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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



FEBRUARY 8, 1'3T. 



^mw m'£t'3\LA^:t'j> jy^MsaiiSia 



BOSTO?}, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1S37. 



[For the New England Farnjer.) 



Six years ai-o I sent lo Win. Prince and Sons, Flush- 

 ing, Long Island, for a small assortnienl of Fruit trees, 

 Apples, Pears, Peaches, Grapes, Cherries and P.'unis. 

 They have all grown and borne well. Two .seasons 

 ago, my plums.bore full, and came to perfection ; last 

 spring they blossomed full. Tliecurculio allacked ihem, 

 and when X ought to have had six or eight bushels, not 

 more than one pint came to perfection. To one tree, 

 standing at some distance from the others, soon afler 

 tlie plums were set, I lied a hen with fifteen chickens. 

 The ground was cultiv.,led some six feet from the tree, 

 and I scattered oats and corn round the body of the Iree, 

 I found manv oi'the plums were stung, but enough were 

 uninjured and ripened well. In the early pnrt of last 

 October, I directed my man to take off the surl'ace un- 

 der ten trees, 8 inches deep, as far from ihe body of the 

 tree as the limbs extended, and fill the v.icancy of two 

 of them with coal dust from the bottom of a fresli burnt 

 pit. Two oihers were filled with fresh tan from the 

 vat ; two others with leached ashes, and the remainder 

 with nmck from a ditch, and hope to be able to give you 

 a good account of my experiments next fall. 



The two last seasons have been so cold here that the 

 Isabella Grapo has not ripened well. The fire blight 

 has entirely destroyed many pear trees in tliis vicinity, 

 the two lust seasons. Out of 50 trees in my own iJar- 

 den, only two have been in the least affected. 



If your New England Farmers want to raise Sheep, 

 stay at home ; if wheat, stop in Western, N. Y.; if cat- 

 tle and horses, come to Ohio ; if Indian corn, the south 

 part of Ohio and Kentucky. 1 have resided in this part 

 of ihe country for tun years, and from my own observa- 

 tion, and from informaiion of those who have beim here 

 fuv thirty years or more, I am positive that when our 

 forests are cut away, they do not sprout as tliey do in 

 N. England. We have no mnuntains, nor what may be 

 called really poor land ; it is all fit fur grazing or ihe 

 pivugh; consequently, in a few yeais, v.ood and timber 

 will .become scarce. As many experiments have been 

 made on the comparative value of the ditt'erent kinds of 

 wood for fuel, 1 should like to sec in your valuable 

 paper, some statemems, if not tfio mucli trouble. li' 

 there arg any ideas in the foregoing, worth communica- 

 ting they are at) our service, although this was not 

 originally written foi publication. 



Respectfully Yours, 



M, UNLET. 



Euclid, Ohio, Jan. 13, 1637. 



soon give remarks on tliat iin|iortant topic. We have 

 received from an able writer and esteemed friend, an 

 article on Forest Trees, cio, which will soon appear in 

 the Farmer. 



Ml THE Editor.— We receive with pleasure the fore- 

 going, and should be thankful for further favors of a 

 similar kind from the same gentleman. His experi- 

 inenla forguaiding fruit trees against the depredalions 



ling and important, and 



of the 



Curculiu, are very inte 

 an account of their final result would not only confer a 

 favor on us, but be of much service to the community. 



The great importance of providing a remedy against 

 the Curculio may be ostimaied from the fact first staled 

 by Dr James PiUon of Wilmington. Delaware, who, in 

 ail able article on this subject, imblished in the Ameri- 

 c:m editions of VViUich's Domestic Encyclopedia, asser- 

 ted, in substance that our fiuits, colloctively estimated, 

 lost half their value, in consequence of the depredations 

 of this insect. 



As respects the value . f different kinds of wood for 

 fuel, we are much obliged by the suggestion, and will 



(For the New England Karnier.) 

 WOBURW COMPAKY. 



Mr Fessenden : — In your paper last week I noticed 

 an inquiry from a subscriber in Lowell, requesting infor- 

 mation with respect to the standing and prospects of the 

 Woburn Ajjricullural and flianufacturing Company, 

 v/itli the view, as the genileinan states, of investin" 

 therein. 



I have been a small stock-holder in thateorapany t>om 

 the time it was first organized, and have looked upon 

 its movements with some interest; the little knowl- 

 edge I possess, shall be given moit cheerfully, for the 

 information of your correspondent. 



The Com|iany own about three hundred acres of land 

 in a body, upon the Boston and Lowell Railroad, about 

 ten miles from the city ; some of it is of superior qual- 

 ity. A large po.lion of the purchase consists of a beau- 

 tiful plain, of good soil, w.irm, and admirably adapted 

 to thecullivation of the mulberry tree. 1 am convinced 

 from my own observation, and the remarks of gentle- 

 men who have visited the mulberry plantations upon 

 the Connecticut river, and other places in the Stale, 

 last autumn, that the trees upon the mulberry plain at 

 Woburn were of larger growth and more healthy in ap- 

 pearance, than any other equal number of trees that 

 had come under their observation From the estimate 

 of the Directors, in their first Annual Report last sea- 

 son, the Company had over three millions of trees grow- 

 ing, some of them three years old, but the largest part 

 only one. I fancy. Sir, the Woburn Company will not 

 suffer by comparison with any other association in the 

 Commonwealth, in number or healthiness of their tiee" 

 yet I have never seen this place noticed either in the 

 N. E. Farmer, Silk Manual, or any of the journals that 

 so often give place to the modest puff's of other estab- 

 lishments throughout the N. E. States ; an indication 

 tlwt the Company have depended more upon their work- 

 ing than their talking faculties. 



