. The New England farmer . DEVOTED TO AaRICULTUKE, HORTICULTURE, AND KINDRED ARTS. NEW SERIES. Boston, 31{ire]i, 1871. VOL. v.—XO. 3. R. V. EATOIf & CO., PuBi,isnE;RS,Office, 34 Merchants Kow. MONTHLY. SIMON BKO-\\Tsr, / -t,^. „8. FLETCHEK, ( Editors. MAKCH IN NEW ENGLAND. March, month of many weathers, ?wildly comes,In hail, and snow, and rain, and threatening floods:— *******Loosed from the rnshing mills and riv^r-locks,With thundring sound and overpowering hank to bank, along the meadow lea,The river spreads and shines a bttle sea. Clart9 Shepherds Calendar. ARcri comes
. The New England farmer . DEVOTED TO AaRICULTUKE, HORTICULTURE, AND KINDRED ARTS. NEW SERIES. Boston, 31{ire]i, 1871. VOL. v.—XO. 3. R. V. EATOIf & CO., PuBi,isnE;RS,Office, 34 Merchants Kow. MONTHLY. SIMON BKO-\\Tsr, / -t,^. „8. FLETCHEK, ( Editors. MAKCH IN NEW ENGLAND. March, month of many weathers, ?wildly comes,In hail, and snow, and rain, and threatening floods:— *******Loosed from the rnshing mills and riv^r-locks,With thundring sound and overpowering hank to bank, along the meadow lea,The river spreads and shines a bttle sea. Clart9 Shepherds Calendar. ARcri comes inheralding theSpring months,lit by no meansexcluding win-ter weather. In^^ our climate,^ March is some-times more bois-terous and try-ing than eithermonth of thewinter, — alter-nating withsnow and rain,hail and fierceSometimes theare blocked. wnids,(]>^ 3 ^^^^ ^^ f*^ which are fro-,,™ 7en b\ frosty nights, so ^^^ that it is dangerous to attempt a passage over them, and then softened by thesuns rays, so that when once in them it is dif-ficult to get out again. Even the raih-oadsbecome so much obstructed as to stop travelfor hours in succession,—snow ploughs are in demand, and unwonted screams of an aijo-re-gation of locomotives fill the air. But this,usually, is of short duration ; just long enough,perhaps, to remind the elder class of our citi-zens of the slow and wearisome modes of trav-elling by stage coach or wagon. Only some 30 or 40 years ago, stages wererun daily from most of the villages of NewEngland to their large cities. At 20 miles fromBoston, a team of four horses and coach wouldleave at 4 oclock in the morning and reachBoston at 10 A. M., or at 2 P. M., or 9 atnight, as the weather and condition of the roadsmight be. Nine passengers inside, three oneach seat, with legs dovetailed into each other;nos
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