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hEW E N G LAND FARMER, 



AND gardener's JOURNAL. 



AlCrST a», 1S38. 



BoaTos, Wednesday, Aucust 29, 1838. 



DAIRY STOCK. 



We are daily niorc and more convinced of tlie inislali 

 and folly of our fanners in regard to the management of 

 our dairy and milking stock. If we are ihouglit to recur 

 too frequently to this topic, its great importance must he 

 our apology. We can find cows in numbers of our own 

 native stock which have produced for weeks in the best 

 of the season twelve, and in some cases fifteen pounds of 

 butter per week without being (breed by extraordinary 

 feed ; and we have known of adairy of twentynine cows 

 having averaged in a season six hundred and thirty 

 pounds of new milk cheese ; and these too all of native 

 stock. Now what Slock will do better than this.' and 

 why need we look for any other "if we will but do our- 

 selves, and these beneficent animals even half justice > 



We are perfectly convinced that for milking and dairy 

 purposes we need not go out of the country to find as 

 valuable a stock as can be brought into it. We have 

 heretofore asked the owners of the Improved Durham 

 Short Horn Stock to let us know by actual measurement 

 for a length of lime, a week, a month, a season, what 

 thpir cows will produce. We now go further. Without 

 th«WIightest prejudice against their stock, and with a 

 grateful sense of the patriotism and public spirit, which 

 has induced them to bring this stock at great expense into 

 the country, we now challenge them to show the well 

 authenticated and exact results of the trials of these im- 

 proved animals. We, on our part, promise to meet them 

 with time, place and person, with examples of the pro- 

 duce of our own native stock, and then we will compare 

 them together; and we engage to go heartily for the 

 best. The distinguished editor of the Cultivator consid- 

 ers the list of remarkable cows of native stock given in 

 our Report on Essex as liardly deserving of notice, be- 

 cause they were only examples of individuals under a 

 state of high fe-ding. Now we say with perfect respect 

 to our distinguished friend, pro«<i.uce if you can from all 

 the Improved Short Horns in the country a^ man,j and 

 equal examples of productiveness; under any feeding 

 you please to adopt ; and then we are prepared with a 

 longer and a brigliter list than we have yet given. But 

 until this is done, let us not be in a hurry to change what 

 we have for a race, whose claims to superiority for dairy 

 purposes yet remain to be established ; which can only 

 be procured at a considerable expense, and whose condi- 

 tion can be maintained only by extravagant keeping. For 

 the luxuriant prairies and alluvions of Ohio, Kentucky, 

 and the rich Western States, wliere size and early ma- 

 turity are matters of the first importance, we are disposed 

 to believe that this beautiful race of animals, the Improved 

 Durham Short Horns, will prove an invaluable acquisi- 

 tion ; but it is not so we believe, at least we want farther 

 light to be convinced that it is so, for the hard hills, the 

 short pastures, and the long winters of New England, 

 where butter and cheese are the great objects of tlie far- 

 mer. We do most earnestly wish that the owners of 

 good cows of any breed would be more particular in as- 

 certaining the products of their cows, that we may not 

 be continually met with guesses, which are altogether 

 capricious; and which take their complexion toJ'often 

 wholly from the private interest, or prejudice, or self- 

 conce.t, or vanity of the owner. Get a lactomater and 

 measure your cream. Weigh your n.ilk and observe the 

 pounds and ounces. Measure your milk and let us know 

 whether the vessel you use for this purpose be a beer or 

 a wine quart. Try tlie whole milk of vour cow Ibr a 



week, a fortnight, or a month, and see how much butter, 

 liow many pounds and how many ounces she will yield! 

 This is the proper and the only proper trial and test of 

 her merit. 



.USEFUL INVENTION. 

 We were much gratified a few days since in passing 

 through Lee with the ingenious arrangement for obtain- 

 ing or rather conveying water, adopted on the farm of 

 Mr Cornelius Basset. His liouse and barn stand on a 

 side lull, and it was not easy to procure water for his cat- 

 tle. He iias a small stream of a permanent character and 

 of excellent water flowing at the bottom of the hill, 20 or 

 it may be 30 rods from his barn yard. He has here placed 

 a small water wheel in a cistern filled by the brook, 

 which is constantly turned by tlie stream; and, through 

 logs laid to the yard, by means of a forcing pump operli. 

 ted by this wheel the water is sent up to his barn yard 

 rad there flows in a constant supply. The whole is a 

 miniature examjile of the Fairmount Water Works in 

 Philadelphia; and the experiment succeeds to admira- 

 tion. The expense is trifling as the diameter of the 

 wheel is not more than four feet. The whole is enclosed 

 in a wooden box, so as to be easily covered in winter, and 

 secured from frost. The arrangement reflects honor upon 

 his ingenuity, and his whole farming is a beautiful exam- 

 pie of neat, industrious, and highly intelligent cultiva- 

 tion. 



By Dr J. C. Howard of Woodland, Brookline, a vei 

 fine Bouquet, and some specimens of the followirg var 

 eties of the Dahlia, viz : Countess of Liverpool, Roy 

 William. Beauty of Cambridge, Ophelia, &c. 

 ^ Bouquets.— By Messrs Winship, Walker, Hovey £ 

 Co. and Jno. Hovey. 



Dahlias.— ]iy S. Walker, viz : Jackson's Rival Yellow 

 King of Dahlias, Picta forraosissima, Duchess of Hue 

 cleugh, andBelledonna. 



