Vol. X.— No. 10. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



75 



Tlie two heifers calved iij.;iiin, <jne in June and 

 the other July, 1831, and they were sold for $8 

 itjaking the total sum realized from the two heif- 

 ers, 898,91. 



During all this time, the family was sup|ilied 

 with milk, of which no account was made. — jVcio- 

 huryporl Advertiser. 



A valuable Cow — In Wnlth;itn, a cow ei;,'iit 

 years old owned by Nathan Sandcr.-oi], has yield- 

 «d the following quantity of milk in one year, viz : 

 From May HA, 1330, (when she 



calved) to Oct. 23, 612 gallons. 



From Oct. 23, to Dec. 2, 104j" do. 



From Dec. 2. to April 20, 331" do. 



From April 20, to May, 2-1, 93J. ilo. 



1141 galls. 

 It being an average nf 3 46-305 gallons per 

 day. Her quantity of iriilk per day at the pres- 

 ent time is ten quarts. She is e.xpected to bring 

 another calf March 4, 1832. Her milk in one 

 week fuiliished 13 Ihs. of butter. — Boston Patriot. 



From the Genesee Far 



For a particular purpose, soon after the young 

 grapes were set, I loosened some of my vines from 

 the trellis, and let parts of them lie on the ground, 

 so that many of the bunches had the soil daslied 

 .over them in heavy rains. JVot one of these 

 hunches, has any appearance of mildew, while on 

 the same vines at the height <d' one foot or more 

 many are damaged by that blight. Several kinds 

 of grapes are included in these remarks, sucii as 

 the Sweet water, Miller's Burgundy, Black Orleans, 

 Red Color, &c. 



I stale the factforthe piu'pose of calling tlm at- 

 tention of horticulturists to the subject, before 

 the season for extending such observations shall 

 be past. I have not much to say in regard to 

 the cause. There are some bunches near the 

 ground so protected by the leaves as to have been 

 scarcely soiled at any time, and yet are free from 

 mildew ; and so are some higher on the vines. It 

 may be therefore difficult to come to any (lositive 

 conclusion, although the first idea that jiresents 

 is, that our calcareous loam is destructive to the 

 mildew when it conies in contact. We inay next 

 inquire whether grajies that lie on tlie ground, are 

 free from mddew in other soils? and wheth- 

 er the satne result may be expscied in other sea- 

 sons ? ' 1). T. 



JVew England Glass Bottle Company. — This 

 company went into operation in January, 1S27 — 

 and the manufacture of glass bottles, of every de- 

 scription, has since been very successfully pros- 

 ecuted. There are now maimfacturing one hun- 

 dred and fifty gross of bottles per week, which far 

 exceeds the amount made in the same time by 

 any other factory in Europe or America. A hy- 

 draulic press, for testing the strength of the bot- 

 tles, has been obtained, which operates with per- 

 fect equality on every species of bottle subnnlted 

 to its operation. A table is given of the compar- 

 ative strength of English, Bristol, and American, 

 Boston, porter bottles, by which it is shown that 

 the latter are altogether superior to the former. 

 The same results were elicited in regard to the 

 comparative strength of Fiench claret and cham- 

 paigne bottles, and those for the same purpose of 

 American manufacture. Let those concerned, 

 patronize the American product. 



.Vcat Firms, i,-c. — There is no surer index of a 

 Farmer's qualification as a good husbandman, 

 than the external ajipearance of his domicil. Tight 

 barns, strong fences and walls, gates in order, clean 

 door yard, a house with unbroken windows and 

 water proof, spacious wood sheds, &c, are certain 

 iiiilicalions that a snug industrious Yeoman lives 

 within ;the free use of white wash and paint shows 

 that lie has some taste, and a clean door yard that 

 his boys are never idle. Of this dcscrifition we 

 have many in this town, but we wish there wore 

 more. We advise those who are indifferent to 

 these improvements to visit the farm of our towns- 

 man, Mr Abel B. IIeyvvood, where they will 

 find all that ive have enumerated alove ; if they do not 

 then blush for their own slovenly management at 

 home and resolve to follow his praise worthy ex- 

 ample, we shall set them down as unworthy of 

 being ranked as members of the Middlesex Agricul- 

 tural Society. — Concord Gazette. 



At a recent meeting of the Horticultural Soci- 

 ety a pa])er was read, entitled, ' An account of 

 the different modes of keeping fruit, which have 

 been tried at the Society's garden for the season, 

 1831.' The statement was drawn up at the garden, 

 and eimmerated eight dilTerent modes ; the three 

 best, and most practicable of which were, the 

 covering of the fruit in pure and perfectly dry 

 sand, dry fern, or in a deal box buried in tlie earth. 

