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PUBLISHED BY JOSfc'.PH BKECK & CO., NO 52 NOLITH M4RlfK'T STRt.-n-T ii^ 



., nu. a^ isumn fllAkK.b.1 £>rK[!.ET, (Aoricultutial Wabbmou»».)-ALLEN PUTNAM, EOITOR. 



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BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 184:). 



N. E. FARMER. 



THE PEACH TREE. 

 From Mr Downing's new Catalogue, vra select 

 5 following " Reinarks," ivhicli he lias attached 

 hi3 list of peacliecj. They should receive the 



icntion of every ^'riiwer of this delicious fruit 



6. Cult. 



'■Of lale years, owinnr to the appcnraiice of two 

 eases in our orchards, the Peach has become 

 mparatively short-lived and unproductive. These 

 eases are yet scarcely at all understood by the 

 jority of cultivators. Wo therefore offer the 

 lowing sug^'estions, with the knowledge, that if 

 irecialed and carried into practice, this fruit will 

 found as healthy, fine and productive in our 

 dens now, as at any previous period. 

 [. The Yellows is the greatest malady of the 

 ch. It affects the whole tree, and the seed- 

 js reared from it are also more or less diseased 

 the same manner. 



I. The Fc.'/oiM is a fon/d^ioiis disease, spreadincr 



tree to tree gradually, and it may be propa- 

 ed by grafting or budding from the infected 

 cimcns. 



II. This malady may be infallibly known by 

 following characteristics: a decidedly ^cWotti- 



co/or in the whole of the leaves of the tree : 

 -t and slender branches growing here and there, 

 hed with small, half-starved, narrow leaves, one 

 •th or o;ie half the usual size: and mottled, 

 11 fruit of inferior quality ripening hefore the 

 jer season. 



V. A singletree with this disease will by its 

 .agioiis influence, gradually de.stroy a whole 

 lard of healthy iree;;. No pruning or m(jde of 

 tincnt, hitherto discovered, will restore to a 

 ihy stale a tree thoroughly diseased with the 

 ows. 



. It is absolutely necessary to deslroy all trees 

 ng the Yellows, in order to in.'ure a sound con- 

 jon in young plantation yet healthy. In small 

 lens, where there are diseased trees contigu- 

 the neighbors must bo prevailed upon to enter 

 the plan : in farms and larger places, it will 

 3rally be sufficient Id destroy all victims of tlio 

 ows on the premises, as the disease spreads 

 ly. In trees received from nurseries, there 

 frequently be found an infected subject, and 

 ould he at once rooted up, and its place sup- 



1 by a healthy tree. It is much belter to de- 

 / a single tree, though young, at once, than by 

 wing it to stand, in the vain hope of its rccov- 



to spread disease among all in its neighbor- 

 i. » 



we direct our attention to this matter, we 

 1 find in almost every neighborhood, a number 

 ickly and diseased trees, which, although 

 hiess, are allowed still to occupy the ground. 

 ,■ frequently an old and favorite tree, now leun 

 juuiiflked, occupies, year after year, a corner 

 iie garden, more from the recollection of the 

 fruit it once bore, than from any present value. 

 e desire healthy and thriving peach trees, all 



these diseased specimens, old or young, must be 

 entirely e.\-termiiinted. While the.^o are allowed 

 to stand in any garden disseminating a contagious 

 disease on every side, it is idle to liope for healthy 

 and long-lived trees. 



The second enemy to this tree is the Pfach voim 

 orborT. This ini^ect. (.Ef^erui rxiliosn.) dvpos\U 

 its eggs in the soft part of the trunk, just at the 

 surlace of the ground. Those, (,n becoming bor- 

 ers or grubs, perforate and consume the baiit, and 

 id time girdle and destroy the tree. To maint.iin 

 an orchard in good health, so far as regards this 

 insect, it is only necessary, every ■'spring, to re- 

 move the earth for three or four inches at the base 

 of the tree, and to cut out and destroy with the 

 knife every one of the borers. Their presence is 

 generally indicated by gum just below (he sur- 

 face of the ground, and a little practice will ena- 

 ble a man to go over an orchard of an acre in a 

 day. 



The productiveness and longevity of the peach 

 tree, will be greatly promoted by shortening or 

 pruning the extremities of the branches of bearing 

 trees, from one to two feet in July, every year. 

 This will keep the tree full of bearing buds and 

 healthy wood.'' 



From the Albany Culiivamr. 



"VALUABLE COWS," AND TOUGH STO- 

 RIES. 



