350 
editor’s table. 
us, on 27 acres of good rich land, prepared with as much 
care as is usually bestowed upon good land. The seed, 
he says, was planted in rows one foot apart one way, 
and two feet the other. The crop was well worked 
during the season, and when near ripe was cut with 
sickles, laid on sheets or wagon covers, hauled to the 
barn in the sheets, and there threshed out and fanned. 
He has delivered to us a part of the product of 27 
acres of land, 114 barrels, containing 382 bushels of 45 
lbs. of brown mustard seed, weighing 52§ lbs. per 
bushel, making 20,100 lbs., for which we paid him 8 
ets. per lb., making - $1608 00 
And he has, he says, 100 bushels of tailings, 
which he estimates will clean up 75 bush¬ 
els, say 50 lbs. per bushel, making 3,750 
lbs., at 8 cts., - - - - 300 00 
Product of 27 acres of brown mustard seed, $1908 00 
or $70 66 per acre.— Farmers’ Cabinet. 
Nursery of Mr. Samuel Reeve , Salem, New Jersey .— 
We have received the Saturday Post, containing a de¬ 
scription of a great variety of apples, &,c., &c., in this 
old established and excellent nursery. 
Extraordinary Yield of Squashes. —Mr. Benjamin 
Weld, of Roxbury, informs us that from one vine of 
the Valparaiso squash, he gathered 11 squashes, weigh¬ 
ing as follows, viz: 84 lbs., 73, 69, 62, 59, 58, 44, 27, 
22, 20, 10—making a total of 528 lbs., which he sold 
for $5 on the ground.— New England Farmer. 
Monster Vines. —Mr. Seaver Pray, of South Wey¬ 
mouth, informs us that Mr. Joseph B. Smith, of that 
town, had a squash vine this year, measuring 263 feet 
5 inches in length. The same vine bore 3 squashes, 
weighing 77 j lbs. He also had potato tops on the 
same piece of ground, that measured 8 feet and 1 inch 
in length. These were raised on meadow land, where 
he plowed in gravel.— lb. 
Great Yield of Pumpkins. —Chas. L. Pierce, gar¬ 
dener to Dr. B. F. Haywood, in this town, raised the 
present year, from a single seed, 15 pumpkins, weigh¬ 
ing 384 lbs. The largest weighed 31| lbs., and the 
average of the whole was 25| lbs. each. The vine, 
including all the branches, measured 635 feet in length. 
—Worcester Spy. 
Disease in Potatoes. —Mr. Teschemacher, in the 
New England Farmer, attributes this disease to a spe¬ 
cies of fungus on the tubers. He recommends a 
liberal supply of salt to be spread on the land planted 
ne£t year in potatoes, where the disease appeared this 
season, as a remedy for it. Others attribute the dis¬ 
ease to an insect. The Westfield Newsletter says :•— 
“ From some of the infected potatoes may be seen the 
insect in its pupa state escaping. In others you may, 
upon boiling, find the rudiments of the insect in em¬ 
bryo, while in others nothing will be found, the insect 
having escaped. As to the health of the potato, it is 
like all other defective fruits, but no worse, and when 
sound as healthy as at any previous year. The insect 
feeds upon the leaves and stems, when full grown re¬ 
tires to the roots of potatoes, and there deposites its 
eggs, which soon hatch; in a few days they retire from 
the potato to the ground, where it completes its final 
transformation.” 
From the limited observations we have had an oppor¬ 
tunity of making, we must confess that we think the 
disease in potatoes comes from a variety of causes, each 
of which seem to produce nearly the same effect. 
Poultry.—Error Corrected. —Mr. Bement writes us 
that we were in error, in our account of the late show 
of the State Society, in giving credit to him for an exhi¬ 
bition of poultry, the said fowls belonging to some one 
else, we believe Mr. D. B. Fuller, of Hyde Park, who 
also had some very choice birds in the magnificent car 
which he in part commanded on that occasion. Our 
mistake occurred from seeing Mr. Bement’s name writ¬ 
ten on the pen containing the poultry spoken of. He 
regrets now that he did not exhibit, quoting jokingly 
the old saying of having “ a much finer animal at home,” 
&c. Now, as to this last observation, he must allow us 
to add, we shall believe it when we see it at the next 
State Society show. This having much “finer fowls at 
home,” is, in our opinion, a good deal like the man who 
boasted of leaping 50 feet at a single step; but when 
called upon to do the same here, replied, oh, that was 
at home in the East Indies where he performed the feat, 
and he must have Asiatic ground to do it on again! 
Good. 
Pickle for Hams. —To 1,000 lbs. of hams take three 
pecks of salt, three pounds of saltpetre, two quarts of 
hickory ashes, two quarts of molasses, and two teacups 
of red pepper; mix all well together on a salting table; 
rub the rind or skin of the ham well, and sprinkle 
with the balance; let it lie from five to six weeks, then 
hang up and smoke with green hickory wood for five 
or six weeks ; a little sawdust also, if convenient. The 
red pepper prevents the skipper, I think. If the hogs 
are very large, I think more salt would be required. 1 
generally put the large hams at the bottom of the tub.— 
Ellsworth’s Report. 
A Monster Cabbage. —Mr. Ethan Burroughs of Fer- 
risburgh, presented us last week with a perfect mon¬ 
strosity in the shape of a cabbage. When placed upon 
its face it covered a surface of 13 feet in circumfer¬ 
ence—measured around the solid head 6 feet, and 
weighed 33 pounds. If any one has got a match t<z 
this, let him produce it.— Vergennes Vermonter. 
Splendid Flowers. —Mr. Hovey, editor of the Maga¬ 
zine of Horticulture, is now making a tour in England, 
and in his notices of flowers, &c., abroad, thus speaks : 
“Of all the objects which have as yet attracted our 
attention, none have compared with the display of the 
Allium lancifolium, in the collection of Mr. Groom, of 
Clapham. We have on several occasions noticed these 
lilies, and at least three of them have been described 
in our pages, from the journals where they have been 
figured, and each of these have flowered in the collec¬ 
tions in our vicinity; not, however, in anything like 
the splendor in which they are to be seen around Lon¬ 
don at this moment. What an expedition was that of 
Siebold to Japan! If the question were to be asked 
us, what we consider the greatest acquisition within the 
last twenty years, we should say, the Japan lilies. 
Indeed, we would almost say, that nothing but the 
Camellia, during the last century, has been greater. 
But the lilies were not all; the camellias, the clema¬ 
tises, Sedum Sieboldw, and many other things, will 
long perpetuate the name of Dr. Siebold, and render it 
familiar to all lovers of plants. 
“There are now four varieties, called by Mr. Groom 
as follows :—A. lancifolium album, punctatum, rdseum, 
riibrum; the latter, perhaps, better known as the A. 
specidsum. They may be classed, in regard to their 
beauty, the reverse of the above, viz., rubrum the most, 
and album the least, splendid; but each of them of 
surpassing beauty: album and punctutatum are the 
most common, and rdseum the rarest, having been 
recently received from Ghent. Good strong flowering 
bulbs of each command very high prices.” 
To Correspondents. —Experimenter will find by 
looking over the price current of this month that his 
wishes are complied with. The extract from Johnstone 
shall appear in our next, if we can find room. M. W. 
P., Pigeon-Houses, and everything else asked for, will 
appear in next volume. 
