VOL. XII. NO. 48. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



387 



ALTERNATE HUSBANDRY 



Has been a principal means of converting one 



of the poorest counties of England, the county of 

 Norfolk, into one of the must productive and weal- 

 thy. Most of this comity possesses a sandy soil. 

 Sixty years ago summer fallows, according to 

 Young, were common there, and fields were left 

 in grass three years. At the close of the last cen- 

 tury, according to the same writer, no such things 

 as summer fallows were known, and grass was 

 left but two years. The number of horses was les- 

 sened ; ploughings were not so frequent, often hut 

 one for barley ; and some trusted to scarifying, and 

 succeeded well. This change of system had the 

 effect to increase the product one quarter and one 

 third. The same system is coming into operation 

 upon our sandy soils, and with equal if not greater 

 advantages. — The Cultivator. 



PEAS. 



Those who would sow peas for seed, and who 

 wish to raise them free from hugs, should consult 

 the climate, and watch the time when the pea bugs 

 deposit their eggs, note the time necessary for 

 peas, after sowing, to arrive at that stage when 

 hugs could deposite their eggs iu the young fruit, 

 and defer sowing until it shall be too late to have 

 them injured. 



In this vicinity, by sowing the Marrowfat about 

 the tenth of June, and the Blue some eight 01 ten 

 days earlier, they will not be injured. 



Where peas are designed for feeding hogs in 

 autumn, they should be sown early, as by hat 

 course the crop is greater than when sown late, as 

 above, and the ground may be prepared earlier for 

 wheat. The egg which is deposited in the young 

 pea, does not injure it for feeding to stock in the 

 fall. — GoodstWs Farmer. 



corn-plants, in the same hill. What farmer would 

 undertake to breed indifferently from a healthy, or 

 a sickly race of animals ? Why not apply the same 

 principle to vegetable productions? 



The additional quantity of seed, recommended 

 in the culture of this crop, the expense of which is 

 but trilling, enables the husbandman to select the 

 healthy plants only, for the crop, removing all the 

 sickly ones : and with them, the danger, if any 

 exists, of communicating disease to such as re- 

 main. Within a few days, an intelligent farmer 

 who had seen the experiment tried, expressed to 

 us the fullest belief, that this improvement in plant- 

 ing bad added one fourth, to the quantity and value 

 of Ins crop. — Northern Farmer. 



NEW -WAY TO CATCH PISH. 



We were much pleased with a story told us 

 the other day, respecting the method sometimes 

 adopted to catch trouts in the lakes in the back 

 part of this State. A steel trap is taken and a 

 piece of pork is tied upon the plate, the trap set 

 and lowered down in the water. His troutship, 

 who is not always eager to bite, but often prefers 

 smelling and nibbling a little before he makes the 

 fatal grab, comes up to reconnoitre, and while ac- 

 cording to his custom he is turning the pork over 

 with his nose, he springs the trap upon himself 

 and is drawn up nabbed like an unlucky rat, by 

 his head and shoulders. — Maine Farmer. 



AN EXPERIMENT ON OATS. 



Having sown the same oats for several years 

 without changing the seed, my crops became 

 fuller and fuller every year of the blaelt dvsl head 

 or blast, until the loss from this cause, amounted 

 to one half the crop: and when thrashed out, the 

 black dust was so suffocating that tie laborers 

 were made sick by it. 1 determined n 1S32 to 

 change the seed, and got one bundrel bushels of 

 the purest seed that could be procured in Rich- 

 mond ; they did not quite hold out to sow all the 

 land intended, and I had to use some of my own 

 impure seed — which I washed effectually in very 

 strong lime water, and allowed them to remain in 

 the lime water the night before sowing. It proved 

 an effectual remedy ; the product was decidedly 

 more clean on harvesting than that from the seed 

 procured in Richmond, although that was tolera- 

 bly pure. — Farmer's Register. 



NEW MODE OF GROWING ONIONS. 



After the beds are formed and the seed plant- 

 ed in rows, in the usual way, the spaces between 

 the rows are covered with strips of board of such 

 width as will leave from two to two and a half in- 

 ches between them for the rows. These boards 

 are suffered to remain tintil the growth of the onion 

 is considerably advanced, and until it begins to 

 bottom ; when they are removed and laid up for 

 another year. This covering prevents the growth 

 of weeds ; keeps the ground from becoming too 

 dry or too wet; screens it from the cold night air, 

 and is said greatly to promote the growth of plants, 

 as well as to save much labor in keeping down 

 the weeds. If the boards are whitewashed, they 

 will permit less heat to pass off during the night. 

 — JVorthern Farmer. 



CORN. 



One of the most important improvements, intro- 

 duced by scientific fanners in the culture of this 

 very important crop, within a few years, is the 

 planting of from four to six times the usual quan- 

 tity of seed ; and, at the first hoeing, pulling up 

 all but the proper number of plants, leaving the 

 best and most thrifty ones to form the future crop. 

