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AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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and remain undisturbed. And after the ordinary 

 process of tillage shall have come to a close, it 

 will be necessary to go over the field again, and 

 probably more than once, to combat such thistles 

 a.s may be found still struggling for existence. 

 After all, a failure, or at least a partial failure, will 

 probably be the result. I ant doubtful of the prac- 

 ticability of achieving in one season .in entire con- 

 <juest of Canada thistles, by the means here sug- 

 gested. This is not the process which I should 

 recommend, giving as I do a decided preference 

 to that of the summer fallow. 



In relation to a field in such a situation, corn 

 •or potatoes having been the last crop, and thistles 

 remaining on it unsubdued, it becomes an impor- 

 tant question, what should be the next process-? 

 The field should not, as D. T. justly remarks, he 

 applied to any use that will preclude the operations 

 of tillage. To sow oats, or any other grain, on a 

 field in this situation, is the worst of practices. 

 This will give the thistles an opportimity of rcgqiu- 

 ing all that they may have lost in the conflicts of 

 the preceding season. Of this they will be slire 

 to avail themselves. Besides, sowing grain amiiig 

 thistles is objectionable for other weighty reasons, 

 which will be noticed in a subsequent number, 



I am satisfied, therefore, that a better way to 

 manage a field on which corn and potatoes grew 

 the preceding season, and in which thistles reiiiniu 

 unsubdued, is to plough the ground early in the 

 spring and to continue ])loughing as frequenty as 

 thistles shall appear until nearly the middle of July, 

 ■\\heu buckwheat may be sown. I have no diiibt 

 that a thick set and rank crop of buckwheat woild, 

 under these circumstances, utterly destroy Canida 

 thistles. But, if it suit tlie manager better, he iii^y 

 continue his ploughings until the season for sowing 

 wheat, and then sow wheat. The latter process 

 will,, with a certainty of success as unquestionable 

 as that of the former, do the work of destroying 

 Canada thistles. But if, contrary to reasonable 

 expectation, a few sickly roots of the thistle should 

 after all maintain a slender hold on life, it will be 

 an easy task to put an end to their existence 



I close here, as to means of subdumg thistles 

 that may be found in the processes of tillage. It 

 is believed that by the means here pointed out, a 

 war of extermination may be successfully waged 

 against these troublesome and mischievous inva 



thing is in order, and those of the slothful man, 

 where confusion reigns. With one, every step 

 convinces you that the possessor does not eat the 

 breail of idleness — that he does not neglect to 

 provide for his family, whereby he would prove 

 himself worse than an infidel. Every thing be- 

 speaks attention to business and comfort ; reputa- 

 tion and wealth follow. Not so with the other. 

 His fences are broken down — his yards are neg- 

 lected — his utensils lie scattered and broken 



every thing bespeaks the man to be the slothful 

 servant pointed out to us as abusing the talents 

 committed to his charge — his character as a man 

 wortliy of trust or honor declines — his former 

 friends forsake him, and poverty and -wretched- 

 ness in most cases, close the scene. Now all this 

 difference may arise from early habits, on tlie one 

 hand having a place for every thing and every 

 thing in its place, and on the other, not having "a 

 place for any thing, which soon leads to not hav- 

 ing any thing for a place. 



A NEW APPL.E. 



We have received from our friend and corres- 

 pondent. Dr. J. S. Graham, of York, Livingston 

 county, two apples from a seedling tree growiun- 

 in t'lat town. For beauty, size, and flavor, we 

 have rarely seen them surpassed. The Doctor 

 describes the tree as being an " abundant, annual 

 bearer," and proposes to call the apple the York 

 Sweet Water. They are well worthy of cultiva- 

 tion for the table, and no doubt will prove valuable 

 for cider, as they are very juicy and well flavored. 



Genesee Farmer. 



secrctioii. It has been found a good plan, to give 

 the whole of the milk a young cow yields, to\he 

 calf which she roaddy does, and thus gets into a 

 good habit oi nulkinc." 



SNOW. 



Dr. RoTHERHAM, in his Philosophical Inquiry 

 into the natm-e and properties of water, says, " one 

 eflect of snow, which I can assure my readers of, 

 s, tliat a certain quantity of it taken up fresh from 

 the ground, and mixed in a flour pudding, will 

 supply the place of eggs, and if this proportion be 

 much exceeded the pudding will not adhere 

 together, but will fall to pieces in boiling. I as- 

 sert this from the experience of my own family, 

 and any one who tries it will find it to be a fact." 



CAJTKEK WORMS. 



In the year 17S9, tlie Rev. John Cushing, of 



the county of Worcester, Mass., coimiimiicated 



ders. Will not farmers, who have fields infested to the Academy of Arts and Sciences, a method 



with Canada thistles, ponder the subject ? To de- 

 tail other processes by which thistles may be de 

 fitroyed, will be the subject of my next number, 

 DAN BRADLEY. 

