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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



CATTLE SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS. 



AYithin a few years, throughout the most enter- 

 prising' part of our country, many new agricultural, 

 horticultural and mechanical societies have been 

 formed, and their exhibitions have been of a beau- 

 tiful and splendid character, affording much inter- 

 est and instruction to the spectator. In many cases 

 these associations have started up suddenly, and 

 their large and well managed exhibitions have 

 been such as would do credit to old societies. We 

 trust that these associations will continue to in- 

 crease, and that every reflecting cultivator and 

 mechanic, and all others who are engaged in pro- 

 moting the public welfare, will give them their 

 hearty support. Men should not only attend ex- 

 hibitions as a matter of information, but their 

 wives, their daughters and "their sons should also 

 attend, and share in the pleasure and the profit. 



We give a list of shows, and the time and places 

 they hold them in, so far as they have come with- 

 in our notice, and we shall be pleased to add others 

 on receiving notice: 



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 Meclianical Exhibition, at Providence, Sept. 

 10th, 11th and 12th. 



Vermont State Exhibition, at Middleburv, Sept. 

 10th and 11th. ^ 



New Hampshire State Exhibition, at Manches- 

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



Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Sept. 16th, 

 17th and 18th. ^ 



Worcester Horticultural Society, Sept. 17th, 

 18th and 19th. ■^' i 



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 I9th, and the Plough- 

 ing Match and Dinner on the 20th. 



Cattle Show and Ploughing Match, at Fitch- 

 burg, Sept. 25th. 



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



Essex, at Salem, Sept. 25th. 



Middlesex, at Lowell, Sept. 24th. 



Michigan State Show, Sept. 24th, 25th and 26th. 



Ohio State Exhibition at Columbus, Sept. 24th, 

 25th and 26th. 



Pennsylvania State, at Harrisburg, Oct. 29th 

 30th and 31st. 



Fairfield, (Conn.,) at Bridgeport, Oct. 8th, 9th 

 and 10th. In addition to the usual premiums for 

 ploughing, P. T. Barnum, Esq., president of the 

 society. With great liberality, offers additional pre- 

 miums, amounting to $200, the highest of which 

 IS $50, open to ploughs and teams from every 

 State in the Union. This will be a capital lime 

 for the plough-makers to show their hands. 



Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, at North- 

 ampton, Oct. 8th and Oih. 



HARVESTING WINTER APPLES. 



In harvesting apples, especially those intended 

 for winter, they should be carefully picked by hand 

 in bright clear weather. All bruises are not only in- 

 jurious as tending to decay, but they render the 

 fruit partially worthless. Some fruit growers pick 

 their fruit the last of September, before completely 

 ripe, and allow it to shrivel a little before packed 

 in barrels, as it will keep well under this treat- 

 ment. Such fruit is not equal in quality to that 

 well ripened on the tree. In very warm locations, 

 winter fruit is frequently ripe by the last of Sep- 

 tember. Most fruit-growers allow their winter ap- 

 ples to remain on the trees until October, and be- 

 come thoroughly ripe. 



After picking the fruit, pack carefully in bar- 

 rels, and head up closely. The following is the 

 mode of management in this section. The barrels 

 are piled up horizontally in cool, open sheds, or in 

 the shade of trees or buildings, and sometimes in 

 open space, covered with boards laid over the bar- 

 rels, to keep off the sun and rain, and allowed to 

 remain out till November, till there is no danger 

 of their freezing. Apples thus managed will es- 

 cape a severe frost. The thermometer may be ten 

 or twelve degrees below freezing, or the weather cold 

 enough to freeze ice half an inch thick. We have 

 known apples to escape when the thermometer was 

 twenty degrees below freezing; but there is a risk 

 in leaving them out in so cold weather. When the 

 weather becomes too cold for them to be safe out 

 of doors, put them in a cool cellar. Some fruit- 

 growers put them into the cellar immediately after 

 harvesting. Whether apples are put into the cel- 

 lar early or late, the cellar should be well ven- 

 tilated in clear weather, when the wind is north 

 or west; but kept shut up closely when the wind is 

 in other directions. This should be practised even 

 in winter, when there is no danger of apples freez- 

 ing. 



THE CRANBERRY. 



The cultivation of the cranberry is attracting much 

 attention in different parts of the country. Numer- 

 ous experiments are making in cultivating this 

 fruit on high land or moist tillage, with various 

 success; from these experiments important facts 

 are brought before the public, which will, after a 

 while, enable the cultivator to have a regular sys- 

 tem in cultivating this fruit. 



We hope those engaged in the culture of this fruit 

 on high land will communicate to the public the 

 results of their experience, that others may gain 

 information from them to aid them in their exper- 

 iments. The cranberry is a very superior fruit, 

 and the demand for it in the market is increasing; 

 and we want some mode of raising it to a greater 

 extent than it is now produced by spontaneous 

 growtii. As the crops now are nearly all pro- 

 duced on low lands, they are very liable to be cut 



