Vol. C— No. 42. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



335 



Gold and Silver Piih. 

 For sale at a pond in this vicinity a fine collection o( Gold and 

 Silver Fish. Any orders left with Mr Kusspll at the New Eng- 

 land Farmer Seed Store, will be executed at a low price. 



For Sale 

 At the Asricullural Warehouse, 62 North Market street, a var 

 iety of Milincit Boxes, for screening vines and plants from hug; 

 and other insects. m 2 



ic acid gas in the stooiacli of tiie animal, which 

 causes the swelling anii other symptoms of the 

 complaint to subside. 



indian1:orn, insects. 



Soaltinjj seed corn in ;i solution of Glauber's 

 sails has been recommended as a preservative 

 agiiinet insects and birds, and likewise the ini.t- 

 ture is thought to have a stinuilalin;,' and fertiliz- 

 ing' effect, which forwards the growth of the 

 young plantn. (See N. E. Farmer, vol. v. p. SKi.) 

 ThR proper strength of the solution has not, as 

 far as we can learn, been ascertained by expert 

 niout. 



The farmers of Rensalaer county, N. Y. say 

 that ashes or quicklime ought always to be appli- 

 ed to the top of corn hills immediately after plant- 

 ins, it It follo.v swardland to prevent grub larva: 



from destroying the crop. The same appltcation d.,,,„, r„ ,, •, 



.,, , ■' . ^., a- e 11. ..1 . r fattnt Lamp Boikrs 



will have a Sl.mlar effect if applied to the top of These useful impiements, invented, and patented by ,„. _,„. 

 potato-hills. But neither unleached ashes, nor , ol the New En^hnd Farmer, furmsh a most economical and 

 lime in its caustic state should 

 come in contact either with the 



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be so placed as to ™n.V':'"eut meihud „( boding water in small quantities, for 

 I ,. ^■""e«. cooking eggs, oysters, itc. &c. They are like' 



i seed corn or the very convenient lor Druggists, in making decoctions, spreau,..j; 

 young plants. A strong solution of copperas in ! plasters, &c.; and have been purchased and recommended in 



wHter will ako nreaerve seed corn from insects i "'''""^'J'J' °''^'"'^,''", ""'"^'""'""^^'■'"'^ '» J*"*'™- They are 

 water vvili also preserve seea corn rrom insects | ^^^^. ^^f^ ,„ ^ ^„,. chamber, being possessed of all the advan- 



ewise 

 ipreading 



ffilinofs Superb Straivbtrn/. 

 We are sorry to he obliged lo state.that of <;ne hundred roots of 

 this hne plan sent to us li-Bm Europe, but two have reached 

 this country alive. It will „f course, be impossible to execute 

 any orders for them this sjiring. 



lages ol the common nurse-lamp, and applicable to many pur- 

 poses, (or which the nurse-lamp is inadequate. 

 Discription of the aboia Cut. 



[a] Sheet-iron case, in which the tea kettle, boiler, &c. may 

 be pfaced. removeable at pleasure, ft has a hole in the bottom 

 to admit the heat of the lamp to pervade the bottom and sides of 

 the boiler, [b] Lamp, with five or six wicks more or less, plac- 

 ed, when in use, under said case, [c] Pan or boiler, which, 

 when in use is placed in the shect-irou case, [d] Tea kettle, 

 in its place for boiling, fe] A small sheet-iron cylinder, a little 

 tapering, so a.i to form a trustrum of a hollow cone. This is 

 occasionally placed within the case, in order to set upon it a 

 flask, tin porringer, or other small vessel, in which it may he 

 wi..;hed to heal water. 



Apparatus of the above description, may bo obtained at the 

 New England Farmer office, 52 North Market street — Adams 

 &. Fessenden, 80 Slate street— Joseph Kidder, corner of Hano- 

 ver and Court streets — Ebenezer Wight, Milk street, opposite 

 Federal street — R. A. Newell, Summer street — Wm. Hows, 7 

 Marshall's Lane, Hoston, and Benjamin Haynes, Charlestowii. 



Prices of the whole apparatus, g2.50. Case and Tea-kettle 

 omitting the Pan, ^2.17. Case and Pan, omitting ihe Tea- 

 kettle, 5'. 75. A liberal allowance made to those who buy to 

 sell again. m 9 



and birds. The ashes or quicklime, however, are 

 probably, more useful as manures. 

 SOILING. 



