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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Dec. 



For the New England Farmer. 



APPLES, PEAKS A]MD GKAPES. 



Mr. Editor : — I have forwarded to you nine 

 specimens of apples, seven of which were origin- 

 ated here on the Shaker premises in Canterbury. 

 The most of them we have been growing for sev- 

 eral years, and think them Avorthy of more public 

 notice. They are packed in the box, each variety 

 by itself, with a card and number to correspond 

 with the following : 



No. 1. President. Late Fall. 



No. "2. Banian. Ycrj handsome. Will keep till March. 



No. 3. Aiitinnn Beauty. Till December. 



No. 4. Manzane. 



No. 5. September Sweeting. Very fine. 



No, 6. Fall Sweet. 



No. 7. Winter. No name. 



No. 8. Winter. No name. 



No. 9. Bedckeek. Midwinter. 



No. 10. Pear. Wish to know its name. 



No. 11. Noi'thern Muscadine Grajje. 



The scions of the President apple I received 

 from John P. White, of Pelham, Mass. The orig- 

 inal tree grew in his pasture. We have grown the 

 apple here some ten years, and find it a very de- 

 sirable fruit in its season, which is about Decem- 

 ber. 



The Manzane we received from New York 

 State with that name attached to the scions. If 

 you are acquainted with the apple, please inform 

 me whether or not that is the name it bears, as 

 I cannot find it in any of the fruit books. 



I also Vi^ish to know the name of the two pears. 



The grape is the Northern Muscadine, a per- 

 fectly hardy grape for our northern climate, need- 

 ing no protection during our severe winters. Ri- 

 pens about the middle of September. The only 

 objection which I have to it, is its property of 

 falling off from the cluster after having been kept 

 a few days, as you will see by the specimens sent 

 you. They have been kept about two weeks. 



The Redcheek, No. 9, is an admirable winter 

 fruit, possessing a favor equalled by few apples. 

 It is matured at about midwinter. For dessert 

 and pits, it is particularly esteemed. The other 

 ■winter varieties will show for themselves, if kept 

 till matured. I have kept the Baniin, No. 2, till 

 March. 



I should like to see an engraving of the Presi- 

 dent, with its description, in your valuable Far- 

 mer. 



The specimens of the Autumn Beauty and Fall 

 Sweets are not so nice as I should have been glad 

 to send you. In consequence of a powerful wind 

 they all dropped from the trees, and were more or 

 less injured. If you consider any of them worth 

 circulating, please inform me. 



Can you, or any of the readers of the Farmer, 

 inform me where I can obtain a correct process 

 of making good grape wine. 



I should like to know how the "Shaker graft- 

 ing cement," which I sent on trial last year, 

 proved among the grafters. 



Peter A. Foster. 



Shalcer Village, Mer. Co., N. H., Oct., 1860. 



Remarks. — The "box and its contents" were 

 duly received, and contents tested. Some of the 

 apples were very handsome, such as the Presi- 

 dent and Banian. The September Sweeting was 



very fine, juicy, fine fleshed, and good flavored. 

 The Redcheeks were also fine looking. We can- 

 not decide upon the name of the pears — one of 

 them strongly resembles the Flemish Beauty, and 

 may be that variety somewhat afl'ected by soil 

 and climate. The grafting wax worked admira- 



bly. 



EEMEDY FOB CHOKED CATTLE. 



We have been requested to republish the fol- 

 lowing remedy for choked cattle. It appeared in 

 the Farmer, for March, 1853. 



We were not aware, until quite 

 recently, that there is an annual 

 loss by the choking of cattle which 

 amounts to a veiy serious item in 

 the commonwealth. On mention- 

 ing the subject lately, a gentleman 

 informed us of several instances of 

 quite recent occurrence, some of 

 which proved fotal. 



Having a cow in the habit of get- 

 ting choked, w^e found it necessary 

 to find some ready way of relieving 

 her, or else to see her die. The 

 plan described below is easy and 

 sure. At any rate, we have known 

 a woman "unchoke a cow," re- 

 peatedly, alone, with these imple- 

 ments. 



Take a round stick, fifteen inches 

 long, and two or two and a half 

 inches in diameter, and bore an inch 

 hole through the centre, as shown 

 in Fig. 2 at 6 ; take a common broom 

 handle and pass its upper end 

 through the hole at h, in the stick, 

 Fig. 2, and draw it along to the lower end, at let- 

 ter a. The end of the stick at a, must be wound 

 with cotton cloth to make a bunch about two and 

 a half inches through, and 

 the cloth nailed on so as to 

 prevent all possibility of its 

 slipping off, — then cover 

 the cloth with lard, so as 

 to make it slip easy. Now 

 place the stick. Fig. 2, 

 across the cow's mouth, 

 and fasten it with strings 

 or straps about the roots of the horns, then gent- 

 ly press the stick, or probang, down the throat, 

 and the work is done ! 



These articles may be fitted ready for use in 

 half an hour, and should always be in readiness. 

 After having them by us for several years, we find 

 that the practice is an old English one, and the 

 same operation is described in some of the Eng- 

 lish books. 



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Fig. 1. 

 Cattle Prolan 



