NEW ENGLAND PARMER. 



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npossible to gainsay or refute its positions be- 

 ause they are founded on facts which are nei- 

 ler few in number, doubtful as respects their 

 vidence, nor equivocal as regards the lesson? 

 ,-hich they inculcate. To contend, afler this, 

 dat deadly diseases are not communicated by 

 ffluvia arising from dead bodies, or other sour- 

 es of animal putrefaction, mu?t be deemed as 

 bsurd as to say that m-ither heat nor light em- 

 nates from the sun, or that darkness never 

 ucceeds to the close of the day. 



We shall finish this notice with one other 

 uotatiou from the conclusion of the work, which 

 aust recommend it more etTcctimlly to our read- 

 rs than any observations of our own, though 

 xpressed in terms of eulogy commensurate with 

 he merits and importance of the production. 



The author has no theory to propose bnt 

 hat of truth ; no cause to plead but that of hu- 

 oan life with its blessings and enjoyments. He 

 ants no temple in order to find a grave. If he 

 ■an but deserve the epitaph of Simo.n Peter,* 

 Me will be content to be buried alone, or by the 

 ids of others, — like Arislides, in a field ; like 

 Homer, on the border of the sea ; like Lysan- 

 ler, on a plain ; or like any body else, who has 

 >een buried without parade, and without a tomb, 

 t such a distance from his survivors as not to 

 ontaminate the air they might breathe, or the 

 vater they might use. He will be satisfied with 

 ny plan which shall give Su;cuRrry to the Liv- 

 vc, WITH Respect and Repose for tjie Dead." 



* Simon Pierre, vir, pius et probu?, 



Hie sub dio sepcliri voluit, 

 Ne mortuus cuiquam uoceret. 



Qui vivus omuibus prol'uerat. 



An American Transtaliou, or Paraphrase. 



Here lies. 



Under the pure and breezy skies, 



The du!t 



Of Simo7i Peter, tlie devout, the just, 



Doctor of Medicine. — 



At liis request 



He sleeps in earth^s sweet wholesome breast, 



Rather t.han in a noisome cemetery, 



Under a church where all the great they bury. 



'TwouM be, he said, a sin 



Past all enduring — 



A sin which to commit he was unwillin», — 



Should he, who, while alive, got fame and bread, 



The sick by curing, 



Entirely change his hand, and go, when dead, 



The well to killing. 



may for the Jirst year, plant corn or potatoes 

 between the hills, if you please ; but I think it 

 better economy not to do it. because you may 

 plough with oxen between the rows, to lighten 

 the ground preparatory lor hoeing, which ought 

 to be done three times during the summer. Vou 

 get no produce the first year, and therefore it 

 is unnecessary to pole them, unless perfectly 

 convenient. 



In the spring of the second year, you place, 

 to each hill, two poles of about thirteen to fif- 

 teen feet above ground; and as the vine grows 

 you train it to the poles. It is best to hoe thorn 

 three times in the season, and (unless your land 

 is very rich) it will be well to add some manure 

 at the first hoeing. In gathering in the produce, 

 you cut the vine to the ground, and null up the 

 poles, lay them across large wooden bins or 

 boxes, made of rough boards, about ten feet 

 long and five or six feet wide, into which the 

 hojis may be stripped ofi". This work may be 

 performed by women and children. You take 

 them from these boxes in bags, and carry them 

 to the drying kiln, which is generally placed at 

 the side of a hill or rising ground, for the con- 

 venience of taking the hops in upon the cloth 

 or netting, which is stretched upon the sills 

 above the furnace, which is at the bottom, 

 where the fire is made, which ought to be with 

 charcoal, because it gives the hops a much bet- 

 ter flavor than by curing them with a fire made 

 of wood. It is necessary that some careful per- 

 son should attend, constantly stirring the hops 

 with a rake during Ihe process of curing, so 

 that they may be well dried, without discolor- 

 ing them. After you take them from the kiln, 

 tney must be spread (under cover) in an airy 

 room, and constantly moved with a rake, once 

 cr twice a day, for ten or twelve days, when 

 )0U may bag them for market. 



This hasty, imperfect sketch, is from my own 

 experience only. I presume you may obtain 

 better information from those who have been 

 longer in the habit of cultivating this vine. 

 1 am, with great respect, 



Your friend, and ob't servant, 



LSRAEL THORNDIKE. 



GoRHA.M Parsons, Esq. 



white clover is always tender and easily plough- 

 ed or broken np, and all kinds of grain and cori* 

 flourish wonderi^ully well after this grass. 



