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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



The Farm in November Page 491 



Crops — Pine Shavings 492 



Eulogium on the late A J. Downing 493 



Autuiun — Moral Reflections — Medicine 498 



Wheat— Com— Barley 499 



Stealing Fruit — Canada Thistles 500 



Live and Leirn — One Acre 501 



Disease on Quince Bushes — Early yield of Apples 502 



Vegetable Reproduction 502 



The Oriole and Hawk — Swallows 503 



To Purify the Air of an Apartment 503 



Obituary of A. J. Downing, Esq 504 



Cattle Show at Lebanon, N. H 505 



The Human System 5( 6 



Bedford Cattle Show 507 



Carrots — Sweet Corn — Store Swine.. .. 507 



The Endicolt Pear 509 



Leaves for Compost — Aspect of the Crops 510 



County Cattle Show — Broom Corn 511 



Eulogy on Mr. Downing 512 



Rural Art and Taste 513 



Raising and Sale of Milk 514 



Renssalaer County Agricultural Society 516 



Death of.Iohn W. Lincoln— Origin of Wheat 517 



Birds — Wild Gooseberry —Scythes 518 



Norfolk County Show 519 



Apples from two year old Grafts 520 



Injurious Effects of one Plant upon another 520 



Cattle Show at Framingham 521 



Peach Culture— The Weather 522 



Diseased Swine — Lime and Salt as Fertilizers 523 



Middlesex County Agricultural Society 524 



Sketch of the late Hon. John W. Lincoln 525 



Barnstable Co. Cattle Show — Seed Potatoes 527 



Berkshire County Agricultural Society 528 



Fitchburg Cattle Show — Rose-Breasted Grossbeak 529 



The Red Russet Apple 530 



Essex Oouaty Cattle Show 531 



First and Last Snows— Chelmsford Cattle Show 532 



Fourth Exhibition of the Fitchburg Agricultural Society. ..533 



Swallows 533 



Massachusetts Hoiticultural Society— Fair at Concord. . ..534 



Apples for Cows — Plows — Diseased Swine 534 



Mechanics' Department, Arts, &c 535 



Boys' Department 535 



Ladies' Department 536 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



The Wadleigh Pear 499 



Morrill's Patent Ditching Machine 515 



Devon Bull 530 



Walnut Grove Nursery. 



The subscribers would respectfully inform their 

 friends and the public, that they have on hand an 

 unusually large slock of Apple, Pear, Plum, 

 Cherry, Peach, and other Trees. 



Also, Quinces, Currants, Raspberries, Grape 

 vines, <fec, &c. 



Ornamental Trees, and Shrubs, Buckthorn Plants, <fec. &c. 

 Lot of Seedling Horse Chestnut, two years old. 

 Lot of European Sycamore, two years old. 

 Good plants of the new and improved high bush Blackberry, 

 the fruit of whi< h is of enormous size. 



Fine Apple Trees, three to five years' growth from bud, sev- 

 en to nine feet high, $25 per hundred. 



We devote ourselves solely to the raising of trees ; they re- 

 ceive our strict personal attention; we are therefore able to 

 warrant every artii le true to name. 



Those who intend purchasing large quantities of Apple 

 •Trees are respectfully invited to call before purchasing, and 

 examine our stock, as it is large, and doubtless unsurpassed 

 by any in the vicinity. 



Trees delivered in Boston free of expense, packed if desired. 

 Catalogues sent to post-paid applicants. All orders thank- 

 fully received and promptly executed. 



JAMES HYDE & SON. 

 Newton Centre, Mass , Oct. 23, 1852. 6w*2 



Buckthorn. 



1 A A A nBUCKTHORN, for sale by 



JLlhUUU JAMES HYDE & SON. 



Oct. 23, 1852. 4w** 



Pure Black Spanish Fowls. 



A few pairs choice Black Spanish Fowls, 

 raised from stock imported this season 

 For sale by THOMAS THACHER, Jr., at 

 the Fulton Iron Foundry, South Boston. 



Oct. 16, 1852. 3m*3 



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Fruit Trees for Sale. 



The subscriber offers for sale at his nurseries 

 at Fishkill Landing, N. Y., a large stock of F/uit 

 Trees, embracing a large and ch'ice variety of 

 Apple, Pear, Cherry, Plum. Peach. Nectarine, 

 Apricot and Quince Trees, Grape Vines, Straw- 

 berry and Raspberry plants. All of which he 

 will sell on the most reasonable terms. Among the Apples 

 are 10,000 Baldwin trees from medium to large size, very nice. 

 Also a large and handsome stock of Seckle and other kind of 

 pears. 



Particular attention paid in taking up and packing trees. 

 Priced Catalogues sent to all applicants 



CHARLES DUBOIS. 

 Fishkill Landing, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1851. 2w*l 



Honey-Bce Feed. 



ANY PERSON who will send their address and one dollar, 

 in an envelope, post paid, to E. Jordan, of Newbury, Vt., 

 shall have sent him by mail, post paid, in consideration there- 

 of, a Circular informing him— 1st. How to prepare /our kinds 

 of Feed for Bees, costing 2i to 5? cents per lb. from which 

 good honey is produced. 2d. Giving information how to use 

 the Feed successfully, with any ordinary kind of box hive, 

 saving the expense of buying a patent hive expressly for the 

 purpose. 3d Giving information how to prevent fighting 

 and robbing from neighboring swarms while in the process of 

 feeding. 



Knowing that multitudes are anxious to obtain the above 

 named information, and that it is more than an equivalent for 

 the dollar asked, no apology is needed for this notice 



Newbury, Vt., Oct. 9. 3w*l E.JORDAN. 



