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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



in relation to the workings of this machine, we be- 

 lieve not to be exaggerated statements, as many have 

 supposed. Persons wishing for a more minute de- 

 scription of the above machine and its mode of op- 

 erating, are referred to an article published in our 

 paper on the first day of February last; also to an- 

 other article published June 21st. 



CATTLE SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS. 



New York State, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Sept., 

 at Rochester. 



American Institute, at Castle Garden, New York, 

 Oct. 1st, and will continue nearly through the 

 month. 



Ohio State Exhibition, Sept. 24th, 25th, 26th. 



Maryland State Exhibition, in Baltimore, Sept. 

 23d, 24th, 25th and 26th. 



Rhode Island State Agricultural, Horticultural 

 and Mechanical Exhibition, at Providence, Sept. 

 10th, 11th and 12th. 



Vermont State Exhibition, at Middlebury. 



New Hampshire State Exhibition, at Manches- 

 ter, early in Oct., and will continue three days. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Sept. 16lh, 

 17th and 18th. 



Worcester Horticultural Society, Sept. 17th, 

 18th and 19th. 



Worcester Cattle Show, Sept. 18th. 



Middlesex, Conn., Middletown, Oct. 1st, 2d and 

 3d. 



Bristol, at Taunton, Oct. 19th and 20th. The 

 exhibition of Stock on the 19th, and the Plough- 

 ing Match and Dinner on the 20th. 



Cattle Show and Ploughing Match, at Fitch- 

 burg, Sept. 25th. 



Hillsborough, at Amherst, Oct. 1st and 2d. 



Essex, at Salem, Sept. 25th. 



The annual Exhibition of the Middlesex Co. 

 Agricultural Society will be holden at Lowell, 

 Sept. 24lh. Simon Brown, Esq., Concord, Sec- 

 retary. 



The Secretaries of the several Agricultural 

 Societies are requested to forward us notice of 

 their time and place of meeting, for publication. 



BLUB STEM WINTER WHEAT. 

 W^e have already published that Mr. G. F. 

 Chandler, of Lancaster, raised, last year, eighty- 

 eight quarts of Blue Stem Wheat from one quart 

 of seed. He brought us a specimen of the grain, 

 in the head with straw. Its appearance was very 

 fine indeed. He now informs us that his crop of 

 this wheat is very fine this season. This crop on 

 one acre of rather light land was estimated at thir- 

 ty bushels. On a quarter of an acre of better land 

 he expects more than ten bushels. He remarks 

 that the grain is very plump and white, and he 

 considers it admirably adapted to this climate. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 THE CITY AND THE COUNTRY. 



Mr. Editor: — A late article in your paper is 

 full of sympathizing pity for the unfortunate resi- 

 dent of llie city. It is entitled, "The Season, the 

 City and the Country." It says — "Summer beau- 

 ty is around us — warm winds, cool dews, refresh- 

 ing streams, rich foliage, &c., all conspire to en- 

 joyment." Now, sir, I would ask, have we none 

 of these'? Have we not, in the delightful sea- 

 breeze, a substitute for warm winds'? Suppose 

 you do catch cold now and then, what of that? It's 

 nothing to those who are used to it. Cool dews, 

 we have sometimes, too. As to refreshing streams, 

 they abound in this city; if "J. B." doubts this, 

 let him walk up Washington Street, some morning 

 when the clerks are "playing" with the pure Co- 

 chituate, and he will change his opinion. To be 

 sure we have no shady woods, but a man may get 

 on the shady side of the street, and if he is a man 

 of strong imagination, he can fancy himself walk- 

 ing in some gloomy forest. Let "J. B." visit our 

 magnificent "Public Gaiden," and then speak of 

 the verdant flowers of the country. 



Further, he says — "The whispeiing insects on 

 the ground, the hum of bees among clover, — the 

 soft moon far above, awaken feelings which no- 

 thing but poetry can express; nay, reader, have 

 not poets ever been trying to give expression to 

 what is inexpressible?" Whispering insects, yes, 

 and those insects, who, not content with whisper- 

 ing, must "bore" you with their not angelic 

 tongues. Talk of the hum of bees among clover, 

 — have we not the majestic growl of the bears 

 and the deep bass of the bulls of State Street? 

 As the merchants in the city do not deal in poetry, 

 of course they must look upon the moon, if they 

 wish to express their feelings. The tailors of this 

 city can give expression to what is inexpressible, 

 if poets can't. 



Now hear him a little further. "But alas ! the 

 resident of the city hears little of rural sounds, 

 sees little of its beauty and feels less of its enjoy- 

 ment; what he hears he heeds not, and what he 

 imagines nmst come through the pages of the 

 novel, the stage scene," &c. How he weeps for 

 us ! Can anything be more agonizing than that 

 "alas!" If we have no rural sounds, no songs of 

 birds, we have their equivalent, our nocturnal con- 

 certs, the cat operas, withtheir pitcher-sending and 

 boot-stirring music. I do not know how much 

 othes see of rural beauty, but I have growing in my 

 attic window two luxuriant potato vines, and, as 

 yet, unmolested by that black bug. I think it will 

 be news to many of the dwellers of this city, that 

 they cannot exercise their imagination, unless 

 stimulated by the perusal of a yellow covered nov- 

 el, or by a visit to the theatre. 



Again! "Can- the ciiy soothe the woe-worn 

 spirit," &c. Can the country do it? Think you 

 the young mother, who has just placed her child in 

 the cold grave, would find her grief sooner as- 

 sauged in the country than in the city? He who 

 is eaten up with disease, can the country cure 

 him? Neither town nor country can promise hope 

 for the future, for no man knoweth of the mor- 

 row. 



Aud I think I am not the only one, among those 

 who visit our suburbs, who, judging from the 

 numerous gingerbread-work houses which have 



