Published by John B. Russell, at JVo. 52 .Yorth Market Street, (over the Asriicultural If'arehouse). — Thomas G. Pessenden, Editor. 



VOL. VI. 



BOSTON, FinOAY, Fh:BHlTARY 20, 1828. 



Now 32. 



A G R 1 C U L T U U E 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND JARMER. 



SCRATCHES OR SELEJVDERS IN 

 HORSES. 



Mr Fessendes — I hiivc heen imliicefl to inakfi 

 public throujih the me liuni uf your useful paper, 

 the results of my own practice, or experience, re- 

 latinpr to srratrhr.i, or seltnifers in horses. 



This disorder, or diffir.ilty, is too well Known to 

 all who own these nohle miiniHls, or deal in thfin, 

 to need a particular description of mine. The 

 remedy is siinple safe and ceitain, in all cases 

 which havft come to my knowlpd(.'e, howevfr in- 

 veterate. It is only to mix white lend and linseed 

 oil in such proportions as will render the apjlica- 

 tion convenient, and I have never Imown more 

 than two, or three, applications necessary, com- 

 pletely to effect a cure. A FARMER. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLANn FARMER. 



.4 Remedy for Stvollen Ba^s nf Cows, from talking 

 Cold, or Caked bi/ Cua^ulnted Milk. 



Take the root of the herb railed by several 

 names, that is. Garget, or Pokeweed, or Coacum, 

 or Skoke or Pigeon berry. Make three ioses of 

 two ounces, cut tine, and mi.xed in three nesses of 

 mash, of wheat or rye brau and Indian crrn meal, 

 a little salt. Give a mess once in twelve hours. 



And if the cow will not eat it, as somptme^ will 

 bo the case, take two ounces of said root and boU 

 it in water, and strain off a pail full, and when 

 cold, set such a dose before the cow daily, confin- 

 ed from water and fed with dry fodder, and it 

 rarely fails but it will be taken within twenty-fojr 

 hours. Three doses generally cure. If the bj^ 

 can be wet ovc two or three times a day. with 

 cold water, in which some Imlian meal is mixei, 

 it may be well, especially if the bag is uncommon 

 ly warm. O. P. 



BROCOL,!. 



Directions for the cultivation of the Cape Brocoli ; 

 extracted from Wilson's Economy of the Kitch- 

 en Garden, now in press. 



This is one of our most delirious and valuable 

 vegetable productions. In point of quality, its 

 flowers in~tliis country are, by good judges I be- 

 lieve, universally allowed at least to equal, if not 

 to surpass those of the cauliflower. And wh?t 

 adds so much to its value, is. that its culture is !B 

 easy and simple us any common cabbage. It i 

 not many years since it was first introduced inb 

 this country, and only about seven or eiyht yeare. 

 since its proper mode ot culture was coirectly un- 

 derstood. There is a number of varieties of thii 

 phmt, none of which have ever been found worthy 

 of cultivation in this country, except this. And 

 from Uie many disippointments that hadaways 

 attended former attempts to cultivate the other 

 sorts, there is every probability that thiS too, 

 would either never haie been prosecuted si;cess 

 fully or attempted in at.y extensive degree, lad it 

 not been for the emulation excited amciijT the 

 members of the New York Horticultural Saiety, 

 for the persevering prosecution of tlie cultire of 

 this valuable vegetable. Their labors have prov- 



ed completely successful ; hut Us culture still con 

 tinues too much circumscribed I will now give 

 some information as to the proper mode of its cul- 

 tivation. 



There is no doubt but some little difference in 

 the time for sowing the seed, will have to be 

 practised in the various latitudes of the eastern 

 and midille stales. But the time being correctly 

 known for the vicinity of New York, the others 

 need be at no gieut loss to hit upon a practical 

 calculation. Much depends upon obtaining the 

 riffht sort of seed ; for it has been pretty well 

 proved by experience that there is no dependence 

 on the eucce.ss of any sort except ttiat which is 

 denominated the Purple Cape Brocoli. If the 

 seed is sown too early, the plants arrive at matu- 

 rity before the heat of summer is over, and never 

 after do well ; for in August they cannot flower 

 much, and, by having to rem in in a stationary 

 state after arriving at niaturit , when the proper 

 season arrives, their having had to remain some 

 time dormant seems to destroy their vigor, and 

 their produce of flowers if any at all. are very in 

 ferior. And if it is sown too late, the cold attacks 

 them before they attain that strength and firm 

 ness which it is necessary for them to possess 

 some time before the beirinning of frosty nigh s. 



