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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 



PURS COTSWOLD BUCK — "DH. KANE. 



Last December, when the above portrait was 

 taken, "Dr. Kane" was one year and nine months 

 old, and weighed two hundred and fifteen pounds ; 

 his fleece, sheared the twelfth of May, weighed 

 eleven pounds ; he is pure white, with small, del- 

 icately formed, head and legs, yet strong and 

 active. Fine looking, docile, and spirited, he 

 attracted much attention at the Essex agricul- 

 tural society's show, held in South Danvers, last 

 September — the only time he has ever been pub- 

 licly exhibited — and won the premium offered by 

 the society for the best buck. Among the com- 

 petitors for the premium, was a very fine one, re- 

 cently imported, that received a prize in England, 

 where he had to contend with the best bucks in 

 the Kingdom. "Dr. Kane" was bred by George 

 C. Hitchcock, of Ash Grove, New Preston, Ct., 

 and is the property of Charles Corliss, Poplar 

 Lawn, Haverhill, Mass. 



fectly round one is found, of an amber color, and 

 clear as glass. After a heavy gale they may be 

 gathered by the bushel. They are only to be 

 found along a stretch of coast about twenty miles 

 in length. In a glass dish filled with water, and 

 placed where the sun can strike obliquely upon 

 them, they reflect a variety of beautiful rays, and 

 create a miniature rainbow, or a combination of 

 light resembling one, in their effects. 



Curious Pebbi.k.s. — The San Francisco JIfa 

 California states that on the ocean beach of Ore- 

 gon, between Port Orford and Goose Bay, the 

 Burf is continually casting up little rows of' vari- 

 egated stones, prettily rounded by the action of 

 the sand and water, and exliihiting all the hues of 

 gems. They average the size of common beans, 

 and are generally transparent, Bcintillaling in the 

 sunlight with the colors of the ruby, the sapphire, 

 the amethyst and the emerald. Sometimes a per- 



Effects of Dew ox Rot and Mildew ix 

 THE Grape. — Mr. W. Elder dissents from our 

 views as attached to Mr. Mullet's article. As we 

 have not space for a full discussion of the sub- 

 ject, we give an abstract of Mr. Elder's remarks : 



He believes dry air to be the essence of suc- 

 cess in grape-growing. Eight by eight feet apart, 

 he thinks best for grapes, so that they may get 

 the benefit of dry air and sunshine. As mildew 

 follows heavy rains after droughts, it shows, he 

 thinks, that it is the damp weather that breeds 

 it. He thinks furthci', that an over dry atmo- 

 sphere only injures when some such process as 

 the action of fire occurs about them. He does 

 not believe that the well-known health and ex- 

 emption from disease of grape vines in trees, 

 arises from partial shade, but, "from there being 

 Btldom dews and fogs up there." In short, Mr. 

 Elder has invariably noticed that "mildew and 

 rot always follows a few days of wetness and 

 cloudiness." 



We agree with Mr. Elder in regard to the ac- 

 curacy of the facts he presents ; but need not re- 

 peat that we draw diflerent conclusions from them. 



