} JOHN J. THOMAS, 

 • S M. H, BATKHAiM, 



Editors, 



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Ptisi ^llii3tcrs, Ageiitri, !uid others, sending niuney free of 

 ^uige, will receive seven copies for aJ3, — 't'vetce coifies for 

 ,~-'l\ceuty-Jire copies for $10. 



The pufta-nc nf iWis paper is only one cent to anyplace 

 thin Uiis slate, and one and a hall' cents lo any part of 

 e United Su.tcs. 

 [hdAddrcss OATKIIAM & CROSMAN. noclicstcr, N. V. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NrMBER. 



ililishers' Nrtiiccs Hanestinj and Tlirashins; Ma- 

 hinea, A \cw Oil Plant— IVIailia saliva. The stri- 

 >eil Hug. Farnierfl. don'isull your Ashe.i. Clarifying 



Waple r-ug;ir wiUi Inrliiin Meal, 97 



e Ciirc.ilio, I.OL-ality 'if tlie Canker Worm. Bc-«t 

 tlethod of Iiiiproving S'ew Farms. Culture and Use of 



Millet 98 



ricliltural ??ocielir9— The "Act to Pnuriote Agricul- 



iire." Slicep Poisoned liy the Ued Ciierry fl9 



crescen ed oti Plum Trees. Kusl on Wheat. " t^. 

 A'.*' and :he Corn Laws. Ilutaiitm of Crop.';. Rout 



;uliure 100 



lUghing level land in Broad Ridges. Locust Tree In- 

 eol. American Siciely of Agriculture. New varic- 

 es of T'lrnip .*red5, 101 



Ulc r^iiow !ind Fair of the IV. Y. Agricultural Society 

 List of Prcininins, vtc, Coniplenientary Colors. The 



fcltiiws in Peach Trees, 102 



tnny. Faruicr- and Me^-hanics. How to Eradicate 

 1» Itramble. Conaumption of Meat. Recipe for Wak- 



ng French Honey. In-iuiry — i'osfage 103 



r aim And K-tpectationa Douning's Landscape 

 rardeiiing. Arknowlcd^ments. S^rarcity of Fodder 

 -Scnsonalde Hints ^i\\e of Berkshires. The Dran- 



ton fScovch) c^ulistiil Ploiij;li, (Willi cut.) 10-1 



c Heiefnrd Or. (wiiii cut.) The Xew Kneland Far- 



ler— Hay Making T 105 



jaragu?. Dit;ease of Silk Worms — The Muccanline, 



living Bee? 106 



cular of ilie American Institute. To prevent Fence 

 'osis frrttn Heaving. F.it Cattle, Proper :?eason for 



•tilling tiraiii. Application of Liuie to foils 107 



i Fiowers of Sunnner. Spurious Ruta Baga Seed,. . iOS 

 e Weather — the I'rnp? — Harvest Prospectp. Sowing 



•ornfor Fodder. Killing Raty .100 



niFt Trees in the West. The Fruits of the Soil. The 

 ilk Business in Pennsylvania. Protection r.gniiist 



•rougk'. The Duty to Lalior, 110 



! F!owcr Garden— Cultivated hy the Ladies Leisure 

 'ays. What siioulil |):irenis t\n wi:h their hoys ? A 

 " ;ni from Lie*)ig. Culture of Buckwliea'. Go Forth 



the Fields, (poc'ry.) Ill 



irloo Woolen l-'actory. Devon Cattle. Mi;nroc Co. 

 {. So. .^Fa^ket5^. A l/eriismeai!?. Prices Current, 112 



Some of our Canadian neighbors seem to forget thattherc is 

 any postage on letters in this Slate; and othTs remember ii 

 to hut lilUc purpose. We have on seveial oecasionf receiv- 

 ed letters containing one or more small hil!3, and then a ten 

 cent piece enclosed "In pay the American postage !" Where- 

 as the postage is charged on each piece, whether large or 

 small, iii:d the ten cent \ne-iejust paid its own postage and no 

 more! The people of Canada generally, and even [uany of 

 the post master!", do dul seem ID he aware thai the law al- 

 lows American postage to be paid together with the Cana- 

 di!in, at the office wlicre the letter is deposited. All that if 

 neces«ary is, fur the pnst muster to inr.rk on the ov:t^iilr 

 ihc atnoun'. eo paid. A\> hope we shall not soon have to 

 write another homily on this text 



Ilavvc-stiug and Thra**liiiis Machines. 



