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AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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mtation of slovenliness: for what can be more 

 justing than to see a stray hair di-ajrging out 

 full length upon the edge of your butter knife, 

 to trace the same filthy line through half a 

 " 5' ;en slices of a cheese ? 

 ' believe the character of many a dairy has 

 n ruiued by such an accident, and the sale of 

 'S produce injured; it is therefore matter of as- 

 ishment, that the practice is not universally fol- 

 ed, which I have seen adopted by our thorough- 

 leat women, of always binding their hair up 

 sely under a handkerchief before they enter on 

 work of the dairy. Should any of your 

 ders feel safe under cover of a cap, from these 

 ctures, they are mistaken. 

 "''Il Avould further observe that children should 

 er be allowed to hang round those who are 

 ;aged in the dairy, particularly young girls who 

 ar long hair, much to their own inconvenience 

 warm weather, and to the annoyance of all 

 und them ; for it is either hanging about their 

 in a most slovenly manner, or they are for 

 r taking it down and putting it up. I have ab- 

 Litely seen a child go through this operation 

 If a dozen times in the room where the work 

 a reputedly nice dairy was going on, unnoticed 

 1 unreproved. 



' Thinks I to myself," if I vmst " eat my peck 

 dirt," at least let it be in any other shape but 



A SUBSCRIBER. 

 Bristol County, Sept. 8, 1829. 



NEW APPLE. 

 Mr J. B. Russell, 



Dear Sir — I send you a specimen of a new- 

 seedling apple, of good size, red color, and a high 

 aromatic flavor, which is highly esteetned hero, 

 as an early fruit. You will judge of its good or 

 bad quality by the fruit itseJf. It usually ripens 

 here about the 20th of August. It does not keep 

 long. It is a native of Winthrop, (adjoining this 

 town) and is known by the name of the Jf'ooil 



.Upple The parent tree is dead. But there are 



trees enough from which scions may be obtained; 

 and, if desired, I will send the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society a quantity of the scions 

 next spring, for distribution among its members. 

 Yours truly, 



FRANKLIN GLAZIER. 

 HaUoiceU, Me. Sept. 1, 1829. 

 Tlie fruit mentioned above has arrived in o;ood ordir, and 

 will be examined at Ihe Hall of llie Horlici'liural .Society, to- 



FOR THE NhW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Mr Russell — The follow^ing was just sent me 

 Mr Storm, a very intelligent and respectable 

 riculturist. I should be glad to have it published 

 our valuable New England Farmer, if thought 

 isable. Y'ours truly, 



GRANT THORBURN. 

 ye|.Veiu York, Sept. 7, 1829. 



SCORING PEACH TREES. 

 Mr Grant Thorburn — Last fall I observed 

 It one of my best and largest peach trees ap- 

 ared to be dying. And I had ftilly determined 

 dig it up, supposing it to be past recovery. But 

 iig loth to lose it, I spared it, and in the lat- 

 part of November last I scored it on three 

 es, cutting quite through the bark lo the solid 

 lod down to the root. On the largest limbs, as 

 h as I could reach, I cut one score. Large 

 antities of gum issued from the incisions during 

 3 winter and spring, which I carefully scraped 

 ", after every heavy rain, at times nearly a half 

 n from one tree. Quite early in the season I 

 d the pleasure to see evident signs of resuscita- 

 n, and the tree became loaded with blossoms, 

 d has since yielded a handsome portion of ex- 

 llent fruit. As soon as I saw the effect of the 

 3ring on this tree, I scored all my other ])cach 

 !es, and also my plum trees. From this I think 

 e fall scoring is preferable. Yet the trees 

 lich I scored the last spring have borne better 

 an at any time heretofore. Now whether my 

 ccess is owing to the favorable season, or to the 

 orino-, I am not yet fully competent to determine, 

 jt I am strongly inclined to believe that it is 

 " ving to the latter. Conscious of your anxiety 

 promote useful and valuable improvements, I 

 ivo taken the liberty to communicate the fore- 

 )ing. And remain, with sentiments of due re- 

 ject, youra faithfully. THOMAS STORM. 

 Kip^s Bay, September 3, 1829. 



Curious Fact in the Economy of Bees. — M. de 

 Jonas de Gelieu, pastor of the churches of Co- 

 lumbier and Auvernier, in the principality of Neuf- 

 chatel, Switzerland in a work translated into Eng- 

 lish, under the title of the Bee Preserver, or Prac- 

 tical directions for preserving and renewing hives, 

 affirms a very imj)ortant and singular fact with re- 

 gard to the economy of bees. It is, that " when 

 two or three distinct hives are united in autumn, 

 they are foimd to consume together scarcely more 

 honey during the winter than each of them would 

 have consumed singly, if left separate." In proof 

 of this remarkable result, the author states a vari- 

 ety of experiments to which he had recourse, and 

 all of which led uniformly to the same conclusion. 

