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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov 



We think it is not well to allow the cattle 

 to roam over the fields after this time, browsing 

 the trees, and shivering with the cold, even if 

 there is no snow on the ground. They may, it 

 is true, pick up a part of their living, but they 

 waste their manure, and get roaming habits 

 They had better be kept in the barn and yard, 

 and fed from the ample store which has been 

 provided for them. Take good care of them in 

 the early part of the season, and get them accus- 

 tomed to quiet habits, and they will not fret off 

 the flesh which they have accumulated in the pas- 

 ture. Give them plenty of salt, a mess of root 

 daily, and a foddering of corn stalks or husks. 

 A variety of food is agreeable to them, and pro- 

 motes their appetite. 



Cattle that are being stall-fed require particu- 

 lar attention. Do not surfeit them with too large 

 quantities of food. Give them no more at one 

 time than they will eat up clean. Pumpkins and 

 apples, with shorts and meal, make a good vari- 

 ety of food. Use up the perishable articles first. 

 If your hay is not of the best quality, be sui'e 

 and cut it and moisten it, and mix the meal and 

 shorts with it. Give them plenty of good bed- 

 ding and keep them clean. 



We generally have a week of fine weather in 

 November — the true Indian summer. There is 



"Yet one smile more, departing distant seen — 

 One mellow smile, through the soft vapory air." 



Improve well these sunny days. 



"Ere o'er the frozen earth the loud winds run, 

 Or snows are sifted o'er the meadows bare." 



But November is not all a month of sadness 

 and melancholy. We have been blessed in our 

 "basket and store" more than we even expected 

 a few weeks ago, and we have reasons all around 

 us, for gratitude to the Giver of all good gifts. 

 Our forefathers set apart a season in November 

 to offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving and praise, 

 and we will joyfully imitate their pious example. 

 May we do it with sincere feelings of thanksgiv- 

 ing for the mercies of the year ; and let us man- 

 ifest the sincerity of our gratitude for the bles- 

 sings by which the Year has been crowned, by 

 imparting freely to those who need, remembering 

 that "it is more blessed to give than to receive." 



it is one thing to grind a fabric to powder, and 

 another to annihilate its materials ; scattered as 

 they may be, they must fall somewhere, and con- 

 tinue, if only as ingredients of the soil, to per- 

 form their humble but still useful part in the 

 economy of nature. The destruction produced 

 by fire is yet more striking. In many cases, 

 as in the burning of a piece of charcoal or a ta- 

 per, there is no smoke — nothing visibly dissipa- 

 ted and carried away ; the burning body wastes 

 and disappears, while nothing seems to be pro- 

 duced but warmth and light, which we are not 

 in the habit of considering as substances ; and 

 when all has disappeared, except, perhaps, some 

 trifling ashes, we naturally enough suppose that 

 it is gone, lost, destroyed. But when the ques- 

 tion is examined more exactly, we detect, in the 

 invisible stream of heated air which ascends from 

 the glowing coal or heated wax, the whole pon- 

 derable matter, only united in a new combina- 

 tion with the air, and dissolved in it. Yet, so 

 far from being thereby destroyed, it is only be- 

 come what it was before it existed in the form of 

 charcoal or wax — an active agent in the business 

 of th3 world, and a main support of animal or 

 vegetable life. — Dickens. 



INDESTEUCTIBILITY OF MATTER. 



We can alter the combinations and forms of 

 matter,, but we can in no way destroy it ; and, 

 though we may avail ourselves of its properties, 

 in order to obtain an enormous force to do our 

 bidding, and so make ourselves independent of 

 wind and tide, and even anticipate the flight of 

 time, we can create no new property. "One of 

 the most obvious cases," says Sir J. Herschell, 

 "of apparent destruction is, when anything is 

 ground to dust and scattered to the winds. But 



For the Ketc England Parmer. 

 STOCKS FOR GRAFTING. 



For twenty years past I have experimented in 

 grafting on stocks, of different species of fruit 

 from that of the scion. If the species are not 

 nearly allied, it is useless to expect they will 

 unite and grow ; we hear frequent reports of 

 grafting the apple into maple, poplar, and other 

 trees of various kinds of an opposite nature, 

 which is much like raising wheat and chess by 

 sowing wheat alone. There are many instances 

 where a scion and stock of two different kinds of 

 fruit will unite and continue growing for one or 

 more seasons, and then die before producing 

 I fruit; others will bear fruit for several years ; 

 the pear, on quince, for instance, yet in this case 

 the tree is much shorter lived than when arrowing 

 on its own roots ; but many varieties of pears 

 are much improved in quality by the process. I 

 have put the apple on the wild pear, or shad 

 bush ; the scions grew vigorously for one season, 

 and then died. Others set in the thorn did not 

 grow at all. The pear was inserted in the moun- 

 tain ash and lived till it produced fruit, and then 

 failed ; grafted in the apple the result was the 

 same ; in the quince, it succeeds better. 



A few years since a quince stock of the com- 

 mon kind was grafted with the pear for a person 

 who had quite a number of dwarf trees on An- 

 glers quince ; he recently informed me the one 

 above mentioned was the best tree in the collec- 

 tion. A plum graft put in a peach some years 

 since, now produces fruit ; whether it will survive 

 long I am unable to say. Last spring a few plum 

 scions were tried in the small wild red cherry ; a 

 part of them have made a good growth, and may 

 produce fruit in time. The apricot succeeds very 

 well on the peach, and also on the plum ; the 

 almond I have set in the plum, which grew for 

 several years. I have never been able to succeed 

 in making a peach scion live, either in peach or 

 plum stoqji, yet the peach in budding, grows as 



