AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



PUBLISHED BY JOSKPH BRECK & CO., NO. 62 NORTH MARKET STREET, (Aqricultubal Wabehodse.)— ALLEN PUTNAM, EDITOR. 



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BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1842. 



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N. E. FARMER. 



PORTANCE OF PICKING AND PACKING 

 FRUIT CAREFULLY. 



Wo mentioned last week liaving^ received from 

 Joseph W. Tiittle, of Acton, some large and 

 e flavored apples. We have since received the 

 lowing communication from Mr T., giving an ac- 

 unt of his mode of picking and packing fruit, to 

 ich we invite the attention of farmers. Mr Tut- 

 's statements may be safely relied upon, and 

 I show the profitable result which follows snch 

 node of management as he pursues in relation to 

 fruit. — Concord Freeman. 



Mr Editor — 1 herewith submit a few facts which 

 ish you to communicate to your readers in re- 

 rd to the kind of apples whicli 1 left you a few 

 I'B since. I raised in my orcliard this season, 

 )ut twenty barrels of apples called " Hubbard- 

 n Nonesuch." I picked some two or three bar- 

 a olTthe trees early, for the purpose of letting 

 others grow larger ; these and those which 

 I before picking time, 1 sold for about $2 per 

 When I picked in the fall, I had about 1.5 

 rels, and these I placed in a cold chamber on 

 floor until I thought them tit to eat ; then 1 se- 



Ited the largest and best, say enough to fill one 

 rel — 2(j3 apples — carried them to Boston and 

 |i theru for .¥5: they were all papered with thin 

 I e paper. Next I selected four barrels (and pa- 

 (ed as before) of the largest which were left, 

 |ich I sold for $10. Then I packed up nine bar- 

 I of the third size, which I sold at Boston for 

 ) 50, being :ibout $3 per bbl. 

 '. do not send you this information, thinking that 

 ave better fruit than some of my neighbors, but 

 •ely to call the attention of some of my towns- 

 In to the importance of picking and packing their 

 \it carefully. Some people think if they pick the 

 I lie oflf the tree with the hand, it is sufficient — 



I haps throw or drop it in a half bushel or pail, 



II bruise it as much as if it fell to the ground, 

 areas they should handle them as carefully as a 

 cer does eggs. And one thing further; many 



tiik in putting up apples for market, that as they 



1 bring but some two or three dollars a barrel, 

 y most not lose a single apple, and therefore 



into each barrel about a peck of small fruit, 

 ich in fact does not fill up but little, and injures 



sale about fifiy or seventyfive cents on the bar- 

 Most people if they believed they could get 

 y cents per barrel more by carefully picking and 

 ;king their fruit, would do it. This would be 



case. 



In regard to this kind of fruit, (the Hubbardston 

 nepuch,) the trees need a high state of cultiva- 

 (1, as they are great bearers and bear v'ery younc ; 

 1 my opinion is that they will command as good 

 ces as any fruit which is carried to Boston at 

 s season of this year. 



Yours, with much respect, 



Joseph W. Tcttle. 

 Man, Oct. 19, 1842. 



From the Farmer's Cabinet. 



THOROUGH CULTIVATION OF CORN. 

 Messrs. Editors — In the August nimber of the 

 Cabinet are two communications on the cultivation 

 of corn, than which, perhaps, there is no subject of 

 grealor interest to the American agriculturist : it 

 is one at least that will bear a thorough stirring. 

 I must, however, be permitted to difler with your 

 correspondent, "P. J.," as I apprehend very few of 

 us are guilty of the sin of over-working our corn 

 crops, in proper season ; and if he or any practical 

 farmer, expects to grow a full crop, by merely 

 ''throwing a furrow from each row into the inter- 

 val, there to lie for a season, and then to be re- 

 turned to the rows, as a last tending," I fear he 

 will be disappointed in the result. My experi- 

 ence, however, has brought me to very different 

 conclusions. I have no fears of over-working my 

 crops, if done timely, for on that every thing de- 

 pends. I make it a point never to work my corn 

 when the earth is '' full of water, and when the 

 furrows turn over like mortar;" a worse system 

 could not be devised. A knowing one at my el- 

 bow says, " corn should never be worked except 

 when the dust will fly.'" In sandy land it is almost 

 death to corn to plow it in wet weather, being cer- 

 tain to " scald." 



