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NEW ENGLAND FAllMER. 



Nov. 



ral beauty received from your fathers, greatly aug- 

 mented. By all means plant, and plant well, and 

 the result will overpay the labor. And let not 

 your work end with planting. Feed your trees 

 from year to year witifi generous food, and guard 

 them from injury. And, in the words (slightly 

 altered) of an old planter : "What joy may you 

 have in seeing the success of your labors while 

 you live, and in leaving behind you, to your heirs 

 or successors, a work that, many years after your 

 death, shall record your love to your country ! 

 And the rather, when you consider to what length 

 of time your work is like to last." If you have 

 country homes to embellish, be content with sim- 

 plicity. Remember that a great establishment is 

 a great care, and that the proprietor is apt to be- 

 come a slave to it. Lot your dwelling-places be 

 marked with what painters call "repose." Make 

 them the abodes of comfort and refined enjoy- 

 ment, places which will always afford you agreea- 

 ble occupation, but not oppress you with care. — 

 North American Review. 



EXTRACTS AND REPLIES, 



WHITE AND EED GRAPES. 



Mk. Fay : — I send you a few of each kind of gi-apes, 

 in order that, you may know what those vines I sent 

 you this spring will produce when they come to bear- 

 ing, and that you may reject tlicm at once if you do 

 not like them. If you do think them worthy, as com- 

 pared with other grapes, I should be pleased ; and if 

 you please, you may invite the editor of the Farmer, 

 to look at them. 



The top layer is tlie red grapes, the bottom the 

 white ; the white vine had but very few on it this year. 



Foxboro', Sept. 25, 1860. L. E,. Hewins. 



Remauks. — The above note was sent by Mr. Hew- 

 ins to Mr. Fay, to whom Mr. H. had sent some grape 

 vines. Mr. Fay has kindly brought us some of the 

 gi'apes spoken of, and we have tasted and compai-ed 

 them with some other varieties now quite common in 

 eveiy part of the State. The reader, we believe, will 

 understand our position with regard to the cultivation 

 of fruits — it is this : — Never to encourage the cultivation 

 of fruit of any kind, unless it is of the first character. 

 It requires no more room, or care, to cultivate a good 

 grape than to cultivate a poor one, and when the fruit 

 is produced there is this difference — the good fruit is 

 pleasant to the palate, nutritious, and affords a real 

 pleasure in presenting to friends, or pocketing its prof- 

 its in the market, — while the poor or indifferent fruit 

 gives no pleasure to the taste, mind or pocket, and one 

 is all the worse for eating it. If our friend Hewins 

 could eat a grape now hanging in beautiful purple 

 chisters on fifty farms in the town of Concord, and 

 nearly every other town in the State, he would find no 

 hard core remaining upon the tongue, and a sharp 

 acid coming from it when pressed too closely, but a 

 soft, juicy, aromatic flesh, dissolving in the mouth 

 readily, and invigorating the whole system. We can- 

 not judge of fruits singly — the test is in comparison. 

 We do not think the grape sent us ought to be culti- 

 vated. Just as well to have a better one. 



squashing OtTT. 



At the fine display of fruits and vegetables in this 

 place the present week, I noticed four squashes weigh- 

 ing 338 ll)s. on one vine, that grew in the garden of Mr. 

 W. T. Dole. The seed that produced these was taken 

 from the squash grown hy Mr. Porter the last season, 

 that weighed 164 lbs. There were also 29 squashes of 



the marrow variety, weighing 395 lbs., varying from 

 12 to 20 lbs. each, in appearance of superior quality. 

 The general aspect of the show was equal to anything 

 of the kind I have ever seen, and was so pronounced 

 by disinterested observers. p. 



South Danvers, Sept. 26, 1860. 



■WOOD MATTRESSES — IRON GRIST MILL. 



In your issue of Sept 8, nnder the head of "Mat- 

 tresses filled with wood," you say, "one of the Yankee 

 inventions of the past year is a machine for making 

 curled hair for mattress-fiUingout of wood." Can you 

 give me the inventor's address or the venders, or let 

 me know where it can be seen in operation, or give 

 nie any information in relation to it ? 



I saw on exhibition in Quincy Hall, a few days since, 

 a recently-patented iron grist-mill ; but there was no 

 one in charge of it to answer questions, neither is it 

 noticed in the "Journal and Catalogue." I hope this 

 will meet the eye of the inventor or agent, and induce 

 him to advertise it in the columns of your widely cir- 

 culated and useful paper. Lowell, 



Remarks. — The article about mattresses was a 

 "waif" which we found in an exchange. It interested 

 us, and it appears did others — but we know notliing 

 personally of it. 



The iron grist mill attracted our attention in the 

 Fair. It is called "The Union Portable Feed and 

 Flour Mill," E. J. Hyde, Proprietor, Boston. 



GRAPES. 



Mr. John Cook, of Sandwich, Carroll count}', N. H., 

 has this j^ear raised grapes, measuring three and one- 

 fourth inches in circumference. The scion upon which 

 they grew was obtained from Lowell, Mass., from the 

 vintage of D. Carter, Esq. They are of the Mammoth 

 Globe Seedling. j. p. s. 



SPRING WHEAT — A GOOD CROP. 



Mr. Alpheus Bachelder, of this town, raised, the 

 present season, a field of four acres of spring wheat, 

 which yielded thirty-two bushels to the acre. 



The soil is a clay loam, and descends slightly to the 

 south-west. Mr. Bachelder purchased the land a few 

 years since, at forty dollars per acre, which was 

 thought by some a large price. 



CaHing the thirty-two Inishels $1,50 per bushel, and 

 the straw $4 per acre, the crop amounts to $52 per 

 acre, a very good return for one year. 



Spring wheat is mostly raised here in this vicmity, 

 and considered a much safer crop than winter wheat. 



Springfield, Vt., Oct. 1, 1860. J. R. Walker, 



GEOW'TH OF COLTS. 



I would like to inquire through the columns of the 

 Farmer if there is any correct way of knowing, by 

 measuring the limbs or otherwise of a colt three or 

 four months old, how large it will be when it is fully 

 grown, and at what age, with proper treatment, it will 

 reach its full size ? A Farmer. 



Andover, N. H., Sept., 1860. 



a diseased ox. 



I have an ox that has not chewed his cud for the 

 last eight weeks, but eats as well as ever. When I 

 work him he lows and makes a gurgling noise. I have 

 tried various remedies that my iieiiv!il)ors have pre- 

 scril)ed, but to no good ))!i,|.^su. If you, or any of 

 your readers, will inform me what to do, they will 

 confer a favor. A Subscriber. 



Warren, Sept. 26, 1860. 



A Bartlett Pear. — The finest specimen we 

 have seen this year, is from the garden of Wm. 

 C. Brown, Esq., of Chelsea, and the product of a 

 good sized tree set only two years ago. This 

 shows what large and fine trees will do when 

 properly transplanted and tended. 



