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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 



which should be set into the ground two or three 

 inches deeper than they grew in the nursery 

 row, and after the soil becomes well settled 

 around them, they will not be too deep. It is 

 important to set a stake by the side of each 

 tree, on the side the prevailing winds come 

 from, to which the tree should be attached with 

 something that will not chafe the bark. No 

 man should trust to his hired help to remove 

 his young trees from the nursery, unless he 

 has diUerent help from what is usually found 

 on a farm. The life of a tree is in its roots, 

 and care should be taken to preserve as many 

 (especially the smaller roots,) as possible, 

 and all that are cut with the spade should be 

 cut off smoothly with a knife, in an oblique 

 direction, in order to allow them to grow on 

 and become perfect roots. If you are not 

 ready to set the trees, as soon as taken from 

 the nursery, take them to a shaded place and 

 "heel them in," throwing the earth well up 

 over portions of their trunks and branches, if 

 not too large, to prevent too great an evapora- 

 tion of the sap. The top of the tree should 

 be trimmed to correspond Avith its extent of 

 roots. Begin with the lower branches, and 

 end by shortening in such of the top branches 

 as may be necessary. o. T. 



Laiceville, Mass.', Feb., 18G8. 



Cheese from the Milk of Sheep. — The 

 January number of the Report of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, furnishes a curious state- 

 ment in explanation of the art and mystery of 

 "Roquefort cheese." It appears that in the 

 neighborhood of Roquefort, France, 8,000,000 

 pounds of cheese are made each year from 

 about 400,000 sheep of a native breed, which 

 are all that can be kept there. The factory is 

 called a cave, and is niched high up in the 

 rocky table land. The sheep are milked twice 

 a day. The milk stands a short time, is then 

 warmed and partly skimmed for butter, made 

 into cheese, sprinkled with wheat flour, inocu- 

 lated with a bit of old cheese, and carefully 

 deposited in the "cave." Either from some 

 peculiarity of feed or influence of the scent of 

 th'e cave, this cheese is inimitable, and other 

 sections near by have failed in all their at- 

 tempts to produce the genuine Roquefort 

 cheese. 



KANSAS COLLEGE GROUNDS. 



In June, 18G5, says the Kansas Farmer, 

 •Prof. Kelsey took charge of these grounds, 

 and forty acres were broken up. In 1866 he 

 planted nine bushels of osage orange seed, 

 8000 apple grafts, one bushel apple seed, one 

 peck elm, three bushels maple seed, and about 



40,000 little evergreens. In 1867, eight bush- 

 els osage orange seed, five bushels peach seed, 

 18,000 apple grafts, and a quantity of syca- 

 more, ash, and honey locust seed, and twenty- 

 five acres of black walnut, oak, hickory, ma- 

 ple, osage orange, cotton wood, white pine, 

 cedar, larch, arbor vitai, &c. About $1200 

 worth of trees and plants were sold last spring, 

 and probably $2000 worth will be sold this 

 spring. Already 250 acres are inclosed, and 

 preparations for fencing 640 acres are nearly 

 completed. Additional orchards, forests, hedge 

 seed, peach and apple grafts and seeds, and 

 several miles of hedge fence are to be put out 

 this spring. The trees have nearly all suc- 

 ceeded well, and the forests are in cultivated 

 ground and kept free of weeds. They have 

 cost $7 to $10 per acre, and are planted in 

 rows twelve feet apart, the trees In the row 

 one to two feet apart, and cultivated between 

 the rows. 



PERRY'S IMPROVED MOWER. 

 This machine, represented in our advertising 

 pages, was invented by Mr. John G. Perry, of 

 Kingston, R. I. It has two driving wheels, 

 the frame is made of wood, and it is claimed 

 that every part is made of the best material 

 and in the best manner ; that it will run slow 

 or quick, and do the work well ; that the ma- 

 chinery is simple and compact ; that it avoids 

 the noise common to other machines ; that it 

 is well adapted to uneven surfaces ; and that it 

 will mow around corners without stopping or 

 backing the team to start anew. Since its 

 invention it has been awarded the following 

 premiums : — 



Medals.— Rhode Island Society, 1866; World's 

 Fair, Paris, 1S67 ; 'Worcester County Association, 

 1866. 



Highest Prizes. — N. E. and Vermont Societies, 

 1866; N. E. and Rhode Island Societies, 1867; 

 also at Bristol Co.. Middlesex Co., Eastern Hamp- 

 den, and other Agricultural Fairs. 



Norfolk Agricultural Society". — At a 

 largely attended meeting of the sowety, March 

 25, the following gentlemen were elected o(Ii- 

 cers for the year : — 



Preszrfrnf— Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Dorchester. 



Vice Presidents— Hon. Amos A. Lawrence, Brook- 

 line; Hon. Otis C:uv, Foxboro' ; John Gardner, 

 Dcdh.am; Stephen W. Richardson, Franklin ; Eli- 

 jah Tucker. Milton ; Henry Grew. Dorchester. 



Corresponding and Recording Secretary— Henry 

 0. Hildreth, Dcdhani. 



Treasurer— C. C. Churchill, -Dedham. 



