\ oL G No. 1 



NEW EjNGLAND FARWIER. 



TO DESTROY COCKROACHES. 



Mr Skinner — I iiavc senn one or two articles 

 .11 the Farmer, describing ways to destroy cock- 

 roaolies — they may all be good ; but as there will 

 be no harm in multiplying facts, and shewing va- 

 rious ways for obtaining the same results, I will 

 trouble you with my method, which I know by ex- 

 perience to be eft'cctiial. 



Several years ago, I entered upon the posses- 

 sion of a large old house that had been for some 

 months unoccupied, and I found it swarming with 

 cockroaches. They devoured such clothing as 

 i'ell in their way, and were in other respects very 

 troublesome and disagreeable. A neighbor kindly 

 suggested a plan for destroying them, which I 

 udopted as follows : 



I set two crocks, or earthen pots, each ten or 

 twelve inches high, and about the same in diame- 

 ter, in the t>vo most infested parts of the house, 

 into which I put a few gills of molasses — against 

 these I leaned shingles, making a bridge from 

 the floOr to the rim, that the vermin might easily 

 reach the luscious bait below, whose fragrance 

 tilled the chambers ; and the better to allure them, 

 I trailed some molasses along the road I intended 

 they should travel to their prisons, and which they 

 did travel in such numbers the first night, that I 

 found the crocks half filled : the second niglit 

 completed their capture and destruction. 



Am. Farmer. 



CROPS IN NOVA SCOTIA. 



Tlie Editor of this paper having returned from a 

 journey through a large part of the Province of 

 New Brunswick, Prince Edward's Island and the 

 eastern part of this Province has had an opportu- 

 nity of collecting information as to the state of 

 the crops. It was represented to him, wherever j 

 he went, that the season has been in the highest 

 degree favorable to the hopes of the farmer. — 

 Genial showers have been succeeded by dry sul- 

 try weather ; and the soil has thus been kept in 

 that state of moisture which is best adapted for 

 the full development of its vegetative powers. It 

 is generally thought that there has been no pros- 

 pect, equal to the present, for these ten years 

 iiack. The crops of hay are unusually heavy — 

 '.he grain is strong and verdant — Indian corn vig- 

 orous — and the potatoe every where setting up a 

 thick and bushy stem. Tlie general appearance 

 of tlie country is rich and beautiful. 



Halifax JVovascotiaii. 



Samuel W. Johnson, John Q. Wilson, James Mc- j proportion of 7 to ii ; and they are brought nearer 

 Clellan, John A. Taintor, Lemuel llurlbut, Shel- | to a state analogous to that of sands ; the parti- 

 don ('. Leavitt, John R. Watkinson, Wcdworth < cles are less adhesive, and the niasa less retentive 

 Wadsworth, Francis McLean, John Hall, bo, and ' of moisture, 'i'lius the process of burning, proper, 

 they are hereby appointed Delegates to said Con- 1 ly applied, may convert a matter that was stifl". 

 vention, and requested to co-operate with the damp, and in consequence cold, into one powdery, 

 other members thereof, in all law ul and proper dry and warm; altogether more fitly constituted 

 means for the protection and encouragement of as a bed for vegetable life. The great objection. 

 Domestic Industry and National Independence. i made by speculative chemists to paring and burn- 

 — — ! ing, is, that the animal and vegetable matter in 



Horse Ckesmtls. — A permanent bufi", or nan- j i],o guil is diminished :— But where the texture 

 keen die, for muslin, linen, cotton, silk, or woollen of jhg earthy ingredients is permanently improv- 

 cloths, may be obtained from the hor.se chesnuts. yj^ if,ere jg more than a compensation. To meet 

 For the iit/" colour, take the whole fruit, husk and , the objection still more directly, whe e an excess 

 ail, when quite young ; cut it small, and put it in- [of inert vegetable matter is present, the destruc- 

 to cold soft water, with as much soap as will just i tion of a part of it must be beneficial ; and the 

 cloud or discolour the water. VVIien deep enougli, j carbonaceous matter in the ushes may be more 

 pour off the clear part, and dip whatever is to be : useful to the crop, than the unreduced vegetable 

 died, till it is the colour required. For the nan- ; fj^re, of which it is the remains, could have been. 

 /cecn colour, take the husks of the fruit only ; cut [ .. Tijg most speedy way of bringing under til- 

 or break them small; steep them in soft water, j-igg a meadow overrun with rushes, is ; first to 

 with soap as above, and dio in the same manner. , drain it, and then to pare off athick turf and burn 

 The husks may be used for the buflf dye, after the it_ 



kernels are formed ; but it is only when they are ' u The cases in which burning must incontesta- 

 most imperceptible that the whole fruit is used, \^]y be prejudicial, are those of sandy, dry, flinty, 

 and the brightness of the buff colour diminishes as goilg, containing little animal or vegetable mat- 

 the husk ripens, till when quite ripe, the die is ter ; here it can only be destructive ; for it de- 

 most like nankeen. I composes that constituent which is already below 



Indian I^-hoU a plate overThe flame of a '^e minimum proportion, and in the presence of 



lamp or candle, to obtain the fine soot, which mix which in a limited degree, the productiveness of 



with clean size. The Indian ink of the shops is , " ^'' aepends. „ , . 



