NEW ENGI^AND FARMER. 



PUBLISHED iJY GEO. C. IJAFxRETT, NO. 52, NORTH MARKET STREET, (at the Agricultural Warehouse.)-T. G. FESSENDEN, EDITOR. 



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BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1834. 



NO. 18. 



AVOOI, FAins. 



A WRITER in one of the New-I'^n^'lanil newspa- 

 lers sn^gests the estalilishinent of an annual wool 

 lir. This af)peais worth attemlinor to, as the con- 

 enience of both buyers and sellers is promoted by 

 leir liaving a general place of nieetinir. In Eng- 

 ind there are horse-fairs, sheep-fairs, cattle-fairs, 

 op-fairs, and probablj' many others; in Germany 

 ook-fairs, linen and cotton fairs, wool-fairs, and 

 lie like ; whereas almost the only fairs in this 

 onntry are fancy-fairs! These latter usnally oir'er 



most attractive scene from the nmiiliers of beaii- 

 fiil females who grace the stands ; and they are 

 ften made beneficial to sonie public charity ; but 

 ley do not subserve the great interests of agricul- 

 ire or manufactures. 



Were an extensive wool-fair eslablisbed, it is 

 robable that farmers and graziers would pay more 

 tiention than they now do to the growth of their 

 ocUs, in which case this country might supply 

 liigland with a large part of that qiiatitily which 

 le now imports from Spa n and Germany. The 

 >arse wool she obtains from her own sheep, but 

 le fine she is compelled to import from countries 

 aving a different climate. — As this country pos- 

 isses every apparent advantage of soil and climate, 

 le might, with proper attention, soon rival any 

 her country in the world Baltimore Gaz. 



SALT AVATKR OIV PLANTS. 



After an inundation of Friesland, in 1825, the 

 »k,tlie mulberry, pear, and peach trees, and (lop- 

 loted ones, did not suffer : nor the asparagus : 

 10 onions, celery, pumpkins, and some others, 

 ere never finer. But the vines and gooseberries 

 >ntractcd a salt taste, and the apricots, apples, 

 lerries, poplars, elms, beech, and willows, could 

 )t stand it. They pushed out a few leaves, and 



en declined. — Bull. Univ. 1829, p. 225. 



shuts it fast. A rising main, with a check valve, 

 is opened between the two buckets in the pump, 

 upon which is screwed fast a leather ]i\\>e with a 

 copper tube on the end. One man directing this 

 pipe, and another pumping, converts the cart into 

 a sort of fire engine, that may be very useful in 

 cases of emergency, throwing the water -10 feet 

 horizontally, and over any house of two stories, 

 any hay stack or corn rick, and also very useful 

 for garden walls and fruit trees. By increasing 

 the size of the barrel, and by applying more power, 

 a suflicient engine may be made, and answering 

 other pur(ioses at the same time. The above de- 

 scribed is very simple and cheap, and is very use- 

 ful. — John Donaldson, British Far. Magazine. 



readers will be able to make a few remarks on this 

 comiTiuiiieation. ]VI. Saol. 



Lancaster, England, June 22, 1834. 



POTATOES 



— Planted at one foot deep |)roduced shoots at 

 the end of the spring; at two feet, not till the mid- 

 dle of the summer ; at three feet, their roots were 

 very short, and did not come to the surface ; be- 

 low three feet they never vegetated. Several were 

 buried in a garden at 3 1-2 feet, and after two 

 years were found without any germination, but 

 with their original freshness, firmness, and proper 

 taste. — Ann. Soc. Aerr. Fr. 



A CHEAP AND CS&FUL. WATER-CART, 



I SUBJOIN a description of a very cheap and use- 

 1 water-cart. A barrel, holding 100 to 200 gai- 

 ns, is placed on a pair of wheels and shafts in 

 e usual way. A pump, three inches in diameter, 

 plac;;d close by the side of the barrel, and to the 

 ider end of the pump is made fast a leather pipe 

 indefinite length, with a rose coi)per end, and 

 the pipe small copper or tin rings are placed, 

 ■o inehi^s distant, to prevent the external air from 

 essiiig together the sides of the pipe, and thus 

 eluding the water. The cart being placed on 

 e bank of a river,, brook, or pond, and the pipe 

 rown into the water with the rose end imniers- 

 a man will pump 1-50 gallons in 10 minutes, 

 ithout the trouble of having a road into the hot- 

 in of the river, and with the groat advantage of 

 B horse stamling dry, and not plunged into three 

 St of cold water in a winter day, in the usual 

 ly of filling by ladle and standish. A stop-cock 

 fixed behind for discharging the water. When 

 e cart is travelling the leather pipe lies over the 

 rrel, fastened by two iron catches. 

 The barrel being filled, and driven to the place 

 quired, the leather [lipe is immersed in the bor- 

 1 by a hole in the top, sufiicient to admit the 

 se end. A small iron roil screws down by the 

 le of the piston rod, upon the upper valve, and 



From tlie Aeic York fFarmer. 

