NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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is often useful for a person to be reminded of 

 what he knew hefnre, hut might not chance to 

 recollect ;ind apply at the precise period when 

 his knoivlcdge is most wanted. No man lias 

 the theory and practice of agriculture so com- 

 pletely in his mind's eye, and at his fitgers ends, 

 as not occasionally to stand in need ol'n prompter; 

 that is, something or somebody to intimate to 

 him some facts or circumstances, of which he 

 was by no means ignorant, but which he might 

 not happen to think of, in the hurry of his busi- 

 ness or the variety of his avocations. 



Books on agriculture are silent, unobtrusive 

 tnonitors and directors. They arc not infallible, 

 (to err is human) but may be useful even to 

 those farmers whose general knowledge of hus- 

 bandry is superior to that of the authors or 

 compilers of such books. A man may learn 

 -many useful things from those \vhose stock of 

 information is much inferiour to his own. Be- 

 sides a book like this which we would recom- 

 mend, compiled from a great number of other 

 books, as well as the "unwritten opinions of 

 experienced cultivators," must contain the re- 

 sults of the experiments, the information de 

 rived from the practice of a great many labotir- 

 iiig farmers, who slate what they do know, and 

 recommend what experience, the surest of 

 guide?, has taught them is useful. They may 

 -contain erroneous opinions, and give directions 

 relative to processes in agriculture which are 

 not the best which might be chosen. Slillthey 

 neither dictate nor control, and those who do 

 not like any particular opinions or processes 

 may let them alone. But some things in agri- 

 cultural works require only to be generally 

 known to be universally adopted, and a few 

 hours spent in reading, investigation and inqui- 

 ry, may save, or render doubly productive, 

 moDths of hard labour. It is not so much 

 working -eery hard as -jnorking it right, which 

 makes a farmer successful in his operations. — 

 Head 'j:ork is as necessary as handwork for pro- 

 fitable iarming, and books and other agricultu- 

 tural publications contain head work, ready cut 

 ^nd dried for the farmer's use. — Agricultural 

 publications give to every farmer, who can and 

 will read, the benefit of other people's brains ; 

 and if he has any of his own, he will avail 

 himself of such benefit. What is called book- 

 farming, which is such a bug-bear to some far- 

 mers, is nothing more than paying some atten- 

 tion to (he records of the experience of actual far- 

 mers. Books are as useful to teach us agricul- 

 ture as they are to teach cs law, physic, mathe- 

 matics, or any other art. 



But to return to the Farmer's Guide. We 

 have said as much in favor of this work as our 

 leisure and room will, at present, permit. We 

 «ball now merely give the names and places of 



residence of the booksellers of who.m this work 

 may be purchased. 



Ivichardson & Lord, Boston — II. Gray & Co. 

 Portsmouth, JV". H. — Jose[>h Johnson, Portland — 

 Clarendon Harris, Worcester — George Calen- 

 der, Springfield — Simeon Bulk r, A'orthnmptun — 

 Huntington & Hopkins, Hartford — E. !Si H. 

 Clarke, Middlcton, Conn. — S. Converse, J^few 

 Haven, do. — Phineas Allen, Pittsfield, Mass. — 

 Samuel Wood k Sons, .Veto York — Daniel Steele, 

 Albany — Abraham Sherman, JVcai Bedford — 

 Wm. & T. II. Barker, 7\'"ea>;)or/— Samuel Green, 

 A'e-w London — Ilolbrook & Fessenden, Bralllc- 

 borovgh, Vt. — Isaac Hill, Concord, J\'. //. — Rob- 

 inson & Dunham, Aorwich — Charles Whipple, 

 .XeTebiiryport — Cushing & Appleton, Salem — Ca- 

 rey & Lea, Philadelphia — Daniel Brewer, jnn. 

 Taunton, Mass. — Cook Store, .^ndover, Alass. — 

 John Ilutchins, Providence, R. I. 



0:^ Booksellers may be furnished with the 

 Fanner's Guide at the usual wholesale price, by 

 applying to Daniel Steele, Albany, Richardson k 

 Lord, Boston, or John Hutchins, Providence. 



LICE ON CABBAGES. 

 A friend of the Editor assures us that the 

 Aphides or Plant Lice, which infest cabba- 

 ges, may well be destroyed by breaking 

 oiT the outside leaves of the plants on which 

 those insects are found, which may be made 

 useful for feeding swine. The earth should 

 then be drawn up round the plants in such a 

 manner as to cover the i)laces where the leaves 

 were broken, and the interiour leaves, which 

 are rarelv infected, will continue to grow and 

 form the head of the cabbage. 



SLUGS ON PEAR TREES. 

 The same gentleman, who gave the informa- 

 tion contained in the preceding artictle, states 

 that the best method he has found for destroy- 

 ing the Slugs which infest pear trees and cher- 

 ry trees is to throw light dry dust on them with 

 a shovel. The dust will adhere to the insect, 

 and cause them to shrivel or curl up, and drop 

 off of the leaves of the trees, which they an- 

 noy. 



Peaches. — A New-York paper justly complains, 

 that peaches should be held in that city at 75 cents a 

 half peck, while in Philadelphia excellent peaches 

 were for sale at " 17 cents the bushel." We 

 will only add, for the consolation of the writer, that 

 m Boston, last Saturday, peaches were sold at two 

 DOLLARS PER DOZEN. — Boston Telegraph. 



Illinois. — The important question of Convention or 

 J^o Convention for revising the Constitution of the 

 State, with a view , principally, to admitting the in- 

 troduction of slaves into the State, has, we are happy 

 to learn, been decided in the Negative by the Pe ople, 

 after as full and free a discussion as perhaps ever was 

 had, among any People, on any subject. — Int. 



FRUIT TREES, &c. 



AMES LLOODGOOD & CO. 



liave for sale at their Nursery 

 a\. l'lii?hing, oil Long Island, near 

 '-^^^^^^^S^tSif^ i^'f-'w York, 



Fruit and Forest Trees, Flowering Slnubs & Plants, 

 of the most approved sorts. 



The Proprietors of this Nursery attend personally to 

 the inoculation and pngraftin»r of «(/ their Fruit Trees, 

 and purchasers may rely with confidence, that the 

 Trees they order will prove genuine. 



Orders left with Mr Zkbedee Cook, jr. No. 44 Stale 

 Street, Boston, will be transmitted to us, and receive 

 our prompt and particular attention. Catalogues will 

 be delivered, and any information imparted respecting 

 the condition, &Lc &c. that may be required, on appli- 

 cation to him. Sept. 4. 



THOSE of our subscribers who prefer paying in 

 ad\'aiice, will percel^'e that it must be done soon, 

 according to the conditions of the paper. 0:^ New 

 subscribers can be furnished with the preceding num- 

 bers of the current volume. Sept. 11. 



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BUTTER, inspect. No. 1. new, 



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