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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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. 9. After pruning in May, the body of the trees , GYMNASTICS, 



have been vMvslied over with soft soap, and a littie ! Tlio following; account of a ewimming ecliool at 

 old slacked lime intermixed lo make it adhere to | Amberg, in Bavnria, wo find in tlie New-York 

 l!ie tree. 'Statesman, taken from the papers of that country, 



10. Tiiey iiave been infested by the borer, and | which jrivc splendid accounts of the success of 

 ;:reat pains tnken in cutting thcni out, after whicu some of the scholars, 

 the wound.': have been plastered over with For The soldiers of a regiment of inf»n'.ry were en 



syth's coiijposition, aiid last year I washed then. 

 over witli pot ash water. 



11. They never have required scraping, tlij 



nbled to go down 24 feet under water, and swam 

 about from an hour to an hour and a half. They 

 jumped from an elcTation of 39 feet, with their 



hark having nlways been kept clean and bright by uniform on; and bore at the .lame time the weight 



the washing with so.ip. 



Ucspectfiilly, I am, sir, 



your obedient servant, 



CHARLES DAVIS. 

 Jioibury, Oct. 1, 182/ 



I of 30 pounds. They found and took from the bot- 

 I tora of the river, guns, muskets, <Sz.c. which had 

 I been lost there a long time before. Another e.x- 

 I pptiment was mad* at Passau. The best swimmers 

 separated into three parties, and swam for a 



equally good crops by adopting the new mode, and 

 have the use of the ground upon whicli they are 

 sown from March until August, and considering 

 that the labour attending the new mode is much 

 lees than that necessary in the old. Onions have 

 even been raised by the writer of this, as large as. 

 the common onion, by sowing white Portugal oni- 

 on seed early in the spring in good grou|j|^thin, 

 and keeping them clear of weeds. The Portugal 

 onions grow very large, and are remarkably mild 

 and of a pleasant flavour. But whether the seeds 

 be native or imported, they should always he sown 

 in drills, on account of the great ease with which 

 they are kept clean. Tnc same rule ouL'ht to be 

 observed with respect to all garpe^n veomarles. 

 The practice is now eommonly followed by those 



P. S. Since writing the above, I have thought! time without touching the earth. The first party who make it a business to attend tha Philadelphii 



proper to state that in I8'i2, the tops of many of had in their centre a musician who played on the 

 the trees became so heavy that they began to /^'^fionet. Before Ihem on a table was placed wine, 

 fjrow crooked, and I had them staked and tied, and the swimmers drank to tlie health of the Colo- 

 with a piece of n.;it under each cord. Two years nel who was on the bridge. The second party 

 after it was disrovered the borer was making composed of officers, hac before them a t;ible co- 

 havoc under the mats, and on e.xamination found ^cre.; with refreshments: the thi d also ranged 

 two or three trees had been quite destroyed, and themselves round the table. It is represented as a 

 acme others consi.'erably injured. The mats were curious spectacle to see men eating and drinking 

 iinmediatelv removi^d. C. D. ^"'^ amusing themselves in the middle of a stream 



Suffolk, ss. Bo.'triii, Oct. 3, 1827— Then the f" tables the water bore up. 

 above named (_^h:ii Ics Davis. Esq. personally ap- 

 peared and made srlemn oath to the truth of the 

 above statement subscribed by him, B. Guild 



Market with vegetables. The neatness and beauty 

 ofa garden is also thereby greatly promoted; a 

 consideration that ought not to be overlooked, for 

 it is one that will serve to stimulate to greater in- 

 dustry in attending to it. 



SEEDS. 

 It is a very general impression among garden. 

 j ers, that several species of garden seeds cannot be 



DllESS OP CHILDREN. , raised in AnKiica in ;;fr/ff/io)i ; among these are 



Is there any reason, aside from fashion, why ^f'" invaluable species of balterse^, early York, 



•he dress of ohiiciren should be so contrived as to '>"'' early sngar-loaf cabbage. English seeds must, 



leave naked their arms, shoulders, and upper purt therefore, be imported at an expense of 4 or 5 dol- 



of the chest .> If there is none in favor of this lars the pound, to set our crops annually This 



custom there ari; reasons, and serious ones, too, ** "" error. Evperience has taught me that these 



agaip.-t it. seeds can be raised in as great perfection in our 



That leaving these parts uncovered is uncom- country as in England. These species of cabbage 

 forlcbio to the iiv iviiiual, any one may.be lonviuc- are generally sown vpry early, in hot-beds, for 

 ed by muking the experiment upon himself Let e'lrly use, and come into perfection and full head 

 him leave his aims, uiid the upper part of 1. is chest early in July, and consequently the crop is ex- 

 exposed to the variations of tempernture during hausted before fall, and nrne left to propagate the 

 the waking hours of almost any one day ; and if, species. To obviate this, I have reserved a few 

 on trial, his feelings compel him to restore to seeds, sowed them early in June, and set the plants 

 those parts their usual covering, let him have '^^^ ' ''y which means I have had a good supply 

 eompassion enough on the children under his care of heads in the fall. This late crop is as easily 

