New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-11

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AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE SOFT MAPLE AS A SUGAR-TREE.
Communicated for The Tribuue]
| JoHs B. TRUIsDALL AND orHERs-D,ar S;rs, Your
letters rqunng ss to the value Of the Soft Maple
| for Sugar." are received.
A young orchard Of Soft Naples, numbering two
hundred and over, exists within three miles of me-
While attending its owner Eben Mills Of Austinburgh,
Ohio as medical adviser, was induced to visit this
most plea.ant little grove and there resolved to labor
while lived to induce people to plant the hard
and soft naples al over the North. Such course
would in century make our country the glory Of the
whole earth. Mr. Mills has both weighed and meas
ured the ssp of the soft MAPLE and compared its pro-
duets with the rock MAPLE and he says the soft maple
on bis farm is superior for sugar to the other. have
never met any other farmer who Of the fact
stated. The refined white sugar made from the maple
is superior in flavor to any other. In setting, the top
should be cut and the root broken as little possible
they bleed and hurt the tree. The cut limb should be
carefully secured by wax.
They grow hard, rocky SOIL on clay and poor soil,
Dut IlCu tOu picpecl N VI suc
young plants be obtained for settings in any sugar
camp in the Spring. These young plants look modest
and vigorous as young Quaker. The tints on the
leaf of the soft maple are surpassed by those Of no
other tree When the rost touches the leaf changes
from green to brown then to rich dark purple, and
at last red and yelOwish tint as rich as the
dyes of the most gorgeous sunset dwelling sur
rounded byth soft maple would DO painted paradise
with these trees and thousand years hence de-
see ndanfs win bless u.s. with their mouths full Of ma
plesugar and the birds of Paradise will come and sing
in our groves. b. w. RICHMOND, N. ID.
Jefeyson, Ohio, July 20, 1857.
We trust that the above is correct. but we can't
help remembering that the sap of the Soft Maple
used to be great deal less sweet than that Of the
Hard or Rock variety. ED.
CURE FOR THE APPLE-TREE BORER.
To the Editor Of The NJ Y Tribune
SIR: One Of your correspondents calls for proven
tive from the attacks of the appe-tree borer. Here
it is: Haul away the soil from the trunk Of the tree
and put in place of the soil say halt peck or more Of
sand-seasbOre sand is beet, but any sand will
do-as no worm, or grub, or beetle win work in or
against the sharp surfaces Of the sand This is also
,ure preventive from tie attacks OF the peach-tree
borer. &C.
To the Editor Of tn. " y Tribune
SIR: Boiling water is perfectly safe and efficient
remedy against every borer it touches To apply it,
raise cone of dirt around the tree five or six inches
high with hollow next the tree in its center, and
pour hot water the body of the tree all around,
letting it run down TO fill up the hollow in the cone,
and it will kill, by scaldDg, all the nits and small
worms near the surface and will soak out and destroy
all the deep-seated old by the heat OF the water
standing for few moments in the cone before soaking
Iuse tea kettle once in June, once in September,
without the cone, unless the trees are very badly
esien with entire success Just turn boiling water al
around upon The tree about foot from the ground,
letting il soak in as it reaches the surface. The tree
turns reddish brown where the water touches, and
if filed with deep-seated borers, and the cone has
been used in June, in week or two more vigorous
growth will be seen to put forth. use the hot water
twice in September to kill any worms that may have
escaped the scalding in june
The first time /! tried hot water was after losing
several small apple-trees, just commencing to bear,
which died after dgent effort to keep the borers
cut out with knife. One that had given up for lost
was scalded in September; the next year it grew
all that have tried There Is no danger to the tree
from hot water. If does anything, makes the tree
grow faster. v. MARTIN
We have long known and approved the above
remedy but chose to let somebody else take the
iniatory of recommending it to the public as uni
yenal remedy. We will assure them there is no
danger whatever Of scalding the tree to DEATH pa.
A CIRCULAR BARS.-The Shakers of Berkshire
County Mass, have barn that is worthy the atten-
tion Of farmers who are contemplating the erection OF
barns upon large scale. We should think that on
some accounts it would be good form to erect upon
large prairie FORMS We recommend its form for adobe
buildings and concrete was, as one5 best adapted to
withstand the force of hard storms as well as the form
most economical for the room incosed. The barn
owned BY the Shakers is 100 feet diameter, built OF
stone-a material that Is very abundant in that part
of Massachusetts,. 1t is two stories high, the
first one being only seven.and-a-half feet be-
tween floors, and contains stalls for seventy
head of cattle and two calf stabes These stalls ara
situated in A circle next the outer wall, with the
heads of the animals pointing inward looking into an
alley in which the feeder passes around In front OK anu
looking into the face of every animal. The circle
forming the stable and alley way is fourteen feet ~ide
inside of which the great bay. Over the stable and
alley is the thre.hng floor which is fourteen feet wide
and about three hundred feet long on the outer sde
into which dozen loads Of hay may be hauled and
| all be unloaded ct the same time into the pay
in the certer. There should be large chimney
formed Of tmbsrs open in the center Of such mass OF
hay, connecting with air tubes under the sao'e moor,
extending out to the outside Of the building and wtn
large ventiaior in the peak Of the roof we tnoafa
also end an extension Of the caves beyond tns
| outer wall, by means Of brackets, 30 as 70 i'r"
a shed over the doors, and the manure tnfo"n
| out Of the stables and piled against the ~an'
Tn tLe harm mentioned there is gYanary proJecung