1859. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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when and how I have succeeded best in trans- 

 planting white pines and other evergreen trees. 

 1 have now growing about my house some forty 

 pines and one very fine hemlock, the latter meas- 

 ures O-i inches in circumference and over 20 feet 

 fiigh. This is the second year since transplanting, 

 and it is "coming out" finely. 



Samuel Raymond. 

 Korih Andover, May 21, 1859. 



FI5E3 — RASrBERRIES — GRAPES. 



What is the best season for transplanting the 

 •white pines ? Should the top be cut in ? Where 

 can the Ohio Ever-bearing Raspberry be obtained 

 — and what are some of its prominent character- 

 istics ? 



Is it ever desirable to shorten lateral grape 

 vine shoots while growing, in order to strength- 

 en fruit buds at their base for the succeeding 

 years? AN Attentive Reader. 



New Bedford, May, 18o9. 



Remarks. — Transplant the white pine in June 

 Take up the sod with the roots, and keep the 

 roots from the sun and wind. Do not cut the 

 tree anywhere. 



We know nothing of the "Ohio Everbearing 

 Raspberry." 



It is quite a common practice to shorten later- 

 al grape-vine shoots after the fruit is partly 

 grown, in order to benefit the fruit, but not to 

 our knowledge, so early as to strengthen the 

 buds. 



APPLE ORCHARDS. 



If apple seeds are planted, and the young trees 

 budded or grafted vrhere they are permanently 

 to remain, the orchard will be worth twice as 

 much as though it were managed in the usual 

 way. The trees will live as long again, and bear 

 twice as many apples, which will be larger, fairer, 

 and will keep altogether better, especially if they 

 are gathered as soon as they have got their 

 growth, but before they are fully ripe. They will 

 be fine-flavored in June and July, and conse- 

 quently be valuable. 



Apple trees grafted from scions that are two 

 years old will bear every year, as a one year old 

 scion has only half come to maturity, and conse- 

 quently bears only half the time. 



Corn for planting should be selected from an 

 equal number of male and female ears, shelling 

 and mixing them together. Plant in drilte and 

 let the spears stand six inches apart, and the 

 yield will be three times as much as to plant in 

 hills, with the manure in the hills. 



S. P. Baker, now 83 years old. 



Ipswich, Mass., 1859. 



Remarks. — These statements are worthy of 

 being tested. 



TO STOP cows FROM KICKING. 



Put her into the stancheon and put a rope 

 around her horns and over the top of the stan- 

 cheon, and draw her head up so that her back will 

 be hollow ; fasten the rope, and she cannot kick. 



East Thetford, It., 1859.^ H. s. 



KING BONE. 



Can your readers give me information through 

 the Farmer, what will cure ring bone, or the ^- 

 pearance of one, coming on a yearling colt ? 



Mason, N. H., May, 1859. S. H. Wheeler. 



For the XeiT England FarmeTi. 

 THE SPIBIT OF PSOGHSSS. 



Mr. Editor : — Among the great discoveries 

 in our day are the steamas which crowd their 

 way through stormy seas, the railroads which 

 bind whole continents together, the telegraphic 

 ?t'i?YS which run their electric network through the 

 air ; these are the great nerves of human sympa- 

 thy, and are destined to the high office of uniting 

 the whole human race in one common brother- 

 hood, if not to the greater work of revolutionia- 

 ing the whole world. 



Surely, this is an age of progress and improve- 

 ment; and no power on earth can arrest its on- 

 ward march. Our country is already dotted all 

 over with improvements. No undertaking is too 

 difficult, no obstacle insurmountable, no sacrifice 

 too great for the enterprising spirit of the age. 

 Directed by the skill of human genius, steam and 

 electricity already cross our rivers and climb our 

 mountains ; and our railroads will soon extend 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific ; and with the tele- 

 graph, holding hourly conversations with the dif- 

 ferent extremes of the Union, from sea to sea. 

 This spirit of progress, this onward march of 

 science and improvement, of civilization and free- 

 dom, can not be arrested; for the people who are 

 engaged in this movement will roll on the car of 

 civilization and improvement, tillthe whole Amer- 

 ican continent forms one vast Republic. 



This onward march of the spirit of improve- 

 ment is destined ere long to produce equally 

 great and important results in our agricultural 

 pursuits. It has already brought forth its mow- 

 ers, its reapers, its threshing-machines, its horse- 

 rakes, its stump-pullers, its seed-sowers, ita 

 horse-hoe, its harvesters and its corn-shellers ; 

 and it will soon introduce the steam-ploiv into all 

 our great valleys, into the cotton fields and rice 

 fields of the South, and into the great prairies of 

 the West>.; and thus it will supersede, in a great 

 measure, 'the use of slave labor, and cause the 

 shout of freedom to be heard throughout the 

 American continent ; because one sieam-})low can 

 do more and better work than a hundred and fif- 

 ty slaves ; so that these United States will soon 

 be as greatl}' distinguished for their agricultural 

 pursuits, as they are now for the means of inter- 

 communication. 



Tell me not, that two-hundred and seventy-five 

 thousand slave-holders will' put their veto upon 

 my steam-plow ; for I know better ; because I 

 know, that they understand their own interests 

 too well to do this. Tell me not, that the igno- 

 rant and the wicked, fearing the eftects of all 

 these improvements upon their own daily labors 

 and income, will combine together as they have 

 done in some instances already, and burn down all 

 our steam-bakeries and machine-shops through- 

 out the land, and thus burn their own fingers, put 

 out their own eyes and starve their own families ; 

 for I will not believe, that, in this land; of light 

 and progress, of churches and schools and mis- 



