18 40. 



thh i;i;m:si;h farmer. 





EXIERIMENTS WITH NEW VEGETABLES 



1st. I bought a few "Early Emperor Peas" of 

 Thorbdrn, New N "rk, ;it *1 50 per quart, early in 

 May, : 1 1 1 1 planted 10th of May. Without any extra 

 care, they were ready for the table on 15th June, — 

 35 days. The Early Prince Albert Peae I planted 

 on tin- 8th <-f April, Bide by side, and they were npl 

 lit lor table use till the 1 3th of Juno, — one month 

 difference in time; hut allowance must be made for 

 bad weather in April. 



■_'.!. 1 bought, at the fame time and place, one 

 *•/■:<//•/;/ Sovereign Potato? Planted LOth of May. 

 They ripened, sound, (and <o|>s dried, although in a 

 damp spot,) as early as the 17th of July — 2 months 

 and 7 days. 



3d. I also pot one car of a now kind (I did not 

 get the name, hut will yet do so,) of sweet corn, 

 very superior, which ripened ten days before the 

 common Early Canada. The Canada is early, but 

 hard and not pood, you know. 



4th. " Wait's Queen of Dwarf Peas," which I 

 also bought of Thorburn, at $1 50 per quart, prove 

 to be of ihajirst quality, and great bearers, although 

 the vinos do not prow over 9 to 12 inches high with 

 good care, — yet the vines are so stocky that it will 

 not do to drop the peas nearer than a single pea from 

 6 to 8 inches apart. 1 think these and the "Early 

 Emperor" pea will be valuable kinds to cultivate 

 here. Yours, Respectfully. R. G. Pardee. — Pal- 

 myra, JY. Y., August, 1849. 



DRILLING IN WHEAT. 



We are convinced that putting in wheat with a 

 drill is not only the preferable plan, but that a great 

 saving of seed may be effected by it, and an increased 

 produce obtained. To sow a 100 acre field broad- 

 cast, as it ought to be, will require 200 bushels of 

 seed: whereas 1 25 bushels, if put in with the machine, 

 will answer fully as well, thereby saving 75 bushels 

 in 100 acres. The ridge raised by the machine 

 protects.the plants through the winter; and in spring, 

 if the roots should be thrown out, many, if not most 

 of them, will be covered by the crumbling down of 

 the ridges. All that would be necessary to render 

 this certain, would be, in the spring, to pass a roller 

 over the field, as soon as the frost was out of the 

 ground and the soil dry, as the pressing down, or 

 compression of the ridges, would necessarily cover 

 up most of the roots that might be found exposed 

 upon the surface, and thus ensure their taking root 

 and growing. Besides the interval between the 

 drills would secure a free circulation of air through 

 the plants while growing, and be particularly ser- 

 vicable in preserving, to a very great extent, the 

 grain from rust. If the cause of this disease be 

 atmospheric, and we believe it is, the free circulation 

 of air could not fail to be productive of the good we 

 have claimed for it. — American Farmer. 



Indian Corn. — To show the increasing demand 

 for our Indian corn in Great Britain, we would state 

 that by the official report, as it appeared in the N. Y. 

 Shipping List, the quantity of corn exported in June, 



was 1,287,369 bushels, which is greater by 550,486 



bushels than in the month of June, 1847, wheim(the use of the learned. Nothing should be admitted in 



prices ranged from 8"? to 117 cts. per bushel, and 

 greater, we believe, than was ever shipped in any- 

 previous month. 



CULTURE OF PLUMS. -THE CURCULIO. 

 Ma. Editor: — Your correspondent in Ma\ nun 



ber has boon eery fortunate in discovering, in sul- 

 phur, an effectual reined) lor the Curculio. I I 

 the experiment the pi on, on plum tre< 



Beveral varieties, and although nol without i 

 vol the resull was not entirely Batisfru tory that sul- 

 phur is a sure preventive. Perhaps this mi 

 some measure be owing to the sorts or varieties; 

 mine were the Impel . ••, Duane's Purple, 



Washington and others. •! Bnd some sorts are far 

 more liable to be stung than others- which 



I may name Duane's Purple and Huling' 

 both fine large varieties. The insect is rapidly in- 

 creasing here. It is not until within a 

 that they have meddled with our peaches*; the pres- 

 ent season being a scarce one, they are mostly cut 

 off by the insect. Even the common frog pei 

 are not excused. Your correspondent wan right in 

 stating that Downing said he never knew an in- 

 stance of their being troublesome in a hoa\ 

 He does so state, page 267. I can assure hint it is 

 no exception here. The abundance of i' 

 here is owing to the fact that no means are em] 

 for their destruction. Many are ignorant of the 

 real cause of their plums falling off, and farmers are 

 usually too busy to attend to it. The general lack 

 of Agricultural and Horticultural knowledge is 

 another cause of this evil. If such works as the 

 Genesee Farmer were more generally introduced 

 into families, an interest would be awakened, that 

 would have the effect of making people bestow a 

 little extra trouble for the sake of having fin? fruit. 



J. H. W. will oblige by stating tfie particular 

 time he applied the sulphur, with any other informa- 

 tion he may possess on the subject. Wm. Wti.de. 

 — Vermillion, Erie Co., O/'no, July, 1849. 



Remarks. — We have no faith whatever in sulphur 

 as a remedy for the Curculio. Wherever practicable 

 stone fruits should be planted in a separate enclosure, 

 and pigs and poultry be kept among them to consume 

 the fallen fruit. This in a short time, will destroy 

 the insects. The Curculio has not done as much 

 mischief as usual in this vicinity, the present season. 

 Our plums and apricots are very fine and abundant. 

 In small places, paving around the trees answers a 

 very good purpose. — Ed» 



BOTANICAL TERMS. 



Messrs. Editors: — I wish to express my decided 

 disapprobation of the use of the terms male and 

 female, to distinguish the two classes of organs that 

 are found in flowers, called the organs of fructifi- 

 cation. Whatever cause may have operated with 

 the founder of our present system of Botany, for the 

 introduction of these terms, that cause does not now 

 exist. There is not the shadow of a necessity for 

 the continuance of their use in a science now abun- 

 dantly supplied with technicals; the terms gtaminale 

 and pistillate answering every purpose that can be 

 answered by the others. The teacher who under- 

 takes to instruct a mixed class of intelligent, and 

 perhaps, inquisitive pupils in Botany, will find it 

 very difficult. If these terms must be retained (for 

 which I can see no necessity,) let them be confined 

 to those treatises that are designed exclusively for 



talk text-book for schools, or a reading-book for fami- 

 lies, which can awaken the least shadow of indelica- 

 cy, or wound tho most delicate sensibility. h. 



