NEW EWGL.AWB FABMEK. 



Published by John B. Russbi.l, at Ae. 59 JVorlh Market Street, (over the Agricultural Warehouse). — Tkojias G. Pbssewden, Editor. 



VOL. VI. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2i, 1827. 



No. 22. 



AGRICULTURE 



IMR THE iVEW ENGLAND rARMKK. 



PALL TARRING. 



lla I-'tssENDEN — I noticed in your paper of the 

 ■I'M ult. a few observations on the subject of the 

 (.'anker Worm, and tH(j|iappr!cation of tnr as « 

 remedy. After stating that many persons hud 

 tried the experiment of t!ie tar, and failing alto 

 gether in the object of its application, have be- 

 come skeptical as to its efficacy in preserving our 

 orchards from the ravages of that destructive 

 worm, the writer undertakes to point out the 

 eausM of this/«i7i(rf, and asserts from the anthoi - 

 ity of an inttUigent cultivator, that the grub vvhcT 

 it finds its ascent into the tree intercepted by 

 means of the tar, deposits its eggs below ; atid 

 by the time those become animated, and possess 

 the power of locomotion, the ordinary season of^ 

 tarring has long passed by, and they ascend thol 

 tree over the dried tar without annoyance. A-' 

 greeably to tliis hypothesis, the writer recom- 

 mends tarring very late, or at the season proper 

 to meet the necessity of the case. Admitting the 

 spring to be the only season in which they ascend 

 the tree, the opinion of the writer is the only one 

 naturally suggested to the mind, that accords with 

 the fact of their escape — but it is merely hypo- 1 

 thctical. I 



It is a well known fact that the canker worms 

 ascend in the autumn as wfll as in the spring ; and! 

 Ks far as aiy ov.'n experif'n.ie extends, in mucb 

 greater multitudes. In the summer of 1826 I had 

 some canker worms in my orchard, but not so 

 many as materially to injure the fruit, am' last 

 sprinf I applied the tar. I commenced as soon as 

 the frost was out of the ground, and continued to 

 apply it every day when the ground was not froz- 

 en, until none of them appeared in the tree. I 

 was pleased with tho idea that few or none had 

 escaped me. 1 was much deceived, however, for 

 I had ten times as many worm- upon my trees as 

 the year before. There was hardly a leaf in the 

 whole orcliar<i that was not devoured. To me 

 this was inexplicable until a gentleman of my hc 

 f|uaintan<p of much intellii/once, assured me that 

 they ascend in the fall ; that he had applied the 

 tar to liis o.vn lroe^' at that ?iPa.-=on, and caught as 

 miny as in t le spring. Fully relyins" on the cor 

 rcctntsB of the account. I applied the tnr to mv 

 own trws, on the first of last umnth. For tlie fir^^t 

 Iwoorlhrf-e applications, I caught but few — but 

 every night from the 4th to tlie 10th. wh^n the 

 ground was not closed by the frost, thn tar was 

 mostly covered with them. There were but few 

 nights, however, from the 1st to the 10th of thp 

 month. i?i uhich the ground was not fro jmi ton 

 hard for them to escape — and none, I believe from 

 the 10th to the 3!;th. I tarred my trees, notwith- 

 standing, on the lGtii,but the following night being 

 colder than 1 anticipated, none could escape from 

 the ground. But the 3gt.|i j;,y (,f the month was 

 warm, and towards the evening a little rainy, anrl 

 1 observed tho tar that I had applied on the It'th 

 was getting quite liquid and running down the 

 bodies of the trees. This condition of the tar 

 seemed to preclude the necessity of applying it 



•on that day, and I omitted it. The following night 

 it ruined and tho wind blew heavy from the S. E. 

 and most of the night, tho ground must have been 

 open to the escape of the canker wo nis. Tho 

 next morning I went into my orchard, and was 

 indeed amazed at the view presented by my trees. 

 Not only every particle of the tar was covered 

 with them, but tho trunks and principal brandies 

 were nearly as much crowded as the tar. No sys- 

 tem of larring now in use, I am thoroughly con- 

 vinced, would have saved my trees on a rising so 

 multitudinous as on that night. They had been 

 enclosed in the ground for three weeks, almost 

 the whole time of their ordinary ascent at tliat 

 spason of the year, and when in common years 

 the ground is open almost every night to their es- 

 cape. I have ahvays, however, caught most in 

 stormy nights whun the wind is at the SE. From 

 all I can learn, I am inclined to believe that they 

 continue under ground, after they enter it in tlie 

 sQmmer, not more than four tnonths before they 

 commence their return; and if we undertake to 

 preserve our orchards by means of the tar, we 

 must commence as early as the middle of October, 

 and continue to apply it every day when the 

 ffroiind is not frozen, until some time in the fol- 

 lowing April. But when the canker worms are 

 so numerous as to destroy the whole foliage of an 

 orchard, and 'he ground closed for ten or twenty 

 lays in succession during the season of their as- 

 tent, and suddenly opens, as or. the 39th of Ja.st 

 p.-inth, the common mode of tarring will not ans 

 wer. T. W. 



