Its present success. 



Cum has not of course been harvested, but at 

 this time, (the middle of September,) there can be 

 no question as to the crop. It is on the whole a 

 partial failure. We saw a few pieces that might 

 be called very good, some that wore pretty fair, 

 but the greater part had a miserable appearance. 

 In ripening, the crop is from fifteen to twenty days 

 later than it was last year, and the growth is very 

 inferior. This result may be attributed to the low 

 temperature of the summer months, which while it 

 was favorable to wheati was destructive to corn. It 

 is clear that in the main, farmers must rely on some- 

 thing besides corn for the making of their pork ; 

 and as in many places, apples which have been 

 greatly relied on, have also failed, peas, barley and 

 potatoes must become substitutes. 



The quality or quantity of the roots grown the pre- 

 sent season, cannot be ascertained at present with 

 much accuracy. As the season has been such as 



last two summers and falls, my duty called me into 

 the apple regions of the North. The following facts 

 were obtained in reference to this subject. 



Good eating apples are worth on an average 25 

 cents a busheL Eight bushels of apples make a 

 barrel of cider, and twelve barrels of cider make a 



ROHAN POTATOES. 



Beverly, 28ih Sept., 1839. 

 Messrs J. Brkck & Co. — Gentlemen — On the 

 first of May last I planted thirteen hills of Rohan 

 potatoes in my garden (or nursery,) some two, some 



barrel of brandy, lirandy, at 50 cents per gallon, | three eyes in a hill, in all ihirtythree eyes, two of 

 would give but fifteen cents per bushel ! This on which did not come up; the thirtythreeeyes weigh- 

 an orchard of 100 trees in ten years, would be over | ed less than eight ounces ; the ground is a rich 



81000! No allowance is made for capital and la 

 bor connected with distilling. Take these into 

 consideration and the loss is much greater. 



It costs no more to raise good apples than those 

 only suitable for distilling. Very often apples are 

 worth one dollar per bushel, and the loss is immense 

 by turning them into brandy. I am told that at 

 Mobile apples are worth $10 a barrel. 



Engrafting and budding will change the charac- 



loam inclining to clay, with a stiff clay subsoil, 

 moist through the year. I manured with a good 

 shovelfuU of strong compost in each hill. 



I have this day dug the potatoes from these thir- 

 teen hills, and find they weigh (ine hundred fifty- 

 eight and a half pounds. The eight largest weigh- 

 ed thirteen, and the twenty largest, thirty pounds ; 

 the whole filled a flour barrel rounding full. 



I planted some on high land, soil loose — also 



usually produces the best crops of potatoes, it is in ten years. 



ter of an orchard, and more than compensate for I some on high, stiff clay soil: they did well— the 

 the time and amount lost, in producing the change 1 poorest averaging less than twelve hills to the 



reasonable to suppose, considering the quantity 

 planted, that the yield will be a large one. We 

 observed considerable quantities of ruta baga, and 

 some very fine pieces ; but as a whole the appear- 

 ance was not promising. The complaint was com- 

 mon that the fly had injured the young plants es- 

 sentially ; and the wet, cold weather about the time 

 of sowing, by rendering the growth slow and the 

 plants feeble, rendered them subject to depredations 

 for a longer period than usual. The experience of 

 this year with us, has rendered apparent here what 

 has long been considered certain in England, that 

 in growing turnips, the great effort should be to 

 )lace the manures in such a way as to force the 

 S-oung plants through the first stages of tlieir growth 

 ivith as much rapidity as possible, and thus shorten 

 :he period of greatest danger. The carrot culture 

 9 extending, and on grounds suitable to its growth, 

 ills root exhibits a good appearance. The carrot 

 8, without question, one of the most valuable of 

 -.ultivated roots, and we are pleased to see that it 

 i, in common with the turnip, gaining ground in 

 ubiic estimation. The sugar beet has been exten- 

 vely distributed the present year, and its gener- 

 ly fine appearance proves there is no difficulty in 

 nducing it in any desirable quantity. We hope 

 ; practibility of converting it into sugar will be 

 iroughly tested in this country this fall ; since, 

 •uld the manufacture succeed, one great source 

 foreign dependence and une of the greatest drains 

 Cur national resources, would be cut off. 



ooking at the crops as they are, all classes 

 h the most abundant reasons for gratitude, 'i'he 

 C'latibility of abundant crops with fair prices has 

 bt proved, and while this is the case, neither pro- 

 du or consumer have any cause of complaint. — 

 Sit. and temporary fluctuations in the regular 

 ant-oper order of things must be expected to 

 ta-klace ; but the iiiimutable laws that regulate 

 all h matters, will, if left to themselves, unfet- 

 terey monopolies or combinations, soon restore 

 the jng elements to their proper place, and give 

 harii, and equality ;o the whole system. Both 

 prodf and consumer have by the events of the 

 last lor three years, been taught lessons of po- 

 litica well as domestic economy, which they 

 shoul)t soon forget, and by which tliey will do 

 ■"'fill Vofit.— Genewe Farmer. 



bushel, although in both soils they were injured by 

 the dry weather. I am satisfied they require a 

 moist, rich soil, and in such soil they will yield 

 double or treble as much as any other potato I am 

 acquainted with. 



