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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Mat 



earth, continues to perform 

 various offices not noted 

 above. No gas from below 

 can escape through the 

 snow, as itself is always at 

 32 degrees or less, and thus 

 condenses these gases, caus- 

 ing them again to fall into 

 the soil, or to remain com- 

 bined with the snow. The 

 gases arising from decom- 

 position, which travel above 

 the snow with the atmos- 

 phere, are condensed when 



ORNAMENTED COTTAGE — CHAMBER FLOOR. — See p. 224 



house is that of C. M. Saxton & Co., 

 which has not long since moved into 

 commodious rooms at No. 1-iO Fulton 

 Street, near Broadway. Here they 

 keep a complete assortment of agricul- 

 tural works, and a reading-room sup- 

 plied with all the agricultural and hor- 

 ticultural journals of Europe and Am- 

 erica. Their list of publications com- 

 prises nearly one hundred different 

 works, embracing the Avhole range of 

 farming, gardening, planting, &c., 6cc. 

 Mr. Saxton founded the house some 

 nine years since, and for seven years 

 has confined himself directly to" the 

 speciality we have referred to. It ar- 

 gues well for the intelligence of the 

 agriculturists of this country that they 

 require so large an establishment to 

 supply them with publications bearing 

 upon the diversified interests of their 

 occupation. Among the publications 

 of this house just issued are — The 

 Grape Grower's Guide, The Cranber- 

 ry Culture, Strawberry Cultm-e, and 

 Peroz's Culture of the Vine. They 

 have also in press a new work by W. 

 N.White, of Athens, Geo., upon Gard- 

 ening for the South, intended especial- 

 ly for that section of our country. 



We take pleasure in corroborating 

 the above. This firm, by devoting it- 

 self directly to the interests of the ag- 

 ricultural community, has furnished a 

 vast amount of practical knowledge 

 to the public, and by the reasonable 

 price of their publications, placed them within reach 

 of all classes. Farmers, planters, gardeners, &c.. 



who want agricultural books, will always be able to 



in contact with it, and are continually passing in this 

 condensed condition through the snow. As a mulch, 

 snow is better than any other substance, and is of 



material benefit. It is a mistake to suppose that ^u "^ rVJ- "^ 7 »...-j.. --^ ..^... .^ 



rains cleanse the atmosphere as thoroughly as snow. 1 1'"''''''''*' .*^^™ °^ ^^'' ^™' *«^ S^e^^ ^^^^^"S house 

 Many instances are given by Liebig and "others, of °^ ^^^ ^^^ ^" ^^^ United States. 

 snow having the smell of urine and other fecal mat- 

 ters so strongly, as to be easily recognized. — JVork- 

 ing Farmer, 



SHADE AND FRUIT TREES. 



A French Puff, Translated Gratis.— The I^^t every c/tiW set a tree. We have nothing now 

 greatest clothing estabUshment in the world is that j''^ ^^Y ^° ^^^ ""^^ ! '^*3/ '"'i^^ set trees, of course, and 

 ofM. Godillot, in Paris. It employs sixty-six sew- i tend them well after thpv nrp spf ! Rut tliP rhiU 



ing machines, kept in motion by a "steam-engine of 

 nine horse power, and which sewed all the over- 

 coats for the Crimean army. The superintendent 

 of the establishment is the Emperor's tailor, Dus- 

 santoy, who has invented a cutting-machine capable 

 of cutting out fifteen suits at once, almost with the 

 rapidity of lightning. Besides the machines, one 

 thousand women and girls are constantly engaged 

 at sewing. 



Agricultural Publishers.— The literary cor- 

 respondent of the Boston Traveller, referring to 

 the publishing house of C. M. Saxton & Co., of New 

 York, says : — 



It is an item worthy of note that New York con- 

 tains the only publishing house in the United States, 

 indeed in the world, which devotes itself exclusively 

 to the publication of agricultural works. This 



tend them well after they are set ! But the child 

 who has never set a tree, knows little of the enjoy- 

 ment in store, if he or she has not one tree to care 

 for and love, and water and feed and watch over, as 

 it bursts into new life and beauty and promise at 

 each returning spring. He who has practiced it, 

 will know the sweetness of the enjoyment, and 

 when the tree has gained stature and strength and 

 sent out its broad and leafy branches to shut out 

 the noon-day sun, how gratefully will he listen to 

 the songs of birds that nestle and feed their young 

 about him. And for this kind provision of a home, 

 ihty shall teach him lessons of wisdom and trust, 

 or beguile his hours of labor with their cheerful 

 notes, or protect his crops from enemies so minute 

 as to escape his own observation. 

 Parents should encourage each child to plant a 



