Vol. IX.— No. 16. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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Manufactures. 

 Riclianl Sullivan, Chninmin, 

 Roliert Wiitcrson, 

 Joshua Clapp. 



7;iff)!/ioiis. 

 Goiliani Paisons, Chairman, 

 Daniel Tieaihvcll, 

 DaviJ JMoody. 



Butter, Clieese, and Cider. 

 Benjauiin Guild, Chairman, 

 John C. Gray, 

 Israel Thorn.Iike, Jr, 

 Isaac P. Davis, 

 Benjamin Pollaril. 



Grain, Fegetahles, Crops, Sfc. 

 Williain Prescott, Chairman, 

 Peter C. Brooks, 

 James Jackson. 



Farms. 

 WilliaiM Prescott, Chairman, 

 Peter C. Brooks, 

 John Welles. 

 Premiums to be awanled in December next. 

 .rlnciioneers. 

 Samuel F. Coolidge, 

 llicliaril Warren. 



Wool. — The Foreign Quarterly Review has an 

 rticle on the German Wool Trade, from which 



e gather the following facts : 



From ISl-l to 1S19, the annual amount of wool 

 nponed into England from Germany increased 

 ■om 3,.59-5,145 lbs. to 4,557,938 lbs.: and in 1828 



was no le.~s than 23,1 10,822 lbs. At the same pe- 

 odsthe annual amounts of wool imported into En- 



and from N. S. Wales, were 32,971,-7 28 4,— 

 id 1,603,512 lbs. Some of the N. S. W. wool is 

 lid to be fully equal to the best from Saxony. — 

 -reat efforts are now made to improve the breed 

 r sheep in Russia, as well as in Silesia, Bohemia, 

 oland, &c. Merinos are also spreading into Italy, 

 fpain lias lost her credit; many of the best flocks 

 ' merinos were driven to France hy Napoleon's 

 lenerals, and those that remain, have become so 

 ifgenerate, as not to be worth more than one third 



much as the same stock of sheep in Germany. 



-The average weight of a German merino fleece 



from 2.^ to 3 lbs. — The average annual produc- 

 •n of wool in England is 1 11,160,560 lbs. — 



urnal of Humanity. 



From the Hartford Mercury. 



THE PEACH TREE. 



From a desire to encourage the culture of peach 

 les, we offer tlie following as the result of experi- 



nts aud observatiou. 

 lit is generally known that worms, near the sur- 

 ce of the earth, destroy them by eating the bark ; 

 object is therefore to find a preventive, in order 

 It the trees may become aged in a healthy state. 

 It is evident that those worms pass through the 

 minon change, and assume the form of millers, 

 rly in the summer, and deposit their eggs in 

 3 bark as low as they can find access to it; and 

 xt the worms proceeding from them, begin to 

 erate in the latter part of the summer ; wlien 

 ;y have been found of the size of a common 

 If suffered to remain they grow to the thick- 

 3s of rye straw ; each of them girdles the tree 

 out an inch, aud the wood from the wound to 

 s heart, dies. Heace it is, that a single wound 



impairs the vigor of the tree, and a number of 

 them kill it. The point to be gained, is to |)rolect 

 the tree from the millers, and by a single method 

 we have succeeded tor several years, which is 

 recomtnended with full confidence. 



About the first of fliay, remove the earth from 

 the body of the tree, and skirt it to the height of 

 1.5 or 18 inches, m such manner as to ctcludc the 

 millers, burying the lower part of it in the earth. 

 We have used straw cut to the length and about 

 half an inch in thickness, bound on with twine. 

 This should be removed about the first of Sep- 

 tember, as we have sometimes found the young 

 worms within the upper part of the straw, being 

 then readily discovered on the surface of the bark 

 covered by a little gum. The process should be 

 commenced when the tree is young — they have 

 been found in a rapid growth, the first fall after 

 it sprouted Thus a few minutes in a year de- 

 voted to a tree, will probably protect it against 

 this cause of decay; a very trifling expense com- 

 pared with the value of this healthy and delicious 

 fruit. JONATHAN BRACE. 



JOHN I. WELLS. 

 WM. H. IMLAY. 



Hartford, Sept. 8, 1830. 



ed his conviction that it was American, though 

 suiicrior in <|uality to any European silk that 

 could be obtained. Two sticks of twist, were in- 

 cluded in the present, aud we think wo may chal- 

 lenge our friends, the merchants, to find belter 

 on their shelves. 



We were highly gratified to receive the above 

 specimen from a friend ; and will comply with 

 his request to place it in a conspicuous situation 

 in our oflice where it may be seen. — .V. Hamp. pa. 



SILK. 



