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NEW ENGLAND FARIMEIl. 



Sept. 



AGKICULTUKAIi SOCIETY. 

 Through the kindness of Dr. O. W. True, we 

 have before vis a nicely printed pamphlet of fifty- 

 two pages, giving an account of the transactions 

 of the North Franklin Agricultural Society in 

 Elaine, for the year 1859. It also contains a brief 

 history of the Society, from its beginning in 1852, 

 giving the names of the persons who have de- 

 livered the Annual addresses, and of those per- 

 sons who have been elected as members of the 

 State Board of Agriculture. The pamphlet is al- 

 so illustrated with good specimens of cattle, 

 sheep and swine. The address last year was 

 given by Andrew C. Phillips, Esq., and is 

 an excellent production, full of sound teach- 

 ings and interesting and important facts. 

 After speaking of the fertility of the soil of 

 the county, of the clear mountain air, of the 

 rich intervales and crystal waters, of the 

 lakes studded with islands, and of the water- 

 fails and forests about them, he says : 



"With all this, are you discontented — 

 your thoughts wandering to some distant 

 State or Territory, and your imagination 

 captivated with' visions of rich prairie lands 

 in the West ? Consider, first of all, the 

 probable or even possible loss of health from 

 the change, for which no worldly gain is an 

 equivalent. Don't forget the shady side of the 

 picture — that distance lends enchantment. — 

 Contrast your present comfortable homes, with 

 their commodious arrangements, with a diminu- 

 tive log house, its walls plastered with mud, with 

 its stick chimney, its solitary room answering the 

 manifold purpose of cook-room, slec])ing-room, 

 sitting-room and parlor, with a multitude of swine 

 standing guard at the front door, grunting for ad- 

 mission, and improving every opportunity to ef- 

 fect it. AVould you, who have been accustomed 

 to have your cattle comfortably housed in the 

 winter, enjoy seeing them, without a roof to pro- 

 tect them, stand shivering beside a hay-stack, 

 vainly endeavoring to shield themselves from 

 those cold, piercing, biting Avinds, that, unob- 

 structed by forests, or a single elevation of land, 

 t)low over the Avestern prairies? Call your children 

 about you, and look upon their young faces, now 

 radiant with the glow of health, and think if it 

 Avould be a ])leasing sight to mark those cheeks 

 grow ])alo, those lips livid and those eyes hollow, 

 under the effects of impure water and miasmatic 

 air. Don't forget your social privileges, your 

 neighbors, some of them perhaps your own kin- 

 dred, all at least Americans. Don't forgot your 

 churches and schools — all your present means of 

 intellectual and moral culture. Lastly, don't for- 

 get — for the dollar is, after all, the grand consid- 

 eration — don't forget, when you compare the 

 amount of products, to compare prices and facili- 

 ties of market, and the cost of what you are 

 obliged to purchase." 



grown in the open air south of the northern line 

 of North Carolina and Tennessee. Eighteen thou- 

 sand plants have been sent into the Southern re- 

 gion, and eight tliousand more have been distrib- 

 uted to persons in the Northern States, owning 

 green-houses, as objects of curiosity. 



THS "WILD CABROT. 



This is a variety of the common carrot, culti- 

 vated in the fields and gardens, and a poor thing 

 it is ; much like the boy, neglected, crowded down 



and abused ; he is a boy to be sure, but a dread- 

 ful poor specimen of the genus. The wild variety 

 is extensively naturalized in New England, and 

 threatens to become a troublesome pest on our 

 farms. We have, seen it growing on gravelly 

 road-sides, and even extending itself into the 

 hard, beaten track, much as the neglected boy 

 pushes his vices into the proprieties of life. 



When this })lant makes its appearance on the 

 premises of the careless farmer, it soon multiplies 

 so as to become a source of annoyance to the 

 whole neighborhood. It should be carefully de- 

 stroyed before it matures its seeds. Dailinglons 

 pleasant book on Weeds and Useful Plants will 

 give the reader a more lull account of this, and 

 the ox-eye daisy. 



The Tea Plant. — The progress of acclimatiz- 

 ing the tea plant, so far as heard from, is favora- 

 ble, and there is reason to believe that it can be 



A Valuable Table.— The following table, 

 which will be found valuable to many of our read- 

 ers, we republish at the request of a friend : 



A box 24 inches by 16 inches square and 28 

 inches deep, will contain a barrel — 5 bushels. 



A box 24 inches by 16 inches square and 12 

 inches deep will contain half a barrel. 



A box 26 inches by 15.8 inches square and 8 

 inches deep will contain 1 bushel. 



A box 12 inches by 11.2 inches square and 8 

 inches deep will contain 1 peck, 



A box 8 inches by 8 inches square and 4.2 

 inches deep will contain 1 gallon. 



A box 4 inches by 8 inches square and 4.8 

 inches deep AviU contain a half-gallon. 



A box 4 inches by 4 inches square and 4,1 

 inches deep will contain 1 quart. 



