1859. 



NEW ENGLAND FAKMER. 



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THE CRAWPOBD EARLY PEACH. 



This is one of the most splendid, as well as 

 one of the most excellent, of all early yellow- 

 fleshed peaches, and is scarcely surpassed by any 

 other variety in size and beauty of appearance. 

 We have raised them so that three would weigh 

 a pound. "As a market fruit," Downing says, 

 "it is perhaps the most popular of the day, and 

 it is deserving of the high favor in which it is 

 held by all growers of the peach. It was origi- 

 nated by William Crawford, Esq., of Middle- 

 town, N. J. The tree is vigorous, very fruitful 

 and hardy." The fruit from which our engrav- 

 ing was taken, was grown by Charles D. Swain, 

 Esq., of Roxbury, Mass. 



The leaves of the tree have globose glands. 

 Fruit very large, oblong, the swollen point at the 

 top prominent, the suture shallow. Skin yellow, 

 with a fine red cheek. Flesh yellow, melting, 

 sweet, rich and very excellent. Ripens about 

 the last of August. Flowers small. 



To Correspondents.— We are under obliga- 

 tions to our correspondents for many articles that 

 •we have not yet published, but for most of which 

 •we shall find space soon. The circle of corres- 

 pondence is still widening, and if we had dou- 



ble the space to fill, we should scarcely find any 

 difficulty in doing it. The writing and publish- 

 ing a good article, is like that charity that blesses 

 twice ; it is of more benefit to the writer than 

 would be the reading of a dozen articles, and 

 then the article goes forth to benfit thousands of 

 others. 



For the New England Farmer. 



EXPERIMENTS IN RAISING CORN. 



In the spring of 18.37, I had but five acres of 

 ground to plant to corn, and, not being very badly 

 hurried with work, I concluded to try an experi- 

 ment, in order to test the diff'erent ways of apply- 

 ing manure. My field was an oblong, forty rods 

 by twenty, and I divided it into five plots, each 

 four rods wide. On the first I put twenty loads of 

 long manure, and plowed under to the depth of 

 eight inches. On the second plot, ten loads of 

 fine barn-yard manure, on top of the ground after 

 plowing, and then thoroughly dragging before 

 marking. Plot third, manured in the hill, with 

 two quarts of very fine stable manure. Plot fourth, 

 manured in the hill with one quart compost, 

 made of two parts muck, two parts hog manure 

 and one part each of lime and ashes. Plot fi-fth, 

 without any manure. The kind of corn planted 

 was the yellow smut, or red blaze, the kernel of 

 which is large and flat, and ear good size. It was 



