18^5.] 



2'o the Editor of the Moi-niiig Chronicle. 



Keiisin;ton, Oct. 2, 1824. 



SiR,-^l heg voii to have the £;(iodnfS^ to in- 

 sert liic foltowiiig <l:itpnii'nl in ^oiir Pupejr — il 

 is, inil( ed, calcul.iteil to <lo mc service, but 

 it :s ot'g-i-eal iniblic iinporlmicc, iind is I'lill of in- 

 terest auil ol' uuriosit}' to a verj large part of 

 the ci^nimuiiilv. 



In 181°, I wrote in Long Islam), and pnldis'i- 

 eil in Neiv York, ihe tisl pari of ilie '• ye,.r's 

 Residence m Am( rica. ' Il was anionj:;'! other 

 things, an account of my mode of cultivating 

 that invaUiilde root, the Swedish turnip — il 

 spoke ol m} ciillivalion of the rnoi at Botley, as 

 well as in Long Isl.md. Several persons in Eng- 

 land pursued lh3 mode at once, and to their 

 great pr<itii have adhered to it over since. — 

 But there is one Gentleman (Mr Palmer, of Bol- 

 Iitree Castle, parish of Weston, near the town 

 of Ross, county of Hereford) who has, jn conse-' 

 quence of ad'.iptiiig my system, made an im- 1 

 provemenl i:i a,'riculliire worthy of the atten- 

 tion of every larmer. [ 



Rlr Palmer read the " Year's Residence," in 

 the winlei' ot 1819, and hiiiig coni inred liy my 

 reasoning and my lacls, he, at once, resolved lo 

 act upon III) advice. He prepared two tield~, 

 the one called Brick kiln field, and the oilier 

 Hiscnps; Ihe first containing 13i acres, and Ihe 

 lasi 171. These l.-vo fields h^ne home, during 

 the hist six years (!8i9 and IB'24 included,) 

 three crops oj !ixi:e:..iih turnips ^ni\ three crnps rif 

 taheal. But, lei us '.ake the crops year hy yeai-, 

 of Ihe Brick-kiln field, which may serve for 

 bolii, there he ng scarcely any difference in the 

 cri ps of the iwo fields. 



1819. Drilled Swedish turnips, a single row 

 on Ihe top of each ridge, and the ridj^'es four 

 fe«l apart. The cr^p twenty Ions ol hiilUs to 

 Ihe acre. The tops from .seven to ejghl Ions. — 

 'I'he lops, in Novcrnher and December, IJung 

 about on pasture land, tocaille, >hee[), and pig-- 

 The bulfjs carried oil also, and oxen and sheep 

 were failed wilh them during ihewinierand 

 .spring months. 



1820. Drilled wheat, at eitfht inches distance, 

 in ridges lour feet apart; that is, on the land 

 merely turned hack from the fnrnip-ridji'es. — 

 The wheal was drdled on the 1 llh aiul 12lh of 

 I\iaich. The crop was forty Winchesler bus!) 

 els to the acre, and ten gallons over upon the 

 whole lield. 



1321. Transjdanted Swedish Turnips, at dif- 

 ferent times, from 3d June to 7lh July, — The 

 amount of crop, 24 Ions of bulbs per acre, and 7 

 tons of tops. — All carried oif the land, and ap- 

 plied to the same purpose as Ihose of 1819. 



1822. Drilled wheat, as in 1820, in February ; 

 but without plouglting the Uind at ail. Just drill- 

 ed it upon the land as it had been left by the 

 Swedish Turnips.— The crop was 32| Win- 

 chester bushels lo the acre. 



1823. Drilled Swedish Turnips, as in 1819.— 

 The crojr 22 tons of bulbs, and tVom 6 to 7 tons 

 of to()S. — All carried off Ihe land, and applied 

 to tlie same [lurposes as those of 1319 and 1320. 



1821. Drilled U'heat, as before, in Febiu;iry, 

 and xeithoni plo}ighing. The amount of Ihe crop 

 is not yet known, it being but recently harvest- 

 ed. It is, however, eslimaled at 31 Winchester 

 bushels to the acre, on three-fourths of the lield, 

 and 10 bushels to the acre on the remainder. 



The other lield (Hiscups) 17||^ acres, has, dur- 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



ing the whole of the six years, been ticateri in 

 Ihe same way ; has borne similar crops ; except, 

 th.il, this year, ils crop of wheat seems lo exceed 

 that of Ihe olher field in a considerable degree. 

 Mr I'aliner always manures for the Swedish 

 luriiips, and never for ihe wheat. When these 

 two lielils have wheat, he has his Swedish tur- 

 nips in other fields. H>ery tanner will be able 

 to judge of the increased ferldily which up- 

 v.'ards of six hundrc.l tons of bnlhs ot Swedish 

 turnips, and (tt'o hundred tons of tops every year, 

 would give to a farm of 230 acres, which is the 

 size ol Mr Palmer's farm. It may be said ihal 

 Mr P.ilmer is a clc-cer niai, and ihat his ttiud is 

 Bood. Both are true. bu*. there are ihousands 

 of clever farmers, and liionsands ot larmsol hot- 

 ter land ; and, I am deceived, if there be any 

 farmer in the kingdom, wlio can boast ol such 

 a prnduce. And (not lo fose sight of myself at 

 list,) so completely i» this wonderful produce to 

 be asci ibed to mv '• Year's Residence," thai, not 

 only had Mr. Palmer never put S\vedish tur- 

 ni[)s ai wide distances, before he read my book, 

 liul he had, before thai, nezcr grown a Swedish ] 

 turnip at all, in any manner whatever ! 



