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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



August 27, 1830. 



tuit sometimes it becomes a lik.^ yellowish at per- 

 t'oct maturity, arid the suuny side acquires a red- 

 dish tint; in all cases it is dotted over with iiutner- 

 ous grayish specks. The fle.sh is very melting 

 and replete with rich and pleasant juice. It ripens 

 in September and becomes soft soon after. The 

 seeds are blackish brown, large, and i)erfect. 

 There is no variety of the ])ear more extensively 

 cultivated at Paris and its environs than this, and 

 during the month of September the markets are 

 filled with the fruit. The tree is very productive 

 and seldom fails to produce a crop. It is only 

 propagated on the pear stock, as it does not succeed 

 on the quince. I perceive Forsyth qu( tes this 

 from Duhamel as a synonyme of the IJrown 

 Beurre, which is a great error, it being a very 

 melting pear, and therefore the appellation of 

 Beurre in every case misapplied. 



PRESERVING VEGETABLES FOR 

 WINTER, &c. 



Mr F'essenden — Seeing a paragrn])h in th 

 last N. E. Farmer respectinjf the preservation of 

 green vegetaldes for winter use, 1 liave been in- 

 duced to offer a remark or two in order to prevent 

 if nossible, others suffering the mortification which 

 i endured myself the last winter. I have tried 

 the same method, as well as some others, several 

 times and have invariably been disappointed. 

 Peas, Corn, and Beans, are rendered tasteless 

 anil insipid. Beans, though they retained in a 

 small degree their flavor, were so hard as to be 

 unfit for use. I state these factg merely for the 

 benefit of those who like myself are lovers of 

 vegetables, that they may not be disappointed.- 



Jlug. 21, 1830. A SUBSCRIBER. 



Remarks bylhe Editor — We did not publisli the 

 paragraph alluded to as a diso:ov"'ery of our own, 

 but gave our authority for the report^. There may, 

 jierhaps, be a process for preserving vegetables for 

 v/inter's use, which may prove successful, though 

 others have failed. 



A Treatise on 'The Art of Preserving all kinds 

 of Animal and Vegetable Substances, for several 

 Years,' by M. Appert, was i)ublished by order of 

 the French Minister tif the Interior. * 



In this it is stated tliat M. Appert's process 

 consisted, 



1. In inclosing, in bottles the substances to be 

 preserved. 



2d. In corking the bottles with the utmost care ; 

 for it is chiefly on the corking that the success of 

 the process depends. 



3d. In submitting these inclosed substances to 

 the action of boiling water in a water bath (Bal- 

 neum Mitria) for a greater or less length of time, 

 according to their nature, and in the manner point- 

 ed out with respect to each several kind of sub- 

 stance. 



4th. In withdrawing the bottles from the water 

 hath nt the period described. 



A translation of this Treatise moy be fotind 

 in the Appendix of the second American edition 

 of Dr Willich's Domestic Em-yclopedia, published 

 in Philadelphia, in 1826. 



months every year — the other is defended from 

 the overflowings of the sea by strong dykes ; yet 

 these countries are the n\ost famous for richness 

 of soil, forabundajit harvests and ease of cultiva- 

 tion, .of any upon the earth. I have often won- 

 dered why our farmers should suffer the rich val- 

 leys and meadows to lie useless an<l micultivated, 

 while they toiled and dug among rocks and sands 

 upon the barren hills, for a scanty harvest. 



These reflections have been occasioned by some 

 new experiments lately made upon lands hereto- 

 fore considered useless. Having been informed 

 by several credible reports of the facts, I deter- 

 mined to look for mj'self, and now send you the 

 result of my inquiries. The place to which I al- 

 lude is called Turkey Bog, lying about three miles 

 from this village, partly in Concord, and partly in 

 Bow. This bog is supposed to contain about 

 1500 acres, covered with a thick growth of white 

 maple — and has been valuable only for wood. 

 The soil is a black, rich mould, of considerable 

 deptli. During the drought of last year, the fire 

 caught by accident, and ran over many acres, 

 killing and destroying the wood. This part was 

 owned by those enterprising farmers, Messrs Car- 

 ter and Abbot, of this town. They cleared off" 

 the wood in the winter, and about the first of 

 June planted twenty acres of corn, which now 

 appears flourishing, and promises an abundant 

 harvest. Of the sixty acres of corn owned by 

 these gentleman, none appears so luxuriant, of so 

 deep and healthy a color, as that growing on the 

 bog, and none presents a fairer prospect for a 

 great crop. There were also many large pump- 

 kins growing among the corn, together with po- 

 tatoes, turnips, onions and beets, flourishing finely 

 upon this once neglected bog. This was indeed 

 a beautiful sight ; where but one year ago the^i'ikl 

 fern and alder grew, now the rank corn waved as 

 far as the eye cotdd reacli. 



