VUI— No.l9. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



147 



ive of fertiiitv, but .-.sllieirnnnrinles of action 'shelter live stock, the skreen should be open at bed, ami the operation is to be performed either 



the bottom. Otherwise it is injurious rather than before a fire or in the sun. bince 1 have adopted 

 beneficial. The blast not only acquires additional this plan of treating,' my gunning boots, I have 



better not understood, or not properly de- 

 I, their Utility has never been estabhshed. I 

 never seen alkaline salts described as neces- 

 or valuable ingredients in the food of plants 

 ly chemical work. We know that alkaline 



are the production of vegetables, but as has 



observed, the result of actual experiment 

 es that alkaline salts do not impart fertility to 

 that are destitute of carbonaceous tnatter, and 

 he recent experiments of Sir Humphry Davy, 

 ipears that alkaline salts are not, as they were 

 iously considered to be, elementary substances, 

 compounds, formed of a metallic substance 

 oxygen ; and that such metallic substance as 



an affinity for oxygen, that it caimot exist in 

 larate state in contact with water. Any idea, 

 , that alkaline salts are reduced to their ele- 

 ts, and thus taken up by plants must not be 

 rtained." 



From the American Farmer. 



SHELTERING FARM LANDS, 

 he practice, almost every where prevailing in 

 United States, of removing every tree from the 

 nd, in clearing new land, shews that the im- 

 ance of affording shelter to farms exposed to 



winds and biting blasts, is not sufficiently ap- 

 iated. When interspersed with stripes or 

 ses of plantation, not only are such lands ren- 

 id more congeniid to the growth of grass and 



, and the health of pasturing animals, but the 

 1 climate is improved. The fact that the cli- 

 may be thus improved, has, in many in- 

 ces, been sufficiently established. It is, in 

 1, astonishing how much better cattle thrive in 

 s, even but moderately sheltereil, than they do 

 open, exposed country. In the breeding of 

 le, a sheltered farm, or a sheltered corner in a 

 I, is a thing much prized, as, by affording them 



current, but snow is liable to be blown through, 

 and to be lodged in drifts on the leeward side, 

 to the annoyance and danger of sheep that have 

 repaired thither for shelter. 



From Ihe Taunlou Advocate. 



SWEET GREENING AND TALMAN 

 SWEETING, THE SAME. 



Ma Editor — In the Advocate of the 30th of 

 October, Doctor Thacher replies to my en(|uiry 

 respecting the sweet greening, of the SSd of Oc- 

 tober. He acknowledges a " trifling error in the 

 descriiition. The apple docs not so nearly re- 

 semble the Rhode Island greening as I had con- 

 ceived, it is more like the Talman sweeting, though 

 it far surpasses that apple in good qualities, 

 abounding more in rich sirrupy juice." I have 

 been well acquainted with the Talman sweeting 

 the greater part of my life ; and there is nothing 

 said by the Doctor, on the sweet greening and 

 the Taltnan sweeting, either in the Orchardist, or 

 in his letter above referred to, but what will ap- 

 ply in every iota to the Talman sweeting. There 

 is one fact respecting the Talman sweeting, which 

 is not noticed by the Doctor, and which I think 

 will explain the reason of this trifling mistake of 

 the two varieties having crept into the Orchard- 

 ist. The fruit requires some frosts before gath- 

 ering to bring it to its greatest state of perfec- 

 tion ; it then does in fact abound more in " a rich 

 sirrupy juice." But if gathered early, as it often 

 happens, it becomes a shrivelled, lough, hard apple. 

 And let it be compared with some even from the 

 same tree, after the frosts had brought them to 

 perfection, and they would be pronounced two va- 

 rieties of sweet apple. But on the contrary, let 

 the supposed varieties, though one comes from 

 " Kingston," in the county of Plymouth, and the 

 other from Taunton, in the county of Bristol, be 



ction from the keen winds of spring and an 



n, they uniforndy feed with more freedom, and i """'■ '■""■ *""••■•"■•) ■■■ '■■■' .-«-..._, „. „..„.„., 

 '■'..■' ' I gathered about the same time, and I challenge 



even the Massachusetts Horticultural Society to 



1 better than if they were exposed. 

 hie operation of skreen plantations, observes 

 shall, is not merely that of giving .shelter to the 

 lals lodging beneath them ; but, likewise, in 

 king the uniform current of the wind — shat- 

 the cutting blasts, and throwing thesn into! 

 ; thus meliorating the air to some distance 

 ill them. Living trees communicate a degree 

 i-tual warmth to the air which envelopes them, 

 r* sre there is is life, there is warmth, not only 

 minial, but vegetable nature. The severest 

 ; rarely affects the sap of trees. Hence it ap- 

 that trees and shrubs, properly disposed in a 

 i k situation, tend to improve the lands so situ- 

 , in a threefold way, for the purposes of agri- 

 ire ; namely, by giving shelter to stock ; by 

 iking the currents of winds ; and by commu- 

 ting a degree of warmth, or softness, to the air 

 aimer weather. 



or ought it to be altogether kept out of view, 



the retaining, and judiciously arranging a 



ion of growing timber on a farm, confers a 



point out any, the most trifling difference. 



