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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



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BOSTON. WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG 24 1836. 



FARMERS' ■WORK. 



Beets, and Bket Sugar. — We have received very 

 many and earnest solicilations, both from letters and ver- 

 bal applicalious for plain practical information relative 

 to the manufacture of sugar from the Beet. Not having 

 had any i:.vperience in this manufacture we can do no 

 more than select and refer to such authorities as give 

 the intelligence solicited. 



We have, accordingly, quoted from C/triptaVs AgHcul- 

 taral Chemistry, and obtained from other sources partic- 

 ular and minute details, which we hope will prove use-_ 

 ful as well as accejjtable. It will, however, require not 

 only science, but time and e.xperience to bring this new 

 art to such a degree of improvement as to render it ad- 

 visable for a farmer, who is not in affluent circumstan- 

 ces to undertake to go largely into the manufacture But 

 every man, who owns half an acre of soil, proper forthe 

 purpose, may cultivate the Sugar Beet, with the hope 

 of obtaining a very valuable product, whether he gains 

 sugar from it or not. 



With regard to the manufacture of sugar from the beet 

 in this country, it presents a case in which delays are 

 not dangejous. We should look ahead before we go 

 ahead. We are pleased to learn that a patriotic society 

 in Pennsylvania, with an^ple means to insure SE^v^ess 

 has engaged in the concern, and the result of their la- 

 bors and discoveries will be given to the public. -In the 

 mean lime we can take a glimpse at the p'ospect, and 

 be making preparation as good cultivators to aid the 

 manufacturers of Beet Sugar with the material with 

 which they must operate. 



A writer in the Philadelphia National Gazette states 

 that "the beets in this country, particularly the north 

 part of Pennsylvania are most luxuriant. In France 

 they yield per arpent, which is one tenth more than our 

 acre, an average of 15 tons per acre. The White or Si- 

 lesian Beet, (" Beta AIha ") the Sugar Beet of France, 

 has been raised within seven miles of Philadelphia, and 

 produced much over this. Wm. Audenried, Esq, of 

 Schuylkill County, Pa., has raised on his farm, of this 

 beet, the enormous quantity ofsijttytwo and a half tons 

 the acre. We are assured by others who are growing 

 the seed, which has been imported aud distributed 

 through the country by the " Beet Sugar Society " that 

 they are in expectancy of producing a yield equal to the 

 above. 



A premium crop of mangel wurtzel for ivhich Messrs 

 Tristram and Henry Little of Newbury, Mass. obtained 

 twenty dollars from the Massachusetts Society for Cro- 

 moting Agriculture was 33 tons 10 cwt. and 14 lbs. See 

 N. E. Farmer, Vol. III. p. 212. Col. Powel inclosed cer- 

 tificates to the President of the Pennsylvania Ao-ricultu- 

 ral Society, showing that sixteen hundred and ihirtyfour 

 bushels of mangel wurlzel, weighing sever.tyeiuht thou- 

 sand lour hundred and fortyeigljt pounds were produced 

 on one acre and fourteen perches; and a part of the 

 same field, containing thirteen contiguous rows, produc- 

 ed at the rate of two thousand and sixtyfive bushels per 

 acre, weighing fortyfour tons five hundred and twenty- 

 seven pounds. 



The foregoing crops were of mangel wurtzel, which is 

 sometimes confounded with the sugar beet. They are 

 however, materially difTerent, the sugar beet, though it 

 grows to about the same size with the mangel wurlzel 

 is of greater specific gravity, or heavier in proportion to 

 its size, and contains much more saccharine matter. A 



writer fir the New England Farmer, with the signature 

 E. B., V.d. VIII. p. 222, prefers tbe Sugar Beet to the 

 Mangel Wurtzel, and recotnm'ends it as " afTording a 

 beautiful crop of large sound roots, which if not so large 

 as the mangel wurtzel, I think are Iteavier and will keep 

 belter. Their use as f^jod for my cows has produced a 

 decided improvement in the quality oftheir milk, which 

 has been perceptible to all my family, in two days after 

 I began to feed them out to my cows." 



