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I^EW EN'GLAND FARMER. 



Jan. 



THE FARMER'S 



NEW ENGLAND EARMEE 



Is published on the first of every month, by John Ravnolds 

 and JotL NouRSE, at Quincy Hall, South Market St., Boston. 



SIMON BROWN, Editor. 

 FREDERICK HOLBROOK, ? A 

 HENRY F. FRENCH, 3 I 



ssnciate 

 Editors. 



CONTENTS OP THIS NUMBER. 



The New Year Page 9 



A valuable Book of Reference 10 



Great yield of Carrots— The Season 11 



The use of Guano — Profits of Fowls 12 



Advantages of Warm Weather 1'^ 



Peculiar Difficulties of New England Farming 13 



Harvest Hymn -Our January Number 15 



Lyceum Lectures— Two Acres 16 



The Season of 1852 at Wilinington and vicinity... 18 



State Board of Agriculture 19 



Vegetation in California 20 



Corn Song — A Siberian Winter 21 



Winter Lectures — New Source for Good Fruit 22 



Sound Maxims in Farming 23 



Susceptibility of Animals to Atmospheric Changes li 



Gathering and Preserving Winter Fruit 24 



Lime -Guiiio— Bone Dust— Lime in Agriculture 2) 



Warts on-Plurn Trees— Treatment of Russian Horses 26 



Honey Bees— Raising and Selling Milk 27 



House Plants in Winter 28 



Flo wins Orchards — Apples 29 



Great Yield — United States Agricultural Society- 30 



Inventory of New Hampshire 31 



Cooking and Digestion- Lyceum Lecture 34 



Farmuig — Ctiange of Timber from Clearing Land 35 



Harvesrili mn— Apples as Food for Stock 36 



The Rockingham Fair 37 



A Farmer's Fireside Talk— Growing Corn— Hilling up 38 



Laying out Surfaces — Officers elected 39 



Domestication of Wild Animals 39 



Ventilation— Markham's Farewell to Husbandry 40 



Apiiles for Fattening Stock— Poultry Raising <* 



Birds and Insecis 42 



Premiums awarded at Framinghain Cattle Show 43 



To the friends of Agriculture in Mass. — Sops in Wine 44 



Duranility of Timber — Ag iculture a Chemical Art 45 



Hay Cubic Feet in a ton— Progression 46 



Prejudice against Farming 46 



Diseased Plum Trees 47 



Gooseberries— Agricultural Lectures 46 



Important to the Farmer 49 



Pi<j Raising is Mississippi— Farm Houses— Potash Water.. .50 



State Boaru of Aa*iculture— To Adversers 51 



Splendid Fruit— Culture of Indian Corn 51 



The H>drauli(; Ram— White Clover 52 



Ladies' Department ■''2 



Mechanics' Department, Arts, &c 53 



Boys' Department 54 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Hunt Russet Apple 17 



Bull— Earl of Seaham -33 



Canker Worms 45 



Vegetable Cutter 48 



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Interesting to Farmers. 



THE subscriber has been induced at the request of several of 

 his friends in the farming interest to enter into the manu- 

 facture of SHELL LIME, for farming purpos;es, and is no-w 

 prepared to deliver at any of the railroads in Boston or Charles- 

 town, the at tide in lots of from 10 to 100 barrels at the low 

 pi ice of 35 cts. per barrel, or if taken at the kiln at Medford 

 Street, Charleslown, at 30 cents. 



Also, for sale, 100 barrels of ThomastonLime, in lots to suit 

 purchasers. 



Applicition may be made at No. 70 State Street. Boston, or 

 at the Kiln, situated on Gould's Wharf, (so called) Charles- 

 town. JAMES GOULD, Agent. 

 DIRECTIONS FOR USING. 



Place a layer of meadow mud of fiom 10 to 12 inches, then 

 put on lime from 2 to 3 inches. Dissolve the salt in water, 

 throw the liquid on to slack the lime, then another layer ol 

 mud, or peat, and so on alternately until the heap is from 4 to 

 6 feet in height. Proportion, 4 barrels of lime and one bushel 

 of salt to the cord of mud; the salt nii.'ied with the lime forms 

 the muriate, and this mixture forms the valuable compound; 

 this by decomposing the humid acid which is contained more 

 or less in all meadow land, forms the muriate of lime — one oi 

 the most soluble substances, and if mi.\ed with other volatile 

 manures, prevents the escape and fixes the ammonia, which if 



i.xed with lime alone would evaporate and render it value- 

 less. 



(jj= The shell lime made into mortar, with three barrels of 

 sand to each barrel of lime, will make a cement of better qual- 

 ity than the best of Thomaston lime, for cellar walls or stone 

 woik of any kind. 



Nov. 6, 1852. 3m 



Pure Suffolk Pigs. 



The subscriber has now on hand pure 

 blooded Suffolk Pigs for sale. Purchasers 

 ordering them from a distance for breed- 

 ers, may rely on getting the best patterns 

 of the breed, carefully selected from dif- 

 ferent litters. J. L. LOVERING. 

 Cluechee, Vt., May 29, 1852. tf 



