NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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! ploughed in, but managed otherwise alike, 

 gathered soon after the other, and produc- 

 bout one hundred bushels to the acre. The 

 r of cultivating and harvesting the above 

 } was about twenty days work to the acre. 

 • part that was ploughed in the fall and cross 

 Kjhed in the spring worked as much lighter 

 uiifh the summer as to repay the extra 

 ^hing. The weight of the corn was fifty- 

 it pounds to the bushel. The stalk and sto- 

 ne estimate equal to one ton and a half of 

 ind hay from one acre. 



Your respectful servants, 



TRISTRAM LITTLE. 



HENRY LITTLE. 

 (To be continued.) 



MR. ADLUM'S VINEYARD, 

 friend and myself,before the meeting of the 

 se this morning, rode to the Vineyard of 

 Adiam at Georgetown, three or four miles 

 I this city, for the purpose of obtaining ; 

 lie of slips to be forwarded to the N. Yorl 

 licultural Society, and by them disposed of 

 ay be deemed propor. Unfortunately my 

 lose was defeated to-day by the accidental 

 nee of the proprietor. VVe however had 

 pleasure of surveying Mr. Adlum's grounds, 

 [)f observing his mode of cultivating the 

 . His vineyard is in a sequestered and 

 !y situation, surrounded by hills and woods, 

 le banks of Rock Creek, a small branch of 

 :?otomack. It is planted on a steep declivi- 

 oking to the south, and covering several 

 The soil is a light loam, stony and 

 t, the growth about it being chiefly white 

 At the lower verge, passes a small brook 

 led with willows, from which a black vine- 

 <er was very busy in plucking twigs, to be 

 in tying up the tendrils, instead of striags, 

 h check the circulation and impede the 

 th. The vine is planted in rows, ranged 

 above another along the slope, so as to 

 all the moisture that falls, and the better 

 •tain the artificial irrigation. Between the 

 which are at about twice the distance of 

 I n corn, there is sufficient space for using 

 slough, to keep the ground light and free 

 weeds. The soil is also enriched by 

 non barn-yard manure, 

 lere are several distinct departments in the 

 nd«, set apart for the cultivation of nume- 

 varieties of the vine. Mr. Adlum has in all 

 ty or thirty different kinds, among which 

 he following : Hulin's Orwigsburgh grape, 

 I's Madeira ; Clifton's Constantia ; Tokay; 

 ylkill Muscadel ; VVorthington grape ; Car- 

 purple Muscadine ; Red juice ; large fox 

 ;; Malmsey; purple Frontinac ; Royal 

 adine ; black Hamburgh; black cluster; 

 n ; Clapiers ; Miller Bergundy, and white 

 t water. 



■s. Adlum received us with much polite- 

 and treated us with a glass of two kinds of 

 ly wine of an excellent quality. It is found 

 the tables of the Secretaries, and other 

 ;ns of Washington, not less on account of 

 trinsic excellence, than from a wish to en- 

 ige the growth of the vine, and the cause 

 mestic manufactures. 



our return home, we passed by the race 

 id, the field of Eclipse''s fame. It is a fine 

 A hw dilapidated shanties mark the 



spot, where once the sports of the turf ran 

 high; where revelry and riot resounded; and 

 where so many contests of pith and moment 

 have been decided. The mention of horse rac- 

 ing reminds me of a very curious document 

 winch I saw yesterday, in the hand writing of 

 Mr. Randolph. It is entitled " The StvdoJ Roan- 

 oke,'''' containing the number, name, descrip- 

 tion, and genealogy of all the horses which Mr. 

 Randolph has at present upon his plantation. — 

 The whole number is Jifty-eight. Most of them 

 are of the first breeds in the country. The 

 oldest is marked 1801, making him twenty 

 three years of age. Several of them were 

 purchased of English noblemen — " atavis edite 

 regibus.^^ The list was in the hands of the 

 Clerk, to be copied for the benefit of a south- 

 ern member. — M Y. Statesman. 



From the American Farmer. 

 Dear Sir, — Herewith I have the honor to 



would. In fixing the wick, care should be taken 

 that it be only large enough to Sustain itself in 

 the tube : if it is loo large, the oil will not as- 

 cend the wick quick enough to supply the flame 

 freely. The black crust should be cut off from 

 the wick every day, and it should not then be 

 raised too high, as it will smoke, or spread out 

 as 1 have often seen done, as that will cause it 

 te crust very soon, and the flame will soon grow 

 dim. Lamp Lighter. 



From the Revue Medicale, Juin. 



.'Vctu treatment of the Croup by Professor Rcca- 

 j/i icr. 

