IX.— No.3S. 



AND HOllTICULTUllAL JOURNAL. 



299 



x\ the others arc but extracts, or compilations, will l)0 Uiiowii tlint they are governc.l hy a queen, 

 iikoly to mislead, than to direct you, properly, ' wliether their form of government is a monarchy, 

 studies. When you possess the Pomone of a republic or any other, in use amor '•■•■'' 



mankind. 



John B. Tuiuneb. 



iuur, tlie Manuel of M. Noisette and the 



,/(• la tailk des Jlrbns of M. Dalbret, you 



enabled to learn all tliat is best known 



iVuit trees. If at some future period, you may 



III sec a large number of fruits, sufficiently 



„... J. lincatcd, you will examine tlie rniile des '"^"Z!^ '"■ ■• . ,i i i r» 

 11, o •,• 1 ■ I -vr '!■ J uM « Rtct /Zizaniaaqitatica)ca\\ei\aho Folle ai'oinc,an 

 rfccfs /Vui/uTS, which M. 1 urpin and myselt have j>_'i^c ( .cvi-u/.k^ ..y / ^ ^ 



iblished. 



Scituale, March 2m, 1831. 



WILD HICE. 



Ma Russell— In your paper of 16th inst. some 

 ade relative to the Canadian or Wild 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BEES. 

 Mr Editor — A writer in your last paper over 

 i signature of ' A Cowitryiiian' makes several 

 quirics about Bees and Bee-hives. Although I 

 unable to answer his inquiries positively, yet 

 hat litt'.c I have experienced in the management 

 bees, may be of some use to him and other 

 ovices' (as ho calls himself) in the business. 

 Having been much troubled with the bee moth 

 the old fashioned hives ui the spring of 1829, 1 put 

 awarm into a hive made exactly from the descrip- 

 »n of .Airs Griffith's hive in Tliacher's Treatise, 

 ige 95. As the dimensions there given make 

 large hive, and the season was unfavorable for 

 iney they did not quite till the hive, and were 

 t into the box. The last season, I i)Ut two 

 irarms more into the same kind of hive. The 

 ason proving favorable, about the first of Au- 

 ist, I opened the holes in the three hives and 

 t the bees pass up into the boxes. After 

 (/ bees had done collecting honey in the fall, 

 took off the boxes, and had gixtj pounds of 

 ire honey and white comb in the three, entirely* 

 :e from bee bread, 30ung bees, or any other 

 ixture. This being good toll, and not being 

 lie by the most careful e.xainination to discover 

 ly appearance of moths ^t anytime in hives of 

 nt construction, I am very decided in favor of 

 ii-s Griffith's hive. Some time in April, I lowered 

 <e bottom of the hive about half an inch, and 

 'pt it open until cold weather in the fall, cx- 

 ipt some colir stormy weather. This gave 

 e bees a free passage on all except the hinge 

 de. 



Now whether ' the first made honey is free from 

 ■e bread and young bees,' I do not know, but / do 

 low that my honey from the boxes ivas ; and as 

 e bee bread and young bees must be somewhere, 

 sujipose it and they might be found among 

 e first made honey, or rather in the first made 

 )mb. And whether all or any of the numerous 

 ans for an Apiary, will prevent the moth from 

 utruding, I am not able to say ; but I believe that 

 le smoothness of the inside of Mrs Griffith's hive, 

 id the shape of the lower part are a sutKcient 

 icurity against their depredations. 



Menomene. I send y9U herewith a package of 

 this seed. It was given to me by my friend Mr 

 James Ronaldsou, of Philadelphia, who procured 

 it from the Menomene Indians, now, or lately, at 

 Washington. They stated to Mr R. that it grows 

 always on muddy bottoms of rivers or ponds, 

 where the water is shallow and does not run rapid. 

 I find that the seed is much larger than the Zi:- 

 aniamiliacea which is abundant in this neighbor- 

 hood, and grows in similar situations, — and which 

 fattens our ' Reed or Rice birds' (Enibeiiza oryzivora) 

 until they equal or excel the famous Ortolans of 

 Europe. Yours, truly, 



R. CARR. 



Bartram Bol. Gar. March 27, 1831. 



d?" The seed of the Wild Rice described above, 

 is received. In order to carry Col. Can's patriotic 

 intentions into effect, we shall distribute it among 

 such of the subscribers of the New England Farm- 

 er as will apply for it. As the quantity of seed is 

 necessarily sifiall, and we wish to give it as wide 

 a diffusion as possible, applicants must be modest 

 in their expectations. 



MAJ. LONG'S GRAPE. 



Mr Fessenden — In your number of the 9th 

 of March, a writer over the signature M. inquires 

 ' whether the Grape mentioned by Major Long, 

 in bis Journal of the Expedition to the Rocky 

 Mountain, has yet been introduced or cultivated 

 by any one.' I have the pleasure of informing 

 you, Sir, that I bave a number of plants growing 

 from the seeds of these grapes, which were brought 

 for me, by my cousin, Dr Thomas Say, who ac- 

 companied Major Long on this expedition. They 

 have not yet borne fruit, but it is very probable 

 that they will produce some this J'ear, — when I 

 shall have the pleasure of forwarding you a sam- 

 ple of them. 



Very respectfully, 



I remain your obedient servant. 