 And, indeed, he shows positively by a reference 

 to upwards of thirty hives, six of which had their 

 population thus doubled, that the latter do not 

 consume more provisions during the winter than a 

 single hive does, and that, so far are the bees from 

 suffering from this, the double hives generally 

 send forth the earliest and best swarms. The 

 translator, says the Quarterly JotU'nal of Agricul- 

 ture, who is a lady of great accomplishments, and 

 habits of correct observation, has practised in 

 Scotland most of the plans recommended in the 

 original work, with the same results as the author. 

 — American Fanner. 



RAISING OF COLTS. 



The following answers were returned by Will- 

 iam R. Johnson, Esq. to questions propounded by 

 John Marshall, Esq. of Fauquier county, Virginia. 

 — American Farmer. 



Senate Chamher, Feb. 4, 1829. 



1. Keep the colts in ])retty good order, not too 

 fat, until they are two years old, then break them 

 " gently." 



2. Keep them in lots, it does not matter as to 

 size, taking care not to allow them to see other 

 horses more than possible. 



3 and 4. Grass lots are best, and shoj-t grass. 



5. Dry food mostly — when young, cut oats. 



6. Give corn in the winter ; oats in the sum- 

 mer ; not more at a time than they eat clean. 

 When they are once fat very light feeding is best. 



7. It is not at all necessary to rub them until 

 they are two years old. 



8. Wean the colts at about six months old. 

 Should the above answers to your questions not 



be sufficiently explicit, they will be with great 

 pleasure added to. Respectfully, 



John Marshall, Esq,. Wsi. R. Johnson. 



At the last exhibition of the N. Y. Horticultu- 

 ral Societj', Mr Samuel Downer, of Dorchester, 

 Mass. presented specikiens of four different kinds 

 of pears, which he designates by the names of 

 Bartlet, Andrews, Epargne, and St Ghelien, and 

 all of which were considered as very superior. 

 A large fine flavored Pine Apple, raised by Her- 

 man Thorn, was pronounced to be of the best 

 quality. Capt. C. Holmes presented some beauti- 

 ful specitnens of large Magnum Bonum Plum — 

 6 of them weighed 13 oz. 3 dwts. and 8 grains. 



Savoy Cabbages, weight of which averaged 

 3 lb. 12 oz. per head ; Orange Carrots, 1 lb. each : 

 and 12 beets, weighing 9 lb. 11 oz. from Mr 

 George Still. 



Mr Grant Thorburn presented a very splendid 

 Flower of Amaryllis Josephines ; specimens also of 

 rare and curious i)lants from his green house, 

 among them Lagerstroemia indica, Coffea Arabica, 

 Arabian Coffee Tree ; Theaviridis, or Green Tea 

 Tree ; Lauras Camphora, Camphor Tree ; Dorste- 

 nia Contrayerva, Ruscus Racemosust, Alexandrian 

 Laurel, &c. 



TO MAKE TOMATO KETCHUP. 



Take a quantity of ripe tomatos, (say two gal 

 Ions,) cut them in small pieces, put them in a clean 

 earthen pot or jar, about half a jiound of salt, a 

 tablespoonful of allspice, the same quantity of 

 (lepper, a quarter of an ounce of mace, tie the jar 

 up close, put it in an oven after the bread is taken 

 out, and let it stand all night, and repeat it three 

 times when you bake bread ; then strain itoff and 

 bottle it, and it is much better than mushroom 

 ketchup for all kinds of culinary purposes. 



Tomato Sauce. — Peel and slice 12 tomatoes, add 

 3 pounded crackers, pepper and salt them to your 

 taste — stew them 15 minutes. — Communicated. 



Ri/ig Worm. — After I had the tetter nearly 

 twenty years on my hand, and had used dollars 

 worth of celebrated tetter ointment, which took 

 off' the skin repeatedly without efliecting a cure, 

 a friend advised nie to obtain some Blood Root, 

 (called also Red Root, Indian Paint, &c.) to slice 

 it in vinegar, and afterwards wash the place af- 

 fected with the liquid. I did so, and in a few 

 days the dry scurf was removed, and my diseased 

 hand w;ls as whole as the other. — American Far. 



Bunch Grass. — The bunch grass is an abundant 

 crop this season. The rains that fell at the end 

 of April and beginning of May gave the roots a 

 firm hold in the ground, and the crop has exceed- 

 ed exjtectation both in quantity and quality. The 

 bunches, as usual, are sold at lid, and are as 

 large as they have been for a number of j'ears. 

 The bunches run from six to eight pounds, accord- 

 ing to their state of humidity — when taken by 

 weight, about half the price of the old potatoes. 

 — Edinburgh Scotsman. 



The number of sheep lost by what is called 

 " the rot," this season in the west of England, ex- 

 ceeds 100,000. One farmer who rents an estate 

 of Mr Ilussey, of Marnhall, near Shaftsbury, has 

 lost every cow and every sheep on his farm. — lb. 



Bees. — A very curious apparatus has been con- 

 structed in the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire, to give 

 intimation of the swarming of bees. When the 

 bees are swarming, their weight rings a bell, and 

 raises a flag upon a pole to any height required, 

 and at the same time indicates the weight of the 

 swarm.-^GlasgoiD Jour. 



