Vol. 6.— No. IB. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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oanvas back ducks, red heads, brants, black ducks' 

 blue bills, wliitehelly ducks, Ipel, woodcock, enipei 

 and various otlier kinds ot" birds ; wild goose, mon- 

 grel goose — and all kinds of poultry — and some 

 line venison. 



AGRICULTDRAL EXTKA3. 



Mr William STO^E, the intelliftent and able 

 .^uperiutendant of the city farm, connected willi 

 the House of Indust'V at South Boston, has left at 

 the office of the New Enc^land Paruicr, several 

 fine roots of the Mantrel VVurtzel Beet, weighing 

 1.8, 19 and 20 lbs. each. 



SlUl larger Mr Nathan Tufts 2d of Charles- 

 town has left with ns, fur public inspection, seve- 

 ral roots of Mangel Wurtzel, tlie larfrest of which 

 weighs 20^ lbs. — Six of tlieso weiirh collectively 

 OO} pounds. — We hope th.it both Mr Stone nnd 

 JVIr Tufts will give us some .account of their mode 

 of managing their crops, and the amount raised per 

 acre. | 



Mr Joseph Parker of Wilton, N. H. has raised 

 this season, one of the old fashioned Crook Neck 

 Squashes weighing '.1^^ lbs. I 



Potatoes. — J. Locke Esq. of Andover, raised this • 

 season from one seed potato one bushel and a half, 

 in number 29.'>, of excellent potatoes; 31) of which 

 weighed 30» pounds. Total weight 81^ lbs. j 



On the farm of Mr Timothy W. Dexter, in Cum- I 

 borland, R. I. were raised the present season, from ■ 

 cne potato five pecks, lacking one quart, weighing 



.S5a lbs. 



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Mr James Eustace, of South Reading, from 25 

 hills of potatoes obtained 4 bushels and tVpeck; 

 8 of tliose hills produced 2 bushels. They were of 

 t-(ie kind called long reds. The potatoes were I 

 planted in the common way, with hills of the usu- , 

 al size, and without any intention to note their 

 product ; and it is not known to us whether they i 

 were put in the ground whole, or cut, nor the 1 

 quantity of seed made use of. ' 



A huge Radish. — A radish was raised the pre- 

 sent season, in the garden of Dr. Noah Wliitman, ; 

 of West Bridgewater, weighing nineteen pound" ! | 

 Its length was tv,renty-four inches and its circum- 1 

 ferenee, (half way from the bottom) was twenty-' 

 two and a half inches. — Colum. Rep. i 



[From the New England Medical Review and Jouraal.] 



•^ cure for the Asthma, by Dr. Francesso Chia- 

 rrenlo. — This gentleman having observed that no 

 means would relieve those who were affected with 

 asthma so promptly as a free current of wind, he 

 imagined that distending the lungs with air by 

 means of bellows would produce the same saluta- 

 ry effect. He, therefore, being himself afflicted 

 with this disease, introduced the nose of the bel- 

 lows into his mouth, and having compressed bis 

 nose, he ble\v with considerable force, and for a 

 considerable lime, a large quantity of atmospheric 

 air into his lungs. The operation was completely 

 successful, and that with the aid of this siinplo in- 

 strument he could overcome in a few minutes the 

 most violent attacks of the asthma. After having 

 performed this experment on himself a number of 

 times, he then performed it on others, and with 

 the same success. From the numerous experi- 

 ments which he has performed, and from the many 

 observations which he has made of their results. 

 Dr. Chiarento does not hesitate to say that he 

 regards the blowing of air into the lungs, as a 

 means, not only capable of relieving with great 

 promptness the attacks of asthma, but also radical- 

 ly curing this disease, when it is not the effect of 

 great organic alteration Antot. di Firenze, Sep- 

 tember, 1825. 



furnish the roots at 25 cents each. Mr. ¥. warrants his vinc.« 

 to glow, and will replace those the spring or the fall after the 

 i plantation, that is not growing ; provided, the person ha.s lollow- 

 I cil his directions. References lor the above assertion, to Dr. 

 ! Vanderveer, Col. Gibbs, Messrs. Wm. Page, Rulef R. Schenck, 

 Richard Anien, John liurr, and all the nenUcinen who have 



bought their vines of him. The fall is the best time to plant 



the vines iu a sand or ligbi soil, which is the best lor the vines. 

 Orders can be directed lo Mr. P's. establislitneni , post paid.— 

 Mr. Swan will deliver gratis, the Provisional Catalogue of Pruii 

 and Ornameulal Trees of Mr. P. which may be hadof hisagenu- 

 at Boston, Mr. Russell. New Eiighind Farmer office— Hartford, 

 Mr. E. W. Hull— Rochester, Messrs, Luther Tucker & Co.— 

 liuftalo, Mr. Lewis F. Allen— Richmond, Mr. Hemingway. 

