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NEW ENC^LANDl^'ARMER 



DEC. 9, 1835. 



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BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 9. 1835 



FARMKR'S ■%VORK. 



The following extract from an article, headeJ " Work 

 for December," and publislied in the Baltimore Farmer, 

 contains some directions which we iiave never, known 

 fully adopted in practice, but presume to be useful. Al 

 any rate, they are worthy of the consideration of the 

 practical farmer. 



" Be careful of your cattle ; house them every night, 

 not forgetting to let their racks, if you feed without cut- 

 ting, be full — if you cut your Imy, straw, fudder and 

 corn stalks, which you should do, steam your provender, 

 and it will more than repay you for the- labor. Your 

 milch cows and cows in calf should be well attended to, 

 and receive'free supplies, night and morning, of good 

 warm slops, compo.sed alternately of corn ineal, rye 

 meal and roots. In each of the troughs in which you 

 feed Ihem, have a large lump of cliplk ; once a week 

 before putting in iheir slops, you should place in 

 (heir troughs, to be licked by them, a mixture of salt 

 and ashes ; and if you live in a district where the cows are 

 subject to fever or murrain, always keep in a corner of 

 their feeding troughs a mi.xture of tar, salt and sulphur, 

 n addition to the prescriptions above. If you find your 

 animals laboring under a difficulty of urinating, or that 

 their urine is charged with bloody matter, mix with their 

 food at each meal about two ounces of ihe flowers of the 

 Yarrow, with the fourth of an ounce of saltpetre, for 

 three or four days in succession, and give a bolus of one 

 ounce of castile soap twice a week, until the symptoms 

 disappear, taking care to keep the animals well housed, 

 and wi'll supplied with couifortablo litter. Let the stalls 

 and stables be cleaned and white-washed. The messes 

 in which the Yarrow and saltpetre are given should be 

 warm. 



"Your cow, when near calving, should have good, 

 warm, well bedded quarters, where she will be undis- 

 turbed, to calve in, and soon after giving birlh to the 

 calf, a handful of salt siiould be thrown on either side of 

 it, which the mother will lick olT, and be thus aided in 

 her yeaning. The mother should also be given a little 

 warm water, in which a few handfuls of meal should be 

 thrown. This should be repeated every half hour during 

 the first d.ty, and she should leceive nourishing slops 

 afterwards in small quantities frequently , say four or five 

 times a day during the first week. If she does well, in 

 I week after calving she should receive her meals three 

 times a day, morning, noon and night, each of which 

 times the calf should be let suck." 



MoRUS MULTICAULIS ON THE ISLAND OF NaNTUCKKT. 



— Wm H. Gardner, Esq. of Nantucket, in a letter to fllr 

 Barrett, gives the following information reh.tive to the 

 important questi<m whether the iVIorus Mullicaulis will 

 withstand the rigor of our New England winters. 



" My experiments with the Morua Multicaulis are suf- 

 ficient to satisfy any one that our island is well adapted 

 for that tree, while the fact that trees of the Italian or 

 White Mulberry, of a large size, and say twenty years 

 old, are now growing or] our island, in exposed situations 

 and on our poorest soil, remove any doubt that might be 

 entertained with regard to that tree." 



The Complete Farmer.— We arc under great obli- 

 gations to J. Bucl, Esq. for the following notice of our 



labors in the cause in which he has himself embarked 

 with so much ability, ardor, perseverance and success. 

 The article to which we allude appeared in the Cultiva- 

 tor of Nov. last. It i.« as follows ;— 



" The Complete Farmer and Rural Econovi'st.^Mr 

 Fessenden, the compiler, has presented us with a copy 

 of the second edition of this work, which has been re- 

 vised, improved and nrilarged. This is ratlier a compila- 

 tion than :io original work ; but it is a compilation pecu- 

 lirirly nd.njicd to the wants of the American farmer, con- 

 lainiiig the pith and marrow of^ what is most important 

 to success in ^lis business. We do not think a greate 

 quantity of valuable instruction to the practical farmer 

 can be found, combined in so small a space, or purchased 

 at so low a price, as is offered in this volume. It is a 

 duodecimo vidumc of 370 pages, from the press of Rus- 

 sell, Odiorne & Co. [and George C. Barrett,] Boston 



price one dollar. We commend it to our patrons." 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUI.TURAL, SOCIETY. 



Saturday, Dec. 5. 



EXHIBITION OF FRUITS. 



Pears. — By Z. Cook, Jr. sent to him from a source to 

 us unknown ; a very large and handsome fruit, of an ob- 

 long form and pale straw color, buerre and very fine, 

 the name unknown. The letter relating to this fruit and 

 the source from whence it has been received, will appear 

 in a future report — it has not yet come to hand. 



By Mr Manning, Bczi de Chaumontelle, Glout Mor- 

 ceau or Beurre d'Hardenpont, and Passe Colmar. 



Apples.— By L. P. Grosvenor, Chandler Apple, a 

 large fruit from Connecticut ; red next the sun, sprinkled 

 throughout with deep red on a pale ground, the flavor 

 very pleasant and fine; also a variety of the pippin. 



By M. P. Wilder, a round yellow fruit of medium size, 

 and very pleasant and fine flavor. 



By Dr O. Fiske, of Worcester, a large fruit, originally 

 from Hingham, for a name — the flavor good. 



