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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



JCIiY 33, l'<:ir, 



grpflins, exceiit that it is performed below the sum- 

 mif, tliat tlie sap may continue circulating above. 

 A cross cut beini; made in the stalk, and a vertical 

 slit proceeding downwards from this, the bark is 

 shaved down from above, and removed, that the 

 scion may fit close ; this being inserted and se- 

 cured with a bandage, is covered with clay. Some 

 of these kinds whiclj were not received till late 

 in May auJ late in June were in a desperate or 

 ruined state. Where life existed 1 found that in- 

 oculating them in thrifty young stocks was the 

 most infal!ibie of all modes to save them. The; 

 buds in this case were taken off from the scion 1 

 with a small thin slip of wood, which occupied 

 about one third of its length on the middle section 

 beneath the eye. The very tip of the twig was 

 transformed to a scion as in splicing and thrust 

 downward beneath tlie bark as in inocidating, and 

 bound around with matting and the exposed parts 

 of the wound covered either with astring or with 

 grafting wax. Many kinds I saved by these last 

 modes, for I practised no other. — Gradually the 

 top of the stalk was reduced and the whole force 

 of the tree transferred to the bud. 



Many of these scions were much dried up or 

 shrivelled. These were recovered by steeping in 

 fresh water, till the moment they had become sat- 

 tirated or swollen to the natural size, when they 

 were grafted or inoculated without delay. While 

 some few required but a few liours, it was abso- 

 lutely necessary to steep others for a week or ten 

 days. William Kenrick. 



JVewton, July 13, 1835. 



PRESERVATION OF BUTTER. 



Mr Fessenden — 



Dear Sir — Will you inform me which is the 

 best kind of salt to be used in making butter ? — 

 Also how to pulverize rock salt, and oblige yours, 

 A Subscriber. 



By the Editor.— There have been some differ- 

 ences in opinion expressed by agriculturists and 

 economists relative to the kind of salt, which is 

 best to be used for jireserving butter. John 

 Prince, Esq. procured eight samples of different 

 sorts to be analysed by Dr Webster, Professor of 

 Chemistry of Harvard University, and the kinds 

 of salt and the results of their analysis are given 

 in the New England Farmer, vol. xi. p. 336. Mr 

 Prince draws the following conclusion from the 

 process alluded to, viz : 



"After the examination of the different salts 

 usually for sale in our market, I trust there need 

 bo no longer any fear in using them, on account of 

 any bad properties they may have been su|)posed 

 to possess; only bearing in mind that they should 

 be used by iveight, not measure. If for butter / 

 have no doubt the fine Liverpool* (or Eastport) is ns 

 good as any other, provided the butter be well 

 made and thoroughly worked. 



" I have for many years had no other used, till 

 the past year I purchased the best Turk's Island I 

 could find, and had it well washed and ground 

 fine. We do not perceive the least difference '"^ 

 the butter, having used precisely the same loeight. 



"There is no doubt for packing vieat and fish 

 the coarsest salt should be used, as keeping the 

 meat separate and being longer in dissolving." 



The Silk Cocoonery of Mr Sainuel Whitmarsh 

 of this town is now in full operation. It is two 

 hundred feet in length and two stories in height. 

 It is filled with ranges of sliding draws of twine 

 lattice work, upon wdiich the worms feed, and 

 these are intersected by alleys, so that the build- 

 ing has fresh air and light. It is capable of feed- 

 in" four or five millions of worms. At the jires- 

 ent time he has but about eight hundred thous- 

 and. He lias them in all the various stages, from 

 just out of the egg, to the winding the cocoons. 

 I It is curious enough to see the almost invisible 

 little worms just from an egg, less than half the 

 size of a pin head. To notice their expansion 

 each successive day, more than doubling them- 

 selves in size and increasing in a few weeks from 

 the mere mite to the dimensions of a three inch 

 corpulent caterpillar. Then to notice their habits 

 and instinct and way of taking their food, eating 

 in a continued half circle upon the leaf until it is 

 all devoured. Again the preparation of winding 

 itself up in the cocoon, attaching its two extrem- 

 ities to some object and then throwing out its 

 threads in every direction until it secludes itself 

 within its bosom. 



