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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 



suitable watering, &c., will form large, nice' 

 heads. Seed may be sown in shady, rather 

 moist soil, and yet do well, under good care. 



Onions complete their growth early ; there- 

 fore it is important to force growth by thin- 

 ning and Irequent culture. Potato onions, 

 (best of all for the table.) may be planted as 

 late as the first week in June, six to ten inches 

 apart, in rich, fine surface soil. 



Paksnips. — Seed should have been sown 

 earlier, but may be yet done at once, in deep, 

 rich, mellow soil ; hoe and keep the surface 

 mellow, and water with liquid manure. 



Peas. — Sow for late summer use and for 

 seed. Those who would avoid buggy peas, 

 should grow their seed from late planted peas, 

 as the bugs do not trouble if sowed after mid- 

 summer. 



Radishes. —Sow the Long Scarlet, in gen- 

 erously rich soil, among other crops, where 

 they will be partially shaded. They will re- 

 pay watering with liquid manure. Save some 

 of the earliest and best, to grow seed from for 

 future use. 



Rhubarb. — Present facilities for canning 

 anil preserving, enable us to have a supply of 

 this excellent pie material, the year through. 

 Cut up and dry, bottle or can a good supply 

 for winter, when such a change will be accept- 

 able, and leave no seed stalks to grow. 



Tomatoes. — Transplant for main crop. 

 Hoe frequently and pinch in side shoots. 

 Trained to a single .'tern, tied to a pole or 

 stake, they seem to do best. 



Transplanting. — During June the larger 

 part of transplanting of garden and field plants 

 IS done. It is necessary, in order to devel- 

 op certain plants, that this operation should 

 be performed, and to do it successfully with 

 the least trouble and greatest certainty, the 

 ground should be well prepared as to tilth, 

 fertility, &c., and the transplanting be done 

 during a moist, cloudy spell. It is said that 

 plants removed after sundown and during the 

 night time will not show that they have been 

 disturbed, by wilting, &c., but will retain 

 their freshness. 



Weeds are easiest destroyed by taking them 

 as soon as they appear above ground in a clear, 

 warm day. Those which grow from subter- 

 ranean roots are more difficult of extermina- 

 tion ; but if the stems and roots are persis- 

 tently cut, dug and pulled olF, time will com- 

 plete their destruction. 



Vacant Spots. — A good gardener has 

 none ; he always finds some plant to occupy all 

 his space profitably. W. H. White. 



South Windsor, Conn., 1870. 



with a disagreeable flavor ; sopie four tubs 

 shaded down from yellow to white, and the 

 color the index of quality. Careful investiga- 

 tion developed the fact, that the good butter 

 was made from good grass feed ; and the poor, 

 later in the season, when the grass had failed 

 from drought, and the cows lived upon briars 

 and leaves. A man changed the feed of his 

 cows from corn meal and hay to potatoes and 

 hay ; it lessened the quantity of butter, and 

 the color was lighter. Hence the importance 

 of good feed. It is profitable to feed corn 

 meal at all times excepting when grass is new 

 and plenty, and it is not lost then. A pi#ce of 

 land five rods by two, to each cow, sowed 

 with southern corn will supply the deficiency 

 of the pastures in the labt of the season for 

 two or three months, and save the mowings 

 more than the cost. — David Goodale, in St. 

 Johnsbury, Vt., Times. 



Good Feed for Good Butter. — I once 

 bought a dairy of twenty tubs of butter, all 

 made from the same cows the same season 

 and by the same person. Some eight tubs 

 were good, sound, yellow butter ; some eight 

 more of it was very light colored and soft 



MY ROW. 



How well I mind when I was young, 



With h:iir as brown as tow ; 

 My father took me out with him, 



And taught me how to hoe. 



That I mlaht not be overtaxed, 



And ■well fulfil his plan — 

 1 hoed one hill and tkipped the next, 



And BO made half a man, 



I then was small, just in my teens, 



Aiid full of hope and joy ; 

 Kr.ew little of i- hat labor means, 



A happy, farmer's boy. 



Ambition seized my youthful breast, 



I V, ould n t lag bfhind; 

 I hoed each low just like the rest, 



ULtil the sun declined. 



How glad was I when sunset come, 



The hour when labors close; 

 The joy I felt, it has no name, 



As well each workman knows. 



Ye sons of toil who wield the hoe, 



Or daily speed ihc plough, 

 Or elsewhere hoe life's painful row, 



Wiih sweat upon the brow, 



Toil on I say, there's one grand thought. 



Which should encourage you ; 

 Good health and btrtngth cannot be bought, 



So let u« hoe it ibrough. 



—H. K. Fisher, in Jmerican Farmer. 



Ayrshires eor the Southwest. — A lady 

 of great intelligence, and of much experience 

 with improved cattle, writes to a frienu of the 

 South Land, as follows : After an experience of 

 twenty years, the J?/rs/a>es have proved to be 

 the only cows able to stand the severity of a 

 Southern summer. The Durham and Devon 

 stock are both liable to fevers, and conse- 

 quently to a great decrease of milk ; but the 

 Ayrshire thrive perfectly even upon the com- 

 mon pasturage of the country. The Devon 

 when mixed with the Ayrshire, make very fine 

 oxen. But for milking purposes, the Ayr- 

 shire exceed all others, becoming as hardy as 

 the Creole cows. 



