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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



NOTICE OF PUBLICATIONS. 



CuEDiTon AXD Debtou's Assistant. By I. K. 

 Eutts, 22 School Street. — Mr. Butts has published a 

 scries of little works, which are sold at the low price 

 of twenty-five cents each, on the most important 

 affairs in business. These works have had an im- 

 mense sale throughout the country, and are fre- 

 quently the means of saving dollars in advice, and 

 hundreds of dollars in litigation. The work now 

 before us is among the best of these excellent assist- 

 ants. It contains the laws, rules, decisions, &c., 

 on the Evidences of Debt, !Mode of Enforcing Pay- 

 ments, General and Special Laws, Taxation of Costs, 

 Legal Fees of Attorneys and Law Officers, &c. &c. 

 It is richly worth ten times its cost, and to many it 

 is worth more than a hundred times its price. 



Address at the Annual Meeting of the New 

 York State Agricultural Society. By Professor 

 Emmons. — We are indebted to B. P. Johnson, Esq., 

 for this interesting and able production on science 

 as connected with agriculture, and the importance 

 of agricultural education. 



The Common School Exhibition, containing the 

 May Queen, and Fairy Queen, and various other 

 Original Pieces, suitable for Declamation and School 

 Exhibitions. By H. P. Andrews, Teacher of Centre 

 School, Maiden, Fitz & Ilobbs, 138^ Washington 

 Street. 166 pp. ISmo. This little work is highly 

 useful, and admirably adapted to its purpose. The 

 author has shown excellent taste and sound judg- 

 ment. We notice a few pieces, by Fitch Poole, of 

 Danvers, in his usual fine taste and facetious style. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



There will be a semi-annual exhibition at the 

 society's hall, June 20 to 23. Liberal prizes are 

 offered for the best flowers, mostly for roses, amount- 

 ing in all to over one hundred dollars. It will 

 doubtless be one of the most splendid and beautiful 

 floral shows ever witnessed, particularlj' of the rose 

 family, which for beauty and fragrance still holds 

 the ascendant. 



TURNIP SEED. 



One of the most respectable farmers in !Mont- 

 gomery county called upon us, a short time since, 

 and gave us the following directions for preparing 

 turnip seed for sowing : Mix the seed with flour 

 of sulphur, then put in a bottle and cork up per- 

 fectly tight for six or eight weeks previously to 

 planting. Ho has pursued this plan for several 

 years, and has never known it to fail to protect the 

 crop effectually against the fly. This is an impor- 

 tant hint to our farmers, and we commend it to their 

 attention. — Germantown Tdcgruph, 



STRAW FOR BONNETS. 



Directions for curing straw, to adapt it for the 

 manufacture of straw bonnets, hats, &c. : " Cut 

 wheat or ryo straw while in full blossom, or as the 

 blossoms begin to fall. Scald it in a few hours after 



it is cut, (the head being first cut off,) in boiling 

 water, about a quarter of a minute, then spread and 

 dry it in the sun ; take care that neither rain, or dew 

 fall upon it It will cure in three days sunshine. 

 Then keep it in a dry place." To split the straw 

 after it is properly cured, so as to reduce it to a 

 proper texture, it is only necessary to fit the point of 

 a penknife in a piece of board, leaving about the 

 eighth or a fourth of an inch above the board, then 

 pulling the straw against it. Straw of any size can 

 be made. — Selected. 



THE OLD HOMESTEAD. 



Down in a quiet, sun-lit valley. 



Stands my low-roofed cottage home : 



Rushing thoughts around it rally. 

 Thither wafted while I roam. 



There, in summer, as of olden. 



Waves the grecn-toppcd maple-tree ; 



There, in autumn, sore and golden, 

 Shadows flit across the lea. 



Still the streamlet cleaves the meadow, 

 Bordered by the mantling vine. 



Where, beneath the tall oak's shadow. 

 Then I threw the hempen line. 



Thoughtless childhood ! happy childhood ! 



I would journey back to thee ; 

 Roam again the " tangled wildwood," 



Sport beneath the ma2)le-tree. 



There no busy sorrows fashion 

 Phantoms in the path of youth. 



Nor pale care nor purple passion 

 Taint the bloom of love and truth. 



THE OLIO. 



A good old minister prayed fervently for those 

 of the congregation who were too proud to kneel 

 and too lazy to stand. 



Secrets. — The reply of Charles II., when im- 

 portuned to communicate something of a private 

 nature, deserves to be engraven in the heart of every 

 man : — 



" Can you keep a secret r " asked the subtle mon- 

 arch. 



" Most faithfully," returned the nobleman. 



" So can I," was the laconic and severe answer 

 of Charles. 



Home Tooke, being asked by George III. whether 

 he played cards, replied, " I cannot, your majesty, 

 tell a king from a knave." 



The Height of Impudence. — Taking shelter 

 from a shower in an umbrella shop. 



TERMS. — The New England Farmer is published 

 every other Saturday, making a neat and handsome 

 volume, at the close of the year, of 416 pages, at ^1 a 

 year, or five copies for %\, payable in advance. It may 

 be neatly bound at ISiJ cents, or elegantly bound in 

 muslin, embossed and gilt, at 2.) cents a volume. As it 

 is stereotyped, back numbers can be furnished to new 

 subscribers. 



I|^ The Postage .^gi 



On this paper is only 1 cent, or 26 cents a year, within 

 the state, or within 100 miles out of the state ; and lA 

 cents, or 39 cents a year, beyond tliose distances. 



STEREOTYPED AT THE 

 BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE POUNDRT. 



