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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Ma*^ 



is made up by one who has a Printer's eye, and a 

 Printer's j?^. Tiio type is clear, the paper good, 

 and the whole managed with so much good taste 

 and good nature, that it is a model for us all ; and 

 if this paragraph should cause a thousand persons 

 to take it, pay for it and read it, weshall be glad. 



EXTRACTS AND REPLIES. 



CKAXliERRIES. 



In the March No., I oljserved an article on cran- 

 berry culture, and as I design going into the busi- 

 ness to the extent of a few acres, I want to incpiire 

 of some of your numerous correspondents who may 

 have had experience in the business, in regard to 

 the liability of tlie plants being hove out of the 

 ground by the action of frost, in wliat we call wet, 

 cold, heavy land, and thus killed. As we have a 

 good supply of this kind of land in Berkshire, it 

 may be turned to good account if the vines will 

 stand the frost. Wii. Nojsle, Jr. 



Remarks. — Some of our readers, we know, have 

 had experience in this matter, and perhaps, will 

 aid brother Noble in his operations. 



PALMER WORMS. 



Mr. Editor : — Anticipating another visit from 

 those destructive insects, called palmer worms, the 

 present season, some of us have began to tar our 

 apple trees, and have caught a great many millers 

 and grubs, a sample of \vhich I send you. I sup- 

 pose the millers to be the male, and the gruljs the 

 female, as Ijy inspection you will find them to con- 

 tain a large number of eggs ; the tar should be ap- 

 plied every day , just before night, which can be 

 done with little labor, with a paint brush, having 

 the tar warm if the weather is cold. c. 9. w. 



Chester, N. H., April IQih, 1854. 



Remarks. — The insects had no form or comeli- 

 ness left, when they i-eached us. 



STEEr FOR SEED CORN. 



In your next paper please give your opinion 

 upon the subject of steeping seed corn ; ancl what 

 is the best sulistance for such a purpose; also, 

 whether any of the concentrated manures have 

 been profitably applied to potatoes. Being a young 

 farmer I desire to obtain information on the above 

 points. Ora J. Taylor. 



Ludlow, Vt. 



Remarks. — See article in another column, about 

 seed corn. We can tell you nothing satisfactory 

 about the potatoes. 



USE OF SALER.VTUS, &C., IN BREAD-MAKING. 



To D. F., Canaan Four Corners, Columbia Co., 

 JV..y.—^We should be pleased to see your essay 

 on this subject, but could only extract briefly from 

 it. 



BUCKWHEAT AND OATS. 



John IIammett, Chilinark ,Mass . — Buckwheat is 

 the crop usually sowed for a green crop to turn 

 under. A bushel of seed is sufficient for good rich 

 land, where the seed is the desired crop. Taking 

 that quantity as the standard, and on a rich soil, 

 the poorer the land the more seed will be required. 



BEET, TURNIP AND CARROT SEED FOK AN ACRE. 



A Subscriber, Warren, Vt. — Of beet seed, it 

 will require between 3 and 4 pounds to sow an 

 acre v,nth a seed sower ; of turnip seed, i to 1 

 pound ; and of carrot seed from 1 to 2 pounds. 



PUMPKINS. 



M. Hinckley, Barnstable. — Make your land as 

 rich as you can — place the hills 8 feet apart, and 

 before dropping the seed, scatter some fine manure 

 over them ; leave a dozen plants for the bugs, for 

 awhile, then select one or two of the best for run- 

 ners. Alter they have gone as far as you think 

 a pumpkin vine ought to travel in a single season, 

 pinch off the ends of some of them and see what 

 the effect will be. 



A barren pear TREE POUDRETTE. 



New Subscriber, Eliot, Me. — Can a fruit tree 

 be compelled to bear fruit? The tree in question 

 was grafted to the Pound pear, at the time being 

 about two inches in diameter. I let it remain six 

 years, and never received a pear from it, then cut 

 the top off, and grafted it to the Bartlett pear, 

 which was four years since, and still no pears yet. 

 I thought I would let it alone this year; if it bore 

 fruit, well, if not, I should remove it, root and 

 branch. If there is any thing you can tell me to 

 cause ii to oear fruit you will oblige me much. 

 The tree is thrifty, and of good size. 



When should poudrette be applied to corn ; in 

 the hill at planting, or on the surface at the com- 

 ing; of the corn ? and how much to a hill ? 



Remarks. — If your pear tree does not blossom 

 this spring and sot the fruit, in June, say from 

 the 10th to the 15Hi, with a sharp knife slit the 

 outer bark down carefully, and remove it all from 

 the first set of limbs to the ground, and next year 

 your tree will probably fruit. Apply poudrette 

 broadcast, or in the hill before planting — a gill or 

 more to the hill. 



STUFFING BIRDS. 



E. N., Jr., North Dighton. — We have sent you, 

 by mail, a copy of the monthly Farmer, for July, 

 1852, containing full directions how to stuff birds. 



Mr. J. W. CoLBURNE, of Springfield, Vt., writes 

 that he raised on his farm the past season 7i acre, 

 of corn, which averages 105 bushels to the acre, 

 weighing 56 lbs. per bushel, and the cobs 12 lbs. — 

 In the spring of 1852 he applied 40 ox-cart loads 

 of manure to each acre, and last spring 50 ox-cart 

 loads more, making 90 loads to each acre in two 

 years — each load containing 35 bushels, potato 

 measure. The corn was planted on the IGth of 

 May, with the corn-planter, dropping plaster and 

 ashes with the seed, about 5 bushels to the acre. 

 At the first hoeing, a single handful of ashes and 

 plaster w'as applied to each hill, and after the 

 second hoeing a table-spoonful of plaster alone. — 

 Three stalks were left in each hill. For this crop, 

 Mr. Colburne received the first premium, both 

 from the Vermont SUxte and Windsor County So- 

 cieties. 



