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NKW ENGLAND FARMER 



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^iv-Tiivil-n MARSHFS P. S. When at Iml.an Hill Farm the past sum- I Some years since 1 was unable, ono seat^on, to 



1 r.nouit l.t fr o red, mio.l marshes was mer, I took accn„Mt of the apple trees, and intend- inspect the process, and, though the person ern- 



he foUovuns letter on r.d.K>d mar he^^^^ o have given you the statement, they are as ! ployed received very particular directions the 



rooR 01 i>e« luin. V, K quality proved inferior, and the reputation ol the 



Natural Fruit in bcarin;; 



Engrafted " " 



Nursery of young trees contain 

 Apple tiees 

 Poach do. 

 Cherry do. 



resided by Mr Kf.njami.n 



V. PiiocTuR. Ksq. Corresponding Secretary of follows, viz, 

 F,9se.\ Agricultural Society, and communicated 

 publication in the New England Farmer by Mr 



I ICTOR 



iR I recently examined the reclaimed mead- 



5 in this vicinity and as several of your Society 



enrraged in a similar undertaking (I allude in 

 ticular to our mutual friend Paul Kent, Esq.) 1 

 1 .Tive you an imperfect description of a tract 

 ir^Xewark owned by Anthony Dey, Esq. an 



ncnt Lawyer of this city, whose taste for ag- 



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From thf Medical Inldligenca: 



wine may have suil'cred in conecquencc. But 1 

 have of late introiUiced imjioitant improvements in 

 the prefinration ; and that wliii:h is now exhibited 

 will, I trust, be found to be supprior to any before 

 produced. But to arrive at tins result it has de- 

 manded minute personal attention in every stage of 

 the process — from the cultivation of the plants till 

 the wine is fit for the bottle ; and its remaining 

 previously for a period of four or five yearj in the 

 wood, seems requisite to bring it to that state of 



BLACK CURRANT. 

 Mr Editor, — Agreeably tn your request, I have pprfection of uhicli it is susceidible. It may be 

 ullure has enabled him, or rather induced him the pleasure to furnish you with the following his- proper to odd that, besides the water necessary, 

 make an experiment, the result of which is not toryofthe wine which I have prepared for some this wine contains not a particle o^ foreign sitb- 

 ly of the greatest importance to those that own ^jijjg pj^gt from the njji'inal hinck currant. About j/ajice except sugar, and two per cent of iriiju/iy, 

 irshes so sit'iated that they can be enclosed l)y twenty years ago I cultivated a few plants only, which is introduced at a stage of the procesi 

 Jyke, but in a pecuniary point to the proprietor, for the purpose of making a JcHi/ or preserve for ^hen it appears to return to its original vinous 

 the crops surpass any thing of the kind on our fgj„iiy ^ge ; and some of it happening to bo on the state, and is of course completely incorporated, 

 it lands. That the cause of agiicullure will be table when I was favoured with the company of I remain, dear Sir, truly yours, 

 omoted, as well directed experiments are found i^^^ estimable man and eminent physician, the late samuei- wyllvs po-.:erov. 



eful, there remain.-i no doubt ; and that of re- pj. j^f^,^ Warren, a conversation ensued on its — 



ng salt marsh and on the same ground rais- mg^jcal qualities, which he highly extolled, and ex- , r,emarhs by the Editor. — We are glad to sea 



[,g large crops of corn grain, hay, &c. may truly pressed a strong desire that the corfeciioners in and to publish tliie account of the Black Curravt 

 ■"called a well directed e-Tperiment. The meadow gogton should be supplied with the /rm.', observing Jf'uJf, because we have been acquainted wilhitj 

 ' Mr Dey is situated on the bank of the Paseaic, \ jh^t the Faculty would often prescribe the Jelli/ or character and effects for several years, and think 

 mtaiuing about 200 acres. The dyke enclosing it ! j^^j jf it could be procured. In consequence of bo well of it that we wish every body else to know 

 |i miles in length and was first built 15 to 20 ' [^jg gvi^jrestiou I was induced to increase the plan- |t yg ■^•c]]^ and to estim-ite it as highly as ws do. — 

 3ars since, but so imperfectly was the work ex- ! ,j,jjpj,°°,,^ in a fg^v years was enabled to supply So far as we can trust our own experience and 

 cuted that every extra tide would in some places !,|,e confectioners with more fruit than they wan- observation, we deem this wine more truly cordial 

 estroy the dyke, and the objects were of course t^,() For the demand being uncertain, and as the and medical than any which v.e have seen used 

 efcated and the work abandoned. Mr Dey pur- Lj.ti(,]g ^.quIJ seldom retain its virtues more than by invalids and convalescents. It has all the good 

 based them, and the saying that '' a thing «"«"' one year, three or four bushels only could be an- properties of the best Poit, without any of iti 

 OTif is twice done,'" he soon demonstrated ; ho ; dually disposed of. About this time I mot with an heating or constipiting effects. Wo could name 

 uilt the dike several feet higher than any tide | j^j.^^^^, written by the late celebrated Dr. Wcf-fr- several instances where in great debility and ex- 

