J72 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 13, 1828. 



ti Louduir -< t liinlmer U Magazine, Inr Mai ch and April, 18!23, 

 received at the office oJ llie New England Farmer. 



Spruce Beer. — Early in the spring, cut off the 

 young branches of the pine or fir, throe or four wire worm in iiiy garden, which seems to^ revel on 

 inches in 

 pieces 



if this really is the case, to their certain knowl- 1 riety is obtain'd, two seedling plants seldom hav- 

 edge .' — Rusticus in Urbe. ling flowers alike. Seedlinga, treated as before 



mr, W.rm?.— 1 am teased to death with the '^^s'^''''''^''' ^°"'^'' '^^ ^^""^ year in July and Au- 



TUSt. 



in length, and break them into small the Irideie, p.nks, lobelias, and plants ot that char- The stalks and leaves m^ke a wholesome food 

 ; b,Mltheminwat..r and, after filtering the '^'^^^r. I have tried lime, sulphur, salt, potash, for pigs and sheep; they are also ea en by deer 



" and cows, and they are in a dried state, readily 



extract throucrh a sieve, add to sixteen gallons of ^oot, all which kill them it is true, but the quanti- and cows, and they are in a dried s. 



it about si.x pounds of sugar. It may then by boil- ty ■•'^q'"^ed would prove a worse remedy than the ^^^^^" ^r^Ti^Ti '^ . 



ing, or evapor^tin.. in a hot house, be reduced to J'^-^^^'-'- With a coat of mail like AchiUes's, this ^^ «^ c=»"'e ''^od, the stalks may be c. 



I 1 n I ■ i, ..1 .■ 1 ,1, e o-rub resists everv ordinary aonliciilion and effects <"" three times in one season I he tubers may be 



- syrup, which will keep in bottles tor a length of o'"" resiois tvery oruiiiary appm-i-iiou, auu eiiens ... , . .i_ .i. ui 



^ ^ *' ° l,i^ purposes in security. Do you know of any eaten by cattle, but they are neither so agreeable 



When cultivat- 

 t over two 



time. For besr, ini.\ three pints of this extract 



• , 1 ,.'■_,■ '<• , , rempilu 5 I haup uopn tujn nr throp niiprips in tho nor SO nourishing as thosB of the common po- 



•vith thirty ot water ; boil it for about two hours, ; ■^"^""^ "y ' ' '"'^^ seen two or inree queries in tne <= ' 



ind, when cold, put it into a cask, and ferment it i ^^^=1^'^^'"^, but no reply. My subsoil is a clay, t»t° 



n the usual method. ^''"'='' ^ '"^ar is an insurmountable evil — A. B. B. P 



rn I r, I TI TJ7 .1. 1 . . r \ Caermarlheii. tall 



Tea anil Bafm lea. — With regard to tea, tor ,^_^ ,,, , ,. , t. ■ i- <^ .i 



, . , , . z^-., ■ •. ■ iry^ We know of no remedy. Burying slices of tlie „-„. .. — , 



whicli we pay such immense sums to China, it is i ^ , , ■' , <<u- x «*• • .• ■ i > ...i.; i i i„ .; „ 



. . J .u . .1 c .1 c u u 1 u ; turnip, potato, apple, or other supposed tempting China. In Africa, tnis plant, which seldom rises 



stated that the first leaves of the whortleberry i , . i"' "^ ' i t^ ' , , ■ , ., r c „ r . i.;„v, : p, „i ,a , 



, , 1 . J J ■ 1 • .u 1 J •^ ' bait, has been recommended, and taking up the more than four or five leet high in Lngland, at- 



properly gathered and dried in the shade, cannot 

 be distinguished from real teas. Tiiis is the ber- 

 ry on which the black cock feeds, so that by the 

 culture of it we may secure two good things. Be 

 it known to all that John Ilussev, of Syden- 

 ham, who lived to 119 years of age, took nothing 

 to his breakfast, for fifty years, but balm tea 

 sweetened with honey. — Art uf Preservint; Heiillh. 



bail every day or two, and picking off the worms tains the size of a considerable tree. Clusius ob- 

 till the ground was cleared. A moderate quanli served it in Spain, with a trunk as large aa a 

 ty of bait, it is supposed, might clear a whole gar- man's body, and fifteen or twenty feet high. Ray 

 den or field. We wish much that some of our asserts that in Sicily it is as larae as the common 

 readers would try ihe e.\periiiieut, and send us the elder tree, woody, and pcrennnl. An oil is e.v 

 result. They will find farther details in Kirbii and pressed from the seeds by the following process : 

 Spence's Entomology, a work which we have al- , The seeds being freed from the h'lsks, which are 

 ready recommended every master who wishes to gathered upon their turning down, and when be- 

 Bread fiom Turnips.— het the turnips first be i^eep down insects to procure, and lend to his gar- j ginning to burst open, are first bruised in a mor- 



peelod, ami boiled in water till soft and tender ; dgn^r. Cond. i tar, afterwards tied up in a linnen bag, and then 



then, strongly pressing out the juice, mix them 1 Yelloio Loc,i,t.—The Prussian Gardenincr So- i thrown into a large pot, with a sufficient quantity 

 together, and, when dry (beaten or pounded very i ^^^ ^^^ strongly recommended the culture of ; °f water, and boiled till the oil is risen to the sur- 

 hne),wuh their weight of wheat meal; season It the American Yellow Locust tree on poor sandy ''''<='=. ^'l'^'' i^ ^« carefully skimmed ol}, strained^ 



as yau do other bread, and knead it up ; then, let- 

 ting the dough remain a little to ferment, fashion 

 the paste into loaves, and bake it like common 

 bread. Some roast ti.rnips in a paper under the ' i" Paris, who are to issue a periodical journal, en- j ^^ j^ „ggj ^g ^ la.-cative, acting mildly ami speedily, 



and kept for use. Castor oil is of a pale yellow 

 , colour, with little taste or smell ; it is often adul- 

 A new Horticultural Society has been formed i [grated with olive oil, linseed oil, and poppy oil : 



titled Aiiuals of the Society of Horticulture in 

 Paris, and Journal of the State and Progress of 

 Gardening. The first number contains artictes 

 on a late horticultural fete at Fromont, — on Hy- 

 brids — on the Flower Market at Paris — on the 

 Natura'izalinn of Vegetables — on Hotbeds — New 

 Tainted wooden caslis of every description, may Works on Horticulture, &c. 



embers, and eat them with sugar and butter. — jEw- 

 elyn's Mi<r.. IVritings., p. 75G. 



