Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-05-05

ing among the corn without injury
If the land on which you plant pota-
toes is infested with grubs, or wire
worms it may be we'll to strew quick
lime over it, at the rate of about two
bushels TO the acre, Immediately after
planting. Or if lime cannot convenient
ly be had, you may try the effect of
bashel and half or two bushels of salt
to the acre. But neither Of these sub
stances should be put into the hills or
suffered to come in contact with the
seed potatoes.
A letter from William Moody to the
Hon. Josiah Quincy, published in the
4th vol. of the Massachusetts Agricul-
tuFl Repository, page 353, recon-
mends sea sand, as an antidote against
the wire worm. and, no doubt it would
prove ettic acious against other insects,
which devour potatoes while in the
ground. This writer says 81 am per-
suaded, from experience, that sea sand,
put under corn or potatoes with manure,
OF spread on the land, will go far, if
NOT wholly to the total destruction OF
those destructive worms, [wire worms
on which nothing else seems to have
any effect. 1t has a beneficial effect
spread on land before ploughing, or
even after land is planted with corn or
potatoes; not only to destroy the wire
worm and other insects, but to increase
the crop. With my neighbours load
of sea sand is considered preferable to a
load OF their best manure, to mix in with
their common barn manure, or to spread
on their gardens and low flat land.''
Mr.. Moody likewise says, in the same
letter, late planted potatoes, which are
gathered in before ripe, are far the best
for seed the next year. If kept in a
dry warm place in cellar, they will be
much earlier, and likely to produce
more abundantly the next year, and will
be as good for use the following spring,
though they may not be SO good in the
fall" He then gives the details of an
experiment in which potatoes were
planted the 18th day of July, which pro-
duced the largest and most in hill of
any laised by the author that season.
The same potatoes, planted the spring
succeeding came up some days sooner
than others of more early kind. We
think it would be we'll to repeat this ex-
pertinent, make others of similar ma
ture, and let the result be made public
TOR the good of the community.
MILLET.
Millet should be sown about the mid
die OF May. No other grass will pro-
duce SO much green fodder. 1t ought
not to be suffered to ripen, because the
stalks will be hard, but should be cut
before the seeds are perfectly ripe-af-
ter drying, 1t should be set up in small
bundles, for day or two, in the sun,
and the sap in the stalks will ripen the
seeds-which, when ground and bolted.
the flour, raised with yeast, makes admis
rabie cakes, and when made into mash
and fried, it is superior to fried corn
meal mush.
Millet, ground into meal, is the best
substitute for chocolate-it has been
pretty thoroughly tried, by many of the
most respectable families in Virginia
and Maryland, and all concur in bestow-
ing on it high commentators. Three
bushels of Miliet poduce one hundred
pounds OF -four, and much offal Mixed
with wheat or rye flour, it makes good
bread; but of itself (Iike corn meaI) it
will not knead into good dough.
Ii Millet were commonly sown, ii
would become the food of working hor-
ses and cattle.-lts superiority over
oats is evident and its equality with corn
is, after some favourable experiments,
firmly believed.
Superiority Of Miilet over oats, to cover
tallou's, preceding Wheat Say 80 bush
els of oais per acre, at 35 pounds per
bushel, 1850 pounds, a great average
weight. Say 80 bushels of Millet per
acre. at 55 pounds per bushel, 1860
pounds, the most common weight. Bal
ance, 600 pounds in favour of MilIet.
The MilIet grows from FIVE and a
halfto six feet high, and will generally
produce four. tons of hay per acre.
Horses and horned cattle prefer it ia
timothy. Half a bushel is the seed for
An acre.