NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



NOVEMBER 19, i -34 





From Ihe Franltlin Mercury 

 PUMPKIN APPI^E SAUCE. 



To all hot,s.=wives— all Whig wives-Antimason's 

 wives, Working.Tien's wives, and all other goo.l 

 wives— and to all that hope ever to he wives- 

 Greeting: 



Know ye, that I have an especial comnnmica- 

 tion to make to you, touching a certain article oi 

 manufacture, wherein you have or ought to have 

 a great regard. 



Be not alarmed fair reader. I am not going to 

 lecture you upon your corsets, curls or custards ; 

 busts, bonnets or butter; gowns, gingerbread or 

 o-ravy ; stays, stocking or starch ; nor upon any 

 In'ra'remtnts or non engaecmtnts of your village— 

 noT any other petty scandal— political or matrimo- 

 nial of the times. But what I am going to tell you 

 about is a plain, simple, matter of fact recipe, /or 

 making: two bushels of apple sauce out of one bushd 

 of apples :— alias, for converting good yellow pump- 

 kins of the field into right good apple sauce as ever 

 was eat — to wit : . . 



Take a good ripe pumpkin, pare and slice it in- 

 to pieces as nearly resembling quarters of apples 

 as you can ; stew the pumpkin thus prepared in a 

 sufficient quantum of boiled cider to cover it, for 

 about 30 minutes— then add a quantity of apples 

 pared and quartered equal to the pumi.kin. Stew 

 the whole for 30 minutes longer, and it is done, 

 all .'ood apple sauce as ever graced the tabic of the 

 President of the United States— or the President 

 of a bank— or a Mrs. President of a knitting socie- 

 ty. 



Fair reader do you believe it? then do as I 

 have done, try it. It is an old saying that '•' the 

 proof of the pudding is in eating." For as the 



poet says, 



" I've eat, and sure I ought lo know." 



If you please, do as my wife did, good creature, 

 knowiu" I was a ftimous lover of good hot ajiple 

 sauce. A dish " hot from the pot" of the afore- 

 said (.umpkin and apple sauce was brought on 

 the table. Wife, said I, (and I was perfectly igno- 

 rant and honest too, qualities which do not al- 

 ways go together in these days, like yoke fellows) 

 wife, what excellent apple sauce you have here, 

 (and I helped myself lustily the second tiuie. Soon 

 she began to pucker as Maj. Downing would say, 

 and soon the whole female department were in a tit- 

 ter 1 stared and the more they laughed. The more 

 I blushed (what 1 dont often do) and they were in 

 testacies. At length I was relieved and the whole 

 secret was revealed, which was that the apple 

 sauce that I had so much praised, by word and by 

 practice, was bona fida, one-half pumpkin. 



Now my fair friends, (and 1 hope all the ladies 

 are my friends) all misses and mistresses, damsels 

 young and matrons wise, if you have al^y ajiple 

 sauce loving children or husbands, whom ybu wish 

 to please, or hope to have, (and in this las( respect 

 you have my best wishes for your success) to all 

 such in these days, when apples are scarce and 

 high, I would say try the foregoing recipe, and if 

 you are not successful and satisfied too that I am 

 a great benefactor to the apple saiice tub, then you 

 may call your obedient servant a pumpkin head. 



CoRBUS Yerks. 

 Bernardston, JVow.18 34. 



The Date Palm-tree — has been planted with suc- 

 cess in Georgia. A branch has lately been exhib- 

 ited in Savannah containing about 200 dates of a 

 -;.K onlden color. 



EXPERIMESiT ON THE CW1.TUKE OF PO- 

 TATOES. 



The following is from the transactions of the 

 Highland Society of Scotland : 



it will be objected to the system of planting 

 largo potatoes, that if we gain a greater weight of 

 produce, we have previously put a greater weight 

 of plants into the ground. But the additional 

 weight of the jilaiits bears only a small propor- 

 tion to the additional produce ; had it been other- 

 wise I should not have deemed the experiment 

 worth reporting. The fact is, that the additional 

 produce when large tubers are exclusively chosen 

 for planting, may amount to two or three times 

 the whole weight of the plants. 



I have been enabled to turn the result of the 

 above experiment to account, in extending to cul- 

 ture in the field, an early variety of the potato, 

 which I got in 182C. 



In that year I imrchased for trial small quanti- 

 ties of several varieties ol potatoes, recommended 

 each for some particular quality, and announced 

 for sale by a seedsman. I did not find any of i 

 these worthy of being continued in cultivation, 

 excepting an early one with which I got no name. 

 It ri|)ens about a month before the white kidney, 

 has a very good flavor for the table, and preserves 

 its good qualities after being pitted through the 

 winter, a thing not common in early varieties. Its 

 imperfections when I first got it, were, that the 

 tubers were small and weight of crop inferior, 

 which although, not making it objectionable as an 

 early garden potato for the table, unfitted it for 

 field culture for the cattle. 