*' Pitt's Grnin Thrasher and Separator" is now in 

 operation near this city; and, as in other places, is 

 gaining thfi approbation of the farmers who witness it. 

 We are happy to announce that Mr. Pills is making 

 arrangements to manufaclure the machines in this 

 city. 



One of Hussey's Harvesting Machines has just ar- 

 rived in town, and measured will be taken to aflord 

 the farmers of this vicinity an opportunity for seeing 

 ii in operation. Mr. Hussey is now manufacturing 

 his machines at Auburn, and will soon be ready 

 to supply orders. More about these machines next 

 mnnlh. 



iuni'e, by which it wae found preferable to the oliv« 

 oil. which had been previously used." 



*' For all ihcee reasons, it is to be hoped ihat th« 

 Madia saliva will eoon take ihnt plitce in Oirrit-ulture, 

 to which, by its useiulnes«, it is justly entitled; and 

 which, aUo, the lung of Wirtcuiburtr hns already ae- 

 knnwU'dued, by rewarding w;tli a gold medal tha nier 

 it of M. Bosch, in introducing a plant into field cul- 

 ture which promises to become unconmionly useful, 

 not only to our agriculture, but lo our nianufaciurcs 

 and iradca." 



We phould be pleased to hear whether any experi- 

 ments have been tried with Ibis plant in the United 

 States. 



An Apologry for Corres|>ondents* 



is well known that most of our correspondents are 

 iticftl farmers, arul with most of ojr renders we are sure 



i8suffi.jient excuse f<jr Iheir not writing more rt this 

 ion of the year. In Ibe mean lime, it gives us an oppor. 

 tly to select some choice treasures from the columns of 



co'.enijioraries. AVe^rust, however, that our old friends 

 I improve the time [itfoided hy a rainy day, occasionally, 



I not to allow our readers to forget them ; and as soon r.s 

 [hurrying season is over we shall again exhibit a goodly 

 fiber of honorable names. 



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One More Call. 



ome post masters and iii;ents deserve our timnks for the 

 lortililciiinniicr in wiiicliliicy h.ive rcspondrd to the cnll 

 lar Inst -, hut there are ninny others still l.ehind hnnd, and 

 veilinlike to be personal, wc hope they will remit the 

 Hints due without delny, and save us further trouble. 



"Thou Shalt not steal." 



dnesbut little good to e(!Old, Imt really the way our pnck- 

 ve picked by sonic persons in the matter of postage, is 

 ^ly endurable. One writes from Ohio that his paper has 

 •carried or lost, anotlter in Michigan asks some unim- 

 lant question for his own benefit, and eat'h robs 

 iftwo shilllngii '. A gentleman (?> in C.in.ida writes a 

 er entirely for his own benefit, mid encloses a business 

 It making double postngr and ch-atinH us out of three 

 linger .\nolher orders two copies of the Farmer and en- 

 a dollr.r lill, whifli is at a discount of from 7 to !0 

 J'.n^ :hen ju>'}e*i'' <is to donl.'e pQ=fage lit the b;,rf-aln. 



The Striped Bug. 



Several corresj>ondems bnve favorcH U8 with an- 

 swers to the inquiry in our Inst, (or iin effectiinl mod* 

 of proiectiiig vines from the striped bug. We giv* 

 the substance of these meiboJs, nUhnugh thoy ore not 

 new, anti we know from experience that most of ihera 

 are not fully eft'cctuol. In a season like tiie prrsent, 

 however, when the biig&are not very niuneroua, thesa 

 preventives may answer the pnrpose, 



1. Water the plunts with a decoction of tobacco. 



2. Spread tobacco eien;s, or refuse tobacco, around 

 them 



3. Sprinkle the plonls frefjuently with water in 

 which burdock leaves have been soaked a few daya, 



4. Spread soot upon and around the plmus. 

 .5, Apply ashes, plaster, or sulpher, in the iama 



manner as the lost. 



