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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 



great numbers — make jelly of them as fast as pos- 

 sible. 



Young Trees must not be allo-vYcd to retain 

 much fruit the first year or two of bearing. 



Striped Bugs. — Scatter a little yellow snuff 

 over the plants ■when the dew is on them — not too 

 much, or it will destroy the plants. 



The Curculio. — Sift lime dust or ashes over 

 the fruit when it is wet. 



McLCii about young trees, shrubs, currants, 

 gooseberries, or anything else you wish to keep 

 moist — this and deep plowing are the antidotes 

 for drought. These are a part of the geoponics 

 of the month , and if neglected now, you will scarce- 

 ly catch up with them thi^i year. 



HYBRIDIZING. 



The doctrine of the cross fertilization of vegeta- 

 bles, or the "mixing," as it is termed, of certain 

 varieties, is now too well understood to admit of 

 a question in any mind. We hear farmers fre- 

 quently contending that potatoes of different kinds 

 will "mix" the first season they are grown in the 

 immediate vicinity of each other. Thus the 

 white and colored varieties, although previously 

 grown at a distance from each other, if planted in 

 alternate rows, or hills, will produce a speckled 

 progeny. But this is not the case. Crossing, in 

 the vegetable as in the animal kingdom, can only 

 be brought about in the natural way — i. e., by 

 cross impregnation or fertilization. All plants and 

 vegetables of the same genus, whose period of 

 blossoming is identic, are susceptible of hybridiza- 

 tion in intermixture, by means, and through the 

 agency of blossoms, and in no other way. The 

 pistils of the blossoms of one variety receive the 

 fertilizing dust, or fecundating pollen, from the 

 stamens of the other, and the seed necessarily con- 

 tains the germ of the variety with which it has 

 become impregnated by the intermixture. 



In this way, a good kind of melon, squash, 

 pumpkin or cucumber, often has its valuable dis- 

 tinctive characteristics merged in those of some 

 less desirable kind, and vice versa. Indian corn 

 presents many varieties, and intermixtures are con- 

 sequently frequentjhere as in the culmiferous class. 

 The farmer should understand these things, in or- 

 der to proceed profitably with his labors. 



Acknowledgments. — Our acknowledgments arc 

 due the Commissioner of Patents, and to the Hon. 

 Tappan Wentwortu, at Washington, for sundry 

 parcels of seeds ; to IIenrv Clark, Esq., of Poult- 

 ney, Vt., for a copy of the Constitution, By-Laws, 

 list of officers and premiums of the Rutland Coun- 

 ty ,Vt., Agricultural Society ,for 1854, and Charles 



EMIGRANT AID COMPANY. 



An act of incorporation for a company bear- 

 ing this title, was granted at the recent session of 

 our State Legislature. At a meeting of the per- 

 sons named in the act, held on Friday, aswe learn 

 from the Traveller, a list of by-laws was reported, 

 the more important of which provide for an an- 

 nual meeting in Boston on the first Wednesday in 

 June, for the choice of officers, and that the Board 

 of Directors shall consist of not less than five nor 

 more than fifteen members. A report was sub- 

 mitted detailing the proposed plan of operation, 

 which is to aid emigrants to homes in the West, 

 and by so doing secure the Western territories to 

 freedom. The capital is not to exceed $5,000,000, 

 and in no single case assessments greater than 

 10 per cent, are to be called for. The corporators 

 believe that if the Company be organized at once, 

 as soon as the subscription to the stock amounts 

 to $1,000,000, the annual income to be derived 

 from that amount, and the subsequent subscrip- 

 tions maybe so appropriated as to render the most 

 essential service to the emigrant ; to plant a free 

 State in Kansas ; to the lasting advantage of the 

 Company, and to return a handsome profit to the 

 stockholders on their investment. The report 

 closed with recommending a meeting of the stock- 

 holders on the first Wednesday of June, for per- 

 manent organization, and arrangements were made 

 to have subscription books for the stock immedi- 

 ately opened. 



For the New England Farmer. 



POTATOES— WHEAT. 



Gent. : — Allow me to say to my farming 

 friends, a little spring wheat is worth trying for 

 ^/j/5 year, and when September comes, two or three 

 acres of winter wheat may do them infinite bene- 

 fit another year. Three acres to each fi.xrm will 

 bread the farmers of New England. 



In the various kinds of Jong potatoes, cut off 

 the end of S7nall eyes ; plant for the table and the 

 market, the body of the potato. Small eyes and 

 small potatoes must give a small yield, and finall 

 potatoes, to be consistent with nature. Please 

 try the experiment. Do you plant the tifs of 

 your corn'? Yours truly, u. p. 



New York, May 1th, 1854. 



To Preserve Fence Posts. — In so important a 

 branch of farming, we endeaver to give everything 

 that may have a beneficial tendency. A writer, 

 E. II., in the lixiral New-Yorker ,s.^eixks, confident- 

 ly of the following plan of preserving posts : — "I 

 prepare my posts for setting and then let them 

 season. I then take coal tar, and paint them with 

 three coats of the same. I paint the post from 

 about four inches above where they set in the 

 ground to the bottom, and the end that sets in 

 the ground also, — putting the paint on hot. A 

 gentleman informed me that he had known a fence 

 set in this way, that had stood forty years, and 



.^,>..,.vjixx.ux.uxcuouuiu.j. i«..o..,auuv.....u... ^^^_^^ ^^ permanent then as at first. I think this 

 W. Stewart, Esq., of Washington, for a copy of 1 ^. • ^ • ^^^^ cheaner than lime, and more 



the Census Returns of 1850. 



way IS easier 

 durable." 