 Brooklyn, f!rpt. 20, 18'27. 



Grass Seeds, S, c. 

 For sale at the office of the New England Farmer, No. 52 North 

 .^larket Street, Boston, a large variety of Gras^i ,*?W.s, compris- 

 ing LU<'ERNE, FOWL .MEADOW, ORCHARD (iRAS.S. 

 HERD'S CiRASS, RED TOP, RED .-ind WHITE HONEY- 

 SUCKLE CLOVER &,c. with the largest a s.sorlmeut of Gar- 

 dtrit and Fkhl Sf:fds, lo be loiiiid in New England. 



Atso, 20 bushels fresh Canary Seedj genuine £n^'/w/iRape 

 Seed ; Hemp .Seed, &.c. Itir birds. 



Apples a year old. — We were presented last 

 week with a sample of apples, of the (jrowth of 

 1826. which had been kept to this time in a sound 

 state, by Mr Nathan Warner of Woodbury. — His 

 method of preserving them is very simple, and one 

 that may be easily practised. The apples are to 

 be laid down in dry flaxseed chaff, where they re- 

 main until some time in the month of June follow- 

 ing, when they are to be overhauled, those that are 

 unsound thrown aside, the chaff spread out and 

 dried, and the sound apples packed down again 

 along with the chaff as at first. Managed in this 

 way Mr Warner has had plenty of fresh apples 

 through the whole of the past season and until the 

 ripening of the same fruit this autumn. 



[JVew Hampshire Journal 



jVetv England t'urmer's Almanack, for 1828. 



Just published, at the New England Farmer Office, and 

 for sale by Bowles & Dearbokn, 72 Washington Street, ami 

 at the Bookstores gencrallv, the Xfir England Farmers Alma- 

 wt/r*. liir 1828. By Thoiiias G. Fessenden, Editor of the New 

 England Farmer. ___„ 



This day uublished by Richai-dson & Lord, at their town and 

 country bookstore, the Old Farmer's Almanack for iS28, by R. 

 B. Thomas, Esq. containing the usual quantity of new, useful, 

 anrl entertaining matter, together with the sun's decliitalion. 



Ountry traders supplied by R. it L. at tlie lowest rale. In 

 the press and will soon be published, the Miniature or Pocket 

 .\lmanack, likewise the Massachusetts Register for 1B28 I i- 



Gooseberry Biishes. 

 Persons in want of superior varieties of Gooseberries, can pro- 

 cure the bushes, by sending their orders to the office of the New 

 England Farmer. They are from Glasgow in Scotland ; die 

 fruit is fine flavored and large, (some may be seen at this office 

 measuring 3 and 4 inches in circiniifcrciice) and ol while, red, 

 and yellow colour. The price viill nut exceed ^j per dozen. 



Price of Wheat in Ohia. — In the Mansfield Gaz- 

 ette, printed in Richland County, (Ohio,) we ob- 

 serve an advertisement, offering thirty-one and a 

 quarter cents, in cnsh, or thirty seven and a half, 

 in salt or dry soods, per bushel, for wheat. If 

 the farmers can afford to raise wheat at that price, 

 Ihelr county is very appropriately named Rich- 

 hnd.—Bali Pat. 



A certain preventive of birds taking seeds out 

 of the ground in gardens Sfc. — -'Mix together one 

 pound of tar gas, qunrter of a pound of brown 

 spirits of tar, and a quarter of a pound of grease ; 

 into this dip some shoe-maker's thread or twine, 

 and draw it several tiuie? over the newly sown 

 beds, supported a few inche-; from the enrtb on 

 the top of sticks." Robert Gorton. Chemist Drug- 

 gest, Wolverhampton, April 11, 1827. 



The Aurora Borealis, which was remarkable in 

 »ur hemisphere, for several nights, the last of Au- 

 gust, was noticed in England about the same time, 

 and described as uncommonly extensive and bright 

 ,[n its appearanee. 



.500 Grape Vines, 

 For sale in Charlestown, by Samuel R. Johnson. The above 

 choice vines are of the Sicee^ wvi^er species, all raised from cut- 

 tings, and are from 3 to 4 years old, most of them in a bearing 

 slate. Orders fiir the above may he supplied at J. R. Newell's 

 Agricultural Establishment. No. 52 Nortn Market street, or by 

 die subscriber in Charlestown ; price for each vine is from twen- 

 ty-five to fifty cents, according to its age and size ; all the above 

 vines have been trained to trellises and insured to be as healthy 

 vines as can he presented for sale. SAMUEL R. JOHNSON. 



