Vol. G No. 40. 



NEW ENGLAxND FARMER. 



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The seed should be planted in hills, three feet 

 apart, in a warm, dry, sheltered situation, two or 

 three seeds in a liili, in good rich soil. The first 

 planting- for a summer supply, may be made about 

 the midiio .if ,\pril ; and another, for fall use, a- 

 bout the iiid.lle of .May. 



As the fine, rich, succulent leaves of this plant 

 are galli'Ted for use, an abundant succession of 

 buds, siiools, and leaves, are every where pro- 

 duced, ui! over the plant ; and, the more its leaves 

 are used, the trore prolific becomes every part of 

 the plant, in the increased sources of its verdant 

 supplies One irreat superiority, in point of use- 

 fulness. «:i.it it possesses over the other kinds of 

 spinage, is, th.it it yields abundantly throughout 

 the warmest mont'is of the summer season. 



Ex tract from the Harrisburgh Pcmt. Intelligencer. 



BUIOLTA ABAXO. 

 " The introduction of a new and valuable pro- 

 duct of the soil into our country, under any cir- 

 oumstan.:es, should not fail to prove highly advan- | 

 taweous 10 our agricultural interest. But in the 

 present .iepressad value of the agricultural staple 

 of our state, the importance of the addition of a 

 new product of the soil, constituting an important 

 artici' of consumption, the supply of which is ex- 

 clusively foreign, would be doubly enhanced ; & in 

 proportion to the benefits which would result from 

 its suoressful cultivation, should be the e.xertions 

 of the agriculturalist to give to it a fair and full 

 experiment. In these days of peace and plen'y, 

 the man who makes two blades of grass grow 

 whore but one grew before, is not so much entitled 

 to the character of a benefactor, as he who should 

 be so fortunate as to introduce into pr.^cticable 

 cultivation some new product of the soil, whidi 

 would afford ample remuneration, for the labour 

 bestowed on its cultivation. Every day furnishes 

 some new developement of the rich resources of 

 our country, and unf ilds the capacity of our soil 

 and climate to bring forth every variety of pro- 

 duction calculated to minister to the necessaries 

 and luxuries of this life. It is not a long time 

 since the cultivation of cotton h.ts been introduced 

 into the United States : within comparatively a 

 few years its circulation has extended until it has 

 become the great staple export from the United 

 States. 



In 1798, a member from South Carolina stated 

 in the house of representatives of the United States, 

 'that the people of the southern states intended to 

 cultivate cotton,' and added, 'if good seed could 

 be procured, ho hoped they might succeed.' — De- 

 bates of congress — vol. 1. p. 79. 



Prior to 1802 the cotton wool exported from 

 the United States was blended with that of other 

 countries ; no discrimination was made of its ori- 

 <rin. On the average of five years, from 1802 to 

 1807 cotton of American growth annually amount- 

 ed to 42.147,653 pounds, in 1817, it amounted to 

 85,648,328 pounds, [Seybert.] At the present 

 period the quantity sf cotton produced in the Uni- 

 ted States, is more than quadrupled, and its culti- 

 vation has been gradually extended as far north 

 as Virginia. 



The important benefits which have resulted 

 from the cultivation of cotton, the success of which 

 in 1798 was considered problematical may in 

 some degree be realized in our state by the intro- 

 duction of the cultivation of the fine tobacco, 

 known by the name of the Buelta Abaxo, from 



which the beat quality of tho Havana segars are 

 manufactured. 



Some 'good seed,' lias been procured by the en- 

 terprizc of Jacob Mayland & Co. of the city of | 

 Philadelphia, and not without considerable diffi- 

 culty and e.\pense. They have in this undertaking 

 been influenced by the patriotic motive of atford- I 

 ing to the farmers of this country, the opportunity j 

 of enriching themselves by the cultivation of a! 

 plant which has been the source of immense 

 wealth to the country, in which its growth has 

 hitherto been exclusively confined. Experience 

 has fully rested the complete adaptation of the soil j 

 and climate of Pennsylvania, to the p'oduction ofi 

 tobacco of ordinary quality; and as there exists! 

 in this state an abundance of the peculiar soil suit- 

 ed to the growth of the Buelta Abaxo there can 

 be no doubt of the success of its cultivation, by j 

 using good seed, provided a fair and full experi- j 

 ment is made. 



Directions for the culture of Ike Buelta Jlhaxo 

 Tuhacco. 



The soil must be tolerably good, light, sandy or 

 gravelly, the land prepared, the seed sown, and 

 the tobacco planted in the same way as common 

 tobacco, but not too much apart, say in rows of 

 about four feet, and each plant about from 18 to 

 24 inches. I have seen it at only 12 inches dis- 

 tTince, but this must be regulated according to the 

 quality of the soil. 



