NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



ball on Thursday evening closed the scene. 

 Upon the whole, we have seen nothing in this 

 part of the country so well conducted — nothing 

 in which so tnuoh hilarity was enjoyed, or in 

 which every one concerned participated more 

 cheerfully and agreeably." 



From the Connecticut Herald. . 



AGRICULTURAL JUBILEE. 

 On Tuesday, the 20th inst. agreeable to a 

 notice given in this paper, the great meadow, 

 belonging to Major J.\mes Bishop, of VVatertown, 

 was mowed, on an experimental plan, combin- 

 ing the gratitications ofsocial life and neighbor- 

 ly affection with utility and improvememi, which 

 promises to be a precedent worthy ofimilation. 

 On that and the two succeeding days, nearly o/ie 

 hundred toi'f: of hay and four acres of rye, were 

 cut, dried,carted, and housed in five barns — and 

 notwithstanding- the frequent showers that inter- 

 vened, tiie whole was secured in good order, 

 and without the recurrence of any accident 

 worthy of note. This work was performed by 

 upwards of one hundred laborers, under tie di- 

 rection of proper managers, consisting of gentle- 

 men of all classes in the vicinity, most of whom 

 volunteered their services, and were amply 

 rewarded by full participation in the labors and 

 honors of the jubilee. We have been favored 

 with the following account of this experiment, 

 from a friend at VVaterlown, dated Friday morn- 

 ing, 23d inst. which we have no doubt wif be 

 interesting to every friend of Agricultural im- 

 provement : — 



" The meadow, which contains fifty acres, is 

 situated East of Bishop's Hotel, upon the tirn- 

 pike — 1 acres in rye — the remainder grass. 

 On notice given in your paper, and a gen^-al 

 verbal invitation, the laborers began to assem- 

 ble in good season on Tuesday morning, ard as 

 they came in were paraded in squads, 8 to 12 

 mowers in each squad, under a proper m.-.nag- 



nr, and were marcheil to the sound of drum and r quMFR^S CALEKD^R 



life, with a French horn and bugle, to the " ' , . . , ' 



meadow-ihe mowers being followed in prop- /^ ^o°" ^' 3°"r haying is completed, prov.d- 

 er order bv those who snrcnJ out the hay: od your gram is not quite ripe enough for bar. 

 The number of laborers, volunteered and hired, I ^cslmg you may hnd enough to serve as an an- 

 was 120 to 150. A piece of the meadow had 1 ''d^'e to idleness (which as the Irish .schoolmas- 

 been previously mown and the grass removed, \ 'er observed clothes a man with nakedness) in 

 upon which a booth had been erected, where 



THE SEASON. 

 Notwithstanding the present drought, the face 

 of nature never appeared in a more beautiful 

 attire. With the exception of grass and Indian 

 corn, the former and latter harvest on the sea 

 board will equal any preceding year. We 

 learn that in the interior of the State, Indian 

 corn is of an excellent colour and promising, 

 though not so forward as usual — 30 days more 

 will probably decide the crop. Little is feared 

 from insects; and should the frost " hold ofl'," 

 the anticipations of the husbandman will be 

 fully realized. Strawberries were generally 

 destroyed. Raspberries are now in periection. 

 There will not be more than half the usual 

 quantity of apples and plums in this vicinity. 

 fVisscasset Intelligencer. 



The season, thus far, has been very fine, in 

 this vicinity. English grain, we believe, pro- 

 mises well, and the crops of hay will be heavy, 

 notwithstanding the unfavorable prospects, from 

 the usual etfects of an open '.rinter. The pros- 

 pect is also good of abundant crops, west of 

 the Green Mountains. — Keene, N. H. Sentinel. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



SATURDAY, .lULY 31, 1824. 



'he tables were placed. This bootii or tent 

 »vas head-quarters. Here the labouiers dined 

 and supped, and here the stores of gjod things 



ditching, and draining your swamps, wet mea- 

 dow, &c. Pry, hot weather is the most expe- 

 dient for this occupation. You will also be so 

 good as to employ your leisure hours in replen- 



for relVc«bments, whi.-h were plentiful and I 'S'WnS .V""'" barnyard with any or all the fol- 

 well chosen, were deposited. Proper persons ! 'o"'"S ^"''*'='"ces, viz. swamp-mud, river-mud, 

 drew the supplies, with which the labourers > P""''"™'"'' sea-mud, clay, hrick-dust, brakes 

 were furnished as they were needed. At half! "'eeds, sea-weed, sea-sand, leaves, and the mould 

 pasi 10, and at 4 o'clock, the whole paHv as- i Pf°''"C'-'i 'rem their decomposition, and almost 

 sumbled, at Ihe call of the music, at the booth, ' •>")' ••'ing eUe, which is good (or nothing else, 

 and partook of a rns/icr of the good things pre- 1 " 3'°" scatter over and incorporalo with Ihe 

 red. At nnoii one hundred persoas aat down I "^^s' °' o''""'" m^'ter a hllle q 



par 



;ck lime it wil 



to a hearty and sumptuous dinner at once. At I ''c all the better. But in tilling your yard or 

 a little after 3, the rye was harvested' and the i compost bed with substances for manure, some 

 grass cut; and at the time of the showier, 5 o'- i'lten'i'^n should be paid to the nature of the soil 



\v|er 

 clock, about fifteen hundred cocks werfe erect- 

 ed. The whole number of cocks wns about 

 8000, and the number of loads of hay afiout IGO. 

