» Nature in her teaching spooks in very intelli- 

 gible language, and that language is conveyed by 

 experience and observation," 



In the year 1825, I published a little vvork enti- 

 tled " The American Orchardist," &c. &c , from 

 which I now extract as follows — page 23: 



An account of a singular apple tree, producing fruit 

 of opposite qualities— a part rftke same apple be- 

 ing frequently sour and the other sweit : in a let- 

 ter from the Rev. Peter Whitney, published in the 

 Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences — vol. ls(. 



"There is now growing, in an orchard lately be- 

 longing to my honored father, the Rev. Aaron 

 Whitney, of Petersham, deceased, an apple tree 

 very singular witii respect to its fruit. The apples 

 are fair, and when fully ripe, of a yellow color, but 

 evidently of different tastes — sour and sweet. The 

 part which is sour is not very tart, nor the other 

 very sweet. Two apples growing side uy side on 

 the same limb, will be often of these different tastes 



the one all sour and the other all sweet. And, 



which is more remarkable, the same apple will fre- 

 quently be sour one side, end, or part, and the other 

 .sweet, and that not in any order or uniformity ; nor 

 is there any difference in the appearance of one 

 part from the other. And as to the quantity, some 

 have more of the aqid and less of the sweet, and so 

 vice versa. Neither: are the apples, so different in 

 their tastes, peculiai to any particular branches, 

 but are found promiscuously on every branch of 

 the tree. The tree stpaids almost in the middle of 

 a larfe orchard, in a rich and strong soil, and was 

 transplanted there forty years ago. There is no 

 appearance of the trunk or any of the branches 

 having been engrafted or inoculated. It was a 

 number of years after it had borne fruit before these 

 different tastes were noticed ; but since they were 

 first discovered, which is about twenty years, there 

 has been constantly the same variety in the apples. 

 For the truth of what I have asserted, I can ap- 

 peal to many persoiis of distinction and of nice 

 tastes,' who have travelled a great distance to view 

 the tree and taste the fruit ; but to investigate the 

 cause of an effect so much out of the common 

 course of nature, must, I think, be attended with 

 difficulty. The only solution that I can conceive 

 is, that the corcula or hearts of two seeds, the one 

 from a sour, the other from a sweet apple, might so 

 incorporate in the ground as to i)roduce but one 

 plant ; or that farina from blossoms of those oppo- 

 site qualities, might pas.s into and impregnate the 

 same seed. If yon should think the account I have 

 given you of this singular apple tree will be accep- 

 table to the American Academy, please to commu- 

 nicate it. I am, &,c. 



Pkt;:ic Whitney." 

 I will embrace this opportunity to communicate 

 for the benefit of the bee cultivator, wiiat I believe 

 to be an infallible remedy against the bee moth, 

 which has proved so destructive to bees throughout 

 our country of late years.. The remedy is simple 

 and easily applied. It con.'iists merely in .covering 

 the floor board on which the hive stands,, with com- 

 mon earth about one inch thick. A hive set on 

 earth will never be infested with worms, for the 

 beo moth will not deposite Iier eggs where the 

 earth will come in contact. She naturally resorts 

 to a dry board as her element, 'fhis remedy has 

 been employed by a number of persons in this vi- 

 cinity for several years with complete success. 

 With my best wishes for the continued success 



of your valuable efforts in the great cause of agri- 

 culture, I subscribe myself with respect, 

 Your ob't serv't, 



JAMES THACHER. 



For ihe New England Farmer. 



MULBERRY TREES. 



Mr Colman — Sir — My attention was attracted 

 a few days since, in looking over an old alma- 

 nac, (of the year 1773.) to an article with this cap- 

 tion— '■ Memoirs of the Culture of Silk," giving 

 some items of its progress in Europe within the 

 last century, as follows : " One thousand mulberry 

 trees in Italy are worth £100 sterling per annum": 

 and also. " One million mulberry trees in the Prov- 

 inces will enable a yearly i omittance to Great 

 Britain of a million sterling per annum." 



Without any undue prejudice, I am inclined to 

 the opinion, that the culture of silk at the present 

 time in this country, is more flattering than it was 

 in Europe at the period referred to above. 



Yours, NoN Dependf.ns. 



Sept., 1839. 



To the Editor of ibe Farmer's Cabinet. 



Sir — The handsome manner in which you no- 

 ticed my first communication, emboldens me again 

 to address you on a subject which is, I conceive, 

 peculiarly within my province, I mean 



THE MANAGEMENT OF THE DAIRY. 



I have heard that in many of the English dairies 

 the use of large leaden pans, for the reception of 

 the milk for creaming, has been introduced, very 

 much to the convenience of those engaged in that 

 branch of husbandry ; and the present communica- 

 tion is, to enquire if any of your readers are suffi- 

 ciently acquainted with the mode of management, 

 and the structure of the pans, to be enabled to de- 

 scribe them, for the benefit of those immediately 

 concerned. 



