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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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best adapted to them ; on the dairy ; on the 

 preparation and application of manures ; on the 

 implements and machinery of the farm, and, in- 

 deed, nearly everything that has a bearing upon 

 either the internal or external interest of the 

 homestead. These are interspersed with such ar- 

 ticles as are supposed to interest female readers, 

 and others that would prove useful to the mechan- 

 ic and even the student. 



There are also some fifty engravings of stock,! 

 implements, utensils and machinery, many of 

 them engraved especially for this work, and em- 

 bellisliing and giving additional value to the 

 whole. 



NOTICE. 



The undersigned would inform his friends and 

 the public that he has disposed of his interest in 

 the New England Fanner to his late partner, Mr 

 Joel Nourse, who will adjust the affairs of the 

 concern . 



In retiring from the post which he has occupied 

 for the past four years, he would express his thanks 

 to his numerous friends and patrons, for their fa- 

 vors, and many kind w^ords of encouragement, and 

 would also say that he has lost none of his zeal 

 in the cause of agriculture-, and that it is not im- 

 probable that he may still continue to be engaged 

 in disseminating useful information upon the art 

 with which his tastes and interests are so inti- 

 mately connected. John Raynolds. 



Boston, Nov. IGth, 1854. 



NOTICE. 



Important changes will be made in the Montlily 

 Netv England Farmer, with the commencemeni. 

 of the new volume in January next. The size 

 and number of the pages will not be altered. 

 The work will be stitched and enclosed in a neat 

 cover, and the advertisements will be printed on a 

 separate sheet from the other portion of the 

 work, SQ that they will not be included in binding 

 the volume. The publisher has time only to 

 announce these changes, but he intends to make 

 the Neio England Farmer a first class magazine, 

 and hopes to receive that support from the public 

 which he will spare no effort to deserve. 



THE PUBLISHER TO HIS READERS. 



The readers of tliis paper will learn, from a 

 card in our advertising columns, that the firm of 

 Raynolds & Nourse has been dissolved, by mutual 

 consent, and that the undersigned has become the 

 sole proprietor of the weekly and monthly Fanner. 

 In announcing this change, the publisher will 

 take occasion to say, that he assumes the whole 

 burden of its management with the determination 

 that the paper shall not only maintain the posi- 

 tion it has already won, but that it shall attain to 

 a still higher character and a more commanding 

 inlluencc among the agricultural periodicals of 

 our country. The corps of office and associate ed- 

 itors who have conducted the paper for several 

 years "past, will continue their services, and will 

 still receive the aid of the numerous correspond- 

 ents whose pens have in times past imparted so 

 much value and interest to our columns. If a 

 sti'ong force of able writers, a li1_)eral outlay of 

 capital, and efficient business management, can 

 insure success in an enterprise of this kind, the 

 undersigned thinks he can pi'omise his readers that 

 the New England Fanner shall continue to be 

 known as an instructive, reliable and progressive 

 Agricultural and Family Newspaper. 



Boston, Nov. HJth. Joel Nocrse. . 



EXTRACTS AND REPLIES. 



Friend Erown : — I herewitli send a few apples 

 of two varieties which grew in my garden. The 

 sweet ones in particular, are considered very fine, 

 and I think them well worth}' of cultivation. I 

 have two trees, one of which bore five bushels in 

 1852, and the other bore none. This year the 

 latter bore well and the former had not an apple 

 on it. The tree is a thrifty grower and an abun- 

 dant bearer. The foliage is very thick and dark 

 colored ; the fruit- comes into season here in 10th 

 month, and it retained its flavor and kept well 

 last year until the first of 2nd monCh. I never 

 saw the apple in New England, though it may be 

 found there. I should like to know the name. 



The sour apples are now in their prime. The 

 samples are part of the produce of a graft in one 

 side of a tree. I had two busliels this year — not 

 quite so many last year. I think I never saw a 

 limb better loaded with fruit, nor one that pre- 

 sented a more beautiful appearance. Please give 

 th6 name. 



The samples are about an average for size and 

 quality. Hoping tliey will arrive safe and in good 

 condition, I remain thy friend, 



Levi Varney. 



Bloomfield, C. W., Uih mo. (J, 1854. 



Remarks. — The sweet apple is very fine, both 

 in appearance and flavor. It very nearly answers 

 the description of tiie Peach-Pond Sweet, a Duch- 

 ess County, N. Y., apple. It is a darker red than 

 the Peach-Pond usually presents, but the speci- 

 mens sent may be apples that wero exposed 

 to the full influences of the sun, which would 

 give them a high color. 



The sour apples are probaI)ly seedlings of tlie 

 locality where they are found, and only of third- 

 rate quality in flavor, but fine-looking. 



(! RAPES. — The use of grapes as an article of 

 food, is much recommended in case of consump- 

 tion. They contain a large quantity "of grape 

 sugar, tlie kind which most nearly resembles 

 milk sugar in its character and composition, 

 which is also useful for consumptives, it having a 

 great attraction for oxygen, and readily aflbrdmg 

 matci'ials for respir ation. 



■;^^ The numhor of persons employed directly by 

 the Boston uewspapei's is about 'JOO. 



