NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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ITALIAN DAMASK PLUM. 



As this plum is rather early, and a good bearer, 

 it is a very good variet)', particularly for the mar- 

 ket, as it comes in at a season when this fruit is 

 not very plenty. 



Medial size; nearly round; slightly flattened at 

 base; suture distinct, passing from base to top; 

 violet, changing to brown when very ripe; stalk 

 half an inch in length; slender; cavity small; flesh 

 yellowish-green, firm, sweet, high-flavored. Free- 

 stone. Last of August and into September. 



Middlesex, Ct., Agricultural Society. — We 

 have the show-bill of this association, containing 

 the list of premiums, regulations, and officers of 

 the society. The cattle show will be held at Mid- 

 dletown, Oct. 1, 2, and 3. Charles Hubbard, Pres- 

 ident; Linus Coe, Secretary. 



Indefinite. — A reader inquires "what will cure 

 poison internally." Now we do wish that those 

 who make inquiries would let us know what they 

 mean, and not be so indefinite. What poison docs 

 "A Reader" refer to? and does he refer to an inter- 

 nal poison, or to an internal remedy? 



Ancient Farming. — It is stated in an article on 

 this subject, in the July number of the London 

 Quarterly Review, that the average product of 

 wheat in the home provinces of Rome, in the 

 time of Varro, was 32 bushels to the acre, far 

 more than the present average in Britain, and 

 probably three times as much as that of the Unit- 

 ed States. 



For the Neu' Ensland Farmer. 



THS VETERINARY ART— POISONING 

 WITH WHITE LEAD. 



Mr. Cole: — Dear Sir — The veterinary art.which 

 has for its object the restoration from disease of some 

 of the mosi noble specimens of God's workmanship, 

 is at the present time most sadly neglected. How 

 long our citizens will suffer this most important 

 branch of study to be neglected, remains to be seen. 

 Judging from the rapid improvements that are daily 

 making in every other department of science and 

 skill, surely at no very distant day New England 

 will follow in the footsteps of the mother country, 

 and the sons of the former will be able to say that 

 America can boast of her veterinary colleges — that 

 as the car of progression rolls so gracefully over 

 her extensive territory, scattering in its train untold 

 blessings and converting the home of man into an 

 earthly paradise, that in the midst of such enjoy- 

 ments he is not unmindful of those who, though 

 our slaves, have common feelings with us. 



I need not remind you that the poor dumb brutes, 

 of whom I write, have common feelings with us — 

 that they think and reason as we do — that their fac- 

 ulties of perception differ not from ours, only in de- 

 gree. This is a familiar suliject to you. In your 

 editorial capacity you have furnished the world with 

 abundant evidence that you believe — 



"When crime is sentenced, man shall not 

 Go mirewardcii, because no tortured brute 

 Stands there accusing," 



and that — 



"Our Father careth when a sparrow dies." 



You have done much towards rescuing our do- 

 mestic animals from the barbarous and cruel modes 

 of medication hitlierto practiced by the '•'■hereditary^'' 

 horse and cattle doctors. 

 I I was led to make these remarks in view of the 



