Vol. ().— No.'Sl. 



lAJEW ENGLAND FAUMEIl. 



1C5 



thnt y'bu leave your first shoot from 19 to 14 inch- 

 es long, obscrvinjf to cut this shoot close beneath 

 an eye, dcstroyin? all the other eyes except tiie 

 ttto foremost ones, and so on to all the subsc- 

 nuent pruning. Those who want to niaUe vine ar- 

 bours will follow this last method. 



I would recommend for more security against 

 iVosts, to have your young vines bent tlie first 

 ycur to the ground and covered with about four 

 inches of earth all the winter. They must only 

 be uncovered when the Iiite frosts are over. We 

 need not fear not to have enough warm weather 

 the ensuing season to give sufficient maturity to 

 our cultivated grapes. Those which you have 

 now before your eyes wore perfecUy ripe three 

 weeds ago, and you well know that our last season 

 was not the most favorable to accelerate the ri- 

 l)ening of fruit. But the kinds of grape I offer at 

 this moment to your examination being of the 

 early species, I must refer you to a much more 

 convincing proof of the complete aptitude of our 

 climate, for the perfect ripening of the European 

 grapes in general. Ihere are in this village, 

 young vines grown in open ground in Mr Stone's 

 garden, which were covered with beautiful white 

 grapes, of excellent taste, and perfectly ripe sev- 

 eral days ago. It is that same kind of Chassdas, 

 much cultivated in Paris, in France, but which re- 

 quires there in order to arrive to such a maturity, 

 to be trained in Espaliers. 



When I recommend to you the cultivation of the 

 vine, 1 would be very sorry if any one would con- 

 clude from it, that I am of opinion that wine could 

 be made now with advantage in the United States. 

 Wo have some good reasons at present to consider 

 ■lurs elves as not discouragin^bj far from that de- 

 sired epoch, liut while labor will not have fallen 

 jiiuch lower than it is, the attempt may be mada : 

 upon a certain scale, by those wiio wish to make 

 Ihoi." own wine, or can afl'ord to sacrifice a part of ^ 

 their time or money to make experiments, but it j 

 cannot be made for profit for sale. It may be the 

 only instance where mechanical genius, power of; 

 water, machinery or the dexterity of the Amcri- | 

 cans cannot bo employed here so as to overbal- 1 

 anco the cheapness of labor in Europe. However 

 1 rccominend strongly and generally the cultiva- 

 !ion of the vine, not only that we may have under 

 our hands the most wholsome of all fruits, and ! 

 may say the most agreeable of all tastes, but Shat 

 we may be prepared for that moment when the 

 price of labor may permit us to cultivate the 

 grape to make wine. We can be made compe- 

 tent to undertake this with success, only by a long 

 series of trials and experiments. The European, 

 the most experienced and the most skillful in this 

 agriculture, could not tell you which definitively 

 will be the best kind of plant for your soil and sit- 

 uation, ho cannot tell you near as well as experi- 

 ence will, which will be the situation which will 

 best suit that very plant which is most likely to suc- 

 ceed with you ; neither can he say with certainty 

 which is the best season for pruning, &c. &c.; he 

 can only lay down general rules. But in making 

 a variety of experiments you will be initiated into 

 file most valuable secrt ts of the art ; you may 

 find that such a plant in such a situation, with an 

 appropriate culture, ".ill pro luce grapes which 

 will one day or other repay you richly for your la- 

 bor ;,/mean while you will noi be long before you 

 haTe a supply for you un! your family, of the best 

 fruit, both for taste anJ health ; then when the 

 orppitfons tjme comcLi to make wins with profit, 



you will not only have within your power the I A common silk-worker of Lyons, named Lon- 

 plants needed to extend your cultivation, but i tures, has invented a new mode for making the 

 whatever work you are to underLal;c thus, upon j twist of the warp of silk. The Chamber of Coni- 

 a greater scale, will not bo likely to ho loat. j merce having caused it to be examined, and ad- 



As long as we entertain a leasonablo expecta- mitted the utility of the invention, gave tiic author 

 lion to sell the natural produce of our country, as j a premium of l,'iO() francs, and solicited a patenu 

 we had done for a long time since the settling of gratis for him ; the certificate for which he oj. 

 our lands, that is to say, with a handsome remu- taincd from the Minister of the Interior, on the 

 neration for our labors, we did not feci tlic need 8th of Sept. last. — Con.itilulionnfl. 



of requiring from our fertile soil other advantages. I „ ,, ; ; T ,- '^ 



(By natural produce, I moan wheat, corn and 1 A fine bloom is given by fruit dealers to cucum- 

 grass, which are our staple articles, and for which ' ^°'^' ^^P^^' V'^'^i^es, pinms, &c. by powdering 

 our climate and soil are highly favourable.) Cut *''°"™ '""^^ 'j"'^'-^ pounded magnesia, which ha. 



when we have waited patiently for several years 



the effect of bringing the color out. The colorij 



for an increase of price, in what we continued to I "'" =' '="''P°'' '°°'"" ^'''"<='' ■~'°'"° calcined magnesia 

 raise with an increased success as to quality and i ^^^^'^ '"''='' scattered, have been observed to Ir. 



