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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



October 24, 1832. 



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Boston, Wednesday Evening, October 34, 1833. 



BLACK SEA WINTER WHEAT. 



Extract of a letter from E. Marvin, Esq. a distinguished 

 farmei- in Cliataiique county, N. Y. to to the editor of 

 the New England Farmer. 



"The best and largest kernelled wheat I had 

 this season was sown in January. Tliis has inva- 

 riably been the case with the Black S.'^a wheat in 

 this section of the country. Wheat that will bear 

 late sowing escapes three important accidents: it 

 will not be thrown out of the ground by frost, nor 

 killed by deep snows, and no insect can find a 

 home in the stalker root d tiring the winter ; so 

 that if the spring is favorable, there is nothing to 

 prevent its coming forward with a strong and rap- 

 id growth. We usually have, as you do on the 

 sea-board, three or four days in January in which 

 the frost is out of the top of the ground ; I then 

 sow my Black Sea Wheat, and prefer it to a crop 

 of spring wheat." 



03" Mr Russell has just received a few bushels of 

 this valuable grain from Mr Marvin— for sale at the 

 New England Farmer ofiBce. It is well cleaned from 

 all foul seeds, and has a very plump kernel. 



At this meeting, Mr Nathaniel Faxon of Bos' 

 ton, was admitted as a member. 



WILLIAM KENRICK. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



SiTURDii, Oct. 20, 1832. 

 FRUITS EXUIBITED. 



Apples. By Dr Fiske of Worcester, a very 

 large Red Api)le of a fine and rather swcel flavor, 

 name unknown ; from his late father's farm in 

 Brookfield. Also, a very beauiifulVjark red ap- 

 ple of handsoine size nnil very srfert — a native 

 fruit. Holland Pippin, called (Quince Apple at Wor- 

 cester, very large. By E. Bartlett, Esq.Vicc Pres. 

 Royal Pound, a very large,oblong apple, ribbed at its 

 sides, of a green color, but not in eating. By John 

 Mackay, Esq. of Weston, Mackny Sweeting, a large 

 globular formed apple, of a fine straw color and 

 very beautiful ; of a very pleasant and slightly acid 

 taste. Also, Maiden^s Blush, Holland Pippin, K. 

 I. Greening, Baldicins, Roxhiry Russetings, all 

 very fine specimens; and may very justly compete 

 for the premium. By II. Manning of Salem, from 

 a native tree in IMiddleton, a beautiful apple of 

 handsome size and flat form ; striped with red on 

 a yellowish ground ; of a sweet and fine flavor. 



By Mr Vila, specimens from his country resi- 

 dence, Bedford, of a yellow, round, and very hand- 

 some apple, of medium size, with a blush next 

 the sun — name unknown — not in eating. 



By Mr Thomas C. Hay ward of Windham, 

 Conn. Pound Royal, an apple cidtivated during the 

 last fifty years in that section of the country ; an 

 apple of a large size and globular form ; of a green 

 color and good flavor ; a middliug bearer and 

 keeps from November to February. 



By Rev. G. B. Perry of East Bradford, very 

 beautiful apples, (name unknown) of small size, 

 but of fine flavor. 



By ■ , Pomme d'Api. 



Pears. By E. Bartlett, Esq. Cnpiaiimont, \e,vy 

 fine ; Lewis, not in eating ; Marie Louise, and 

 BartlcU Pears of the second crop. 



Q\dnees. By E. Vose, Esq. of Dorchester, Or- 

 ange Qidnces, of very large size, and beautiful ap- 

 pearance. 



ABSTRACT OF PREMIUMS, 



Awarded by the Massaehuseits Society for the Pi 



motion of AgiicuUxire, at their Cattle Shoiv, ]ttt 



Brighton, Oct. I7th, 1832. 



Ploughing Match. — Two yoke Oxen — fir 

 Plough, T. H. Merriam, Concord, $15, and .-is drlvi r 

 $4; (iloughmun, OtisMerriam §8. Second Plougl, 

 Charles Howard, Hingham, $10; ploughman, M- 

 Fearing, $5 ; J. Cushmau, driver, 3. Third Ploug 

 A. H. Wheeler, Concord, $G, and as ploughma 

 S3 ; J. Jejison, driver, $2. 



One ^oke Oxen. — First Plough, Samuel Iloai 

 Lincoln, f~ 15 ; as ploughman, §8, and as driver, $4 

 Second Plough, T. P. Merriam, Concord, SIO, ani 

 as ])loughman $5 ; Royal T. Marble, driver, $J 

 Third Plough, Abicl H. Merriam, $6, and as plough' 

 man §3 ; Samuel Blood, driver, $2. 



To the Plough deemed best of all used at th 

 Ploughing Match, Chas. Howard, Hingham, $10] 



For the best Bull, above one year old, Roswel 

 Convers, New Braintree, S20 ; next best, William 

 Worthington, Dorchester, $10. (The cotiniiittee 

 did not think any of the Bull Calves offored for 

 premium, of such superior qualities .is to merit 

 any of the premiums.) For the best Cow, not less 

 than three years old, James Osborn, Stow, $23 j 

 next best, William Watts, Concord, .$15 ; next 

 best, William Bright, Watertown, $10. For the 



5420 

 peci- 



boro', $20. [Mr C. made 2626 lbs. Butter an 

 Ills. Cheese from 27 Cows, within the lime 



d.] 