Subscription. — Select Tai'le Grapes. 



MR. ANDREW PAR'MENTIER, Proprietor of the Horti- 

 cultural Potanie Garden at Brooklyn, two miles from the City 

 of New York, ofiers to the public, by subscription, one dozen of 

 the most select and choice GRAPES, for the table, many of 

 which are in a bearing slate, and can be seen at his establish- 

 ment with the fi-uit, afler only fifteen months planting. 

 Numfs ohhf tweliv ffirls. 



No, I. White Chasselas— 2. Chasselas of Fonlainbleau— 3. 

 Yellow Chasselas of Thnmery- 4, Golden Chasselas— 5. Musk 

 Chasselas — fi, Roval Chas.selas— 7, Large Maroc— 8, White 

 Muscat— 9. Violet' Mnscal—10. Black Muscat— IL Grey Mus- 

 cat — 12, Large Fraiikenthal. 



The .Subscribers will receive their Vines between the 16th of 

 Oct. and 14thof Dee.and the Isi of April and loth of May 1828, 

 free of freight or postage to New York, well packed in moss in 

 such a manuer as to go several hundred miles farther than New 



York. Mr, Charles Swan, Grocer and Tea Store, No. 357 



Broadway, and Messrs, Grant Thorburn &. Son, Liberty-Sl, 

 New York, are empowered to receive the subscriptions. Price 

 six dollars the dozen, and the plants to be paid for when de- 

 livered, The subscription reteipt will be accompanied by 



flirectiolis on the best mode of cultivating and planting the vine. 

 The same sorts of Vines maj be had separately. Price 75 cts. 

 with package, e.icept the Golden Chasselas and Royal Chas- 

 selas. Mr. P, will designate the difTerent kinds of most con- 



•caial lo eacb soil aod situation for to make vineyards, and 



Superb Bulbous Flower Roots. 

 Just received at the office of the New England Farmer, direcS 

 from the most eminent florists in Holland, a large assortnieiil ot 

 bulbous Hower roots, comprising the finest varieties of 

 Double while hyacinths, with purple eye 



'' pure white hyacinths 



" red diademe de Flora 



" dark blue hyacinths 



" yeffow rose tulips 



■• porcelain blue hyacinths 



" e^^rly claremand tulips 



" red donna Elconora hyacinths 



" white and purple Franklin hyacinths , 



" jonquilles and lilies 



'* yellow melislote 



" white hyacinths, with yellow eye 



" belle Agalhe hyacinths, porcelain blue 

 Large yellow crown imperial ; large red do ; gold striped do 



silver striped do Persian fritillaries; Chinese yellow 

 tiger lilies ; large yellow crocus j yellow pompone lily ; cloth ol 

 gold crocus j princess Esterhazy hyacinth j superb dragon flow- 

 er ; poly-anthus narcissus j purple crocus ; martegon lilies 5 gold- 

 en crown tulips, &c. Likewise, plain and coloured bulb glasses. 

 Purchasers may rely on the excellence of ,lie above, as they 

 were not purchased at auction, but are imported direct from the 

 first florists in Holland, and are remarkable for their size, beauty 

 or delicacy of tint. 



Farnham's Grater Cider Mill. 



We the undersigned having seen Mr Farnhani's Grater Ci- 

 der mill in operation at the farm of Mr John Parkinson in Rox- 

 bury. state as our opinion that the principle of said mill is well 

 calculated for the purpose of grinding apples for the cider press, 

 and superior to any thing of the kind we have seen. We wit- 

 nessed its operation, and found its motion to be equal lo about 

 400 revolutions per minute. At this rate it gri-und one bushel of 

 apples iu 55 seconds, with an eight inch cylinder. We are also 

 of" opinion that with a cylinder with longer points, vegetables 

 might be very advantageously cut for the use of animals. 



Roxbury, Oct. 27, 1827. JOH.\ PRINCE, 



JOHN PARKLNSON, 

 NATHAN SMITH, 



I the undersigned certify that i was present al Mr Parkinson's 

 at the lime the said mill was in operation, aud am fully of the 

 opinion that it will perform all that is above slated. 



J. R. NEWELL. 



For further info-ttialion, application may be made al the Agri- 

 cultural Warehouse, No, 52 Norlh Market Street, Boston, 



Typo-graphia. 

 An historical Sketch of tiie Origin and Progress ©f the art «f 

 Printing, with practical directions for conducting e^ery departs 

 meat inanoflSce; with a description ofSiereolype and Lilitci- 

 grapJiy, illustrated by Engravings, Biographical Notices, and 

 Portraits. By T. C. Hansard. Jasi. received said ici safe Vy R 

 P. & C. WitUAMS, 



