The New England farmer . ectanything but ruin, the veiy first year our cottoncrop is cut off, or the price is low ? If our peoplehad raised their corn and meat in 1866, 67, theywould not have cared a straw for the low prices ofcotton in the latter year named, even if the specu-lators could have controlled the price, and kept itdown. I live in as good a cotton and corn regionas I have seen anywhere, and we are highly fa-vored this year, although our crops are not full,yet they are so much better than they are in mostsections, that we certainly ought to feel travelled over most of the
The New England farmer . ectanything but ruin, the veiy first year our cottoncrop is cut off, or the price is low ? If our peoplehad raised their corn and meat in 1866, 67, theywould not have cared a straw for the low prices ofcotton in the latter year named, even if the specu-lators could have controlled the price, and kept itdown. I live in as good a cotton and corn regionas I have seen anywhere, and we are highly fa-vored this year, although our crops are not full,yet they are so much better than they are in mostsections, that we certainly ought to feel travelled over most of the West and North thepast summer, and having seen the eflFects of thedrought upon the corn crop, and I pity the cottonmaker, who has not raised (at least) his corn thisyear. —Mr. Wm. Whitfield, of Oakland County, Mich.,has imported foar Hampshire Down sheep fromEngland. They cost at his place nearly $200 of the rams weighs 305 and another 294 lbs.;the ewes weigh over 200 pounds each. 76 NEW ENGLAND FAE^MER. THE LODGE PEAR. This pear is very popular in Philadelphia,where it was supposed to have originated, butit has been disseminated from Hartford, Conn.,as Smiths Bordenave, and said to have beenimported with an invoice of trees fromFrance. The fruit from which our illustrationwas drawn was raised in the garden of of Dorchester. The tree is hardy, but not very vigorous,except when grafted on the leading shoots ofold trees, but further noith it does not suc-ceed as well as in the vicinity of Boston andHartford. It produces abundant crops, whichadhere strongly to the branches during theautumnal gales, and the fruit keeps well forone of its season. The following description of this pear iscopied from Coles Fruit Book:— Size, rather above medium, three and ahalf inches long, including stem, by two anda half in diameter; form, acute, pyriform, broad across the middle, some specimens in-clining to obovate, outline and surface a littleirregular; calyx, small
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