VOL.. XI. NO. ar. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL 



211 



To increase niaimir, some farmers keep a nuiDei- 

 ous stock ; but the just rule is this, no more cattle 

 than will eat all your foilder. In general, one 

 loail of hay will make one load of dung. Ksti- 

 niate your dung; by your fodder. 



Carrots, sow on sandy, or loamy land — 

 ])lough, or dig twelve inches <lcep — sow last week 

 in April. A little dmig sutficiont to dress the 

 ground — will yield abundantly — good for fatten- 

 ing cattle, swino and sheep. 



Clover will grow on any soil — dry, sandy, 

 loamy, or gravelly — bears drought better than any 

 other grass, as it cotnes forward early, and has a 

 long tap root. Sow ten pounds to an arare — in 

 England they sow twenty — you may bush, or 

 plough it in — it requires less juanure than ai\y 

 other grass — mow it in June, when the lieads are 

 about half turned, and in the morning. Spread, 

 turn and rake it into cocks before night — next 

 day, open, spread and turn it once or twice, and 

 rock it again ; and let it sweat a day or two be- 

 fore housing. This grass requires all yoiu" atten- 

 tion in making it — it enriches land — lasts but two 

 years, and is the only hay that will fat an liorse 

 without provender. It is most excellent for swine 

 to feed on — one acre of rich land, well set with it, 

 will keep twenty liogs well, from the beginning of 

 May, to the end of October, without any other 

 food : and the swine will enrich the land. 



Colt, to break him, never strike, but often lead 

 liiin by the side of another horse, with a bridle. 

 When he walks well, bring him to trot after him. 

 Then lead him often in the saddle. Then put on 

 a small weight, and gradually increase it. Then 

 let one hold, and another mount him, and ride 

 after another horse, in a ploughed tield, till he 

 learns the use of the bit, and will stop, or go on at 

 your pleasure. By this easy method you will 

 break your colt, without breaking his spirits. 



Cow. Great attention should be paid to so 

 profitable a creature. At the lowest estimate, her 

 value must be more than five pounds per annum. 

 She should be milked morning and evouiug, at 

 the same time in the day, as near as possible — 

 wlieu near calving, put her into a pen by herself 

 — when calved, give her warm drink for the first 

 two days — if slie does not clean, give her a bucket 

 of warm water, in wliich some wood ashes have 

 been put — card her gently during the winter, till 

 near the time of Iier calving, then cease. Keep 

 HO more cows than you can feed plentifully, botli 

 winter and summer. Rich pastures in sunnner, 

 Avill affbixl an abundance of milk for butter and 

 cheese : and good keei)ing in winter, will give you 

 fat calves in the spring. Farrow cows should 

 have corn as well as good hay, or milking them 

 for twelve mouths will render them very thin and 

 poor. In very hot weather cows should be water- 

 ed three times in a day, and placed in shady pas- 

 tures. Farmers should bear it in mind, that a far- 

 row cow is not so jirofitable by one third part, as 

 one which calves annually. 



CroNs, should be cut in February, or in 3Iarch, 

 and may be stuck in moist mud, or in clay. They 

 will keep two or three months ; but I prefer those 

 taken immediately from the tree. Avoid suckers. 



The Melons, were the iiroduce of the garden of 

 Gardiner Greene, Esf], under the care of William 

 Sheridan and not of Mr. Senior. The Pears were 

 from the garden of .lonathan Phillips, Esq. under 

 the superintendence of Mr. Senior. 



This is to reftite an erroneous statement in your 

 pajier of October 10th, 1832, above quoted. 



I am yours with respect, 



William Sheridan. 



Jan. 2d, 1833. 



For the Nem Eiiglaml Farnifr. 

 Mr. Fessende.n — Sir, I liave a valuable Ox, 

 wliich lias a bimch on his cheek called by the 

 people in this vicinity a holdfast. If you or any 

 of your correspondents can give any information 

 through the medium of your useful paper how it 

 may be cured you will greatly oblige an 



Attentive Reader. 

 Dunstable, Jan. 8lh, 1833. 



We would be much obliged to any friend for 

 observations relative to the cause and cure of the 

 above named disease, — Ed. JV. E. Far. 



H. Duncan at Ilavorliill, or J. W. Proctor at Dan- 

 vers. By order of the Trnslees, 



J. W. Proctor, Sec'ii. 

 .Tan. 1st, 1833. 



N. B. Publishers of newspapers, willing to do 

 the Fanners of the County a favor, are respect- 

 fully requested to insert this notice in their paper.?. 



For the Neic England Farmer. 

 Mr. Fessenden — Sir, Tlie assertion in your 

 paper of the 10th October last, relative to fruit 

 from the garden of Gardiner Greene, Esij. I wish 

 to rectify — you will find the following statement 

 to be correct. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 CAUMFLOIVER. 



