1854. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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pious streams. Evaporation in this warm coun- 

 try is very brisk, and the vapor rising from the 

 broad Pacific, being blown on the land by trade 

 winds, falls in copious showers of dew, making 

 Chili one of the most fruitful countries on the Pa- 

 cific coast. 



SIMPLE AND CHEAP STUMP-PULLER. 



Now for a tug at the old stumps. Here is a 

 contrivance so simple that any farmer may make 

 one before breakfast, and the cost is so trifling, 

 that if it does not operate to his entire satisfac- 

 tion, he will have no 

 regrets at having giv- 

 en it a fair trial. We 

 find it sketched in the 

 Wisconsin and Iowa 

 Farmer. 

 "We noticed a very simple con- 

 trivance for pulling stumps, Avhich 

 Mr. Edgerton says works very well 

 indeed. It is so simple in its struc- 

 ture, that we commend it to those 

 wishing anything of the kind. It 

 consists of a log of strong timber, 

 from ten to twelve inches in diam- 

 eter at the large end, and eight to 

 ten at the smaller, and about six- 

 teen or twenty feet long. To the 

 larger end is attached a very heavy 

 chain, about three feet 

 long, with a very large 

 and strong hook at the 

 free end, while at the 

 other there is a ring 

 sufficiently largo to slip 

 over the larger end of the log or lever. To the 

 small end of the lever a yoke of cattle is hitched. 

 The manner of using it is as simple as the ma- 

 chine, and acts on the principle of some tooth- 

 hooks of the dentist. The large hook is caught 

 hold of some of the stronger roots, and the cattle 

 are then driven round the stump so as to wind up 

 the short heavy chain, and then continue on in 

 the even tenor of their way, till the stump gives 

 itself and surrenders its position. Thus they are 

 removed, easily and rapidly. A rough sketch of 

 this 'cork screw'' as it was technically called, we 

 hero give." 



APPLES FOR COWS. 



A good neighbor of ours tells us that he is feed- 

 ing his cows in part on apples, and he things ad- 

 vantageously. It is his opinion, that apples, wlieth- 

 er sweet or sour, in these times of scarcity of feed, 

 are worth far more for cows, than to make into 

 cider. He says they may be feed to cows in lar- 

 ger quantities, now that the grass is dry, and es- 

 pecially if a little hay from the barn be given, 

 than if the pastures were as green as usual ; that 

 if you feed tlieni in any quantity below the scour- 

 ing point, they willincrca.se the quantity without 

 deteriorating the quality of the milk ; but that if 

 you go beyond that point, the milk will be di- 

 minislied ; and that the feeder siiould observe the 

 effect, and stop feeding within the limit, if he 

 would derive the greatest benefit from his apples 

 as a feed for milch cows. Others have said that 



if cows are admitted to falling apples by degrees, 

 they will soon learn to eat enough of them without 

 eating too many. AVe know not how all this is, 

 but our neighbor is a man of good sense and care- 

 ful observation, and we are inclined to believe 

 that he is right in thinking that the quantity should 

 be limited ; and we have no doubt that apples if 

 fed in the best manner, are valuable for any kind 

 of horned cattle, as we believe they are also for 

 swine, and, for ought we know, for any kind of 

 animals. — Conn. Valley Farmer. 



For the Ntiv England Farmer. 



STRICTURES ON PROF. MAPES' CUL- 

 TURE OF CARROTS. 



In the monthly Farmer for September, p. 401, 

 are some severe strictures, on that mode of culture 

 that drops radish or other quick vegetation seeds, 

 in the same rows with carrots. I have known 

 this to be done with good effect, as I supposed. 

 The fact is the carrot vegetates so slow, that the 

 weeds start ahead of it, and it is not easy at all 

 times to see where it is. Now if you would stir 

 the surface between the rows, with a hoe or weed 

 cutter, it is a great convenience, to have the 

 young radishes to show where the rows are. More 

 than this, nothing will be lost by thus planting 

 radishes, for they will have matured long before 

 the ground is needed for the use of the carrot. It 

 so seldom happens, that I find the Professor's no- 

 tions to accord with my own, that I cannot be 

 quiet, when his teachings are called "arrant non- 

 sense." Perhaps I should not agree entirely, 

 with the reasons he gives, for what he did ; but of 

 the utility of the practice I have no doubt. 



The_ carrot crop, when understandingly pur- 

 sued, is one of the most valuable on our farms. 

 $200 worth to the acre can readily be grown on 

 fair land. p 



Sept. 7, 1854. 



For tht JS'etg Enirland Former. 



THE INDIAN CETONIA. 



8iM0x Brown, Esq.,— Dear Sir :— The account 

 of the Indian Cetonia, {Cctonia Inda,) printed in 

 the New England Farmer for the 9th of Septem- 

 ber, was taken (with exception of the misprints) 

 from the first edition of my book. In the second 

 edition, whicli you should have consulted, will be 

 found the following additional information re- 

 specting these pernicious beetles. 



"Their love of sweets leads them to attack our 

 finest peaches, which, as soon as ripe, they begin 

 to devour, and in a few hours entirely spoil. I 

 have taken a dozen of theni from a single peach, 

 into which they had burrowed so that nothing but 

 the naked tips of their hind body could be seen. 

 When touched, they leave a strong and disagreea- 

 ble scent upon the fingers." 



In my garden, tlicy began the work of destruc- 

 tion this year by the middle of August, when 

 they appeared on the Early York peaclics, and 

 they have successively attacked all tlie otlier kinds, 

 as last as the latter began to be mellow. Tlieso 

 beetles, together with my neiglibors' honey-bees, 

 have spoiled fully one-third of my crop of peach- 

 es. Yours truly, 



TUADDF.US WlLU.\M IIaREIS. 



Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 11, 1854. 



