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Milking Hot Keds— Gardening tor March. 



TbiB is called llie Hist inonih of Spring, but in this 

 climnte th(! weather aavora loo much of winter to allow 

 of much being done in the Garden, except making 

 preparations for next month, or forwarding such 

 articles as are detired early, by means of hot-beds. Al- 

 most every farmer or mechanic, who caltivntes a gar- 

 den, would find a small hot-bed of sufficient advantage 

 to amply compensijte for the care and labor it icquires. 

 There are (ew greater luxuries ibnn tbe early Radishes, 

 Lettuce, Cucumbers, &c. which a good hot-bed af- 

 fords, to say nothing of the advantage of starling Cab- 

 bage, Caulirtower, Broccoli, Celery, Tomato, Pepper 

 and other plants a month or two earlier by this means 

 than cuuld oibeiwise be done. 



Hot beds can be made any time during this or next 

 month. We gave particular directions last year (Vol. 

 1. Noa. 2 and 3,) tor prepaiing manure, constructing 

 the framed, sashes, &.c., and therefore deem it unne- 

 ccssaiy to do ao again in detail, but as it is particularly 

 desired we will repeat the directions for constructing 

 hot-beds. 



" Select a site for the bed, on dry ground, where it 

 will be fully exposed to the sun, but sheltc red from the 

 north and west winds. Maik out the size of the bed, 

 allowing six or eight inches on all sides larger than 

 the size of the frame. Then drive down a good strong 

 stake at each corner, as high as you intend to build 

 the bed Then lake the manure (which should be 

 freth siable manure in a good state of fermentation) 

 and commence building tiie bed by mixing ihe mnnuie 

 thoroughly, and puiting on SHCcetsive layers, beating 

 it down with the fork. Observe to place it smoothly 

 and firmly around tbe outside, so that it will not settle 

 unevenly 'rom tbe weight of the frame. The heighl 

 of manure requisite, will depend on the lime nt whTch 

 the bed is formed, and the purpose for wbicb it is in- 

 tended. If made early in March, and intended for 

 growing cucumbers, &c., a good deal of heat will be 

 required for two or three montbs, and at least fiinr 

 feet high of manure will be necessary. But a bed 

 made early in April, for the purpose of forwarding 

 early plants to be transplanted into ihe garden, will 

 not require more than half that quantity. 



" When the bed is made, put on the frame, and 

 then put in abiuit six inches of good fine earth; put on 

 the sash and let it remain two or three days for the 

 heat to rise, when it will be ready for sowing. 



" iVIake the earth smooth and fine before sowing: 

 if cucumbers or melons ai« to be planted, raise slight 

 hills for them under the middle of each sash. The 

 articles usually sown in hot beds are cucumber, radish, 

 lettuce and cress, for early use; and cauliflower, broc- 

 coli, cabbage, egg plant, tomato, pepper, celery, &.c., 

 to transplant. The earliest varieties of each are of 

 course the best for this purpose." 



Mansel Wurtzel. 



Our respected neighbor. Dr. D. A. Robinson, raised 

 the past season, from one half an acre of land, a little 



less than fice hundred bushels of mangel wurtzel. 



This was done at a cost, estimating labor at a dollar a 

 day, of about two and a half cents per bushel. Land, 

 previously in good condition, was manured broadcast 

 at the rate of about forty loads to the acre, ridges were 

 subsequently formed, the seed planted in drills Upon 

 these half an inch deep and rolled, and the crop after- 

 wards thined and kept clean. 



It may be proper to state, that the seed, obtained at 

 the Rochester Seed Store, was sown at the rate of two 

 pounds only to the acre, and afforded an abundance 

 of plants, which required thinning to less than one 

 third. We believe nearly all the failures of seed the 

 past year were from planting loo deep. ' 



Correction, 



We thank the Farmer's Gazette fo: correcting an er 

 ror we committed, in stating that the report of the 

 farms of J. B. Davis and W. K. Townsend were made 

 to the Hartford County Agricultural Society. A' 

 onr Connecticut readers very well know, Derby and 

 East Haven are in New Haven county, and by a Uip 

 ail pennec, and not from ignorance, we gave Hartford, 

 »id not New Havon the credit. • 



1^1 "t J'iV'-^r 

 JtSSAMllVE. 



THE PROPERTY OF WM. R. SMITH, MACEDON. 



Jessamine is frsm T. Weddle's imported stock. Dam, Lady Bower; bred by the celebrated Major 

 Bower, of Welham, Yorkshire; which, with her cnlf, 10 months old, was sold by T. Weddle to J. C. Hatha- 

 way for $1,000: — is by Rover, (alias Charles,) bred by the Earl of Carlisle, and whose pedigree has been 

 given in this paper, (page 8.) A calf, 10 months old, by the same bull and cow,~told to Kentucky for $600. 