 The hired laborers were paid their Wages in 



specie, under the awning of the tent, and of| '^'''^^^ "'" "°' ""'>" ^^"'^fi' y°'"' "^^' 

 course before leaving the ground. 1 crops, but mend the texture of the soi 



" Major B. v;as perfectly at home in the 

 management of the Jubilee. No men were 

 ever more attentive to their work, or did more 

 of it, or did it belter ; No noise, no disturbance ; 

 of every thing there was enough, and in per- 

 fect order. Every one was pleased and satis- 

 fied, and at the close of each day'.^ labor retir- 

 ed in harmony and peace. Occasionally the 

 l.idies and gentlemen spoclalors were to be 

 seer, upon the hills around the meadow, and a 



for which the application is intended. If your 

 field is sandy let your yard, compost bed, ma- 

 nure heap, fcc. be bottomed and intermixed with 

 clav, stiff loam, marl, sea-ooze, sea-shells, peat, 



l»lrti will nn( nnlv hpnpfil vmir np«t i-^rOpOSed 



If your 

 field is in part clay lot your manure be mixed 

 with common sand, sea-sand, lime, and such 

 other substances as will give it a linhtcr and 

 more loose texture. Wo have said before, and 

 we now repeat that the dung of your barn 

 yard, sly, kc. should bo tnixod with at least an 

 equal quantity of earth, he. to imbibe its gases, 

 and cnalile you to make the most of it. 



SulTiM no weed.s to ripen (heir sced< on vour 

 premises. If you have not time to Jig them up 



by the roots you may at least guillotine (hem 

 with a scythe before their seeds are grown. It 

 the seeds of pernicious plants are never sntTered 

 to become ripe you will be sure, eventually, to 

 get the upperband of tbem. Even the Canada 

 thistle, which has at least as many lives as a cat, 

 may be destroyed by cutting it down often 

 enough to prevent its seeds from coming to ma- 

 turity for several seasons in succession. 



HARVESTING. Wheat and rye should be cut 

 as soon as the straw has all turned excepting 

 at the joints, of yellowish hues. The kernel 

 should be so hard that you cannot mash it be- 

 tween your tiiumb and finger. If on twisting 

 the straw below the ear no juice can be forced 

 out,you may conclude that it is high time to cut 

 it. If the weather is fine, and you make small 

 sheaves, and shock in the field you may as well 

 bind your grain as you proceed wi!h the reap- 

 ing; that is reap across Ihe field, go back in 

 Ihe same track, and take up and bind what you 

 have just reaped. If the stalk, however, is 

 stout, and the ear full and heavy, let your 

 grain be exjjpsed to sunshine till the latter part 

 of the day. If your mows are large, the grain 

 will need the more curing. It is best to put 

 grain on scaffolds at some distance from the 

 ground, in which position it will be much less 

 liable to mould or sustain injury from dampness 

 than if it were placed in a barn, in such a manner 

 that there can be no circulation of air beneath 

 if. Avoid cutting grain when it is wet, and if 

 you suspect it is not so dry as it should be, bind 

 the sheaves loosely near the ears, set them up 

 singly and spread out the butts or lower ends of 

 the sheaves, so as to admit Ihe air to pervade 

 every pari. 



THE BORER. Having learned from Jtdin Prince, 

 Esij. that he had a person employed in extracting 

 the worms, called Borers, from llio trees in the 

 orchard on his larm at Jamaica Plain, near Bos- 

 ion, the Editor went to that place with a view 

 of obtaining information on the subject. He 

 found Mr. Ebenezer Hersey, employed in seek- 

 ing and destroying the diminutive, but powerful 

 i foe to fruit-trees, by modes and implements here- 

 1 tofore described, page 241, of the second vo- 

 lume of Ihe N. E. Farmer. Mr. Prince's or- 

 chard has been carefully explored, at Iciisl as 

 i often as once in two years for several years past, 

 land there is but now and then an insect left to 

 gratify the curiosity of the entomologist. Some, 

 however, were taken, and exactly answered the 

 descriptions fornerly given of them, viz. a 

 worm of a dirty white, with a brown head ap- 

 proaching to black. We saw some very small, 

 scarcely embedded in the bark, and others larg- 

 er, which had made lodgments in the alburnum 

 or sap wood. All which the editor saw were 

 in the grub-state, but we are told (hat their per- 

 fect state is that ofa species of beetle. Rlr. 

 Piince is acquainted with no remedy against (he 

 depredations of (his insect but by digging them 

 out aijd destroying (hem by means of .» knife, 

 chisel or gouge, as herelofore directed. But 

 he thinks it not improbable that by keeping the 

 tree coated will-. For-syth'a composition orsoroe^ 