Oneofthe ostensible inducements for making the pur- 

 chase of this property, originally, was its beautiful lo- 

 cation for a village, being at a central point on the rail- 

 road for several of ihe adjoining towns, and but 2.) or 30 

 minutes passage from the cily. You will understand 

 that brunch of business of the company better by the 

 following extract from the first .mnual report of the Di- 

 rectors made in July last, than you can from any other 

 source. They say, " Tlut portion of the land now sur- 

 veyed and embraced in lots, contains about sixty acres; 

 of which about tliirteen have been sold, iuclndingslreels, 

 at something over ten hundred per cent advance above 

 the cost. We have as much more land eligible for 

 buildings, as lias alreaoy been laid out. 



" Jf the business of the company prospers as we now 

 have no doubt it will, the lots will soon increase in val- 

 ue above their present prices, from fifty to an hundred 

 per cent,; but if we estimate the lots already laid out lo 

 average ^e^■enty-five didlars, it gives us over ten thou- 

 sand dollars ; and if we estimate the mulberry trees at 

 halfa cent each, that gives us fifteen thou.sand dollars. 

 So that we have in lots and mulberry trees alone, at 

 these low estimates, more than sufficient to pay the orig- 

 inal expense of the whide property, leaving all the build- 

 ings, the mills and water privileges, most of the wood, 

 and more than seven tenths of the land. It will be re- 

 collected that the heaviest items in our outlays, were 

 in the mills, water-privileges and wood." 



Since the above report was made, lots have sold read- 



ily at advanced prices, many dwellings erected, and the 

 general improvements anticipated in the rejwrt have 

 been prosecuted with a vigor even beyond their expec- 

 tations. 1 am yours, most respectfully, R, 



(For the New England Farmer ) 



Mr Editor : I wish to inquire through the medium 

 of your paper, whether there is any agency in this city 

 or vicinity, for the sale of Bees and Hives. By insert- 

 ing the above, yon will oblige A Subscriber. 



jJmcsburij, Jan. 2o, 1637. 



[We are not aware of any place where hives of bees 

 can be purchased, and would be glad to receive an an- 

 swer to the query of our correspondent. We have manv 

 applications of like character, but are unable to give sat- 

 isfactory answers. Those who have hives for sale, would 

 do well by appoint some one in this cily to dispose of 

 them ; or advertise where they can be found.] 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAI, SOCIETY. 



EXHIBITION OF FRUITS. 



Saturday, Jan. '21, 1837. 



From Hon. E. Vose.— Easter Beurre' and Lewis 

 Pears. Marigold and Mubbardston Apples. 



From M.J. Loring, Esq — Sweet apples, name un- 

 known. 



From Messrs Wiuship. — A branch of Shephardia 

 Eleagnoides argentia, or Buff'aloe Berry — tree fi-om 

 the Rocky Mountains. Tliis branch was filled with 

 clusters of beautiful red berries of the size of a pea — 

 taste very sweet. For the Committee. 



L. P. GROSVENOR. 



Change of Climate in Egvpt — A letter from the 

 Duke of Ragusa, Marshal Marmont, to the French 

 -Academy, contains some cuiious observaiions on the 

 changes of climate in Egypt. Formerly, it scarcely ever 

 rained, and only for a short timu, at Alexandria; now it 

 rains there for 30 or 40 days annually, and sometimes 

 after the middle of October, it does not cease for five or 

 six days together. At Cairo, instead of a few drops fall- 

 ing and those rarely, there are from 15 to 20 rainy days 

 every winter, his supposed that this change of elimaie 

 is owing to the immense plantations of the Pasha, twen- 

 ty millions of tiees have been planted below Cairo.— 

 The contrary effect h is been produced in upper Egvpt 

 by thu destruction of the trees there. 



(Cr In the first volume of the .Mechanic's Magazine 

 published in New York, in 1835, is the followrng re- 

 ceipt for making Yeast, which is truly valuable : -^ To 

 one pound of ffour add one quart of bmling water; then 

 add a gill of yeast, and in six or eight hours, this mix- 

 ture, if kept in a waim place, will lernient and produce 

 as mu( h yeast a3 will make ten or twelve loaves of 

 bread 



.\ew and Valuable JJooks.— We have been favor- 

 ed by authors, &c. with a number of books and pamph- 

 lets, among which are Th.' Law of Patents for Inven- 

 tions; by Willard Piiillips. History of Worcester; 

 by William Lincoln, An Address before the Ag- 

 riculturai Socirty ; by Nathan W, Hazen, which will 

 receive further notices as soon as leisure and room may 

 pLVmit. .\/r Hazen's Address we propose to republish 

 commencing in our next. 



10°lt is stated that at Ihe Great Fire in St. Johns, N. 

 B., upv\'ards of 1500 barrels of ffour were destro; ed, and 

 yet the holders far from taking advantage of this favor- 

 able circumstance for increasing their profit, sold flcur 

 at reduced prices. 



