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NEWEINGLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 



marked, s ive hy rough, unlettered stones, taken 

 fri)u\ the adjoining fields or highways. An an- 

 cient grave-3'ard is always a place of interest ; 

 but dimhly so is this venerable cemetery, in whose 

 bosom is deposited not only the ashes of some of 

 the fathers of New England, but also the precious 

 dust of the foremost man of our own times. 



THE PALMER V/ORM. 



The Boston papers speak of this destructive in- 

 sect as one that has made its appearance this sea- 

 son for the first time for many years. So for as 

 this part of the country is concerned, the insect is 

 by no means a new comer. A gentleman in this 

 place informs us that he has been fighting this 

 worm for twenty years. Many of the trees in 

 this vicinity have this year been stripped of their 

 foliage, but according to his general habits it is 

 about time for the Avorm to disappear for the sea- 

 son. Those who have exercised vigilance and 

 care in removing the insects' nests, and have freed 

 their trees daily of these troublesome customers, 

 have succeeded in preserving the foliage and fruit 

 of their orchards. — Yarmouth Register. 



For the Nev: Ensland Farmer. 



BLAST ON POTATOES. 



Mr. Brown : — Within a week a great change 

 has taken place in the appearance of potatoes; the 

 vines of some varieties have suffered much more 

 tlian others, such as the White Chenango, Sand- 

 wich Island Reds, &c. I think potatoes will rot 

 baldy, this year. The crop with me will be cut 

 short at least one-third, if not half, on the late 

 potatoes. The new variety, Davis Seedling, does 

 not appear to be so tender as some othei'S. I am 

 taking some notes on potatoes, that I may send 

 you some day, if you would like them. As yet 

 we have found but few rotten potatoes, though in 

 passing fields I have noticed a strong smell, as 

 though the tubers were more or less rotten ; one 

 of my neighbors told me he could smell his potato 

 field twenty rods when the wind was right. 



Present appearances are unfavorable to good 

 crops of good potatoes. j. r. c. h. 



Newton Centre, Aug. lOtfi. 



Remarks. — Mr. Wilson, a nurseryman at Wind- 

 ham, N. H., while we were looking at the destruc- 

 tion the worms had made among his trees, the other 

 day, said the same worm had been familiar to him 

 for twenty years, but only few in number, until 

 the present season. 



PROSPECTS OF THE CROPS. 



During the first week in August, we had abun- 

 dant rains. It came moderately, and without 

 much wind, so that the crops have not been torn 

 or beaten down. The ground now is thoroughly 

 saturated, in all this region, as far as the roots of 

 plants usually extend. 



Corn never looked better, and is growing with 

 great rapidity. If no untimely frosts touch it, the 

 crop will be heavy. 



Wheat, barley and oats have been materially 

 benefited by showers about the last of July, so that 

 the heads are better filled than was anticipated. 



A north-easterly storm has prevailed now, Aug. 

 8, for several days, and has caught in the swath, 

 cock, or stook, a large amount of hay and grain. 

 Some of the meadows will be flooded, but not 

 much loss incurred in consequence, as the low 

 ground grass was growing vigorously when the 

 storm commenced. 



The aftergrass and the fall pastures must now 

 be very fine, and will undoubtedly lessen the price 

 of hay. 



^' Cattle Market at Manchester, JV. H. — The 

 subject is being agitated of establishing a Cattle 

 Market at Manchester, N. H. There is no market 

 of the kind in the State. The plan is to procure a 

 piece of land containing ten or twelve acres and pre- 

 pare it in a suitable manner to accommodate the 

 Cattle Market, "hnd also the State and County Fairs. 

 It is estimated that iJlOO.OOO is now annually paid 

 in Manchester for meats. • 



EXTRACTS, REPLIES, «&0. 



D. F., Sandwich, Mass. Your article will be 

 given next week. Hope to hear from you again. 



J. H., Temple, N. H., will accept our thanks 

 for his interesting communication in regard to 

 Swallows. We hope to collect facts from all parts 

 of New England in relation to them, and always 

 feel obliged to our friends for any information they 

 can impart. At some future time, we shall en- 

 deavor to satisfy the farmer, that these birds are 

 among the best friends that he has, and that their 

 destruction would be followed by evils which 

 might justly be termed, a calamity ! 



J. F. H., Newton Centre, will please consider 

 his health most excellent, for an hundred years to 

 come, so far as our wishes can establish it in full 

 bumpers of his pure currant wine ! Will he com- 

 municate the precise mode of making it? 



M. A. P., Waterloivn, Mass., will be able to 

 obtain the white blackberry of Mr. J. S. Need- 

 ham, of Danvers, Mass. He may find an engrav- 

 ing of the plant in last year's volume of the Far- 

 mer, page 418. 



"A. W. C," Sheldonville, Mass., says the 

 cure for garget is to wash the udder in cold water 

 until the inflammation subsides. This will cure 

 if anything will. The sooner it is tried after the 

 cow is attacked the better. The way to prevent 

 the ^ar^e^, is- to keep the cow on uniform feed, 

 not changing suddenly from poor to good. 



"S. E. Hooker," Poultney, Vt., says the dry 

 weather has essentially affected the crops in that 

 section of country. The palmer worm has injured 

 the fruit, and the "grasshopper has become a bur- 

 den."' 



5^" The Editor of the Hampshire and Franklin 

 Express, at Amherst, Mass., will please accept our 

 thanks for the intelligent article on Swallows, in 

 his paper of the 19th of August. It will find many 

 delitchted readers. 