usually scented with musk. ! ^he late Mr Nicnolson of New \ ork, m a prize 



; essay, appended to Ihe larmers Jissistant, tiiMa 



To killJUes. — To a table-spoonful of milk, add describes the operation of paring and bi;rriing. — 

 one tea-spoonful of black pepper,and one tea-spoon- ' When the ground is in a good sward of grass lei 

 ful of brown sugar. Put them in a small plate or it bo carefully turned over with the plough ; the 

 saucer, and place it where the flies are most nu- irons of which should be well sharpened. Let the 

 merous. j plough run about three inches deep. Then cross 



plough with a sliarp coulter, and the sward will 



NEW ENGLAND FARMEit. l a" ^e cut into squares of ten or twelve inches.— 



Set these square chunks up edgeways, by leaning 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, JUL Y 27, 1827. two together, and they will soon dry. When well 



dried, build a part of them up in the form of little 



PARING AND BURNING THE SOIL. I . .1 j . c t .. ■ i ^ r < 1 



ovens, at the distance ot about eighteen teet eacli 

 Paring and burning is the process of paring off j way. These are to have a little opening or door, 

 the surface of lands, and preparing the soil, by at a common windward side, for the air to enter 

 means of fire for arable crops. It is more partic- 1 and another opening above, for the smoke to pass 

 ularly adapted to the improvement of soils which off. On some dry day, when the wind is fair for 

 are overrun by the roots of vegetiibles that can- 1 blowing into the holes below, place some straw 

 not be destrojel by the modes of cultivation, gen- 1 or other dry rubbish into the holes, and sot fire tc 

 erally made use of; and to stiff clays, which by , it. As soon as the files have got fully going in 

 being burnt are converted into a kind of manure i each of the heaps, let the holes in the tops be 

 very useful in many soils. There has been a di- stopped up, for the purpose of retaining the smoke 

 versity of opinion among agriculturists respecting and keep gradually building up the heaps as the 

 the propriety of making use of this process to sub- fire penetrates them, until all the chunks of earth 

 due a refractory soil. Burning soils no doubt are piled round them ; and when the heaps have 



IVasliing Machint. — The New Brunswick Times 

 calls the attention of the publick to a Washing 

 Machine exhibiting in that city, by Philip P. Crain. 



If it deserves the recommendation there given, , , -- ,,_ 



it is a valuable invention. The editor says it is | ™''y destroy much vegetable matter, which under fully burned and sufficiently cooled they are to be 



simple in its construction, is worked with little '"'^^"''^''''^ '^"■<^"'°s'^'"=es might have been convert- evenly spread over the ground, and ploughed." 



labour, and does the washing in the best manner, | '^'^' '"^° ''"o*^ ^°^ plants. But it often happens that The following is Mr Cobbett's method of burn- 



and with less injury to the finest garments than I "'^'''^ ^-^''^'^ '" » ^'^^^^ ^^ excess of vegetable mat- ing earth : '■ Make a circle or an oblong square, 



the ordinary mode. It is calculated that a woman ter, which is scarcely possibH to decompose with- cut sods and build a wall all round three feet 



out great expense and dela 7, in such a manner thick and four feet high, then light a fire in the 



that it can furnish nutriment to plants, e;:cept by middle with straw, dry sticks, &c. extending it all 



the agency of fire. Burning, like.vise, renders over the bottom of the pit ; keep adding lio-ht fuel 

 Connc-<icu<.— A State Convention was held atjclaysless coherent, and in this way greatly im- j at first, then rubbish wood, till there is a good bed 



Middletown, Conn, on the 12th inst. at which it proves their texture, and causes them to be more of coals. Then put on ihe driest of the clods tak- 



will do more washing in two hours than can be 

 performed in a day by the common process 



was voted, that this meeting highly approve of ; permeable to water, and of course they are less 

 the contemplated Convention at Harrisburgh, on ; apt to retain it in a state of stagnation. A cause 

 the 30th day of July inst. and of the objects in- ; of the unproductiveness of cold clayey adhesive 

 tended to be proaaoted thereby, and that Timothy ; soils, is, that the seed is coated with matter im- 

 Pitkin, Henry Watson, Henry L. Ellsworth, Gide- penetrable to air. When clayey or tenacious soils 

 on Wells, Jonathan Rose, Sheldon Clark, James are burnt, their power and tendency to absorb 

 M. L. Scovill, CalvinGoddard, Thomas S.Perkins, 'water from the atmosphere is diminished in the 



ing care to keep the smoke in. Continue thus for 

 a day or two, when you may dig out the earth any 

 where about the kiln and fling on. Put your fin- 

 ger into the top of the heap here and there ; if 

 you find the fire very near, throw on more earth ; 



not too much at a time for it deadens the fire 



The ashes (or torrefied earth) will be cool enough:, 



