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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Arc. 



raise an average crop of 185,658 bushels of wheat ; 

 183,117 bushels of rye; 1, 573, 67^ bushels of Indi- 

 an corn ; 973,381 bushels of oats ; 70,856 bushels 

 of buck-wheat, 4,304,919 bushels of potatoes ; and 

 we produce 1,108,476 lbs. of wool; 6,977 lbs. of 

 butter; 3,196,663 lbs. of cheese; 1,294,863 lbs. 

 of maple sui;ar ; and 598,854 tons of hay. Let 

 the younj>; farmers of this State estimate the fore- 

 going products of the farm and dairy at fair aver- 

 age prices, and see what a fine ajigregate of val- 

 ues they will have as the result, bearing in mind 

 the while, that lie who most increases the pro- 

 ductiveness of the earth, is the greatest benefactor 

 of his race. I would renew my suggestions of last 

 June, in regard to the establishment of an Agri- 

 cultural Commission. 



USS OP FLOWERS. 



All things have their uses. The flowers not 

 only please the eye but improve the thoughts, 

 making them more gentle and better. The full- 

 blown rose, expanded to its utmost limits, and 

 shedding its fragrance on all within its reach, 

 seems emblematic of a good heart, beaming forth 

 its kind influences on all around. If the flowers 

 could thinh, and feel, and talk, what lessons of 

 gentleness and love would they teach us. All 

 children luve them ; the old man leaning on his 

 staCF, pauses by the wayside and contemplates them 

 with delight. A vase of fresh flowers in the sick- 

 room stands as an emblem of the new life that 

 will come when the tried spirit shall bloom with 

 perennial lustre in the skies. 



Flowers have kindly influences upon all ; we 

 can almost believe that there were no flowers in 

 Paradise, or Eve had not yielded to the tempter. 

 Bacon and Burleigh did not disdain to bend their 

 intellects and find recreation from their cares in 

 the flower garden. Pope and Lord Peterdorol'GH, 

 and Rousseau, thought they could find friends in 

 the flowers when they had no others. The Em- 

 peror DiocLESiAN preferred his garden to a throne, 

 at least, so Cowley said, and Sir William Temple 

 had the amiable weakness to desire to have his 

 heart buried in his garden. 



What a beautiful custom was that in the island 

 of Delos, at a marriage ceremony, where the in- 

 habitants '-assembled at day-break, crowned with 

 flowers ; flowers were strewed in the path of the 

 bride and Ijride-groom ; the house was garlanded 

 with them ; singers and dancers appeared, crowned 

 with oak, myrtle, and hawthorne, the bride and 

 bridegroom were crowned with poppies ; and up- 

 on their approacli to tlie temple a priest received 

 them at the entrance, presenting to each a branch 

 of ivy, — a symbol of the tie wliich was to unite 

 them forever." The Greeks crowned the dead 

 with fluwei's, and the mourners wore them in the 

 funeral ceremonies. 



And we love them and feel tlieir influence here, 

 cold and indifferent, as some say New England 

 people are. No custom prevailed among the 



Greeks more appropriate and beautiful than that 

 of placing flowers before the congregation in our 

 churches. This may be seen on any Sabbath in 

 the First church in the old town of Concord, Mass. 

 They have long been furnished by our fellow towns- 

 man, W. W. Wheildon, Esq. On the last Sabbath 

 the bouquet was in the firm of a cross, and noth- 

 ing could be more suggestive of every thing that 

 is "lovely and of good report." The cross was 

 there, to be sure, but covered with nature's 

 sweetest offerings ; rosea, the fox-glove, phloxes, 

 the mountain laurel, double seringa, larkspur, 

 spirea, and under the arms of the cross the beau- 

 tiful Dsutzia scalva, with its modest bell-like 

 flowers. Did not sincere heart -offerings go up with 

 the fragrance of the flowers to the Elysian fields 

 above ? 



Flowers do speak, then, a clear and intelligible 

 language ; all, in a greater or less degree, find en- 

 joyment in flowers. 



"Are they not all proofs. 



That man immured in cities, still retains 



His inborn, inextinguishable thirst 



Of rural scenes f" 



For the New England Farmer. 

 WARTS. 

 Mr. Brown": — Dear Sir, — Seeing that you are 

 ever ready to answer any inquiries, I would like 

 to know what will take warts from the teats of 

 cows. By answering the above, you will oblige, 

 Geo. Cruickshakks. 

 Swamfscot, June 21, 1853. 



Remarks. — We have known warts in numbers 

 on the hands, cured by wetting and rubbing them 

 occasionally, with a pencil of lunar caustic. Of 

 course it must be used with care. We copy a par- 

 agraph from Cole's "Diseases of Animals." 



"For warts, cut them open, and apply blue vit- 

 riol, {sulphate of copper,) in powder. A physician 

 was induced to try this, (and it was attended with 

 excellent success,) from learning that a boy had 

 many warts cured on his hands by sorting brass 

 nails, from the influence of the copper in the brass. 

 Neither the cutting nor the application is pafcful. 

 Or apply to warts raw grated carrots, mixed with 

 salt. Warts are sometimes cured by the applica- 

 tion of spirits of turpentine, or lunar caustic." 



We would not advise, however, to ciit the ivarts 

 open, as there is danger of making a sore more 

 troublesome than the warts. 



Fine Cherries. — Mr. Mirick, one of our friends 

 from the United Family, at Harvard, handed us a 

 branch from a cherry tree, the other day, loaded 

 with most delicious fruit. It was so large as to 

 spoil the old saying that "it isn't worth while to 

 make two bites of a cherry," dark red, sweet, flesh 

 firm, and heart-shaped. They call it by its French 

 name, Look-no-furtiier, and really, with plenty 

 of such at command, one would scarcely care to 

 trouble himself for other kinds. We have rarely 

 seen a finer cherry. 



