AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



rUIU-ISHKD BY JOSEPH BRECK & CO., NO. 52 NOllTH M.illKET STREET, (Agbicdltohal Waeehouse.)-ALLEN PUTNAM, EDITOR. 



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BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1842. 



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N. E. FARMER. 



TAhUAHUE NATIVE GRAPE, AND OHIO 

 EVER-BEARING RASPBBRRY. 



The following is extracted from a letter by Mr 

 )ngn-orlh, of Cincinnati. The fruits which he de- 

 ribes are certainly well worthy the attention of 

 iir frnit frrowcrs here. The letter was sent to a 

 lend of .Mr Longworth in this city, and contained 

 irections to bo given to whoever might he employ- 

 d to sell the vines and bushes. It has been put 

 ito the hands of Messrs. Breck &, Co., who ex- 

 Gt soon to receive the box mentioned below: 

 The writer says : '• A box has boen sent to Bos- 

 in, directed to you, containing ItlO of the Ohio 

 rape and 200 of the Ever-bearing raspberry. The 

 ape, he (the salesman) will warrant as superior to 

 ly other native grape, for the table. It is entirely 

 ee from the hard pulp common to the Isabella, 

 atawba, and other native grapes. 

 The bunches large, long, and beautifully formed, 

 len measuring ten inches in length, and the fruit 

 sembling the Meunier grape, and of equal quali- 

 for tiie table, but the bunches three times the 

 e. 



The vine is of thrifty growth and hardy. 

 If the fruit does not answer the description, the 

 jney shall be returned. 



The Raspberry bears an abundant crop, very 

 rly, and continues bearing till fro.'st ; the fruit 

 js abundant, but larger and finer than the first 

 Dp. It has been tried in the vicinity of New 

 irk, and a gentleman to whom I sent it six years 

 ice, and now with me, tells me that a week since, 

 e last of Oct.) he had an abundant supply on his 

 lie. It succeeds better at my sister's, in New. 

 {, than with me. The summers there are less 

 t, and the soil clayey. My ground is too rich 

 d dry. and our summers too hot, for the fruit to 

 as well in my garden, in the heat of summer, as 

 other locations. But notwithstanding this, my 

 de is supplied from the last of May till Novem- 

 r. 



The price of the grape roots will be $2 each: 

 8 by the dozen. The raspberries $1 each, or 

 per dozen. 



The quality of the grape for wine, I have not 

 Bciently tested, to speak of it as a wine grape. 

 is my best native grape, yet I have three other 

 rietics free from any hard pulp, and far superior 

 the Isabella or Catawba, and perhaps of equal 

 ility with the Ohio grape, but the bunches are 

 t as large, nor as handsomely formed. 

 Let him (the salesman) charge purchasers not to 

 ' in the wood too close. The wood requires to 

 laid in thin, that the branches may have the be- 

 fit of sun and air. I will not only have the nio- 

 y returned if this grape does not prove such as I 

 Joniniend it, but will give $.500 for a single root, 

 a native grape, producing fruit in all respects 

 tuU to it. For thirty years I have tried to raise 

 reign grapes in the open air, without satisfactory 

 ecess. The native varieties I now have, satisfy 

 'fJ! to do without them." 



PLOWING AND DRAWING. 



The subjoined is an extract from an address be- 

 fore the Ontario (N. Y.) Agricultural Society, by 

 Myron Adams : 



"Wo come, in the next place, to speak of the 

 plowing match. This, to farmers, is one of the 

 most interesting and exciting parts of the exhibi- 

 tion, and might be made, if rightly conducted, one 

 of the most u.seful. To plow well, is the most diffi- 

 cult part of farming. It is the part in which most 

 farmers fail. When we consider the consequences 

 of bad plowing, the obvious lessening in the amount 

 of crops which it occasions, we cannot too strong- 

 ly condemn indifferent and slovenly plowing. The 

 object of plowing matches is professedly to encour- 

 age good plowing; but from the manner in which 

 they are usually conducted, we might reasonably 

 suppose that the great desideratum was speed. Do 

 we ever see a man at a plowing match, going to 

 work deliberately ; rightly adjusting every part of 

 his plow, getting his team to stand steadily in the 

 right direction, his eye fixed upon a distant object, 

 getting the exact range of his furrow ? Does he 

 look back to ascertain that the depth and width of 

 his furrow are right, and that it inclines to the pro- 

 per angle ? Why, a man who should so conduct 

 at a plowing match, would be thought green in- 

 deed. Yet this is the way wiih good plowmen at 

 home. What would one of our discreet farmers 

 think, if when starting his teams at plowing, each 

 man should put his team nt the top of its speed, 

 halloaing and whipping as if trying to escape from 

 a locomotive ? He would think that John Alcohol 

 had returned in all his glory. Yet such is precise- 

 ly the way men conduct at a plowing match. It is 

 unreasonable, therefore, to expect any good work 

 to be done by men under such excitement. As 

 well might we expect our children to become good 

 readers, if their teachers should make it their great 

 object to learn them to read rapidly. Rapid plow- 

 ing is not the object, nor should any preference be 

 given to the man who completes his task first. 



