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NEW ENiiLAlND FARMER, 



J.ine 15, 1831- 



of the rvening. A keg, because it is smaller at s.icl. earth as can he collecteil from your ditches, 



I or oh! sward buliis ; your hogs will root and mix 



the top, hy reason of the incurvation of ihe stuves, 

 having, in the meantime but one head, iS the best 

 trap. Some fresh honey or if not readily ohtaineii 

 even molasses, spread over the bottom is the bait. 

 All insects are particularly charmed by a bright 

 light ; and none more than the bee nioih. As 

 soon as they discover ths light they fly towards ii. 

 Another sense, which is probably strongly devel- 

 oped, smell, is gratified by the odor of the food ; 

 and hence they have a double inducement to enter 

 into the trap, where the blaze of the lamp or their 

 thin spread wings gives them the finishing blow 

 and tumbles them into the bottom. With a little 

 management thousands may be caught with very 

 little time. 



'Another method, which I have practised suc- 

 cessfully, is this, viz : set a long ne.'k bottle having 

 a little honey on the bottom, under the floor of the 

 bee-house, and another perhaps on the roof 

 When once inside it is extremely diSicult for them 

 to make their escape. Drawing a piece of gauze, 

 or making a wire door on hinges over the aperture 

 to the hive, which is closed over nig-lit is another 

 very good scheme. But this must be opened very 

 early in the morning as the bees begin to forage by 

 the earliest dawn. The gate most efl"ectually 

 keeps the moth from getting within, though the 

 bees, thus confined, exhibit much restlessness, and 

 impatience during the time they are imprisoned 

 within their own castle. 



Dr Thacher proposes to save hives from the in- 

 sect by placing them within an ' Improved Bee 

 House ;' according to a plan of which the details are 

 given page 108, of his Treatise. He observes, ' I 

 have now a bee house of the above description 

 which meets my sanguine expectations.' 



Some writers have suggesteil that in fixing bot- 

 tles and other vessels as traps, baited with honey 

 to catch moths, there is a danger of catching and 

 destroying the bees themselves as well as their en- 

 emies. We hope that some of our correspondents 

 who have a i)ractical, as well as theoretic acquaint- 

 ance with this subject will comply with the request 

 of P. C. given above, and tell us how to destroy 

 the bee moth, or at least point out the best way 

 of guarding against its ravages. 



FARMER'S WORK FOR JUNE. 



Among the multiplicity of your avocations at 

 this busy season of the year you will not forget 

 the subject of summer made manure. Manure 

 is the spirit of agriculture, the essence of all good 

 farming, and no good opportunity to increase its 

 quantity and improve its quality should be suffer- 

 ed to pass without improvement. Cattle, or at 

 least cows which give milk, should be yarded in 

 a small space. Their manure, once or twice a 

 week, at least, should either be ploughed in or 

 mixed with soil for compost. — l)laced under cover 



shovelled into heaps and covered with earth, or 



in some way secured against being wasted away 

 by the elements. A large quanlity of manure 

 may be nianafactured by ssvine, provided you fur- 

 nish I hern with raw materials, such as weeds, 

 brakes, decayed leaves from forests. Sic ; or you 

 may manage this department of rural economy as 

 follows, viz. 



Let your hogs be inclosed in an open pen, near 

 to, orin one part of your barn-yard ; throw intothis 

 the scrapings of your barns, together with every 

 vegetable substance that will putrefy and rot through 

 the summer : plough up and cart in occasionally, 



them together, and thus with a little altenlion, you 

 may obtain 20 or 30 loads of the best manure, or 

 nnich more if your hogs are numerous and receive 

 your attention. You will find an advantage, both 

 in the growth of your hogs, and in the quantity of 

 manure, if you sow half an acre, or an acre of 

 clover on a rich soil near the barn-yard, and begin 

 to cut early for fead for your hogs , it will be found 

 both cheap and profitable. According to the best 

 j>ractical calculations, it will give a profit of 

 .$30 per acre, when cut green and fed in (he 

 barn-yard, either by horses, cows, cattle, or hogs, 

 besides the profits upon the manure. If you are 

 in earnest about your .farm, you may carry this 

 mode of making manure to any extent, by mowing 

 and carting in your stout stubble ; collecting and 

 carting in your coarsest bay, pumpkin and potato 

 vines, corn bottoms, husks, &c. The same mate- 

 rials will yield you a stronger and richer manure 

 from your hog pens, than from the stercorary, (as 

 practised in England,) and without the expense 

 of shifting, or changing it by hand, as in the sterco- 

 rary practice. Your hogs will do better than in 

 a close pen, and the same land, in clover,will yield 

 them more and better feed, than in pasture ; and 

 the manure thus obtained from the clover-field, 

 will give you a handsome profit. A little experi- 

 ence will soon lead every farmer to make the most 

 advantage in this way, which may be rendered very 

 extensive. 



