NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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THE BUSH AND ROOT PULLER. 



This implement greatly facilitates and expedites 

 the labors of the farmer in clearing lands, and holds 

 an important place with those cultivators who are 

 thorough in their operations, and make their grounds 

 clear for a tilled crop, or for mowing. With this 

 implement, it is very convenient to fasten to bushes 

 and roots, and any power in the team may be applied 

 for their extraction. This saves the tedious process 

 of digging around shrubs and roots, and preparing 

 for fastening on chains, which often requires far 

 more time than is necessary to complete the work 

 with this simple and cheap implement. 



ON GIVING CREDIT. 



We intend to give credit for articles which we 

 select ; but we are liable to mistakes and omissions, 

 for Ave often select good articles from papers in which 

 there is no credit. Again, we see articles inserted in 

 papers as though they were original in such papers, 

 and we give a wrong credit. We may have seen 

 the articles months before, but cannot recollect the 

 origin of every one we see, and bear it along in our 

 memory for months and years. 



On our 2C3d page is an article credited to the Lan- 

 caster (P'dL.) Farmer, that should be credited to the 

 Albany Cultivator. It appeared in the former paper 

 without credit, and as though it was new, and we 

 credited it accordingly, not recollecting that it was 

 in the latter paper six or eight months ago. On page 

 301 is a valuable article from the Albany Cultivator, 

 which, by unintentional neglect, was not credited at 

 the latter end, though in the beginning it is credited 

 to The Cultivator, all the title which that paper 

 assumes, but we choose to be more definite than the 

 publisher himself, and assign the articles from that 

 source to " a local habitation and a definite name." 

 We hope that our friends will excuse these errors, 

 which we intended to correct before. 



No person has more reason for complaint than we, 

 in this respect. Within nine months we have seen 

 more than fifty of our articles going the rounds of 

 the press without credit ; in some cases, two or three 

 articles in one paper. Sometimes this seemed almost 

 excusable, as in the same papers were several articles 

 that were credited, and the editors might think it 

 would not appear well to credit five or six articles 

 to one paper. We have been pleased to see that 



editors have extracted very liberally from our col- 

 umns, but we shall be still more gratified if they will 

 give due credit. 



THE COMMON HEMLOCK FOR HEDGES. 



Attention is now being directed to the common 

 American hemlock as a substitute for the thorn and 

 other deciduous shrubs, in hedges. It has been sub- 

 jected to reiterated trials, it is said, in various local- 

 ities where it is indigenous, and, in every instance, 

 with the most entire and complete success. It has 

 many things to recommend it ; among the more 

 prominent of which may be mentioned its great 

 hardiness, and the slight injury, comparatively speak- 

 ing, it receives from transplantation. It is also well 

 adapted to almost every variety of soil, and will 

 flourish with great luxuriance on ordinary lands 

 ■without previous preparation or manure. Exten- 

 sive lines of this beautiful hedge are to be seen in 

 various sections of Western New York, where its 

 cultivation has been attended, thus far, with the 

 most astonishing success. As the tree is an ever- 

 green, its appearance is necessarily, at all seasons, 

 extremely ornamental, presenting, in its full, dense 

 foliage, a most refreshing contrast to the dreary 

 monotony of the winter scene, and adding, by its 

 many attractive beauties, to the leafy glories of the 

 spring, and the aflfluent summer months. 



It is asserted, on reliable authority, that of all 

 trees and shrubs yet applied for this purpose, it is 

 the most certain of success ; being less liable to 

 injury from the ordinarj' evils which so frequently 

 prove fatal to the thorn, the locust, and other cog- 

 nate species of plants, and in no ways objectionable 

 in consequence of root-sprouts, by which the above- 

 named productions foul the contiguous soil, and pro- 

 duce a suburban progeny, extremely detrimental to 

 cultivation, whether directed to the production of 

 root crops, grain, or gi'ass. We hope, ere long, to 

 sec this valuable, but hitherto neglected denizen of 

 our forests, rendered extensively available for this 

 most important use. It will come to our assistance 

 in a " good time," if it comes now, when, from the 

 increasing scarcity, and consequently increasing de- 

 mand for fencing materials, the resources of the 

 community are severely taxed to supply the costly 

 demand. — Selected. 



HOPE 



A bright and beautiful bird is Hope ; it comes to 

 us 'raid the darkness, and sings the sweetest soiig 

 when our spirits are saddest ; and when the lone 

 soul is weary, and longs to pass awajs it warbles its 

 sunniest notes, and tightens again tlie slender fibres 

 of our hearts, that grief has been tearing away. 