This is a term, which is applied to the practice 

 of cutting herbage crops green for feeding or fat- 

 tening live stock. On all farms, under correct 

 management, a part of this crop is cut green, for 

 working horsps and oxen. Animals employed in 

 labour are much more serviceable when fed ni'a;' 

 at hand than when suffered to ramble over exten- 

 sive pastures ; in which case they are generally 

 most out of the way when most wanted. Besides, 

 if they are obliged to gather their subsistence 

 over an extensive surface, by a fatiguing and pro- 

 tracted process, they will have less strengtii to 

 spare while in the yoke, harness, &.c. than if their 

 food wore obtained without exertion. But young 

 animals require exercise in the open air, and, 

 probably will not be found to thrive so well in 

 houses or fold yards, during summer as in pas- 

 tures ; and though it is supposed that there is a 

 great saving of food by soiling, the long, woody, 

 nnd comparatively naked stems of the plants, with 

 leaves always more or less withered, arc, perhaps, 

 not so valuable in the production of beef, as a 

 much smaller weight of herbage taken in by pas- 

 tuiuigc. Besides many thousands of acres in the 

 United States are valuable for pasturage, which 

 are too rough and rocky for tillage. 



Mr B'rtholomew Rudd, an English agricultur- 

 ist of eminence, in a letter to John Hare Powel, 

 Esq. published in " Hints for American Husband- 

 men," says " You read much in our English publi- . T, 1 • 1 III I 11,^,, 

 ' ■'. -. .,. , copied. He has smce never been saddled or matched. Old 

 cations ot the excellency of soiling calUe in the [ Bellfoundcr was a true descendant from the original blood of 

 house during the whole of ihe year. I do not ap. the Fire-a-ways, which breed of Horses stands unrivalled, either 



in this or any other country. Bellfbunder is strongly recom- 

 mended to the public, by the subscriber as combining more use- 

 ful properties Inau any other Horse in America ; and will stand 

 during the season, at his stable in Charlestown, where all in- 

 nniries, (post paid) %vill be attended to. 

 May '2 SAMUEL JAQUES, Jr. 



Ornamtntdl flowers. 

 For sate at the New England Fanner Seud Store, a large va- 

 riety of •)rnamental Flower Seeds, i„ papers of six and a quar- 

 ter cents each; likewise done up in packages comprising 20 

 varieties, each sort being labelled, at i^l per package. 



Bulbous Roots, S,-c, 

 Just received at the New England Farmer Heed Eslablishmetn 

 a tine collection of superior Bulbous Roots, suitable tor spring 

 planting. Consisting of black, purple, orange, violet, crimson 

 rose, nankeen, bronie, and white colored DOUiiLE MEXI- 

 CAN DAHLIAS. Also, FeiTaria Tigrida, or Mexican TiVer 



Flower — Amaryllis Formosissima, or Jacobean Lily UAihle 



Tuberose, and Ranunculus; paintings of which may lie seen at ' 

 this place. The above collection of liulbs is in fine order, and 

 is from the same House fiom which we obtained the Bulbous 

 Roots last autumn, which gave such uncommon satlslaclion. 



Just received, a small invoice of Transplanting Trowels for 

 Gardens, made to order, in Edinburgh, of polished cast steel, in 

 the finest style, of difiijrent sizes— price, 75 cis. to Jll.bO each. 



Also, a further supply of Lucerne and Potato Oais. 



A liule of the Seed of the genuine Chou de Milan, or Milan 

 Cabbage — the finest winter cabb.ige. 



A further supply of the celebrated New Zealand Spinach, 



Seeds of the Cuba Tobacco, [Biidta abaxo] Vellow Tobacco, 

 Teazel, Spring Wheat, Spring Rye, Barky, Rape. Broom 

 Corn, Spring Vetches, Castor Oil Beau, Corn, (various sorts) — 

 Weld, Yellow Locust, White Mulberry, Millet, Burnet, Orchard 

 Grass, Rye Grass, Tall ^ieadow Oats Grass, White and Red 

 Clover, Mangel Wurlzel, &,c. 



Also, Seeds for Diers' use — Ornamental F'lower Seeds, &c. 

 comprising the largest collection of Seeds to be found in Nev/ 

 England. 



PRICES OF COnjVTRY PRODUCE. 



Bellfounder. 



