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NEW EM GLAND FARMER. 



April 



-Take an ounce phial, tiiid put in I the st. 



soap su.ls to the depth of an inch, and | on pormit, plant them in a garden, and the usual on the borders ot suit marshes, and even upon 9< 

 airlinat the books, shelves, or places | care will produce good cabbages. [ marshes. This is considered as its natural sit 



furniture, &.c. 

 aweet oil or 

 set the phial ^ 



infested, so as to facilitate their getting in.. They 

 will readily go into the phial, and arc unable to 

 return, as the oil or suds renders it impnssiblo for 

 them to climb up the sides of the phial. The writ- 

 er says he has tried this plan in a closet nnuch in- 

 fested, and in a few weeks the phial was filled 

 within an inch of the neck. 



lU, about two indies lontr ; and if the seas- 1 says that asparagus " is found growing naturfl 



HABITS OF PLANTS. 



There are some plants, on which, if a fly perch- 

 es, they instantly close and crush the insect to 

 death. Plants also change their position, and 



tion ; and this fact has led to the employment 1 

 salt as a manure to it nilh very good efFcct. 

 a bed CO feet by 6, a bushel of salt may be safd 

 applied befove the plants start in the spring 

 When you gather asparagus bo careful to cu^ 



form in different circumstances and seasons ; they j„gj i,e„eath the surface of the ground. 



take advantage of good weather, and guard them- q-j^^ Farmer's Guide directs as follows : " Wl 



selves against bad weather; they open their Lj^^ (y^gj |jfg,,[.g ^^^ jj^j^^y some ashes or otH 



j leaves and fiowers in the day, and close them at 

 night ; some close before sun set, and some after; 

 1 some open to receive rain, and some close to 

 • nvoid it ; some follow the sun, and some turn 



GliAFTING COMPOSITION. 

 A variety of compositions have been recom- 

 mended for use in grafting, and for healing the 



wounds in trees, made by pruning, grafting &c . ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ .^_ ^^_^^^^_^^ 



But we are mlormed by practical orchardists that, ""'. ', . , , >; , ^ _:_i.. .u... .:„i. 



... ,„,u^ <..„.l. „,.7i,f^ ' motion during the day ; and at night they sink 



most of them are injurious to the stotk °'.tl^= 1 („ ^ l^i„j „(• ;,3j „, 3,,%. ^ has also been ob- 



graft or both, and it is supposed that the injury 



may be attributed to pitch, tar, rosin or turpentine, 



which is seuerallv used in making tlie grafting 1 , • ■ '-^ ^ , •.■ a„, ;t u„^ 



"' i, J- _ di^!*y°' recovering its natural position alter it has 



I served that a plant has a power of directing its 

 ' roots for procuring food ; and that it has a facul 



cement. The best composition wc are assure 

 that recommended by Forsyth, and is as follows: 

 '< Get a quantity of strong, fat loam (in propor- 

 tion to the quantities of trees to be engrafted' 

 then take some new horse 



been forced from it. A hop plant for instance in 



twisting round a pole, directs its course from j 



south to west as the sun does : if it be tied in the 



dung, and^-break it { opposite direction it dies ; [so says Rees Cyclope- 

 among the loam ; and if you cutt little straw, or ! J'--].''"' if U be left loose m this ^^.rection 1 wiU 

 , ^ ,,',.•' .... ,„„^ „.;hi regain its natural course in a single night. A 



hav, very smal, and mix among it the loam will , "=0°' ' '° . ". i;°„,;„„ 



.lay, VB J, , „, ;5 ,,,„„ i.„ „ „„„„ honey-suck e proceeds in a certain direction. 



hold together the better ; and if there be a quan- 1 "°"^y 



, ' till It be too 



proce 

 lonw to sustain itself; it tiien ac- 



tity of salt added, it will prevent the loam from , . .. T 1. .■ ■„, „ ,„;„i f„,.m . 



