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AND G A R I) E N K U ' S .1 O |i K N A I. 



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pmm llie (Jeneieo Farmcr.i 

 Brief hints >or sprang work. — Apply maii- 

 uro to corn mid potato crops, nnd not to grnin 



crops. 



Let iiinnure l)e buried as soon as possiUlt 



after 



sprcadiiii;. 



Wlien rotted or fprinented maiuire is npiilieri, 

 let it he as thoroughly mixed with the soil as 

 ■ pos^ihlo. 



Wheat thrown out of the ground hy frost, 

 should he pressed in again by passing a roller 

 over it. 



PlouKhiiig heavy soils when wet, does more in- 

 jury than if the team were standing idle. 



in ploughini; green sward deni ly, the furrows 

 must always be at least one half wider than deep, 

 else the sods will not turn well. 



New meadows should now he rolled. 



All grain fielils seeded to grass should be rolled. 



Barley should be sown as early as possible, 

 upon a light and moderately moist soil, at the 

 rate of one and a half to two bushels per acre, ac- 

 cording to tlie size of the seed. 



A roller shoulil I e passed over it as soon as it 

 is harrowed, to press the soil round it, and smooth 

 the field. 



Barley seed may be freed from intermixed oats 

 by pouring water upon it, when the oats will float, 

 and be skimmed off. 



Oats require strong rich soil, gooil culture, and 

 early sowing. 



Preserved leached and iinleached ashes which 

 have accumulated during the winter, to be applied 

 to corn in the hill. 



To prevent corn being touched by crows, stir 

 the seed with a sufficient quantity of heated tar, 

 and then roll it in |)hster, lime or ashes. 



Plaster is always most efficacious on light and 

 thin soil — on niemtow and clover ground, the ear- 

 lier it is sown the better. 



Plaster when applied to cultivated ground, is 

 best when worked into the soil. 



Sowing it broadcast upon Indian corn after it 

 is up, has increased the crop 25 per cent. 



Every farmer should attempt the field culture of 

 root crops — he may raise as much cattle food 

 from one acre, as from five acres of meadow. 



Farmers who have heavy rich soil, will succeed 

 be.st with mangel wurtzel — those who have san- 

 dy soil, with ruta buga. They should try both. 



Sow garden crops in drils where practicable, 

 in order that the weetis may be cleared witi 

 hoe. 



DiffiTcnt varieties of melons and squashes 

 should be planted at the greatest possible dis 

 r.ince, in order to prevent intermixing and cross 

 ing. 



Loosen the soil with a spade round fruit trees 

 growing in grass land. 



Examine the roots of peach trees and remove 

 all the grubs. Their presence is shown by the 

 gum oozing out. 



The last Albany Cultivator, says — "Mr Asa 

 Carter, of Champion, Jeflerson Co. has shown us 

 a specimen of silk manufactured hy his daughter, 

 wl;o never saw a sik worm, nor a silk reel, till 

 last summer. This is pretty good evidence that 

 there is no great art or mystery in managiiiif silk 

 worms." 



One pound of potash dissolved in two quarts of 

 water and applied to trees, will effectually destroy 

 the bark' louse, iSic. 



(From llw Silk Ciilliiiisl ) 

 CULTURE OP THE STRA'U'BERRY. 



Alter so iiiuch has been said Jiiid dene to in- 

 duce farmers to devote a small | oilion of their 

 land and labor to the purposes of hortini'ture, it 

 is astonishing they should be willing to {leny ihem- 

 selvesaiid their families the luxuries which a gar- 

 den ami fruit yard funiisli, and be content fo set 

 down to a meal of '' pot luck," at least three-liiiii- 

 dred and sixty-five times in the year. If a farmer 

 would be a "good liver," his garden must furnish 

 hia wife with the " wherewiih," or he must not 

 complain if she sets a poor dinner before him. If 

 he loves cherry puddings, he must set out cherry 

 trees before fiiiiling fault with his wife for not 

 making them — if he is fond of quince, currants 

 or gooseberry preserves, his wife will be delighted 

 to put them on the table; but it is to be hoped he 

 will be good Matured if she does not, if there is 

 nothing but pig weeils and potatoe tojis in the gar- 

 den from which she can gather them. 



Among the numerous kinds of fruits which are 

 indis, ensable to good living is the strawberry. 

 Besides being a most delicious dessert fruit, it is 

 considered by medical men as vahiabl-; medicine 

 in several diseases — particularly putrid fevers 

 and pulmonary consumptions. A free use of stiaw- 

 berries, it is said, will both | revent and cure the 

 rheumatism. Every farmer's wife ought to con- 

 sider her dinner table inconi| letely furnished, lor 

 at least four weeks in the heat of summer unless it 

 has upon it a dessert of strawberries and cream. 

 She ought also to consider her tea table deficient 

 unless strawberry jam is among her preserves and 

 sweet-meats — and who does not love an occasion- 

 al bowl of strawberries and milk ? 



