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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Aug. 



EARLY S"WEET BOUGH APPLE. 



The apple from which the above engraving 

 was sketched by our artist, grew in the gar- 

 den of W. W. Wheildon, Esq., Charlestown, 

 Mass. This fruit, which is adapted to various 

 climates and soils, is known in different locali- 

 ties as the Bough, Yellow Bough, August 

 Sweeting, Sweet Bough, &c. It is not tart 

 enough for pies or sauce, but is fine for 

 baking, ahd sliced into a bowl of bread and 

 milk, it furnishes a dish fit to set before a 

 king, or even before the men and boys who 

 have been hard at work in the field all day, 

 and do not care for a meat supper. 



]Mr. Thomas, in his American Fruit Cultur- 

 ist describes it as "large, roundish, remotely 

 conical-ovate, sometimes as distinctly conical; 

 pale greenish yellow ; stalk one-half to an inch 

 long ; basin narrow, deep ; flesh white, very 

 tender, with an excellent sweet flavor ; ripens 

 from the middle to end of summer. Tree a 

 moderate bearer ; shoots yellowish, somewhat 

 irregular, ascending ; top round-headed ; 

 leaves obtusely crenate." IMr. Cole adds, 

 "calyx narrow and deep, extending tube-like 



into the heart of the fruit ; the tree is har- 

 dy, bears well in light soils, and the Early 

 Sweet Bough is the best early sweet apple 

 known." 



For the Nexc England Fanwir, 

 THE NEW METHOD OF CIjrBINQ HAY. 



The approaching hay harvest has again 

 brought up for discussion in the columns of 

 the Farmer the subject of curing hay. 

 Without any expression of opinion in relation 

 to the subject of my own, some quotations of 

 the opinion and experience of others will be 

 made in relation to the method, now practiced 

 by a few bold hay-makers, of storing hay 

 before it is fully dried. 



At the Farmers' Convention held at Lewis- 

 ton, Jan., 1870, the subject of cutting and 

 curing hay being under discussion, Capt. 

 Taylor, agent of the North Wayne Scythe 

 Factory, described his method of curing and 

 housing his hay crop. Some five years ago, 

 he became satisfied that farmers generally 

 dried their hay too much, and he began ex- 

 perimenting. His first experiment Avas to dry 

 the hay about half as much as usual, and it 

 came out well. Other experiments were tried, 

 and now his practice is to begin cutting grass 



