1863. 



NEW EXGLAXD FARMER. 



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His Excellency Gov. Gil:more, and followed it 

 with some most appropriate and eloquent remarks, 

 both upon agriculture and the condition of our 

 country. He is a young man of rare ability, and 

 of the most urbane and winning manners. If 

 life and health are granted him, he will yet be- 

 come a distinguished and influential person. The 

 remarks of Mr. Smyth, were of the most practical 

 character. He dwelt, mainly, upon the wasteful 

 practices of most farmers in manures, fences, &c. 



After a capital dinner at the Pearl Street House, 

 the procession re-formed and marched back to 

 the grounds. A change had come over the face 

 of things — a trot was expected and a sea of heads 

 and horses and vehicles now pressed upon the 

 track. Nothing appeared against Mr. Jones' 

 mare, Emjjrest, so, after she had been put through 

 her paces a few times over the track, a racer was 

 put by her side, and the gratified crowd rent the 

 air with shouts, Empi-ess is a sjilendid animal. 

 She greatly resembles Flora Teni])le, and her ac- 

 tion and appearance are superb. We were told 

 that her owner had refused $6,000 for her. 



Had the weather of the second day been like 

 that of the first, there wotdd probably have been 

 a great turn-out of the people of the county, as 

 they have, through the railroads, fine means of 

 access, in addition to their own means of locomo- 

 tion. 



Nashua is a pleasant city. Its streets are hand- 

 somely ornamented with shade trees, and have 

 upon them many tasteful buildings and gardens. 

 The building of the Nashua Manufacturing Com- 

 pany is 600 feet long, having a single shaft its 

 its whole length, and the machinery is moved by 

 water power. 



Bushes. Bushes should never be allowed to 

 grow in mowing fields. It is often the case that 

 we see large and dense "clumps" or "patches" of 

 bushes, and even small trees, interspersed with 

 bushes, growing in the midst of mowing grounds, 

 or by the sides of fences, where they occupy land 

 to no advantage, and operate detrimentally upon 

 the useful vegetation through the influence of both 

 branches and roots. Vigorous jdantations of bri- 

 ars and buslies are often seen vegetating in the 

 corners of cultivated fields, as well as thistles and 

 other deleterious productions around stones aud 

 stumps. 



No correct farmer will permit his fields to be 

 defaced by so slovenly a practice. * 



Every rod — aye, every foot of enclosed and tax- 

 able soil should be made to produce something of 

 value. A few days labor judiciously directed, will 

 enable one to put a new face on his fields in this 

 respect, and when the improvement has been once 

 fairly commenced, there is little danger but that 

 it will be pursued. 



INSTINCT OF APPETITE. 



About three years ago the little daughter of a 

 farmer on the Hudson river had a fall, which in- 

 duced a long, painful and dangerous illness, end- 

 ing in blindness ; medication availed nothing. By 

 accident, a switch containing maple buds waV 

 placed in her hand, when she began to eat them, 

 and called earnestly for more, and continued to 

 eat them with avidity, improving meanwhile ir , 

 her general health for some fifteen days or more, 

 when Ibis particular relish left her, and .she calle(! 

 for candy ; and as in the case of the buds, at-^ 

 nothing else for two weeks, when this also was- 

 dropped — a more natural taste returned with re- 

 turning eyesight and usual health. This was in- 

 stinct calling for those articles of food which con 

 tained the elements, the want of which lay betweei 

 disease and recovery. 



A gentleman, aged thirty-six, seemed to be ii 

 the last stage of consumptive disease, when ht 

 was seized with an uncontrollable desire tor com- 

 mon salt ; he spread it in thick layers over hi- 

 meat, and over his bread and butter; he carrier 

 it in his vest pocket, which was datly emjitied b^ 

 eating a pinch at a time. He regained his health, 

 and remained well for years afterwards. 



There are many persons who can record, fron 

 their own personal experience, the beginning of • 

 return to health from gratifying some insatiate de- 

 sire. The celebrated Prof. Charles Caldwell wa- 

 fond of relating in his lectures that a young lad_\ 

 abandoned to die, called for some pound-cakt . 

 which "science" would have pronounced a deadl 

 dose ; but, as her cose was considered hopelep; 

 she was gratified, and recovered, living in goo< 

 health afterwards. 



But in some forms of dyspepsia, to folio w^ th 

 cravings of appetite is to aggravate the diseas; 

 In low fevers, such as typhoid, yielding to tl. 

 cravings is certain death. To know when an 

 how to follow the instinct of appetite — to gratil' 

 the cravings of nature — is of inestimable valui 

 There is a rule which is always safe, and will sa% 

 life in multitudes of cases where the most ski 

 fully "exhibited" druis have been entirely un. 

 vailing. Partake at first, of what nature seen 

 to crave, in very small quantities ; if no uncon. 

 fortable feeling follows, gradually increase tl 

 amount, until no more is called for. 



These suggestions and facts find confirmatie, 

 in the large experience of that now beautiful ai 

 revered namC) Florence Nightingale, whose mer 

 ory will go down with blessing and honor side 1 

 side with that of John Howard. She says : ' 

 have seen — not by ones or tens, but by hundre 

 — cases where the stomach not only craves, h 

 digests things which have never been laid down ' 

 any dietary for the sick, es]iecially f."r the si 

 whose diseases were produced by bad food. Fru 

 pickles, jams, gingerbread, fat of ham, of bacc' 

 .suet, cheese, buttermilk, &c., were administei 

 freely, with happy results, simply because the si 

 craved them." — Scieniijic American. 



The Cincinnati Price Current says that the p; 

 tial failure of the corn crop, and the high pric 

 to which corn has advanced, have produced c> 

 sidcrable excitement among the farmers, and j" 

 up their ideas of prices to a somewhat extravagr- 

 point, and consequently there have been but i 

 contracts made. 