Mr Whitmarsh does not feed his worms at pres- 

 ent upon the Chinese mulberry. The plant is yet 

 rare and the growers are anxious to multiply them 

 by laying down all the shoots. From the great 

 number under cultivation by various gentlemen 

 in this town and the care taken to increase them, 

 there is reason to believe the supply will be ade- 

 quate to all demands next spring. Mr Whit- 

 marsh has some trees three or four feet in height, 

 which withstood the severity of last winter un- 

 harmed. On some of these trees, the berry is 

 now found and great care will be taken to pre- 

 serve the seed, so that the precise character of the 

 plant propagated from them may be accurately 

 known. — Lancaster Journal. 



the ingredients the effect wUl be more sensible) 

 the water that has been thus boiled, must then h 

 poured into the cask and daily stirred with a stici 

 until it acquires the highest degree of rankne? 

 cate being always taken to cover up the ca^ 

 after the water has been stirred. This composi 

 tion is to be sprinkled or injected on the plan 

 infested, and it will at the first injection destroy th 

 greater part of the insects, but will require fi^ 

 quent repetitions to destroy those that live und< 

 ground, especially the ants. Two ounces of nu 

 vomica added to the above composition, and hoi 

 ed with the sulphur, will render the recipe sti 

 more effectual, especially when ants are to be dt 

 stroyed. From experience I can say that nothiu 

 I ever tried has proved so efficacious in destroj 

 ing insects, and at the same time it makes th 

 plants grow luxuriantly. S. 



Stockbridge, July 11, 1835. 



By the Editor. — We are much obliged by tb 

 receipt of the above, and the more so on accoui 

 of the efiicacy of the prescriptions having bee- 

 tested by the experiments of the gentleman wh 

 is so good as to conmiunicate them. Further favoi 

 from the same hand w ould be gratefully receivei 



(For the New England Farmer.) 

 Mr Fessenden, 



♦ Some writers in the New England Farmer had expresaed an 

 opinion that Liverpool eatt was unwholesomo and unfit for use. 



Dear Sir — I have seen several receipts re- 

 recently in your useful paper for destroying ticks 

 on shee]>, but if the following simple remedy is 

 tried it will be found more efficacious, than any 

 tobacco ablutions which have been recommended 

 Catch the sheep and open the wool on the back of 

 the neck and down the shoulders and sprinkle in 

 about a teaspoonful of Scotch snuff and every tick 

 on the sheep will be dead in twenlyfour hours. 

 As the sheep are now destitute of their fleeces the 

 lambs ought to be all caught and snuffed in this 

 way, as they will be kept poor by the ticks which 

 will now leave their mothers and take to them for 

 a warmer shelter. S. 



Stockbridge, July 11, 1835. 



Recipe for destroying Vcriniu of all kinds 

 wlilcli infest Plants, 



Take of black soap (common soft soap) two and 

 one half pounds, flour of sulphur, two and one 

 half pounds, mushrooms of any kind two pounds, 

 water sixteen gallons ; divide the water into equal 

 parts, put half the water in a cask with the 

 scipand mushrooms, after having bruised them r 

 little • the other half of the water is to be boiled in a 

 kettle with the sulphur enclosed in a bag and fixed 

 to the bottom, with a stone or any other weight, 

 during t>e ebullition of about twenty minutes. 

 The bag must be stirred about with a stick the 

 better to iin, regnate the water, (by augmenting 



[From the Esses Register.] 

 CXj'1.TURE op SIIiK. 



Messrs Editors — I rejoice to observe th 

 the interest taken in the growth and manufactu 

 of Silk, continues to increase with unabated e 

 dor. The recent improvements our countrym' 

 have introduced in the machinery for its maiiufs 

 ture, promise to produce almost as much of are 

 olution iu the art, as did the noble invention 

 the Cotton Gin in the production of the grt 

 staple of the South. It appears to be admittt 

 now, by every one who has paid any attention 

 the subject, that the soil and climate of the Unit 

 States are as genial to the growth and culture 

 the Silk Worm, as any county in England, 

 mighthere introduce the fact, that a gentlem 

 from England, formerly engaged in the cultivati 

 of Hops in that country, recently declared, tl 

 from his own experience he had found the s 

 and climate of Massachusetts better calculated ; 

 the production of that important article than I 

 native country. Thus we see, Messrs Edito 

 that the natural resources of our own New Er 

 land are every day being fully developed, and.u 

 der such circumstances too, as leave a convictl 

 that the knowledge of her capabilities is yet but 

 embryo. 



Many of our citizens, who have given b 

 little attention to the subject of the culture of s 

 arc not aware of the fact, that more attention w 

 paid to this subject before the Revolutionary w 

 in this quarter, than has been since. In this toi 

 in 1764, more than 60 years ago, silk was groi 

 and reeled for a profit ; and the foundati 

 of the trees which afforded the leaves tl 

 nourished the " insect artizan" — the white mi 

 berry — are now standing and this very y( 

 yielded healthy scions. 1 cannot be mistak 

 about this, as I have it from an aged lady n( 

 living who gathered the leaves with her oi 

 hands. Since that period the silk worm has be 

 now and then raised among us for mere novel 

 in private families ; and rt'ithin the last few ye; 

 several small quantities have been thro\vn. 

 In looking around for a favorable place for 



