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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Dec. 



turn become the prey of other fish, and 

 millions on millions are destroyed in that way. 

 Scarcely more than one in a hundred fish eggs 

 escape all these perils long enough to reach 

 maturity. With tlie stock that is taken care 

 ol" by the fish culturist it is flifierent. When, 

 at the proper season, he has procured his 

 spawn, he has his troughs, his ponds, and his 

 sheltered streams, which guard his young 

 crop from nearly all their perils. When he 

 puts a thousand eggs of the salmon or the 

 trout into his hatching troughs, he is pretty 

 sure to get eight hundred young fish from 

 them. This gives the artificial culture a great 

 advantage over the natural supply. As there 

 is scarcely a month in the year in which the 

 fish of some genus is not spawning, there is a 

 constant opportunity for engaging in the work. 

 The French Government is making every ef- 

 fort to extend the culture as a branch of na- 

 tional industry. In that country, the artificial 

 fish ponds of Doombes extend over thirty 

 acres. All kinds of streams and waters are 

 stocked from them with fish suitable to their 

 peculiarities; and this is done under super- 

 vision of experts appointed by the Govern- 

 ment. Spawn and young fish, of carp, perch, 

 eels and pike, are sent to lakes, ponds and slug- 

 gish streams, trout to the cool and bounding 

 brooks, and salmon to the clear, swift-running 

 rivers. There it is a great and wonderfully 

 successful enterprise, and it seems destined to 

 become so here. There is no difficulty in se- 

 curing spawn, and none in getting the proper 

 instruction for treating it, or for any branch 

 of the culture. Mr. Thaddeus Norris, one of 

 the most successful fish culturists in this coun- 

 try, has just issued a complete treatise on the 

 subject, in which he imparts the teachings of 

 ais experience. — Philadelphia Ledger. 



Feeding Sheep for Mamure. — One of 

 our nurserymen sent a man to Michigan to 

 buy sheep to fatten this winter. He bought 

 400 good wethers, three and four year-olds, 

 that average about 95 lbs. each, at a cost here 

 of $3.10. His object is, to make manure. He 

 gets about a load of manure to a sheep, 

 worth $4.00 or $5.00. He bas adopted this 

 plan three or four years, and Lis land already 

 shows the ellect. He thinks it far better ma- 

 nure than that which he draws from the city. 

 1 told him if he would use oil-cake instead of 

 corn the manure would be richer still. There 

 will be a great many damaged beans this year, 

 which, if not mouldy, can be fed to sheep 

 with advantage. And the manure from beans 

 or peas is nearly as rich as that from oil-cake. 

 — J. Harris, in Agriculturist. 



— The Longworth Cincinnati prize for the best 

 wine grapes, for the whole country, was given to 

 Ives's Seedling and the Concord; for the best 

 table grape to the Concord. 





From the New York Ledger. 

 TO THE AUTUMN" FLOWERS. 



BY ALICE GARY. 



Tread ligViHy, little bird, tread lightlior yet — 

 Mist-like across the.graps yo ivies creep, 



And in your time, O vioUt-*, tofily si't 



Your bloesoms on their stoms, and noftly weep 



The rainy tears ye cannot all repress — 



She walks among ye yet, though shadowlees. 



And by her death, and lovely livirg days, 

 And by her slumber in among ye now, 



I charge ye that >e Imitate her ways; 

 Unto the will of heaven submissive bow. 



And give your charities of sweetnces forth, 



To bless some Uttle sunless place of earth. 



She loved ye ■jyell, and all her morns and eves 

 For your sweet company her house forsook; 



The lowest whisper of the trembling leaves, 

 The wildest prattle of the woodl.nd brook 



She could interpret by that sense divine, 



That understands whatever things are fine. 



Often the rose would keep her summsr state 

 Despite the frost that did her cruel wrong. 



And like a sister at the valley gate 

 Wait to salute her as she passed along: 



Often the meadow clover lightly b; nt 



Her slender neck to see the way she went. 



But she has left ye now, ye wildlings sweet, 

 For sweeter company than ye could be : 



The quiet music of her quiet feet 

 Has dropt to silence, and her family 



Of flowery folk must gather round her place 



Of sleep, and turn their faces to her face. 



HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. 



CONTRIBUTED FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMEB. 



Hye Breakfast Cakes. 



Two cups of buttermilk ; a teaspcoonful of 

 soda ; a little salt, and one well beaten egg. 

 Mix to a thick batter with rye flour and corn 

 meal, in the proportion of one part corn meal 

 and three parts rye flour. Beat well and bake 

 in cups or roll pans. The corn meal makes 

 them tender. 



Milk Toast. ' 



Toast stale bread to a nice brown, and 

 spread with butter ; lay it in a deep dish and 

 pour over it enough boiling milk to cover it. 

 If necessary put a little salt in the milk. 

 Milk is boiled or scalded best by placing it iu 

 a tin vessel over boiling water. 

 Fish Hash. 



Soak nice white cod-fish in luke-warm water 

 about half an hour ; pick it free from bones 

 and add boiled potatoes in the proportion of a 

 quart of potatoes to a pound of fish ; chop it 

 fine and put the mixture in a pan over the fire, 

 with a cup of milk and a small piece of butter. 

 Beat it, while heating, five minutes. 



