Vol VIII.— No. 1. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



Aug. 15 

 22 

 29 



Sept. 5 

 12 

 19 

 26 



Oct. 3 

 10 

 17 

 23 

 31 



Nov. 7 

 14 

 21 

 26 



Total 



1109 lbs. of butter at 22 cts 



Calves 



Cheese 



37 lbs. of Butter 



36 1-2 



36 



-180 1-2 



DUTCH METHOD OF CURING HERRINGS. 



There are two methods of salting herrings, call- 

 ed white and red. In the former, the herrings, 

 after being gutted and washed, are either pnt 

 into b.Tskets, and salt sprinkled in them, both in- 

 side and out, and well shaken in the baskets, or 

 else are put in a strong pickle, which is prefera- 

 ble, for twelve or fifteen hours, and are well stir- 

 red several limes, that the salt may penetrate ; 

 they are then taken from the pickle, drained, and 

 packed in barrels, which are strewed at bottom 

 pretty thickly with salt ; and if there be time, they 

 are neatly laid in strata, always strewing salt suf- 

 ficient upon each layer ; when the fishery is very 

 abundant, this last ojieration is deferred till land- 

 ing, and in the mean time they are only thrown 

 into barrels promiscuously. On landing they arc 

 repacked and soiled, as before mentioned, and 

 regularly coopered, to prevent leaking of the 

 pickle, which spoils the fish. Properly, they 

 should be packed after being one night in i>ickle. 

 When this cannot be done, the fish do not keep 

 so well, and are reckoned an inferior sort Reg- 

 Arts. 



Milk sold, 75 gallons, at 16 cts 



12,00 



$322,94 

 DANIEL PUTNAM. 



Danvers, December 1, 1828. 



To be continued. 



From the American Farmer. 



SOVEREIGN REMEDY AGAINST MILDEW 

 ON GRAPES. 



Linnaeaii Botanic Garden, ) 

 J.jly G, 18». $ 

 J. S. Skinner, Esq. 



Sir — I now transmit you the remedy against 

 mildew, the effects of which I have witnessed so 

 as fully to couviuce me of its adequacy. Mr Scni- 

 uel R. Johnson, of Massachusetts, is the gentleman 

 who first communicated to me the information. 



Take a pint and a half of sulphur, and a lump of 

 the best unslacked lime of the size of the fist, put 

 these in a vessel of about seven gallons measure- 

 ment, let the sulphur be thrown in first, and the 

 lime over it, then pour in a pail of boiling water, 

 stir it well, and let it stand half an hour, then fill 

 the vessel with cold water, and after stirring well 

 again, allow the whole to settle — after it has be- 

 come settled dip out the clear liquid into a barrel, 

 and fill the barrel with cold water, and it is then 

 fit for use. You next proceed with a syringe 

 holding about a pint and a half, and throw the 

 liquid with it on the vines in every direction, so 

 as to completely cover foliage, fruit, and wood 

 this should be particularly done when the fruit is 

 just forming, and about one-third the size of a 

 pea, and may be continued twice or thrice a week 

 for two or three weeks — the whole process for 

 one or two hundred grape vines need not exceed 

 half an hour. 



In order to fully test the above, the process has 

 been pursued in some cases with only half of a 

 vine, and omitted towards the other half; the re 

 suit was, ])erfect fruit on one where absolute fail 

 ure attended the other. Some persons use sul- 

 phur in a dry state, which is thrown on with a 

 bellows suitable for the purpose, but the liquid 

 preparation is far superior, and I think wilt prove 

 that we are at last complete masters of the mil 

 dew. Yours, very respectfuJly, 



WILLIAM PRINCE. 



Useful information to Gaideners. — The ravages 

 of the yellow striped bug on cucumbers and mel- 

 ons may be olfectually prevented by sifting char- 

 coal dust over the plants. If repeated two or 

 three times the plants will be entirely secure from 

 annoyance. There is in charcoal some property 

 which is so extremely obnoxious to these trouble- 

 some insects, that they fly from it the instant it is 

 applied Am. Farmer. 