the branches, shoots might be produced between th0| 

 ring and the stems and the result has proved tha 

 that my idea was correct. This, spring when thi 

 blossom buds were about to burst, I made a rin^ 

 to the extent of one fifth of an inch, in the usual- 

 way, at the distance of two feet from the main 

 stem, round a branch of a Jargonelle pear tree, 

 trained horizontally, which branch had for several 

 years been entirely bare both of fruit spurs and 

 ad shoots ; nor was there the smallest appearance 

 of an embryo bud at the time of ringing. I soon 

 found that a space to the extent of seven inches 

 nearest tiie ring began to break into buds ; at thiS' 

 time (July) there are six fine buds broken and two- 

 embryo biuls are visible, which I have no doubt 

 will break next spring. The part of the branclr 

 nearest Ihe stem, about seventeen inches, is still 

 without a bud ; I therefore conclude that six or 

 eight inches should be substituted in future ring, 

 ings instead of f.vo feet. Another experiment 

 has confirmed this opinion. About this time I 

 made that on the Jargonelle, I also ringed a branch' 

 of a Bergamot Pear tree at six inches from thw 

 stem, which has at this time six buds broken and 

 tour embryos very prominent. 



FAVORS FROM FRfENDS. 



We have recieved a number of fine specimens 

 of the fruits and flowers of the season, and other 

 samples of taste, industry and ingenuity, which 

 we now gratefully acknowledge. Among other 

 donations of the kind are a pot of strawberry plants. 

 Keen's Seedlings, which have borne fine fruit abun- 

 dantly since they came into oiu- possession, from 

 Mr David Haggerston, of Charlestown. A large 

 and elegant Bouquet, composed of agre-,it variety 

 of flowers, of the finest hues and fairest fra- 

 grance, from Messrs Wixsnips of Brighton. A 

 sample of American Sugar of American manufac- 

 ture from Mr Edwards of Springfield, Mass. &c, 

 &c. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SO- J?i 

 CIETY. 

 The Standing Committee on Fruits and Fruit 

 trees, respectfully propose the following premiums 

 for the year 1831, viz : 

 For the best Apples, not less than two dozen, 



a premium of $4 Off 



For the best Summer Pears, not less than one 



dozen, 4 Oft 



For the best Autumn Pears, not less than one 



dozen, 4 00 



For the best Winter Pears, not leas than one 



dozen, 4 00 



For the best native Pears, not less than one 



dozen 



APPLES WELL PRESERVED. 



Mr J. Perry of Sherburne, Mass. has presented 

 us with a sai>q)le of apple.=, preserved in pulveriz- 

 ea plaster of Paris, which were sold in Boston mar- 

 ket for $6 a barrel. The apples are of the kind 

 called Nonsuch and were as fair to the sight, and 

 pleasant to the taste as if they had just been taken 

 from the tree. 



ON A mode of COVERING THE NAKED BRANCHES 



OF FRUIT TREES WITH NEW WOOD^ 



EilrnetPd from a letter to the President oftlie London Ilorlicul- 



ur;il Society, by Samuei. Si-tvie Street, Esq. of Fenryn Corn 



wall. 



It is a fact well known to Ilorticulturists thai 

 the branches of fruit trees trained again.st the 

 walls, and espaliers, after eight or ten years be- 

 come naked for about a foot or two nearest the 

 stem, which gives an unsightly appearance to the 

 tree, espesially when the branches are trained hor- 

 izontally ; and it is generally difiicult to procure 

 blossom spurs, or even wood shoots, in those sit- 

 uations, :inless by training a new shoot, from 

 the main stem, which cannot be always piocureil. 

 The idea struck me, that if I interrupted the 

 sap at a distance from the main stem by ringing 



4 00 

 For the best Peaches, not less than one dozen, 4 00 



3 00 

 3 00 

 3 00 



2 00 



3 00 



Apricots, 

 " Nectarines, " " 



" Plums, " " 



" Cherries, " " 



" Native, do. " " 



" ForeignGrapes, cultivated under 



glass, not less than three clusters, 5 00 



" Foreign Grapes, cultivated in 



open ground, not less than three clusters, 5 00 

 " Native Grapes, not less than six 



clusters, 

 " Gooseberries, not less than one 



quart, 

 quart. 



Strawberries, not less than one 

 Raspberries, not less than one 



3 00 



2oa 

 a 00 



2 00 



quart. 



For the best method of cultivating Foreign 

 Grapes in open ground, which shall be 

 superior to any other now practised in 

 this country, with reference to planting, 

 training, shelter, &,c, and for a length of 

 trellis not less than thirty feet, 20 00 



The Committee have hopes that the mode now 

 universally acknowledged in France, to be the best 

 practised in that country for open ground cuUurft t 

 may be successfully introduced into the United 

 States ; they allude to the Thomery method, a par- 

 ticular description of which may he found in theB»n 

 Jardinier for 1830, with a plate, and an accural*, 

 translation of the same by the Hon. Mr Lowell, i| 

 the N. E. Farmer, vol. G, page 73. f 



The Committee will be at the Hall of the SocieW 

 on Saturday of each week, during the season « 

 fruits, from ten to twelve o'clock, to inspect siicB 

 specimens as may be oflTered. Those fruits for whick 

 a premium is claimed, must be so designated, othe^ 



