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NEW ENGLAND FARRIER. 



June 



the year, in our northern climate, it also brings 

 ■with it abundant labor in the garden, as well 

 as in the field ; but in the garden we are 

 cheered by the rapidly increasing returns 

 which we receive as the reward of our labors. 

 Our table presents us daily a pleasing variety 

 from the garden, — asparagus, greens in va- 

 riety, lettuce, cress, radishes, rhubarb, straw- 

 berries, — all good, fresh and crisp ; how unlike 

 the supply that reaches the tables of our large 

 cities, which, having been transported a long 

 distance, has lost much of its freshness and 

 healtbfulness. 



Asparagus. — The cutting should cease by, 

 or soon after the middle of the month, so as 

 not to exhaust the roots. Hoe off and pull 

 out the weeds, and give a dressing of salt or 

 brine to keep them down. 



Beans — Plant dwarfs for succession, and 

 have a supply for canning. Train running 

 sorts to the poles. Small Limas planted the 

 first of the month in rich, warm soil, and well 

 cared for, will give good shell beans for late 

 succotash, for drying or canning. 



Beets. — The main and winter crop should 

 be planted before the middle of the month. 

 Hoe, weed and thin the earlier planted. 

 Those pulled out make nice greens. 



Cabbage Tribe. — Transplant from the seed 

 beds cabbage, cauliflowers, broccoli, kale., 

 i&c., as soon as the plants are large enough. 

 Give them all well enriched soil that was not 

 occupied by any of the same family last year, 

 and hoe as soon as they take root, and the 

 more frec[uently, the faster they will grow. 



Carrots. — Weed and hoe as early as pos- 

 sible. The bane of this crop is weeds, and 

 the earlier the crop is worked the easier weeds 

 are kept in subjection. Seed may yet be 

 planted, if done the first week in the month in 

 highly enriched soil, first soaking the seed, 

 and a good crop realized. 



Corn. — Hoe and cultivate that already 

 planted ; give liquid manure, plaster or ashes, 

 and encourage to a rapid growth and early 

 maturity. Plant for succession and late 

 crops. There is time enongfi after the middle 

 of the month to obtain good mature boiling 

 cars from the Trimble and other kinds, before 

 fall fiosts come to cut it off. Provide for a 

 full supply to dry for winter use. Some 

 claim that they can preserve it successfully by 

 caniiing, but the more practical way is to dry 

 it, v/hich can be successfully done in any 

 family. 



E(;g Plants. — Plant these out as soon as 

 cool nights are over. Enrich the hills well, 

 and as soon as the plants are established, hoe 

 and hoe frequentl)^ giving, occasionally, li- 

 quid manure. The best time to apply this is 

 when it rains moderately. 



Melons, Squashes and Vines. — Hoe, thin 

 and keep free of weeds, bug>', &c. The stri- 

 ped bug, squash bug and borer will need 

 looking after frequently, to keep them from 



injuring the crop seriously. The eggs of the 

 sqiiash and striped bugs will be found on the 

 under side of the leaves 



Potatoes. — Only early potatoes are planted 

 in the garden ; and to have them mature 

 early, they sho- Id be planted early, wi;h good 

 clean culture. Gfve a sprinkle of ashes, plas- 

 ter and salt mixed, in the proportion of eight 

 of ashes, two of plaster, and one of salt, and 

 work it in around the plants well. 



Sweet Potatoes. — Set sweet potato plants 

 the first of the month, in well enriched coni- 

 cal hills or ridges. The sweet potato can be 

 successfully raised in all our New England 

 States with a little care and attention to de- 

 tails, and thus add a very desirable luxury to 

 the vegetables capable of being placed on the 

 farmer's table. 



Tomatoes. — Pinch back rampant growers. 

 A variety of modes are in vogue for training 

 and pruning, some of which not only give an 

 ornamental appearance, but tend to the earlier 

 maturity of the fruit. 



Weeds do not grow in a well kept garden ; 

 the atmosphere is not congenial to them, 

 neither is there room for both good vegeta- 

 bles and weeds. Wm. H. White. 



South Windsor, Conn., 1869. 



Cooling Milk. — In an article on this subject ia 

 the Utica Herald, Mr. Willard says he regards this 

 subject of great importance to farmers and cheese- 

 makers. Unless properly cooled as fast as milked 

 it is often so far advanced in decomposition, if not 

 actually sour and tainted, when received at the 

 factory, that it is impossible to work it up satis- 

 factorily, liowevcrmuch care may be taken to keep 

 it cool after it is received. Of the several inven- 

 tions for cooling milk which have made their ap- 

 pearance within the past year or two, Mr. M^illard 

 says, they are too complicated, if not too expen- 

 sive, and too difficult to keep clean, ever to become 

 generally adopted. Yet enough has been devel- 

 oped, he thinks, to authorize the expectation that 

 some simple apparatus for the purpose will soon 

 be devised. Until a better process is known the 

 cans must be set in a tub or trough of cold water 

 and the milk be frequently stirred from the bottom 

 with a dipper or other convenient article. It will 

 not do to cai-ry the milk a mile or two in hot 

 weather, without first removing the animal heat 

 and the animal odors. 



— R. Baker, an Ohio breeder of Short-horns for 

 dairy purposes, gives a list of thirteen of his ani- 

 mals in the Ohio Farmer, which have been tested 

 for butter and milk at the Fairs of the State and 

 Loraine County Agricultural Societies, many of 

 which took first premiums. Different animals are 

 reported to have produced from 16i to 20^ pounds 

 of butter, and from 422 to 551^ pounds of milk, 

 in a trial of ten days, fed on grass only. 



