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NF.W K>GI.AM) FARMER, 



Mny7, 1S30- 



tiiakes il |i:iiiifiil fur liiiii li> Imvi; n . c.-<l.ililiriiiii<-iil 

 to wliich liu liel«ii::s iilliiJeil to ill a piiUlic jiriril, 

 ■•'t liiiii iiRver i'oiiili-s<-ciiil Ki becomi: u inililiH of- 

 f";cfr. Hut ifliy iiiiy acciili-nt Uaviiig hecomu one 

 III! mill iM-efiTS tlic good of liis country to lii:i per- 

 gonal caw, lot liiin riij'iice tliut lliu |iiil)lii; nre 

 uwnke in llie a'li'urdity of the Hystetn iindwr wliicli 

 he siiflTers uiul nru struggling tusliukc it ofl". — Sa- 

 lem GnzeiU. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



UOSTON, rillUAY, MAY 7, 1830. 



RINGING FRUIT TRKES. 



Hnving liiteiy seen in tlio garden of Nathan 

 Bridge, Es<|. of Clmrlcstowii, the eflecls of ring- 

 ing fruit trees, wiili a view to the ewrly |>roductii)ii 

 of fruit, it oci-iirred that sonicthing on the siihjeet 

 iiii>rht he seasonohle. The following are the di- 

 rections for ihi:! process, given in Dr Thacher's 

 Ore hard is t. 



Method of forcing fruit trees to blossom, and bear 

 fruit. 

 ' With a sharp knife cut a ring round the liin':! 

 or small l>ran<-li whicli you wish shoiiltl hear, 

 uear the stem or large bough, where it is joined ; 

 let this ring or cut penetrate to the wood. A 

 quarter of an inch fioni this cut, make a second 

 like the first, encircling the branch like a ring a 

 quarter of an inch broad between the two cuts. 

 The bark between these two cuts must be remov- 

 ed, clean down to the wood; even the fine inner 

 bark, which lies inmiediately upon the wood, nnist 

 be scraped away, until the bare naked wood ap- 

 pears, white and smooth, .so that no connexion 

 wlistevcr rcMii.ina between the two parts of the 

 bark. Tliis barking, or girdling, must be made at 

 the precise time when, in all nature, the buds are 

 strongly swelling, or about breaking out into 

 blossom.". Ill the same year a callus is formed at 

 the edge of the ring, on both sides, and the con- 

 nexion of the bark is again restored, witliout any 

 detriment to the tree or the branch operated upon. 

 By this simple operation, the following advanta- 

 ges will be obtained : 1. Kvery young tree, of 

 which you do not know the .sort, is compelled to 

 show its fruit, and decide sooner whether it may 

 remain in its present state, or rctpiires to be graft- 

 ed. 2. You may thereby, with certainty get fruit 

 of a good sort, and reject the more ordinary. The 

 branches so operated upon, arc hung full of fruit, 

 while others that are not ringed, often have none 

 or very little on them. This cfiect is explained 

 from the theory of the motion of the saji. As this 

 ascends in the wood and descends in the bark, the 

 above operation will not prevent the .sap rising 

 into the upper part of this branch; but it will pre- 

 vent its desceiiihng below this cut, by which means 

 it will be retained iti and distributcil through the 

 upper part of the branch in a greater portion than 

 il could otherwise !)e, and the branch an<l fruit 

 will both increase in si/c much more than those 

 that arc not thus treated. The twisting of a wire 

 or tying a strong thread round a branch has been 

 often recommeniled as a means of making it bear 

 fruit. In this case, as in ringing the bark, 

 the descent of the sap in the bark must be 

 impeded above the ligature, and more nutritive 

 matter is consequently retained, and applied to the 

 expanding parts. The wire or ligature may re- 

 IB«in in the bark. Mr Knight's theory on the 



motion of sap in trees, is " that the sap is absorb, 

 eil from the B'lil by the bark of tlie roots, and 

 carried upward by the alhuriiuni of the mol, trunk 

 and brunches ; t'lat it |iasses through the central 

 vessels into the siii-culent matter of the annual 

 slioots, the leaf-stalk and leaf; and that it is re- 

 turiieii to the bark through certain vessels of the 

 leaf-stalk, and descending through the burk, con- 

 tributes to the proces.s of forming the wood. A 

 writer in the American Farmer, says he tried the 

 experiment of ringing some apple, peach, pear, and 

 quince trees on small liinb.s, say from an inch to 

 an inch and a quarter in diameter. The reBuli 

 was, the apples, peaches and pears were douMt- 

 the size on those branches than on any other pan 

 of the trees : in the quinces there was no differ- 

 ence. One peach, the Healh, measured on a ring- 

 ed limb, in circuinferen(-e, 11 1-4 inches round, 

 and 113-4 inches round the ends, and weigheil 

 15 ounces. The limbs above tlu^ ring have grown 

 much larger than below il. If the ring be made 

 so wide that the bark cannot unite the same sea- 

 son, the branch will perish. 



From the New York Spectator, 



Cannndaigua, Ontario Co. .V. Y. March 20. 



In your paper of the 2.5th of June last, I saw 

 an extract from a New Jersey paper, giving the 

 weight of a very promising cow and her calf, to- 

 gether weighing 1680 pouuds. The notice end- 

 ed with a challenge for any state in the union to 

 heat it. 



