1858. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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two.' 'Yes, sir.' My watch was within a minute 

 of the time. Pistol in hand, I went out the back 

 way from my house, which opened on the green. 

 I crossed like a lion and went up to M'Cormic. 

 He looked fii-m, but did not speak. I did. 'Good- 

 morning, t'ye, General.' The General bowed. 

 'This is too cold a morning for fighting.' 'There 

 is but one alternative,' said the General, distinct- 

 ly. 'It is what you soldiers call an apology. My 

 dear fellow, I would rather make twenty when I 

 was so much in the wrong as I was yesterday ; 

 but I will only make it on one condition.' 'I can- 

 not talk of conditions, sir,' said the General. 

 'Why, then I will consider the condition assented 

 to. It is, that you will come in and take a good 

 breakfast with me, now ready on the table. I 

 am exceedingly sorry if I hurt your feelings yes- 

 terday, for I meant not to do it.' We shook 

 hands like old friends, and soon forgot our dif- 

 ference over tea and toast : but I did not like the 

 pistols and that cold morning, notwithstanding 

 I believe many duels might end harmlessly, could 

 the combatants command the field as I did, and 

 on such a bitter cold morning." 



steam. The wound is now dressed, and the out- 

 side rim soon suppurates, and the cancer comes 

 out in a hard lump, and the place heals up. The 

 plaster kills the cancer, so that it sloughs out 

 like dead flesh, and nevey- grows again. The 

 remedy was discovered by Dr. Fell, of London, 

 and has been used by him for six or eight years, 

 with unfailing success, and not a case has been 

 known of the re-appearance of the cancer, where 

 this remedy has been applied." 



CAK" CANCERS BE CUBED ? 



We occasionally meet a person afflicted with 

 that terrible disease, a cancer, and few things to 

 which flesh is heir excite our sympathies more, 

 Cancers have been cured, we believe, without the 

 use of the knife, and perhaps some of those who 

 assume the title of cancer doctors have succeeded 

 in assuaging the pains of the disease, and in 

 some cases, perhaps, effecting a permanent cure. 



Not long since an article appeared in the Mil- 

 waukie Free Democrat, which the Providence Post 

 thinks of sufficient importance to receive gen- 

 eral notice. We agree with the Post, and there- 

 fore place on record the remedy, advising each 

 reader to cut out the article and preserve it, as 

 by so doing he may be able to minister to some 

 sufi"ering brother, and perhaps save life itself. 



The statement of the Democrat is, that some 

 eight months ago, Mr. T. B. Mason — who keeps 

 a music-store on Wisconsin Street, and is a 

 brother of the well known Lowell Mason — ascer- 

 tained that he had a cancer on his face the size 

 of a pea. It was cut out by Dr. Walcott, and 

 the wound partially healed. Subsequently, it 

 grew again, and while he was in Cincinnati on 

 business, it attained the size of a hickory nut. 

 He remained there since Christmas, under treat- 

 ment, and now returns perfectly cured. The 

 process is this : "A piece of sticking-plaster 

 was put over the cancer, with a circular piece cut 

 out of the centre a little larger than the cancer, 

 so that the cancer and a small circular rim of 

 healthy skin next to it were exposed. Then a 

 plaster made of chloride of zinc, blood-root and 

 wheat-flour, was spread on a piece of muslin of 

 the size of this circular opening, and applied to 

 the cancer for twenty-four hours. On removing 

 it, the cancer will be found to be burnt into, and 

 appear of the color and hardness of an old shoe- 

 sole, and the circular rim outside of it will ap- 

 pear white and parboiled, as if scalded by hot 



EXTRACTS AND REPLIES. 



QUINCE STOCKS, STRAWBERRIES AND VINES. 



In the monthly Farmer for April I find some 

 remarks by Col. Wilder upon pears on quince 

 roots, and among them the following : "I* have 

 never discovered any diff'erence as to the hardi- 

 ness of the Anglers or the Fontenay quince, nor 

 do I believe that one is preferable to the other 

 as a stock for the pear." 



Now I wish to inquire what variety is meant 

 by the Fontenay ? I have never before heard of 

 that variety. I presume that he did not intend 

 to give an impression that our common orange 

 and pear quinces are as good as the Anglers as a 

 stock for the pear. 



What kinds of strawberries would you recom- 

 mend one to cultivate for home use ? 



Can the plants be safely sent a considerable 

 distance in August, and would they arrive in 

 good condition if two or three days on the way ? 



Will not pumpkins and squashes mix with 

 water and musk melons if planted within two or 

 three rods of each other ? James. 



Shirley, June, 1858. 



Remarks. — We have several kinds of straw- 

 berries under cultivation, and do not hesitate to 

 say, the best among them all, to take from the 

 vines to Okie's own table, is the old-fashioned 

 Wood strawberry ; it is an English variety, 

 which we have knoAvn from boyhood, and the 

 same introduced here several years since — hon- 

 estly, we have no doubt — by Mr. Newland. It 

 is a great bearer, is hardy, and continues in hear- 

 ing about three weeks longer than strawberries 

 generally do, others bearing two weeks, and this 

 from four to six weeks. In point of richness of fla- 

 vor, no other strawberry compares with it for 

 our palate. 



Plants properly packed may be sent long dis- 

 tances without injury. 



We have never noticed that squashes and mel- 

 ons would mix. 



SilLK, MORNING AND EVENING. 



Which will yield the most butter, all other 

 things being equal ? I have seen it averred on 

 the authority of a scientific journal published at 

 Edinburgh, that the evening product is to the 

 morning's as 5.42 to 2.17 per cent., that is, 

 more than twice as much. If this be so, it must 

 have been noticed by many a dairy-maid in her 

 skimming operations. Perhaps this fact has 

 some bearing upon the "gallon product," of 



