Vol. IX.— No. 45. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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.uriiiiig to llie hive ; after 'jeiii"; a little used to it 

 I bros seem to prefer this entrance to the one at 

 iboiioin. In the winter remove the blocks from 

 dor the hive, and allow it to rest immediately on 

 lul ; that will render the hive perfectly close 

 the liottoni, and the entrance in from being piir- 

 5ol\ niadej narrow, will guard'against the attacks 

 niice, who are sometimes tronblesome. — Jim. 



From tlic New York Farmer. 



'ecvi! and Smut, ill intent. — MrFLFET: Among 

 directions which I have found in looking over 

 1 vokimes of the N. York Farmer, for destroy- 

 Wcevil in Wheat, is the laying wet cloths in 

 bin?. — From the experiments I have made, I 

 1 dry bags in which has been flour, answer the 

 ■pose much better. Do these destructive insects 

 k the flour left in the bags? If so, coidd any 

 ans be, or have any been devised from this cir- 

 nstance, to destroy them more effectually ? 

 Two persons bought seed wheat of me, iji which 

 re had been some smut. In the crop of one, 

 ire was a great deal of smut, that of the other 

 s free from it. Was the difference owing to 

 soil ? An answer to these inquiries would be 

 !eptable. 

 tVeuark,j\.J. April 1831. N. W. T. 



'lanling Corn. — If you plant in hills on good 

 ily manured ground, be careful not to spread 

 ir seed, but let it be entirely close together. If 

 e scattered to six or eight inches on such ground, 

 m five kernels yon will probably have fifteen 

 R(s at least, and to pluck them off is much trou- 

 land is likely to be injurious to the corn. — Five 

 nels in a hill close together, never will have a 

 ot from the ground, and with good attendance 

 thrive and produce double the quantity of corn 

 le other, and is much cheaper managed. This 

 nul can be over seeded with two kernels only 

 till of the same size ; that is, plant on a bed 

 iianure eight inches apart in the hill, hoe it well 

 you will have as much as ten stalks to a hill. 

 v if five is enough, ten is too much. — Ports- 

 th Journal. 



PLANTING VINES IN YARDS. 



very person who occupies a house, either in the 

 orcountryshoulil consider himself under obliga- 

 sto plant a vine in his yard. Suppose a choice 

 ety of either foreign or native grapes should 

 )lanted in every yard in this city, in a few 

 rs not a family, however poor, would be with- 

 this delicious fruit. The expense would not 

 3ed .50 cents. Many would undoubtedly he 

 lected and die : but many, also, would grow 



bear fruit abundantly. Let it be not an objec- 

 , that the tenant is to occupy bht one year. — 



Y. Farmer. 



1 Dentist in London had thousands of bodies 

 arthed at Waterloo, in 1819, for the sake of 

 teeth : by the sale of which he is said to have 

 e a fortune. The U. S. Telegraph remarks 

 the teeth once employed in biting cartridges 

 ■ ornament the mouths of the proudest or fairest 

 be kingdom. 



lillions of bushels of the bones of these jioor 

 )\vs and their horses have been carried to En- 

 id and ground up to manure the land Ports- 



th Journal. 



A writer in the American Farmer says, he has 

 frequently tried every way which has been 

 recommended by its correspondents, to preserve 

 hams, &c, free from bugs, worms, and rancidity. 

 With him, not one of them succeeded well. The 

 greatest difficulty in a warm climate, is to preserve 

 them free from rancidity. After being so unsuc- 

 ccisful in experiments, which might, perhaps, 

 succeed well in colder climates, he resolved^to pack 

 his hams in charcoal, knowing its antiseptic 

 qualities. This has succeeded to his perfect sat- 

 isfaction, and he shall not hereafter try any further 

 experiments in this matter. 



It is of great importance, to have the hams, &c, 

 dried as early as possible, that they may be packed 

 away before the season arrives for the bug or fly 

 to attack them. If this is effected in due time, 

 and they are well packed in dry charcoal, made 

 moderately fine, he feels assured that the lover of 

 good hams, will have no reason to regret hav 

 ing made the experiment. The difficulty of 

 getting the charcoal off, may he made an objection 

 by the neat house-wjfe, but this is not much great- 

 er than to get ashes off when bacon is packed in 

 ashes, as is the practice with many. As the 

 season will soon arrive, when every prudent house- 

 keeper may wish to save his bacon, he has thought 

 proper to state his experience upon the subject, 

 wishing it to pass for no more than its real 

 value. 



Chinese Corn. — A new species of corn from 

 China has been introduced into Ireland, a sort of 

 skinless oats, the most valuable produced in any 

 country. It has many advantages over other 

 grain when threshed from the sheaf, it is exactly 

 like oatmeal, fit for immediate use, and free from 

 any particle of rind or husk. 



