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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



found who are willing to give their votes to pre- 

 vent the wanton destruction of our real friends 

 among the feathered tribes. 



Let all who are in any way engaged in mold- 

 ing the character of the rising generation, en- 

 deavor to inculcate a spirit of kindness, and I be- 

 lieve the time will come when the robin can live 

 unmolested in every garden. Aquila. 



Bloomjickl, C. W., 1859. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 HOKTICULTUBAL HINTS. 



CURRANTS — MILDEW ON GOOSEHERRTES — RASPRER- 

 KIES — PEAR TREES — RHUBARB — MANURE — SEED. 



Those currant bushes that I trail up beside the 

 fence in the manner that grape vines usually are 

 upon the side of houses, 1 find yield more cur- 

 rants than those which are left to take their own 

 course. 



Mildew on gooseberries can be prevented 

 easily, one would think, on n-ading articles in 

 regard to it in the papers, but my experience 

 says different. I think that some varieties are 

 affected, while others are not ; one bush in my 

 garden has not been subject to it, and from it I 

 have propagated ten others, which never have 

 been. 



Raspberry bushes need looking after ; cut the 

 old and weak new stocks off, leaving the strong, 

 healthy ones for the hearers next year ; take good 

 care to manure well, and the time spent will well 

 be paid for. 



Pear trees whose trunks are protected from 

 the hot sun. I find have made more wood than 

 those exposed. 



If you wish to have rhubarb early, cover up 

 the roots this fall with horse manure ; the 

 strength of it, which will get soaked out by the 

 rains, will not hurt the roots. 



My three porkers have three wheelbarrow 

 loads of muck each day to convert into manure, 

 which they do by the aid of that which is thrown 

 from the horse and cov/ to mix with it. 



Give heed to the seed which is ripe — do not 

 let the birds gather it, and you be obliged to call 

 on the seedsman to get that which you are not 

 sure is so good. My seed corn 1 gather from 

 those ears which ripen first. Crops of all kinds 

 look finely. s. P. M. 



Cape Elizabeth, Sept., 1859. 



Mysteries of the Bank Parlors. — The 

 New York Trihime says, the discount clerk of 

 one of the city banks recently resigned his situ- 

 ation. His resignation was accepted, his accounts 

 investigated and pronouced all right, and a com- 

 plimentary vote passed by the Board for his at- 

 tention to his duties, &c. He then stated to the 

 Board that he had a communication to make, as 

 a caution to induce them to watch his successor. 

 He stated that, notwithstanding his accounts 

 were all correct at the time of resignation, he had, 

 in fact, been using the bills receivable of the 

 bank for years as collateral for loans, and em- 

 ploying the funds in the purchase of paper at 

 usurious rates. By this course he had accumu- 

 lated sufficient property to meet his moderate de- 

 sires, and, having no further use for the facili- 

 ties he had enjoyed, he had resigned. 



MIDDLESEX CATTLE SHOW. 



The sixfy-ffth annual anniversary of this an- 

 cient and honorable society took place at Con- 

 cord, on Wednesday, the 28th of September. The 

 heavens were propitious — the solar rays bting 

 softened by an awning of thin intervening clouds, 

 with a kind of half promise from them and the 

 winds, that there would be no present rain. The 

 air was mild, the roads moist and free from dust, 

 so that these, and the charming scenery of the 

 autumnal woods, invited everybody forth to en- 

 joy this time-honored festival of the farmers of 

 Middlesex. 



By nine o'clock in the morning, everybody in 

 the ancient and quiet old town of Concord was 

 in motion, and showed that the gala day had be- 

 gun. 



The first exercise was that of the Floioing 

 Match, which was numerously attended, and con- 

 tested with much earnestness and skill. There 

 were seven entries of doublii, three of single, and. 

 nine of horse, teams. The trial was one of more 

 than ordinary value, because some of the lands 

 laid out were rough and wet, and thus compelled 

 the workman to show his skill and the team its 

 training. The usual order of things succeeded, 

 such as the trial of working oxen and horses, 

 the cavalcade of horses, then the exhibition of 

 stallions, colts, farm horses and roadsters, — all 

 of which seemed to afford gratification to the 

 throng that surrounded them. 



The exhibition in the Hall was greatly ad- 

 mired, — the fruit exceeding what had been an- 

 ticipated, after a summer of so few fervid suns to 

 ripen up and color it. The show of apples was 

 very good. The fine Maiden's Blush by W. W. 

 Wheildon, of Concord, and several samples of 

 the same by others, the rich varieties of James 

 Eustis, of South Reading, of Asa Clement, of 

 Dracut, of A. G. Sheldon, of Wilmington, B. 

 Stone, of Acton, John B. Moore and J. M. Che- 

 ney, of Concord, and the basket of Pumpkin 

 Sweetings of M. K. Prescott, of Concord, could 

 scarcely be excelled in any year. 



The show of pears was excellent — not large but 

 made up of good specimens of most of the best 

 varieties. Some of the persons exhibiting in this 

 department, were John Gordon, of Brighton, Ja- 

 cob Eaton, Henry Davis and Jesse Haley, of 

 Cambridgeport, Walter M. Allen, of North Cam- 

 bridge, J. B. Moore, A. H. Wheeler, and J. M. 

 Cheney, of Concord. We noticed several bas- 

 kets of varieties of fruit, and among them one 

 each of great excellence, from Asa Clement, of 

 Dracut, from R. S. Stewart, of Concord, and 

 from Edwin Wheeler of Concord. Only one 

 small basket, and a shallow plate of peaches, were 

 presented. The basket was from James O. Free- 

 man, of Framingham. The show of grapes was 