Mr. Editor, Allow me through the medium of 

 your very useful periodical, to express my sur- 

 prise, and that of many friends and neighbors, that 

 our fanners do not devote more space and atten- 

 tion to the culture of the caulifloiver. A most de- 

 licious vegetable it is, and healthy and tender 

 withal ; but so little cultivated that the demand is 

 not one twentieth part supplied. A single cauli- 

 flower brings from 25 cts. to a dollar in our mar- 

 ket, and the taste for them is extending rapidly as 

 they are becoming more known. I trust, therefore, 

 that our farmers will ponder on these things, and 

 give us the next year an abundant harvest of" this 

 exquisite but expensive vegetable. 



Yours, &c. Epicurus. 



Boston, January, 1833. 



NOTICE TO FARMERS. 



The Trustees of the Essex .Agricultural Society, 

 continue to ofier their .Premiums, for improve- 

 ments and skill in husbandry, as manifested in the 

 management of entire farms and their appendages, 

 to wit : * 



The best Thirty Dollars, 



" second Twenty-seven Dollars, 



" third Twenty-four Dollars, 



" fourth Twenty-one Dollars, 



" fifth Eighteen Dollars, 



" sixth Fifteen Dollars — 



amounting to one hundred and thirty-Jive dollars, 

 which will be paid the present year, if a sufficient 

 number of meritorious claims shall be presented 

 to the notice of the Committee. 



They earnestly solicit those in every town in the 

 County, who are ambitious of doing well what 

 they have to do, whether they occupy small farms 

 or large ones, to come forward as competitors for 

 these premiums. By so doing they will be sure 

 of an adequate reward. If they should apply ad- 

 ditional labor and skill in the management of their 

 farms, they will find tlieir reward in the increased 

 produce, as well as in the satisfaction of having 

 faithfully done their duty — and when this is ap- 

 parent, the Society will as cheerfully award, as 

 they will receive the premiums ofiered. 



Applications on this subject may be made to J. 



Tommy Buck \vas brought up to take care of 

 seventeen cows, belonging to his father ; to drive n 

 four ox team with Tib, the old mare, at tlie end of 

 it ; cut wood in the winter, and raise grain in tho 

 summer.* But alas ! at the perilous age of sixteen a 

 dancing master came into the village, and Tommy 

 liy dint of persuading, persuaded his honest old 

 father to permit him to subscribe, aiid instead of 

 chanting obsolete psalm tunes in the chimney corner 

 upon a winter's evening, pumps, rufiles and a 

 fiddle " reigned in their stead." In lieu of flail, 

 pigeon wings and " right and left" were heard oi^ 

 the barn-floor, and the oxe"n and Tib were left to 

 "chew the ciid" of supperless loneliness. Tommy's 

 idees were raised, and his wits outright descended 

 from his head to his heels, leaving his upper story 

 to let. Straightway a ball was had, and Tommy 

 shipped the shell of a fashionable, and wore gloves, 

 and fell in love. True, he was ratJier awkward in 

 mannerisms at first ; but then he sported a smart toe 

 and acquired ease and impudence — and eventually, 

 by activity and toe and heel exertion, capered 

 into the good graces' of Molly Reed, who could 

 weave sixteen yards of shirting per diem. Tommy 

 then set up for a beau after ladies' own hearts, and 

 went to town to sell go^vn patterns as apprentice, 

 (being above driving the oxen in partnership with 

 Tib) determined to become a marchant. And so he 

 did — and liis father died, leaving him the bulk 

 of his fortune, when Tommy determined to do 

 two things, viz. cut Molly and keep a curricle. 

 The first was the most difficult, but he had learned a 

 "thing or two," and after a due quantity of tears on 

 her part, the separation was aftected and the curri- 

 cle purchased. Tib, the old mare, the cows and 

 oxen, were translated into two greys, and TommV 

 from a plough boy to a fine gentleman. The fiirra, 

 milkmg pails, pigs, hens and ducks, were changed 

 to cash antl style, and the balance over this necessd- 

 ry expenditure invested in the house of Tommy 

 Buck, Landshark & Co. And then Tommy went to 

 the Springs and gamed, to the theatre and drank, 

 to his counting house and whistled, and these were 

 beautiful times. Tommy's credit was good, and he 

 used it ; liis cash Wiis plenty, and he spent it ; his 

 health fine, and he gave it a trial. Who like Tom- 

 my ? lie made love anew to a city belle, but the 

 sly old fox of a father said nay. He asked a poet 

 to write doleful ditties, and he said yea, and he paid 

 him. The sonnets were full of darts and crueLs — 

 and the girl married another. Tommy sighed, and 

 drank, and gamed and whistled, " to diive dull care 

 away," and then/ailed. Tib kicks up her lieels in 

 scorn at him. Molly sends four chubby children to 

 school and loves her husband. His lady-lo\ie of 

 sonnet reading memoiy does not notice him in the 

 street and Tommy has shipped to go to India at 

 ten dollars per month in the forecastle of a ship. 



Moral. Pigs and cows and ducks and hens and 

 old Tib with a good farm and money at interest, are 

 better than greys and curricles, and gaming, and 

 theatres, and style ; unless one prefers to go to 

 India at ten dollars per month before the mast — 

 and so ends our story. 