1- -r J ,i„ . ,„ „ m,.ct !,» ,vp11 JTir quires strength by shooung into a spiral term, 



dividinc in dry weather ; these must be well stir- 1 ~i " ■• " c .: „ „o.„„ i;.,,i 



, ° ., ».■ , . n,„r^ „(-,„,. ,v,-i and if It meet with anotlier plant of the same Kind, 



red together, putting water to them alter the ' , , , , „ / , ^„„, „„„ ,,„• , 



*=.','• . t I ,,1.1 ,,„ 1 „ii„,,,„,j , both these coalesce for mntiial support, one twist- 



manner of making mortar ; It should, be hollowed ,1 „ i^r, 



1- , j-n 1 -.1. , 1 ,,„„,„,-,,,. „ti,r,v in" to the right and the other to tho lelt. 



like a dish, filled \vith water, and kept c. cr) othei ' o 



day stirred ; but it ought to be remembered th.at orchard grass. 



it should not be exposed to frost, or drying winds; npjijg grass, says Dr Cooporj is gradually taking- 

 and the oftencr it is stirred and wrought the bet- ^y,^ ^^^"^ ^^ timothy [herds-grass] among the best 

 ter." This mortar must be surrounded with a c^vmcrs about Philadelphia. It possesses this ad- 

 winding of tow, or old cloths, to prevent the rains ; y^„[,^ge over most of the grasses, that it will flour 

 washing it away. The scion should be covered , -^.j^ ^^ ^^^ sandy soils, and likewise i!i orchards in 

 nearly to the top with tlii.'; mortar; and it should ^j^^ gjjgj^^ from which circumstance it derived its 

 also e.Ntend two or three inches downwards round j,j^,^g London says this grass, if siiftcred to rise 

 the stock. The Farmer's Assistant says " The 1^^^,^^ j^ ^.p^y coarse ; hut "fed close is a very valu- 

 morlar should be composed of fine loam, not clay ; ^^^^ sheep pasture. It is cultivated to a great ex- 

 because clay will contract and crack open .when j^nt^ and with astonishing success at Holkhiim. — 

 dried." 



TO MAKE GINGKU BEER POWDERS. 



The following is taken fro.-n the Glasgow Me- 



manure about an inch deep over the surface of 

 bed, having first loosened the top of the bed w 

 a fork about three inches deep, and raked it. Upi 

 this manure, throw a layer of earth over the hi 

 out of the paths, and break it fine at the time. 

 Continue this management every succeeding yei 

 When the bed becomes too high by the const 

 addition of dung, &c. part of the earth may IB 1 

 pared ofi'inthe spring before the plants shoot, al 

 the bed covered again wit!i a thin compost of n 

 ten dung." 



If the season be dry, it is advised to water 

 beds with the drainings of n dung hill, once 

 twice a week : leaving them somewhat hollow 

 the centre for the better Vetention of the water 

 rain. 



Beans. — White kidney bcnns are often a profit 

 able crop for field culture. They require dry lam 

 Poor sandy soils or gravelly lomi will produci 

 them, liut in such case they should be wet, ai 

 rolled in plaster before planting. They can 

 planted in hills or drills, the rows two and a- hal 

 or three feet apart, according to tho strength 

 the soil. The time of planting is the same ai 

 Indian corn. Hog's dung, mixed with ashes i- 

 said to he the best manure for bcane. The hiUi 

 sho'.'.ld be from fourteen to twenty four inches % 

 part, according to the soil, being planted thickesl 

 on the poorest soil. Five beans are as many ai 

 should be allowed to remain in a hill 



dUlke'P 

 (jplsitei 

 letsl"*'' 





jiiiito 



The quantity of sheep kept npon it, summer and 



winter, is quite surprising; aad the land becomes 



renovated by laying two or three years under this 



chanic's Ma'^azhie — Take 5 scruples of Ibafsu- arass, and enriched by the manure derived fron 



I? 



gar, powdered, 5 grains ginger, 25 grains sub- 

 carbon ite of soda ; mix and (M in a blue paper. 

