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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 



They increase the cost pf JicirYestipg the crop, 

 and lessen the value of the gT&in. 



Thiy also greatly increase the cost of tei^ding 

 the growing crop. 



These are reasons siifiicient, brother ferme?, 

 why no weeds should be allowed to grow among 

 your erops. We are not sure but ?ojne pf the 

 transatlantic laws woujd prove a blessing to form- 

 ers here. We are inclined to think that the porn, 

 wheat, barley, and oat crops would be considera- 

 bly increased, per acre, if no feeds yyexp allowed 

 to grow among them. 



Some of the most important item? of June ^ork 

 are those of making butter and cheese. This sum- 

 mer, we hope the high prices at which these arti- 

 cles are selling witl' lead to more care than has 

 -tisnally been observed. A writer pertinently ^ays : 



May, June and September are the dairy months. 

 The best butter and the best gheese are usually 

 made in these months. If you are not neat, you 

 do not know how to make cheese or butter. Un- 

 ■ cleanliness affects not only the looks, but the qual- 

 ity of butter. Broad, shallow glass pans are the 

 best, but the most expensive. In tbe^e milk sel- 

 dom turns sour in summer thunder storms. Tm 

 -pans are good, but unless the dairy woman is 

 scrupulously neat, the seams will be filled with 

 residuum of milk, and become very foul, givmg a 

 flavor to each successive panful. The principal 

 - Requisites for prime butter are good cows, good 

 pasture for them, clean pans, cool, airy cellars, 

 clean churns. Let the creaui be chux;ned before 

 it is sour or bitter ; and when the butter corner, 

 ^rive put ail the buttermilk. 



Bnt, every labor now is an important pne, as no 

 crop can be brought to perfection without giving 

 it proper care at this period. All must be active 

 and systematic,' but not to pr^ss so urgently as to 

 injure the body or deprive the naind oi its needed 

 food ixom day to day. We cannot better close 

 our brief essay upon June, than in the glowing 

 language of Dr. Beecher : 



J^une! Rest I This is the year's bower. Sit 

 down within it. Wipe from thy brow the toil, 

 the elements ate thy servants. The dews'Bring 

 thee jewels. 



The winds bring perfume. The earth shows 

 thee all her treasures. The forest sings to thee. 

 The air is all sweetness, as if the angels of God 

 had gone through it, bearing spices homeward. 

 I'he storms are bat as flocks of mighty birds that 

 spread their wings and sing in the high heavens ! 

 Speak to God, now, and say, ''O, Father, where 

 art Thou ?" And out of every flower, and tree, 

 and silver pool, and twined thicket, a voice will 

 0ome, "God is in me." The earth cries to the 

 heavens, "God is here." And the heavens cr}'_ to 

 the earth, "God is here." The sea claims Him. 

 I i The land hath Him. His footsteps are upon the 

 deep! He sitteth upon the circle of the earth ! 



O, sunny joys of the sunny month, yet soft and 

 temperate, how soon will the eager months that 

 come burning from the equator, scorch you ! 



^!; A cheating grocer should refprm his w,f;ighs. 



SPRINQ- CQirpERT. 



BX MRS. :^. H. SIGOVBWEX. 



Tlie|:e's a cppeerjt;, a cppcppt of gladness and glee, 

 The programme is ricli, and the thickets are'frep. 

 In a grand, vaulted ball, wliprp tbere'S room and to 



spare, ' 

 With no gas light to eat up the oxygen there. 

 The musicians excel in their wonderful art. 

 They have compass of yoice, and the gamut by heart j 

 They have travelled abroad in the winter recess, " ' 

 And sang to vast crowds with pnbovinded success, 

 And now 'tis 4 fayor and privilege rare 

 Their arrival to hail, and their melodies share. 



These exquisite minstrels a fashion have set, 

 Whicli they'fiopeyou'il comply with and infey not re- 

 gret. 

 They don't keep late hours, for they've always been 



■' ■ tpl'd' " 

 'Twould injure their voices and make them look old. 

 They invite you to come if yon have a fine ear, 

 To the garden or grove, their rehearsals to hear; 

 Their chorus is full ere the sunbeam is born. 

 Their music the sweetest at breaking of morn- 

 It was learned at' Heaveii's gate, with its' rapturous 



• lays. 

 And may teach you, p.erh.aps, its own spirit of praise. 



PL^NTIWQ AT INTBBVALS. 

 The Mai-k Lane Express has the following upon 

 this subject. Like everything ^Ise in farming, a 

 sound judgment must be exercised in this matter. 

 As a general thing, our people plant too close, we 

 think. On rich, moist soils, where the plant* 

 reach great luxuriance, there must, of course, be 

 ample room for light and air, in order to secure 

 pefrfeetion in the crop. On light, pine plain lands, 

 even though tolerably well manured, the crop will 

 flourish better planted at moderate distances rath- 

 er than in very wide ones. 



The subject of wide internals betTi^'een the row* 

 of all sorts of cropping is so extensive that we 

 shall deyote a paper to some circumstances bear- 

 ing upon it. Meanwhile, we record it as our 

 opinioti that the drilling of beans, at very broad 

 distaiices, and pursuing a systeno. of tillage be- 

 tween, is not nearly so generally adopted as it 

 might be with very great success. We have seen 

 winter beans in single rows five feet apar,t yield- 

 ing fifty imperial bushels per acre ; the manuring, 

 of course, being very high, the tillage exceeding- 

 ly deep, and the hoeing followed up with frequen- 

 cy. And yet there are persons who are sceptical 

 as to the possibility of so few rows being able to 

 contain pods eiT^ough for such a magnificent yield. 



BOWE DUST. 



Mr. Cummings, the agricultural editor of the 



N. Y. Observer, says: 



When entering upon the cultivation of our pres- 

 ent farm, we asked our predecesspr what field 

 would give a crop of potatoes without the applir 

 cation of fresh barnyard manure, as we feared the 

 application of such in inducing "the rot." A five- 

 acre field was named. We carefully planted and 

 cultivated it, and found no rot, among the pota- 

 toes, but the. yield of the; whole fi^ld did not sup- 

 ply the tables of the farm for the year, so exhaust- 

 ed was the land. In the autumn we plowed and 

 sowed the same field with rye, applying twenty- 

 five bushels of bone dust to "the acre. Such was 

 the immediate effect of. the, application, that whei^ 



