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&l)e latmtfs ittontljlg bisttor. 



Do well what you attempt. 



Thoroughness with the agriculturist as well as 

 with the student, is the only true rule. Although 

 perfection is to be expected hut rarely, yet it 

 should he our constant endeavor to approximate 

 the grand point of ultimate and radical com- 

 pleteness, and by every successive step in our 

 progress to render that point less difficult and 

 less remote. Carelessness, when it attains the 

 inveteracy of a confirmed habit, like any other 

 evil, grasps us with a controlling force, — its pow- 

 er and intensity of deteriorating and rendering 

 a bad and condemnable practice worse, increas- 

 ing in proportion as it is indulged. In farming, 

 every step, every act accomplished in the rou- 

 tine, is to be contemplated as a beginning. We 

 must plough before we plant ; and we must 

 weed before we harvest ; and the weeding of one 

 crop, and its removal from the field, is a labor 

 preparatory to the production and maturation of 

 unnumbered crops which, in succession, are to 

 spring from the same soil, and remunerate, in 

 distant futurity, it may be, the laborer for his 

 annual toil. 



In the cultivation of arable lands devoted to 

 weeded crops, how essential is this principle of 

 thoroughness, and strikingly is its necessity dis- 

 played ! Weeds, especially those of indigenous 

 kinds, are gross feeders, taking from the nutri- 

 tive properties of the soil a far greater per cent, 

 in proportion to their bulk, than the most ex- 

 hausting cultivated crops; yet weeds abound; 

 they flaunt and luxuriate and multiply, annually, 

 in almost every field. It was not many years 

 since, that the " Canada Thistle" was introduced 

 into the gardens of New England as an orna- 

 mental production ! It was cherished and stim- 

 ulated and admired till, waxing mighty, it sent 

 forth its pestiferous germs from the garden and 

 the parterre to the fields, the pastures and the 

 road-sides, and, finally, like plagues of Egypt, 

 overran and devoured, literally in one sense, — 

 and a most emphatic one, — " the fatness of the 

 land." 



A few seeds of the dock are dropped, fortui- 

 tously, in some unfilled corner, or out of the 

 way place, and produce plants; yet the owner of 

 the soil sees no imperative necessity for imme- 

 diately destroying them ; they stand not in his 

 way at present. Rut the lime will come, should 

 he live, when their power will he felt. The 

 progeny of evil multiplies rapidly; and, in due 

 time, the soil all around will he infested and 

 overrun, till what might have been effected by a 

 single stroke of the hoe, demands, for its com- 

 pletion, the labor of many years, of many anx- 

 ious hours and painful toils. 



In draining and enclosing lands, it is too often 

 that the operator consults present convenience 

 rather than future profit ; all the details are im- 

 perfectly designed and arranged ; nothing is 

 thorough or substantial. Instead of going to 

 work in the right way, and expending his money 

 to the best advantage, by investing every dollar 

 in a permanent "improvement," he expends 

 often a large part of his immediately available 

 resources in the construction of mere "gossamer 

 work " — drains that answer no purpose of prac- 

 tical utility, and fences that a twelvemonth will 

 prostrate, or the feeblest zephyr destroy. Such 

 conduct becomes not the liberal-minded and en- 

 lightened farmer; it is a part of the "penny 

 wise and pound foolish policy," which, by every 

 judicious person who rightly appreciates his true 



rl. Yon 



ing a great display with circumscribed means, 

 are too often cajoled into its adoption ; but a few 

 years' experience will be generally sufficient to 

 correct the evil ; its burdens and entailments of 

 toil and expense prove, commonly, an " open 

 sesame'" to the proper course, and their practice 

 is corrected and reformed. In manuring lands, 

 also, we should look more to distant results than 

 to present profits. A piece of soil, thoroughly 

 enriched, is a lasting treasure. Like a deposit 

 in a solvent bank, it pays annual dividends, and 

 by a judicious course of management will im- 

 prove rather than deteriorate for years. In this 

 department of farming, more than in any other, 

 probably, the beneficial effects of thoroughness 

 are convincingly displayed.— Germanlown Tele- 

 graph. 



Rainy Days. — How much time is thrown away 

 by some farmers when the weather will not per- 

 mit them to work out doors ! And how well 

 this might be improved ! There are many days 

 and hours of wet weather in a year, in which it 

 is impossible to do any work on the farm; and 

 when these are lost, as they are to many farmers 

 of my acquaintance, they amount to a consider- 

 able sum. " Time is money," as my grandfather 

 used to say ; and further, " Take care of the 

 pence, and the pounds will take care of them- 

 selves." 



Now, if this is good advice in money matters, 

 it will surely apply to economy in time, to those 

 hours and half days when the rain drives us un- 

 der cover. 



Well, how are these hours to be best improv- 

 ed ? I will tell yon, my brother farmers. Get 

 yourselves a set of carpenter's tools, and make a 

 work-bench ; and if you can plane a board and 

 drive a nail, you will find enough to occupy all 

 your spare time. 



The tools will cost but five or six dollars- 

 such as are most necessary; and then you will 

 be able to keep your out-buildings, fences, and 

 many of your farming implements in good re- 

 pair. If your barn or stable doors break down, 

 mend it immediately the first rainy day. If a 

 board is loose, put a nail in it or replace it. If 

 you want any plain, useful kitchen furniture, 

 such as pine tables, benches, &c, take those oc- 

 casions. But it is unnecessary to multiply the 

 things that might be made or repaired in such 

 times. Every farmer that looks around him (if 

 he is not in the habit of so doing) will find the 

 wood work on his place lamentably out of re- 

 pair. 