 (0 furnish them with a similar protection against preserved as any other species of cabbage, and, if 

 the vicissitudes of the weather. so preserved, and set in the .spring, will yield a 



But the objection on the score of comfort is not plentiful supply of seed. Durin? tne war, I resort- 



the greatest one. This mode of dressing is also ed to this e.xpedient, and for five vears past have 



detrimental to healili. The state of the lungs and had complete success. Some prcc.'ition is, howe- 



other internal organs, greatly depends upon the ^er, necessary in setting these peculiar species : 



state of the skin : and is in no way more often "'ey should be carefully separated, and set at a 



disordered, than by any cause which interrupts distunce from other species ; otherwise they will 



the due process of insensible perspiration in the degenerate and intermix with the other kinds, and 



latter. In tropical countries this fashion might be produce a mongrel species. So Circful are the 



tolerated with impunity. But in ours, and espec- : English gardeners to prevent this mixture of sorts, 

 ially in the New England States, where the tem- 

 perature of the atmosphere sometimes varies fif- 

 teen or twenty degrees in the course of a few 

 hours, it is entirely out of place. If such as have 

 arrived lo years of di'5cretion will hazard their 

 Tives by conforming to the absurdities of fashion, 

 the wor.et is their own ; but to impose this kind of 

 penance upon young children, merely to gratify 

 the pride of their parents, is cruel, — is inexcusa- 

 ble. — Con. Journal. 



A few nights ago, says a New-York paper, 2535 

 eels were taught at one haul at Owego, averaging 

 ft'om one to five pounds each — more than 3000 

 pounds. 



that nets aro thrown over each kind when in bios 

 som, to prevent the bees from carrying the farina 

 of one kind to another, to mix and spoil the varie- 

 ties. The same precautions, I have no hesitation 

 in saying, will produce any one species of cbbafe 

 seed in as great peifection in this country as in 

 England or France. — Alhauy Plough boy. 



ONIONS. 

 The practice recommended in the 2d volume of 

 the Memoirs of the Agricultural Society of raising 

 onions, by sowing the seed iu the month of Au- 

 gust, has been so fully tested near Philadelphia, 

 that every farmer ought te adopt it. To continue 

 th» old practise is absurd when they may obtain 



ORCHARDS. 



We recommend to especial notice the remarks 

 of the Hon. Mr Lowell on our first aud second 

 pages, relating to the subject, delivered before the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Society at its recent 

 exhibition at Brighton. They demous'rate what 

 many farmers already know, and what more we 

 trnst, will know, by experiment, that fruit trees 

 may be cultivated so as to become more produc- 

 tive and profitabi* than most other products of the 

 farm in a few years. It is doubtless in some part 

 owing to the circumstance that they do not bring 

 to the cultivator immediate profit that we see so 

 few thrifty orchards. The annual income for the 

 labor bestowed upon theM must, it is true, be dis- 

 pensed with for the few first years: but lEkinir 

 ten years collectively, and labor can in no way 

 probably be so profitably employed upon land as 

 in the production of fruit trees. It iS also to be 

 taken into the account, and reckoned among the 

 inducements to the cultivation of fruit trees, thai 

 they lessen scarcely at all, the other products of 

 the soil. Nearly as much grain or grass will be 

 produced on lands covered with orchards as with- 

 out them. 



It is a common error, too, that a peculiarity ol 

 soil is necessary to the production of fruit trees. 

 We have seen them thrive on almost every variety 

 of soil; and on steep acclivities as well as level 

 land. Nearly all that is required, we are told, by 

 cultivators, is that the earth about the roots be 

 kept loose by light manures; or, if the soil is 

 strong, by other light substances. As a matter of 

 profit as well as gratification in the production of 

 rich and valuable fruit, we repeat the belief, that 

 labor can scarcely in any way be so advantageous- 

 ly employed. Undoubtedly a far greater number 

 of orchards have been planted in this neighborhood 

 as well as in other parts of N. England within the 

 last five or six years than in any equal number of 

 years before. Still, more may and should be done 

 in this way for individual as well as the public be- 

 nefit. — Taunton Reporter. 



Hay press — JI. B. Bliss of Pittstown, Maine, 

 has for sale a new constructed Hay Press, built on 

 wheels, and transportable. If it can be offered 

 sufficiently cheap, it must possess very great ad 

 vantages over a standing press. 



