' AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 





PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH BRECK & CO., NO. 62 NOllTH M.VRKET STREET, (Aoricultubai Warehodse.)-ALLEN PUTNAM, EDITOR. 



o^.xM.] 



BOSTON, WEDNRSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1843. 



[NO. 87. 



N. E. FARMER. 



THE EFFECTS OF MOUNTAINS. 



Genlojy, in ils goings back and its readings of 

 e earth's history, finds a time when, "before the 

 rculatii'n of the waters commenced, no alluvial 

 nds, and srarcely even soil, could have existed ; 

 cansc these have been produced by the opera- 

 )n of the water. It was therefore an eirth of 

 ked rocks and sea." Science finds a time too, 

 len the. earth was a fluid mass, surrounded by an 

 mosplieri', taking the sjlobular form under the in- 

 lence of rotation, and formings into rock or sand 



its surface as it cooled down. Such a globe — 

 id — would, when revolving on its axis, acquire 

 arly a level surface; its waters would not circu- 

 £e ficely ; lliey would be stagnant ; and the soil 

 uld nourish but few of the plants on which men 

 d aiiimals feed. But our earth was to be made 

 e fit lioine for men and the many animals. How 

 this accomplished? The pent-up fires in 

 rth's centre were in God's hand. The volcano 

 ts hn agent. By that llie mountains were piled 

 — then the waters flowed way — ''the dry land 

 (peaied" — the mountams helped to condense into 

 )uds around their own heads the floating vapors 

 d c..ii.-e tilt; rains to fall most abundantly on 

 iir hi^h tops, where they should become the fath- 

 i of biM.iks and rivulets, and springs and mighty 

 fers. The mountains which draw down tlie rains 

 <d feed tlie nvrrs, are among the mighty agents 

 lit fertiliz.e the earth. Quickly dried by the ele- 

 rtion which causes their waters to flow away, and 

 xquoiilly moistened by rains, their surfaces give a 

 me to many of the valuable plants and trees, 

 nile the wate.'s that flow down their sides, carry 

 im the iiiountairis tlie matters which compose the 

 uny fertile intervals. Upheave a mountain in the 

 ■eat desert of Sahara, and a few ages will find the 

 giiin far around, as fertile as the sides and foot 



Atlas, or as the plains that skirt our western 

 .)untains. — Eu. N. E. F. 



Corn Crop. — The Louisville Journal siys : Mr 

 Chaiubcrlin, of this neighborhood, again raised 



crop of corn this year, on the plan of Geo. W. 

 illiniiis. Esq , of Bourbon county, laying oflf the 



«vs, however, 2 1-2 (eet apart, a single stalk eve- 

 foot and a lialf in the rows, instead of having 



e rows two fact apart with a stalk every foot. 



T G. had iine acre measured, and the produce 



as 112 bushels. All the work which he gave his 



irn was to piss a cultivator through it once. The 

 ouuJ was of the ordinary fertility of his farm. 



he soiison was very unfavorable to corn, inasmuch 

 n.it a drop of rain fell in July, the time at which 



e corn most needed rain. 



Jlr.rcs for Gfnius. — The Tioga Phcenix offers the 

 llo'.ving premium : — " For the best Comical Story, 



rot less than three columns, 100 acres of wild 

 md, away beyond Pine Creek, where the snn does 

 )l set till nuon — whore cascades are beautiful, 

 oonsliiuc sublime, and solitude eternal." 



HEMLOCK BROWSE FOR SHEEP. 

 Sheep, as well as other domestic animals, like 

 green food in the winter, and indeed the more they 

 can have of u heavy and succulent nature, the bet- 

 ter they will come out in the spring. It is a max- 

 im with one of our oldest and most experienced 

 wool-growers, that sheep should be filled once per 

 day with something that they ivill eat. They are 

 rather capricious in their appetites. This capri- 

 ciousness depends very much upon the weather. 

 When it is severely cold, they will cat almost any 

 thing with avidity. Common bog hay is then 

 greedily sought after. But when the weather is 

 more moderate and tliawy, they are more dainty, 

 and \yill turn from the same kind of fodder which 

 they were very fond of, perhaps the day before. 

 Hemlock boughs, we believe, are never refused by 

 them, until they become somewhat tough in the 

 spring of the year. They are green, succulent, 

 heavy, and no doubt quite nutritive. Those who 

 can obtain the boughs of the pitch pine, will find 

 them as good or better than the hemlock. Per- 

 haps gome of the other evergreens of the turpen- 

 tine order are good, but we have never tried them, 

 and cannot speak, therefore, from any experience of 

 our own. Those who have a small supply of hay 

 will do well to furnish a good supply of browse, 

 and those who have plenty of hay should also fur- 

 nish them with a good supply of browse by way ol 

 treat. — Maine Far. 



