pfiiiv, 



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l" *r writor nlUnloil to, states also tlmt lie shall 



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Jol.V.— No. 40. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



jm 



, .. L • ■, , . , llADISU. |ti""' nnd .-ittentioii oftho ..-atcrs, when iMi-v ,,,nr7. 



season nuihe further experiments uilh the This root bcin^r liable to lu- oaton l,y uorn.g.itobo hotter employed, 'i'lic mode here rer T 

 liqmd.iipon wheat, rye, barley, g.-irden seeds, I the Iblloa-inrr method is rocommenrled for raising i mended is also more cconomicil ■ for if n-.rt r 

 We wish some of our friends, the farmers ! them : Take equal quantities of buckwheat bran, the potatoes should Ikll down into i I ' "> 



shall come to maturity. [Lowell Journal.] 

 INK. 



>urs. Dig the ground over a^ain and sow the | We have been told bv adequate jud.Tcs that po 



. ed, and the radishes will arrow with great rapidi- , tatoes and Indian pudding should never be pu 



.. 1 c. p.t 1 c ,. l'-^^"'' bo n-ee from the attacks of insects. They ' into the pot or boiler till nftcr il:e not l,„, I.^Jl,. 



the benefit of that numerous class of siil- .viii o-m,,. „„rnmmr.nK, !.,,.-„ t> r t, . u ■ , i -i i .i . , , '.'. '■'"•'^ "'<•?"'' ""^ '"'ff«> 

 , , ., oj- . 1 -.1 1 111- • .!.„ 8 uncommonly large. Buckwheat-bran is to hod ; and that the boiinjr ou"-ht to be mntin,. 



who are dally afflicted with dabbling in the !.,„ „...„n„,,f ,„„„,, ^„ „..•.„,,, , A , ■ . ■ . ..T ""o'"- ^o uc continu 



,.,,.•;,., , ^V ,, i»'" e-^ccllent manure ol Itself. ed without intermission, t the iirticlrq -u-p si.ffi 



and mirc of bad ink, we make public the i .„ i a • . » i • ,i r ■ , . '"<= iuucKs .iie sum 



[Farmer's Assistant.] 



L.-VRGE TREE. 



\ poplar tree has been cut down near Lewis' 



Ferry on the Schuylkill, which measured 117 feet 



inlena-th, (> feet inches in diameter at Ihe butt, 



and C4 feet to the lowest limb, and gave about 28 



Id and mire' of bad ink, we make publ 

 Iwing nostrum, which has saved us from n;uc 

 Ition, anil which is worth all the quack pre- 

 nlions that have defiled paper from the days of 

 |h 

 Powdered Aleppo Galls 8 ounce 



Logwood in thin chips 4 



Sulphate of iron, (copperas) 4 

 Powdered gum arabic 

 Sulphate of copper (blue vit- 

 riol 

 Sugar candy 1 



joil the Galls and LogVv-ood together i'l twelve 



|nds (pints) of water for one hour— or till half j NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



liquid is evaporated. Strain the decoction ■ 



lough linen, or a hair sieve and then add the [' B08T 0N, FRpAY, APRIL 27,1827 



[New York Times.] 



ciontly cooked : otherwise they s^iy they will be 

 what is technically called " tvaler soaked." No 

 doubt the same principles will apply in boiling 

 other vegetables as well as potatoes. 



FEEDING FOWJ 



IC. WITH roTATOKS. 



ler ingredients. 



POTATOES. 

 An article headed » How In boil potatoes nicely 



PINS IN POULTRY. . , ^ 



Ivc lately republished an account of the ap- ( "'''■';<'"' waste," which gives »n?"sdirections on the 

 (arancc of a pin gradually making its way tbro' I ^"^j'''^'- '^ now travelling in newspapers through- 

 flesh of the breast of a little child, but which I "'^"•''® ""'""• I' was originally published iifan 

 by many disbelieved as a thing impossible, j f"''°P"^° paper, and says " After the water has 

 lugh some accounted for it as having been 

 Jallowed in the food. This is uuqiiestionabl}- a 

 |-t, and this is the rational way of accounting 

 it : no less than three instances have occurred 

 my own table in the course of the winter in 

 lich pins were discovered concealed in the 

 cks and breasts of poultry, which had been 

 jck there to give thcni a smoother appearance, 

 preventing the torn skin from sliowing itself. 

 ae public are therefore put upon their guard 

 :ainst this highly reprehensible practice. 



[N. Y. E. Post.] 



CIIAMMOMILE. 

 A medical correspondent at Madrid lias ac- 



lainted a friend in Ireland with some astonish- 



geflects of the herb chammomile, in certain in- 

 Lammatory disorders of the eyes, when every other 

 pmedy usu"lly prescribed had proved abortive, 

 hie following among many cases, wherein the 

 octor has been concerned, is mentioned as a 

 roof of the virtues of this salutary though eom- 

 non herb. 



