NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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SUMMER ROSE APPLE. 



Above we give a portrait of the Summer Rose 

 apple. Mr. Downing says it is a very pretty and 

 very excellent apple, highly esteemed as a dessert 

 fruit. It has not come into general cultivation yet, 

 hut is gaining friends. 



The fruit is small ; roundish ; pale yellow, striped 

 and marbled with red; tender, sprightly, pleasant 

 Savor. Later than Early Harvest; smaller and 

 less productive. Adapted to the private garden, 

 for which it is fine. Ripens early in August. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 TWENTY PIG 3 AT A LITTER. 



MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY. 



Mr. Browx : — In penning you this note, it is 

 not my object to test your credulity, or stagger 

 your belief in the marvellous, but simply to give 

 publicity to a fact worthy of communication. 



In these days of clap-traps and humbugs, when 

 "spiritual knockings" and "fire annihilators" at- 

 tract more attention, or rather seem of more im- 

 portance than the science father Adam taught us, 

 it seems best for an editor, as well as his readers, 

 to masticate well their food for belief, before al- 

 lowing it to pass into their minds for digestion. 

 The following fact, however, comes too well au- 

 thenticated, to need the oath of your obedient 

 servant. Mr. Edwin Abbott, of Westjbrook, in 

 this county, has a sow, (of native breed,) which 

 gave birth to twenty pigs al on", litter on the 23d 

 day of June .' Comment is unnecessary. If 'you 

 have any "Suffolks" in Massachusetts that will 

 rival this Yankee specimen, on breeding, let us 

 know it, and we won't tell any mire hog stories. 



IIONESTUS. 



Mechanic Falls, Me., June, 1852. 



For the New England Farmer. 



PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. 



It is a fact, the importance of which is not suf- 

 ficiently estimated, that the circumstances in which 

 we have hiterto been placed have exerted upon our 

 minds an inHuence either of a beneficial, or of an 

 injurious tendency. As objects in outward nature 

 produce impressions of an agreeable or disagreea- 

 ble kind upon the senses, so the particular events 

 which have occurred in our individual history, and 

 the scenes with which we have been more especial- 

 ly conversant, have operated strongly in the forma- 

 tion of the character which we now respectively 

 sustain. To man, in every station oflife, the world 

 has been a school in which his faculties have been 

 trained and educated. The varied aspects which, 

 in our limited sphere, it has presented, the mani- 

 fold and singular vicissitudes, of which to us it 

 has been the theatre, have all contributed to give 

 a color and direction to our feelings and desires, 

 and to help on, or retard, the improvement of our 

 condition. Meanwhile time has never for a mo- 

 ment been stationary upon us. 



Perhaps no class of individuals, whose pursuit is 

 labor, have so much leisure during the whole year 

 as the farmer. Except at a few seasons of the 

 year his labor is so diversified, that at the close of 

 the day he is prepared to pursue mental culture 

 with a good degree of vigor. As a general thing, 

 how many hours of leisure has the farmer which 

 may well be appropriated to the acquisition of • 

 some useful information. Waste of time! If for 

 every idle hour a man had to pay a small sum of 

 money, how few idlers would be found loitering 

 over the grounds ! Yet time is money, and of 

 much more consequence generally speaking than 

 money. There is no part of the year in which the 

 husbandman may not be usefully employed in im- 

 proving his land. How much can be done in win- 