The Norfolk trotter, imported July 1822, from England, to sland 

 this season, 1828, at 5-0, and gl the groom — the money to be 



paid to the groom. This celebrated Horse is a bright bay, with ' HOG'S L.\RD, liisl sort, new 

 ■ ■ ■• >- — ..?..' LIME 



APPLES, best, 

 ASHES, pot, first sort, - 

 Pearl, first sort, - 

 BEANS, white, 



BEEF, mess, new, . - - 



Cargo, No. 1 , new, 



Cargo, No. 2, new, 



nUTTER, inspected. No. I, new, 



CHEESE, new milk. 



Skimmed milk, 

 FLOUR, Baltimore, Howard-street, 

 . Genesee, - - - 

 Rye, best, - - . . 

 GRAIN, Corn, ... 



Rye, ... 



Barley, - . - . 

 Oats." 



black legs, standing 15 hands high. His superior blood, sy 

 try, and action, excel every other trotting stallion. He is'allnw 

 ed by the best judges in Norfolk, to be the fastest and best bred 

 Horse evei .sent out of that_ county. He has proved himself a 

 sure foal-getter — and his stock for size and substance are not to 

 be surpassed. They are selling at llic highest prices of any 

 Horses in Norfolk. Bellfounder was got by that well known 

 fast and high formed trotter. Old Bellfounder, out of Velocity — 

 which trotted on the Norwich road in 1806 sixteen miles in one 

 hour — and though she broke 15 limes into a gallop, and as often 

 round, won her match. In 1808 she trotted 28 miles in one hour 

 and forty seven minutes — and has also done many oiher great 

 performances against time. Bellfounder at five years old trot- 

 ted two miles in six minutes — and in the follownig year was 

 matched for 200 guineas to trot 9 miles in 30 minutes, Which he 

 won easily by 22 seconds. His owner shortly aAer challenged 

 to perform with him 17 1-2 miles in one hour, but was notac- 

 He has since never been saddletl or matched 



prove of this practice, for it is surely an unuatu- 

 lal one, as air and exercise, .nnd the selection of 

 their own food, must benefit cattle, as other ani- 

 mals are benefitted by them. I can say from act- 

 ual experience of the two systems, that cattle 

 thrive much biUer in the fields during the period 

 from the middle of May to the middle of Novem- 

 ber, than they do when confined in a house. Soil- 

 ing cattle is very little practised in England." 



A company of gentlemen from Baltimore have 

 commenced preparations for supplying our city 

 with gas. They propose to lay as much as four 

 miles of pipe the present season. 



Bull, Yovng C'onift. 



This noble animal, (of the new improved Durham short horned 



slock) is from Aihniral and Annabcllaj presented to the Massa 



chuselts Society lor the promotion of Agriculture, by Sir Isaac i MUTTON, 



Coffin, at an expense of near ofie thousand dollars, for the pur- ^' "'"" 



pose of improving the breed of rattle in his native State. He 



will remain at tlie farm of E. H. Derby, Esq. in Salem, ami 



by the , direction of the Trustees of the Society, he is to be used 



ai ^3 (or eacli Cow, payable m advance. The whole proceeds 



li-om this animal, (die present season) will be for the benefit of 



the Society. Cows sent from a distance « ill be taken car^of, 



if desired, at a reasonable charge. 



PLAISTER PARIS retails at 

 PORK, new, clear, - . . . 

 Navy, mess, new. 

 Cargo, No. 1. new, 

 SEEDS, Herd's Grass, . 

 Orchard Grass, 

 Fowl Meadow, - - . 

 Rye Grass, . _ - 



Tall Meado'.v Oats Gra.5S, - 

 Red Top . - . . 

 Lucerne, - . - 

 White Honeysuckle Clover, 

 Red Clover, (norlhcrn) . - 

 French Sugar Beet, - 

 Mangel Wurlzel, 

 WOOL, Merino, full blood, washed, - 

 Merino, full blood, unwashed. 

 Merino, three fourths washed. 

 Merino, half & quarter washed 

 Native, washed, 

 Pulled, Lamb's, first sort, - 

 Pulled, Lamb's, second sort, 

 Pulled, for spinning, first sort, 



PROVISION MARKET. 



BEEF, best pieces, - • - 

 PORK, fresh, best piece-. 



whole hogs, 

 VEAL. 



POIILTRY. . - - . 

 BUTTER, keg and tub, - 

 Lump, best, 



EGGS 



MEAL. Rye, retail, - 

 Indian, retail, 

 POTATOS, 

 CIDER, [accordiosio quality-l 



