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PUBLISHKD BY GEO. C. BARRETT, NO. 52, NORTH MARKliT STREET, (at the Ar.R.cuLTUBAi. Warehouse.)-T. G. FEKSENDEN EDITOR, 



Ot,. XIII. 



BOSTON. WEBNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1834. 



NO. 



COMMUNICATION. 



• tkc Editor and rrojirittoT of the Xew England Fanner. 



Salem, (Mass.) Oct. 22. 

 Gent. — Enrlnserl I seiul yon a cut, ami parti- 

 liir (ipsnri|itinn of the new .Stjiiash e,\lii!)itf(i liv 

 > at tlie Into llnrticiilliir.il Feslival in your citv ; 

 licli I wish yon wunid give a plaoe in your col- 

 ins, and ohli:rt; 



Yours, &c .T.)ii\ I\I. Ives. 



autbmnaij marrow sq,uash. 



nlii}; my carrots, I trans|ihiiite(l a Cevv oflhtin into 

 a [licoe of tcroinjil that had liecn well (lunged with 

 rotten lioise-dnnp', and ihoiiffh they grew very 

 well, yet they were so nmrh cankered, that they 

 "ere almost unfit for any use. All this leads me 

 to think that |)igeon dung is a good preventive of 

 I he worms in carrots. — English paper. 



Fruit obovate : depressed on one side : stem 

 ■y large, and inclined upwards, almost at right 

 ;les with the fruit : a small truncate callosity 

 :he other extremity. Color reddish cream, witii 

 ts or dashes of Inight ochre when in maturity, 

 sh orange: seeds large; pure while, with an 

 ^atej margin : aver;ige weiglit, 8 Ihs. 

 riie ahove new variety of Sijnasli, Cueurbita 

 lopepo var. lias been lately brought into notice 

 his vicinily, on account of the delicacy of its 

 in, and excellence of flavor. We have called 

 ' Autiminal Marrow" as it comes in succession 

 he summer varieties, biy may be kept through- 



tlie winter. 



t peculiarity in, this variety is the extreme thin- 

 s of its skin, being of tljo consistency of the 



r cnvelo])e of an egg. 



Ve reconiniend it to all lovers of this vesetahle 

 its many e.vcellent (pialities : we spe.ik thus 

 idently from the testimony in its fa\or of those 



have ijSed it at their tables. 



EON DUKe TO PREVENT WORMS IN 

 CARROTS. 



BOUT five years ago I had a heap of pi^reon 

 ;, which lay through the winter months on a 



ter of the garden, and having occasion to move 

 ;liis dung to other parts of the garden, I hud 

 u the (piarter with carrots, and was surprised 

 )serve an extraordinary production of this veg- 

 'e on the spot where t!ie dung h;id lain, both 



respect to their size and clearness; and al- 

 gh some worms might have been found in the 

 r parts of the quarter, yet 1 could perceive 

 in the spot alluded to. From that time 

 circumstance induced me to adopt the prac- 

 >f sowing my carrots always in one |>articular 



of ground, which I have annually manured 



with pigeon <!ung, laying on almost as mucii 



though of a hot nature, as if it had been 

 n horse dung, and have the satisfaction to ob- 

 i, that I have never failed to have an extraor- 



y crop, and what is of more consequence, 1 

 venture to affirm, that a worm could not be 

 d in any carrots during the four years that I 



contiiuied this practice. Last year iu thin- 



TilE RHODE ISLAND SOCIETY FOR ENCOUR- 

 AGEMENT OP DOMESTIC INDUSTRY, 



— .'\t their Annual Mceiing, on the 23d instant, 

 iiKide choice of the follouing named geiitleuien for 

 oli'icers for said Institution for the year ensuing: 



.laines Rhodes, President. 



Samuel Slater, Jas. D'Wolf, Charles Edridge, 

 J ice Presidents. 



Wm. Rhodes, Treasurer. 



\Vm. W. lioppin. Secretary. 



Stimding Connnitlee — .lesse Tonrtellot, Dutee 

 Arnold, Christopher Rhodes, Albert C. Greene, 

 i\alhan Bowen, Freeborn Sisson, John Jenckes, 

 t-fcphen F. Northam, George Burton, Wilber Kel- 

 Icy, Stephen H. Smiih, Win. E. Richmond, Moses 

 lii'iwn Ives, Bates Harris, John Foster, Slephen 

 \\':Uernian of Coventry, Thomas Ilolden, Sion A. 

 Rl'odcs, Tully Dorr.ince, James Anthony, Joel Al- 

 drich, John Pitman, Jeremiah Whipple, Williaii 

 Anthony, Stephen B. Cornell, Le wis Dexter,Charles 

 Collins, Nicholas Fry, Elisha Olney, jun. John 

 Brown Francis. 



