AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



(ii) 



atnees. Henco, in tlic spring of llie yenr, ihoy 

 grently to old hy tlipir neiiviiy in tin- skin, in 

 ig the poorest cattle slill more unnble to increnee 



litsb. The more specinl care of the fnrmer 



to be bestowed upon such parts of hia herd, 

 snmo is true also of the sheep; the poorer BuOVr 

 , more from those insects which have been depo- 

 in their nose. It is from the consequences of 

 fact, that some judicious farmers never intend to 

 r an inferior animal. 



hilo n Hieing such general and wonderful laws of 

 nimal world, it may be well to explain a fact, sin- 



till understood. In summer and the hotie.-l 

 of the day, sheep congregate beside fences and 

 and the like, holding their l:eads down and be- 

 n their forelegs, till suddenly they run in terror 

 flight to another part of the field, where the same 

 : is acted over. It is to avoid the insect that lays 

 ;gs in their nostrils, that all this is done. In the 

 r weather, or cooler part of the day, the insect is 

 active, and doe- not annoy them, 

 n respect to bols as a disease, il is to be remarked 

 other dieeases are often mistaken for it. Hence 

 es one reason why the remedy applied often fails 

 he desired success. Sometimes other animals ag- 

 ate the hots, and would prove fatal without the oih- 



I have seen worms from four to six inches long, 

 cing the liver and some other intestines of a horse 

 . was eiek with bots and died from one or bothcau- 

 It would be well if more frequent and careful 

 minations of the body were made in such cases, 

 irovements in anatomical knowledge have been of 

 highest consequence to the understanding and cure 

 ;he diseases of man. Similar results might be ex- 

 ted from like examinations, to ascertain the seat 



cause of disease in the horse, the noblest and 

 it useful of our domestic animals. 



C. DEWEY. 



applied to some pinm trees last season by our friend 

 Thomas Lcfevcr of the town of Venice. It consists 

 of a circular trough made of tin, which was kept con- 

 stantly supplied with water; and the narrow space be- 

 tween the trough and the tree stulVed with tow or 

 something similar. The trees so treated bore gond 

 crops, while not a plum on the other trees escaped. 

 A few of the plunis however, were found to be wormy, 

 occasioned perhaps by some of the insects remaining 

 on the tree when the troughs were applied; and it 

 would therefore bo prudent to jar the trees at that time. 

 About haivest the apparatus should be removed. 



Tin troughs of that description are worth about 

 eighteen pence; but the person who applies them, 

 must understand the art of soldering. t 



The Curculio. 



low is the time to attend to the Curculio; and to 

 your plums, nectarines, and apricots from des- 

 ti-tion. We believe the winter-residence of this in- 

 ■thas not been satisfactorily ascertained, though it is 

 pbably in the earth; but for practical purposes, it 

 By be sufficient to know that it is always ready for 

 binese as soon as there is any thing to do — always 

 r ily to puncture the young fruit as soon as it is large 

 C'Ugh to receive a nit. 



several methods have been proposed or adopted, to 

 pvent its depredations. Spreading sheets under the 

 te, and knocking down the Curculio on them, by 

 Eiliiiiu' the trunk or branches with a niallet or ham- 

 I I, lina been found very successful. The insect af- 

 t It has fallen, generally lies still long enough to be 

 «ight and crushed; and its dark color contrasting 

 Ttu the whiteness of the sheet, lavors its detection. 

 'lis work should be done as early in the season as the 



■ predator can be found. In a few days it may do 

 1 ich misi^hief, and it is no easier killed after the 



■ s;ins3 is committed. 



S me have employed turpentine round the tree, and 

 --"I shingles dangling in the wind to frighten the 

 I riilh) away; but we are not prepared to say any 

 iij m their favor. The most recent project that we 



i\ . noticed is to dip strings in the drops that fall from 

 1 i a rubber as it burns, and then to tie them round 

 r i;eo, which it is supposed will be sufficiently viscid 

 an eel the insect in its ascent. We should be gratified 

 hear of any successful experiments of this kind; 

 ut though we have gone so far as to environ one tree 

 I the manner proposed, our hopes are not very san- 

 uine. 



From lie Albany Cullivator. 



ThP Siisar Beet. 