I have been informed that several years ago a 

 piece of this bog hemg burnt over in a similar 

 manner, was sowed with rye by Mr Walker, of 

 Bow, which produced a very large crop o;" grain. 

 There are some of the most convenient [larts of 

 this immense meadow, which are already rleared, 

 yielding a great supply of hay, some at the rate 

 of three tons to the acre. It has been esti-nated 

 that the whole meadow would produce 4O0O tons 

 of English hay : yet although owned by wealthy 

 farmers, it is suflTered to remain as nature formed 

 if, a useless waste. I do not mean only tliis par- 

 ticular meadow, for every town contains thousands 

 of acres equal to the richest parts of Egy it and 

 Holland, which now are overgrown by briirs and 

 thorns. While the highlands are exposed to the 

 ravages of insects, these rich bottoms are free 

 from the destroying worm and pinching drought. 



I think Mr Printer, that the public arr much 

 indebted to Messrs Carter and Abbot for the en- 

 terprise they have undertaken, and hope tljcy will 

 pursue their un<Iertaking, as I learn they intend, 

 with the greatest hopes of success. 



Concord, Aug. 10, 1830. 



field in the vicinity of that place, which yielded 15 1- 

 bushels per acre and the grain taken indiscriminate! 

 from the heap, on repeated trials, weighed 70 1- 

 pounds to the bushel, after having been long an 

 tlioroughly dried in the sun. 



A large proportion of the wheat crop lately £ 

 promising about Haverhill, N. H. has been destroye 

 by a little yellow maggot, 1-8 of an inch long, giow 

 ing from a nit deposited by a long yellow-legged fl; 

 which did much damage near Montpelier, Vt. 2 < 

 3 years since. 



NATIVE PEA. 

 There is a species of wild or native pea thatgroM 

 on the sandy beaches in this county, which 

 brought into cultivation might become a valuab 

 addition to the products of the kitchen garden, 

 usually grows about one foot in height, and bea '^ 

 some resemblance to the cultivated kind calk 

 ' Blue Imperial.' — The pods grow in clusters, of fro 

 four to eight, each containing several small size t 

 brownish colored peas, ripe in July. It is said 

 be perennial, roots living and throwing out fre 

 shoots for several successive years, and it flourish- j, 

 where nothing but beach grass would vegetate. M 

 have heard it assorted that this pea is poisonous, ai 

 therefore unfit for the table; but, we believe, tt 

 assertion will not prove true ; for the plant lia 

 genuine characteristics, and the fruit the flavoi 

 taste of the pea genus. We have collected a si» 

 quantity for seed, and intend planting them anoth. 

 season.— Barnstable Journal. 



From the New Hampshire Statesman. 



CORN ON TURKEY BOG— or EGYPT IN 

 AMERICA. 



Mr Primer — History informs us that the rich- 

 est and most productive parts of the earth are in- 

 tervals and meadows. Such is Egypt — such is Jftatit/ W^Tieaf.— The Hillsborough (N.C.) Recorder 

 Holland. The one is covered with water several gays ' wheat that has been cut this season from e 



Mr Editor — By some experiments tried this 

 season, I have ascertained that sulphur will re- 

 lieve the slabbering of horses, occasioned by eat- 

 ing the Euphorbia. My method is to give a tea- 

 spoonful of the flowers of sulphur with a little salt. 

 — Tfestern Teller. 



BREAD. 



A new kind of bread, called paiti animalise, is ni 

 manufactured in Paris. It having been found tl 

 the gelatine of bones, used for soups, was exceedinf 

 nutritious, it was imagined that if this gelatine coi 

 be introduced into bread from potato flour, which 

 very much less nutritious than wheaten flour, 1 

 former would be equally pleasant, and even m( 

 nutritive than wheaten bread. The experiment 1 

 been tried with great success, and beautiful loai 

 of bread, made in this way, are now sold in Paris, 

 a much lower price than bread from wheat flo 

 The gelatine is so purified as to impart nounpleasi 

 flavor, and the potato bread, thus manufactured, is 

 agreeable as it is wliolesome. Asacheap, nutritio 

 and useful article of food for the poor, the poti 

 bread thus made, is unequalled. A large quant 

 of biscuit sent out with the African expedition v ( 

 prepared in this manner. — Salem Gazette. 



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There will be but little cider made this yeU 

 Somerset and Devon. The orchards put forth ti' 

 blossoms rather profusely, but, from the overburtb 

 of last year, the trees were weakly, and unabte iiii 

 sustain their promise. It is only from the few tR 

 which did not bear last year, that fruit may now 

 expected. — Taunton [Eng] Courier. 



SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. 



A correspondent of the Troy Sentinel relates I j 

 occurrence of several cases of spontaneous con 

 tion. His statement being brief, we extract 

 important to those engaged in caulking or repd 

 ships : 



While repairing the tow-boats, large quanti^ 



