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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



MARCH 6, IS33. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH G, IS33 



PARMER'S AWD GARDEIVER'S WORK FOR 

 MARCH. 



Early Peas. It is no niHtter liow early in the 

 season peas are sown, provided tlie ground can be 

 stirred and put in proper order. The soil for peas 

 should be light, but need not be very rich, espe- 

 cially for the dwarf kinds. Butj; those which grow 

 high require a strong and deep soil. Peas are 

 rather injured than benefitted by fresh cow yard 

 manure. "A fresh sandy loam (says Loudon,) 

 or road stuff, and a little decomposed vegetable 

 matter is the best manure for peas." Soaking the 

 seed in some fertilizing liquor, such as the <lrain- 

 ings from a dung heap, or water leached from 

 yard manure, and drying it with lime and plaster 

 will be of service to the crop. If they are infested 

 with bugs, put them for a few seconds in this 

 liquor, made hot ; dry them in the manner above 

 mentioned, and sow them immediately. If this 

 precaution is used, and new fields selected for 

 their culture, it is said the crop will not be buggy." 



, Dickson's Farmer's Companion, an English work 

 of reputation, states, that "It is observed, that the 

 common pea, whether white or grey, cannot be 

 reared to perfection in any field which has not 

 been either naturally or artificially impregnated 

 •with some calcareous matter. Aud hence it is sup- 

 posed to happen, that peas nre rarely cultivated 

 universally as a field crop, unless in those parts of 

 the country where either line, marl or .chalk 

 abounds, or upon strong clays; except indeed on 

 the sea coast, where shell fish are often caught in 

 abundance, aud where the fields are ujanured with 

 their shells in a state of mixture with dung. But 

 it is remarkable that a soil that could scarcely have 

 brought one pea to perfection, although richly ma 

 nured with dung from their running too much to 

 haulm, and, after blossoming dying away without 

 becoming ripe, if it has once had lime applied to 

 it, is capable, when properly prepared in other 

 respects, of producing plentiful crops of peas ever 

 afterwards." 



The quantity of seed must be diOeront in dif- 

 ferent cases and circumstances. It will depend on 

 the sort of pea, the time and tnannur in which it 

 is put into the ground, &c. Of the small early 

 kinds, one pint will sow a row of twenty yards ; 

 for the larger sorts, for main crops, the same 

 measure will sow a row of thirty-three yards. The 

 allowance of seed, when sown broad cast, is from 

 one and a half to three bushels per acre. Loudon 

 says, " In Kent, where immense quantities of 

 peas are grovvn, both for gathering green and for 

 selling ripe to the seedmen, thev are senerally 

 sown in rows from eighteen inches to liuce feet 

 asunder according to their kind, and well culti- 



vated between. Pease, laid a foot below the sur- 

 face, will vegetate ; but the most ajiproved depth 

 is six inches in light soil, and four inches in clay 

 soil ; for which reason they ought to be sown un- 

 der furrow when the ploughing is delayed till 

 spring." 



Dearie's JVew England Farmer observes, " that 

 changing the seed for peas is a matter of very great 

 iiTiportance ; for peas are apt to degenerate more 

 ra])idly than almost any other plants. Seeds should ' 

 be brought from a more northern clime ; for those 

 which ripen earliest are best. I would change 

 them yearly if it could be done without much 

 trouble or cost. Once in two or three years is ne- 

 cessary." It has also been advised to set apart a 

 row or two for seed, and select for that purpose 

 the earliest pods as soon as they become ripe. 



Willich's Domestic Encyclopedia observes, that 

 " It is a great error in those persons, who sow the 

 rows of tall growing jieas close together. It is much 

 belter iu all those sorts which grow six or eight 

 feet high, to have only one row, and then leave a 

 bed ten or twelve feet wide for onions, carrots, or 

 any crops, which do not grow tall. 



" The advantages to be derived are, that the 

 peas will not be drawn up so much ; be stronger ; 

 will flower much nearer the ground, and in wet 

 weather can be more easily gathered without wet- 

 ting yourself." 



The same work recommends sowing pease in 

 rowsof circles, three feet iu diameter, with a space 

 of two feet between each circle ; and if you want 

 more than one row of circles, leave a bed of ten 

 or twelve feet before you begin another. 



"The mode of culture must conform to the cli- 

 mate; conseqiiently our plan or mode must vary ia 

 many respects from those farmers no further South 

 of us than Massachusetts. Our peculiar situation 

 also, having a surplus of good soil, — a comparati-ve- 

 ly spare population— high labor, and funds not 

 over abundant, must necessarily cause our mode 

 of management and general economy to be very 

 different from that of our sister states." 