C'lieap Soap. — Potatos, th.'ee parts boiled, aflbrd 

 a very ffood .substitute, especially for washing the 

 hands. — Btit. Mir. 



be rendered perfectly sweet and wholesome by 

 washing with diluted sulphuric acid, and after- 



London Marlict The following will give our 



readers an idea cf the prices of Vegetables in Co 



and, unlike other purgatives, its doses may be 

 ot'ten lessened when an individual is in the habit 

 of taking it. 



DIRECTIONS FOR RAISING LOCUST 

 TREES 



Put the seed into a vessel over night, pour hot 

 (not boiling) water on them. In the morning, take 

 them out and spread them — select those that 

 have swelled, for planting ; return the remainder 

 nto the vessel, repeating the same process the 



.vards with lime water and pure .vater.— /ou;na/ ^g,j^ Garden Market, London, January 21, 1828. 

 d'Agnc. des Pays Bas. 1826. Pi„y vVhito Brocoli 22 to 40 cts. per bunch of 



Destruction of Snails by common salt. — M. Em 

 Rousseau had applied common salt as a manure to _ _ , „ , 



a small piece of garden, and remarked that where Kidney potatos $18 per ton— Newtuwn pippins 50 1 swelled seeds from the others. What remain 



will probably be imperfeit. Sow or plant the swell- 

 ed seeds in rows three teet apart, on good ground 

 about the lime of planting beans — to be hoed and 

 orn radisli--50 ctsT— celery 40 els. per '•'resspd the same as beans. 



Cole- 1 They are very tender when young, and slight 

 frosts will greatly injure, if not kill lliem. 



snails had come in contact with the salt they 



nuickly died. Wishing to confirm the fact, he 



strewed some salt upon the ground, and pluced a 



number of snails amongs.tit ; all those which came heads 



out of their shells and touched the salt immediately , bundle — carrots $1,5(1 to 1^^2,00 per dozen 



threw out a greenish globular froth, and in a few , worts 50 cts do. — turnips 62 cts. do. 



Fine VVhito Brocoli 22 to 40 cts 



eight to ten heads— asparigus 2-5 cts. to $■> per following, and so on tor two or three successive 



lOG— onions 50 to tJO cts. per bushel — English I nights ; taking care each morning to separate the 



dtatos $18 per ton — Newtuwn j 



,loz.en — common kitchen apples $2 perj 



,.ls. per 

 bushel. 

 February 9 — Savoy cabbages 50 cts. per dozen 



minutes were dead. The fact may be turned to 

 account by agriculturists and iiardeners. — But. 

 Un. and Brande's Jour. Jan. 1828. 



A much more effectual mode of destroying 

 snails, worms, and similar insects, and one witli 

 which, unlike salt, there is no danger of injuring 



RURAL TASTE. 

 1 regard the man who surrounds his dwelling 

 with objects of rural taste, nr .\ ho even plants a 

 single shade tree by the road side as a public ben- 



Dahlias. — A writer in the Transactions of the 

 Prussian Gardening Society recommends the cul- 

 ture of the Dahlia as a beautiful flowering shrub. 

 They mSy be used as screens, for concealing 



walls and other fences or unsightly objects, (ire- ! gfactor ; not merely because he adds something 

 senting at the same time a beauli-ful spectacle l" , tp the tren^rnl beauty of the country, and to the 

 plants, IS the u.sc of lime water. Nothing aston- j j^^ ^^^ (,y ^^^ variety of their colours, from snowy plp„suix- of those who travel throuirh it, but, be- 

 jshos us more than the tardy dissemination of this l ^^,|,;,g .„ j|,g ,i.,rkcst violet, purple blood-red andL,a„«e, also, he contributes something to the re- 

 tact among gardeners. 'blackish blood-rod, sulphur colour, orange, and , f5„e„ient of the genera! mind ;— he improves the 



Destroying Insects by Toads. — Many gardeners [scarlet, in all their shades, especially if wo can j taste especially of his own family nnd neighbor- 



constantly put a toad into their cucumber frames, 

 merely giving him a par. of water, and they find 

 that he clears their frames of slugs and millepedes, 

 or wood lice, ll has always been my opinion that 

 toads live on slugs, as they never move out till 

 the evening, when these creatures also are on the 

 move. Can any of your correspondents inform me 



contrive to group the colours in masses. 



They are usually propagated by a division of 

 the route, taking care to have a bud on each tu- 

 ber ; also from cuttings. Seeds are produced by 

 the single varieties in the greatest abundance, 

 and also frequently from the double flowers. — 

 From the progci>y of such seeds an endless va- 



hood. There is a power in scenes of rural beau- 

 ty, to affect our social and moral feelings. A fond-j 

 nesB fur these scenes is seldom found with coarse- 1 

 nesB of sentiment and rudeness of manners. One 

 may judge, with confidence, of the taste and intel- 

 ligence of a family by the external air of theii 

 dwelling. In my excursions in the country, if ! 



