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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 



CONTENTS OP THIS NUMBER. 



Calendar for September 393 



An Agricultural Exhibition in England 395 



Squirrels in the Woods — The Drought in Northern Vermont. 396 



The Nights — Are Lightning Rods Humbugs ? 397 



Death of Distinguished Agricultural Men 398 



State Agricultural Show in 1854 398 



Insects Destructive to Peaches 399 



Peach Failure — Monthly Farmer for August 399 



Ice Houses — Having a Trade 400 



Professor Mapes on the Culture of Carrots 401 



Wheat-Growing in Massachusetts 402 



Management ot the Horse 403 



Chapter on Husbandry — No. 2 404 



Lightning Rod 405 



Analysis of Soils — Elegant Ballad 40(5 



IIow to Use Meadow Jluck 400 



When Should Crops be Gathered 407 



Esq. Slidewell, or the Theoretical Farmer 408 



The White Daisy— Currant Wine 409 



deeding of Animals 409 



Time for Budding — AVeeds ! Weeds ! 411 



Farming a Huinlrt-d Years Ago 412 



Veterinary Hnnuj'upathy 413 



Training Youth to a Wrong Occupation 413 



The Farmer's Song — A Beautiful Picture 413 



A New Wind-Mill— Budding 414 



Attend the Fai.-s 415 



Machinery in Farming — Its Absolute Necessity 415 



Native Ornamental Trees 416 



Use and Influence of Light 416 



American Farmers in Palestine — The Swallows 418 



The Wheat Crop-^Feeding of Animals — Continued 419 



Think of Me 419 



Ice Houses — Chemistry and Farming 421 



Bots — Farmers on Poor Lands 422 



Progress and Improvement 423 



A Remedy for Scarlet Fever 423 



The Kansas Emigrant — Chess or Cheat — The Lampas 424 



Pasture Lands — Different Grasses 425 



Signs of Foul Weather — The Currant 426 



The Currant Crop in Zante 426 



Horticultural Operations for August — Bathing 427 



The War am the Linen Trade 428 



Winter Wheat 429 



Suburban Gardens 430 



Extracts and Replies 431 



Agricultural Implements — Destruction of Bushes 432 



Itch, or Scab, in Sheep. 433 



Agricultural Progress in Ohio 434 



Dying Seldom a Very Painful Process 436 



Lake Champlain Drought, Crops, &c 437 



Grape Wine — Hen Lice, &c 437 



Recipe for Making Grape Wine 437 



Singular Case of Instinct in a Ilorso 403 



Timely Paragraphs 438 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



The Robin 401 



Hickok's Patent Improved Cider Mill 417 



The Summer Rose Ajjple 433 



Fertilizers. 



BEST PERUVIAN GUANO. 

 Super-Phosphate of Lime. — "DeBurg's No. 1." 

 Poudrette, of the best (|uality. 



ground Plaster, suitable for agricultural purposes, 

 round Bone, Bone Dust and Burnt Bone. 

 Also, Grass Seeds ef reliable quality at the lowest market pri*e. 

 GEO. DAVENPORT, 

 5 Commercial, corner of Chatham Street, Boston. 

 Feb. 18, 1854. tf* 



Superior Imported St«ck. 



The subscriber offers for a limited period, 

 to allow the use of the following unrivalled 

 stock of cattle, to all persons wishing to 

 imjjrove their farm stock, who will agree 

 to rear the young. 

 Full Blood Alderney Bull "Major Jack 

 Downing," Full Blood .\yrshire Bull, "Washington," First Pre- 

 mium Mackay Boar, "Webster." 



W. G. LEWIS, 

 Lawn Farm, Framingham. 

 July 8, 1S54. tf 



Fruit and Ornaiiientai Trees. 



The proprietors offer for sale an extensive assort 

 merit of fruit and ornamental trees, comprising all 

 the choice standard varieties, for the Garden oi 

 Orchard ; also Currants, Gooseberries, Grape Vines 

 &c. 1000 Buckthorn and Arbor Vitae for Hedges. 

 S. & G. HYDE. 

 Newton Comer, March 18, 1854. w*tf 



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 & HORTICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, GARDEN and FIELD 

 SEEDS, &c., to their stock, comprising the largest and bjst as- 

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 low prices. 



Of PLOUGHS — we have the gr.atest variety of kinds and 

 sizes. 



Improved Sod Ploughs, for flat furrows — imiiroved Scotch 

 Ploughs for lapped furrows — improved Stubljle Ploughs, which 

 are especially adapted to deep tillage, or varying from 6 to 12 

 inches in depth. 



Self-sharpening, Hill Side, Sub-soil, Double Mould, Corn, Cot 

 ton and Rice Ploughs. 



Cylinder Hay Cutters, Smith's Patent Lever Gate, and others 

 Patent Corn Shellers, with and without Separators. Seed Sowers, 

 of various sizes and prices. Batchelder's patent Corn Planter, 

 improved . Fanning Mills of vari(ms sizes, Horse Powers, Thresh 

 ing Machines, Thermometer Churn, Dash Churn, Corn Planters, 

 together with almost every article wanted on the Plantation, 

 Farm or Garden. 



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Boston and Worcester, Mass., Jan. 1, 1853. tf. 



Homestead for Sale. 



My Farm contains pasturing enough to keep six 

 cows, and produces hay sufficient to winter twice 

 that number. It has a good share of the best of 

 tillage land, the soil being a sandy loam; and 8 or 

 10 acres are covered with wood and timber. There 

 are 70 acres in all. 



The buildings are a large one-story house, with finished cham- 

 bers, in good repair; two barns, one 28 by 44, the other 26 by 

 36; and a plenty of out-buildings. There is a pump for water 

 in the house, and an aqueduct at the barn. 



The i)lace produces Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Cherries, 

 Currants, &c., in abundance. It is situated ten miles from Man- 

 chester city, 4J from a depot on the •Wilton Railroad, and two 

 miles north-east from Amherst Village. 



To secure a ready purchaser to the above property, I offer to 

 sell the whole for $1650. JOHN W. BRUCE. 



Amherst, N.H., Aug. 19, 1S54. 5w^ 