 December, 1832. j 



From the Genesee Farmer. 

 « A PLACE FOR EVERT THEVG, ASTD EVERS 

 THING Mr ITS PLACE." " 



There is no season of the year when it is more 

 important to reduce the above maxim to practifce 

 than at the setting m of winter. Many of tie 

 small farming utensils, such as hoes, rakes, spades 

 and forks are much mjured if left exposed to tie 

 weather through the winter, or buried beneath tie 

 snow ; and even ploughs and harrows should be 

 put under cover as soon as the season for using 

 them is past. To have a place for every thing 

 and every thing in its place, is not only a maxim 

 of economy, but it adds much to the reputation of 

 the farmer who observes it. How difl^erent are 

 the impressions made while viewing the premi- 

 ses of a prudent, economical farmer, where every 



to destroy canker worms in the egg. It is as 

 follows : — " In autumn before the ground be 

 frozen, take an iron bar, and make a number of 

 holes under each tree, near the body ; throw in a 

 few kernels of corn into each ; let in swine ; and 

 they will root the groimd over and over, which 

 will not only so disturb the eggs deposited in the 

 ground as to destroy them, but will be very saluta- 

 ry to the trees. Nothing is better to make apple 

 trees flourish than to have hogs turn up the ground 

 under them. 



" This method," added Mr. Cushmg, "I had from 

 Mr. Edward Raymond, of Sterling, who has tried 

 it with success." 



An accident hapi)ened at Killingly, Conn on 

 Thursday of last week, ou which it is mdeed pain- 

 ful to reflect. AVidow Abigail Stearns, aged about 

 75 years, was bm-ned in so shocking a manner that 

 she survived but a short time. The particulars as far 

 as we know them are as follows: — she was engaged 

 in cooking, when her clothes, which were cotton, 

 accidently took fire. She held a glass bottle con- 

 taining sal-£eratu8, with which she inflicted a deep 

 woimd in her breast, probably in attempting to ex- 

 tinguish the flames. She was alone in the house, 

 at the tune, and appearing sensible of her condi- 

 tion, had the presence of mind to fly to the closet 

 and make use of several pans of milk, but with- 

 out success. Soon after she was found by a 

 neighbor, ou the bed, which had also taken fire 

 from her clothes. — Brookhjn Gaz. 



Dreadful Occurrence. — It becomes our painful 

 duty briefly to announce that yesterday afternoon, 

 while twenty men were engaged in the coal mine 

 of Samuel J. Potts, Esq. the water suddenly rushed 

 down from an adjoining mine, which had been for 

 some time unoccupied, drowned two individuals 

 who were unable, by reason of their situation, to 

 make their escape. The remamder sustained no 

 injury — one of whom was immersed in water up 

 to his chin, and saved himself by clinging to the 

 roof of the mine. One of the deceased miners was 

 a foreigner, engaged in his first day's work ou this 

 side of the Atlantic. — Pottsville Joxmial, JVov. 3. 



A SHOCKING case of premature interment is re- 

 ported in a London paper. — A poor woman lost 

 her son by the cholera, who was buried. She was 

 Iso attacked. When the undertakers were screw- 

 ing down the coflin, she revived, pushed oft' the 

 lid, and very soon recovered. She immediatelv 

 insisted upon having her son exhumed. The child 

 had turned round and torn its face to pieces with 

 agon^. 



OPENING AND DISTENDING THE BULK VES- 

 SELS IN A COW^. 



In the northern counties of England, they wish 

 their cows to calve when the grass is abundant. 

 This, it is supposed, opens tlieir millj vessels, and 

 is a great means of rendering them ever after good 

 milkers ; which is not the case, unless nature 



Pmgresa of Civilization. — In Egypt an experi- 

 meni has been made, which will probably have 

 very important effects on the civilization of Egypt 

 and Arabia. Two laboring men, who we believe, 

 had been employed near London in boring for 

 water, were taken to Egypt by Mr. Briggs, who 

 wa! at one time consul at Cairo. They were em- 

 plcyed under the patronage of the Pacha, to bore 

 foi water in the desert. At about thirty feet be- 

 lov the surface they found a stratum of sandstone; 

 wiien they got through that an abundant supply of 

 water rose. The water usually obtained from the 

 sirface is of an inferior quality, and for many pur- 

 {oses useless ; that which has been obtained by 

 loring is soft and pure. Already, in the Deseit of 

 Suez, a tank, capable of holding 2000 cubic feet 

 of water, had been made, and it is probable by this 

 time several others may be formed. By this dis- 

 fovery one great impediment to tlie fertilizing of 

 the country will be removed. 



Cranberries. — As this fruit is largely employed 

 in most tainilies, some persons may be glad to be 

 informed, that these berries may be preserved 

 several years, merely by drying them a little in 

 ilie Sim, and then stopping them closely in dry 

 is early mode to have a tendency to that species of I bottles. — Parkts. 



