vol.. XVIII. NO. 10. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



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pretty pots, and much more desirable to fondle than 

 some of the lady's lap-dogs. They were throe 

 weeks old, and about all engaged at $12 each. He 

 has a tine large Berkshire boar and sow, from C. N. 

 Bement, witli full-bloods of liis own raising, and 

 some mi.xed. He has forty or fifty hogs on his 

 place. He has one fine boar, crossed with tlie 

 Hallani breed, for sale ; a noble animal, and 

 worthy the attention of purchasers. His prin- 

 cipal object in raising swine, was the making ot 

 manure. He has probably learned tlio Flemish 

 maxim that, " without manure there is no corn — 

 without cattle there is no manure — and without 

 green crops afid roots cattle cannot be kept " We 

 think, however, he will kill two birds with one 

 stone, for while his hogs make manure, they will 

 also yield him a handsome profit. J. B. 



his own interest, bo a niot grower. We are con- ing salt dissolved in water somewhere reconuuend- 

 vinced, that in this country, as elsewhere, the root , ed, I had it sprinkled over iho bushes, several 



culture lies at the basis of all profitable cattle bus 

 baudry. — Gc7tesec Farmer. 



From the Cultivator. 



SUGAR BEET. 

 The valuable qualities of this root for feeding 

 animals is beginning to be better understood ; and 

 we may reasonably expect that its culture will here- 

 after be much increased. The common beet and 

 tlie mangel wurtzel, have both boon proved valuable 

 roots, but the sugar beet is much superior to either 

 of the former, as was indeed to have been expected 

 from the greater quantity of saccharine matter it 

 contains. It is cultivated with as much ease and 

 certainty as the common beet, and though usually 

 more difficulty has been found in preserving the 

 beet or the carrot, than the ruta baga, there is re- 

 ally no more danger of failure where cellars of pro- 

 per temperature are t6 be had. For making fine 

 mutton, the sugar beet is said to be unrivalled. 

 We find a letter on this subject in the Whip, from 

 which we make the following extract, which we are 

 confident is worthy the attention of all those who 

 wish to produce from their flocks meat of the first 

 quality. The writer was an extensive mutton grower 

 for the Philadelphia market, and his mutton, before 

 he commenced using the sugar beet, had obtained 

 a high character ; at last he commenced the use of 

 this root, and as he says, — 



" What surjirised him most, was the rapid man- 

 ner in which they took on fat, when fed on the 

 sugar beet ; and when carried to market the sad- 

 dles excited particular attention, from their very 

 superior appearance. But it was not in appearance 

 only ; the meat was of a much better quality, more 

 juicy, and e.xceedingly tender. The inquiry was — 

 Why, sir, on what do you fatten your sheep ? — and 

 when I replied, on the sugar beet, hay, and a small 

 portio" of corn, it would generally call forth excla- 

 mations of surprise. My first trial was four years 

 since, aiid since that time I have been a constant 

 grower of tlie beet. The meat I bring to market 

 is always in demand, and brings several cents more 

 per pound, than that fattened in the old way; and 

 yet, strange to say, some of my neighbors, though I 

 have often urged them, will not plant the beet for 

 their stock, I have been benefitted to the extent 

 of several hundred dollars by the introduction of 

 this root — the effects are visible — my neighbors 

 see it, and know it — and yet they stand lookers on, 

 halting between two opinions. But light is break- 

 ing in upon us, and of one thing you may be 

 assured, that is, that the time is not far distant 

 when ever'j eitensive stock feeder will also he an ex- 

 tensive root glower." 



Tu., „„;.>;«>. Vioro loot EirltiiinrpH iH doubtless a 



EFFICACY OF LIME IN PREVENTING IN- 

 SECT DEPREDATIONS, &c. 

 Mr Buei. — Sir— Although not a tiller of the 

 soil, 1 have lately become a subscriber to your val- 

 uable paper, and feel a disposition to perform what 

 little may be in my power, to increase the stock of 

 auricultural knowledge, and to stimulate to re- 

 newed exertions those who are practically engaged 

 in this all important, though .still too much negVect- 

 ed source of national wealth and greatness. In 

 the Cultivator for May, page 57, 1 observed a com- 

 munication, which stated among other things, that 

 a piece of corn on ground where fragments of wall, 

 &c, had been strewn for manure, was exempt from 

 the ravages of worms. This recalled to my recol- 

 lection some facte which were communicated to me 

 in conversation some years ago, by an intelligent 

 old gentleman, who was for many years a farmer in 

 Columbia, county in this state, and which were in 

 substance as follows :— He once applied what he 

 supposed at the time was plaster, or gypsum, but 

 which was afterwards ascertained to be lime, to a 

 number of hills of corn, potatoes, cucumbers, melons, 

 &c. It was applied at the time of planting, about a 

 handful being thrown directly over the seeds in 

 each hill, previous to their being covered with 

 with earth. He remarked that the corn to which 

 this application had been made, was entirely ex- 

 empt from worms, while other pieces of corn in the 

 vicinity sufTered severely from their depredations. 

