fi^.-XVU. so. 3S 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 



299 



Extract of ailetter from Baron D'Hombres-Firmas— to M. 

 AiiKins Carrier, the Director of the PropagateOr. ] 



Jllms, Dec. 25, 1838. 

 In ilie report wliich you have published, on the 

 lexperimerit I made in rearing Ifee sd-ik worm of Ben- 

 'cral, from eggs, transniitted to me liy the minister, 

 I supposed that a long- voyage and the great heat 

 'they had endured, and the destruction pf tlie leaves 

 of the mulberry by a late frost, were the cause of 

 the little success which I obtained. 



My cocoons were small, pointed, lifht, and of a 

 velvety tissue. Judge then of niy surprise, on 

 learuiiiff that the Viscount de Retz had received 

 from Mr Henry Bourdon a few of the Bengal eggs, 

 and that he had obtained large cocoons, of a beau- 

 tiful form, an excellent tissue, and heavier than, 

 those of our country. We inhabit the same ve- 

 gion, our mulberry trees are nearly of thQ same 

 kind, and I think I managed my worr^i as well as 

 he could have done those, under his care; there- 

 fore, I am induced to suppose, that from the mere 

 form of my cocoons, we have reared two distinct 

 varieties of silk worms ; and I have been convinced 

 that is the case, since I have read in the Bulldin 

 of the Royal Agricultural Society of Lyons, that 

 Mr Audouin, who was present at a meeting of that 

 institution, explained, in the same manner, the dif- 

 ferent results and the varied forms of the cocoons, 

 produced from the eggs brought into France by the 

 Bontte. That learned entomologist observed, " that 

 neitlier Mr Gaudichand, nor the commander of the 

 corvette, knew the veritable source of these eggs, 

 which originated in Italy, from whence the Ben- 

 galese have annually received them. It is possi- 

 ble that some of those were of a more recent kind, 

 and there had not been sufficient time to change 

 their character: such may be the cause of the dif- 

 ference, which the cocoons present." Mr Audouin 

 adds, that " the cocoons which he has seen are fusi- 

 form " — that is to say, elongated and pointed, as 

 were those which my worms produced. 



Eilriict of a letter from Mr Puvis, PresiJent of the jlgricul- 



tural Society of Bourg, in the Department of Ain, dated 



October 1st, 1833. 



We have received a very small number of silk 



worm eggs, which were brought from Bengal by 



tlie Corvette BonHe. But few of them hatched, 



after being exposed in a warm and humid position, 



for twentyfive days. The varieties of worms wore 



very different and of unequal size ; some were 



white and others black, and they produced white 



and yellow cocoons. We have carefully preserved 



tlie eggs, which have been obtained by our expeii- 



ment, but tlie insects were too few to separate the 



varieties. 



The eggs brought by the Bonite have been ex- 

 tensively distributed, and some cultivators have 

 received sufficient quantities to enable them to sep- 

 arate and distinguish the diverse races. 



}i\x John Kenworthy brought to our office this 

 week, eighteen pounds of butter, of an excellent 

 quality, which Mrs Kenworthy made this week, 

 from the milk given in seven days by one cow. 

 The cow is a modest American animal, with no 

 great pretensions, but which, like most American 

 females, is better than she looks, though she looks 

 well enough for anybody. Mr Kenworthy's place 

 is near the Friend's Asylum, Oxford township. 

 So much for treating the cows well. — L'. S. Ga- 

 zette. 



For the New England Farmer. 



STATEMENT RESPECTING PREMIUM 

 CORN CROP. 



Beverly, Dec. 3, 1838. 

 To Beisj. Guild, Esq. — Sir : Agreeable to my 

 promise, on Saturday, I herewith send you an ac- 

 count of one acre of corn raised by me tliis season. 

 This acre wa.i a part of a fiold of eight acres plant- 

 ed to corn. I confess that I feel a great deal of 

 diffidence in presenting a crop so far inferior to 

 what many other- have presented before, but as the 

 crop, taking f.ie whole field together, was a good 

 one, aind so even that we were at loss to know 

 whero to select an acre to measure, I thought it 

 "Yight not be amiss to give you an account of it. 

 If the Committee should think it worth their notice, 

 it will be well ; if otherwise, I shall not be disap- 

 pointed, as the ground was not such as I should have 

 selected for the purpose of producing an extra crop, 

 nor did I expect it until near the time of harvesting. 

 The kind of land is wet, and what is generally 

 denominated cold land. It was sown down to grass 

 with grain six years ago last Spring. At the time 

 of sowing down, it was thrown into beds with the 

 plough, to turn off the surplus water received from 

 a large hill on one side of it. The product of 1837 

 was about one ton of hay to the acre. It was not 

 broken up until the Spring of 1838: no manure has 

 been applied since it was sown down to grass, un- 

 til this year. In September, 1837, forty cords of 

 compost wore carted on the eight acres and thrown 

 into fifteen heaps. In the latter part of the winter 

 and spring of 1838, thirty two cords of stable ma- 

 nure wei'e carted and placed in small heaps for the 

 purpose of spreading to be turned under the sward. 

