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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Oc-- 1,1830. 



vi. p. 382 says ' 1 invariably foui;d that quantities in this country are always scarce and high priced 

 of food consumed by fatting hogs increased every in the spring months. A glass cover, when it 

 week till the animals became three parts fat ; after j can be obtained, will be of infinite advantage, and 

 this period they ate but little ; and almost all they will admit of a great variety of tender plants for 



ate turned to fat : ami that can only be done by 

 giving time.' 



The experienced farmer need not be told that 

 fatting hogs should have now and then a dose of 

 brimstone or antimony given with their food, iti 



preservation. 1 am, Sir, &.C., A. GORRIE. 

 .^iinat Gardens, Feb 4, 18.30. 



SALE OF STOCK. 

 We wish to CidI the attention of the public to 

 order to preserve their health and increase their | t'le advertisement, in this week's paper, of the 

 appetite. But there may be some, who never 1 s"1r of Mr Hall's stock in New York. Besides 

 knew, or have forgotten that rotten wood, thrown one of the finest collections of Horned Cattle, 

 to them occasionally, will be eagerly devoured, and I Rorne valuable Horses will be offered, among them 

 serve as an absorber of those acrid juices, which the celebrated brood mare, Lady Lightfoot, we 



might otherwise occasion a disorder. It is like- 

 wise said that to throw them now and then a few 

 pieces of charcoal will answer the same purpose. 



From the Gardener*! Magazine. 



On preserving tender Plants in IFinter by means 

 of the Temperature of Spring }Vater. By Mr A. 

 GoRRIE, F. H. S. 



Sir — There is a curious coincidence between 

 the annual mean temperature in the open air, and 

 the annual mean temperature of water in a dee|) 

 spring well at the same |)lace. In a spring well 

 of that description at Annat Gardens, I find the 

 tetiiperature of the water to indicate from 46° to 

 47° in the winter months, unaffected in the least 

 by atmosphere temperature, however low that may 

 be. As spring wells are frequently to be met 

 with, and are always desirable appendages to a 

 farm-stead or cottage, it oceured to mo that many 

 plants, useful to the cottager, or amusing to the 

 farmer's wife or daughters might, be easily pre- 

 served in the winter months, in the coldest regions 

 of Scotland, by that class of people whose finances 

 would not enable tlicm to erect more costly struc- 

 tures for the purpose. To ascertain how far this 

 theory was correct, I placed a small frame over 

 the well on a floor of deal two inches wide by 

 one inch thick, and one half and an inch between 

 each spar, to admit of the heat rising in the frame 

 from the water. Knowing that glass could not be 

 purchased by that class, whose advantage I 

 had in view, I covered the sash with cotton wrap- 

 per at Ai. per yard, and in the same frame I plac- 

 ed pots of cauliflower, lettuce, pelargoniums of 

 different sorts, Chrysanthemum indicum. Primula 

 sinensis, &c. The circumambient air is generally, 

 as might be supposed nearly saturated with mois- 

 ture; and, consequently, fresh air to be admitted 



known in the racing calendar, several of her colts, 

 the imported mare Alarm, and colt by Eclipse, 

 and several stud horses, of the Eclipse, Henry and 

 Bussorah stock. 



The British Society foi the Diffusion of Useful 

 Knowledge have commenced the publication, in 

 their series of tracts, of accounts of Select Farms 

 in various parts of England, and on the Continent. 

 The substance of these, as far as they will be of 

 any usu to American Farmers, will appear in the 

 New England Farmer. 



A few copies of the catalogue of Duel and 

 Wilson's Albany Nursery, can be had gratis at the 

 New England Farmer oftice. 



MASSACHlJSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY- 



Saturday, September 25, 1830. 



F H U I T S . 



J]pples. — From Mr Warren, of Weston, War- 

 ren Spice Apples, a Seedling. G. W. Pratt, 

 South Bridgewater, Red Sweet Seedling Apples. 

 N. Davenport, Milton, two sorts of Sweet Apples. 

 Mr E. Wight, of Dedham, Monstrous Pippin, 

 Gloria Mundi, of Cox, No. 27. S. Dowker, Fall 

 Pippin Apples. R. Manning, Menagere, (very 

 large) Parmentier's Catalogue, and Prince's Trea- 

 tise, No. 129. Mr Edwards, Springfield, Pomme 

 Royale, very large. The committee did not re- 

 cognize the name. 



Pears. — From Mr Benjamin Gibbs, Boston, 

 Basket of Broca's Bergamot. The best specimens 

 of this fruit seen by the committee. Mr R. F. 

 Phipps, Charlestown, Andrews Pears. S. Down- 

 er, Capiamont (large and beautiful) Iron Pear, 

 Passe Colmar, (unripe) and Beurre Knox. Mr 

 N. TcFTS, Charlestown, Broca's Bergamot, and 

 Andrews Pears. Dr Shurtleff, Broca's Berga- 



as frequently as possible. The vegetables and 1 mot, Beurre Gris, Seckel, and Beurre d'Hyver. 



plants Continue fresh, and the Pelargonium odora- E. Wight, Dedham, Pound Pears. Largest 



tissimum has been all along in flower; and I am weighed 27 ounces. R. Manning, Endicott Pears. 



fully convinccil that, where such spring can be reii- Beurre Rouge, from James Bloodgood's Catalogue. 