The color of Jessamine i^ pure white. Great care has been taken to have the portrait correct, exhibi- 

 ting the deformities as well as beauties; for unless portraits of animals are rigidly correct, they are worse than 

 useless, tending only to mislead. * 



Scraps, 



CONtlENSED FROM EXCHANGE PAPERS, &C. 



Marl. — In some parts of New Jersey, according 

 to Henry Colman, the recent use of marl on land has 

 been of great efficacy. "It has more (han doubled 

 the value of the lands in the neighborhood of the piti 

 where it is found. Tbe application of one hundred 

 bushels to land, which, under common cultivation 

 would not produce more than 20 bushels of corn to 

 the acre, causes it to yield GO bushels, and wheat and 

 clover in proportional abundance." 



Peat. — The island of Nantucket contains 985 acres 

 of peat swamp, from one to fourteen feet in depth; and 

 in the stale of Massachusetts there are at least 60,000 

 acres, of an average depth of at least six feet 



Goon Farming. — A farmer near Philadelphia, on a 

 farm of 1.30 acres, has an average yearly crop of 1 

 500 bushels of wheat, 450 bushels of rye, and 500 

 bvsh 'Is of corn annually. He pursues a regular sye 

 ttin of rotation. 



G.^iAssEs — doss of weight in drying, — The followinf 

 experiments were made in 1822 and '23: 

 If 

 100 lbs. of green Whi te clover gave 1 7 J 



" " " Red clover 



'• " Herd's grass 



" " Fresh meadow 



" " Salt grass 



" " Corn stalks 



" " Red top 



" " Couch grass 



" " Fowl meadow CPoanemorafe.^^ 53 

 The white clover of 1822 grew in shade, that of '23 

 in the sun. The salt grass of '22 a second growth. — 

 J. Wells, in Agric. Jour. Mass. 



CattlS'— new breed. — Col. Jacques, of Charles 

 ton, Mass., has for several years been breeding from 

 an imported short horn bull, and a native cow, his 

 block at present amounting to about sixty. The first 

 heifer from this croes gave, the first year of milking, 

 sixteen quarts a day. Tbe milk from his cows is very 

 rich, the cream very thick, and yields very little but- 

 termilk. He says, 100 lbs. of cream will make 95 

 lb«. of butter. One of hie wws makes one pound of 



butter for every four quarts of milk. He does not feed 

 high — snyB food will never make a fine breed, but that 

 hlood is every thing. His cows in milk have hay or 

 grass, with one to two pecks of roots a day. 



Cotton Crop. — The Governor of Alabama, says, 

 " the cotton crop has fallen so far short of reasonable 

 calculation, that without a forbearance on the part of 

 creditors, not to be expected, the pecuniary distress of 

 the people, the next year, will be unprecedented and 

 ruinous." (|^ 



Bai.ky Horses, it is asserted, can be easily made to 

 do their duty, by tying a cord round the ear close to 

 the head, which will operate like a charm, where 

 whipping, coaxing, and everything else, have proved 

 fruitless, 



Keeping stoke hogs. — E. C. Frost, in the Culti- 

 vator, states, that he kept 24 shoots last winter, at an 

 expense of 20 cents a day, (less than a cent per head,) 

 by feeding them 10 lbs. of hay, half a bushel of pota- 

 toes, and 4 quarts of corn meal, daily, and never had 

 hogs winter better. The hay, cut fine, was boiled 

 with plenty of water, the potatoes were boiled in an- 

 other kettle, pounded fine, mixed with tl.e hoy and 

 meal, and let stand a day till fermented. 



Manufactures in Massachusetts. — These ex- 

 ceed the largest crop of cotton ever raised in all the 

 cotton growing atotes,— that of last year, which at 8 

 cents a pound, amounted to $67,000,000, which is 



ss than the returns in Massachusetts for 1837. The 

 manufactures and fisheries of that state were $92,- 

 000,000. 



Fuel. — It is estimated that upwords of $50,000,000 

 ore consumed every year in the United States for fuel. 



Depth of Lakes. — A correspondent of the Geneva 

 Courier, gives the result of an experiment made by 

 Judge Norton and others, to ascertain the depth of 

 Seneca lake, near Big Stream Point, which at one 

 third of the distance across from the west sl:ore was 

 461 feet, and at one half the distance, 553 feet. The 

 depth of Cayuga lake at Aurora, according M the 

 measurement of Dr. John Gridley, formerly of tli«t 

 illage, in 1826, was found to be as follows:— Jst 

 sounding 51 feet; 2d, 72; 3d, 108; 4tb, 120; 5th, 

 ir&i 6tb, 192; 7ihj 258i 8th, 282; »th, 46. Tbe 



