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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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should lie preserved, ns they make excellent 

 food for store swine or milch cows. 



Mangel wurlzel, Hill in many instances, be 

 found profitable for garden cultivation. It may 

 be raised in the same manner with the common 

 beet, except lieing left a little further apart, as 

 the plants grow larger. The following direc- 

 tions by a writer in the English Farmer's Jour- 

 nal, of Nov. 29, 1824, may furnish some hints 

 to those who wish to make the most of their 

 garden ground. 



" As soon as the frost in the spring is gone, 

 the mangel wurlzel seed is sown in a bed where- 

 in late or winter potatoes grew the last year; 

 the seed is sown as thick, or rather thicker than 

 you sow cabbage seed, well raked, and kept en- 

 tirely free from spring weeds ; this bed is to 

 furnish all the plants for the season. 



" As soon as the early peas of the dwarf sort 

 are sticked, I have a row of the mangel wurl- 

 zel plants (always taking the largest that the 

 bed can supply) placed on each side of the 

 row of peas, about 18 inches from each other, 

 and about three inches from the outside of the 

 sticks. With the early cabbage beds the same 

 mode is adopted, except that in those beds the 

 rnansel wurtzel plants are placed exactly in the 

 middle, between the rows of rabba2;e. As soon 

 as the peas are picked, the haulm and stick" 

 are removed and when the early cabbages are 

 cut, the stalks ire pulled up : then again im- 

 mediately as any beds of vegetables, such as 

 peas, cabbages, beans, carrots, onions, and pota- 

 toes, have their respective sovvings finisherl, 1 

 have the atlpys be'wecn such i>eds dug a spit 

 deep, iiid ihi» mangel wurlzel roots planUd 

 about 18 inches asunder ; and further as the jfiri( 

 crops of potatoes are dug for daily use, their 

 places are filled every two or three days (accor- 

 HiTrg as the space or weather will allow) \vith 

 the plants. By these means I am enabled to 

 raise between 3 and 4000 roots in a fruit and 

 vegetable garden of about three fourths of an 

 acre, and the largest part of which is now as 

 green as in spring, under this crop of mangel 

 wurtzel." 



Some cultivators affirm that it is never worth 

 the trouble to transplant these roots to fill va- 

 cancies. " 1 have seen," says an English writer, 

 " much labour and expense employed in trans- 

 planting into vacant spots, when the seed has 

 not been dibbled thick enough, but have never 

 seen the transplanted roots worlh half the trou- 

 ble ; the tap root being broken in the drawing, 

 nothing but top and useless rough roots and 

 fangs are produced." It has been remarked by 

 •ther writers that the most common cause of 

 failure in transplanting this root is the taking of 

 Ihem up when too small, before the plants have 

 obtained strength and size sufficient to bear the 

 ■operatioH of transplanting. It is no doubt the 

 best tpode, as a general rule, to plant so thick 

 that thcTii may be plants to cut up, and rx) ne- 

 cessity for transplanting to fill vacancies. 



In gathering the roots, care should he taken 

 to cut off the leaves abont half an inch above 

 the crown, as they will not keep so well if cut 

 more closely. Mess. Tristram and Henry Little, 

 in their account of the mode of cultivating their 

 premium crop for 1821, say, " As to the best 

 mode of preserving them, we have tried divers 

 ways, by pitting them, by putting them into the 

 barn and covering them with hay, and by putting 

 ibem into the cellar j the last mode we think 



the best." Col. Powel obsorves that one of his 

 crops was " piled in a cellar in rows as wood, 

 and covered with sand.-"' 



With regard to the uses of this crop, we shall 

 give a few observations from scientific and ex- 

 perienced cultivators. Col. Powel says, " my 

 neat cattle prefer mangel wurtzel to any root 

 which I have offered them. 1 have found its 

 effects in producing large secretions of good 

 milk very great. 1 selected in (November, two 

 heifers of the same breed, and very nearly of the 

 same age, and in similar condition ; they were 

 lied in adjoining stalls, and have been fed reg- 

 ularly three times a day by the same. One of 

 these had four and an half pecks of mangel wurt- 

 zel and lour quarts of corn meal daily. The 

 first, which has had mangel wurtzel alone, is in 

 the condition of good beef; the other is not more 

 than what graziers call half fat. 



"The application of mangel wurtzel as food 

 for sheep, is not the least important of its uses. 

 Ewes yean usually at the season when grass 

 cannot be supplied. The health of themselves 

 and the thrift of their lambs essentially depend 

 upon succulent food being had. I am inclined 

 to think, that no small portion of the success 

 which English breeders have met is to be as- 

 cribed to the largo stores of roots which they 

 have always at command. It cannot be denied, 

 that Indian meal will of itself, in most cases, 

 produce extraordinary fatness, as well as great 

 size ; but 1 have been led lo believe that dis- 

 eases are early engendered by this species of 

 forcing, which is always expensive, and loo often 

 eventually destroys the animal which has been 

 thus reared." 



A late writer in the London Farmer's Journal 

 sayK, — " this root is now generally allowed to 

 stand eminent tor the excellence of its fattening 

 qualities. Among our field productions, parsnips 

 and carrots may justly be declared more nutri- 

 tious ; Swedish turnips as holding divided em- 

 pire with it, while while turnips, cabbages and 

 potatoes, sink into insignificance before it. The 

 tasle both of the leaf and root is most grateful 

 lo every description of stock : bullocks, sheep, 

 and hogs, instinctively lay hold of them, and 

 when once accustomed to their flavour they re- 

 ject every other sort of green food if they have 

 the election. 



