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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS. 



HoRTicui.TuiusT. — The July number contains a 

 variety of valuable matter, and a beautiful engraving 

 of a "Rural School-House." This subject should 

 receive more attention. In building school-houses, 

 convenience is often sacrificed to a too rigid econo- 

 my, and generally, or, we might say, almost univer- 

 sally, no attention is paid to cmbcUishraent. This 

 ■work is pul)lished bj' Luther Tucker, Esq., Albany, 

 N. Y. Joseph Brock & Co., Agents, Boston. 



Ohio State Fair. — A friend has handed to us a 

 pamphlet containing a list of the premiums, and the 

 regulations, with the names of the awarding com- 

 mittees of the First Annual Fair of the O. S. Board 

 of Agriculture, to be held at Cincinnati, Sept. 11, 12, 

 and 13. It is expected that this will be a great 

 show, and that it will be attended by an immense 

 assemblage of people. 



Catalogue of Shokt-Horn Cattle, contains an 

 account of thirty-three head of Short-IIorns, owned 

 and mostly bred by J. F. Sheafe, which will be sold 

 at auction on the 29th day of August, at one o'clock, 

 at High Clifl', one mile above New Hamburg, Dutch- 

 ess Co., N. Y. 



LOW-HEADED FRUIT-TREES. 



By having low-headed fruit-trees, the sun, which 

 is, perhaps, in our hot and dry summers, the cause 

 of more disease and destruction in fruit-trees than all 

 other diseases together, is kept from almost scalding 

 the sap, as it does in long, naked trunks and limbs. The 

 limbs and leaves of a tree should always effectually 

 shade the trunk and keep it cool. The leaves, only, 

 should have plenty of sun and light ; they bear and 

 profit by it. If trees were suffered to branch out low, 

 say within one or two feet of the ground, we should 

 hear very much less of " fire blight," " frozen sap 

 blight," black spots, and the like. The ground is 

 always looser, moister, and cooler, under a low- 

 branchmg tree than under a high one. Grass and 

 weeds do not grow a hundredth part so rank and 

 readily, and mulching becomes unnecessary. The 

 wind has not half the power to rack, and twist, and 

 break the tree, and shake off the fruit — a matter of 

 no inconsiderable consciiuence. The trees will be 

 much longer lived, and more prolific, beautiful, 

 and profitable. The trees are more easily rid of de- 

 structive insects, the fruit is much less damaged by 

 falling, and the facilities for gathering it are much 

 greater ; there is less danger in climbuig, and less of 

 breaking limbs. The trees require less pruning, and 

 scraping, and washing ; and the roots are protected 

 from the plough, which is too often made to tear 

 and mutUate them. 



IMPROVEMENT IN SUGAR REFINING. 



The London ?tIorning Herald states that an impor- 

 tant improvement has taken place in the manufacture 

 of sugar. It says, " By means of the now well-known 

 patent for drying by centrifugal force, and the aid of 

 a few simple adjuncts, sugar, which took from three 

 to five weeks to refine, is now done in as many min- 

 utes. Incredible as this may seem, the whole pro- 

 cess, with the result here stated, has been witnessed 

 by our informant at the sugar-houses of Messrs, 

 Finzcl & Son, at Bristol. Moreover, sugars altogether 

 unsalable in our markets were converted in a few 

 minutes into an article worth about .'JiSjlS." — Am. 

 Artisan. 



For the New Etu/land Farmer. 



REPLY TO A FRIEND, WHO ASKED, "ARE 

 YOU AN ADMIRER OF NATURE?" 



BY MRS. E. C. LOOMIS. 



Yes, I love Nature ! On its varying face 

 I gaze, and ne'er grow weary. There I trace 

 The hand of God, which fashioned all, and 'neath 

 The azure dome of heaven alone I bow 

 To worship Him. 'Tis June ! The balmy breath 

 Of many Howers is round me. Hoses fiuig 

 Rich odors on the soft south wind, and bend 

 Their graceful heads, as if to woo its sweet 

 Caress. The countless blossoms that look up 

 From grassy coverts with their starry eyes, 

 Are gentle messengers of love. They tell 

 Of one more beautiful than they. O, list 

 Their gentle teachings ; pass not carelessly 

 The lowliest of them all. 



Come fortli with me, 

 And revel in the loveliness which decks 

 The brow of Nature. We will roam nt will 

 O'er meads with flowery carpets. We will trace 

 The streamlet's course, and listen to its melody. 

 The birds with their sweet minstrelsy shall cheer 

 Our walk, and from the shadowy grass we'll pluck 

 Tho luscious berries nestling there. I'll lead 

 You to my favorite haunt — a blooming bower, 

 Where moss and violets mingle, and the sheen 

 Of sunliglit falls, in flickering beauty, through 

 The boughs of never-fading green. 'Tls here 

 I sit and while away the summer hours. 

 With book or needle, or in converse sweet 

 With those I love. A banquet rich and rare 

 Doth Nature spread for me — a pure delight 

 To fashion's votaries unknown, araid 

 Tlie pomp of city life. 

 Lebanon, June 24, 1850. 



THE OLIO. 



A man Avas brought up by a farmer, and accused 

 of stealing some ducks. The farmer said he should 

 know them any Avhere, and went on to describe their 

 peculiarity. "Why," said the counsel for the pris- 

 oner, " they can't be such very rare breed — I have 

 some very like them in my yard." "That's very 

 likely, sir," said the farmer ; " these are not the only 

 ducks of the sort I have had stolen lately." 



The presbytery of Bethel, Pa., has resolved that 

 marriage on the Sabbath is in violation of the fourth 

 commandment. 



Courage consists not in hazarding without a cause, 

 but being resolutely minded in a just cause. 



TERMS. — The Neav England Farmer is published 

 every other Saturday, making a neat and handsome 

 volume, at the close of the year, of 41G pages, at $\ a 

 year, or five copies for ^4, payable in advance. It may 

 be elegantly bound in muslin, embossed and gilt, at 25 

 cents a volume, if left at this office. As it is stereo- 

 typed, back numbers can be furnished to new subscribers. 



1^ The Postage ,^ 



On this paper is only 1 cent, or 26 cents a year, within 

 the state, or within 100 miles out of the state ; and lij 

 cents, or 39 cents a year, beyond those distances. 



stereotyped at the 

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