them are suffering more or less from 

 mildew. This 1 suppose was to be expected. But 

 there is one fact in regard to them, which I noticed 

 to day, while looking them over and applying 

 Prince's remedy, to which I wish to call your at- 

 tention, viz: That the fruit fartherest from the 

 ground suffers the most from mildew ; and that 

 without reference to its nearness to, or remoteness 

 from the root. Vines which grow up 3 or 4 feet, 

 and then bend over near the surface of the ground 

 again, have the fruit on their two extremities al- 

 most free from mildew, while that on their centre 

 branches, being the fartherest from the ground, 

 is almost ruined ; and some clusters lying directly 

 on the ground and hid by the leaves, have escaped 

 the malady entirely. 



I have never known low training recommended 

 as a preventive to mildew, but my experience this 

 season would seem to point to it as such. 



Yours, H. M. 



From the Northern Farmer. 

 RECIPES IN DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



Pressed Beef. — Take a piece of the flank, bris- 

 ket, or other part, freed entirely from bone, pickle 

 it, for five or six days, in a brine made of common 

 salt and sugar in the proportion of a quarter of a 

 pound of sugar to a pint of sal; ; then boil it gen- 

 tly till very tender; wrap it in a strong cloth, and 

 press it tinder a heavy weight, or in a cheese press 

 till perfectly cold. It is fine, when eaten cold, or 

 for Sandwiches. 



Hunter's Beef. — Remove the bone from a round 

 of beef weighing twenty-five pounds ; and when 

 it has hung two or three days, take three haudsful 

 of salt, lour ounces of brown sugar, one nutmeg, 

 half an ounce of cloves, and some pimento ; re- 

 duce them all to a fine powder, and rub well the 

 beef, turning and rubbing it daily for two or three 

 weeks.- — When to be dressed, dip it into cold wa- 

 ter to take oft'the loose powder ; bind it tight with 

 tape; put it into a pan with a teacup of water at 

 bottom ; put over the pan a brown crust and pa- 

 per ; and bake it five or six hours. — When cold 

 remove the crust and fillet. Cut with a sharp 

 knife, and serve cold. 



Italian Beef Stales. — Cut your stake large, from 

 a rump, that has been well hung, or from any ten- 

 der part ; beat it with a rolling pin, and season 

 with pepper, salt, and onion, if approved ; lay it 

 in an iron stew-pan, with a close cover, without 

 water ; set near the tire, let it have a strong heat ; 

 but be careftfl it does not burn. In two or three 

 hours, it will be quite tender; serve with its own 

 gravy. D. 



