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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



CONTENTS OP THIS NUMBER. 



page 



Farm Work for April 



Profits of Fowls 



Ciinker Worms 



Look out for your Horses — Venison — Plowing 



A convenient Hot-bed — Late keeping Apples 



Wheat — Corn — Hens — Hay and Grain 



Pruning and Grafting Old Apple Trees 



N. P. Morrison's Orchard — Profits of Sheep 



Feeding Cattle 



Honey Bees — Skill in Farming — Parsnips for Swine 



Intellectual and Rural Delights 



A new Depredator — History of the Apple Tree 



Lice on Apple Trees— Seventh Agricultural Meeting.... 



Transplanting Potatoes 



About Pigs and Pig-Pens — Reclaimed Land 



Races and Varieties of Animals 



A fine Cow — What the Apple-man said — Draining 



Treatment of Sickly Plants— Hard Water 



Danvers Winter Sweet Apple — Success in Farming 



Inquiry — Frost and Fruit 



The Gold Placers of New England 



Races and Varieties of Animals— How to judge Cattle.. 



Cranberry Culture — Cows — Carrots — Wheat 



Sowing Seed — Potato Rot 



Domestic Poultry — Bantams — Winter Birds 



Large Corn Fields 



What Bird is that— The Forest Tree — Onions 



An hour at Mr. Sheldon's Farm— Extension of Forests.. 



Farm Schools 



The Orchard Caterpillar 



Eighth Agricultural Meeting 



Onion Maggot — A Remarkable Hen 



Grafting Wax on Cotton Cloth— Cotton from Straw 



Origin of the Woodpecker Apple— The Baldwin Apple. . 



Farm Schools— The Bfddwin Apple 



Brown's Poultry Feeder— What Cow shall I keep 



Ninth Agricultural Meeting. 



Ladies' Department 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



A convenient Hot-Bed 157 



Pear-shaped Quince 161 



Prevention of Crib- Biting 177 



Brown's Poultry Feeder 192 



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Fruit Trees— Fruit Stocks. 



The subscriber offers for sale at the nursery cf 

 the late S. W. COLE, in Chelsea, a general as- 

 sortment of Apple, Pear, Plum, Cherry and Peach 

 trees, among which are many new and superior 

 varieties, such as choice kinds of Apples, Kirk- 

 land's new Cherries, McLaughlin and other 

 Plums, and hardy seedling Peaches of northern origin. 



Also, Grape-vines, Quinces, Currants, Gooseberries, Rasp- 

 berries', Thiinbleberries and Cranberries. Among the Grapes 

 are ihe famous Diana. Among the Gooseberries are Hough- 

 ton's Seedling, the most valuable of all varieties, being hardy 

 against the ought, and a great grower and bearer. 

 12,000 Cherry Stocks, from one to three years old. 

 lo'ooo Apple Stocks, from one to four years old. 

 Also Pear, Plum and Quince Stocks, in smaller quantities. 

 03- All orders thankfully received, and promptly executed, 

 under the superintendence of an experienced nurseryman. 



' MARTHA S. COLE. 



tt Rustles, Nourse, Mason & Co., Agents, Quincy Hall, 

 BcSton. tf* March 6. 



Fruit Trees. 



The proprietors offer for sale a large and fine 

 stock of Fruit, and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, 

 Buckthorn Plants <kc. 



Pear, Apple, Peach, Cherry and Plum Trees of 

 choice standard varieties. Also Quinces, Goose- 

 berries, Currants, Raspberries, Strawberries, 

 Grape Vines, «fcc. 



Extra steed Hamburghs for the Conservatory or Grapery. 

 A fine lot of Cherry and Apple Trees, two to four years from 

 bud The whole for sale at reduced prices. 

 duu. inewu D. & G. F. STONE, 



Hammond Street, East Newton. 

 wl6t— *4t^ 



Jan. 10, 1852. 



NEW ENGLAND FAKMER, 



g-WEEKLY,^ 



AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EVERT SAT- 

 URDAY, ON A LARGE, HANDSOME 

 FOLIO SHEET. 