A Gloucester county farmer, on the 6th inst, 

 stopped his wagon at the Buck Tavern, near 

 Timber Creek ; put his horses under the shed, 

 took off their bridles to give them food, and leav- 

 ing his wife and child in the wagon, went into 

 the house. The horses became frightened and 

 started off — the man in attempting to stop them 

 was run over, his jaw broken in two places — the 

 poor woman in attemirting to extricate herself had 

 her leg broken. How much distress has here en- 

 sued from the want of a little common prudence. 



years, not only on our vines, but on vegetables, 

 such as beets, parsnips, &c. It promotes their 

 growth and loosens the earth around the roots. — 

 Ashes sprinkled on young cabbages, will also des- 

 troy worms, and increase their growth. The 

 publisher of the Journal says that " a frame cov- 

 ered with gauze, or milinct, made to enclose the 

 hills, is the only effectual method." But we think 

 gauze or mitinet better to put on the natural face, 

 to keep the musquitoes and black flies off, than on 

 cucumber hills or cabbages. — Nbrridgeivock Re- 

 jniblican. 



Another Improvement. — Mr Daniel Richardson, 

 of Baltimore, advertises that he has greatly im- 

 proved his Refrigerator, or Pormble Ice House — 

 and also constructed a Butter Box; on the princi- 

 ples of the Refrigerator. He says that in these 

 ' Butter Boxes' any quantity of butter may be 

 transported to market from any distance by land, 

 or water, perfectly hard, and without injury to the 

 form of the prints, in the hottest season, and will 

 bring nearly double the price that it would when 

 brought iu the common way.' 



Frost in Pennsylvania. — A paper published at 

 Wellsborough, Penn. states that, on the night of 

 the second inst. the country in that vicinity was 

 visited by a severe frost, which has done much 

 damage. It adds : — " Beans, cucumbers, and 

 vines of every description, are, for the most part, 

 in the valleys, entirely cut off. Some fields of 

 corn, too, and even potatoes, are much injured — 

 and some, we think, wholly killed. We have not 

 ascertained the extent to which this calamity has 

 reached, but fear it has not been very limited." 



Society to protect gardens, orchards, and fields. — 

 During the last week a large number of the in- 

 habitants of this village, desirous of doing some- 

 thing towards securing to themselves the benefits 

 of the produce of their own lands, formed them- 

 selves into a society denominated "The North- 

 ampton Society for the Protection of Gardens, Or- 

 chards, Fields, and Meadows." The officers a|)- 

 pointed were the follow ing : — 



Isaac C. Bates, President ; George Bancroft, 

 Vice President ; Daniel Stebbins, Secretary ; E. 

 S. Phelps, Treasurer. These four are Directors 

 ex officio ; the other Directors are Oliver Warner, 

 Eliphalet Williams, Thomas Pomeroy, and H. K. 

 Starkweather Hamj). Gaz. 



A Chinese Advertisement. — The following aji- 

 pears in the Canton Register : — " Coffins — Two 

 coffin-makers of Honam have received forty sets 

 of coffin timber of the best quality, which they 

 recommend to iheir friends. The price is not yet 

 fixed." 



To preserve vines from Bugs. — The destruction 

 of vines by bugs, or flies, has been very great in 

 this quarter, this season. A thousand remedies 

 have been prescribed to prevent their ravages. — 

 But the best of all that we have tried, is to plant 

 onion seed with the cucumber — and after the 

 plants are up, to sprinkle ashes on every hill just 

 before a fall of rain, which makes a ley, and kills 

 the bugs, &c. almost instantaneously — the smell 

 of the onions when up, will keep the flies off. — 

 We have adopted this method for a number of 



BROAD TAIL SHEEP. 



A present from the JVavy. 

 Sir — I have a fine Asiatic sheep, which was 

 presented to me by my friend John A. Kearney, 

 surgeon of the fleet in the Mediterranean, who 

 states, that he was presented to him by Mr Cun- 

 ningham, an English merchant at Smyrna. This 

 buck was raised by hand in the estabhshment of 

 the " Aga" of the town of " Cooklija," a few miles 

 from that city. 



With a desire to extend his usefulness I have 

 the pleasure to offer to the acceptance of the Ag- 

 ricultural Society of the place the loan of him for 

 one year. 



I am, ^'cry respectfully. 



Your obedient servant, 



L. KEARNEY. 

 To J. S. Skinner, Esq. 



Corrcs. Sec'ry Md Ag. Society. 

 Baltimore, June 14, 1829. 



The mutton of this stock has been found su- 

 perior to any other — of its wool I know nothing. 



L. K. 



(Its wool is on a par with common country 

 wool. It is a very fine one of the kind, being but 

 a lamb. It grew very much on the voyage, and 

 the flesh of its tail, is, we should say, more than a 

 foot wide, and of an equal length — we should 



