Potatoes.- Souls, not Stations,. Raising Strawberries.- Don't shoot the Birds, A Mechanic's Garden.- Seed Sowers,. Morgan Horses.-Our Garden,.. Eleventh Legislative Agricultural Meeting,. 201 202 203 204 205 Legal Protection to Fruit Trees.- Greatest Grain Market in the World, · 206 207 208 209 210 211 Spare the Birds.- Vegetables best for Stock, Climbing Plants, ...... All about Guano, How a Thriftless Farmer was Reformed,.. New Books.- About Guano and Super-phosphate, Cruelty to Animals.-Lecture on an Improved Fire System,. 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 Waste of Manures.- Muck.- Hops,. 220 Soiling Cattle,. 221 High Prices, 222 How to enrich a Garden.- Springs.- Live and dead weight of Cattle, 223 Manny's Improved Mowing and Reaping Machines.- Prices and Weather in Iowa, Transplanting Evergreens.- Profitable Culture." He never told a lie.-About Turkeys, 229 Potatoes.- Pruning Trees and Sunscald,. A Sketch of Farm Life.-Muriate of Lime.- What is Respectable Society,. Caterpillars.- Muck and Guano.- Potatoes.- Grass Seeds,. Sucker Plum Trees.- Fertilizers.- Garget.-Extracts and Replies, 244 245 246 247 248 Page. 208-9 แ Newtown Pippin,. แ 66 1 horse, 224 225 233 241 Wheel Hoe,. POSTAGE.-The Postage on the Monthly Farmer to Subscribers, is now twelve cents a year, to be paid quarterly or yearly, in advance, at the office where it is received. DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE AND ITS KINDRED ARTS AND SCIENCES. CALENDAR FOR MAY. "The blossomed Orchard and the Vine These are the beauties of the Spring; M NO. 5. FRED'K HOLBROOK, ASSOCIATE But there is another aspect for MAY. It is not scorching summer, but stands between that and blustering winter, hangs out vernal suns, and lets us and the trees and grass and flowers, gradually down into the roasting season, acclimated and prepared for it. "Were a summer temperature immediately to succeed the cold of winter, AY-of all the months many of our plants would be greatly injured, if in the year is often- not totally destroyed. Their delicate vessels and est spoken of with en- cells would burst by a too sudden expansion, and thusiasm, sometimes the bud, prematurely thrust forth into the light with passionate joy. and heat of day, would wither and fall off, or It has a revivifying remain an abortive excrescence on its parent influence upon all na-stem. We should also be deprived of the beauty ture, animate and in- and interest attached to the gradual development animate; on the trees of leaf and flower, were the great annual transiwhose forms have long appeared lifeless, the sap tion in the vegetable world effected instantanestarts, buds and blossoms expand, and flowers ously." Now, under the beautiful arrangement spread their delicate petals to the softly-kissing which exists, as the season advances, the temperawinds of the south; the earth is rapidly ver- ture increases, and plant after plant, according dure-covered, animals gambol, birds sing and to the sensibility of its buds, sends forth its insects hum about, intent on the purposes of tender shoots and leaves, in beautiful succession, their busy little life. There is reanimation in till every field and garden and grove is teeming all things; the air is soft and grateful, the spring- with beauty and perfume. ing grass looks cheerful and the brooks appear May, on the farm, is crowded with important glad as they skip along. Man and the lower duties, and unless they are thoroughly disworld are sympathetic,-a grand symphony of charged, will show a neglect through all the harmonious feeling pervades all things. Is it a wonder, then, that MAY is extolled? not let your business drive you," is a good old summer operations. "Drive your business, and The sick praise it because its breath is soft and adage, and has more force than many are disbears upon it the perfume of the Heart's-ease, posed to allow it. Always to be able to hoe a Crown-imperial, Lily of the Valley and Apple- crop, for instance, at the moment it needs it, is blossoms; the lovers eulogize it because every a matter of considerable importance, saves labor thing is so gladsome about them and in unison and time, and undoubtedly increases the crop bewith themselves! The Farmer utters his daily yond what it would have been had the weeds heart-felt panegyric for southern breezes, genial luxuriated a few days longer. This is especially suns and fructifying rains; for springing corn, the case in harvesting the grain and grass crops grass and grain. Then and a delay of a day or two sometimes sadly affecting the quality of either. It is just as important for the farmer to be prompt and improve the favorastrike while the iron is hot," the mariner to ble moment in his affairs, as it is for the smith to spread his sails to the favorable breeze, or the merchant to purchase when goods are low. MIDDLESEX COUNTY AGRICULTURAL When plans are judiciously laid, so that cach particular duty may be performed at the proper time, the work of the farm will go on pleasantly STOCK.-CLASS 1.-BULLS. and profitably, and afford a satisfaction unknown For the best native or mixed Bull.. PREMIUMS. SHOW AT CONCORD, SEPT. 26, 1855. .$10,00 ..8,00 .6,00 ..5,00 ..... ...8,00 .5,00 ..8,00 .5,00 .8,00 ..5,00 ..8,00 ...5,00 the second best...... TREES.-If it was not done in April, make an the best Alderney Bull.. the best Durham Bull............................................ the best Bull Calf of any breed under one year old...6,00 CLASS 2.-WORKING OXEN. the second best...... the third best........... CLASS 3.-STEERS. GRAFTING. It is better done in April or early in May before hot suns prevail. Where what are called suckers come after the tree is grafted, For the best Milch Cow, native breed.... do not cut them off until October-then cut off about half their length and allow them to grow the next year. Instead of diminishing, they will increase the growth of the young grafts, as their leaves will elaborate the sap and keep up a healthly action of the tree. the second best........ the best Ayrshire Cow........ the best Devon Cow......... the best Alderney Cow......... the best Durham Cow....................................... CLASS 5.-HEIFERS. PLANTING CORN.-Plow deep, spread the manure liberally and cultivate it in three or four For the best Milch Heifer, under three years old... inches deep, pulverize thoroughly, and then if you desire to try specific manure, add a little superphosphate, bone dust, or guano to the hill, always remembering that the guano must not come in contact with the young germs of the This will give it an early start, and get the ground covered and the plants ready for the hot suns of July. corn. the second best... the best two year old Heifer the best yearling Heifer.. .......... .5,00 CLASS 6.-FAT CATTLE. For the best Boar... CLASS 7.-SWINE. the second best.... the best breeding Sow................................. the second best...... the best Pigs, not less than three in number, from PLOWING.-All crops-even the grass crops depend greatly upon the manner in which this work has been done. Deep plowing is an antidote against drought. A light porous soil admits the air-the air is loaded with moisture, penetrates the light soil until it gets down where it is cool, and there the moisture is condensed, For the best Stud Horse.... taken up by the light particles of earth, and held in reserve for the roots of the plants. So if you plow deep and pulverize well, there is a perpetual watering going on, be the surface ever so dry. GARDEN VEGETABLES.-Put in seeds for garden CLASS 8.-HORSES. the second best... the best breeding Mare........ the second best.. the best five year old Colt, broken to harness.. CLASS 9.-POULTRY. vegetables early, and in a favorable spot. They will cover the table with palatable and whole- For the best live Turkeys, not less than 5 in number... some edibles before the summer is over. GARDEN FRUITS.-Add a few choice currants, raspberries, &c. EARLY CORN.-Sprout it on a sod, transplant sod and all, and you gain a week or two. The people of Hoboken, opposite New York, have decided in favor of being incorporated as a city. the best show of any Fowls... .3,00 Mildew stains are very difficult to remove from linen. The most effectual way is to rub soap on the spots, then chalk, and bleach the garment in the hot sun. |