Being a breeder of fine stock, and having ns 

 fine as any other, I give you the weight of a cow 

 and calf, that you may if you please, give the pub- 

 lic ail opportunity of deciding whether New York 

 can compete with New Jersey. 



I have an imported cow of the improved short 

 horn Durham breed, which was weighed at the 

 hay scales in this village, today, together with a 

 calf a year old this present month, same stock, the 

 joint weight of the two was 2453 lbs.; weigbt of 

 the cow 16G.5, calf 788. 



The above notice m.iy be gratifying to some of 

 your many readers, as it is an honorable competi- 

 tion and of public utility. It might also be grati- 

 fying to state that the above cow, in the season of 

 milk, has given thirtysix ipiarts of rich milk daily. 

 Sir, yours, most respectfully, 



L. JENKINS. 



Remarks by the Edilnr of the .Weio England Far- 

 mer. — We are much gratified at the success which 

 has attended the laudable efforts of Mr Jenkins 

 to improve the breed of cattle in his vicinity. 



T e calf, alluded to in the above article was 

 of the Durham short horned race, »><■(! by Admi- 

 ral, and sent on by the liberality of Hon. Joii.\ 

 Wellks of Boston, as a present to Mr Jenkins, 

 see current vid. N. E. Farmer, p. 74.] We arc 

 pleased to learn that this animal is nntonly lar-re, 

 but of fine proportions and promise, and that Mr 

 Wki.i.ks' anticipations of benefit to cultivators, 

 and of course to the community, arc in a fair way 

 to be realized. 



utlached, as furrier, to the gen rul staff uf the main 

 urmy, in the ycais 1778 and 9. He may be re- 

 meiiiliercd by some of the military gentlemen of 

 that day, under the dignified appellation of Count 

 .Saxc, a nom de gu-rrr, given him bv the Baron, on 

 his entering our service. He was a man of great 

 skill and celebrity in his profession. The ingredi- 

 inls are simple, and too mild to produce any in- 

 j'lrious effects on the animal to whom they may be 

 administered. They consist of new milk, honey 

 or molasses, common salt and water, and linseed 

 oil. The manner of preparing and administering 

 ■gas follows: as soon as the disease (the symp- 

 loins of which are unerring,) is ascertained, drench 

 the patient, fasting if possible, with a quart of frcfli 

 milk, saturated with honey, molasses, or sugar; to 

 he preferred in the order stated. Leave him at 

 rest for two hours — at the expiration of which, 

 having jireviously prepared some strong brine, by 

 boiling as much common salt in water as can be 

 ilis.-^olvcd in it, drench him as befiire, with a pint 

 of it when cool. AftiT a similar period of two 

 hours give him half a |<int of linseed oil, and the 

 remedy is complete. 



' The rationale, established as I conceive by a 

 process, I shall presenily state, is as follows. It 

 is well ascertained that botis destroy the life of a 

 horse, by feerling'on the integuments of the stom- 

 ach, and finally perforating it. Referring, hower- 

 er, a sweetened milk to a flesh diet, they detach 

 themselves from the intestines and glut tin; savory 

 beverage. When satiated their volume becomea 

 enlarged, the skin extended and thin ; in which 

 state, the strong brine by dissolving d(.;.lroys them. 

 The operation of the oil is to sheath the woi.rids 

 they have inflicted, to aid the cathartic tfT.cts of 

 the salt, and to carry off remaining impurities.' 



INDIAN CORN IN ENGLAND. 



It appears by an article published ia the Far- 

 mer's Journal, an English .Agricultural Jiaper, that 

 MrCobbctt's attempt to cultivate Indian corn has 

 not been successful. It appears, likewise that 

 other attempts have been nearly as abortive. ' In 

 almost every instance,' according to that paper, 

 ' where the experiment was tried (except in gar- 

 dens with a rich soil, and sheltered) the result 

 seems to have proved that the climate of England 

 is not fit for the growth of this corn. 



BOTTS IN HORSES. 



A writer for the American Farmer, who signs 

 Morgan Dewis, says. ' I send you a remedy for 

 holts in horses, which I have practised for more 

 than half a century with invariable success. I 

 received il from a German veicriimrian, who came 

 10 this country with the Baron Steuben, and was 



Valuable Cow. — Twentyfive pounds of goodi 

 butter have been made during the last fortnight, 

 from the milk yielded by a cow belonging to Mr 

 Di,vi 1 Wail, 2d of this village. The first week, 

 12 lbs. ; the second 13. Feed, the first week, 

 hay only; the second, the same, with the addition 

 of half a peck of provender per ilay. Truly, a 

 rare Cow. — Greevjietd Gaz. 



Artichokes, parboiled, make excellent pickles. 



Briouton Markkt — Monday, May 3. 

 (Reported for the Chronicle and Ptiriol ) 



At Market this day, 194 Beef Cattle— a lietter 

 loi than we have seen for sevenl weeks past, (un- 

 sold 9) 22 Working Oxen, 17 Cows and Ca eg, 

 8 Sheep, and 42 Swine. 



Prices— /{f</ Cattle, extra at ^o 33 n 5 50, good A'';^ 

 at 5 a 5 25 — n few sold for #4 50 a 4 76. 



Working Oxen — No sales noticed. 



Coir* and Cn/i'M — Several sales, viz : 18, 19, 

 21, 24 A and 28. 



Sheep, ordinary — sales nol noticed. 



Stcini — Sales dull; probably in consequence 

 of their being large and fleshy. 



