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AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 



189 



vour »lock with le»y trouble or grcator ty required from nbroml to mnke U|> the falling oil' 



fil lliaii horotofore, lot us know how you have 

 la It, and we will tell others; and then they 

 1 give us an account o{ their doings and wo will 



you. In this manner you will bo benelUing 

 irselves and each other ; your children will be 

 ing u|) stores of useful knowledge ; you will be 

 iWUig richer and wisw; your consciences will 



lighter; your slumbers will lie quiet; your 

 ams will be pleasant, and you will be tar mure 

 pectabic and happy. For your own sakes, then, 

 ■ay como forward at once and discharge your 



[RICULTUR-'VL statistics of MASSA- 

 CHUSETTS, 

 ts rtparltd to the I'alualion CoinmiUte, 1640. 

 res of tillage land, including orchards 

 lied, 



bels of wheat, 

 rye, 

 oats, 



Indian corn, 

 barley, 

 inda of hops, 

 la of hemp, 

 flax, 



broom corn, 

 es of English and upland mowing, 



18 of liay, yearly produce of the same, 

 es of fresh meadow, 



19 of hay, yearly produce of the same, 

 es of salt marsh, 



18 of hay, yearly produce of the same, 

 es of pasturage including orchards 



latured, 1,210,154 



8, the same will keep with the after 

 >ed of the farm, 



98 of woodland exclusive of pasture 

 >nd enclosed, 

 res of unimproved land, 

 land unimprovable, 

 land used for roads, 

 land covered with water, 

 ole quantity of land returned, acres, 

 ises one year old and upward, 

 es and asses one year old and upward, 

 :n four year old and upward, 4 



259,038 



101,178 



453,705 



1,22(),300 



1,775,703 



149,004 



237,941 



7 



2 



580 



440,930 



467,.537 



184,832 



135,930 



39,305 



26,202 



111 our own growth, may easily bo obtained, if 

 own inorchaiits do not rush into rn?h spfciilations, 

 without paying such exorbitant pricOH as have re- 

 contly been given. America has a surplus of 

 wheat, which will, in the shape of Hour, find Its 

 way to this country. In the Mediterranran, largo 

 purchases liavo already been made, which muHt bo 

 sent hero, and it is highly probable that many of 

 the large holders in the Baltic will, (when they as- 

 certain that the Uritish merchants refuse to pny the 

 high prices to which they have lately become ac- 

 ciisloineil,) consign to us on their own account. We 

 have, on several former occasions, endeavored to 

 put this matter clearly before our readers, lor the 

 sole purpose of warning them against entering too 

 eagerly into extensive investments in foreign wheat, 

 and thus keeping up the value of the article, at the 

 principal continental ports, higher than seems war- 

 ranted by circumstances." 



203,560 



729.792 

 955,28:3 

 360,278 

 90,074 

 1.57,524 

 4,491,812 

 60,030 

 117 

 584 

 "8 three year old and upward, 143,.">!)1 



era and heifers one year old and upward, 88..562 

 ■ep six months old and upward, 34.3,390 



ne six months old and upwards, 90,335 



ount of real estate doomed, 73,37f',837 



ount of personal estate doomed, 43,661,305 



THE WHEAT CROP OF ENGLAND. 

 he following is from the Mark-Lane Express, 

 Tov. 15th: 



Some of the reports received during the last 

 night, do not speak quite so despondingly of 

 yield of wheat, now that it has been pretty ex- 

 lively put to the Ust of thrashing, as the ac- 

 nts circulated immediately after the harvest ; 



it is evident that the produce is decidedly de- 

 ;nt both in quality and quantity ; so various, 

 ever, are the estimates of the deficiency, that, 

 vitlistanding the advanced stale of the season, 



hazardous to venture on a positive opinion. 

 ' impression at present is, that the total yield of 

 lat of the United Kingdom will prove about one 

 h below an ususal average, but that the quanti 



For the N. E. Farmer. 



BONE MANURE. 

 Ali.en Put.'^am, Esq. — Dear Sir — Having com- 

 pleted my experiments for this season, in the use 

 of crushed bone as a manure for potatoes, agreea- 

 ble to your request, I will now give you some ac- 

 count of my use of that article. 



The field, an old pasture, plowed the September 

 previous, a part of which was well stocked with 

 whortleberry bushes; the other part had never been 

 plowed within twentyfive years. The soil, stony 

 loam. On the 15lh of May, thirty six bushels of 

 crushed bone was mixed with two cords of goo 

 horse stable manure, about the same quantity of 

 loam, and three bushels of plaster of Paris, by aU 

 ternalc layers of each. In two weeks the heap 

 ivas in a fine state of fermentation ; it was then 

 well worked over, and left ten days, to decompose 

 the bone. The tenth of .Tune we commenced put- 

 ting the compost into the hills, and planting on 

 three acres, and finished on the fifteenth. Another 

 part of the field was manured from the same stable 

 at the rate of five cords to the acre, and planted 

 within the same time. Three fourths of an acre, 

 another part of the field, was limed when planted, 

 and before hoeing, three gills of ashes and plaster 

 was put to each hill. The cultivation on the whole 

 field the same. 



