Litchfield enquirer., 1829-03-26
AGRICULTURAL.
EsVm the St. Alban's Repository. HEMP.

the Vergenncs Aurora, showing the rapid growth of this our northern country, tho fertility of it's soil, the increased and increasing wealth of its ciiizcMs generally, and particularly the improved condition of our commercial and manufacturing inter- csts. The flax and hemp machine, and tho newly invented and truly valuable hemp and flax spinner, described in the article refet red io, have, within few days past, hccn attcntively examined by the writer of this article, with mkt cmo- tions of surprise and satisfaction: that machines sd simple and easy in their construction and operation, should not have been in general use long ere this and satisfaction, in contemplating the vast and lasting benefits which must necessa,i- ly flow from their use, 10 tho surrounding coun,ry, and it's enterprising inhabitants. The culture of hemp in this state, and I might say, in the United States, has been thus long neglected, not on accoun, of a market for the raw material, or the goods when n,anufacturcd--glor for want of en- lerpriso and industry in tllc farmers. But tho true aud only reason l apprellend to be, and has been, the want of the so labor- saving machines for cleaning and fitting, for the farmer, the raw material, lhe pre- duct of his soil, for market or domestic use, But the good work of Improvement and reiarnn, which, until recently, has been confined to the mercantile and manufactn. ring interests, has now begun for ihe tar- mer, under the most latterng anspices.--- It now rests with thc farmer of tl,e norti, to say whethor he will make his land as va. lnablo by the culture Of hemp and flax, us does the southern farmer by tho growth of cotton. g 6a s,a sst4 ~ A ton of funmannfachred hemp is now, worth iron, two hundred aud thirty io forty dollars, which may be raised from two or three acres of land, for about the same cx- pcnse to tho farmer as crop of oats or spring wheat. To fit this for market or use, originally, would cost the farmer ono hundred and forty to sixty dollal s---whcre- as ho now gets it prepared 10 his hand by the Uso Of Hines and Bains' patent clean. CT, for no other expense than that of drac- iag Aus crop Co the RHckine, as the follow- ing explanation will show By the new- ly inyontod mode of fbroaking and cleaning hemp and flax, saving 1.-the fibre is real. ized ofabout one third, aside from the ud- vantage derived in having crop cleaned so expedltiously ---yay fifteen to twenty. fvO hundred weight pCr day. And lIles pfOprietors Of the machine pcrfoFin this oAcU Hefculean task, for 0ae ikird part Of tke crop--the share which the farmer has hitherto, at great expense, labor and timo, " scattered upon the four winds." In at- ditiUn to tho hemp machine in operation at. Vergennes, it may be noted that ar. engagements have been entered into by u company ofgen,lemen to erect one at Hub- bells Falls, Essex, Chi,tenden county, the coming season, and another at Water vile, Franklin county. These things au- gur well to the farmers of Vermont. The present price of hemp seed is four to five dollars per bushcl. This seed was raised last season by means of planting with a drill, to the amount of some six or eight thousand bushels in the counties of Addi- son, Chittenden, Franklin and Caledonia, at an expense not greater to tho farmer, it IS believed, than tho same quantity of corn would have required. The present price of seed may not be expected to continue, when the demand of sowing shall have been supplied; but tt should be borne in mind that when this event shall happen, hemp seed is of more calae for the purpose of making oil, .han flax seed.--A FARMER.
 BEES.
 MT. F.. Williams, of Ashfcld so mana
 ged a hive of bees as to prevent their
 swarming. and having kept them six years, took them up, and after making half . bar
 rel of me,higIin, had 29s pounds of ofstrain-
 cd honey, and 9l pounds of excellent hon. ey in the comb, making 3S4 pounds. He
 also made ~ pounds of beeswax. Mr. Williams, some lime since, related to me some particulars respecting this exiraor- dinary productioD, the substance of which lI will now state. He brought swarm of bees of midling size, and having no conven- tent place near his house, where he could set them, he built shelter several rods distant, so situated that they might not swarm and go off without being discover ed. To prevent their swarming, he ad- ded other hives to the original one in the
 following manner :--frst making large hive. with hole through the top three or four inches square, on which le placed his hive of bees, having hole two inches square, through the right and left sides q! the new or lower hive at the bottom then made other large hives, with l1oles through =. IA. .:v,,slae fes fRne c.ke ...sse. .lae..