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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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haps preferable. h may be miule by any | rliuburb, commonly called (lie pie-phiul, are ve- 

 blacksmith, and may be procnred by any inde- 1 ry desirable varielies for our tables. This last 

 [lendent farmer. It will save more than its j plant has a wonderful growth, and requires ve- 



I ry little care here, and wbfin we consider the 

 cultivated small grain ; early period in the year when we can use it to 



cost in one winter, even upon a small stock. 



Those who have not 

 will ""ie, with great advantage, Indian corn 

 stalks, which being cut fine, will be relished by 

 cattle in their dry state. 



***** 



We must do every thing in onr power to de- 

 stroy that pernicious weed, the Canada thistle : 

 we ought not only to make on thema constant war 

 in our fields, but yet not spare them in the roads, 



make pies, wc must not be without it. 



Even in this good climate of ours, it is a sub- 

 ject worthy of remark, that this is the seventh 

 time that we as.ocmblo on two days fixed long 

 before hand, and are favoured with such weath- 

 er as we could ourselves have wished. We 

 may without any superstition draw a favoura- 

 ble" 



trees in line order : over the young; ones, hs 

 drew tubes made of pieces of an oUI tin water- 

 spout, eight or nine inches in loiiglh, slicking 

 the lower edge in the ground and filled it up 

 round the body of the tree with dry sand. — 

 they have been inoculated and begin to plainly 

 forma head, this inclosure is to be exchanged 

 for a larger one, made of pieces of board six 

 or seven inches square, separated at the two 

 opposite angles, so as to be readily nailed to- 

 gether when placed around the tree. These 

 boxes are filled the latter part of June before 



ii; uu. ..=...., -«.^ , -- ,, """°" ''''°'" "''*• -*' ""' "1""''^"'' "''"''■ 'the insect attains the (ly state; and every au- 



where coming to seed they spread on our cul- Nome days ot unfavourable promise, the clouds J ,y^„ ^ft^r it has disappeared, they should I 



tivated lands. A successful experiment has been 

 made ; after having mowed them in the early 

 part of the summer, to throw salt upon their 

 stalks. The cattle come, and in feeding con- 

 stantly upon them, prevent their growth, and 

 effect finally their destruction. 



The subject of manures has been mentioned 

 in former addresses; but as I am apprehensive 

 that too much indilTerence is still shewn in re 



which I'.ung over us yesterday have vanished, | |,^5j.gj 

 and nature again shines in all her autumnal 

 charms. If it had been othenvise, we would 

 have been undismayeil. As it is, let us be en- 

 couraged and grateful. 



I beg leave before I conclude to observe, that 

 the admonitions of oflicers of Agricultural Soci- 

 eties and the testimonies given by them of 

 those institutions, ought to be received witli 



ws 



gard to them, I must call your serious attention c.ontidence, so iar at least as respects the vie 

 ao-ain to those renovating substances. It has »nd motives ot those who address you. 1 hey 

 been proved by chemical demonstration and »o>'k 'of 3">u without lee or reward except 

 practical experiments, that by leaving your ma- 1 «''''' "'«y ^'^'^ '» "'« pleasure of doing good 

 nure to rot in your yards, exposed to the sun I Wealth, tame, honour, nothing m fact which 

 and air, you lose the greatest part of the salts 



and gases, which constiiute its fertilizing pow- 

 ers. You must therefore either carry it fresh 

 on your lands while ploughing, so as to bury it 

 at once, or put it in hea^s and cover if '.vith earth 

 or lime, and have it under siiade. The latter 

 substance is even alone an e.xcelient manure. — 

 The quantity must vary, according to the soil 

 and the object jiroposed to be attained. If you 

 wish only l" increase your present crop, '25 

 busheis wiil.aQswer ; but 75 to 100 is rtMSMft- 

 mendfed lor a lasting irai)tovement. The use 

 of it in parts of this county may be ojiposed, on 

 the supposition that it would not be useful upon 

 onr Kmestonc lands. But it is a mistake — I 

 have seen it used in Jersey and Pennsylvania, 

 upon the very lields next to the kiln, with- very 

 great effect. On ti>is subject, 1 strongly re- 

 commend the pernsal of what has been written 

 by Jesse Bael, Esq. the learned Recording Sec- 

 retary of the board of agriculture. It is con- 

 tained in the memoirs of the board, under the 

 head of '• application of stable manure." It 

 contains, in a few words,' a vast deal of inibrma- 

 tion. 



I cannofpass under silence, our great neglect 

 of our gardens, the more so when the perfec- 

 tions to which our garden vegetables arrive, is 

 a convincing proof of the excellence of our cli 

 male and soil. Bo.-n and educated in what is 

 called the garde^jf France, and fond of Horti 

 Culture, 1 can assure you with confidence that 

 the vegetables of that lavoured country do not 

 equal ours. Besides the more common vegeta- 

 bles, those two most valued, the cardon and 

 cauliflower, grow here finer than I ever saw 

 Ihem ; and we need not exclude frcm our gar 

 dens any southern productions of the United 

 Stales. I planted this year, much too late, from 

 4he difficulties of getting the seed here, some 

 Carolina and sweet potatoes. They were plant- 

 ed in open ground on the 9th of June, and you 

 will see a few samples of them this day, which 

 though not grown to their size, will prove 

 that they may be raised without 'extraordinary 

 care. The sea kale, the egg-pl.«jt, and the 



commonly incites us to exertion, is their object. 

