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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



NEW EiVGLAND FARMER. 



SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1824. 



F.iRMER'S CALE^'■DAR. 



Manure heaps compost-beds, weeds, &c. — Be 

 very careful not to suffer weeds of any sort to 

 ripen their seeds on, or any where within gun- 

 shot of your mines, or mints for makin"; money, i 

 which your manure-heaps and composl-beds i 

 may be styled, almost without a melaplior. If 

 you distribute the seeds of noxious or useless 

 plants with your manure you need not wonder, i 

 and ought not complain, if weeds, the pcsls of 

 agriculture, get the upper hand of your mo«t 

 valuable crops. Cut down, therefore, or dig 

 up by the roots all useless or noxious plants in j 

 good season, that is to say before their seeds j 

 are formed or nearly ripened, and either throw j 

 them to your swine, for their daily luncheons,} 

 rake them into heaps, and bury them with sods, 1 

 mud, rich earth, &:c. or dry them in the sun, j 

 (if you have a large crop,) and I dare say your ' 

 cattle will admire them for food during some of! 

 the cold spells which will probably visit us next ! 

 winter. I 



Fruit trees. This is probably as good a lime ', 

 as any for budding or inoculating your apple, 

 pear, and peach trees. The American Gardi-i 

 ner's Callender says, "cherries, plums, or any j 

 fruit trees may as well be budded in this month 

 (August) if the bark parts freely from the stock, j 

 Pears ought to be inoculated in the early part 

 of the month, or while the sap flows (reely ; j 

 but the peach, nectarine, almond, and apple! 

 will succeed any time between the first of Au-I 

 gust anil twentieth of September, provided that 

 liie stocks are young and vigrrous." 



" You may now inoculate all such cuiious 

 trees and sbrulis as you wish to propagate in 

 that way: there are very few but will succeed 

 at this time, if worked on good and suitable 

 stocks ; but when you find the bark not to part 

 or rise freely, it will be almost in vain to at- 

 tempt the work." 



" You should now look carefully over the 

 stocks, which were budded in July, and in three 

 weeks, or at most a month, after their being 

 worked, loosen the bandages, lest the buds 

 should be pinched thereby ; and where there 

 are any shoots produced below the buds, they 

 sliould be rubbed off. Y'ou ought aUo to ex- 

 amine the trees, which were budded the form- 

 er year, or gr.ifled in the spring, and cut off all 

 the shoots that are produced bencith the inoc- 

 ul.itionsor gnil'ls : for if these are permitted to 

 grow they will starve the proper slioots." 



Bees. — Those of our good customers, sub- 

 scribers, readers, and all others, including each 

 and every body to whom our observations on 

 this subject are applicable, will pav proper at- 

 tention to their hees. To go at large into the 

 uses of honey would be to write a volume. 



We have been told that some folks suffocate 

 their bees in August, in order to rob them of 

 their honey, when intact the season for making 

 lioney is not nearly passed; for August is said 

 to be the best monili in the year tor that pur- 

 pose The Cottager's Manual assures us that '• it 

 happens in this month that the bees begin to 

 kill their drones, which is the immediate signal 

 for the ignorant bee-mas<er to piircbasp a bun- 

 dle of matches, wherewitli to sulTocate his '.pes; 

 this is performed on the crioneous supposition 



that the massacre of the drones indicates the j 

 close of the honey season; but it is impossible' 

 to entertain a more erroneous idea.it having] 

 in tact, no affinity with the honey season. So 

 far from attempting to suffocate my bees, were i 

 1 ever guilty of the barbarous practice.! would 

 not hesitate to take from my hives a portion of) 

 the honey, with the well-fotmded hope of the ' 

 vacuum being replenished belbre the close of 

 the season. 



"There are two points to whii h the atten- 

 tion of the apiarian should be this month di- 

 rected : — The first is, the pillage of the hives 

 !iy stranger Bees; and the second is, the attack 

 of the hives by wasps. In the first case, a re- 

 moval of the attacked hives has been recom- 

 mended ; and certainly, if the removal could be 

 effected to that distance, beyond the range of 

 attacking bees, the calamity might at once be 

 put a stop to ; but as this is an advantage which 

 can seldoin be enjoyed by a keeper of bees, I 

 would recommend instead of it, that on llie very 

 first symptom of an attack, the entrance should 

 be immediately contracted, so as to admit only 

 two bees to enter at a time, and every crevice 

 about the hive by which a bee could enter 

 caretuHy closed. The tin entrance attached to 

 the iiuish Hive is well adapted forthi^ purpose, 

 the opening can be contracted or enlarged at 

 pleasure, ivith celerity and cleanliness, and I 

 believe I can be borne out in tny assertion, by 

 the skilful proprietor himself, that the hives of 

 Ctiptnin C.\LL ol Taplozi' Hill, during one of the 

 most violent attacks which 1 ever beheld, upon 

 twenty-eight hives at one time, were all saveu 

 by the use ol'tbat simple instrument. The at- 

 tack of the uasp may be defeated in the same 

 manner, but this insect a|)jiears to possess a de- 

 gree of boldness and ci:nning, which is wholly 

 I'oreign to the bee. It will wiili the grealesi 

 adroitness watch its opportunity to enter the 

 hive, but it will never enter at the front, if by 

 the negligence or carelessness ol the proprietor 

 an opening has been left behind. 1 ha\e good 

 grounds for believing that more hives are im- 

 poverished by the robberies oi' the wasj)s than 

 IS generally conceived, and the most certain 

 way of diminishing the number of these arch- 

 enemies of the bees, is to hunt out their nesls, 

 and either blow them up with gunpowder or 

 suffocate the horde of thieves by a handlull of 

 brimstone. — The cottager, in general, entcr- 

 ' tains an opmion that the wasp kills his hees; 

