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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Calendar for June Page 249 



Passing Matters 250 



Cob Meal— Sketches of Travel 251 



Plowman's Song— Slate Farm al Westborough 253 



OM Apple Trees 254 



Rules for the Application of Guano 255 



Duration of Posts- Feeding Teams 256 



Patrons — Patronage, ic 258 



Experimental Farming— Rural Pleasures 259 



Witch Grass— Cure and Preventive of the Potato Rot 260 



The Farmer's Cabinet 261 



The Season— Insects— Plum-Tree Warts 262 



Monthly Farmer for Ai)ril 263 



ln<iuiries and Censures 265 



Grecian Farmers 266 



Soil— Tempering the Soil 267 



Manures— The Currant Borer 268 



Transactions of the Franklin County Society 269 



Ants and Aphides 269 



Farmer Penny wise and Farmer Pound wise 271 



Farming Implements and Machines 271 



The Stale Farm— Interesting to Farmers 272 



Dissolving Bones— New Seedling Grape— Shell Lime 274 



Spare the Sweet Songsters— Valuable Extracts 275 



Analyses— Plowing— Watering— Plowing or Ploughing 278 



Theories and Facts- Do they Agree? 279 



Fruit Trees 280 



Early Radishes and Turnips— Yarrow, or Wild Camomile. 281 



The Sod and Subsoil Plow 282 



Comparison between Ox and Horse Labor for the Farm. ..282 



Wash from the Sink—Tired of Farming 283 



Sows and Oxen in Portugal 284 



State Board of Agriculture 284 



New and Untried Schemes 286 



Oxen and Horses 287 



Grafting 268 



The Monthly Farmer for May 290 



Agricnllural Axioms— Birds of New England '^91 



The Black Knot on the Plum 292 



Extracts and Replies 293 



Apples for Milch Cows 294 



Boy's Department 294 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Primary School House in Exeter, N. II 257 



Spahish Merino Ewes 273 



Phelps' Bee-Hive 289 



Monamet Sweeting and Golden Sweeting Apples 293 



Clarke's Excelsior Cliurii. 



MR. EDITOR : — I append a literal copy of recommenda- 

 tions which I am in the pos-session of, — a fair specimen of 

 what accompanies the introduction of this churn. I am rap- 

 idly gaining the favor and confidence of stranger dairymen 

 solely by testing the churn wherever 1 can get a chance to do 

 so. You will soon believe me luithout an affidavit— }\ist so 

 with others. , GEO. B. CLARKE. 



Leonardsville, June 1, 1853. 



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Mr. Geo. B. Clarice: — The trial of your Patent Excelsior 

 Churn at my house, is perfectly satisfictory, and has fully an- 

 swered my expectations, as it has performed what you have 

 promised of it, in your advertisements and circulars. 



Yours, ever, E. S. PERKINS. 



Cazenovia, N. Y., May 3, 1853. 



I cheerfully concur in the above, having been present at the 

 testing of the E.xcelsior Churn at my son's house, as above 

 Slated by him. STILLMAN PERKINS. 



This is to show that I have purchased C'arke's Excelsior 

 Churn, and paid him $10 for it, he having churned about thir- 

 ty^ounds of butter in it at my house, where its operation has 

 given me entire satisfaction. 



E.S.PERKINS. 

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Yours, &0., 

 Cazenovia, N. Y., May 4, 1853. 



Taiacre Scythe Stones. 



rAA Dozen Taiacre Burr Scythe Stones for sale, to arrive 

 OUU in a few days from ship GEN. TAYLOR, from Liver- 

 pool. Parties wishing to supply themselves for the coming 

 season, should forward their orders to the subscriber as early 

 as possible, to save delay. Boxes contain 6 and 8 dozen each. 

 T. B. BROWNE, No. 7 Doane St., Boston. 

 May 21, 1853. 2w 



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Farm in Westboro', Mass., 



For sale or exchange, for Boston property, sit 

 uated on the old Grafton road, within i mile of 

 the Railroad Depot, containing 27 acres of as 

 good lai;d as any other 27 acres laying in one 

 body, in the town; it is elevated about 75 feet 

 above ihe railroad, and overlooks the town, and is within 7 

 minutes walk of three churches and the town house, which 

 for healthy location is unsurpassed. The buildings consist of 

 a modern house, built by Boston mechanics in 1651, and is 32 

 by 22 feet, with a kitchen attached, 16 by 23 feet, two stories 

 high, with a cellar under the whole. Wood-house, 16 by 20 

 feet; work-shop 16 by 12 feet; carriage and hen house, 16 by 

 21 feet; jjouliry yard, 30 by 53 feet, enclosed by slat fence 8 

 feet high; barn, 60 by 36 feet, with cellar under the same, so 

 divided as to give a vegetable cellar containing about 2000 

 bushels; cistern and well water is brought into the house, and 

 all the wash of the kitchen and privy is conducted by a drain 

 to the barn cellar; likewise a farm house 24 feet square, 1 J 

 stories high, cellar under the same; there are three good wells 

 of water and one good brick and cement cistern on the prem- 

 ises. There are now on the farm 142 large apjile trees, most- 

 ly grafted, also 220 young thriving apple trees, mostly Bald- 

 wins, from 4 to (^ years from the bud, some of them have 

 borne fruit; likewise 34 peach trees of early choice variety, 

 10 pear trees, &.c There has been taken from the farm the 

 past year, 30 tons of hay, 375 bushels of corn in the ear, 700 

 bushels of carrots, beets and S. turnips, 80 barrels grafted 

 fruit,besides vegetables used in the family. For further infor 

 malion, apply at this office, of Messrs. SIMON BROWN or 

 WILLIAM SIMONDS; at Westboro', of Messrs. PAYER 

 WETHER ff GRIGGS. 

 Feb. 5. 1853. tf 



Ayrshire Calf. 



For sale, a fine Ayrshire Bii/l Calf, 

 (warranted pure) about 4 weeks old. 

 Apply at this office. 

 Mav 28. tf 



