-No. 2G. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



•.vurtzel, ruta baija. I imps, onions, cabbages, peas, 

 ^ beans — nor tor the i;reatest quantity of veiieta- 

 bles (grnin, peas and beans excepted) raised for 

 winter consiiiijption, and not for sale — nor for tlie 

 most effectual mode of extirpating the worm tliat 

 attacks the locust tree — nor for a mode, hitherto 

 unknown, to evtirpate the borer that attacks the 

 apple tree, which shall appear to the Tnistees to 

 be effectual, and cheaper th;.n any mode now in 

 use. The best mode for rearing;, feeding-, and 

 fattening neat cattle— the utility, and comparative 

 value of cobs of In lian corn, when used with or 

 without the jrrai" itself, ground or broken — nor 

 for the irreatesl quanlity of butter and cheese, 

 made between the ir)th day of May, and the 1st 

 dav of October, from not less than four cows ; the 

 quantity of biitter and cheese and the number of 

 cows to be taken into consuieration. The past 

 season having bei-n so um-ommonly propitious to 

 vegetatibn.st ong l)opes weie entertained by your 

 Committee,- that our brother fanners would by 

 their e.vperinvnts in agriculture, have made more 

 numerous' claims for the premiums offered by the 

 Trustees. All wliich is respectfully submitted. 

 By order of the Coniuiittee, 



TilOS. L VVINTHROP, Chairman. 

 Boston, Jan. l^lh, 1828. 



Food of the French Of the food of the French 



peasant, hreaij is a p.iucipal article ; and it is in 

 France, as it appears natural that it should be, 

 the most abundant article in the way of food. All 

 sorts of vegetables in this country give way to 

 bread. A less quantity of meat is requisite to a 

 French laborer, than what laborers (when they 

 cai; get it) are used to consume in England. The 

 economy in cooking in France is such, that the 

 same quantity oi animal food which we eat in 

 England, would feed almost double the number of 

 persons in France. Soup is a food of which the 

 French are so fond, that they can scarcely, bear 

 to go without it. The best soup they like best; but 

 they like soup in general, so much, that even soup 

 maigre is better to them than no soup at all. The 

 French do not cook so much meat in large pieces 

 as we do ; they cut it up into small bits, and stow 

 or fricassee it, most trequentiy. It is this mode 

 of cooking among them, no doubt, which has led 

 to the supposition, which I do not think well 

 founded, that the French are more abstinent with 

 regard to meal ttian we are. — CobbetVs Ride in 

 France. 



Venom of the Rattle Snake. — A gentleman of 

 this ciiy some time last summer extracted the 

 teeth of a Rattlesnake, and about three months 

 afterwards he accidentally with the same knife 

 used on that ocunsi-^ .1, and which had ever since 

 that lime been .-:ti king against the side of the 

 kitchen, wounded his leg slightly. In a shojrt time 

 the wouHd put on all the symptoms of the bite of 

 a Rattlesnake, and remedies were applied accord- 

 >n<r\y which fortunately proved successful. 



Miihih Com. Res. 



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slevvpan on it, un.ier lue meat, and let the drip- •'^PP^f^ 'nirl^ed with the iwj.ressi n of a kaf a.ic 



ping drop on tiie pudding, and the heat of the fire ^°''' '" ^''^ ba/.ars ot Persia. To pro.uco this im- 



come to it, to make it of a fine brown. When the pression, u leal ot some flower or ^sllruh is glued 



meat is done and sent to table, drain ihe fat from '"" fastened Willi a tlireiul on several parts of the 



the pudding, and set it on the fire to dry a little ; ''""'t' "bile yet growing ; ihe apple gradiiall_y rip 



then slide as dry as you can in a dish ; melt but- "^"s, and all that the sun reaches becomes red ;— 



ter and pour it in a cup, and set in the middle of '■'■e parts covered with leaves remaining of a pale 



the pudding; the gravy of the meat eats well with t'reen or yellow colour. 



''■ A very large American gourd, ucghing tj6 lbs. 



ntnl Principles .fSeeds.—A small portion of ^""^ '^"='> e-shibited from Aulherstone some white 

 the Roy-il Park of Busliy was broken up some P'""'^ *''""'" *"'''^.''° Huntly, and a number of fine 

 time ago, for the purpose of ornamental culture, «ee"'»ig pinks from Airly Castle ; aome very fine 

 when imn.ediately several flowers sprang up, of while and green endive, while beet, mangel wurt- 

 the kinds which are ordinarily cultivated in gar- ^'=' I"' ^^^^ vu'^'""''^ '"'"®'' •''^""ff" HHsous) veg 

 dens ; this led to an investigation, and it was as ^'^"'« marro(w, chiccory. salsafy, an I scor>.onera 

 certained that this uleutical plot had been used as '■'"'"^ produced by Mr J-hn Dick, D^.llindean, anc 

 a garden not later than the time of Oliver Crom- ^^'"^ "^'^^ '4^?^ cabbages by Mr. Kudley of the 

 well, more than om- hundred and fifty years be- •"'^y'"'^ 1 



foie. (Monthly Magazine) j The Mustafd Tree of the Gospel, like the mos? 



of Solomon, (las given rise to various conjecturcE 

 Liniiasus Ihoiighl it was the Phytolacca asialica 



From Loudon's Gardener's JMagazinc. 



The Seeds of Tetragonia expansa (New Zeal- Captains Irbj and Mangles, and Mr Bankes, great 

 and Spinach) were sown in the open garden at travellers in Bgypt and Syria, found a plant which 

 Yarmouth last autumn, and have produced fine Ihey thought, was the mustard tree alluded to.— 

 plants this spring; by which it appears that this '^''' D°"' however has ex.imined specimens of this 

 plant will endure our winters in mild situations. t^ee brought fiome by Mr Bankes, and he finds it 



to be the Salvador persica, Lin. — Jam. Phil. 