 iliiis is, however, liy no means the case, for the 

 I wasp will pay no attention whatever to the 

 ! I'ees, if he can but succeed in stealing the hi>n- 

 I ey ; it wili, liotvever, frequently happen, that 

 ; the natural cunning ol the wasp enables it to 

 discover a ue^ik hive, and the continual annoy- 

 ance which the hive consequently undergoes, 

 added to the robbery of the honey, obliges the 

 j bees to vacate the hive, leaving the uhole of its 

 [contents a prey to the marauders. A cottager 

 tberelore, cannot be loo attentive to guard his 

 hives against tiie attack of the wasp — it is not 

 of that trifling consequence whiCh man^' keep- 

 ers of bees attach to it, but is the cause of the 

 ruin of many wholesome hives, which the im- 

 prudence or negligence of the proprietor has 

 lelt exposed to tiie depredatory attack. 



iiavmg -idopted every precaution requisite 

 against llie .vasp and other insects, and the pro- 

 prietor having convinced himself that his hives 

 are in good health, tlie less they are iucommod- 



ed this month, the belter. If the sun heals 

 very strongly upon a hive, which frequently 

 hajipens the beginning ol this month, a shade 

 should be immediately applied to it. I have 

 known many hives completely ruined by the 

 melting of Ihe combs from the infiuonceofa 

 meridian sun, and the whole of the bees actu- 

 ally suffocated in their own s.veets." 



The folloiving mode of destroying the bec- 

 miltcr has been recommended. " To a pint of 

 sweetened water, (sv.eetened with sugar or 

 honey) add half a gill of vinegar; set this in an 

 open vessel on the top ol the hive ; and at 

 night when the miller comes to his work of 

 destruction, he will prefer this composition, 

 and diving into it, will immediately drnriu." 



To preserve your bees as well as your Iruit 

 against wasps, Mr. Forsyth recommends •' sev- 

 eral piiials, or small bottles, to be piejiared, 

 towaids the time when the wasps appear. 

 1 These vessels are to be filled, half or three 

 , parts full, with a mixture consisting of the leo.« 

 I of beer or wine, and the sweepings of sugar, or 

 i the dregs of molasses : next, they must ne sus- 

 ' pcnded by yellow pack-thread, on nails dr'ven 

 I into difierent jiarts of the garden-walls, so as to 

 , reach nearly the bottom. When the hollies 

 I are filled with insects, Ihe liquor must be pour- 

 '. ed into another vessel, and the wasps crushed 

 on the ground. Should ihe weather prove 

 very hot, so that these marauders become very 

 j numerous, and will not enter the glasses exposed 

 I for their reception, Mr. F. directs them to be 

 ' touched on ;lie back « lib a little oil, when they 

 will in.-tiuilly fall down; their bodies acquiring 

 a black or green colour; and the lateral pores 

 throuiii which ilicA breathe, being closed up 

 by the oil, they consequenti- perish.'' 



ARRIVAL OF GF.,NLRAL LA FAYETTK. 



A'cu-i'ork, Jluciisl 16. — Eariy yesterday nion'irg^, 

 ilif stiip Cadinus, tapt. Allen, «as announrfd by Ihe 

 Teligiaph to have airived btlow, with Gciititu LA 

 FAY KTTE on board. The pleasing inleliigenct spread 

 oyerllie city almost with electrical rapir'ity, andtvtry 

 countenance beamed with joy. Broadv^ay and the 

 I>aftcry were- soon crowded with ladies and gt c( It men, 

 anxious to calch a giimjise ol' the veteran hero, who, it 

 was =npposed, might come iniDudialLly to the city. 

 The arrangements for his reception, were, however, 

 speedily commanicated lo him by the city authorities, 

 and he landed at Staleii Island, from the steam-boat 

 Nautilus, a few moments past ten o^clock, in comj»auy 

 with his son, Georce \Vashi.\cto\ La Fatette, 

 Mr. .\cGrsTE Le Vasseur. a companion, and one ser- 

 vant, where they were received by the \'ice President 

 of the United Slates, and conducted to his st at. The 

 General remained at the \'ice President'^s, till 11 o'- 

 clock, this morning. During the niost of yesterday, 

 he i^-ceived the visits of many who were eagerly press- 

 ing round hiin, and anxious to grasp his hand. Col. 

 t'LATr. who was in his suite during the Revolution, 

 ntliciat'd lo receive and introduce visiters, but in ma- 

 ny instances, iiie General, uurestiai.ntd by the ordina- 

 ry rules of etiquette, was as anxious as his visiters to 

 crowd forward and take them by the hand. Fort La 

 tayejie fired a salute of K3 guns, answering lo the ori- 

 ginal number of the states, as the ship passed ; and 

 when the General landed at Statfn Island, a salute 

 was fired from tht ship Importer, Ca| tnin Kean, fiom 

 Canton, belonging to Thomas H. Smilh, Esq. In the 

 city, tlie national flag was hoisted at all the public 

 I !ar( 5. and all the ships in the harbour, and displayed 

 during the day. 



The Committee of the Corporation chartered the 

 steam-boat Bellona, and ]iroceeded at 10 o'clock, 

 to s:t,-»ten Island with General Morion, General Bene- 

 dict, and several members of the Common Council, ti 

 gleet bis arrival, and communicate inlurmally, the ar- 

 rangements that bad beta made. 



