VOL. XI, NO. 43. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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at, or near the time of farrowing some of them 

 may Wave still stronger inclinations for animal food. 

 Perhajis some sows would not destroy their i)igs 

 under any circumstances as to food or location, 

 while others from sojTie cause unknown to us, are 

 iniluced to commit an unnatural act. — " Berk- 

 shire" says, " In cases where the pigs come late 

 in the season and the sows have had the oppor- 

 tunity of coming to the ground and working 

 in it, and collecting grass, roots, &c ; I have never 

 known any of the difficulties complained of by 

 your con-espondent." — He then recommends, that 

 when from necessity sows are kept in a close pen 

 and from the ground, giving them a suitable sup- 

 pi;/ of potatoes, turnips, ruta baga, S,-c. which he 

 tliinks will remove the ditliculty complained of. 



I will now inform Mr. " Berkshire" of a little 

 of my experience, and leave him to make his own 

 ■comments — I have seen more than twenty broods 

 of as fine pigs as ever were seen in a farm yard, 

 farrowed in a house the dimensions of which did 

 not exceed eight feet by three and a half or four, 

 and raised on the deck of a whale ship at sea, where 

 there was no earth for the sows to work upon — 

 no grass — no roots to be collected, and what was 

 fitill worse, there were no potatoes — no turnips — 

 nor ruta baga, not even for human, much less to 

 furnish a "suitable supply" to feed swine upon — 

 Yes, I have raised pigs that have lived to farrow 

 pigs, that never sat a hoof on terra firma, that nev- 

 er had the pleasure of sticking their noses iti tlie 

 earth for the purpose of collecting grass, roots, Sfc. 

 and I do not recollect of ever having a pig destroy- 

 ed. — I don't wish to be understood that I always 

 give my sows aninsal food — It was not the case ; but 

 I have frequently done, and believe in its salutary 

 eftects. r 



Now, Mr. Fessenden, if you are not surfeited 

 with the subject, but intend " going the whole hog" 

 please insert in your next paper, for the informa- 

 tion of Berkshire and others concerned, the opin- 

 ion — the experience — and the plain unvarnished 

 tale of a New Bedford Whaler. 



mw Bedford, May \st, 183.5. 



For the Nfw Eiigla7td Farmer, 

 HIGH CRANBERRY. 



Mr. Fessenden, — A short time since, I saw an 

 inquiry, in one of the valuable numbers of your pa- 

 per, in relation to the high cranberry. This shrub 

 is found in abundance in some parts of the Slate 

 of Maine. It is a lover of a moist, scurfy soil — 

 and is frequently a near neighbour of the hacme- 

 tac. Like the Mountain Ash, its berries hang on, 

 long after it is stripped of its foliage, and presents 

 till Spring, a beautiful cluster of crimson fruit. 

 Although fond of a moist locality, still it will flour- 

 ish in onr high, loamy gardens, where it is not 

 unfrequently found. A supply can be obtained 

 in nearly any town in the County of Oxford. 



Oxford, May I, 1833. Agricola. 



For New England Farmer. 

 HIGH BUSHED CRANBERRIES. 



Mr. Fesse.vden, — The high bushed cranberry 

 grows plentifully in the vicinity where I live, and 

 can be obtained, I think, in considerable quantities. 

 It is a handsome shrub, the bark of the bush is 

 whitish ; the tallest I have ever seen is about six 

 feet. They flower, I think, in June, in clusters 

 similar to the white elder. The berries of course 

 are in clusters, of a beautiful blood red, and hang 

 on the bush all winter. They are easily cultivated : 

 I have them growing in my garden which have 



lierries on them now that have faded bnt little from 

 the seventy of the winter. What led me to the 

 cultivation of them, I was riding by one of my 

 neighbors, and I saw a bush in his garden. It 

 was late in the fall, the leaves had all fallen ofi', 

 the bush was loaded with fruit as red as blood, 

 I though it made a very handsome appearance. 

 The next spring 1 went to where they grow wild, 

 and took up some and set them in my garden. 

 They have just begun to bear ; I probably shall have 

 half a bushel next fall. They are said to make 

 good preserves. This is all I know of them — 

 Your correspondent N. D. of Portland, speaks of 

 their medical qualities; if he will inform the pub- 

 lic of their value through the medium of your 

 paper he will oblige at least one of your subscribers. 

 Very Respectfully, James Walker, 

 Frytburg, Jlpnl 25th, 1833. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 Mr. Editor, — Information is wanted with re- 

 gard to Zinc plates; an article used for roofing. 

 What their durability, the manner of laying them, 

 and the expense per square yard. 



Your friend, B. Osgood. 



Methuen, March 25. 1833. 



AMERICAN NANKEEN. 

 We have heretofore taken occasion to mention 

 the American Nankeen, and have recently exam- 

 ined some made of Georgia cotton and manufac- 

 tured at Patterson, New-Jersey. It is of excel- 

 lent texture and quality, and is said to improve the 

 color by wear. We are pleased to learn that the 

 demand for this article is increasing, and that it is 

 likely to become fashionable. It is by encouraging 

 such manufactures, that we advance the real inde- 

 pendence and prosperity of our country. — Balti- 

 more Chronicle. 



