1858. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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go again at noon and at night. In this way the 

 cattle are kept grinding some five hours. We 

 have no doubt that it is an economical plan to cut 

 the hay, and that twenty dollars' worth of hay 

 and five dollars' worth of meal of some kind, are 

 worth considerable more than twenty-five dollars' 

 worth of hay alone. 



Perhaps some gentleman with more accurate 

 information than we possess, will give facts in re- 

 lation to the matter. 



BAKE THE UNDER CRUST. 



Pies are rendered unhealthy and indigestible, 

 frequently, because the under pastry is not baked 

 enough. The under crust may be fii-st baked. 

 The pastry for the bottom of the pie may be put 

 into the pie or baking plate, and after it is baked, 

 the contents of a pie can be put in and baked ; 

 or after the pie is baked, in the usual mode, if 

 the under paste is unbaked, the pie can be re- 

 moved from its platter and placed upon a pa- 

 per within the oven again. 



Iron baking platters, with handles to them, 

 would be economical and convenient for putting 

 into and removing pies from the oven. • P. 



COVERING FOR FLAT-ROOFED HOUSES. 

 A subscriber wishes to knoAV what is the best 

 and cheapest material for covering flat-roofed 

 houses. Will somebody tell him through our 

 columns ? 



ELDERBERRY WINE. 



Friend Brown : — Will you accept a sample 

 of Elderberry Wine, which was furnished me 

 particularly for you ? It was made by Enoch Ban- 

 croft, of Granville, three years since. 



Francis Brewer. 



Sprincifield, Mass., 1857. 



Rejiarks. — Yes, sir, and drink your health in 

 it too. It is excellent wine, and must be a fine 

 cordial for the sick. 



OUR NEW YEAR'S DRESS. 

 We suppose most of our readers will notice 

 and admire the handsome new dress which the 

 Farmer has put on ; but 'f they no not, it is not 

 etrange, for our old suit was scarcely half worn 

 out. We at first feared we might be thought a lit- 

 tle extravagant, considering the hard times, and 

 the respectable condition of t*he old suit ; but it 

 is a pity that any of our subscribers should be 

 left in doubt and perplexity as to the cause of 

 the clear, sharp and beautiful impression of our 

 type, and the generally improved appearance of 

 our journal, and we have therefore concluded to 

 confess the truth, and thi'ow ourselves upon oar 

 readers' indulgence, if they think we pay too 

 much regard to appearances. We are aware that 

 every body despises the empty-headed fop, but 

 then we believe all sensible people admit that a 

 neat, simple and elegant style of dress always be- 



comes a man of solid sense. (This, of course, by 

 way of extenuation, and not of "brag.") 



Our outfit is from the Boston Type Foundi-y, 

 John K. Rogers & Co., Proprietors, and we 

 think it does great credit to that establishment. 



The Hubbard Squash. — We have received 

 from Mr. Gregory, of Marblehead, two of these 

 squashes of his raising ; but as we had raised sev- 

 eral from seed he sent us, we passed these two in- 

 to other hands. One gentleman reports that "he 

 never knew what the best squash was before." 

 Others, who tried them, say they excel in flavor 

 and in the fineness of the flesh, any squash they 

 had ever tasted. This is our own opinion. Mr. 

 Gregory has advertised some of the seed as for 

 sale. See another column. He raised them at 

 the rate of Jive and a half tons of marketable 

 squashes per acre. 



BOYS' DEPARTMENT. 



TRUE MANLINESS. 



Children are very apt to suppose, that what is 

 manly or womanly can be cut out of cloth or 

 leather; in other woi'ds, that clothes, made in the 

 fashion of those worn by men and women, will 

 give some additional consequence to the young 

 Avho wear them. I know a very little boy, who 

 took great satisfaction in having loops sewed to 

 his socks, so that he might draw them on as boots 

 are drawn ; and the eargerness so commonly dis- 

 played by children still young, to assume the coat, 

 the cravat, boots, etc., is hardly less childish. — 

 Thus they show their childishness in their attempts 

 to be manly. 



This, however, would be a matter of very little 

 consequence, if they were not apt to lose sight, 

 in this way, of the essential attributes of manli- 

 ness. To be manly is to "dare to do," not to ivear, 

 "all that may become a man." I will give you 

 my idea of what it is for a boy to be manly, by 

 two or three illustrations. 



A boy of six years old was required by his fa- 

 ther to bring the cows home every night. One 

 dark, rainy evening, in the autumn, just as the 

 family had settled themselves to their accustomed 

 occupations, about a bright, cheerful fire, the fa- 

 ther asked : 



"Did you bring the cows home, my son ?" 



"Yes, father," he replied ; adding, after a mo- 

 ment's hesitation, "but I did not put up the bars." 



"Then go directly back again and put them up." 



It was manly in this boy to confess his omis- 

 sion, at the expense, which he foresaw, of a dis- 

 mal trudge through the rain and darkness to re- 

 pair it. 



I know another boy, of nine years , old, who 

 inountod one day in his father's yard a very spir- 

 iied horse, and was thrown almost immediately. 

 His father stood by looking through a window, 

 but did not interfere, when he saw his son pre- 

 paring to amount a second time, lie was thrown 

 a second time. 



"Thrown again, my boy ?" he exclaimed. 



