7o!. r..— No. 39. 



INEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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<lug. or liopii 111 will miicli liil their progress, unless 

 llie land be ritli. Tlicy . Mnnot bear moist, or any 

 rich grounds, or p'.aces, 'vhere the water stands, 

 alter showers. Their vines grow too lu.'iuriantly 

 in such situations, and th'^ir roots are softer and 

 more watery. 



After they arc planted they require the same 

 treatment as the squash or pumpkin, that is sim- 

 ply weedin.f them. In the Jerseys, they raise the 

 runners from the gioiind when they weed them — 

 so as to prevent their tiikina; root, which they do 

 mure readily thiin any plunt, and which the Jer 

 sey farmers think injurious to the main toots. The 

 subscriber permitted nature to take its course — 

 but he should rertMinly make the trial another 

 yeiir of the New Jersey method. 



The products tor two -locessive years, have 

 been at the rate of 220 bushels to the acre, with 

 no greater care, nor indeed so much as that be- 

 stowed on common potatos They were planted 

 this year early in June, an ! were hilled on the 



10th of Oi-t. whi'h is at least forty-five days less | naturalized. It can be as easily raised as cab- 

 growth, than they would have in common years, | bagcs. This 1 undertake to afBrm. 



wet seasons it is watery and less sweet It may purtenances, with 14 per cent per annum. This 



prove my great zeal, and somewhat theoretical is the most valuable charter ever grunted in this 



turn, to recommend the culture of this vegetable in country. 'I'he immense increase of transportation, 



Massachusetts, but four years' e.vperience ha\e giv- both of pro|ii»rty and persons on this route, con; 



en me some right to speak of it practically. I re- tiuually advancing in amount, baftles all calcula- 



commend its culture on the following grounds : — tion as to the future operations of this rail road. 



1st. It will grow and succeed here under ordina- ; 



ry culture. 3d It is very prolific, making as good ^■"'^' butcheries — Near Paris are a number of 



returns as the common potato. 3d It is preferred '>"'''*« butcheries, at two of which 14,775 worn out 



by man, bearing usually a price three times as ''°"^'* "'.^"'^ slaughtered in one year. Every part 



great with us as the common potato. 4th It is of 'l>e animal is turned to some account. The mane 



preferred by all animals of wt.itever des- '■*'"' *^'' "^ °°''' ^o the upholsterers, the skin to 



cription. Cows and pigs eat it greedily, and '■^^ tanners, the meat to the owners of cats and 



even dung-hill fowls will attack and consume it in '^°Ss; the small ir.tesiines are manufactured into 



a raw state. It will produce about 2.50 bushels to cor'fs. the hoofs into combs, and the bones into 



the acre. I have never failed to raise it with sue- '^"'''^ handles, fans, &c. These establishments 



cess. The only impediment to its culture is the ''"'^ infested with innumerable rats, which are 



difficulty of preserving the small tubers or roots ; <^»"irhl and killed for their skins. More than 



but as soon as it is known that there will be a de- 2'^'"^ ''^"^ ^'''^" '''"'^<^' '" ^ «'"&'« ''^y- The rats 



mand for them, our market will be regularly sup- make nothing of devou.'ing the whole carcase of 



plied from New Jersey, where it has been long "f a horse (e.vcppt the bones) if left exposed, du- 



or if the seed hud arrived earlier. They will be- 

 gin to be pilateable am! fit for table about the 

 15th of Sept. or l-t of Oct. — as the season mny 

 have been hot or cold ; but the general crop ought 

 not to be duij till the vines are killed. They will 

 endure si.i or seven frosts after the common po 



JOHN LOWELL. 



ring a single night Hampshire Caz. 



In travelling through Worcester county, Mass. 



we have been surprised to see such a number of 



Salmon Trout. — A fish of this species, weighing broad rimmed wheels. At Boston we observed a 



twenty-three pounds, was caught in Schoodic lake number of new stages with similar wheels. On 



which emptie'* into the I'iscataqua, at Kilmarnoc, enquiry we learnt from the mest respectable au- 



and sold in this town a few weeks since. Soon thority that such wheels were coming gradually 



tato stalks have l-een killed So mmy persons i '''"^^'■' '^^''^"■^- ^'"""y ='"'' ^'''''''' """■'•" ^°"'' '" "^'^ into use, and were decidedly preferred by those 



have applied for slips, that it was the advice of 

 some of them, tliat these liints should be publish- 

 ed. It is not pretended that the cuUure is of any 

 agricultural importance — it is merely an horti- 

 cultural e.\p('riiiient, very pleasant to those who 

 have a taste for such pursuits — and also gratify- 

 ing to those who love the sweet potato. They 

 certainly can be raised here of excellent quality, 

 full as often as we can raise good grapes, peach- 

 es, or pears. They should not be gathered in by 

 the hoe, or spade — they must be raised like the 

 carrot, with the dung fork. J. LOWELL. 



Thi^ followirifc additional remarks are from the 

 Massachusetts •/Igrictdtural Journal. 

 CAROLINA, OR. SWEET POTATO. 

 This plant is not a potato, though there is a 

 vulgar opinion, that the common potato trans- 

 planted to southern regions becomes sweet, and 

 that the sweet potato on being carried to north- 

 ern climate degenerates into the common potato. 