Dutchess County for ever. Mammoth child, 

 Deborah Tripp, has returned to the city : she has 

 increased to the enormous weight of 271 pounds, 

 although but 6 years and ten months old. — .V. 

 Y. Eve. Post. 



English Temperance Society. At a meeting of 

 the friends of Temperance Societies, held in Lon- 

 don, on the first Tuesday of March last, the re- 

 port stated that there were 250 associations in Eng- 

 land, comprehending 47,000 members: 380 in 

 Scotland, 55,000 members; and 20,000 members 

 in Ireland. 



From the Northern Farmer. 



Messrs. Newtons, — ^In the New England Far- 

 mer of the seventeenth of April last, a correspon- 

 dent inquires of the readers of that paper whether 

 any of them " know of the high bushed cranberry ; 

 where any of it grows, and if so, whether it can be 

 obtained in any considerable quantity ?" Not hav- 

 ing seen any answer to that inquiry in the New 

 England Farmer, I have thought proper to com- 

 municate through yoTir valuable paper, some par- 

 ticulars in relation to that shrub, which is said by 

 the correspondent of the New England Farmer 

 to be " an extensively valuable medicinal plant — 

 although its virtues are very little known." 



The high bush craidierry is a beautiful shrub, 

 grows from ten to fifteen feet high, and is exceed- 

 ingly fruitful ; producing great numbers of large 

 clusters of berries, resembling the low cranberry in 

 appearance and taste, though I think of apleasant- 

 er acid. The berries are not quite as large as those 

 of the low species, and have a hard stone or seed 



in them of considerable size, like that of the cherry, 

 though of diflere;nt form, being thin and flat, in- 

 stead of globular. This beautiful shrub is indi- 

 genous in New-Hampshire ; is connnon in the wes- 

 tern |iart of the State, and is occasionally found in 

 the gardens, and about the dwellings of our citi- 

 zens. Its favorite location is on the interval lands 

 near brooks and rivers, where it grows luxuriant- 

 ly ; but is, I believe, never found on low mead- 

 ows, or wet and swampy lands. Z. 

 Xewport, May 1833. 



RUM CANAL. 



In 43years— from 1790 to 1833— 214,434,342 

 gallons of rum have been imported into the Uni- 

 ted States. This, says the New York Journal of 

 Commerce, wouliluiake 68 miles of canal, 20 feet 

 wide, and 4 feet deep, and leave a remainder to 

 provide against leakage and the draughts of the 

 boatmen, of 45,278,168 gallons. All this has 

 been drank in the United States. How many wid- 

 ows and orphans has it njade ! How much pov- 

 erty — suffering — disease — crime — death I 



COMPARATIVE WEALTH OP ENGLAND AND 

 FRANCE. 



Cultivated land in France, 27,440 square 

 leagues; ditto in England, 13,369 ditto — yet the 

 gross produce of England is one-seventh more than 

 France, and nett produce double. Agricultural 

 population in England, one-third of the whole 

 population : in France they form two thirds. In 

 England, 7,611,682 farmers, husbandmen and 

 laborers, cultivate 21,000,000 acres, and pro- 

 duce annually a nett income of 107,247,000<.; 

 while in France, 19,621,000 persons cultivating 

 41,009,009, can oidy produce an income of 67,- 

 778,120 ; hence the super-productiveness of the 

 soil of England. Its superiority, however, may be 

 attributed, in some degree to the manner in which 

 property is divided in France. Nunjber of pro- 

 prietors in Englandand Scotland in 1816 was 689,- 

 385, add one third more for Ireland, which, at 

 five members to one family give 4,000,000 of per- 

 sons, or one-fifth of the whole population: but in 

 France in 1818 there were 4,333,000 land-owners, 

 which at 5 members to one family, gave 20,000,- 

 000 persons or four-fifths of the population. Num- 

 ber of proprietors of France under 42s. annual val- 

 ue is three millions and a half. Hence in England 

 one half of the population is employed in com- 

 merce; in France only one-sixth, a superiority in 

 England almost incalculable, when we take inio 

 calculation the extensive use of machinery. — M. 

 Ragney,from the Revue Encyclopedique. 



WHITEWASHING. 



It is a very common practice to whitewash 

 rooms, walls, and fences, with simple lime and 

 water. The result is, that a touch brings it off 

 upon the hands or clothes, and a few successive 

 rains leave almost entirely bare the materials upon 

 which it has been laid, and which are exposed to 

 the weather. On in-door work a little glue will fix 

 it so that it will not easily rub off", nor whiten the 

 dress that happens to come in contact with it. 

 Out of doors glue alone will not answer. Skim- 

 med milk is probably the cheapest and best ingre- 

 dient that can be easily procured. Those « !io 

 put whitewash without anything of this kind to re- 

 tain it, act on the same principle as if they should 

 fill ;i sieve with water, or cover a house with 

 boards without nailing them. — Ontario Paper. 



