AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



PURLISHED BY JOSEPH BRECK & CO., NO. 62 NORTH MARKET STREET, (Aobicoiturai. Wabshoube.) 



BOSTON, WEDNRSDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1844. 



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N . E. FARMER, 



For the New England Farmer. 



inquTries. 



Breck, — Dear Sir — Having about four 

 very light sandy land, in a lot I have 

 irchased, — two acres merely a sand bank, 

 ilh a thin sandy soil in sward : all been 

 :ow pasture for some forty years, and 

 I that cultivated, and bore decent crops 

 irley, &.c., — I propose turning it all over 

 deep, then use the subsoil plow, sowing 

 wheat on one to two acres, planting tjie 

 rt to Indian corn, and part to white bush 

 am very desirous of getting the opinion 

 our chemical friends, say Mr Tesche- 



I the best and most economical mode of 

 f. I have a beach at hand, can procure 

 sand, at low water mark, on an e.xtcn- 

 nck-weed from the rocks by the shore, 

 ss, kelp, and other spring drift stutT. 

 be much benefit to put a coat of either 

 :r on the grass before turned over, or a 

 e sand on after turning and mix well 

 oil by harrowing, I do not intend to 

 able manure on any part of it this spring. 



a little compost with a part of the corn, 

 ware I have supplied myself with guano ; 

 lisposed to procure any thing that you 

 ninend, to soak a part or all of the seed 



II feel much much obliged if our friend 

 ued, and any other of your chemical 

 d yourself, will give me some directions 

 jcecd in this case. As seed time is fast 

 ■Iff, if possible, should like some remarks 

 liject in your next week's paper. 



respectfully your ob't serv't, 



JOSIAH LOVETT.Sd. 

 , March \l, 1842. 



e handed the above to Mr Teschemacher, 

 ndcd the following remarks : 

 'eed, which contains phosphate'of lime, is 

 )llow8 : put a layer of loam 8 inches 

 n a deep layer 1 or 1 1-2 foot rock-weed, 

 all thin layer of lime, then stable dung, 

 ler layer of loam, and so on, until you 

 rge heap: leave this one year to ferment, 

 ; over previous to stirring on the land, 

 would be excellent on the light sandy 

 d by Mr L. Use it in hills, as I have di- 

 id always just previous to rain. For 

 mo IS also excellent, but observe, never 

 manure with guano. 



of soda is also ex<;ellent for grass ; but I 

 nw whether it produces fine nutritions 



know guano does, 

 stated that Clapp's pulverizer is a good 



stir in guano or nitrate of soda, or any 

 liich is used in small quantities. 



niy sand is probably too much impregna- 

 lalt for general cultivation, although it 

 for some. Would not a piece of your 



1 near the boachj do well for asparagus ? 



I have a notion that guano will make this grow 

 very fine, and have engaged some growers of it to | 

 make the experiment this year. J. E. T. 



For the New England Farmer. 



"UNRULY MILKERS." 



.1/r Breck — I agree with the writer of the piece 

 under the above caption, copied into your last pa- 

 per, in all his positions save this : ".4 heifer jiever 

 kicks from prinripte." In this I do not concur. 

 From my observation, I have been convinced — as 

 I supposed all were — that anjong animals of all 

 kinds, some were as nalurnlly vicious or bad tem- 

 pered as we know some men are. I mean to say 

 that they are born with a good deal of the bad — 

 a preponderancy of it — in their composition, and 

 have a strong inclination to show it, — and hence it 

 is harder to extirpate this vicious principle than if 

 it were acquired otherwise. I have seen — (who 

 has not?) — colts that shew their disposition to bite 

 or kick, very early, and retained it ever after. (Per- 

 haps proper training would have lessened it.) Heif- 

 ers, for aught I know to the contrary, may be pos- 

 sessed by nature of a more gentle and amiable dis- 

 position than colts ; but I believe that, nine cases 

 in ten, they do "kick from principle," as much as 

 the naturally dishonest man steals from principle. 



However, as the disciis:^on of this question can- 

 not be productive of any great profit to your read- 

 ers, it is not worth while to go farther into it. One 

 thing relative to it I hold as certain : that is, wheth- 

 er a heifer or other animal "kicks from principle" 

 or otherwise, it is no way to break them of the 

 practice by beating or kicking them in turn, — and 

 I am inclined to think that, in the case of cows, 

 the remedy suggested by the writer of the article 

 above alluded to, will prove as effective as any. 