 When thoy impart to jou the fruits of their ex- 

 perienced or scientitic research, were they sel- 

 fish, they had better keep it to themselves. All 

 the right of candour and disinterestedness ought 

 therefore to accompany their voice. If it 

 should be disdained in the halls of our capitol, 

 it will yet have an important efTecf, if it influ- 

 ences some of our young men in the cities and 

 villages to live in the country, an independent, 

 useful, and honouralile life, rather than waste it 

 in idleness or aborfive attempts at some profes- 

 sional calling; a bir.den to themselves, to their 

 tamilies, and to society. 



The mention of manufactures and the sight 

 of those tasteful ornaments must have brought 

 to your minds the great share which the La- 

 dies have had in encouraging this important 

 branch of our solicitude. Their industry and 

 emuiation cannot be too highly praised. It is 



and the sand withdrawn from them, 

 which will expose any in=ccts that may chance 

 to be there. This method then may be confi- 

 dently recommended ; but for extensive culti- 

 vation it is too troublesome. The experience 

 of the New Jersey farmers, who supply our 

 markets so profusely, has taught them nearly 

 the same plan ; they plant the peach trees ia 

 what they call a truck i)atch, in which they 

 raise a succession of vegetables for market, and 

 ii is constantly under tillage; in the spring of 

 the year they caret'ully ridge up the sand as high 

 as can be done with the plough, and in the au- 

 tumn by throwing a furrow from them they 

 again reduce it to its ordinary level. If during 

 the summer by the appearance of gum around 

 the stem, or other indications with which they 

 are perfectly familiar, they suspect the insect 

 to be at work, they scrape the sand from the 

 root, search for and kill the worm, and then 

 replace the sand as before. In a few years, 

 by excessive bearing, the trees become exhaust- 

 ed ; these are replaced from the nursery at an 

 expense of 10 or 12 cents, by young trees of 

 the roost v?luai>!e 4'arieties, that will become 

 bearing trees at three years of age. By these 

 means, we have secured to us a constant succes- 

 ' sion of the most delicious fruit. Our next care 

 should lu; to preserve a portion of these for 

 winter use, by drying Ihem in the most perfect 

 manner, and a reform in this particular is much 

 wanted ; those dried in a kiln are very liable 

 to be burned, and exposed to the open air they 

 become injured by dusi, rain, and insects; the 



natural that our peaceful and harmonising oc- ne^te^i^ ^ogi economical, and efficient mode I 

 cupations should be approved by them. Let us jij^ve heard of, is adopted by an enterprising 



therefore asl< of them a continuance of their 

 smiles to cheer us, of their example to stimulate 

 us, and their prayers to bring down the blessings 

 of Heaven upon our labours. 



From the American Farmer, 



en THE CULTIVATION OF PEACH TREES AND DRYING 

 OF FRUITS. 



John Hare Powel, Esq. 



Cor. Sec. of the Ptnn. ^'Igricultural Societ}/. 



Sir — Of the various modes prescribed for the 

 preservation of the peach tree, from the very 

 ruinous depredation of insects, there is, I be- 

 lieve none so efi'ectual as that of surrounding 

 the body of the tree, for several inches above 

 the root, with either straw, toliacco, raw hide, 

 or some other substance, that will prevent the 

 fly from depositing it« egg in the situation most 

 favourable to its developement, which is the 

 trunk just at the surface of the ground. — 

 One of my neighbours, an intelligent and ingen- 

 ious horticulturist, uses sand as a protection, and 

 has succeeded completely in preserving his 



farmer on the sea coast of Jersey, but who soon 

 lost his peaeh trees from their proximity to the 

 ocean; he built of very rough materials a small 

 house, inclosing a common stove, surrounded by 

 shallow drawers opening on the outside of the 

 building ; the bottoms of these drawers were 

 composed of narrow strips of wood similar to 

 common plastering lath; in these drawers were 

 placed the peaches cut in halves, the stones 

 taken out, with the skins downwards ; by means 

 of a moderate fire in the stove, the fruit was 

 gradually and effectually cured — it was then 

 thrown in bulk into a small loft within the same 

 building, having an open work bottom similar 

 to the drawers ; here they become fit for the 

 market ; and if at any time damp weather 

 should render it necessary, a little fire in the 

 stove would disperse the moisture: these dried 

 peaches were of a very superiour quality, and 

 I have no doubt if this plan were adopted by 

 those v/ho have extensive orchards, they would 

 command a ready sale and good price. The 

 mode adopted in France of preparing dried pre- 

 serves, if practiced here would be Ukeljr to welJ 



