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NEW EIS GLAND FAllMER. 



Feb. 22, 1828 



eq'ial in Bliong elolh, lo thai of any other country, j I am of opinion that leaves when dry, will ans- To thi.-ken a forest, or to prevent its becoming 

 Hemp might be brought into this use, if gathered wer the purpose of burning equally with straw, tao thin, cattle should be kept out of it at all seas- 

 youno-er than is usual. A machine has been in- and their ashes prove a good manure. | ons. The seeds, or cuttings of trees, of rapid 



vented for dressing hemp and flax, without the 

 process of rotting or steeping it — but as the gum- 

 my and niijcikginous matter is not, by that pro- 

 cess, drawn out of the material, it may be doubled 

 whether the strength is not liable to be lessened. 

 Phila. Gazette. 



1 shall now give a few observations concerning growth, should also be set, or planted, in every 

 the selecting of proper plants for planting. A part that becomes destitute of growing wood. If 

 great deal lies in choosing proper plants ; for if woodland be suffered to become so thin,-that the 

 they are taken promiscuously, the greater part sun can get in and cause the ground to be cover- 

 will prove barren, producing plenty of flowers but ed wiih a sward of grass, this will prevent the 

 no fruit. Those when e.\amined will be found to furthei growth of young timber ; and in this way 

 want the female or^'ans of generation ; that is, the ground eventually becomes stripped of all its 

 they will have abundance of stamina, but few or growlii. ■ This, however, is not the case with the 

 On the cultivation of the Slrawbernj,hy MK\ViL-\'^°^^y^es ■, so lU»\.horte^ happens auio.ig those locust, as it encourages the growlh of grass 

 I lA-si CuRR of JVew York rend Feb 26 1822. , '""'''s'' plants, that some of them have a part ot an amongst it, and in this situation grows very rap- 

 To the Prt$iJ<-nt and memL'S of the H^rlicuUu-l}'"?^'^^''^ 'r"it formed, which sometimes ripens, idly. Perhaps the farmer will find, when he is 



Plants ought, therefore, never to be taken out of redured to the necessity of planting wood for 

 old neglected beds which have been allowed to fuel that this tree will answer his purpose best, 

 spread and run into a multitude of suckers, nor Tlie Lombanly poplar also grows very rapidly, 

 from any pbints which do not produce plenty of is easily rai.sgd from cuttings, and, when cut and 

 fruit. Those suckers which stand nearest the old dried, will answer tolerably well for fuel. 



I'lhc New York Fa 



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ral Society of JVew York. 



Gentlemen — I take the liberty lo lay before 

 you a short sketch of the metliod practised by me 

 in cultivating the Pragaria or strawberry plant, 



toffether with a tew observations which 1 consid- , ,, , l , . j ■ r . rr,, , , i- ■ • .u i » • 



° ... . „ f 1 . . »u 1.- . f plant, shoud always be selected in prelerence to 1 he easiest method ot raising the locust is as 



er will be foun of advantage to the cullivalor of '^, ' , . r , ■^■ . n . j- r i. r., ■ , ^ . ■ u . cr. 



,,_ , ^ .. those produced from the trailing stalks, at a dis- follows : Plant, in the first instance, about iitteen' 



tance from the fruit bearing plants. or twenty trees on an acre ; when they have got 



There has some kind of strawberries been to be twelve or fit'teen feel high, and their roots 



greatly improved by seed selected from the lar- : well extended, run straggling furrows through the 



gest and fiirest fruit. In this case the seed ; ground, and, wherever the roots are cut with the 



that excellent fruit. 



The patch on which I have my strawberries, 

 had been under the same plant for several years. 

 For the month of September, 1819, 1 laid on about 

 five inches thick of well rotted manure, which i 

 dug down with the old vines. I then set out 

 plants of the Hudson kind of strawberry at the 

 distance of sixteen inches each way, taking care 

 to have them in line the long way of ibe ground. 

 In the month of November I covered the plants 

 with a thin coat of long litter, which I took off in 

 tflie beginning of April, and pointed the ground 

 with the spade, and raked it smooth. The ground 

 was kepi clean by hoeing till the fruit began to 

 foroi. I then took short grass cut from the walks 

 and spread between and under the vines, which 

 had the effect to keep the fruit clean, the weeds 

 down, and kept the scorching drought from pene- 

 trating into the roots of the plants. 



As soon as the fruit season was past, I pointed 

 in the grass betwei n the beds. In September, 



should be sown as soon as possible after the fruit 

 is eaten. The best way is to sow the seed in pots 

 or bo.xes, placed in the shade. 



Should some of the members of this Society put 

 this in practice, the result might be of general ad- 

 vantasre, bv improving the different sorts of this 

 delicious fruit. WILLIAM CUUR. 



Mw.York, Feb. '26, I8'32. 



plough, new trees will start up, and soon stock 

 the whole ground with a plentiful growth. This 

 tree has been but lately intiodured into general 

 use in France ; and it is said to be there valued 

 more than any other which is cultivated in that 

 Countrv. — Fcirmcr's ..Assistant . 



FOREST. 