 Then take 30 grains tartaric acid, powdered. — 

 Fold this in while paper for distinction. Thsy 

 are sufficient to make half a pint. 



TO MAKB SPRVCr. BEER. 



The following recipe is from the sarre work — 

 Put four gallons of boiling water into a tub or 

 catk with four ;;al!ons of co! 

 you will get the proper degree 

 "ei^ht pounds of treacle, and two or three table 

 spoonsful of the essence nf spruce : stir the-je 

 thoroughly together, and add a quarter of a pint 

 nf good yeast. It is now to be kept in a tempe- 

 rate situation till the ferment-iticn is somewhat 

 abated, {which will be in about 48 hours,) and 

 then, bottled oiT, when in two days it will he fit 

 for use. 



TO PliOPt'Cr. EARLY CAEBAOF.S. 



A writer in the Domestic Encyclopedia, gives 

 the following method to produce early, cabbages : 

 In the spring, as soon us the sprouts on the c:ib- . , , 

 ba-e-stulks have grown to the leng'th of a plant 1 thinned they vy. 

 fit for setting, cut them out with a = "•■" -'-'' nfi stood close. i 



the sheep. A field, in the park at Woburn. was 

 laid down in two equ .1 parts, one part with rye- 

 grass and white clover, and the other part with 

 C'.ck's-foot and red clover : from the spring till 

 midsummer, the sheep kept almost constantly on 

 the rye-grass ; but after that time they left it, and 

 adhered w'nh equal constancy to the orchard grass 

 durinir the remainder of the season. In The Code 



water into a lUD ."■- j „_y-.,,^„-,„„,„.., (p. 497. third edit.) it i.s stated that 

 0. water, by * "7: Sinclair, of Woburn, considers " no grass so well 

 .eof heat; thenaddl^^^.^^j for all purposes as thi.s ;" and in the 

 second edition of H. Gramineus ff'ohurnensis, it is 

 observed, that if one species only is thought pref- 

 erable to another in the alternate h-.sbandry, that 

 species n the Dactylis glnmerata, from its more 

 numerous merits." 



SPRING WORK. 



Asparagus. — Look to your asparagus beds, and 

 as soon as the plants are well above ground, thin 

 them so that they may stand 111 or 12 inches asun- 

 der in the rows, the rows being a foot apart. The 

 American Gardener says if the plants are thus 

 U be four times as strong as if they 

 'he last edition of Dcine's Farmer 



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AORICULTCBAI. ADDRESSES. 



We have received the Addresses of Rev. M: 

 Goodrich, and Hon. Mark Doolittle, delivered lasi 

 fall. They are able productions, replete with sound 

 sense'; and observations which the attentive and 

 industrious farmer may turn to practical purpii«o,< 

 of value in his occupation. We shall give the 

 whole or a part of these productions in the rolnlinn 

 with which we hope to diversify our columns. 



NIGHT LAMP. 



We have been much pleased in examining the 

 newly invented JVight Lamp, manufactured at 

 Philadelphia. The economy and safety of these 

 render them superior to any common tapers hith- 

 erto in use. From experiments, it is found thai 

 they will not consume more than a pint of oil a 

 month, when used only in the night. Their safety 

 consists in not having any sparks from tha blu/.e. 

 Th.'ir usefulness, and moderate price, (IlJ^cts) 

 render them an object of importante. They may 

 be had of E. Wight, drug.r^ist, -Milk street, oppo.site 

 Federal street. 



HOPS. 

 Farmers are turning their attention to the cul- 

 ture of hops. The general use of beer has created 

 a demand for hops and barley. It is a curious 

 fact, that there was a petition before tJie Englisli 

 Parlia'ment in 14'28, for the extermination of Hops, 

 from the country, for being "wicked weeds," 

 [Salem Observer.] 



