NEW ENOIvANB FARMER. 



Published by John B. Russell, at jVo. 52 N'orlh JSInikci Street, (over the Aicriciiltural U'a rehouse). — Thomas G. Pessenden, Editor. 



VOL. VI. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBEIl 16, 1827. 



No. 17. 



REPORTS 



MASSACHUSETTS 



OF THE 



AGRIGUI-TURAL 



SOCIETY. 



REPORT VIII. 



'l\c Commiliee on ./Jgrieultural Experiments; consis- 

 livg- nf the Hon. Tiio.was L. Winthrop, Chair- 

 man, Hon. Israel Thorndike, Hon. Wil- 



lAM Prescott, Ben.t. Gdild, and JoHn C. 



'Jrat, Esqs to u<hom waa also i ommilted the 



inspection of sundry articles of .Manufacture, 

 fur which premiums were offered. Report, 



Tiiat si.K parcels of cheese of more llian one 

 venr old, and seventeen parcels of cheese of the 

 present year, frotn the dairies of farmers in New 

 Brainlrce, in the county of Worcester ; one par- 

 rel of (lid clieese. from the dairy of Mr. B. C. Per- 

 kins, of Becket, In the country of Berksire ; and 

 one parcel of new cheese, from the dairy of Mr. 

 Luther Chamberlain, of Westborongh, in the 

 county of Worcester, wore offered for the Socie- 

 ty's premiuras — of the old cliees'^, that from the 

 dairy of Mr. Elisha Matthews was considered 6y 

 your co.nindttee to iie the be?t, and they av;ard to 

 him tlie premium of (en dollars. Mr. Mollis Tidd 

 IS entitled to the premium of five dollars, for the 

 next best. They award lo Mr. Welcome Newell 

 the premium of ten dollars, for the best new 

 cheese ; and lo Mr. Roswell Converse, five dol- 

 lars for the next best. To Mr. Charles Cutter, of 

 Weston, they awarl the premium of fifteen dol- 

 lars, for the best sample of butter ; to Mr. Mi- 

 chael Cro:-.by, of Belford, the premium often dol- 

 lars, for the np\i he-it ; to Mr. Luther Chamber- 

 Iain, seven dollars .for tliC ne.\'. best ; and to Mr. 

 Adam Hemenway, ot Pr:-.mingham, the premium 

 of five dollars for the ne-xt best. The butter and 

 cheese now offered, is superior in appearance and 

 flavor to any heretofore exhibited ; this in part 

 may be attributed to the past favorable season, 

 snd in part doubtless to more particular attention 

 the manufacture. Mr. Ebcnezer Withing^ton, 



lavly in the northern Slates, to be substituted for 

 iirdent spirits; and when carefully made is supe- 

 rior to the common wines of Europe. 



Mr. Johr. Webber, of Beverly, exhibited liis an- 

 nual offering in aid of the show, of some cannis- 

 tcrs filled with excelleiit mustard, of his own 

 manufacture. All which is respectfully submitted. 

 THOMAS L. WINTHROP, Chairman. 



The following lellor of Mr Baldwin was accidenlly omillcj 

 Inst week. Il is in reply lo ilie Queriesof llicMassatlmsells Ag- 

 riculiural Society to the several successful claimants for die pre- 

 miuiiis on orchards. These Replies have proved very interest- 

 ing nnil acceptable to those engaged in the m.'lnagRmentof orch- 

 ards and nurseries. 



— 303. 

 2. The following is a list of the trees, of which 

 I know the kind of Fruit; the rest are of the va- 

 rious best kinds , generally winter fruit. 



305 

 3. E.\cept throe trees, they wore all raised from 

 the seed, and grafted or inoculated on the farm 



f Dorchester— Mr. Timothy Wellint'lon, of West 4. They were all planted in newly broken up 



Cambridge — and Mr. Jonathan Parker, of New- 

 ton, severally, offered samples of honey for pre- 

 mium. Your cornmillce award to Mr. Withington 

 ten dollars, taking into consideration the quantity 

 of his honey, and also his communication on the 

 best mode of managing bees. There were only 

 two competitors for the premium offered for the 

 best sample of currant wine. Mr. John Heath, of 

 Roxbury, and Mr. William Kenrick, of Newton — 

 to the former the committee award the first pre- 

 mium of ten dollars ; and to Mr. Kenrick, the pre- 

 mium of -Ive dollars. In the opinion of your com- 

 mittee, but little, if any improvement has recently 

 been made in the manufacture of this article. — 

 Two barrels of cider were offered for the Socie- 

 ty's premium ; the committee after carefully tast- 

 ing the liquor, were of the opinion that the cider 

 in neither of the casks was suiliciently good to 

 be entitled to a premium. It is much to be re- 

 gretted that our brother farmers pay so Hale at- 

 tention to the manufacturing of a liquor, which 

 ought in our CBuntry, generally, but mote particu- 



ground. 