 The common potato is what the botanists li.ive 

 named a solanuin. It is not a running plant. 



ake and caught fifteen of the same species — the engaged in transporting by land. Three teams 



largest of which, weighed ten pounds. Last week were rising a muddy hill with equal loads and an-. 



Mr. Chick and others caught thirty; the largest equal number of horses. The forward teamster '^ 



weighing twelve pounds. — Bangor Reg. laid his whip on his arm and walked behind his ^^ 



„, . ."", r~r; r; , ; , . . wagon. The second applied his whip with full 



I he Legislature of New York, has before it a <■ j n .u- j . j . u- i u . •■ 



, .,, , _^ ^ , ^^_ .^, _, ,, ^ j_ _ force — and the third had put his shoulder to the 



wheel. The foremost wagon had broad rimmed 



wheels^^he two others narrow rims. One of the 



hill to grant a bounty on New-Yotksalt sent down 

 to Albany and the seaports. 



Also a bill to encourage the growth and manu- '■■."'.'° "'^ ^"'" "'■."^'..""''"" ■""■■ ^"^ "' "' 



„ ^ . , , /, , , -n ... principal earners m Norfolk county, Mass. ha^ 



tacture oi hemp and flax — and a bill aiitliorizinff j.j . . , ,r. c .. ■ \ 



1 /• di.. nri« f,r>.> I- .L rnu /-I I adopted such wheels, and after years of trial says, 



a loan of $1,000,000 for the Chenango Canal. ,u , i ii e . c u i ■ j 



^ that ho would prefer to pay for broad rimmed 



Potato Pudding. — One pound of butter, one do. wheels, in preference to using the best narrow 



of sugar, beat to a cream, two pounds of potatos rimmed wheels if furnished free of expense. The 



bfiiled ami pressed through the cullender, twelve broad rims have a decided advantage on sand, and 



eggs, one glass of brandy, one of wine, half a soft ground. They are in general use in England. 



glass of 'ose water, one teaspoonful of spiee. 



Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road. — The Albany 

 Advertiser says: — "We are happy to state the 

 amendments to the bill to incorporate the Mohawk 

 and Hudson Rail Road Company have at length gent'farn^ers, rrnd'ca''rriers;"havopss'ed'a law re- 



It is calculated that a general use of them will 

 save one half the expense of repairing highways, 

 which in Massachusetts is computed to be nearly 

 .$oOO,C')0 a year. The legislature of that State, 

 convinced by ample experiments of many intelli- 



quiring that all carts, wagons and stages, built af- 

 ter two years, shall have broad rimmed wheels,the 



passed>into a law. It will be remembered that in 

 Its! 1821), General Van Rensselaer, Mr. Fealherston 

 native country is probably the high lands of South I haugh, and their friends, were incorporated with lightest not less than four inches, others five inch- 

 America— a cold region. It delights m cold sea ' an exclusive privilege for fifty years, to occupy, pg i,r(,a,| Southern paver. 



sons, and a moist soil, and it is a fact, that it is i by a rail road, the communioalion betwixt the; i . 



drier an 1 more mealy, when raised in «uch soils, ' Kru>. Canal near Schenectady and the city of AI- ! Cotton seed whiskey. — The people of Georgia 

 than in dry ones The best potatos known are bany. This comiuunication was deemed to prom- : have discovered that whiskey can be obtained 

 raised in wet, flat and almost overflown grounds ' ise such great results, that the legislature reserved from cotton seed; another poisonous liquid is 

 of Lancashire in England : and in Ireland, so fa 'to the state the right to purchase it of the coin- : therefore to be added to those which are now ruin- 

 mous for its moistuie and verdure, as to have re- ' paiiy withinfive years of its completion. They also ' ing the country. This new whiskey has a villa- 

 ceived the appellation of the Emerald Isle. It made the stocKlioldors personally liable for the nous smell, but it makes the topers "squabble. 



flourishes admirably in the fojs of Nova Scotia 

 and the lower parts of the State of Maine. The 

 sweet potato has no title to be called the Caiolina 

 potato, ft is an exotic, or foreign plant with them. 

 It is a native of tropical regions — has been grad- 

 ually introduced northerly, like the Limn or Saba, 

 commonly pronounced Civet bean. The sweet 



potato is not a solanum, but a convolvulu«! has 



all the habits of the tribe of the convolvulus it 



is a running or creeping plant, h never flowers 

 our country — is very hardy — capable of bear 



debts of tiie company. — The company upon ma- swagger and swear," and will of course be swal- 

 tnre consideration, refused to construct the road lowed. — ibid. 



with these restrictions, and applied this session to 



be released from them. The law accordingly ; Legs. — A person confined to the bed a week 

 has been auiended : the personal liability clause by sickness, has generally to remark a much great- 

 being repealed the company is to have oxchisivo er wasting of the legs than of the arms ; the rea- 



possession of the profits of the road for the first ; son of this, is, the muscles of the leg in ordinary 

 ten years after its completion; and during the j cases, being more in use than those of the arms, 

 five years succeeding the ten, the state reserves | have their usual bulk so much owing to this, 

 to itself the right of purchasing the property of j that they suffer a greater change from inaction 

 thecorporation, upon paymentof the original cost, than others, which have a certain magnituda in- 

 ing more frost than the common potato, and in ' repairs, expenses of every kind, fixtures and ap- ' dependently of use. 



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