 This gentleman has lately informed the Aca- 

 demic Royale de Medicine of Paris, that he has 

 recently succeeded in curing three cases of 

 Croup which threatened suffocation, by means 

 of the injection of milk and water, by the mouth 

 and nose, at the same time, so as to excite vio- 

 lent convulsions of the throat and muscles of the 



send you a Recipe to prepare a wash for your i larynx. In all the three £ases, portions of false 

 Fruit Trees, which, when you use it, never be I membrane were expelled. One of the children, 



afraid of letting it run down in great plenty <a- 

 bout the roots, as it is a most powerful manure, 

 and will force the fruit on your trees ; after 

 your trees are in full bloom or leaved out, it is 

 best not to wash the buds in it, as it is too pow- 

 erful for them to stand such a shock. I beg you 

 to accept the use of it. 



I make use of many other ways to bring fruit 

 and trees to great perfection, all found out my- 

 self I am, Dear Sir, in haste. 



Respectfully yours, &,c. 



J. WILLIS. 



Take strong soap suds made of soft soap, put 

 it into a tub or cask, with one head out, let it 

 stand in the air where the rain will not fall in- 

 to it, and put as much strong tobacco, or tobacco 

 stocks, as will when well soaked, turn it of a 

 reddish color and in a few days will turn quite 

 offensive ; then to every five or six quarts of 

 the suds, put in one quart of strong beef brine, 

 stir it well, and wash the trunks of your fruit 

 trees and large limbs with it, such as apricots, 

 plums, and peaches, &c. you will find it of great 

 utility against frosts and insects ; this is my own 

 discovery, and I use it on some trees three 

 times from the 15th February to the 6th April, 

 with great success. 



Having regard to the extraordinary and well 

 known excellence of his fruit, we consider eve- 

 ry hint from Mr. W. as a treasure to the young 

 farmer. It is in this way that we flatter our- 

 selves, we often give the value of the subscrip- 

 tion in the promulgation of a single recipe — the 

 result of many years of skilful attention and 

 laborious care. — Ed. Am. Farmer. 



From the New- Bedford Mercury. 



LIGHT ! MORE LIGHT : 

 Mr. Printer, — I am persuaded from the lit- 

 tle observation I have made, that the prejudice 

 existing against an oil light, arises almost en- 

 tirely from the ignorance of the person who 

 trims the lamps. To produce a good light from 

 oil, the inside of the lamps should be perfectly 

 clean, and the vent hole at top always open and 

 free from dirt. The oil ought to be clear of 

 sediment. If the tube for the wick runs down 

 into the bulb of the lamp, it will heat the oil 

 and cause it to burn freer than it otherwise 



however, died; but the death is accounted for 

 by the presence of a dissolution of the stomach. 

 We have no account in the Revue Medicale at 

 what period of the disease this extraordinary 

 mode of treatment was adopted ; it must of 

 course have been used after the complaint had 

 exsisted for some time. 



Patent Bedsteads. — Mr. Adams, a Cabinet Mak- 

 er in Orange-street, has obtained a patent for an 

 improved mode of constructing Bedsteads, and 

 has for exhibition and sale some of the bed- 

 steads of the improved construction. The im- 

 provement consists in the mode of straining the 

 sacking in such manner as to dispense with the 

 use of screws, and as to make the bedstead more 

 firm, and the sacking much more tight, than it is 

 possible to make it in the common mode of con- 

 struction. It is also less likely to get out of re- 

 pair, than those in common use, and is so sim- 

 ple, that it may be taken down and put up, and 

 strained to its greatest tension, in a very few 

 moments. We saw one of them taken entirely 

 to pieces, put up again and perfectly strained bv 

 two persons in less than two minutes. It is easi- 

 ly taken down or put up by a single person. 



^^ [Boston D. Adv. 



Experimental Chemistry. — M. Fouelle the most 

 eminent French Chemist, was not the most cau- 

 tious of operators, he observed to his auditors, 

 " Gentlemen, you see this cauldron upon this 

 brasier; well, if I were to cease stirring a sin- 

 gle moment an explosion would ensue, that 

 would blow us all into the air !" The compa- 

 ny had hardly time to reflect on this uncomfor- 

 table piece of intelligence before he did forget 

 to stir; and his prediction was accomplished! 

 All the windows of the laboratory were smash- 

 ed to pieces, and two hundred spectators whirl- 

 ed away into the garden. Fortunately no seri- 

 ous injury was received by any one, the great- 

 est violence of the explosion having been in the 

 direction of the chimney. The demonstrator 

 was quiet with the loss of his wig only. 



As proofs of the mildness of the season, a bird's nest 

 was taken by a boy at Wetherby on the 6th ult. of the 

 hedge sparrow kind, with two eggs in it ; and we un- 

 derstand that Mr. F. Pickersgill, carrier, of Ainderbu- 

 ry House, Leeminglane, has green peas iu his gardep, 

 and also has a quantity of lambs. [Leeds pa. Feb. 1824. 