Messrs. Editors — There was a clergyman "down 

 east," who had among his parishioners a youuT 

 man who was more remarkable for plaipness of 

 speech than courtesy, and who soinetimos got him- 

 self into difficulty by callin? things by their rii'ht 

 names. To prevent this, the minister one day 

 hinted to him, that when a man asserted what he 

 believed to be false, it was impolite to tell him he 

 lied, but that dissent might be expressed by a 

 i(i-/i-e-u-ff.?i .' or whistle, proportioned in intensity 

 to the enormity of the offence. The clergyman 

 was one of those who explain as the result of natu- 

 ral causes, all the miracles recorded in the bible. 

 'I'he very next sabbath, his text related to the 

 loaves and fishes that fed the multitude in the wil- 

 derness. The loaves, ho contended, were not or- 

 dinary loaves, but of the size of Mount Tom, (re- 

 fi-rring to a well known conical hill in the vicini- 

 ty.) At this point of the discourse, the clergyman 

 and the audience were electrified by a whistle so 

 shrill and prolonged that many sprung to their feel. 

 "What!" said the clergyman, addressing the of- 

 fender, " you disbelieve me, do you .'" " Oh, no," 

 was the prompt reply ; " I was only thinking wh<it 

 an oven it must have been that Ihein loaves were 

 baked in !" 



Now I sometimes read the papers, and I am so 

 easy of faith, that I am able to sivallow nearly 

 every thing I find in print ; but now and ihen I 

 meet with something that will not go down, no 

 way I can fix it. In the N. G. Farmer, for May, 

 I met with the following stumper, copied from the 

 Conn, Fanner's Gazette : 



" I'aluahle Cows.— Mr Samuel 15:,ldwin, of 

 VVashinglon, Conn., made, between March 'Ith'nnd 

 December 8tli, 1843, from two cows, besid.is sup. 

 porting a family of two persons, four hundred and 

 thirtyninc pounds of butter, and twelve hundrnj 

 and hftyfour pounds of cheese." 



I rubbed my eyes and read it over again, to see 

 there was no mistake. Two hundred ainl nineteen 

 and a half pounds of butler to a cow! said I to 

 my.self: well, that miirht possibly be, though iho 

 best dairies in the country rarely average one hun- 

 dred and eighty pounds to a cow; and -"when Dea- 

 con Green's old red made in the whole year 2U0 lbs 

 it was thought most marvellous. U.it'jn addition' 

 to this, hne was six hundred and twentyseven lbs. 

 of cheese to each cow._morc than was ever be- 

 fore made from any cow in this country, when tho 

 whole nrcam, butter and milk, and all went in— and 

 full double the yield of ordinary dairies ! But my 

 nond genius whispered that it was not best to 

 whi^tle yet, and suggested that the cheese nii^ht 

 be ichile oak cheese — that is, cheese made from 

 milk from which all the oily matter has been skil- 

 fully extracted, and that in this way all th" bulter 

 and a« the cheese tr.ight be separately obtained. 

 The answer to this was, that in all the'biiiter antl 

 cheese making I had ever seen, there would bu 

 bttler-milk and whey, a little at least, and hero 

 was scarcely any provision for either. Thus yon 

 see that like many other folks, the more I studied 

 the worse ofl" I was ; and finally, after pvcry efTort 

 to fro it, and even pinning back its cars and greas- 

 ing it, a la Crockett, am unable to swallow the 

 " crilhir." Still the fault may bo in my faith, and 

 not in the story ; if so, let the good old land of 

 steady habits have the glory of possessing two 

 cows, "unrivalled and unequalled." So says one 

 who boasts of being A Co.n.necticut Uoy. 



To Destroy Slugs amon/r H'htal — Collect a num- 

 ber of lean ducks ; keep them all day without food 

 and turn them into the fields towards evening i 

 each duck wbuld devour the slugs much faster 

 than a man cculd collect thciii, and then iret |i,t 

 for market. — jVashvilte Agricull. 



It has been remarked before the American Insti- 

 tute, that " the revival of Agriculture commenced 

 in Flanders, about .seven hundred years a^o. There 



the soil was little belter than white barren sand 



now its incre.ise is said to bi- twice as great as 

 that in England. The grand maxim on which the 



Flemish turiner acts, is, without manure, no corn 



without cattle, no manure — and without root crops, 

 no cattle." — lb. 



A correspondent of the Albany Cultivator says : 

 '' 1 have at various times tried several expedients 

 to destroy caterpillars, and among other things tur- 

 pentine, sulphur. &,c., but have invariably failed, 

 until I discovered that the spirits of liartshorn, ap. 

 plied by means of a sponge attached to tho end of 

 a pole, and thrust into the midst of the >veb, caused 

 inslantaiicous death to all living matter it touched." 



