1863. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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rate of 800,000 pounds of wool per annum, and is 



preparing to use much more. The manufacture is 

 cloth, and the wool, which is principally from 

 South America, is unbaled, cleaned, sorted, card- 

 ed, spun and woven, and the cloth djed and 

 dressed in the most systematic manner. The 

 Whig, as a sample of the energy of Mr. Lang, 

 states that "last year the company decided to in- 

 crease and improve their works one-half. Li 

 twelve weeks from the time the order was com- 

 municated to Mr. Lang, he had the building ready 

 to receive the machinery. In doing this, ho or- 

 dered machinery, established a brick yard, and 

 made all tlie brick necessary for the increase. The 

 new machinery is now being ra])idly put in order, 

 the old mills running on extra time, old buildings 

 beuig reuKJved, all under his directions, and an 

 amount of labor is daily performed which would 

 drive a man of ordinary energy and will distract- 

 ed." The late Col. Samuel Jaques, whose tastes 

 were in many respects of kin with those of Mr. 

 Lang, once insisted that unless he could have as 

 an associate on a committee a certain eminent 

 Massachusetts agriculturist, lie could not think of 

 acting as a member, for the reason that the gen- 

 tleman referred to, could "do the work of any oth- 

 er ten men. " We think, on the same principle, 

 that Mr. Lang Avould be an excellent man to have 

 on a committee. 



Having recently visited Mr. Lang's place, we 

 can fully endorse all that the Whig says of his 

 stock and manufacturing establishment, as well as 

 of his gentlemanly attentions and hospitality. — 

 Boston Journal. 



The Pot.-vto Rot.— As Prof. Johnson, of Yale 

 College, has publicly endorsed the fungus theory, 

 announced by some of the German botanists, per- 

 haps some of our readers will like to compare 

 their own theories and observations with the fol- 

 lowing statement : 



These investigators have not merely looked at 

 the blighted leaves and seen the fungus there, but 

 have watched the fungus, as it rapidly sends out 

 its branches into the still healthy portions of the 

 leaf, which it literally devours — appropriating the 

 juices to its own nourishment, and leaving behind 

 a disorganized and decayed mass, as the track of 

 its desolation. It is easy to see with the naked 

 eye that the fungus travels over the ])otato leaf 

 h/fore the blight. If the observer carefully re- 

 gards one of the brown, bright spots, when the 

 disease is spreading, he will see its borders are 

 extending over the still green leaf, in a forest of 

 tiny mold plants, which cover the leaf with a 

 greenish down. This is the true potato fungus, 

 the Peronotipora infestans, as it is now botanically 

 designated. 



The Art of Success in Life. — The Span- 

 iards have a proverb, "The stone fit for a wall will 

 not lie long in the road." Prepare yourself for 

 something better, and something better will come. 

 The great art of success is to be able to seize the 

 opportunity offered. Cheerful, patient persever- 

 ance in your lawful calling will best help you to 

 do this. The lesson which our Lord teaches us 

 as to higher things is ap])licable to all lawful pur- 

 suits. "He that hath to him shall be given, and 

 he shall have abundance.'" — Sunday al Ilomc. 



EXTRACTS AND KEPLLES. 



APPLKS— THE SEASON I.V NEW HAMI'SHIUE. 



I herewith send you some apples, for which I want 

 a name. I have one tree of them aljout four inches 

 througli at the but. It has borne rcjrtilar fur five years, 

 and has apples on it at the present time. I rai.scd and 

 set tlic tree myself, but cannot tell where I obtained 

 the l)ud. 



The prospect for apples in this vicinity at the pres- 

 cut tm.ic is rather poor. Most of the lur^-e orchards 

 have been visited by canker worms. Thev have been 

 increasing fast ft)r the last three years. What a bless- 

 ini; any one would confer upon the comnuinitv, if lie 

 could invent some way of clfcctually ridding the world 

 of these pests. 



Wc have had considerable rain within the last tcm 

 days, the effect of which has been to change the tune 

 of croakers, from too diy to too wet, and make the 

 prospect of a good crop of hay encouraging. 



Stratham, N. 11., June 1-5, 1SG3. Geo. E. Lane. 



Remarks. — The apples sent came in good condi- 

 tion, but were probably kept too long to be as good as 

 they once were. They had become somewhat dry. 

 The fruit is new to us, but we should think worthy of 

 cultivation. It will evidently keep long, and is hand- 

 some and good-ilavored — rather less acid than the 

 Baldwin. 



For tin' Netc En 'j} and Farmer. 

 BEST TIME FOR CUTTING GRASS FOR 

 HAY. 



As the time is at hand for farmers to commence 

 haying, a thought or two on the most proper time 

 to cut the grass may not be amiss to the readers of 

 the Farmer. It has been my conviction for many 

 years, that the time of commencing this important 

 farm work was deferred altogether too long, not 

 from any real ojjinion as to the hay being more 

 valuaide and the sward in a better condition by 

 so doing, but other work holding on and demand- 

 ing attention. This, more than any other cause, 

 has prevented farmers fr«m giving the proper 

 thought to the matter of when — all things taken 

 into the account — it is best to cut their grass for 

 hay. So far as I have been able to glean the ex- 

 perience of others, I find it in accordance with my 

 own, — that early cut grass made properly for hay, 

 will cause the cow to give more milk, the milk, 

 gallon for gallon, make more butter, and the ani- 

 mals fed upon it keep in better condition. That 

 this should be the result is not at all surprising, if 

 we can confide in the analysis of chemists as to 

 the changes that occur in the properties of grass 

 at its several stages of growth u]) to the maturity 

 of the seed. There /.v a time, of all others, in its 

 growth, when it will make the most fiesh and 

 milk, and that time is previous to its being in full 

 blossom. The saccharine matter is then the most 

 abundant, and very soon begins to be changed, as 

 the seed-forming demands of the plant require ma- 

 terial for their development, and the stem greater 

 strength for the support of the seed as it approach- 

 es maturity. This j)rovision of nature, for the at- 

 tainment of these all-important resuUs, is exceed- 

 ing!) interesting, and displays, in a wonderful man- 

 ner, the wisdom of our Heavenly Father in secur- 

 ing the perpetuity of the plant. If, as the i)lant 

 approaches the seed-forming period, the stem did 

 not gradually become firmer and stronger, the add- 

 ed weight of seed would break it dow n, and both 

 perisli together ; but His wisdom has made pro- 

 vision against this result by so arranging the or- 

 ganization of the plant as to secure it against pe- 

 riods of this description. 



