NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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cultivation and cooking of their food. The potato 

 has been so easily cultivated and readily cooked, that 

 it has, perhaps, attained an undue imiiortance. — 

 Newbunjport Ilerald. 



GOLDEN RULES OF LIFE. 



All the air and the exercise in the universe, and 

 the most generous and liberal table, but poorly suf- 

 fice to maintain human stamina if we neglect other 

 cooperatives — namely, the obedience to the laws of 

 abstinence, and those of ordinary gratification. We 

 rise with a headache, and we set about puzzling our- 

 selves to know the cause. We then recollect that 

 we had a hard day's fag, or that we feasted ovcr- 

 bountcously, or that we staid up very late ; at all 

 events, we incline to find out the fault, and then we 

 call ourselves fools for falling into it. Now, this is 

 an occurrence happening almost every day ; and 

 these are the points that run away with the best por- 

 tion of our life, before we find out what is for good 

 or evil. Let any single individual review his past 

 life, — how instantaneously the blush will cover his 

 check, when he thinks of the egregious errors lie has 

 unknowingly committed ! — say unknowingly, because 

 it never occurred to him that they were errors until 

 the effects followed, that betrayed the cause. All 

 our sickness and ailments, and a brief life, mainly 

 depend upon ourselves. There are thousands who 

 practise errors day after day, and whose pervading 

 thought is, that every thing which is agreeable and 

 pleasing cannot be hurtful. The slothful man loves 

 his bed ; the toper his drink, because it throws him 

 into an exhilarativc and exquisite mood ; the gor- 

 mand makes his stomach his god ; and the sensualist 

 thinks his delights imperishable. So we go on, and 

 at last we stumble and break down. We then begin 

 to reflect, and the truth stares us in the face, how 

 much we are to blame. — Canadian Agriculturist. 



HOW TO CULTIVATE THE APRICOT. 



A sound, practical article from the editor, recom- 

 mends as the chief requisite for success, and to pre- 

 vent the frequent loss of the trees from various 

 causes, — First. To keep the trees low, and to head 

 back the shoots in spring, avoiding the practice of 

 trimming up to a naked stem, and thus exposing the 

 bark to the action of the hot sun. Second. To pro- 

 vide a deep, well-drained soil, well fertilized with 

 wood ashes. Third. To plant in a cool aspect, to 

 prevent the too early swelling of the buds, and their 

 consequent danger from spring frosts. Fourth. To 

 prevent the loss of the young crop by daily jarring 

 down the curculio on spread sheets. Where only 

 half a dozen trees are cultivated, there is no mode of 

 making war upon this insect so sure and reliable as 

 jarring the trees daily during the month of May, 

 with a pounder, (sheathed at the end with India 

 rubber,) gathering the insects upon the sheets and 

 destroying them. The experience of a correspond- 

 ent is added, that though previously unable to de- 

 pend on his trees for a single apricot, after putting 

 the jarring system into practice, he actually obtained 

 three thousand most beautiful and luscious apricots, 

 the first season of trial, from five trees. — Albany 

 Cultivator, 



The potato disease ifl making fearful rayagca in 

 ■ome parttt of France ; more bo than during the last 

 two years. 



NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS. 



The Maiiuiage Ring ; or, How to make Home 

 Happy. From the writings of John Angel James. — 

 This is a most beautiful little work, both in typog- 

 raphy and binding ; and the good advice it contains 

 corresponds with its fine appearance, and is admi- 

 rably adapted to making home happy. Boston : Gould 

 & Lincoln, 59 Washington St. 



Adduess before the Cincinnati Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, by Edward D. Mansfield, Esq. — A very inter- 

 esting work on the history and progress of horticul- 

 ture. 



Adduess before the Mass. Charitable Mechanics' 

 Association, at their sixth exhibition, by J. S. Skia- 

 ner. — This is an able work, by a veteran agriculturist, 

 showing the advantages of association, and the inti- 

 mate connection and dependence of the different 

 industrial classes on each other. 



A Treatise on Grape Culture, in Vineyards in the 

 vicinity of Cincinnati, by R. Buchanan, Esq. — W'c 

 are indebted to friend Ernst, president of the Cin- 

 cinnati Horticultural Society, for this instructive 

 work. 



The Agriculturist's Guide axd Almanac, for 

 1850. New York : James G. Reed. — Besides the 

 usual astronomical calculations, and other matters 

 common to almanacs, this work contains a variety of 

 agricultural matter, and a blank memoranda for every 

 day in the year. It is beautifully illustrated, and 

 bound in a neat, compact form, convenient for pres- 

 ervation. 



Monthly Family Circle, and Parlor Annual. — 

 This is a very interesting magazine. Each number 

 contains thirty-six octavo pages, is printed on good 

 paper, and contains a splendid steel plate engraving, 

 and a fine wood cut or colored flower, and occasion- 

 ally music. Price only one dollar per year. New 

 York : James G. Reed. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



Of John Washburn, Plymouth, Ilolton Sweeting 

 apple ; very large, fair, and handsome ; remarkably 

 tender, and of excellent quality. Also, tlie Loring 

 Sweeting. We have occasionally seen this fruit, and 

 though of superior quality, we have objected to it 

 for want of fairness and sufficient size. Perhaps wo 

 ought to have blamed the culture, for these speci- 

 mens arc very largo, nearly a foot in circumference, 

 and very fair. This variety is not yet in use. It is 

 a winter apple, of excellent (juality. Almost every 

 thing comes to its highest state of perfection under 

 the skilful management of friend Washburn. 



From A. S. Swcetser, Cumberland Centre, Mo., 

 apples for a name. They arc the Moody apple, for- 

 merly considerably cultivated about Portsmouth, 

 N. H., and it is still very iwpular in that market ; 

 but of late it is not propagated much, a.i it is apt to 

 fall, a.s .Mr. .Sweetser remarks, and it ii rather a pool 