 The quantity of seed was about 14 quarts to the 

 acre. The ground was ploughed from the 15th io 

 the 20th of May, and liarrowed twice before fur- 

 rowing ; it was then furrowed twice in a rov/, 42 

 inches apart one way, with a double moulboard 

 plough ; the compost was then placed in the drills : 

 commenced planting the 20th, and finished the 25th 

 of May : about the 10th of June, the cultivator was 

 passed twice between the rows, which was followed 

 by the double moulboard plough; then weeded and 

 hoed : the 1st of July, the double moulboard plough 

 was again passed through twice between the rows 

 and again hoed : nothing more was done until the 

 stalks were fit to top, which was done when tlie 

 leaves began to turn yellow ; the corn was cut up 

 and carted to the barn, and husked the tOtlr of Oc- 

 tober. The whole product of one acre was weighed 

 on the 1st day of December, with a patent balance, 

 and the result was, 150 baskets containing 40 lbs. 

 each, and 3 lbs. over, or 0003 lbs. Another acre 

 of the same field was weighed the same day, and 

 gave .5520 lbs. ; after it was weighed, 40 lbs. was 

 shelled, and gave 3S lbs. of shelled corn. 



The estimated cost for the cultivation of one 

 acre is as follows, viz : 

 5 cords compost manure at -¥3 on the field $15 00 

 4 do. stable do. at 5 20 00 



Ploughing 2 50 ; Harrowing twice 2 00 4 50 



Furrowing twice in a row 1 50 



2 hands placing compost in drills, one day 1 50 

 Yoke of oxen and cart one day 1 00 



2 hands one day dropping and covering 1 50 



1 hand. Cultivator, and horse one day 1 50 



1 hand, plough and horse 1-2 day 75 



2 hands hoeing one day 1 50 



1 hand, plough and horse one day 1 50 



2 hands hoeing one day 1 50 



Topping, binding and shocking stalks 1 50 

 Harvesting 6 00 



159 25 

 Deduct for benefit of manure for succeed- 

 ing crops 17 50 



$41 75 



Corn fodder, equal to 1 ton of Eng- 

 lish hay 15 00 



4952 lbs. shelled corn, at $1 10 for 



sixty lbs. 90 79 



Net profit $64 04 

 AMOS SHELDEN. 

 I hereby certify that I assisted in the cultivation 

 and measuring the above land, and the harvesting, 

 and measuring of the above corn, and that the 

 whole statement is correct according to the best 

 of my knowledge. 



TIMOTHY ROBERTS. 

 I" hereby certify that I measured the above land, 

 and that it contained no more than one acre. 



JOHN PORTER, 2d, Sworn Surveyor. 



Vaccine Matter. — We have recently learned 

 some interesting facts relating to vaccination. Mr 

 Estlin, a distinguished surgeon &f Bristol, England, 

 has succeeded in obtaining a new supply of vaccine 

 matter, directly from the cow.- In the early part of 

 August last, he ler.i-fted that the disease existed in 

 some cows on a farm in Gloucestershire, and re- 

 pairing immediately to the place, found it in a pro- 

 per state for furnishing matter for inoculation in 

 a young woman who had taken it in milking. With 

 this matter he inoculated a child on the 11th of 

 August, and obtained a perfect case of kine pock 

 disease. The succession has been carefully pre- 

 served, and the matter has been freely distributed 

 by Mr Estlin to different parts of the world. Some 

 was sent to Dr Jackson, of this city, taken from 

 the tenth succession of cases. Dr Jackson and Dr 

 Putnam have succeeded in introducing the disease 

 here with this matter, and have freely communicated 

 the matter to their professional brethren, who are 

 now using it pretty extensively ; so that matter of 

 the eleventh and twelfth generation from the cow, 

 can readily be obtained. 



It is an interesting question how far the disease 

 thus introduced resembles the kine pock that we 

 have long had among tis ; and the answer is most 

 satisfactory, for so far as can be observed, it is per- 

 fectly the same. There has not of course been 

 time to test the question by practical observations, 

 as to its greater or less power in preventing small 

 pox, but in its course, ajfed' appearance, there is no 

 appreciable difference.^ This new introduction of 

 kine pock tnatter, thoug^>, a circumstance of great 

 interest to the mediea! profession, and to the com- 

 munity, does not weaken, but greatly strengthens 

 the confidence which may be placed in genuine 

 vaccination, as it has been practised among us for 

 forty years past. 



We learn that the Massachusetts Medical Soci- 

 ety voted the last year to supply all its Fellows, at 

 the annual meeting in May, with fresh kine pock 

 matter ; and the Fellows of the Society agreed to 

 vaccinate gratuitously one day in each week in the 

 month of June, annually, all who shall apply to 

 them for that purpose. If our whole population 

 are not vaccinated hereafter, it will not be the fault 

 of the medical profession. — Boston Daily Mv. 



