1S60. 



NEW ENGLAND FAPt:MEE. 



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mild sub-acid juice, and exceedingly pleasant 

 flavor ; core, small, compact ; seeds, obovatc, ob- 

 tuse pyriform. Season, November to January, 

 but keeps until April. Trees, upright, strong 

 growers. 



bullock's pippin. 



American Golden Russet, I Golden Russet, 

 Sheepnose, | Little Pearmain, 



Fall Winesap, errvruiously. 



American. Tree, ultimately of only medium 

 size, with a round, regular head, shoots erect, rath- 



handling and paring, I devised an easier method 

 of keeping the malady sufficiently at bay to allow 

 the sheep opportunity to get in suitable order for 

 the market. I first made an inclosure on a dry, 

 clean grass plot, and an aperture therefrom just 

 wide enough to admit the egress of the flock, sin- 

 gle file. Then I placed in this opening, on the 

 ground, a Avater-tight box or trough of same width 

 and three or four feet long, so protected on the 

 sides and above as to force the sheep to step into 

 the box. Then, in dry weather, when the hoofs 

 of the animals were clean, a weak solution of vit- 

 riol was put in the box to the depth of two or three 

 inches, and the sheep were turned into the yard 

 and made to pass through. In this Avay, without 

 touching a sheep, or without severe labor of any 

 kind, a flock of considerable size received cheap- 

 ly an application to each foot, which would so 

 check the disease for a season that it would not 

 materially interfere with their thrift. This prac- 

 tice was continued throughout the summer, as 

 often as the case required, till the entire flock was 

 fitted and sold for the shambles." 



er slender, admirably suited to rich soils of South- 

 ern Ohio, Indiana, etc. Grown south, the fruit 

 is almost entirely covered with russet ; north, and 

 on sandy soils, it is a warm, rich yellow, with only 

 marblings of russet. Size, small to medium ; form, 

 roundish, ovate, tapering much toward the eye ; 

 color, generally rich golden yellow, overspread 

 with soft russet, and in sun a marbling of red ; 

 stem, slender ; cavity, narrow, regular ; calyx, 

 small, closed ; basin, shallow, sometimes fur- 

 rov/ed ; flesh, yellowish, tender, juicy, almost but- 

 tery, delicate, sprightly ; core large for size of 

 fruit ; seeds, full, ovate, pyramidal. Season, De- 

 cember to March. 



FOOT-KOT IN" SHEEP. 



A correspondent of the New York Eural, after 

 detailing his efibrts to eradicate this disease by 

 paring the hoofs and applying an ointment of lard 

 and blue vitriol, by which only temporary benefit 

 was secured, and alluding to the hard work of 

 doctoring for months several hundreds of sheep 

 in this way, — made disagreable beyond measure 

 by the off"ensive odor of decaying hoofs and the 

 disgusting sight of crawling vermin, gives the 

 following account of the course he pursued with 

 his flock : 



"At last it was decided that to eradicate the dis- 

 ease from the flock was the irext thing to an im- 

 possibility, and that it was best to sell out. To get 

 the sheep in condition for profitable sale was the 

 next step, and having become heartily sick of 



For the New England Farmer. 



TWADDLES AND WADDLES OOT AGHI- 

 CULTUBAL EDUCATION". 



Twaddles. — I meant to have spoken to you the 

 other day, Mr. Waddles, in our conversation on 

 general agriculture, upon the subject of agricul- 

 tural education, as it is one which interests me 

 much, but time did not permit. You must know 

 that there is much controversy at present upon 

 this matter, and encouragement is given by some 

 of our first men to introduce agriculture, as a de- 

 partment of education, into our common schools, 

 with the prospective view of establishing an ag- 

 ricultural college in this State, something like 

 those in Europe, which are in so successful ope- 

 tion. You must also know, ]Mr. Waddles, that 

 such education is much needed, especially by the 

 rising generation. 



Waddles. — Yes, sir, I know there is much dis- 

 cussion upon the subject, but I question whether 

 such facilities are as much needed as the educa- 

 tion ; and I am far from thinking that European 

 farming, with all its objectionable appurtenances, 

 is proper for us to adopt. It Avould require a 

 thorough revolution of all our laws and customs, 

 which would be a great detriment to the real hap- 

 piness of the people, and more particularly to 

 the small, independent farmer. 



T. — That I think is not proposed. But you 

 must admit that farmers should be educated for 

 their business. 



W. — Certainly ; and has not every man fn?. 

 best means for such education, who has a farm to 

 till, books and papers to read, and lectures to lis- 

 ten to ? who gets his theories from his own re- 

 flection, the experience and suggestions of others, 

 and tests them in the general course of his ope- 

 rations on his own land ? 



T. — Why, Mr. Waddles, I suppose not ; he 

 wants it taught him. And do you not know that 

 agriculture in America has fallen behind the age, 

 and that the only way to bring it up to par value 

 and dignity, is to educate, thoroughly educate, all 

 who intend to engage in it ? 



TF.— No, Mr. Twaddles, I respectfully deny that 