When the tobacco is ripe, which is tested *hen 

 the deep green begins to acquire a yellowish cast, 

 the stalk is cut in pieces, so as to have two leaves 

 on each piece, riding them on poles placed in the 

 field for the purpose, elevated a few feet horizon- 

 tally from the ground. On these poles the tobac- 

 co is allowed to remain until it wilts, but no long- 

 er, as the sun would damage it considerably. It 

 is then removed, on the poles, to the curing house, 

 or barn, and there hung up, leaving room to walk 

 below the lower tier. It here remains until the 

 stem is perfectly dry, after which, on the first 

 rainy day, the atmosphere having sufficiently soft- 

 ened the leaves, so that ttey can be handled with- 

 out breaking, they are taken down from the sticks, 

 or poles, and thrown into a bulk, where they lay 

 until the planter is ready fo his market. The 

 leaves are then stripped from the stalk, picked and 

 classed according to quality, that is, the wrapper 

 leaves and the filler leaves apart, by themselves, 

 they are then tied by the butt end of thestalks in- 

 to smaller bundles, called hands, of 25 leaveseach, 

 four of which bundles are again tiednto larger 

 ones, called carrots, and the carrots very slightly 

 pressed and packed in boxes of about 200 pounds 

 each. 



The seed should be sown in February or March, 

 in two beds, one in low dry ground and the other 

 in the woods, in order to have two nurseries, or 

 [double chance of success ; that in the woods is 

 likely to prove the best ; which should be pre- 

 pared by burning dry brush about two feet deep 

 and scraping the ashes off. The ground then dug 

 shallow and well raked so as the earth shall be 

 completely pulverized. With each table -spoonfull 

 of the seed mix a gallon of the ashes, that it may 

 be sown more even over the beds, which will yield 

 plants sufficient for two acres of land ; when at 

 the size of an inch, the plants are suitable for 

 transplanting. 



Egg Plant. — This is a tender or green-house 

 plant, a native of Africa. The plant rises about 



two feet high, with reclin ing branches ; the flow 

 ers appear in June and Jul y, of ■\ pale violet color, 

 followed by a very large borry, generally of an- 

 oval shape, and white color, much resembling a 

 hen's egf^, and in large specimens, that of a swan. 

 Use. In French and Italian cookery, it is used 

 in stews and soups, and for the general purpose 

 of the love apple. 



The model of a printing press, which was mau 

 tioned a few months since, is now in successful ex- 

 periment in the office of tho Christian Advocate 

 and Journal. It is said to be capable of striking 

 off on both sides, from 4 to 5000 sheets in one 

 hour. The sheet is drawn in a straight line be- 

 tween two sets of cylinders, in one set of which 

 the form of types is affixed to the upper cylinder, 

 and in the other to the lower. There are still 

 other cylinders for the purpose of distributing ink 

 to each of the type cylinders. The machine is 

 also contrived in such a manner as to feed itself 

 and lay off the paper, so that only one attendant 

 is necessary. That it will succeed well in stereo- 

 type printing, is, vve believe, doubted by none. — 

 Journal of Com. 



Paring and Burning. — However the practice 

 of paring and burning may be admitted under cer- 

 tain circumstances of restraint and limitation, and 

 even recommended as a safe and effectual moans 

 of bringing coarse moory land when effectually 

 drained, into a state of profitable cultivation, still 

 its pernicious consequences on the sound dry sta- 

 pled lands in this country, are such as can never 

 be repaired but by the total abandonment of a sys- 

 tem so generally practised in this country, and 

 which is fraught with the means of producing suchj 

 incalculable mischief. It wi'l readily be admitted 

 that this opemtion can produce no dimiinition 

 whatever of the earthy parts of the soil ; but as all 

 soil is more or less composed of the earth of veg- 

 etables, its exposure to combustion is fatal to it. — 

 Vancoui'er's Survey of Devonshire. 



Sea Sand, when used as a top dressing upon 

 grass land, either alone or with mould, never fails 

 to bring forth for a succession of seasons, a very 

 sweet and valuable herbage. — ibid. 



Foot-rot and Scour in Sheep. — The best remedy 

 for foot rot in sheep is to pare the foot close, wash 

 it clean, and anoint it with the oil of vitriol, or any 

 other strong caustic matter. The wet lay of pas- 

 tures is supposed to contribute greatly to the pro- 

 duction of this complaint. — ibid. 



Snow. — On Sunday, says a Philadelphia paper, 

 we had an incessant fall of rain, which continued 

 throughout the night ; and yesterday morning it 

 was succeeded by hail ; about 9 o'clock it com- 

 menced snowing, and continued its fleecy bless- 

 ing through the day. Snow to the depth of eight 

 or ten inches must have fallen, and notwithstand- 

 ing the unprepared state of the pavement we no- 

 ticed one or two sleighs in rapid iransii during the 

 afternoon. 



Much more snow must have fallen yesterday, 

 than during the whole of the past winter. 



Planting Fruit Trees. — Let it be observed as a. 

 general rule, always to plant or transplant your 

 fruit trees, before a leaf expands or a blossom ap- 

 pears : it is true, that some plant later, but never 

 with equal success. — flPMahon. 



