VOL. XV. NO. 4. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL 



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fast, she will immediately cool down. Then place 

 before her a little mess; and cotrmienre niilUiiif? 

 while she is rating. Let then! he no whip aliont 

 — let there he no noise or hlows, and every move- 

 ment around her gentle and still. When the 0|i- 

 eration is completed, earefnily untie her, open the 

 door and let her out. One person is sufficient for 

 the whole. Two is one too many, especially if 

 she is a little wild, which iiowever ought never to 

 be known among a farmer's cattle. She is now a 

 cow, suhdned and manageable, — all it requires is 

 a few more such lessons, and I have the confidence 

 to believe, from some experience too, that with a 

 proper milker she will ever afterwards remain a 

 gentle cow. She will he perfectly tame, so that 

 you can lead her as well as a horse, and a|)proacli 

 her in the field as well as in the yard. 



There is a fault with some of our farmers in 

 trusting the breaking of their heifers, and in fact 

 the whole care of their cows, lo boys. As a gen- 

 eral thing they are not competent to perform the la- 

 bor as i. should be performed. It is often the case 

 that they will get fretful while milking, and punish 

 the cow most unmercifully when it is not due. 

 The man shouhl keep an eye to these things, and 

 see that all goes on in a proper manner. There 

 is one universal fact occurs, an<l to which I pre- 

 sume hundreds can witness when the management 

 of a milk-yard is solely in the hands of boys — an 

 immense deal of rulibish, cluhs, broken rails, and 

 strips of boards, and especially stones in abun- 

 dance, may be ^eeii scattered all over the yard, and 

 in case one wishes to correct his cow, he finds ev- 

 ery thing in readiness. I have before now seen 

 loads of such rubbish collected around farm-yards, 

 and truly it does not present a very neat looking 

 appearance. Those iarmers, therefore, who can- 

 not well take the /nanagement of these affairs to 

 themselves, if they wish to have their cows thrive, 

 keep in good orJ«^ and gently treated, are advis- 

 ed to keep their yards clear of all these weapons, 

 so as to remove even the temptation to evil. And 

 nothing will give a stranger a better opinion of a 

 farmer as he passes by, than to see every thing 

 look neat and clean around his dwelling and barns. 

 From this circumstance he will draw the infer- 

 ence, that it is S9 all over his farm, and he will 

 always call that man a neat farmer. — Geneset 

 Farmer. 



as were weaned in March were continued to be 

 fed with milk and water every morning until mid- 

 summer. All the ,s:iid calves are in good health 

 and condition ; and the Society allowed th(! premi- 

 um oflcred on that head the jireceding year. — 

 Bnlh Sue. Papers. 



Rr.ARiKo CALVES, 1790. — In the year 17S7, I 

 weaned seventeen calv<'S — iu 1788, twenty — and 

 in 1789, fifteen do. I bought in 1781 three sacks 

 of linseed. I put one quart of seed to six quarts 

 of water, which by boiling ten minutes, became a 

 good jelly ; this jelly is mixed with a smaM quan- 

 tity of the best hay steeped in boiling water. Hav- 

 ing my calves drop at different times, I did not 

 make an exact calculation of the expense of this 

 hay tea ; but of my sacks of seed I had better 

 than two bushels left at last. 1 gave them the 

 jelly and the hay tea, three times a day ; to the 

 boy who looked after them 6d a day ; the price of 

 the linseed was 4s. 6d. stg. per bushel ; the whole 

 three years seed -21. 5s. My calves are kept in 

 good growing state ; and are much better at this 

 time than my neighbors, v/ho are reaicd with milk, 

 they do not fall ofl'so much, when they come to 

 grass. — Jb. 



MODE OF IVEANING AND REARING CAtVES 

 BY A NORFOLK FARDIER, ENG. 



Mr Whitley of Wallington did, between the 

 first of December, 1776, and April 1777, wean and 

 rear on his farm ten cow calves and thirteen bull 

 calves, by the method following: At three days 

 old ihey were taken from the cows, put into a 

 shed and fed with flet (skimmed milk) allowing 

 three quarts to each calf morning and evening. 

 When a month old, they were fed with a like 

 quantity of milk and water, morning and evening, 

 with hay to feed on in the day time ; and at noon 

 they were fed with oats and bran equally mixed, 

 allowing half a peck to one dozen calves. At tv/o 

 months old they were fed only in the morning 

 with milk and water ; they had hay to feed on in 

 the day time, and at evening instead of noon, had 

 the same quantity of bran aod oats with water to 

 drink. They were fed in this manner, until the 

 middle of April, when they were turned out to 

 grass all day ; and taken into a shed at evening ; 

 and fed with hay until there was plenty of grass 

 and the weather grew warm. Such of the calves 



APPLE PEPPER. 



A fewsummers since, we were presented, through 

 the kindness of Dr. Monroe, of the United Slates' 

 Army, with a few seeds of this delightful and use- 

 ful vegetable. We planted them in our garden, 

 and have been thus enabled to increase our stock 

 of seed. 



