1863. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



357 



For the New England Farmer. 

 BEMEDY FOK PEACH AND QUINCE 

 BOREKS. 



I have been a constant reader of the Faitner 

 from its commencement, and have a complete set 

 of the bound voUimes. As a book of reference, it 

 is invaluable. The time has come when the farm- 

 er might as well dispense with the plough and 

 hoe, as an agricultural paper. The N. E. Fanner 

 has no superior in this class of journals. The ed- 

 itors and contriI)utors are practical men, who have 

 testfd what they recommend to others. Such 

 teaching will generally prove reliable. I am 



f)leased with the interest this journal takes in 

 ruit culture ; which has become an interest of 

 much importance in this country. 



As choice fruits increase, and improved modes 

 of culture, the depredators upon fruit seem to mul- 

 tiply. I'here is none more destructive than the 

 borer. The peach and quince Aiil mainly through 

 Its operations. Remove the ])est, and we can raise 

 these fruits as formerly. Would not an effective 

 remedy against this evil be of great benefit to the 

 country? Such a remedy has been found. In a 

 peach orchard of 150 trees, four trees treated with 

 this application were never molested ; the others 

 received every attention, and the borers were often 

 dug out, still the gum oozed from their trunks, and 

 in three years they were all dead ; whilst the four 

 above-named were vigorous. Apple trees were 

 treated the same, and their vigorous growth and 

 lively foliage were in strona contrast with those 

 marred and disfigured by the borer. 



This remedy not only protects the tree, but des- 

 troys many insects, and if all fruit-growers would 

 make use of it, their numbers would soon dirain- 

 isli. No person planting a new, or having a 

 young orchard, should neglect this safeguard. 

 Now is a good season to attend to it. The trouble 

 is much less than using the chisel and knife and 

 without any injury to the tree. 



Persons wishing further information, may get it 

 by addressing F. N. Tiiaykr, of this town. 

 Blacksfone, Sq^f. 14, 18G3. H. 



Remarks. — We have omitted a few lines origi- 

 inally in the above article, because they came in 

 the form of an advertisement. The subject, how- 

 ever, is of such importanc^i that we are williiig to 

 open the way to a better knowledge of it. 



For the Naw England Fanner, 

 BETROSPECTIVE NOTES. 



Economy and Skill in Managing Manures. 

 — In the last of this series of "Notes" the writer 

 took occasion, from finding, in a recent issue of 

 this journal, two excellent articles on the suljject 

 of manures, abounding in hints and directions of 

 much value, to commertd the same to the atten- 

 tion and adoption of all who desire to make their 

 farming not merely profitaljle, but also a source of 

 that kind of enjoyment and satisfaction which 

 arises from a consciousness of judicious or first- 

 rate management. The writer intended at first to 

 make a few comments upon some of the many ex- 

 cellent suggestions contained in die two articles 

 referred^o, and to add a suggestion or two of his 

 own, so as to increase, if possible, the practical 

 utility of said article; but on taking pen in hand 

 for this nuroose. the discoura.'fin? fnct occurred 



to him that there is an almost universal neglect- 

 fulness in relation to manures, and hence much 

 occasion to fear that even the most sensible direc- 

 tions about managing manures would not arrest 

 the attention of those concerned as much as their 

 utility and value might give them a valid claim 

 thereto. This fear made his proposed task seem 

 so little likely to be productive of much good that 

 he set it aside, and devoted his time to tracing the 

 general neglegence and wastefulness as to manures 

 to its most probable source, and to the presenta- 

 tion of such facts and considerations as might 

 prove that there is a quite prevalent undcr-cslima- 

 iion of the real value of manures, and as might 

 contribute to the removal of this radical mistake. 

 It seemed that it might be almost in vain that O. 

 K., or Capt. TUCKEU should write the mo.-'t valu- 

 able suggestions, or that another should attempt 

 a similar labor for the benefit of brother-farmprs, 

 as long as there existed so extensively such a gen- 

 eral indifference as is manifest in the prevalent 

 wastefulness and negligence as to making the very 

 most of everything that will fertilize. It was the 

 purpose, therefore, of the preceding communica- 

 tion to show the erroneousness of the common 

 under-eMimaie of manorial mdterial, and to give 

 examples of the losses incurred by those who fail 

 in supplying this essential r.utriment to their 

 growing crops. The loss from this source must 

 be a large one, taking all the States into the ac- 

 count, if the estimate by Sec. Flint that Massa- 

 chusetts alone suffers a loss of a million and a 

 quarter of dollars, or each of her farmers on an 

 average about twenty dollars annually, for want of 

 a reasonable degree of care and attention in say- 

 ing and using manure. 



If, now, the facts and considerations presented 

 in our previous communication (Retrospective 

 Notes in issue of N. E. Farmer for Sept. oth,) 

 should have availed to produce the intended im- 

 pression, there will be on the part of many a high- 

 er estimate than ever before of the value of ma- 

 nures for fertilizing the soil and feeding the crops 

 of a farm ; a greater readiness to give attention to 

 such suggestions as those of O. K., and Captain 

 Tucker in the weekly issue of August 1, and the 

 September number of the monthly edition of this 

 journal ; and more or less of a fixed R-solution 

 henceforth to em|)loy more economy and skill in 

 the managing of manures, and to save and use 

 everything that can possibly contribute to fertilize 

 the soil or feed the growing crops. Ifwliat has 

 already been said has availed to produce a con- 

 viction that much loss in crops and profits is the 

 consequence of the common negligence and waste- 

 fulness as to manures, there will be more or less 

 of a determination to accjuire all ])ossil)le informa- 

 tion and skill, and to use all possible economy in 

 this department hereafter. 



To such as may have formed such a resolution 

 we would again commend the articles of O. K. and 

 Capt. Tucker already mentioned, and submit, also, 

 the following additional suggestions relative to 

 skill and economy in the use of manuriul and fer- 

 tilizing substances generally. 



C^ne of the most notable instances of a want of 

 economy in the management of manures is that 

 quite common one in which the barn-yard is not 

 hollowed out in the centre or otherwise ])repared 

 to prevent leadiing away of the very riciiest por- 

 tions of tlie contents. Unless the barn be snout- 



