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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



November 21, 1833. 



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Boston, Wednesday Evening, Nov. 21, 1832. 



PREMIUM BUTTER AND CHEESE. 



Candidates lor the premiums {hcing $100, $50, 

 $30, $20 on butter, and $100 and $50 on old cheese, and 

 $50 and $30 on new, under the printed regulations of 

 the Massachusetts Society for promoting Agriculture,) 

 are reminded that they must have their Butter and Cheese 

 deposited at the Rotunda over Market Hall, before 9 o'- 

 clock A. M. on Tuesday the 4th of December next, and 

 on Wednesday the 5th the premiums will be awarded, 

 and the butter and cheese (if requested by the owners) 

 be on the same day sold by public auction. Per order of 

 the Committee. 



BENJ. GUILD, Reo'g Sec'ry. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



At a meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultur- 

 al Society, at their hall, Saturday, No\ ember 17ib, 

 1832, 



Voted, That the thanks of this Society be ten- 

 dered to William Prince and William R. Prince, 

 Esqrs., proprietors of the Linnieaii Botanic Gar- 

 dens in Flushing, Long Island, lor tbeir distin- 

 guished attention, in dedicating their Poinological 

 Manual or Treatise on Fruit Trees, to the Socie- 

 ty, and presenting a copy of that most valuable 

 work, to be dci)Ositcd in its Library ; and that a 

 copy of this vote be published in the New England 

 Fanner. Attest, 



R. T. PAINE, Recording Secretary. 



POULTRY. 



Fowls of every sort may be profitably fed on 

 boiled potatoes and meal mixed. Hen^, wliicli do 

 not lay in winter, should have access to pounded 

 bones, oyster shells, or some other matter which 

 contains lime, in some of its compounds, because 

 something of the kind is necessary to form the 

 shells of eggs, which are composed of the phos- 

 phate of liitie. 



Cobbett's Cottage EconoiTiy observes, that pul- 

 lets, that is, birds, hatched the foregoing sjjring, are 

 the best laying hens in winter. "At any rate let 

 them not be more than two years old. They should 

 be kept in a warm place, and not let out even in 

 the day time in wet weather ; for one good sound 

 wrtting will keep them back a fortnight. The 

 dry cold, even the severest cold, if dry, is less in- 

 jurious than even a little vet in winter titne. If 

 the feathers get wet, in our climate in winter, or 

 in short days, they do not get dry for a longtime ; 

 and this it is that spoils and kills many of our fowls. 



" The French, who are great egg eaters, take 

 iireat pains as to the food of laying bens in win- 

 ter. They let tbein out but very little, even in 

 their fine cliinate, and give them very stimulating 

 food ; barley boiled and given them warm; curds, 

 bfick-wheal, (which I believe is the best thing of 

 all, excepting curds,) parsley, and other herbs 

 cho|ii:(;d fine ; leeks chopped in the same way, 

 also apples and pears chopped very fine ; oats and 

 wheat sifted ; and sometimes they give them 

 hemp seed, and the seed of nettles ; or dried net- 

 tics, baivested in summer, and boiled in winter. 

 Some give them ordinary food, and once a day 

 toasted bread sopped in wine. White cabbages 

 chojjped up are very good for all sorts of poultry." 

 It has been said by other writers, that poultry 



as well as pigs, are much benefitted by placing 

 charcoal, broken into small pieces, in situations lo 

 which they have access. This substance, it is 

 said, adds to the appetites, and helps the digas- 

 tion of these animals; and, as it is cheap and 

 cannot possibly be injurious, it may be advisable 

 to use it as a constituent of their diet. 



A proportion of animal food, mixed with ve - 

 etable food, is said to cause poultry to thrive inui h 

 faster than they wotdd otherwise. If they ha e 

 space to range in, where they can pick up gras - 

 hoppers and other insects, they will thrive tit- 

 faster. But they should for some time before tin • 

 are killed for eating, be fed exclusively, on fot I 

 which will not have a tendency to give a bad re- 

 ish to their flesh. 



CABBAGES. 



It is asserted in Dr Rees' Encyclopedia, ths 

 " cabbages possess the property of fattening cattl 

 not only more expeditiously, but in less proportioi 

 than turnips ; an acre of the former having beei 

 found to fatten one in four more than the sami 

 extent of the latter crop." 



Mr Jno. Townsend of Andover, Conn, recoi 

 mends the following mode of preserving cabbage 

 "Dig a trench about six inches deep, in dr 

 ground, and wide enough to admit the liea 

 of the cabbage ; lay two sticks parallel with eacl 

 other on the bottom of the trench, for the hea(k 

 to rest on, to keep them fiom the ground ; plac; 

 the heads on the sticks with the roots up, and sui 

 round them with straw ; then cover them witi 

 earth six or eight inches deep, having the grouni 

 sloping to carry otf the rains ; they will come otil 

 in the spring sound, fresh and tender as they were 

 when gathered." 