Messrs. Gayloud & 'i'rcKRR — 1 have noticed in 

 the late numbers of the Cultivator, Dr. Guihrie'sand 

 Mr. Bement'a lUlncks on the sugar beet, insinuating 

 that it is an almost worthless root for the feeding oi 

 9tO':k; and as the opinions of these gentlemen, with 

 partial experiments, are directly at variance to those of 

 the most eminent agriculturists of France and Ger- 

 many, after an experience of more than thirty years, 

 and to those also of many of our own countrymen, af- 

 ter trying it with satisfactory eflect about five years; 

 and as 1 had the honor of appearing in tlie last flloy 

 number of the Cultivator, strongly recommending its 

 production and feeding, I feel bound to make some 

 comments on these communicotiuns, and reiterate my 

 own experience in the feeding qualities, of what I con- 

 sider as one of the most valuable of roots. 



I am perfectly satisfied by Dr. G's statement of the 

 analysis that he made of the beet, vol. viii. p. 40, that 

 he was either grossly imposed upon, in the purchase of 

 seed, and had grown the mangel wurtzel instead of 

 the white Silesian, or that he had planted it in so rich 

 a vegetab'e soil, as to produce so lank a growth as to 

 almost destroy the saccharine matter that is usually 

 found in it, especially when he adds, that " the bee's 

 brought upon our table are totally destitute of sweet- 

 ness." Now I have not only my own taste for three 

 years in successinn, to prove that thesugar beets rais- 

 ed in and about Buffalo, are exceedingly swi:et and 

 nutritious, but can also bring a hundred witnesses at 

 any time to corroborate the assertion, from their own 

 daily eating. The famous blood beet cannot com- 

 pare with the sweet, tender Silesian, and as for man- 

 gel wurtzel and other beets, they are almost tasteless 

 after them; and they are never boiled in a pot by 

 themselves, that there is not a sweet syrup at the bot- 

 tom, almost of thickness and agreeable taste of sugar- 

 molasses, which, in my opinion, only want to be clarifi- 

 ed and graduated to make good sugar. So much for per- 

 sonal taste and experience; now for that of stock. I 

 know that fed raw to cows, they considerably added 

 to the quantity and especially the quality of the milk, 

 making the butter as sweet, and almost as yellow as 

 is produced on fresh summer's grass: they also keep 

 them, with the addition of hay alone, in the best pos- 

 sible order; and the young stock fed on them, togeth- 

 er with hay, were as fat and almost as fine and glossy 

 in their coats, as when on the best of summer pasture. 

 I never tried them with horses, butshould hardly think 

 them hearty food enough for those at work. Not 

 keeping sheep, of course I could not experiment with 

 them; but others speak very flatteringly on this point, 

 as may be seen from some communications that went 

 the rounds the year past in niostof the agricultural pa- 

 pers, copied, I think, from the Philadelphia Cabinet. 

 Beets there were said to produce the best of mutton, 

 and the finest of wool. 