By Mrs Joseph Morton, of Milton, Seaver Sweetings, 

 otherwise called Grafton Winter Sweet ; large and very 

 productive, fine for keeping. 



By Mr Manning, Wellington Apple or Dumelow's 

 Seedling; fair and handsome, a celebrated English fruit ; 



rather too acid for the dessert and only fit for cooking 



the same may be said of the Ilawthorndean, which is 

 one of the most beautiful and productive and profitable 

 of the English fruits. King of the Pippins ; small yel- 

 low, round and fine flavored. Winshall'sCrab ; around 

 red fruit of good size and pleasant flavor. Rihston Pip- 

 pin : Blenheim Pippin or Blenheim Orange — a small 

 oblong yellow fruit; it may be wrong, for the true kind 

 is described as a very large fruit : all the foregoing are 

 English. Bellflower, CosorCaas, Pe'nnock'sRed Win- 

 ter, very fine and productive. Swaar, another very fine 

 kind, large, round, of a yellow color, slishtly colored 

 with red next the sun, flavor excellent. Rhode Island 

 Greening. Minister Apple, very fine, oblong, striped 

 with red, which is the prevailing color throughout, of 

 excellent flavor. A fruit from Bloodgood's Nursery, for 

 a name. Beauty of the West, good. Mouse Apple. 

 Fama Gusta from Cyprus, an oblong green fruit, some- 

 what striped, immature, of good size, and may prove 

 fine. Rambo or Romanite. Line or Orange Apple, 

 from Mr Oakes of Ipswich, rather large, beautiful, round 

 of a fine yellow color, slightly red next the sun, the fl.i- 

 vor fine and Very pleasant. Also, the Newtown Spitz- 

 enberg, — this being the first specimen of the kind 

 which we have seen exhibited; a fruit above the me- 

 dium size, somewhat flattened, color pale yellow, striped 

 for the most part with pale red — one of the best flavor- 

 ed of apples. Imperial. 



V«. 



Palermo Squash— by Robert Treat Paine, Correi 

 ponding Secretary of the Society, from seed distribute 

 by the Society last spring: form round, flattened, th 

 skin smooth, pale yellow. Some raised near Bosto 

 have weighed forty pounds. It is said to be a variet '£s. 

 very superior in its quality, and not so liable to be aflect 

 ed by early frost as other kinds. The vine which pre 

 duced this variety was not aflected by frosts until 13ti 

 Nov. For the Committee, William Kenrick. 



i.iik 



A stated meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultura 

 Society was held at their Hall on Saturday, Dec. 5th, a 

 11 A. M. The President, Hon. E. Vose, in the chair. 



The President announced tliat the principal businesi 

 of the meeting was the consideration of the amendment; 

 to the Constitution, which had been reported at the pre- 

 vious stated meeting, and that it was now competent foi 

 any member to move the adoption or rejection of the 

 same. 



After some discussion, it was moved by Mr Payne and 

 seconded by Mr Oliver—" That the amendments of the 

 Constitution be adojited," and passed unanimously in 

 the affirmative. 



The President and Recording Secretary were charged 

 with the examination of the manuscript before sent to 

 the press. 



Voted, That Ihe Committee that superintend the pub- 

 lication of the Annual Address attend to the publication 

 of the Constitution as amended. 



J'oted, (On motion of Mr Oliver,) That a Committee 

 of three be appointed to examine the accounts of the 

 Mount Auburn Corporation. 



And the President, Mr Oliver, and E. Weston, Jr 

 were nominated and placed upon this Committee. 



Adjourned to the next Saturday. 



ii'.i 



Rail road. — The rail road route from Windsor, Vt. 

 via Cornish, Claremont, Newport, Wendell, New Lon- 

 don, Sutton, Warner, Boscawen, and Hopkinton to Con- 

 cord, N. H. sixty miles long — is now being surveyed 

 under the direction of Col. S. H. Long. The route is 

 staked by Connecticut and Sugar rivers to Lake Sunna- 

 pee — thenqe up the Lake and across (over the Lake, 

 half a mile, fifty feet deepest water) to the point of land 

 in New London — thence by two points and mills in the 

 southerly part of New London — thence northeasterly 

 of the north meeting house in Sutton, and by the south- 

 erly end of Kearsage mountain — Concord Statesman. 



Cold. — The cold weather continued with increasing 

 severity to the 4th. On the morning of several days 

 last week, the thermometer w.as nearly down to zero. 

 On the 3d, the thermometer was t\>o or three degrees 

 below zero at sunrise. So cold a Thanksgiving day, we 

 believe is unequalled. On the 30th iilt. Connecticut 

 river closed at this place, since which the ice has become 

 strong enough to make it passable. Such a period of 

 close, uninterrupted winter weather is scarcely known 

 in our annals at this season. The early and unexpected 

 closing of the river, has cut off great quantities of flour 

 and other merchandise, destined for this and other places 

 up the river. On Friday the weather became more mild, 

 and a thaw commenced. — Springfield Rep. 



On the 5th inst. Judge Shaw, Chief Justice of the Su- 

 preme Judicial Court, gave sentence in ihe ' Deacon 

 Giles ' Libel case, which was, that Mr Cheever, the de- 

 fendant, be imprisoned 30 days in the common jail, and 

 give bonds in the sum of $1000 for keeping the peace 

 two years. 



In scalding hogs, it is best to dip them firsi in cold wa- 

 ter, and then in hot — the bristles come out easier. 