Mr E. VosE, Morris' White Ra/e Ripes, and one 

 sort unnamed. E. M. Richajids, Dedham, Nat- 

 ural Freestones. Mr Wjieelwright, Boston, 

 beautiful Peaches, unnanitd. R. Manning, Matta 

 or Belle d'Paris, Perkins' large White, Sargents' 

 Rare Ripes, (said to be same as the Pearl Street) 

 Old Mixon Clingstones, Orange Freestone, and 

 Washington Clingsioiies ; the two last from Cata- 

 logue of C. IJ. Saiith, Burlington, N. J. 



Grapes. — From S. Downer, Isabella Grapes. 

 From Coleman Sellars, Esq. Philadelphia, 

 Cluster of Black Grapes, (original Vine raised from 

 Seed) very fine, hardy, and deserve to be exten- 

 sively cultivated. K. Manning, Jordan's Blue, 

 from Catalogue of C. R. Smith. Messrs Win- 

 shi|)S, Brighton, Black Cape, Black Hamburg, 

 White Chasselas, and While Sweetwater Grapes, 

 raised in the ojien ground. These genilemen have 

 paid great attention to the raising of the choice 

 foreign varieties in the open ground, and the Black \ 

 Cape and Black Hamburg, were beautiful speci- 1 

 mens of the success which has attended their ex- i 

 ertions. R. Manning. 



FLOWERS. 



From Wm. Pratt, Esq. Watertown, fine vari- 

 eties of Double Dahlias, Hibiscus manihot. Hibis- 

 cus palustris, Lantana cammara, Canna coccinea, 

 Salvia splendens. Mr Pettee, Newton, Trades- 

 cantia virginica. David Hacc.erston, Charles- 

 town Vineyard, fine Double Dahlias, Centauria 

 Americana,Salvia Bplendeiis,Doublo Dahliai China 

 Asters. 



The number of vessels which jiassed through 

 the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal during the 

 week ending 3d nit. was 116. Fourteen of the 

 vessels from the Chesapeake were loaded with 

 wheat for Brandy wine and Philadelphia. 



dercd available by means of a cut two feet deep, 

 two foot wide, with two or three inches offsets 

 at each side of the rill, to su[)port the ends of 

 boxes, nine inches wide and four or five inches 

 deep, placed within two inches of each other over 

 the rill, into which boxes lettuce and cauliflower 

 plants, chiceory, &c, might be planteii, the whole 

 to be covered over with hoops and loose matting 

 to prevent the descent of what meteorologists 

 call frigorific pulsation, a winter conservatory 

 might be easily constructed on one spring for the 

 use of a whole village. As the rill brings a con- 

 tinual flow of water at the temperature of 46° or 

 47°, the earth in the box will always be kept con- 

 siderably above the freezing point in the coldest 

 nights. It may also be useful for nursery men 

 and others for preserving cauliflower plants, which 



This name cannot be correct. Also a fine Pear 

 (name unknown) from the garden of Thomas 

 Saunders, Esq. Salem ; supposed to have been 

 introduced from Europe many years since. Wm. 

 R. Prince, Esq. Flushing, Rushmore's Bon Cre- 

 ticn, also Colmar Souvrain, one of Van Mons' new 

 Pears. The Committee were highly gratified 

 with this mark of attention from Mr Prince, and 

 hope for a continuation. 



Plums. — From Messrs Winships, Brighton, 

 Semianna Plums. 



Peaches. — From Mr Otis Pettee, Newton, 

 Red and White Rare Ripes, Lemon Clingstones, 

 Old Newington Clingstones, Kenedy's Carolina, 

 (Cox, No. 24) Kenrick's Heath, Prince's Treatise, 

 No. 68. Mr E. Breed, Charlestown, several va- 

 rieties of beautiful Peaches raised under glass. 



Middlesex Cattle Show, Exhibition of Manp- 

 factures, and Ploughing Match, at Concord, 

 October 7, 1&30. 



The Committee of arrangments for the approach- 

 ing Cattle Show give notice that : 



Proper pens will be made for the exhibition of all 

 Animals offered for premium, and assistance furnish- 

 ed in confining and arranging them. All entries 

 of animals for the pens are to be made with Mr 

 Phineas How, by 9 o'clock. A. M. on the day of the 

 Exhibition. 



Such Manufactures and Fabrics, Improvements in 

 Machinery, all Implements of Husbandry offered for 

 premium, must be entered at the Court-house by 10 

 o'clock, A. M. on the day of exhibition, where direc- 

 tions and aid will be given. Persons in the imme- 

 diate vicinity are requested to forward their article'/, 

 for exhibition at the Court-house, at as early an hour 

 in the morning as possible. 



The Trustees have appointed a Committee to 

 award premiums on the best specimens of Apples, 

 Pears, Peaches, Plums and Grapes, it being under- 

 stood that such as are offered will be used at the 

 Dinner of the Society. 



The Ploughing Match will take place- at 9 o'clock 

 A. M. precisely, and those who wish <.o contend for 

 the prizes, must leave their names with John Stact, 

 secretary of the Society, by 8 o'clock, A. M. on the 

 day of exhibition. 



A procession of officers and members of the Soci- 

 ety will be formed at half past 10 o'clock, A. M. at 

 Shepherd's Hotel, and proceed to the Meetinghouse, 

 where an Address will be delivered by Elias Phin- 

 NEY, Esq. 



Afler the ceremonies at the Meetinghouse, the 

 several Committees will immediately proceed to the 

 discharge of their duties. 



The Trial of Strength and Discipline of Working 

 Oxen, will take place immediately after the services 



