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NEW EISGLANO FARMER. 



May, 30, 1828. 



packet, aim ulr Wiggin declined making any 

 charge for their cost, expressing his wish to con 

 tribute by this liberality to the success of the un- 

 dertaking-. 



I shall close these notes on the favorite topics, 

 of the desirable adtiilion which silk would make 

 to the products of our country, by observing that 

 every natural indication of the soil and climate 

 appears to encourage us with a promise of success ; 

 where the fond may bo made to grow freely, there 

 surely, the creature appointed by nature to con- 

 sume it, will prosper and delight ; it is a fact be- 

 yond doubt, that the white mulberry does thrive 

 in our cliunte without requiring any peculiar care, 

 and is, I believe, never injured by caterpillars, nor 

 any other insects, and it is also a fact that this 

 tree will grow well on light loamy, and gravelly 

 lands, and furnish, there, a food superior in quali- 

 ty, to what it would give upon richer and moister 

 ground ; whereby some of our plains, and other 

 poor lands, might be brought, in time, to enrich 

 their owner..; ; another natural indication, which 

 in Europe is iield conclusive, almost to a proverb, 

 is that our soil and climate, in the middle and 

 southern parts of New England, are such as to in- 

 sure constant and abundant crops of Indian corn. 

 Where Indian corn groivs fruehj, 

 There is also a silk country. 



The south of Fiance, Piedmont, and Italy are 

 Indian corn countries ; Piedmont in all its abund- 

 ance, cherishes its Indian corn, and there is not a 

 meal there, upon the table of the opulent or of the 

 poor, which is deemed complete, «iiliout the na- 

 tional dish called by them poulintu, something 

 like hasty pudding. 



Giving a hearty good v.'ish, for the success of 

 your endeavors, to hasten the time, when the 

 gilded vanes of silk factories, shall shine in the 

 brightness of our New England skies, 



J remain truly, Mr. Editor, your friend, &c. 



J. M. G. 



Matj 22, 1828. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MAKING BUTTER. 



Mr. Pessen'dex\, — By the earnest solicitations 

 of a number of my neighbors, I am induced to atk 

 information of you, through the medium of your 

 useful paper, on the following subject : iMany of 

 iiiy neighbors say, that after churning their croam 

 (of about a week's dairy) a whole day, they are 

 disappointed in getting butter. Some have been 

 disappointed in this .vay, of late, in half a dozen 

 instances in succession. If you have it in your 

 power, please give the iCiison why it is so, and 

 how it may be remedied, through the New Eng- 

 land Farmer. 



Your ob't. and humble servant, 



J. D. DORRNLNG. 



Kennebunhporf, (Me.) 2lst, May, 1828. 



By the Editor. We know nothing on the sub- 

 ject of making butter, which is derived from per- 

 sonal observTition. But we have had some con- 

 versation on the process with those e.vperiinentally 

 acquainted with it. Milk o- cream before it can 

 bo converted into butter must have curdled or 

 soured, as well aa have its elementary particles 

 separated by agitation or churning. Mr, Do Witt 

 ^ays, (see p.ige ;3:V2 of tiie present vol. of the N. 

 E. Farmer.) "milk must have naturally soured, 

 without any help hut a little quantity of soi r 

 milk and especially withoat warming it;" and has 



! given some other rules on the making of butter, 

 I which may be seen in the page above referred to. 

 A writer for the N. K. Farmer, vol. iv. page 217, 

 says, "I fou';! by e.vperiment, that the uncertainty 

 of fetching butter in tbe winter, may be easily re- 

 medied by preparing the cream properly. Incor- 

 porate a little pure vinegar with the tirst quart of 

 cream, that it may sour ; collect the quantity to 

 be churned ; if it be not sour, add a little more 

 vineETor, and ivarm it till it is sour, then heat it 

 scrtlding hot Let it then stand tvvo days, and we 

 are sito to have good butter in the winter." 



The milk of some cows is more difficult to churn 

 than that of others ; and some milk yields more 

 and better butter than that of others. It is there- 

 fore, well to put every cow's milk by itself — at 

 least till its quality is discovered, and then ascer- 

 tain by separate churnings its comparative value. 

 See N. E. Farmer, vol. iv. page 3.50. 



FOR THE .NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



HORSES. 



Mn. Fessenoen, — I observe in one of your late 

 numbers that three stallions are expected at this 

 port from England. Most of the names in their 

 pedigrees are new names to mo ; as they are 

 written. If I may be allowed to make a remark 

 upon the subject it is to state that one of them. 