 .ad ever been known to flow — guarded it next the |,yj„^ of London; in which, after describing the haustion after proti acted and severe fever, and from 

 i»er with a stone wall — filled in gravel with the Igpegigg q^ varieties of currants, he states that the other causes, nothing else could bethought of or 

 ods_inade it permanent — so wide at top that jij^gji^.^! properties of wine made from the rfrf or taken with pleasure or advantage, in which thi« 

 ;ravel was carted and spread on the top whiejj I j^.^j-j^ ^j(^^„„,^ are much superior to those of wine uino proved grateful to the palate, and most friend- 

 nale it hard as a causeway. He then had it i f^om the gr-a;)e, as it may be administered in many Jy to the slonir.ch ; in which indeed it was the 

 ploughed, and applied lime at the rate of 100 j p^ggg ofy,,,^^^^ here the latter would be t(0 heat- principal means of conducting the patient to health 

 bushels to the acre, which answered a double pur- 1 in„ ]\Jo mention was made of wine from the and strength. 



pose of destroying the sod, and at the same time | j^^^jj. currant, but the doctor remarks, that" a Its exhibition has been attended with remarka- 



inanuring and warming the ground— since which j^^y gj. ^j^j from this fruit was considered almost ble success in the early stages of cholera and dys- 



he has raised by applying common manure and ^ ^ specific for sore throat, and highly eft;caciou3 ciitary, — and again also in the later stages of these 



cultivation some of the largest crops in this vicini- 1 ^j.jjgn p.^hibited with barley water and other bev- disease, after the symptoms of inflammation or 



ty. All grasses succeed well; he recommends a; g^^^e^ in fevers, particularly in the low stages of febrile excitement had ceased. It has been stnk- 



mi.-aure. This scarce year for hay he has cut typhus." The idea then occurred, that I could not ingly remedial in the low states of typhoid and 



two crops at the lowest estimate four tons per , j^ hqtter with my black currants than to manufac- bilious fever. The late Captain Gilchrist, who for 



acre, and a finer crop of Irdian corn, &c. I never 'ty^e them into wine, as I felt confident that it several years followed the Batavia trade, and who 



8aw growing. He recommends those who would 1 j^ight be made to possess all the mild stimulating had always suR'ered an attack of the severe chol- 



buiufa dike that it should be perpendicular next' y^lities of the other kinds of currant wine, com- era which proves so destructive of human life in 



the meadow enclosed, and incline to a point on j hippii with the more valuable astringent and rfe- that climate, used to say that after he had this 



the other side. It will then bear a great pressure U^,.g.^„, properties so conspicuous in the je«i/. It | wine with him and took two glasses of it every 



of water and is not so liable to be inhabited by Ly^^^j he as convenient to administer, — and, what ' morning, he escaped the disease. On one voyage, 



musquash or any thing of the kind. L^as of great importance, not liable to deteriorate j his mate, who had not taken the wine, was seized 



There are about 4000 acres called the Swartwout , hy age. Accordingly I commenced operations with with this complaint, when a bottle or two stopped 



meadows — some years since enclosed — but as i ^q small portion of enthusiasm ; and notwithstand- 



the work was executed in the same imperfect j^g a complete failure in all my experiments for 



manner, as that afterwards purchased by Mr four years in succession, with considerable loss of 



Dey was, beside the magnitude of the undertak- jj^ie and money, I persevered till a wine was pro 



ing, and the difficulties arising from managing ajueed which equalled my most sanguine expecta- 



concern where there are so many owners, to the tions, and which I ventured to exhibit to most of 



Fatisfaction of all, that the warmest friends be- jj^^ principal physicians in Boston, several of whom 



come disgusted with it. Fortunately it has now jn^mediately began to prescribe it,and have continu- 



fallen in tije hands of a company who are follow- ^^ jj^g practice, as have others also in the vicini- 



ing the example of Mr Dey, and will soon, I have ; j^^ fgr eight or nine years, Being desirous to test 



no doubt, reap ample rewards for tht^ir enterprize. ijg capacity to withstand a hot climate, a parcel 



Respect'ly your friend and humble serv't, ; ^as nhipped to Ssvannah, where it remained in a, with oil, the mass will harden under watC: , — 



BBN.IAMIN POOR. J gtore on the Wuf two summers, and was returned i mix terras, ochre, smithy slack, or mangBoe: 



Xew York. Sept. 30. 1?26. ', n^,fcctlv sound !ind much improved. i with good common mortar, i Dr. T. Cooprr 



its progress. We have not room to enumerate 

 many other morbid aflTectione in which this wine 

 has proved useful. In sore throat it has, for many 

 years, been considered almost a specific remedy. 



A CEMENT THAT RESISTS MO'STCRE. 



Melt without water common glue, with half its 

 weight of rosin, to which add some red ochre, 

 useful for cementing hones to their fran\f s. 



A CEMENT THAT HARDENS UNDER WATER. 



MLx clay and calces, (oxyds) of iron plontifullj 



