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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



March 



Onions. — Silver Skinned ; Potatoe ; Weth- 

 ersfield Red ; Top or Tree. 



Paksnu'S. — Hollow Crowned. 



Peas. — Tom Thumb ; Daniel O'Rouke ; 

 Princess ; Champion of England ; Black and 

 White Marrowfat. 



Peppers. — Bell; Squash; Sweet Mountain ; 

 Cayenne. 



Potatoes. — Early Goodrich ; Early Sebec ; 

 Peach Blows. 



RAnisiiES. — Long Scarlet Short Top ; Early 

 Scarlet Turnip. 



Rhubarb. — Linnseus ; Victoria. 



Spinach. — Round Leaved; Prickly New 

 Zealand. 



Squash. — Yellow, and White Bush Scal- 

 loped ; Summer Crook-neck ; Boston ; Mar- 

 row ; Hubbard ; Winter Crook-neck. 



Tomatoes. — Early Smooth Red; Tilden; 

 Red and Yellow Plum. 



Turnips. — Purple-top Strap-leaf; Early 

 Dutch ; Robertson's Golden Stone. 



Wm. H. White. 



South Windsor, Conn., Jan., 1868. 



LOAD BINDERS. 



A very simple, effective and quick way of 

 fastening i-foot wood upon a sled, not in gen- 

 eral use, is a roller or windlass at the back 

 end of the sled. An inch-and-a-half or two-inch 

 hole is bored horizontally into the rack or lad- 

 ders behind the back stake holes, then take a 

 round hard wood stick, four or five inches in 

 diameter, make a gudgeon on each end of it to 

 fit the holes bored in the rack or ladders ; or 

 instead of boring holes, iron staples can be 

 used on the under side of the rack or sled 

 body, which will hold the roller. Bore two or 

 three inch-and-a-half lever holes In this roller, 

 and you have a windlass similar to those used 

 by blacksmiths in shoeing cattle. When the 

 wood is placed upon the sled, fasten the bind- 

 ing chain tinnly to the front end of the sled, 

 and pass it over the middle of the load, fasten- 

 ing the other end to t>;e windlass, which being 

 turned, draws the chain with great force upon 

 the wood, so that not a stick can move until 

 the sled is upset, or the windlass loosened. 

 If the binding-chain becomes loose by jolting 

 the load on the road, you have only to turn 

 the windlass a little, and the chain is tight as 

 before. This is the quickest and most thor- 

 ough way of fastening loads of any kind upon 

 wagon or sled, and often saves the load from 

 turning over, by keeping it in place when on 

 sidling places. — N. E. Homestead. 



The Soldier Farmer. — We wonder, some- 

 times, if the much talked of Individual who, 

 after the grand march to the sea and the tri- 

 umph in Virginia, turned his sword into tlie 

 plow-share to demonstrate that a soldier made 

 a good citizen farmer, don't often have curi- 

 ous thoughts. As he tramps after the plow 



does he ever try to make the horses catch the 

 step; as he sees a butternut stained "wamus" 

 slipping with somebody inside of it, down his 

 fence, don't he often want to shoot ; as he 

 searches after truant hogs in the woods, does 

 he ever fancy he is out bumming ; as he hears 

 Bettie sing out in country style, the stirring 

 trills of a National air, does he ever want to 

 come to a shoulder arms and salute the flag ; 

 as he puts on the old blue overcoat, does he 

 look for the bullet holes in it, and think of Joe 

 and Phil who fell by his side ; does the dinner- 

 horn sound to him anything like the army bu- 

 gle shouting a halt ; and doesn't he thank God 

 that he was a soldier and that he is a farmer. 

 — Farmer''s Chronicle. 



From Dr. Holland's poem, ''Kathrina," just published 

 by Charles Scribner & Co. 



A KEFLECTION. 



Oh I not by bread alone is manhood nourlBhed 



To its supreme estate I 

 By every work of God have lived and flourished 



The good men and the great. 

 Ay, not by bread alone I 



"Oh I not by bread alone I" the sweet rose, breathing 



In throbs of perfume speaks, 

 "But m.vriad hands, in earth and air, are wreathing 



The bluPhes for my cheeks. 

 Ay, not by bread alone 1" 



"Oh ! not by bread alone I" proclaims in thunder 



The old oak from his crest; 

 "But suns and storms upon me, and deep under, 



The locks in which I rest. 

 Ay, not by bread alone I" 



"Oh 1 not by bread alone I" the truth flies singing 



In voices of the birds ; 

 And from a thousand pastured hills is ringing 



The answer of the herds : 

 "Ay, not by bread alone I" 



Oh ! not by bread alone I for life and being 



Are finely complex all, 

 And increment, with element agreeing, 



Must feed them or they fall, 

 Ay, not by bread alone I 



Oh I not by love alone, though strongest, purest, 



That ever swayed the heart : 

 For strongest passion evermore the surest 



Defrauds each manly part. 

 Ay, not by love alone I 



Oh 1 not by love alone is power engendered: 



Until within the soul 

 The gift of every motive has been rendered, 



It is not strong and whole. 

 Ay, not by love alone I 



Oh I not by love in manhood nourished 



To its supreme estate; 

 By every word of God have lived and flourished 



The good men and the great. 

 Ay, not by love alone I 



— A. II. Mills, of Middlchury, Vt., gives th&fol- 

 lowing directions for leading wild animals. Pass 

 a strap or rope around the animal just back of his 

 fore-legs, then tie one end of a long rope to one 

 fore-foot, pass it up through the girtli, and back 

 through between his hind legs, and a boy of 12 

 years at the end of the rope will manage the wild- 

 est bullock with ease. 



