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NEW ENGLAND .AJIMER. 



Aug. 



manure. But, if your land requires ditching, and 

 you do not want manure, nevertheless ditch ! One 

 of our associates, now in "Merrie England," has 

 set forth eloquently, in line upon line, and precept 

 upon precept, the great advantages of draining 

 land —we only say now is the time to do it. 



You have harvested your oats we presume this 

 is the month in which to seed down the land where 



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they grew, if it was not seeded m the sprmg. "He ^^^^ ^f ^^^ fl^^j. j,, ^^^^ jf j^ retains the 



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colored tint, it is a good sign. If it is very white, 

 with a-bluish cast, or with black, specks in it, the 

 flour is not good. 2. Examine its adhesiveness ; 

 wet and knead a little of it between the fingers ; if 

 it works dry and elastic it is good; jf it works soft 

 and sticky it is poor. Flour made from spring 

 wheat is likely to be sticky. 3. Throw a little 

 lump of dry flour against a dry, smooth, perpendic- 

 ular surface; if it adheres in a lump, the flour has 

 life in it ; if it falls like powder it is bad. 



that sows not neithershall he reap" — that is Scrip- 

 ture, and a self-evident truth into the bargain — and 

 if you sow judiciously now, next year you shall 

 reap or moic, as we men of to day express it, abun- 

 dantly. 



All sorts of summer work appropriate to the 

 dryest time of the year, should be done in August ; 

 and if your well has "gin eout," this is the very 

 time to deepen it ! 



Finish your haying, and pay special attention to 

 your crops in the ground if you expect a plenteous 

 harvest. 



Look carefully about your premises and see that 

 everything is in order ; "a place for everything, and 

 everything in its place," ought to be the motto of 

 every farmer, and not only the month of August, 

 but every month, and every day of every month, is 

 the time to see to thi-. 



HOW TO GET CHEAP TURNIPS. 



Turnips are coming more and more into use 

 among us for feeding stock, and it becomes a ques- 

 tion how to produce them at the least cost. Even 

 the white fleshed field turnips are valuable for feed- 

 ing in winter, and a stock of them judiciously fed 

 tells a good story, in milk or in beef. 



We tried an experiment with the cow horn tur- 

 nip, as a second crop after corn, the past summer. 

 The corn consisted of about one acre, had been ma- 

 nured with fish applied to the growing crop in 

 June, and yielded about sixty bushels to the acre. 

 The sod was in good heart, but not highly ma- 

 nured. The seed was sown aithe last hoeing, ear- 

 ly in August. As the ground was shaded by the 



shape given it by pressure, that, too, is a good sign. 

 Flour that will stand all these tests, it is safe to 

 buy. These modes were given by old flour deal- 

 ers, and we make no apology for printing them, as 

 they pertain to a matter which concerns everybody, 

 namely; the quality of that which is "the staff of 

 life." — Ohio Farmer. 



For the Neza England Farmer. 



CUCUMBER BUG. 



Dr. Heckerman writes: "Most gardeners are 

 very much annoyed by these bugs, which prey upon 

 the cucumber, melon, pumpkin and squash — the 

 latter being its favorite. Various plans have been 

 devised for their protection, such as soot, Szc. A 

 method which I have practised with nearly entire 

 success, is to form a mixture of equal parts of fine- 

 ly ground black pepper and wheat flour, and dust 

 the plants while the dew is upon them with this 

 mixture, using an ordinary flour or pepper box. It 

 is a fact generally known, that black pepper is so 

 obnoxious to most insects that few will approach 

 or stay in its presence. The object of the flour is 

 to combine with the pepper, and with the water 

 and dew to form a paste, which will adhere to the 

 leaves for many days unless washed off" by heavy 

 rains, in which case the application should be re- 

 newed." 



But by way of improvement, I would recommend 

 sulphur (having used it with considerable success 

 for a number of years) instead of flour. It would 

 combine with pepper in the same manner as flour. 



and in itself be very offensive to the bugs. 

 TFest Townsend, June 18, 1857. 



E. B. 



WoKMY Apples. — Elihu Cross writes as follows 

 corn, the turnip, seed came up well, and the young [to the Country Gentleman. 



plants made good progress even in dry weather, 

 About the middle of September the corn was cut 

 up and put in shocks. The turnips having full ad- 

 vantage of the sun, came on rapidly, and by the 

 middle of October had made roots tvvo or three 

 inches in diameter and a foot in length. We thinned 

 them, taking off about fi.fty bushels, and a final 

 gathering the last of November of over fifty bush- 

 els more. The whole expense of raising them was 

 the harvesting, which we estimate at four dollars. 



Turnips at four cents a bushel are a cheap fod- 

 der. The seed sowing was trusted to an inexperi- 

 enced hand, or the yield would have been much 

 larger. Full one-third of the field was vacant. 

 We think this the cheapest way of raising turnips, 

 and propose to follow it until we find a better. — 

 Boston Courier, 



How TO Select Floue.— 1. Look at its color; 

 if it is white, with a slightly yellowish or straw 



"Having been troubled with wormy apples for 

 the last fifteen years, I thought I would try an ex- 

 periment on one tree this season, to see if I could 

 not stop these marauders in their wild career. I 

 took half a dozen quart porter bottles, and filled 

 each full of sweetened water. I then suspended 

 them from the branches of the tree in the follow- 

 ing manner : I tied leather straps three-fourths of 

 an inch wide around the branches to prevent them 

 from being girdled ; to these leather straps I tied 

 hemp strings, to which I attached the bottles, leav- 

 ing them open to allow millers to enter. I let the 

 bottles remain in this situation five or six weeks, 

 and on taking them down and emptying them, I 

 found the millers had entered in numbers, and 

 were drowned in the liquid. In one bottle I count- 

 ed fifteen — in another forty. 



I had twelve bushels of sound, wormless apples, 

 while the fruit on other trees not experimented 

 upon was wormy." 



