Vol. t). — No. 1 



WEW ENGLAMi FARMER. 



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:mtl the strong plants will Jestroy the weaker ones, 

 l)ut he admits that too tliicl; sowing is injurious. 

 •' I think (says Monsieur Rozier), that it will suc- 

 oeed, il' sowed with wheat, but I have never tried 

 it." [We know that it will.] — Editors. " We 

 •annot estimate ci-acWi/ the quantity of grain es- 

 timated by weiglit wliich should be sown on a 

 given space of ground ; so much depends on the 

 nature of the soil, and the time of sowing. If 

 sown in September, it should be sown tliicker, for 

 it has to encounter ants, birds, and overflowing 

 rains of winter. In spring it has fewer risks to 

 •mcounter. [In our country, at least, in New 

 England, fall sowing will never answer.] — E01- 

 roRs. You may, however, say, that upon a sur- 

 face of four liundred square toises [one tliird of 

 an acre] you ought to sow something more than 

 one sixteenth of a hundred weight, (say seven 

 iiounds.) This would bo at the rate of twenty one 

 pounds to the acre. If you can procure good 

 seeds from a distant province, the plant will gain 

 by the e.vchange. Tlie planters in tlio north of 

 France wore for a long time persuaded, that it 

 was absolutely necessary to procure their seed 

 from the soutli, and they were right, because the 

 j)lant had not then become acclimated, but at 

 present, these distant transportations do not take 

 place. I am inclined to think, says Rozier, that 

 nt this moment it is better to sow northern seed in 

 the south. I repeat it, change of seed is useful 

 in the case of Lucerne, but not as much so as for 

 wheat crops." 



[We add, that in Massacliusetts, the Lucerne 

 ripens its seeds as freely as clover.] — Editors. 

 (To be concluded next week.) 



CIIOLIC— CHOLERA iMORBUS. 

 It sliould not be forgotten that a burnt cork, pul- 

 verised nud mi.\cd v.'itli molasses and brandy or 

 other spirits, will give almost imjnediate relief 

 trom the diseases so common to this season of the 

 year. In the absence of cork, a crust of broad is 

 a tolerable substitute. The business is best per- 

 formed by covering the cork entirely in the hot 

 embers, and it will be charred there in about ten 

 minutes. — Mid. Caz. 



I apples with the flowers ; else experiments maj 

 prove deceptive — as no other benefits can be ex- 

 pected from plucking, than follow froui this spon- 

 taneous failure of the apples. — American Advocate. 



SINGULAR ORGANIC RELIC. 

 Capt. Bell, of the schooner Three Sisters, cf 

 Polly Landing, Accomac county, Virginia, has 

 brought from that neighborhood a very curious 

 skull, with tusks and teeth resembling ivory. It 

 is in a complete state of petrification, and weighs 

 fourteen pounds. Il was found by Mr Cropper on 

 the sea shore, and it is a matter of uncertainty 

 whether it washed up by the surf, or disinterred 

 by the waves. The latter is probably the fact. — 

 The specimen has been referred to the order of 

 cetaceous animals which are herbivorous, or feed 

 upon vegetables, such as the Mnnnti, the Dugong, 

 and the Ri/tina of Zoologists. But Dr JMicthill, 

 wlio received the specimen from the finder, thro' 

 Mr II. P. Havens, is inclined to consider it as hav- 

 ing belonged to some ontodeluvian cieature, who 

 no longer exists in a living state, but has, like 

 many others, become e.\tinct in the course of age. 

 By him Mr Cropper has been exhorted to make 

 search for other parts of the skeleton. 



.V. 3'. Ee. Post. 



LIME. 



The facts wo have lately witnessed oftlic benc- 

 licial effects of lime in agriculture, fmpress us 

 with the belief that a greater revolution will *e 

 nroduced by the general introduction of lime as a 

 inanure, than by gypsum or any other fertilizer of 

 land that has ever been used or known. It has 

 for some years been used in the lower coun- 

 ties, and we have seen and heard of its great ben- 

 efits, but they have not been suitably noticed or 

 made known. The good eflects of lime on land in 

 this coun'.ry is more remarkable than in the pla- 

 ces we have mentioned. A neighbour of ours 

 spread lime over a strip of his corn field, and the 

 difference in the appearance of the corn which 

 was limed in comparison with that which was not 

 is indeed truly astonishing. Every hill of corn 

 which was limed may be most distinctly seen by 

 its rank lu.'iuriant growth. The r.talks are nearly 

 twice the height of the other corn, and in other 

 respects proportionably strong and vigorous. 



Last year we limed part of a garden, the effect 

 was striking and palpable. Tliis year wo did the 

 same with another, and vegetation in it is almost 

 too rank to be controled and kept in order. 

 Philadelphia Miner''s Journal. 



Effect of hot icfiter in raising Jloivers. — In Tiiom- 

 sons Annals of Philosophy, it is said that, if flow- 

 ers which have been 24 hours out of water, and 

 are decayed, that if plunged into hot water, as the 

 water gradually cools they become again quite 

 fresh. This fact, while many discredit it, has 

 long been familiar to those who live in the vicinity 

 of hot springs ; and who have remarked, that de- 

 cayed flowers, plunged into the waters of the 

 springs, became again frosli and beautiful. 