Thus we see that the Sugar Beet, considered as an 

 article for feeding domestic animals, without regard to 

 obtaining sugar from it, is one of the best products to 

 which cultivators can turn their attention The manu- 

 facturing of this root into sugar is not a farmer's busi- 

 ness, but should, at le.ist for the present, be left to tbe 

 manufacturing capitalist, who can command money as 

 well as information, and afTord to patronize the farmer 

 liberally by purchasing the products of his cultivation. 

 The timo may come, and we hope it will shortly arrive, 

 in which every farmer will be able to make his own 

 sugar from beets with so little trouble and expense that 

 it will become as common as the making of apple since, 

 or the sailing of beef or pork for winter's use. 



An Elegant Article. — A gentleman of Nantucket 

 has presented the Editor of the New England Farmer 

 with a Silken Handkerchief, manufactured in that 

 Island and printed with fine colors in Lynn This is a 

 beautiful specimen of American ingenuity ; and a proof 

 positive that we have only to set earnestly about fabri- 

 cating ourown Silks to make ourselves independent of 

 foreigners to whom we have paid and are paying a 

 greater tribute for this kind of precious merchandize than 

 becomes a grc^al, free, ingenious and industrious commu- 

 nity. We should be delighted to exhibit our fine pocket 

 ornament to any ladies or gentlemen who will do us the 

 honor to call and look at it. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICrtTCRAl. SOCIETY, 



Saturday, Aug. aj, 1836. 

 EXHIBITION OF FLOWERS. 



The display of Flowers was very fiie to-day ; our 

 tables were crowded with Dahlias and other pretty things 

 from .Mr William E. Carter o( the Botanic Garden, Cam- 

 bridge, Messrs Hovey of Boston, Mr S. Sweetser of 

 Cambridgeporl, Mr O. Everett, Jr. of Boston, Mr John- 

 son and Mr Mason of Charleslcvvn, and Samuel Walker 

 of Roibury. 



Among the seedlings this day presented, we noticed 

 two Dahlias by Mr Mason, one called ' Bunker Hill " 

 and the other the " British Crown ;" we shall say noth- 

 ing about either of these until we see further speci. 



The seedling Lobelia cardinalis var. alba, by Mr Car- 

 ter, we would recommend to the attention of our friends 

 and the lovers of new and pretty things. We understood 

 Mr C. to say that a plant of the L. cardinalis var. alba, 

 was brought to the Botanic garden, Cambridge, some few 

 years ago, which was propagated and sent out to appli- 

 cants as often as a duplicate plant could be obtained, and 

 so great was Mr Carter's desire to accommodate and grat- 

 ify the admirers of Flora with a plant of his "new-comer " 

 that he left himself with so small a plant, or rather with 

 apeicoofaplanl, that it died, notwithstanding it was un- 

 der his care. 



Mr C. consoled himself for the loss of his favorite, as 

 he had saved some seeds, which he bad recourse to, and 

 fully expected to be able to renew the variety in his own 

 garden, but in this he has for years been doomed to dis- 

 appointment. The plants from year to year have show- 

 ed some of the original properties of the mother plant, 



viz. — the stems and leaves ofthe plarlts were ol a much 

 lighter color than the comnicm var. ol L. cardinalis. We 

 mention these facts that otiicrs may hope with persever- 

 ance like that of Mr Carter to be successful. 



Mr Carter also presented three new seedling varieties 

 of Phlox, which with only one exception we consider 

 are equal to if nut superior to anything in this country. 

 Magnolia grandiflora, Hedycliium gardenariuin, Dalili is 

 var., Teucer, Augusta, Miss Pelham, Daphne, Amanda, 

 Le Brilliant, Queen of Dahlias, fin* P philia, Williuii, 

 IV., Autro purpurea. Queen of Wirtemburg, seedling 

 of Wirtemburg. 