6. The Inst and must cfTectnal.if not the most easy: 

 get up — we moan ge out — early in the morning 

 while the dew ie on iht-ir v^'inga, catch them, and with 

 the thumb and finger, pinch off their mandihils. Or 

 administer a dose of the Fienchmaii's flfa powder, 

 thus : — 



"First den, you catch d« flea; 



You poureoine little powder down ha treat-; 



Uegar he chok« I" 



Faimeis, <ioii't Sffll your Ashes. 



Me5sf.s. Editors — According lo loto discoveries iif 



Agiictdtural Chemistry, Pi offeror Liebig saya. that in 



taking the hay from meadows, the principal cause of 



exhaustion to the soil, is the loss of the polaeh con- 



. - . . . , tnined in the hay; and that uiis may be reodiiy reatO' 



lew years, M. Bi^cb has civcn this plant a inir trwd i , , , , , , ■ . i* 



' -, ' I . . .'= ,. ' , ., red bysowing the meadow wiih a ihin cuTeniia' of 



on a ar^e scale, ate-.nsiderab e exi'cnsc ; and the re- J = •" ■ v«.ci...a «. 



A Xew Oil Plant— The Sladin saliva. 



The Bupcrintendnnt of theBeli'ast (Ireland) Botanic 

 Garden, presented Mr. Bateham a package of the 

 Madia sntiva seed. Part of this was sent to the Hon. 

 H. L. Ellsworth of the Patent Onice, who reqncsls 

 ua to publish some informolion concerning it. The 

 bestaccountofthis plant we have seen, is in Loudon's 

 Magazine of Gardening lor March, 1839, from which 

 we gather the following : — 



".M. Bosch, Bupcrintendant of the gardens of the 

 king of Wirlemburg, haa made numerous ex- 

 periments for many years on acclimatising ex- 

 olitr plants, during the course of which one plant, 

 Mndia saliva, attracted peculiar attention, cs he tound 

 from the reports of travellers in Chili, that it is culti- 

 va'.ed in that country as an oleiferous plant, and an 

 xcellent oil is e.\tracted from it. During the Inst 



suits of this trial hove surpaesed bia most sanguine 

 expectations." 



It is an annual plant of the natural order Compos- 

 ilae, growing to the height of one and a half to two 

 fuet. The seed shon'd be sown in tlie spring, on rich 

 soil, at the rate of about 7 lbs. to the acre. The pro- 

 duce is about 1,500 lbs. per (English) acre ; and 100 

 Ibe. of seed yield about 33 lbs. of oil. 



" According to a chemical analysis, 100 ports of the 

 Madia oil consists of 4.') parte of oleine (or fluid part 

 of the oili, 40 of siearine (the mucilage, or tally part), 

 and 15 of glycerine (or sweet solid part, a honey like 

 and glutinous oubs'.ance) This oil does not congeal 

 at 19" below Renuiriur, but only becomes a little less 

 fluid, which makes it an incomparnhle substance for 

 keeping all sorts of machines in order; and there can 

 likewise be a solid and well lathering snap made of it. 

 That it may be advantageously used in cloth tnanu 



wood ashes, 



I once heard a very successful former say, that he 

 never suffered a bushel of ashes to be eold from his 

 farm — that it wai worth .50 cents a bushel lo sow on 

 grass and corn, SENECA. 



Clarifying Maple Sugar with Indian Meal. 



VV. S. Tuppcr, of South Venice, informs us that 

 he tried an experiment according to the directicns in 

 our Aprd paper, for clarifyini; Maple Sugar by the usa 

 of Indian meal. Owing to the advanced state of the 

 season, ihe trial wae not very complete; still, the result 

 satisfied him that a quality of sugar can be produced 

 iu this way, (ar superior to thai clarified in the old 

 way hy the use of milk and eggs. He advises sugar 

 makers to give it a foir trial next y?ar, and pnhlisk 



factories has bc^u proved by experimen's alrsodyl tbe I'etuUa. 