 The cucumber and melon vines, &.C. were also ex- 

 empt from their attacks, neither were they troubled 

 by the striped bugs or flies, with which they are 

 generally molested. The gentleman assured me, 

 that he had afterwards repeated this experiment a 

 number of times, and always with a like satisfacto- 

 ry result. It would seem from this, that lime is to 

 a great extent a preventive of the ravages of the 

 grub and other insects, when applied at or previous 

 to the time of planting. The mode practised by my 

 informant, may not answer for all soils and situa- 

 tions, but the same result might probably be at- 

 tained by I tin-owing the lime mixed with the earth 

 over the 'surface, and ploughing or harrowing it 

 under previous to planting. 



A short time since, at the house of a friend, 

 while overlooking a volume of the Cultivator, (for 

 1835,) I noticed a communication in which hydrau- 

 lic or water lime, (some account of which was giv- 

 en in a recent number,) is highly recommended as 

 a paint for fences, out-buildings, &c. The writer 

 asserts that it is more durable and much superior in 

 all respects to common lime. With the exception 

 of stating that he mixed it with skim milk, he gives 

 scarcely any directions respecting the proper man- 

 ner of applying it. I shall be pleased if some of 

 your correspondents, who bave usedthe water lime 

 for such purposes, will communicate the result of 

 their experience, and if favorable, state the best 

 method of mixing and preparing it, &c. 



There are in my garden, some young gooseberry 

 bushes, which have been well manured and pruned, 

 but the fruit, since they commenced bearing, (about 

 three years a^o,) has been uniformly rusty, as it is 



times, commencing when they were in blossom, but 

 without efloct. I have also tried lime, (recommend- 

 ed 1 believe in the Cultivator.) Last fall, it was 

 applied freely about the roots, and the branches 

 whitewashed as thorouglily as practicable, and a 

 small quantity mixed with water was sprinkled over 

 the bushes two or throe times this spring. This 

 experiment answered no better than the other. It 

 would be a source of gratification, to me, and doubt- 

 less also to many other persons, to be informed of 

 ;iny effectual remedy fgr this disecise, which may 

 be known to you or any of your numerous corres- 

 pondents. Respectfully yours, E. 



Mw UlrtM, L. I., July 18, 1839. 



Remakk.— We have cultivated the gooseberry 

 eighteen years — during sixteen of which, we lost 

 most or all of the crop by mildew or rust ; — but the 

 last two years the fruit has been fine, clear and 

 healthy. We impute the recent exemption to the 

 application of brine (salt and water) to the ground 

 about the bushes in the month of February, which 

 we have done two years. We consider the mil- 

 dew a vegetable parasite, whicli abides permanent- 

 ly upon the collar and root of the bush, and from 

 which seeds are disseminated, under a suitable 

 state of atmosphere, in summer to the fruit ; and 

 that the application of salt, when vegetation is dor- 

 mant, destroys the parasite without hurting the 

 bush. Pickle may be used in the growing season, 

 at the rate of one ounce of salt to one gallon of 

 water. In winter it may be much stronger. — Cond. 



Soap Suds a Specific for Nourishing Flowers. — 

 A fair correspondent writes to us from Newton 

 Stewart, in the following terms :— " Recently I hap- 

 pened to gather a beautiful pansey, and when tired 

 of admiring it, tossed the toy aside, which partly, 

 by accident, fell into a box full of soap suds. The 

 said pansey had neither joint nor root, and you may 

 judge of my surprise when, at the end of a day or 

 twot I found it growing. From this time forward I 

 watched it narrowly, and now find it, after the lapse 

 of a fortnight, a goodly plant with several buds on 

 it. Thinking water might produce the same effect, 

 I placed a newly cropped pansey in an element, 

 which, pure in itself is the medium of purity m 

 everything else ; but it withered and died on so 

 spare a diet. By way of confirming the first expe- 

 riment, I have since placed a slip of a rose tree 

 and a pink in suds, and both are flourishing in 

 great vigor in my dressing room. Should this ac- 

 cidental discovery prove useful to florists, it will 

 aff"ord sincere pleasure to your correspondent."— 

 Dumfries Courier. 



It may o-ratify some of your agricultural readers 

 to be made acquainted with the consumption of the 

 citv of Paris in the following articles : 



During the month of May, 1839, the Pans Jour- 

 nal states there were consumed 6328 oxen, 128b 

 cows, 7614 calves, 35730 sheep, and 517,965 kdo- 

 grammes of tallow (about 2 lbs. to a kilogramme.) 

 This was an increase over the consumption ot May, 

 1838, of 1073 oxen, 809 calves, 1966 sheep, and 

 7343 kilocrrammes of tallow, and a decrease of 4Be 

 cows. This considerable general increase is in 

 part attributed to the great number of strangers at- 

 tracted to the capital by the exhibition of arts and 



., . -1 j„„t „f tV,o usual influx ot 



