1854. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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TOLMAN'S SWEETING. 



Sweet applos are fast becoming more highly 

 valued than they have been heretofore, both for 

 the table, and as food for swine and milch cows. 

 A great many experiments have been made with 

 them in feeding these animals, and have resulted 

 favorably. Boiled with pumpkins and mixed 

 with meal, they are excellent in fattening swine. 

 Fed judiciously to milch cows, they increase the 



milk, and keep the animalin a healthy condition. 

 Some persons value them as highly as they do 

 carrots for horses ; we know that horses are 

 fond of them, and see no reason why they may 

 not be profitably raised for that use. 



The sweeting figured above, according to Down- 

 ing's account of it, is scarcely second-rate as a ta- 

 ble fruit, but it is one of the most popular of the 

 orchard sorts, from its great productiveness, its 



value as food for swine and cattle, as well as for 

 baking. From nearly globular. Skin, when fully 

 ripe, whitish yellow, with a soft blush on one 

 side. Stalk rather long and slender, Inclining to 

 one side, and inserted in a rather wide, shallow, 

 but regular cavity. Calyx set in a small basin, 

 slightly depressed. Flesh quite white, rather 

 firm, fine-grained, with a rich, sweet flavor. No- 

 vember to April. This fruit, a native of Rhode 

 Island, considerably resembles the Danvers' Win- 

 ter Sweet of this State. 



OxEOFTiiE Horses. — "The Yankee Horse-Swap- 

 per in Old Kentucky" must have been put into 

 the "Drawer" with some ultimate design upon 

 the risibles of the readers of its multifarious con- 

 tents : 



The Kentuckian, ready for a trade, exchanges 

 his "Sorrel" for the pedler's "Old Grey:" but 

 finding the latter indisposed to move a peg after 

 he has secured him, he denounces the Yankee as 

 a swindler, who only laughs at and tantalizes him 

 in return. 



Presently the cute pedler mounts his prize, 

 but "Sorrel" is as immovable as the Mammoth 

 Cave. After trying a long time in vain to start 

 the obstinate animal, the Kentuckian console? 

 him with : 



"Stranger, you hn start him, ef you'll only 

 bring some shavin's and kindle a fire under him I 

 That's the way I get him going in the morn- 

 ings ! " 



For the yew England Farmtr. 



THE ONE ACRE FARM. 



OR, CURE rOR HARD TIMES. 

 BY ICHAEOD HOE. 



"How much land have you got here in your lot, 

 Mr. Briggs?" 



"I have one acre." 



"One acre! and here you are taking the New 

 England Farmer, the Cultivator, Hov€i/''s Maga- 

 zine and the Hortipilturist, and all because you 

 have one acre of ground ! How many such pa- 

 pers would you have to take if you had a hundred 

 acres?" 



"I shouldn't probably need any more than I 

 take now ; you know, Mr. Chapman, one can 'go 

 through with all the motions' on one acre as well 

 as on a hundred." 



"A man can throw away money without any, 

 if he has a mind to. For all the good you get 

 from such periodicals, you might as well, proba- 

 bly, throw the money they cost into the fire ; they 

 are nothing but humbugs." 



"I pay two dollars for the New England Far- 

 mer, one dollar for the Cultivator, three dollars 

 for the Horticulturist , and two dollars for Hovei/s 

 Magazine — in all eight dollars." 



"Eight dollars! cnongli to buy a 'tip-top' 

 barrel of flour, and a leg of bacon ; and then if 

 you read these periodicals, there is twice the 

 amount of the money spent in time reading 

 them." 



"I do usually read or hear read, almost eyery 

 word there is in them ; my boys and I take turaa 



