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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



graving, or imitate nature, if you can, and having 

 smoothed his dress, and arranged him to your 

 fancy, on an artificial stone made of a pastehoard 

 form, sanded, or on a twig, or hlock, you may 

 consider him finished, except the eyes. These are 

 of glass, and can he procured, of all sorts, in Bos- 

 ton. They may be put in at any time, by moist- 

 ening the eyelids. 



In arranging hirds in a cabinet, of course, one 

 will put the best side out, just as the ladies put the 

 trimming on the congregation side of their bonnets, 

 and there are various other little innocent "tricks 

 of the trade,'-' such as supplying a few feathers 

 from another bird of the same species, or even a 

 wing or leg, if necessary, that will occur to a 

 youth of genius. 



As food for reflection to those who see in such 

 pursuits — pursuits which filled the soul of such 

 men as Wilson and Nuttal and Audubon — nothing 

 worthy of the attention of rational men, let me 

 quote, in conclusion, a few lines from Boker's 

 "Calaynos." 



"He! why to him the gay are butterflies, 



Flitting around n light, of which they die. 



He looks on pleasure as a kind of sin; 



Calls pastime waste-time. Each to his trade say I. 



1 heard a man who spent a mortal life 



In hoarding up all kinds of stones and ores, 



Call one, who spitted flies upon a pin, 



A fool, to pass his precious lifetime thus. 



What might delight you, lady, may not him; 



And yet your pleasures argue you no fool, 



If or his grave brows prove a philosopher." 



Exeter, N. H., June, 1852. n. f. f. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 THE WEATHER. 



Dear Sir : — Enclosed you have a memorandum 

 for June of the degree of heat at sunrise, at 12 

 o'clock, and at sundown, and occasionally at 2 

 o'clock, when the heat was unusual. 



At sunrise. At 12 o'clock. At 2 or 3. 



64 78 UO. . . 



65 83 00 . . . 



At sundown. 



68 



64 



3 68 80 00 69 



4 62 64 00 56 



5 46. 62 00 54 



6 42. .Frost in.. 72 low grounds 00 60 



7 54 76 00 63 



8 61 70 ...00 66 



9 65 70. Rain i inch. 00... 



10 52 78 00... 



11 45 66 00... 



12 44.. Frost in.. 70.. low lands. 00... 



18 64 Raini inch. 86 88 



39 64 85 92 



20 62 88 00 



21 68 86 00 



21 64 82. Rain I inch. 00 



23 S4 76 



21. 

 25. 

 26. 

 27. 

 28. 

 29. 

 30. 



.48. 



• t-0. 



. r .4. 



.7-1. 



on. 



65 86. Rain I inch. 00. 



You will perceive we have had a little short of 

 two inches of water during the month of June, 

 which is less than half we need to keep as wet as 

 we wish. 



We have had a degree of heat which is unusual ; 

 4hc thermometer has been over 80° sixteen days 

 of the thirty. When the degree of heat is so great 

 we want four inches of water, at least, during thir- 

 ty days. We have not had two-thirds the ruin, in 



Sherburne, that the towns west and north of us 

 have had. 



I would remark that my thermometer is kept on 

 the north side of the house, which faces the south, 

 upon the wall of the house, and situated on a rise 

 of land. My thermometer never rises so hio-h in 

 summer, or falls so low in winter, as some in town; 

 the reason, I suppose, to be, the land is higher, 

 but'not on a hill. 



Should you see fit to publish this record in the 

 New England Farmer, it would be convenient for 

 those who get the work bound, for reference. 

 Respectfully yours, 



Sherburne, July 8, 1852. Daniel Leland. 



Remarks. — We not only "see fit to publish" the 

 communication of our correspondent, but to ex- 

 press our thanks for an article requiring so much 

 care and attention, and which is in itself exceed- 

 ingly interesting. 



POTASH WATER FOR APPLE TREES. 



Major Wheeler, of Framingham, in this State, 

 has apple trees which, for beauty of form and 

 thrift, are not surpassed by any trees we have ev- 

 er seen. He is an enthusiast about trees; loves 

 them as men do their children, almost, and knows 

 how to cultivate them so as to get a rapid growth 

 and large crops. Well, the Major uses potash 

 water as a wash for his apple trees, of the strength 

 of a pound of potash to a gallon of water. He in- 

 forms us that he has used this wash with happy 

 results, for more than forty years, and that he 

 was, probably, the first person who introduced it 

 in this vicinity. In a note he informs us that he 

 does not think Mr. Batchelder's trees, recently 

 spoken of by Mr. Coffin in these columns, were in- 

 jured by the wash, but by the severity of the win- 

 ter, or from some other cause. 



Our attention was called, both last fall and 

 spring, to young apple trees which had been 

 washed with potash water, some of which were 

 dead, and all had the appearance of being serious- 

 ly injured. It is possible that in some particular 

 condition of the tree, this wash may have a fatal 

 effect which it would not have upon its general 

 condition, but if so, would not a "forty years' " 

 experience with Major Wheeler have hit that pe- 

 culiar state of the tree more than once 1 



Will Mr. Coffin be kind enough to communi- 

 cate to us a more particular account of the trees 

 he mentioned in a former communication? State 

 their age, the manner in which they have been 

 cultivated, the kind of soil in which they grew, 

 and whether there were any indications of injury 

 from the cold, or from any other cause, previous 

 to the application of the potash water. If the 

 potash water "takes off the moss, kills the borers, 

 and promotes the health of the tree," as Major 

 Wheeler and others state, it is an important ar- 

 ticle. But we need a wider comparison of prac- 

 tice and observation, and must give the subject 

 more attention. 



