AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



PUni.ISHED BY JOSEPH BRECK & CO., NO. 62 NORTH MARKET STREET, (Aoricdltorai. Warehocbe.) 



L..XXII.] 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 184:}. 



[NO. 18. 



FARMER. 



For ihe N. E. Farmer. 



NAT!ON.\L SILK CO.WENTION. 

 f II EniTor. — Having juat returned from the first 

 ional Silk Convention, held in New Yurk last 

 •k, I send you, for the special information of 

 farmers of Now England, the resolutions ad"pt- 

 toirethcr with two or three [ireliminary remarks: 

 . The Convention was called by the energetic 

 nagers of the Ainerican Institute. Some three 

 iths sinf^e, this Institute, whose object it is to 

 note all the great interests of tlie country, and 

 whole country, determined upon Ihne measures 

 nected with the silk business: I^irst — To make 

 ;ial effoi's t'> kcct" a full di"=n'ay of Ameri. 

 silk goods as a part of the exhibition of their 

 1 annual Fair, Second — To invite a meeting 

 jroners nnd itianufacturers during the Fair: 

 , third — To request a written statement from 

 I grower and manufacturer, giving the results 

 is experience. In this way it was justly con- 

 led that a mass of facts could be collected and 

 lodied in a report, that would, when spread be- 

 ' the public, remove all lingering doubts from 

 lligcnt minds, and settle, finnlli/ and forevtr, 

 whole (lUcstion in regard to this great business. 

 ■'. The results were every way decided in their 

 racier. But few cases of failure the past sea- 

 were reported, and none the early pari of the 

 ion, tvhcre the systtm nfopenfteding tens adopted. 

 us, this system, in preference to feeding in en- 

 aed rooms, is eouclush'cly established, and this 

 i that will now urge business vigorously for- 

 rd. 



{. All the procepdings of the convention, the 

 ■ning speech of Gen. Tallmadge, the President 

 .he convention, the resolutions adopted, and the 

 'Stance of all the letters received, (amounting to 

 lut l.)0,) is speedily to be published in pamphlet 

 m, by the enterprizing Messrs. Greely & McEI- 

 h. New York, and a widely extended distribu- 

 n throughout the whole country, is confidently 

 icipaled. 



J. According to the returns received, the West- 

 I and Soulh-weslern Stales, especially Ohio and 

 nnessee, are going forward most rapidly in this 

 liiiess. The valley of the Ohio alane, has this 

 ir grown cocoons enough, to keep 200 reels in 

 istant operation. 



5. Great credit is spontaneously and most eer- 

 ily given by all interested, and by the public 

 fss, to the Institute, fur their wise vigorous ef- 

 ta to bring the eilk cause, in this way, before 

 intelligent public — a calm, discriminating pub- 

 , that has once seen what was "moonshine," 

 1 can now sue what is substantial verity. 



Yours, &c. I. R. B. 



Oxford, Oct. 20. 



The resolutions accompanying the above, occu- 

 too much space for insertion in this number : 

 :y shall have a place in our next. They may be 

 ind in the "New York Tribune," of the Uitli iilt. 



COOKING FOOD FOR STOCK. 

 There is no doubt of the advantage, in one point 

 of view, of the cooking of food for some animals : 

 this point is, that the same quantity of food afiurds 

 when cooked, a larger portion of nutrition. Hut is 

 there not still a doubt as to the advantages of a 

 general adoption of the cooked mode of feeding r 

 What is true and advantageous on a large scale, 

 will not always answer on a small one: a dinner 

 for one man each day will scarce pay for (uol and 

 the wages of the cook ; but when an hundred in- 

 stead of one sit down to dinner, it is a very diffe- 

 rent affair, and the tavern-keeper who would go 

 behind-hand in the one case, could afford to ride 

 in his chaise in the other. Will not a similar rule 

 apply well in cooking food for domestic animals.' 

 Most tempting accounts have appeared from time 

 to time in the agricultural journals, of profitable 

 undertakings in feeding large numbers of swine 

 upon cooked food, but I have never met with much 

 in a small way, upon a limited scale, that seemed 

 worthy of imitating. 



