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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



AXJG. 



A careful attention to the reason of things, a rain, affiict the Hawaiian as well as the New Eng 

 constant endeavor to understand as far as may be j land ftirmer ; but worse than all, says Mr. Greene, 

 the principles of vegetation, and the operation of is the fact that farming is in low repute— the peo- 

 various fertilizers upon the different crops and soils, pie naturally indolent, prefer any means of subsis- 

 will lead to more useful results than any general fpnoo tn Imnpst. fn!! An m-M'^^io nn "PiniiT= " ^^a 



rules of practice that can be given 

 Exeter, N. H., 1853. 



n. F. 



For the New Ens;land Farmer. 

 MONTHLY FARMER FOR JULY. 



July ! Who can tliink of July, and forget Inde- 

 pendence 1 Not the boys, if they can get crackers. 

 Nor the men, if they contrast their situation with 

 that of their European brethren. The world prob-, 

 ably needed just such a specimen of old-fashioned! ^''I,'' f'r"J^*'-. 



- • ''--■ - '- A. Todd, Srnithville, R. I. 



tence to honest toil. An article on "Plows," and 

 one on "the Variety of Borers," complete our firsfe 

 lesson. 



THE SECOND TWELVE PAGES 

 Contain articles from 



The Editor. 



t>tock Register. 



Silas Brown, Wilmington. 



A, Todd, Smithfield, R. I 



The Editor. 



.1. R., Coi.cfird. 



W. D. B., Concord. 



The Ediior 



despotism. Liberty of the press, of speech, of 

 thought, of locomotion, — will now Iw better un- 

 derstood. But tliis is not reviewing the Farmer, 

 with its almost interminable contents. Orators 

 and writers when they wished to round off a pe 



S. E. Hooker, Poullney, Vt. 



T. A. S., Westboro'. 



J. R.. Concord. 



The Editor. 



Wool Grower, Cheshire Co. 



The Editor. [N. H. 



Farm .loiirnal 



S. F., Winchester. 



Philadelphia Paper. 



St. Vincent Mirror. 



"A Day with the Great Plow" tells us of plow- 

 ing furrows 12 inches deep, and 18 wide ! Statis- 

 tics on the difference between the "Live and Detid 

 Weight of Cattle," is followed by some strictures 



riod with an idea of the vastness of our field, used! on a criticisin of "Experimental Farming." Fol 

 to say, sometimes, "from Maine to Florida." The! lowing which are valuable articles on "Plaster, 

 correspondents of the Farmer, in the Provinces of' Ashes, &c. ;" "Action of the Atmosphere on the 

 the North, in the Sandwich Islands, and along the! roots of Plants ;" description of the new "State 



Pacific coast, open to us a field so much more ex 

 tensive, as almost to provoke a smile at this ex- 

 pression. 



THE FIRST TWELVE PAGES 



Pauper Farm," in Tewksbury ; explanation of the 

 "Circulation of Sap ;" remarks on "Orchards," 

 and a "Chapter for nice old Farmers." The "body" 

 that undertakes to tell Fanny why country folks 

 live in the rear of the house, will please inform 

 me why it is that city people live in the cellar, 

 while they have so many stories above ground. 

 Then we find a protest against "Cruelty to Ani- 

 mals ;" Mr. Hooker's successful method of "Graft- 

 ing Old Trees ;" and comments on "Diversity in 

 Theory and Practice." In my observation among 

 practical farmers I have never been much troubled 

 in the salutatory "Calendar" the editor, as helby the "chaos of theory and practice," which the 

 loves to do, blends the sentimental and the prac- writer of this article so feelingly deplores. Is 

 •D„i _ .. xi. .i. ___. r , 1 , there greater uniformity in the prosecution of any 



The Editor. 



S. P. Fowler, Danversport. 



The Editor. 



R. B. H., Baltimore. 



Culturist Mild Gazelle. 



J. N. M., Georgetown. 



M. A. Perry, Watertown. 



S. G. B. 



The Editor. 



Contain articles from 



Prairie Farmer. 



O. V. Hills, Leominser. 



Howits. 



The Ediior. 



P. 



A. S. R., LincoTn. 



J. S. Greene. Sandwich Islands. 



Peter Fay, Soulhboro'. 



Richard C. Stone, Soulhboro'. 



tical. Believing that even farmers have heads as 

 well as hands, — hearts as well as stomachs, he 

 would point out the beauties as well as suggest 

 the hard labors of this "fervid noon" of the year. 

 The fifth number of the "Birds of New England" 

 describes particularly the Meadow Liirk, the Gold- 

 en Robin, the Red- winged Blackbird, and the ec- 

 centric Cow Blackbird. Remarks on "Ridging 

 and Draining," with directions for the work, 

 "when necessary," are succeeded by a very inter 

 esting article on "Strawberries near Baltimore.' 

 Some sensible comments on "The Turnip Crop," 

 which somehow appears to be a much greater fa 

 vorite with "book-farmers" than with the practi 

 cal ones of my acquaintance. Short articles, giv- 

 ing a remedy for the "Potato Rot ;" how to "Pre- 

 serve Manures ;" suggestions on "Watering the 

 Garden," with cuts of implements ; directions for 

 raising "Buckwheat ;" some good "Summer and 

 Autuiun Apples" recommended ; observations on 

 "German Agriculture," that reminds us tliat we 

 have lessons yet to learn in eccmomy, especially of 

 manures : and valuable and minute directions for 

 building cisterns, more interesting to those who 

 have a "great fuss" every washing day to haul soft 

 water, than to those who, like "our folks," have 

 a never-failing well of clear, soft, cold water ;— 

 bring us to an agricultural communication from 

 the Sandwich Islands, written, nut by some stray 

 sailor, or transient visitor, but by one who raised 

 400 bushels of wheat on Iiis farm there, last year. 

 The weevil, the cut worm, and other injurious ver- 



other business? Indeed, are not we old farmers 

 charged with following traditions — of doing, gen- 

 eration after generation, as our fathers did 1 "The 

 true mode of Cultivation" is the caption of an ar- 

 ticle on State Pauper Farms, in which the writer 

 suggests that they may be so managed as to "be 

 patterns to all the surrounding country." The 

 result of the "Visit to the State Reform School" 

 farm — given on the next page — does not seem to 

 me to afford much ground for these sanguine hopes. 

 Have 1'own Poor-farms often proved models, either 

 as to crops or profit ? But it is well that public 

 attention is turned to these State institutions — 

 they cannot be watched too closely, lest they prove 

 hot-beds of abuse and mismanagement, instead af 

 "models." But we must proceed to a defence of 

 "Lunar and Stellar Influence ;" comments on the 

 late "Mt. Airy Agricultural Institute," in which 

 the writer attempts to show that all similar schools 

 are antagonistic to the New England system of 

 free schools ; a sarcastic account of a clover-seed 

 speculation ; and a notice of a kind of earth founti 

 in St. Vincent, more valuable for manure than gua- 

 no. 



THE THIRD TWELVE PAGES 



Contain articles from 



The Editor. C. 1). Stuart. 



M., Che-ster, N. 11. Granite Farmer. 



The Editor. Maiiie Fiiriner. 



M. Perry, Watertown. A Reader, Winchester. 



The Ediior. The Country Gentlein.in. 



Pillsfield Culturist. H. F. French, Exeter, N. E. 



The Editor. Horticulturist. 



