1869. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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as such for generations, yet the man of the family 

 thtit Las bien in Heir (inploy, and come out of it 

 with more ihaii ci.ough for a clv.ccnt iutcrment, is 

 yet to be found." 



The foregoing is but a small portion of the sta- 

 tistics presented in Mr. Weils' report. It may be 

 proper for us to yd J that ih^y- were not collected 

 for the purpose of inducing anybody to leave the 

 city or to persuade any one to remain upon the 

 farm- His object was to show Congress that these 

 city and village laborers are so much worse off 

 than they were in 1S60, that they are entitled to its 

 aid. 



We submit our extracts to the consideration of 

 our young friends who are deciding on a choice of 

 profession and location, with the simple remark 

 that to our miad the facts cited by Mr. Wells show 

 that people have crowded the trades and the pro- 

 fessions, the Villages and the cities, until the cost 

 of living is greater than the means; until the con- 

 sumers exceed the producers ; until employers can 

 dictate wagts and the landlords rent; until cities 

 and villages are full, and the country empty. 



If left to itself, the great law which has ever gov- 

 erned supply and di mand, will regulate all appa- 

 rent discrepancies between 1860 and 1869, between 

 farming and other kinds of business, between the 

 city and the country. The only trouble is th.t in- 

 dividuals may suifer from acting in disregard or 

 la ignorance of this law. 



HEW BiJQLAND AGRICULTUKAI, SO- 

 CIETY". 



At a meeting of the Trustees of this Society, held 

 in this city, April 27th, the Secretary, Hon. 

 Daniel Needham, read a communication from the 

 Trustees of the Maine Society, proposing to unite 

 with the New England Society in an exhibition on 

 the grounds of the Forest City Park, in Portland, 

 duiing the second wetk in September next. 



On motion of Riihard Goodman, of Lenox, the 

 proposition was accepted, and the President and 

 Secretary were authorized to contract with the 

 Trustees of the Maine Society for holding the Fair 

 in accordance wiih the proposition. 



The general arrangements for the Fair were then 

 debated and adopted, being near y the same which 

 governed the Fair held at New Havtn last year' 

 Letters of inquiry respecting the Fair were ordered 

 to be addressed to Col. Needham at Boston, or 

 S. L. Boardman. Secretary of the Maine Society, 

 at Augusta. The Fair will commence September 

 7; and it was agreed that no animal should be 

 precluded from taking a sweepstakes premium, or 

 excluded from competiti jn for the first premium in 

 any class, by reason of having taken the same at 

 previous Fairs of the Society. An additional pre- 

 mium of §25 is to be offered for the best bull five 

 years old and upward, with specimens of his stock 

 of not less than five. 



The list of i remiums for trotting horses was left 

 with the Trusiees of the Maine Society to arrange, 

 with the understanding that no such extravagant 



sum shall be appropriated as was paid at New 

 Haven last year. 



Premiums were offered for grade sheep, and 

 the rules laid down by Halstead were adopted as a 

 standard of excellence in judging the quality of 

 poultry. 



The California Steam Plough. — The editor 

 of the Butte, California, Record recently witnessed 

 an experiment with the Locher Steam Plough, on 

 which the inventors have been at woik a year or 

 two past. On this occasion the plough was run at 

 odd spells during the day, without any particular 

 design of showing what amount of work it was 

 capable of doing in a given time. One gentleman, 

 however, timed the machine while running across 

 the field. It made four hundred ftet in three min- 

 utes, ploughirg a strip twelve feet wide. This is 

 at the rate of two and one fifth acres per hour, 

 witliout allowanfe for turnings or stoppages, and 

 probably when at its highest speed. There was a 

 large crowd of people on the ground as spectators, 

 all of whom were pleased with the performance of 

 the little "dummy." The editor asks if thirty 

 bushels of wheat can be raised to an acre on land 

 ploughed only three or four inches deep and left in 

 a lumpy condition, what may we expect to raise 

 on land worked to the dep:h of six or seven inches, 

 and thorouthiy pulverized, as it is done by the 

 Locher plough ? 



For the New England Farmer, 

 THE GARDEN IN JUNE. 



In no month of the year are the poetry and 

 prose of the farmer's or gartlener's life more 

 intimately mingled than in June. Every sur- 

 rounding of earth, air and sky are full of 

 inspiration. The elements are all striving, in- 

 dividually, to express the joyous fulness which 

 spiing only awakened. As steadily the &un 

 climbs higher and higher in his shining path, 

 the shortened shadow at each succeeding noon 

 marks his progress until his full glory is 

 reached in the summer solstice, where he rests 

 for a day or two, and then takes to a back track, 

 fitly represented by the constellation of the 

 zodiac, which he is apparently passing through 

 this month. The constellation Cancer, so 

 called from its fancied resemblance to the 

 crab, which goes forward or backward equally 

 well, is ihe representation of the month, the 

 days of which increase till the 2 1st, — when 

 summer really begins, — and then, after stand- 

 ing the same a few days begins to decrease. 



13ut it would ill become us to follow such an 

 example of retrogression in our garden oper- 

 ations. We should go constantly forward, 

 improving on each passing day. Our aim in 

 all things in - ibis life should be a hioh one, 

 and then we should constantly press forward 

 to that end without any retrograde movement 

 on our part. 



Although June is the pleasantest month of 



