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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



April 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Calendar for April Page 153 



A New Mixture — Farmer for March 154 



Gumo— Music of the Cora Sheller 155 



New England Housewives 156 



Rye— Millet— The Churn 157 



Rural Pleasures — American Crab Apple 158 



Southern rSpriiig— Pious ^ l-S 



Shell Lime — Celery — Extiacts and Replies 15S 



A New Grass ' 162 



Sixth Legislative Agricultural Meeting 163 



Housing and Painting Farm Vehicles 164 



What Manure for Swamp Land i 165 



Stowell's Evergreen Sweet Corn 165 



Milk Trade ol New York 166 



Farmer's Libraries 16V 



Roots vs. II ay 168 



Potatoes— Interes'irig Experiment 169 



Manures— Bits of Though t 170 



Seventh LegisUtive Agricultural Meeting 171 



Comparative Merits of the Tall and Late and the Short 



and Early kinds of Corn 172 



Influence of Newspapers 17o 



Bones for Manure— The Pictorial Field Book 174 



Treatise on Milch Cows 175 



Dunging in the Hill -Agricultural Premiums 176 



Pears on Thorn Siocks 1^6 



Agricultural Mass Meeting 178 



Preserving Apples — G raiting 1?2 



Rockingham Co., N. H.— Carrots vs. English Hay 183 



Gleanings 184 



Ornamental Trees 185 



A Song for the Million 186 



The Farmer with Two Ideas 187 



Eighth LegisUtive Agricultural Meeting 188 



The Pewee— Soot for Pfuits— Autumnal Marrow Squash.. 190 



Stockhardt's Field Lectures 190 



Old Pastures and Cr^nbe ries— Corij Culture 191 



Benefits of Associated Etfojrt 193 



Ninth Legislative Agricultural Meeting 194 



Agricultural Books— .Mien on the Grape Vine 196 



Concord Farmers' Club -Bone Wens 197 



Ladies' Department 19' 



Boy's Department 197 



ILLrSTRATiONS. 



Forcing Vegetation 161 



Vicar of Winkfield Pear H' 



Grafting 182 



Clark's Excelsior Churn 192 



Morgan Stock Horse for Sale. 



For sale by the subscriber, a Morgan 

 Colt, 4 years old lust May, weight 1125 

 lbs., the best model of his Sire (the Green 

 Mountain Morgan owned by Hale) that 

 could be found in New England; his color 



and action, his temper, and gait, are like 



the old horse and he is reputed to be the best roadster of the 

 whole race of Morgans. C. W. BELLOWS. 



Pepperell, Mass., March 12, 1852. On Nashua and Wor 

 cester Railroad. *tf March 12. 



New Garden Seeds. 



EARLY and Late Peas of htsrh and low growth, Dwarf and 

 Climbing Beans, Cauliflower, Cabbage, Lettuce, Cucum- 

 ber, Radish, Squash, Turnip, and other sorts of Vegetable 

 Seeds. Flower Seeds in great variety. Early and Late Pota 

 toea, &c., for sale in large or small quantities by 



RUGGLES, NOURSE, MASON & CO., 



Boston, March 26, 1853. 



Over Quincy Market, 

 tf 



Whale Oil Soap, 



I;iOR SALE, in large or small quantities, by 

 ^ RUGGLES, NOURSE, MASON & CO., 



March 28, 1853. tf Over Quincy Market, Boston. 



Spring Seed Grain. 



B 



LACK Sea Wheat, 

 B Id Club Wheat, 

 Barley, 

 Buckwheat, 

 Millet, 

 Spring Rye, 



Dutton Field Corn, 

 Whitman Field Corn, 

 Canada Field Corn, 

 Golden Field Corn, 

 Sweet Corn, {for fodder.) 

 Oats, &c. <tc. 



For sale by RUGGLES, NOURSE, MASON & CO., 



NEW ENGLAND EAEMEE 



Is published on the first of every month, by Joh.v Ravnolds 

 and Joel Nourse, at (iuincy Hall, South Market St., Boston. 



SIMON BROWN, Editor. 



FREDERICK HOLBROOK, ) Associate 

 HENRY F. FRENCH, 3 Editors. 



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03' All subscriptions to commence with the volume, Jan. 1. 



The F.4HMEB, is devoted exclusively to Agriculture, Hor- 

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 large handsome folio sheet, the 



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An Independent As:n'cultural Family Newspaper. 



The News and Miscellaneous departments under the charge 

 of WILLIAM SIMONDS, will include a full and careful re- 

 port of the news of the Markets, and the news of the week, 

 such as Domestic, Foreign and Marine Intelligence, Congres- 

 sional and Legislative proceedings. Temperance and Religious 

 Intelligence, and a general variety of Literary and Miscellane- 

 ous matter, adapted to family reading, con.prising more use- 

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 ful or even doubtful tendency will be carefully excluded from 

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The monthly contains nearly the same matter as the Agri- 

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[O" Postmasters and others, who will fi rward four new 

 subscribers on the above named terms, for either publication, 

 shall receive a fifth copy gratis for one year. 



IJ3" All orders and letters should be addressed, /(osZ-^aid, 



RAYNOLDS &< NOURSE, 



Qi'iNCY Hall, South Market Street, Boston. 



0° Postage. — The postage on the New Eriglar.d Farmer, 

 monthly, is IJ cents per quarter, or 6 cents per year, to any 

 part of the United States, to be paid in advance at the oflice 

 where the same is received. 



Walnut Grove Iltirsery. 



The subscribers would respectfully inform their 

 friends and the f ublic, that they have on hand 

 an unusually large stock of Apple, Pear, Plum, 

 Cherry, Peach, and other Trees. 



Also, Quinces, Currants, Raspberries, Grape- 

 vines, &c., &c. 

 Ornamental Trees, and Shrubs, Buckthorn Plants, &c. &c. 

 Lot of Seedling Horse Chestnut, two years old. 

 Lot of European Sycamore, two years old. 

 Good plants of the new and improved high bush P.lackber- 

 ry, the fruit of which is of enormous size. 



Fine Apple Trees, three to five years' growth from bud, sev- 

 en to nine feet high, $25 per hundred. 

 Also, a fine lot of Norway Spruce, good size. 

 We devote ourselves solely to the raising of trees; they re- 

 ceive our strict personal attention; we are therefore able to 

 warrant every article true to name. 



Those who intend purchasing large quantities of Apple 

 Trees are respectfully invited to call before purchasing, and 

 examine our stock, as it is large, and doubtless unsurpassed 

 by any in the vicinity. 

 Trees delivered in Boston free of expense, packed if desired. 

 Catalogues sent to post-paid applicants. All orders thank- 

 fully received and promptly executed. 



JAMES HYDE & SON. 

 Newton Centre, Mass., March 26, 1853. 8w*2 



Super-Phosphate of Lime, 



IN bags and barrels, made by C B. DeBURG, a warranted 

 pure and genuine article, with full directions for use. For 

 sale by GEO. DAVENPORT, 5 Commercial, corner of Chat- 

 ham St., Boston, agent for the manufacturer, 



Also, for sale, Ground Bone, Bone Dust, Burnt Bone, Gua- 

 no, and Grass Seeds of reliable quality. 

 March 26, 1853. tf* 



Seed PotJitoes, 



March 26, 1853. 



tf 



Over Quincy Market, Boston. 



EARLY AND LATE SORTS, for s.leby 

 RUGGLES, NOURi^E, MASON & CO., 

 March 26, 1852. tf Over Quincy Market, Boston. 



