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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Farm Work for May Page 201 



Notices of Books 202 



Sweet Apples— Grafting — Large Calf— Harmony of Nature. 2 i3 



School of Design for Women 204 



Currants and Gooseberries 205 



Osage Orange Hedge — Sweet Potatoes — Spring Weather. .206 



Timely Words— Change of Grafted Fruit 207 



What kills tliel'each Buds — Dissolving Bones in Ashes... 208 



A Just Relnike — Improvement in tying up Cattle...'. 209 



Tenth Agricultural Meeting 21o 



Is Lime a Fertilizer?— Grass Seed 212 



Cows and Carrots ,. ...21.3 



Inquiries — Nursery and Transplanting 214 



Plant a Tree — More about Potatoes 21 r > 



Otter Breed Sheep— The Old Tree's Lament — Apples 516 



Dan vers Winter Sweet Apple — Cranberries 217 



Eleventh Agricultural Meeting 217 



Plaining of Trees 218 



Plowing— Deep or Shallow... 219 



Grafting Wax — Honey Bees — Practical Farming, No. 1...220 



Science and Tailless Foxes — Farmers' Wives 221 



Worms in Horses 223 



Preparation and Application of Manures 223 



Farm Schools 224 



Selection of Pears 225 



Effect of Cold on Plants— Nature's Freak 226 



Editotial Mill— Winter Wheat in Maine 227 



Twelfth Agricultural Meeting 227 



Onion Maggot— The Potato Rot— Transplanting Trees 229 



Some Remarks on Subsoil Plowing 230 



Asparagus and its Cultivation — Potatoes 231 



Experi ments— The Pig 232 



Scarifying the Soil 233 



Congratulations — Cows — Yankee Inventions 234 



How Cities exhaust the Fertility of Land 2.34 



Profits of Poultry— History of the Apple Tree 235 



Stone Barns — Brief Hints — Renovating Old Apple Trees.. 236 



Is it so— Spring Wheat 237 



Hogs— Transplanting, Budding and Grafting 238 



The Farmer's Creed — Hints on Fruit Rooms 239 



Cows giving Bloody Milk — Cause and Cure of Potato Rot. 240 



Selection of Fruits — Preserving Hams 241 



Replies to Correspondents 242 



Grafting W r ax — Ladies' Department 243 



Boy's Department 244 



Mechanics' Department, Arts, &c 24o 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Improvement in tying up Cattle «. 209 



Dwarf Pear Tree 225 



Short Horn, or Durham Bull 240 



Mexican Guano. 



ANEW ARTICLE is now offered to the Agriculturist and 

 Dealers, under the above name, from its having been found 

 near the Mexican coast. It has been analyzed by C. T. .lack- 

 son, M. D., State Assayer, Boston, Dr. David Stewart, of Bal- 

 timore, and others. Dr. Stewart says it contains the largest 

 proportion of Phosphates he has ever met with in Guano. 



The following are the result of the analysis made by C. T. 

 Jackson, M. D.: 



Water 23.40 



Vegetable Matter 15.80 



Soluble Salts (in Water) Phos. Soda 0.12 



Phosphates of Lime and Magnesia 60.50 



Insoluble Matter (Selex) 0. 10 



99,92 

 The quality of this Guano as a rich fertilizer, and the gieat 

 reduction in price compared with the Peruvian, is such as e 

 render it an object for the agriculturist and dealers to buy and 

 give it a trial. It has been tried in the vicinity of Norfolk, 

 Va., and much approved by the Farmers, those who are now 

 buying and using of it freely. It may he obtained in lois to 

 suit purchasers of A. D. WELD, 127 State Street, PHINEAS 

 SPRAGIJE & Co , T Wharf, or of P. A. STONE, who is the 

 importer, and may be found at 15 Crescent Place, Boston, 

 where also other information may be obtained respecting it 

 It is also for sale by Parker &. While, 8 and 10 Gerrish Block, 

 Blackstone Street, D. Prouty & Co., 19 North Market Street. 

 March 27. tf— * 



GRAPE VINES. 



Diana. Isabella, Catawba, Strawberry and other varieties of 

 Grape Vines, fresh from the nursery. 



FRUIT TREES. 



Fruit and Ornamental Trees, and Shrubbery ef all kinds. 

 from the best nurseries in the vicinity of Boston. 



SCIONS. 



Scions of all the choice kinds of Apples, Pears, Plums and 

 Cherries, selected by experienced fruit growers. 



HORTICULTURAL TOOLS. 



A large assortment of Pruning and Budding Knives, Twig 

 Cutters, Pruning Shears, Hedge do., Pruning Saws, Grafting 

 Chissels, Strawberry and Weeding Forks, Transplanting 

 Trowels, Sets of Ladies' Garden Tools, Shovels, Spades, Forks, 

 Hoes in great variety, at wholesale and retail, at low prices, 

 at RUGGLES NOIJRSE, MASON & CO., (over the market.) 



Boston, April 24, 1852. 6w*l 



Norway Spruce and Abor Vitae. 



The subscribers have on hand and for sale a 

 fine lot of Norway Spruce, four to five feet high, 

 thrifty and well shaped. 



Also, a very fine stock of Arbor Vita>, suitable 

 for standards or hedges Prices reasonable. 

 JAMES HVDE & SON. 

 Newton Centre, April 21, 1852. 5w*l 



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