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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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in the Farmer, of April 11th, is a statement that 

 this machine drew the premium of .f 1000, from 

 the Massachusetts Society, last season, and in the 

 paper of May 9th is stated that the judges had no 

 hesitation in awarding the above premium to the 

 Heath machine. The two articles above referred 

 to are all we have about said machine. We are 

 not told how to communicate with the proprietor, 

 and wish to know on what points this machine is 

 better than the others ; also, the price and chance 

 to obtain one or more machines. Please give me 

 all the information you can on this subject. 

 Middlehury, Vt., 1857. W. F. Goodrich. 



Remarks. — Heath's mower is manufactured by 

 Nourse, Mason & Co., Boston, who will be glad to 

 give our correspondent all the information he de- 

 tires — price about $110. 



BUTTER-WORKER. 



Will you inform me through the columns of the 

 Farmer, if there is a machine for sale in Boston 

 for working the butter-milk from butter after 

 churning? If so, please give price and place where 

 it can be obtained. 



Pelerboro', JV. H., June 29, 1857. 



Remarks. — Yes, plenty of them at all the agri- 

 cultural ware-rooms. There are two or three kinds, 

 the cljindrical and lever; the price we do not 

 know ; they are not expensive, however. 



WHAT IS THE BEST LATE PEACH ? 



Mr. Editor : — Will you, or some one of your 

 correspondents, please to inform me through the 

 Farmer which is the most profitable kind of late 

 peaches ? I wish to get a kind which produces 

 abundant crops of good quality, and which is also 

 hardy and vigorous. The late Crawford is a good 

 peach, but does not bear well enough to be profita- 

 ble ; Ward's Freestone is highly recommended in 

 Eliot's Fruit Book. Is that a productive variety, 

 and if so, where can it be obtained ? Do you know 

 of a better kind of early apricot than the Early 

 Golden ? 



An Old Subscriber. 



Fitchburg, July, 1857. 



CONES OF THE ENGLISH LARCH. 



Will you or some of your numerous readers in- 

 form me if the cones of the English larch should be 

 removed, and at what season of the year ? Upon 

 a fine tree which has heretofore borne very few, 

 they now hang in clusters of eight and ten — the 

 branches already bending with their weight. A. 



A FINE COW. 



I have a cow which makes twenty-six pounds of 

 butter a week, and gives ihirty-four pounds of milk 

 at one milking! Beat this who can. I have been 

 offered eighty dollars for her, but three cows would 

 not replace her. This cow is of the Twist breed, 

 so called in the north-east part of the town. 



HoUis, July 3, 1857. Gaius Wright. 



HORSES that will JUMP. 



Can you, or any of your numerous readers, inform 

 me of the best method of preventing horses from 

 jumping, when fetters will not stop them ? 



Goffslotcn, June, 1857. J. w. 



the DAVIS SEEDLING POTATO. 



A few weeks since, my neighbor, T. Peaslee, (a 

 name not entirely unknown to the admirers of good 

 crops,) proposed to bring me a specimen of this va- 

 riety of potato — of which he raisi d last year more 

 than two hundred bushels. He accordingly brought 

 me a bushel, and generously presented them for 

 trial. I found them first-rate. My family think 

 them better than any we have had the past year. 



July 1, 1857. \*. 



EVERGREENS ON LAND. 



Will you, or some one that knows, inform me 

 through your columns, how I can get rid of ever- 

 greens upon my land ? The land is in grass, and is 

 rather wet for plowing. The more I try to kill it, 

 the better it lives, and seems determined to live for- 

 ever. A Subscriber. 



Hinsdale, June, 1857. 



The Crops in Maine. — Our exchanges in Maine 

 all concur in representing the present appearance 

 of crops in that State as, on the whole, vei'y prom- 

 ising. Of hay there will be a good crop, and wheat 

 and other small grains look well. Potatoes are in 

 excellent condition, but August, which is the criti- 

 cal month with this crop in the matter of rot, may 

 disappoint expectations. Corn is doing well, but 

 fears are expressed lest the frosts should set in be- 

 fore the crop is matured. 



BOYS' DEPARTMENT. 



EDUCATION or BOYS. 



A merchant lately having occasion for a clerk, ad- 

 vertised, and several presented themselves, among 

 them a well-dressed, handsome youth, who favora- 

 bly impressed him, and whom he thought of tak- 

 ing on trial. But when he asked the lad to write, the 

 awkward chirography convinced him that, however 

 else the boy might suit, his penmanship would not 

 answer. He then called up another, whose appear- 

 ance likewise betokened comparatively wealthy pa- 

 rentage, and gave him a calculation to make. But 

 the fractions were too much for this aspirant. At 

 last, he picked out a neat, but economically dressed 

 lad, who said he had been educated at the High 

 School, and who was evidently the child of parents 

 in but moderate circumstances. This boy prompt- 

 ly passed the ordeal. The merchant has now had 

 the youth in his employment, for a considerable 

 period, and says, in commenting on the occurrence, 

 "he will probably be on the high read to fortune 

 in ten years, while those two other lads, with their 

 originally superior advantages, will be getting 

 poorer and poorer continually." 



Now whose is the fault ? To some extent, doubt- 

 less, it is that of the lads ; but their parents are 

 not entirely blameless, either. Man is naturally a 

 vagrant animal. Not one out of five loves work 

 in the first place, for work's sake, merely. It is 

 necessary to take the child almost as soon as he 

 ceases to be an infant, and begin to educate him 

 for the part he has to pliy in life. Parents cannot 

 inculcate on their offspring too early, that, if they 

 would be prosperous and happy, they must learn 



