New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-17

e., ate one huICreo or-hse per acre, and We hsvo
| . crop worth eight hundred oousrs 81 tie prsssn.
| wholesale Price OF twenty five certs & quart And
even Of only oIe-iourh tie present prics, We have
| $500 81 acre.
cal but VIA, if every ybody goes 70 raisipg black
berries tten the market viii Be gu,;sd sld We car
rot eel them st AL
Heaven hasten that dsy-the day when the poor %
well a. the rch can enjoy abundance o. .ais deli
cous, hes;h preserving ru,-tte day when the cult
vs.ors Of it wi fId the marke. elutted and the frr
unsalsble at siIpence quart When that tms comes
We 81 al have cheap BiaeSterTy VIZ. The juice of
~ quarts CT these berries. mixed with wster and 90
lbs. OF refined sugar viii make barrel Of wine, such
a. tasted ct Mr.. Seymours, and such as does and
| will eel readily at s. gallon. But 9. wholesale
price Of u it will still pay 500 for an acre the berries
ard for tie sugar and for making, and AFFORD Q large
profit upon the wine making business.
Item, Of Cost Of Wine.
bushs, go rtsJ Of berries for bsrrel .. 6sc..s 90
POUNDS Of .usar At 10 s.
Cos, per barrel. sis ~
Tie product OF wire per yielding 100 busnels of
benies would be 40 barrels costing exclusive Of bsr
| ries. sll barrel, and selling, OF 81 gallon, for
| 81 200.
tpor this calculation will the market ever be glut-
ted or viii the cultivation Of the crop which coss no
than crop OF corn, exclusive Of the picking,
| ever cease to be remuneratipg1
There ia arother thing in this connection. We
have, We DO, we shall serd Ohio whisky to France, TO
be run thros Oh the sts upon the lees Of the wine
| press, which we buy back at high price under the
isme of brandy. From blackberry wine We can
make very superior brsndyat less cost and far more
fit for edicina purposes We can also make black
berry siIup, if have the fruit in abundance, ths,
viii cure all the Sumner complaints in the community,
and tie lives Of an army OF children every year
Every ore present had an opportunity after the sd-
ourrnet tf the Club, to test the quality OF this fruit
Mr. Lavton and Messrs. Drew French having each
fun ished liberal supply. There was lot adssentng
voice from one Of the large number OF men and women
present as to the excellence Of the quslty. The bsr
| res are sweet ard rich.
| RospJer1ies.-M fuller exhibited some fine
specimens Of raspberes in full bearing which Were
produced by continual liberal use of liquid msnure
| Flopers.-Mr. BURGESS exhibited several beautiful
seeding dabss, seeding roses, AID valuable hardy
Towering shrub the rigtia anabls, which he recon-
NERDS to general use.
D,carf Banonas.-SoLos RoBIssos exhibited q
specimen Of bananas, grown by Parsons, Flushing
l.. L. upon plants dwarfed that they can be pro-
duced in any ordinary ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS some
what with the common plant as dwarf pears do to
fu.sized trees.
The SroRK1ARY-I want DR.. Waterbury to says
few words upon subjsct tha. We have had some
time before us, l understand he hss been making
scme researches
Peat and Sra,aD Mud as ManUre.-Dr. WATER
BURY-The soil of Long Island is composed OF drift
1t is pile Of loose material upon bed of trap rock
which uI deres the gravel far below the surface with
out any dkes 10 obstuct the flow of the 80 inches of
rain that falls annually. In digging wells down to
certain level there is always found supply Of water
in the sand 1t the s5. cannot run run
holds back the rain water like dam. He then Illus
trsted by geology how tul supply OF water would
have been procured by excavation better than by
going to Bsisleys Pond for IT, He also spoke OF the
great deposit Of swamp wood peat in that pond and
how it formed and is value as fertilizer, having
all been formed of growing plants, and being aualo-
gous TO charcoal such substance must be valuable
to soil con posed of drift like that Of Long Island.
SoLos RoBIssoN-I have several letters asking aud
giving information, which will read.
| To,HGr0 Jtine-Iieie is letter from lady that
spesks for itself and shall read it without sbbrevia
ton:
al read the reports of tie Farmers Institute with
much interest, and your remarks 10 recent meeting
upon currants and currsnt wine, prompted me to ask
if you the other members of the Club are aware
what very excellent wine be made from tomatoes
tred it on email scale las, year, and find it serves
good purpose for using in sickness and in cooking
ss the compounds Of nauseous drugs usually soldfor
wine. Many who have tasted u were unaoie 10 ten
from grape wine If people will use wine it certainly
well 10 have il free from poison, and tomatoes are 50
abundant that it could be afforded cheapy II vinegar
be made from it, 1t will bs bessog 10 the West,
where we have such horrible com pounds under that
name. The recipe, which took from Miss Beechers
Cock Book is simply to put pound of white sugar
to quart Of juice, ard leave i, to fernent.
If tts old story to you you will sppreciste my
motive in troubling you to read ths as only wish 10
''N'"' ''''''' Mn L. X CHURCHILL.
Hooker's SEE ling StrarJerrv.-JosEPH III, Coos.
WELL writing from Poughkeepsle, under date of Aug
D. wishes 10 record his opinion that the Hooker Seed
vstion 1t was originated in 1850 by II. +. Hooker,
of Rochester and grows TO size five inches in cir
cum ference 10 Of deep red color handsome FORM and
delicious flavor. Mr.. Cogswel says 81 wait with
impatience the report of the next discussion of the
"Cub, as the topic announced is ore OF very great
Importance
T'W. FIELD and AsDREw S. FULLER beth replied
that Hookers Seeding was not deep red here ou.a
scarlet, and too soft when ripe for market birry
WilsoD Seeding is better.
Iuynip Seed.-A letter from John X. S.ork Of
Coyentryvie says that seed produced from "prem-
ND turniper left out Winter well protected, will
be AZ good ss though they were taken up and trans
planted but seed from "pinfeather turnips wdl
produce its like.
Wheat nth Weak Strar.--Now here IS q letter
| upon very important subject, which hope, II not
| fully answered to. day, will be hereafter:
| "FuLIos, Lancaster Co., Pa, mo. 9, 1858.
81 have for several years psst been troubled with
| my wheat falling before msturity. have been In
duced TO believe there is something wsntng in the
coil 10 impart strength 10 the stalks. The system that
have pursued for several years is to manure the
corn ground the Spring with clover chaf having
clover mill), which almost invariably produces good
| corn; the next Spring SOW the stalk ground with
cats and clover seed the oats frequently fall before
ripe the clover is let stand the next season. and
either moved psstured if the latter, the ground IL
manured from the barpysrd, and after harvest ia
plowed and sowed with wheat; the wheat stubble Is
| sgain slightly msnured from the barnyard, plowed
| and sowed again with wheat and timothy seed with
the view of setting with grsss. My fields have all
been lined over twice, and of them three tmes
within twenty years. have not sufficient scientific
ski in such matters as to state the quality or compo-
nent parts Of the SOIL which might perhaps enable the
members of the Club 70 arrive at correct judgment
in the premises. have been interested sder OF
| the proceedings of the Club from time 10 time and
have thought that with the large experience OF ts
members, something might be suggested that would
be benetcisl in imp8rtng strength stiffness to the
wheat plsnt should be much graf tied TO see that
the subject has been brought to the notice OF the