I would inquire by what kind of management 

 the enormous crops of 100 bushels and upwards, 

 have been obtained .' Is it by partial cultivation, 

 or by the most thorough system of working^and 

 stirring the soil that could be devised ? I have no 

 doubt, however, that better crops have in some in- 

 stances been obtained from fields that have receiv- 

 ed but little attention, than from others where a 

 great deal of labor hns been bestowed ; but isola- 

 ted cases may be taken from which any thing or 

 nothing may bo proven. Witness, for instance, 

 the fields of my two neighbors ; J., an enterprising, 

 go-ahead little fellow, with more zeal than pru- 

 dence, plowed and harrowed, without regard to the 

 weather; the consequence was, he "scalded" his 

 crop, but not a weed to be seen. B., a " slow-and- 

 casy," " lime-onough" kind of man, simply harrow- 

 ed once and plowed once, and then laid his crop 

 by. The weeds grew luxurantly, and he had a 

 better crop of corn than J.'s. Now, does this ar- 

 gue much in favor of partial cultivation? I think 

 not, Had J. consulted the weather a little more, 

 I have no he<;itation in saying, he would have been 

 a gainer of some 20 bushels per ncre. 



" S. S. I." has a very interesting paper, from 

 which I hope to see much good result; but who 

 ever heard of plowing corn to the depth of 8 or 10 

 inches. 1 presume no field of corn would survive 

 such an ordeal, particularly at the season when it 

 is to be laid by. 



And would it not be well, Messrs. Editors, be- 

 fore you consider the question answered, '' How is 

 it, It so often happens that corn which has by some 

 means escaped its last workings, turns out a better 

 crop than that which has been tended to the end," 

 to inquire whether it has any foundatioj\ in fact? 

 I think, upon a critical examination, you will find 

 in it a pretty little bull. A. 



CURE FOR A FOUNDERED HORSE. 



I send you the following prescription, which you 

 may give a place in your useful paper, if you think 

 it will be of nny advantage to planters and travel- 

 lers. 



As soon as you find your horse is foundered, 

 bleed him in the neck in proportion to the great- 

 ness of the founder. In extreme cases, you may 

 bleed him as long as he can stand up. Then draw 

 his head up, as common in drenching, and with a 

 spoon put far back on his tongue strong salt, until 

 you get him to swallow one pint. Be careful not 

 to let him drink too much. Then anoint around 

 the edges of his hoofs with spirits of turpentine, 

 and your horse will be well in one hour. 



A founder pervades every part of the system of 

 ahorse. The phlegms arrest it from the blood; 

 the salt arrests it from the stomach and bowels ; 

 and the spirits arrest it from the feet and limbs. 



I once rode a hired horso !>0 miles in two days, 

 returning him at night the second day ; and hia 

 owner would not have known that he had been 

 foundered if I had not told him, and his founder 

 was one of the deepest kinds. 



I once, in a travel of 700 miles, foundered my 

 horse three times, and I do not think my journey 

 was retarded more than one day by the misfortune, 

 having in all the cases observed and practiced the 

 above prescription. I jhave known a foundered 

 horse turned in at night on green feed ; in the 

 morning he would be well, having been purged by 

 the green feed. All founders must be attended to 

 immediately. — Souihioesiern Farmer. 



STUMPS. 



Stumps are among the most troublesome obsta- 

 cles in the settlement of a new country. A ma- 

 chine is sometimes used, with lever power to eradi- 

 cate them. It is literally a huge " tooth puller." 

 It reciuires great power and much expense and time 

 to accomplish the business, even with this machine. 

 A belter contrivance, because more simple and 

 cheap, we saw practised the otiier day. A little 

 excavation was made under the stump, and some 

 combus'ible materials enclosed, and then set on 

 fire. Previous to this, however, some dry materi- 

 rials were piled around tlie root, above the surface 

 of the ground, and then covered over with a com- 

 pact layer of turf, forming a sort of coal-pit. It 

 has leen found upon experiment that the stumps 

 «lll burn in this way, a number of days, with a sort- 

 of subterranean fire, and when the turf falls in, 

 nearly every thing of the root is found consumed, 

 below and above the surface of the ground. Pass- 

 ing by a field near where the canal enters the Con. 

 neclicut, a while since, we noticed smoke issuing 

 from twenty little mounds of earth, and upon in- 

 quiry, found they were burning out the stumps iiK 

 the manner above described. — Selected. 



It is calculated that out of the whal« 

 of London and the suburbs, abqul 4t) 

 subsist by thieving. 



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