The " half dozen" sent for inspection, were 

 compared with some Talman sweetings, of late 

 gathering, and the best judges of fruit in this 

 quarter could discover no difference, in size, color, 

 form, lines, sirrupy juice, or flavor, but supposed 

 them one and the same. VERITAS. 



Taunton, JVov. 7, 1829. 



FOR A WATER PROOF VARNISH. 



Mr Editor — I observe in the forty-eighth 

 page of the first number of your excellent journal, 

 a reci[)e to prevent hunting boots from taking in 

 water, which may be, and doubtless is, a good one ; 

 but from experience I give the preference to one 

 much more simple in its component parts. It was 

 recommended to me about two years since by Mr 

 Gideon B. Smith, a gentleman to whom society is 

 indebted for several discoveries of great value. — 

 It simply consists of seneca oil and gum elastic; 



never had a wet foot, though I have repeatedly, 

 during the past summer, been in the heavy marsh 

 at Pott's spring, from early in the morning until 

 five or six o'clock in the afternoon. Nor is this 

 mixture alone serviceable to hunting boots ; it 

 would be found equally so to all others, as it im- 

 parts an elastic ]diaiicy to the leather, which, with- 

 out the least exaggeration, would make one pair 

 last as long as two which had not been so pre- 

 liared. — Jliner. Turf Reg. 



DISEASE IN CATTLE. 



In our paper of last week, page 139, will be 

 found an article, copied from the JVewburyport 

 Herald, respecting a disease in cattle belonging to 

 Robert Patten, Esq. Since the insertion of the ar- 

 ticle, we have received a line from our respected 

 friend and correspondent, the Editor of the .Vet/)- 

 buryport Herald, stating that the deadly disease 

 referred to, since last June, has carried off a large 

 portion of Mr Patten's stock. " He is totally una- 

 ble to find out the cause, or to prescribe a remedy. 

 He wishes me to make known the fact to you, 

 hoping that you, or some of the correspondents of 

 the J^cw England Farmer, may be able to throw 

 such light on the subject as may direct him in the 

 application of some means to arrest so dire an 

 evil." 



It appears that in June last, Mr Patten lost two 

 cows, two oxen, and two horses, and this fall one 

 horse and one ox, in all eight creatures. " Syinp- 

 tomg, heaviness about the eyes, and loss of appe- 

 tite without much apparent pain, until shortly be- 

 fore death, when the agony became extreme. On 

 opening the bodies, the intestines were found in a 

 healthy state, the vital parts not disordered, and no 

 appearance of disease, save in the spleen or melt, 

 which was enlarged to twice its usual size, and 

 looked mortified." 



We have looked in vain in several books of 

 Farriery for a description of a disease with similar 

 symptoms, and can give no advice in such a case. 

 We should be grateful for any information on this 

 subject from friends and correspondents, and hope 

 that our friend of Mansfield, will favor us, and 

 benefit the public with his thoughts relative to this 

 formidable disorder. 



one ounce of the latter to be cut into thin shreds 

 Iness, and picturesque beauty on the landscape. ! and dissolved in a pint of the former, and when 

 ^ jhavc seen some lands, on which nothing was dissolved, which will be in a few days, the boots 

 sht for but profit and shelter, where the great- are to be completely saturated or charged with 



beauty was produced by adopting this system 



1 lere, however, trees for shade may be requi- 



for agricultural purposes, they should be suf- 



ntly open to admit a free circulation of air. 



this purpose, trees with lofty steins, and large 



I ds, pruned to single stems, are preferable. To 



the mixture. The manner in which I have pre- 

 pared my boots is as follows : I take a piece of 

 sponge, and rub the mixture in until the leather 

 will absorb no more of it ; the boots are then laid 

 by for a day or two, when the process is repeated. 

 The soles as well as the uppers are to be thus rub- 



Brighton Market. — Monday, JVov. 23. 

 (Reported for the Chronicle and Patriot.) 



For the first time, we are obliged to omit making 

 anything like a regular report of the Market. In 

 consequence of the rain which continued until 

 nearly 3 o'clock, the drovers betook themselves to 

 the Tavern, the bar-room of which, by the way, 

 on account of its contracted size, is not the most 

 desirable ; so that any communication with that 

 body was nearly i)rohibited. As no sales of con 

 sequence were made until late in the afternoon, 

 we were unable to gather any information in re- 

 spect to prices. 



The following estimate of the number of Cat- 

 tle, Sheep, and Swine, at market, was obtained 

 from the calculations of the best judges — Cattle, 

 2500 ; Sheep, 4000 ; Sivine, 425. 



Mr Henry Skinner, Perquimans county, N. C. 

 has a grape vine which this year produced 24 

 bushels of grapes, yielding 3 barrels of wine, be- 

 sides supplying fruit enough for his own and his 

 neighbors' tables. 



