1855. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



507 



left to heal, which it mil quickly do if the acid has 

 been used long enoua:h ; but if it docs not get -well, 

 apply the acid agam until it does cure, for it is ajsj^ai and beautiful 

 sure remedy, and will not fail if it is applied until 

 the diseased flesh is all burnt out. — Prairie Far- 

 mer. 



NOTHING LOST. 



Aside from its excellent moral, is not the following very mu- 



SAVE YOUR BEST SEEDS. 



Now is the time to be careful and save your 

 earliest and Ijest seeds. Most people are negligent 

 or dilatory in regard to this matter, and they are 

 forced to send to seed stores at planting time to 

 find something that will answer for seed. But how 

 often are they disappointed ! 



Save the earliest and best seeds. I\Iuch depends 

 on tliis. Our summers are not alwajs long enough 

 and hot enough for the rij)ening of that in\aluable 

 crop, Indian corn. We should therefore select the 

 earliest ears, and these are found mi the field, where 

 not half the ears have yet matured. 



By selecting the earliest from year to year we 

 gain a number of days, and when we already have a 

 lavorite kmd of corn, this is better than to send 

 annually to the North to procure earlier kinds, for 

 such are usually much smaller than that from wliich 

 we harvest our earliest crops. 



Pluck the I:)est ears while the corn is standing, 

 and as soon as they have turned hard, draw down 

 the husks and make a braid of them. Then string 

 up a dozen together in your corn-bam, and you will 

 not need to run to Boston or to a neighbor for 

 seed. 



White beans have now become an important 

 article in the market. We have not yet learned 

 that rot or disease has attacked them, and yet their 

 price in the market this season has exceeded four 

 dollars a bushel, four times as much as they Avere 

 sold for a few years ago. It is quite important to 

 procure early kinds of white beans, as thousands of 

 bushels are lost by the frosts of September. 



Teas also should be saved now and labelled, as it 



Nothing is lost : the drop of dew 

 Which tremt)les on the leaf or flower, 

 Is but exhaled to fall anew 

 In summer's thunder shower ; 

 Perchance to sparkle in the flow 

 Of fountains far away. 



Nothing is lost — the tiniest seed 



By wild birds borne or breezes blown, / 



Finds something suited to its need, 



Wherein 'tis sown and grown. 



The language of some household song. 



The perfume of some cherished flower. 



Though gone from outward sense, belong 



To Memory's after-hour. 



So with our words : or liarsh or kind. 



Uttered, they are not all forgot ; 



They have their influence on the mind, 



Pass on — but perish not. 



So with our deeds : for good or ill, 



They have their power scarce understood ; 



Then let us use our better will. 



To make them rife with good ! 



For the Neic England Fanner. 



SAVING SEED CORN-STOOKING CORN. 



Dbar Farmer : — As this is the season for har- 

 vesting corn, and I have a few leisure moments to 

 spare, I will give you my views upon this subject. 



1st. In selecting seed for next year's planting, 

 there are some facts, which, perhaps, are not gen- 

 erally known, or at least thought of. It is a law of 

 nature that like hegets, like in all the vegetable king- 

 dom. This being a fact, I base my remarks upon 

 it. Wherever you find a stock of corn that has two 

 ears on it, there you will find that the top ear is 

 from four to eight days earlier than the second, or 

 bottom ear; there bemg this ditl'erence in the set- 

 ting of the ears. JVbiv is the time to select the seed. 



is a long time to April and you* may forget the |.,ncl let everv /amer who reads this, go through his 

 kinds unless vou mark them. I he cost of a box fields of corn, and select one ear from stalks that 



■with several apartments is not great, and the time 

 saved is important, in addition to the confidence of 

 having good seed 



have two ears on them, always selecting the top ear, 

 provichng it is a sound one, and well filled out. By 

 going through the field before the corn is fully ri])e. 



Carrots, parsmps and turnips, often fiul for the the farmer can easily select ears that are from eight 

 want of good seed _ Tetany farmer may as cheaply [to ten davs earlier than the bulk of the field, 

 raise a supply for himse f as to run to seed stores Acting upon the fict that like begets like, the flir- 

 m the sprin- and buy he knows not what. It is' ,er not only gets seed that will in two or tiiree 

 rather surprising to see how many farmers resort L-ears, produce stalks that will grow two ^rood sound 

 to the city to buy seeds, when they can so easily i ^.^j-s, but he will advance his crop some ten davs; 

 save enough fi-om their own gardens. .,„d j,, this climate, where we have frosts sometimes 



In the reanng of apple and pear stocks it is im- i,^ August and the first of September, it is of vast im- 

 portant to sow good seeds only, or to use no seed- 1 pm-tance to the farmer to be able to advance his 

 lings to place m the nursery rows except those of J prop ten davs, thereby securing a sound crop. These 

 the first growth, for those that start up in the seed- 1 facts are self-evident ; they need no labored argu- 

 bed the second year come from poor and blasted [ment to make them plain, for tliey are perfectly re- 

 seeds, and never make vigorous stocks. , liable, and cannot be denied. There is quite a dif- 



Ihis IS the reason why we arc so often cheated ' fercnce in oi)inion among good farmers even, in re- 

 when we buy seedlings out of seed beds where ig^rd to harvesting the\'orn crop. Some contend 

 pomace has been sown to rear them. It is a better ; that it is the best wav to "toj) stalk" it, and when the 

 mode to sow only the full seeds instead of sowing; corn is sufiicientlv hard, to i)ick it. Others contend 

 pomace, m which there Avnll l)e as many blasted as ; that vou will ha've more corn to "cut it up," and 

 good seeds. Tomace maybe put in a large tub gtook'it. 



of water and l)eat up so as to let the best seeds fair' i,i this town, (Xorthfield, Mass.,) lioth ways have 

 to the bottom. Ihesc seeds must then be placed been thoroughly tested, and the prevaihiig opinion 

 m loam to keep them moist enough for vegetation, j ^ow is, that cut"up corn is not only the sa/hsl, l)ut, 

 Ihpy must be sown m the fall, m October, as well that the yield is from five to ten bushels^er acre 

 as in the spring.— P/oitg-Aman. ' lore than when the stalks are cut. 