But while we insist that every farmer's wife 

 should furnish her table with delicious fruit, we 

 would not compel her, or her daughters, to " go a 

 strawberry ing " in the o!d fashioned way their 

 grandmothers did. Even they were so extrava- 

 gantly fond of strawberries as to ramble about the 

 fie'ds, with their "sun bonnets" on their heads, 

 and "strawberry baskets" in their hands, in pur- 

 suit of them. If farmers wouhl have strawberries 

 ihey must devote a small portion of their gardens 

 to their cultivation. '1 here are several vsrieties of 

 excellent flavor, and by a judicious seleciion, and 

 a little labor, a full siipjily may be had through the 

 season. The ordinary method of cu'tivation is to 

 prepare the ground, by manuring and spading, ami 

 transplant in August. The distance between the 

 plants from nine to fifteen inches, acconling to the 

 varieties. The runners the first year are cut oft' 

 before they take root. Some cu tivators cut off 

 the leaves in autumn. The second year the run- 

 ners are permitted to take their course — filling 

 up the spaces between the plants and producing 

 ordinarily, a good crop of large s-ze I strawberries. 

 Some lay down .'^traw or grass for the runners to 

 run upon. The ntilily of this is manifest in many 

 respects but especially in kee| ins the fruit from 

 coming in contact wiili the earth, by which it 

 would be injured by dirt. After the f uit is gath- 

 ered the straw should be removed and the plants 

 cleared of weeds. They should be transplanted 

 every second year. 



The town of Portsmouth has authorized the 

 superintendent of the Town Farm under the di- 

 rection of the Seleetin n, to commence a nursery 

 of white and Chinese mulberry trees upou the 

 farm. 



ON RUTA II VGA No. 1. 



IM a lloLMKs: — It may be that it will encour- 

 agi- the raising of Kuta Uaga if I state my siuci fs 

 in ihiit crop the last S(-ason, tbuugli not a remark- 

 able large one, yet as hay and food forcallle has 

 been, it was a profilab!i; one. It grew on ju.-^t one 

 Ibiirlh of an acre of ground, which yielded 204 

 bushels by weight, 64 Mis. to the bushel — llio 

 sami; as the law requires that potatoes slnurd 

 weigh. 



It is siipi osed hy most farmers that two thou- 

 saiiil pounds of this vegelab'e and a ton of hay 

 will suolain our cattle as long or go as far in our 

 stock as two tons of hay, fed out understanding y, 

 or ill other words, that they are worth as much, 

 pouiiil for pound, as English bay. Acccn-ding to iho 

 above number of bushels and weight, there grew 

 on the quarter of an acre six tons and a half nml 

 50 pouu'fs. Hay is worth $20 per ton — if Ruta 

 Baga, weight (or weight, is worth as much, then 

 the latter is worth twenty dollars per ton — the 

 six tons anil a balfanil 56 lbs. amounts to $130,56 

 — equal to .^522,24 |iei-acre, when forage is thus 

 high. 



! will now give an account of the actual jirofit, 

 as i sold some, and might have sold the whole at 

 the same rate, for as hay has been high I evident- 

 ly undersold. Two shillings a bushel 1 sold for, 

 64 I inmds by weight per bushel — at that rate ihe 

 204 husbe's .•uiiount to $58 — equal to $272 the 

 acre. — All can see that i underso'd as forage has 

 been this season — but as the worth of hay is, 

 take one year with another, they are worth and 

 will bring 25 cts the bushel, if kept until April — 

 at that rate my quarter of an acre would bring 

 51, equal to 204 per acre. Is it worth while to 

 attend to raising Ruta Baga ? — this question will 

 be better answered when I make known the ex- 

 pense as I intend in a future communieation. 



VVlNTHROP. 



New Silk Factory. — We learn that the New 

 England Silk Company, recently iiicor| orated, 

 have purchased land and formed contracts for the 

 erection of a large factory building and several 

 boarding houses, to be located near the depot of 

 the Branch Railroad, in this town. The main 

 building is to lie a hundred feet in length, fiirty 

 feet wide, and threes stories high, with a hiind.>;omo 

 tower and belfry. Steam power will beeni|iloyed 

 to move the machinerj'. 



Arrangements have been made for performing 

 all the necessary operations for the manufacture 

 ofsik. goods, from the production of the raw ma- 

 terial to the finishing of the nicest silk fabrics. A 

 number of expei ienced workmen have been en- 

 gageil, and from the well known enterprise and 

 practical skill of our townsman, J. H. Cobb. Esq. 

 ihe Agent of the Company, under whose direc- 

 tion the business will 1 c transacted, it is presumed 

 that this will he one of the most perfect establish- 

 ments of the kind in the country. We congratu- 

 late the piiblie upon the irospect of such an ac- 

 cession of business to the place. — Dedham Pat. 



Locust Trkes. — Captain Richard Hale, of 

 Westhampton, has received $153 for the timber 

 of 13 locust trees, de ivered at the river jii West 

 Springfield, including all the limbs that were more 

 than one indi and a fourth in diameter. The 

 tiudier measured 306 cube feet; and w.is sold 

 at 50 cents per foot. About two and a hall" cords 

 of timber hronght 153 dolla.s. 