The flavor is delicious, and it contains much 

 farinaceous matter. There accrues, of course, a 

 great saving of the oats; and expense of kiln drying, 

 grinding, and sifting, is avoided. The average 

 produce is twentysix barrels of 14 stone, to the 

 Irish acre. It is remarkably hardy, r.nd well 

 adapted for this climate. — Limerick Chronicle. 



' Daniel Brown, Esq. of Portsmouth, N. H- 

 has recently put in operation a manufactory of |)0ta- 

 to starch which has already used 15,000 bushels 

 of potatoes and it is thought will use 40,000 bush- 

 els before 1832.' 



We believe there are two manufactories of starch 

 in this county alone, one at Gilsum, and one in 

 Dublin. Mr Abbot's factory in Gilsum worked up 

 16,000 bushels of potatoes the last season. One 

 farmer, in Sullivan, raised 2000 bushels. Starch 

 is used in all the. cotton manufactories. — J^Tew 

 Hftmp. Seiilinel. 



Such and so well established is the confidence 

 in rail-roads in England, that three canals are about 

 to be filled up to make rail-roads in their place ! — 

 the power of steam has effected wonderful changes 

 on land and water. Actual experiment has proved 

 that a locoraolivo engine will travel on a level rail- 

 road, with perfect convenience and safety, at the 

 rate of twenty miles an hour, and draw one hun- 

 dred and fifty tons. — What further improvements 

 are to be made we cannot say, but enough is done 

 to prove the economy as \vell as expedition of the 

 mode of transportation. It is less than one third of 

 a cent per ton per mile ; making a liberal allow- 

 ance for wear and tear, and all possible expenses. 

 U. S. Gazette. 



Miis CnitD, author of the Frugal Housewife, 

 and the Girl's Own Book, has in the press a work 

 on education called The MoTiiF.a's Book. Itis in- 

 tended to supply a deficiency which has long been 

 felt ; being exiiressly intended for the middling 

 class of people in this'conntry. It furnishes hints 

 for the management of children from three weeks 

 old to sixteen years of age. 



A Blacksjiitii's study. — What would the rea- 

 der say to an invitation to visit the study of a jour- 

 neyman blacksmith ? Ladies and gentlemen, walk 

 in ; don't be frightened ; blacksmiths were in fash- 

 ion before dancing masters, and steel was used 

 for many purposes of utility previous to the inven- 

 tion of corsets. In one of our editorial peregrin- 

 ations we took some pains to call on a subscriber 

 and correspondent, whose zeal in the cause had 

 procured us a number of subscribers, and wliose 

 pithy productions in our columns had drawn the 

 attention of the conductors of some of the first 

 literary periodicals. On arriving at the village inn, 

 we inquired for A. B. and was directed to a black- 

 smith's shop, where v/e found our friend busily en- 

 gaged at his usual occupation. — Without useless 

 apologies or ceremonies, he politely introduced u3 

 to his residence and to his study. It was a com- 

 fortable and snug upper chamber, nea.ijy plastered, 

 and provided with a fire stove, a bed, writing 

 desk, a book case and shelves, with other corres- 

 ponding conveniences. His library consisted of 

 upwardsof a hundred well selected volumes, com- 

 prising some standard works on history, civil gov- 

 ernment, science, law, theology, and general liter- 

 ature. It must have been in such retirements that 

 the Benjamin Franklins and Roger Shermans of a 

 former age conceived and planned the movements 

 which resulted in the establishment of our free in- 

 stitutions. — Cadiz Gazette. 



Propagation of Grape Fines. — The enterprize 

 and experience of Mr Longworth, are worthy 

 of notice. He has a variety of vines which he 

 raised from the seed, producing different varieties 

 of grapes, which bid fair to be excellent wine 

 grapes. His mode of propagating the vine on the 

 wild stock, has in no instance failed, and merits 

 description. Late in the fall he selects a wild 

 vine, about the size of a walking stick — cuts it 

 about three feet from the ground, and digs it i^ 

 with as much root as he conveniently can and 

 transfers it to a hole, in which are mingled, tine 

 manure and light rich soil : thus the root is placed 

 until March. — He then cuts it close to the ground, 

 and inserts neatly the grape scion, in the same 

 manner in which an apple tree is grafted. He 

 then applies a paste made of clay and fine dry 

 horse dung, — then scrajies the loose rich earth 

 around into the top of the graft. So luxuriant is 

 the growth, that it is necessary, the first season, 

 to protect them from tlie severity of the frost, by 

 covering tlieiii with earth. They bear plentifidly 

 the second year, and are more hardy and fruitful 

 than if raisetl from cuttings. Next season, we 

 may expect to see Mr Longworth in our market, 

 with grapes worth looking at, worth buying, and 

 worth eating. — Zanesville Gazette. 



Bone Manure\s\y\g,\\\y estimated in every country 

 where it has been used. For wet meadows it is 

 of great service in promoting the growth of grass. 

 They should bo broken up and driven into the 

 soil with a large hammer, or back of an axe. 



