1867. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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cause it cannot speak for joy and love, becomes a 

 mute quiet plant. When we find such a flower in 

 a solitary place, does it not seem as if everything 

 around was transfigured, and as if the little feath- 

 ered ones loved best to dwell in its vicinity ? Over 

 the whole dry world is flung this green mysterious 

 carpet of love. With every spring it is made new, 

 and its strange writing is only known to be beloved, 

 like the posies of the Orient. Forever will he read 

 and never read his fill ; and daily becomes aware 

 of new revelations of living nature. 



THE VEGETABLE GIRL. 



There is aa affluence of puns about the following verses by 

 Mat Taylor that reminds Us of Hood : 



Behind a market-stall, installed, 



I mark it every day, 

 Stands at her stand, the fairest girl 



I've met with at the bay ; 

 Her two lips are of cherry red. 



Her hands a pretty pair. 

 With such a pretty turn up nose. 



And lovely reddish hair. 



'Tis there she stands from morn till night. 



Her customers to please, 

 And to appease their appetites 



She sells them beans and peas. 

 Attracted by the glances from 



The apple of her eye. 

 And by her Chili apples, too, 



Each passer-by will buy. 



She stands upon her little feet. 



Throughout the livelong day, 

 And sells her celery and things — 



A big feat by the way. 

 She changes off her stock for change, 



Attending to each call ; 

 And when she has but one beet left, 



She says — "Now that beet's all I" 



UNITED STATES AGRICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The Fifth Annual Exhibition of the United 

 States Agricultural Society will be held on the spa- 

 cious grounds of the "South Western Agricultural 

 and Mechanical Association," at Louisville, Ken- 

 tucky, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 

 and Saturday, September 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th and 5th, 

 1857. g3* Announcements, that the Exhibition 

 will take place in October, are erroneous, and should 

 be corrected. 



Encouraged by the continued success of its form- 

 er exhibitions, and by the approbation of the Agri- 

 cultural community, the Society has offered a list 

 of Premiums to be awarded at Louisville, amount- 

 ing, in the aggregate, to Twelve Thousand Dollars, 

 for the various classes of Domestic Animals, Farm 

 Products, Fruits, Flowers, Native Wines, Agricul- 

 tural Implements, and Machinery. The Society's 

 National Trial of Implements will be continued at 

 Louisville. The awards of the jury, on the Mow- 

 ers and Reapers, tried at Syracuse, N. Y., will be 

 announced, and the machines tested will be on ex- 

 hibition. 



Local committees of citizens of Louisville have 

 been appointed to act with the officers of the Soci- 

 ety in perfecting arrangements, and Thirty Thous- 

 and Dollars have been guaranteed to meet expen- 

 ses. A magnificent Floral and Fruit Hall and a 



spacious Implement Hall have already been erect- 

 ed on the grounds. This valuable co-operation and 

 material aid, coupled with the excellence of the se- 

 lected location, and the large amount of premiums 

 offered, induces the expectation, that the exhibi- 

 tion of 1857 will be superior to any of its predeces- 

 sors. 



Favorable arrangements for the transportation 

 of Stock, and other articles, will be made with the 

 various railroads. 



The List of Entries, the awards of Premiums, 

 and the Proceedings, will be published in the 

 Journal of the Society for 1857. 



The Premium List, with the names of the Judges, 

 and the Regulations of the Exhibition, will be fur- 

 nished on application to Col. L. A. Whitely, As- 

 sistant Secretary of the United States Agricultural 

 Society, Louisville, Kentucky. 



Exhibitors of Agricultural Implements and Ma- 

 chinery can obtain any desired information by ad- 

 dressing Joseph E. Holmes, Superintendent, New- 

 ark, Ohio, until the 15th of August; after that 

 date, all communications must be addressed to 

 Louisville, Kentucky. If exhibitors delay their ap- 

 plications, it may be a matter of impossibility to 

 furnish steam-power, or to make arrangements to 

 test, in a thorough and satisfactory manner, the tar- 

 dy machines. 



Marshall P. Wilder, President. 



Ben: Perley Poore, Secretary. 



MEADOW MUCK. 



The value of muck as a fertilizing agent, is al- 

 ways in the precise ratio of the vegetable matter it 

 contains — all extraneous matters serving only to in- 

 crease the bulk without adding any percentage to 

 the fructifying energies of the mass, or increasing 

 its value as a stimulant of vegetable life. When, 

 however, it is added to tough, viscid and tenacious 

 clays, the admixture of sand may not be consid- 

 ered injurious, as the mechanical action of this 

 earth will tend to overcome the innate adhesive- 

 ness which characterizes such soils ; but as an ap- 

 plication for loamy lands, in which there is little 

 aluminous matter, the muck will be valuable in 

 proportion to the fibrous or decomposable vege- 

 table matter it contains. 



All muck, when taken from its bed, is possessed 

 of a certain degree of acidity, which renders it 

 necessary to mix it with lime or wood ashes to neu- 

 tralize the acidity before applying it to tiie soil. 

 This may also be effected by exposing it to the at- 

 mosphere, or to the action of frost, for a time ; or 

 it may be sweetened by mixing it with manure in 

 the yards or compost heap. 



Muck is a most valuable fertilizer, when proper- 

 ly managed, and the farmer who is so fortunate as 

 to possess the means of obtaining it in sufficient 

 quantity, may bring his lands to any degree of fer- 

 tility he desires, and at comparatively small cost. 

 For corn and potatoes, as well as for garden vege- 

 tables, muck is one of the most valuable stimulants 

 knowa. 



