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NEW ENGLAND FARMEE. 



Jan. 



"PLOW DEEP TO FIND THE GOLD." 



[The following song we rememberliaving seen in an English 

 journal some years since, but it is well adapted to this coun- 

 try at the present time.— Ed. O. Cclt.] 



Plow i!eep to find the gold, my boys I 



Plow deep to find the gold ! 

 The earth has treasures in her breast 



Unmeasured and untold. 



Clothe the mountain tops with trees, 



The sides with waving grain ; 

 TVhy bring over stormy seas 



What here we may obtain .'' 



Oh, Britain need not bring her bread 



From countries new or old. 

 Would she but give the plowshare speed 



And depth to find the gold I 



Earth is grateful to her sons 



For all their care and toil ; 

 Nothing yields such large returns 



As drained and deepened soil. 



Science lend thy kindly aid, 



Her riches to unfold ; 

 Moved by the plow or moved by spade, 



Stir deep to find the gold. 



Dig deep to find the gold, my boys ! 



Dig deep to find the gold'! 

 The earth hath treasures in her breast, 



Unmeasured and untold. 



EGSES IN THE WIHTEE. 



All roses will grow and flower well out of doors, 

 in the summer months ; but many cannot with- 

 stand the severity of our winters. Some are only 

 injured in their upper branches, as the Hybrid Per- 

 petuals ; while others, like the Tea and China roses, 

 are in general entirely destroyed. Some of the 

 China varieties are, however, exceptions to this 

 rule. Roses can easily be divided into two classes, 

 for garden culture — the first including those that 

 bear their flowers on the wood of the current year, 

 Of this class are all the ever-blooming varieties, 

 The killing of the preceding year's wood, does not 

 injure the blooming of this class, but in many cases 

 acts as a sort of natural pruning, that is more ben 

 eficial than otherwise. The second class always 

 produce their blossoms on wood ripened during the 



EXTRACTS AND REPLIES. 



now TO MAKE HEXS LAY. 



AVill you be kind enough to inform me what is 

 the best course to pursue, in order to make hens 

 lay during the winter ? G. vv. 



Worcesler, JVov. 24, ISoG. 



Remarks. — Provide them a warm, light, diy 

 place and not crowded. Give them easy access to 

 clean water, and a variety of food, such as corn, 

 corn and cob meal, into which are stirred a few 

 scraps, with boiling water in cold weather, togeth- 

 er with boiled potatoes, pounded oyster or clam 

 shells, gravel, pounded dry bones and oats, barley or 

 wheat, if convenient. But the corn, cob meal, po- 

 tatoes and scraps are the chief items. 



Under such treatment, we have never known any 

 breed of hens that did not lay liberally. 



now SHALL "WE CLEAN PICTLTIES ? 



Dear Sir : — I think you would do a kindness 

 to many of your subscribers, would you give them 

 a safe and economical method for cleansing engrav- 

 ings, but more especially oil paintings. This seems 

 a somewhat odd request to an agricultural paper, 

 but I gather from its tone that you are desirous to 

 meet the wants of your subscribers as far as is con- 

 sistent with the original tone of your paper. At 

 the risk of being a little tedious, let me explain how 

 my request is in any wise a proper one. 



You will agree with me that a picture is a pleasant 

 thing in a house — it recalls a friend, or a favorite 

 scene, or revives a dormant association, etc., to say 

 nothing of an air of elegance it gives to any house, 

 while speaking an audible language of the taste of 

 the possessor. 



Old pictures are fast finding their way to this 

 country from Europe ; they are almost invariably in 

 bad condition and very dirty ; among all this rubbish 

 there are some gems, as I can vouch for, for I have 

 a choice little collection, gathered during the last 

 ten years; one of these pictures, I bought for $13 

 in the morning and refused $150 for it in the after- 

 noon. I do not pretend to say that this will be 

 the fortune of many, what I do say is, that with- 

 out knowing it, we may often entertain an angei 