Swine aro mentioned, because it is rather doubt- 

 ful if much or any advantage is derived in cooking 

 for neat cattle, milch cows, or for horses. Perhaps 

 the experiments tended to leave the subject in 

 great doubt as regards all. animals that chew the 

 cud. The most decisive advantage is believed to 

 hive been found in cooking for swine — but why is 

 it that our farmers have not mora generally adopt- 

 ed it ? Is it not from the cause already adverted 

 to, that expensive processes may be true economy 

 where a great deal of work is to be accomplished, 

 but will not answer on a small scale. Any farmer 

 can boil his small potatoes, and the meal also to 

 fallen his hogs at the beginning of winter, with the 

 utensils in constant use all the year round in his 

 family ; but is it not questionable economy for him 

 to go beyond this, and fit up an expensive boiling 

 or steaming apparatus, to cook the food for his few 

 swine. (And here it occurs to the uiind, what 

 should not be forgotten, never mix the meal wilh 

 or use the water in which potatoes have been boil- 

 ed, for the food of swine ; for it is well known to 

 be injurious and to act as a medicine to scour, as 

 it is termed.) 



When, therefore, we see so often such laudable 

 experiments and results in the cooking of food, 

 urged for general adoption, does not the old adage 

 occur, that we may bo more nice than wise. — Far- 

 mers' J'isitor. 



Sharp Work. — The Oisego Republican contains 

 a statement, supported by affidavits sivorn to be- 

 fore a Justice of the Peace, which we think oul- 

 polatoes all creation. Mr David B. Sliepherd, of 

 Otsego, proves as aforesaid, that on the third day 

 of this present month, (Oct.) he did, between 4 o'- 

 clock, A. M. and 15 minutes past 7, P. M., "pull 

 the vines, dig. and pick up three hundred and six 

 bushels of potatoes !" 



CURE FOR A FOUNDERED HORSE. 



I send you the following prescription, to which 

 you may give a place in your useful paper, if you 

 think it will be of any advantage to fanners and 

 travellers : 



As soon as your horse is foundered, bleed him 

 in the neck in proportion to the greatness of iho 

 founder. In extreme case?, you may bleed him as 

 long as he can stand up. Then draw hi.s head up, 

 as is common in drenching, and with a spoon, put 

 far back on his tongue, strong salt, until you can 

 get him to swallow one pint. lie careful not 

 to let him swallow too much. Then anoint around 

 the edges of his hnols with spirits of turpentine, 

 and your horse will be well in one liour. A foun- 

 der pervades every part of the system of a horse. 

 The phlegms arrest it from the stomach and bow- 

 els ; and the spirits arrest it from the feet and 

 limbs. 



I once rode a hired horse ninety miles in two 

 days, returning him at night the second day, and 

 his owner would not have known that he had been 

 foundered, if I had not told him, and his founder 

 was one of the deepest kind. 



1 once, in a travel of 700 miles, foundered my 

 horse three times, and I did not think my journey 

 was retarded more than one day by the misfortune, 

 having in all ca'jes observed and practiced the 

 above prescriptio.j. I have known a foundered 

 horse turned in at night on greed feed, and in the 

 morning he would be well, having been purged by 

 the green feed. All founders must bo attended to 

 Immediately. — &)ulhtvestcrn Far. 



It has been proved by repeated experiments, that 

 straw, saturated with a solution of lime or common 

 whitewash, is incombtislibk. 



SQUASHES. 



It has been asserted, as the result of an acciden- 

 tal experiment, that squashes sown in the fall, will 

 survive the frosts of winter and spring, and will 

 ripen much earlier than any which can be raised 

 by sowing in the spring. Those sown in the 

 spring and those sown in the fall, were, in the case 

 alluded to, exposed to a severe frost; the former 

 were killed, while the latter survived. It maybe 

 worth a more satisfactory experiment. The earli- 

 est sallads we know, are grown in this way. The 

 same has been said of a species of beans, and even 

 of potatoes. 



To preserve good squashes in perfection, great 

 care is necessary to keep them from the neighbor- 

 hood of others of an inferior kind, and especially 

 of pumpkins. If grown together, the good uniform- 

 ly deteriorate, and the best squashes become bas- 

 tard |)Umpkins. However mysterious this fact may 

 appear, it is unquestionable ; and it is probably to 

 be explained on the same principles with a fact 

 no less unquestionable, that the different spccica 

 of corn and of grain always mix when they grow in 

 the neighborhood of each other Selected. 



r.arge Cattle. — Gen. Wm. A. Mills, of Living- 

 ston county, N. Y., had a pair of oxen at the late 

 Cattle Show In Rochester, which wei'i-licd six 



thovsand two hundred and fflij pounds. Rochester 



Fast. ■ 