nrislol, (R. I.) Dec. 18, 1827. 



ers, which, on trial, I bolicve they will prefer- 

 As the pomace is pressed out, let it be throw is 

 into a heap, under cover, if possible. Perhaps a 

 corner of a eighty foot by twenty three esti biish 

 ment might be spared, and let this luxur> to farm 

 stock be dealt out in due proportion to thein all : 

 in such quantty, and at sucli intervals as not to 

 cloy, and causa them to loathe it. Especially let, 

 poultry of all kinds be well supplieu with it. 1 

 prefer them fatted on apple seeds to any thing 

 else. And they fat very quick on them. Thu^' 

 the grain may be all saved, that they would other- 

 wise consume. F< r if it can be secured from 

 waste, it will serve for their winter's food. And 

 it will be at all times grateful to cattle, sheep and 

 hogs, and save a proportion of their food, of much 

 more value, I doubt not, than the raw pomace in • 

 la mass to bu worked into manure by the hogt ' 

 alone. Respectfully. 



A BROTHER FARMER. 

 December Vith, 1827. 



APPLE POMACE. 



Mr, Pessenden, — I am confident my brother 

 furmet's plan, of Norfolk county, is by no means 

 the mcst economical way of disposing of his ap 

 pie pomace, though I may not be able to convince 

 him of it. I admire his separate apartments for 

 hogs, and his conductors to convey the water to 

 them from his spacious cider-mill establishment ; 

 and, as food for his hogs, if dealt out in such quan- 

 tities as they will actually consume. I have no 

 objection to giving them their share of the pom- 

 ace. But as it is evident that six or eight hogs 

 will eat but a small part of the pomace from two 

 or three hunilred barrels of cider, I think there is 

 great waste in g'ving them such a quantity. For 

 indeed, what is not consumed by tho hogs is al- 

 most Wasted outright ; because it contributes but 

 very little to the value of manure, until it has 

 passed through the hogs, or other stock, and be- 

 cause I am perfectly satisfied, from tho observa 

 lion of thirty years or more, that it is a valuable 

 Ibod for all kinds of farm stock. There is noth- 

 ing that domestic animals more greedily devour ; 

 and iu a scarce season for hay or grain, such a 

 quantity of pomace might be turned to much bet- 

 ter account'than to throw it all to the hogs. 



My farming establishment, I presume, is smail, 

 very small — compared v.ith that of the Norfolk 

 farmer ; but I make, annually, a much larger pro- 

 portion of manure, (I think) with a less number of 

 hogs, without pomace ; chiefly from weeds, and 

 such kind of rubbish. I will, therefore, venture 

 to recommend an experiment to my brother farni- 



From tlie Neutbunjport HtrcdJ. 



Take a fresh Musk-rat's skin, cut a strip one 

 and a half inches wid*, put it round the child'^ 

 neck fiesh side to the neck, on going to bed a! 

 night, — and lour or five nights will effect a cure ' 

 in the mont obsMnatP case. 



Having heard of the same remedy for the Asthma 

 or difficulty of bre:itiiinff, and at times suffering 

 ffreativ mysrifin t'lat way, I was inducpd to try 

 tilt; mn-sli rn .-sMn in the same manner. I found it 

 would apply nearlv as wc-ilto my case, as thechild't 

 on which I hr, p tni-d, and know it hits nearly 

 cured the cough on applying the sljin five nights 

 uhich raged to an alarming desrree. 



Yours respectfully. ' 



CHARLES B, PATTEN. 



Amesbitry, Dec. 7, 1837. 



To kill Enr-toigs, or other Instils, ivhich may 

 have accidentalty crept into the car. — Let the per 

 son under this distressing circumstaice, lay hi.^ 

 head upon a table, the side upwards that is affectV 

 ed ; at the same time let some friend, carefully 

 drop into the ear a little sweet oil, or oil of al 

 inonds. A drop or two will be sufficitsiit, which 

 will instantly destroy the insect and remove tlvs 

 pain, however violent. 



Grass Banks. — When the Belgians,vvho have lit 

 tie access to turf, wish steep banks to be covered 

 with grass, they first form them of earth, made in- 

 to a sort of stiff mortar,'' and cut to the requisite 

 slope, and then cover the surface with rich soil 

 mixed up into a plaister with water and grass 

 seeds, which soon spring up and cover the whole 

 with verdure. 



Lord Kingston is said to have upwards of ihirtfi 

 thousand mulberry trees growing upon'one estate 

 in Ireland, and has already sent a quantity of raW 

 silk into the market. 



Domestic Broadcloths, for gentlemen's surtouts. 

 are now selling in Boston for two dollars seventy 

 Jive cents per yard. Nothing is more absurd- than 

 the Southern fears, of paying dear for Americar; 

 cloth. 



