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NEW ENGLAND FAR.MER, 



SEPT. 15, 1841. 



"PETERISING." 

 In our editorial last week, we mentioned that 



Bartlett i'oars, from J. P. Pierce, Dorchester. 



S. Pond exhibited a very large quantity of Plums 



nmong them we noticed the Washington, White 



we cut the dirt into long narrow strips and dry il 

 and then it becomes good to burn." The saga 

 cious Lieutenant listened to the Irishman's sug 



Mr Peter Dodge, of Wenham, had reclaimed many q g j)ua„e's purpig Green Ga're a°id Bingham gestion, and it has now become an important arti 

 acres of meadow land by dressing them with clay; _^^i,'^^ ^^ al.o, julienne and' Bartlett Pears; ' " ' ^- ^ "" ' " ^ '* 



and that this process is called by his neighbors, ^^^ ^^^J ',„ ;„, handsome. 



" ^!.'",'."'?' ". ^'".? .^Tl^:^""^ 'L' ^. ° „ ": ' From N. .\. Dyer, an apple called the Ginseng. 



Very 6ne Phims, Peaches, Porter and other Ap- 



mer" alluded to in the following extract from Mr 

 Huntington's address before the Essex Agncultu 

 ral Society: — 



" Before quitting this topic, I cannot forbear re 



pies, were exhibited by J- L. L. F". Warren. 



W. Thomas, Boston, sent specimens of a seed- 

 ling Plum, of an oval shape and quite large; color 



lating an anecdote, which will illustrate the gene- 1 red ; the flesh parting freely from the stone, and 

 ral views here presented. Within the last year, 

 an aged farmer, who has made hiniseU rich by this 

 mode of cultivation, adopted extensively many 

 vears ago, was called as a witness before a sher- 



of good flavor. 



From J. F. Allen, Salem — handsome Franc real 

 Pears ; Black Hamburg and Constantia Gropes. 



From B. Balch, Salem— Seedling Plums, of small 



ill's jury, to estimate the value of a neighbor's j t;izp and quite black. 



land, which had been taken as a highway. The 

 land was a narrow strip of three rods in width, run- 



Wm. Oakes, Ipswich, also sent specimens of 

 Plums, which he calls a native variety of Gage 



ning partly over upland tillage or field, and partly 1 Plum, brought from the State of New York by Rev 



over a meadow, producing coarse and sour grass 

 Several witnesses were called in behalf of the pe- 

 titioner for damages, to appraise these diffeient 

 soils, and all of them, except the old farmer, esti- 

 mated the upland considerably higlier than the 

 meadow. When he was called, he reversed the 

 estimate: and the counsel for the county, a j)pa- 

 rently surprised at this judgment of the old far- 

 mer, differing from that of all the other witnesses, 

 and thinking he had caught him napping, exclaim- 

 ed with a loud voice, (the old fanner being quite 

 deaf,) " do you ])resume to say, sir, that this mea- 

 dow land is worth $70 the acre, and more than 

 this valuable field ?" The old farmer, raised a lit- 

 tle by the apparent temper and spirit of the ques- 

 tion, replied substantially as follows. I may not 

 give the precise words, but I do not mistake the 

 substance of the answer. " I do presume, sir, to 

 say so — and I know so, and there is no mistake. 

 I have worked over those meadows, and know aU 

 about it. I have sold a good deal of English hny 

 from mine, and I know I get more and better Eng- 

 lish hay from my old meadows, than I do from my 

 uplands. The fact is, tliere is a bottom and foun- 

 dation in those meadows, which we do not, and 

 cannot find in the uplands, and there is no mistake 

 about it. I do presume, sir, to say again what I 

 have said before, and I know it is true." 



Gardiner I!. Perry, and grown from suckers taken 

 from the root of Mr Perry's tree. .Mr Oakes states 

 that it is a good bearer and thrifty tree. The spe- 

 cimens sent were of a very sweet, rich flavor, simi- 

 lar to the Green Gage, and in color and size very 

 much resemble that variety. 



A great variety of Plums and Pears, were exhi- 

 bited by Mr Manning; among them were the fol- 

 lowing' sorts : I'lums — Bingham, White Pedrigon, 

 Dana Yellow. Cruger's Seedling, German Prune, 

 and Reiiie Claude. Pears — Chair a Dame, Golden 

 Beurrc, of Bilbna, Hazel, Musk Honchretien, Ho- 

 ney, Duquense, Julienne, Dearborn's Seedling and 

 Franc real d'cte ; also, the following .Apples: Au- 

 gust Perfume and Golden Sweet. 



By J. J. Beckford— Duane's Purple and White 

 Cage Plums. 



By R. Lawrence — Cuba and Yellow Tomatoes. 

