1836] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



399 



should take away the block, and keep them in 

 aijain uniiitho dew is off" t!ic ijrnss. If the weath- 

 er i?5 unp'.eiipant keep them in all day. 



Wiion liie chick(Mis iictiuirc more size and 

 strencih they f^hould he led in what is called a 

 "chicken feeder," wiiich is a covered enclosure six 

 or ei<xht feet square, wiih slats just close enoujih 

 toiieihcr to admit the chickens, and exclude the 

 older fowls. 



Each of my hens last year raised to perfection, 

 on an aver ^ge, at least twenty chickens. They 

 each raised two broods, and several hatched three 

 tim^s. 



When the chickens are taken from one hen and 

 given to another, the one li-om v/hich they are 

 taken should be confined for about a week and 

 then set at liberty, when she will soon commence 

 producing another lamily. 



From the Journal of Commerce. 

 AXTHRACITE COAL. 



We often hear of the progress of steam, the 

 progress of improvement, the progress of the age, 

 &c., but the progress of coal in this country is 

 scarcely less remarkable ; as will be seen from the 

 annexed schedule, derived from a more particular 

 statement in the Philadelphia Commercial List 

 and Price Current. The first colunm of tons 

 shows the whole quantity in the Philadelphia 

 market from year to year — the quantity remain- 

 ing on hand at the close of each year being inclu- 

 ded in the stock of the year next succeeding. 



Year. Tons in market. Sold. Remaining. 



1820 - - 364 - - 364 - - none.^ 



1821 - - 1,073 - - 1,073 - - none. 



1822 - - 2.440 - - - - little. 



1823 - - 5,823 - - . . do. 



1824 - - 9,541 - - - - do. 



1825 - 35,536 - 35,536 - - none. 



1826 - 47,545 - 42,546 - - 5,000 



1827 - 68,365 - 60,365 - - 8,000 



1828 - 90,302 - 72,302 - - 12,000 



1829 - 125,815 - 107,815 - - 18,000 



1830 - 192,934 - 192,934 - - 40,000 



1831 - 214,971 - 214,971 - - none. 



1832 - 364,051 - 294,051 - - 70,000 



1833 - 560,000 - 425,000 - 135,000 



1834 - 514,936 - 394,939 - 120,000 



1835 - 680,750 - 677,435 - - none. 



rienced the last two years in making the Morus 

 AfuUicaults stand your winters. This kind of 

 nuilherry is easily acclimated if a proper mode of 

 culture be adopted in places where it is planted. 

 In B 'Igium, the winters, notwithstanding they are 

 not so severe as jours, otien give us great trouble, 

 and the influence of the cold was was repeatedly 

 experienced on these mulberries, which were often 

 killed down to the roots. 



"The late J. Le Condele of Hambeck, near 

 Brussels, suggested the idea of having difl'er- 

 ent modes of experiments adopted in distant 

 places. And the one which proved the most effi- 

 cient, was to cut down yearly, the Morus Multi- 

 caulis, in the same manner as is done with wil- 

 lows in a Salictum, that is to say, at a few inches 

 above the soil, and to cover the remaining trunk 

 with dead leaves ; in three or four years, tiie 

 roots being stout enough, they did not require any 

 more covering. From the buds preserved on the 

 plants, fine and hardy shoots came forth, giving 

 larger and more lively leaves to feed the silk worms 

 upon. 



''It has been stated to me in a letter from Bata- 

 via (Island of Java,) that this mode of culture is 

 much in use near Manilla and in parts of China 

 not on account of the cold, but in order to keep the 

 Morus in a shrubby state, which aflbrds greater 

 facility forgathering the leaves in the season when 

 desired. There the mulberry seems to be planted 

 in fields as Indian corn is here — in the fall of the 

 year the plants are deprived of their branches, the 

 number of which is continually increasing, and 

 growing in one season from five to eigbt feet, 

 which growth is fully equalled by our own. I 

 would advise a similar experiment in this state ; it 

 might, perhaps, answer well." 



From the Silk Culturist. 

 ACCLIMATION OF THE CHINESE MULBERRY. 



The Secretary of the Horticultural Society of 

 Antwerp, M. Emilien de Wael, now on a tour of 

 the United States for scientific purposes connected 

 with entomology, &e., has communicated to the 

 President of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety the method of acclimating the Chinese Mul- 

 berry,as practiced in Belgium, and which we think 

 would be attended with like success in this 

 country. We copy the whole letter as presented 

 to the society, and published in the New England 

 Farmer. 



"Since I have been in this country 1 have heard 

 of several complaints, chiefly from" the Hartford 

 mulberry tree planters, of the difliculty expe- 



From the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture. 

 HORTICULTURE — COMMON CABBAGE, EARLY 

 YORK CABBAGE, LONDON NEW YORK CAB- 

 RAGE, SAVOY, BROCCOLI, AND EARLY WHITE 

 WARWICK PEA. 



Bv Mr. Towers, Author of the Domestic Gardener's Manual, 

 &c. C. M. H. S. 



The Brassica, or cabbage tribe, presents us 

 with the most important crops of the season, I 

 mean the period included between the first of 

 June and the two succeeding months. It is pro- 

 posed to select three of the numerous species, name- 

 ly, 1st, Common round-headed or hearting cabbage 

 —2d, The iSatJcy— 3d, Broccoli. 



1. The Common Culinary Cabbage, Brassica, 

 oleracea, Sect. 4. of Decandolle, No. 4. elliptica, 

 the Early York and particularly that fine improved 

 variety, now called London New York Cabbage. 

 All the members of the tribe belong to one family 

 or genus, termed Brassica: they are Ibund in the 

 natural order Cruciferce, the leading characters of 

 which are lour opposite petals, ranged in the order 

 of" a cross ; there are lour petals or calyx-leaves, six 

 stamens, two of which are rather shorter than the 

 other four, and this latter circumstance gave rise to 

 the name selected by Linamus to designate the 

 member of his 15th class Tetradynamia, a com- 

 pound Greek word, which indicates the power of 

 supremacy of four out of six fertilizing organs. It 

 may be of some importance to the ftirmer and cot- 

 tager to be informed that, among all the plants of 

 this class or natural order, not one perhaps is pos- 