From the same. 



CANADA THISTLES. 



JIr Holmes — I have frequently hoard it said, 

 that bushes, thistles, &c., cut during the full of the 

 moon, in August, would be infallibly destroyed; 

 but never having faith in the moon's influence upon 

 such matters, I have paid no attention to it. 



But as a little circumstance happened under my 

 observation last summer, somewhat/((i)ora6/e to the 

 theory of lunar influence, I will give it for the bene- 

 fit of all concerned. 

 . Last summer, I mowed a patch of thistles in my 

 pasture, which had been mowed two years in suc- 

 cession without producing any favorable result. 



Indeed, every mowing seemed to incrense the 

 thriftiness and number of the thistles, and they 

 spread with great rapidity. I paid no attention to 

 the time wlicn they were cut, cither last summer, 

 or at any of the previous mowings, except to see 

 that it was done before the thistles were out of the 

 blow. Passing the thistle bed frequently during 

 the fall, I was agreeably surprised to observe that 

 none of the stalks had sprouted— they all appeared 

 perfectly dead. This circumstance naturally led 

 me to the question, why had this last cutting proved 

 so deadly ? Curiosity led me to refer to my memo- 

 randum, and 1 found that the last mowing was per- 

 formed during the full of the moon, in August. I 

 know not but they would have died, thisyinr, ifthey 

 had been mowed at any other time. However, I 

 gue.ss that when I have any more thistles to de- 

 stroy, I shall try and cut them about the full of the 

 moon, in August. J- U- HtLL. 



From Ihc same. 



CURE OF CANCER, &c. 



Mil Hoi.MKs — A few nights since, at the Hal- 

 lowell House, in Hallowell, I was admitted to be 

 in the company of one of those travelling doctors 

 which are plenty in these days. He informed, me 

 that he could extract a cancer in four hours, and 

 produced a great number of certificates that he had 

 done it, but did not inform mc how it was done. 

 He shew rtie a phial containing a liquid substance, 

 perhaps a spoonful, which he said was sufllcient 

 for three cancers. He also stated that angle-worms 

 collected and put into a glass bottle and hung up 

 outside of a house, in the sun, in warm weather, 

 would dissolve and become an oil in a few days,., 

 which would be effectual to cure stiff and shrivel- 

 ed limbs, caused by rheumatic affections, or other- 

 wise. He stated that the hollow horn or horn-ail 

 in cattle, would be ellectually cured by cutting 

 the tail off as far as that was hollow, and then 

 split the tail two inches or mors in the pith, as he 

 called it, which I took to be the centre of the tail, 

 then place in the split a piece of onion and bind it 

 up. He stated that, split onions, roast them by 

 the heat of the fire and bind them on to the spine 

 every other night for several nights when going to 

 bed, was a certain cure for the spine complaint. 



Publish the above, and the public will be aa 

 wise as I am in this matter. E. W. 



IVinlhrop, Dec. D, 1843. 



Arorn Coffee. — A correspondent of the Philadel- 

 phia Ledger says: — " Being recommended the use 

 of oak bark by an estimable physician, for an affec- 

 tion of the throat, I have tried a coffee made of 

 white oak acorns, (which is very palatable, and 

 probably as wholesome as that imported,) with 

 such decidedly good effect, that I am desirous of 

 making known the advantage I have received, for 

 the benefit of others." 



Great Yield. — Elnathan Moseley, Esq., of Etna, 

 Maine, says the Bangor Whig, raised the past sea- 

 son, upon nearly an acre of ground, a crop of pota- 

 toes at the rate of seven hundred and twenty bush- 

 els to the acre. Can't Brother Holmes, of the 

 Alaine Farmer, obtain the particulars of this crop ? 



Travellers may now leave Portland, (Me.) in the 

 morning, dine and do business in Boston, and be 

 in New York before breakfast the next morning. 

 Distance, 325 miles : Time, 22 hours. 



The quantity of eggs used annually in France 

 exceeds, says one of the journals, 7,250,000,000, of 

 which enormous number, Paris uses about 120,- 

 000,000. 



To Preserve Sleel Pens. — A correspondent of the 

 Boston Mercantile Journal recommends coarse eme- 

 rv, mixed with water, as an excellent prcserviitive 

 of steel pens. 



