1853. 



NEW ENGLAND. FARMER. 



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CONTENTS OP THIS NUMBER. 



Calendar for September Page 393 



The Wants of Agriculture 894 



Changes uf Timber from Clearing Lunds 895 



Mowing Machines 39-' 



Potatoes — Leached Ashes as a Top-Dressing 5% 



An Hour with a B udder 396 



To Destroy Vermin in Fowls — Migration of Swallows.... 397 



The Sandwich Islands— The Tomato 398 



Eruption of Manua Loa, Feb. 29, 1852 399 



Important Query— How to Cure Warts 399 



E.xhibition of the Venn on I State Agricultural Society 400 



Garget— To make Good Walks— The Onion Worm 400 



Bees 401 



The Thriftless Farmer — Improvement and Haying 402 



To Prevent Bugs from Eating Vines 402 



Action of Drought on Plants .' 4(3 



High ways— A Beautiful Feature 404 



Garden and Fire Engines 4i)4 



The Hive and Honey Bee— The Canker Worm 405 



Turnip and Grass Seed — Ammonia 406 



Unworthy Books— Summer i'runing of the Grape Vine...4o7 



A new species of Canker Worm 406 



Cranberry Culture— Milk and Butter 409 



Transactions of the Agricultural Societies of Mass 4C^ 



Swallows — Laying Down to Grass 410 



National Agricultural Society and Mount Vernon 412 



Inoculation — Budding 412 



Sale of Earl of Ducie's Slock— A Prolific Meadow 413 



A Novel Encounter — Trimming Pines 414 



List of State Fairs in 1853 — Trees 415 



The Weather — Peas — An Experiment — Garget in Cows... 41 



Food for Crops— Mowing Machines 46 



Analyzing Soils— Farming Science, &c 418 



The Marrow Squash — The Crops 419 



Shelter 420 



Inquiries about Swine, Breeding Sows, Sheep, &c 421 



What Sweet Apples are best for Farmers.' 421 



How tolDry Peaches— Cultivation of the Pear 422 



Benefit of Peat Ashes as a Manure 423 



Hitching Posts — Value of Cow Manure 424 



Earthing up Celery — Rough Paint for Farmers 425 



Notes by the Way 4 5 



Saleratus— Old Fields ■ 4 6 



Stubble Lands— The Roller 42; 



Monthly Farmer for August 429 



Tomatoes 430 



Morning— Practical Bee Keeping 43 



Grapes 432 



Ax Making— The Potato Rot 433 



Transactions of the Agricultural Societies, No. 2 431 



Mr. Webster's Mansion 435 



The Palmer Worm — Prospects of the Crops 436 



Blast on Potatoes— Extracts, Replies, &c 436 



Discoveries and Improvements 437 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



A Wheel Iloe 40 1 



May's Victoria Currant 401 



Thorough Bred Ayrshire Bull Prince Albert 417 



Budding and Pruning Knives 433 



Earth, or Road Scraper -. 433 



Old Colony JViirseries. 



Wanted, 5 to 10,000 Ajiple Stocks of good qual 

 ity. Apply to B. M. WATSON, Old Colony 

 Nurseries, Plymouth, Mass., where may be had 

 every variety of Fruit and Ornamental Trees and 

 Shrubs, Plants, Green-house Plants. &c.; also. 

 Pear, Cherry, Plum, Paradise and Mahaleh 

 Stocks, for Nurseries. 



A great variety of young Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, 

 from $3 to $10 per lOO, for Nurseries or ornamental planting. 

 Dahlias, Verbenas, Roses, Pea Heliotropes and Fachrias, new 

 dwarf Chrysanthemums, (100sorts,)Phloxes, Iris, Herbaceous 

 Plants, Japan Lilies, <fec., in great variety, including many no 

 veUies lately imported. Strawberry plants in 80 varieties. 



Carriage paid to Boston. Catalogues gratis, and prepaid 

 on receipt of one stamp. 



Feb. 26. tf 



Strawberry Plants, &c. 



1 An f\f\l\ Fl'NE Strawberry Plants, of the following 

 lUW^UV/U kinds:— Fay's Seedling, Richardson's Early, 

 Richardson's Late, Hovey's Seedling, Boston Pine and Scotch 

 Runners. 



lOoO Dutch Currant Bushes, red and white. 



A lot of Horse Chestnut, Latch and Maple Trees, 6 to 8 feet 

 high. For sale by PARKER & WHITE, 



59 & 63 Blackstone Street, Boston. 



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 which are offered at low prices. 



Of PLOUGHS — we have the greatest variety of kinds and 

 .■(izes. 



Improved Sod Ploughs, for flat furrows — improved Scotch 

 Ploughs for lapped furrows — improved Stubble Ploughs, which 

 are esjiecially adapted to deep tillage, or varying from 6 to 12 

 inches in depth. 



Self-sharpening, Hill Side, Sub-soil, Double Mould, Corn, 

 Cotton and Rice Ploughs. 



Cylinder Hay Cutters, Smith's Patent Lever Gate, and oth 

 ers. Patent Corn Shellers, with and without Separators. 

 Seed Sowers, of various sizes and prices. Batchelder's patent 

 Corn Planter, improved. Fanning Mills of various sizes, 

 Horse Powers, Threshing Machines, thermometer Churns, 

 Rohbins' patent Centrifugal Churn, Cylinder Churn, Dash 

 Churn, Corn Planters, together with almost every article 

 wanted on the Plantation, Farm or Garden. 



Illustrated Catalogues sent gratis on application, post paid 

 RUGGLES, NOURSE, MASON & CO. 



Boston and Worcester, Mass., Jan. 1, 1853 tf 



Pure Bred Fowls. 



For sale at a moderate price, if applied 

 for soon. White and |4uff Shanghaes, Gold 

 and Silver Spangled Hamburgh or Pheas- 

 ants, Black Sjianish and Bolon Grays; 

 also, Java Pea Fowls, Black Norfolk Tur- 



^ . keys and Bremen Geese. These Fuwls are 



from imported and prize stocks, and very fine, and can be for- 

 wHidtd by express at short notice. For further particulars 

 address H. H. LITTLE, 



East Marshfield, Plymouth County, Mass. 

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