Results. The crop good for the season. The 

 part manured with the bone compost, and that with 

 the stable dung, produced about equal quantities 

 per acre ; that with lime and ashes, about two 

 thirds. 



Tho bone has n.ore than answered my expecta- 

 tions ; every bushel of it has proved equal to a 

 common cartload of static dung for one crop of po- 

 tatoes : what its effect will be on next year's crop, 

 remains to be proved. 



I intend next season to continue experiments 

 with the bone on other crops. 

 Yours, respectfully, 



A. TUFTS. 

 Dudley, yov. 15, 1841. 



Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, 

 in order that they should see twice as much as 

 they say ; but from their conduct one would sup- 

 pose they were born with twotonfjucs and one eye ; 

 for those talk the most who have observed the least, 

 and obtrude their remarks upon every thing, who 

 I have seen into nothing. — Lacon. 



OlITAlMNti CIU'.AM FRnM MILK. 

 A process of divt sting milk of itn component 

 portion ofcreain, in an extent hitherto unattainable, 

 has been efl"ccted by Mr Ccorg'- Cart-T, of Not- 

 tingham Lodge, and is thus detailed by that gen- 

 tleman, in a paper presented to iho Society of Art« : 

 " A peculiar process of extracting trcam from 

 milk, by which a peculiar richness is produced in 

 tho cream, has long been known and practiced in 

 Devonshire ; this produce of tho dairies of that 

 country being well known to every one by the name 

 of dotted or clouted cream. As there is no pecu- 

 liarity in the milk from which tins fluid is extract- 

 ed, it has been frequently a matter of surprise that 

 the process has not been adopted in other parts of 

 the country. A four-sided vessel is formed of zinc 

 plates, twelve inches long, eight inches wide, and 

 six inches deep, with a false bottom at one half 

 tho depth. The only communication with tho low- 

 cr compartment is by the lip, through which it may 

 be filled or emptied. Having first placed at tho 

 bottom of the upper compartment a plate of perfo- 

 rated zinc, the area of which is equal to that of 

 the false bottom, a gallon (or any given quantity) 

 of milk is poured immediately when drawn from 

 the cow, into it, and must remain there, at rest, for 

 twelve hours ; an equal quantity of boiling water 

 must then be poured into the lower compartment 

 through the lip ; it is then permitted to stand 12 

 hours°more, (i. e. 24 hours altogether,) when the 

 cream will be found perfect, and of such consis- 

 tence that the whole may be lifted off by the finger 

 and thumb. It is, however, more effectually re- 

 j moved by gently raising the plate of perforated 

 zinc from the bottom, by the ringed handles, by 

 which means the whole of the cream is lifted off 

 in a. sheet, without remixing any of it with the 

 milk below. With this apparatus I have instituted 

 a series of experiments ; and as a mean of twelve 

 successive ones, I obtained the following results: 

 Four gallons of milk treated as above, produced in 

 twentyfour hours, four and a^ half pints of clotted 

 cream, which, after chnrniu* only filtcen minutes, 

 gave forty ounces of butter; four gallons of milk 

 treated in the common mode, in earthenware pans, 

 and standing fortyeight hours,- produced four pints 

 of cream, which after churningninety minutes, gave 

 thirtysix ounces of butter. 'ITie increase in the 

 quantity of cream, therefore, is twelve and a half 

 per cent. The experimental farmer will instantly 

 perceive the advantages accruing from its adoption, 

 and probably his attention to the subject may pro- 

 ducc greater results. I shall feel richly rewarded 

 if, by exciting an interest on the subject, I can pro- 

 duce any, the slightest improvement in ihe quanti- 

 ty or mode of producing an article, which may 

 properly be deemed one of the necessarira of life." 

 — Fam. Gaz. 



On the subject of cream, the experiment which 

 I send you above may be tried with two tin milk 

 pans, by putting an old horseshoe, .r any other 

 convenient thing, into one for the other to set on, 

 then pour in boiling water; next put in the pan 

 that contains the milk— let it stand in cold weather 

 \i hours— the plan is good for making winter but- 

 ter, making more and better. 



A. CHURCHILL. 



It is with diseases of the mind, as with those of 

 the body ; we are half dead before we understand 

 our disorder, and half cured when we do.- 



-Lacon, 



