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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 



One great advantage is, that it will grow in all cli- 

 mates of the Union, from Tampa Bay to Canada. 



Another advantage is, that it can be propa- 

 j^ated from the seed, as it will ripen all over the 

 Union ; while the Louisiana cane has to be propa- 

 gated by cuttings, taking twenty per cent, of the 

 stalks of the entire crop for the next year's growth. 

 As in the case of all plants propagated by cut- 

 tings, there is a constant deterioration, so that 

 in many parts of the South the growth of cane 

 is not over two-thirds as much as it was some 

 years ago, and that on equally fertile soil. 



I send you some papers of the seed. This came 

 from China, and was first obtained by a traveller. 



and tried at the Cape of Good Hope, and then in 

 Europe. China covers about the same parallels 

 of latitude of this country, and sugar is made from 

 this cane in all parts of the empire. Plant this 

 seed, some of it now, and see how large a growth 

 you will get by October. Of course it is jiretty 

 late for this year. Enough has been distributed 

 over the country to give it a trial, and in a year or 

 two we shall know more of it. Last year a man ip 

 Georgia tried some of it, and being asked how it 

 turned out : " Really," said he, " I can't tell, for 

 it was so good my children and the niggers eat it 

 all up !" 



MORGAN HORSE, VERMONT. 



Above we give the portrait of Vermont, a splen- 

 did Morgan horse, owned by J. H. Peters & Co., of 

 Bradford, Vt. He is a descendant of the old Gifford 

 and Green Mountain Morgan, and has received the 

 first premium at the Vermont State Fair, and it is 

 claimed on the part of his owners that he jjossesses 

 the celebrated Morgan blood in greater purity than 

 any other horse now living. His color is dark 

 chestnut. He is fourteen hands three inches high, 

 weighs 1000 pounds, and is six years old this sea- 

 son. 



The Walnut. — The Walnut was originally in 

 England called the Gaulnut, having been introduced 

 'Vom France. Herbalists used to consider the wal- 

 nut efficacious in diseases of the head, because it 

 l;nre what they called the signature of the head (i. 

 e, a fancied resemblance;) the outer green skin 

 r; presenting the pericranium, the shell within, the 

 i-kull, and the kernel the brain. Towards the close 

 of the sixteenth century, walnuts were found more 

 elfective than cannon balls in the city. Amiens was 

 besieged by the Spaniards, who were then in arms 

 to oppose the accession of Henri Quartre to the 

 throne of France. A small number of Spanish 

 soldiers, disguised as French peasants, with a cart 



laden with sacks of walnuts, came to the gate, and 

 asked admittance to sell their walnuts. On the 

 gate being opened for them, one of the sacks which 

 was purposely left untied, fell (as designed) from 

 the cart, and the French guard, busying themselves 

 in picking up the scattered walnuts, were attacked 

 by the disguised soldiers ; then a party of Span- 

 iards,who were at hand in ambush, rushed forward, 

 surprised and took the to^v;n. 



The California Farmer. — This paper is a fair 

 type of Young America. Born and nurtured in 

 that young State where the trees grow up through 

 the clouds, — and how much farther we have not 

 been up to see, — it has got to be a young Hercules 

 even in its "teens." And yet strong as it is, its 

 great heart beats in deep sympathy with the suffer- 

 ing and distressed. We advise the returned Californi- 

 an,if he wishes to learn of the land where he gathered 

 his gold, or where he "saw the elephant," to sub- 

 scribe for the California Farmer. 



The Ohio Valley Farmer is a new paper pub- 

 lished at '^ncinnati, by B. F. Sandfokd, Esq. 

 Number four is before us, and is filled with useful 

 matter, well printed. 