As in this county (upper district of Aberdeen- 

 shire) our common field varieties of the potato are 

 liable to have their tops smitten by incidental 

 hoar frosts in the months of August and Septem- 

 ber, before they are fully ripened, and thus to be 

 much deteriorated in quality, and often rendered 

 deficient in quantity, it occurred to ine that il 

 niight be an object worth attaining, to increase the 

 size and produce of this early potato by the mean? 

 indicated by the above experiments ; when, il' 

 this could be done, we should have a good keep- 

 ing potato adapted for field culture, and ripening 

 early enough to escape the frost. / 



By a careful selection of only the largest tubers 

 for plants, for a succession of years, this object 

 has now been satisfactorily accomplished ; and for 

 the last two years the half of my field potatoes, 

 raised for the cattle and poultry has been of this 

 variety, and has given a weight of produce, ripen- 

 ing very early, scarcely, if at all inferior to that ot 

 any other variety formerly in cultivation in this 

 neighborhood. 



Mford, Septe mber 26th, 1833. 



HOPS. 

 Our friend Upton, of the Bangor Courier, talks 

 quite largely of the dollars actually on band, from 

 the culture of this plant, in the region round about 

 the far-famed city of the East. Now, we have to 

 assure the farmers hereabouts, that if Hops will 

 flourish on the Penobscot, they will flourish well 

 in this section. And if Mr. Upton saw $8000 

 worth at one time, and in passing through one 

 street, why may not he of the Sentinel record a 

 similar sight in the course of a very few years ? 

 No good reason exists, why he may not, and he 

 hopes the Quoddy farmers will plant sufficient 

 patches the next season, to ascertain whether they 

 can profitably raise for export. — Eastport Sentinel. 

 Ql/='So do we — every good reason exists why 



the culture of this plant, which is indiginons * 

 our soil, should engage the serious atteinion o 

 farmers. Our State can supply the v\nrld wit! 

 the article, at any rate can completely nmnopoliz 

 the home market. The Quoddy farmers need on 

 ly go into some of the cedar swamps iiiul cut the! 

 poles this fall, and then plant sufficient acres — m 

 patches, friend Sentinel — to test the (\u. -non < 

 profit. — Bangor Courier. 



From the New York Farmer. 

 COW HOUSES. 

 Among the objects of inattention by fiirmers 

 suitable covering ibr cattle in winter, particular 

 cows. Generally among farmers they suflur fro 

 too much exposure to cold and wet ; and amoi 

 milkmen in and near cities from want of pure ai 

 wholesome air. The following is from the Edi 

 burgh Quarterly Journal of Agriculture. 



Cow houses for dairy cows ought to be 



or 12 feel high in the side wall, and proj 



apertures in the wall, and no loft over 1 



cows, that they may breathe abundance of who 



some air. Animals so large and well fed as da 



cows, whose lungs are capacious, ought to hi 



abundance of free air, as breathing of foul air 



injurious to them, especially when many of th 



are placed in one cow house. Cows do not 



quire much heat, so that they are kept dry ; 



much fresh air cannot be given them. All c 



houses, and the roads into them ought to be v 



paved and kept clean, ns the etfiuvia of dung 



urine cannot fail to injure cattle; and it is a gi 



advantage to cows that they be well cleaned i 



cr.rried with a comb and brush once every d 



Where thin flag stones can be procured, on( 



them about four feet square should be [.laced 



each side of every stall for two cows. An iron 



called a slider, about twenty inches long, slio 



be fixed at both ends in a perpendicular posit 



on each side of each flag, so that a cow may 



bound to each slider by a chain which t.ho 



slide up and down on the slider, when the c 



raises or lowers her head. When bound in I 



manner the cattle are very secure, and liave all 



freedom necessary to move and lick themsel' 



Stone troughs are now generally placed before 



cows to receive their food, and a passage in fi 



for feeding the cows is a great convenience. ] 



ery cow house ought to have a tank or well to 



ceive the urine. 1 saw nothing in continental li 



bandry, that I would more anxiously wi li to 



introduced into Scotland, than the caretnl niani 



in which the urine of cattle and every speciet 



dirty water is carefully preserved and used t 



manure to the land. Tlie Belgians ha\e not C 



tanks at their cow houses for collecting the uri 



but they have reservoirs on different parts of tl 



farms, to which it is removed as coll< cttd, 



kept in them excluded from the air, till it be < 



venient to be sprinkled upon the ground, wl 



is generally done a few days before sqwiug 



seed for a crop. 



Frojn the Proriilfiire Journ 

 MANUFACTURE OF SUM.. 



Yesterday afternoon we rode out to the Ru 

 burg, about a mile and a half from tbis city, I 

 Olneysville, to witness the operation 'f the 

 machinery recently invented by Miv-.is. Gaj 

 Moseley, of Connecticut, where we found a si 

 silk manufactory just going into operation. 

 peated attempts have been made from tiitu 

 time, to manufacture this material in thiscoiUC 