Every farm ought to have a piece of wood-land, 

 or forest, suflicient for fuel and other purposes. — 

 Raising timber, for the purpose of fencing, will 

 not often be found advisable. Farmers must 

 eventually depend on making stone walls, or 

 hedges, for the purpose of enclosing their lands. 

 But wood and timber sufficient for fuel, for build- 

 1820, I cut out all the superfluous runners and j ing, for carriages, and implements of farming, 

 dressed the bed, and in the month of November cannot be dispensed with. Of these, the farmer 

 covered as before. j will always find it most advantageous to keep the 



On the first of March of last year, l"^!, I took | requisite stock himself, and not only rely on oth- 

 ihe covering from a part of the patch and replac-|ers for purchasing it. Nor is it advisable lo have 

 cd it with one inch thick of straw, which I burn- j his woodlands separate, and at a considerable dis- 

 ed off, as directed by Dr Miller. I then gave a i tance from his farm ; unless it be in parts of the 

 slight hoeing a id raking. At this time there was country where part of the lands .ire too valuable 

 hardly tlie least trace of vines left on the ground ^i to be kept in wood, and other adjacent parts are 

 but in 8 or 10 days the leaves began to make | only fit for that purpose, 

 their appearance. On the 22d of March, I uncov j When the farmer is clearing up his farm, be 



SCRATCHES, OR SELENDERS. 



This is a disorder between the hinder pastern 

 joints and hoofs of horses, consisting of cracks 

 and soreness, with suppuration. It is troublesome 

 commonly in the winter se:ison only. "Nothing 

 tends so much to prevent grouse and swelling of 

 the legs, as frequent haud-rubbinj;, and washing 

 the heels carefully with soap suds, as soon as a 

 horse comes in from exercise. In inveterate cases 

 where the disease appears to have become habi- 

 tual in some degree, a run at grass is the only 

 remedy ; if a dry pasture be procured where a 

 horse can be sheltered in bud weather, and fed 

 with hay and oa:s, it will be found extremely con- 

 venient, as in such circumstances he may perform 

 his usual labor, and at the same time be kept free 

 from the complaint." — The Complete Farrier. 



AGRICULTURAL, IMPROVEMENTS. 



There are few individuals who hold a more dis- 

 ^ tinguished place among agricultural improvers 

 cred another part of the patch, a part of which I | ought to reserve, for woodland, that part which is .j,g[j the Earl of Eirremout ■ forty years a-'O the 

 burned with straw as before, and the other part i least adapted for tillage or for grass. Land which ' i;^^jj„ Park at Petworth consistin<^ of between 

 with a parcel of dry leaves, which I laid on two ' is swampy with a thin soil over a sandy bottom ; j gg^^,, ^^j g^gij^ hu„((r(,,) 'acres of land, presented 

 inches thick. The remainder of the patch I un- i that is rocky and hilly; or that is dry, poor, or L ^^jU fgresr scene, overspread with furi;e stunt- 

 covered in the beginning of April, and dressed in very gravelly, may do well for woodland ; while I ^j tjiuber and rubbish and would have been 



the usual way. it would answer but indifterently for tillage. } jgar if let at five shillings per acre. Somewhere 



The first burned part continued to keep more The quantity of ground to he set apart for this i j^ij^^j {i,g year 1<90 the noble owner of this un- 



purposo must depend on the s!7e of the farm; the L,.Qjjjgtiye tract, undertook to improve it; the 

 quality of the sjil, of the woodland ; the nature of Lj^ji^gr was felled— the unaenvood grubbed— eve- 



forward than the others, and showed flovvers eight 

 days sooner than the jnliurned part of the patch. 

 The unburncd grew less rapid, and was consider- j the climate ; and, frequently, according to the do- 



ably less productive of fruit. That part burned 

 wttli leaves was the most lu.xuriant In growth, the 

 quantity of fruit nearly the same as those burned 

 ■with straw. 



The burning has this good effect, that it keeps 

 the ground more clean of weeds, and will doubt- 

 less kill a great inntiy insects and their eggs ; be- 

 sides, it clears the vinos from all decayed leaves 

 and hardened bark, gathered around the body of 

 the plant : and by that means allows the fixie e.\- 

 patision of tiie loaves and flowers. 



mand or market for wood ; for, in some cases, it 

 may be found more profitable to keep tolerably 

 good land in wood, than in any other cultivation 



ry part of the ground hns boon since efi'ectually 



drained — and the whole enclosed and divided into 

 proper fields, by neat and regular white-thorn 

 iicdges. Under a well arranged system of tillage. 

 Of the natural gro'Ath of wood, it will require as ! ^ yields barley, tares, and turnips— clover, fye, 

 much as twenty acres, ov more, to keep two fires, i chicory, rape, and olhe artificial grasses, in great 

 according to the common method of using wood pjofusion ; the crops are so luxuriant, that few 

 for fuel ; but it is a very easy matter to have sit- L^jj^j^ which let even for thirty shillings per acre, L 

 ling-rooms warmed, and oil the cooking and other ^^^ i,e considered more productive. Ten quarters § 

 apparatus of the kitchen so contrived, as not to Lgjghty bushels] of oats, and five quarters of wheat 

 require more than one-third of the wood that is I ^j.^ ,jow raised upon an acre of land, on which. 

 commonly used. 



