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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Aug, 



plenty of tin ones at Haynes & Foss's, Black- 

 stone Street, Boston. If he do not like tin, take 

 any glass jars, put the fruit in hot, or exhaust 

 the air in some other way, then tie over a thin 

 piece of India rubber or rubber cloth. There are 

 various kinds of cans in the market. 



WEATHER IN VERMONT. 



The prospects of the farmers here are gloomy 

 enough. The season, thus far, has been very 

 dry and cold, with frequent frosts. Last Friday 

 quite rainy, and to-day also. Much corn has 

 been killed with frosts, and worms are injuring 

 corn and other grains. M. 8. 



Cambridge, It., June 13, 1859. 



COW LEAKS HER MILK. 



Can you, or any of the readers of the Farmer, 

 tell what will stop a cow from leaking her milk ? 

 I have tried liquid cuticle, and a neighbor has 

 tried white oak bark boiled down and alum, with- 

 out stopping the leak. E. BU w. 



Charlotte, Vt., June, 1859. 



CURE FOR GARGETY COWS. 



I have found horse radish, cut and fed in po- 

 tatoes the same as garget root, a good remedy 

 for gargety cows. E. P. Chase. 



Deerjidd, JV. H., June 18, 1859. 



LETTEBS PHOM MAINE— ITo. 2. 



Ih my last, I referred to the disastrous effects 

 of the last winter upon young Baldwin trees, in 

 Maine ; and the facts stated seemed to me to 

 prove that no reliance can be placed upon the 

 Buccess of the culture of the Baldwin, where there 

 is a liability of the occasional sinking of the 

 thermometer to the point of congealation of the 

 mercury. 



With us, whenever the mercury has approached 

 within ten degrees of the point of congealation, 

 almost all Baldwin trees which were grafted near 

 the ground, or which were subjected to high cul- 

 ture, when grafted higher, have been entirely 

 destroyed, or received irre])arable injury. 



Next to the Baldwin, the Tolman Sweeting suf- 

 fers the most severely, and the Rhode Island 

 Greening is unsafe with the thermometer thirty 

 degrees below zero. The Spitzenburg is not safe 

 in Maine. When severe cold may not kill the 

 tree, it has an injurious effect upon the fruit. The 

 New York Russet is nearly worthless with us. 

 Too much dependence has "been placed upon va- 

 rieties of the apple which have proved valuable 

 in the latitude of New York, while too little at- 

 tention has been bestowed upon varieties origin- 

 ating in higher northern latitudes. ^luch has 

 been said about the introduction of trees raised 

 in New York nurseries into Maine, and it is now 

 generally believed that trees from the South can- 

 not be made to thrive in our latitude, but with 

 me the variety has had more to do with the har- 

 diness of the tree than the location in which it 

 was raised. 



brought from the same nurseries, seems to hs 

 proof against our coldest winters. 



The Black Oxford, a native of Maine, a slow 

 grower, a great bearer, and an excellent apple, 

 received not the least injury from the winter, 

 when the mercury freezes. 



The past winter has proved fatal to the Black 

 Heart Cherry when growing on its own root, 

 but the heart cherries, when grafted on the wild 

 or bird cherry stock, appear to be proof again^ 

 the effects of frost. 



Almost all the damson trees within the reach 

 of my observation have been killed, and so have 

 the Lombard plum trees, but the Imperial Gage 

 proves hardy enough for our climate. 



Sandy River. 



For the Netc England Farmer, 



MOWING MACHINES. 



Much disappointment v/as manifested at fli« 

 late fair in Georgetown, at the imperfect exhibi- 

 tion of the power of these implements. I con- 

 fess to have shared in this disappointment, Not 

 that there was not a sufficiency of good machines 

 on the ground, but at the combination of circum- 

 stances that tended to prevent their operating ad- 

 vantageously. First, there was no order in this 

 movement, each one going into the field just 

 when and where he pleased, and continuing more 

 or less as he pleased, therefore affording no op- 

 portunity to compare the operations of the ma- 

 chines with each other. Second, the imperfect 

 growth of the grass, it not being fit to cut. Third, 

 the uncontrollable movements of the multitude 

 through the grass in all directions. For these 

 and other reasons, the committee acted wisely in 

 not expressing any opinion of the implements 

 presented. I was quite surprised not to find on 

 the field our old favorite implement — the Allen 

 machine. What has this done to be jjlaced ho}'3 

 du combat 7 I had supposed the principles in- 

 volved in the structure of all these machines, to 

 be so simple and so common, that any one might 

 use them as they pleased. This carrying patent 

 privileges to an extreme, is not promotive of pub- 

 lic good. Give us honest effort and sound com- 

 mon sense in all these movements. Essex. 



For the Neta England FarmeB' 



ONION MAGGOT AND GUANO. 



Mr. Editor : — In reply to the inquiry of Mr. 

 Emerson in your paper of June 25, "Has Mr. 

 Proctor tried the guano, and did it fail him ?" I 

 answer, that I have not myself tried it ; but my 

 neighbors have tried it, viz., Messrs. Buxton, Wil- 

 son, Bushby, Bodge, Huntington, and others, all 

 of them extensive cultivators; and each and all 

 of them have assured me, since the publication 

 by Mr. Emerson of his experience, that they 

 have no confidence whatever in the curative qual- 

 ities of guano. I have the same assurance from 

 Mr. H. Ware, of Marblehead, who in ihe season 

 of 1858 raised and soldJJre thousand bushels of 

 onions ; and who now has twelve acres planted 

 with onions, from which he hopes to obtain stx 



provided their 



hundred bushels to the acre 

 While all investments in varieties [growth shall not be interrupted by the maggot 



of the Baldwin type brought from the Rochester or rust. J. W. Proctoii 



nurseries have proved total loss, the PomegrisI South Danvers, June 25, 1859. 