The last of August tljen is the proper time for 

 the plants to arrive at maturity, and for this pur- 

 pose the seed should be sown on any bed or bor- 

 der of i-ommon garden soil, on the fifteenth day of 

 May. This ami most other seeds sown at this 

 season, should be trode in with the feet, and the 

 bed smr)othed lio-htly over with a rake. By the 

 beginning of July the plants will be in fine order 

 for settin? out. It wouhi not be advisable to set 

 them out before July, for they do best when the 

 plants are strnnffand of ffood size. So in the fi'rst 

 week in July, prepare your ground for the plants. 

 I have raised good crops of them both on light 

 and heavy soils ; hut it is of no use to plant them 

 in any soil unless it he in L'ood order, and well 

 manured, and in this, case they will do on any or- 

 dinary garden ground, either old or new, although 

 jthis last is their favorite. Let the ground at all 

 events, be well manured and well (Jug ; set the 

 plants out in rows, two feet and a half apart, and 

 two feet distant in the rows. It is seldom the 

 black grub meddles much with plants set out so 

 late in the .season as this, but they must be care- 

 fully examined every morning, and wherever any 

 are seen cut off. the grul- must he hunted and kill- 

 ed, anil the vacancy filled up from the secfL bed. 

 in which a few plants should always be left for a 

 reserve. 



The ground must be kept constantly loose and 

 clean by frequent hoeings, and towards the end of 

 August some of them will likely beirin to flower. 

 In the beginning of September, more will begin 

 to show, and from the middle of the month until 

 the middle of November, they produce one con- 

 tinual succcHsion of flowers. The degree of trost 

 they withstand, without sustaining the least in 

 jury, when they are in their hitrhest state of flow- 

 ering is astonishing. The most singular charac- 

 tei-istic of this plant, is, the great length of time 

 which is contained between their first beginning 

 to flower and their final termination ; and that 



too, from the same seed, sbwn at the ssme timC; 

 and the phi 'its all treated precisely in the same 

 manner. VVnatever plants injy remain at the set- 

 ting in of a settled frost, should be taken up and 

 laid in a garden frame as directed for fall cauli- 

 flowers, and I '!o not think that one in a thousand 

 would miss flo,. ering in the course of the winter. 

 I have frequently flowered the remainder of my 

 whole crop in this w.iy, and since the sove th day 

 of September last, I have never been one day 

 without some plants being in a flowering state ; 

 and at present, i Peuruary 1828) there is no ap- 

 pearimce of the stragglers I laid in a frame iu 

 December, stopping their blooming career. 



I have had the last plant of ray crop flower iu 

 April and all things considered, I am convinced 

 that this is one of the most valuable garden pro- 

 diic*i(ins, (the ruta bags not excepted) of any wo 

 are ye.t acquainted with. The mode of managing 

 it, in (>rrter to obtain good seed here, appears to 

 be tf-little more precarious ; nor does it appear 

 certain whether we shall ever be able to raise 

 enough to prevent us from having to apply as at 

 present to England for it. Although we are pro- 

 gressing bravely in our horticultural improve- 

 ments, yet much remains to be -achieved by future 

 exertions. — Al'ew York Farmer. 



CHLORIDE. 



It is stated in a London paper that chloride, sold 

 by apothf?(iaries, under the name of bleaching 

 salts, in small tin boxes, will certaiidy t«ke oat 

 the most inveterate grease spots from a silk dress, 

 or cotton garments. Carpets however badly be- 

 spattered by the upsetting of a lamp, can be as 

 readily restored to their former beauty, as one can 

 blow dust from a dry surface. For the elbows of 

 a gentleman's best broadcloth, who unchesterfield- 

 ingly leans into a dish of gravy, or spans the 

 breadth of his landlady's butter plate, there is 

 nothing so clarifying. It is a white powder, which 

 a cockney might carry in one corner of his snuff 

 box ; a little of it is to be dissolved in warm wa- 

 ter, the spot wetted, and the greasee may attend 

 to this ordinary and extraordinary business at the 

 same moment. Another virtue ; the French say 

 that chloride, is the most powerful disinfecting 

 agent in nature. The bad air of cellars, yards, 

 stables, &c. can, and indeed should be purified 

 with it, very frequently, — as noxious efiluvia is 

 completely changed in character, wherever it has 

 been used. To the arts, to the unfortunate own- 

 ers of good clothes, and to sluts and slovens, this 

 chloride is a rare discovery. 



FLiOODIIVG OF BANDS. 



Where swamp land is to be cleared, and it can 

 be flooded, by making a dam at the outlet, at a. 

 small e.\pense. it is a matter of economy to attend 

 to this, as in this way its growth of wood can be 

 completely killed This my also be performed 

 on lands, after they are cleared, for the purpose of 

 lulling the grass, if it be bad, in order with more 

 ease to introduce a better kind, or a better system 

 of culture. Flooding also serves, in a greater or 

 a less degrse, to enrich the land ; though this de- 

 pends chiefly on the kind of water with which iit 



