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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 



STKIPED PORTER. 



The beautiful portrait which we present the 

 reader above, illustrates a new apple to which our 

 attention was called last autumn by our friend 

 and neighbor, W. W. Wheildon, Esq., of Con- 

 cord. The description below is also from his pen. 



This large and beautiful apple is at once de- 

 scribed by the apt comparison of it with the Ppr- 

 ter and the Gravenstein ; it is almost precisely like 

 the best specimens of the first, in shape, and in 

 marking like the last. Its general form is round- 

 ish oblong, but the side of it which is lightest, in 

 color is a little contracted, by slight depressions 

 in the ridges surrounding both the stem and the 

 blossom. Transversely, it only approximates to a 

 circle, being almost distinctly seven squared, ta- 

 jjering like the Porter, at the lower end. In color 

 it is a rich yellow, with red stripes extending 

 over the ridge from the stem, but running down 

 its sides in slashes rather than extended lines. 

 The stem is slender, less than an inch in length, 

 set in a deep, greenish russet cavity. The 

 calyx is set in a saucer-shaped cavity of medium 

 depth, surrounded with fleshy wrinkles. In addi- 

 tion to the stripes and slashes of irregular width 

 and depth of coloring, it is covered all over with 

 fine red and russet specks, of the size of a pin 

 point, ancL showing most distinctly on the yellow 

 ground, but observable on the red also. It is 



subject to dark brown spots like warts. The meat 

 is white, crisp and juicy, something like the Ilub- 

 bardston, but without its peculiar flavor, and hav- 

 ing a flavor akin to the two apples it is said above 

 particularly to resemble. The specimen here de- 

 scribed, is probably one of the best to be found in 

 a barrel, and is to be regarded as the type of the 

 fruit in its most perfect growth. It varies consid- 

 erably in size. 



Value of a Load of Hay. — I send you a 

 method by which, with but little time and trouble, 

 any one can tell what 'their load of hay or straw 

 amounts to, by simply taking the weight multi- 

 plied by half the price per ton — for example, say 

 3,300 lbs. hay at $18 per tont-3,300 lbs. muHi- 

 plied by half of 18, which is 9, gives the amount 

 — so too with fractions. You may know this, but 

 I can find any amount of men that never heard 

 of it. — F. RuFFNER, in Country Gentleman. 



Dairy — Temperature of. — When the tem- 

 perature of the dairy is less than fifty degrees 

 Fahrenheit, the milk Avill not ripen for churning, 

 and in such case should be remoA-ed for a time to 

 a temperature of fifty-five degrees. The sudden 

 warming of the milk will not always enable it to 

 yield up its butter readily. — Working Fminer. 



