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VOLUME 1. 



ROCHESTER, JUNE 18, 1831. 



NUMBER 24. 



PUBLISHED BY I" TUCKER &, CO. 



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N. GOODSKl.L, EDITOR. 



WEEDING. 



June may with much propriety be called 

 a month for weeding.this being an important 

 business with the farmer and gardener. All 

 crops thrive best when kept clear of weeds, o- 

 ther circumstances the same. Weeds are the 

 natural proprietors and inhabitants of the 

 soil. Cultivated crops are such as require 

 care for their perfection. This is the object 

 of the farmer and gardener, by the skilful 

 application of their labor to bring to maturi- 

 ty those plants, calculated for the support of 

 men and animals which are not indigenous 

 to our soil and climate. Self preservation 

 is one of the first great laws of nature, and 

 to escape from famine and starvation, is as 

 much a part of that law. as to avoid the fire 

 or sword : hence the originality of the pur- 

 suit of agriculture which claims priority over 

 every other occupation in life — being the 

 first taught and first followed ; but by the 

 fall of man and the corruption of his na- 

 ture, many of her laws seem reversed, and 

 those occupations which were resorted to in 

 consequence of this corruption, are placed 

 before that taught by the great Creator him- 

 self. Even those after occupations, seem 

 numbered from last to first, " in the corrup- 

 ted current of this world ;" for it is evident 

 that the first business after the fall, that our 

 first parents followed, was the manufactur- 

 ing of garments ; and now that very occu- 

 pation is spoken of with contempt. Then 

 garments were made only to cover naked- 

 ness; but now to make the man. But this 

 digression brings misery : and so will any 

 digression from the first great command, 

 as, to occupation. Man was comman- 

 ded to " dress the garden and to keep 

 it;" by which we are to understand that he 

 was to cultivate such plants as were neces. 

 sary for his support. Since which time nox- 

 ious weeds have been ordered to grow, that 

 man for his transgressions should " eat his 

 bread in the sweat of his brow," which was 

 probably ordered in mercy to him, knowing 

 that an idle man would always bring trouble 

 upon himself and family. An idle or sloth 

 ful man is placed in direct opposition to a 

 good husbandman ; his fields are represent- 

 ed as full of weeds. There is something so 

 directly connected with reputation, in a far- 

 mer's keeping his 'ields clear from weeds 

 that it ought never to be neglected, and to 

 destroy them to the greatest advantage, they 

 should be destroyed early. They impover- 

 ish the land if left, and deprive those plants 

 intended for cultivation, of nourishment. — 

 Such as have strong roots or are perennial. 



should be subdued early, that the roots may 

 undergo decomposition in time to afford 

 food for the roots of the crop. There are 

 other kinds of weeding beside that of annual 

 crops, that should not be neglected. Grass 

 lands often become filled with weeds which 

 are either injurious to animals, or which 

 prevent the growth of more valuable grasses. 

 These should be destroyed, and as they are 

 mostly perennial or such as continue to grow 

 year after year from the same roots, such as, 

 common daisy, john's-wort, crowfoot or yel- 

 low dai-y, dock, burr-dock, thistles, 8tc. — 

 These should be cut or dug this month, be- 

 fore the seed is formed, for it is an old a- 

 dage that 



" One year of good weeding, 



Will prevent (he weeds seeding ; 



But one year of their seeding, 



Will make aoven year's weeding:" 



which is very correct ; for if seeds are al- 

 lowed to ripen, many of them may lie in the 

 ground for years before they come up, and 

 it will be difficult even by a course of crop- 

 ping to clear the land of them. 



JlAPLE SUGAR. 



Loaf sugar of first quality can be manufac- 

 tured from the common sugar made from 

 the maple. Maple sap contains beside su- 

 gar, considerable vegetable extract, which 

 does not chrystalize, but will continue fluid 

 at that point of concentration at which the 

 sugar chrystalizes. When the evaporation 

 is carried beyond this point, the vegetable 

 extract is confined amongst the chrystals of 

 sugar, giving the whole a dark color in pro- 

 portion to the quantity of extract contained. 