Gentle means are the best to correct bad habits 

 in the young both of brute-kind and n.an-kind ; 

 and the truth of this is getting to be more gener- 

 ally admitted than it has been in time past. If 

 animals still retain vicious propensities when old, I 

 join with the writer alluded to, and say, do n't thrash 

 them — "just keep philosophical, and try other 

 means" — and if you an 't reform them " any how," 

 then send them to — Brighton. 



It is unworthy of man — reasoning man — to wreak 

 his vengeance upon an animal, in p. spirit of retali- 

 ation ; and how silly — to use no harsher term — how 

 silly must such an act appear to him, (if he has a 

 sound head and a right heart,) when, after his pas- 

 sion has passed, ho reflects that it was but a poor, 

 helpless, thoughtless krute upon which he wreaked 

 his manly vengeance ! D. 



Erperiment. — A Scotch paper says that the Rev. 

 Mr Ramsay, of Arhro.'ith, commenced digging early 

 potatoes on the 28tli June ; after removing the 

 crop, he immediately rejilanted the stems : and al- 

 though the first crop was considered good, the sec- 

 ond from the stems, wna stiporior — more numerous, 

 larger, and of a better quality. The experiment 

 is worthy of further trial. 



For the N. E. Fiirmor. 



SHEEP AND LAMBS. 



Mr Editor — I noticed in the last Farmer, an ac- 

 count of the manner in which Mr Joseph M irshall, 

 of Ipswich, keeps his sheep, and have no doubt 

 but that it is the best way to make the most of 

 both sheep and lambs. Farmers here generally 

 keep their bucks from the sheep in the tall, so as 

 to bring the lambs in May. This is bad policy. 

 It lakes very high keeping indeed to keep their 

 flesh on, through a very cold winter; and so keen 

 is their hankering for the ground, that nothing will 

 make them contented when the ground is bare, if 

 they are confined, and they lose in flesh. If turned 

 out, it is just as bad ; they lose their appetite for 

 food from the barn, and lose flesh the same. Per- 

 haps sheep are weaker in April and May, than at 

 any season of the year. My sheep began to lamb 

 this year in January, and from that to the last of 

 February, and niitwithstauding the exces,~ive cold, 

 every lamb is alive, and now eat as much hay, ac- 

 cording to their size, as the sheep. A very little 

 attention will save every lamb, if the sheep are 

 kept on Mr Marshall's plan, and their extra value 

 for the butcher, is not the only advantage : they 

 breed at a year old, which May lambs seldom do: 

 they are perfectly hardy, and not like spring lambs, 

 pinched and stunted by the next winter. Cold 

 will never hurt sheep or lambs that come in the 

 winter, if kept from storms and out of the force of 

 cold winds. 



It seems Mr Marshall means " next year" to 

 have " a second crop" of lambs in August. Pos- 

 sibly he may do it in Massachusetts, but here it 

 would be nothing but "book farming." I never 

 knew but two or three instances of lambs coming 

 in August, or the three following months, and never 

 one where the sheep had raised a lamb in the 

 spring. I hope he will let us know next fall how 

 many lie has of the "second crop." 



Kennebec Co., Mt., March 8, 1844. B. 



CoKRECTioN. — The Farmers' Cabinet informs 

 us that we were wrong in our inference that the 

 fanner of quart-bottle churn celebrity, resided in 

 Pennsylvania. We are glad that that State, re- 

 nowned for thrifty husbandmen and good citizens, 

 is not obnoxious to the reproach of having within 

 her borders such farmers as the one described in 

 the article we copied from the " Cabinet" a few 

 weeks since. By the way, if our will could be 

 gratified, the " Farmers' Cabinet" should be a 

 monthly visitor at every farmhouse in the Key- 

 stone State. No one of the agricultural periodi- 

 cals of the country is so deserving the patronage of 

 the farmers of that State, as the " C^ibinet." Though 

 unlike some other agricultural journals we could 

 name, it does uot claim to be the best in the coun- 

 try, we esteem it none the less highly for this, and 

 express our sincere opinion when we say, that, in 

 the value of its contents it is second to none. We 

 always open it with the expectation of findiiii: some- 

 thing of interest, and are seldom disappointed — Ed. 



