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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



CONTENTS OP THIS NUMBER. 



Calendar for November Page 489 



A Trip to the Connecticut River 490 



Plow in? 492 



The Salibatli— Cranberry Culture 493 



Southern Farming ^. 494 



Agricultural Fair— Massachusetts Lands ia Maine 495 



Observations on Setting Young Trees..'. 496 



Garget— The Season '. 496 



Exhibition of Horses at Springfield 497 



Three kinds of Farmers 498 



Anthracite Coal Ashes 499 



Meadow Mud— Monthly Farmer for September 5U0 



Worcester Agricultural Fair 502 



An Important Movement 504 



The Framingham Agricultural Society. 505 



Norfolk Co. Agricullural Show 505 



Keep the Farmer's Festivals Pure 506 



Essex County Agricultural Fair 507 



Hillsborough Fair 508 



The Marrow Squash 509 



Grafton County (N. H.) Cattle Show and Fair 509 



Meadow Lauds 510 



A Remedy for the Potato Rot 511 



Mr. George Patterson's Farm 511 



The Season 512 



How shall we preserve Eggs ? 513 



Middlesex County Cattle Show 514 



Swallows— Grasshoppers — the Crops 519 



The White Clover 519 



Fall Plowing 520 



Exhibition of the Franklin Co. Agricultural Society 522 



Heavy Spade vs. Light Fork— Russet Apples, &c 523 



Premiums at the Middlesex Co. Exhibition 524 



Neglect of Pastures 524 



The Arab Horse— A good Cow— Rorse Radish 525 



Cattle i^how at Northampton 526 



Essex County Society ....527 



Extracts and Replies 5v8 



Migration of Birds— Fraud in Fruit Trees 529 



The Great Gypsum Field -Flax— The Little Martyr .530 



The Great Horse Convention ^^ £31 



A Wonderful Printing Press 531 



Ladies' Department — Boy's Department 532 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Muskingham Pear 497 



Consternation 513 



Seckle and Louise Bonne de Jersey Pears 528 



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PATENT 



Self-SIiarpening Feed-Cutters. 



Manufactured and for sale by HIRAM BLACKMER, No. 5 

 Railroad Block, Lincoln Street, Boston, opposite 

 Worcester R. R. Depot. 

 rpHIS Cutter is superior to any other Cutters now in use. 

 X For strength, durability and a simplicity of construction, 

 it is the only self-sharpening Hay, Straw, and Cornstalk Cut- 

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 A number of knives to grimi and set, and the constant wear 

 of the hide roll, and the consequent expense attending the re- 

 pairs of those Cutters. This Cutter has no hide roll, and but 

 ONE STRAIGHT KNIFE, which any person can grind and 

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 the machine, and may be used for years without any other 

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33" A prime assortment of STOVES constantly on hand. 



Oct. 15 2m 



Extra Size Fruit Trees. 



The Subscriber offers for sale at his Nurseries 

 in Dorchester, 



THREE THOUSAND very large Pyramid 

 Pear Trees on Quince roots. 



FIVE THOUSAND do. do. Standard Pear 



Trees on their own roots. 



Many of the above are now in fruit ; all are remarkable 

 for their strength and beautiful form, and, with proper care, 

 will produce fruit next season. 



Also, a general assortment of Apples, Cherries, Plums, 

 Peaches, &c. &c. MARSHALL P. WILDER. 



Sept. 10, 1853. 



N. B. Grove Hall Coaches leave No. 11 Franklin Street, 

 Boston, for Dorchester, several times each day. 

 Sept. 15. 6ti 



PeruYiau (luauo. 



A FEW TONS, for sale by 



XT Also, 100 bags Liverpool Salt. 

 May 14. 



JAMES GOULD, 

 No. 70 Stale Street. 



Clioice Fowls for Sale. 



A few pairs of Ebon, Summatre, Pheas- 

 ant, Game. Black Spanish, Golden and 

 Silver Pheasants, Aylesbury and Java 

 Ducks. The above are warranted pure 

 bred Fowls. The Pheasants are the bona- 

 flde Pheasants, the old original parents, 

 imported from China. All letters must be post paid to meet 

 attention. JOHN GILES. 



Oct. 22. 3w 



Stoue Aqueduct Pipe. 



THE Stone Aqueduct Pipe is made of the same material as 

 Stone Pols and Stone Jugs, and C()ated with a glaze that is 

 Indestructible, consequently is not liable to corrode, but will 

 deliver the water as pure as it runs from the spring. It is 

 made in sections of 2 feet in length, and warranted to stand 

 the pressure of 300 feet head, for about half the cost of cast 

 iron of the same calibre. 



Also, DrainPipemadeof a combination of clays, and burned 

 to a perfect body, from 3 to 12 inches diameter, from 10 to 53 

 cents per foot. Agents for Boston and vicinity, Ruggles, 

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B. G. & C. CHACE. 

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