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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Dec. 



least, ought to have been circulated long before 

 this time. 



It is not a little remarkable that -while Mr. 

 Hunt, a plain and almost unlearned man, has 

 been slowly working out the problem, How to 

 have good bread without fermentation, science, 

 unknown to him, has been accomplishing the 

 same thing the other side of the water. For we 

 learn from the Illustrated Inventor, that Dr. 

 Danglish, of Great Malvern, in England, has pa- 

 tented an improvement on the preparation of 

 dough, from which is manufactured an absolutely 

 pure bread, which, without fermentation, is so 

 sweet and tender as to surprise everybody who 

 has tasted it. The advantages which Dr. Dang- 

 lish claims, in its behalf, are the following : 



"1, There is a saving of the whole of the waste 

 caused by fermentation, which averages fully ten 

 per cent. Thus ten per cent, more bread is made 

 out of a sack of flour, than by the old process. 



"2. The process, instead of occupying eight to 

 ten hours (in raising, moulding, baking, &c.,) is 

 completed in half an hour. 



"3. The cost of machinery and gas is less than 

 that of the yeast used in the old process. 



"4. The dough requires scarcely any handling 

 to form it into loaves. 



"5. The bread is absolutely pure. It is simply 

 flour, water and salt. 



"6. Finally, should the whole of the bread in 

 the kingdom be thus made, a saving would be ef- 

 fected of an amount equal to our (the British) 

 entire importation of foreign wheat." 



We do hope, most sincerely, that this subject 

 will attract public attention both here and in 

 England ; especially, as it can be no longer plead- 

 ed that it has been agitated by none but the un- 

 scientific and unskilful. If there be a discovery 

 based on the principles of sound science, both 

 chemical and physiological, it is this, which teach- 

 es us how to make good, light, sweet and perfect 

 bread of simple meal and water. 



Auburndale, Sept. 4, 185S. W. A. Alcott. 



LIME ON" ORCHARDS. 



The value of lime for many purposes in agri- 

 culture, is no longer a theoretical question, but 

 an admitted fact. On orchards, its efi'ects have 

 been very surprising — and such, indeed, as to 

 surprise even the most incredulous. For many 

 uses, lime in the stone is preferable, if it is of a 

 character that admits of its being reduced to a 

 condition sufficiently fine for its application, for 

 it then contains about fifty per cent, of carbon, a 

 principle which enters largely into vegetables. 

 Calcination, or burning, drives off the carbon, 

 and renders caustic lime mild. In its freshly- 

 slaked state, its application is, in most cases, 

 attended with disadvantage, as its causticity 

 proves harmful in many ways. In regard to the 

 application of lime on orchards it may be re- 

 marked that the fall is perhaps as favorable a 

 season, ou many accounts, as can be selected. 

 Its efi'ects arc slow and lasting, and when spread 

 on orchard grounds in August, or even in Sep- 

 tember or October, it will be felt the following 

 year ; whereas if applied in the spring, no ad- 

 vantage would accrue till the subsequent year, 

 which would be a dead loss to the owner of one 

 year's use of the pecuniary capital involved in 



the outlay of the experiment. In some cases, 

 the favorable effects of lime have been clearly 

 apparent for twenty years. 



Old lime from the walls of buildings, is an ex- 

 cellent stimulant for fruit trees of all kinds; it 

 acts immediately, and it acts long. In one case, 

 a farmer who was engaged in repairing his dwell- 

 ing, ordered a portion of the old plastering taken 

 from the wall of one of his rooms, to be thrown 

 from a window, where it was accidentally brought 

 in contact with a plum tree which had always 

 been unproductive, and a mere "cumberer of the 

 ground." The subsequent year, however, it was 

 filled with fruit. This change was owing to the 

 lime, doubtless, as similar results have followed 

 its application in various, indeed, in innumerable 

 cases of a like character. We advise every per- 

 son, therefore, who is the owner of an old and 

 decayed orchard, to lose no time in giving each 

 tree a dressing of lime, or, better still, if he can 

 procure it, of old plaster. A peck to a tree of 

 middling size, and half a bushel to a large one,* 

 is sufficient, according to the experience of manv ; 

 but though we would by all means recommend 

 the application of even these small quantities 

 when larger quantities cannot be procured, yet 

 we should sooner advise a bushel and a half. 

 We have no more faith in starving a tree or a hill 

 of Indian corn, than we have in starving an ox 

 or a horse. The "penny wise and pound fool- 

 ish" policy, adopted by so many, is a bad one for 

 the farmer. It always results in loss. 



AMERICAN PLOWS. 



But a few persons are probably aware of the 

 demand upon New England skill and industry 

 for articles resulting from mechanical labor, and 

 made of wood and iron ; they are generally much 

 better informed upon the subject of cotton and 

 woollen goods, because they are manufactured by 

 the aggregation of more capital, and have, per- 

 haps, been considered more of a leading interest 

 among our people. But we do not excel more in 

 the latter than in the former, and the demand 

 for each is much nearer alike, than most persons 

 suppose. 



The amount of furniture, such as chairs, bed- 

 steads, sofas, bureaus, desks, tables, book-cases — 

 of boots and shoes, hollow ware of wood and 

 iron, &c. &c., is enormous, that is annually sent 

 out from New England. 



The demand for agricultural implements is now 

 beyond all precedent, and the wide world seems 

 to have its arms open to receive them, and with 

 purse extended to pay the bills. And the de- 

 mand is not the most active in the oldest settle- 

 ments, but in new regions, Oregon. California, 

 Vancouver's Island, Africa, Chili, the regions of 

 the Amazon, and even the islands of the Pacific 

 Ocean. 



We learn that a few days since the manufac- 

 turing house of NouRSE, Mason & Co., of this 

 city, accepted an order to furnish a large amount 

 of plows of various patterns, which order has 



