859. 



NEW ENGLAND FAKMER. 



375 



trimming advise to trim at any season when you 

 see a limb that needs cutting off. By so doing 

 I found my trees to bleed badly, for two or three 

 years, and to turn the bark black. I now trim 

 not till after the trees get well leaved out ; say 

 the last of June or later, and they do not bleed. 

 Is that right ? CiT. 



Lowell, Mass., June 20, 1859. 



Remarks. — Certainly. If you must trim, do 

 it when it ■will cause the least injury; and that 

 is when the sap has passed up and is elaborated 

 into the substance that increases the size of the 

 tree. From the middle of June to the middle 

 of July is a good time. It may also be safely 

 done when the leaves have fallen in autumn, and 

 the tree is in a comparative state of rest. Al- 

 ways cover the wounds with shellac dissolved in 

 alcohol. 



EXTBACTS AND REPLIES. 



SEASON AND CROPS IN WESTERN MASSACHU- 

 SETTS. 



Our season has some beautiful and some dis- 

 couraging features. I never knew so severe a 

 winter on fruit trees as the last — not from exces- 

 sive low temperature, but severe and rapid 

 changes. How can trees survive, when, as in 

 Januai-y, the mercury falls 50" in twenty-four 

 hours ? Peaches may be considered used up ; 

 quinces have suffered badly ; the last year's 

 growth of the apple was in many instances killed, 

 and some trees that just survived are very late in 

 showing verdure, I have seen apple blossoms on 

 such trees June 15. The pear was decidedly the 

 hardiest tree, at any rate it suffered least. 



We have had three frosts in June, neither of 

 which, from my locality, has injured me, while a 

 mile distant corn is cut down, potato tops nipped, 

 pompions and beans killed. We have frequent 

 and heavy rains, giving grass and grains a fine 

 appearance. W. Bacon. 



llidimond, Mass., June, 1859. 



THE SEASON IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



The first half of the present month has been 

 colder, here, according to the testimony of elder- 

 ly residents, than the corresponding season of 

 any previous year since 1816. From the first to 

 the twelfth day of the month there were five 

 frosts, doing great damage to corn and other ten- 

 der field crops and to gardens. Much of the corn 

 in low grounds is entirely killed. Farmers, in 

 some instances, have planted again with an ear- 

 ly kind ; and some have plowed up their fields. 

 In some particular localities and in some fields the 

 corn has escaped, when in other fields but a few 

 rods distant, and of a less northern exposure, it 

 has been entirely destroyed. My attention was 

 called to-day to a field which had been planted 

 with corn, all at the same time, in part of which 

 the corn had been almost entirely destroyed, while 

 that in the other part appeared to have been but 

 little affected. The field was level, and the line 

 of division between the part that was destroyed 

 and that which was s])ared was most distinctly 

 marked and straight for several rods. What is 



further remarkable in this case, is, that the part 

 of the field in which the corn escaped was fully 

 exposed on the north side, while the other part 

 was sheltered by buildings. 1 should like to 

 know how these facts can be accounted for. 



R. M. Fuller. 

 Lempster, JV. H., June 16, 1859. 



the curculio. 



Experimental knowledge is the most reliable 

 knowledge in the world. Mr. Weston, of Read- 

 ing, told me that he had succeeded in ridding his 

 orchard of the curculio by turning his swine in- 

 to it in June, accompanied by his fowls. The 

 swine ate all the diseased apples fallen from the 

 trees, and the fowls acted as gleaners, following 

 in the rear of the rooting pigs and devouring 

 all the worms and other small animals which es- 

 caped the hogs in their rooting operations. He 

 kept his hogs and fowls in his orchard till Sep- 

 tember, or till apples were ripe. He had an 

 idea that hogs alone were not sufficient to spy 

 out all the worms, and therefore their extermi- 

 nation required the assistance of the fowls. 



Silas Brown. 



North Wilmington, June, 1859. 



WORMS in HORSES. 



I wish to inquire of you, through your paper, 

 what the symptoms are of worms in horses ? 

 Also, a remedy for the same. H. D. 



Lisbon, M IL, June 14, 1859. 



Remarks. — Symptoms of worms are a tight 

 skin and rough coat ; the horse will sometimes 

 stand with a sort of vacant look, and at others 

 seek to rub the hind parts against the boards of 

 the stall. Other symptoms are an irritation 

 about the fundament, and small white lines of 

 mucus around the anus. You will not be likely 

 to mistake this symptom. An easy, and what 

 we have always found a certain remedy, is to 

 take clean, fine wood ashes, mix a gill of it with 

 wet oats or cut feed, and give the horse every 

 other day till these symptoms disappear. 



crops and WEATHER IN VERMONT. 



We have had pretty sharp frosts this month, 

 of the consequences you can judge — have had 

 cool weather for nearly two months ; our grass 

 was very much injured by the severe cold last 

 winter ; it has been dry until about two weeks 

 ago, and now we are having a wet time. Crops 

 are looking middling well. The greater part of 

 our corn had not shot out of the ground when 

 the frosts came. We have few sheep compared 

 with what we had twenty-five years ago. I think 

 the farmers, generally, mean to get 45 to 50 cts. 

 for their wool. We have more old corn on hand 

 than is usual at this season of the year. 



W. F. Goodrich. 



Middlebury, Vt., June 18, 1859. 



PRESERVING CANS. 



Our correspondent at West HenniJcer, N. H., 

 who inquires about preserving cans, may find 