 For the Committee, 



P. B. HOVEY, Jr. 



clc of fuel, not only in Danvers, but in many pla 

 ces in New England. Tlie best peat is that whirl 

 shrinks the most in drying, and is the heaviest- 

 Peat of this quality is almost as durable as oak o * 

 walnut, and will produce as much heat, for tlier 

 is no water in well-dried peat, whereas there i 

 more or less in wood of all kinds, more especiall 

 oak and walnut. Peat varies in price as well a 

 quality : it can be purchased from $3 50 to $5.— 

 Many people who do not own peat, purchase 

 ditch at the rate of one dollar for n rod in lengtjf 

 five feet wide and four deep, which will produc 

 I about a cord. A good ditcher will cut five rods 

 day, with three boys to carry it out. All that r< 

 mains -to he done after it is cut and spread is t 

 pile it cob-house fashion, and when dry cart it t 

 your haliitatioii. Probably this is the cheapest wa 

 of procuring your winter's fuel. There is abui 

 dance of peat in the ineadowi in various parts < 

 the State. 



I hope these few suggestions will induce thos 

 who study economy, and wish a cheap substitul 

 for wood for fuel, to try the experiment. In a fi 

 turo communication I intend making some obsc 

 vations on tan, the refuse of wood, as an article 

 fuel. G. O. 



jYorth Danvers, Aug. 20. 



From the Salem Observer. 



PEAT. 



From the Albany Cultivator. 



THE BLOODY MURRAIN. 



Messrs Editors — On the morning of the 2G 

 June, I discovered that the urine of one of my co> 

 appeared to bo very highly colored, and upon e 

 amination found it to consist principally of bloo 

 In a short time she commenced trembling violci 

 ly and fell, and appeared to be convulsed, alt 

 which she recovered enough to rise. Her d 

 charges became more frequent, and gradually tur 

 ed darker colored, until they became almost bln( 



Akssrs. Ives J,- Pease— As economy in fuel, orl ^^j j^ ^ few hours she died. 



MASS. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 Exhibition of Fruits, Saturday, Sept. 4. 

 The display of fruits this day has not been sur- 

 passed at any previous exhibition the present sea- 

 son: the number of varieties and the quantity 

 shown was quite large: the specimens of many, 

 particularly those of the President, Messrs. .Man- 

 ning, Pond, Allen and Warren, were very fine. 



The President, M. P. Wilder, exhibited the 

 Beurrc de Amalis and Dearborn Peara — the latter 

 the handsomest wc have seen of that variety. Al- 

 so, the Bingham Plum. 



From F. W. Macondry — large and very hand- 

 some Crab Apples 



rather substituting other lunterials for wood to pro 

 duce heat, is of great importHnce, more especially 

 to the poor and middling classes, I hope that a few 

 hints on this subject will not be unacceptable. It 

 is well known that vast quantities of wood, particu- 

 larly pine, are consumed on board our steamboats 

 and on our railroads, and it is equally well known 

 that our forest trees arc disappearing much more 

 rapidly than they are re-produced. What then 

 will be the consequence if other mateiials are not 

 substituted r In my present article I shall make 

 some observations on peat, or wliat is commonly 

 called turf, as a valuable substitute for wood, which 

 is now much used in this vicinity, and I believe 

 more or less over the whole State ; but which 

 ought to be much more used, considering its cheap- 

 ness and utility. The first time that peat was used 

 ns a fuel was about a century since, and as I am 

 nformed by one of our most aged and respectable 



On the morning of the 4th of July, I again d 

 covered another, and my last cow, in the same sil 

 ation as the one I have mentioned, and upon ' 

 amining the Cultivator, I found the disease 

 resemble the murrain, as described by Mr Coo 

 son in the Cultivator, vol. v. No. .'). There was 

 very slight discharge of blood from the bowels, 

 gave her tar a!" directed by Mr Cookson, but it i 

 not produce any good efieci ; she continued to 1 

 gcr, and on the following morning was niu 

 worse, being so stiff in her joints that it 

 difficulty she could walk. I gave her another do 

 of tar, hoping it might ri'lieve her, but she died 

 about two hours afterwards. Upon examining ' 

 intestines, I found her bladder to contain ahr 

 two quarts of blood, lier gall duct was very mu 

 distended, and contained a quantity of thick blac 

 ish matter; her horns were a little luil 

 may be proper to add, that we have had a disea 



Very good Porter Apples from Mr Perry, South citizens, it was by the suggestion of an In.hman, , _^^-^^_^ our cattle here during the winter and spri. 



Natick. 



who was ditching a meadow in North Danvers, be 



Fine large Peaches, and specimens of a small longing to Lieut. Putnam, of that place, and brother i ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ 



ecies of the Melon called Mandrakes, beautiful- to the late Gen. Israel Putnam, one of our revolu- j |^^^^^j ^^^ 

 ly striped and mottled with orange and yellow, .tionary patriots. T oi n 



were exhibited by Col. F. Bigelow ; also, clusters The Irishman said to the Lieutenant, "and in i hbould 

 of the fruit of a very small Tomato, about the size I faith we burn this mud in our cou,.try,and it makes what this niseaee •V'^?'''^"'.^"" V;' fZedrak 



called the hollow horn, or horn distemper. Be 



that 1 lost were in fine order, havi 



tcrnatcly upon clover and salt marsh. 



Should you, or any of your correspondents, km 



at this disease is called, you will greatly obli, 