The most important use, however, that I have made 

 of them, is with hogs. But as my breeds embrace on- 

 ly the China and Berkshire, it is in reference to these 

 superior animals alone that I can speak; and here it 

 soms that Dr. Guthrie's Berkshires did tolerably 

 well, while his others almost starved. The first win- 

 ter I kept my grown swine partly on beets and partly 

 on potatoes, raw; the second vvinter almost exclusive- 

 ly on raw beets, thrown to them on the ground. I 

 did not notice any difl'erence whatever in their appear- 

 ance during these two seasons, buttach time they were 

 kept in as good flesh as ever I wish to have breeders, 

 and they were by no means allowed to eat their fill ol 

 them either. 'The third winter, (the la^t,) havin 



ages, from the pig two months old, up to the grown 

 animal of four years. To the last, 1 had to stint thcin 

 U) a common water puil half full twice a day, or nay 

 from eight to ten quarts, or they ^^•l»lld get too fat for 

 breeding; and as to the former, with the addition ol a 

 trilling quantity of corn, 1 never taw niiimals thrive 

 better, or more contented in my life. They would 

 till ihi-ir billies and lie down in their straw, nud doso 

 away lor hoiii 8 together as contented as puppies and 

 as whist as mice; and this stock thus treated, 1 ani 

 not afraid to show, either for general size or finencflS 

 of point, against any thing in the United States, mo- 

 ving my late importation, and that only for gieot 

 weight, these Inst being somewhat of a larger class than 

 is usud among Berkshires. During this same winter 

 1 steamed a mixture of carrots and potatoes with the 

 licets occasionally; but in feeding 1 found that as a 

 general rule, the pigs would pick out the beets first, 

 the potf.toes seccuid, and only cat the carrots when 

 hungry at last; but if any one were to ask which I 

 thought the most nutiitious, I should say the potato 

 without doubt. My accommodations are too limited, 

 however, to make the careful experiment as to the re- 

 lative value of roots, bushel lor bushel, ond again in_ 

 comparison with grain, as reciuested by Mr. Catoii, of 

 Illinois, but 1 trust that the above will be eutisloclory 

 to him and to others, so far as it goes, for it is expe- 

 rience and not theory. I must say that 1 do not liko 

 this jumping at conclusions froin partial experiments. 

 1 recollect reading an address, some two ycais ago, by 

 some one in Pennsylvania, before an agricultural socie- 

 ty, in which the writer maintained — and beseemed to 

 be on intelligent, scientific man — that una baga, by 

 nnalysifl, was but little else than wood, and ihetelorB 

 as a food for mon ond beast, it was almost totally 

 worthkss. Indeed 1 And yet this same despised 

 root, together with a little straw, makes most of the 

 English beef and mutton, and in tome instances at 

 times one-fouith supports its laboring population.— 

 Apropos to this : I recollect once telling aiijintelli- 

 gcnt neighbor that I cultivated pumpkins a good deal, 

 and liked them much as food for swine. " Well," he 

 replied, " they never did any thing for my hogs but 

 scour them." The fact was, he had on inferior breed 

 of animals. Again, 1 shut up some Beikshire sows 

 that were quite poor, about three weeks to put them 

 in condition; they were allowed nothing but pump- 

 kins during this time, and were then turned out, hav- 

 ing got reolly, in that short time, almost too fat for 

 good breeding. An intelligent gentleman who had 

 seen them previous to their being shut up, and then 

 again when they were let out, acknowledged that noth- 

 ing but seeing the thing with his own eyes would 

 have convinced him of the truth of it, ond wound 

 up by adding, (1 do not give the words exactly, but 

 the ideas,) " why, instead of fatting them, the urine 

 that would have come from eoinmon hogs thus fed, 

 would have made them skeleton poor by this time." 

 I am no chemist, and therefore humbly ask what 

 would be the anolysis of clover 1 Not much, I fancy, 

 but water. And yet Berkshires, and in fact, all good 

 crosses of the China hog, will keep fat upon it in 

 summer and grow well; and I will conclude this long 

 letter on sugar beets by saying, that if their stock does 

 not thrive upon them, why then gentlemen hove been 

 deceived in their seed, or they have not got the right 

 tort of animal to consume their roots. 

 Yours, 



A. B. ALLEN. 



erected a steaming apparatus, with a new piggery, 1 



The most successful fixture to prevent the ascent Lo,^in,enced cooking the feed for my hogs, and hate 

 f this insect that has cume to our knowledge, wo;- 1 rec^uently e mod beets alone and fed them to all 



A Crop of Coin. 



I give below an account of a crop of corn raised last 

 year. The lot contained four acres, of a rich gravel- 

 ly soil. It was well manured from the barn-yard, ond 

 then these rows were intersected with rows of manure 

 fronr the hog-yard. It was ploughed of sufficient 

 depth, well harrowed, and planted about the fifth of 

 May. The corn was a bright eight-rowed yellow va- 

 riety; the rows three feet by three and a half, five 

 grains to a hill. When sufficiently high, it was dres- 

 sed with a mixture of one part by measure of plaster 

 and three of ashes, a table spoonful to each hill. Af- 

 ter weeding, it received another similar dressing. 



The product was seven hundred and fifty bushels of 

 "ood sound corn in the ear, twelve loads of pumpkins, 

 sixteen of stalks, and the nctt profit of the field was 

 ninety dollars. A. G. S. 



SpringhiU, Cayvgn co., April 12. 1841. 



Pride is the first thing that overcomes man, and th« 

 Irat ihinp that man overcomes. — St. Avgustine. 



