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rop the Inst season, was planted with ciirn, and 

 lad just got finply up, when, on thw night of the 

 ret of June, thvy, wiih the corn, were cut down 

 ■y froFt. 'i'li>; co'n started again, but the pump- 

 ins were a " doai) set" at that biifinpss. We had 

 few seeds left, uud a few days after the frost, we 

 tuck them Jinvn between the hills of corn. They 

 ame up we'l, and we took care to keep tliem cov. 

 ■red with pliister, so that the bugs did not trouble 

 hem much. The space covered by the vines 

 :ould not hiive been much over an acre, yet we 

 jathertd from it si.x large cart-boilies heaping full. 

 To escape Inte frosts, we think the fiirmer would 

 lo well to delay planting till about the first of 

 'une, in this chiii.ite. 'I'he spaces at which they 

 ihould be plaiil'^d, is important, as the vines ex- 

 .end a good distance. If planted witn corn, we 

 .hink every alternate hill in every third row, will 

 )e thick enough — the vines will then cover the 

 'round. Care should be taken not to obstruct the 

 fines after they begin to run. If weeds spring up, 

 jull thfin out by hand, or cut them out with a hoe. 

 We have boen in the habit of raising pretty 

 large crops of pnnipkins. Seven or eight years 

 jgo, the seed which we saved from one crop, meas- 

 jred (f)i buihel;, which we sold to the seedsman, 

 it a dollar and a hnlf a bushel. The seed saved 

 from the last crop was two bushels, which sold 

 readily at two dollars a bushel. 



Derby, Conn. L. D D. 



JVote bii the Printer'! D — I. — Pumpkin ! What 

 hallowed associitions — what fond recollections — 

 what blissful anticipations, cluster around that 

 name in the breast of the true New Englandar ! 

 At horn';, it is his solace and a tie; — abroad, the 

 name of pumpkin touches the tenderest chords of 

 his heart, and the dear land of his nativity — the 

 treasury of his hopes and his loves — the land of 

 the pilfrrims once, and of pumpkins forever — seems 

 dearer still ! Reverenced be the name of pump- 

 kin, — over honored be pumpkin pies, — (how could 

 we sing "it"eel home" without them I) — and suc- 

 cess attend all pumpkin-growers. (Seed for sale 

 at the office of the jV. E Farmer.)—'- P. D." 



The Field Carrot. — The soil best adapted to 



SELECTIONS I 



From the London Card. Chron. and JlgricuU. Gaz- \ 

 Cucumbers. — For two years past, I have entirely 

 discarded the old method of growing cucumbers on 

 dung hot-beds, or of allowing them to grow on the 

 surface of the soil at any time. I find that by 

 training them to trellises I have not half the trou- 

 ble with them that is required by the old plan, and 

 that the plants continue much longer in bearing 

 when so treated. — Robert Reid, JVoble Thorpe. 



Yenst. — Boil one ounce of hops in four quarts 

 of water until the hops fall to the bottom of the 

 pan ; strain, and wh<!n milk-warm, add six ounces 

 of flour and five of sugar ; set the mixture by the 

 fire, stirring it frequently ; in 48 hours, add four 

 pounds of potatoes, boiled and minced fine : next 

 day bottle the yeast — it will keep a month. One- 

 fourth of yeast and three of warm water, is the 

 proportion for baking. — *^* [The editor of the 

 Chronicle states that he has tried this recipe and 

 found it good.] 



Preverition of Potato Failure. — My seed potatoes 

 in 1842, were dug before they teere perfectly ripe, 

 and I have had no failure. Indeed, I have never 

 known a failure where small potatoes, uncut, were 

 used for seed ; and I believe this uniform success 

 to arise from the small potatoes being unripe when 

 taken from the ground. This opinion rests upon 

 the assumption that the small potatoes of a crop 

 have not reached maturity when the rest of the 

 crop is ripe, being the last formed, — and that the 

 failure of the potato crop is ascribahle to the use 

 of seed, which, being suffered to mature in the 

 ground, loses, in the lime intervening between dig- 

 ging and planting, a considerable portion of its 

 reproductive properties. — Mr Caird, in Jour. ofJ}f(. 



[ This theory seems plausible, — but it occurs to 

 us to ask, if small potatoes be used for seed, would 

 not the product, upon the principle that " liko pro- 

 duces like," be "small potatoes," also? — "P. £>."] 



Patent Manures. — It is the interest of the far- 

 mer to pay but little attention to patent manures, 

 and to see to the due economizing and preparation 

 of the dung of his own farm-yard. We should be 

 sorry to sav, "Do n't believe half the statements 

 the carrot is a deep, rich loam, free from gravel or\p^rp„rU„g\o be facts, put forth by the advertisers 