The object should be, that every furrow be 

 straight to a mathematical exactness, and of uniform 

 depth and width. Lands that are well plowed have 

 every part equally permeable to light, air and heat, 

 the three great promoters of vegetation. A crook- 

 ed furrow must necessarily have some parts more 

 pulverized than others. I like the regulations for 

 plowing adopted at the recent Fair of the State So- 

 ciety at Albany. There the quantity of ground 

 was laid out and plowed in two lands; the furrow 

 slices to lap on each other ; to be five and a half 

 inches thick, and the part uncovered to be also five 

 and a quarter inches broad. The lands to be as 

 nearly flat as possible from water furrow to water 

 furrow. No driver allowed but the plowman, nor 

 was he allowed to leave his team during the trial. 

 He was not allowed to touch the flag with his 

 hands, but might tramp it with his feet, provided 

 he did not let go the plow-handles at the time. 



When we have regulations like these, we shall 

 not find men entering the list with an old fashioned 

 clevis, permitting the beam to swing to the right 



and left ad libitum, without wheel or other contri- 

 vance to regulate the depth. We shall then sec 

 plowing matches exerting a beneficial influence 

 upon the country. Farmers who mean lo act up to 

 the intelligence of the age, will remove all ob- 

 .■itructions to the plow, such as stones and stiunpu. 

 They will cither use a wheel or clevis which gov. 

 erus both width and depth exactly. We shall not 

 then see patches of Canada thistle.^, or burdocks, 

 around every stump and stone heap in the field. 

 The entire aspect of the farm will be changed by 

 the simple introduction of good plowing. 



We have another match against which I am a- 

 ware a prejudice exists. It speaks well of the 

 moral sensibilities of our citizens, that such a draw- 

 ing match as we had last year, meets with disap- 

 probations. And it is due your executive commit- 

 tee to say, they never intended nor instituted such 

 a match at nil. We have no desire that cattle 

 should be put to their utmost strength at a dead 

 lift. We merely want them to draw an ordinary 

 load, to show the manner of their training — that 

 they are indeed working cattle, designed for labor 

 rather than for slaughter. It is worthy of serious 

 inquiry, whether we have not suffered cattle to go 

 into disuse for farming purposes to our disadvan- 

 tage. Oxen are so obviously the cheapest, re(iuir- 

 ing far less expense in their gear; subject to fewer 

 accidents and diseases, more convenient for secur- 

 ing hay and grain when near at hand, and in cart- 

 ing manure to our fields ; and last, though not 

 least, having a ready cash value when we have 

 done with them, which a worn-out horse does not. 

 In this respect, I think we should do well to return 

 to the good old ways of our fathers, and exchange 

 some of our flash horses for the faithful ox." 



Taming Horses.-^A successful mode of taminc 

 the wildest horses, by breathing into their nostrils, 

 has lately been tested by numerous experiments 

 in England. Mr Cntlin, in his " Manners and Cus- 

 toms of the North American Indians," says he has 

 often tried the experiment so successfully on buSa- 

 lo calves, in concurrence with the custom of the 

 country, that they would follow at the heels of his 

 horse as closely and affectionately as if they were 

 following their dams. The Indians tame the wild 

 horses in the same manner, after having caught 

 them with the lasso. 



Mr Ellis, of Windsor, England chanced to read 

 the above facts, and determined to try the experi- 

 ment. He did so upon a yearling colt, particular- 

 ly unmanageable, and so successfully as to aston- 

 ish the owner and grooms, who had tried in vain 

 to subdue it. Mr Ellis is of opinion that this ia 

 the secret of the celebrated Irish horse-tamers, 

 who displayed wonderful powers in this way. They 

 pretended to whisper to the animal, and played 

 with its head, and then probably breathed into its 

 nostrils. — Selected. 



It is estimated that about 25,000 persons have 

 availed themselves of the benefit of the bankrupt 

 law throughout the country. 



