A'oiu. 7:111. Ko. no. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL 



to, or diftlrs from, tlie turnips at ])re.seiit in culti- 

 vation, I sluill give a list of the kinds sown fur 

 (lifltrent ]niriioses, with a conjparison of thoir 

 properties with that of the hybrid in question. 

 Tlie turnips in general cultivation are the follow- 

 ing: 



FOR EARLY USE, 



VVliitc niobo, -| The hybrid is equal in 



Wluto Innkard, (size to any of these, is 



onicranian Globe, fcloser in the texture, and 



llungunan Globe, J is as early. 



TO SecCEED THE ABOVE, 



Ued Norfolk, 



2-3; 



Kreen Norfolk, 

 IVhite .Norfolk, 

 'Jreen Globe, 

 ied Tankard, 

 ifellovv Globe, 

 3ullock's Heart, 



The hybrid is superior 

 ■in size, in texture, and in 

 shape, to all of these. 



STILL TO FOLLOW THESE, 



'urple-top Yellow Bullock 1 . ^'"^''y'LTid is superior in 

 ireen-top ditto, ' I size, and, in so far as it 



^ankard Yellow, f '''^^ '""'^" *r''^<^. 't stands 



J the winter as well. 



FOR LATE USE. 



^irple-top Swedish, 

 rreen-top Swedish, 



1 The hybrid is superior 

 (in size, but shoots to flow- 

 I er earlier in spring, and is 

 J not so hardy. 



Tins hybrid, or doubly-impregnated turnip, 

 iierefore, api)cars to possess properties iu gene- 

 il, superior to those varieties which have been 

 numerated above. It is equal to, or surpasses 

 le yellew, aud the other sorts above it, and is 

 nly excelled by the Swedish, in the latter being 

 lore hardy and later in sjiring in running to a 

 ower-stein. It is now generally known Ijy the 

 ainc of Dale's Turnip, or Dale's Hybrid. 



The facts which I have stated w"ill, I trust, be 

 ■nsidered in this respect interesting, that they 

 low an easy method by which intellligent agri- 

 ilturists may increase or improve the varieties 

 ' the plants which they cultivate. 



(From th= Old Colony Meraorinl.] 



DISSERTATION ON THE COURSE OP TILL.iGE 



ost suitable for Soils in Plymouth County, and the 

 Rotation of Crops, most Conducive to the Interest of 

 the Inhabitants, By .\nthonv Collamore. Read 

 before tlie Plymouth County Agricultural Societv, at 

 their annual meeting at Bridgewater, Oct. 15, 1634. 



[Continued from page 9-25. J 

 Wliere the farmer wishes to keep his land 

 :iger under cultivation, the followhig course has 

 en recommended: 



1st year. After breaking up the sward, oats 

 wn thick to be cut for fo<!der. 

 2d. Potatoes, Indian corq, or both. 

 3d. Ruta Baga, (or French turnips.) 

 4th. Bariey or wheat, sown with clover or 

 rdsgrass or red top. 

 5th. Clover mowed. 

 6th. Herdsgrass and clover. 

 Tiie seventh year the laud to be broken up and 

 ' same rotation recommenced. 

 The course of crops recommended for the 

 •ond division will be proper iu manv cases for 

 ! third ; which cou.sists of the light "aud sandy 

 IS, being generally of a loose texture, will no"t 

 )duee usually more than one or two crops of 

 ss, without expensive dressing with compost, 

 ey should be subjected to a course of alternate 

 age and mowing or pasturage. These soils 

 iig easy of cidtivation, have been very much 

 '^'ed and exhausted by tillage, without return- 

 anything to the soil, or even throwing on any 



grass seed. It being frequently the case for 

 farmers to raise successive crops of corn and rye 

 and then leave the land to recruit by neglect the 

 fertile jrarts of the soil having no vegetation to 

 hold them together, are dried by the sun, pulver- 

 ized by the frost, and dissipated by the wiiids. 

 It were folly to call land managed" in this way 

 real estate, when it can be lilown fi-om one town 

 into another. It is a maxim with the Flemings, 

 of which they are very scrupulous, that no field 

 shall lay more than ten days without a crop. Let 

 this rule be attended to by keeping such lands 

 well seeded with plants of some kind, and a 

 nianifest improvement will soon be observed. 



On these soils may be introduced w hat is term- 

 ed the clover system in Great Britain, which in 

 connexion with rotation of crops in alternate hus- 

 bandry, has been the means of converting some of 

 the poorest districts into the most productive and 

 wealthy. While clover enters largely into all 

 courses of crops on all soils, its benefits in this 

 country are but partially appreciated, either for 

 the food it affords to the stock, or the advantage 

 it gives to a future crop by fertilizing the soil. 

 This system, it is stated, is coming into operation 

 on the sandy soils of New York, with equal if 

 not greater advantage. 



Much of the sandy land of this country may be 

 sown on the sward in the month of August, with 

 rye and clover, which will yield a crop of rye the 

 first year, the next a crop of clover, when it 

 is again ploughed up and the same course re- 

 |)eated. This is called sowing on a clover lay. 

