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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



MARCH a, 1836, 



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BOSTOjV, WEDNESDAY EVENING. MARCH 2, 1836. 



QIJ'To Correspondents. — Mr Caleb Pliinney, of Lee, 

 Mass., in a letter to the editor, stales in substance, that in 

 No. 7 of the current volume of the N. E. Farmer, a writer 

 signing himself T. of Hartford, Conn, informs that he h 

 a small flock of Merino sheep, unmixed with other 

 breeds. Mr Phinney writes, that il Mr T. of Hartford, 

 or any other persons, have the Merino, unmixed with the 

 Saxony, he or they by giving notice of the fact, would 

 greatly oblige him, and several other farmers near him, 

 who wish to procure some of the Merino breed pure, and 

 descended from imported stock. Mr Phinney says, in a 

 postscript, that he " has a knowledge of Mr Jarvis's flock 

 of Claremont, N. H., an account of which was given in 

 the N. E. Farmer not long since, but should be glad to 

 hear of some less distant." We thought that the views 

 of Mr P. and others would be better promoted by this 

 public notice, than by a priv;ite letter from the Editoi-, 

 which was requested by Mr P. 



[CrA valuable article on Transplanting Fruit Trees, 

 fyc. by Capt. D. Chandler, is received, and shall appear 

 in our next. 



lO'The article on Irrigation, by Hon. J. W. Lincoln, 

 well deserves attentive perusal, and will, we think, prove 

 highly useful to the farming interest. Water, independ- 

 ent of the substances which it holds in solution and sus- 

 pension, is, in itself, an aliment to plants ; in other 

 words, it is vieat as well as drink to vegetables. Some 

 animals as well as plants require no other sustenance 

 than water to enable them to live and flourish ; and wa- 

 ter, judiciously applied, answers all the purposes of solid 

 or putrescent manures. 



(Communication.) 

 To the Editor of the Silk Manual : — 



Sir,— In your las: paper for February, I perceive a pro- 

 position from a Mansfield cultivator of Silk, that he would 

 contract to furnish well grown cocoons for $1 per bushel. 

 Now, sir, to test the earnestness of the proposition, I will 

 hereby offer $2 for 3000 bushels, to be delivered at the 

 Farmer office any time in the present year; and any 

 papers shall be given to the parly making such offer, 

 ■which may be agreed upon for the fulfilment of the en- 

 gagement. T. W. 



By the Editor. — The article alluded to was quoted from 

 the Hartford Silk Culturist, and contains the following 

 paragraph — "A few days since, a silk grower from Mans- 

 field informed us, that he was ready to contract for ma- 

 king cocoons at $1 a bushel, which is one third of the 

 price they are now selling at the Silk Factory in this 

 city," viz. Hartford. (See Silk Manual, for February, 

 p. 147.) At the end' of the piece from which this is quo- 

 ted, the words " Silk CiUturist " are attached, to indicate 

 that it was taken from that paper. The Silk Culturist 

 is " published by the Executive Committee of the Hart- 

 ford County Silk Society" ; orders, we believe, addressed 

 to T. G. Comstock, at Hartford. If, then, we are correct 

 in the premises, Mr Comstock is probably the person to 

 address on the subject of the offer of the silk grower from 

 Mansfield. 



sired purpose. Jt was first discovered by Mr William 

 Shiverick, of Falmouth. A wheel-barrow, full of sharp 

 beach sand, is placed about the trunk of the tree, so as to 

 surround it, and form an ascent or bank, which the in- 

 sects cannot pass over to climb the tree. If the worms 

 have already mounted the tree, they should be shaken 

 and struck off, and as they cannot pass the quick sand to 

 re-as( end they will perish. If beach sand cannot be had, 

 it is supposed that any other sharp sand will answer. 



Remedy against the Cankerworm. — Mr Nathaniel 

 Shiverick, member of the Mass. H. of Representatives 

 from Falmouth, has been so kind as to inform us of a 

 preventive against the ravages of the above named insect, 

 which is simple, and we have hopes will answer the de- 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAI, SOCIETY. 



Saturday, Feb. 27. 

 exhibition of flowers. 

 We said to all around us but yesterday. 

 " You have such a Febrmtry face, 

 So lull offrnsl, of storms, and cloudiness," 

 that our goddess will have but a p_oor offering upon her 

 table tomorrow ; but how agreeably were we disappoint- 

 ed, when the Dorchester casket was opened, containintr 

 flowers " fresh and fuir," from our valuable, and we may 

 add constant contributor, Col. Marshall P. Wilder, of 

 Hawthorn Hall. The specimens of Camellia japonica 

 exhibited by Mr Wilder, this day, were of the most 

 choice varieties, 



" These flowers, these flowers, .so lovely and so rare, 

 We scarcely know to clas.s Ihem, Ibey 're so fair ! " 

 We must therefore be content to put them down in the 

 order in which they appear to us as possessing the requi- 

 site qualities constituting fine flowers in the eyes of a 

 connoisseur. 