Inventions. — For a Patent Threshing Machine, 

 Sanniel Lane, §20; Road Machine, Ira Draper, 

 Saugus, $10 ; Mud Shoes for horses to travel on 

 marshes, do. $5 ; Improvement in enlarging Barns, 

 S. Chamberlain, $10; Machine for Saving Bees 

 and Preserving Honey, Rev. J. Barbour, $20 ; 

 Improved Steam Stove, T. G. Fessendon, ]3oston, 

 $10. 



IIOUSF.S WARMED, AND MEAT ROASTED 

 BY MEANS OF HOT WATER. 



Truly this is the ago of invention and improve- 

 ment. Our meats roasted hy hot wafer ! What 

 next ? The Providence Journal says : — 



We find in the English Gardener's Magazine, 

 the nnnexed description of an improved method 

 of boating hot-houses. The inventor is Mr A. M. 

 Perkins, son of Mr Jacob Perkins, the celebrated 

 " steam impeller," who has won so much for 

 the credit of American invention and science in 

 London. 



The improvement is a plan for heating hot- 

 hotises by the circulation of hot water in herniet- 

 ically sealed tubes, of small diameter. However 

 favorable this plan may be for heating hot-houses, 

 the advantage for that class of structures are as 

 g compared to those which it offers for 

 healinir dwelling houses and all kinds of manu- 



factories. Water may be circulated, under ordi 

 best Heifer, (havTng had a calf) Oliver Cook, nary circumstances of attention to the fire, at from 



300 tn 600 degrees. It is found that 400 degrees 

 ^i!i roast meat. Mr Perkins is constructing for 



Brighton, .$15 ; ne.xt best Nathaniel Clajjp, Dnr- 



chestcr, $10; next best. Bloody Jloorc, Waltliani, 



.$5. For the best Heifer, (not having had a calf) 



Lewis Ilolbrook, Sherburne, $12 ; next best, B. ! 1<^ 



Shurtlefi; Jr. Chelsea, $10 ; next best, E. H. Derby, 



Medfield, $8 ; next best, Vernal Barber, Sherburne, j 'or the purpose of cookery, and for heating re- 



86. For the best Ox, (fitted for slaughter) Win. serve cisterns of cold water, or masses of metal or 



Eager, Northboro', $25; next best, Ichabod How, niMoniy, for various domestic purposes, including 



lAn^elf an oven for roasting by water. This will 

 lad to beneficial changes in domestic arrangp- 

 lAnUs. Water at 500" or, at least, water at 330" 



of Stow, $20 ; next best, Wm. Wetherbee, Nortl 

 boro', $10. For the best pair of working oxen, 

 Silas Conant, Concord, $25 ; next best. Royal T. 

 Marble, Sutton, 620; next best, Sherman Barrett, 

 Concord, $15; next best, Samuel Learned, Wa- 

 tertown, §12; next best George M. Barrett, Con- 

 cord, $8. 



For the best Dishley Ram, E. Silsby, Boston, 

 820 ; do. do. Ewe, do. do. $20. For the best 

 South Down Ram, S. Jaques, Charlestown, $20; 

 do. do. Ewe, do. do. $20. For the best Boar, not 

 exceeding 2 years old, John Maokay, $12 ; no;! 

 best, do. §8 ; next best, George M. Barrett, $5. 

 For the best Sow, J. Mackay, $12: ne.xt best, I. 

 Robbin.s, $8 ; next best, J. Mackay, $5. For the 

 best ]>igs, J. Robbins $10: next best, J. Macka\ , 

 $5. 



For the best Butter, L. Chamberlain, Westboro', 

 $20; next best, Stephen Hastings, Sterling, $15. 

 For the best Cheese, not less than one year old, 

 Daniel Hunter, New Braintree, $20 ; next best, 

 Hollis Tidd, do. $15; for the best Cheese, less 

 than 1 year old, R. Convers, New Braintree, $10; 

 next best Luther Hunter, do. $5. For the greatest 

 quantity of Butter and Cheese made between May 

 15 and Oct. 1, from not less than four Cows, the 

 quantity of Butter and Cheese and the number of 

 Cows to be taken into consideration, and specimcn.s 

 to be exhibited at the Show of not less than 20 

 lbs. of each, and the mode of feeding, if anything 

 besides pasture is used, Luther Chamberlain, West- 



warming room.s, heating baths, launders, &c, may 

 at no distant time, be circidated by com])anies in 

 the same manner as gas: and, in London, instead 

 of one fire for every room, as at present, there 

 may be only one in a parish, or in every square of 

 an acre in area. 



H'ool. — At New Y'ork last week, the increased 

 activity liad been continued, notwithstanding the 

 reluctance to pay the pcesent prices : the market 

 was better supplied, the arrivals from the country 

 being more free. At Philadeljiliia, the few sales 

 reported were of the finer descriptions at some- 

 thing higher prices; these descriptions were in 

 gnod request, but the coarser kinds were dull of 

 sale. Public sales are advertised of 120 bales 

 Spanish and 50 bales Portuguese, on the 13th at 

 Philadelphia, and a few bales Saxony lambs and 

 Sheep on the same day at New York. A London 

 date of 31st August, says — "The first of a series 

 of sales of Colonial and other Wools took place 

 yesterday, and was fully attended by the manu- 

 facturers and others. The Australian wore gen- 

 erally of improved quality, and nnich spirit was 

 displayed at the sale. Of Australian 828 bales 

 were put up, and lower qualities sold at Is 4d to 

 Is 9d : better fleeces Is lOd to 2s 3d, and some 

 fine samples realized 2s 4d to 2s 7^<\, the last lots 

 being exceedingly good. The sale went off brisk- 

 ly. The German and Portugal Wools fetched 

 good prices also. 



