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NEW ENGLAND FARINIER. 



Oct. 



MASSACHUSETTS AQ'L COLLEGE. 



Wo learn from the Amherst Record that the 

 new buildings will be ready for use at the 

 opening of the new year, Sept. 10th, and that 

 Prof. Miller and family have arrived from 

 Chicago. The Record also says : — 



Dr. Calvin Cattcr, well known before the war as 

 the author of Cutter's Physiology, and since, as 

 surgeon of the 21st Mass. Vols., and brigade and 

 division surgeon on the stafiFof the gallant General 

 Reno, will deliver a course of ten lectures to the 

 students of the College, during the next term, on 

 the "Laws of Health." 



Dr. Jabez Fisher of Fitchburg, a prominent 

 agriculturist of the State, and for many years a 

 member of the Board of Agriculture, will give ten 

 lectures upon "Market Gardening." 



Hon. Charles L. Flint, Secretary of the Board of 

 Agriculture, will deliver, in November next, a 

 course often lectures on "Dairy Farming." 



Hon. Marshall P. Wilder will lecture upon the 

 "Modes of Hybridizing and Improving ornamental 

 and useful plants." 



There will also be courses of lectures during the 

 fall and winter, upon Comparative Anatomy, the 

 Diseases of Domestic Animals, and Chemistry. 

 During the summer term, there will be lectures 

 upon Botany, Zoology, Organic Chemistry and 

 Agriculture. Besides which practical instruction 

 will be given in Book-keeping, Surveying, Analyt- 

 ical Chemistry and Drawing. 



For the New England Farmer, 

 "WESTERN FAKMINQ. 



Although I am not a farmer just now, I am 

 still interested in all that pertains to that occu- 

 pation. For more than twenty years I was 

 actively engaged as a farmer in what used to 

 be called the "Genesee Country," lying be- 

 tween the Genesee river and Buffalo. Ill 

 health made it necessary for me to change my 

 business. I changed my location from Wyo- 

 ming County, N. Y. (Warsaw,) to Maple- 

 wood, Mass, my present residence. I over- 

 worked, and was not careful to observe the laws 

 of life, as far as I understood them. This re- 

 sulted in one of the worjt forms of "nervous 

 dyspepsia," and so prostrated me that I was 

 of little use to myself or any body else, until 

 I. tried the "Turkish Baths" on Essex Street, 

 Boston. After having continued their use 

 over a year, I am now able to attend closely 

 to busness, besides doing considerable hard 

 labor. . 



One needs to go West and spend at least a 

 year among the farming community to have a 

 correct idea of western fanns and of western 

 farming. There is land on the "flats" of the 

 Genesee river that has been tilkd nearly or 

 quite one hundred years, and not ono bit of 

 manure has ever been used upon it, and is still 

 too rich, if anything. Gen James Wadsworth, 

 who fell in the battle of the Wilderness, owned 

 thousands of acres of just such land, and it 

 used to be said that he could travel from his 

 residence, (Geneseo,) to Rochester, on his 

 own lands, a distance of over twenty miles. 



Farmers west obtain very large returns for 



their labor, when properly applied. A man 

 and a boy of sixteen years of age would fre- 

 quently do the work on one hundred acres, 

 cultivating from twenty-five to forty acres of 

 winter wheat, with spring crops, such as oats, 

 barley, corn, potatoes and grass. This before 

 the mowing machines and reapers came into 

 use. With the help of only two boys, one 

 twelve and the other fifteen years of age, I 

 once had the care of 200 acres, with a harvest 

 of over 100 acres. Our ploughs were drawn 

 by three horses, rather than one, as we often 

 see here. 



Deep ploughing and good cultivation usually 

 gave us good returns. One hundred bushels 

 of shelled corn, 70 bushels of wheat, 100 of 

 oats, 75 of barley, or 600 of potatoes have 

 been raised upon an acre. The amount raised 

 from fifty acres, with only the ordinary man- 

 agement, was often astonishing. Since the 

 introduction of machinery, a large amount of 

 the hard labor is avoided. 



Millions of acres of land equally rich, wait 

 to be cultivated. And how strange that so 

 few of the young men of Massachusetts strike 

 out for a home and a competency, with all the 

 blessings attendant upon a rural and farming 

 life. Go on to this rich land, men and women 

 too, — for we have women farmers who claim 

 their "rights," don the "Turkish dress," 

 and work out of doors. A lady with two 

 daughters, near Buffalo, N. Y., carries on a 

 large farm with more than ordinary success. 

 They do their own ploughing, drive their team 

 to sow, reap and mow, with no regular man's 

 help, but with most perfect success. 



Emigrate, emigrate, then, ye homeless. 

 Don't regard it beneath your position to work 

 the soil. Look to the future good of this al- 

 ready great country, as well as to the improve- 

 ment of your own circumstances. In and 

 about our large cities, crime and immorality 

 are rampant. "Where shall the man be found 

 who fears to offend his God." Oh how many, 

 very many fall out by the way. Young men 

 and young women, as you value the prosper- 

 ity of your country and your own highest hap- 

 piness, escape from the immoral influences of 

 city life. Build you up a home where there 

 is little to excite the evil passions of men, and 

 where, with proper care, you may have health, 

 competence and as much enjoyment as can be 

 secured here below. Wm. F. Woodward. 



Maplewood, {Maiden,) Mass., \ 

 Aug. 17, 1868. . \ 



For the New EngJfind Farmer. 

 THE PEACOCK. 

 Your cut of the peacock in the Farjier ol 

 Aug. 15th, has a very striking resemblance to 

 tlie bird in question, and with the richly 

 changing hues, "which characterize their plum- 

 age, added, I think it would be true almost to 

 lite. But in reading the article below 1 can 

 but think you have, unwilliiigly it may be, 



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