quantity, I think it advisable to adopt an additional j completely revived. 



chance to our industry ; chiefly when during that | Method of rendering Ulass ie..s bntUe.— Let tin, 

 time we have been able to ascertain that the grape j gj^sg vessel be put into a vessel of cold water, an-i 

 vine from Europe will not only grow well in this ' let tho water bo heated boiling hot, and then al- 

 country, but give good fruit and bear cold winters lowed to coo! slowly of itself, without taking out 

 without the plants being materially damaged. j ti,j gi^^^s. Glasses Heated in this way, "may, 



At the same time we are to consider that for | while cold, bo suddenly filled with boiling hot wa- 

 such an article as wine, easy and cheap trans- ' ter without any risk of their cracking. The gcn- 

 portation is one of the most important things, and tleman, who communicates the method, says thai 

 at least as desirable for it, as for other produce, , he has often cooled such glasses to the tempera- 

 either agricultural or manufactured, for which wc ture of 10", and poured boiling water into them 

 daily feel how much wo want our water comrauni- i without experiencing any inconvenience from the 

 cations improved. ! suddenness of the change. If the glasses are to 



At last we see efficacious measures and extensive i be exposed to a higher temperature th;m thot of 

 works ensure to a pretty considerable part of our j boiling water, boil them in oil. — Innales de Cliim. 

 county, the well grounded expectations, to be ! ,j (/j p^,.^. j^. 

 able in a few months, to export our produce by 

 water, in diflTorent directions, to the great mar- 

 kets of the new world. But another part of our 

 county ,and a very considerable one too, which can- 

 not take an equal advantage of that most valuable 



Dry Rot. — This destructive enemy of btiiluiiigs, 



which generally coinmcnces its ravages in the eel 



lars, may be preventod, or its progress checkec. 



by white-washing them yearly, mixing with the 



privilege, cannot be far from the moment when j wash as mucli copperas as will give it a clear ycl 



something will be done to improve their situation 

 in that respect. Then let us all display our excr 

 tions in every way, to make the best use of tlie 

 goodness of our situation and soil, and be ready to 

 avail ourselves in due time, of the new channels, 

 which, by the cheapness and facility of conveyance 

 to market, will enhance the value of our ag- 

 ricultural produce, as well as that of our increas- 

 ing manufacturers. 



hue. — B'.nc^iU'Ood''s ItJasraxinc. 



Sr.oi'j to preserve Meat in.— -Meat which is kill 

 cJ in December, may be kc(it in perfection if 

 buried in snow till spring. 'J'his is an excellent 

 method of preserving frecih the carcases of tur- 

 kies and other Ibwls. 



Set any open cask in a coUl placp, nnd puv 

 therein snow and pieces of meat alternately. Le,t 

 not the pieces of meat touch each other, nor the 

 A correspondent in the Farmer's Journal strong- { sides of the cask. The meat will neither freeze, 

 ly recommends the keeping of Blood Hounds, to ' grow dry, nor become t'iscoloured ; but be a<- ' 

 facilitate the detection of sheep stealers, murder- , good in all respects the last of March as when it 

 ers, and others. As a proof of the sagacity of) was fint put in. The surfaces of the pieces 

 these animals, ho relates the following instance : should be a little frozen, before they are put into ' 

 About eighteen years ago, a Mrs. Peatoii, near 'the snow, that the juice of the meat may not dis- 

 Lymington, (Hants,) had a sheep shot about one ' solve tho snow. The cask should be placed ic " 

 o'clock in the morning, as the rojiort of a gun the coldest pnrt of the house, or in an out-hous^. 



was heard about that time; and in the morning I 



the sheep's paunch was found. A person was ^""^ °"'' ■S'aiWs.— Anoint with a mixture pt 

 sent for the hound, to Mr. Edward Toomer, keep- I "^'1"^' P"''^« of linseed oil and lime water, and then 



er in the New Forest, and before tho hound could i^PP'^ e°"°'^-_ 



be brought to the spot it was about two o'clock in | An engineer of the name of Wright has con- 

 the afternoon, a space of time of thirteen hours. ; structed at the West India Docks, a crane for rais- 

 Ile was laid on, and he followed the snent, a very ;ing heavy weights, on an entirely new principle, 

 crooked road, to the door of the culprit ; the pre- ! that of the application of tho lever, assisted bj- 

 mises were searched in vain for some time, but { wedges, instead of the usual plan of wheel and 

 the hound could not be prevailed on to quit. He pinion for multiplying power. We understand the 

 at last went into the fuel house, and then began j power of two men with the patent crane is capa- 

 scratchingr. On removing the fuel, a large stone jble of liftmg from two and a half to three times- 



as found, which the hound scratched, on' remov 

 ing which, the mutton was discovered. A search 

 warrant was obtained, the man taken before a ma- 

 gistrate, ami sent to Winchester — had his trial — 

 and wa« transported. 



the weight lifted through the same space in a giv- 

 en lime by the best constructed cranes on the old 

 principle of wheel machinery. This economy of 

 power must prove highly valuable «n b»»rd ship 

 (when (Ijere i* a siatcity of haitd^s;. 