Cabbages should not be pulled till there is dan 

 ger of their freezing too fast to be got up. If 

 there lia|)pen to fall an early snow it will not in- 

 jure them. If room can be spared, it is a good 

 plan to take them up by the roots from the field or 

 gar<len, and set them out again in the bottom of a 

 cellar, the cooler the better. See further remarks 

 on preservation of cabbages, in .Veui England Far- 

 mer, vol. X. p. 254. 



Fine Coiv. — Mr L. Jenki.ns of Canandaipua, in 

 a communication of Oct. 10, to the Genesee Farm- 

 er, says one of his best cows furnished his family 

 of fourteen persons, with a full supply of ndlk, 

 cream and butter, till within a few weeks. She 

 is mostly of the Durham breed — has yielded two 

 pounds of butter dally— a part of the time more, 

 and during the last of the season less, and giving 

 six to seven gallons every day. From two cnw.«, 

 he one season made 322 lbs- 



part of the state, I am unable to say, as I have 

 never seen much written on the subject ; it oc- 

 curred tome, however, that it might be cultivated 

 to great advantage in the latitude of Kocbester. 

 Two years passed away before I could obtain seed. 

 Last winter I obtained some — and on account of 

 the backwardness of the spring, I omitted sowing 

 until the middle of May. This produced me a lot 

 of sickly plants, jiartly ov.'ing to the coldness of 

 the weather, and partly by being sown on the 

 north side of a board fence, which kejit the sun 

 Horn them a great iiart of the day. The middle 

 of July I transplanted them into good, rich, warm, 

 f|iiick soil, about two feet a part each way, twenty 

 in number ; the manner of cultivation nothing dif- 

 ferent from that of cabbage. On the 9\h inst. I 

 cut a head which measured fortyfotir and a half 

 inches in circumference, and weighed eight pounds 

 and three ounces, making a sufficient quantity for 

 three meals for a family of nine persons. I have 

 lliirteen or fourteen more, several of which are su- 

 perior in quality to the above. To those who are 

 acquainted with the article, I need not point out 

 its qualities; and to those farmers and gardeners 

 who are ignorant of its worth, remain so no long- 

 er. Get yom- seed this winter, cultivate them next 

 season, and if you are not well paid for all your 

 trouble, you shall have no more of my advice. If 

 any infortnation should be desired as to cooking 

 and preparing the cauliflower for the table, all I 

 possess shall be cheerfully communicated, as much 

 depends on the cooking to make it all you desire. 

 OTIS TURNER. 

 Medina, Orleans Co. Oct. 22, 1832. 



, Transplanting. — There is not a shrub, vine, 

 |ilant or tree to be found in our fields and forests, 

 that is not susceptible of a high degree of improve- 

 ment, if taken up late in the fall or early in the 

 spring, properly trimmed, and transplanted into 

 good rici) soil near our dwellings. Their change, 

 for the better soon becomes apparent. Take {oaf 

 Inetance, young chesnut trees from the mountaitf, 

 lop off" as nmch of their tops as you inav(fcof*heir 

 roots ; set them out as you would your apple 

 trees, not deeper in the soil than they have stood. 

 They have a rapid growth, and if well preserved 

 will spread and bear very prolifically, producing a 

 nut three times the size of those generally brought 

 to market, and of better flavor. The hickory tree 

 will do the same. All will bear grafting as well 

 as a pear tree. E.xperiments in this line cost but 

 little. — Ibid. 



The Horticultural Society of Charleston, S. C. 

 have offered a piece of plate to the value of .•<.50, 

 for the best treatise on practical gardening, adapt- 

 ed to the latitude of that city. 



Large Apple. — A writer in the Genesee Farmer 

 tates, that he this season had an apple in his orch- 

 ard that weighed twentyeigbt ounces. 



From the Genesee Farmer. 



CAULIFLOWER. 



This vegetable is extremely delicate, and is es- 

 teemed equal to any other for its excellence wherev- 

 er it is is cultivated and known. To what extent 

 it may have been cultivated in this state, or in any 



Shade Trees. — Where I a lawgiver in the land, 

 I would enjoin the cultivation of shade trees 

 wherever there was a cluster of houses — a severe 

 penalty should be -inflicted on all who injured or 

 despoiled them, and the destruction of a tree 

 should be a capital crime. I would choose, for 

 my trees those of my own coimtry — the maple, 

 the ash, the hickory ; and the elm should hold the 

 first rank. I would plant them by the road side 

 at convenient distances, so that the traveller nnght 

 enjoy their shade. I woidd rear thera about eve- 

 ry church and school house, that the aged might 

 rest their limbs, and the young indulge their sports 

 beneath them. — Ibid. 



Pumpkins, if steam-boiled, are a rich food for 

 awine ; the seeds should be taken out, as they 

 prove injurious to those animals. They are valua- 

 ble, as affording an early supply of food for feed- 