Very respectfully, your ob't serv't, 



JOSIAH LOVETT, 2d. 



For the New England Karmer. 



Dramf, 3d Oct., 1839. 

 Messrs J. Breck & Co. — Aa there has been so 

 much said about the yield of the Rohan potatoes, I 

 will send you the result of my crop from ten oun- 

 ces which I bought about the first of May, and 

 gave sixteen cents. I cut out of two small pota- 

 toes the eyes and put them into a tea cup of new 

 milk and soaked them three days and then planted 

 them in fifteen hills ; but one of the hills was bro- 

 ken down, so that I had fourteen hills only, and I 

 fattest beef I have ever seen, was made so by sweet I dug them to-day. On account of the mice getting 

 apples. in one of the hills, I think, I lost about two 



Nothing will fatten mutton quicker than apples, pounds, the remainder I weighed which amounted 

 It is necessary or best, to cut up apples when fed to eightytwo pounds, some of them weighing 20,25, 

 to sheep. 28, and 32 ounces. The bearer of this saw the 



Hogs care nothing for corn, if they can get ap- above. Yours, &c. 

 pies. If sweet, the apples may be given without 



Apples make most excellent food for horses. Sev- 

 eral physicians of extensive practice in Connecticut 

 and Massachusetts, feed their horses on apples and 

 hay. I have never seen fatter horses or more 

 lively : they require less grooming than horses fed 

 on grain. Mr Norton, of Farmington, Conn., has 

 about the fine It pair of horses I have ever seen. 

 They are fed mainly on apples and hay. They 

 travel very fast, and seem to have both wind and 

 bottom. It is proper, however, to say, that so much 

 grain is not given to the horses of the north, as is 

 customary at the south. One fact is worth notic- 

 ing : horses fed on apples do not eat as much hay 

 as when they are fed on grain. Very sour apples 

 injure the teeth of horses ; but when boiled they 

 do not. The rule of feeding is to commence with 

 a small quantity and gradually increase the amount 

 per day for one year. 



Apples are most excellent food for beeves. The 



boiling — if sour, they must be boiled. Mixed with 

 corn meal the flesh is firmer. 



Apples increase the quantity and quality of milk 



HUMPHREY WEBSTER. 



Planting garden seeds in the Fall. — Two years 

 ago, afler taking the vegetables from our garden. 

 At first there was a prejudice against giving apples [ ^e immediately prepared the beds and sowed on- 

 to milch cows, because it was thought they dimin- j '°"S' Parsnips, carrots, lettuce, befets, cabbage, &c. 

 ish or dry up the milk ; but given in proper quan- j °n 'he fourteenth of October. They were covered 

 titles, the effect is quite different. | ^*''th rye straw, and litter, and manure from the 



Cattle and hogs are bought and fed on apples, : barn yard thrown over them to the depth of four or 

 and sold at a fine profit, when to fatten them on ^^e inches. In the spring, as soon as the frost was 



A gmedal is offered by the American Insti- 

 tute, i York, for the best silk reel. 



corn would ensure a loss. 



Sweet apples and good eating apples are to be 

 preferred as food for horses, sheep and cows ; also 

 for hogs, though some recommend a mixture of sour 

 (ind sweet apples for hogs. 



If these remarks should induce any to test their 

 correctness by making a fair experiment, the ob- 

 ject of my writing will he fully answered. 



Thos. p. Hcnt. 



The Maine Farmer says that the following will 

 cure broken wind in a horse, if timely applied : 

 Beat well together 1-4 lb. of common tar and as 

 much honey ; then dissolve them in a quart of new 

 milk : let the horse fast two hours before the drench 

 is given: give it every second day with warm food. 



out, this was removed, and we found that in conse- 

 qjienoe of the straw not being well threshed, much 

 rye had dropped upon tlie ground and had taken 

 root, in extricating which we rooted and destroyed 

 a large portion of our young plants, which had al- 

 ready started and wej-e doing^ well. What did 

 grow, however, did well, and were large enough to 

 use a njimber of days sooner than those planted as 

 early as the weather would permit. Plants from 

 the cabbage seed sown in the fall were much more 

 thrifty and produced larger heads than those of the 

 same variety sown in spring. We name this as the 

 result of a single experiment, and as we are in no 

 situation to repeat it this year, we should like to 

 have some of our friends try it and let us know the 

 result. — Maine Farmer. 



