1856. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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cending through the holes, occupied the new hive 

 above. They immediately went to work to fill it, 

 and in about five weeks it was found to contain 

 twenty pounds of honey. Another person had ac- 

 coni|ilished the same purpose by covering the top 

 with fresh branches of trees, and then imitating a 

 shower of rain by drenching these branches with a 

 watering pot. — Country Genthman. 



NATIONAL AND STATE SHOWS 



FOR 1856. 



American Pomological Society Rochester, Sept. 24. 



Cans. la East Three Rivers, Sept. 16, 17, 18. 



Canada West Kiugston, Sept. 23, 24, 23, 26. 



Connecticut New Haven, Oct. 7, 8, 9, 10. 



Geoi;.'ia Atalanta, Oct. 20, 21,22,23. 



Illinois Alton, Sept. 30, Oct. 1, 2. 3. 



Indiana Indianapolis, Oct. 20, 21, 22, 23. 



Maine Oct. 28, 29, 30,31. 



Michican Detroit, Sept. 30, Oct. 1, 2, 3. 



New Hampshire Oct. 8, 9, 10. 



New Jersey Newark, Sept. 10, 11, 12. 



New Vork." Watertown, Sept. 30, Oct. 1, 2, 3. 



.\orth Carolina Raleigh, Oct. 14, 15, 16, 17. 



Ohio Cleveland, Sept. 23, 24, 2a, 26. 



Pennsylvania Pittsburg, Sept. 30. 



South Carolina Columbia, Nov. 11, 12, 13, 14. 



D. States .Agricultural Society... Philadelphia, Oct. 7, 8, 9, 10. 

 WiiCousin MUwaukie, Oct. 8, 9, 10. 



COUNTY SHOWS IX MASS.VCHUSETTS. 



Barnstable Barnstable, Oct. 7, 8. 



Berkshire Pittstield, Oct. 1, 2, 3. 



Brist(d Fall River, Oct. 1, 2. 



Essex Newburyport, Oct. 1, 2. 



Franklin Greenfield, Oct. 1, 2. 



Hamiibhire, Franklin and Hampden. ..Northampton, Oct. 7, 8. 



Haaip.^hire Amherst, Oct. 9, 10. 



Hampden Springfield, Oct. 1, 2, 3. 



Housatonic Great Barrington, Sept. 24, 25. 



Middlese.x Concord, Sept. 20. 



Midfilese.x Nortli Chelmsford, Sept. 17. 



Middlesex South Framingham, Sept. 17, 18. 



Norfolk Dcdham, Sept. 30, Oct. 1. 



Pl.v mouth Bridge water, Sept. 24, 25. 



Worcester Worcester, Sept. 21, 25. 



Worcester West Barre, Sept. 18. 



Worcester North Fitchburg, Sept. 19. 



Worcester South Sturbridge, Oct. 1, 2. 



For the New England Farmer. 



CROPS, &c., IN VERMONT. 



Mr. Editor : — As items of news concerning 

 crops, weather, etc. etc., are interesting to most 

 readers, I thought I would just say a few words re- 

 sjjecting such things in this section of our State. 



The crops are, as a general thing, promising an 

 abundant yield. Corn, till within a few days, had 

 grown for a few weeks almost beyond all prece- 

 dent, and the various cereals are in a forward state, 

 and look remiirkably well. Potatoes looic well and 

 healthy, with no apj)earance of the rot, that I have 

 heard, but in some gardens have been afi'ected. The 

 hay crop thus far, has been abundant and good, or 

 rather till one week ago on Monday last, when the 

 weather changed from the nicest hay-weather to a 

 very disagreeable "wet spell." It has rained every 

 day for nine d.iys in succession, and with the excep- 

 tion of a few loads that were unfit, there has been 

 no hay got in since the commencement of the "wet 

 term." 



Yesterday, (Aug. 11th,) about the time people 

 were just ready to draw in their hay, there came up 

 a shovv-er, which finally ended in hail, that, for so 

 short a period, did great damage. My nearest 

 neighbor, west, has had his crop nearly destroyed. 

 The next one estimates his loss at $300, and so on, 

 those residing in the narrow track of the storm, 

 losing more or less. Many of our farmers have 



done haying, while it will take the majority from 

 three to ten days yet to finish. 



There is quite an interest felt here among many 

 of our farmers, in the various methods of improved 

 cultivation, as well as improved implements ; but 

 still far too many esteem all improvers as so many 

 subjects for Carnum's Museum, and until there 

 shall be more of an awakening to the subject of 

 truly scientific agriculture, our farmers will be "be- 

 hind the times." And until more interest is taken 

 in agricultural reading so as to elevate the minds 

 of the "tillers of the soil," for no avocation can be 

 elevated without a real and true expansion of mind, 

 there will be too many of the opinion of "A Far- 

 mer's Son" — see Farmer of Aug. 9th. 



I would ask your correspondent who thinks 

 "cooked turnips" are excellent for stock, if he think 

 the efi'ect on stock, would be the same, as warm 

 bi.scuit, hot coffee, &c. &c., on the human organiza- 

 tion, if so I prefer that my cattle do without them, 

 for dyspepsia is not a very agreeable disease to 

 have. 



Is it true that a "wet spell" about the time the 

 weevil commence their operations upon wheat, 

 has a tendency to destroy them ? 



When is the proper time for budding apple 

 trees, and should the buds be taken from scions of 

 this year's growth on trees from which you wish to 

 bud ? Progress. 



Glover, Vl, 1S56. 



Rf.m.irks. — Send the suggestions as you pro- 

 pose. From July to September, apple trees may 

 be budded with success. If very dry in July, post- 

 pone till rains come. Use buds from a shoot of 

 the present year's growth. 



EXTRACTS AND REPLIES. 



COOKED VEGETABLES FOR STOCK — MILLET — LU- 

 CERNE — STRAWBERRIES. 



Some one through the Farmer asks if cooking 

 vegetables will pay. I cooked beets, carrots and 

 turnips and mixed with shorts for my cows last 

 winter, and think it paid well ; the milk was much 

 better. 



I would like to be informed in regard to millet, 

 the time to cut it, and if lucerne will come up the 

 next spring after sowing, as clover does ? When 

 is the proper time to set out strawberries ? 



Coluit Port, JV. Y., 1856. D. Childs. 



Remarks. — Millet should be cut when just pass- 

 ing out of bloom. 



Lucerne is a perennial plant, and will last, under 

 favorable circumstances, some eight or ten years. 



Set out strawberries in August or May. 



artesian wells. 



."^ would like to inquire through your ])aper if 

 there are any artesian wells in New England, and 

 if so, in what place ? Is there any one acquainted 

 with the business of boring ? II. s. w. 



Sunderlaiid, 185G. 



PRUNE SCIONS — PLUM SCIONS. 



"M. M. J." is informed that the prune scion.5 he 

 inquires for were distributed gratis, and exhausted 

 weeks ago. 



