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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



held. The full streams and ponds contain a 

 certain amount of heat which is given off in 

 the winter, and the weather is considerably 

 modified by it. 



But the rains not only do this ; they also 

 carry warmth to the soil, and various elements 

 of fertility, which feed and stimulate the roots 

 of plants, and prepare them for a vigorous 

 spring growth. 



November frosts are also as useful as the 

 dews of June or the showers of July. They 

 have their time of coming and their part to 

 perform, and will not postpone them to an- 

 other season. 



All these operations in nature, ought to be 

 suggestive to the farmer, that he, too, has 

 various labors to perform in November, that 

 ought not to be left for December. 



The permanent improvements of the farm, 

 the care of the animals which serve him, pre- 

 servation of the fruits and other crops, which 

 have been harvested, the security of buildings 

 and cellars against storms and frosts, and the 

 social interchanges between neighbors and 

 relatives, — all require the attention of the far- 

 mer in November. 



COIiLEQE CATTLE. 



At the fair at Amherst, the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College, as we learn by the Amherst Re- 

 cord, showed the following stock from its farm :— 



Short-horns.— 'Q\x\\, "Mountain Lad," bred by 

 Augustus Whitman of Fitchburg, Mass., by "Red 

 Star," 6107. Cow, "Young Acacia," bred by G. 

 Munson of Huntingdon, by "Mameluke," 3114, 

 Heifer, "Yarrico 57th," bred by Paoli Lathrop of 

 South Hadley, by "Autocrat," 5334. And "Au- 

 tumn Rose," bred by Phineas Stedman of Chicopee 

 Falls. 



Ayrshires.—'QwW, "Colfax," bred by Collins, 

 Collinsville, Conn., by "Robin Dame," "Lady El- 

 len," 123. Heifer, "Lulie," bred by Henry F. Hills, 

 Amherst, out of "Tulip 4th," 799. Cow, "Emily 

 4th," bred by A. B. Conger of Rockland, N. Y. 



Devons.—UxxW, "General Lyon," bred by E. H. 

 Hyde of Statford, Conn. Cow, " Winona," bred by 

 E. H. Hyde of Stafford, Conn. Calf, "Little Gen." 

 bred by Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



Jerseys.— Bull, "Gipsey," bred by the late Chas. 

 G. LoriDg, Esq., of Beverly, from imported stock. 

 Bull, "Enterprise," bred by James Thompson, late 

 or JNantucket, but now of Worcester, Mass., by 

 "Don Pedro," 16. Cow, "Lucy," bred by Henry 

 CoDO of Amherst, by "General Grant" out of 

 "Fanny." 



■iLeie were also eight grade cows, twelve South- 

 down bheep, a team of four horses and two oxen, 



with a Chester white boar and sow, and four Suf- 

 folk grade shotes; also, specimens of corn and 

 potatoes from the College farm. 



Remarkable Effect of Sun Heat. — Fruit 

 cooked upon the trees ! During some of the last 

 days of August, when the sun seemed to exert its 

 greatest power upon this mundane sphere, toma- 

 toes were taken from the vines, on one or two 

 occasions, and brought directly to the table for 

 use. On taking up one of them, it was thrown 

 suddenly down because it was so hot, and was 

 found uncomfortably so by several who tried it. 

 But this was cool compared with what the Califor- 

 nia Scientific Press states took place out in that 

 land of wonders. There, the fruit actually cooked 

 upon the trees ! Many of the grapes were fairly 

 cooked upon the vines. Plums needed no stew- 

 ing. The thermometer indicated 114 degrees in 

 the coolest shade, but the birds did not drop dead 

 from the trees from the effects of heat, as it is 

 stated they did in Marysville, in 1858. 



For the New England Farmer, 

 THE GARDEN FOR NOVEMBER. 



During this month most of our preparations 

 for winter should be completed ; and the ear- 

 lier in the month the better, usually, in our 

 New England climate. If our suggestions 

 have been followed, there will now remain but 

 little fall work to be accomplished. Still it 

 may be well to look around. There may be 

 some late vegetables not yet gathered, Sc-e 

 that they are secured at once. Those late 

 cabbage, — are they to be stored in the cellar, 

 or buried in the garden where they can be 

 reached nicely without difficulty during win- 

 ter ? See that they are stored so that they 

 will not become water-logged ; nor the mice 

 get at them, which will make sad work, if al- 

 lowed to get among them. See that they have 

 good ventilation, whether in the cellar or out 

 doors. Ventilation is necessary for all vege- 

 tables wherever stored, and especially is this 

 the case when in the cellar under our living 

 apartments. An opening into the chimney in 

 the cellar for the bad air to pass off at the 

 top, is about the best arrangement for cellar 

 ventilation. Guard the turnips, carrots, beets, 

 celery, &c., against frost, mould, rpt and ex- 

 cessive dryness. They are all much more 

 relishable when kept as near as possible in the 

 condition of freshness when first gathered from 

 the ground. 



If your garden soil is a heavy or clayey 

 loam, it will well pay you to spade or plough 

 it deeply, leaving it rough and ridged to throw 

 off surface water, and to subject tbe stiff bot- 

 tom soil to the action of the winter frosts. If 

 a good dressing of manure is turned in at the 

 same time it will tell in the better amendment 

 of the soil, both as to its mechanical condition 

 and fertility, in the future. The gardener on 