For the Committee, 



S. WALKER, Chairman. 



Buffalo Berrv— or Silver Leap Shepardia.— In 

 the p anting of trees, has it never occurred to our friends 

 who have small or large gardens in the rear of their hou- 

 ses, that a tree bearing fruit in the winter would be an 

 acquisition ? Such a tree can be had. Nature has placed 

 ruminating animals in high latitudes, where for a lar^e 

 portion of the year vegetation generally is sealed to them, 

 lo remedy this deficiency, there are trees and plants 

 winch are accessible and nutritious in the winter season 

 Among these, one of the most beautiful and useful is the 

 silver leaf Shepardia, which is indigenous to our Rocky 

 Mountains. When in foliage, the tree is beautiful in- 

 deed. Its leaves on the upper side are of a deep green 

 and beneath are silver. As the winds lift them a beauti- 

 lul ettect IS produced by the shifting colors ; the li^ht 

 silver green glancing in relief against the darker olive 

 bometlung similar may be noticed in one of the trees in 

 the Park, between the site of the old Bridewell and the 

 Sessions Court. In the winter the fruit of the Shepardia 

 comes to maturity. It is a red berrv, growing in thick 

 clusters. Slightly acid, it is very agreeable in taste, and 

 capable of sustaining life, as many explorers and trappers 

 have proved. It makes too, most capital conserves and 

 •'t- t> ^'"^^ '"^y ^^ obtained ot the Messrs Win- 

 ship in Brighton, Mass. Now, or soon is the season for 

 setting out, and transplanting trees, and whoever orders 

 this, or any other, of the Messrs Winship, will be prompt- 

 ly answered, and faithfully.— J\". Y. Sun. 



Massachusetts Horticnltnral Society. 



I'j-XHIEITION OF Vegetables. 



Saturday, August 18, 1838. 

 Mr Dana Parks of Roxbury, exhibited a fine large Au- 

 tumnal Marrow Squash of the true sort weighing :i7 1-2 

 lbs. 



Mr Rogers of Watertown a basket of large late Lim 

 Beans, extra fine. Also, without name, a basket of Tii 

 matoes of unusually large size. 



For the Committee, 



SAMUEL POND, Chairman. 



Flowers. 



Fruits. 



There was quite a display of Plums, and the exhibirion 

 was greatly indebted to Messrs Pond and Johnson for its 

 attractions. 



By Mr Pond, Smith's Orleans, Duane's Purple, Pond's 

 Seedling, Ureen Gage or Reine Claude, Washington 

 White Gage, and Corse's Nota Bene Plums. William' 

 Bon Chretien or Bartlett, Andrews, Julienne and Cush 

 ing Pears. 



By Mr Johnson, Washington, Green Gage, and White 

 Gage Plums. 



By Thomais Lee, Esq., Early Ann Peaches; this va- 

 riety has proved with him, hardy and productive for a 

 number of years past. 



Melons.— The Napoleon Melon-very fine appearance 

 and most delicious flavor. 



By Dr J. C. Howard, from his garden Woodland, Brook- 

 line, Netted Cantaleupe, Melon de Roche de Careire, or 

 Queen's pocket, and Napoleon Musk Melons, the two 

 latter new kinds, and Red Siberian Crab Apples. 



By M. P. Sawyer, Esq. from his garden at Portland, 

 two varieties of Peaches (grown under glass) of extraor- 

 dinary size and beauty. 



By S. Walker, Esq., Plums, and Green Chissel Pears. 



By S. Downer, Esq., Washington, Frederic of Wur- 

 temburg, (Capeaumont) and Julienne Pears. William's 

 Favorite Apples, very handsome. 



From Mrs C. H. Jones garden. Friend street. Smith's 

 Orleans Plums, very large and fine. 



For the Committee, 



E. M. RICHARDS, Chairman. 



Vegetables. 



Tomatoes, or love j^ple, from J. L. L. F Warren 



Brighton. ' 



A vegetable curiosity brought from Asia, by the Rev. 



Mr Malcolm, exhibited for a name by C. W. Green, Esq. 



For the Committee, 



SAMUEL POND, Chairman. 



Saturday August 25, 1838. 

 By Thomas Lee, Esq. of Brookline, Hibiscus, Manihot, 

 Poitul ica pilosa, Gerardia flava, do. purpurea, a variety 

 of Altheas, (one of which was new to us) and many otlier 

 specimens of choice flowers. 



Mr Luman Bartlett of this town has reaped sixtynine 

 shocks of Flint Wheat from one acre and five rods of up- 

 land. The farm on which this was raised was formerly 

 owned by Mr H. G. Bowers of this town, who, by in- 

 telligent and scientific experiments, put the soil in the 

 finest order. Mr B. is now cultivating one of the best 

 farms in Illinois, and doubtless his taste and fondness for 

 the pursuit will do much there to elevate and improve 

 the noble calling of Agriculture — Korthampton Cour. 



(Connecticut River is lower than it was ever known to 

 be before. The small factory streams that flow into it 

 are nearly dried up. 



NOTICE. 



The General Committee of Arrangements, are requested 

 10 meet at the rooms ot^ llie Massachusetts Horlicultural So- 

 ciety, i'S Tremonl Row, on Saturday, 1st Seplembcr, at 10 

 o'clock, A. M. 



77ic Special Committee are requested to meet as above, on 

 Saturdav, 1st September, at 11 o'clock, A M l\>r order, 

 SAMUEL WALKER, Chairman. 



