1853. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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favorite pear tree entirely of its bark, from the 

 limb to the root, on the 21st day of June, and "it 



Stone Buildings — Lumber is every day becom- 

 ing scarce and higher. Buildings constructed of 



neither wilted a leaf nor dropt a pear ; but ripened wood arc quickly perishable, unless constantly 



the latter, with which it was loaded, to perfection. 



It has now [no date] a fine coat of smooth, young, 



glossy bark, except on a few spots, where the 



knife happened to strike the wood." Mr. L. 



thinks this operation will rejuvenate old trees. 



Native Grasses.— The Farmer and Planter, 

 Pendleton, S. (J., thinks the native grasses, which 

 grow on their branch and creek bottoms, much 

 better than any tliat grow naturally or can be cul- 

 tivated successfully on up-land, in that part of the 

 country. Will the Planter inform us how much 

 its crop of corn was, per acre, in his experiment 

 with guano and plaster ? Both parcels of land — 

 where the gain by manuring was 33 percent., and 

 on the unmanured. 



The American Farmer, Baltimore, advises to 

 sow 12 pounds of clover seeds over every acre in 

 ivheat. Is that intended for pasture or a grass 

 crop? For a wash for trees he recommends 1 

 gallon of soft soap, 1 quart of salt, and 1 pound 

 of flour of sulphur. He says, "a peck of crushed 

 cobs and a peck of cut fodder, hay or straw, 

 thrice a day, will keep your cows well up to their 

 milk." If that quantity of feed would keep owr 

 cows "well up to their milk," we could make a 

 profit at present prices. But we fear that not on- 

 ly the milk would disappear but the flesh also. 



High Price for Land. — 140 acres of land have 

 recently been sold, eight or ten miles from N. Y. 

 city, at a price of $500 to $870 an acre ! 



Influences of Forests. — M. Becquerel,a French 

 savant, has just published an elaborate work on 

 forests and their influence on nature, in which he 

 treats the subject at once scientifically and histor- 

 ically. He has lately presented to the Academy 

 of Sciences an analysis of that work, containing a 

 notice of the principal conclusions at which he has 

 arrived. They are in brief these, as we learn 

 from the Paris correspondence of the Boston 

 Journal : "That forests act upon the climate of a 

 country as frigorific causes ; that they also act as 

 protection against winds and as a means of pre- 

 serving living springs ; and that they prevent the 

 degradation or wearing away of mountains. As 

 to tlie influence of forests upon the climate, there 

 is much difference of opinion, but the above is the 

 opinion of the author, stated with due deference 

 to the distinguished persons who hold different 

 views. M. Bocquerel also considers that forests 

 act as protection against the communication from 

 place to place of contagious diseases." 



Wash FOR Trees. — "A Practical Farmer," in 

 the Gennanloion Telegraph, s^y^, "for young trees 

 he prefers a ley made of house ashes, to potash ; 

 and that when he tries the latter it is only one 

 pound to two gallons of water. 



covered with a coat of paint, and if kept so covered, 

 they are too expensive. We have millions of 

 perches of good stone scattered through New Eng- 

 land, large portions of which now cumber the 

 ground by preventing the growth of crops and 

 breaking farm implements. Houses constructed of 

 stone, are more durable, much less expensive to be 

 kept in repair, warm in winter, and cool in sum- 

 mer. Will some one who understands the matter 

 give us the difference of cost of construction be- 

 tween stone, brick and wood, with such other 

 facts as shall turn attention to this important mat- 

 ter? ^ 



For the Neio England Farmer. 

 ORNAMENTAL TREE3S. 



UY J. REYNOLDS, M. D. 



In arranging our estates, it is always well to 

 have some regard to their market value. This is 

 a duty we owe to our families ; life is uncertain, 

 and we know not how soon our property may be 

 thrown into the market. A man is under the same 

 kind of obligation to regard the market value of his 

 property, that he is to seek safe and profitable 

 stocks, when he would invest his money in stocks. 



A few dollars in money or labor, expended in 

 no other way, will add so much to the value of an 

 estate, as when expended in setting out ornamen- 

 tal trees. Nothing adds so much as trees, to the 

 pleasant and cheerful aspect of a house and the 

 grounds about it. The magnificent elm, with its 

 long arms stretching towards the sky, the lighter 

 ash, the cheerful maple, and the thick heavy fo- 

 liage of the horse chestnut, interspersed with the 

 fir, the pine and the arbor vitte, whose deep green 

 gives cheerfulness even to the dreariness of Avinter, 

 when tastefully arranged, and placed in judicious 

 contrast with each other, give a pleasant aspect 

 and an inviting appearance to a house and home, 

 that exposed unprotected to the scorching rays of 

 the summer sun, and to the pitiless blasts of win- 

 ter, would be unpleasant and uninviting. 



A hundred dollars laid out in almost any other 

 way upon one's premises, will scarcely be noticed. 

 If expended in building a porch, an arbor or a trel- 

 lis, they will soon decay and require a new outlay 

 to keep them in repair. But money expended in 

 trees increases in value annually, faster than 

 money at compound interest. A beautiful tree 

 that costs perhaps, set out, one dollar, will add to 

 the value of an estate in ten years, fifty or a hun- 

 dred dollars. The growth of trees, which costs 

 only a little care, increases their value rapidly*. 

 And a circumstance of much impurtince is, that 

 such trees may be usually placed in situations 

 where fruit trees would yield but little profit.' For- 

 est trees are generally longer lived than fruit trees, 

 and do not require to be so often rejil iced. 



Oaks and elms when once rooted in tlie soil, 

 become incorporated with the earth, an integral 

 part of the estate ; we look upon them as we do 

 upon the rocks and hills, as permanent fixtures, 

 and when we recall the places and scenes with 

 which we were familiar in early life, we find 

 that our memories have retained the forms aud 