The Red Spider and the Damp, the one as bad jo„,. March lt'27 p. 3U8. 

 as the oth' r, in melon frames, may be kept under 



by covering the surface with clean gravel, about ^«"'«"" Scythe.— The most laudable e-xertion- 

 three fourths of an inch deep. The roots find continue to be made, in difterent parts of thn 

 their way to the surface of the mould, and form a '-"^'"iry- '» introduce this instrument as a substi- 

 luatted texture under the gravel, where, bein.^ tute lor, or adjunct to, the sickle. In East Lo 

 more accessible to air, and yet kept moist, the '>"''" '^" Irishman (Toner) has cut half a .-cotcl: 

 plants grow so vigorously as to overcome every en- ^cre ot wheat in a day, and at the rate of a Scotcl 



emy. The practice is common in this neighbour- 

 hood. — James Stephens, Gardener 10 Goof^o Coaho. 

 Esf{., C'irr Houst, near fjoncasler. 



Tnrt Rhubarb, Turnip tops, Beet Spinach, Aspar- 

 agus, and various other stalks and leaves produc 



acre of oats in eight hours. One peculiar feature 

 of this mode oi reaoing is, ttiat the loAer, or near 

 er the surface, tlie cr^, ,3 gut, so much easier i.- 

 the work for the reaper, i-iie United East Lo- 

 thian Agricultural Societj have -(opted the verv 



agus, ana various ou,er,uun^,,nu,..uvc^ p.uuu^ jadicious mode of giving Toner aV»mium or 

 ed from bulbous, tuberous, or fleshy roots, may be •'^„„,m,„„ „f ,,,3 in^^ucting such reapers ,., ' 



grown in barrels or hampers, in ships ; and noth 

 ing can be easier than to have new potatoes and 



pers <^ ma) 



choose to require his a^sistance, at the rate of ^j, 

 a day. Hopes are entertained that in a few years 



muohrooms in a ship's hold all the year. Spinach ^^^.^ ^- ,^ ^,. ■ .^j,, ^3^^,,,^^ ,^^,^ ^^ 



barrels should be kept on deck, and covered with 

 a glass case to protect them from the sea spray. 



Small salads may be grown in twenty ways.- 

 Horticultural Sailor. Giee.nivich Sept. 23. 



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mode of cutting wheat with the sharping hook, 

 called bagging, and practised in the neighborhoot; 

 of London, is in effect exactly the same as the 

 mode by the Hainault scythe ; but as the operator 



The quickest and most certain Mode of raising with the sharping hook has to stoop very low, i; 



the Mulberry Tree is from cuttings of the old is performed at a greater waste of strength. 



branches. Take a branch in tlie month of March, ,, . /• • f u j ■ ii n/- , 



. , . , . , . , , • , ,r . 1 J Mode of preserving Cabbages during the fVmter 



eieht or nine feet in lenstn, plant It ha t its length ,,,, ., . ■ 1 . r n . ■. n .l 



tigiji. u. ...ut. .V "...''^ , , ■ ■ When Ihev have arrived at full maturity pull them 



in any aood sou, and It wil succeed to admiration, ., .." » .1 ■ 1 



•'.>'. .',,,,. m, ■ T , up with the roots, reverse their crowns, and cover 



producing Iruit the ollowing spring. This I have ,^^_^ by digging a trench on each side, and 



witnessed in several instances. ! laying the earth over them till nothing but the 



Roots cf the J}rracacha have been received by roots arc seen above ground. In this situatior 



Dr Hamilton, from Carthagena, packed in pow- they will require much less ground, and the ex- 



dered charcoal ; they have been planted in the 

 nursery of Mr. Pontey at Plymouth, and are doing 



posure of the earth of the ridgelets thus formed 

 will be an excellent winter fallow. Before bury- 



To make a Yorkthire Pudding. — Take a quart 

 of milk, four eggs, and a lilile salt, make it up in 

 athi'^k batter with flour, like pancake batter. — 

 Have a good piece of meat at the fire ; take a 

 stcwpan, and put some dripping in, set it on the 

 lire; when it boils, pour in the pudding; let it 

 bake on the fire till you think it is nigh enough, 

 then turn a plate upside down in the dripping pan, 

 that the dripping may not be blacked : set the 



well. The native situation, soil and climate of 1 jt,,, them, of course, nil decayed leaves must be 

 the Arracacha are very similar to those of the po- { removed. In this way I have secured my winter 

 tato. (Plym. Jotir., Aug.) A second notice of Lypply for several seasons, and one season most 

 September 22d informs us that two plants of Ar- 1 providentially against an inroad of cattle, which 

 racacha are now nearly in flower at Mr. Pontey'sjin a few nights destroyed the whole winter stock 

 and that too which Dr. Hamilton retained for pri- \ of green vegetables, excepting a few dozen of the 



vate experiment, as to their capability, without 

 any artificial aid ; of course their progress has not 

 been so rapid as that of a plant plunged in Mr. 

 Pontey's tan-pit. Their state of growth, however, 

 is such as to promise favourably for the important 

 experiment of acclimating this valuable esculent 

 next vear. 



cabbages trenched in as above described. — if. M. 

 Argyleshire, Jan. 28, 1827. 



Pepper. — There are no fewer thun 41 kinds 0' 

 pepper. A Batavian naturalist of the name oT 

 Blume has written a description of them, accon 

 panied with plates. 