WiLLL\M COBBETT. 



Green Peas and new I'olatoes Iiare already made 

 their appearance at Ps'orfollc. 



A Carolina paper of Apiil 5, states that the forests 

 nre green, the fields decorated with flowers, and the 

 planting of corn commenced. In the midst of this 

 smiling prospect, however, a considerable quantity ot 

 snow fell on the first of.^pril. 



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XlVRAIi SC0X70IVI7. 



Directions for preparing a composition fur ingrnf- 

 tina fruit trees, communicated by an intelligent 

 .i^ricuhurist of this vicinity. 

 Take 4 parts of Tar, 2 of Beeswax and 1 of 

 Tailow, simmer ihem well together and it is 

 til for use. Rosin perhaps may be preferable to 

 Tar, but will require a larger proportion of 

 T.dinw to make it suitably soft lo spread to ad- 

 vantage. A coat oftliis preparation spread over 

 all parts of the wounded wood siifhcienlly thick 

 to exclude the air will remain unaCfecfed by the 

 heat or cold until it is completely grown over, 

 and is undoiibledly the best thing in use in graft- 

 ing. — Franiclin Post. 



EDINBURGH EYE W.iTER. 



Put while vitriol of the size of a nu( into two 

 gills of white rose water; with as much fine 

 loaf sugar as vitriol. When it is dissolved shake 

 the bottle, and on going to bed wash the eyes 

 with il, using a soft clean cloth. 



FOR Cl-RING WEAK A.VD WEEPINO EVES. 



PIIILADlir.PHIA SOCIEIY FOR PRO.MOTJ.NG AGRICULTURE. 



Stated meeting, April 19, 132.5 — Dr Mi;ase, 

 \'icc President, in the chair. The following pa- 

 pers were read : 



1. A letter from Major S. Long, giving a de- 

 scription ol the Rocky Mountain goat, a notice 

 of their gcngraphical range, and principal place 

 of resort. 'I'he information detailed was given 

 by Mr. Donald M'Kenzie, of Ihe British Hudson 

 Bay Company, with whom Major Long met on 

 his late journey to St. Peter's River, at the 

 mouth of .Assiniboin river, and afterwards con- 

 liimed by Mf. }Ieniy, of the same company, at 

 Fort William, on lake Superior ; both those 

 gentlemen spoke from personal observation. — 

 The fleeces of these native animals, one of which 

 is in Peal's Museum, exceed m downy softness, 

 that of the 'I'hibot goal, and iheir introduction 

 into the United Slates, would add greatly iotlie 

 national wealth. France has already been repaid 

 by working up the fleeces of Ihe Thibet animal 

 imported a few years since, for the expense at- 

 tending that memorable expedition. 



2. .\ letter to the Chairman from II Barnard, 

 of Hudson, New York, inclosing an account by 

 the builder, of Ihe mode to be pursued in con- 

 structing an arched bridge of boards, a model of 

 which is in possession of the society. These 

 bridges are very neat, and from the ingenious 

 mode adopted in forming the arch with the 

 boards, are also very strong. The inventor 

 was the late R. Robolham of Hudson. The 

 model of lie bridge is at Ihe service of the pub- 

 lic. It is a prool of the excellence of the prin- 

 ciples adopted in their construction, Ihat they 

 were erecleil in a country abounding with stone. 

 In the alluvial district of the United Stales, 

 where stones are scarce, timber abounds, and 

 Ihe bridges are notoriously unsafe, the wooden 

 SMuclures ofMr U. woul ! be extremely useful. 

 Lven in i'ennsylvania, so famous for bridges of 

 all Sizes, they might be found economical sub- 

 stitutes for more costly sione erections. 



3. li. Haines read a letter from James Hay- 

 ward, of Berkshire, England, on the merits of 

 three Suffolk pigs sent to R. H. They are of 

 the same breed as tne one of which there is a 

 cut in the Agricultural Almanack for the year 

 1C20. Some directions were given respeciiog 

 the breed of swine. 



Thomas Wistar, Jr. of Montgomery county, 

 Penn. exhibited several larvse of the cestrus bovis, 

 or gad-fly, recently taken from the back of one 

 of his cows. These insects in the larva state are 

 familiar to farmers by the name of warbles, and 

 are known to be highly irritating to the animals 

 they infest. In one case they actually caused 

 the death of a young bull, (which was intended 

 to he reared) by the innumerable small abscess- 



Mnkc a strong decoction oC camomile boiled'lgj which they gave rise to, along the whole 



' * '" course of the spine. Some particulars respect- 

 ing the various species of cestn that infest the 

 internal organs and skin of domestic animals, 

 were given in a report of a former meeting of 

 this Society. 



Edmund Rouvert, of New Jersey, sent a sod 

 of a common and pretty plant, called ground- 

 laurel, to the eating of which he ascribed the 

 death of a cow and sheep belonging to him. It 

 is the Epigaa repcns of the botanists. It does 

 not belong to the laurel family, but its injurious 

 effects upon cattle cannot be doubted, when free- 

 ly eaten by ttem. 



in sweet cow's milk ; with this let the patient's 

 eyes be bathed several times a day as warm as 

 can bo suffereci without uneasiness. Persons, 

 almost blind, have been cured by persevering 

 in the use of this jirescription. It is proper, 

 however to observe that frequently b or 6 weeks 

 bathing of the eyes is necessary. 



TO PROTECT CRAPES FROM WASPS, 



Plant near the grapes some yew-trees, and 

 the wasps will so far prefer the yew-tree ber- 

 ries, as wholly to neglect the grapes. 



