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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Feb. 



soms during the mild days of v/inter, and perfect- 

 ing its fruit as soon in the spring as the weather 

 will permit. When fully ripe, the color is of a rich, 

 dark crimson. But its rich color, beautiful form, 

 magnificant size, and exquisite flavor, are not all its 

 recommendations; through its firmness and lack 

 of acidity, it bears transportation better than any 

 strawberry ever introduced." 



EXTRACTS AND REPLIES. 



IS IT GARGET? 



Mr. Editor : — I have a valuable cow, gentle, 

 and heretofore easy to milk. Within three weeks 

 there has seemed to be a growing up of one teat 

 so that it is almost impossible to draw the milk ; 

 there is no swelling or pain, excepting when pressed 

 very hard. I have tried various remedies. Can 

 you tell me, through your columns, of any remedy ? 



G n, Dec. 11, 1856. H. M. n. 



Remarks. — From your description we should 

 judge the difficulty to be occasioned by one form 

 of garget. In the October number of the Month- 

 ly Farmer for 1856, there is an article on this sub- 

 ject, to which you are referred. We should rec- 

 ommend washing the bag twice a day in cold wa- 

 ter, milking carefully twice or three times a day, 

 and give four drops of the tincture of Aconite, on a 

 piece of bread, or a little meal. Give the Aconite 

 morning and evening for three days. 



LARGE APPLES. 



I have been a reader of your paper for two years. 

 Every article upon fruit and fruit culture I have 

 carefully perused, and I take a great interest to 

 procure the best and largest apples that can be 

 found. Last week, being in the Philadelphia mar- 

 ket, I noticed a basket of the nicest and largest ap- 

 ples that I ever saw or heard of. I weighed three, 

 and they averaged 4 pounds and 2 ounces each. I 

 bought the lot that he had, paid him five dollars 

 per barrel. The next day I sold them to a New 

 York speculator for ten dollars a barrel. I cleared 

 fifty dollars on the trade. The man that raised the 

 apples resides twenty miles from this place, where 

 I have been to procure some scions, which I am to 

 set in my orchard, in the State of Maine, where I 

 reside. They are called Trunk Jlpple. The far- 

 mer that raised them said he had the only trees in 

 the State. The way they received their name was 

 this ; he had a son who fell overboard at sea and 

 drowned, and his chest was sent home ; in that 

 chest was an apple, partially eaten. For the pur- 

 pose of a living monument of that son, he took the 

 seed from the core and planted. Such is the his- 

 tory given me of the apple. I see no reason why 

 they cannot be raised in my own State. My opin- 

 ion is that one tree bearing freely is worth ten of 

 the common fruit which I have. 



Harrisbvrg, Dec. 8, 1856. S. D. Thompson. 



FERTILIZING LAND. 



On looking over the remarks of Mr. Choate, in 

 his Report on the farms of Essex, several pages 

 are devoted to fertilizing land. Much of the inter- 



tion of the writer, in withholding the names of 

 those who made the experiments. It is not enough 

 to know that Mr. A. or Mr. B. did so and so — but 

 we want to associate what was done with the per- 

 son who did it, and the place where it M-as done. 

 If we know the operator to possess a clear head 

 and unwavering veracity, we give full credit to what 

 he does, and his accounts, but if we do not know 

 this — the verv- feet of the name being withheld, casts 

 a suspicion over it. No doubt Mr. C. meant to 

 state things truly, as they came to his knowledge, 

 but many shrewd and wise men have been misled 

 in their judgment by artful pretenders. No man 

 need to be afraid co have told truly, what he has 

 done. The operations on the farm should not be 

 "hid under a bushel." *. 



DUST ON OLD CHEESE. 



Almost all who make cheese are troubled during 

 the summer with a fine dust, which collects on the 

 outside of old cheese only ; this is called cheese 

 mites, and is supposed to be alive. It is a remedy 

 for this th^t I would like to know ; and if you will 

 please to answer, you will greatly oblige 



Concord, 1856. An Old Subscriber. 



THE WAY TO CLEriN PICTURES. 



A subscriber in your last paper wishes informa- 

 tion in regard to cleansing oil paintings, &c. Hav- 

 ing a choice collection of paint'ngs myself, I was 

 in the dark as much as your subscriber, until I saw 

 an article advertised by Mr. A. S. Jordan, No. 191 

 Washington Street, which is superior to anything 

 I have ever seen, being cheeper, having a quicker 

 effect, is easily applied, and is not injurious in the 

 least. I can with confidence recommend it, as I 

 have now used it for the past six years, and have 

 saved a great many dollars in using it, instead of 

 resorting to professed picture cleaners. 



Yours respectfully, F. Austin. 



Boston, Dec, 1856. 



MILL POTATOES MIX IN THE TUBER? 



Mr. Editor : — A correspondent sometime since 

 had an article in the Farmer going to prove that 

 potatoes would not mix by the flower of the tuber, 

 but in seed flower only. I doubted whether his 

 theory would square with the fact at digging time, 

 or not, as it was contrary to all my experience in 

 such matters. It so happened that I had two va- 

 rieties, planted side by side, the Davis Seedling, and 

 the celebrated Gilly Flower, both hardy varieties, 

 and both in flower at the same time. 



I send you a specimen of the potatoes, that you 

 and others may see for themselves that they will 

 mix in the flower of the tuber, and persons who 

 wish to preserve their varieties pure must govern 

 themselves accordingly. > II. 



Concord, Mass. 



A FL\E FIELD OF BARLEy. 

 I sowed last spring two bushels of barley. The 

 wet kept it back for the first part of the season, but 

 the last part it came on and grew finely. I har- 

 vested from it 25 bushels, weighing 48 l!js. to the 

 bushel ; it being the greatest } ield that I have heard 

 of in this vicinitv. " E. H. Haggett. 