 By any of these modes it was preserved, free from 

 shrivelling and any disagreeable flavor — in all it 

 must be deposited in a cold situation. By the 

 other five modes, although the fruit was preserved 

 in a pretty sound state, a musty flavor was found 

 to be conunuuicated ; this was especially the case 

 where oat chafT was the medium. 



pounds and fifteen ounces — and which, with a 

 smaller cluster, weighed, more than four and a 

 half p.jimds. They were rich and luxuriant — and 

 while they were permitted to remain on our tablo 

 I'or examination, we were sorely tempted to em- 

 idale the example of mother Eve. Nevertheless, 

 unlike her, we refrained. — Con. Mirror. 



Railroads. — We should snpi)Ose if anything 

 would arouse our citizens from their indifTerence 

 towards public improvements in general and rail 

 roads in particular, it woidd be such matter of fact 

 statements as the following from the Albany Daily 

 Advertiser. The nirmber of jjassengers on the 

 Mohawk rail road is now about 500 daily; and 

 when the locomotive runs, it will bo doubled in 

 as much as there are now stages running at the 

 intervals of time to accommodate iboso who do not 

 arrive at the three stated hours, to which by the 

 use of horses the company is now confined. The 

 Manchester road realized to its proprietors, fi'iOO - 

 000 in nine weeks. This one, (half its length) will 

 go near realizing half this amount in the same tinje. 

 At the present rate of travel it will be about $34,. 

 000, and if it increases, it will come up to .$45,000 

 or nearly so, for the nine weeks ! — Traveller. 



.Inother rail road. — We are authorized and re- 

 quested to state, that at a mcetinnp of stockholders 

 of the Albany aiul Schenectady turnpike company 

 on Saturday last, in the city of Albany, it was re- 

 solved to construct a rail road on or near the site 

 of the present turnpike, with all possible despatch. 

 We understand it is intended to make a double 

 track with a M'Adamized road between, twenty 

 feet wide. — Ibid. 



Rail road stock. — The stock in the Philadelphia, 

 Germantown, and Norristown Rail Road, has ad- 

 vanced ten dollars for five paid. A few weeks ago 

 it was sold for 7,62J-. 



CATERPILLARS. 



We are sorry to notice the extension of this de- 

 structive insect far and wide over fruit and forest 

 trees around us ; its ravag-es have never been 

 known so sudden and so fruitful as this season 

 presents. A fiirmer called upon us the other day 

 and stated that he had just returned from a wood- 

 lot, many of the trees of which were entirely di- 

 vested of their foliage ; there is scarcely a fruit 

 or forest shrub in this town, which does not pre- 

 sent one or more clusters of their offensive and 

 injurious nests. But two or three weeks have 

 elapsed since we first noticed their appearance, 

 and now the eye can scarcely rest upon any foU 

 iage which has not its accompaniment, — a Cat 

 erpillar's nest. 



Now, it appears to us, that unless a speedy and 

 efficacious remedy is applied for their destruction, 

 that a most grievous evil will be entailed ; it is 

 supposed the continued moist atmosphere has been 

 instrumental in producing them, and before they 

 have opportunity of depositing their eggs, they 

 ought to be thoroughly destroyed, otherwise, the 

 next season will bring out its renewed host : the 

 best remedies which have been suggested may be 

 familiar to every farmer's ear, but yet they may 

 forget its practice; a swab made of coarse ra^s 

 on the end of a long pole, well saturated with 

 soap-suds or the cheapest oil, will wholly destroy 

 them — we devoutly wish it might. — JYcrlhampton 



Grapes. — We were shown, yesterday, a cluster 

 of large White Grapes, raised in the garden of 

 Mr James B. Sudltas, which weighed two ' ation the present year. 



The Boston Patriot says — Dr King, of North 

 Carolina, a philosopher of considerable repute, who 

 has lectured in this city for some time past, main- 

 tains a new theory respecting lightning rods, that 

 they should not be smooth, but rough and ja""ed 

 that each small point may detach its portion of 

 electric fluid. It is said that the rod upon the 

 State House is altered in this manner. 



[We would here recommend Robinson's improv- 

 ed insulating Glass blocks^- for securing the rods 

 to buildings, which we consider the greatest im- 

 provement, in fixing uplightJiing rods that has ta- 

 ken place. They can be had at the Agrfcultural 

 Warehouse, Boston.] 



PEACH grubs! 



This is the proper season to examine the roots 

 of peach trees for the purpose of destroying the 

 young grubs, as the eggs which were deposited by 

 the fly, are all hatched out at this time, and a lit- 

 tle attention will destroy them. As they have not 

 buried themselves deep at this season, boiling 

 water poured into the crown, after removin" the 

 dirt will destroy most of them ; the remainder af- 



ter a few days should be dug out with tin 



pouit 



of a knife. Their hiding places may be easily 

 discovered by the gum which exudes being filled 

 with red dust, like saw dust. A little attention 

 spring and fall will secure your trees against this 

 enemy to peach trees. — Genesee Fanner. 



A steam cotton factory of 4300 spindles is erect- 

 ing at Providence, and a similar one at Newport ; 

 both of which it is expected, will commence oper- 



