over a high wall with an open gate close at his side. 
Had he lived now, he might do it with equal effect, by- 
representing a purchaser selecting large trees at a 
nursery, and rejecting the young thrifty ones. 
There is only one instance in which the larger trees 
can have any advantage, or can maintain it for two or 
three years,—and this is where both large and small 
are treated with total neglect after setting out, so as 
barely to survive and not to grow at all. Both remain¬ 
ing stationary, the larger ones will of course maintain 
their superiority. But all good cultivators discard 
such treatment. 
The practice of copying English customs, has in this 
case had an especially pernicious effect. In Britain, 
the moist climate favors the removal of larger trees 
than can be safely transplanted here. The experiments 
of Sir Henry Stewart, in Scotland, in manufacturing a 
park of trees to order, thirty or forty feet high, and 
the publication of a work giving the details of his ex¬ 
periment, have done a great deal of harm. The 
park, after the first year or two, presented a very 
shabby, thriftless, and stunted appearance; but even 
while this practice was at the height of its popularity, 
that far-seeing and skillful culturist, J. C. Loudon, as¬ 
serted that with five years’ time and with deeply 
trenched land, he would agree to produce a finer effect 
with small trees, subjected to the best treatment, than 
any that could possibly be accomplished by the re¬ 
moval of large ones at the same time. 
New and Profitable Crops to Raise. 
Cliicory— Cichorium intybus. 
This is a perennial plant of the easiest culture, and 
comes well on all soils, and is used for several purpo¬ 
ses. First—it makes a very valuable fodder, cows, 
oxen, and sheep being very fond of it; horses and 
mules also eat it—and it will produce from four to six 
tons per acre in one season. It can either be pastur¬ 
ed, or mown and fed in the stable green, three or four 
times per year, and the plant will spring up again 
three or four times in a season. No other plant will 
bring such an amount of fodder for cows, except 
lucerne. It can be sown in the spring, or in August 
or September, either by itself or with clover, wheat, 
rye, oats or barley ; in either case sow five to six lbs. 
per acre—it makes a good hay mixed with clover. 2d. 
The young shoots make a very good eating salad early 
in spring; it is also a great ornament to the flower 
garden, from its numerous delicate light blue flowers. 
But 3d. The greatest use and most profit derived 
from Chicory, is to make coffee from the roots, for which 
purpose it should remain in the ground three, four or 
five years, according to the amount desired; in the 
fourth or fifth year, the roots, which in color and ap¬ 
pearance are much like a parsnip, will attain a very 
large size. I have some now growing four years old, 
the roots of which are about three feet long, and as 
thick as my wrist, and that in a very light sandy soil, 
and not manured; at such a rate one acre would pro¬ 
duce at least forty tons of roots, which, when taken 
up, should be cut in pieces by a cutting machine, and 
roasted in an oven, until they assume the color of 
roasted coffee, then ground fine in a mill or rollers, 
packed either in small paper parcels of from a half 
to one pound each, or in casks in bulk and sold 
wholesale. The present price is from three to five 
cents wholesale, per pound, an4 retail eight to ten 
cents. 
By drying, the roots will lose five-erghths ? suppose 
now, that one acre at the end of three years or even 
four years, should only produce thirty tons of fresh 
roots, or 60,000 pounds; by drying it will be reduced 
to eleven and a quarter tons, or 22,500 pounds, which 
at three cents only, would be $675; and if we take all 
expenses of seeds, labor, taking up, cutting np, dry¬ 
ing, grinding and packing, at $150 per acre, which is 
too large an estimate, it would still leave $525 profit 
per acre, besides the forage crops, which are of great 
value to the grazier. The roots afford beside a good 
food to fatten swine on, and they are fond of them. 
Chicory is now very extensively imported into all 
parts of the United States, from France, Belgium, 
Germany and Holland, and is extensively used here, 
particularly by our foreign population, the Dutch, 
French, &c., who mix the Chicory with their coffee, in 
the proportion of one-half; it has the same taste and 
aroma as coffee, and it imparts also a slight diuretic 
and pectoral quality to it, so that it is besides very 
wholesome. Some use it exclusively as coffee. 
For seed and further particulars, I can be applied 
to, directing to me at the post office, Philadelphia, 
where I am very frequently. F. A. Naitts. 
Fattening Hogs and their Manure. 
To give hogs a start, when first put up for fattening, 
there is in my opinion no better food than good ripe 
pumpkins, boiled and steamed with a moiety of pota¬ 
toes, and the whole well seasoned with meal scalded in 
and mixed with milk. There is a sweetness in the 
boiled pumpkin which is very attractive to his pigship. 
Indeed all the trouble with this kind of food is, that it 
is difficult to get enough to supply their wants. The 
writer has fed to a pen of 20, two kettles, of 60 gal¬ 
lons, per day, for some two weeks. I think to com¬ 
mence on this is even preferable to bard corn. 
While upon this subject, allow me just to suggest 
how large an amount of good fertilizing matter is usu¬ 
ally thrown away in feeding our pork. The common 
course is to have an enclosed pen for the swine to eat 
and sleep in, and all the manure made usually goes 
into an uncovered back yard—probably a real mud 
hole, where the manure made from feeding a large 
quantity of grain, is allowed to go to be leached and 
evaporated by the rains and sun; and when we come 
to get out this valuable compound the next season, to 
apply to our soil, we find it like the Irishman’s flea— 
not there. Now we all talk about the value of swine’s 
manure, and with truth, for it is indeed supposed to be 
more fertilizing than that of any otheranimal. This being 
so, why not endeavor to save it, and not actually throw 
it away in the manner described! If no better reme¬ 
dy presents, just make a temporary cover to the hog- 
yard, of rough boards, or anything that will keep out 
water, and just supply the pigs with plenty of mate¬ 
rial to work up—muck, turf, straw, weeds, leaves, or 
indeed almost anything of a decaying vegetable na¬ 
ture, and the thing is done—when perchance the next 
season you will find that instead of five loads of leach¬ 
ed manure, you will have just four times the amount, 
and a little better article at that. 
Now, brother farmers, is this mere theory, and as 
such, unworthy of a trial—not worth the time and ex¬ 
pense 7 We all know “the more manure, the bettei 
crops,” and will not a course of this kind tend to en¬ 
hance the manure heap 7 W. J. Pettee. Salisbury , 
Conn. 