We have no doubt from a perusal of such num- 

 bers of the Kennebec Farmer as we have been fa- 

 vored with,thafit will prove a valuable accession 

 to the agricultural and mechanical hiterests of 

 Maine,and would recommend it to the patronage of 

 all who would suiiport and confirm those pillars of 

 lual happiness, and national prosperity. 



iiid 



* Farmer's Gu 



KENSTEBEC F.4RJ>IER AND JOtJRIV.\Ii OP THE 

 USEPUIi ARTS. 



We have received several ninnbers of a paper 

 with the above title recently established in Win- 

 throp. Me. It is conducted by E. Holmes, hereto- 

 fore favorably knowna s a man of science, and 

 published by William Noyes &, Co. 



The following extracts from the introductory 

 a<ldress in the first number, ably develope the 

 views and motives, which led to the undertaking; 

 are well calculated to propitiate the public mind, to 

 .111 enterprise, which promises great benefits cheap- 

 ly conferred, and to enrich the conununity for a 

 trifling compensation, compared to the value of the 

 efforts by which the good results are effected. 



" We have been gravely told that there are al- 

 ready more nevispapers than are beneficial for tlu 

 people — that we are crowding the market, and en- 

 tering upon a bootless enterprise. It is true that 

 every party, sect and creed, have their papers in 

 abiiiKlance, and the Farmer and Mechanic support 

 them, while, if we mistake not there are in thi 

 United States but six devoted particularly to the 

 dissemination of knowledge in their respective em- 

 ployments. This little band have done much, very 

 much in improving the condition and true inter- 

 est of the country." * * * * 



ITEMS OF I]VTEL.I,IGE]VCE. 



TiiK last news from Washington, is such as to induce- 

 a belief that both the Enforcing Bill and Mr. Clay's Ta- 

 riff Bill, have before this time become laws of the land. 



IVarrm Bridge. A special committee of the Mass. 

 House of Representatives have reported " that the pro- 

 prietors of the Warren Bridge have been re-imbursed the 

 money expended by them in and about the building of 

 said bridge, and other necessary expenses, with fiveper 

 cent interest thereon, and that, by the terms of the char- 

 ter, the Commonwealth has acquirod an absolute property 

 in said bridge, and is entitled to the possession thereof" 

 Temperance Meeting at Washington. Extract of a letter 

 to the Editors of the Boston Courier, dated Feb. 26. We 

 had a uoble Temperance Meeting in the Capitol last eve- 

 ning, and it continued till .after 10 o'clock, and held a 

 l.irgo audience with the most intense interest. The 

 speakers were Cass, Edwards, Cooke, Briggs, Sewall 

 Condict, Stewart, Wilkins, Reed, Tipton and Frelintr- 

 huysen. The proceedings of the meeting with the ad- 

 dresses are in the press, and arrangements are made to 

 send them over our whole country. Tomorrow, it is the 

 intention, unless the tremendous press of business should 

 prevent, to form a Congressional Temperance Society. 



Lotteries in Massachusetts. An able report in favor of 

 the suppression of Lotteries by statute has been submit- 

 'ed to the Legislature of this State by J. T. Buckingham, 

 Chairman of a Committee appointed to take the subject 

 under consideration. 



The Washington Globe says, " Mr. Clay has now 

 ibandoned the principle of his American System, and 

 Mr. Calhoun has betrayed nullification. They are 

 [)artners in a contra dance. For some time, they 

 turned their backs on each other — they now change 

 sides and set to each other. They will make a match of 

 it. In plain English, we have a new coalition." 



niack List. The merchants of Batavia have united 

 ind agreed tt) defray the expense of advertising every 

 runaway debtor. This is a good plan, and one that we 

 should like to see adopted by our merchants here. We 

 shall advertise every person that defrauds or refuses to 

 jiay us, whether they run away or not. — Le Hoy Gazette. 



.9 paragraph for the Ladies ^Doctor Mussey states 

 that greater numbers annually die among the female sex 

 by the use of the corset, than are destroyed among the 

 other sex by the use of spirituous liquors in the same 

 time ! It has been estimated that more than fifty thou- 

 sand men die in the United States every year in conse- 

 ucnce of the immoderate use of ardent spirits. For 

 fear of being accused of exaggeration upon this fearful 



