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NEW ENGLAND FARRIER. 



Oct. 



INDIAN SUMMER, 



There is a time, just when the frost 

 Begins to pave old Winter's way, 



When Autmnn in a reverie lost, 

 The mellow daytime dreams away. 



When Summer comes, in musing mind, 

 To gaze once more onhili and dell, 



To mark how many sheaves they bind, 

 Ai;d see if all are ripened ^11. 



With balmy breath she whispers low; 



The dying flowers look up and give 

 Their sweetest incense ere they go, 



For her who made their beauties live. 



She enters 'neath the woodland shade. 

 Her Zephyrs lift the lingering leaf, 



And bear it gently where are laid 

 The loved and lost ones of its grief. 



At last, old Autumn, rising, takes 

 Again his sceptre and his throne 



With boisterous hand the tree he shakes, 

 Intent on gathering all his own. 



Sweet Summer sighing, flies the plain. 

 And waiting Winter, gaunt and grim. 



Sees miser Autumn hoard his grain. 

 And smiles to think it's all for him. 



PRESERVATION" OF DAHLIA ROOTS. 



Being fond of good dahlias, and grieved at 

 the frequent losses that come under our notice, 

 we beg to commend to the attention of those 

 ■who too often have to lament the loss of their 

 favorites, the following effective method of 

 preserving their roots ; and we mention the 

 subject thus early, so that all our subscribers 

 may get our hints in time. The tops being 

 killed by the autumn frosts, and thus become 

 unsightly, must be ctit away, leaving the roots 

 undisturbed for several weeks in order to feed 

 the nascent btids destined to break the follow- 

 ing spring. For, if at the time of removing 

 the plants from the ground these buds are im- 

 mature, there is great probability that the 

 tubers will perish before the spring ; or should 

 their vitality remain, there will be found a 

 difficulty, if not an impossibility, of getting 

 them to "break." The next business is to lift 

 the plants from the ground ; and in doing this 

 the greatest care should be taken to preserve 

 their fibrous roots, for the plants require con- 

 stant nourishment. A numbe-r of these root- 

 lets will, however, under the most careful 

 handling, be broken off, and the supply of sap 



interrupted until new roots are made ; but with 

 those plants that have well-swollen buds their 

 reproduction is soon effected. When the tu- 

 bers are raised from the ground, they should 

 immediately be transferred to their winter 

 quarters, where their fibrous roots must be 

 carefully spread upon a thin layer of sand or 

 earth, and at once covered with about an inch 

 of the same, leaving the greater portion of the 

 tuber bare. During winter they shotdd be 

 kept slightly moistened. For wintering these 

 tubers, there is, perhaps, (unless a special 

 place is provided for them,) no better place 

 than under the stage of a cool green-house ; 

 but, whatever place may be assigned them. It 

 Is indispensable that it admits a moderate 

 amount of light ; is kept cool, but above the 

 freezing point, and that the atmosphere is such 

 as suits growing plants generally ; alike free 

 from both saturation and dryness, which will 

 with equal certainty engender putrefaction. 



American Durhajis Sent to England. 

 — A two-year-old bull, three two-year-old 

 heifers, and four yearling heifers were shipped 

 at New York for England. In noticing this 

 shipment, the Country Oentleman says: "The 

 Third Duke of Geneva, who heads the list, we 

 presume to be as good a bull as ' ever crossed 

 the Atlantic in either direction. The heifers 

 are really a fine lot, and will be heard from In 

 their new home with as great credit to them- 

 selves and to the country, as any thing that has 

 preceded them." They were bred by James 

 O. Sheldon, Geneva County, N. Y. 



Feed Racks. — Never feed your cattle in the 

 yard without a "rack." Economy rightly 

 enough shrugs her shoulders at so slovenly a 

 practice. The actual loss to the farmer from 

 this waste. Is equal to the cost of half a dozen 

 racks and the expense of keeping them in 

 complete repair for years. Any farmer who 

 has an ax, saw and auger, can make one. 



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