Believing that the culture of silk might be made 

 a source of profit to this country, we have occa- 

 sionally called to the subject the attention of our 

 readers ; and we are pleased to learn that it has 

 excited some inquiry and investigation, which if 

 [Mudently conducted, bid fair to produce import- 

 ant results. The premiums offered by the H. H. 

 iind F. Agricultural Society, we trust, have done 

 some good in the cause, by directing the efforts of 

 iiidividuals who might not otherwise have been 

 induced to enter the uniravelled road of exper- 

 iments. At the approaching anniversary to be 

 held at Northampton, we expect there will be oc- 

 cular evidence that old Hampshire has not been 

 sound asleep upon the subject. It is hoped there 

 will be numerous specimens of American silk ex- 

 hibited. 



We have had occasion to examine some Amer- 

 ican sewing silk ; and, though it is generally infe- 

 rior in some respects to European silk, yet, we 

 are told, that when well made it is, except the 

 blue, preferred to that. One important point, in 

 which the Americans fail, is the coloring ; which 

 is usually of a dull, dingy hue, and makes but a 

 sorry ajjpearancc by the side of the bright and 

 glossy skeins of Italy. Ours is not so well twist- 

 ed as foreign silk ; and a great deal of it is so un- 

 even that one would almost think it had been pur- 

 posely made to imitate strings of onions : of 

 course such silk is worthless, for no tailor or 

 sempstress will use it ifany other can be obtained. 



But our people make some very good silk. 

 The color is fair, the twisting neat and tight, and 

 the thread even. This is preferred before the 

 foreign article, because it is stronger. We have 

 recently been presented with a few skeins of such 

 silk, made the last season by Mrs Shaw, of Bel- 

 chertown. It certainly reflects great credit upon 

 the lady for her skill and ingenuity. Some of the 

 skeins are too fine for ordinary use, and one excels 

 in fineness anything of the kind we ever saw, and 

 is nevertheless a triple thread. A skein of red 

 silk amongst it has been pronounced, by a good 

 judge, to be English ; but an individual who is 

 in the constant habit of using sewing silk, declar- 



Remedy for the Lockjaw. — We are informed by a 

 friend that a sure preventive against this terrible 

 disease is to take some strong soft soap and mi.x 

 with it a sufficient quantify of pulverized chalk, so 

 as to make it of the consistence of buck-wheat 

 batter — put it into a cloth or small bag and apply 

 it to the wound — keep the chalk moistened with 

 a fresh supply of soap until the wound begins to 

 discharge, and the patient receives relief. Our 

 friend stated to us, and iniplieit confidence may 

 be placed in what he says, that he has known 

 several cases where this remedy has been success- 

 fully applied. So simple and valuable a remedy 

 within the reach of every person, ought to be uni- 

 versally known. — JV. Y. Evening Post. 



In the report of a committee of the Worcesto* 

 County Agricidtural Society, Wm. Lincohi, Chair- 

 man,it is stated that ' Mr Cyril Flint, of Hardwick, 

 exhibited an instrument for extracting teeth, so 

 inviting in ai^pearance and ingenious in construc- 

 tion, as to make one's mouth icater to experience its 

 application !' 



PICKLES. 



This being the season of the year at which 

 almost every housewife is busily em])loyed in 

 repFenishing her annual store of pickles, it may 

 not be improper for us to say a few words on the 

 value of these articles, in a dietetic point of view. 



No one, we presume, considers the various 

 pickles usually met with on our tables, as articles 

 of food — they can be viewed in no other light 

 than as exciters of the appetite, or as a means of 

 imparting an additional flavor to the more sub- 

 stantial viands of which the meal is composed. 



The articles generally selected for pickling, are 

 unripe vegetable substances, and those of the 

 most indigestible class; as, for instance, immature 

 cucumbers, or melons — the yoimg ears of iiulian 

 corn — unripe walnuts, peppers, and the like. 

 Whatever principles in any degree soluble by the 

 stomach, these may contain, previous to their con- 

 version into i)ickles, they are completely destroy- 

 ed by the latter process : hence, when served at 

 table, a pickle consists simply of an indigestible 

 sponge saturated with vinegar. 



A moderate quantity of vinegar, it is true, is 

 by no means an unwholesome addition to many 

 articles of food. When made use of however 

 in the form of pickles, its wholesomeness is entire- 

 ly destroyed, as well by the mdigestible mass with 

 which it is combined, as by the pepper and other 

 spices by which it is highly flavored. These, 

 besides disordering the stomach of themselves, 

 are very apt to produce a factitious appetite, or to 

 prolong the' desire for food after the natural ap- 

 petite has been satisfied — in either case, endanger- 

 ing the loading of the stomach with a quantity of 

 aliment far beyond its powers of digestion, or the 

 actual wants of the system. 



By the individual in perfect health, the same 



