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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



and putting it in layers with cut straw, and adds a 

 little salt. He saj's that it costs less to cut and stook 

 the whole, than to do the same to the top stalks. 

 From his piece of less than an acre and a half, and a 

 suitable proportion of straw, the proportion of which 

 we did not think to get, he filled a bay of twenty by 

 ten feet, twelve feet high, which kept three cows 

 from October to the 23d of March, in good condition, 

 with only the addition of a very little meadow hay. 



MiLKixG Machines. — Gutta percha patent milk- 

 ing machines are in use on Long Island, and it is 

 said that they work well. The simple instrument Ls 

 easily applied to the teat of the cow, without injury 

 to the animal, and the milk flows in a regular stream 

 until the fountain is exhausted. 



CATTLE SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society, at their hall, 

 Sept. 17, 18, and 19. 



Massachusetts Charitable Mechanical Association, 

 at Quincy Hall, Boston, commencing Sept. 11. 



New York State Agricultural Society, at Albany, 

 Sept. 4, 5, and 6. 



American Pomological Congress, at Cincinnati. 

 The meeting of this association is adjourned to Oct. 

 2, 3, and 4. 



Ohio State Society, at Cincinnati, Oct. 2, 3, and 4. 



Rhode Island State Society, at Providence, Sept. 

 18. 19, and 20. 



New Haven, Ct., Agricultural and Horticiiltural 

 Society, at New Haven, Sept. 24, 25, and 26. 



New Hampshire State Society, at Concord, Oct. 2 

 and 3. 



Maryland State Society, at Baltimore, Oct. 23, 24, 

 and 25. 



Michigan, at Ann Arbor, Sept. 25, 26, and 27. 



Upper Canada, at Niagara, Sept. 18, 19, and 20. 



American Institute, at Castle Garden, New York 

 City, commencing Oct. 1. 



Middlesex, at Concord, Sept. 18. 



Franklin, Sept. 25. Address by Hon. J. T. Buck- 

 ingham. 



Essex, at Salem, Sept. 28. 



Bristol, at Taunton, Oct. 10. 



Hampden, at Springfield, Oct. 2, 3, and 4. 



Addison, Vt., at Vergennes, Sept. 25. 



Windsor, Vt., at Woodstock, Sept. 18 and 19. 



Windham, Vt., at Fayetteville, Oct. 3 and 4. 



Hillbborough, N. H., at Milford, Oct. 16. 



Cheshire, N. H., at Keene, Sept. 19. 



North Kennebec, Me., at Waterville, Oct. 1 and 2. 



Aroostook, 'Sic, at Houlton, Oct. 2 and 3. 



PRUNING. 



Axigust and September are favorablt; times for 

 pruning, particularly where large limbs are cut off; 

 for if the wounds made by cutting large limbs or 

 branches do not heal over soon, the parts become 

 seasoned, and remain sound a long time. But if large 



branches are cut off in spring, the wounded part 

 becomes black, from the fulness of sap in the wood, 

 and it soon decays, seriously affecting the health and 

 life of the tree. 



THE PLEASURES OF A COUNTRY LIFE. 



Living, as we do, in a warm, densely-built city, 

 where the air is sultry and oppressive, the occasional 

 glimpse we may, in our walks or rides, catch of the 

 green fields, the grassy meadows, and rural scenery 

 in general, cannot convey an adequate idea of the 

 pleasures of country life. We may experience much 

 happiness in gazing on the beauties of Nature, and 

 we may take pains, as far as possible, to profit by the 

 lessons gathered from her open pages ; but, even yet, 

 we have not arrived at the true source whence 

 springs the even life, the tranquil happiness, and 

 the undisturbed pleasure of those who are born and 

 nursed in Nature's lap, who grow up by her side, 

 and who, at the close of a long life, free from care 

 and sorrow, are buried in the village graveyard. 

 Tliere is no class of men who can look with as much 

 substantial pleasure on their work, as farmers. They 

 know they are working for the good and benefit of 

 their feUow-men ; they feel the crop which they are 

 reaping will be disseminated through the land, and 

 bring comfort wherever it goes, and that their har- 

 vest is watched for eagerly over the whole world ; 

 more than this, they love their way of life, they love 

 to see the fields dressed in their robes of green, the 

 golden tufted crops nodding in the summer air, 

 while the ear delights in the merry carol of the bird 

 as he sits on the limb of some majestic tree. Yet, 

 not only the summer has charms for them, but they 

 derive pleasure from blushing spring, from sober 

 autumn, and from hoary winter ; every season in 

 its turn has charms for the farmer ; he knows that 

 an all- wise Providence created them, that Ilis purpose 

 was good and kind, desiring the comfort and hap- 

 piness of the tiller of the soil. He feels this, and is 

 happy. He is the man who knows to its full extent 

 the pure happiness of country life. It may have its 

 occasional crosses, crops may fail, harvest may not 

 turn out right ; yet, on the whole, the son of Nature 

 alone can feel the real pleasures of a country life. — 

 A"^. A, Farmer. 



KENNEBEC GRAIN. 



We called at the farm of ^Ir. Jabez Churchill, of 

 Augusta, the other day, and found him busily en- 

 gaged in harvesting fourteen and one half acres of 

 winter rye, and three and one half acres of winter 

 wheat ; and better grain, or a more bountiful yield, 

 is not often obtained, even in the best grain-growing 

 districts of the west. The unfavorable weather of 

 week before last turned the straw a little, but the 

 grain itself is not injured. 



Mr. Churchill has three varieties of winter wheat, 

 all of which stood the winter well, and have pro- 

 duced grain of an excellent quality. The varieties 

 are the Blue-stem Kloss, or Banner wheat ; the Po- 

 land wheat, introduced by J. T). Lang, Esq., and cul- 

 tivated by Closes Taber ; and a variety of Genesee 

 wheat, which was procured of Mr. Whittier, of Hal- 

 lowell, who selected it for the purpose of grinding. 

 Not more than half of the latter vegetated, from 

 some cause or other ; but what did grow spread well, 

 and will probably yield a fair -crop. These are all 

 good varieties, and may be well adapted for general 

 cultivation in this state ; but Mr. Churchill, from 

 what he has seen of them, thinks most favorably of 

 the Blue-stem Kloss, or Banner wheat. — Maine 

 Fanner, 



