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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



JANUARY 83, 1833, 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BOSTON, \VT:DNESDAY evening, JAN. 23, 1R33. 



PARMER'S AND GARDENER'S "WORK FOR 

 JANUARY AND FEBRUARY'. 



Provide a sufficient qiiautity of bean poles and 

 pea rods, which you may preserve iu a corner of 

 your wood house, or oilier place suitable for your 

 purpose. Many people, who neglect to procure 

 these implements in season, are induced by the 

 hurry of business, to pei'mit their peas and beans 

 to trail on the ground,^n which situation they will 

 not produce, especi|iljy the tall growing sorts, one 

 third part so many' as they would if tliey were 

 properly supported by poles and rods. The length 

 of your pea rods should be in proportion to the 

 sorts of peas for which you intend ihcjii. The 

 same kinds of rods, wliich the tall growing peas 

 require, will answer for the generality of running 

 kidney beans. The Lima beans will need strong 

 poles from 8 to 9 feet high. 



Manure may be carried into those places where 

 it is needed, if the frost will permit, left in a heap, 

 but not spread. Wherever and whenever the snow 

 is oft' the ground, rake together and burn the rub- 

 bish of last year's crop. Inspect and lepair your 

 fences, rub or thrash out and clean seeds. See 

 tliat your garden tools, &c. are in good repair, 

 and procure such new ones as may be necessary. 

 Prepare materials for hot beds. Attend to your 

 fruit in your fruit room or cellar, on shelves or in 

 boxes, and if necessary pick it over and cull what- 

 ever may be defective. 



Far the New England Farmer. 

 HORTICUr.TURE. 



Extract of a letter from a lady in Brooklyn, 

 New York, upon the cft'ects of Horticultural pur- 

 suits. 



I perfectly coincide with your excellent opinion, 

 which you mentioned iu your kiud letter, that 

 horticultural tastes have a very great Ifendency to 

 improve the mind and refine the manners, for I 

 have invariably noticed that I never saw an ill 

 natured person embellish his residence, and taking 

 pleasure in cultivation. :^ 



For the New England Farmer. 



moval. It is necessary to know whether it is a 

 boney or soft tumor, and whether it has the ap- 

 pearance of containing matter or not. 



Respectfully yours, &c. T. H. SMITH. 



Veterinary Surgeon. 



Boston, Jan. 21, 1833. 



COL.TS. 



" We often hear it lamented, that our breed of 

 horses is so bad. But I am conviticed that as our 

 colts are managed if we had any other breed we 

 should soon make it appear to be as mean as our 

 own if not worse. The abusing of colts iu the 

 first winter, is the principal cause of their proving 

 so bad. For our farmers seldom allow ^their 

 weaned colts any food besides hay, and that is not 

 ahvays of the best kind. So that they' seldom fail 

 of being stinted in their growth iu the first winter 

 to such a degree, that they never get the better of 

 it. A colt that is foaled late, should not be 

 weaned till February or March, and should have 

 oats during the whole of the winter. In some 

 counti-ies they allow a young colt fifteen bushels. 

 We need not grudge to feed them with meal, oats 

 and bran, besides the best of clover hay ; for they 

 will pay for it in their growth. Alter the first 

 wiiij^ they will need no extraordinary feeding 

 till they arc grown up. Were the above direc- 

 tions observed, we should soon see an improve- 

 ment of our breed of horses. They would be 

 capable of doing much greater service, and be 

 likely to hold out to a greater age." — Deune. 



ITEMS OP INTELLIGENCE. 



A Monument to Washington. There has been 

 a late meeting in New York for the purpose of 

 erecting a Monument in that city to George 

 Washington, in which it was determined to peti- 

 tion the legislature for an act to incorporate an as- 

 sociation for that purpose. 



Resolutions have been introduced into the Ken- 

 tucky Legislature denouncing nidlijicaiion. 



Symptoms of Discord. It is said that the great 

 and little folks at Washington look askance and 

 stand aloof ; and that the ibrm and substance of 

 social intercourse are threatened witli nullification 

 in consequence of the belligerent attitude ofSoutli 

 m lOkrolina, and matters and things thereunto apper- 

 taining. 



Sir, — Observing in your paper of the jast week, 

 a request from a correspondent at Dunstable, in 

 regard to a tumor on the face of a ^alJ|tnble ox ; 

 as far as I am able to answer his inquiries, I feel 

 a pleasure in doing, — although the description he 

 has given of the nature of the disease is not such 

 as to lead to any definite opinion. 



