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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Aug. 



of the other "professions."' Many of them are leave the "latch string out." You have really 

 not only conducting the operations of the garden, "jaar nobilefratrum'' in your associates, 

 but those of the farm, -with signal success. Well Cannot Mr. Hulbrook be induced to give us 

 may many of us look to them for examples even some such sketches of farms and farming as ho did 



infuld culture. 



For the New England Fariner. 



FAEMING IN OHIO. 



a few years since in the Albany Cultivator. To 

 my mind there is no agricultural reading of more 

 benefit to the young farmer and to men who have 

 left other occupations and become tillers of the 

 Two years since, I requested a sample of your f^'l' '-^'^^ere is no stimulous like good examples 



„ ,.,;i.u ,„i.;„u „^„ !.. i„-„^ „,:^.,„i, f!r> Po-lljct us have them, that others seeing their "good 



works" may "go and do likewise." We have 



heard muc'n during the last few years about Terra 



re. Of that I know but little. But when I 



papers with which you were kind enough to fa 

 vor me, and with which I was so well pleased that 

 I ordered the monthly, Avhose visits since liave]"'^'|™ 



been as regular as the changes of the moon, and. '"''-" , , ,, ,. ,, .,,, , , ,, 



whose contents have afibrded me no little satisfac- 1 «f '^" enormous hole the full width and depth 

 tion, and 1 trust profit. ?^ a spade excavated to receive a Iruit tree six leet 



I have often thought your teachings might ben- :^" height into which the refractory roots are 

 efit some of the farmers in this vicinity, and have^^^"^^^^^ \ t'^f ^PP^^^^'^^ of the nether portion of 

 sometimes been half tempted to make an efibrt in' '?/oarse boot, I think if that tree could speak, 

 vour behalf, l)ut when I reflected on the ungentle-; '/f f^^^* "^'^^flf ^^^ ^ 

 manly rebuffs I have been subjected to in soliciting ^ "//J^re. W hen 1 s 



names for papers of less magnitude and less '^"";^« n<^f^ ^^.^/'^^^^ . ., , ^ 



price, my zeal has abated and my heart failed me. ' '^^^^ can bo without t(Kiring it up, and as deep as 

 Who can be so extravagant as to suppose that an '"^ ^orse can draw it I think surely if that corn 

 economical farmer will pay out a whole dollar al^o^^^^ ^F'^^^' ^^s first words would be Terror Cul 

 year for a paper that is to counsel and advise him^'f^- ^^s^ you should bo terrified at the length 

 in his own "peculiar" occupations? Yet these ^f ^his talk I close giving you the same privilege 

 same men— some of them at least— can pay twice *'»« ^ '^'^y did Ins friend, to read itor not 



a discourse would be Tirror 

 see as I have seen, the plow 

 run as near the rows of corn after it has silked 



Yours, 

 Norwvlk, Ohio, 1854. 



J. D. BURDITT. 



or thrice as much for worthless things containing 

 miserable daubs, by some called comic pictures,! 

 and trashy readino; that no sensible reflecting man „ _ 77 , -r, ,.,, . ,, 



would read himseff, or furnish his family to read.! Remarks.— Keep on, friend Burditt, in the 

 Ask these men to become members of an agricul-|good cause, with a brave heart. Those men who 

 tural society, and with uplifted hands expressing' now "sky a copper," cannot all of them resist 

 "holy horror" they exckiim it is a gambling in-' 

 stitution ! Watch them a moment. Tlio first 

 doggery they reach they are ready to "sky a cop- 

 per," or odd and even for the "scoots." Ha tan 

 rebuking sin. If our agricultural societies would 

 agree to "stand treat" to all unsuccessful compet- 

 itors, they would no doubt add many to their 

 numbers though perhaps not much to their re- 

 spectability. Such men are not scarce iu these 

 "diggings" yet ; but thanks to the energy of bet- 

 tar men in difl'using information and introducing 

 improvements, their numbers are annually grow- 

 ing "beautifuil}' less." 



your influences — some of them will come over to 

 you and be as active as sky-larks yet. We hope 

 to hear from you again. 



For the Ifew England Farmer. 



WHAT NEXT? 



It is said the Indians have sown powder, expect- 

 ing to raise their own ammunition ; but what an 

 amusing story here is, for which the Poxtghkecp- 

 sie Journal Bt&nds responsible. b. 



A Rescue. — Not long since, while passing near 

 \Ve have qinto a flourishing society in this 'a sand bank, we saw a little boy shovelling sand 

 place, that has seen five summers, -Nyhich we think] with all his might, and upon nearer approach 

 has already been the means of doing much good, discovered two legs projecting upward, the body 

 There are some Durhams among us that would j almost buried out of sight. We were alarmed at 

 do no discredit to Old England, besides a hand- 1 such a spectacle, and lost no time in dragging the 



some sprinkling of Devon blood. We have some 

 Suflblk pigs that we are disposed to think are 

 about the right stripe, although they are not 

 "striped pigs." Of horses there are some good 

 ones, as Avell as some that need not be prais- 

 ed. There are representatives of several va- 

 rieties of sheej), Leiccsters, South Downs, and 

 Merinos, with and without the Cornwall and oth- 

 er finishes. We have some fine biddies too, 

 among them, some of them tall fellows that took 

 such a shocking bad cold coming across the big 

 water. Besides the stock enumerated we have 

 some railroad stock among us, and though I do 

 not much approve of fast nags, still there are an- 

 imals belonging to that stock that are somewhat 

 noted for their speed, and if you should take a no- 

 tion to ride out here some pleasant afternoon — 

 provided you can get a pass at Erie — though some 

 of us still live in rather a "primitive style," you 

 may be sure of a hearty welcome for we always 



little fellow from his perilous position, nearly ex- 

 hausted, where he could not have remained much 

 longer Avithout perishing. After the excitement 

 had pjrtially abated, we heard Tnm the boys the 

 pitiful reason for the act. It appeared there had 

 been three j^i^iyu^f^tcs, who had spent most of 

 their time together ; that one had removed to an- 

 other part of the village, leaving these two to pass 

 their play hours in what they considered solitude. 

 In order to remedy this, tliey formed a plan to 

 increase their number. It appeared simple to 

 them. One was to be planted, leaving his legs 

 out of the ground, from which two boys would 

 grow and restore their former number. The one 

 planted, had volunteered to be the victim of trans- 

 formation. His part was to dig the hole and 

 crawl in, and the other to cover him up. At first 

 they were indignant at our interference, but after 

 a familiar dissertation on cause and effect, •the 

 boys became reconciled to us, and promised they 



