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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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unusual degree. Corn continues to look finely. 

 Apples will be scarce, but on visiting various parts 

 of this State and New Hampshire, we find more 

 than we had expected. 



WAIT AWHILE. 



Cast a seed itilo ihe earlti — 



Wail awhile ; 

 Cheer the little fJow'ret's birth 



With a smile ; 

 Shelter it from wind and storm 



Sweeping by ; 

 No riii'.e h:iiifi let it deform. 



Lest it (lie. 

 In the summer it shall bloom, 

 Fragrant with a rich perfume, 



All your care repaying. 



Store with truth an infant's mind, 



Wait awhile ; 

 Greet the first fruits that you find 



With a smile ; 

 Bid it, with truth's fiag unfurl'd, 



Move ap.ice ; 

 In its battles with the worM 



Tench it grace ; 

 Then, when youthful years have flown, 

 See the child to manhood grown, 



God's whole law obeying. 



EXHIBITION OF THE VERMONT STATE 

 AGRIOULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The annual exhibition of the Vermont State Ag- 

 ricultural Society will be held at Montpelier, on 

 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the 13th, 14th 

 and 15th of September, 1853. 



An area of forty acres will be enclosed for the 

 exhibition ; and witliin the enclosure suitable 

 structures will be erected, and arrangements made 

 for the accommodation of all who wish to exhibit 

 either animals or articles. Fresh water, forage 

 consisting of hay, grass, green oats, and cornstalks 

 for cattle, horses, and sheep, straw for littering 

 and oats for feeding horses, and gradn for swine 

 and poultry, will be supplied, free of charge, to 

 such exhibitors as choose to keep their animals on 

 the grounds enclosed ; and exhibitors of valuable 

 horses, desiring barn accommodations for the 

 same, may procure them in the village at a reas- 

 onable expense. 



Exhibitors must become members of the Society; 

 and must have Avhatever they intend to exhibit en- 

 tered on the Secretary's books on or before Tues- 

 day, the loth of Septeinber. It is quite desirable, 

 however, that the entries should be made as ear- 

 ly as Monday, the 12tli. 



Pernons residing out of the State, may compete 

 for premiums on foreign stock, plowing, agricultu- 

 ral implements, and machines, the various manu- 

 fiictures named in the Premium List of the Socie- 

 ty, under the head uf Discretionary Premiums ; 

 and may make entry of Anhaals ur articles of any 

 class, fur exhibition merely, v^iicli will be admit- 

 ted within the enclosure for tliat purpose, if deemed 

 worthy l)y the Executive Board. 



Arrangements have been efiected with all the 

 Railroad Companies in Vermont, to carry all ani- 

 mals and articles for exhibition, to and from the 

 Fair, free of charge, and without changing cars ; 

 and visitors each way, at half-fare. 



Gentlemen from the States, and from the Can- 



adas, are cordially invited to participate in the ex- 

 hibition. 



Communications may be addressed to J. A. 

 Beckwith, Corresponding Secretary of the Vt. 

 State Agricultural Society, Middlebury, Vt., or to 

 his agent, E. P. Walton, Montpelier, Vt. 



FREDERICK IIOLBROOK, PreS. 



J. A. Beckwith, Sec. 



For the Tfew England Farmer. 

 THE GARGET. 



Relative to an " Inquiry touching the Garget " 

 in cows, I have to aay, that in a^erv/case that has 

 come under my notice, I have prescribed the root 

 of whiit is commonly called " Crow Berry," and 

 have never known it fail of curing the malady. 



Mode of application : cut a piece of the root, 

 about the size of a gill cup, in small pieces, and 

 mix with Indian meal ; give twice in twenty-four 

 houi's. Cows will eat it in this way as readily as 

 they will eat potatoes. . 



Crops ix Hampshire CorxTY. — Grass, first crop 

 was good ; aftermath will be superior ; late pas- 

 turage abundant ; rye and oats good. Corn looks 

 extremely well, and is forward for the season ; po- 

 tatoes will probably average a fair crop, although 

 some pieces show a tendency to rot. Broom Corn, 

 a pi'ominent crop in the valley of the Connecticut 

 River for twenty miles above Mount Tom. is but 

 ftxir. Apples are a failure. Peaches and pears 

 abundant. l. e. 



Northampton, Aug. 22, 1853. 



For the New Eniclanii Farmer. 

 TO MAKE GOOD WALKS. 



Two years ago, I tried an experiment for a walk 

 in front of my house, which has proved very sat- 

 isfactory. I removed the soil one foot in depth, 

 and filled in small cobble stones. Then took coarse 

 gravel, and with two riddle sieves sifted the coarse 

 and fine from it, retaining the medium size. Then 

 took equal parts of lime and cement, and mixed in 

 as much as I could with the gravel. With a shovel 

 and trowel I placed it down smooth, like plaster- 

 ing, one and a half inches in depth. In the spring, 

 when it began to thaw daytimes and freeze nights, 

 it flaked and crumbled about half an inch in depth, 

 but has remained smooth and firm ever since. It- 

 is now very solid, and one of the most beautiful 

 walks T know of. f. e. b. 



Concord, 1853. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 THE ONION WORM. 



Mr. Brown : — Noticing the remarks on the 

 onion worm in your July number, I had the im- 

 pression that if living creatures of the insect tribe 

 could live and exist on the onion, tliat tobacco 

 could have no effect, but tried it effectually. When 

 the onion had got to the size of a pipe stem, I 

 found many of them laying prostrate on t'.«i bed, 

 and a maggot in them one fourth of an inch in 

 length. 1 obtained two quarts of tobacco liquor, 

 and took out every defective onion and pour'-d into 

 the drill the liquor ; then with the hoae ir the 

 vrater pot sprinkled the whole bed, and now there 

 is not a more thrifty bed of onions in " thrfo dig- 

 gins." n s. 



Sagamore Farm, Rye, N. //., A«o-.8,18oo. 



