THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



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horses was supposed to have resulied from the 

 eame ariicle, administered to them in about ilie 

 same dose as a purgative. Symptoms ol' violeni 

 iniestinal irritation ensued, and alter a lew days 

 the animals died apparently exhausted by the 

 powerl'ul purginij. 1 should give castor oil to a 

 horse with great reluctance, and never if I could 

 procure any other purgative. It is a pity that so 

 little aiiention is bestowed U[)on the disorders oi 

 this invaluableanimal by men ol'sense and intelli- 

 gence, and that they are so generally turned over, 

 when they liili bilk, to the tender mercies ol' the 

 ignorant but most conceited horse leech. 



Rutherford Co., Sept. 1842. JL. P. Y. 



A MILLION OP DOLLARS LOST ANNUALLY IN 

 MASSACHUSETTS. 



From the Boston Cultivator. 



Have you any place adopied, to save all the 

 liquid excrements of your stock, for the ensuintr 

 winter? It' not, the loss you must sustain will 

 be (ully equal to the whole value of their solid 

 excrements. 



It you have not a barn cellar, as every good 

 farmer should have, as soon as he is able to m^ike 

 one, you have no excuse lor deliberately sutject- 

 ing yourself to this great loss. You can dii^ out 

 the loam under your stables, it will be very valua- 

 ble as a top dressing on your mowing lands, and 

 then fill up the hole with muck or loam to absorb 

 all the liquid excrements. 



We have no doubt that the loss of i'quid ma- 

 nures ill this stale, amounis to a million ot dollars 

 annually — we know (rom them a compost can be 

 made equal in bulk and value to the solid ma- 

 nures. Our own practice, and the results of the 

 most accurate experiments by others, leave not a 

 doubt in our m:nd on this subject. Will you make 

 the experiment for yourself? 



Whenever you discover rigid economy about 

 the manure heap, you will always find a corre- 

 sponding improvement in the soils and crops. 



He who starves his swine, must eat lean pork, 

 and he who starves his crops may expect to go 

 without bread. 



■W0R3V1S IN THE HEADS OF^SHEEP. 



From tlic Boston Cultivator. 

 Worms in the heads of sheep result from a fly 

 depositing its eggs, during the summer months, in 

 the animal's nostrils. 



The sheep knows this fly, and as soon as she 

 hears it, she starts off', rubbing her nose on the 

 ground for rods at a lime, till she leels tliat the 

 danger is past. 



Mr. Colt, of Pitfsfield, remarked to us, that 

 during fly time, sheep would retire to the shade 

 as soon as the dew was off, huddle close together, 

 then by stamping and keeping their heads close 

 to the ground, they could defend themselves from 

 this troublesome and often very fatal enemy. 



Having thus observed the habits of the sheep 

 —he never salts them after the dew is ofl", for 

 calling them out for this purpose would expose 

 them to the attacks of the fly. He observed that 



his sheep crowded together where they could stir 

 up the dust. He inferred (rom this, that the dust 

 adhered to the nos rils and operated lo protect 

 them from the aiiack ol the fly. So he ploughs 

 spots, where his sheep congreg.iie, that they may 

 have the benefit of the loose earth. 



Who has not seen the sheep sally out from the 

 shade and crowd to (eed, and beore sh" has pro- 

 ceeded five rods, run suddenly back again, [)!oiiL'h- 

 ing the earth as it were vviih her nose? She 

 heard, or was attacked by the fly. 'I'hus it is 

 easy to tell when this dangerous enemy to the fa- 

 vonies ol Fan is in the field and the flock requires 

 your peculiar care and aileullon. 



EXPERIMENT OP JOHN J. MARSHALL WITH 

 BUOAD CAST CORN. — 1842. 



From tlie Farmers' Gazette. 



The land selected was about five-eighths of an 

 acre on the river bank just above the mouth of 

 Whortleberry creek. It had been planted in corn 

 lor several years and badly cultivated, so that it 

 was very foul, and was manured. 



It was broken up for the first lime on the 17th 

 May with a two horse plough. There being a hea- 

 vy coat of grass and weeds in it, the latierlis high 

 as a tall horse, it was cross ploughed with a single 

 horse turning plough on the 30 h May. ThQ 

 corn was sowed on the 18ih of June, at the rate 

 of very near lour bushels of our common seed corn 

 to the acre, and covered with a small turning 

 plough very shallow. Each ploughing and the 

 planting was after a rain. The corn came up in 

 a lew days and grew off rapidly. 



When about a month old, (21st July,) being 

 from 5 lo 6 leet high on the richest part of the 

 land, it began to budge just as very rank oats 

 sometimes do, and in a few weeks nearly all the 

 best of the patch was very much fallen and tang- 

 led. It continued green and growinir, however, 

 except that immediately on the ground, which 

 rotted. 



The fodder having begun to ripen, the corn was 

 cut on the 19ih September, with grass blades and 

 weeding hoes. Two spots were selected which I 

 deemed to be a (iiir average of the whole patch, 

 each 9 feet square, in one the stalks weiglied 551b. 

 and in the other lOOlb. being an average of 82i^lb. 

 to 9 square yards, and at the rate of 44. 3671b. to 

 the acre. I selected a spot 3 feet square on which 

 the corn had not fallen down though it did not 

 stand as thick as the land would have borne it, in 

 which the stalks weighed 271b., being at the rate 

 of 130.5801b. to the acre, estimating an acre to 

 contain 4840 square yards. 



The day on which the corn was cut proving 

 cloudy, it was left on the ground till the middle of 

 the next day, when it was put up like a top stack, 

 the layer of stalks about 18 inches ihick, and 

 both ends left open. It has cured very nicely. 



There are no ears of corn except a few small 

 and immature ones. John J. Marshall. 



October Uth, 1842. 