The term holdfast, is one of those which is not 

 described iu any work on the diseases of horned 

 cattle, nor can it be relied upon as one of suffi- 

 cient evidence of auy specific disease. 



Cattle are liable to tumors of various kinds, 

 and on various parts of the body, but before we 

 can with safety, or any degree of certainty, pre- 

 scribe any plan of treatment, it is necessary for 

 us to know their exact nature. 



If your correspondent will inform me through 

 your paper or otherwise, of the situation, and na- 

 ture of that which he describes as a holdfast, I 

 will endeavor to prescribe a remedy for its re- 



The Pennsylvania Legislature printed five thou- 

 sand copies of the President's Proclamation against 

 Midlifiers, &c. in English, and three thousand in 

 German. 



Lyceums. According to a Ijte ntimber of the 

 Family Lyceum there have been Lyceums found- 

 ed, which are now in successful progress, iu Vir- 

 ginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Illi- 

 nois, Missouri, Louisiana, North Carolina and Mis- 

 sissippi States : 



.Yullifitrs. The New York Standard states that 

 many letters have been received from South Car- 

 olina, which are decidedly warlike. The nuUifi- 

 ers are every where organizing their volunteers, 

 arming and drilling, while the Union Party are 

 also preparing for defence. The newspapers and 



orators are more violent than ever, and every thing 

 seems tending to open violence. 



Tlie Missionaries, imprisoned in the Georgia 

 Penitentiary have at length been discharged. 



Deaf and Dumb. The Centinel asserts that the 

 deaf and dumb in the United States, have been as- 

 certained to be 6112, or 1 to every 2000 inhabit- 

 ants. There was an interesting exhibition lately 

 of the pupils of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at 

 Hartford, in presence of the Governor, Lieut. Gov- 

 ernor, and most of the Members of the Legislature, 

 besides a number of ladies and others, spectators. 

 The exhibition was conducted by BIr. Weld, who 

 was formerly a teacher in the Philadelphia school, 

 and since the resignation of Mr. Ganladet, has oc- 

 cupied his jilace iu the school at Hartford. The 

 exhibitions in the manual alphabet, grammar, ge- 

 ograpliy, arithmetic, &c. &c. are highly spoken of. 

 There is an instance in Philadelphia, where one 

 of the first lithographic artists is deaf and dumb; 

 and 12 individuals, who have led the asylum at 

 Hartford, have become heads of families. 



Fires within a week or ten days past have been 

 numerous. On the evening of the 18th inst. about 

 10 o'clock, a fire broke out in a carpenter's shop 

 in Portland Street, Boston, which for a time threat- 

 ened very serious consequences ; but after destroy- 

 ing several shops and small ten feet buildings, it 

 was at length extinguished by the great exertions 

 of the Firemen of Boston, Charlestown, Cambridge- 

 port and Roxbury. On the same evening, and 

 while the Fire Department were at work, an in- 

 cendiary was arrested in the cellar of the grocery 

 store of Mr. Clement Willis, corner of High and 

 Federal Streets, while collecting combustibles for 

 the purpose of setting lire to the building over the 

 cellar. On the morning of the 19th inst. a fire 

 broke cut in the sugar house in Atkinson Street, 

 owned l)y E. T. Andrews, Esq. and recently oc- 

 cujjiedby Mr. Ephraim Hall', which was consumed. 



Two steamboats were burnt on the 4th iust. at 

 N. Orleans. • 



Money, on first rate securities, is only two per 

 cent, per annum, in London. This very low rate 

 of interest is submitted to because ca])italists can- 

 not be induced to vest their money in stocks, in 

 the present unsettled state of politics. 



SWIFT TRAVELLING. 



The " Experiment," the new engine lately put 

 upon the Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road, per- 

 formed on the 24th ult. the distance from the head 

 of the plane to the halfway house, in 12 minutes, 

 which is at the rale of 35 miles an hour. This 

 is, says the Schenectady AVhig, the fastest travel- 

 ling which' has yet taken place on the road. 



A gentleman who latelyicrossed from New Cas- 

 tle to Frenchtown, states that the trip was perform- 

 ed in 47 minutes, or at the rate of 21 J miles an 

 hour! This was considered about the orduiary 

 .speed of the vehicle at a full load — Genesee Farmer. 