Maria de Macos, daughter of a master carpen- 

 er, had for many years been afflicted with weep- 

 ng eyes, which discharged an acrimonious fluid, 



hat brought on an almost total loss of sight 



Vlteratives were proscribed to no purpose, nor 

 :ould a course of mercury procure the smallest 

 .lieviation. At.lengfh he made a strong decoc- 

 ion of chammomile, boik-d in sweet cow's milk • 

 tith this the patient bathed her eye-- several limes 

 1 day, as warm as it could be suffered without 

 neasiness, and in about five weeks her eyes were 

 erfectly cured. [Medical Intel.] 



A Vineyard' has been commenced at Utreciit 

 ,ong Island. N. Y. ' 



, r , T ■ " , It IS said in the Transactions of the Society ol 



cords of wood. It IS supposed to have been about Aris, that there is a great profit in feodin^r geese 

 30(1 years old. The destruction of such fine trees turkeys and fowls of evcrv sort with notat^oes and 

 should not bo permitted. The trunk was perfectly ' meal mixed ; they will fatten in nearly half the 

 sound, with the exception of a small spot decayed i time that they will with any kind of corn [grain! 

 in th e heart, near the grn ,nd. , or even meal by itself. The potatoes 'must be 



hruised^ic, while they are hot, and the meal ad- 

 dod, when the mess is about to be given io them. 



PI..\KTING POTATOES. 



Di- Cooper says the best mode appears to be this 

 —Choose your potatoes for planting of a moderate 

 size, rather large than small, for there is no good 

 reason, to be assigned for breeding from diminu- 

 tive parents. Cut your potatoes into sets, two 

 eyes to a sat : throw away v,-ithout hesitation into 

 the hog trough all the inferior and diminutive 

 eyes, choosing your sets from the middle of the 

 potatoe.^ Do not cut the potatoes down the mid- 

 dle. 



If your soil be stiff and wet, plough it in ridges ; 

 if sandy and dry, plough it flat. Plough it deep. 

 Plant your sets in drills marked out by the plouo-h 

 or the hoe. The plants should be dibbled in, s1.\ 

 inches deep, on long dung, .scattered not sparing- 

 ly, along the drills : then covered with about 4 

 inches of mould. 



The drills should be in threes ■ a foot a- 



part : the plants should be 8 inches apart, with an 

 interval, on each side of eack set of three drills, of 

 two foot, which will admit of horse-hoeing be- 

 tween the sets of drills, and of hand wecdin" be 

 tweeii each drill. 



come nearly to boil, pour it off, and replace the 

 I hot by cold water," &c. A writer in the Parm- 

 er's Magazine, Scotland, has the following re- 

 marks on this subject. " The receipt is calculat- 

 ed not only to hoil but at t!ic same time to spoil 

 potatoes." "The fact i.; that to render potatoes 

 mealy they must be boila;i i:! the most expedi- 

 tious manner possible. Pick ont the quantity to 

 be used as nearly of an equal size as possible, let 

 them be well washed and the skins scraped oft' as 

 is done with carrots, taking out the eves and any 

 earth that remains about them, with the point of 

 a knife ; when the potatoes are large they maybe 

 cut into two, three or four p'.eces ; throw one by 

 one. n^ they arc done into clean water, and rinse 

 them well about, before they are put into the boil- 

 er. Put the scraped potatoes into a boiler that 

 has a tight well fitted cover, with as much clean 

 water as will barely cover them ; throw in a little 

 salt; fit on the cover as closely as possible, for I 

 keeping in the steam and increaging the heat, and j 

 place the bc?ler on the hottest part of a hot fire. 



To have a good crop, you must not spare duno-, 

 in order that it m"ay boil Ts ^apidfy 'as'possible'l!! 1 " V^ 7 ^^°'" '" ^'^^'''^^r- S°'ne persons prefe°r 

 Whenever the potatoes are enough boiled, the v CI "^ ,°' five drills in,stead of three: or 



. .- , they 



must be taken oft' the fire, otherwise they will im- 

 mediately begin to absorb the water (to the detri- 

 ment of their mealy quality :) which being poured 

 off, the boiler is again put upcn the fire, with the 

 cover off to dry up the moisture ; they are then 

 taken out with a spoon, and put in a dish for serv- 

 ing up to table. 



'• Potatoes boiled in this manner, will be found 

 perfectly clean, more mealy than when dressed 



whore horse hoeing is not convenient, the inter- 

 vals may be reduced to one foot between each set 

 of drills for the convenience of hand-weedino- ; 

 but upon the whole, the melhod here first propo°s- 

 ed is as good as any. Forty loads of dung per 

 acre will pay better than a le.4s quantity. 



If small potatoes are wanted for feeding, the 

 sets may be at C inches apart, and the rows at !> 

 inches: but the method first here proposed, ad- 



with the skins on; besides' vrhen they come" to I «"•'' '''''^' •'" •!^^^''"'"»''.-''c<:""te weeding, and suf- 



the table in the last mentioned state, it is certain- °'°" 



ly a very disagreeable operation, taking off the 



snt air to circulate between the plants. 



luu c^nS ll ^^Tr' <iiriying""^h;";abi;| A writer in tl!; wS^'^mer proposes th^ 

 cloth, confusing the plates, ami taking .,p the ' fotewing mode to e.xpel cckraacheB from boeC 