"No edible root has yet been brought into 

 use which has an affinity to the one under con- 

 sideration, with respect to its imperishable 

 properties. The white turnip is in March en- 

 tirely divested of its fattening power ; the 

 Swede in May becomes shriveled, and is almost 

 refused by cattle ; the potaloe after this time 

 entirely sprouts away all its vigour, diminishes 

 in bulk, and dries up ; but not so the mangel 

 wurlzel. It is not only ready for use in the au- 

 tumn, the winter and the spring, but may, if re- 

 quired, be continued with unabated advantage ; 

 and in the following autumn it will be found in 

 full possession of its most valuable qualities, un- 

 diminished in weight, and abounding in saccha- 

 riae juices." 



JVational Legislature. 



SENATE March 4. The Hon. John C. Cai- 



HocK, Vice rresident elect of the United States, ad- 

 dressed the Senate in an appropriate speech. 



Several re-elected and new members took (he oaths 

 of office. 



March 5. Mr Brent, of the department of State, 

 delivered four T^ttea messages from th« i'fegideut of 



the United Slates, wliicli being of an executive nature, 

 the doors were closed. 



March 7. The injunction of secresy having been 

 removed, it appeared thai the nomination of Mr Clay 

 to the oflice of Secretary of Slate, met with some op- 

 position. The Yeas were '.!7 — Nays H. 



March 8. The Convention lately formed with the 

 Government of Colombia, in relation to the African 

 Slave Trade, was disciis.sed and rejected. 



The Vice President retired from the Chair of the 

 Senate, and Mr Gaillard was elected pro lem. 



The followiu"; appointments have been made by the 

 President, with advice of the Senate: — Col. Hknri 

 Ci.AY, Secretary of State ; Hon. Richard Rush, Sec- 

 retary of the Treasury ; Hon. James Earboitb, Secreta- 

 ry of War; Alexander Everett, Esq. Minister Pleni- 

 potentiary to Spain ; JoEi, R. Poinsett, Esq. Minister 

 Plenipotentiary to Mexico; William C.Somerville, 

 of Maryland, Charge Des Affaires to Sweden. 



AGRICUIiTURAIi ESTABIiISHIVIENT. 



JVb. 108 Slate Street^ up stairs, sign of the Golden Plovgh 



JR. NEWELL, Proprietor, offers for sale an exten- 

 • sive assortment of Garden and Agricultural Im- 

 plements, viz. 



HOWARD'S Improved Cast and Wrought Iron Pat- 

 ent Ploughs, with cutters and rollers, and an extra 

 wheel between the mould-board and land side, which 

 facilitates the run of the plough, and is considered a 

 great improvement. 



TICE & NIXON'S Improved Patent Cast Iron dc 

 with a general assortment of common ploughs. 



HOWARD'S Improved Cultivator, an instrument of 

 the first utility for the purpose intended, operating as a 

 Harrow and Scarifier. 



BEA TSON'S Scarifiers and Cultivators. 



BENNETT'S Broad Cast Machine. 



JAQUITH'S New Invented Corn Shelter, operating 

 with a perpendicular cylinder and horizontal wheel, 

 and is a most perfect machine for the purpose. 



GOODYEAR'S Patent Steel Spring Hay and Ma- 

 nure Forks. 



BiSBEE'S Improved, Warranted, Cast Steel Hoes 



MEARS' Improved Patent Ox Yokes, for which a 

 premium was given at the last Cattle Show at Brighton. 



WILLIS' Patent Window Blind Springs, which were 

 highly recommended by the Committee on Agricultur- 

 al Implements, and have proved far superiour to any 

 invention of the kind. 



Garden Hoes, Rakes, Scythes &c. March 4. 



JOSEPH BRIDGE, No. 25, Court street, has for 

 sale, an extensive assortment of imported and do- 

 mestic Garden and Field Seeds, among whicii are ear- 

 ly and late Peas, (various kinds) Beans, RUTA BAGA, 

 MANGEL WURTZEL, Carrot, Beet, Parsley, Lettuce 

 (various kinds) Endive, Celery, Cauliflower, Cabbages 

 (various kinds) Burnet, Chervil, SALSAFIE, or Vege- 

 table Oyster, SCORZENERA, Sweet Marjoram, Sage, 

 Thyme, winter and summer Savory, Tomatoes, Grass 

 Seeds, viz. — Herds, Foul Meadow, Red Top, Red and 

 White Clover, with overSOO varieties of ORNAMENT- 

 AL SEEDS. Garden Tools, viz: Edging Irons, Pruning 

 Saws, Pruning and Budding Knives, Transplanting 

 Trowels, Garden Reels and Lines, D^tch or Pushing 

 Hoes, &c. 



Bird Seeds, GREEN HOUSE PLANTS, and Flower 

 Pots. 



Wanted as above, a few bushels MILLET. 33 



CASH will be paid at this Office, for any number 

 of copies of the New England Farmer, Vol. iii. 

 No. 31. 



WANTED, at this office, a strong, active lad, of 

 about 16 years of age, as an apprentice to Us* 

 Frinting Businees.. 