This pepper was introduced not many years 

 since, from the East Indies, by the Superintendent 

 of the Marine Hospital at Norfolk. Among the 

 natives of the East, it is highly valued for its ma- 

 ny excellent qualities. Dr. Munroe, informs us, 

 that a preventative of cholic, and spasmodic com- 

 plaints, it is highly useful ; and as such has been 

 used with great success, in the large hosjiital above 

 alluded to. 



The great peculiarity of this pepper over all oth- 

 ers, is its flavor. It so much resembles the apple 

 in this respect, that any one might easily mistake it 

 for that fruit while eating it. To the taste it pos- 

 sesses not the least acridness or burning ; its .seed 

 and veins may be eaten without any unpleasant- 

 ness. 



In its green state, ths pepper makes a most de- 

 licious pickle ; and when dried and powdered and 

 rubbed upon meat, it is an infaliihie preventative 

 against the attack of all kinds of bugs or insects. 

 In this respect, it is preferable to the common 

 pepjier, inasmuch as it leaves upon the meat no 

 acrid taste. The rind is very thick, and the pods 

 about the size of the common bell pepper. — South- 

 ern Agriculturist. 



THE CROPS, A.O. 



The Farmers were never more bucy than at the 

 present lime. The grass crop is still more abun- 

 dant than was anticipated. 



The .S'lcife, is just about being put to the rye 

 fields, which have in a good measure, so far as 

 we have noticed, escaped the " blast." 'i'ho crop, 

 hovvevir, will he a moderate one. 



The Ifheat is remarkably fine, a specimen of 

 which may be seen on the plain grouiul of Col. 

 Dwight, and would convince the most skeptical, 

 that thfi long received oi)inion, that wheat cannot 

 be raised on old laud is without foundation. 



Oats are more luxiniant in their growth than 

 they have bee:i sii;ce the year 1816. 



The Corn, which looked " so shy " the fore 

 partofihe season, is now much more promising. 

 It can, however, hardly be supposed that there 

 will be a full crop. Never were the bones and 

 sinews of the fiirmcr taxed heavier than at the 

 jiresent season. 



It will be due to every one of them, except the. 

 lazy ones, (and there are few in this profession,) 

 iuunediately after harvest to treat themselves, and 

 their "better halves" too, to a ride down the 

 banks of the beautiful Connecticut, and take a 

 pi:ep at the West Springfield farmer, note how 

 the girls weed onions in Weathersfield, and visit 

 Guilford Po:nt, and see the Porpoise flounce in 

 Long Island Sound. Tliere Col. Hart will show 

 them Corn growing on fishes' backs, at the rate of 

 eighty bushels to the acre, and rye in the same 

 manner at thirty bushels. Here, too, they will 

 meet some of their brother farmers of the land of 

 " steady habits," wakeful, courteous, and intelli- 

 gent ; and when they have sufficiently refreshed 

 their bodies and minds, may come back with ren- 

 ovated strength and a few new ideas in their heads, 

 which may be of use to them through lif;. — 

 jyorthampton Cour. 



Silk Culture — Mr Du Duchet, a French- 

 man, has commenced this business at New Haven. 

 He has a large two story building in the western 

 part of the city, in which his worms are fed, with 

 a large nursery attached. He has raised about 

 two millions of cocoons this season, and has the 

 most approved and best machinery for winding 

 and reeling the silk. 



The Crop3. — The fa*«iers in this part of the 

 state are busily engaged with the harvest. Thi; 

 crop of hay is very fair in general, rather exceed- 

 ing that of last season. Wheat and rye will turn 

 out light. Oats look uncommonly well. Pota- 

 toes arc likely to be abundant, and the prospects 



for Indian Corn arc very encouraging On an 



average the agricultural produce of the Island is 

 fully equal to, if not exceeding that of last year. — 

 L. I. Farmer. 



The month of June has not been so cold for 

 30 years as the month last passed. The coldest 

 Junes during that period were in 1812, 16, 17, 

 when the mean heat was nearly 62 degrees. This 

 year it has hardly reached .59 degrees. The warm- 

 est June for the last 30 years, was in 1831, when 

 the thermometer reached 74. — Mass. Spy. 



The train of Worcester cars on Saturday after- 

 noon ran over a cow about a mile this side of the 

 Hopkinton depot, which threw the engine, tender 

 and several cars from the track. A cow on a rail 

 road ij sometimes no joke ; but in this case no 

 damage was done either to the cars or passengers. 

 The train was detained by the accident thirlyfive 

 minutes. The cow was blinded by a leather over 

 her eyes, and came from a field down a bank at a 

 rapid rate, directly on the track. — Daily Times. 



In a French work on the uncertainty of the 

 Tell your shoemaker to insert a piece of woolen I signs of death, and modes of burial, a fact is broughl 

 cloth between the outer an<l under soles of your I forward of a man, now alive, who has be 

 shoes or bools, to prevent their creaking. twice. 