Besides, every farmer should accustom him- 

 self to the use of tools. When he wants a small 

 job done, it wastes as much time often as it is 

 worth, to go several miles after a carpenter. I 

 know so. ne farmers who have not a hatchet, 

 drawing-knife, auger, plane, or work-bench about 

 their place. The consequence is, their jobs and 

 repairs generally go undone, and they have no- 

 thing to do half their time in rainy weather. Is 

 this economy! Yet such men will carry their 

 grain five miles farther to a market where they 

 can get two cents more on a bushel.— Genesee 

 Farmer. 



were a superior variety of the Jannett. This 

 spring 1 examined the soil, and found that a vein 

 of iron ore passed just under the ten trees, so 

 near the surface that it bad been ploughed and 

 worked up with the top soil. A variety of the 

 large blue plum growing upon the same ground 

 is also very fine ; while grafts taken from the 

 same plum trees, and worked upon stocks grown 

 on different soil prove worthless."— Maine Farmer. 



The Bible. 



The following lines are attributed to Lord By- 

 ron, and are said to have been written by him in 

 his Bible : — 



Within this awful volume lies 

 The mystery of mysteries, 

 Oh ! happiest they of human race 

 To whom one God has given grace, 

 To hear, to read, to fear, to pray, 

 To lift the latch, and force the way ; 

 But better they had ne'er been born, 

 Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. 



FARM FOR SALE. 



T1HE subscribers offer for sale their FARM in Epsom, 

 well-known as the Cilley place, lying on the Turn- 

 pike road, and near the centre of the town, and close to 

 the line of the contemplated railroad from Hooksett to 

 Pit'.sfield. The home place contains upward of 200 

 acres ; a large proportion of which is mowing, and tillage; 

 the buildings are two good DWELLING HOUSES, two 

 Barns with Sheds, and all olher Outbuildings suitable for 

 two families. Also, a large Pasture about two miles 

 from the home place, containing about 90 acres, well 

 watered, lying by the side of Odiorne's pond (so called.) 

 Also, a Wood and Timber lot, containing about 90 

 acres, about one and a half miles from the home place, 

 and very handy to Long Kails Saw Mill. They also offer 

 the crops now growing, and the hay in the barns, being 

 sufficient to winter filly head of cattle; the greater part 

 cut on the home place the present season. 



If not disposed of at private sale the present season, it 

 will be offered at public auction the 20th day of February 

 1350. ;■' 



Conditions of sale for the whole or such parts as may 

 be agreed upon, will be liberal. 



W. P. CILLEY, 

 J. L. CJLLF.Y. 



Epsom, August 31, 1849. 3ms. 



FARM FOR SALE. 



THE subscriber offers fir sale his Farm, situated in 

 the south-west part of Bedford, six miles frem Man- 

 chester. Said farm consists of 140 acres, divided into 

 mowing, pasturing, tillage and woodland, with a good va 

 riety uf FRUIT TREES thereon in a bearing state, con 

 sisting of Apple, Peach, Plum, Cherries, Grape, Currants, 

 Gooseberries, &c. The above fruit has been selected 

 from the choicest kinds with a view to the market. Also 

 one olher Young Orchard of Baldwin Apples, three years 

 from the bud, consisting of eighty trees. 



On the premises are two COTTAGE HOUSES, Shed 

 and Barn— 90 by 30. The above farm has been improved 

 fur the last four years as a milk and vegetable farm. 



Any one wishing to engage in either or both of the 

 above branches of firming, will do well to call and ex- 

 amine the premises, as the crops will be a better recom- 

 mendation than any thing the subscriber may say. 



Reference may be nnde to Hon. Isaac Hill, Concord, 

 or to BROOKS SHATTUCK, on the premises. 



At.so— One other Farm in said town, of 110 acres, 

 in a good condition, with buildings newly fitted up. 



For further particulars enquire as above. 



Bedford, Aug. 31, 1349. 3 ms 



beginners, and those who arc ambitious of mak- 1 ed by all who saw and ate the apple, that thev 



Iron for Apple Trees. 



A correspondent of the Albany Cultivator, 

 writing from Fredericksburg, Va., says, " A friend 

 who has a large orchard of 'Itawle's Jannett ap- 

 ple,' has ten trues upon one corner of the or- 

 chard which always produce fruit a third larger, 

 and ftavoi ■■■ mac i supi ri >r, that it was stippos- 



IIIGGINS' NURSERIES, 



FLUSHING, NEAR NEW YORK. 



THE proprietor offers for sale an extensive assortment 

 of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, comprising 

 10,000 Pear Trees, from one to three years growth 

 from the grafts; 12,000 Apples; 10,000 Cherries: 

 15,000 Peach ; G,000 Nectarines ; 3,000 Apricots : 

 (5,000 Quince ; 8,000 Plums; 4,000 Grape Vines; 

 all the new varieties of Strawberries, Raspberries, Goose- 

 berries.^ Currants, <fcc. Also, 20,000 assorted Orna- 

 mental Trees, for streets, avenues and pleasure grounds, 

 and cemeteries ; 10,000 Evergreens and fifty varieties 

 of Flowering Shrubs; all the leading kinds of perpetual 

 Roses. Herbaceous plants, running vines, Honeysuckles, 

 Wistarias, &c, and dwarf box for garden edgings, Ever- 

 green Ivy Tor ornamenting the walls of churches, stone 

 buildings, &c. &c 



Trees packed carefully and sent to all parts of the 

 Union, as ordered. 



It is the desire of the proprietor, that all persons wish- 

 ing to purchase any of the above named, will do him the 

 favor of visiting his extensive nurseries, and judge for 

 themselves. Address the undersigned, Proprietor of the 

 above >' nearly * 



Flushing, Sept. 15. 1819. 



L'.VMLL U1GG1AS. 