ROBERT CARR. 



Barlram Botanic Garden, ) 

 Philadelphia, March 26. \ 



through the New England l''«rmcr, iho most effect- 

 ual way to exterminate from our soil, that dread- 

 I'ul stuff usually called twitchgrass — also what kind 

 of a plaster is most suitable to apply to the wounds 

 of apple trees caused by pruning. 



A Subscriber. 

 Hampton Falls, JV. H. March 28, 1831. 



Fiuiii Ihs Genesee FarDier. 



BREEDS OF CATTLE. 



Mr Fessenden — 'A Rustic and the public 

 generally' ai'e advised not to receive as good au- 

 thority the communication from Colonus. 



' A Rustic' for the information he wishes is re- 

 ferred to the different and many able conimunica- 

 IJZ .!TV^!T./1TJI^L.TJ°„ \r„ !!,"T I tlon an<l '-eports of Committees of different Agri- 

 „.,<- , ».„„„.,or.i gy]{y^^] gocieties, published in the New England 



CARROTS. 



Alessrs Editors — In Number 6 of your paper, 1 

 noticed an article on Carrots, \n which that vegeta- 

 ble is strongly recommended as a cheap, whole- 

 some, and invigorating food for horses, &c. Now, 

 sirs, although 1 am neither an Agriculturist nor Hor- 

 ticulturist, and not much of a Horse-ologist, yet 

 having, as I conceive, thoroughly tested the proper- 

 ties of carrots, as an article of food for horses, I 

 leg leave to communicate the result of that test 

 tiirough the medium of your interesting Journal. 



In the sunnner of 1829, I became possessed of 

 two horses, that were so lean and ungainly in their 

 appearance, that they would bave caused Rozirn 

 ante, to blush for the degeneracy of his race. A 

 Leighbor of mine advised me to feed them on car- 

 rots : I did so — and their rapid regeneration equal- 

 led my most sanguine expectation. I continued 

 t lis diet' until they were in what is called good 

 order, when iiaviiig occasion to travel about four 

 hundred miles, I resolved to ride one of the horses 

 and have the other put to work. Before I got to 

 my journey's end, however, I found that the horse 

 on which I rode was losing flesh faster than he 

 before had gained it, for which I was at a loss to as- 

 sign any adequate reason ; I finally concluded, 

 however, that he was unwell. Having with much 

 difficulty rode him home, I was surprised to find 

 the horse which had been worked, poorer, if pos- 

 sible, than the ' bonny steed' which I bestrode — 

 the former having been fed entirely on carrots. I 

 ■ommunicated the circumstance to a gentleman 

 11 the neighborhood, who bad been a drover for 

 I number of years, thinkijig that he might proba- 

 bly 'account for the phenomena. From him I 

 learned, that whenever he became possessed of a 

 poor horse, he immediately dieted him on carrots, 

 mixing with them a little oat or corn meal ; or else, 

 after fattening them on carrots alone, he always 

 fed them on meal, for two weeks, or more, before 

 driving or working them ; because, from the raiiid- 

 ity with which they acquire ftesh, when fed on this 

 esculent, their flesh is not solid. This I subse- 

 quently found to be the case. 



As you truly observe, horses will fatten quicker 

 on carrots than on any other diet, but I would re- 

 commend that they should be chopped fine, and 

 mixed with meal, as their flesh, when fattened in 

 this manner, will be much more firm and durable. 

 Rochester, Feb. 21, 1831. Momus. 



leories men have adopted respecting the govern- 



lent, laws, &c, of bees; more especially as al- p^ fr„,„ jj^g jgj ^^ ^.^ q,^ ^,o]u,ne_ ^.p^n Cat 



lost every writer I bave read has a scheme of I . ^ i Pow! 



every 

 is own, and condemns all others. I have at- 

 smpted, by glass in the hives with a shutter, to 

 ee thera at work, but with little success. They 

 ave generally, with me, covered the inside of the 

 Hass with something to prevent my seeing. One 

 hing is certain, whoever undertakes to pry into 

 heir concerns too closely, will soon to bis cost 

 lam, that they are capable of turning his atten- 

 ion from themselves to his own bodily feelings; 

 md I very much doubt whether it ia now, or ever 



Also to the .5th vol. p. 332, for Cows of Swit 

 zerland ; to the 7th vol. p. 28.5, for Cows of Lap- 

 land ; to the 3d vol. p. 58, for measure of milk in 

 Pennsylvania ; to the 9th vol. p. 230, for Chinese 

 Cow. W. 



■ East Windsor, Con. March 15. 



QUERIES. 

 Mr Fessende:n — Will you or some of your 

 correspondents have the goodness to inform me ' Taunton Sun. 



Another warning to Drunkards. — On Mon- 

 day morning last, a man was found m a saw mill 

 in the easterly part of this town, with both legs 

 frozen to the knees, and his arms to the shoul- 

 ders. It is supposed that in a fit of intoxication 

 he took up his lodgings there on the Saturday 

 night previous, and was unable to get out on the 

 Sabbath in consequence of the frozen state of his 

 limbs. He was found on Blonday morning by the 

 owner of the mill, with a jug of spirits by his 

 side. It is not expected that he will survive, or 

 if he does it will be with the loss of his limbs. — 