5. They were planted 6 or 8 inches deep — no 

 stones were put beneath them, nor any unusual 

 mode of planting adopted — nearly half are planted 

 at 35 feet distance each way, the rest 25 to 30 

 feet. 



6. The ground when not planted, has been 

 ploughed and hoed round the trees. 



7. I have pruned in spring and autumn, but most 

 freely in spring, which I prefer. 



8. I have ploughed and hoed as stated in the 

 6th answer. They have been manured every other 

 yeat. 



9. I have no peculiar mode of treatment. 



10. My trees have had many borers in them, 

 which I cut out — I know no other remedy. I have 

 lost no trees by them. 



11. I have scraped the trees and applied For- 

 syth's composition with an additional quantity of 

 Lime, and think it beneficial. 



ENOCH BALDWIN. 

 Norfolk, ss. Milton, October 8, 1827. Then 



Enoch Baldwin m^de solemn oath to the truth of 

 the above answers before me, J. RUGGLES, 



Juslki of llic Peacr. 



PEACH TREl.S. 



The peach is the most delicious fruit that grow.s 

 in this country; but the farmer does tint roar the 

 tree, because it "dies so soon." E.vporience has 

 taught me that Peach trees will live and flourish 

 fifteen or twenty years, if the ground in which they 

 are planned be cultivated; but if their enemy, the 

 worm (Vscribed in tlie following paragraph, be des- 

 troyed every year, I should sup' ose they will live 

 much longer. .Vyu' is the time for destroying the 

 worm, which ix easily detected in its ravages if the 

 directions of this receipt are pursued. 



Peach Trees. — This is the season to destroy the 

 pest which kills this valuable tree; just above the 

 surface of the earth you will now find a gum, which 

 has issued frc.p. the v.TKind which the worm has 

 made in his ravages on the root, and of the eatings 

 of this gum he has formed a sack, in which he has 

 enclosed himself, about one incli in length and of 

 a dark broua color: looking much like tobacco 

 thrown away, after cliewing. This contains an in- 

 sect just ready to come forth with v.'ings; it is of 

 a beautiful black, and looks much like a wasp, not 

 so long, nor v»ith the small middle of that insect, 

 but having around his body a ring of a bright 

 orange color — in a ^ew days these insects will be 

 at maturity, and thpy imiriediately commence a 

 new work of destruction, by depositing near the 

 root of the tree tlieir nitg, or young, which in time 

 aro quickened and commcuce eating again. It is 

 supposed that n covering which will prevent their 

 access to the root of the tree, will preserve it froRj 

 damage. — Harrisbvrg Chronicle. 



Crops in JVova Scotia. — A respectable practical 

 farmer, from Nova Scotia, has lately taken a tour 

 through the townships of Woodstock, Wakefield, 

 Richmond, and Jackfion ; about seventy miles or 

 upwards, above Fredericton, on the river St. John. 

 He has now returned, and informs us, that he is 

 very much pleased with the appearance of those 

 places; and states from particular observation and 

 enquiry, that with the exception of wheat, which 

 is there generally considered to be equal to half 

 a crop, every other kind of grain, and also vegeta- 

 bles have turned out well; and that hay is abund- 

 ant. — St. John Gazette. 



Eitra/:t of a Letter from Fredericion. 



"In some conversation I lately had with Mr. 

 Campbell, of Nashwalk, he informed me that on a 

 piece of ground where last year he cut only three 

 tons of hay, this year he has cut thirty tons. So 

 far as I can learn, the crops generally have been 

 abundant, wheat being the only exception, and the 

 failure in that having been occasioned by rust. In 

 the upper part of this country, I learn, that the in- 

 jury done to the wheat, is not near as great as hag 

 been represented. Potatoes, I bought, nine bush- 

 els to-day, at \s. per bushel." The diff9rence be- 

 tween the last and the present season, in the pro- 

 duce of hay upon the same piece of land, mention- 

 ed in the foregoing extract, is so great as to be 

 truly surprising ; but we know both the writer, 

 and the gentleman whose name is mentioned, 0K>,% 

 can confidently vouch for their veracity. 