 To separate this from the sugar, is the busi- 

 ness of the sugar refiners. Whatever sugar 

 is manufactured from it in its crude state, is 

 mixed more or less with extractive matter. 

 There are different methods of purifying 

 sugars, or freeing them from the extractive 

 matter with which they are mixed. The 

 most common is to apply water to the top of 

 cakes in such quantities only, as will render 

 the extract sufficiently fluid to filter through 

 the chrystals without dissolving them. For 

 this purpose maple syrup as soon as it is suf- 

 ficiently concentrated to chrystalize, should 

 be put into a bucket having a hole bored 

 ihro' the bottom and a cork put into it from 

 the outside; when the sugar has become cold 

 and chrystalized, the cork should be with- 

 drawn and water sprinkled upon the top by 

 small quantities, which will serve to render 

 the extract fluid, when it will pass off through 

 the hole in the bottom where it may be re- 

 ceived in a vessel placed beneath. The 

 drainings from sugar in large establishments, 

 is called sugar-house molasses. When the 

 cake of sugar has become loose from the dis- 

 solving of the extract, and some of the 

 chrystals, it is dissolved by heating and again 

 cooled or chrystalized, when the washing is 



repeated as before, until it has attained the 

 degree of purity required. In this manner 

 maple or any other dark sugar may be ren- 

 dered white, as all chrystals of sugar when 

 separated from foreign matter are white.— 

 The cleansing of maple sugar if properly 

 conducted, is not accompanied with any ma- 

 terial loss ; as the syrup will be found useful 

 for eating with buckwheat cakes, and vari 

 ous other purposes. 



DIFFERENT FLOWERS ON THIS 

 SAME STOCK. 



The new Monthly Magazine gives the fol • 

 lowing method of obtaining flowers of dif- 

 ferent colors on the same stem : Split a 

 small twig of elder lengthways, and having 

 scraped out the pith, fill each of the apart- 

 ments with seeds of flowers of different sorts, 

 but which blossom about the same time ;— 

 surround them with mould, and then tying 

 together the two bits of wood, plant the whole 

 in a pot filled with earth properly prepared. 

 The stems of the different flowers will thus 

 be so incorporated as to exhibit to the eye, 

 only one stem, throwing out branches cover- 

 ed with flowers analagous to the seed which 

 produced them. 



HORTICULTURAL. 



Those who grafted their fruit trees in the 

 spring, should look them over and seewhetb 

 er the bandages do not require taking off ;~ 

 and whether young shoots from the stocks 

 are not depriving the grafts or innoculation. 

 of their portion of the sap. If so, they should 

 be cut off; but care should be taken at first, 

 not to trim off all the shoots so as to leave the 

 stock without leaves, for fear of stagnating 

 the sap and causing the death of both graft 

 and stock. 



THE WEATHER. 



The season for the last two weeks has been 

 unusually warm, with a suitable quantity of 

 rain, and is now such as may be justly denonr 

 inated a growing season. Most crops look 

 well; wheat on strong land is getting rather 

 an over-growth ; grass looks uncommonly 

 fine, and the prospect for apples, pears and 

 peaches fair. 



INSECTS. 



The Curculio continues his ravages upon 

 the plums, apricots and nectarines; most o) 

 which are already destroyed in this neigh 

 borhood. The yellow bugs which destroy 

 melons and cucumbers, have been foiled by 

 the application of coal dust, and appear to 

 have deserted our gardens. 



MEMOIR OF AMERICAN ECLIPSE. 



From the American Turf Register we ex 

 tract the following particulars respecting this 

 celebrated horse, which has been supposed 

 by many competent judges, as being equal 

 for speed and bottom, to any othei horse in 



