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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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squirrels and every fence had them as occu- 

 pants. This year we have not seen one. Last 

 year the catei pillars covered the apple trees 

 with their nests. This } ear we have seen but 

 a single nest. We have not seen a cut woini 

 the presi nt year on our corn or in our garden. 

 Thus by a wise provi.>-ion of an all-ruling Prov- 

 idence, these pests which, if allowed to in- 

 crease from year to year unchecked, would 

 prove the destruction of every plant, like the 

 waves of the sea are bidden. — -'Thus far shalt 

 thou go and no farther." — Maint Farmer. 



THB FARMER'S TIME. 



BY C. G. LELAND. 



Autumn is the farmtr's timp; 

 Ladies fair may love llie spring, 

 Lovers give it welcoming; 

 Merchants laugh for joy to see 

 Open roads and rivers free; 

 Let them live and trade and rhyme — 

 Autumn is tlie farmer's time. 



Let (hem in the city's hum 

 Lau^b to Bee the winter come; 

 Dancers then are brick and gay, 

 Banquets drive the hours away; 

 Every season halh iis prime — 

 Autumn is the farmer's time. 



Summer sends the you h and maid 

 To the country's cooling shade; 

 Then we cut the golden grain. 

 Then we load the creaking wain; 

 Then we work till rest seems crime- 

 Autumn is our better lime. 



Autumn brings us cooler nights, 

 Autumn bring- us Iresh delights; 

 Autumn heaps the richtst fruit, 

 Autumn yie ds the brai cli and root; 

 f ii'gs earh season in its prime — 

 Autumn is the farmer's time. 



Durham Stock in Vermont. — A corres- 

 pondent who has recently visited the Short 

 Horn herd of Dexter Way, Esq. , of Landgrove, 

 Bennington County, Vt., thinks the State has 

 reason to be proud of such fine animals as he 

 there saw. A portion of Mr. Way's stock is 

 from the celebrated herd of J. O. Sheldon, 

 Esq., of Geneva, N. Y. His bidl, the Earl of 

 Oxford was sired by Mr. Sheldon's Third 

 Lord of Oxford, which is among those recent- 

 ly sent to England, and which we recently no- 

 ticed as being tied-up in the royal stables of 

 the late Prince Consort. At sixteen months 

 old, Mr. Way's Earl of Oxford weighed four- 

 teen hundred pounds. He has also a fine 

 cow from Mr. Sheldon's herd. He has other 

 pure blood Durhams which are seldom excelled. 

 Among other stock our correspondent noticed 

 a pair of two year-old steers that weighed 

 twenty-six hundred pounds ; two pairs of year- 

 lings that weighed about twenty-two hundred 

 pounds per pair ; and five calves that he re- 

 garded as splendid animals, — the best of their 



age that he had ever seen. One pair of May 

 calves weighed thirteen hundred pounds. 



Lemon Greening. ^Mr. S. H. Allen of 

 Shrewsbury, Mass., has lefc at this office .speci- 

 mens of a \ery large apple, which he tays was 

 brought from England by his ancestors who 

 located in Medtield, Mass., in the early his- 

 tory of the country, and has been pi opagated 

 to a small extent only by the Allen family, and 

 by those only, so far as he is aware. The 

 tree is hardy and thrifty, and bears every 

 year. As it ripens in April It assumes a rich 

 yellow color, fiom which It derives Its name. 

 Though a fair eating apple when ripe, it is 

 particularly valuable for its superior excellence 

 for cooking purposes. Mr. Allen says It sells 

 In the Worcester market considerably higher 

 than any other late keeping variety. The 

 specimens before us are very large and very 

 hard. 



An Industrious Community. — A gentle- 

 man of this city Informs us that on his farm in 

 the country, a swarm of bees which were hived 

 the fifteenth of June last, laid up 108 pounds 

 of honey and comb In 107 days. With honey 

 at forty cents a pound, we think this daily In- 

 crease of store very creditable to the new 

 housekeepers. 



Large Farms. — As machinery cannot be 

 used to its fullest extent and with the greatest 

 economy on small farms, Mr. J. Harris sa>s 

 in the American AgricvUuriso that in this 

 country we must have larger farms. The 

 tendency is already apparent. We may de- 

 plore it, and argue against it, but cannot stop 

 it. He adds : It is certainly far better to have 

 a small faim highly cultivated than to have a 

 large one half tilled. But a large farm may 

 be cultivated as highly as a small one — and at 

 less expense per acre. In England, as a rule, 

 the largest farmers are the best farmers. One 

 of the most highly cultivated faims I ever 

 saw contained over 3000 acres, and I do not 

 recollet t ever seeing a farm of fifty acres or 

 less, that would at all compare with the more 

 liberally managed large laims. This Is very 

 ditierent from what it Is here, and one main 

 reason is, a deficiency of working capital. 



Farmers' Dress. — A farmer while labor- 

 ing, is brought into pretty close intimacy with 

 dirt, and his clothes should correspond with 

 his labor. To wear fine cloth and clean linen 

 while at work in the field, would be highly in- 

 appropriate ; but when he rides into town with 