 POTATOES IN ENGLAND. 



I YESTERDAY refused to take in a number of the 

 New-York Farmer and American Gardener's AJag- 

 Mzine, as there was a charge of §2 upon it. I re- 

 gret that no means can be devised for obtaining 

 them at a reasonable sum. The number which I 

 received last was for March, 1834, and the charge 

 was sixpence ; it was brought by the John O'Gaunt 

 steamer, from Liverpool. 



The potato crop, I find, since my last letter was 

 sent off, turns out worse than was expected, and 

 many of the fitrmers are now reploiighing the 

 land for replanting their potatoes; the cause of the 

 failure baffles both the learned and the unlearned. 



IVly crop has not failed, and is considered the 

 finest in this part. They were [dauied early in 

 i\Iay ; the land was covered with horse and cow 

 dung, and then drills made with a plough ; the 

 sets being newly cut and large, and put in as the 

 plough went on, having plenty of hands to keep 

 the plough going. It appears that ]iotatoes being 

 cut into sets a week or ten days before planting, 

 have failed. I will just mention one instance of a 

 fiirmer having planted one day about three acres, 

 but not being able to finish the whole of the field 

 that day, the remainder was not planted for ten 

 days, and those have completely failed. This I 

 think is a proof that the potatoes should not be 

 cut till they are set ; and it has been found that 

 on examining the ground near the fall, where the 

 potato set is found, the decay commences on the 

 cut side, and not on the skin side, and that a num- 

 ber of small insects are found, resembling small 

 tape worms, devouring the matter in the set. From 

 the public papers it appears that experiment has 

 been made this year in jdantingthe potatoes whole, 

 and not cutting them, which appears to have an- 

 swered, for the same sort of potatoes having been 

 cut into sets and planted in the same field, at the 

 same time, have failed. Perhaps some of your 



Frcm the Gardeners Magazine. 

 THE VALUE OF GREEN VEGETABLES AS 

 MANURE 



— Was strikingly proved by mo in the spring of 

 1833. I had a trench oiiened of sufficient length 

 to receive six sets of potatoes ; under three of 

 these sets I placed green cabbage leaves, but the 

 other three had nothing but the soil. When the 

 crop was dug up, the jilants over the cabbage 

 leaves yielded about double the produce of the 

 others. — J. D. Parks, Dartford Nursery, Jan. 1834. 



MANGEL ■\VURTZEL. 



Mr. William K. Townsend, in a letter to the edi- 

 tor of the New York Farmer, has the following 

 remarks on this valuable root. 



"I am every season more and more convinced 

 of the vrdue of this [the Mangel Wiirtzel,] crop to 

 farmers like myself, that winter a tolerably large 

 stock. This is my fourth season of cultivating 

 them, and I mean in future to increase the quantity 

 threefold. I took off my crop last fill in season ta 

 seed down the field with rye and grass. The crop 

 of rye was excellent, and the grass is now equal to 

 that in tlie same field, sowed after a crop ol' early 

 potatoes. I do not believe they exhaust land more 

 than any other root crop ; if the land is well pre- 

 pared H!! ■ ibe seed .sown at the proper time, two 

 good' boPingt. are sufficient. 1 i jive thir, season 

 gathered the under leaves for my hogs, and they 

 will eat them as soon as anything that 1 give them. 

 I do not think the crop is injured by taking them 

 off. As my early beets did not come to perfection, 

 we used the itiangel wiirtzel, taking out the small- 

 est, when two grew together, in their stead ; and if 

 well cooked and prepared for the table, we think 

 them as good as beets. I usually raise them to 

 feed out after my turnips are gone in the spring ; 

 my milch cows do well on tlieiii, as well as other 

 cattle, and I want no better feed for my breeding 

 sows and store pigs along early in the spring, be- 

 fore they get a good bite of grass." 



CLOVER -WITH CORN. 



Last spring, Mr. William Clark, Jr. of tliis town 

 fitted a rough old field of twelve or fourteen acres 

 for corn and grass in his method. The land con- 

 sisted of pine plain, some poor mowing, and a 

 number of swampy places covered with sedge and 

 bushes. No hills were made about the corn ; and 

 at the proper time, clover, herds-grass, and red-top 

 seed were sown. We passed across the field after 

 the corn was ripe, and found a good crop, and 

 the ground almost every where covered with clover 

 and other grasses. After the corn was cut up by 

 the roots and carried oft', and there was nothing to 

 obstruct the sight, this large field of clover pre- 

 sented a most beautiful and luxuriant appearance, 

 while every thing around it was dry and sear. 

 Sir. Clark expended on this piece of land the past 

 season, in labor and manure, more than four hun- 

 dred dollars. Future crops, we think, will show 

 that his money is profitably invested. — Hampshire 

 Gazette. 