Camellia Reticulata," 



" Maliflora, 

 Camellia japonica Eximia, 

 " " Alba plena, 



" " Colvilli,* 



" *' Rosacea,* 



" " Dorsettia,* 



" " Chandlerii, 



" " Myrtiflora, 



" " Corallina," 



" " Coccinea, 



" " Pseoniflora rosa, 



" " Variegata plena, 



" " Conchiflora rosa, 



" " Splendens. 



We cannot close this passing notice, without stating 

 that Reticulata is a flower of great beauty, and although 

 we could not bring our eye to rest on any part of the 

 flower, according to the rules of florists, yet our mind 

 impressed with its gorgeous and magnificent appear- 

 ance. Eximia and Alba plena are of another class, bu, 

 'hey are gems of the first order, and might be said to be 

 the king and queen surrounded with princes and prin- 

 cesses. 



Col. Wilder also presented a specimen of the PsBonia 

 Arborea Banksii ; which measured more than two feet 

 in circumference. For the Committee, 



Samuel Walker. 



*New varieties, and the first specimens shown at the Soci- 

 ety's rooms. 



A GOOD Crop of Wheat. — Dr Thomas Eaton, Fran- 

 cestown, N. H. informs us, that on the Clh day of May 

 last he sowed 7 1 2 bushels Tea Wheat, on Jive and three 

 quarters acres, from which lie reaped 200 bushels of 

 Wheat of the first quality. 



Beef Cattle —The New York drovers have visite4!B 

 this vicinity for the special purpose of purchasin'' Be« 

 Cattle for that market. Several lots have been purchast 

 by ihem,!ind are on the way to market. Eight cattit 

 fed by T. Clapp, Esq. of Easthampton, were purchase' 

 last week by Mr Stevens. This is probably the best Ic 

 that will go from this vicinity this season. The four bee 

 v\'ere sold at $100 a head, or about 750 per 100 lbs. Ou 

 Brighton friends will have to " talk up," in order to ge 

 many cattle from the river this season.— Hamp. Gaz. 



Silk Business.— This will be pursued here the ensu 

 ing season on a larger scale and with more practical intel 

 ligence, than in any otiier town in the country. A nev 

 impulse has been given to the raising of cocoons and mul 

 berry trees and the Silk business generally, in this town 

 and that impulse has extended to nearly every State am 

 territory in the Union. —Jforthampton Courier. 



ITEMS. 



The olfactories of the people in the neighborhood o 

 the market were yesterday saluted with an odor quiti 

 uncommon in that place of good taste and cleanliness 

 They were unloading some pork from a countryman' 

 sleigh, when what should walk out from his snug retrea 

 among the swine, but one of those creatures which out 

 match everything but the evil spirits that entered inti 

 the swine of old — one of those animals least to be fearei 

 yet most to be dreaded —in common parlance, a skunk. 

 — Times. 



A timber imbedded in the wall between the Bank o 

 New York and the Bank of America, in New York wai 

 found to be on fire on Thursday. It had taken at tbi 

 end which lay near the fire place, and the fire had grad- 11 

 ually eaten it off endwise for six or eight feet, and hat 

 probably been at work two or three days. 



In the Senate of New York on the 22d inst a bill wai 

 reported authorizing the construction of a tunnel unda 

 the Hudson, opposite Albany. The bill authorizing th( 

 construction of a rail road from Athica to Buffalo, passet 

 —25 to 2. 



A fire was lately extinguished near Bury, England, bj 

 steam. A person had the presence of mind to break ont 

 of the steam pipes, and upon closing the doors the firt' 

 was soon extinguished. 



It is said that there are orders now in England for 

 nearly three thousand tons of rail road iron for the Vni- 

 ted States and the continent of Europe. 



There was a great fire in Albany on the night of the 

 22d ult. which destroyed property to the value of 15 to 

 20,000 dollars. The thermometer stood at 18 degrees 

 below zero I 



An Useful Lesson. — Another instance of the intel- 

 ligence of that faithful animal, the Dog, occurred yester- 

 day on the Delaware. While the ice boat " State Riohts" 

 was nobly making her way through the ice in the eas- 

 tern channel, two large Dogs were seen crossing from 

 Jersey on the ice, at the distance of about two hundred 

 yards from the boat, when one of them having entered, 

 unaware of danger, upon the broken ice sunk into the 

 water, where he must have perished but for bis com- 

 rade, who immediately rushed "to the rescue," (unlik* 

 the apathy shown by too many of our own species in lik& 

 situations) and continued with untiring industry his ex- 

 ertions to save his friend, till at length getting the suffer- 

 er by the back of the neck, he succeeded in dragging him 

 upon the fast ice, when both rapidly returned to the 

 Jersey shore, amid the applause of many who saw and 

 admired the exploit. — U. S. Gazette. 



The Warren Bridge between Boston and Charlestown ^ 

 became free this day by the expiration of the time lim- 

 ited by the Legislature of this Commonwealth for taking 

 tolls. 



