1854. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMEK. 



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THE SUMMER ROSE APPLE. 



This apple {dotted line) is known not only by 

 the name above, but as Woolman's Early, and 

 Woolman's striped Harvest. Downing pronoun- 

 ces it a very pretty and very excellent apple, 

 highly esteemed as a desert fruit, and describes it 

 as follows: — "Fruit scarcely of medium size, 

 roundish. Skin smooth, rich waxen yellow, 

 streaked and blotched with a little red on the 

 sunny side. Stalk rather short, and slender, ca- 

 lyx closed, set in an even basin. Flesh tender, 

 abounding with sprightly juice. Ripens early in 

 August. 



Thomas says it is fine in all localities. Better 

 in quality for the table than Early Harvest, but 

 less productive. 



sense sort of people thought it odd that a philos- 

 oplier should degrade himself into a puddle-police- 

 man ; while Plutarch's most intimate friends, who 

 seem to have had a good deal of sarcastic humor, 

 delighted to remind him of the remarkably exal- 

 ted ofEce to which his genius had raised him. On 

 one of these occasions, the honest biographer made 

 a reply worthy to be adopted as the motto of all 

 sanitary reformers. "It is not for myself," said 

 he, "that I do these things, but for my country. 

 The usefulness takes off the disgrace; and the 

 meaner the office I sustain, the greater the com- 

 pliment I pay to the public.'' — The Common- 

 wealth ( Glasgow newspaper.) 



THE EARLY STRAWBERRY APPLE 



This apple (plain lines) is the American Red 

 Juneating of Manning. Thomas says it ripens 

 one to three weeks later than the Early Harvest 

 is productive and good in all localities. Cole says 

 it is a moderate grower and good bearer. Down- 

 ing says it is a beautiful variety, which is said to 

 have originated in the neighborhood of New York, 

 and appears in the markets there from July to 

 September. Its sprightly flavor, agreeable per- 

 fume, and fine appearance, place it among the 

 very finest summer apples. 



Fruit roundish, narrowing toward the eye. 

 Skin smooth and fair, finely striped and stained 

 with bright and dark red, on a yellowish white 

 ground. Stalk slender, and an inch and a half 

 long. 



The Father of Sanitary Refdrm. — About eigh- 

 teen hundred years ago, Plutarch discharged the 

 duties of "commissioner of sewers and public 

 buildings" in liie native city of Choeronea. The 

 very fashionalilc people sneered at the "commis- 

 sioner," and wondered that a gentleman should 

 stoop to anything so low ; the ordinary common 



For the New England Farmer. 



ITCH, OR SCAB, IN SHEEP. 



There are few diseases, perhaps, more generally 

 or more deservedly dreaded than the "scab." In 

 many sections of the country, where sheep hus- 

 bandry is pursued on an extensive scale, the losses 

 resulting from its prevalence, in years past, have 

 been immense. It is. indubitably, a contagious 

 disv,'ase, and while it is easily propagated by sim- 

 ple contact, is often communicated to animals that 

 have never been brought in collision with those 

 diseased. Like many of the virulent and loathe- 

 some diseases which have of late years astonished 

 mankind by their unheralded appearance, and per- 

 plexed medical men by their inveteracy, it may 

 well be called "a pestilence which walketh in 

 darkness ; " though we are not perhaps warrant- 

 ed in considering it strictly epidemic, though it 

 sometimes seems to be conveyed through the at- 

 mosphere, and particularly in those seasons when 

 there is a super-abundance of wet, and which are 

 generally unfavorable to sheep in various other 

 ways. The diagnoses and treatment of this trou- 

 blesome disease, are thus explained by one whose 

 experience in veterinary practice entitles Jiis opin- 

 ions and prescriptions in this, as well as in all oth- 

 er matters connected with his profession, to re- 

 spect : — 



"It is discovered by the animal's constantly rub- 

 bing or scratching itself, and making at the same 

 time a peculiar motion with the lips. The scabs 

 are sometimes dry and sometimes moist, and spread 

 very rapidly, though the animal continues healthy 

 in other respects, and generally more healthy than 

 before. Afterwards, however, the disorder be- 

 comes internal, the sheep becomes emaciated, and 

 dies from weakness and pain. If the scab is ob- 

 served at an early period, it may easily be cured, 

 or at least prevented from spreading. One of the 

 best remedies is a strong decoction of tobacco to 

 be applied to the diseased parts, after scratching 

 off the scabs with a comb or other instrument. — 

 The decoction of tobacco mixed with lime-water 

 and oil of vitriol, and used constantly for some 

 time, will generally effect a radical cure ; another 

 excellent remedy is a decoction of hellebore mixed 

 with vinegar, sulphur, and spirits of turpentine. 

 Internal remedies are of no use except wlien the 

 disorder has induced other complaints by weaken- 

 ing the general health." 



Sheep are no doubt greatly injured, oftentimes, 

 by confinement to low, wet pastures, where they 

 are forced to eat aquatic grasses, and repose on 

 damp and cold ground. It is generally well 

 known that the most favorable regions for sheep 