 Band ; if it is tco^^tdhesive, ashes and lime may l)e | ^^ patent manures;" but we may safely say, " Don't 



believe half the inferences they would have you 



Yew. — Caution to Farmers. — In addition to the 

 statement in your paper, of four bullocks bein^ 

 poisoned by eating Yew, I would observe that I 

 have noticed where animals have been pi>isnned by 

 it, the yew had been cut a few days before. Any 

 animal, at least the horse, ass, cow, and sheep, may 

 and do eat the yew with perfect impunity when 

 t;reen, but a very small quantity, in a withered 

 stale, I believe always kills. I used to live in a 

 neighborhood where there were many of thes« 

 trees, and often noticed all the above named ani- 

 mals eating the green twigs with much relish and 

 without harm ; and yet every now and thco, soma 

 valuable cattle died suddenly, and on examining the 

 stomachs, were evidently poisoned by yew. This 

 made me reflect upon the subject, and I found that, 

 if withered, it is a deadly and a quick poison ; if 

 green, perfectly harmless, and much relished at 

 times. I suspect that the same thing holds good 

 with regard to the cornnioii Laurel. All of the 

 above animals eat it when green without hurt, un- 

 less taken in very great quantity ; but a very Small 

 piece, in a withered state, will kill a pig. 1 should 

 like to know if the above agrees with the experi- 

 ence of your readers. — fF. D. F. in Card. Chron. 



mixed with it. If barn manure be used, it should 

 be entirely decomposed or rotted, and intimately 

 mixed with the earth. The ground should be 

 plowed deep and made mellow before sowing. 



Whe 1 the plants spring up, they should early 

 be freed froiii wieds, : nd the earth loosened around 

 them. The feeble plants shi uld be pulled, leav- 

 ing only the most hardy ones. At the second 

 weeding, they should be thinned again, leaving the 

 most healthy to grow, and thus continue, leaving 

 the most thrifty ones not less than twenty inches 

 apart, so as to give an abundance of room for the 

 tops. In this manner, the writer has raised the 

 yellow carrot no less than seven inches through, 

 and at the rate of seven hundred bushels to the 

 acre. — Selected. 



Manure of Foxcls. — We regret to see so little at- 

 tention p- 1 to the saving of pigeon and hen-dung. 

 The manure cf any kind of birds is extremely val- 

 uable fo; gro ving melons, or indeed vine-crops of 

 any kind. Cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, and 

 especially melons, grown with hen or pigeon dung, 

 are said lo be sweet ir and more delicate than those 

 from any other manure whatever. — Amer. Agrieult. 



Points of a Good Milch Cow. — The following 

 may be useful to your correspondent "G." in an- 

 swer to his inquiries. It is from a report of the 

 Guernsey Agricultural Society. Points. — 1. Pu- 

 rity of breed and qualities of the dam for yielding 

 rich and yellow butter. 2. Small head, large and 

 bright eye, small muzzle, small ears, orange-color 

 within. 3. Straight back from the shoulders to 

 the tail, and chest wide, 4. A fine and loose skin, 

 with soft and short hair. H. Sides well rounded, 

 flank small between the side and haunch, tail fine. 



6. Fore legs straight and well proportioned, hind 

 legs broad above the knee, fine and clean below ; 

 hoofs small ; legs eljould not cross in walking. 



7. Udder large, and the teats large and springing 

 from the four corners of the udder ; milk-vein 

 large and well defined. — Guernsey, in Card. Chron. 



draw from these statements." — Ed. Card. Chron. 



Cedars To"S. M. H."— There is little hope 



of recovering an old cedar when onco it is in a 

 bad state of health ; but as yours is planted in a 

 soil which is dry and mixed with chalk, it may be 

 improved in the following manner : Remove the 

 turf round the tree to the distance of about 20 feet 

 in diameter, and then loosen the soil with a fork, 

 so as not to injure the roots ; afterwards give the 

 exposed surface a watering with 2 gallons of sul- 

 phuric acid, diluted with sixty times its quantity of 

 water, using it when the weather is moist. When 

 this is done, the turf may be relaid. — Ed. Chron. 



Grafting Vines. — The grape vine may be suc- 

 cessfully grafted either by whip or cleft grafting ; 

 but whichever mode is adopted, the plant must be 

 in leaf before the operation is performed. — lb. 



Graflinf^ Pears. — As many varieties as yon can 

 find room 'or, may be grafted on the =ame tree. In 

 some cases, a graft ol a diflereiit variety causes an 

 improvement in the general health and bearing of 

 the whole tree. — lb. 



Urate. — If the floors of stables or cow-sheda 

 were strewed with common gypsum, they would 

 lose all their oflTensive smell, and none of the am- 

 monia which forms could be Inst, but would be re- 

 tained in a condition serviceable as manure. This 

 composition, swept from the stable floor, nearly 

 constitutes what is sold under the denomination of 

 Urate. Manufacturers of this material state, that 

 three or four cwt. of Urate form sufficient manure 

 for an acre ; a far more promising adventure for a 

 practical farmer will be, to incur some expense in 

 saving his own liquid manure, and, after mixing it 

 with burnt gypsum, to lay it abundantly upon his 

 corn lands. For, in this way, he may use as much 

 gypsum as will absorb the whole of the urine. 

 Now, in the manufacture of Urate, the proportion 

 of 10 lbs. IS employed to every 7 gallons — allow- 

 ing the mixture, occasionally stirred, to stand some 

 time, pouring off" the liijuid, and with it nearly all 

 its saline contents except the ammonia. Urate, 

 therefore, can never present all the virtues of the 

 urine — lOl) lbs. of Urate containing no greater 

 weight of saline and organic matter than 10 gal- 

 lons of urine. — Smith's Productive Farming. 



Mnngold-wnrzel. — A correspondent of the Gard- 

 eners' Chronicle says, this beet fei to milch t )ws, 

 increases the quantity of milk, but diminishes the 

 richness of the cream. He has found carrots and 

 parsnips far superior for producing butler. 