POTATO. 



Not long since a paragraph was copied from the 

 " New England Farmer" into the Advocate, re- 

 commending it to farmers to pluck the blossoms 

 from potatoes for the sake of improving the root. 

 Th« practice is recommended there by the result 

 of the author's e.xperiments ; and the general 

 principle on which it rests is well established, and 

 extensively acted upon in some kinds of cultiva- 

 tion ; particularly in dressing the vine. There 

 the luxuriance of tlie growth is checked, by tak- 

 ing off the shoots, and thus the sap and juices, in- 

 stead of being expended in producing a useless 

 extension of the branches, is turned to the useful 

 purposes of enlarging, maturing, and enriching 

 the fruit. Plucking the fruit would doubtle.'^s 

 leave more nourishment to bo supplied to the 

 branches. 



In the potato it is the bulbous root we value 

 and use — and this, it is very reasonable to sup- 

 pose, will receive a larger share of the nutritive 

 matter gathered from the earth and atmosphere 

 by the plant, if the balls, or apples, do not take it 

 up. But the object of this paragraph is principal- 

 ly to direct the attention of your readers to a fact 

 that often renders it unnecessary to be at the 

 trouble of plucking the blossoms. — They often fall 

 off themselves, a little below the germ, so that no 

 apples or balls are found. I believe most of the 

 varieties of the potato now cultivated, usually do ' 

 so. In looking over mine. I find only a few hills 

 on which apples are forming. I think it was oth- 

 erwise with most kinds of potatoes cultivated when 

 I was a bo)'. I am sure my potato yard will not 

 supply the means of such obstinate peltings as 

 bovs used then to give one another with potato 

 bails. 



It is necessary also to be aware of the fact that 

 potatoes often spontaneously shed the gerija of the 



ELDER WINE 

 The wine, made from the elder, is in general 

 use in England, and is said to be excellent, and 

 to constitute the basis of a most healthy and de- 

 lightful beverage. In this country, it is unknown. 

 Will not some geutlcman from that country fui- 

 I nish a recipe for making this Wine ; and also for 

 I compounding the after mi.xturc. The berries a- 

 J bound in this country and arc suffered to drop to 

 j the ground unmolested A*. 1'. Daily .Idv. 



j RECIPE. 



! To make Elder Berry limine. — One bushel, when 

 picked^from the stalks, produces three gallons, or 

 upwards, of berries — put these to seven gallons 

 soft water ; after standing forty-eight hours, put 

 i them into the copper, let them boil one hour, then 

 j press the juice through a coarse cloth, then put 

 j the liquor into your copper again, with twenty 

 pounds of raw sugar, half a pound of Jamaica gin- 

 ger, bruised, one ounce of cloves, and one ounce 

 of allspice. Boil the whole together one hour — 

 then put it into a tub, and when cold enough, add 

 some good barm, or yeast, spread on a toast, and 

 in two days, put it all into a cask, and lay the 

 bung lightly on for two months ; then add one 

 quart of brandy ; this wine will keep, if required, 

 several years. 



CORNISH MINES. 



At a time like the present, when the public at 

 tcntion is fixed upon such stupendous undertak- 

 ings as tunnels under tlie Thames and Mersey, 

 (the following extract cannot fail to be interesting 

 — It is transcribed from the Selector, or Cornish 

 I Magazine : 



j " Ti.v MI^■E. — On the shore, about half a mile 

 towards the old tishing village of Newlyn, is th» 

 spot where a tin mine was worked under the bed 

 of the sea ; its name was the Wherry Mine, and 

 as its history exhibits the ingenuity and adventur- 

 ous spirit of the Cornishmen, it will please the 

 reader. This mine was first attempted to be 

 worked about 1700, when, "t low water, there 

 being some appearance of metal, a shaft was sunk 

 some way into the rock; but the difficulty of e.\- 

 cluding the water caused its abandonment How- 

 ever, about 1778, a, common miner of Breage 

 boldly began again, and with a very small pittance, 

 a good head and hard work pursued his plan. — 

 His difficulties were indeed great — the distance 

 of the rock from the dry heach at high-water 

 above 100 fathoms. At first, work could only be 

 done at low water ; and at high spring tides, nine- 

 teen feet of water was above the rock. In winter, 

 the heavy waves prevf-nted all operations. After 

 3 years, a pump was fixed in an upright, square 

 wooden tunnel or shaft, twenty feet high, cement- 

 ed to the rock, and reaching above the tide ; then 

 machinery came into action. Thus, with great 

 perseverance, the ore was raised, and proved sc 

 rich that profit crowned the endeavour, and added 

 courage to those v/ho had assisted with money the 

 genius of the old miner. 



In 1791, Wheal Wherry Wi:s worked about five 

 fathoms deep, with eighteen feet breadth of work- 

 ing. Such success and great indications of metal, 

 made the work proceed briskly, as much as the 

 tides and lost time of winter would allow ; and in 



