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liable, and condemns it at once. Thus after be- 

 ing introduced and highly recommended for fifteen 

 years, this fruit is not well tested, and we doubt 

 that it will ever be well tested, so that the general- 

 ity of fruit growers will know it? true merits and 

 demerits. 



Notwithstanding what we have said, we may, 

 in many cases, get valuable information on new 

 fruits with only a few year's experience, though a 

 longer time may be requisite to make a thorough 

 test. 



ACKNOWLEDG]VrE!NTS. 



From B. A. Rockwood, Ilulliston, apples for a 

 name. They are a variety not generally known in 

 this region. They are of a good size and fine ap- 

 pearance. Quality fine and pleasant. 



From Perez Fisher, Franklin, apples of medial 

 size, mostly red, tolerably fair and handsome, re- 

 markably tender, and of a fine aromatic flavor. It 

 is one of the finest varieties that we have tasted at 

 this season. In use in December and January. It 

 originated in Franklin. 



From W. M. Spear, Braintrce, Yt., apples 

 called Pippin, excellent for cooking. We think 

 this is identical with the Winter Pippin, cultivated 

 in some parts of Vermont, great grower and bearer. 

 Also Wilder Greening, a pretty good table apple, 

 fair and handsome, good grower and constant bearer. 



NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS. 



Dr. Lee's Address before the Hampshire, Hamp- 

 den and Franklin Agricultural Society, at North- 

 ampton, Oct. 10, 1850. Dr. Daniel Lee, of New 

 York, and now at the head of the Agricultural 

 Department of the Patent Office, Washington, has 

 done much to enlighten farming. His writings 

 are distinguished for their scientific and practical 

 bearing upon agriculture. 



Transactions of Worcesltr Agrknlttiral Socie/i/ 

 for the year 1850. It contains a short address by 

 Rev. Mr. Stacy, Reports of Committees, and 

 statements of applicants for premiums, embracing 

 a variety of useful matter, publislied in a neat and 

 compact form. 



Large Hogs. — Mr. J, D. Fisk, of Wahham, 

 raised two hogs, age 19 months, whicli weighed, 

 dressed, 650 and 617 lbs., kept in the usual man- 

 ner. They were to be seen last week at Stanley 

 & Whittier's market, at Waltliam, where speci- 

 mens of pork, as cut up, (7 inches in thickness, 

 clear,) can be seen at any time within a few days. 



'We are indebted to Col. J. W. Lincoln for 

 a list of Premiums offered by the Worcester Ag- 

 ricultural Society for 1851, to which we shall give 

 attention in due time. The Cattle Show will be 

 Sept. 18. 



For the New I'n^laiid Farmef. 

 HEALTH- 



How few know how to prize this blessing, the 

 most grateful and best gift of God to man. Little 

 do we think that without it, we should be indeed 

 miserable, and that life's pleasures would be turned 

 to pain, that no enjoyment remains for him who has 

 parted with this precious boon. Let us look around 

 us, and how few do we find enjoying perfect health. 

 One has the dyspepsia and another the scrofula, 

 and so on. These, with ten thousand other mala- 

 dies which afflict mankind, we have brought upon 

 ourselves by our own imprudence and neglect to the 

 laws of our being. Then let us study the laws of 

 health and live according to their precei)ts. Diet 

 exerts a most powerful influence upon the body, 

 modifying its powers and even exercising an effect 

 upon the mind. In reference to diet, quantity is of 

 as much importance as quality; if, therefore, we 

 wish to live temperate lives, we should especially 

 have a care not to overload the stomach, even if it 

 be with plain food. 



But little need be said upon the quality of the 

 tbod; it should be plain and easy of digestion, that 

 the stomach may not be taxed and its digestive pow- 

 ers impaired. All greasy, fatty substances should 

 |bc avoided, for they invariably tend to fill the blood 

 Iwith humors. Some contend that animal food is 

 I pernicious and was never intended for food; they 

 j advance imany strong arguments in support of this 

 I theory and have found many followers. Suffice it 

 jto say, that animal food can never injure the most 

 I delicate stomach; that is, we intend to say more 

 j than the same quantity of vegetable food. It is 

 certain, therefore, that an animal diet is not so 

 iuirtfiil as some of these supporters of Graham 

 have imagined. The Grahamite will probably re- 

 ply that he knows of persons with whom animal 

 tood actually disagrees; but we can assert there 

 are people with whom vegetable food disagrees. 



But we are no supporters of an entire ani- 

 mal diet, but believe that the food should con- 

 sist of a proper admixture of both. Bread has 

 been styled the staff of life, and so it most certain- 

 ly is; it has constituted a part of the food of the 

 human family for many ages, and thus it continues 

 to the present day. Flour bread is admitted on all 

 liands to be the most injurious to the digestive or- 

 igans, and its use should be avoided. It actually de- 

 stroys more than any one thing not directly, but 

 through the fatal power of dyspepsia and consump- 

 tion, which it produces. We are apt to swallow 

 our food too quickly, audit therefore can but be im- 

 perfectly masticated, so that the stomach cannot 

 perform its functions with perfection. We also 

 eat too much, thereby overloading the stomach, and 

 i hindering digestion in that way, beside filling the 

 blood with humors, which, if suffered to remain, 

 would cause a legion of diseases. Thus we see 

 that diseases of various kinds are brouglit into ex- 

 istence through our imi)rudence in eating, alone; 

 then is it not our duty to. avoid such practices as 

 are laying the foundation for our dissolution ? A 

 duty which, we owe to the great and benificent Cre- 

 ator of our bodies, who has fi)rmed them with such 

 consummate skill, and created us the lords of the 

 earth, stamped us in his own divine form and com- 

 petent to discharge the active duties of life. 



"Health alone can give ub zest;" 

 All wlio feel its power are blest; 



'Tis itself the heart's one treasure. 



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