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K^W ENGLAND FARME'lt. 



Oct. 



from Virgil's regatta down to the latest at Hull, 

 that renowned city of fishermen and voters. 



I pass over the horses, cows, sheep, and swine, 

 for as to number and quality there was nothing 

 very remarkable, which was rather creditable to 



and requires its own cultivation. The discourse 

 was well received by thosewho could be interested 

 in an agricultural subject. 



There is danger from various causes that the 

 County Fairs will lose their interest,— as from un- 



ii „' /• ,, ' ., . „ — •--- --^ ^.^ wv^ v/v^uuuj iiuio nm lUBc tncir interest, — as irom un- 



pnLl>!T='" i^^^f"''^'^^.^ having discretion propitious weather, the monopoly of the State 

 Z rSv n ^'^"/-^^^ t^"<^ey mereie3,^not to dragoon Fair, and the superior attractions of the city exhi- 

 SuiKiarhSL "'''°"'"''' '""^° ''"''"^ '^ this bitions, e. g. Faneuil Hall and the Crystal Palace. 

 ^Amnnl kfv. u • , •, . ^^'^^ "''^^ §« ^^"^ '^o°^« *» Boston or New York 



hUWr^^-PP were SIX real wild geese, no- with less inconvenience than he can travel twenty 

 ble birds, indignant at their ignoble confinement miles from his farm to the Fair, by old modes of 

 in a coop. If their owner had given them freedom transit. It will be an evil if he Cr>untv ^ ?,; r„n 

 and letthem fly away, it would havebeen the best down. Farmers should not dldab tL CmbW 

 exhibition of a^l. There was also a lot of Nova exhibitions of the r own enterprt e ^Th^rS 

 SCO la ducks-beautiful birds. And these water make two spears of grass grow where one did b2 

 fowl constituted the chief interest of the fowl exhi-| fore, stand L the fou?.datir7n of metropTtL splen- 

 b tion and most appropriate, considering the rain. dor. The press should encourage the Fairs a do 



Mr. Farnham of Lebanon, has in his poultry yard 

 a queer hybrid which he took no pains to conjure 

 up, and through contempt would not put into the 

 show. The birds have no feathers, but only down. 

 They are of all colors, grizzled, mottled, and no 

 color. Some looked like a woodchuck and some 

 like a Malta cat. Their siae is good and their flesh 

 and eggs not inferior. 



In the show room were some things worthy of 

 remark— good butter and cheese, of course; some 

 verybeautiful pieces of flannel of household pro- 

 duction; raw silk hose, flesh colored, in clock work, 

 very fine. Also a vase made by Mrs. Jacobs of 

 Hanover, of a truly rural character. It was eight- 

 een inches high and eight in 'diameter, stuccoed 

 entire with acorns and the young buds of the hem- 

 lock when they are nearly the size of the acorn. 

 Ihe buds and acorns were beautifully arranged in 

 Mosaic, and with its coronet of flowers looked very 

 inviting. It struck me that herein was a line of 

 art not muchexi^lored, butworthy of pursuit. The 

 vegetable world has all variety for such work,both 

 ornamental and instructive. 



The exhibition of apples and plums were excel- 

 lent, Considering the scarcity in all this region the 

 present year. Nothing has struck me with more 

 surprise than the total neglect of farmers here— 

 I may say in all the western part of New Hamp- 

 shire—in cultivating good apples. It is only with- 

 in the last fifteen years they have begun to think 

 of the subject. They are going on now with com- 

 mendable , enterprise. Your nursery-men would 

 find it greatly to their advantage in scattering ad- 

 vertisements and information through these coun- 

 ties. ^ 



_ The spacious tent might have contained ten 

 timesthe quantity of articles it did. Among those 

 exhibited were a superior machine for making win- 

 dow blinds by D. A. Cummings of North Enfield, 



you and your 

 — Traveller. 



Correspondent. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 MEADOW I.ANDS. 

 The traveller, among the hills and valleys of 

 New England's diversified scenery, can hardly fail 

 to note the fact that a rich source of thrift is neg- 

 lected, and a great avenue of wealth is cut off, by 

 the total neglect or imperfect cultivation of the 

 low, swamp lands, belonging to almost every farm. 

 The arid sand plain has been cultivated because it 

 was easy to work ; till now, it is very easy fee 

 gather the harvest. The bleak hills have been 

 made to yield to the plow, because our forefathers, 

 finding them adapted to the growth of grain, 

 placed them under cultivation ; and it would be 

 a sacriligious act, in the eyes of many, to abandon 

 the paths our fathers trod. 



Nature — always a stern leveller— has for ages 

 been removing the decayed vegetable matter, to- 

 gether with the disintegrated mineral fertiUzers, 

 %om_the hill-tops to the valleys, till they are now 

 the rich receptacles of the properties essential to 

 the growth of a large class of vegetable produc- 

 tions. But these swamps, instead of affording a 

 realization of the poet's dream of fertile meadows, 

 decked in living green, serve the unpoetic purpose 

 of giving a home to loathsome reptiles and exist- 

 ence to myriads of annoying insects. In their 

 unreclaimed state they disfigure the fair face of 

 nature, give rise to pestilential vapor, and may 

 with truth be called a nuisance. 



The same labor which now produces a scanty 

 crop upon exhausted field lands, would often meet 

 a much better reward if judiciously laid out on 

 meadows. The same energy which has mads 

 beauteous farms from the rough New England 

 can make the meadows blossom as the rose. 



the 

 that is 

 80n& Jones oTLebanon-steertlres fo7the wheds'l ^^^'"fJ^S' ^^ '""^j^ f^ *^^ conviction that the work 

 and a very ingenious contrivance to piv4t the f° ^^l\'''^? the proo that it will pay for 

 wheel, in turning, from meetbgt' e body of t '^7^- That the useless bog can be converted 

 carria.'e There was a o^;,?,! ?v, ; f "^ f 1 1 '"^'^ luxuriant grass land, has been practically 

 ^t" ° ;.,,,,^''''' "''" ^ S°«^ "^'^y "^ vegetables proved. The place where o/d brindk fon.erly 



for the table. 



At two o'clock, a discourse was listened to, 

 (except what it was not listened to, fur there was 

 some noise), from the Rev. A. G. Comings, of Ma 



got mired every spring, has been drainea anH 

 levelled, and now yields its two or three t r.s to 

 the acre. i\Iany a farmer who formerly wa.' s!iort 

 of hay in the spring, and had to put his cov. s and 



tZtL^^Z^r^'^^^^^ ?' ^^^sdom of shift for themselves, now rejoicls in a sc.ir.J of 



otnei pecuhaiities. New Hampshire has its own, in the van of improvement and developed .n >^i 



