1867. 



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sides this jour presence will manifest an inter- 

 est in the institution which will encourage 

 teacher and pupil, and be an advantage to all. 



Edward W. Stebbins. — We are sorry to 

 learn, by the Boston Cultivator, of the death of 

 Edward W. Stebbins, Esq. of Deerficld, Mass., 

 which occurred on the 27th ult., of consump- 

 tion, after a long illness, at the age of forty 

 years. Mr. Stebbins was a representative man 

 among the fanners of Franklin county ; an ac- 

 tive, intelligent, enterprising, noble, generous, 

 high-minded gentleman. He was President of 

 the Franklin County Agricultural Society prior 

 to the election of Joseph Anderson, Esq., of 

 Shelburne, one year ago, and served as dele- 

 gate from that society in the Massachusetts 

 Board of Agriculture. He held other offices 

 of trust conferred upon him from time to time 

 by' his fellow citizens, ever discharging his 

 duty with energy, ability, and marked fidelity. 

 From amid his trusts, and the comforts and 

 joys of a genial and happy home, surrounded 

 as he was by warm and confiding friends, he 

 has been called in the full meridian of life. 

 May He Avho doeth all things well, and who 

 tempercth the wind to the shorn lamb, sanctify 

 this bitter aflliction to the widowed mother and 

 her child. 



Winter Butter. — In a recent article on 

 making butter in winter , v,c neglected to speak 

 of the qnaliii/ of the feed given to the coavs. 

 This is very important. The milk of cows fed 

 mostly upon coarse meadow hay, would not be 

 likely to afford much butter, and that little 

 very light colored and of poor quality. Mead- 

 ow hay has scarcely more than a traceable 

 amount of oil in it. Cows, therefore, from 

 whose milk good butter is expected, must be 

 fed liberally on English hay, cut in the bloom, 

 and preserved with most of its valuable juices, 

 and in addition to that, a little corn meal, oil 

 meal, shorts and roots, such as carrots, beets 

 or mangold wurtzels. Give the turnips to dry 

 stock. The color of the butter depends upon 

 the cow and the feed, but especially upon the 

 latter. Feed well upon nutritious and oily 

 food, and they will yield firm and yellow butter. 



EXTRACTS AND REPLIES. 



STIIAWBEUIUES. 



Will the Editor plcnsc uiform ns through his 

 pa|ici- wliat strawberry is the most valii!U)lc to raise 

 for the nuukct ? A Suksckibeh. 



Greenland, N. H., Dec. 26, 1860. 



Rejiarks. — The fact tliat f^omc particular fmit 

 is the favorite in one locality is not positive proof 

 tluit it will be the best variety for all other sec- 

 tions. Hence we arc always cautious about nam- 

 ing any one sort as the "most valuable," when we 

 Iviiow that such recommendation will be read alike 

 by the farmers and gardeners on the long stretch 

 of the seashore, in the sheltered valleys, and on 

 the bleak hills of all New England. There are sev- 

 eral kinds of new strawberries which are highly 

 reeormnended, at least by the nursery men who have 

 them for sale. And our advice to "A Subscriber" 

 in Greenland, or any other location, would l:)e to in- 

 quire what variety succeeds best in Iiis immediate 

 neighborhood. Having succeeded well ourselves 

 with Hovcy's Seedling 

 mixed with tlie Early Vir- 

 ginia; and as these kinds 

 arc well known, and have 

 been widely disseminated, 

 we venture to recommend 

 our correspondent to give 

 them a trial, unless he can 

 hear of something better. 

 Many of the most practical 

 the Boston market still 



There are multitudes of people who destroy 

 themsehes through irresolution. . They are 

 eternally telling about what they mean to do, 

 but the)- ue\er do it. 



Early Virginia. 

 strawberry-growers 

 raise the 



for 



Hovet/s Seedling. 



BUILDING A BARN. 



I intend to build a bam in the spring, and to 

 have a cellar under it for the use of cattle and 

 sheep. The lojalion is some wet. Can I cement 

 the wall and bottom, so that it will be tight and 

 dural)le ? A. F. Mason. 



Lancaster, N. H., Dec, 1866. 



Remarks. — There will be no difficulty in having 

 a dry cellar, if there is fall enough from it for drain- 

 age. Do this thoroughly, having the drains two 

 feet deeper than the bottom of the cellar, if you 