 Experiment has shown the great advantages re- 

 sulting from this course, if confidence is to be 

 placed in the reports of our most successful farm- 

 ers, upon this subject ; or if science and the laws 

 of analogy are to be trusted in this, as well as in 

 other cases. Every farmer must have seen the 

 difference in the size, appearance and thrift of the 



Chickweed. — Some farmers have said that if they 

 could cover up the open spaces in their fields 

 which occur between their crops, with boards, they 

 would want no other manure. Now if this opin- 

 ion be adopted, it may follow that although chick- 

 weed abstracts some nourishment from the soil, yet 

 its leaves and stems, acting in lieu of the boards, may 

 completely counterbalance that loss. — G. Fanner. 



of fruits and flowers in the ensuing autumn, made 

 a report, and offered the following resolution, 

 which was adopted: 



Resolved, That the Committee appointed at a 

 former meeting to take into consideration the pro- 

 priety of a public exhibition the ensuing autumn, 

 be authorized to proceed with the same if it shall 

 appear to them practicable ; and in case the re- 

 ceipts shall fall short of the amount of expenses 

 attending the same, the deficiency shall be reim- 

 bursed from the funds of the Society. 



Voted, That a committee be chosen for the pur- 

 pose of carrying into execution the above resolu- 

 tion. 



Messrs. Geo. W. Pratt, J. P. Bradlee, Wm. E. 

 Payne, J. G. Joy, Jona. Winship, David Hagger- 

 ston, Samuel Walker, Dr. S. A. ShurtlefT,. Thos. 

 Mason, Chas. Senior, R. L. Emmons, C. M. Hovey, 

 Wm. Kenrick, were appointed the committee. 



Voted, That the Secretary be authorized to no- 

 tify the chairman of the said committee of his elec- 

 tion, with a copy of the resolution passed at this 

 meeting, and requesting a meeting of the commit- 

 tee at the rooms of the society on Saturday the 

 14th inst. 



Messrs. Win. T. Andrews and Lorenzo Prouty 

 of Boston, and Frederic Hayden of Lincoln were 

 admitted Subscription Members. 



The following letter was received from H. J. 

 Finn, Esq. of Newport, R. I. 



Boston, June "ilh, 1S34. 

 Dear Sir — In reply to your polite communica- 

 tion, which honors me with the title of " Corres- 

 ponding Member of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society," I request that you will present my 

 best acknowledgments to the President and Di- 

 rectors of the Institution ; and assure them, that 

 as far as my bumble efforts and example may ex- 

 tend, they shall be exerted to promote the interests 

 of that Science, which may date its present pow- 

 erful influence from the formation of the Society, 

 and the practical superiority of its distinguished 

 members. 



With sentiments of great respect for them, and 

 personal regard for yourself, I remain, your oblig- 

 ed friend, Henry J. Finn. 

 Z. Cook, Jun. Esq. 



Adjourned to Saturday, June 14th, at 1 1 o'clock, 

 A. M. Chas. M. Hoyey, 



Secretary pro tern. 



Rochester, A 1 ": Y. The young men of Rochester 

 have had Temperance meetings in all the wards of 

 that Village. Young men in every part of the 

 union can greatly advance the cause by setting 

 themselves zealously to work. 



MASS. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A stated meeting of the Mass. Hort. Society 

 was held at their rooms, No. 81 Cornhill, on Sat- 

 urday, June 7tb, the Vice President presiding. 



The Secretary being absent, Chas. M. Hovey 

 was chosen Secretary pro tern. 



The Chairman of the committee chosen at a 

 former meeting to take into consideration the ex- 

 pediency of the Society's having a public exhibition 



EXHIBITED. 



Pajonia moutan Banksse (or tree Paeony), from 

 Hon. Jona. Hunnewell, Roxbury. 



Pseonia moutan Banksa>, P. rosea, Scotch roses, 

 &c. from Mr. Wm. Kenrick. 



Azalea nudiflora, and flammea, Poeonia moutan 

 Banksse and aristina, Early white Italian Honey- 

 suckle (Lonicera caprifolium album), Magnolia cor- 

 data and Scotch joses, from Mr. John Kenrick, 

 Newton. 



A bouquet of Flowers, consisting of Roses, Ge- 

 raniums, &c. from Mr. Thomas Mason, Charles- 

 town. 



Preonia officinalis rubra, and Guilder Roses (Vi- 

 burnum opulus,) from Messrs. Hovey. 



For the Committee, Chas. M. Hovet. 



A handsome specimen of the Mackay Sweeting 

 Apple, in good preservation, was presented by 

 Capt. Mackay of Weston. 



For the Committee, E. Voss. 



