The New England farmer . d dollars. Irregularities, to use amild term, were discovered in the managementof a few of these associations, not very creditableto the fair dealing of some of their was drawn on bogus names, and otherpractices were exposed which seem to show thatthe Yankees are not the only sharp people inthe world. But the firmness exhibited by theBoard will probably check like operations in thefuture. The Report shows that the Board has anindustrious and efficient worker in the person ofChas. S. Lugrin, Secretary, Frederickton. TheReport embodies a large amount of in
The New England farmer . d dollars. Irregularities, to use amild term, were discovered in the managementof a few of these associations, not very creditableto the fair dealing of some of their was drawn on bogus names, and otherpractices were exposed which seem to show thatthe Yankees are not the only sharp people inthe world. But the firmness exhibited by theBoard will probably check like operations in thefuture. The Report shows that the Board has anindustrious and efficient worker in the person ofChas. S. Lugrin, Secretary, Frederickton. TheReport embodies a large amount of information inrespect to the agriculture of New Brunswick. —Of the multitude of fairs to take place nextfall, special attention will be claimed for the exhi-bition at Augusta, Georgia, of the Cotton StatesMechanics and Agricultural Fair is to occupy nearly the whole of the last weekin October, and will be one of the most extensivefestivals of the kind ever held in the South. 356 KEW ENGLAND FARJIER. CARBOLIC ACID. UE efforts of sci-entific men andwomen are con-stantly discoveringsome new thingwhich tends toavert human toil,to increase the pro-ducts of the earthor the factory, andto facilitate trans-portation. Theypry into the mys-teries of the skies,explore the vast beds of the ocean, and theprofound depths of the solid earth. Many of the old customs of men are fastdisappearing. We smile at the simple habitsof our English ancestors of only a few hun-dred years ago, and wonder at their want ofintelligence and foresight in the constructionof their dwellings, carriages, tools, machinery,and the barrenness of their homes in most ar-ticles now so highly prized by us in our do-mestic life. Now, light and air are admitted into ourrooms, where, with them, a port-hole sub-served the same purposes. A stone chimneyand a yawning fire-place have been supersededby elegant stoves of various patterns for thepurposes of cooking. Pope, the great poet, Addison, Sir WilliamB
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