I understand they are sometimes made large 

 enough to contain the whole milking of the dairy; 

 are dish-shaped, and set on a stout frame of wood, 

 sufficiently high to admit a pail being placed under 

 the centre of the bottom, by which the milk is 

 drawn off by means of a tap, without disturbing the 

 cream: so that, after the milk has passed off, the 

 cream remains in the lead, to be removed in the 

 niojt convenient and economical way imaginable. 

 Now, to appearance, this is^a most valuable im- 

 provement over the present tiresome and unsatis- 

 factory process of skimming, asd if two or three 

 objections which at present strike me, can be re- 

 moved, I think the introduction ot these pans into 

 ceneral use, would be of all ihingsroost desirable. 



In the first place, is it not to be expected that 

 the lead, especially if the milk be left to become 

 sour, as is often the case, would communicate to 

 the milk a decidedly poisonous quality ; and would 

 not this property be increased in the hands of filthy 

 and careless persons .' In the next place, would 

 there not be a danger that a portion of the cream 

 would pass away with the milk through the tap, at 

 the lime of drawing off.' and would it be easy to 

 know at what point to stop, when all the milk and 

 none of the cream had been drawn off.' And again, 

 would not the use of the lead pans deprive us of 

 the opportunity of setting the milk contained in 

 the receivers into streams of water in the spring- 

 house, as is customary in very many cases, for the 

 purpose of keeping the vessels cool in hot weather ? 



Now these are the difficulties which at present 

 strike me. I only hope that some of your readers 

 and numerous friends will be able entirely to re- 

 move them, and add such a list of advantages to be 

 derived from their general introduction, as will not 

 leave even the most careless and indifferent amongst 

 us a single argument in favor of the present very 

 inconvenient and tiresome method of skimming, 

 which has always appeared to nie about the most 

 fatiguing part of my labors, to say nothing of the 

 great loss of cream attending it in the hands of 

 careless persons, and on the other liand, of in^xiry 

 to tlie butter, when a portion of the milkis removed 

 with the cream, in the endeavor to skim close. 



Bucks Co., Penn., Aug. 28, 1830. 



P. S. — I have the pleasure to inform you my 

 husband has done ^^'cooning," and will henceforth 

 devote all his energies to the raising sugar beet for 

 the use of the dairy, and has calculated that we 

 can keep three times the number of cows, and make 

 six times the quantity of butter that we now do, on 

 the same number of acres. A neighbor has thirty 

 tons of these roots per acre this season ; if his do 

 the same, leads or some other contrivance will be 

 necessary to contain the increased quantity of milk 

 which will be obtained. 



LIME. 



A farmer who has been applying lime to his land 

 for the last seven years, informs us that he has just 

 finished hauling out his stable manure on to the 

 field that he intends sowing with wheat, and that 

 he has a surplus which he has applied to another 

 field. He stated that his stable manure had in- 

 creased to about double the quantity since he com- 

 menced using lime. He now grows much more 

 grass, can keep more stock, and consequently en- 

 riches the soil more rapidly, and raises an increas- 

 ed quantity of grain. This farmer years back 

 found it hard scuffling to get along with a large 

 family and make both ends meet, and he then 

 thought he could hardly afford to use lime. But 

 e.xperience has opened his eyes full wide, and he 

 now thinks he could not well afford to omit the ap- 

 plication of that grand panacea, lime, which has 

 been the grand agent of his prosperity. 



Those who have not made an experiment with 

 lime, would do well to try it this autumn on their 

 stubble fields that are intended to be mown next 

 season, and if they do not find their interest essen- 

 tially promoted by it, the result will differ from 

 that of numerous farmers who have often adopted 

 this plan of application with the greatest advan- 

 tage. — Farmer's Cabinet. 



Sales ofMorus Multicaulis Trees. — The follow- 

 ing sales of trees have been made within the last 

 two weeks, viz: 20,000 in East Hartford, at 30 cts. 

 a tree ; 50,000 in Wethersfield, at 30 cents ; 13,000 

 in Glastenbury, at 40 cents ; 2,000 in Berlin, at 

 37 1-2 cents ; atid a gentleman in Farmington has 

 paid 45 cents a tree for a lot. 



We learn that about 300,000 trees have actually 

 been sold this season in the vicinity of Hartford. 

 Of these 70,000 have been sold to go to Pennsylva- 

 nia, 50,000 to Jlichigan, 20,000 to New Jersey, 

 .50,000 to Massachusetts, and 10,000 to New York. 

 — Conn. Courant. 



It is stated by Dr Jackson, in his last geological 

 report, that twelve persons at the forks of the Ken- 

 nebec river, manufactured 3(3,()5!>' lbs. maple sugar. 

 This, at 10 cents a pound, would be worth $3,665. 



