1858. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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cross plow, harrow, set out the trees, plant, and 

 dress the land with manure. Now would it be 

 desirable to set out the trees in the coming 

 spring, or wait until the land is in a better state 

 of cultivation ? (b.) 



What variety of apple should I select ? (c.) 

 How deep, and how far apart should 1 set the 

 trees ? (d.) 



How should they be manured, if at all ? What 

 dealer in trees will furnish me the best trees, 

 taken up and packed, in the best manner, and at 

 the most liberal price ? (e.) 



And lastly, will the enterprise pay any way ? (f.) 



You will excuse me for presuming to this extent 



upon your time and patience, but you will allow 



me to repeat, that by giving your opinions on 



this matter you will highly oblige me. 



Berry, N. H., Aug. 5, 1858, x. H. B. 



Remarks. — (a.) Dig the trench three or four 

 feet wide, and three feet deep, or even lower, if 

 the digging is easy, fill with cobble stones, and 

 use the earth thrown out to fill the stone holes 

 that you get out to make the wall. 



(b.) Set the trees as soon as you can, as by 

 the time the roots have extended themselves your 

 land will be in condition to feed them. 



(c.) We cannot answer about varieties — the 

 Baldwin seems to be the standard apple yet. 

 Sweet apples will be profitable for the family and 

 for stock, but, strange to say, they do not sell 

 readily in the market to any amount. You should 

 have half a dozen trees, at least, of the russet 

 sweet ; it is well known by the smooth warts which 

 always mark this variety. 



(d.) Set the trees as deep as they stood in the 

 nursery, and if you can afford to cover so much 

 ground and manure and cultivate it, set the trees 

 40 feet apart each way. Manufe as you would 

 for a good crop of corn, and plant the orchard 

 with corn for several years. 



(e.) You must look at the advertisements for 

 information on this point. Have you called up- 

 on Mr. Wilson, of Windham, or Mr. Tenney, at 

 Chester, or Cutter or Clement, of Dracut ? Col. 

 M. P. Wilder, of Boston, furnishes good trees, 

 and our neighbor Buckminster, of the Plough- 

 man, raises and sells a„ a fair price as good trees 

 as ever were set in any man's orchard. 



(f.) Pay, certainly, if you manage it properly. 



American Pomological Society. — The 7th 

 meeting of the American Pomological Society 

 took place in New York city on Tuesday, Sept. 

 14th. President Wilder took the Chair and 

 made the opening Address. Discussions of much 

 interest succeeded, in which many valuable facts 

 were elicited, some of which we hope to transfer 

 to our columns. Col. Wilder, though having re- 

 signed the office of President, was re-elected by 

 resolution. 



jFor the New England Farmer. 



FANNINQ AND GKAIN" ASSORTING 

 MACHINE. 



Mr. Brown : — Have you ever seen Nutting's 

 Patent Grain Fanning and Assorting Machine ? 

 Well, is it not a wonder even in this age of won- 

 ders? I have just now been witnessing a trial 

 of (hat same "little giant" of a machine, and am 

 compelled to exclaim, "how wonderful are its 

 works." 



It seems incredible, that such a cheap and sim- 

 ple machine, can perform so intricate a task, as 

 to receive a horrid confusion of all sorts of seeds, 

 grain, chaff' and dirt, and with the celerity and 

 certainty of intelligence itself, purify and divide 

 the whole mass, emitting each kind in a separate 

 parcel, with such accuracy that it never fails tc 

 astonish the beholders ! 



Do I exaggerate, when I estimate the intrinsic 

 value of such an invention, as being unsurpassed 

 by any agricultural implement among the many 

 with which the world is now being honored and 

 blessed ? 



If he is a public benefactor, who causes two 

 blades of grass to grow where only one grew be- 

 fore, what shall we say of him who offers the 

 means, within the reach of everybody, by which 

 vegetation may be purified from worthless and 

 noxious growth, with which it abounds, and made 

 fit for the public use? 



Perhaps a briefly detailed statement of what 

 the machine is, and what it does, may not be un- 

 interesting to your readers, and so I will try to 

 give it "as I saw it." It is a plain, simple, cheaply 

 made, and apparently very durable and conven- 

 iently proportioned machine, not unlike in its 

 appearance to some other fanning mills ; but with 

 its outward appearances ends its similitude to any 

 other with which I am acquainted. Its interior 

 and working arrangements being constructed on 

 philosophical and experimentally tested princi- 

 ples, adapted to secure the end sought, namely, 

 the complete cleaning and assorting of the vai'i- 

 ous useful gi'ains and seeds from all impuri- 

 ties ; and this is done, as before stated, with al- 

 most perfect precision, and very rapidly. With 

 it, wheat is prepared for flouring without being 

 submitted to the smut mills, thus saving more 

 or less, always considerable, of seeds and small 

 gi-ain, valuable for provender or to feed to fowls, 

 which is screened off" in the smutting process 

 and lost to the owner of the grist. It will like- 

 wise prepare wheat (and all other grain and 

 seeds) so that it shall be fit to be sown ; not only 

 rejecting all oats and foul seeds, but selecting 

 from the whole the largest and most perfect kei-- 

 nels, which alone ought to be used for seed. No 

 intelligent corn-grower does less than to select 

 for seed his best ears, and often from those ears 

 rejects the smaller kernels. Now who doubts the 

 wisdom of such precaution? But is more care 

 necessary in the selection of seed corn than in 

 seed wheat ? It is a law of nature that "like 

 produces like" — so if farmers would raise clean 

 and perfect grain, they must sow clean and per- 

 fect seed. With this machine, grass seeds are 

 cleaned ready for market and use, Avithout the 

 resort of hand sifting, as is usually practised. 

 So, too, peas and beans, whether designed for 

 cooking or for seedsmen's sales, may be perfectly 