As white clover is what some would call nat' 

 ural to this country, that is, as it will after a 

 few years get into land used for pasturing, the 

 llirmers have generally suffered it to grow, bu( 

 have not saved the seed. This is a very great 

 error. When land is laid down for pastuiin;,' 

 and sowed with other gr.iss, it generally hap 

 pens that the grass-seed docs not s|iring well, 

 and the weeds spring up and occupy the ground 

 a year or two before it is covered ivi(h while 

 clover, whereas if the seed is sown, it will pro- 

 duce twice the fiuanlily of seed. The best 

 time for sowing white clover is in the iail tvitli 

 winter grain, but it will do well sown in the 

 spring, and if by reason oi drought it does not 

 spring the first season, it will the next, as ll:e 

 seed is of a very imperishable nature. 



Tne seed is collected by an instrument ill 

 form of a rake, with long sharp teeth set so 

 near together as to let the flower stalks of the 

 clover slip in between them, but not to allovr 

 the heads to pass. These will be broken oiT 

 and collect<^d on the upper side of the rake, 

 and may be removed from time to time as the 

 rake gets full. When the heads are collected 

 they should be put into a dry 7 lace, and when 

 thoroughly dried they may be threshed on a clean 

 drv floor, and the chuff winnoiVed out. 



The seed when clean is worth half a dollar a 

 quart, or ^IG a bushel. The instrument for col- 

 lecting will cost but little, and children can do 

 the work, which may be done to very great 

 profit. 



From the American Farmer. 



Boston, June 3, 1323. 

 CULTURE OF THE HOP. 

 Mv Dear Sir — I have to apologize to you, 

 for my negligence, in delaying so long to reply 

 to your inquiries respecting the culture of hops. 

 The method which I have practised, has been 

 to prepare the ground in the same manner as is 

 common for raising Indian corn ; after plough- 

 ing it well, to harrow it, and then furrow it 

 cross ways, so as to leave the hills eight feet 

 apart — then to manure in the hill with quite as 

 much as you would do for corn. In the spring, 

 cut your slips from the root of the hop vine, 

 about nine inches long, and lay them upon the 

 manure, three or four in a hill, and cover them 

 with earth about as deep as is usual to cover 

 corn — thus the planting, j:c. is complete. You 



From the Connecticut Journal. 

 TO FARMERS. 



The season promises a very great crop of 

 grass, with a more than usual proportion of white 

 clover, which flowers abundantly. It is very 

 desirable that the farmers in New England 

 should use the opportunity which is near at 

 hand, of securing a good supply of the seed of 

 this very valoable grass, which for many per- 

 poses excels all the other grasses. 



Pasture grounds well stocked with white clo- 

 ver yield more nutriment for cattle and sheep 

 pr. acre than any other, and cows fed on white 

 clover give milk of a superior quality. Besides 

 affording the best pasturage in the world, the 

 white clover may be cultivated to advantage 

 for hay. White clover an<l hcrds'-grass sown on 

 rich land, make a thick bottom, and the crop 

 of hay will be more valuable than the crop from 

 the same land sown with red clover and herds"- 

 grass. 



Besides the advantages above mentioned to 

 be derived from the culture of while clover, it 

 has another excellence of no small importance 

 to the farmer. The sward or turf formed by 



From the New York Mercantile Advertiser. 

 FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. 



Messrs. Edit-ors—l have been very much trou- 

 bled the present dry season with small insects 

 and flies on my gooseberry, currant, and rose 

 bushes, and on my cabbages and cucumbers — 

 but 1 have now the satisfaction to inform you 

 that there is no such thing in my garden, and I 

 am indebted to an intelligent neighbor for .1 

 cheap and easy mode of destroying them. He 

 informs me that he had made use of a cheap 

 and simple remedy-, and which had never failed 

 — and which was to sprinkle his bushes and 

 vines with soap suds night and morning for a 

 few times, and the fly and insect had never 

 failed to disappear. I have made use of this 

 recipe, and the effect has fully equalled my 

 expectation — and 1 am of opinion if applied to 

 fruit trees, the efiect would be equally favora- 

 ble. It belongs to the public to be made ac- 

 quainted with this simple expedient to remove 

 so great an evil — and I shall, therefore, be ob- 

 liged to you if this small communication can 

 have an insertion in your paper. G. C. 



Cftj" For some remarks on the use of soap suds for 

 manure, as well as an antidote against the ravages of 

 insects, see New Engl^md Farmer, page 3o3. 



CURE FOR THE ASTHMA. 

 Cut six penny worth of camphor into pieces 

 the size of a small pill, and put them into a 

 phial, for the convenience of the pocket, and 

 whenever (night or day,) the spasmodic cough 

 or nervous breathing commences, chew and 

 swallow one or more of these pieces, as the 

 case requires. The experiment may be worth 

 a trial. — London paper. 