From O. Everett, Jr. Boston — Dahlias var.. Rose 

 d Antour, Daniel O'Connell, Levick's Commander .n 

 Chief, Agrippiua, Shannon. 



From Mr Johnson — Dahlias var., Granta, Ang-hi r, 

 Harris's fulginus. 



Fnmi Mr S. Sn-eelser — Dahlias var.. Lovely's Earl 

 Gray, Lady Sefton, Granta, Foster's Premier, large and 

 fine. Calypso, Lady Grey, King of Yellows, Dennis 

 Queen ofthe Whites, Jason, Negro Boy, Springfi-ld ri- 

 val, King ofthe Whites, Paragon of Perfection, Di'.eo.'' 

 Devonshire, Countess of Liverpool, Emperor of the 'i el- 

 lows, Widnalls flora, do. Phillis, do. Chancellor. 



From Mr Mason — Dahlias var., Transcendant, King 

 ofthe Yellows, Springfield Rival, Countess of Liverpool, 

 King of the Whiles, Bonny Dee, While tea-senled rose, 

 Viola purpurea and Alba, Carnations, &C. &c. 



By Messts Hovey & Co.— Dahlias var., Ilermione, 

 very fine, Cedo Nulli, Lord Liverpool, very fine, Rose 

 d'Amoor, Belladonna, Lady Sefton, Amanda, fine, Ag- 

 gripina, good. Queen of Dahlias, Paragon of Perfection, 

 Springfield rival, extra. Queen Bess, Coronet, Jupiter, 

 Negro Boy, Countess of Liverpool, extra, Dennissii, very 

 fine, Rosea Alba, La Inapproachable, Widnall's Clio, do. 

 Queen of roses, do. Virginia, do. Perfection, do. Rising 

 Sun, fine, do Enchanter. 



From Samuel Walker — Dahlias var.. Lord Liver, 

 pool. Globe flowering, Aggripina, Brown's Ophelia 

 and Le Brilliant, Viola seedling. 

 For the Committee, 



S. WALKER, Chairman. 

 Saturday, Aug. 13, 1836. 



EXHIBITION OF FRUITS. 



Pears, by Mr Manning — Made liene of the Pom. 

 Mag., also Beauty of Summer of Cox. 



Pldms, by John Warren of Weston— Warren's seed- 

 ling Plums, an oblong dark blue or purple fruit, of me- 

 dium size, valuable fwr its early maturity. 



Raspberries, by Thomas Mason of the Charlestown 

 vineyard — Mason's seedling, which has been mora 

 particularly described in the former exhibitions. 

 For the Committee, 



WILLIAM KENRIGK. 



The Report on Fruits of August 20, is deferred to our 

 next. 



FANF.UIL HALL VEGETABLE MARKET, Aug. 24. 

 New Potatoes, .50 to 75 cts. per bushel. String Beans, 

 50 to 75 per bushel. Shell Beans, 12 to 17 cts. per qt. 

 Green Corn, 12 to 17 cts. per doz. Cauliflowers, 25 to 

 50 cts. each. Cabbages, drumhead, C to 8 cts. each. 

 Summer Squash, Long Warted and Early Bush, 25 cti. 

 per doz. Beets, 4 to 6 cts. per bunch. Onions, 4 to 6 

 cts. per bunch. Carrots, 4 to 6 cts. per bunch. Tur- 

 nips, 4 to 6 cts. per bunch. Cucumbers, 12 to 17 cts. per 

 doz. Tomatoes, 25 cts. per doz. 



Fruit.— Currants, 8 to 10c. perqt. Blueberries, 10 to 

 124 cts. per qt.' Blackberries, 12 to 20 cts. per box. 

 Whortleberries, 8 to 12^ cts. per qt. Greenhouse Grapes, 

 $1 25 per lb. A pples, $4 50 to $5 00 per bushel. Pears, 

 2 00 to 3 00 per bushel. Peaches, (greenhouse) 4 00 per 