 Barefoot, is of a particularly advantaseous blood, 

 and not one of the refuse horses that are sent 

 here to pnison our stock, but one of first-rate de- 

 cided reputation at home. He is unquestionably, 

 a horse of the highest reputation in England that 

 has ever been brought young. He is, I believe, 

 only eight years old, of a far superior class to a 

 horse like Messenger. Before reading that com- 

 munication I had not the slightest knowledge of 

 the circumstances under which they were to come 

 to this country. Yours, &c. J. L. ELWYN. 

 Boston, May 25, 1828, 



FOR THE KEV 



SLAXD FARMEF.. 



EXTRAORDINARY COW. 



Mr. Jeremiah Stickney, of Rowley, has a cow 

 of a large size, and of a dark red color, remarka- 

 bly well proportioned, and handsomely built, six 

 years old, which recently produced a cow calf, 

 weighing on the day of its birth, one hundred and 

 twenty pounds. Ou the day the calf was two 

 weeks old, it was again weighed, and found to 

 have gained forty-three pounds ; averaging an in 

 crease of a little more than three pounds a day. 

 The calf is of the same color of the cow ; and is, 

 in every respect, as well built and proportioned. 

 Besides supplying the calf, the cow now affords 

 si.v quarts of milk, of the richest kind, daily. She 

 had been wintered on common keeping, which in 

 this place is salt hay. S. P. 



Rowley, May 22, 1828. 



FOR THE ^E^V ENGLAND FARMER. 



HORTICUL.TUR.4.t. IMPROVEMENT. 



Mr. FEssr.MiF.N, — In your last paper is a uotico 

 of an experiment by a fair horticulturist, on the 

 application of hot loater to the roots of peach trees. 

 A similar application was made bv me last year, 

 at the suggestion of Prof Nuttall, by whom I was 

 informed that it had been practised by a friend of 

 Ms near Philadelphia, for several years with great 

 success. Although fearful of destroying my trees, 

 I laid bare the larger roots, and scrndcd them ; the 

 trees received no injury, and are now in health. 



I have extended the use of hot water to beds in 

 which radishes and other vegetables are cultivat- 

 ed, scalding the earth before sowinir the seeds ; by 

 which means, 1 have destroyed the larvje of many 

 insects with which a rich soil is so apt to be re- 

 plete. A SUBSCRIBER. 



Cambridge, May 27, 1828. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



PKUIT TREES. 



Mr. Fessenben, — I send you enclosed, a com- 

 munication, on the subject of new fruits just xeceiv- 

 ed, for insertion in your Farmer. 



Respectfully, 



WM. PRINCE. 

 The following collection of fruits has been pre- 

 sented to me, by John Braddick, Esq. of Boughton 

 Mount, one of the most eminent and intelligent 

 members of the Horticultural Society of London : 



PEARS. 



Forme de Marie Louise, the best autumn stand- 

 ard, ripe in Nov. and Dec. 



William's Bon Chretien, autumn standard, ripe- 

 in Sept. and Oct. 



Aston Town, same qualities as above. 



Belle Lucratif, standard, ripe in Aug. 



Napoleon, wall, ripe in Dec. 



Present de Milines, wall, Dec. and Jan. 



Passe Colmar, wall, Jan. and Feb. 



Marie Louise, wall, Nov. 



Poir d' A nana, wall, Jan. till March. 



Poir d'Auch, wall, Jan. till March. 



Dutchesse d'Angouleme, not yet fruileil. 



Neilis d'hyver, wall Dec. and Jan. 



APPLES. 



Graveinstcin. 



lied Astracan. 



Hunt's Duke of Gloucester. 



Seedling Nonpareil. 



Nonpareil. 



Ashmede's Kernel, 



Luccomb's Pine. 



Merton Nonpareil. 



Cornish July flower, a fine keeping apple. 



Kentish fill basket. 



Beauty of Kent. 



Kentish Conqueror, keeps till May, 



Sweeny Nonpareil. 



Emperor Alexander. 



Golden Harvey, or Brandy apple — a fine desert 

 fruit, keeps till April. 



Wellington, a fine keeping apple. 



Kerry Pippin, an Irish desert apple. 



Court Pendu, plat et rougsatre, a French desert 

 keeping apple. 



Court of Wick, the best of the seedlings, raised 

 from the old Golden Pippin. 



Crofton, or Irish Nonpareil. 



STRAWEEKKIES. 



Knevett's Pine. 



Wilmot's Superb. 



Aberdeen Hautbois. 



Early Globe. 



Bishop's Orange, 



Cinnamon. 



1 .'im happy to state that nearly the whole num- 

 ber were received in good order, and several have 

 been engrafted from each kind of the apples and 

 pears with every prospect of success ; several of 

 the kinds had been previously received by me and 

 considerably increased. 



Fhishing, Long Island, May 22, 182P. 



