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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



EAELY JOE AHD MEXICO APPLES. 



Early Joe. (Dotted Outline.) Small; 

 flattish round; smooth, bright red on a pale 

 yellow ground, covered with bloom ; stalk 

 short, slim, in a broad, deep_ cavity ; calyx 

 small, closed, in a shallow basin ; flesh white, 

 melting, and very tender, of a very fine, high 

 aromatic flavor. One of the very best and 

 most beautiful ; but good only when eaten 

 from the tree. During Sept. We find it 

 to be only a moderate grower, and a great 

 bearer. Origin, Bloomfield, N. Y. 



Mexico. Medial ; roundish ; bright crim- 

 son, clouded and striped with very dark red, 

 a little yellow in the shade ; few large light 

 dots; stern rather long and stoats in a broad, 

 rather shallow, russety cavity ; calyx rather 

 Lirge, in a narrow basin ; flesh whitish, 

 tinged with red ; tender, rather juicy, of a 

 fine high flavor. We find it a moderate 

 grower ; perfectly hardy even in Maine. A 

 good bearer, very handsome, excellent fruit. 

 Sept. Origin, Canterbury, Ct. 



HOW TO SECUEE PEACE AT HOME. 



It is just as possible to keep a calm house as a 

 clean house, a cheerful house, an orderly house, as 

 a furnished house, if the heads set themselves to do 

 so. Where is the difficulty of consulting each oth- 

 er's weakness, as well as each other's wants ; each 

 other's tempers, as well as each other's health ; 

 each other's comfort, as well as each other's char- 

 acter ? O ! it is by leaving the peace at home to 

 chance, instead of pursuing it by system, that so 

 many homes are unhappy. It deserves notice, also, 

 that almost any one can be courteous, and forbear- 

 ing, and patient in a neighbor's house. If anything 

 goes wrong, or be out of time, or disagreeable there, 

 it is made the best of, not the worst ; even efforts 

 are made to excuse it, and to show that it is not 

 felt ; or, if felt, it is attributed to accident, not de- 

 sign ; and this is not only easy, but natural, in the 

 house of a friend. I will not, therefore, beUeve 

 that what is so natural in the house of another is 

 impossible at home ; but maintain, without fear, 

 that all the courtesies of social life may be upheld 

 in domestic societies. A husband as willing to be 

 pleased at home and as anxious to please as in his 

 neighbor's house, and a wife as intent on making 

 things comfortable every day to her family as on 

 set daj's to her guests, could not fail to make their 

 own home happy. Let us not evade the point of 

 these remarks by recurring to the maxim about al- 

 lowances for temper. It is worse than folly to re- 

 fer to our temper, unless we could prove that we 

 ever gained anything good by giving way to i'. 

 Fits of ill humor punish us quite as much, if not 

 more, than those they are vented upon ; and it ac- 

 tually requires more eff"ort, and inflicts more pain 

 to give them up, than would be required to avoid 

 them. — Phillip. 



The Use of Chloroform upon Animals. — It 

 being necessary, a few days ago, to perform an op- 

 eration upon a favorite horse belonging to Rev. A. 



V/. Burnham, of Rindge, N. H., chloroform was 

 given with complete success. The horse laid down 

 quietly in a sound sleep, and did not wake till fif- 

 teen minutes after the operation was over, having 

 apparently suffered not a particle of pain. This 

 fact is made public for the benefit of those " right- 

 eous men" who are merciful to their beasts. 



TO AUTUMN. 



BT KEATS. 



Season of mist and mellow mirthfulncss, 



Close bosom friend of the maturing sun ; 

 Conspiring with him how to load and bless 



With fruit and vines that round the thatcheaves run : 

 To bend with apples the mossed cottage trees. 



And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; 

 To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells 



With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, 

 And still more, later flowers for the bees, 

 Until they think warm days will never cease, 



For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells. 



Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store ? 



Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find 

 Thee sitting caseless on a granary floor. 



Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind ; 

 Or in a half-reaped furrow, sound asleep, 



Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hock 

 Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers ; 



And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep 



Steady thy laden head across a brook ; 

 Or by a cider press with patient look, 



Thou watchest the last oozing hours by hours. 



Where are the sons of Spring ? Aye, where are they .' 



Think not of them— thou has thy music too, 

 While barred clouds bloom the soft dying day, 



And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue ; 

 Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn 



Among the rivers shallow, borne aloft 

 Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies ; 



And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn ; 

 Hedge-crickets sing ; and now with treble soft 

 The red-breast whistles from the garden-croft ; 



And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. 