The said Society awarded the following Pi'emi- 

 iims to the Students of the Classical and Agriciil- 

 tnial School under their patronage, for industry 

 and skill in producing crojis iu the Agricultural 

 department : 



Joseph Whitmarsh, George Champlin, each Four 

 Dollars. 



Dana Ean)es, A. M. Gannnell, Charles Smith, 

 J. Swaine, B. N. Arinington, Benjamin Cirdiner, 

 Thomas Harrison, each Three Dollars. 



J. Palmer, J. G. Wil.son, J. Gammell, L. Wil- 

 liams, B. E. Viall, J. Terry, W. P. Potter, C. Grant, 

 C. Pendleton, each Two Dollars. 



H. G.Tucker, Peleg Wilber, A. Mason, II. -A. 

 Potter, S. L. Arnold, B. B. Dyer, .S. A. Knight, 

 J. Welch, I. Barton, B. Randall, l.P. .\iwood, 

 each One Dollar. 



16. 



■,mmn lll.l Jill ■ | |. ■ I ^— g^mgnj,^— Mj^^^g^^ 



following the same course throngh a suflicie 

 number of generations, he obtained a breed far 

 superior to any that existed before. ' 



In the same manner, from the common English 

 sheep, he raised the superior breed called the 

 Dishley sheep, of which it is said lliat the wool 

 is long and fine, and weighs when they are killed 

 at two years old, eight pounds per fleece on an av- 

 erage, and that they fatten kindly and early on or- 

 dinary jjaslnres. Since Bakewell's time many 

 other persons bavefijllovved the course pointed 

 out by bin), and several new breeds have been 

 raised. Of these the Durham Slimt Horns are 

 generally considered the best. The estimation ia 

 which they are held in England will appear, from 

 an account of some sales made in ISlC Seven- 

 teen cows were sold for £2802, or more tnaii 

 .$730 apiece. One cow, nine years old, was sold 

 for .si, 8(38, and one bull for 1,000 guineas, or 

 .■54670. — ll'arren's Address, Maine Farmer. 



DIFFERENCE I.V PLOUCHS. 



A REMAP.KABi.E instance of the beneficial influ- 

 ence of agricullural exhibitions occurs to nis. " 

 is related that in a certain district in England the 

 fiirmers were in the habit of using six horses to a 

 plough. Upon the institution gf ploughing matches 

 it was discovered that the same work could be 

 done with two. In consequence-, the (dd ploughs 

 were soon laid aside — the new ones adopted, and 

 the l.ihor of four horses out of six dispensed with. 

 I have seen an account of some experiments made 

 a few years ago under the direction of the Secre 

 tary of War, to ascertain the comparative force re 

 quired to wmk different ploughs. The plonglia, 

 tried were all of approved kinds. But iheip . 

 found to be a diffcrenci? in them of nearly filiy |jer 

 cent. That is, it would take nearly one half n. ore 

 (lower to do the same work with .some, th.-it it 

 v/onid with others.— fT. Warren's Address, Maine 



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ENGL,ISII STOCK. 



All the improved brec<is have been made from 

 cattle not originally superior to our own. It is 

 about fifty years since much attention began to be 

 [laid to the subject in England. Mr. Bakewell is 

 mentioned as the first who made a systematio bu- 

 siness of it. Ills oliject was to raise a breed of 

 cattle that would come to maturity earlier — would 

 fatten easily, and would have most flesh on the most 

 valuable parts. To cffi.'ct this object he selected 

 the best animals he could find. He then observed 

 what were their defects — in what respects their 

 shape was not perfect — and wherein they had a 

 tendency to take flesh on parts of inferior value. 



He then procured others which excelled iu 

 those particular points iu which the first were de- 

 ficient, and by mixing them he obtained descen- 

 dants that partook of the excellencies of both. By 



PRESERVING POTATOES. 



A GOOD way of pre-'-erving sweet potatoes is 

 when they are dug pack them up in dry sand, be- 

 ing careful to keep tliein covered so as not to gel; 

 wet. In this way they will remain all winter as ' 

 fresh and as good ;is when first dug. A highly 

 respectable fanner, the quality of whose potatoes 

 I myself tested last spring and found them of the 

 first cm, assured me that this was the nieihoo ho 

 had practised fora number of years, and fbuiid ic 

 perfectly successful. — Ohio Farmer's Reporter. 



risa HATCHED under fowls. 



The Chinese have taken a fancy to hatch fish 

 under fowls. For this purpose they collect from 

 rivers and ponds the gelatinous matter which 

 contains the eggs of fish, put it into vessels, and 

 sell it to the proprietors of ponds. When tiie 

 hatching sea-son arrives, a fowl's egg is emptied of 

 its usual contents, and this gelatinous matter is 

 put iu. The entrance is hermetically sealed, and 

 it is put under a hen. After some days the egg is 

 opened, and placed in a vessel of water heated by 

 the sun. This is kept in his rays until the lit- 

 tle fish become strong enough to bear the external 

 temperature. — Bull. Univ. 1829, p. 82. 



