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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Aug. 



cities. Railroads and steamboats would open 

 new channels of distribution throughout the 

 country, for increased supplies. Nor would the 

 business stop here. Large portions of the eastern 

 continent would gladly become purchasers, as 

 soon as sufficient quantities should create facili- 

 ties for a reasonable supply. Our best apples 

 are eagerly bought in London and Liverpool, 

 where nine dollars per barrel is not an unusual 

 price for the best Newton Pippins. And by 

 being packed in ice, Doyenne pears, gathered 

 early in autumn, have been sold at mid-winter in 

 Calcutta, peaches have been safely sent to Ja- 

 maica, and strawberries to Barbadoes. The Bald- 

 win apple has been furnished in good condition 

 in the East Indies, two months after it is entirely 

 gone in Boston. 



GOOD ADVICE. 



Eat only what is proper food ; 

 Drink only that which does you good ; 

 Spend only what you can afiford ; 

 lend only what will be restored ; 

 Then you will have no cause to say, 

 "I was a fool on yesterday !" 



FADELESS IN A LOVING HEART 

 Sunny eyes may lose their brightness ; 

 Nimble feet fo'get their lightness ; 

 Pearly teeth may know decay ! 

 Raven tresses turn to gray ; 

 Cheeks be pale and eyes be dim ; 

 Faint the voice and weak the limb ; 

 But though youth and strength depart, 

 Fadeless is a loving heart. 



SIMPLE TRUTH. 



There's not of grass a single blade. 



Or leaf of loveliest green, 

 Where Heavenly skill is not display'd 



Or Heavenly Wisdom seen. 



FAMILY JARS. 

 Jars of jelly, jars of jam. 

 Jars of potted beef and ham. 

 Jars of early gooseberries nice, 

 Jars of mincemeat, jars of spice, 

 Jars of orange marmalade. 

 Jars of pickles, all home made. 

 Jars of cordial elderwine. 

 Jars of honey superfine : — 

 Would the only jars were these 

 That occur in families. 



Hay for Cows in Summer. — An observing, in- 

 telligent and successful farmer informs us that he 

 is in the practice of feeding bis cows with hay in 

 summer, particularly if the season is such as to 

 afford flash pastures. His reasoning is that a 

 full, rapid and vigorous growth of grass gives to 

 cattle that feed upon it, a desire for something to 

 absorb the excess of the juice in their food. Dry 

 hay they devour greedily, and though in ever so 

 small (juimtities, evidently with the most benefi- 

 cial elfocts. Every farmer must have observed 

 that in dry seasons, horses, cattle and sheep, kept 

 in good condition upon herbage parched and ap- 

 parently scant, while in wet seasons, in tall pas- 

 tures, though always full, the process of f;itten- 

 ing with them was slow. Dry fodder in such 

 cases is required to give substance and tenacity 

 to the green, and can be profitably used by feed- 

 ing it to horses and cattle. — Newburg Tclei/raph. 



For the JVf ly England Farmer. 



DOES THE CURCULIO PUNCTURE THE 

 APPLE? 



Mr. Editor : — I have a fine-looking young or- 

 chard of 100 Baldwin trees, set twelve years 

 ago on rocky upland on the west side of Mystic 

 Pond ; the soil is uneven, from gravelly knolls to 

 loamy hollows, underlaid with blue gravel ; it is 

 an excellent soil for peach trees both to grow and 

 to bear ; it is situated high, commanding a view 

 of Boston and vicinity, yet it is mainly what 

 would be called a warm, sheltered location, on 

 account of the forests above it on the north-west. 



1 his orchard has blossomed repeatedly, yet no 

 fruit is obtained of any amount : for the fruit is 

 punctured in thesame manner as plums by the cur- 

 culio, but with not exactly the same results ; the 

 fruit, by means of the marks, if it holds on, be- 

 comes knotty as it grows, and consequently 

 wortliless ; the marks are already made to the 

 number, on some, of seven or eight, or more. 



There was a fine blossom this year, enough to 

 produce, were the trees on the plain, two hundred 

 barrels of fair fruit ; but with the operations of 

 those insects I do not expect hardly a single bar- 

 rel of handsome apples. 



Now can you or any of your able correspond- 

 ents give any light upon this subject, and tell me 

 whether I can ever expect fair apples on that soil 

 and location ? If things go on as they have tluis 

 far, the sooner I cut down the apple trees and set 

 out peach trees, the better. I should have re- 

 marked that the land has been kept under the 

 plow the whole time, and good crops of vegeta- 

 bles obtained. John P. AVyman. 

 West Cambridge, June 16, 1855. 



Remarks. — We have no doubt that the curcu 

 lio does puncture the apple. What the remedy is 

 to be we cannot say. Lime, plaster or ashes will 

 prevent their depredations on plum trees, but the 

 operation on an orchard, unless the trees were 

 quite small, would be too tedious and expensive. 

 Will correspondents enlighten us? 



TROUTIHG. 



We put into the bi'ook just below a smart 

 foamy fall. We have on cowhide shoes and other 

 rig suitable. Selecting an entrance we step in, 

 and the swift stream attacks our legs with im- 

 mense earnestness, threatening to take us off 

 from them. A few minutes will settle all that 

 and make us quite at home. The bottom of 

 the brook is not sand or gravel, but rocks of 

 every shape, every position, of all sizes, bare 

 or moss-covered. The stream goes over them 

 at the rate of ten miles an hour. The descent is 

 great. At every few rods cascades break over 

 ledges and boil up in miniature pools below. 

 The trees on either side shut out all direct rays 

 of the sun, and for the most part the bushes line 

 the banks so closely, and cast their arms over so 

 widely, that they create a twilight — not a gray 

 twiliglic losing its lustre, but a transparently 

 black twilight, which softens nothing, but gives 

 more ruggedness to the rocks, and a sombre as- 

 pect even to the shrubs and fairest flowers. 



It is a great matter to take a trout early in 



