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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



From J. M. Ives, Salem, JNIountain Sweet melon. 

 This fruit was past its prime, but it gave evidence 

 of its great excellence. This is regarded as one of 

 the finest varieties of watermelons. Mr. Ives re- 

 marks that it is early. Also various kinds of apples 

 and pears : among the former is the Can apple of 

 Coxe, identical with Seaver Sweet, or Wiutcr High 

 Top, one of our finest kinds. 



Of Charles L. Spaulding, Cavendish, Vt.,New York 

 Red potatoes, very mealy and fine. This is one of 

 the few kinds that we have not yet had in our col- 

 lection, which embraces about two hundred kinds. 

 Mr. S says this is not liable to rot, and it yields well. 

 Also Irish Apple potatoes, of excellent quality, but 

 rather liable to rot. 



From Colonel Libbeus Chase, Cornish, N. H., vari- 

 ous kinds of grapes, on which wc shall report soon. 



We have several varieties of apple, among them 

 the Spaulding Sweet. The name of the donor is mis- 

 laid, and we should be pleased to receive it again. 



THE ARMY WORM. 



This destructive insect, which four or five weeks 

 ago made a campaign in So\ithcrn Illinois, attacking 

 hundreds of acres at a time, and sweeping off grass, 

 oats, and late corn, all alike, has just made its ap- 

 pearance in Northern Wisconsin, where it is doing 

 great damage. The Detroit Bulletin states that the 

 worms are particularly destructive upon oats. They 

 climb the stock, first cutting off the leaves and then 

 the head. They move in droves from one field to 

 another, their tracks across roads very much resem- 

 bling that made by drawing hay or straw over mel- 

 low ground. Complaints are made of their ravages 

 in Dodge, Fon du Lac, and Brown counties. — Cin- 

 cmtiati Gazette. 



CUTTING OFF THE STEMS OF PO- 

 TATOES. 



Mr. C. Wood, of Wadsworth Common, England, 

 says, in a communication in the Agricultural Ga- 

 zette, — 



"I have followed the plan ever since 1845, with 

 success. I had the tops cut off, last year, quite in a 

 green state, long before the tubers could i)Ossibly be 

 either ripe or have finished their groAvth ; and, when 

 taken up, they were fine in size, and of excellent 

 quality. I have a few of them left yet, (July 10,) in 

 a perfectly sound state. The only difference in the 

 plan pursued by Mr. Lomba and mine, consists in 

 putting a layer of earth over the surface — a practice 

 in which I can see no value. I usually remove the 

 hauni on the first appearance of the botrytos (di:s- 

 casc) on the under sides of the leaves. I have already 

 taken it off my early sorts, and I am satisfied, from 

 experience, that, if this is strictly attended to, no 

 one need fear the disease, cither in wet or dry, rich 

 or poor soils." 



GENEROSITY. 



True generosity does not consist in obeying every 

 impulse of humanity, in following blind passion for 

 our guide, and impairing our circumstances by pres- 

 ent benefactions, so as to render us incapable of 

 future ones. — Goldsmith. 



THE INDIAN SUMMER. 



There is a time, just ere the frost 

 Prejjares to jjavc old Winter's way, 



When Autumn, in a revery lost, 

 The mellow daytime dieams away. 



When Summer comes, in musing mind, 

 To gaze once more on hill and dell. 



To mark how many sheaves they bind, 

 And see if all is ripened well, — 



With balmy breath she whispers low ; 



The dying flowers look up, and give 

 Their sweetest incense, ere they go. 



For her who bade their beauties live. 



She bends above the quiet pool 

 In which the rill forgets to play ; 



The frolic eddies quickly school 



Their eyes of glass her transient stay. 



She enters 'neath the woodland shade ; 



Her zej)hyrs lift the lingering leaf. 

 And bear it gently where are laid 



The loved and lost ones of its grief. 



She seeks the shore ; old ocean heaves, 

 In gladness huge, his mighty breast, 



Prisons his wild winds in their caves. 

 And basking in her smiles, is blest. 



At last old Autumn, rousing, takes 

 Again his sceptre and his throne ; 



With boisterous hand the trees he shakes, 

 Intent on gathering all his own. 



Sweet Summer, sighing, flies the plain, 

 And waiting Winter, gaunt and grim, 



Sees miser Autumn hoard his grain, 

 And smiles to think 'tis all for him ! 

 ■ Home Journal. 



THE OLIO. 



"The tree is known by its fruit." The only ex- 

 ception to this is the cfoy-wood, which is known by 



its bark! 



" Charles," said a father to his son, while they 

 were working in a saw-mill, " what possesses you to 

 associate with such girls as you do ? When I was 

 of your age, I could go with the first cut." " But," 

 said Charles, " the first cut is the slab." 



Why should we open our hearts to the world ? It 

 laughs at our weakness ; it does not believe our vir- 

 tues ; it does not pity our sorrows. 



There is an English statute, where one half goes 

 to the king, and the other half to the informer — the 

 penalty heing fourteen years' transportation. 



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