The proprietors design furnishing a first-class Agricultural 

 and Family Newspaper— a journal which shall be valuable to 

 the Farmer, the Mechanic, and all other professions; and at 

 the same time, equally welcome to the Home Circle. They 

 are happy in announcing the names of SIMON BROWN as 

 Editor, and FREDERICK HOLBROOK and HENRY F. 

 FRENCH, Associate Editors,— gentlemen who have had prac- 

 tical experience on their own farms, and who are too well 

 known by the public to require any farther introduction or re- 

 commendation from us. 



Besides the main subject of Agriculture, will be included 

 Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and the various sci- 

 ences connected with these branches, such as Geology, Chem- 

 istry, Botany, Meteorology, Zoology, <fcc. Rural Architecture, 

 Landscape Gardening, Rural Embellishments, Domestic Econ- 

 omy and Mechanic Arts will also claim particular attention. 



Careful attention will be given to the Markets, wholesale 

 and retail, every week. 



The other departments of the paper, under the charge of 

 WILLIAM SIMONDS, will include a full and careful re- 

 port of the news of the week, such as Domestic, Foreign and 

 Marine Intelligence, Congressional and Legislative proceed- 

 ings, Temperance and Religious Intelligence, and a general va- 

 riety of Literary and Miscellaneous matter, adapted to family 

 reading, comprising more useful and valuable reading matter 

 than any other Agricultural Newspaper published in New 

 England. Everything of a hurtful or even doubtful tendency 

 will be carefully excluded from its columns. 



TERMS $2 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



\0" MONTHLY, ^r% 



Is published at the same office on the first of every month, 

 in book form, devoted exclusively to Agriculture, Horticul- 

 ture, and their kindred arts and sciences; making a neat vol- 

 ume of 576 octavo pages, embellished with 



NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS. 



The monthly contains nearly the same matter as the Agri- 

 cultural department of the weekly. 



It may be elegantly bound in muslin, embossed and gilt, at 

 25 cts. a volume, if left at this office. 



TERMS $1 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE. 



03° All orders and letters should be addressed, post-paid, to 



RAYNOLDS & NOURSE, 

 Qvjincy Hall, South Market Street, 



John Ravnolds, > BOSTON. 



Joel Nourse. > 



Albany Drain Tile Works, 



No. 60 LANCASTER STREET,— West of Medical College. 



THE subscriber has now on hand, and will furnish to agri- 

 culturists, Horse Shoe and Sole Tiles of the most approved 

 patterns, suitable for land drainage, of a superior quality, of 

 over one foot in length, 2%, 3A and <U inches calibre, at $12, 

 $15 and $18 $>" 1000 pieces. They are formed to admit the 

 water at every joint, draining land from 12 to 20 feet each side 

 of the drain, being the cheapest and most durable article used. 

 The great importance of thorough drainage is daily becoming 

 more apparent. 



Orders from a distance will receive prompt attention. 



Albany, N. Y., March 20. Iw— *6 JOHN GOTT. 



Seed Potatoes. 



CHOICE Early and Late sorts can be procured at our Seed 

 Store We invite particular attention to the "Eastern 

 Earlv Blue," for very early, and the "Danvers Seedling"' for 

 late crops; of the latter sort 882 bushels were grown from 28 

 bushels of seed, the past summer. 



RIIGGLES, NOURSE, MAbON & CO., 

 Boston, March 27. Over Quincy Market. 



PALMER'S 



Second Importation of Shanghaes. 



I^OR SALE, a COCK and two PULLETS. For the merits 

 of this stock see New England Farmer, M*rch number, 

 page 126. Address W. CLIFT, 



March 20, 1852. 4\v*l^ Stonington, Ct. 



To Agriculturists. 



SITUATION WANTED, as Farmer or Gardener, by a man 

 who has had much experience in the different departments 

 of his profession now in practice in Europe, which his testi- 

 monials will verify. Good reference given. 

 U3" Address S. R., at this office. 

 March 27 1852. 4w«* 



