1855. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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streams -will again appear as of old. Each will 

 rejoice at finding itself "at home again." 



Tlie effects so lar have been surprising. Grass 

 and grain have grown astonishingly. We fear 

 the former will be rather light, hovrever, owing 



THE HARVEST. 



Our exchanges from every quarter bring cheer- 

 ing accounts of the growing crops, and there is 

 now every reason to believe that tlic harvest of 1855 

 to the fact that in many places it was either] will be the largest ever realized in this country, 

 '•winter or summer killed;" many spots being Stimulated by short supplies and high prices, and 

 entirely free from all signs of verdancy. The se- ]^j the prospect of a ready market in Europe, an 

 vere drought of last season, no doubt, injured ^^^^^^^^ breadth of land has been seeded, and 

 grass in many places, and then the very dryj , . , ■„ ■ ■, , • ,, ,, ,. 



time we have liad all through May gave it a com-; thus far a kind Providence has withheld nothing 

 plete quietus. At best, our hay crop, as we now ■ that is needed to crown the labors of the husband- 

 think, must be much under the average, making I man with success. From the harvest reports be- 

 all allowance for the powerful effects of the long-] f^j-eug^ we cull a few particulars, showing the 

 continued and most welcome rains weare daily ^^^^^ ^^^^^ of accounts from various quarters, 

 having. Corn, potatoes, ice, are springing "P ° _ , ^ 



finely. "Witli warm and sunshiny weather, they 

 will now come on rapidly. 



Be assured tliat old Vermont has "sown and 

 planted the soed" this year. If she "reaps as she 

 has sown," our storehouses will be too small, and 

 we can feed all of our neiglibors witli a surplus. 

 May the great industry and hopes of our farmers 

 be fully realized this autumn. It will give cheer 

 to every interest ; it will speed the spmdle, the 

 cars, the ship ; give enterprise a new joy ; com- 

 merce new energy and hope, and the whole coun- 

 try will go on rejoicing in plenty and cheerful- 

 ness. So-MAT-IT-IiE. 



BurUn(jton, Vt., June 11, 1855. 



For the Neiv Ensrland Farmer. 



CHEAT m FERTILIZERS. 



Scarcely a paper comes to hand, that does not 

 contain more or less notice of these impositions. 

 Tlie grossest of the kind we have seen, is the mode 

 of compounding an article, called '■^ Mexican (^uano 

 almost equal to Peruvian,'' for which an establisli 



ment is said to be founded near New York. Tliat , . , ^ i , - 



any man, or association of men, with any regard 1 l^te rains have started tlie grass to growing as 

 to character whatever, should presume upon suchi^'ell as the cotton ,_ and that it is all the planter 

 an experiment, is most astounding. can do to keep it in subjection. Jhe provision 



If we do not mistake, many of the condensed crops m the southern portion 

 le public, will be found, on never more promisuig than thf 



Maine never had so much seed in the earth 

 before, at one time, and the prospect is most 

 promising for bountiful crops." — Auc/usta Ban- 

 7ier. 



"The rain has saved the crops that were per- 

 ishing with drought, and all vegetation is grow- 

 ing rapidly. We think the amount of grain and 

 potatoes put into the soil this year, is full one- 

 third more than usual, and if the crops do well, 

 there will be an abundant harvest." — Rutland 

 (Vt.) Herald. 



"A gentleman who travelled through the cen- 

 tral and southern portions of this State quite ex- 

 tensively during the last ten weeks, informs us 

 that the prospects of a good crop are eucourawin"-. 

 Much of the damage done to wheat fields he at- 

 tributes to poor tillage, and thinks the devasta- 

 tions of the tly are greatly over-estimated." — De- 

 troit Tribune. 



"The cotton and provision crojjs along the sea- 

 board of Georgia, arc also very promisiniT. The 

 cotton is somewhat ])ackward but is doing well. 

 A friend writes us from Bryan County, that the 



fertilizers now before the p 



being tested, equally valueless. These patent in- 

 vigorators of the fertility of the soil, like the pa- 

 tent restorators of the health of the body, will be 

 found like their authors mere humbugs. Some 

 discriminating test of quality, or guarantee of 

 purity is imperatively demanded. The man who 

 imposes upon the honest tiller of the soil, by put- 

 ting forth such spurious articles, is as much more 

 guilty tlian he who practices other counterfeits, 

 as is the fraud more difficult of detection. We 

 have witnessed, the present season, striking illus- 

 trations of the fertilizing power of genuine guano 

 on grass land. ]Many of our gardeners have ap- 

 plied it in connection with other manure, where 

 vegetables are to be grown, and we hope to hear 

 favorable reports of its value. *. 



June 11, 1855. 



!J^ The Fanner's High School, incorporated by 

 the last legislature of Pennsylvania, was organized 

 at Ilarrisburg on the 1-lth. The offer of (Jen. 



The 

 of Georgia were 

 ey r.rc at present. 

 The same remark will apply to the crops through- 

 out this State. Less land has been planted in cot- 

 ton and more in grain, than in former years, and 

 the prospect of an abundant yield is most encour- 

 aging, especially of tlie provision crops, notwith- 

 standing the 1)ackwardness of the season." — Sa- 

 vannah Eepuldiran. 



"In a journey of 3,890 miles through portions 

 of the States of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illi- 

 nois, Missouri, Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania 

 and Virginia, performed during the past six 

 weeks, and mostly by daylight, my heart has 

 been constantly gladdened by the prospect of the 

 growing crops. In a travelling experience of 

 more than fifteen years, I have never seen so 

 broad a jiortion of the country under cultivation 

 as at present, or a period when tlio cro]>« of every 

 description promised a more abundant yield than 

 now." — Cincinnati Gazette. 



A correspondent of the C/iarkston (S. C.) 

 Courier, 14th inst., who has spent some time in 



Irwin to gi\-o 250 acres of land if the school shall j Upper Georgia and Kast Tennessee, informs that 



be located in Harris, Centre county, and other 

 propositions to give or sell sites, were referred to 

 be reported on early in July, after an examination 

 of the localities. 



paper that "the crops generally were unusually 

 promising, and the extent of culture beyond for- 

 mer years. The wheat harvest had commenced 

 in Georgia, and will soon be ready in Tennessee. 



