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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Farm Work for August Page 347 



Lusus NaturiB —Machine for Picking Stones 343 



How to Stuff Birds 349 



The Weather— Potash Water for Apple Trees 350 



Birds— Aphides and Ants 351 



Hillsborough County Fair 352 



The present condition of Veterinary Medicine 353 



Cow poisoned hy Dogwood— Growing Trees from Cuttings. 354 



Tomatoes— Warts on Plum Trees 354 



Twenty Pigs at a Litter — Practical Suggestions 355 



Report from the Worcester Co. Society on Feeding Stock. 356 



Influence of the Atmosphere on Vegetation 363 



The -eason in N. H. — Rotation of our Forest Trees 363 



The Garden— Straw as a Covering 364 



Effects of the late severe Winter upon Vegetation 365 



Agricultural Schools — Feeding Stock 366 



Principal Agricultural Productions of 1819 367 



Agricultural Progress of the United States 367 



The Season — Potato Balls — Peach Leaf— Wood Land 368 



Hay — its Composition 369 



Is Asparagas a Marine Plant? — Feldspar 371 



Discovery ofa new Guano Island in the South Pacific 371 



Chemistry — Vegetable Physiology 372 



Warts on Plum Trees 373 



United States Agricultural Convention 373 



Flowers and Fruit 377 



Farming compared with Manufacturing in New England. .377 



The great Land Bill 378 



Lime and its Use in Agriculture 379 



Saving Herds' Grass Seed 379 



Reverence for Trees— An hour in a Slaughter-house 380 



Oxygen 38 1 



Time of Cutting Grain 382 



The Virginia Reaper— No Profit in Farming 383 



The Peel or Rind of Fruit Indigestible 383 



The Capitol — Washington . . .. 384 



The Joint Worm . 385 



Vermin on Hogs 386 



What Kills the Buds and Trees? 387 



Raising Cream— Artificial Method 388 



Sheep Raising and Shearing— Salt your Hay 389 



Swarm of Insects 390 



Mechanics' Department, Arts, Ac 391 



Ladies' Department 391 



Boys' Depirtment 391 



Agricultural Gleanings 3!,2 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



The Summer Rose Apple 355 



Ketchum's Mowing Machine 370 



Hovey's Seedling Strawberry 387 



Thorough Bred Devon Stock 



AT AUCTION. 



The subscriber will offer at Public Sale, 

 on WEDNESDAY, the 2 ih aIIGUSI, 

 1852, at hu> residence in FARMIiNGTON, 

 Ct., about thirty (30) Head of Pure Dev- 

 on Cattle consisting of Cows, Heilers, 

 .- Bulls, and Bull and Heifer Calves. 



This stock was derived principally from the herds of Geo 

 Patterson Esq., of Maryland; R. S. Colt, Esq , of New Jer- 

 sey, the Messrs. Uurlbut, of Winchester, and from imported 

 stock, and have been bred with a particular reference to 

 their dairy qualities. All Cows and Heifers offered are or 

 will be previous to the sale, in calf to my Prize Bull Prince Al- 

 bert, a descendant of Geo. Patterson's celebrated imported 

 Bull Eclipse, and my Prize Cow Victoria, which was award- 

 ed the fust premium in 185i, at Albany, in the class of foreign 

 stock, and was sold at the same lime for $180 to C. B. Cook, 

 Esq , of Charlotte, Vt. 



Catalogues giving a particular description of each animal, 

 with their pediitrees, can be had at the offices of the principal 

 Agricultural Journals, or on application to me by mail, or oth- 

 erwise The sale will take place at 12 o'clock A. M , the 25th 

 inst., and the stock will be ready for examination at 10. 



I will also offer at the same time and place, my Superior 

 Morgan Stallion Young Gifford, 5 years old; a Colt of the cel- 

 ebrated old Gifford Morgan and from a Morgan Mare. 



Also, a Morgan Filly, 1 year old the 12th day of May last, 

 hy the above horse and from a fine Morgan mare, bred by Am 

 brose Arnold, Esq., Westminster, Vt , 'a superior colt." 



try Terms made known at the sale. 



li - r WM. L. COWLES. 



Farmington, Ct , July 10th, 1852. 7w* 



Suffolk Pigs. 



For Sale Cheap, 



A small Farm, in the flourishing town of 

 Stoughton. Mass., containing about ten acies of 

 land, — a good location for a mechanic. The land 

 consists of three or four acres good tillage, — the 

 est woodland; with an inexhaustible Granite 

 Ledge, which has been worked for the past three years. There 

 is a good dwelling house, and stable, and other out-buildings 

 on the premises which have been built about three years. 

 Also, a good well of water, and a number of fruit trees. 



The place is within 2i miles of three Railroad Depots, at 

 Stoughton, East Stoughton and West Randolph. $600 of the 

 purchase money can remain on mortgage 3 or 4 years if de 

 sired 



For further information inquire of the subscriber on the 

 premises. ENOCH DICKERMAN. 



July 10, 1852. 3rn 



Horse Empire State. 



This splendid Horse, which was the admiration of all who 

 saw him last season, has again made his appearance, and will 

 be kept at MATHES' STABLE, ROXBURY, for the improve- 

 ment of stock. 



Said horse is of the Messenger and Durork stock, and is of 

 a beautiful jet black color, weighs 1150 lbs., and is thought by 

 competent judges to be the handsomest, fastest and best tntir* 

 hotse in New England. 



Roxbury, April 24, 1852. tf 



Those who wish to procure SUFFOLK 

 PIGS for breeders, (warranted pure and 

 very fine,) can be supplied at short notice 

 by applying at this office. 



May 1, 1852. tf 



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