 Clover has also been sown with r3e in Sej.tember 

 on light soils, and after the rye is harvested the 

 next year, the clover is ploughed iu with the stub- 

 ble, and rye and clover sowed again, and this 

 course repeated ; one farmer having followed this 

 course three years in succession, and raising good 

 crops of rye, the clover aflfbrding a rich manure 

 for the grain, and more than compensating for the 

 expense of the seed. ' This last course, it is 

 thought, would be preferable to the one recom- 

 mended by a distinguished writer, who advised the 

 farmers in a public address, to raise rye on their 

 thin land as long as it will continue to grow. The 

 practice of exhausting laud by repeated grain crops 

 without returning anything to the land as manure 

 for the nourishment of plants, is justly reprobated 

 and ought to be abandoned. It is inconsistent with 

 good husbandry, which ought to keep land in a 

 constantly improving state, by judicious rotation of 

 croj« and the application of manure. 



On these soils may also be introduced the course 

 of crops recommended by Mr Buel of Albany, for 

 sand loams ; with the exception periiaps in "some 

 soils of substituting rye for wheat in the second 

 year : which may in the first course be hoed in 

 among the corn at the last hosing as usuallv prac- 

 ti.'ied in this country. 



1st course— 1st year. Indian corn, manured 

 with thirty loads of long manure, and cut and 

 shocked or stocked, as soon as the kernel is glazed ; 

 the land then ploughed and sown with wheat, and 

 harrowed,_2d, wheat, (or rye) and after harvest 

 p.oughed, harrowed, and manured with ten loads 

 ot manure and sown with turnips — 3d, bariey ami 

 clover seed sown. — 4th, clover. 



2d course— 1st, Indian corn— 2d, wheat and 

 clover seed — 3d, clover and after mowino-, ten 

 oads of m.anure spread, and the land ploughed and 

 harrowed, and ruta baga sown.— 4th, bari«y.— 5tli 

 clover. ' 



[To be cominncd.J 



Bf.es. — Francis Kelsey, of Niagara county, 

 New York, is now exhibiting at No. 3, Marble 

 Buildings, Chatliain Square, New York, a num- 

 ber of swarms of bees iu glass cases, and hives, 

 by which the habits of bees are very finely ilhis- 

 tintcd. Mr K. causes his bees to deposit their 

 honey in inverted tumblers, decanters and square 

 glass boxes with tin frames, so that their opera- 

 tions can at any time be seen. The exhibition U 

 well worth twentyfive cents, aud the exidanation 

 of Mr K. of still higher value.— iong- Island Star. 



Durable Whitewasu. — I am enabled ta 

 certify the efficacy of marine salt in fixing white- 

 wash made of lime. In the year 1795 when 1 

 was director of the naval artillery at the port of 

 Toulon, I was commissioned to ascertain the util- 

 ity of a method i)roposed by the master painter of 

 that port, M. Maquilan, for wliitewashing the 

 ships between deck, and likewise their holds," iu a 

 <iurable manner, by means of lime. Our report 

 was in favor of this process, which consists in ■ 

 saturating water in which the lime is slacked with 

 muriate of soda, (common salt.) The whitewash 

 produced by it is very permanent, does not crac!;, 

 uor come oft' upon one's hands or clothes. The' 

 experiment was made only on wood. It appears 

 from M. St Bernarde's account, that it succeede<l 

 equally well on' walls. -Innales des Arts et Man- 

 ufactures. 



Cure for weak Eyes. — Take a lump of 

 wliite copperas, say about the size of a pea ; put 

 it in a small phial, holding about two ounces of 

 water; carry this in the pocket, and occasionally 

 taking out the cork, turn the vial on the finger's 

 end,' and tliu§ bathe the eyes. This will positively 

 effect a real cure in a short time. 



The preceding paragraph, from the New En<;-- 

 land Farmer, we find republished in the Portland 

 Courier, with the following comment : 



The above receipt may be a good one ; we 

 have never tried it, but have been afflicted with 

 weak eyes for a long while, and have found great 

 relief by using a wash formed from a weak solu- 

 tion of sulphate of zinc, we presume the effect is 

 similar. 



That the " effect " should be " similar" is no 

 matter of marvel — white copperas andsidphate of 

 zinc being one and the same thing. — Sost. Tran- 

 script. 



BoTs I.N Horses. — Symptoyiis. — Stamping 

 forcibly on the ground with either of his fore feet, 

 and frequently striking at his belly with his hind 

 ones. Belly projected and hard — shows symp 

 toms of uneasiness, such as groaning, looking 

 back towards his sides, lying down, &c. 



Cure. — Take of bees' wax, mutton tallow, and 

 sugar, each eigJit ounces, put into one quart of 

 new milk, and warm it until all is melted. Then 

 put it into a bottle, and give it just before the wa.x 

 &c. begins to" harden. About two hours after 

 give pliysic. The bots will be discharged in 

 large numbers, each piece of wax having some of 

 them sticking to it. 



Another cure Take a table spoonful of un- 



slacked lime, and let it be given with the feed of 

 the horse at night and morning, regulariy, for four 



or five days, and it will expel" the" bots Yankee 



Farmer. 



Turn not your backs upon others especially in 

 speaking ; jog not the table or desk on which 

 another reads or writes ; lean not on any one. 



